October 1, 2023 • 20 mins
One-Hit Wonders. A Clay-loving grandma. Buck’s name tag annoyance and pizza fest outrage.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bold reverence, and occasionally random The Sunday hang with Playing
Fuck podcast it starts now.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I guess these National something or other days are fun
fodder for us to discuss here on the show. We
did National Burger Day last week, and I said, with
Clay and I basically matched each other, we were we
were boring on that because we basically agree it's in
and out burger shake shack and five guys for burger chains.
(00:32):
And then some people throw the waa burger in there,
and I'm like, I don't even know what a burger is,
but today that today is? That was Yes, that is
a quintessential Dad joke.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
It's funny. Could I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I couldn't tell if he said that was a bad
joke or a dad joke, and I was hoping he said, Dad,
but it would also be considered a bad joke. But
it is National One Hit Wonder Day. I gave Clay
a little warning on this one beforehand. In your mind,
your favorite, not the greatest, because that's ridiculous, your favorite
one hit wonder song of all time is what.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I was doing research on this to confirm maybe we
can play it. I don't know what the rules are
Gonna make you sweat Everybody dance? Now? Do you remember
the Sea Music Factory? Do you remember the Songbody was CNC, Dude,
I loved CE and C music. Fact, everybody danced. Now
that's the parenthetical. The actual name of the song is
(01:32):
gonna make you sweat Everybody dance Now in like nineteen
ninety nineteen ninety one, Ish was everywhere CNC Music Factory. Uh,
that is probably my number one one hit. The other
one I the other one I flagged. This is gonna
blow your mind because I wanted to go in multiple directions,
(01:53):
and this is gonna get me crushed. I think Natalie
and bruly a torn. Do you remember the song Torn?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I know it well, A couple of other decent songs
people don't know as well. I'm just throwing that out there.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Oh well, you're you are more familiar with her entire catalog,
I guess than I would I. What would you go with?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I mean, for me, the the ultimate one hit wonder
of all time might be uh well, actually, I don't
think it's fair to say mc hammer can't touch this
as a one hit wonder. He had some other songs much, Yeah, yeah,
he had a bunch of songs, Vanilla Ice Ice Ice
Babies one, but for me it's It's the Verve Bittersweet Symphony.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Oh that song sued for.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
For sampling something from the Rolling Stones, and then I
believe the Rolling Stones transferred back the rights to them afterwards,
because there was a lot of people were kind of
upset about how that went down, Like the Rolling This.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Is how We Do It would be the other one
by Montel Jordan. Do you remember this is How We
Do It?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
That's an amazing song, Yes, see, taking you back down memory,
laying your folks with the one hit.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Wonders Sunday Hang with Clay and Buck.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Judy and k and Kentucky. Yeah, Judy, what have you
got for Clay?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Okay, I just want to let him know how much
I adore him. I'm an eighty three year old and
like Laura says, this age group loves him.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
He brightens my day. I love what he tells on
the show about Laura and about the boys. I love
it when he puts his foot in his mouth and
has a little bit of trouble. But I just I
just wanted him to know that there are people out
(03:45):
here that just really adore him and care a lot
for him. I wish I lived in his neighborhood and
I just hope I can bright his day like he does.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Judy, I I thank you, Judy. Where do you live
in Kentucky? This is amazing. I appreciate the call. Uh,
where do you live? Ashland? Okay? That is uh. And
for people who don't know Kentucky, where is that in
the state of Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
It's a try state area. Okay, we can go to three.
You can be in three straight states within like fifteen
minutes Kentucky, Johann West Virginia.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Well, I appreciate you, uh, Buck, you and thank you
so much for listening. And Uh, you have grandkids?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
I do. I have three?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Okay, Well, I have fun with those grandkids. UH. And
I appreciate you call. And I appreciate you listening. Buck.
I never would have believed this you have. You didn't know.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I didn't know your grandma lived in Kentucky, Cliff, But
I have managed because I'm on the road for college
football a lot and uh and I still love doing
that and uh and obviously sports, So you were with
me at uh at the Alabama Old Miss game.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
UH. And you were with me in Austin last year
for Alabama Texas. There are a lot of like fraternity
age guys, right, college football fans who have grown up
are fans of me and OutKick. We have a really
big fan base. I would say in that audience, I
also am I never would have believed this. I have
(05:20):
like the fraternity guy audience. And then I'm beloved by
Grandma's Like Lara is like, this is my wife.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
We haven't to tell the story. Yeah, tell the story,
tell the story. You were there, We're out at We're
out at a festival. I'm there with Carrie, and Clay's
there with Laura and the boys, and Laura's just having
a having a moment.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
She's joking with us.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
She's like, you know something about the senior citizen ladies.
They just love Before she can even finish her sentence,
a very nice, a lovely lady, and i'd say in
the mid to late seventies, comes over Clay. Travis just
grab like grabs him by the bicep and gets all excited.
So it was pretty fun.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I don't know that there's anybody else in the country
that has like if I had to say, like, hey,
what is your fan base. Now it's like fraternity guys
college football, you know, kids, fans and senior citizen women,
almost no one in between. Like I like to joke,
Buck that I lead the nation on pretty girls who
(06:21):
take pictures of me with like their boyfriends and husbands
and have no idea who I am. And it's so
funny like these the girls are all used to like
being in Instagram photos themselves, but then their boyfriend of
their husbands like, hey, can you take a picture of
the two of us? And they're like, who is this
random dude with a beard that you're getting your picture
taken with? And like the pretty girls don't want the photo,
the dudes do. And now that has been the case
(06:44):
for a long time. Now it's the senior sit of Grandma's,
So I don't know that everybody else is even in
that running. But I love Judy. I appreciate her calling in.
I love Grandma's everywhere, and I'm glad that they love me.
They have great taste the grandma population.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
We love our grandmas are playing Buck, Grandma's meaning the
ladies from across the nation in that demographic who are listening.
So thank you very very much.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Sunday Drop with Clay and Buck. I'm reading Buck, you
got a fan Shena Buck. I've never met or heard
anyone that hates name tags. I despise them and have
for years. You, sir, are brilliant in this regard. I
(07:28):
was not expecting that you would get anti name tag
fan mail, but there you go. Sena fall In.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Sheena is a brilliant, astute observer of life and manners
and understands great talent when she hears it. I mean,
think about this, like we're not adult. I mean I
understand name tags for four year olds like oh, like
you know, you're Bob, I'm Sarah like you know, but
you're an adult. You walk up to somebody, say hi,
(07:57):
my name is and you shake hands. I don't need
a little helper, I need a little thing that says
your name here. You just tell me your name if
I want to know your name. And by the way,
I'm probably gonna forget it because everyone forgets everyone else's name.
So who cares But that you would wear this sort
of nerdy thing that says your name on it, it
does remind me of the uh didn't they do.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
In the office? Like they walked they had they had.
The Office is the I think it's the funniest, Like
it's on. My wife watches The Office and Beverly Hills.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Like they wrote different Did they write like the impags
with different nationalities?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yes? Uh, my wife watches The Office and Beverly Hills
nine oh two one oh. Now, so like when I
walk through the house, there's basically always either The Office
or Beverly Hills now two and oh. And I hate
to admit it, but I get sucked into these shows.
Like I'm busy and I'm thinking, you know, I gotta
do this, I gotta do that. Forty five minutes later,
an hour later, I'm sitting down on the couch watching
either of those shows because they're almost irresistible.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Wait wait, kud of Laura. I mean, I don't know
if she's listening or not. She prefers nine O two
one O to the OC because that's always a big
that's always a big fight.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Well, I think think Lara's generation, because Lara is two
years older than me, which would make her five years
older than you. I think, right, so the OC. By
the time the OC became popular, I think we were
already married. So the nine two and oh was her
high school and early into college. Jam I think so anyway,
(09:21):
I'm watching it. It's amazing. And I will say this
on the name tag front because it just happened this week.
We've been going you one day, Buck will be back
in this. I'm sure your parents did it. We go
and we walk around the school to meet you basically
go through your kid's day to meet all the teachers.
So we had seventh grade and then we had tenth grade.
So we basically go through and meet all the teachers,
(09:42):
and you wear name tags and I wrote my name
on it. And we're sitting around, we're walking around or whatever.
I'm wearing the name tag and my wife's like, you're
supposed to write your son's name tag on the name
tag two, not just yours. So she was like, you're
so cock You just presume that all you need to
do is write your own But I never even thought
(10:04):
about that, Like you're supposed to now write to your
boy Buck, not only my own name. I was evidently
supposed to write my son's name as well, so people
would know who my kid was. I didn't even think
about it, Like this name tag business. Maybe I'm anti
name tag too.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I'm just telling you, the more you think about it,
the more you'll realize. And especially whenever whenever I've had
to go to events or something. First of all, if
I'm like the you know, not to be that guy.
If I'm the keynote speaker, I'm definitely not wearing a
name tag, okay, cause you're supposed to know who I
am if I'm giving the speech, and if you don't,
you'll find out when I'm on the stage. I like
the interaction of hi, my name is and meeting people,
(10:38):
So I'm just telling you. People might think that I'm
being a stickler here, but name tags no good.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Get rid of them. You don't need them. So speaking
of not need them, we teased this and the story
just came down while we were talking, so we played
was it yesterday or two days ago? The Washington Post
was investigating and maybe our New York team can give
us a few more details here. But my understanding is basically,
there is a pizza festival in Brooklyn that is taking
(11:07):
place tomorrow, and there are it's like a pizza taste
test festival where they have all these different local pizza
places in New York City, which is very well known
for having great pizza, and there are all different types
of pizza, and I bet a huge percentage of you
out there are monster pizza fans, and certainly if you
live in New York City. When I was a kid,
(11:28):
but going to New York City, one of the cool
things to do was to go into the pizza shop
and get a pizza, slice of pizza right and be
able to experience that as a tourist. I've got a
huge percentage of our listeners have done that at some
point in time. And I know in Chicago you're like,
we like the deep dish, and in Detroit area they're talking,
you know Detroit's pizza. You know what it is. Detroit
(11:49):
style pizza is square. I didn't know this until I
started dating my wife, whose family is all from the
Michigan in Detroit area. But it's really good, deep dish
kind of square peace pizza. There's all different sorts of
pot types of pizza. And people can argue about him
and everything else. The Washington Post book did an entire
(12:10):
piece on whether pizza shops should be associated with a
guy who has had controversial past comments which are all
intended to be jokes, right that are sometimes considered to
be too aggressive or unacceptable. And I read this entire
piece to first of all, these are food reporters. I
(12:33):
don't know why you have food reporters in the first place.
I mean, if you want to go review, go review
restaurants or whatever, that's fine. Is it controversial for pizza
places to engage in a pizza festival? I just the
idea of this entire premise is crazy, and that they say,
(12:53):
here's here's a guy who is who is upset. Joe Rosenthal,
a Minnesota based mathtician who has positioned himself as the
conscience of the food and restaurant industries.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Oh, he sounds like a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I mean, you want to talk about a guy who
has chicks for days, Joe Rosenthal. The chicks just lose
it when they find out that this guy's the conscience
of the food and restaurant industry. Has been leading the
charge against those involved with the pizza festival. He has
posted regularly on his Instagram account with its thirty three
thousand followers, writing pizzeria's influencers and trade publications are showing
(13:34):
that Portnoy can continue his violent misogyny and campaigns of
abuse and they will continue to support him. He wants
the public to know about past behaviors and pressure them
to not participate. It's a pizza festival. I'm sorry, it's
a pizza festival. It's hard for me, buck to even
(13:56):
conceptualize of a less controversial thing that could be going
on that a pizza festival. It's hard for me to
think of a thing that could have less of a
political agenda than a pizza festival. And the Washington Post
is covering this more aggressively than they are Hunter Biden's
illegal deal. I mean, what is going on here?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
There's something that you're seeing more and more of it.
It has existed for years, but it's become more apparent
and nastier. And it is those who work for some
of the traditional corporate Democrat platforms, and we know the
(14:35):
big ones, right New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC.
They have a real animosity for people that are on
the outside and have built brands. I mean, look at
the way even someone who's not right wing but who
is open to other ideas, like Joe Rogan, who has
(14:56):
built such massive influence in the digital space, and they
they go after him a New York Times, Washington Post
on the COVID stuff, on a whole range of things
to say it's misogynistic, sexist. Uh, there's a lot of
envy and a lot of resentment in the media.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
There are people that work at the New York Times,
that work at the Washington Post in particular, and other
similar papers who really think that someone like a Portnoy
is a danger to society because he has influence and
he's not supposed to the editorial board at the Washington
Post is supposed to.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
So there's it's.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Personal for them at some level when they're dealing with
some of these media figures. You know, I'm sure you
I'm sure you felt a lot of sports from some
of the from the ESPN people, et cetera, you know,
who are in that more establishment sports model mode. I
don't even know what the I only know ESPN. I'm
sure there's other places and other you know, sports pages
that people pay attention to. But that that's I always
(15:51):
think a part of this as well. And that's why
you see And then there's also just Clay the Marxist
politicize everything down to the last pizza cross. And that's
something else that.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
They do here. I mean this is like I mean
OJ Simpson. I'll just use him as an example. OJ
Simpson is not a very likable guy. He committed double murder.
But if OJ Simpson like was involved in salsa or
OJ Simpson had like a chili tasting contest, right, like
something that is completely not controversial, uh, I mean chili
(16:26):
or salsa or whatever. It's crazy to me that you
would build your entire free time like these guys are
angry that there's a pizza festival going on. You want
the pizza festival to not exist? I mean right, Like
just think I always go to like the end result here.
If this guy that the Washington Post is legitimizing by
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putting two reporters on this story and covering it and
spending probably not kidding, hundreds of hours on this several
thousand word piece that they wrote about a pizza festival,
what's the end result. If this guy gets what he wants,
there isn't a pizza festival, how is that beneficial? Like
a pizza festival is something that people would enjoy and
(17:11):
you can go and you can eat pizza and you
can spend fun time. Like sometimes I think you need
to go to the end result of what these people want,
and it is a less joyful existence, right, Like he's
trying to shut down a pizza festival. If this were
super political, like let's say this is a rally against
illegal immigration or something, then I could see like, Okay,
(17:32):
I'm fired up about this. It's political. What this guy
is trying to do is shut down something that people
will enjoy and replace it with nothing.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
But as you know, whether it's pizza or sports. Now,
the attitude of the left is everything is political. If
you hold the wrong views true, they will boycott your
donut bakery. They don't care. If you are not part
of the team. You are a target. If you oppose
you know, mandatory vaccination or masking, If you don't think
that men can become women, if you think that we
(18:03):
should have border security and immigration law should be enforced,
you are de facto a target. You are not even
collateral damage anymore. You are actually to be targeted if
and when they have you know, the bandwidth and the
ability to do so. And that's why I brought up
something even like you know, could I get a fair
trial in New York versus a trial in Florida. You
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see that the mentality now is intentionally to make everything
so political that nothing can be a political and to
force everyone to choose sides on everything, and it becomes exhausting.
I mean, I would love it if there were whole
areas where we weren't constantly being having politics shoved down
our throats.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Sports obviously for you most yea, but media, you know,
movies and TV shows and everything.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I wish we could all just take a moment, relax
and say there are things in life that we can
all enjoy that aren't about who you're going to vote for.
They reject that, The Washing Post rejects that Dave Portnoy's
not even a Republican, might I note, but he's just
rogue enough from the regime line, and he's enough of
a you know, enough of a maverick that he bothers them,
(19:14):
And so they even want to make his pizza fest
or whatever one bite what is it one bite fest
or something?
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah, we I'll text him and see if we can
get him on next week because I'm curious how this
goes on. But I'm just like, just think about this sometimes,
what's the end result of what these people want. It's
a less joyful, fun society, right, because what they're trying
to do. I mean, imagine getting this worked up about
trying to shut down a pizza festival. That's what they
(19:40):
want and that's what they're trying to do. And that's
the end result of so much of this cancel culture.
It's ending things that people like. I mean, you can
go take the step to Roseanne, right. The Roseanne Show
is pretty funny. Roseanne is a talented comedian and the
show about the Connors and everybody else like. People enjoyed that.
(20:00):
But because Roseanne sends out a tweet, suddenly what she
creates cannot be enjoyed by people like it was before.
It's just it's I think you said it well. There
is everything as political, but it also just strips the
joy out of life. And I've seen it with sports, right.
I can't even go watch a game without having to
worry about who some of the quarterback votes for. I'll
(20:21):
just say it real quick, souse.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I know, we gotta go to break, but I remember,
and it was before he bought X and I know,
you know, Elon Musk for some people's controversial, complicated. I mean,
I think the guy is amazing and overall, I think
a hugely positive force. But when he just said that
wokeness is effectively taken as a license to be really vicious,
just to be really mean to people and feel good
(20:44):
about it, that was a brilliant insight because it is
so true, and that was honestly the thing that Elon
said that's stuck with me more than anything else, that
is perfectly distilled
Bold reverence, and occasionally random The Sunday hang with Playing
Fuck podcast it starts now.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I guess these National something or other days are fun
fodder for us to discuss here on the show. We
did National Burger Day last week, and I said, with
Clay and I basically matched each other, we were we
were boring on that because we basically agree it's in
and out burger shake shack and five guys for burger chains.
(00:32):
And then some people throw the waa burger in there,
and I'm like, I don't even know what a burger is,
but today that today is? That was Yes, that is
a quintessential Dad joke.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
It's funny. Could I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I couldn't tell if he said that was a bad
joke or a dad joke, and I was hoping he said, Dad,
but it would also be considered a bad joke. But
it is National One Hit Wonder Day. I gave Clay
a little warning on this one beforehand. In your mind,
your favorite, not the greatest, because that's ridiculous, your favorite
one hit wonder song of all time is what.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I was doing research on this to confirm maybe we
can play it. I don't know what the rules are
Gonna make you sweat Everybody dance? Now? Do you remember
the Sea Music Factory? Do you remember the Songbody was CNC, Dude,
I loved CE and C music. Fact, everybody danced. Now
that's the parenthetical. The actual name of the song is
(01:32):
gonna make you sweat Everybody dance Now in like nineteen
ninety nineteen ninety one, Ish was everywhere CNC Music Factory. Uh,
that is probably my number one one hit. The other
one I the other one I flagged. This is gonna
blow your mind because I wanted to go in multiple directions,
(01:53):
and this is gonna get me crushed. I think Natalie
and bruly a torn. Do you remember the song Torn?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I know it well, A couple of other decent songs
people don't know as well. I'm just throwing that out there.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Oh well, you're you are more familiar with her entire catalog,
I guess than I would I. What would you go with?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I mean, for me, the the ultimate one hit wonder
of all time might be uh well, actually, I don't
think it's fair to say mc hammer can't touch this
as a one hit wonder. He had some other songs much, Yeah, yeah,
he had a bunch of songs, Vanilla Ice Ice Ice
Babies one, but for me it's It's the Verve Bittersweet Symphony.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Oh that song sued for.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
For sampling something from the Rolling Stones, and then I
believe the Rolling Stones transferred back the rights to them afterwards,
because there was a lot of people were kind of
upset about how that went down, Like the Rolling This.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Is how We Do It would be the other one
by Montel Jordan. Do you remember this is How We
Do It?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
That's an amazing song, Yes, see, taking you back down memory,
laying your folks with the one hit.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Wonders Sunday Hang with Clay and Buck.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Judy and k and Kentucky. Yeah, Judy, what have you
got for Clay?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Okay, I just want to let him know how much
I adore him. I'm an eighty three year old and
like Laura says, this age group loves him.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
He brightens my day. I love what he tells on
the show about Laura and about the boys. I love
it when he puts his foot in his mouth and
has a little bit of trouble. But I just I
just wanted him to know that there are people out
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here that just really adore him and care a lot
for him. I wish I lived in his neighborhood and
I just hope I can bright his day like he does.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Judy, I I thank you, Judy. Where do you live
in Kentucky? This is amazing. I appreciate the call. Uh,
where do you live? Ashland? Okay? That is uh. And
for people who don't know Kentucky, where is that in
the state of Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
It's a try state area. Okay, we can go to three.
You can be in three straight states within like fifteen
minutes Kentucky, Johann West Virginia.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Well, I appreciate you, uh, Buck, you and thank you
so much for listening. And Uh, you have grandkids?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
I do. I have three?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Okay, Well, I have fun with those grandkids. UH. And
I appreciate you call. And I appreciate you listening. Buck.
I never would have believed this you have. You didn't know.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I didn't know your grandma lived in Kentucky, Cliff, But
I have managed because I'm on the road for college
football a lot and uh and I still love doing
that and uh and obviously sports, So you were with
me at uh at the Alabama Old Miss game.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
UH. And you were with me in Austin last year
for Alabama Texas. There are a lot of like fraternity
age guys, right, college football fans who have grown up
are fans of me and OutKick. We have a really
big fan base. I would say in that audience, I
also am I never would have believed this. I have
(05:20):
like the fraternity guy audience. And then I'm beloved by
Grandma's Like Lara is like, this is my wife.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
We haven't to tell the story. Yeah, tell the story,
tell the story. You were there, We're out at We're
out at a festival. I'm there with Carrie, and Clay's
there with Laura and the boys, and Laura's just having
a having a moment.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
She's joking with us.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
She's like, you know something about the senior citizen ladies.
They just love Before she can even finish her sentence,
a very nice, a lovely lady, and i'd say in
the mid to late seventies, comes over Clay. Travis just
grab like grabs him by the bicep and gets all excited.
So it was pretty fun.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I don't know that there's anybody else in the country
that has like if I had to say, like, hey,
what is your fan base. Now it's like fraternity guys
college football, you know, kids, fans and senior citizen women,
almost no one in between. Like I like to joke,
Buck that I lead the nation on pretty girls who
(06:21):
take pictures of me with like their boyfriends and husbands
and have no idea who I am. And it's so
funny like these the girls are all used to like
being in Instagram photos themselves, but then their boyfriend of
their husbands like, hey, can you take a picture of
the two of us? And they're like, who is this
random dude with a beard that you're getting your picture
taken with? And like the pretty girls don't want the photo,
the dudes do. And now that has been the case
(06:44):
for a long time. Now it's the senior sit of Grandma's,
So I don't know that everybody else is even in
that running. But I love Judy. I appreciate her calling in.
I love Grandma's everywhere, and I'm glad that they love me.
They have great taste the grandma population.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
We love our grandmas are playing Buck, Grandma's meaning the
ladies from across the nation in that demographic who are listening.
So thank you very very much.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Sunday Drop with Clay and Buck. I'm reading Buck, you
got a fan Shena Buck. I've never met or heard
anyone that hates name tags. I despise them and have
for years. You, sir, are brilliant in this regard. I
(07:28):
was not expecting that you would get anti name tag
fan mail, but there you go. Sena fall In.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Sheena is a brilliant, astute observer of life and manners
and understands great talent when she hears it. I mean,
think about this, like we're not adult. I mean I
understand name tags for four year olds like oh, like
you know, you're Bob, I'm Sarah like you know, but
you're an adult. You walk up to somebody, say hi,
(07:57):
my name is and you shake hands. I don't need
a little helper, I need a little thing that says
your name here. You just tell me your name if
I want to know your name. And by the way,
I'm probably gonna forget it because everyone forgets everyone else's name.
So who cares But that you would wear this sort
of nerdy thing that says your name on it, it
does remind me of the uh didn't they do.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
In the office? Like they walked they had they had.
The Office is the I think it's the funniest, Like
it's on. My wife watches The Office and Beverly Hills.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Like they wrote different Did they write like the impags
with different nationalities?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yes? Uh, my wife watches The Office and Beverly Hills
nine oh two one oh. Now, so like when I
walk through the house, there's basically always either The Office
or Beverly Hills now two and oh. And I hate
to admit it, but I get sucked into these shows.
Like I'm busy and I'm thinking, you know, I gotta
do this, I gotta do that. Forty five minutes later,
an hour later, I'm sitting down on the couch watching
either of those shows because they're almost irresistible.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Wait wait, kud of Laura. I mean, I don't know
if she's listening or not. She prefers nine O two
one O to the OC because that's always a big
that's always a big fight.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Well, I think think Lara's generation, because Lara is two
years older than me, which would make her five years
older than you. I think, right, so the OC. By
the time the OC became popular, I think we were
already married. So the nine two and oh was her
high school and early into college. Jam I think so anyway,
(09:21):
I'm watching it. It's amazing. And I will say this
on the name tag front because it just happened this week.
We've been going you one day, Buck will be back
in this. I'm sure your parents did it. We go
and we walk around the school to meet you basically
go through your kid's day to meet all the teachers.
So we had seventh grade and then we had tenth grade.
So we basically go through and meet all the teachers,
(09:42):
and you wear name tags and I wrote my name
on it. And we're sitting around, we're walking around or whatever.
I'm wearing the name tag and my wife's like, you're
supposed to write your son's name tag on the name
tag two, not just yours. So she was like, you're
so cock You just presume that all you need to
do is write your own But I never even thought
(10:04):
about that, Like you're supposed to now write to your
boy Buck, not only my own name. I was evidently
supposed to write my son's name as well, so people
would know who my kid was. I didn't even think
about it, Like this name tag business. Maybe I'm anti
name tag too.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I'm just telling you, the more you think about it,
the more you'll realize. And especially whenever whenever I've had
to go to events or something. First of all, if
I'm like the you know, not to be that guy.
If I'm the keynote speaker, I'm definitely not wearing a
name tag, okay, cause you're supposed to know who I
am if I'm giving the speech, and if you don't,
you'll find out when I'm on the stage. I like
the interaction of hi, my name is and meeting people,
(10:38):
So I'm just telling you. People might think that I'm
being a stickler here, but name tags no good.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Get rid of them. You don't need them. So speaking
of not need them, we teased this and the story
just came down while we were talking, so we played
was it yesterday or two days ago? The Washington Post
was investigating and maybe our New York team can give
us a few more details here. But my understanding is basically,
there is a pizza festival in Brooklyn that is taking
(11:07):
place tomorrow, and there are it's like a pizza taste
test festival where they have all these different local pizza
places in New York City, which is very well known
for having great pizza, and there are all different types
of pizza, and I bet a huge percentage of you
out there are monster pizza fans, and certainly if you
live in New York City. When I was a kid,
(11:28):
but going to New York City, one of the cool
things to do was to go into the pizza shop
and get a pizza, slice of pizza right and be
able to experience that as a tourist. I've got a
huge percentage of our listeners have done that at some
point in time. And I know in Chicago you're like,
we like the deep dish, and in Detroit area they're talking,
you know Detroit's pizza. You know what it is. Detroit
(11:49):
style pizza is square. I didn't know this until I
started dating my wife, whose family is all from the
Michigan in Detroit area. But it's really good, deep dish
kind of square peace pizza. There's all different sorts of
pot types of pizza. And people can argue about him
and everything else. The Washington Post book did an entire
(12:10):
piece on whether pizza shops should be associated with a
guy who has had controversial past comments which are all
intended to be jokes, right that are sometimes considered to
be too aggressive or unacceptable. And I read this entire
piece to first of all, these are food reporters. I
(12:33):
don't know why you have food reporters in the first place.
I mean, if you want to go review, go review
restaurants or whatever, that's fine. Is it controversial for pizza
places to engage in a pizza festival? I just the
idea of this entire premise is crazy, and that they say,
(12:53):
here's here's a guy who is who is upset. Joe Rosenthal,
a Minnesota based mathtician who has positioned himself as the
conscience of the food and restaurant industries.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Oh, he sounds like a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I mean, you want to talk about a guy who
has chicks for days, Joe Rosenthal. The chicks just lose
it when they find out that this guy's the conscience
of the food and restaurant industry. Has been leading the
charge against those involved with the pizza festival. He has
posted regularly on his Instagram account with its thirty three
thousand followers, writing pizzeria's influencers and trade publications are showing
(13:34):
that Portnoy can continue his violent misogyny and campaigns of
abuse and they will continue to support him. He wants
the public to know about past behaviors and pressure them
to not participate. It's a pizza festival. I'm sorry, it's
a pizza festival. It's hard for me, buck to even
(13:56):
conceptualize of a less controversial thing that could be going
on that a pizza festival. It's hard for me to
think of a thing that could have less of a
political agenda than a pizza festival. And the Washington Post
is covering this more aggressively than they are Hunter Biden's
illegal deal. I mean, what is going on here?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
There's something that you're seeing more and more of it.
It has existed for years, but it's become more apparent
and nastier. And it is those who work for some
of the traditional corporate Democrat platforms, and we know the
(14:35):
big ones, right New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC.
They have a real animosity for people that are on
the outside and have built brands. I mean, look at
the way even someone who's not right wing but who
is open to other ideas, like Joe Rogan, who has
(14:56):
built such massive influence in the digital space, and they
they go after him a New York Times, Washington Post
on the COVID stuff, on a whole range of things
to say it's misogynistic, sexist. Uh, there's a lot of
envy and a lot of resentment in the media.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
There are people that work at the New York Times,
that work at the Washington Post in particular, and other
similar papers who really think that someone like a Portnoy
is a danger to society because he has influence and
he's not supposed to the editorial board at the Washington
Post is supposed to.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
So there's it's.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Personal for them at some level when they're dealing with
some of these media figures. You know, I'm sure you
I'm sure you felt a lot of sports from some
of the from the ESPN people, et cetera, you know,
who are in that more establishment sports model mode. I
don't even know what the I only know ESPN. I'm
sure there's other places and other you know, sports pages
that people pay attention to. But that that's I always
(15:51):
think a part of this as well. And that's why
you see And then there's also just Clay the Marxist
politicize everything down to the last pizza cross. And that's
something else that.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
They do here. I mean this is like I mean
OJ Simpson. I'll just use him as an example. OJ
Simpson is not a very likable guy. He committed double murder.
But if OJ Simpson like was involved in salsa or
OJ Simpson had like a chili tasting contest, right, like
something that is completely not controversial, uh, I mean chili
(16:26):
or salsa or whatever. It's crazy to me that you
would build your entire free time like these guys are
angry that there's a pizza festival going on. You want
the pizza festival to not exist? I mean right, Like
just think I always go to like the end result here.
If this guy that the Washington Post is legitimizing by
(16:49):
putting two reporters on this story and covering it and
spending probably not kidding, hundreds of hours on this several
thousand word piece that they wrote about a pizza festival,
what's the end result. If this guy gets what he wants,
there isn't a pizza festival, how is that beneficial? Like
a pizza festival is something that people would enjoy and
(17:11):
you can go and you can eat pizza and you
can spend fun time. Like sometimes I think you need
to go to the end result of what these people want,
and it is a less joyful existence, right, Like he's
trying to shut down a pizza festival. If this were
super political, like let's say this is a rally against
illegal immigration or something, then I could see like, Okay,
(17:32):
I'm fired up about this. It's political. What this guy
is trying to do is shut down something that people
will enjoy and replace it with nothing.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
But as you know, whether it's pizza or sports. Now,
the attitude of the left is everything is political. If
you hold the wrong views true, they will boycott your
donut bakery. They don't care. If you are not part
of the team. You are a target. If you oppose
you know, mandatory vaccination or masking, If you don't think
that men can become women, if you think that we
(18:03):
should have border security and immigration law should be enforced,
you are de facto a target. You are not even
collateral damage anymore. You are actually to be targeted if
and when they have you know, the bandwidth and the
ability to do so. And that's why I brought up
something even like you know, could I get a fair
trial in New York versus a trial in Florida. You
(18:25):
see that the mentality now is intentionally to make everything
so political that nothing can be a political and to
force everyone to choose sides on everything, and it becomes exhausting.
I mean, I would love it if there were whole
areas where we weren't constantly being having politics shoved down
our throats.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Sports obviously for you most yea, but media, you know,
movies and TV shows and everything.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I wish we could all just take a moment, relax
and say there are things in life that we can
all enjoy that aren't about who you're going to vote for.
They reject that, The Washing Post rejects that Dave Portnoy's
not even a Republican, might I note, but he's just
rogue enough from the regime line, and he's enough of
a you know, enough of a maverick that he bothers them,
(19:14):
And so they even want to make his pizza fest
or whatever one bite what is it one bite fest
or something?
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah, we I'll text him and see if we can
get him on next week because I'm curious how this
goes on. But I'm just like, just think about this sometimes,
what's the end result of what these people want. It's
a less joyful, fun society, right, because what they're trying
to do. I mean, imagine getting this worked up about
trying to shut down a pizza festival. That's what they
(19:40):
want and that's what they're trying to do. And that's
the end result of so much of this cancel culture.
It's ending things that people like. I mean, you can
go take the step to Roseanne, right. The Roseanne Show
is pretty funny. Roseanne is a talented comedian and the
show about the Connors and everybody else like. People enjoyed that.
(20:00):
But because Roseanne sends out a tweet, suddenly what she
creates cannot be enjoyed by people like it was before.
It's just it's I think you said it well. There
is everything as political, but it also just strips the
joy out of life. And I've seen it with sports, right.
I can't even go watch a game without having to
worry about who some of the quarterback votes for. I'll
(20:21):
just say it real quick, souse.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I know, we gotta go to break, but I remember,
and it was before he bought X and I know,
you know, Elon Musk for some people's controversial, complicated. I mean,
I think the guy is amazing and overall, I think
a hugely positive force. But when he just said that
wokeness is effectively taken as a license to be really vicious,
just to be really mean to people and feel good
(20:44):
about it, that was a brilliant insight because it is
so true, and that was honestly the thing that Elon
said that's stuck with me more than anything else, that
is perfectly distilled
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