CLAY: One of the things we’re gonna start doing now on Fridays for our VIP members out there, who we appreciate… By the way, you can go sign up for the VIP at ClayAndBuck.com. You can get access to a lot of cool VIP-related endeavors as part of our 24/7 network, including some videos of Buck and I behind the scenes doing the show. A lot of people are writing in emails with questions, Buck, and the many people were reacting to you saying that you couldn’t drink beer because of celiac disease, and evidently there’s lots of beer out there that people can consume.

BUCK: Lisa wrote in… Remember, if you go to ClayAndBuck.com become a subscriber, you can send us email. Mailbag Friday is now a thing. We may come up with a cooler name. I don’t know. I kind of like that name. It gets right to it, you know: Mailbag Friday always delivers. So, you can write in to us and we’ll read it here on air on Fridays.

Lisa writes, “I also have celiac. I’ve had it for 11 years, was a former beer lover. You should try Omission. It is real beer with the gluten removed. The owner of the company has celiac as well.”

And we’ve got a top-four list: Omission Beer Light, Pale Ale, IPA and Lager. Glutenberg is apparently a thing, Red Bridge and Green’s. A lot of gluten-free beers. I will tell you: I have tried gluten-free beer.

CLAY: Doesn’t work for you?

BUCK: It’s just not very good. Maybe I’m admitting also I was never… I don’t know. I was never that into beer. I always associate it with drinking it out of a keg in a red Solo Cup when I was in college. That was all we drank. It was very cold at Amherst, everybody was very inebriated. That’s what was going on.

CLAY: What we’re finding out here is things that almost everyone in the Clay and Buck audience loves and does regularly, Buck has never done: Football games, college football, beer. Huge overlap.

BUCK: I drank beer for 30 years!

CLAY: And never filled out a bracket, which leads us to this question from William in Sacramento.

He says, “Hey, Clay and Buck, next football season or even March Madness, it would be great if you developed a team approach to football picks. Team Buck, Team Clay, where Buck could utilize the support system of staff such as Mark. It’s sad that my 16- and 11-year-old daughters would out-pick Buck for any sport!”

BUCK: Whoa, whoa, whoa.

CLAY: He’s just throwing elbow at you.

BUCK: Hold on just a second there, William from Sacramento!

CLAY: (laughing)

BUCK: My sports and international soccer club knowledge of soccer and of tennis is actually better than most teenagers, I will have you know. But for, yeah, the big American sports I probably need a lot of help. My producer Mark, who is my EP for years, he’s a sports fanatic, man. So I’ve got a ringer in the background, Clay. You guys better watch out. I may surprise you.

CLAY: So, the brackets will come out, Buck, on Sunday. By Monday, when we come back to join everyone at 12 Eastern, we will have a bracket in front of you, and you can begin your research head-to-head, me versus Buck. I’m a longtime college basketball fan. I’ve filled out brackets for 35 or 36 years in a row. Buck has never filled out an NCAA Tournament bracket. We’re going head-to-head.; we’re gonna see who can win the bracket.

BUCK: Excited for the steaks or burgers that you’ll be buying for the New York staff here when I come out victorious with my first-ever bracket.

CLAY: I’m just excited by the fact that I could actually walk into a New York restaurant for the first time in a long time. Starting on Monday, they’re not gonna require me to show my nonexistent vaccine card.