November 30, 2025 • 21 mins
Best 80’s song of all time. What’s up with Obama’s presidential library? Buck’s fashion advice for women. Talkbacks roast the hosts. Buck’s close encounter with a shark in Biscayne Bay.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
It starts now, I'm talking to this before play you.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
We have our fantastic array of rejoin music that corresponds
with many great songs over the decades. I think Tears
for Fears Rule of the World is the single. If
you asked me to pick one song that is the
greatest song of the eighties, all the eighties. I know
(00:38):
this is a big this is a big thing. I
go Tears for Fears. I actually go Tears for Fears
Rule the World. How about you?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I'm not very good at the nineteen eighties. I could
give you a lot of nineteen eighties songs. Thirties what
do you mean?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I know?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
But I was not see I'm a little bit tone deaf,
so until I could go out to bars and stuff,
I didn't really pay a lot of attention to music.
I would probably I'm I'm gonna I need to I
need to be able to phone a friend here for
my wife who would be an expert in all this,
I would probably go, what's the song from uh karate Kid?
(01:20):
Like the I which one?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I mean, I'm thinking about like the Japanese flute music
that plays when he's doing the like the stuff on.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
The Cruel Summer. Cruel Summer is a great, great song.
I mean, I'm thinking, I'm just I've lost all credit.
But first of all, guys want me to change my
book title now I'm being just thrown under the bus
here for not having a great nineteen eighty song. I'm
scrolling through right now. I like the Cruel Summer song
(01:50):
from the Karate Kid like it makes me.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I thought you were definitely gonna be a hair band guy,
like Guns n' Roses or something nothing.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Nineteen eighties? What was the young guns to John bon
jovie song? That was a good one, you know what I'm.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Saying, Steel Horse, I Ride and One. Yeah, yeah, that
was pretty good movie. I don't know, I'm the eighties.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I was again, I know you're younger than me, but
I was ten when the eighties ended. Yeah, I was
not a music guy.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
And out to you, Clay. You can listen to eighties
music even if you were young during the eighties. Okay,
I'll actually I'll give you the answer. The answer is Thriller.
Thriller is the greatest song of the nineteen eighties, greatest
music video, perhaps greatest music video probably ever. But certainly
I think if you asked me, and I know some
(02:43):
of you are going to be like, he's like, he's
never convicted to my knowledge, and it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
And this was like nineteen eighties.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I actually thought, really, Jean is a better song than Thriller.
That's why I would go Billy Gene over Thrillers.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Well, but I think Thriller is more famous because of
the dance. Now, you may be right about the video
in the way it brought in, but after like three
minutes or four minutes of stonewalling and not a great
pick from me for Karate Kid, I would probably say
Thriller is to me, I'm just.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Gonna be honest with you. I didn't know that asking
you about eighties music would be like asking me about
SEC football. Like I did not see that coming. So
this I learned something.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I went through to look because I'm also not good
with what years. There's a great game. Have you played
this game where you have to you get more or
less on the year that a song came out, and
you have to has anybody else played this game. We
played it with my family up in Michigan. One of
my cousins brought it. It is somebody text or somebody
(03:41):
look it up in the studio, because I'm not gonna
be able to find it. It is one of the
most fun family games you ever played. But the whole
premise is buck You have to know the year songs
came out, so they will play like a song you
have like the song play and then you have to
say more or less, and it's based on the prior
songs that you have picked. So it's early on. It
(04:02):
can be easy because you can be like, Okay, that
was after nineteen thirty five and before you know, nineteen
ninety five. But as you progress in order to win,
they get closer and closer. It's one of the most
fun games I've ever played. By the way, Crazy Train,
I would say, is one that everybody knows from Ozzy Osbourne.
I'm running through like the best songs, but I'm gonna
(04:24):
stick with Thriller I think as my song. I'm tone
deaf and I listened to sports talk radio in the
car when I was a kid, my dad would put
on sports talk radio. We never listened to music, and
so I can tell you lots of things about nineteen
eighties and ninety sports talk radio not great on the
music until I was out chasing girls. That's when I
(04:45):
started pay attention to music.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
We all have things to learn, a lot of ways
to expand our horizons. Let's talk Caroline Levitt here and
the White House ballroom situation. So they're building a ballroom.
It is not going to be a hundred stories gold
with Trump written on it. It is going to be very tasteful,
very classy, very nice. But the media is all up
(05:08):
in arms about this. Wasn't there a major Obama era
White House renovation too? Didn't that cost a whole bunch
of money? Am I missing something?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
No, it's three hundred million dollars. By the way, the
game is Hitster and it's amazing. If you were a
family and you like music, HITSTERR. It's amazing. Just an
awesome game. Sorry, that's what we played.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Okay, good to know, never heard of it.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Learn something new there added to the roster for the
summer vacation. Buck, You're gonna be glad Winter vacation Christmas vacation.
You're gonna be glad that you did it.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Here's Caroline Levitt on the White House ballroom cut forty
hit it.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
The President has been incredibly transparent. I would reject any
notion otherwise when it comes to this ballroom project. It's
something he personally has obviously taken an interest into and
has talked with all of you in this room many
times about. You have seen the model in the Oval
Office last night he showed up for you. But when
this plan was presented and when these renderings, as soon
as they were complete, the President directed me to come
(06:02):
out here and to share them with all of you.
I did an entire opening remarks about what this ballroom
project was going to look like. With any construction project,
there are changes over time as you assess what the
project is going to look like, and we'll continue to
keep you apprized of all of those changes. But just
trust the process. This is going to be a magnificent
addition to the White House for many years to come,
(06:24):
and it's not costing the taxpayers anything. The President is
privately funding this ballroom addition to the White House grounds.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I think it's a cool idea. I mean I don't
see what all the hubbub is about this. Trump. First
of all, I think has done a lot of really
nice things. We saw some of it. We're in the
Oval with him back in June. He's some of the
artwork that's been placed and replaced and everything else going on,
and it's really more more of a visual impact. But
(06:55):
I think that the beautification of public buildings, including addition
to the White House, is something to be happy about it.
I know Trump's doing it, so they have to hate
it is how the Libs view it. But I'm actually
with him on this one. I've seen the drawings, I've
seen this stuff. It looks good to me.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I think it's going to be great, and like everything,
it's going to be used by everybody for all time
to come. So there have been a lot of complaints.
You and I are fortunate to have been in the
parts of the White House that are very historic. We've
been in the Oval Office, We've been to every part
of the White House. Basically, what did I say to you,
(07:34):
I'll just I'll like when we were sitting waiting to
go in to see Trump, I said to you, you may
or may not remember this. We were sitting there, and
I'm like, you would never believe that this is the
waiting room for the most powerful building in the United States.
It looks like your weight And this is not me
trying to be insulting to the White House or anything else,
(07:56):
but it looks like you're waiting to go meet in
an insurance hallway.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
For a you know, midviewal of Omaha or something. Do
you remember do you remember what I said to you
when we're waiting their clay. I can't believe you're wearing
sandals to meet the president.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I had on shoes, I had on I did not
have my I had my passport or else they wouldn't
have let me in because an infernal real id. But
my point on this is there is and should be
something very majestic and august about the process of meeting
with the leader of the free world. The buildings that
(08:36):
surround our president should be spectacular, and there is a
balancing between history. Look, if you're fortunate enough to have
gotten to go into some old houses built in the
eighteen hundreds, you preserve them for their history, not because
they are incredibly necessarily beautiful to this day. What they
(08:57):
balance and have always balanced, I mean, Harry Truman like
gutted the whole White House. For those of you out
there who are not history people, the whole thing got
burned back in the War of eighteen.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I was gonna say the British. The British, they did
their own renovation of our White House in eighteen twelve,
those sons of guns.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
So you're constantly balancing old and new in an effort
to try and create the most functional place to do
business anywhere in the world. And Trump is innately gifted,
I think in many ways at balancing old and new
so that places have the popular, the particular pomp and
circumstance that you would expect to surround an office such
(09:35):
as this.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
So we haven't talked about this yet, but I actually
think this is a good place that we could transition
into it. What the heck is with the Obama Presidential Library.
So I mean it truly.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
It looks so weird.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
It looks like where the bad guy from the he
Man cartoon would live. It's like it looks like something
or sele Castle Gray Skull, or like the borg from
Star Trek. I always get worse if you Star Trek,
you know, it looks like something that's meant to evoke
(10:10):
fear and misery. Real talk, everybody. The Obama Presidential Library,
which if you have not seen the photo, we should
put one up at clambuck dot com just so it's
easy reference for you. If you have not seen the
photo of this thing, Clay. If someone told me, especially
if they made it like a black and white photo,
so it seemed like it was older, that this was
where they used to take people for interrogations in East Germany,
(10:35):
I'd be like, yeah, that makes sense. This building's scary.
Look in his hell? What are they doing? What are
they doing?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I there is sometimes remember the picture of Obama that
they hung in the National Portrait Gallery where he's surrounded
by all this greenery and it looks kind of like
he's hiding in a you know, in a forest. I think,
and this is my big theory on life in general.
This is I think, goes so many different directions. We
perfected a lot of things, and now people needlessly overcomplicate
(11:06):
things that don't need to be complicated. I'll give you
an example that has nothing to do with the Obama
White House Buck sorry, the Obama Presidential Library. We used
to be able to turn the heat on and off
in any vehicle, very very easy. You reached out. I've
talked about this. You had a knob. The blue line
made it cooler, the red line made it warmer. Everybody
(11:29):
understood it. You could do it from the time you
were five years old. Half the time I get in
a car now, I can't figure out how to turn
on the heat of the air. I was in a
hotel in New York City this week. Nice hotel.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
You got to get an engineer to know the light switches.
It's insane light.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Switches and turn the shower on. When did we get
to a point where we need to re engineer things
that were working perfect? I think a lot of what
happens now is people decide that they're going to change
fully functional things. Nobody's ever come out and said, you
know what work better than the wheel? A modified wheel.
The wheel pretty important invention, and by and large it's
(12:05):
very similar to what we did thousands of years ago.
I think that the Obama Presidential Library is evidence of
this idea that design has to consistently evolve.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
And my point on it would be the Greeks in
the Romans are pretty good at designing things. I'm okay
with using many of the classical architecture that they created
as a aesthetics. Aesthetics that there's a reason why Gothic
great Gothic cathedrals, which were built over hundreds of years
in some cases, are still incredible and beautiful today. There
(12:41):
are some enduring esthetics. There are some things that are
elevating and spectacular regardless of time. This is why we
look back at different periods in history and buildings that
are super old, and we even look at the Pyramids
right thousands of years old. We look at things we go, wow,
that's something really impressive. And I just think that for
some reason, I think it was probably like the late
(13:04):
sixties into like the late seventies, America decided to build
the ugliest crap imaginable. You see this in a lot
of civic buildings and public school in the FBI.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
The FBI headquarters in downtown d C is a perfect
representation of this. And we just need to come to
grips with the fact that this stuff building. Yeah, the
j Edgar Hoover Building also looks like it should be
the headquarters of the STAZI. This stuff is depressing and
it doesn't have to be that way. It is the
opposite of elevating. It brings you down. And I'm just
(13:36):
being real here.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
If the Obama Presidential Library looked really cool, even if
it was a modern aesthetic and this will shock none
of you, but I'm not a big modern aesthetic guy.
I like the hits, I like the old school, you know,
so just Trump by the way, yeah, by the way,
I've been to the Bill Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I've been to a bunch. I like, I'm a history
is nice.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I don't ever know what it looks like. Very nice,
very well. Admission for ladies eighteen to thirty, right, Yeah,
they have a Ladies' night every day at the Bill
Clinton Presidential Library. But the best place to go to
be girls that would a rock still. You know, when
when the esthetic is there, I will say it. The
Obama Presidential Library is looking like one of the ugliest
(14:19):
buildings I've ever seen. Honestly, it is looking like something
and I know that there's some I'm sure genius architects
who have created it. It's horrible, So I just why
It's not that hard, you know, Actually you can I'll
tell you this. There was a there was a modern,
(14:39):
modern architecture blah blah intro like one on one class.
They taught it at amhers Clay and they showed we
had built the library at Amherson College is one of
these just nineteen seventy five monstrosities. It's so ugly and
this otherwise very pretty campus. They demolished a gray granite
like gorgeous building to make this thing. And he's like,
(15:02):
that's why you need to learn about architecture.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
That's a great analogy. I'll also point this out. It
ain't just buildings they tried to tell as fat people
and spandex was something to be aspirational moving towards too.
I think it's actually intentional to try to destroy beauty
in general and things that we all agree to be
beautiful to try.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
To I want to continue this because you're actually leading
into one of my feistier tweets from earlier today that
I actually want to make a thing of for people
out there, for the ladies. All these song takes perfect
stuff for a Friday afternoon. So we'll get to you
because everyone's lighting me up, fusion. I thought you liked
rock and roll. We'll get to your takes. Everybody on
the music, but the thing I want to say, and
(15:44):
Clay is just learning about this now, that fashionable young
women in American cities are being told to wear the baggiest,
ugliest jeans you've ever seen in your life. Don't let
them do it, ladies. Tell your daughters, Tell your granddaughters.
They're going to look back at the photos they take
now and say, how was I such a victim to
this ugly fashion? You look terrible in it. You might
(16:05):
as well wear a burka. Don't do it, ladies, baggy jeans, nobueno.
I signed on to this. I didn't know it was
a trend. It's not going to surprise any of you
that I'm not very aware of trends. But I just
sent the crew my high school photos because Buck was
talking about bad high school choices, and so we can
have some fun with this tomorrow on Friday. The senior
(16:29):
class photo of me is not an ideal hairstyle.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Sundays with Clay and Buck.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Play. There are some unhappy people when it comes to
your music takes.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I know this is one hundred percent justified. I don't
know anything about music, and all of you who are
about to tee off on me that Buck is going
to play. I deserve it all. I'm just gonna take
my beating.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
We got gg Let's go Gigi. First, Tampa Toad, he
called us.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Let's hear it, hey, play, let's pick the sports buck
talk about the music of the eighties. Listen, it's real simple.
There's a lot of great music in the eighties. The
eighties might be the greatest music decade next to the
seventies of all time. But the greatest song is Toto's Africa.
Africa by Toto. Every time I hear it on the
radio station, I just smile. It's a great song.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Solid I put it in top ten. Play is gonna
just I think he'll defer because I'm not even sure
he knows Toto from Africa. It's not gonna take a
lot to drag play away from Toto. We have aa
a little heat for me. Chris from tamp another Tampa listener.
What's going on? Let's play it all.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Right, mister sext and the traveling for the weeks over with.
Got a beautiful Florida weather weekend coming up. No excuses,
no sausage handling until the task is done. We don't
want to damage a rotator cup. Let's get that racket out.
Let's get that one hundred. Let's get the YouTube video
(18:00):
ripping the shirt off with the speed camera saying one hundred.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I mean, Chris is a great call. Chris, you got me, buddy,
you got me cornered. I'm gonna play some tennis on Sunday.
I'm gonna take out the the new and improved speed Gun,
and we're gonna see what we can do. All right,
I'm gonna try to make this happen. We're going to
one hundred boys, one way or another. We're getting to
one hundred.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Let's get to a bunch of these really fast. This
is JJ James in Nashville fifteen to ten, ninety eight
to three, my hometown. What's he say?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
How could you not pick I of the Tiger for
one of the greatest songs of the eighties. A great one,
also a top ten for me, also a top ten.
Let's see Michael from Florida.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Ll playing Buck I have You're both wrong? It's danger
Zone from the top Gun soundtrack. Is the best song
from the eighties.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
It's a good one. It's a good one. It's a
very good one.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
It's hard not to be not along QQ Bob in Chicago.
This may be the one I should have picked. Play it.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Qq qq oh, well, he says Journey by uh oh,
don't stop believing, rather by Journey. That's very That's a
top three for me. That that was right up alongside
my number.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
One Sunday drop with Clay Buck.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I went for a rare dip in the Atlantic Ocean
technically Biscayne Bay over the weekend, and right around the
same time, there was, in fact a shark attack.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Play yes, forty six year old guy got attacked. You
sent me the link and I was looking at it,
and uh, I mean, can you imagine if you had
gotten attacked by a shark after all our shot?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
This is why discussion. I'm just saying this is this
is I'm starting to worry about your Alcatraz. We'm a
little bit here, buddy, which we've already committed to, and
I'm going to be in that launch boat cheering you on,
nice and warm with my Crockett hot Coco. We're going
to start making by then. But this guy, I believe
was snorkeling and it looked like he tried to touch
the shark, which is a bad idea.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Well, that's very very different. It was not a predatory attack.
It was ay, leave me alone, bite on the hand
and he had to go to the hospital, but technically
a shark attack. Not far from where I was swimming
on Sunday, I was walking into church. This is undred
percent true. Guy I had not met before comes up
and he says that he is part of a long
distance swimming team and they have been hearing us talk about.
(20:33):
He had swam Catalina, he had swam from Alcatraz, and
they do regular long training sessions and he was offering
his skill set and his team to me as a
training companion. This is I mean legitimately. As I am
walking into church on Sunday, this gentleman I had never
(20:54):
met before came up and he wanted me to know
that he had my back on the swims and that
he and the team were ready to assist as necessary.
And I told him, I said, well, I'm kind of
getting a little bit terrified, not of the swim, but
that I'm tempting fate and I'm going to be eaten
by a shark. And he told me that I would
be fine, So I hope he's right, but yeah, you would,
(21:16):
you narrowly avoided attack on a on a swim in
Biscayne Bay,
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It starts now, I'm talking to this before play you.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
We have our fantastic array of rejoin music that corresponds
with many great songs over the decades. I think Tears
for Fears Rule of the World is the single. If
you asked me to pick one song that is the
greatest song of the eighties, all the eighties. I know
(00:38):
this is a big this is a big thing. I
go Tears for Fears. I actually go Tears for Fears
Rule the World. How about you?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I'm not very good at the nineteen eighties. I could
give you a lot of nineteen eighties songs. Thirties what
do you mean?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I know?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
But I was not see I'm a little bit tone deaf,
so until I could go out to bars and stuff,
I didn't really pay a lot of attention to music.
I would probably I'm I'm gonna I need to I
need to be able to phone a friend here for
my wife who would be an expert in all this,
I would probably go, what's the song from uh karate Kid?
(01:20):
Like the I which one?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I mean, I'm thinking about like the Japanese flute music
that plays when he's doing the like the stuff on.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
The Cruel Summer. Cruel Summer is a great, great song.
I mean, I'm thinking, I'm just I've lost all credit.
But first of all, guys want me to change my
book title now I'm being just thrown under the bus
here for not having a great nineteen eighty song. I'm
scrolling through right now. I like the Cruel Summer song
(01:50):
from the Karate Kid like it makes me.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I thought you were definitely gonna be a hair band guy,
like Guns n' Roses or something nothing.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Nineteen eighties? What was the young guns to John bon
jovie song? That was a good one, you know what I'm.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Saying, Steel Horse, I Ride and One. Yeah, yeah, that
was pretty good movie. I don't know, I'm the eighties.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I was again, I know you're younger than me, but
I was ten when the eighties ended. Yeah, I was
not a music guy.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
And out to you, Clay. You can listen to eighties
music even if you were young during the eighties. Okay,
I'll actually I'll give you the answer. The answer is Thriller.
Thriller is the greatest song of the nineteen eighties, greatest
music video, perhaps greatest music video probably ever. But certainly
I think if you asked me, and I know some
(02:43):
of you are going to be like, he's like, he's
never convicted to my knowledge, and it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
And this was like nineteen eighties.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I actually thought, really, Jean is a better song than Thriller.
That's why I would go Billy Gene over Thrillers.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Well, but I think Thriller is more famous because of
the dance. Now, you may be right about the video
in the way it brought in, but after like three
minutes or four minutes of stonewalling and not a great
pick from me for Karate Kid, I would probably say
Thriller is to me, I'm just.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Gonna be honest with you. I didn't know that asking
you about eighties music would be like asking me about
SEC football. Like I did not see that coming. So
this I learned something.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I went through to look because I'm also not good
with what years. There's a great game. Have you played
this game where you have to you get more or
less on the year that a song came out, and
you have to has anybody else played this game. We
played it with my family up in Michigan. One of
my cousins brought it. It is somebody text or somebody
(03:41):
look it up in the studio, because I'm not gonna
be able to find it. It is one of the
most fun family games you ever played. But the whole
premise is buck You have to know the year songs
came out, so they will play like a song you
have like the song play and then you have to
say more or less, and it's based on the prior
songs that you have picked. So it's early on. It
(04:02):
can be easy because you can be like, Okay, that
was after nineteen thirty five and before you know, nineteen
ninety five. But as you progress in order to win,
they get closer and closer. It's one of the most
fun games I've ever played. By the way, Crazy Train,
I would say, is one that everybody knows from Ozzy Osbourne.
I'm running through like the best songs, but I'm gonna
(04:24):
stick with Thriller I think as my song. I'm tone
deaf and I listened to sports talk radio in the
car when I was a kid, my dad would put
on sports talk radio. We never listened to music, and
so I can tell you lots of things about nineteen
eighties and ninety sports talk radio not great on the
music until I was out chasing girls. That's when I
(04:45):
started pay attention to music.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
We all have things to learn, a lot of ways
to expand our horizons. Let's talk Caroline Levitt here and
the White House ballroom situation. So they're building a ballroom.
It is not going to be a hundred stories gold
with Trump written on it. It is going to be very tasteful,
very classy, very nice. But the media is all up
(05:08):
in arms about this. Wasn't there a major Obama era
White House renovation too? Didn't that cost a whole bunch
of money? Am I missing something?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
No, it's three hundred million dollars. By the way, the
game is Hitster and it's amazing. If you were a
family and you like music, HITSTERR. It's amazing. Just an
awesome game. Sorry, that's what we played.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Okay, good to know, never heard of it.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Learn something new there added to the roster for the
summer vacation. Buck, You're gonna be glad Winter vacation Christmas vacation.
You're gonna be glad that you did it.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Here's Caroline Levitt on the White House ballroom cut forty
hit it.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
The President has been incredibly transparent. I would reject any
notion otherwise when it comes to this ballroom project. It's
something he personally has obviously taken an interest into and
has talked with all of you in this room many
times about. You have seen the model in the Oval
Office last night he showed up for you. But when
this plan was presented and when these renderings, as soon
as they were complete, the President directed me to come
(06:02):
out here and to share them with all of you.
I did an entire opening remarks about what this ballroom
project was going to look like. With any construction project,
there are changes over time as you assess what the
project is going to look like, and we'll continue to
keep you apprized of all of those changes. But just
trust the process. This is going to be a magnificent
addition to the White House for many years to come,
(06:24):
and it's not costing the taxpayers anything. The President is
privately funding this ballroom addition to the White House grounds.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I think it's a cool idea. I mean I don't
see what all the hubbub is about this. Trump. First
of all, I think has done a lot of really
nice things. We saw some of it. We're in the
Oval with him back in June. He's some of the
artwork that's been placed and replaced and everything else going on,
and it's really more more of a visual impact. But
(06:55):
I think that the beautification of public buildings, including addition
to the White House, is something to be happy about it.
I know Trump's doing it, so they have to hate
it is how the Libs view it. But I'm actually
with him on this one. I've seen the drawings, I've
seen this stuff. It looks good to me.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I think it's going to be great, and like everything,
it's going to be used by everybody for all time
to come. So there have been a lot of complaints.
You and I are fortunate to have been in the
parts of the White House that are very historic. We've
been in the Oval Office, We've been to every part
of the White House. Basically, what did I say to you,
(07:34):
I'll just I'll like when we were sitting waiting to
go in to see Trump, I said to you, you may
or may not remember this. We were sitting there, and
I'm like, you would never believe that this is the
waiting room for the most powerful building in the United States.
It looks like your weight And this is not me
trying to be insulting to the White House or anything else,
(07:56):
but it looks like you're waiting to go meet in
an insurance hallway.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
For a you know, midviewal of Omaha or something. Do
you remember do you remember what I said to you
when we're waiting their clay. I can't believe you're wearing
sandals to meet the president.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I had on shoes, I had on I did not
have my I had my passport or else they wouldn't
have let me in because an infernal real id. But
my point on this is there is and should be
something very majestic and august about the process of meeting
with the leader of the free world. The buildings that
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surround our president should be spectacular, and there is a
balancing between history. Look, if you're fortunate enough to have
gotten to go into some old houses built in the
eighteen hundreds, you preserve them for their history, not because
they are incredibly necessarily beautiful to this day. What they
(08:57):
balance and have always balanced, I mean, Harry Truman like
gutted the whole White House. For those of you out
there who are not history people, the whole thing got
burned back in the War of eighteen.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I was gonna say the British. The British, they did
their own renovation of our White House in eighteen twelve,
those sons of guns.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
So you're constantly balancing old and new in an effort
to try and create the most functional place to do
business anywhere in the world. And Trump is innately gifted,
I think in many ways at balancing old and new
so that places have the popular, the particular pomp and
circumstance that you would expect to surround an office such
(09:35):
as this.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
So we haven't talked about this yet, but I actually
think this is a good place that we could transition
into it. What the heck is with the Obama Presidential Library.
So I mean it truly.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
It looks so weird.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
It looks like where the bad guy from the he
Man cartoon would live. It's like it looks like something
or sele Castle Gray Skull, or like the borg from
Star Trek. I always get worse if you Star Trek,
you know, it looks like something that's meant to evoke
(10:10):
fear and misery. Real talk, everybody. The Obama Presidential Library,
which if you have not seen the photo, we should
put one up at clambuck dot com just so it's
easy reference for you. If you have not seen the
photo of this thing, Clay. If someone told me, especially
if they made it like a black and white photo,
so it seemed like it was older, that this was
where they used to take people for interrogations in East Germany,
(10:35):
I'd be like, yeah, that makes sense. This building's scary.
Look in his hell? What are they doing? What are
they doing?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I there is sometimes remember the picture of Obama that
they hung in the National Portrait Gallery where he's surrounded
by all this greenery and it looks kind of like
he's hiding in a you know, in a forest. I think,
and this is my big theory on life in general.
This is I think, goes so many different directions. We
perfected a lot of things, and now people needlessly overcomplicate
(11:06):
things that don't need to be complicated. I'll give you
an example that has nothing to do with the Obama
White House Buck sorry, the Obama Presidential Library. We used
to be able to turn the heat on and off
in any vehicle, very very easy. You reached out. I've
talked about this. You had a knob. The blue line
made it cooler, the red line made it warmer. Everybody
(11:29):
understood it. You could do it from the time you
were five years old. Half the time I get in
a car now, I can't figure out how to turn
on the heat of the air. I was in a
hotel in New York City this week. Nice hotel.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
You got to get an engineer to know the light switches.
It's insane light.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Switches and turn the shower on. When did we get
to a point where we need to re engineer things
that were working perfect? I think a lot of what
happens now is people decide that they're going to change
fully functional things. Nobody's ever come out and said, you
know what work better than the wheel? A modified wheel.
The wheel pretty important invention, and by and large it's
(12:05):
very similar to what we did thousands of years ago.
I think that the Obama Presidential Library is evidence of
this idea that design has to consistently evolve.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
And my point on it would be the Greeks in
the Romans are pretty good at designing things. I'm okay
with using many of the classical architecture that they created
as a aesthetics. Aesthetics that there's a reason why Gothic
great Gothic cathedrals, which were built over hundreds of years
in some cases, are still incredible and beautiful today. There
(12:41):
are some enduring esthetics. There are some things that are
elevating and spectacular regardless of time. This is why we
look back at different periods in history and buildings that
are super old, and we even look at the Pyramids
right thousands of years old. We look at things we go, wow,
that's something really impressive. And I just think that for
some reason, I think it was probably like the late
(13:04):
sixties into like the late seventies, America decided to build
the ugliest crap imaginable. You see this in a lot
of civic buildings and public school in the FBI.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
The FBI headquarters in downtown d C is a perfect
representation of this. And we just need to come to
grips with the fact that this stuff building. Yeah, the
j Edgar Hoover Building also looks like it should be
the headquarters of the STAZI. This stuff is depressing and
it doesn't have to be that way. It is the
opposite of elevating. It brings you down. And I'm just
(13:36):
being real here.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
If the Obama Presidential Library looked really cool, even if
it was a modern aesthetic and this will shock none
of you, but I'm not a big modern aesthetic guy.
I like the hits, I like the old school, you know,
so just Trump by the way, yeah, by the way,
I've been to the Bill Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I've been to a bunch. I like, I'm a history
is nice.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I don't ever know what it looks like. Very nice,
very well. Admission for ladies eighteen to thirty, right, Yeah,
they have a Ladies' night every day at the Bill
Clinton Presidential Library. But the best place to go to
be girls that would a rock still. You know, when
when the esthetic is there, I will say it. The
Obama Presidential Library is looking like one of the ugliest
(14:19):
buildings I've ever seen. Honestly, it is looking like something
and I know that there's some I'm sure genius architects
who have created it. It's horrible, So I just why
It's not that hard, you know, Actually you can I'll
tell you this. There was a there was a modern,
(14:39):
modern architecture blah blah intro like one on one class.
They taught it at amhers Clay and they showed we
had built the library at Amherson College is one of
these just nineteen seventy five monstrosities. It's so ugly and
this otherwise very pretty campus. They demolished a gray granite
like gorgeous building to make this thing. And he's like,
(15:02):
that's why you need to learn about architecture.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
That's a great analogy. I'll also point this out. It
ain't just buildings they tried to tell as fat people
and spandex was something to be aspirational moving towards too.
I think it's actually intentional to try to destroy beauty
in general and things that we all agree to be
beautiful to try.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
To I want to continue this because you're actually leading
into one of my feistier tweets from earlier today that
I actually want to make a thing of for people
out there, for the ladies. All these song takes perfect
stuff for a Friday afternoon. So we'll get to you
because everyone's lighting me up, fusion. I thought you liked
rock and roll. We'll get to your takes. Everybody on
the music, but the thing I want to say, and
(15:44):
Clay is just learning about this now, that fashionable young
women in American cities are being told to wear the baggiest,
ugliest jeans you've ever seen in your life. Don't let
them do it, ladies. Tell your daughters, Tell your granddaughters.
They're going to look back at the photos they take
now and say, how was I such a victim to
this ugly fashion? You look terrible in it. You might
(16:05):
as well wear a burka. Don't do it, ladies, baggy jeans, nobueno.
I signed on to this. I didn't know it was
a trend. It's not going to surprise any of you
that I'm not very aware of trends. But I just
sent the crew my high school photos because Buck was
talking about bad high school choices, and so we can
have some fun with this tomorrow on Friday. The senior
(16:29):
class photo of me is not an ideal hairstyle.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Sundays with Clay and Buck.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Play. There are some unhappy people when it comes to
your music takes.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I know this is one hundred percent justified. I don't
know anything about music, and all of you who are
about to tee off on me that Buck is going
to play. I deserve it all. I'm just gonna take
my beating.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
We got gg Let's go Gigi. First, Tampa Toad, he
called us.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Let's hear it, hey, play, let's pick the sports buck
talk about the music of the eighties. Listen, it's real simple.
There's a lot of great music in the eighties. The
eighties might be the greatest music decade next to the
seventies of all time. But the greatest song is Toto's Africa.
Africa by Toto. Every time I hear it on the
radio station, I just smile. It's a great song.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Solid I put it in top ten. Play is gonna
just I think he'll defer because I'm not even sure
he knows Toto from Africa. It's not gonna take a
lot to drag play away from Toto. We have aa
a little heat for me. Chris from tamp another Tampa listener.
What's going on? Let's play it all.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Right, mister sext and the traveling for the weeks over with.
Got a beautiful Florida weather weekend coming up. No excuses,
no sausage handling until the task is done. We don't
want to damage a rotator cup. Let's get that racket out.
Let's get that one hundred. Let's get the YouTube video
(18:00):
ripping the shirt off with the speed camera saying one hundred.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I mean, Chris is a great call. Chris, you got me, buddy,
you got me cornered. I'm gonna play some tennis on Sunday.
I'm gonna take out the the new and improved speed Gun,
and we're gonna see what we can do. All right,
I'm gonna try to make this happen. We're going to
one hundred boys, one way or another. We're getting to
one hundred.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Let's get to a bunch of these really fast. This
is JJ James in Nashville fifteen to ten, ninety eight
to three, my hometown. What's he say?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
How could you not pick I of the Tiger for
one of the greatest songs of the eighties. A great one,
also a top ten for me, also a top ten.
Let's see Michael from Florida.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Ll playing Buck I have You're both wrong? It's danger
Zone from the top Gun soundtrack. Is the best song
from the eighties.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
It's a good one. It's a good one. It's a
very good one.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
It's hard not to be not along QQ Bob in Chicago.
This may be the one I should have picked. Play it.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Qq qq oh, well, he says Journey by uh oh,
don't stop believing, rather by Journey. That's very That's a
top three for me. That that was right up alongside
my number.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
One Sunday drop with Clay Buck.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I went for a rare dip in the Atlantic Ocean
technically Biscayne Bay over the weekend, and right around the
same time, there was, in fact a shark attack.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Play yes, forty six year old guy got attacked. You
sent me the link and I was looking at it,
and uh, I mean, can you imagine if you had
gotten attacked by a shark after all our shot?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
This is why discussion. I'm just saying this is this
is I'm starting to worry about your Alcatraz. We'm a
little bit here, buddy, which we've already committed to, and
I'm going to be in that launch boat cheering you on,
nice and warm with my Crockett hot Coco. We're going
to start making by then. But this guy, I believe
was snorkeling and it looked like he tried to touch
the shark, which is a bad idea.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Well, that's very very different. It was not a predatory attack.
It was ay, leave me alone, bite on the hand
and he had to go to the hospital, but technically
a shark attack. Not far from where I was swimming
on Sunday, I was walking into church. This is undred
percent true. Guy I had not met before comes up
and he says that he is part of a long
distance swimming team and they have been hearing us talk about.
(20:33):
He had swam Catalina, he had swam from Alcatraz, and
they do regular long training sessions and he was offering
his skill set and his team to me as a
training companion. This is I mean legitimately. As I am
walking into church on Sunday, this gentleman I had never
(20:54):
met before came up and he wanted me to know
that he had my back on the swims and that
he and the team were ready to assist as necessary.
And I told him, I said, well, I'm kind of
getting a little bit terrified, not of the swim, but
that I'm tempting fate and I'm going to be eaten
by a shark. And he told me that I would
be fine, So I hope he's right, but yeah, you would,
(21:16):
you narrowly avoided attack on a on a swim in
Biscayne Bay,
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