November 14, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show delivers a powerful blend of political analysis, cultural critique, and personal reflection, anchored by breaking news and audience engagement. The hour opens with a major announcement from the U.S. State Department designating several European Antifa factions as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs), including groups based in Germany, Italy, and Greece. Buck Sexton explains the legal and financial implications of this designation, emphasizing the shift in how the U.S. government can now respond to anarchist violence abroad. The hosts contrast this move with past dismissals of Antifa as merely an “idea,” calling out the Biden administration’s previous downplaying of left-wing extremism.
The conversation transitions into a broader cultural critique, sparked by Senator John Fetterman’s candid remarks about the cruelty he’s experienced from the political left. Fetterman reveals that online leftist communities have wished death upon him and mocked his stroke and depression, prompting Clay and Buck to explore the toxic nature of political discourse in the social media era. They argue that the left’s self-righteousness often fuels dehumanizing behavior, and they commend Fetterman for speaking out against the cruelty—even as they maintain political disagreements with him. The hosts also reflect on Fetterman’s mental health struggles, including his admission that he contemplated suicide the day after winning his Senate race. They use this moment to advocate for mental health awareness, especially among veterans, and praise the veteran community for helping to destigmatize seeking help.
The hour then shifts to lighter but thought-provoking topics, including the etiquette of speakerphone use in public and the growing influence of apps like OpenTable and Uber on consumer behavior. Clay and Buck debate whether consumers should be rated by restaurants and rideshare services, similar to how drivers and businesses are reviewed. They discuss the implications of data tracking, social credit systems, and the fairness of mutual accountability between service providers and users. Clay shares personal anecdotes about his Uber rating being affected by his children’s behavior, while Buck jokes about his superior rating and preference for safety over speed.
The hosts also explore the emotional stakes of date nights and holiday outings, sharing humorous stories about Valentine’s Day mishaps, New Year’s Eve expectations, and SantaCon chaos in New York City. They emphasize the importance of planning ahead and the social dynamics of restaurant reservations, including how being recognized by staff can dramatically improve the dining experience. A memorable story is shared about receiving VIP treatment at Billy Martin’s Tavern in Washington, D.C., thanks to soccer legend Alexi Lalas being part of their group.
Hour 3 wraps up with reflections on the intersection of technology, privacy, and consumer profiling, as well as a preview of upcoming political coverage. The hosts maintain their signature blend of humor, insight, and audience connection, closing the week with a mix of serious commentary and light-hearted banter.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, welcome in third Hour, the fifteenth hour of
the week, play and buck. Don't worry, there'll be fifteen
more hours next week. But we are excited to dive
into more with all of you. Also, we like to
go heavy on the talkbacks and the calls for the
latter half of the third Hour. I want to hear
from all of you and all the ways that we can.
So check that out and also subscribe to our YouTube everybody.
(00:23):
We're gonna be doing more and more video and hoping
to even get closer and closer to more exciting video
projects that will launch next year. That I hope that
was vague but exciting. That's right, Clay, that's the way
to do it. A little vague, vague but exciting is
a great, great phrase. That's the move. That's how you
(00:43):
got to do a media all the time. It's a
little bit like my my conspiracy podcast that I want
to start where I just say the craziest stuff possible.
When people ask me for my sources, I'm just like,
I just have a feeling I've heard from somebody who
heard from somebody who had a feeling. I'm sorry, I
can't review my sources. You like you just just take
people in wild directions, see what happens. But something else
(01:06):
that is on my mind here, as we had the
designation of here, this actually happened today. The State Department
from the official account, here you go. Anarchist militants have
waged terror campaigns in the United States and Europe, conspiring
to undermine the foundations of Western civilization through their brutal attacks.
(01:27):
The State Department will designate these four ANTIFA groups as
fto's foreign terrorist organizations. Antifa aust is a terrorist organization
based in Germany, wielding hammers on unsuspecting victims. They were
named a terrorist organization by Hungary after attacks in Budapest.
The International Revolutionary Front in Italy, Coalition of Violent Anarchists,
(01:52):
Armed Proletarian Justice, a Greek anarchist group, Revolutionary Class Self
Defense also in Greece. So they're clay. They've named all
these European Antifax wings as foreign Terrorist organizations ft OH.
That's a that means once you are an ft OH,
(02:12):
the US government's ability and tools to deal with you
are considerable. They are fearsome on the financial side and
the legal side, and even on the kinetic side of things. Uh.
When when the situation calls for it. So that is
a major escalation. And the notion that antifah remember when
the FBI director under Biden said antifa was an idea. Yes,
(02:35):
that was a particularly low moment for a very broad
low FBI. FBI under under under Pattel and Bongino are
they're fixing things? I believe. Actually, we'll have do we guys,
do we have want a director Patel on next week?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
We've been meaning to, Yes, we do. We have director
Cash Bettel will be with us next week. Do you
have questions that you want us to ask him? You
can send those in, I might add, so we'll pick
some of the best ones if we can, if we
have time with him. He's a very busy man. They're
trying to fix the FBI clay that's going on. Then
there's also this, and I think it ties in because
anti FUZ is a bunch of anti civilization lunatics John
(03:15):
Fetterman and and this has been true for a while.
I'll take a step back and say this. Remember when
Elon said that wokeness was really just an excuse for
nasty people to be cruel and feel self righteous about it.
You know, there was some version if you guys can
find that quote for me, but it was I think
(03:36):
he was. That was his Babylon B podcast appearance with
Seth Dilon. I think that's where he said it and
I and that to me was I was like, this
elon guy, he gets it. That was Yeah, he's a
brilliant CEO. Do you remember that exchange?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeahd percent remember it, And I do think. Look, there
are a lot of mean people on the internet, and
you and I both made our livings on the internet,
so h we are quite nice to be fair.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Like, we we poke fun and we call it out
when we have to, but we don't get you know,
so we.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Don't say anything publicly that we would. There is no
dec you're a little saltier.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Clay likes the mix of the Clay likes to sometimes
break the beer bottle on the table and get into
it with people.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
But you know, yeah, I don't mind when people are
owning what they say under their real name. But one
reason the Internet is so toxic is because so many
people have anonymous accounts and just pile it all on.
Having said that, I do think in the era that
we live in now, the left is way meaner because
(04:44):
there is a self righteousness that motivates their anger and
their antipathy, and their idea is we're so right that
we can be super mean to people. And Fetterman has
seen it from both sides, and I thought this was
a good clip.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
This is really interesting that CNN's uh, Dana Bash saying
that the left, I'm sorry, Betterman telling CNN's Dana Bash
saying that the left is just crueler than people on
the right in America that I play eight.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
When I asked my digital team, I said, you know,
you're we're on all the platforms. You know, really, what's
what's kind of the harshest, what's kind of the most personal?
And the answer was immediate. They said, oh, blue sky.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
It's blue sky.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
And the difference is, I mean, the right would say
really rough things and names, you know, some names I
won't I won't repeat on TV. But but but the
the on the lift, it was like they want me
to die, or that we're cheering for your next stroke,
or that's terrible that depression want why couldn't it depression one?
And I hope your kids find you, uh, I mean
(05:50):
they even have like the graphic a gift they have
like a stroke, you know, you know in your head,
you know, sharing it. Yeah, and they said that, uh
I remember one they claim that doctor let us down
and why did they have to save his life? I
mean just really like, I just can't imagine people are
are wishing, you know, I wish he dies or I
(06:12):
want him to die, you know, literally cheering for for
a stroke. And I don't know what the kind of
a place where that comes from. I mean, that's that's
much different than just calling me a name, you know that.
And that's that's really been consistent, you know, in that
community online Clay.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
The online left embraces and celebrates a demonic viciousness that
is reflected in the broader Democrat party.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
It's just reality, yes, And I think it has to
do with the belief that they are good.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
It's really scary sometimes and I encourage people to think
about it. If you become convinced that you are one
hundred percent right on everything, then you are willing to
dehumanize a lot of people. And I think the left
is more like I question every day, I look at
facts and I say, boy, did I get that right?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I'm open to the idea that I'm wrong.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I think partly that's legal training, where you have to
be willing to look at the whole argument, You have
to contemplate it, you have to think about precedent. I
would encourage everybody out there be open to the possibility
that you're wrong, because then you will analyze things in
a fresh way, as opposed to constantly reinforcing yourself buck
(07:30):
I read. Since we're talking about Fetterman, I want to
expand this conversation because I do think this is important.
Fetterman said the day after he won the Senate race
that he thought about throwing himself off the bridge because
he was so depressed as he was walking. And I
(07:51):
do think for everybody out there, who is you know,
listening to us right now? That was probably what most
people would consider to be the apex of John Fetterman's
professional life. And on the day that he won Senate
reelection Senate election, he was walking on a bridge and
(08:13):
he significantly contemplated just throwing himself off of it, and
he said the only reason he didn't do it was
because ultimately he couldn't stop thinking about his kids and
that they were important in helping him come through the
dark place that he was. There are a lot of
people out there in very very dark places. And I
(08:33):
do think the conversation that Fetterman has opened up of hey,
try to get yourself well mentally and physically. We talk
a lot about the Maha movement, which is you've talked
about this buck yourself. Like you got a young kid, Hey,
I want to be in shape. I want to be
able to help raise that kid. I want to make
sure that I'm trying to be the best version of myself.
(08:54):
And all that stuff works from a physical perspective. Everybody's
got to work on the mental too, And I do
think that a lot of people in the social media era,
I think we're gonna go back. Everybody always thinks, you know,
when you look back and you see people smoking on airplanes,
or for those of us who grew up sometimes with
a mom or a dad, you know, just smoking in
(09:15):
a car with the windows rolled up, or we went
into restaurants and they were like, hey, this is the
smoking section and this is the non smoking section. Like
my kids look at that stuff and they think about
how silly it is. We assume that we're doing things
that are not toxic to ourselves because we get used
to them.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I think social media.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I think twenty years from now, thirty years from now,
people are going to be looking back at what social
media did to this country, and they're going to be saying,
how in the world did we let this happen? And
I just think if you use Fetterman as an example
in this book that he's got and we've invited him
on the program, but imagine you win a Senate race
and because of the toxicity surrounding you, your depression is
(09:55):
such that you think about throwing yourself off a bridge.
I don't think that his perspective in that way was
different than a lot of other people might be, even
with success going on in life.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
And how can you not have a deep human sympathy
that completely supersedes politics for somebody who's going through that.
Anyone who's ever been around someone who is close to
them or they themselves have dealt with real depression, you
would think, and I think that's almost once you get
(10:27):
to a certain age, it's hard not to be in
that category. If somebody who's at least experienced someone who
is dealing with that, you would think that they would
understand that there's a basic human connection that we all
have a sympathy for people, a revulsion at others suffering
in pain, and for someone to not like Betterman's stand
(10:49):
on Israel and publicly wish him to have another stroke
or to die or whatever these things are that he's
pointing out, it goes to a lack of humanity. It's
not about political disagreement anymore. It is you have traded
something from your soul. And this is this is why
I went on Blue Sky the night after Charlie, or
(11:11):
the night of, rather Charlie's assassination. I had to see
it for myself. It It was a deeply dark and
disturbing rummaging through the wreckage of people's souls. It was
really bad play. It was really ugly. And that was people,
(11:32):
a lot of them under their own names publicly, some
of them you know, have have followings, have platforms. I
mean to see what happened to Charlie, A father, a husband,
a son, an American, a patriot. And this is the
if there, God forbid, if there was a high profile
assassination of a prominent Democrat activist or a prominent Democrat politician,
(11:56):
and people of any note on the right were saying
you know, celebrating it in some capacity, I assure you,
including on this program, their own side, our side, would
say that's disgusting. You're you're a disgrace to the movement.
You know, don't ever do something like that. Again, Yes,
(12:17):
none of that on the left, none of it. They
pretend like it doesn't happen, or or they pretend that
they're on or they're on board with it, not even
pretend they're on board with it.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
And Fetterman himself, I mean, I think I'm glad we
played that clip because I flagged that earlier this week.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I saw it.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
You can say, okay, he has uniquely been in the
crosshairs of criticism in both directions. I mean, look, I've
said this on the program. I thought, and I said
that he would be a completely ineffective senator and doctor
Oz should have won. I still think doctor Oz would
be a better representative for Pennsylvania. But I think John
(12:53):
Fetterman is a reasonable, rational Democrat voice.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
And when he says.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Even people who opposed him politically, that is Republicans have
treated him better than Democrats. I take his word for it.
I think it's true, and I do think that for
anybody out there. What is it but twenty one veterans
kill themselves every day. I think much of the story
that Fetterman is telling in this book is about how
(13:19):
to deal with depression. Almost all those people are men.
You can criticize John Fetterman for a lot. He seems
like a normal dude in many respects, and I think
that's why he has the appeal that he does. In Pennsylvania,
he almost threw himself off a bridge, according to his
own book, the day after he won the Senate race,
(13:39):
because of the immense cloud of depression that descended upon him.
You know, get help. We've got a lot of resources
out there. I think it's twenty one veterans a day,
almost all men. And look, I mean, there are people
out there that will help you. And if you're in
that world right now listening to us, get yourself, well,
there's nothing wrong with it.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
One of the sacrifices that our veterans have made that
we all as Americans benefit from. Obviously our freedom, our civilization,
our way of life, our day to day lives, but
also no community has done more in our generation Clay
to destigmatize mental health problems getting mental health assistance than
(14:25):
the veterans. Yeah, no one has done, because if they
need help for what they saw, it's okay. You know,
it's okay for everybody to get help. It's okay for
anyone to have problems because the bravest and the best
of us, even they sometimes can require assistance. So it's
one of those things that I know the people have
(14:46):
very strong opinions about the g WAD and what we
did in Afghanistan and Rock and all the rest of it.
But one aspect of that sacrifice our veterans made that
that has been I think, very very powerful and very
positive for all of us is that you can say
I need help and it's mental and that's okay and
you should get it, and it's not weakness and it's
(15:07):
not something that But that brings me back to the
Federan conversation where that's actually a mental manifestation of it. Well,
talking about the stroke, that's a mental manifestation of a
physical ailment. Yeah, and his own side is is saying
that wishing that he was dead. It's madness.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Madness, Yeah, and the toxicity out there is real, So
just be conscious of that. And look, I give him
credit for speaking out as a somewhat voice of sanity
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so I want to have some fun talk to you
about some things that are well. Some people find it contentious.
I have to say, Clay yesterday, as I get ready
for a little fireside Friday chat here, I said that
speakerphone in public place, and then I think you and
producer ally and some others were suggesting, no, you have
(19:19):
to use the speakerphone so you can hear it. No, no, no.
If you're using speakerphone on your phone in your own backyard,
that's fine, or if you're using it in your home,
that's fine. My objection is when, and this is very
common here in Miami, Like every time I go to
a restaurant or a or a coffee shop here or anything,
there'll be somebody who is sitting there on speaker phone
(19:41):
and I can hear. The people will FaceTime here in
public too, which I did not really experience in New York.
I don't remember. It is more of a Miami thing,
and I objected this. So I just wanted to be
clear that my objection is not to using speaker because
some people wrote it in they're like, well I can't hear. Yeah,
I get it, but you could hear with the with
the AirPods, just to put that out there, you could
(20:02):
hear with uh with you know, headphones in so I
you know, this is something that I feel pretty strong about.
But that's not even what I want to get into
right now. I just want to clarify though, because like Ali, yes,
or you're saying you speaker sometimes so you can't hear you.
That's fine, but I assume you don't go to like
a really nice restaurant and sit there on your speaker
phone and and get into whatever it is you're going
(20:24):
to get into. Right, Yeah, exactly, that's what That's what
I'm talking I.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Actually am concerned that like just being eavesdropped on, and
sometimes it's like, uh, but yes, when I'm in some
place like there's a good chance that I'm gonna have
it on speaker because I just can't hear, I don't
think that. And also earbuds, like they they redefined this
is me getting old man, but they changed the input
(20:51):
so that the earbuds are now wireless. But I didn't
mind actually plugging in the wire anyway. So I I
got I'm fired up on on this. So you were
giving an opinion on this, Let me just mention this
before we get into this open table thing. Almost zero
criticism of our Epstein analysis. People are furious at me
(21:13):
about my take on the penny This is really really
funny my take on change. First of all, I'm right
in general, other than the quarter, which I will defend
the quarter because there's lots of vending machines that require quarters,
I think we should do away with the penny, with
the nickel, and with the dime.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Well really though, it's the question is should we make more.
It's not that they take them out of circulation and
time it we're not. They're not hunting down rogue pennies here. Okay,
this isn't.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I'm not gonna show up beating on your door like
I heard, there's some pennies in here.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
There are rules, you know, like we get it. Like
if you have pennies, that's fine. No one's coming for
your change, jar, This isn't the pennies will be taken
from my cold dead hand, Like, no, we get it.
You can keep your penny. But they're not making more pennies.
That's where that's where that is. But yes, if you're
angry about that, even though I actually agree with Clay,
get mad at Clay because he loves when people are
mad at him. I get said, But open table, this
(22:11):
is what I want to talk about, because this is
bigger than open tables. Maybe you use Rezie, or maybe
use one of these other things, if you use Uber eats,
if you use a Uber, if you use any number
of these apps on a pretty regular basis, and if
you're in a city in particular, these things are They're
omnipresent now in day to day life. I mean, there
are a lot of places where you really can't get
(22:31):
a cab, but you can get an Uber, right, I
mean that's oh yeah, in New York you can. You know,
you can always get a yellow cab pretty much still,
but in a lot of places if you're not using
an app to get a ride share.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
When the twenties in in Nashville, buck I was so
I didn't want I want to go out to a bar.
I don't want to worry about getting a dui, so
I would try to get picked up by a cab.
Getting picked up by a cab in Nashville was impossible.
Once you got to a bar, there would be cabs.
There were not enough. Your experience in New York City
(23:05):
is a rarity where you could always get a cab.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Back in the day.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Uber and Lyft fundamentally I think made America way safer
there's no excuse now to ever get a dui, like
you can always easily get a car if you have
a couple of drinks too much or whatever. So they
made the world much better, but there are some downsides
associated with the how those the world is now set up.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
So we joked around about this. But you know that
in particular on Uber, you get there's a rating for
you as the user, and so it's not you always
see the driver rating, although the ratings now are so
it's like everybody has four point nine stars. Who's a driver?
So you know, is my Uber rating a little higher
than Clay's? Maybe, don't worry about it, you know, Am
(23:49):
I just a little more trustworthy for these guys picking
me up and being on time? I don't know. Maybe
you know neither here nor there, But they also like that.
I don't mind if they drive like an old man,
because some of us clay high safety.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I will say my Uber drivers drive like super old men.
The number of times that they stop on yellows, the
number of time that I'm just sitting there like go
go go, and they're going too slow. I need a
James Bond style personal driver who is just gonna get
me everywhere as rapidly as possible. Buck is by the way,
we were talking about this yesterday. Buck is a four
(24:22):
to nine five on his uber rating, four point ninety
five out of five. I am a four point ninety four. Now,
you guys know we've well established that I don't like
to cast blame or aspersions. I'm gonna throw the Travis
Boys under the bus here because my kids are also
now connected to my uber account and I had a
(24:44):
better uber rating before.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Get at it all. Look throws producer Ali under the
bus now his own children. Now, I'm not somebody to
blame other people. My uber rating has come down since
my kids have been connected to my uber account. I
don't know what's happened.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I think that they aren't always as prompt as they
should be, and I think your boy is taking the
l for for the kids now. So I would have
been a Bob Buck but for the Travis Boys. Again,
not a blame guy, but they're the reason. They are
the reason why my uber rating has declined.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
You know that what's that like rock song is it's
a Metallica where they're like faster faster. That's like clay
in the back of the Uber just yelling you have
the drive faster faster, so you know, maybe they maybe
some of the Uber drivers don't like that open table Uber.
These apps have all of this data about you is
the point, and people are starting to realize. In the
(25:40):
case of open Table, and this was the piece that
I had mentioned from the New York post. They know
things like your wine preferences before you do. Any of
the restaurant just can have this now has access to
this data because open table gives them your wine preference
or do you even drink wine, your dietary preferences, know
all these things and and then it starts to add
(26:03):
in things like are you late a lot? Do you
cancel same day? Are you a chronic canceller of your
restaurant reservations? And this is where I get a little
more mixed on this. I feel like I feel like
behavior assessment has to go both ways with these things, right.
I think that it's only fair that if a restaurant
(26:24):
can get dinged for you know, making you wait too
long or whatever in the review clay, should the review
system that increasingly we all live with, should it go
both ways? Should any app that you use be able
to should it share with the producer of the goods
or service what the consumer is actually like as a consumer.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I got so many thoughts on this. First of all,
you've been you were a single guy for a long time.
You probably were on top of reservations forever. I never
had reservations for anything. And maybe it's a little bit
different in Nashville than other places. I feel like you
should just be able to walk in a lot of
places now. I get reservations everywhere.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
He just walks in. He's like you out kick fins.
My good I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
I'm saying I've been through a lot of Valentine's Days,
poor Laura Travis, where you could always tell, like the
guy who plans the Valentine's dinner, like you know months
in advance, he's got the table, he's got the restaurant.
I have been Valentine's Day guy walking in, like, well,
we'll just try three or four different places.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Somebody will see this oooh ooh, man, not only are
you getting dinged with the worst prefix, they're gonna do
all year, the most expensive with the worst food, which
is what most restaurants do on Valentine's Day. That is
why it's such a scam, but you're also gonna probably
do a little waiting. I just feel such in my
deepen my soul.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I feel bad for both the guy walking in who's like,
didn't make the reservation and the woman who's dressed up
and she's like, this is the most important night of
the year. This is the night when I know if
this is the relationship that's going to go or not.
You know, Buck, you've probably been through some of these,
you know, like on New Year's Eve, there's always the
girls dressed up in their fanciest dress just crying outside
(28:15):
of a restaurant because the boyfriend or sometimes the husband,
like did not deliver at her expected desire. On that
it didn't go perfect right, Like she's got the perfect dress.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
She's got the perfect hair, perfect makeup, everything, and then
it went around. You never this is true of weddings,
it's true of date night, it's true of you never
hold things up as it's going to be perfect, because
nothing is perfect. You just got to learn to roll
with things. That's true of everything in life.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Women women on Valentine's and on New Year's Eve, they
build in their mind that this is going to be
the perfect night and then it goes awry and they
have a couple of drinks and the number of times.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
That you will see already yeah yeah, well that also
and this is also Santa Cohn. I remember in New
York it always ends with some girl dressed up as
kind of one of Santa's naughty elves, just with like
Matt Squara rang down her face and like her boyfriend
like passed out in a Santa suit, like thrown up
(29:18):
on himself. Like that's not what Santa looks like. Like
Santa con is a mess. That is amateur hour. I
don't know if you guys know, this is a big
thing in New York. Everyone dresses up like Santa or
Santa's helpers and everyone just gets obliterated. More so, I
think it's even more so than Saint Patti's Day. It
is like Santa Khan is a bacchanal uh And it's
(29:39):
not really what I think Santa in his workshop would
have in mind for the holiday. Producer. Ali can ask
you this was it your because you were a bartender.
I think you were also a server right in previous
previous life. I know you were a bartender because Kobe. Yeah,
so we're your server I will say this from my
single guy days, I would tend to go to the
same places because you want to go tip for all
the guys out there. You want to go places where
(29:59):
you you already kind of know the menu, already are comfortable,
already know the scene. You don't want to walk in
not really know anythings, seem like you don't know what
the heck's going on. Don't try new places on a
first date. That's my my way. But Ali, if somebody,
if I went to a restaurant and some guy or
gal who was the server did anything that was kind
of along the lines of like hey, like, oh man,
(30:20):
great to see you again, you know whatever, the tip
meter skyrocketed. Oh it was like it was that was
if you made someone feel like a regular, because now
you're giving them that social verification huge on the first date.
That was you. You saw that too. Oh absolutely, that
is definitely the matter. How you got Moby, Oh my god, no,
I knew who's going to go right for the movie thing?
(30:42):
You were like, Moby, it's good to see you again.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
I'm sorry that eminem is making fun of you so aggressively.
You need a shoulder to cry on because we're the
same height.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Hey Clay, you got to get to your read now.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Oh just try to send this to a commer break
so she doesn't have to deal with her past relationships.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
But don't. Don't you think though, it's it's for back
to the reservation thing. I get all these notices from
restaurants when I make a reservation. I've got a date
night with Carrie coming. See. I do plenty these things
in Advanced Gentlemen, do yourself a favor. Get the app
Plant Advance. The ladies love it. The ladies love it.
But I get all these like are you coming? Are
(31:24):
you sure you're coming? Are you confirmed to come? Are
you sure? I always show up. I'm the show up guy,
and they should know that from the app. So I
don't because o' call too. They want verbal confirmation at
some of these places you're actually going to show up.
So I feel like this benefits those of us. It's
a little bit like a credit score. This benefits those
of us who do what we say or do what
(31:45):
we're supposed to do. So I don't have I know it.
People get freaked out of the Chinese you know, social
credit system thing. I think the restaurant credit system is
probably a good thing. My concern, no, no, no, I'm just
trying to think it through. My concern is, like Uber,
Uber now has an issue. I have noticed it lately
(32:07):
where and some of you may have noticed it. I
don't know if lyft does, because I use Uber almost exclusively.
When you book an Uber, if the driver doesn't move
and you're looking down and they're like, hey, it's going
to be seven minutes, and you wait five minutes and
it's still seven minutes and you cancel, they will pay.
You get charged as the consumer, You get charged a
(32:29):
cancelation fee. I think that people are gaming the system,
some of these drivers, and they're choosing to just stay
in a parking lot and keep accepting Uber rides and
making money off the cancelations without moving. I think it's
a flaw in the system. To your point, Buck, my
concern is there should be a mutuality of obligation in
(32:52):
some way, so in your situation, you should get better
treatment as a diner if you regularly show up up
and fulfill your dining reservation. But if so, I want
there to be a positive connotation as opposed to just
the restaurant gets the power on a negative to ding
you right. The only time, the only time I've gotten
(33:14):
the real like like the Goodfella's treatment where you know,
he shows up to impress his then girlfriend who becomes
his wife, remember this, and they make a table appear
out of nowhere and they put him in the front
row and they have that whole It's a very famous
scene for the movie Goodfellas if you haven't seen it,
when they go out to the nightclub and clearly the
you know, the mob guys are very connected at this place.
Only thing I've ever really experienced that was actually with Clay,
(33:35):
but it wasn't for Clay. It was when soccer superstar
Alexi Lawless was with us in DC for the inauguration
Funny and we went into a bar restaurant very well known,
Billy Martin's Tavern on Wisconsin. It was a freezing cold
night because the coldest inauguration ever. I didn't even want
to go. Clay wanted to go. Whole other story, freezing
(33:56):
cold night and we're like, oh my gosh, all we
want is just you know, some drinks and some chili
and whatever. They told us a two hour weight and
then one of the bar backs, who was from Central
America recognized Alexi Lawless. I have never seen a They
had like five guys come out of the kitchen all
want to take photos with him, also excited for Alexi Lallis,
the soccer guy. And they gave us the best table
(34:18):
in the restaurant right away. We went from two hour
weight to best table in the restaurant in the window.
It's one hundred percent true.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
We were with the Alexi awesome guy, probably listening to
this on podcast at two x speed we walk in
the and not only that, buck the entire restaurant staff posed.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
For him like wanted to get a picture.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Yeah, And we went from it'll be a two hour
waight to we'll have the best table ready for you
in ten minutes in the snap of fingers at Inauguration
weekend in DC, which is probably the busiest weekend of
the year in DC, just about for restaurants, certainly restaurants
that are like Billy martin Tavern, which is super cool
place where JFK reportedly proposed to Jackie Kennedy. But it's
(35:02):
an old school place in Georgetown, very cool, and yeah,
that happened. It happened in a hurry. We were treated
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When people ask me for my sources, I'm just like,
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(01:06):
that is on my mind here, as we had the
designation of here, this actually happened today. The State Department
from the official account, here you go. Anarchist militants have
waged terror campaigns in the United States and Europe, conspiring
to undermine the foundations of Western civilization through their brutal attacks.
(01:27):
The State Department will designate these four ANTIFA groups as
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The International Revolutionary Front in Italy, Coalition of Violent Anarchists,
(01:52):
Armed Proletarian Justice, a Greek anarchist group, Revolutionary Class Self
Defense also in Greece. So they're clay. They've named all
these European Antifax wings as foreign Terrorist organizations ft OH.
That's a that means once you are an ft OH,
(02:12):
the US government's ability and tools to deal with you
are considerable. They are fearsome on the financial side and
the legal side, and even on the kinetic side of things. Uh.
When when the situation calls for it. So that is
a major escalation. And the notion that antifah remember when
the FBI director under Biden said antifa was an idea. Yes,
(02:35):
that was a particularly low moment for a very broad
low FBI. FBI under under under Pattel and Bongino are
they're fixing things? I believe. Actually, we'll have do we guys,
do we have want a director Patel on next week?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
We've been meaning to, Yes, we do. We have director
Cash Bettel will be with us next week. Do you
have questions that you want us to ask him? You
can send those in, I might add, so we'll pick
some of the best ones if we can, if we
have time with him. He's a very busy man. They're
trying to fix the FBI clay that's going on. Then
there's also this, and I think it ties in because
anti FUZ is a bunch of anti civilization lunatics John
(03:15):
Fetterman and and this has been true for a while.
I'll take a step back and say this. Remember when
Elon said that wokeness was really just an excuse for
nasty people to be cruel and feel self righteous about it.
You know, there was some version if you guys can
find that quote for me, but it was I think
(03:36):
he was. That was his Babylon B podcast appearance with
Seth Dilon. I think that's where he said it and
I and that to me was I was like, this
elon guy, he gets it. That was Yeah, he's a
brilliant CEO. Do you remember that exchange?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeahd percent remember it, And I do think. Look, there
are a lot of mean people on the internet, and
you and I both made our livings on the internet,
so h we are quite nice to be fair.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Like, we we poke fun and we call it out
when we have to, but we don't get you know,
so we.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Don't say anything publicly that we would. There is no
dec you're a little saltier.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Clay likes the mix of the Clay likes to sometimes
break the beer bottle on the table and get into
it with people.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
But you know, yeah, I don't mind when people are
owning what they say under their real name. But one
reason the Internet is so toxic is because so many
people have anonymous accounts and just pile it all on.
Having said that, I do think in the era that
we live in now, the left is way meaner because
(04:44):
there is a self righteousness that motivates their anger and
their antipathy, and their idea is we're so right that
we can be super mean to people. And Fetterman has
seen it from both sides, and I thought this was
a good clip.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
This is really interesting that CNN's uh, Dana Bash saying
that the left, I'm sorry, Betterman telling CNN's Dana Bash
saying that the left is just crueler than people on
the right in America that I play eight.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
When I asked my digital team, I said, you know,
you're we're on all the platforms. You know, really, what's
what's kind of the harshest, what's kind of the most personal?
And the answer was immediate. They said, oh, blue sky.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
It's blue sky.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
And the difference is, I mean, the right would say
really rough things and names, you know, some names I
won't I won't repeat on TV. But but but the
the on the lift, it was like they want me
to die, or that we're cheering for your next stroke,
or that's terrible that depression want why couldn't it depression one?
And I hope your kids find you, uh, I mean
(05:50):
they even have like the graphic a gift they have
like a stroke, you know, you know in your head,
you know, sharing it. Yeah, and they said that, uh
I remember one they claim that doctor let us down
and why did they have to save his life? I
mean just really like, I just can't imagine people are
are wishing, you know, I wish he dies or I
(06:12):
want him to die, you know, literally cheering for for
a stroke. And I don't know what the kind of
a place where that comes from. I mean, that's that's
much different than just calling me a name, you know that.
And that's that's really been consistent, you know, in that
community online Clay.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
The online left embraces and celebrates a demonic viciousness that
is reflected in the broader Democrat party.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
It's just reality, yes, And I think it has to
do with the belief that they are good.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
It's really scary sometimes and I encourage people to think
about it. If you become convinced that you are one
hundred percent right on everything, then you are willing to
dehumanize a lot of people. And I think the left
is more like I question every day, I look at
facts and I say, boy, did I get that right?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I'm open to the idea that I'm wrong.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I think partly that's legal training, where you have to
be willing to look at the whole argument, You have
to contemplate it, you have to think about precedent. I
would encourage everybody out there be open to the possibility
that you're wrong, because then you will analyze things in
a fresh way, as opposed to constantly reinforcing yourself buck
(07:30):
I read. Since we're talking about Fetterman, I want to
expand this conversation because I do think this is important.
Fetterman said the day after he won the Senate race
that he thought about throwing himself off the bridge because
he was so depressed as he was walking. And I
(07:51):
do think for everybody out there, who is you know,
listening to us right now? That was probably what most
people would consider to be the apex of John Fetterman's
professional life. And on the day that he won Senate
reelection Senate election, he was walking on a bridge and
(08:13):
he significantly contemplated just throwing himself off of it, and
he said the only reason he didn't do it was
because ultimately he couldn't stop thinking about his kids and
that they were important in helping him come through the
dark place that he was. There are a lot of
people out there in very very dark places. And I
(08:33):
do think the conversation that Fetterman has opened up of hey,
try to get yourself well mentally and physically. We talk
a lot about the Maha movement, which is you've talked
about this buck yourself. Like you got a young kid, Hey,
I want to be in shape. I want to be
able to help raise that kid. I want to make
sure that I'm trying to be the best version of myself.
(08:54):
And all that stuff works from a physical perspective. Everybody's
got to work on the mental too, And I do
think that a lot of people in the social media era,
I think we're gonna go back. Everybody always thinks, you know,
when you look back and you see people smoking on airplanes,
or for those of us who grew up sometimes with
a mom or a dad, you know, just smoking in
(09:15):
a car with the windows rolled up, or we went
into restaurants and they were like, hey, this is the
smoking section and this is the non smoking section. Like
my kids look at that stuff and they think about
how silly it is. We assume that we're doing things
that are not toxic to ourselves because we get used
to them.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I think social media.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I think twenty years from now, thirty years from now,
people are going to be looking back at what social
media did to this country, and they're going to be saying,
how in the world did we let this happen? And
I just think if you use Fetterman as an example
in this book that he's got and we've invited him
on the program, but imagine you win a Senate race
and because of the toxicity surrounding you, your depression is
(09:55):
such that you think about throwing yourself off a bridge.
I don't think that his perspective in that way was
different than a lot of other people might be, even
with success going on in life.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
And how can you not have a deep human sympathy
that completely supersedes politics for somebody who's going through that.
Anyone who's ever been around someone who is close to
them or they themselves have dealt with real depression, you
would think, and I think that's almost once you get
(10:27):
to a certain age, it's hard not to be in
that category. If somebody who's at least experienced someone who
is dealing with that, you would think that they would
understand that there's a basic human connection that we all
have a sympathy for people, a revulsion at others suffering
in pain, and for someone to not like Betterman's stand
(10:49):
on Israel and publicly wish him to have another stroke
or to die or whatever these things are that he's
pointing out, it goes to a lack of humanity. It's
not about political disagreement anymore. It is you have traded
something from your soul. And this is this is why
I went on Blue Sky the night after Charlie, or
(11:11):
the night of, rather Charlie's assassination. I had to see
it for myself. It It was a deeply dark and
disturbing rummaging through the wreckage of people's souls. It was
really bad play. It was really ugly. And that was people,
(11:32):
a lot of them under their own names publicly, some
of them you know, have have followings, have platforms. I
mean to see what happened to Charlie, A father, a husband,
a son, an American, a patriot. And this is the
if there, God forbid, if there was a high profile
assassination of a prominent Democrat activist or a prominent Democrat politician,
(11:56):
and people of any note on the right were saying
you know, celebrating it in some capacity, I assure you,
including on this program, their own side, our side, would
say that's disgusting. You're you're a disgrace to the movement.
You know, don't ever do something like that. Again, Yes,
(12:17):
none of that on the left, none of it. They
pretend like it doesn't happen, or or they pretend that
they're on or they're on board with it, not even
pretend they're on board with it.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
And Fetterman himself, I mean, I think I'm glad we
played that clip because I flagged that earlier this week.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I saw it.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
You can say, okay, he has uniquely been in the
crosshairs of criticism in both directions. I mean, look, I've
said this on the program. I thought, and I said
that he would be a completely ineffective senator and doctor
Oz should have won. I still think doctor Oz would
be a better representative for Pennsylvania. But I think John
(12:53):
Fetterman is a reasonable, rational Democrat voice.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
And when he says.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Even people who opposed him politically, that is Republicans have
treated him better than Democrats. I take his word for it.
I think it's true, and I do think that for
anybody out there. What is it but twenty one veterans
kill themselves every day. I think much of the story
that Fetterman is telling in this book is about how
(13:19):
to deal with depression. Almost all those people are men.
You can criticize John Fetterman for a lot. He seems
like a normal dude in many respects, and I think
that's why he has the appeal that he does. In Pennsylvania,
he almost threw himself off a bridge, according to his
own book, the day after he won the Senate race,
(13:39):
because of the immense cloud of depression that descended upon him.
You know, get help. We've got a lot of resources
out there. I think it's twenty one veterans a day,
almost all men. And look, I mean, there are people
out there that will help you. And if you're in
that world right now listening to us, get yourself, well,
there's nothing wrong with it.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
One of the sacrifices that our veterans have made that
we all as Americans benefit from. Obviously our freedom, our civilization,
our way of life, our day to day lives, but
also no community has done more in our generation Clay
to destigmatize mental health problems getting mental health assistance than
(14:25):
the veterans. Yeah, no one has done, because if they
need help for what they saw, it's okay. You know,
it's okay for everybody to get help. It's okay for
anyone to have problems because the bravest and the best
of us, even they sometimes can require assistance. So it's
one of those things that I know the people have
(14:46):
very strong opinions about the g WAD and what we
did in Afghanistan and Rock and all the rest of it.
But one aspect of that sacrifice our veterans made that
that has been I think, very very powerful and very
positive for all of us is that you can say
I need help and it's mental and that's okay and
you should get it, and it's not weakness and it's
(15:07):
not something that But that brings me back to the
Federan conversation where that's actually a mental manifestation of it. Well,
talking about the stroke, that's a mental manifestation of a
physical ailment. Yeah, and his own side is is saying
that wishing that he was dead. It's madness.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Madness, Yeah, and the toxicity out there is real, So
just be conscious of that. And look, I give him
credit for speaking out as a somewhat voice of sanity
and the Democrat Party when there are very few of those.
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so I want to have some fun talk to you
about some things that are well. Some people find it contentious.
I have to say, Clay yesterday, as I get ready
for a little fireside Friday chat here, I said that
speakerphone in public place, and then I think you and
producer ally and some others were suggesting, no, you have
(19:19):
to use the speakerphone so you can hear it. No, no, no.
If you're using speakerphone on your phone in your own backyard,
that's fine, or if you're using it in your home,
that's fine. My objection is when, and this is very
common here in Miami, Like every time I go to
a restaurant or a or a coffee shop here or anything,
there'll be somebody who is sitting there on speaker phone
(19:41):
and I can hear. The people will FaceTime here in
public too, which I did not really experience in New York.
I don't remember. It is more of a Miami thing,
and I objected this. So I just wanted to be
clear that my objection is not to using speaker because
some people wrote it in they're like, well I can't hear. Yeah,
I get it, but you could hear with the with
the AirPods, just to put that out there, you could
(20:02):
hear with uh with you know, headphones in so I
you know, this is something that I feel pretty strong about.
But that's not even what I want to get into
right now. I just want to clarify though, because like Ali, yes,
or you're saying you speaker sometimes so you can't hear you.
That's fine, but I assume you don't go to like
a really nice restaurant and sit there on your speaker
phone and and get into whatever it is you're going
(20:24):
to get into. Right, Yeah, exactly, that's what That's what
I'm talking I.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Actually am concerned that like just being eavesdropped on, and
sometimes it's like, uh, but yes, when I'm in some
place like there's a good chance that I'm gonna have
it on speaker because I just can't hear, I don't
think that. And also earbuds, like they they redefined this
is me getting old man, but they changed the input
(20:51):
so that the earbuds are now wireless. But I didn't
mind actually plugging in the wire anyway. So I I
got I'm fired up on on this. So you were
giving an opinion on this, Let me just mention this
before we get into this open table thing. Almost zero
criticism of our Epstein analysis. People are furious at me
(21:13):
about my take on the penny This is really really
funny my take on change. First of all, I'm right
in general, other than the quarter, which I will defend
the quarter because there's lots of vending machines that require quarters,
I think we should do away with the penny, with
the nickel, and with the dime.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Well really though, it's the question is should we make more.
It's not that they take them out of circulation and
time it we're not. They're not hunting down rogue pennies here. Okay,
this isn't.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I'm not gonna show up beating on your door like
I heard, there's some pennies in here.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
There are rules, you know, like we get it. Like
if you have pennies, that's fine. No one's coming for
your change, jar, This isn't the pennies will be taken
from my cold dead hand, Like, no, we get it.
You can keep your penny. But they're not making more pennies.
That's where that's where that is. But yes, if you're
angry about that, even though I actually agree with Clay,
get mad at Clay because he loves when people are
mad at him. I get said, But open table, this
(22:11):
is what I want to talk about, because this is
bigger than open tables. Maybe you use Rezie, or maybe
use one of these other things, if you use Uber eats,
if you use a Uber, if you use any number
of these apps on a pretty regular basis, and if
you're in a city in particular, these things are They're
omnipresent now in day to day life. I mean, there
are a lot of places where you really can't get
(22:31):
a cab, but you can get an Uber, right, I
mean that's oh yeah, in New York you can. You know,
you can always get a yellow cab pretty much still,
but in a lot of places if you're not using
an app to get a ride share.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
When the twenties in in Nashville, buck I was so
I didn't want I want to go out to a bar.
I don't want to worry about getting a dui, so
I would try to get picked up by a cab.
Getting picked up by a cab in Nashville was impossible.
Once you got to a bar, there would be cabs.
There were not enough. Your experience in New York City
(23:05):
is a rarity where you could always get a cab.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Back in the day.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Uber and Lyft fundamentally I think made America way safer
there's no excuse now to ever get a dui, like
you can always easily get a car if you have
a couple of drinks too much or whatever. So they
made the world much better, but there are some downsides
associated with the how those the world is now set up.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
So we joked around about this. But you know that
in particular on Uber, you get there's a rating for
you as the user, and so it's not you always
see the driver rating, although the ratings now are so
it's like everybody has four point nine stars. Who's a driver?
So you know, is my Uber rating a little higher
than Clay's? Maybe, don't worry about it, you know, Am
(23:49):
I just a little more trustworthy for these guys picking
me up and being on time? I don't know. Maybe
you know neither here nor there, But they also like that.
I don't mind if they drive like an old man,
because some of us clay high safety.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I will say my Uber drivers drive like super old men.
The number of times that they stop on yellows, the
number of time that I'm just sitting there like go
go go, and they're going too slow. I need a
James Bond style personal driver who is just gonna get
me everywhere as rapidly as possible. Buck is by the way,
we were talking about this yesterday. Buck is a four
(24:22):
to nine five on his uber rating, four point ninety
five out of five. I am a four point ninety four. Now,
you guys know we've well established that I don't like
to cast blame or aspersions. I'm gonna throw the Travis
Boys under the bus here because my kids are also
now connected to my uber account and I had a
(24:44):
better uber rating before.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Get at it all. Look throws producer Ali under the
bus now his own children. Now, I'm not somebody to
blame other people. My uber rating has come down since
my kids have been connected to my uber account. I
don't know what's happened.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I think that they aren't always as prompt as they
should be, and I think your boy is taking the
l for for the kids now. So I would have
been a Bob Buck but for the Travis Boys. Again,
not a blame guy, but they're the reason. They are
the reason why my uber rating has declined.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
You know that what's that like rock song is it's
a Metallica where they're like faster faster. That's like clay
in the back of the Uber just yelling you have
the drive faster faster, so you know, maybe they maybe
some of the Uber drivers don't like that open table Uber.
These apps have all of this data about you is
the point, and people are starting to realize. In the
(25:40):
case of open Table, and this was the piece that
I had mentioned from the New York post. They know
things like your wine preferences before you do. Any of
the restaurant just can have this now has access to
this data because open table gives them your wine preference
or do you even drink wine, your dietary preferences, know
all these things and and then it starts to add
(26:03):
in things like are you late a lot? Do you
cancel same day? Are you a chronic canceller of your
restaurant reservations? And this is where I get a little
more mixed on this. I feel like I feel like
behavior assessment has to go both ways with these things, right.
I think that it's only fair that if a restaurant
(26:24):
can get dinged for you know, making you wait too
long or whatever in the review clay, should the review
system that increasingly we all live with, should it go
both ways? Should any app that you use be able
to should it share with the producer of the goods
or service what the consumer is actually like as a consumer.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I got so many thoughts on this. First of all,
you've been you were a single guy for a long time.
You probably were on top of reservations forever. I never
had reservations for anything. And maybe it's a little bit
different in Nashville than other places. I feel like you
should just be able to walk in a lot of
places now. I get reservations everywhere.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
He just walks in. He's like you out kick fins.
My good I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
I'm saying I've been through a lot of Valentine's Days,
poor Laura Travis, where you could always tell, like the
guy who plans the Valentine's dinner, like you know months
in advance, he's got the table, he's got the restaurant.
I have been Valentine's Day guy walking in, like, well,
we'll just try three or four different places.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Somebody will see this oooh ooh, man, not only are
you getting dinged with the worst prefix, they're gonna do
all year, the most expensive with the worst food, which
is what most restaurants do on Valentine's Day. That is
why it's such a scam, but you're also gonna probably
do a little waiting. I just feel such in my
deepen my soul.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I feel bad for both the guy walking in who's like,
didn't make the reservation and the woman who's dressed up
and she's like, this is the most important night of
the year. This is the night when I know if
this is the relationship that's going to go or not.
You know, Buck, you've probably been through some of these,
you know, like on New Year's Eve, there's always the
girls dressed up in their fanciest dress just crying outside
(28:15):
of a restaurant because the boyfriend or sometimes the husband,
like did not deliver at her expected desire. On that
it didn't go perfect right, Like she's got the perfect dress.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
She's got the perfect hair, perfect makeup, everything, and then
it went around. You never this is true of weddings,
it's true of date night, it's true of you never
hold things up as it's going to be perfect, because
nothing is perfect. You just got to learn to roll
with things. That's true of everything in life.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Women women on Valentine's and on New Year's Eve, they
build in their mind that this is going to be
the perfect night and then it goes awry and they
have a couple of drinks and the number of times.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
That you will see already yeah yeah, well that also
and this is also Santa Cohn. I remember in New
York it always ends with some girl dressed up as
kind of one of Santa's naughty elves, just with like
Matt Squara rang down her face and like her boyfriend
like passed out in a Santa suit, like thrown up
(29:18):
on himself. Like that's not what Santa looks like. Like
Santa con is a mess. That is amateur hour. I
don't know if you guys know, this is a big
thing in New York. Everyone dresses up like Santa or
Santa's helpers and everyone just gets obliterated. More so, I
think it's even more so than Saint Patti's Day. It
is like Santa Khan is a bacchanal uh And it's
(29:39):
not really what I think Santa in his workshop would
have in mind for the holiday. Producer. Ali can ask
you this was it your because you were a bartender.
I think you were also a server right in previous
previous life. I know you were a bartender because Kobe. Yeah,
so we're your server I will say this from my
single guy days, I would tend to go to the
same places because you want to go tip for all
the guys out there. You want to go places where
(29:59):
you you already kind of know the menu, already are comfortable,
already know the scene. You don't want to walk in
not really know anythings, seem like you don't know what
the heck's going on. Don't try new places on a
first date. That's my my way. But Ali, if somebody,
if I went to a restaurant and some guy or
gal who was the server did anything that was kind
of along the lines of like hey, like, oh man,
(30:20):
great to see you again, you know whatever, the tip
meter skyrocketed. Oh it was like it was that was
if you made someone feel like a regular, because now
you're giving them that social verification huge on the first date.
That was you. You saw that too. Oh absolutely, that
is definitely the matter. How you got Moby, Oh my god, no,
I knew who's going to go right for the movie thing?
(30:42):
You were like, Moby, it's good to see you again.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
I'm sorry that eminem is making fun of you so aggressively.
You need a shoulder to cry on because we're the
same height.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Hey Clay, you got to get to your read now.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Oh just try to send this to a commer break
so she doesn't have to deal with her past relationships.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
But don't. Don't you think though, it's it's for back
to the reservation thing. I get all these notices from
restaurants when I make a reservation. I've got a date
night with Carrie coming. See. I do plenty these things
in Advanced Gentlemen, do yourself a favor. Get the app
Plant Advance. The ladies love it. The ladies love it.
But I get all these like are you coming? Are
(31:24):
you sure you're coming? Are you confirmed to come? Are
you sure? I always show up. I'm the show up guy,
and they should know that from the app. So I
don't because o' call too. They want verbal confirmation at
some of these places you're actually going to show up.
So I feel like this benefits those of us. It's
a little bit like a credit score. This benefits those
of us who do what we say or do what
(31:45):
we're supposed to do. So I don't have I know it.
People get freaked out of the Chinese you know, social
credit system thing. I think the restaurant credit system is
probably a good thing. My concern, no, no, no, I'm just
trying to think it through. My concern is, like Uber,
Uber now has an issue. I have noticed it lately
(32:07):
where and some of you may have noticed it. I
don't know if lyft does, because I use Uber almost exclusively.
When you book an Uber, if the driver doesn't move
and you're looking down and they're like, hey, it's going
to be seven minutes, and you wait five minutes and
it's still seven minutes and you cancel, they will pay.
You get charged as the consumer, You get charged a
(32:29):
cancelation fee. I think that people are gaming the system,
some of these drivers, and they're choosing to just stay
in a parking lot and keep accepting Uber rides and
making money off the cancelations without moving. I think it's
a flaw in the system. To your point, Buck, my
concern is there should be a mutuality of obligation in
(32:52):
some way, so in your situation, you should get better
treatment as a diner if you regularly show up up
and fulfill your dining reservation. But if so, I want
there to be a positive connotation as opposed to just
the restaurant gets the power on a negative to ding
you right. The only time, the only time I've gotten
(33:14):
the real like like the Goodfella's treatment where you know,
he shows up to impress his then girlfriend who becomes
his wife, remember this, and they make a table appear
out of nowhere and they put him in the front
row and they have that whole It's a very famous
scene for the movie Goodfellas if you haven't seen it,
when they go out to the nightclub and clearly the
you know, the mob guys are very connected at this place.
Only thing I've ever really experienced that was actually with Clay,
(33:35):
but it wasn't for Clay. It was when soccer superstar
Alexi Lawless was with us in DC for the inauguration
Funny and we went into a bar restaurant very well known,
Billy Martin's Tavern on Wisconsin. It was a freezing cold
night because the coldest inauguration ever. I didn't even want
to go. Clay wanted to go. Whole other story, freezing
(33:56):
cold night and we're like, oh my gosh, all we
want is just you know, some drinks and some chili
and whatever. They told us a two hour weight and
then one of the bar backs, who was from Central
America recognized Alexi Lawless. I have never seen a They
had like five guys come out of the kitchen all
want to take photos with him, also excited for Alexi Lallis,
the soccer guy. And they gave us the best table
(34:18):
in the restaurant right away. We went from two hour
weight to best table in the restaurant in the window.
It's one hundred percent true.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
We were with the Alexi awesome guy, probably listening to
this on podcast at two x speed we walk in
the and not only that, buck the entire restaurant staff posed.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
For him like wanted to get a picture.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Yeah, And we went from it'll be a two hour
waight to we'll have the best table ready for you
in ten minutes in the snap of fingers at Inauguration
weekend in DC, which is probably the busiest weekend of
the year in DC, just about for restaurants, certainly restaurants
that are like Billy martin Tavern, which is super cool
place where JFK reportedly proposed to Jackie Kennedy. But it's
(35:02):
an old school place in Georgetown, very cool, and yeah,
that happened. It happened in a hurry. We were treated
just like producer Ali treated Moby back in the day
when they were in a great relationship. Uh, Price picks
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