Sunday Hang with Clay and Buck - Feb 8 2026

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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Episode: Sunday Hang with Clay and Buck - Feb 8, 2026
Release date: February 8, 2026
Podcast Host: iHeartPodcasts

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Overview

This relaxed "Sunday Hang" episode features Clay Travis and Buck Sexton engaging in their signature banter over fitness goals, listener demographics, travel gripes, facial hair debates, and plenty of playful self-deprecation. Alongside fielding audience calls and emails, they touch on news snippets (including Trump’s observations about Macron) and cultural quirks, all with their usual mix of humor, candor, and light political commentary.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. New Year's Personal Fitness Challenges (00:18–01:55)

• Clay’s Tennis Serve Goal:
  Clay sets a new goal for 2026: increasing his tennis serve speed to 110 mph, up from his previous achievement of 103 mph at 100% confidence.

  “Some people are saying 110. The real men hit 110, not 103, so we’ll see. …I’m not 100% confident I could hit 110, but I’ll give myself this goal.” (00:23 – Clay)

• Buck’s Swimming and Bench Press Goals:
  Buck jokes about training for the Alcatraz swim (and his shark anxiety), and shares his aim to beat his old bench press record at 225 lbs—a “combine” number—hoping to get at least six reps.

  “A lot of people had no faith that I could bench press 185 ten times. And I did that, which is pretty decent for a guy in his mid-40s. Now I want to see…how many reps on 225…” (00:56 – Buck)

2. Air Travel Attire & Annoyances (01:55–03:17)

• Discussion of casual attire for flights vs. “dressing up,” referencing advice from Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy about better behavior through better dress.
• Annoyances with air travel and gym behavior:
  • Reclining seats on short flights vs. bad gym etiquette, especially in Miami (“supersetters” hogging multiple machines).

  “I wear sweats on the airplane, and I am super polite…there’s nothing worse than just being, like, uncomfortable, stuck in an airport terminal.” (02:50 – Clay)

3. Listener Demographics: Who Listens to Clay & Buck? (04:48–09:01)

• Top Professions:
  • Special Operations/military (“Navy SEALs, Delta Force”)
  • Airline pilots
  • Truckers

  “Tons of those guys listen to the show. I would say…I think there’s a ton of pilots…And then truckers would be my three if I had to guess.” (05:19 – Buck)

• Producer Ali adds: Military, law enforcement, and truckers as the “triumvirate” of overindexing listeners (05:42).
• On pilots: Common values of personal responsibility and reliability; high overlap with military background.
• Calls from listeners:
  • “Mother trucking you here. I listen to you guys every day. I love it…Stuck up here in the bleeding blue state of Massachusetts.” (07:00–07:12 – Caller)
  • Retired Army caller now with a quantum AI firm (“quantum listeners as well!”) (07:23–07:54).
• Gun talk: Banter about gun types among military listeners; references to vintage and modern firearms.

4. The “Grandma” Factor & Video Appearance (08:38–09:15)

• “Grandmas love me, Buck. And I have to say, grandmas have great discernment skills. They’ve been through the wars. They know who is reliable, who isn’t.” (08:38 – Clay)
• Joking reference to disappointment among their elder fans when Buck missed a video appearance.

5. Regional and Cultural Humor (09:36–10:03)

• Caller from Minnesota corrects the term "Minneapolitan" for someone from Minneapolis— “up here, we just call them city.” (09:36)

  “Yesterday you had a caller say Minneapolitan…up here, we just call them city.” (09:53 – Dylan)

6. News Talk: Macron’s Sunglasses & Brigitte Macron Jokes (10:03–12:38)

• Trump’s comments about French President Macron wearing “beautiful sunglasses” at a summit (“What the hell happened?”) (10:22).
• Banter about Brigitte Macron’s supposed tough demeanor and viral video clip of her “shoving” Macron.
• Should Macron have worn an eye patch instead of sunglasses after a burst blood vessel? Debate over whether sunglasses indoors make you look cool or suspicious.

  “It has to be so egregious to wear sunglasses indoors…you are drawing your attention to yourself.” (12:08 – Buck)

7. Facial Hair Debates & Social Cues (13:15–22:26)

• Amusing exchanges about Clay’s mustache and beard:
  • Will his wife approve of a “Magnum PI” mustache at a Bar/Bat Mitzvah?
  • How beards signal “dad” vs. “mom” to kids.
  • Listener email: “My husband and three sons all have beautiful beards. Not struggle beards like your dad, Clay…” (19:36 – Sissy, VIP email)
• The generational/parental debate: is a dad “babysitting” when watching his own kid?

  “To me, when dad is left alone with the child and mom is not there, dad is babysitting. ... now it’s like ‘you’re the dad, you don’t ever babysit, you parent.’” (17:08 – Clay)

8. Miscellaneous Banter: Grooming, Haircuts, and Barbershops (22:26–27:55)

• Buck’s Miami haircut gets the stamp of approval from Clay’s teenage son—“that’s a cool haircut” (18:10).
• Clay jokes about getting cheap ($15) haircuts at Great Clips vs. a $50 cut in Miami (“who pays $50 for a haircut?”) (27:04).
• Both share their preferences for chatty vs. silent barbershop experiences, especially at Cuban barbershops in Miami (27:04–27:50).

9. Quick Hit: Elon Musk & Xai-SpaceX Merger Report (22:26–23:39)

• Breaking news snippet: Rumor that SpaceX will merge with Xai, potentially making Musk’s conglomerate even more technologically dominant:

  “If that is true, then Elon Musk has got an unbelievable colossus…” (22:54 – Clay)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On listener professions:
  • “If you wanted someone to be in charge…you want them to have super personal responsibility…airline pilot is maybe the one where you would want guys to…” (06:11 – Buck)
• On regional gym etiquette:
  • “Very bad gym manners in Miami…New Yorkers, better gym manners. Not even close.” (03:17 – Clay)
• On sunglasses indoors:
  • “Everyone assumes it’s medical if you have an eye patch on…if you’re wearing sunglasses, people are like, ‘what do you think, you’re some cool guy?’“ (11:52 – Clay)
• On Juneteenth:
  • “Juneteenth. We definitely work Juneteenth. We don’t work July 4th. It’s probably super racist of us.” (21:03 – Buck, in tongue-in-cheek fashion)
• On Miami haircuts:
  • “Was that my place? …I do not want to be talking to somebody while I’m getting my haircut. I just want to sit there…in my own zone…” (27:04–27:33 – Clay)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Segment | Start | |-----------------------------------------------------------|------------| | Fitness & Personal Records | 00:18 | | Air Travel attire & Annoyances | 01:55 | | Listener Professions, Calls & Guns | 04:48 | | Grandma Demographics & Video Complaints | 08:38 | | Minnesota Caller & Regional Jokes | 09:36 | | Macron Sunglasses / Eye Patch / Brigitte Jokes | 10:03 | | Facial Hair / Mustache Banter / Grooming | 13:15 | | Parenting Linguistics (“babysitting” vs. “parenting”) | 16:20 | | Elon Musk Xai/SpaceX Rumor | 22:26 | | Kids’/Teens’ Haar Comments & Barbershop Preferences | 18:10, 27:04|

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Episode Tone & Takeaways

The episode is quintessentially lighthearted, ranging from jokey bravado about sports and fitness, to travel gripes, to playful ribbing about appearances and social norms. Audience engagement is high, with direct calls and emails giving voice to their diverse, devoted fanbase (especially truckers, military, and “grandmas”). Political and news commentary is present but kept breezy and in context with the hosts’ unique brand of humor.

For listeners both old and new, this episode offers genuine camaraderie sprinkled with inside jokes and relatably off-the-cuff observations—giving a real sense of being part of the Clay & Buck “club.”

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Transcript

[A]

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[B]

And nothing in between. Fuel your [e-mail] Bold, reverent, and occasionally random, The Sunday Hang with Clay and.

[A]

Buck podcast starts now. Play. Since you brought up tennis, you've reminded me we have a new goal for 1 for 20, 26. 110 mile an hour serve. Gotta get there, Gotta get there. Some people are saying 110. The real men hit 110, not 103, so we'll see. I'm. I'm not, like, by the way, I'm not 100% confident. I was 100% confident I could hit 100. I am not 100% confident I could hit 110, but I'll give myself this goal. You have the goal of swimming the Alcatraz race and not getting eaten by a shark. I have the goal of adding 7mph to my serve.

[B]

I am significantly concerned about being eaten by a shark and the Alcatraz swim. While I'm confident I can do it, I may need to go back to the US Virgin Islands and swim safely in Megan's Bay. I'll allow it to be filmed. That I can do a mile and a quarter here is actually a challenge that I've adopted. I want to be in 2026. I'm not sure I'm going to accomplish it. I'm trying to set a new bench press record. I am. Like, I haven't lifted regularly for a while. So you'll remember, a lot of people had no faith that I could bench press 185ten times. And I did that, which is pretty decent for a guy in his mid-40s. And now I want to see how many reps on 225, which is the NFL combine number five is the most I've ever done. I got five. Two 25s. Could I get to six? That is the new goal. Sunday, hang with Clay and Buck.

[A]

Our VIP inbox full. A lot of complaints that you weren't on video Yesterday.

[B]

I'm in D.C. there's no cameras in here. I'm not as dapper today, but I was on Hannity last night. You could see the jacket, no tie.

[A]

I'm gonna tell you guys something. Clay showed up today looking like Al Bundy, all right? He's got, like, an oversized T shirt, like a workman shirt on top of it. He's like, hey, hey, Peg, bring me a beer.

[B]

It's true. I'm ready for the weekend already in this Outfit. I'm definitely gonna be kicking the feet up watching. Watching games tonight with. With this look. And I'll be gonna get on the airplane here in a little bit. I'll be flying back home. So I'm looking forward to getting back home. But I don't think that Sean Duffy, our transportation secretary, would be happy with necessarily the attire that I have chosen to wear on this airplane flight. You know, he's been talking about people behave better when they dress better. I think there's probably some truth to that.

[A]

And I wear sweats on the airplane, and I am super polite. You don't know when you're going to.

[B]

Get stuck at the airport. I mean, let's be honest, in this day and age, there's nothing worse than just being, like, uncomfortable. I think when you're, you know, like, stuck in an airport terminal, you don't know when you're going to take off. I like to just be in cool, nice, relaxed clothes instead of dressing up and, you know, being on a fashion shoot.

[A]

Yeah. I'm trying to think what is more annoying? People on the plane who push their seat back like they own the plane for a short domestic flight, or people in the gym who, like, I'm super setting. And it's like, so. So that means five machines. So you get to just have five machines to yourself, you lunatic. Not that. Not that. That's something that happens here in Miami. Happens, unfortunately, far too frequently. Very bad gym manners in Miami. I will tell you, by and large, I don't know what it is here. I would say New Yorkers, better gym manners. Not even close. Miami, a lot. A lot of. A lot of goonish behavior in the gyms here.

[B]

I think it's probably partly based on the fact that girls work out in their underwear in Miami, which is still, like, true. It's unbelievable. I will say this on a positive note. With the airports almost every time now, so I take Southwest Airlines flights a lot. It's easy to get in and out of Nashville on Southwest Airlines. On my flight up to dc, Buck, our pilot, was a. Was a fan. Almost every Southwest flight I take, and they're not paying me anything. Although they should be the official airline, probably a clay and buck, given how often I fly them. At least they. Almost every flight I take. Now, flight attendant or one of the captains is a fan. Now, partly I sit up in the front of the airplane so I can get on and off as fast as I can. There is no first class in Southwest. Every seat's basically the same. So I'm closer to a lot of the flight attendants and the pilots. So I am always impressed with how many people. On a positive note, I have an important question our show and I have.

[A]

An important question and I don't know how we could, how we could really get data on this. What professions do you think over index the most for Clay and Buck listeners? As in if we had to pick the three professions where we have the most high like per capita listenership in.

[B]

That profession, what do you think they would be advanced? So in no particular order, I would say Navy SEALs like Delta Force. It's off the charts. The number of spec ops guys.

[A]

Yes. We have a lot of special operations folks.

[B]

Tons of those guys listen to the show. I would say I think, I think there's a ton of pilots. I don't know what the percent I don't know how pilots tend to vote. I've never really thought about it before. I think pilots tend to be Republicans in general be my guess. Certainly a lot of them come out of the military. I think we way over index airline industry and then truckers would be my 3 if I had to guess.

[A]

Ali producer Ali threw out for us Military, law enforcement and truckers. I think that's probably the triumvirate I think like of over indexing. I mean I know, I know surgeons listen to the show. I know CEOs listen to the show. I know guys who fix antique furniture for a living who listen to the show and craftsmen. But I think those are probably the big three. But I think pilots would probably get an honorable mention. Not just because my father in law is one but you know, I think that a lot of pilots are our people.

[B]

I think 100%. I mean a lot of pilots obviously come out of the military and so. But I think there's an element of personal responsibility which makes sense, right? If you wanted somebody to be in charge and you want them to have super personal responsibility. Of all the professions out there, I would say airline pilot is maybe the one where you would want guys to and every individual involved on a plane to take the most concern about their own personal work ethic and everything else. I want somebody who's really, really good and committed to their job. Who's got me when I'm flying on an airline Sunday drop with Clay and Buck Hurston in Massachusetts. Hey, listening to you guys and you're.

[A]

Talking about what, what occupations are your most of your listeners and well I.

[B]

Heard truckers on there. You got mother trucking you here.

[A]

I listen to you gu every day. I Love it.

[B]

Stuck up here in the bleeding blue state of Massachusetts.

[A]

God help me.

[B]

Love you guys.

[A]

Keep up the good work. We love you too, man. The truckers with us three hours at a time, Clay. That's what's awesome. We're keeping them company and entertained on the road. It's a. It's a great honor.

[B]

Nick in Raleigh, North Carolina, 106.1 FM. Love the guys in Raleigh says you got a lot of army listeners. I think that's true as well. BB Clay, Buck, Nick here, retired Army.

[A]

Yes, you do have tons of army.

[B]

Listeners, tons of military listeners. I would also say that when we go on to do our second careers, I am now with a quantum AI firm. So you have quantum listeners as well. Keep up the good work. I don't even know what quantum AI is, but it sounds pretty complicated.

[A]

That's fantastic. And you know, there are, like, current or recent military who listen to us who tend to have Glocks and Sig Sauer pistols at home. And then I'm very, very pleased that we have people who are in the military in the 1920s, the 1910s. And they have Colt 1911s. And that's just great. I'm very. I'm happy that they have the gun. Perhaps they've inherited their great grandfathers, 1911. And that's. That's very cool for them.

[B]

So this is gun talk, trash talk that I don't even. This is above my pay grade, but I understand gun guys are fired up about that.

[A]

I talk to Colt, they'd be like, can you guys do a special deal? Will you give people a walker with their cult 1911? Because I think that would be helpful. But there you go.

[B]

Monica in San Diego, these are my favorite listeners. CC Play in Buck. Grandmas are the most listeners. I just. Grandmas love me Buck. And I have to say, grandmas have great discernment skills. They have great talent. They've been through the wars. They know who is reliable, who isn't. They. They're veterans.

[A]

They've been on the Grannies of America. Were not, were, were not pleased with the Clay and Buck program when you were not on video in your dapper new suit. Like, we were joking about it, but there was some real disappointment in those emails, buddy.

[B]

So, hey, I also want to clear. Of course, I apologize to the grandmas of America. I also want to clear something up. By the way, we had a caller who said. What did they say? Minneapolitan or Minneapolitan, I think it was. And a lot of people from Minnesota Were fired up about that. Here's one representation of a Dylan from northern Minnesota. Listen.

[A]

Dylan from northern Minnesota, where the beer flows like wine and beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon, the Capistrano. Yesterday you had a caller say someone from Minneapolis is called the Minneapolitan or something like that. I've never heard that before. Up here, we just call them city. It's.

[B]

That's pretty good if you couldn't hear him. Well, he said, up there in northern Minnesota, they just call him city. It's Sunday Drop with Clay and Buck.

[A]

Something that would not go in the category of most important things on the show, but I did, because we like to keep you entertained. Think it was worth noting is that Trump, the leader of the free world, noted that Emmanuel Macron of France, he was wearing sunglasses at the summit. And here is what Trump said.

[B]

So when I called up Emmanuel Macron.

[A]

I watched him yesterday with those beautiful sunglasses. What the hell happened? Beautiful sunglasses. What the hell? Now, there were a lot of comments about Brigitte Macron having quite a left hook, perhaps much more than one would expect for reasons that one could surmise on their own. But I'm just putting out there that there are people that think these things. I'm not saying Clay. I think these things I am merely saying.

[B]

But they had a video of her shoving him as well, like punt. Kind of grappling him in some way on the face right as he was trying to come off the French plane. So in addition, maybe having a meat hook of. Of a right or a left, there's also a video of her kind of shoving him around.

[A]

Look, maybe. Maybe Emmanuel got a little mouthy and Brigitte had to tune him up a little bit. You know, it happens. It happens. But apparently he had like a bur. Burst blood vessel or something in the eye.

[B]

He's fine.

[A]

It's minor. It's a cosmetic thing. But it's funny because I told Clay we're talking about this, and I said, I think I'd just go. Instead of being indoor sunglasses guy, I would go eye patch. And Clay just started ripping on me for this one.

[B]

I. I don't want to. And I don't want to go after the people with eye patches in our. Our audience because you're probably quite adept at sword fights and piracy. But. But I actually think the eye patch is more noticeable than the sunglasses, like, I think.

[A]

But everyone assumes that it's a medical if you have an eye patch on. Everyone assumes it's a medical if you're wearing sunglasses. People are like, what do you think? You're like some cool guy. You, you know, you, you play. You play in, you know, the, the trombone indoors by yourself or something. Like, are you a jazz, jazz guy? What's going on?

[B]

It has to be so egregious to wear sunglasses indoors like that because no one pays any attention to what you say because you are drawing your attention to yourself. And this is One thing you're 100% right about on. They definitely did this with Biden because it made him look less old and you didn't notice as much. His wondering eyes. Some of you out there may have occasionally been hungover and maybe decided to wear sunglasses hoping nobody would notice. Something's up there.

[A]

Something's up indeed. He got a little mouthy with Brigitte. I think Brigitte was like mes. No, mes, non. Monsieur.

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[A]

Do you still have that weird, like, photo of you standing in front of the mural of hate or is that what's your head?

[B]

I haven't changed. I'm not very technologically savvy. I don't know how, like, my iPhone is just the standard, like green granite backdrop. Like, I don't even. I don't know how to do anything. So I haven't changed my photos. I haven't done anything in a long time.

[A]

Do we also. We need to get a Lara. We need to get a Lara. Judgment call on the full mustache situation for you, buddy. Okay? We need to know that this is going to be all right and not put any strain on your marriage because I think, I think you're going to look very Magnum PI Personally. And I think the midwestern middle aged ladies of America who I have seen, I'm just saying this to you folks. I have seen Clay get manhandled at live events by great aunt Ethel, if you know what I mean. You know, they get, they move the fanny pack aside and they get those hips real close to the Clayster when it comes to taking some photos with the fans and maybe some pinching, you know, maybe a little pinch on the cheek, maybe A little pinch, you know, I'm just saying it happens.

[B]

Grandma's grandmas could get handsy with me and I'm gonna be. I'm going to, to a bar and bot mitzvah. I'm not the, the, the performer on Saturday. My wife. I would enjoy you thought for a minute but that'd be a heck of a, heck of a kid if they were like, you know who I want showing up to entertain everybody? Clay Travis. I'm going to a bar and a bat Mitzvah. They're twins, kids and good friends of my wife for a long time. And I don't know a lot of the people people there and I haven't asked Laura yet what the reaction would be if I showed up with just a crazy mustache at this bar in bat mitzvah where I don't know anybody. And frankly I'm not sure. There's a huge number of Clay and Buck fans to be fair in the crowd. So I, I don't know that the grandmas of America are going to be lining up at this thing and.

[A]

Wait, you're at a bar bat Mitzvah? Yeah, dude, I can, I can tell you. Let, let me just, let me just fill you in on something for a second here. Speaking for the Miami Beach Boca, like West Palm Delray corridor here, right wing Jews love, love us, love this show.

[B]

Okay?

[A]

Those are our people.

[B]

This is Michigan. So I don't, I just, I don't know anybody at the crew. I don't know anything about the politics of the crew. I've never been. It's probably a bit weird that I'm 46 and I've never been to a bar in bat mitzvah before. And I now am.

[A]

We can even get something to call and I'm telling you, you'd get manhandled by the Jewish grandmas of Boca. They love. They are, they are.

[B]

Well, we have, we are at home territory. Do you people think that are up in Michigan? Do you think that I'm going to be well received? I don't know. I don't know what I'm walking into. I would, I. But I was saying with a mustache, the middle aged guy showing up with a crazy mustache from Tennessee. I don't know that I'm going to be beloved here. So I'm asking, I got to ask my wife if I can do the must. I know I'm doing the mustache for super bowl.

[A]

So in that much.

[B]

She's very busy with granny dudes.

[A]

She weighed in yesterday because, because I was actually FaceTiming her with, with speed. You know, I was like doing the, I was babysitting last night. Why are you not supposed to say babysitting when it's your kid? I've heard people say this. What do you mean? I'm in charge of the kid.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

This is totally, this is nonsense.

[B]

They started saying this like, there's just a lot of angry women. Go figure. I know this is not going to stun anybody out in the audience. And they look for reasons to get offended. I said weather, weather girl the other day on Twitter and so many people, there's a weatherman and weather woman. It sounds like Wonder Woman. It's an extra syllable. It doesn't sound very good. So there was that funny clip and it was like, this is a weather girl. And people were like, this is so disrespectful. And I'm like, how is it disrespectful?

[A]

So you guys should hear Clay off the air. He's like that weather dame. Let me tell you that.

[B]

I did. I, I would always say to me, when dad is left alone with the child and mom is not there, dad is babysitting. I don't think that's like, offensive to women, but this has turned into a thing where it's like, you're the dad. You don't ever babysit you parents. It's like, okay, I know.

[A]

I, it's annoying. I, I, I refuse, I refuse to, I refuse to sign on to that. That's garbage, people. Everyone knows, whether it's Carrie or me or anyone, if you're the one in charge of the baby, you're babysitting, whether it's your kid or somebody else. I'm not the babysitter, but I am babysitting solo.

[B]

I think you're babysitting. Like, I don't understand why that's like a, a controversial idea. But they've tried to change, but my.

[A]

Mom saw me on the FaceTime.

[B]

Not having kids have changed the language because they're offended by the language for parents.

[A]

She says that she likes my Miami, you know, my Miami swoop now. So, Clay, you know, we're, we're styling over here, buddy. We are on the cutting edge. You might be mustache man. I've got a, like a Miami fade going. We're, we're cool. What? Two cool guys in our own way.

[B]

My 15 year old saw your hair and he was like, that's a cool haircut. Now, I don't know.

[A]

Boy, you tell me. You just made my day. You even tell me this before.

[B]

Well, do you want 15 year olds being like, you got a great haircut. I don't know if it's a huge compliment or not. Like you're the 15 year old.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. That means I'm in the zeitgeist, baby. I'm cool. No unk over here. There's only one, only one unk side of this radio equation. Everybody. I got cool. I got cool 15 year old kid approved hair.

[B]

Now, my 15 year old son hopped in the Instagram mentions to come after me for the phrasing that I was using and using it incorrectly and called me an unk in the comments. And so he loves the hair. And, and yeah, this is funny. Graham just wrote in, will Clay please pledge to not wear Magnum PI Shorts along with the Magnum PI Mustache. You know, I, I think when. The next time I'm in Miami, I know that. What Magnum PI Was set in Hawaii, right? But, but I think with the mustache, I'll have to go full, you know, flower shirt, old school. I'm. I'm just going to lean completely into it as if it's 1984.

[A]

Look, if you're driving around in a vintage Ferrari Testarossa, I think you're allowed to wear whatever shorts you want. You still look cool. So there's that. There's that. You know, it helps.

[B]

So.

[A]

VIP email from Sissy. My husband and three sons all have beautiful beards. Not struggle beards like your dad, Clay. Buck, you have a baby face. Carrie is 100% right. Keep your beard, Clay. Fulfill your loss bet. But instantly grow your beard back. A little silver going through a beard is gorgeous. Clay, she wants you to go back to being the jolly St. Nick character of a week or two ago. What's. What's going on here?

[B]

I. Well, this was the challenge that I got into. It was that the beard goes gray. My hair is still pretty dark. I don't do hair dye or any of that stuff.

[A]

This is, this is standard. I have a little gray in my beard too, so this happens.

[B]

So the beard goes great for most people before the hair does. And, and so I had to grow the beard out. I haven't trimmed my beard since December 19th when we went off the air for Christmas. And so it's gotten pretty bushy here. But I lost my bet on the amount of snow that was going to fall. So I'm just deciding. I think I'm going to do it on Sunday. I think on Monday, you guys. I don't know if we have the video set up because I'M going to be in California, but on Monday, I will be back to. I will have a mustache and I'll look like Magnum PI Hopefully.

[A]

Do we get President's Day off, by the way? I'm thinking about this. I'm like, wait a second. We don't.

[B]

Right.

[A]

We work on President.

[B]

We work on. On MLK Day. President's Day. There's some of these, like, sort of borderline holiday.

[A]

Juneteenth. We work Juneteenth.

[B]

We definitely work Juneteenth. We don't work July 4th. It's probably super racist of us. And then we don't work Labor Day every other holiday. Like, what's the one in October? Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples Day, if you're a loser. We work that one, too.

[A]

Isn't it kind of mean to call it Indigenous People's Day because it's like commemorating their loss? You know what I'm saying?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

It would be like if you lost the super bowl and then every year you had to be reminded of that time you got your ass kicked in the Super Bowl.

[B]

Like if. It would be like if England had a Revolutionary War Remembrance Day in their country.

[A]

There we go.

[B]

That's a better. Yeah, it used to be in the south, they used to have Confederate Memorial Day, which, you know, it's tough, tough l there for the South. So that was. I don't think that holiday is very popular anymore. But. But it was.

[A]

We've got VIP email from Len Clay. Last time I shaved my beard off, my two plus toddler oldest daughter wandered. Wandered into the bathroom and cried. So I never did it again. That was 1983. So keep it going, guys. I will say speed. My son, he definitely likes to grab the little scraggly, patchy facial hair that I have. And I feel like he's figured like this. Mommy, daddy, that's probably one of the main. I mean, mommy is just much prettier. But also, Mommy doesn't have all the facial hair, so I feel like it's helpful for him.

[B]

Young kids kind of recognize with the beard is the difference between mom and a dad. Unless. Yeah, I mean, I. Hopefully your wife and nobody's wife out there has a bushy beard. That's a tough look. But if they're Democrats, they might. That's the way they roll. Now, by the way, this is interesting. Interesting news that's just coming down. We were talking about Xai and Grok and everything else. SpaceX, which is the fabulously successful Elon Musk Company, is supposedly going to now merge with Xai. So if that is true, then Elon Musk has got a unbelievable colossus that he has constructed because Xai owns Twitter, which owns SpaceX, which owns Xai. If all of those companies are rolling together, Buck, I don't think it's crazy to say that might become one of the biggest companies in the world and it would be focused on technology across the entire spectrum. It's. Anyway, this is what is just being reported as we are talking brought it up because we were talking about Elon double retweeting us in the last five minutes about this story, which we should talk about in South Carolina, which almost nobody is going to discuss.

[A]

Yeah, we'll come back. We'll get into this coming up here in the third hour for sure. Also want to take more of your calls, your grooming tips, your thoughts on my cool Cuban American South Florida haircut. As you can see, south got a little swoop, little shape to it. Or Clay's old man white beard which gives him gravitas.

[B]

Santa Claus esque. By the time we get to I, I don't think there's any doubt if I kept this going by. Have you ever seen did added job of Santa Claus?

[A]

Have you ever. Do you know this photo? I mean, I would know it because of what I used to. The photo of Khalid Sheikh Muhammad where he just let it rip. Gitmo. He's got the ch. I want you to go full ksm. I want you to let that beard where it looks so big, it looks like you're wrestling a Chia Pet with your face. You know what I mean? Like, you got to just let it go, buddy.

[B]

I mean, Laura's not. Poor Laura. Like, you know, she's good looking and she's got this beast of a ridiculous looking husband that she's got to walk around with. So I've got to get. I've got to get her approval.

[A]

Look, far be it for me to speak for Laura. It's a bad idea. However, However, I think she might say that she likes the stash when she sees it. I, I think we may have. We got a lot, a lot of airline pilots, a lot of firefighters who listen to the show and they rock those stashes and the ladies love it. So you gotta, you gotta leave that open there. That's a possibility, but I will. We gotta hear from the queen herself on this one. I don't know. I don't know. Kerry was like, get your beard back, Buck. So get your beard back.

[B]

I don't want you getting carded but we'll see. Poor kids at the bar in bat mitzvah have nothing. They're walking into this old guy with the mustache from Tennessee. Poor kids. James in Texas probably did not anticipate that he would be calling in about this. I certainly would not have anticipated this topic. Natalie Portman, what do you got to say?

[A]

Hey, Clay, I got a Natalie Portman.

[B]

Movie for you to watch.

[A]

If you've never seen it, okay?

[B]

Annihilation with an A. Annihilation. If you violation, I'm adding it to the roster. You got to check that out, bro. I'm your Lost Boys.

[A]

I'm your Lost Boys fan also.

[B]

Yeah, well, thank you for calling in about that. One of the great all time vampire movies, maybe arguably the bet. Thank you for calling. The best vampire movie out there. TJ in upstate New York. What you got for us?

[A]

Hey, Clay, I'm just trying to give.

[B]

You a little advice.

[A]

I know you like to get your hair behind the back alley of a gas station. So what I'm saying, you need a little guidance with the mustache, you can.

[B]

Really screw it up.

[A]

So, like, you can maintain it. But the first time they, like, cut that in you, you might want to have somebody, you know, like, really, like, do it, you know?

[B]

Thank you for the call. You know, just because I go to what's in that Great clips. Just because I am willing, I go to. This is true for my entire adult life, I basically have gone to great clips. It's a $15 haircut. They always take care of me. I mean, some of you just taking shots at their perfect works. Not back alley. I did go to a really fancy barber when I was down in Miami. That was nice. I was just walking back from Buck's studio back to my hotel, and I have extra time because the kids aren't there. And I was like, you know what? I got time to get a haircut. That was pretty cool.

[A]

Was that my place? Did you just walk in and no one speaks English and it's all just Espanol and they got the Buena Vista Social Club playing over the PA because that's like where I go.

[B]

Yeah, well, it's right by the Lincoln Mall. Like, and it was definitely all Hispanic dudes. And. And I thought I got a pretty good haircut there, but it cost 50 bucks. And I was like, oh, my God, who pays $50 for a haircut?

[A]

Well, this is the other thing. I'll tell you this. My, my, my Cuban guys here. And they're Cuban American, of course, but, you know, they're of Cuban descent. They. They just do the job and they just. They. They offer me a little espresso or, you know, whatever the Cuban coffee.

[B]

And.

[A]

And then there's. We just chill. I do not want to be talking to somebody while I'm getting my haircut. I just want to sit there in, like, my own zone, in relative silence. So they just sit there. That some of them don't speak English all that well. Five stars would recommend to a friend on Google. Love it, love it, love it.

[B]

I don't want to be shock you, but I want to talk the whole time. I'm getting a haircut and I like my. No.

[A]

No one is shocked by this. That is true. This is an I heart podcast. Guaranteed human.