April 6, 2025 • 19 mins
Clay and Buck’s hotel issues. Guess the race SNL skit. Charles Barkley’s advice and Life Coach Clay.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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all right, moment here, It's possible that I am the
(00:20):
dumbest person on the planet, and some of you are
nodding your head like, yes, that is certainly what the
story is here. I can no longer figure out how
to turn lights on or off in any hotel room
in America, and I don't know if this is just me.
Last night, Buck, I got in because we had weather
coming into Nashville. I got to the hotel here in
(00:43):
the Miami area close to midnight. I was tired. I
check in, I get to my room. I wish there
were a camera on me. For a solid half hour,
I was trying to turn the lights off in the room.
I scoured this place. I mean I was doing it
was like I was checking to see if it was bugged.
(01:03):
And I couldn't turn out the lights. I just eventually
said screw it, and I slept all night with the
pillow over the top of my head. I don't know
when this started. I noticed it in like the last
five or six years. They are trying. I think this
is a psychological attack on America. They have decided that
turning on and off lights should be impossible in hotel rooms,
(01:25):
and we need simplicity to return I experience. You're not alone.
I'm gonna tell you this so you don't think I
think I'm the worst in America. You're not alone on this.
I also, I've got a few complaints here, and this
is brought to you by a segment called Clay and Buck.
Say get off my lawn because we're being very old men.
But I will tell you the truth. I've also found
(01:47):
TVs in hotels have now just become these impossible interfaces
of No. I don't want to see some weird video
about your other hotels around the world. I just want
a television that turns on and goes to TV. Right,
there's always you know, oh, and just press this button
and you can order you know, your dry cleaning delivered
or something. I'm like, can we just do the TV thing?
That's one but on the light thing, which I think
(02:09):
is just an extension of the same mentality all these things.
It's like sheer reading salt. And obviously this is for
like some of your kind of higher end hotels or whatever,
but you know they have them in just kind of
normal ISSH hotels. It doesn't have to be super fancy
all these different things. I don't even know what all
these words mean. I can't get the lights to go
the way I want. Who goes there, Who's like, oh,
I'm so glad that I have nine buttons to push
(02:29):
from my one room hotel room when it comes to lights.
My theory in general and all of this is bring
back simplicity. I was talking with my wife about it.
Do you remember in the nineteen eighties when you had
if you got in your car and you wanted to
put on a radio, you had like a little dial
and you could just twist it and it would take
you to your station. And also when it came to
(02:50):
temperature controls, you had a little dial and it was
blue for cold and it was red for warm, and
everybody understood it and it was super easy. I think
we're going backwards in terms of efficiency and effectiveness on everything,
but particularly the lighting situation in all hotels. I would
say this I would prefer to have in my hotel room.
(03:11):
One light switch with a dimmer on.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
It for everything.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
That's it?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Why it's all I need. I'm not doing a photo
shooting there at least you know I'm not planning on it.
Sunday Hang with Clay and Buck. I did not watch it,
but I did see some of the Well, I didn't
watch the Academy Awards. We got a good clip we'll
play for you at the end of the show of that.
It's actually a positive one. I did not watch Saturday
Night Live either, But Shane Gillis, who is a Trump
(03:37):
voting comedian out there, they do say he voted for Trump.
I didn't know that. Is that was that real? I
hope I didn't just blow him up. But uh, okay, uh.
He was on as the guest host of SNL and
they had a skit, this is local news coverage skit,
and you have two black Ucal news host obviously you
(04:01):
just get two white ones and they're competing to see
whether or not the criminals are going to be white
or black. It's actually very funny. I shared it on
my Twitter feed. We got to cut for you SNL
actually bringing a little bit of humor to the Saturday
Night Live airways. Listen, police are looking for looters.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Huh you hear that these looters were spotted after wildfires
devastated homes in Hunt Valley Township, Loos. Okay, just read
the story. Please don't a lookout for the alleged ringleader,
local man named Ethan Kapowski Dammage.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Okay, that's great.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Nothing let's say about this one. Mayhem at the barber
shop after a customer was shot during an argument over
Drake and Kendrick. A Florida middle school teacher has resigned
after falling in love with an eighth grade student. She's
(05:03):
team you were Okay, wait, wait, I haven't finished reading yet.
Authorities have charged thirty eight year old Lakeisha.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Will y'all three three, Thank you sweet baby, Lakeisha? All right,
So that the premise here, Buck is that the white
people are reacting and the black people reacting based on
the race of the alleged criminals, which basically is social media.
Every time there is a crime, we wait to see, oh,
what exactly is the outcome here? If there's anything that's
(05:32):
like a terrorist attack, Yeah, you can just tell left
and right getting ready, and you know, generally it's not
what the left wants. But once in a while they
find somebody on the right that they'll you know, it's
it's it does happen on social media. It's really Shane
Gillis is very funny. His beautiful Dogs thing, where he
does a Trump impression of beautiful dogs from his sketch,
(05:54):
is one of the best two minute comedy clips I've
seen in a long time. I'm still a Nate Bargatsi
guy is. Shane is top five. Nate's a good buddy
of mine. We're the same age from Nashville. He is
incredibly talented, very funny, clean comedian, which is somewhat rare.
Sunday drap with Clay Buck. I saw this quote from
Charles Barkley yesterday. Charles Barkley, of course, the star NBA
(06:19):
player formerly who now is a media prognosticator. I think
he's probably the most talented TV guy in media today.
He said this about I've been talking about the vibe
shift along with Buck. By the way, Buck, we'll be
back with me tomorrow. He's traveling right now. We've got
meetings in Nashville with advertisers tomorrow. But the vibe shift
(06:42):
is real. We played a clip for you from HBO
from The White Lotus. We played steven A. Smith on
the View putting Joy Behar in a body bag on
her own show. I thought this was interesting from Charles
Barkley yesterday, and I'm reading a quote from him because
I haven't seen the greg. See if you can maybe
track down the audio on this and maybe we could
(07:05):
play it at some point this week. But he was
talking about how remember the controversy over whether the Eagles
were going to visit the White House or not. Philadelphia
Eagles who just won the Super Bowl. There was a
report that they weren't. Then a report and I talked
to the White House and they said no, no, no,
that's not true. And then it comes out, Oh, they're
gonna come and they're gonna be honored. But it was
(07:27):
a huge story that blew up and a lot of
people reacted to it. Here's what Charles Barkley had to
say reacting to that. I don't care and I agree
with him one hundred percent. Let me preface this with
I don't care who the president is. He's the President
of the United States. It bothered me the last ten years.
They're like, well, I'm not going because this certain person
is President. Dude. It's the President of the United States.
(07:50):
Even though I disagree with President Trump on some things,
if I met him, I would still give him the
respect and dignity he deserves. We can disagree, but it
bothers me when these teams don't want to go to
the White House. I'm just disappointed we got so divided.
Where did we get to as a country When we're like,
we're not going to the White House, we don't like
(08:10):
who's in there. That's just stupid. I think that's well
said by Charles Barkley. I've said this before. If Joe
Biden had invited me to the White House, I would
have gone. I understand some of you out there might
have been upset. I would have gone in and given
him my advice. Trump has invited me to the White
House before I've been there. Trump has invited Buck to
(08:33):
the White House before we've both been in the Oval
Office and visited with the President. It's an incredible privilege.
It's an incredible privilege to be able to meet with
the President for any reason. So I'm old fashioned in
that respect. If I won a Super Bowl or if
I won an NBA championship or a college championship, major
(08:54):
League Baseball. We just had the Florida Panthers there. I
would go in a heartbeat, I went, there's a college
at GW. We stood in line to be able to go,
just walk through and tour the White House. Some of
you probably have been fortunate enough to do that. The
opportunity as an American to visit the White House, shake
(09:16):
the hand of the President, even if you disagree with them,
I think is something that should be unifying Democrat, Republican, Independent.
I think Charles Barkley is right about it. Okay, several
different things. A lot of you want to wait in on.
Let's go take some of your calls. Mark in Virginia,
what you got for us?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Mark?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Hey, Clay, what's going on on?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I just live in the dream here, Mark, what you
got for us? Oh?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Great, great job. Russia be proud of you guys. You
and buff Off, thank.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
You so much.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Real quick, of course, the deal with the mineral deal,
no real shock or there are of the deal. He
is the master magician when it comes to deal, you know,
and fake news media is going to jump all over
whatever they can to you know, create a narrative that
(10:08):
drives you know a lot of low information voters. Anyway,
getting back to what you were talking about, the economy, Yes, okay,
here we go. Trump will certainly mention the economy. It's
certainly on the top of his priority list as usual.
But although he may get gig for it. Who are
we yet once again waiting on Congress Allison the city?
(10:33):
Can they ever get together to do anything right? Here's
my opinion, and watch it way out to be true.
I think it ends on March of fifteenth, where the
government shoss now, so allay up to March fourteenth and
finally rush in this deal or whatever something that they
could have done a month ago. You know, what have
(10:55):
they been doing the last month? You know, all they
do is sticker with each other that you know, somebody's
ice cream cone is bigger than somebody else's. So let's
have a forty five day fight about that.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Thank you for the call. I agree on the government shutdown.
And if you listen to this show, Buck and I
have consistently told you the government's going to get funded.
The government is not a lot of you out there,
we like I wish more of the government would get
shut down. Certainly, I understand that, but I feel like
the government shutdown story is maybe the most overplayed narrative
(11:31):
arc out there in politics.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Oh my goodness, it's going to be shut down and
then it gets resolved. Bill and Marilyn. What you got
for us?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, you're with us? What you got?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Okay? Sorry? Sorry? The reason that I caught I heard
Senator Soon on your show earlier today, and I was
just I was so flabbergasted that I couldn't believe what
I was hearing because essentially, and correct me if I'm wrong,
he said, forget about we've got something from Canada or whatever,
and that's why we'd run the Senate the way we
do today at any rate. He basically, with the sixteen
(12:07):
votes required given today and actually the last dozen years
or more, the way we're so divided, there's virtually no
chance of the Senate doing anything worthwhile.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Thank you for the call. Yeah, no, And I think
that's important. We had Senator John Thuna on and I
wanted him to explain to all of you, because I
do think it's frustrating Senate majority fifty three votes. There
are certain things that a Senate majority can do. They
can confirm President Trump's cabinet nominees, as they buy in
large have done, and frankly, as they've done in a
(12:44):
fairly rapid fashion, they could if there.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Were a.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Death or a resignation, they could put a new Supreme
Court justice in with a majority. Remember, because Harry Reid
changed that rule and Mitch McConnell remembers said, you may
end up regretting this sooner rather than later, and he did,
because now a simple majority puts someone on the Supreme
Court what they cannot do. And I thought this was important,
(13:11):
and he laid it out. I'd encourage you to go
listen to the first hour of the podcast because he
kind of laid it out in great detail. Outside of
the budget reconciliation process, which can pass with a simple majority,
almost every bill in order to clear the Senate needs
sixty votes. That means with fifty three Republicans, even if
(13:36):
you get all fifty three, you need seven Democrats to
sign on in order to get anything through the Senate
by and large. And so the result is John Thune
was just being honest with everybody. Unless you have sixty,
the Democrats can obstruct many of the things that the
Senate wants to pass, including as we started off the
(13:58):
show discussing the men not being allowed to compete in
women's sports, Ted and Florida, what you got for us?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
All righty body, I'm great.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
How are y'all?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Hey man great? The last twelve years of my life,
I've been living this, uh you know, family, liberal, Republican.
My oldest son went to NYU and got indoctrinated and
became trans and at the time, I just didn't understand
what was going on. And his younger brother he was
(14:36):
telling me, oh, Dad, it's just a fad, don't worry
about it. And I'm like, well, okay, that fad is.
You know, I kind of missed my son, and I
don't have any say in this at all. I'm just
you know, as a parent, you just love your kid, right,
you shoot him like an arrow and just love him.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
And so now now he's she's the transition.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I went through a divorce liberal woman. Now I'm happily
married last ten years to a Republican woman, very happily.
You know, no drama. I don't mean any disrespect to anybody,
but I feel like my my life's just been a movie.
The last twelve years.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
So what happened? So I hope I'm glad that you
and your personal life are making decisions that are getting
you happier. So what's happened with your son that decided
he wanted to transition?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, it's a great question. You know, we text very lovingly.
We don't we don't have a huge relationship. I wish
we did have a better relationship. But I'm just waiting
for her or or him, you know, to to just
I've tried to go visit, you know, several times and
(15:54):
it just wasn't the right time or you know, it
wasn't going to work, or so I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Great, Well, thank you for the call, and we wish
you the best on your relationships with your kids. I
think there are people out there who have dealt with
this unfortunately, and it's very challenging in your own families,
because the data reflects, again, the data large scale, not
(16:24):
your individual life circumstance. The data reflects that most people
who are interested in gender transition are profoundly unhappy. And
if you remember a time when you and your own
life might have been profoundly unhappy, sometimes you feel like
you need to do something drastic in order to alter
(16:48):
the trajectory of your life. The data often reflects that
when you do something like hey, I was a boy,
now I'm a girl, that a lot of times that
drastic change isn't what's going to make you happier in
your life. And I'm far from a life coach. I
screw up things all the time, like all of you,
(17:12):
I am imperfect in all facets. But I do think
in general, the idea of drastic change is going to
suddenly move me from super unhappy to super happy is appealing,
but oftentimes not necessarily based on the data. Again, what
(17:36):
actually makes someone happy? And look, I'm getting on my
soapbox here. I also just think one of the challenges
I think of parenting in general, and I'm sure for
a lot of you who are grandparenting too, we've sort
of created this world where kids think if they're unhappy
that something is wrong with them. You're not always going
(17:59):
to be happy. Sometimes bad things happen and they can
depress you for a period of time. I saw where
Trump There was a clip going viral of Donald Trump,
and I thought it was actually really good advice. He
said for him, the best cure for depression was working
really really hard, because then you don't have as much
(18:21):
time to marinate on things that you're unhappy about. Now
everybody is different. I'm not saying there's a one size
fits all aspect, but this is why, in general, I'm
skeptical of the prescription drug universe because I think what
they sell is, oh, if you just take this pill,
you'll be fine. I don't buy that. I think it's
(18:43):
a good business model for them. Hey, if you have
to take this pill every day for the rest of
your life and you're otherwise concerned that if you don't,
you're going to be unhappy, I understand why it makes
sense from business perspective. I'm just skeptical. I'm a skeptic
in general when it comes to and my wife picks
on me over this sometimes. Like I don't even like
(19:05):
taking tile in all, right, prescription drugs, I don't take
any of them. Tile and all. I don't like to
take it, you know, like natural supplements those kind of things. Okay,
eat healthy, try to get to sleep best you can,
you know. Like I'm old school. I'd like the guy
who doesn't want to wear batting gloves, just give me
a wooden bat I'll get up and I'll try to
(19:26):
make my had. I do think we sell to kids, now,
Hey are you a little uncomfortable, Let me fix it
this way, And as a result, I personally believe we
are wildly over medicated, and certainly for young kids, we
give them way too much medicine.
The Sunday Hang is brought to you by Chalk Natural
Supplements for guys, gals, and nothing in between. Fuel your
day at Chalk dot Com, bold reverence, and occasionally random
The Sunday Hang with Playing Fuck podcast. It starts now,
all right, moment here, It's possible that I am the
(00:20):
dumbest person on the planet, and some of you are
nodding your head like, yes, that is certainly what the
story is here. I can no longer figure out how
to turn lights on or off in any hotel room
in America, and I don't know if this is just me.
Last night, Buck, I got in because we had weather
coming into Nashville. I got to the hotel here in
(00:43):
the Miami area close to midnight. I was tired. I
check in, I get to my room. I wish there
were a camera on me. For a solid half hour,
I was trying to turn the lights off in the room.
I scoured this place. I mean I was doing it
was like I was checking to see if it was bugged.
(01:03):
And I couldn't turn out the lights. I just eventually
said screw it, and I slept all night with the
pillow over the top of my head. I don't know
when this started. I noticed it in like the last
five or six years. They are trying. I think this
is a psychological attack on America. They have decided that
turning on and off lights should be impossible in hotel rooms,
(01:25):
and we need simplicity to return I experience. You're not alone.
I'm gonna tell you this so you don't think I
think I'm the worst in America. You're not alone on this.
I also, I've got a few complaints here, and this
is brought to you by a segment called Clay and Buck.
Say get off my lawn because we're being very old men.
But I will tell you the truth. I've also found
(01:47):
TVs in hotels have now just become these impossible interfaces
of No. I don't want to see some weird video
about your other hotels around the world. I just want
a television that turns on and goes to TV. Right,
there's always you know, oh, and just press this button
and you can order you know, your dry cleaning delivered
or something. I'm like, can we just do the TV thing?
That's one but on the light thing, which I think
(02:09):
is just an extension of the same mentality all these things.
It's like sheer reading salt. And obviously this is for
like some of your kind of higher end hotels or whatever,
but you know they have them in just kind of
normal ISSH hotels. It doesn't have to be super fancy
all these different things. I don't even know what all
these words mean. I can't get the lights to go
the way I want. Who goes there, Who's like, oh,
I'm so glad that I have nine buttons to push
(02:29):
from my one room hotel room when it comes to lights.
My theory in general and all of this is bring
back simplicity. I was talking with my wife about it.
Do you remember in the nineteen eighties when you had
if you got in your car and you wanted to
put on a radio, you had like a little dial
and you could just twist it and it would take
you to your station. And also when it came to
(02:50):
temperature controls, you had a little dial and it was
blue for cold and it was red for warm, and
everybody understood it and it was super easy. I think
we're going backwards in terms of efficiency and effectiveness on everything,
but particularly the lighting situation in all hotels. I would
say this I would prefer to have in my hotel room.
(03:11):
One light switch with a dimmer on.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
It for everything.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
That's it?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Why it's all I need. I'm not doing a photo
shooting there at least you know I'm not planning on it.
Sunday Hang with Clay and Buck. I did not watch it,
but I did see some of the Well, I didn't
watch the Academy Awards. We got a good clip we'll
play for you at the end of the show of that.
It's actually a positive one. I did not watch Saturday
Night Live either, But Shane Gillis, who is a Trump
(03:37):
voting comedian out there, they do say he voted for Trump.
I didn't know that. Is that was that real? I
hope I didn't just blow him up. But uh, okay, uh.
He was on as the guest host of SNL and
they had a skit, this is local news coverage skit,
and you have two black Ucal news host obviously you
(04:01):
just get two white ones and they're competing to see
whether or not the criminals are going to be white
or black. It's actually very funny. I shared it on
my Twitter feed. We got to cut for you SNL
actually bringing a little bit of humor to the Saturday
Night Live airways. Listen, police are looking for looters.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Huh you hear that these looters were spotted after wildfires
devastated homes in Hunt Valley Township, Loos. Okay, just read
the story. Please don't a lookout for the alleged ringleader,
local man named Ethan Kapowski Dammage.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Okay, that's great.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Nothing let's say about this one. Mayhem at the barber
shop after a customer was shot during an argument over
Drake and Kendrick. A Florida middle school teacher has resigned
after falling in love with an eighth grade student. She's
(05:03):
team you were Okay, wait, wait, I haven't finished reading yet.
Authorities have charged thirty eight year old Lakeisha.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Will y'all three three, Thank you sweet baby, Lakeisha? All right,
So that the premise here, Buck is that the white
people are reacting and the black people reacting based on
the race of the alleged criminals, which basically is social media.
Every time there is a crime, we wait to see, oh,
what exactly is the outcome here? If there's anything that's
(05:32):
like a terrorist attack, Yeah, you can just tell left
and right getting ready, and you know, generally it's not
what the left wants. But once in a while they
find somebody on the right that they'll you know, it's
it's it does happen on social media. It's really Shane
Gillis is very funny. His beautiful Dogs thing, where he
does a Trump impression of beautiful dogs from his sketch,
(05:54):
is one of the best two minute comedy clips I've
seen in a long time. I'm still a Nate Bargatsi
guy is. Shane is top five. Nate's a good buddy
of mine. We're the same age from Nashville. He is
incredibly talented, very funny, clean comedian, which is somewhat rare.
Sunday drap with Clay Buck. I saw this quote from
Charles Barkley yesterday. Charles Barkley, of course, the star NBA
(06:19):
player formerly who now is a media prognosticator. I think
he's probably the most talented TV guy in media today.
He said this about I've been talking about the vibe
shift along with Buck. By the way, Buck, we'll be
back with me tomorrow. He's traveling right now. We've got
meetings in Nashville with advertisers tomorrow. But the vibe shift
(06:42):
is real. We played a clip for you from HBO
from The White Lotus. We played steven A. Smith on
the View putting Joy Behar in a body bag on
her own show. I thought this was interesting from Charles
Barkley yesterday, and I'm reading a quote from him because
I haven't seen the greg. See if you can maybe
track down the audio on this and maybe we could
(07:05):
play it at some point this week. But he was
talking about how remember the controversy over whether the Eagles
were going to visit the White House or not. Philadelphia
Eagles who just won the Super Bowl. There was a
report that they weren't. Then a report and I talked
to the White House and they said no, no, no,
that's not true. And then it comes out, Oh, they're
gonna come and they're gonna be honored. But it was
(07:27):
a huge story that blew up and a lot of
people reacted to it. Here's what Charles Barkley had to
say reacting to that. I don't care and I agree
with him one hundred percent. Let me preface this with
I don't care who the president is. He's the President
of the United States. It bothered me the last ten years.
They're like, well, I'm not going because this certain person
is President. Dude. It's the President of the United States.
(07:50):
Even though I disagree with President Trump on some things,
if I met him, I would still give him the
respect and dignity he deserves. We can disagree, but it
bothers me when these teams don't want to go to
the White House. I'm just disappointed we got so divided.
Where did we get to as a country When we're like,
we're not going to the White House, we don't like
(08:10):
who's in there. That's just stupid. I think that's well
said by Charles Barkley. I've said this before. If Joe
Biden had invited me to the White House, I would
have gone. I understand some of you out there might
have been upset. I would have gone in and given
him my advice. Trump has invited me to the White
House before I've been there. Trump has invited Buck to
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the White House before we've both been in the Oval
Office and visited with the President. It's an incredible privilege.
It's an incredible privilege to be able to meet with
the President for any reason. So I'm old fashioned in
that respect. If I won a Super Bowl or if
I won an NBA championship or a college championship, major
(08:54):
League Baseball. We just had the Florida Panthers there. I
would go in a heartbeat, I went, there's a college
at GW. We stood in line to be able to go,
just walk through and tour the White House. Some of
you probably have been fortunate enough to do that. The
opportunity as an American to visit the White House, shake
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the hand of the President, even if you disagree with them,
I think is something that should be unifying Democrat, Republican, Independent.
I think Charles Barkley is right about it. Okay, several
different things. A lot of you want to wait in on.
Let's go take some of your calls. Mark in Virginia,
what you got for us?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Mark?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Hey, Clay, what's going on on?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I just live in the dream here, Mark, what you
got for us? Oh?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Great, great job. Russia be proud of you guys. You
and buff Off, thank.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
You so much.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Real quick, of course, the deal with the mineral deal,
no real shock or there are of the deal. He
is the master magician when it comes to deal, you know,
and fake news media is going to jump all over
whatever they can to you know, create a narrative that
(10:08):
drives you know a lot of low information voters. Anyway,
getting back to what you were talking about, the economy, Yes, okay,
here we go. Trump will certainly mention the economy. It's
certainly on the top of his priority list as usual.
But although he may get gig for it. Who are
we yet once again waiting on Congress Allison the city?
(10:33):
Can they ever get together to do anything right? Here's
my opinion, and watch it way out to be true.
I think it ends on March of fifteenth, where the
government shoss now, so allay up to March fourteenth and
finally rush in this deal or whatever something that they
could have done a month ago. You know, what have
(10:55):
they been doing the last month? You know, all they
do is sticker with each other that you know, somebody's
ice cream cone is bigger than somebody else's. So let's
have a forty five day fight about that.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Thank you for the call. I agree on the government shutdown.
And if you listen to this show, Buck and I
have consistently told you the government's going to get funded.
The government is not a lot of you out there,
we like I wish more of the government would get
shut down. Certainly, I understand that, but I feel like
the government shutdown story is maybe the most overplayed narrative
(11:31):
arc out there in politics.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Oh my goodness, it's going to be shut down and
then it gets resolved. Bill and Marilyn. What you got
for us?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, you're with us? What you got?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Okay? Sorry? Sorry? The reason that I caught I heard
Senator Soon on your show earlier today, and I was
just I was so flabbergasted that I couldn't believe what
I was hearing because essentially, and correct me if I'm wrong,
he said, forget about we've got something from Canada or whatever,
and that's why we'd run the Senate the way we
do today at any rate. He basically, with the sixteen
(12:07):
votes required given today and actually the last dozen years
or more, the way we're so divided, there's virtually no
chance of the Senate doing anything worthwhile.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Thank you for the call. Yeah, no, And I think
that's important. We had Senator John Thuna on and I
wanted him to explain to all of you, because I
do think it's frustrating Senate majority fifty three votes. There
are certain things that a Senate majority can do. They
can confirm President Trump's cabinet nominees, as they buy in
large have done, and frankly, as they've done in a
(12:44):
fairly rapid fashion, they could if there.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Were a.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Death or a resignation, they could put a new Supreme
Court justice in with a majority. Remember, because Harry Reid
changed that rule and Mitch McConnell remembers said, you may
end up regretting this sooner rather than later, and he did,
because now a simple majority puts someone on the Supreme
Court what they cannot do. And I thought this was important,
(13:11):
and he laid it out. I'd encourage you to go
listen to the first hour of the podcast because he
kind of laid it out in great detail. Outside of
the budget reconciliation process, which can pass with a simple majority,
almost every bill in order to clear the Senate needs
sixty votes. That means with fifty three Republicans, even if
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you get all fifty three, you need seven Democrats to
sign on in order to get anything through the Senate
by and large. And so the result is John Thune
was just being honest with everybody. Unless you have sixty,
the Democrats can obstruct many of the things that the
Senate wants to pass, including as we started off the
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show discussing the men not being allowed to compete in
women's sports, Ted and Florida, what you got for us?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
All righty body, I'm great.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
How are y'all?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Hey man great? The last twelve years of my life,
I've been living this, uh you know, family, liberal, Republican.
My oldest son went to NYU and got indoctrinated and
became trans and at the time, I just didn't understand
what was going on. And his younger brother he was
(14:36):
telling me, oh, Dad, it's just a fad, don't worry
about it. And I'm like, well, okay, that fad is.
You know, I kind of missed my son, and I
don't have any say in this at all. I'm just
you know, as a parent, you just love your kid, right,
you shoot him like an arrow and just love him.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
And so now now he's she's the transition.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I went through a divorce liberal woman. Now I'm happily
married last ten years to a Republican woman, very happily.
You know, no drama. I don't mean any disrespect to anybody,
but I feel like my my life's just been a movie.
The last twelve years.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
So what happened? So I hope I'm glad that you
and your personal life are making decisions that are getting
you happier. So what's happened with your son that decided
he wanted to transition?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, it's a great question. You know, we text very lovingly.
We don't we don't have a huge relationship. I wish
we did have a better relationship. But I'm just waiting
for her or or him, you know, to to just
I've tried to go visit, you know, several times and
(15:54):
it just wasn't the right time or you know, it
wasn't going to work, or so I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Great, Well, thank you for the call, and we wish
you the best on your relationships with your kids. I
think there are people out there who have dealt with
this unfortunately, and it's very challenging in your own families,
because the data reflects, again, the data large scale, not
(16:24):
your individual life circumstance. The data reflects that most people
who are interested in gender transition are profoundly unhappy. And
if you remember a time when you and your own
life might have been profoundly unhappy, sometimes you feel like
you need to do something drastic in order to alter
(16:48):
the trajectory of your life. The data often reflects that
when you do something like hey, I was a boy,
now I'm a girl, that a lot of times that
drastic change isn't what's going to make you happier in
your life. And I'm far from a life coach. I
screw up things all the time, like all of you,
(17:12):
I am imperfect in all facets. But I do think
in general, the idea of drastic change is going to
suddenly move me from super unhappy to super happy is appealing,
but oftentimes not necessarily based on the data. Again, what
(17:36):
actually makes someone happy? And look, I'm getting on my
soapbox here. I also just think one of the challenges
I think of parenting in general, and I'm sure for
a lot of you who are grandparenting too, we've sort
of created this world where kids think if they're unhappy
that something is wrong with them. You're not always going
(17:59):
to be happy. Sometimes bad things happen and they can
depress you for a period of time. I saw where
Trump There was a clip going viral of Donald Trump,
and I thought it was actually really good advice. He
said for him, the best cure for depression was working
really really hard, because then you don't have as much
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time to marinate on things that you're unhappy about. Now
everybody is different. I'm not saying there's a one size
fits all aspect, but this is why, in general, I'm
skeptical of the prescription drug universe because I think what
they sell is, oh, if you just take this pill,
you'll be fine. I don't buy that. I think it's
(18:43):
a good business model for them. Hey, if you have
to take this pill every day for the rest of
your life and you're otherwise concerned that if you don't,
you're going to be unhappy, I understand why it makes
sense from business perspective. I'm just skeptical. I'm a skeptic
in general when it comes to and my wife picks
on me over this sometimes. Like I don't even like
(19:05):
taking tile in all, right, prescription drugs, I don't take
any of them. Tile and all. I don't like to
take it, you know, like natural supplements those kind of things. Okay,
eat healthy, try to get to sleep best you can,
you know. Like I'm old school. I'd like the guy
who doesn't want to wear batting gloves, just give me
a wooden bat I'll get up and I'll try to
(19:26):
make my had. I do think we sell to kids, now,
Hey are you a little uncomfortable, Let me fix it
this way, And as a result, I personally believe we
are wildly over medicated, and certainly for young kids, we
give them way too much medicine.
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