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A program or a contest that they hold at the Catmi National Park and Preserve in Alaska for fat the Fattest Bear.
Have you seen this? I love this, I love fat. It's fat Bear Week. I think Fat Bear Week. Yes, that's right, Fat Bear Week.
They say that they have found their fat bear and that the fat bear is quote a queen that's thicker than a bowl of oatmeal. So this is they do this because the bears, as you all know, they fatten up for the winter and they go into hibernation. So they have these these grizzly bears that get to their absolute I mean as a as a human, this would be kind of fun, right, Think about this. Imagine if your job, Clay, was to just get truly as fat as possible, knowing that you're then going to get to take a nap for like four months or whatever it is, wake up and be skinny like you got a six pack when you wake up. But your job is to get as fat as possible. And they they found this this one mom. They said, thicker than a bowl of oat meal, which I just think is a funny way to put it. And uh, and yeah, I'm trying to find out what the actual weight of the fattest bear for Fat Bear Week is.
I'm I'm worried about becoming a fat bear myself as we go into the winter. And I bet there's a lot of people out there thinking about this too. I'm alright, so I'm going to Florida later tonight because it's fall break. And I told you about this right when I went to the water park with the boys, and and I'm like, it's not a good combo to be somewhat famous. I would say I'm maybe more infamous than famous and fat and at a water park.
So like my goal for the.
My goal for the coming season of water park them, which will start in the South, believe, at least with my boys, like April or May, I gotta I gotta take some LB's off. So I have some sympathy for the fat bear getting ready for Fat Bear Week. Imagine there's a lot of people out there who have sympathies as well.
Sometimes I kind of feel like the fat Yeah, you know, it's you know, we've all been there, right, but it's it's a bit of a bit of a celebration of bears who are just kind of living. They're living their best lives, eating a lot of salmon, very high in omega threes. You know, does the salmon does sound really good? You know the challenge where I am in Tennessee. You know there's bear spreading everywhere. Buck there's so much food now that bears, a lot of them don't hybrid anymore like they did.
Did you know this? This has become an issue? They end up with diabetes. I swear I think I'm correct on this. Like in the Gatlinburg area Smoky Mountains, there's so much extra food there now, dumpsters, everything else. The reason they hibernated was it used to be hard for a bear to find enough to eat, so they would go sleep and hibrinate. Now they can find food year round. But they're eating so much. Not only are they becoming fat, but they're getting like way more fat in their diet. And I think we're actually giving bears diabetes. I swear I'm not making this up. I think this is actually occurring all over the Smoky Mountains. Now bears can get diet. I think I'm going to put our crack research team on it. I don't want to misinform everyone, but I believe that bears can get diabetes.
I think that happens.
I feel like there could be some fat Bear shaming going on right now.
Fat Bear fourteen hundred pounds buck our Crack research staff. I think that Bear may have diabetes. I'm just tossing it out there.
I mean, I think that Bear just has a Netflix subscription and knows how to get to the freezer. Reason Sundays with Clay and Buck, the Latest Moments with John Fetterman. And you know, as I'm sitting here, Clay can see, not all of you can see, I am wearing a somewhat baggy hoodie. So perhaps as the Fetterman effect now is also a fashion.
Well, you're also becoming an old man. What is it like eighty five degrees in Miami and you're sitting around in hoodies and long pants like you're gonna be wearing gloves soon mittens when it's like a little bit nippy in South Florida.
I will have you know that sometimes the air conditioning blows very strongly down here in South Florida.
What is the tivature like eighty five there today? Like yeah.
Outside, Yeah, outside, you'd be sweating just just standing in place. You'd be sweating in the shade. But you know, in the studio, I keep it. I keep it very cold. So and that means I can rock the fetterman sweatshirt, which is now a thing. I wonder if you could try to get into well, no, we saw the restaurants would not allow you to dress like fell.
Yeah, it was a great New York Post headline article.
I was gonna say, at what point does the feedterman sweatshirt become enough of an icon, enough of a thing that you can say, I know it's jacket and tie required here, but I decided to rock the Fetterman. I don't know if that's ever going to be a thing, you know, like interesting. Throughout history there have been some random people think of the Trilby hat. You know what a Trilby hat is.
I have no idea what a trilly hat is.
Trilby hat is. It looks a little bit like a fedora, and it is named for there was a novel by Maurice du Maurier called Trilby. It's where we get the term Svengali. Actually Sveenghali is someone who can control someone's mind. Trilby is the woman who's a singer who Spenghali is able to turn into this great musical prodigy through his mind control. But she wore this hat in a stage play of the novel, and it became known as the Trilby hat, which was then for a long time in the twentieth century very fashionable, kind of like a Fedora.
So I women or for men?
I think definitely for women. I think maybe Ali check on this from me. I think maybe men wear the trill Be hat as well, but named for that.
I don't know that I've ever heard of the phrase Trilby hat before it crossed. No, no, it crossed over into the males potentially from the women, which probably doesn't happen that often.
Uns.
You're saying, oh, no, it's by the way, it's actually, this is crazy, folks. It's having a moment right now. It's trendy. Right now. I'm telling you the Trilby hat is. There is a trend. There are hipsters. What's the hipster part of Nashville, Clay, is it Eastern eas Nashville is the hipster part. There are there are dudes with very specific facial hair and lots of forearm tattoos walking around East Nashville with Trilby hats on. I'm telling you, and it comes from this, this novel from the late nineteenth century that was turned into a stage play. So you know, you'd never know. So Fetterman sweatshirt. Look. He didn't invent the sweatshirt, but the Fetterman look, with the baggy shorts and the sweatshirt, it could become a thing. I don't know if he's going to become a fashion icon. He is, however, making the rounds on late night TV, and and here he is. We'll start with this clip. Which show was this on? Team? This was Colbert Colbert Late Show with Colbert. I man, I have not actually watched the Colbert Show except for clips to make fun of it. I don't know ever really have you.
I know is the answer.
But the last time I remember seeing we had a lot of clips of Colbert. Remember when he was doing that stupid vaccine dance. I mean, he just went so far and we had Ran Paul on earlier this week, and Ran Paul was making the point. Colbert basically cheered on him when he got attacked by the random guy, and then when they got the what they thought was anthrax sent to their house. He's been ran Paul with us this week, was talking about how Colbert's kind of completely lost his way and he does the show. Buck used to live like a stone's throw from where they would do the Late Show with Colbert. I loved Letterman back in the day, but I've never watched Colbert.
I'll tell you I don't live there anymore, so I'm not worried about anyone, you know, staking out my home. I lived on that block. Yeah, I lived on the block where the Colbert Show is tape, and so I used to see them and this was this was always the reminder. They had this whole audience coordination team and they were all masked up, and I mean masked up like so late into the pandemic. I mean when everybody else had basically got rid of masks. You remember, it was still doing masks this past fall. It was it was so trendy for them to be masked up, and they were making sure that people were standing separated outside for a while, you know, making sure that they were social distancing outdoors with their masks on. Anyway, here is Fetterman talking about what it's like in DC these days on The Colbert Show, Play twenty one.
You also need to know that America is not sending their best and brightest, you know, to Washington, DC. Yes, weird, like sometimes you literally just can't believe, like, you know, these people are making the decisions that are you know, determining the government here. It's it's actually scary too. And you know, before the government almost shut down, I mean it came down to a couple hours out of ninety nine of us, if one single one of us would have said no, the whole government would have shut down. And that's how dangerous that is to put that kind of power in one's tense, because you have some very less gifted kinds of people there that are willing to to shut down the government just to score points.
On Fox Now Now, Clay, I think it's interesting his point about, you know, it's a laugh line for Fetterman to be saying that we're not sending our best to d C, when the reality is you look at someone like John Fetterman and it is shocking the kinds of people now I know it well, isn't like Jesse Venturas, the governor of Minnesota of Minnesota. I mean, you know, we've had some very non traditional politicians, to be sure, but Fetterman is in really a class, I think, a class by himself. And for him to be suggesting here, for him to be like making jokes about how we're not sending our best to DC over over the government shutdown situation, I mean, John Fetterman is I take it as proof positive that the Democrats believe if they have the right kind of system, they can get anyone elected, anyone elected to office, it doesn't matter who they are.
Yeah, and look, I mean the wild thing about Fetterman, as we said, is that he won by almost five points. There's a poll by the way out that's somewhat reliable that has Trump up nine in Pennsylvania, which is the most that Trump's ever been up in any of those states. But when I look at Fetterman and I see those arguments that he's making about we're not sending our best and brightest. Remember, Fetterman never had a job where he could take care.
Of his family.
He just got paid by his own family, which is wealthy. This guy, in addition to dressing like as we've talked about, a blue collar guy and trying to pretend that he is, you know, the equivalent of a mechanic or somebody who's having to go about as a delivery person on a day to day basis.
And that's why you wear shorts.
In the hoodie, because some people would wear that becau's more comfortable in a job like that. This guy got taken care of by his parents well into his forties. Buck, So the idea that Fetterman somehow represents the best and brightest of Pennsylvania. I mean, he didn't ever have a job that wasn't taxpayer funded at any point in time where he could have taken care of his family. And so this guy that the entire illusion of Fetterman. You can have a lot of questions about people on a political basis, but to me, if you're a dad and you are healthy, and he was prior to the stroke, and you can't take care of your family, I don't want you to be trying to make decisions on behalf of the country you cann't even provide for your own family.
Maybe I was just naive when I was younger, but I did there were these there were these thoughts that we would have, like you knows we would talk about things like respect for the office and public service, and all of this now feels like a punchline, you know, as he's there and he's saying America is not sending their best and brightest to DC, and he's the lack of self awareness is monumental because who could be a better example of this than John Fetterman himself. But beyond that, you know, you and I have talked about this, clay many times. It feels like for so many people, you know, d C has become a route to notoriety and wealth. The notion of it as public service has faded away. You have a lot of members of Congress who somehow become very wealthy over their political careers without ever really going into the private sector. Maybe they have a husband who trades or you know a wife who trades in the stock market.
Very Actually, you.
Shouldn't be that's one where that should be crossports. You shouldn't be able to buy and sell individual stocks if you are getting briefings behind the scenes like all those guys did who sold all their stocks when they saw what COVID was going to be.
Like, that shouldn't be possible. In my opinion.
I totally agree, and so you know, you see this happening. But I think also there's the sense that if you have, for a lot of people, if you have a sort of happy and well put together a life, you have no interest really in putting yourself through the like the meat grinder of DC politics and all the attacks and all the you know the I think, especially from the right, I mean on the left, because you're always going to get cover from ninety percent of the media, it's much less. Let me look at John Fetterman, and John Fetnerman went from well here, you know what. Here he is talking about how every word he missed play clip twenty two.
How does it feel to have your private health become public news?
It's that's you sign up for that gig, and that's that's part of it. And now, you know, the the better I get, the sad you know, Fox News becomes because they love every every word I missed was like candy for Fox News.
Every word I miss is like candy for Fox News. I mean, he can sort of do what he's doing here, which is suggest The problem is people at Fox News who recognize that he is not up for this. Yeah, right, that's that's one part of it, or or Clay. The alternative is maybe if you're having an extreme health issue that affects your actual cognition, meaning your ability to understand what's going on around you and your judgment everything else, you shouldn't be a United States senator.
Yeah.
The job of a senator is to communicate. At its most basic level, the job of a senator is to communicate and advocate for your constituents and fight for the causes that they care about the most. That's the entire job. So I've never bought into the idea. Nobody, no athlete out there, Buck could go on Colbert and sit down for an interview, and you know if Aaron Rodgers is sitting down there and he said, yeah, people have been really mean. I tore my achilles tendon and they keep talking about my torn achilles tendon when they talk about the fact that I can't play quarterback right now. Yeah, of course, your ability to do the job, if you're an athlete, is reliant upon your body being in prime condition.
Well.
Your ability to be a politician is reliant upon your brain functioning well enough for you to communicate and advocate on behalf of your clients and who are effectively your constituents. They can't do that, he can't do it, And so being angry at someone for pointing out your physical failures is not the media's fault.
That's actually the job of the media.
In fact, the people we should be angry at are all the left wingers. Buck who argued that John Fetterman was healthy enough to do the job and said that if you question that, you shouldn't be able to ask those questions, which is what they argued about people like me and you in September and October as we got ready for that big election in Pennsylvania, which unfortunately John Fetterman won.
Sunday Sizzle with Clay and Buck.
I saw this story and I couldn't believe it was real. California is reportedly going to now have a new version of the Amber Alert. The Amber Alert, certainly for everybody out there, is when there's a missing child, your phones go off. It lets you know, hey, this child's missing. Maybe you can do something to help figure out where that child is, to help get them back to their parents or their guardians. They now are going to have a new version of the Amber Alert, and it is called an Ebony Alert, but it will only be for black people who are missing. Already, black people were included in the Amber Alert, which had to do with everyone, and I believe Buck is named after a young child Amber, not the color. Although maybe this is the idea behind the Ebony Alert. I can't believe this is real. They were already included if there's a missing black child. Now there will be black child specific alerts in California called the Ebony Alert. Did you think this was real when you saw this report?
Buck?
I couldn't really believe it, To be honest with you, there's a part of me that just thought this has got to be It read like a headline that you would see from the Babylon Bee. Quite honestly, you know that there's just no way that they would actually do this. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill six seventy three into law, which makes California the first state to create an alert notification system similar to an Amber Alert. Who addressed the crisis is NBC News of Missing Black Children and Young Women. The Ebony Alert will be used for missing black people age twelve to twenty five. I don't really get what like think about this For a second. So you would have already had the amber alert system in place, and this now is essentially telling you, oh, we're going to have a different kind of alert. It seems to indicate that there's a belief that there are people who would react differently based upon the race of the person who has been like kidnapped or is missing. What is the evidence or basis for that. You know, if someone finds out that like a young child has been abducted. All good people, I mean, you know, the American people, We're all hoping and if you know, we've see anything, we'll say something. No one sits there and says, well, I'm curious what the race is of the person who is missing or has been abducted.
Yeah, this is crazy and it just goes And I think this ties in, honestly with what we're seeing in the response to Israel. It's identity politics destroys everything it touches.
I mean, can I tell you this is what it says? They say quote data shows that black and brown or indigenous brothers and sisters when they go missing. There's very rarely the type of media attention, let alone amber alerts and police resources that we see with our white counterparts. I mean, if the problem is that there aren't amber alerts that are going out.
Fix it.
Fix that, yeah right, but to change it to a different kind of alert, see right. I mean, if the system isn't working because they're not using the system properly, then fix that. Don't add some new component to the system that doesn't really do anything. It's very strange.
This is the problem with identity politics at its root core. And this is you know, look, the whole woke mind virus, which I think is very real, is effectively rooted in identity politics. And the idea of identity politics is you, everybody out there listening, You, me, Buck, everybody. We're not responsible for what we do. Our identity defines everything. So you and I are white guys. We're responsible for everything that's ever gone wrong in the history of mankind, according to identity politics. Well you are, and for sure, and certainly certainly my wife would agree with that. She's like, yeah, you know, I agree with all this idea. You just screw up everything, Clay. But I mean the reality that you should be judged not based on the choices that you make, but based on something that you didn't choose at all your race and your gender. Unless you're Pocahontas or you know, Leah Thomas. Most of us don't choose what race and gender we are. And so the idea that that would define you to such an extent that you are either one hundred percent guilty. Right, there are young kids out there going to school who are like eight years old being told now, unfortunately in school, hey, you're an oppressor. And you're like, I'm eight, Like I don't even get to pick what I eat for dinner. I haven't oppressed anybody like. I feel sorry for some of these young kids out there that are being taught buck in these contextual settings. Now, this identity politics mindset elementary school kids, don't.
You have no power? You haven't done anything to anybody.
Well, you know, if you make people feel guilty, you can control them. Yeah, and so guilt is a very powerful tool, and collective guilt is politically a very powerful tool. So this is why the whole DEI and and you know, affirmative action and all these different racially based preferences, ideologies, this whole system, this whole apparatus of treating people differently based upon skin color, is inherently morally wrong, but also just creates even more confusion and creates more problems than it ever solves. And and and a perfect example is this notion of now we're gonna have ebony alerts are coming, by the way, right, but think about they think about this for a second. So now if the ebony alert goes out, there people are gonna go, oh, if I saw like a missing child and there. You know, before I wasn't really gonna say anything, but if the ebony alert goes out, I'm really going to pay attention. It's bizarre.
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's also it's bizarre. It's also crazy, right, And it would be racist if it were any other race. And when you start to get into the position of well, it's not racist because this race, no, it's racist. I mean, you know, if a white person in California said we need a I don't know, cracker alert, I don't think I don't know what color like, we need a white alert, you know, whatever phrase they want to use, right, people would lose their mind. And if an Asian politician was like, you know, Asian people aren't being respected, I first of all, I think, is it a Hispanic alert or whatever? Like all these different colors alerts. It's almost like you should just have one alert for all we're all human beings, which is what we have you know already. And but also funny to me, Buck that they're taking the color as if Amber I believe Amber is a little girl. They're treating it as if it's a color and then doing the ebony alert, right, I mean, I just this is so stupid.
It makes me I'll tell you this.
Man.
Also, you know, we don't often think about this, we don't often go back to it, but you know, there was a period where, uh, there was a period where there was this push to get black and brown people the COVID vaccine. First, you remember that. I remember that they actually were at one point. It kind of faded, but the Democrat left commies in this country we're starting to say, you know, we really need to prioritize black and brown people to get the COVID vaccine. And that was that was actually crazy enough that most people, you know, beyond even just the people that like you know, agree with conservatives or whatever, said to themselves, you guys are losing your minds here, like like something is really wrong here.
Also, don't remember Black people didn't want to get the shot, and they were to a large extent, right, remember, like they were really upset. They were they would blame they'd be like, look at all these red states, this Trump area where people in there, like, actually, you know, there's a lot of black people in inner city neighborhoods who are overlapping with Trump voters in this respect. Remember that great clip of Fauci in Southeast Washington, d C. And that guy on the porch like called him out, was like, you know, like Fauci thought he was the hero and that clip, but.
Don't you trust the science. Don't you realize you can get this shot in your arm and you'll be like Superman against the virus. The guy was like, nah, I don't not buying it.
I would pay a lot of money for that Travis Kelce doctor Fauci versus RFK Junior Aaron Rodgers debate. I mean, I think that Fauci and Kelsey would get slaughtered in that debate.
I don't think it'd be very high level debate. I don't know, is this guy Kelsey, like I said, I think he just took the money.
I know, but I think that that would be important right, like if you're arguing, hey, listen to me for my health advice, and then Travis kelce can barely spell cat if you spot him the C in the A as a famous line by the way from UH that they used to make money Terry Bradshaw about I think there'd be people out there like, yeah, maybe I shouldn't have taken health advice from from Travis Kelcey moderately intelligent at best, tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs.
Yeah, I've always thought the moment that, well, there were many times when they were really trying to just leverage celebrities, like if you want to leverage celebrity to sell blue gens, fine, right, to leverage celebrity to get people to take a therapeutic experimental vaccine or whatever. There's something weird about that. There's something a little struck me as a little strange about the way that they approached all of that. So, you know, but anyway, ebony alert thing is not it's not going to change anything. It's just indicative of this mindset that now we have to create all these different programs that cater to the obsession with intersectionality. You don't really hear a lot about intersectionalitymore. I feel like that's fallen out of favor as a term. But it's basically just the interlocking layers and hierarchy of oppression based on identity group. Yea, right, that's what. And so there's all these groups, some oppress others, and at the top of the oppression matrix is of course white people. White people are the most oppressive, so you know, there's that, but then there's other groups, and there's some groups that are even more oppressed than other groups, so you have to prioritize those groups and so on. Like you know, Asian Americans are like oppressed, but not as oppressed as say, you know, Native Americans. Right, well, you know there's like this whole thing that you look at.
No, I mean, look, this is like that whole Mel Tucker story. You know, white women evidently are more oppressed than black men because you're not allowed to question whether or not that woman's telling the truth to Mel Tucker at Michigan State. It is so funny, like and ridiculous how the oppression Olympics, which is the way I describe it, determines what you're allowed to argue based on left wing politics. Right now, Travis kelce I do think is an imbecile, and I think he would get the floor wiped way.
Did you think he was an imbecile before.
He was a spokes Yeah, no, I never thought he I mean it's not like I've spent any time with him, but I've never seen him interviewed and thought, you know, this guy probably has a really significant knowledge as it pertains to I love the was the pharmocrat, the word that Rogers labeled him like. He doesn't ever strike me as a deep thinker in any respect.
I wouldn't want to argue with Aaron Rodgers. He seems sharp and surly.
I think those are both accurate adjectives. And I think Aaron Rodgers a fairly smart guy. And I think there are a lot of athletes who, when you tell them you have to put something in your body that's how they make their living, they're going to be smarter on it. Travis Kelcey not one of those people.
I don't think. I think he'd get absolutely obliterated.