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The Sunday Hang with playin Buck podcast starts now the uh, you know, going out and making a plate of charcoterie, which I'm gonna be honest with you, like, I don't even know what that is, and I regularly will go out, but you know, I'm not very astute when it comes to food. So when I heard I'm making a plate of charcouterie, that's not what I would buy at a tailgate, right, Chips and salsa is about as far as I go.
I mean, I might try to set up charcuterie at a tailgate, but yes, generally speaking, that's not what you would necessarily.
I'm gonna have beer and probably chips and salsas at like ninety percent of the tailgates I've ever gone to. Maybe gonna get really fancy and have a Chick fil a sandwich.
Can I make my pitch to you about about salsa versus keso? Obviously kiso is superior, but keiso is dangerous. You can polish off a whole thing of kso, and then if you're me, you feel bad about yourself for the next few hours because you're, like I just ingested like eighty or one hundred grams of saturated fat polishing off all that keso. You can drink a bucket of salsa and it's basically like veggies. You're good to go.
I am one billion percent in disagreement with you that cheese dip is better than salsa.
Wait, you don't agree that it's better tasting. I'm saying it's the better option because of the price you pay. Nutritionally, Oh, I'm not even thinking about the nutrient. I would rather eat salsa than cheese dip.
Oh.
Oh, I would much think you're infinitely better, infinitely better as a choice between the audience contra I don't want big cheese after me out there right, So I'm not trying to throw the cheese dip people. I don't want to.
I want us to still be popular in Wisconsin. I don't want the cheeseheads coming after me all around packer Nation. I'm not anti caeso or cheese dip or whatever you want to call it. Salsa, however, is better as an option to dip a chip into.
I don't even have to make this case. This is like your shoulders and was like, I have no response to this. That's just that's just outrageous.
I may even go some of you out there not in the long you agree with me. Now I'm gonna now I'm gonna throw you for an uproar. I actually think the uh, the standard French onion dip is the best of the chip dips, given an option that you can buy easily in a store. Some of you are out there were like, I like, uh, you know Buffalo chicken dip or you know where you mix all this stuff together. Three primary dipping options. I go French onion one, salsa two, your caso dip irie.
I mean, honestly, now he's just being inflammatory, everybody. I just want you to understand. He's just he's he's trolling you for for emails right now and clicks. This is nonsense. He does not believe what he's said.
We also add another caveat. I think it can depend on the chip. If you have the Tostito chip, clearly salsa is the top choice. But if you have like a standard like Ruffles chip, I think the French onion dip is the better choice.
I mean, I'll throw this in the mix. To me, any dip that has crab in it disappearior any dip that doesn't. That's just that's just a personal preference. Yeah, great, papawn over here.
I mean, I like any dip that has caviare is far better than any other dip crab.
Yeah, lobsterman, I just outed myself there. I gotta put the top hat in the monocle aside here for a second. So anyway, what do you think about Okay, we'll return to the border here in a second because it's we'll get to it. But obviously we're gonna have some hot takes on the superior dip I think, And you can all let Clay know that he is he is wrong.
Sunday hang with Clay and.
Buck Anita in San Diego wants the weigh in on the dip debate. Anita, what's going on?
How are you?
I love listening to you too, and I'm just I'm trying to get some work that around the house and listen to you. But it's not caso. It's guesso, please guess so.
Oh, there's no way I'm ever getting Anita. Wait, he's gonna be honest with you.
Hold on.
I have no ability to do accents like that.
The balls are a e o oh not a e I o U. So it's scarce.
So please, but if I add crab to it, then can I call it caso?
You want to add craptro, they go ahead and call it caso. But when it means it's scarto.
Please, thank you, Anita. I want to apologie Anita, thank you.
Can I just get a blanket of community for all mispronunciations for the next several years, because I think I am. I don't do accents. You're good at these, buck I don't do pronunciation. I'd also can't whisper like my Like I was at dinner the other day and somebody was like, you're really loud.
Just what would it take for Clay, I want to know for you to pull out a full country Tennessee accent, Like to give me the full on Tennessee, you know, the most regional. I mean, we have to get you, like a few shots in the hole here.
I don't think I really have it. You know, you can get my mom. I think my mom's been on the show. I mean she has a deep Southern accent.
Her accent is amazing, Like I want her to narrate books about the South. She does have a good accent. Yeah, it's true.
Sundays with Clay and Buck.
Anita in San Diego wants to weigh in on the dip debate. Anita, what's going on?
How are you?
I love listening to you too, and I'm just I'm trying to get some work that around the house. Listen to you, but it's not caso, it's gesso. Please guess so Oh.
There's no way I'm ever getting Anita when he's gonna be honest with you, hold on, I have no ability to do accents like.
The balls are ae o not a e I ou so it's scarce, so please, but.
If I add crab to it, then can I call it keso.
You want to add the go ahead and call it caso, but.
It's so please yeah, thank you, Anita. I want to apologie, thank you.
Can I just get a blanket immunity for all mispronunciations for the next several years because I think I am. I don't do accents. You're good at these, Buck, I don't do pronunciation. I also can't whisper like my I Like, I was a dinner the other day and somebody's like, you're really loud.
Just what would it take for Clay. I want to know for you to out a full country Tennessee accent, Like to give me the full on Tennessee, you know, the most regional. I mean, we have to get you, like a few shots in the hole here. I don't think I really have it.
You know, you can get my mom. I think my mom's been on the show. I mean she has a deep Southern accent.
Her accent is amazing, Like I want her to narrate books about the South. She does have a good accent. Yeah, it's true.
Sunday drop with Clay Buck.
Whoa lines are lit, email boxes filling up, people are fired up here. Hopefully all writ again with the same take on things when it comes to case o versus salsa. Kesso, kesso. We have been told by a native.
I respect the fact that Anita is right there. Here is what I would ask about pronunciations in general, Like, sometimes people mispronounce things, and it is so well established that the mispronunciation is the way that you talk, that you seem like a show off if you try and pronounce its.
Can I tell you one of the great one of the great problems, problems probably like frankly, the biggest problem when you go into any kind of a bakery and you want to order that crescent shaped, very buttery pastry that the French call a croissant. Americans say croissant, yes, But are we really supposed to walk into the bakery and say, hey, man, I want a croissant. Yeah, But the only other option is to say I want the quissant.
I'm not French. There's people listening to us right now, Buck, who live in Kentucky in a town called Versailles. It is actually named after Versailles. But if you were driving around in Kentucky, the famous French palace, If you were driving around in Kentucky and you ask the average person. Hey, I'm trying to get directions to Versus. They would look at you and have no idea what you were talking about. You and to really Versales, to really confuse things.
In Miami. The most famous, probably human restaurant in Miami is Versailles. But if you just show up here, would you know it's versa or would you think it's the americanized vers Sales. Also, the school is clearly Notre Dame, not yet for them, even though it is the French Notre Dame like the cathedral, but we americanize it, so it gets confusing. I don't know, Crossan or Quissant. That's always a tough one for me because you either, you know, you either lean in on the French thing or you're very American with it. So I go, I go, I go with American. We get all right. I gotta get to some of these here, because everyone's calling into the yellow Us. Thomas. Thomas is a brilliant man, Clay, you know this. Thomas is a brilliant fellow. Kesso is much superior to salsa as it is, But if you get loaded kesso with chunks of tomato and some ground beef, in it that is untouchable in the dip world. I'm actually, I'm actually not going to disagree with him that I do not like chunks of tomato and my kesso. Like, here is what I'm saying on the cheese dip thing.
I you automatically if you are so, for instance, buffalo cheese dip, I don't even I'm just these are generic terms, right, Everybody's got different names for all this stuff. I'm talking about straight cheese, right, Like there's a caeso dip. There's nothing else that you've added to it. It's cheese versus salsa. Now, there's many different varieties of salsa. There's like the mango salsa, and there's a you know, different flavors, your standard sauce.
I look at this, he's Michelin Star chef Clay Travis. All of a sudden, he's like, sometimes mango salsa, sometimes salsa. Ver day, we all know it's the red tomato red sala.
Red salsa, standard salsa. I don't want to complicate this with everybody, given like all their secret spins on dips that add different things to it. There's cheese and there's the tomato based salsa.
I'm just saying, Amy's calling you out here, sir Amy, one of our VIPs, right, Sorry, Clay. I love when they start that way. Sorry, Clay. The fact that you call chili con kesso cheese dip tells me you haven't had the real stuff. Cheese dip is like that brick of fake cheese mixed with canned dice, tomatoes with green chilies. Kesso is a real cheese, velvety goodness, as addictive as love and worthy of drooling Amy from the top row. That's really well written.
By the way, for the eight minutes, since we just had this conversation for Amy to help hop on. By the way, if you want to vote, I just put up a pole major Clay and Buck debate. You can only use one dip for your tortilla chips. Do you pick queso or salsa? I said, there's a one correct answer. You know that I'm on the side of truth justice in the American way. And Buck is a communist probably eating crab right now in between each snap.
Have some emails about my crab thing too. WHOA that sounds bad? Yeah about my Like, I don't care about this. Play hold lot a second. The whole lot of second because I actually want to put you on the hot seat. This is always This is my favorite game, trying to put Clay on the hot seat. VIP email from Michelle Clay. I've never been to a tailgate that didn't have a shark Hooterie tray. It is a meat and tree set cheese. It is a meat and cheese tray. Silly goose. But I want to know who is of all the SEC tailgating schools out there? Oh yeah, who is? Who is the fanciest? Which SEC school is most likely to have shark Hooterie at their tailgate?
Clay Ole Miss, Ole Miss is the fanciest tailgate scene. I'm fortunate I've been to all of them because I love college football as my favorite.
You know, leisure activity.
Tailgating is in the South because the weather, to be fair, tends to be kind of perfect in September, October, November, it doesn't get so super cold. By and large, Ole Miss. They bring in chandeliers. You need to go at some point, take carry as well. Oxford's amazing great small town. People are super friendly, but the way they go all out for tailgating and look, I'll be honest, with you. All I really care about at a tailgate is do they have alcohol? So I never I'm not ever someone who gets there and they're like, oh my god, I've got to eat. I've got to be concerned about all the delicacies. I just want beer and door liquor.
And I just want to be clear for all the SEC fans out there listening to Clay, you're telling me that if I need a martini shaken not stirred out of tailgate, I'm going with ole Miss. Yes.
I mean, I think even for rival programs like Mississippi State, LSU, Alabama, you know, regular yearly rivals that play against Ole Miss, I think they are all nodding along with that answer and saying, yeah, it is the fanciest of the tailgates. In the growth there, their old growth of oak forest, I think basically right there, it's phenomenal, it's fantastic, and it is.
Super at times. I mean, Kerry and I are coming with you an Old Miss game next Year's that's what's happening. And there will be crab dip a plenty at my station, you know, I mean probably will be. Can we just I don't even remember who wrote it what was it one of our VIPs, Thomas. Oh no, Doug, Sorry, Doug writes, crab Buck is sounding like a Northeastern coastal elite. Well, you know, the shoe fits you.
You had a lot of people nodding along with your Caso take until you decided to go in on the You had to have crab on top of your dip.
I know.
But my New England people, they're with me for life now and I'm on New Yorker the you got.
Maine, you got Maine on lockdown now with that answer. By the way, I'm distressed. Over two thousand people have voted in the first five minutes of this poll. Keeso is winning fifty seven to forty three on the You can only dip in one of the two.
There is justice. There is justice in America. That's all I can tell you.
Big Kso I think has flooded the pole. I'm not the kind of guy who says that elections are rigged or anything like that. I think Big Kso was listening. I think they've manipulated all the cheeseheads out there. They see their brand as under attack. I think they're flooding this and I want to again cast dispersions on the poll or voters. There's only one right choice, and the choice is being made right now is one hundred percent wrong.
And I also think that no.
One in an SEC tailgate would refer to a cheese board as charcuterie. In all defense of Vip Michelle. If I walked up to an SEC tailgate and I said, do you guys have any charcooterie around here? I think that one they would think, probably if they knew me at all, that I was pranking them. Two, they would presume that I was like a narc, like a fake fan, maybe an FBI agent pretending to infiltrate the tailgate scene to find out what exactly is going on. No SEC fan, I believe, would use the word charcuterie.
Here we go. All I know is all miss top of my list.
Now.
You gotta gotta tell you all love it. It is absolutely phenomenal. You know what ELSEO is absolutely phenomenal. Bucks saving a bunch of money. We're talking right now, we come back. This story is fun. In addition to the other fun stories I've been talking about. A twenty six year old girl decided buck that she was going to have the perfect birthday party.
Where did she have it?
Costco's food court. She took her family with her to the Costco. They got a cake, they got food at the Costco food court, and now there are people giving her marriage proposals.
It's a strong talk about.
This Sunday Hay with Clay and Bucks. Buck.
You are recently married. I've been married for almost twenty years, so we are not in the dating market. But I am told that the dating market is a total mess, and it's a free for all out there, and it's hard to find good people if you are a guy or a girl. Social media has probably made it more challenging. I saw this story and I want to give a shout out to Joe Kinzie, who does a lot of really great articles at OutKick Fun. Hard working guy who finds really good stories. So I'm going to give you these details, Buck, and I want to see whether or not you can understand why her dms are flooded. Madison's Stimmel is from North Carolina. She just turned twenty six and she decided to celebrate her birthday by eating dinner with her family at the Costco Food court.
This is what she wanted to do. I love her already.
They ordered five hot dogs, a chicken bake, a rotisserie chicken salad, a whole cheese pizza, and drinks her entire birthday meal at the Costco food court. All that stuff that I just read you buck, it costs thirty dollars and eighty eight cents. And she posted about this on social media and it took off completely, and everybody now is flooding into her dms. They're trying to date her. She said in an article at OutKick. My dms have been flooded with guys asking me out. One man offered to fly me to Colorado to go on a date with him. She says that that there are so many guys. She posted a picture of her family. There were seven of them that went and ate at one of those long tables in the Costco food court.
I love this girl. She wore Happy.
Birthday tiera and she took her family all to go eat with her at the Costco food court.
I mean, this is the truth. I tell Clay this off air as well. My wonderful wife, Carrie is she looks she's come from a military family, stretching back three generations military family, and she is very salt of the Earth. And she loves a good deal. I mean like she comes with the biggest smile on her face when she's like, oh, honey, you know, I got the pork ribs for tonight thirty percent off. I mean, she wants high fives. She loves getting a good deal. And so I tell you this because for her, Costco is like Nirvana. She gets excited to go to Costco on the weekend. I'm with her and she's like, She's like, I'm taking the suv, I'm taking the car. I'm going to Costco. And I'm like, honey, you go, do you And she has. She's gone for three or four hours. She has a great time. She comes back usually with lots of you know, paper towel and like eight pounds of chocolate covered pretzels, and I'm like, this is great, you know. And she loves getting a good deal. So Costco. Costco is a pretty magical place for a lot of people. So I can tell you I love it. I mean I don't shop anywhere.
I've said before, I buy pretty much everything on Amazon, and the only place I go physically to shop bookstores.
I like to go into bookstores and by the way.
Costco has pretty good book section a lot of times very affordable compared to a lot of other places. Amazon and Costco's the only physical place I shop.
I could tell you. I don't even know if Kerry knows this. Before I got married in my apartment, in my home. I mean, actually she does know this, because she's she's commented on it before. Everything that every piece of furniture that I owned was bought from Amazon, with one exception, which is or Or I got at a thrift store. Like used everything either neighborhood thrift store or on Amazon. And this was apparently very much a bachelor pad. Fine, but I'm just like, oh, I need something or other to throw my feet on. Go to Amazon. I need a mattress, go to Amazon. I mean it's just easy. I agree. I don't even know.
I mean, we've got Amazon packages. It feels like coming to the house every day, the three boys and Laura and the cats and everything. I don't know what most stuff's coming in and out of our house, but I will that only place at my wife's ever, Like, hey, I'm going to go to Costco. Is the only place you could go shopping where I'd be like I'll get let me get my stuff, let me get in the car, like, let's go only place.
So I don't know business, I feel like we're in I feel like we're in the trust tree right now. Yeah, I feel like we're in the trust tree. It's just you, me and a few million of our closest friends. I've been to Costco once in my life, when I was thirteen years old. So what I'm realizing now.
Is there a Costco in New York City?
Like?
Can you go to Costco easily? Is there one in Manhattan?
Like?
Not in Manhattan because way too big and the rent would be too high. I think out in the outer burbs there's probably one. I'd have to check, Like I think maybe in Brooklyn or Queens there's one. Maybe you have to go out to Long Island or New Jersey for it. So no, it's not Manhattan.
People, I would not I would not make the effort if I lived in Manhattan to get to Costco. I don't think I BUCkies in Costco are the two places, by the way, that I would put every dog that I have. But I've already told Carry I'm gonna go to the next time we're driving through Daytona Beach area because that's where one of the two BUCkies in the state of Florida are. I'm gonna go, but I have I haven't been to. So Carrie goes basically every weekend. I mean like Sunday is Costco or Saturday is Costco Day. I'm gonna have to go her one time just so I can, like because she she loves it and so happy and I just get all this great stuff.
It's like Christmas every day which she comes back from Costco.
Well that one of the stupid things they did with COVID, among a billion others, was they stop giving out samples in Costco. That is also awesome because you'll go in not intending to buy anything. Next thing, you know you're gonna be buying twenty pounds.
Into your life. But just so people understand how goes in New York. Have you ever found a major piece of furniture on the street and made it a piece of furniture in your home because I have. That's no, that's pretty crazy. But to be in New York, man, when you're living alone, you're a little studio walk up. Oh yeah, I had bookshelves, Allie says she's that.
To be fair, I don't remember the last time I purchased an object of furniture Like. I don't have anything to do with any of that Laura has. Basically, I mean, when I lived solo, I did by Like I still have the leather couch that I'm sitting in the chair that I'm sitting in now. I've had these for twenty some odd years. But I don't remember the last time I would have bought like a piece of furniture.
Well, I mean, anyway, I think that this might start a trend of Costco birthdays, and I'm gonna have to go check out Costco with Carrie this weekend or next weekend or sometime soon.
I take the boys buck every time we go. The Costco pizza is tough to beat. It cost almost nothing, and we're ecstatic to sit there. Get a soda cheap, get your pizza.
I love this girl. Good for her.
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Today Sunday Sizzle with Clay and Buck.
You know, we had a little bit of a throwdown yesterday and it's all right, you know you're gonna win some, you're gonna lose some. And I think was it fifty seven forty three Kso or Kesso as we have been told, defeated, defeated, definitively salsa in the which one is the better dip for chips? Our friend Jesse Kelly got word of this debate and insisted on sending us. He actually sent us his take on this one. He left a voicemail for the show. And here is Jesse Kelly of the Jesse Kelly Show weighing in. I'm just Clay. He's just calling it like he sees it.
Go for it.
What's up, fellas? It's Jesse Kelly.
Bucks Sexton reached out to me yesterday and I'm only here to voice my deep concerns about Clay. I sense for a while that he wasn't doing well. I don't mean just physically obviously everyone can see that, but mentally.
Now I find out from.
Buck that Clay is actually pitching for salsa over caso.
On The Great Clay and Buck Show.
So look, I don't know if we need to have an intervention of some kind, if there are rehab groups out there, but just know, Clay brother, I'm not judging you. I love you and I'm here for you. You got my number text me if you need anything. That's what he's got for you.
Man.
It was very heavy, as brutal as that analysis was. And you're right, thirty thousand of you voted in the Kso versus Salsa debate and I was defeated fifty seven to forty three, fairly decisively. And again I came downstairs and saw my own thirteen year old refusing to eat any of the salsa at all and devouring all the caso for his lunch when he was home from their taking exams right now, and then Buck, as if I couldn't take any more defeats, you know what I had to do last night. I had to step in and play as one of the players on the thirteen year old basketball practice, and I was awful. They didn't have one of the kids was not there. It's you know, starting to be holiday season whatever. Everybody's getting a little bit sick, travel everything else. They had only nine players at basketball practice, and so one dad did the first half of their scrimmage. I did the second half. And let me tell you something. When I got out onto the court, I was dribbling and I was fine, I'm moving, but when I tried to stop, my body just wouldn't stop. I was running dribbling and I was like, Okay, now I'm gonna stop, and I just didn't and I just kept going. And I think I set a record for dad turnovers in a half of basketball with the thirteen year olds. I'm still bigger and stronger than the thirteen year olds. It's it's a I'm I'm rapidly being replaced here because I think, I mean, if you were looking at like the trajectories, I'm on a fast downward slope. And I was actually worried after my WNBA million dollar bet. I was thinking to myself, I don't want to tear an achilles tendon or you know, somehow injure myself. Right before the holidays, So I convinced myself that I'd only go like seventy percent. But seventy percent I was, I was, I was real. If there were video of this performance, it would be hard for me to explain away. I was wrecked by the thirteen year old.
I mean, if we could get video of you dunking, I think it would go viral. So next time you're at this practice, Clay, I think you've got to.
Just just go for it, you know, unless it's in a foot rim or unless I get a bouncing off of a trampoline that's put in front, I do not think that.
Does not age well. His ability to like jump and jump repeatedly. Jumping is very very hard on the knees, on the lower back, you know, so it's changing directions, you know, like going you watch people run. The old people will get out and jog, like through my neighborhood and everything else. They don't suddenly go lateral right like. Once you're going, it's okay.
But to stop and the start mechanisms I'm recognizing are one of the first things to go. Because I wish you could have seen my face when I just tried to stop when I was dribbling a basketball and it just didn't happen.
I just kept going. The tension and the durability of soft tissue ligaments and tendons starts to go as you get on. There's nothing you can do for that. It's not like muscles or you can try to work on them a little bit or even you know, you don't have the same uh, you know, the same ability to do change of direction. I have to play tennis with ankle braces on.
It's funny you mentioned that my my thirteen year old sprayed his ankle recently and and he I, you know, he's sitting out of practice for a few days. And I said, hey, I'm gonna go get you my ankle brace. And I'm not kidding about this. I brought it out for him because I've sprained my ankle pretty awful a couple of times playing basketball. Once with my sister when I was like fourteen or fifteen. I came back to you, rupture some time. I've ruptured tendons playing tennis.
Have you have you broken them? I mean, it is I'm supposed to have surgery. It is brutal.
And so I got an ankle brace and i'd wear it, you know in school, you know, playing games or whatever. And so I my my thirteen year old he's on the seventh grade basketball team, and I brought out my my ankle brace. I swear. His first things he's like, did George Washington wear this thing? Dad? I mean it is an olderly It is an older looking ankle brace, but I swear that got His first response was, Dad, did George Washington used to play in this?
Uh?
And so it was my ankle brace's suggestion to him of how to recover from his ankle spray and play basketball.
Was not, well, you gotta find like a charity basketball to him that we can play in. So we get some footage of old man Clay and old men Buck getting out there. Dude, I box out with the best of them. I'm telling you.
I pulled up twice from three wide open kids are like, pull it, pull it, nothing but air air balls I and I would if I had pulled up a third time, I was just gonna just I don't even care whether it was close to the rim. I was just gonna throw it off the backboard as hard as I could, just to make sure that it wasn't short.
The next time. But both times I let it go.
I posed, you know, with like the the the wrist, like perfect form, and it was like three feet short.
But the thirteen year old start channing airball. By the way, you know we've all been there. Oh man, what a debacle.