C&B Recap a Great Weekend in Utah

BUCK: We had some fun last week in Salt Lake City, and thanks to KNRS, our affiliate out there, for hosting us. Had a great time. We also made it out… I’d never been to Park City, Utah, before.

CLAY: Pretty fantastic, huh?

BUCK: Beautiful. Beautiful place. We hung out with our buddy Jesse Kelly who’s also a radio host on Premiere Networks, a few other folks who saw us there. Jack Carr hung out with us. We talked Terminal List.

CLAY: I’m reading The Terminal List right now. Have you read it?

BUCK: I listened to a tape of the first in a series. Yeah, I listened to an audio book of it.

CLAY: I literally had bought it before I even knew that we were going to meet him. Obviously, Terminal List super popular on Amazon. It’s about a former Special Ops soldier.

BUCK: Yeah.

CLAY: I read the first hundred pages, and, Buck, it’s phenomenal. I already had the book bought. I was gonna read it. I wanted something, like… It’s obviously a page-turner, a thriller, something to take me out of serious reading, which we do a lot of for the show. And it’s fabulous.

BUCK: I also have to tell you all in case you didn’t know — you probably haven’t experienced this — Clay is a parenting wizard, apparently. His youngest, Nash, was out there, too, like, the most polite, well behaved, pleasant.

CLAY: Mom gets the credit.

BUCK: He’s amazing.

CLAY: Mom gets the credit.

BUCK: Oh, Lara’s got skills, man, ’cause your young man… That guy could go with us anywhere, roll anytime, fits right in. I was really impressed. Carrie was too. We were very impressed. He’s a really exceptional guy.

CLAY: He’s fantastic. I know people out there, you have multiple kids, especially the youngest kid sometimes ends up getting short shrift, so to speak, because you spend a lot of time with the first kid, then the second… So by the time you get to the third or fourth kid, if you’re out there and you have multiple kids… So, we took him with us on this trip to Salt Lake, and he just was walking on air.

Because he just couldn’t believe that he got mom and dad to himself the whole weekend. But he is a fantastic little kid, and we had an awesome time hanging out, met a lot of listeners, and Jack Carr… I gotta tell you, that book… We like to share book recommendations. I’m sure a lot of our listeners have already read it. It’s a series. I think he’s on five or six of this book series now. But I’m reading the first one right now, Terminal List, and it is incredibly engaging.

BUCK: There’s a reason it’s among the most successful, if not the most successful original Amazon programs ever done.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: Amazon has spent a lot of money. Some folks don’t really think of Amazon Prime… I actually think Amazon Prime is, in a lot of ways, superior in the totality to Netflix. Netflix has had some great hits, but Amazon Prime I find to be a little more consistent. Now, there’s a lot of woke stuff and everything. Put that aside. There’s woke stuff in both, which, that’s a side note. We also… You didn’t watch the Game of Thrones prequel last night, right?

CLAY: Well, I was in the air flying back from Salt Lake. So, I’m planning this even when my wife gets home we’re planning on watching… I heard HBO Max… You and I both loved the original Game of Thrones series.

BUCK: Yeah, Game of Thrones: phenomenal. I think the Game of Thrones prequel may be… I watched a couple trailers. Looks pretty good to me. The Lord of the Rings, though, ’cause we were talking to Jack Carr just about the series and everything else. I mean, this is out there. Hollywood Reporter says that the Lord of the Rings cost well over $500 million. The prequel Lord… So the new Lord of the Rings —

CLAY: Streaming, yes.

BUCK: — streaming on Amazon is gonna cost over half a billion dollars and probably when they do all the marketing and everything else, my friends, it’s gonna be close to a billion dollars they are spending on a prequel show to the Lord of the Rings. They better hope people really like it.

CLAY: Bezos at Amazon is supposedly a monster fan of Lord of the Rings. So, he just basically —

BUCK: Really?

CLAY: This is what I’ve been told and what I’ve read.

BUCK: Interesting.

CLAY: He just refused to not get the rights to this. This is one of those things where, you know, you’re a billionaire. What’s the point of money if you don’t spend it every now and then? He just went to the war on it and said, “I’m not going to allow anyone else to get the rights of this,” because he’s such a huge Lord of the Rings fan.

BUCK: Look, I hope they’re both… We could use two good new series to kick back and, you know, do some binge-watching, ’cause I’m almost done with my Peaky Blinders, man. I got two episodes left, and then it’s all over, and I don’t know what I’m gonna do. For TV watching, at least, I don’t know what I’m gonna do. I got a lot of books to read, though, including The Terminal List by our friend Jack Carr. You should all go check that out if you haven’t already, and the Amazon show is actually really good.