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The Sunday Hang with Plain Buck podcast. It starts now dB in Worcester, Massachusetts. PLAYBB Please, Hey Buck.
Brian from Worcester, mass Just as a fellow Clancy fan, I was surprised that while talking about Trump going after the Cartels, you never referenced the fantastic Tom Clancy movie Clear and Present Danger, where the President used an executive order to send our special forces overseas to wipe out the Cartels.
Well, I appreciate the reminder. Brian from Wooster, listening on news Radio five eighty there. I'll tell you this, I think that of the Clancy film Cannon, I think that The Hunt for Red October is the best I still think. And yes, I know it's Alec Baldon. We don't like his politics and all that, but I think the Hunter for Red October still stands at number one. Clear and Present Danger, though for me is number two, And I think that Clear and Present Danger is for a something that deals with the cartels. The only thing for me, that really gets close to it would be Narcos on Netflix, Ciccario. You know, I just watched Sacario with Carrie recently, which is a Taylor Sheridan. I think it's really was not quite his breakthrough. That would have been wind River, I think, which he wrote and directed, which was also a good watch. I enjoyed that, But Sacario I think was probably his bigger I mean that that really launched him before Yellowstone. I think it was right. So I watched the Caario and it has some really good elements. But for me, there were some aspects of Sacario that it could have like he almost did it really well. You know the scene where they're coming back from Mexico where they have the high a high value target and custody and there's a it's a very cool scene. I thought it could have been a little bit better, though, I mean, you know, so I don't want to be I don't want to be too uh my expectation is too high. But Sacario's good stuff. Clear and Present Danger, though, is excellent. That ambush sequence in Clear and Present Danger, and if you haven't seen it, movie holds up. It's a good movie. It's a fun watch to this day. Tom Clancy in the genre was a genius as you know. You know, I'm I'm a Clancy Crichton guy. Those are my my books of my youth that got me excited about books. They're both fantastic. But yeah, I know the cartel stuff that I don't think there's I've seen much else that's really all that good. On the cartels. There was that movie Savages, which was not good. Uh Cecario two not good, not good. I don't know what had did he did Taylor Sharnan even get involved with that one. That one was trash. So you gotta do what you gotta do to get the good stuff. Sunday Hay with Clay and Bucks. Then in Colorado. What's going on?
Ben Hey Buck? Yeah, I think the imports of all the Somalians into into Minnesota has caused it. Also, like you said, the city centers. You know, I used to live up in Minnesota in the Boundary Waters and it's a pretty pretty sweet little place too, so you know it's just still city centers.
Yeah, no, I hear you, Thanks Ben. I remember I used to go I've mentioned for the show. Used to go with my dad and my brother's on camping trips in the boundary waters and feels like another world now, But we would you could. I don't recommend you do this, and certainly not now, but we would drink the water out of the lake, which now at any camping trip that I know of in the lower forty eight, like, people don't really do that the same way. Yeah, it was. It was amazing. It's see eagles and wolves and all kinds of stuff. So yeah, it's very beautiful territory. It's just a shame that the politics of it have gone so far left and it's to continue in that direction. Unfortunately, I don't see it getting better. I I you know, I don't know. Do I have time to get into the Yeah. I got a little time again into it this So I'm not like a dating coach or you know, a life life coach or any of that kind of stuff. But I have been around the block a little bit and I know some stuff about some things. And there's this show Love Is Blind where the contestant Sarah Carton left the would be groom Ben over the over the issue of politics, left him at the altar, and this went viral over the weekend, and it's because this is let's play cut too. She says she left him because of his opinions on BLM and the vaccine and trends stuff played two like.
I asked him that Black Lives matter and I have no expert, but like when I asked him about it, he's like, I guess I've never really thought too much about it that affected me, especially in her own city, Like how could it not? How did not make you think about something? I asked him to, like what his church's views are, and he said he didn't know. And so then I watched a sermon online from about sexual identity and it was traditional. I told that to then, And it doesn't really have much to say about it, you know, I want them to think about that stuff.
It's equality, religion, the.
Vaccine, the vaccine, trans identity issues, PLM.
This guy is the luckiest guy. He thinks he got left at the altar. He was walking across the train tracks looking the wrong way, and a train went by him in one hundred miles an hour and just clip the end of his nose. He's lucky. He is the luckiest guy you will see. This woman was going to make him say, suffer for as long as this marriage was going to last. So yeah, guys, do not ignore the red flags out there if you're a single guy, if you're out there still trying to get married. She says, you don't have good policies on trends. Identity run Sundays with Clay and Buck.
You know one thing that I'll say as I try it to be preachy about the fitness journey that I've gone on, because you know, different people different times. You know, I wasn't. It's funny people say, have you gotten all new clothing? And I said, no, I just wear the clothing I used to wear. You know, I got married, I got a little little little set in my ways, getting a little too much ice cream and I got I injured my knee and you know, next thing, I know, you're up thirty thirty five pounds. It can happen. And it took a year. In one year, I gained thirty thirty five pounds and six months I've taken it all off. But whether you're trying to lose weight or anything else, I'll just say this walking is amazing. And and I know that sounds like the most oppos thing anybody said. It probably long. It's like breathing is good, no, but really walking should be a daily habit. And I don't mean the use of your feet to get to where you have to go for work or whatever. I mean, take twenty to thirty minutes a day. Just start with that. And here's the thing. I think. If you want to listen to a book on tape, I'm fine with that, or a podcast like the Clay and Buck Show, I'm fine with that, right. But people will walk there checking their phones all the time. That's that kind of takes you out of it. And I mean, I now, Carey and I walked yesterday for we just took a walk for an hour. And we've already talked to that. How when the baby comes, our plan and I know we're not gonna have any sleep, We're gonna be exhausted. Thank you for all this, Thank you for prepping us for that. Trust me, we've been told now by many people you're gonna miss getting a good night's sleep.
We get it.
We're very excited for a little little baby to be coming here. Baby James. His name is gonna be James. I'm gonna be getting that going soon. But on the side of just walking, I'm telling you. And there's actually a there's a fitness influencer named Michael Smoke who is great on that Higher Up Wellness as his handle, he's always promoting walking. And you know, I've met Michael. He's a really interesting, really good guy, fantastic in the space of wellness and mentality and everything. And I remember I'd watched these videos where he'd say you should go walk, and I said, come on, man, of course I'm walking. Well no, actually I got a step counter and I thought I was walking and I was doing like twenty five hundred steps a day. That's nothing. And not only is it about your your health adventtis, but I think that it's something that any first of all, anyone can I mean, assuming you know you're able bodied, people can walk. It's not telling someone to go run six miles a day. It's not telling someone to start deadlifting or something else. You know, something you were all doing, but making time for it. And I also find you know, actually a DJ Shipley, who I'm going to be training with this week is a former Steel Team six operator. I'm going to be going up and training with him, really looking forward to it. My two brothers are coming. He's also a proponent of walking. I saw a video clip of him. He says, you know, go out with your wife, walk twenty minutes, no distractions, just with your wife, just be together, talk whatever, be together. Brilliant. It's so true. And I just think that it's something that sometimes the simple things can make such a really big difference. I mean, now I did like twelve thousand steps yesterday. I'm trying to get over ten thousand, sometimes over twelve thousand a day. There's the fitness component of it, but there's also just the I think it's good for your mental health. I think it's good for your body. I think it's good for you if you can go with a spouse or with a loved one or a friend. I try to take calls now for work as much as I can moving, so I don't love zoom calls, but anyway, I try to take call if there's anything I can give you from this week. And I know, again it's such an obvious thing. And that's why I credited Higher of Wellness and I sent him a message saying thank you for this. That when you watch people, when someone says, hey make walking more of a daily habit, your reaction is.
I already do.
Well do you though?
Really? You know I didn't. Maybe you do, but I'm telling you. And even if it means you have to get in the car and go somewhere that you want to walk, I know some of your probably you know in areas where there's not a lot of walkability, find the nearest place, go do it. It's I have. That's the best thing that I've changed over the last six months, other than some of the nutrition and weightlifting stuff I've been doing, is just just walking and every day, every day, go for a walk. And you know anyway, Sorry end of speech, but I hope that's something that may be helpful for many of you. And I guarantee you some of you're gonna email me and say, why are you wasting more time with this talk more about trade deficits. Okay, I'm about to, but some of you will listen to me, and you will in three months or six months or whenever. You'll write into the show or you'll call into the show, and you'll say, you know what, You're right. My wife and I started, or my husband I started forty just a thirty minute walk every day we could Your busy stuff happens Yeah, it's about when you can, but it's about trying to make time for it, and we're we're present with each other. We sleep better at night because you know your body is in this rhythm. I'm telling you that that's the one, one little free bit of advice on the show this week. I hope some of you take it. The rest of you can make fun of me and say that you know you're running super ultra marathons. You don't need anyone telling you about walking. Some of you are going to have a great six month arc on this one and you're gonna say, wow, you're really right, So throwing that out there for you.
Sunday Sizzle with Clay and Buck, we're going to dive.
Into the vacuum of leadership from the Democrats once again here. But first off, Clay, just a news item that is predictable, pretty amusing, and will also I think be used or should be used as yet another data point showing why Democrats cannot be trusted to speak the truth on even the most obvious and basic things. Hunter Biden has said that he has now broke because his artwork is no longer selling. I just want everyone to understand we are led to believe. If you were an avid CNN watcher, if you believed Morning Joe and Madaw and the rest of them, if you thought they were telling you the truth all these years, you would then have to be in a position where you think that all of the artistic inspiration that led people to buy Hunter Biden's artwork for up to five hundred thousand dollars a painting clay, Yeah, half a million dollars for a painting. Somehow Hunter Biden's creative genius has at exactly the moment that Daddy is no longer president or going to be president or vice president, etc. At exactly that moment, this modern day Michelangelo has lost his creative touch. I just don't know what to say. How could anybody have seen this coming? Except everybody saw this coming. Everybody knew what this was. And I would take you even back further because I remember having these debates on CNN when I was just a lowly, lowly conservative contributor at CNN, when they used to have those and I would say, we all know the Clinton Foundation is basically a Clinton brand slush fund. It's a nonprofit that has really no purpose other than allowing the Clintons to have a global brand that is taxpayer advantage and funded. And the only reason people give to this, especially these foreign countries, is to have influence with the Clintons that has nothing to do with charity. And they said, no, no, that's not true. And then when Hillary lost in twenty sixteen, they had to shut down the Clinton Global Initiative within months. Suddenly all these people didn't care about charity anymore. Well, Clay, suddenly, now that Hunter Biden no longer has a daddy who is president, people don't care about his artwork. And I guess, I guess Anderson Cooper must be shocked by this.
Here is the specifics. This is from a court filing. According to Politico, he struggled to sell his paintings. Only one has he sold in the past fourteen months, compared with twenty seven that he sold in the prior two or three years. He has now significant debts and nobody is buying his book either. He sold just forty two hundred copies of his book in the past year. And here's a quote from his filing. Buck given the positive feedback and reviews of my artwork and memoir, I was expecting to obtain pay speaking engagements and paid appearances, but that has not happened. Nobody cared about your stupid book, Hunter, nobody cared about your artwork. They were paying to try to get access to your daddy, who now has dementia, and nobody cares about you at all. I'm sorry for the brutal truth. Nobody wants to pay you to speak, Nobody wants to pay you to appear you mattered because your dad finagled his way into the White House and as soon as that.
Was over, he was over Hold on, you're forgetting something, mister Clay Travis. Hunter Biden is also a globally renowned Ukrainian natural gas markets experts. That's a good point, worth at least eighty thousand dollars a month for his consulting expertise. So I don't know why he doesn't just put himself out there back on the natural gas arbitrage and consulting circuit and he could start making eighty k again. Because remember we were led to believe by all these so honest journals that had nothing to do with the fact that Hunter Biden's dad was Joe Biden, and it wasn't that Ukrainian oligarchs were buying off the crack addict son of the then vice president and now at one point president. It was that he was a Yale educated lawyer and knew those Ukrainian natural gas markets backwards and forwards. This is what you can go back and see. They they made these arguments so clearly it must be true.
And maybe Hunter believed him because in his court filings where he says that he's basically bankrupt the smartest man, remember that Joe Biden knew the I hope that. Remember the daughter Hunter, the granddaughter Hunter's daughter with the London Roberts, who we interviewed on the program at one point because she published a book. Do you remember that they tried to set up Hunters obligations as a father by giving her the artwork. I hope, I hope, I deeply hope. I don't know what the settlement ended up being for that little girl. I deeply hope that they didn't take the Hunter Biden artwork as a child support payment in Liua. I mean that that is to me indicative of just how despicable Joe Biden actually was in real life. Remember they put all the all the stockings up for the grandchildren and the cat and dogs. I think, and left the little girl off the off the family stocking list. They refuse to acknowledge her as a granddaughter. I still think Joe Biden has never met her in his entire life, and he doesn't have unfortunately, I don't think that many years left. I would think you would want to meet all your grandchildren, even if you didn't necessarily a proof of the way that one of your children had fathered that child. But Hunter said he had no money, and then they tried to settle by him giving all this artwork to his daughter. And I hope that they got cash instead of the artwork, because nobody's buying these things. And remember that one guy who was like Hunter's sugar daddy, that guy you talk about a bad investment. I think he had given like seven or eight million dollars to Hunter, tapped out basically had nothing left. He's never getting his money back either. Okay, but just.
The reason we can transition to this. But I just think the reason that this matters to the degree again, it's not about celebrating the clear destruction of a very flawed individual's finances and reputation everything else. He should have gone to prison. You any of you listening, would have gone to prison. Hunter didn't because of who his daddy was, So keep that in mind. He broke the law many times over, should have gone to prison, was pardoned. As we all know, Joe Biden, in a truly biden Esque last act, part in his effectively is immediate family, all of his immediate family. I don't think Jill was in there, but a lot of his immediate family got pardons from him. The whole thing was so slimy and gross, and I just think it ties in Clex. I know we can talk about the Gavin Newsom thing here, but it ties into the media to try to destroy Trump. Completely abandoned all pretense of rationality and credibility, and to the point where they would even say, no, Hunter Biden's actually really talented as an artist. No, Hunter Biden wasn't getting paid. It wasn't a pay to play thing with Barisma and Ukraine. You know, he's just really smart and was going to advise they were making these arguments, or at least they were shouting down the people who were making these arguments saying it's irrelevant, it doesn't matter. No, it was very relevant. Joe Biden sold out our country. Joe Biden is a corupt piece of trash. And now we all see it, and now that it doesn't matter to Themocrats anymore, we can say it. And with that, would you like to know have the discussion of mister Gavin Newsom, who I think sees this. I think he sees this. I think he knows that the media environment has changed. I think he knows the Democrats no longer have the the cloak of social media invincibility anymore, because thanks thank you Elon, by the way, he broke the damn on this.
Do you remember? It's been a long time, and I bet a lot of you out there remember it. I don't know if you remember it. Buck. Early in Bill Clinton's tenure as a national Democrat figure, he had What's called a Sister Soul job moment. I don't do you remember this? It was it was Clinton turning his back on the left in the Democrat Party. He called out this rapper whose name was Sister Souljah.
Had sister soldiers.
I might be mispronouncing it, but she had a popular rap where she basically bragged about cop getting shot and and all of this sort of violent behavior in her rap lyrics, and Bill Clinton said, yeah, this is not good. He turned his back on her, and it was that that sort of propelled him into a new age of Democrat leadership. This feels to me like Gavin Newsom trying to turn his back on the ascendant left in the party because he recognizes that they've lost their mind. Here is his conversation with Charlie Kirk. Note he dodges a little bit, but it's already considered to be a repudiation of the idea of men in women's sports. Listen to that cut.
Would you do something like that? Would you say no men in female sports?
Well, I think it's an issue of fairness. I completely agree with you on that. I revere sports and so the issue of fairness is completely legit. And I saw that the last couple of years. Boy did I saw how you guys were able to weaponize that weaponize, don't Webinar's maybe the jority of you're right, but you able to shine a light on highlight it in a way that frankly, there are not that many we're talking about, I think, and ten thousand, no, no, But I just didn't realize.
It's eight hundred ninety medals in trophies that we know of in the last five years.
That's a lot.
No, So I'm gonna let me step back say completely fair on the issue of fairness, I completely agree.
He didn't say anything. There's no valiation.
By the way it's being cover is so interesting that and I tweeted out to Gavin Newsome, Yes or no? Do you believe that men should be able to compete in women's sports? And here is the way the New York Times is covering this though, Buck This is the New York Times headline, Newsom splits with Democrats on transgender athletes quote, it's deeply unfair. The remarks by Governor Gavin Newsom of California, a potential White House hopeful, were an extraordinary break from fellow Democrats and signaled a newly defensive position on the issue.
Is the he say, Did I miss it? Did he say that it's deeply unfair for men to compete against women? I didn't. I just I just heard it's an issue of fairness.
He said it's deeply unfair at one point in the embedded in that age. Okay, well that didn't but he didn't say I don't support it, because then he followed up by saying, but we got issues of suicide and everything else. What I'm what I think is interesting here is I feel like this was calculated by Newsom. I don't think The New York Times would be writing this story unless Gavin Newsom were intentionally trying to break from this. And by the way, other Democrats are already being asked about this when we come back buck Hakeem Jeffries, who is the House Minority Leader. He was asked about it, and you're gonna want to hear his answer because it is incompetent, even by Democrat answering question level incompetence. But yes, it's still the way Gavin Newsom answered it. He didn't answer it on yes or no, which is what to me, this is in the same demand that was the most Gavin Newsome answer.
You know, yeah, totally. I'm totally with you on that it's a thing we should talk about. I totally agree that having a conversation about the thing is worth doing. Right now, it's like, well, are you agreeing? Are you agreeing that we should talk about a thing, and whether we agree on it or not,