CLAY: Man, it’s Friday, let’s have a little bit of fun. So, I got a positive story for you, Buck. Field of Dreams is gonna be one of the most-watched regular season baseball games in probably a couple of decades. What they did — for those of you who are fans of the original movie, which came out all the way back in 1989 — was they built the Iowa cornfield baseball field, and yesterday the Yankees and the White Sox played a game.
It ended in a walk-off home run into the cornstalks. It was riveting television. It was fabulous in all respects. They began the game by having Kevin Costner walk out of the cornstalks like he did in the movie and then all of the players walked out of the cornstalks as well. And I gotta tell you, it was an incredible scene. A lot of fun. I know that a huge number, I would imagine, of our listeners watched it. Buck Sexton, I bet you didn’t see one second. Have you seen a highlight of the game?
BUCK: I was busy digging into what’s going on in Afghanistan, Clay. I hate to break it to you. I did not have time to see the Field of Dreams game. I did watch the movie back in the day.
CLAY: Did you like the movie?
BUCK: I like the movie. I would say I’d think I’d give it —
CLAY: Are you a Kevin Costner fan or no?
BUCK: Wow. Look at this! Look at Lawyer Clay, the prosecutor is not done here.
CLAY: The way you said “like” made me think it’s not necessarily an endorsement.
BUCK: So here’s the thing I would argue, and our audience people have very different opinions on this, I’m sure. I would argue that Kevin Costner’s body of work includes some very good movies. That does not mean that Kevin Costner is one of my favorite or even very good actors. That’s the only controversial thing. I feel like you could replace him with a lot of other guys in the eighties and nineties and nobody would have known the difference.
CLAY: All right, so we’re gonna open up phone lines here, pro or con on Kevin Costner.
BUCK: See, here’s the trap.
CLAY: And here’s the deal. I loved Kevin Costner already, but I love the television show Yellowstone. I can’t wait for season, I think, it’s three or four. I’m caught up. I think it’s season three that’s about to start. You hate Yellowstone too! I’m not sure you’re an American.
BUCK: I feel like it’s a little bit bleak and a little depressing and the people involved are all leading very kind of sad and empty lives. But that said, the sets are beautiful. I do like all the scenes of buffalo and Montana and all that other stuff. So, I got through about five or six episodes, ’cause a lot of people that I like and respect out there have said, “You gotta check out this show.”
CLAY: I love the show.
BUCK: Longmire, which has kind of a similar thing, I found easier for me than that. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen that one.
CLAY: No.
BUCK: It’s about a sheriff out West, sort of similar situation — similar setting, I mean — to Yellowstone. But Kevin Costner? I don’t know. You feel like he plays the same guy. I love Vince Vaughn, I love Vince Vaughn. We should actually have Vince Vaughn on the show at some point.
I’m a big Vince Vaughn fan. It is also true to say Vince Vaughn plays himself in every movie he’s ever been in. He plays Vince Vaughn. I think that’s true of Kevin Costner, but I just think that Kevin Costner is… I don’t get as excited about him as other people. That’s all I could tell you.
CLAY: So you’ve never been to Montana.
BUCK: You saw Waterworld, right? Come on.
CLAY: Yeah, that was 25 years ago, 30 years.
BUCK: Ohhhh! Look at this!
CLAY: What? Look, Field of Dreams was fantastic. Bull Durham was fantastic. What was the one where was out in the west and he was with…?
BUCK: Dances With Wolves, he got the Oscar. He was probably the biggest Hollywood draw in the country for a couple of years there, I think that’s fair to say.
CLAY: From like ’88 to ’94 Kevin Costner was as big of a movie star as there was anywhere in the world, right? I’m guessing those years.
BUCK: He’s also apparently a good guy from the rumor the mill that I’m able to pick up, six degrees of Kevin Bacon away.
CLAY: I love Yellowstone. I think his character in Yellowstone is absolutely phenomenal. I love everything about it. Now have I’ve never been to Montana, but I did find out —
BUCK: Well, I’ve been to Montana, so let me tell you, Clay, it’s a beautiful place.
CLAY: But I went out to Park City in March with my family and found out that they filmed a lot of the Yellowstone scenery in that Utah area, which is also incredibly beautiful. So I think our audience is going to be wildly favorable towards Yellowstone and Kevin Costner.
BUCK: They’re gonna like Yellowstone, I think, because there’s also very few well-done, high-production shows that take that part of America and try to depict it, right?
CLAY: Yeah.
BUCK: You have endless shows that are set in New York and Los Angeles and Miami.
CLAY: If Yellowstone were accurate, the murder rate in Montana —
BUCK: Correct.
CLAY: — would be astronomical. It would make Chicago look like the safest place on the plant.
BUCK: Well, that was true about Longmire as well. You’ve got this sheriff out in the Dakotas or whatever and this guy’s getting in the cartel gunfighters with eight guys at a time.
CLAY: Right.
BUCK: You say, “I don’t know if like Billings, Montana, is really getting that wild with the gunfights in contemporary days. I’m not sure about that.”
CLAY: Yeah, I loved Deadwood, too, in a similar way.
BUCK: I’m watching it now.
CLAY: Oh, you’re just catching up?
BUCK: Deadwood is amazing.
CLAY. Oh, it’s so good.
BUCK: I’m almost done with season 1. I just started that recently. Do we want to take a couple of Field of Dreams calls and then talk about Friday the 13th and the scary movies?
CLAY: Yeah, yeah, yea. It’s Friday the 13th, by the way, out there.
BUCK: Ooh.
CLAY: Let’s take some of your calls.
BUCK: Yeah, don’t walk under a ladder. Peter in California, what do you got for us?
CALLER: Happy Friday, Clay and Buck.
BUCK: Thank you.
CALLER: Well, I really appreciated the Field of Dreams game. That was the best neutral-site game I’ve ever seen. I hope MLB will be able to make it a permanent thing going forward. I really, really appreciate it so much. As for an idea I’ve got for an outdoor game, an outdoor sporting event, the NFL should hold a football game annually at the Remember the Titans stadium or the Friday Night Lights stadium. I think that would be really incredible.
BUCK: I also love… Thank you so much, Peter.
CLAY: Friday Night Lights is unbelievable show.
BUCK: We’re talking that are set in a part of America that doesn’t always get attention, and Friday Night Lights? (chuckles) I watched it all the way through twice. That’s how much I liked it.
CLAY: Friday Night Lights is one of the best dramas to ever air on network television. It’s an incredible show. And for those of you out there who maybe missed it or didn’t see it, it’s riveting, incredible television. I like the idea, by the way… The NFL is adding a 17th game. I love the idea of every NFL team playing at 17th game in a nontraditional stadium —
BUCK: Yeah, that’d be cool!
CLAY: — where fans wouldn’t otherwise get to see an NFL game, right? So if you played a game in Montana or in Utah or in — I don’t know — Arkansas, all these different places that don’t have access to NFL stadiums, I think it’d be really cool to do.
BUCK: Yeah. Well, let’s get Chris in Conroe, Texas. What’s up, Chris?
CALLER: Hey, Clay and Buck, I really appreciate the opportunity to talk to you guys. You’re doing a wonderful job carrying the torch for Rush. We all love you.
BUCK: Thank you.
CLAY: I appreciate that.
CALLER: (garbled cell) As far as Kevin Costner goes, I don’t agree with his politics, but I’ve enjoyed most of his movies through his career, Bull Durham, — Dances with Wolves was fabulous, beautiful — and then the one I really enjoyed most recently was the Netflix special.
BUCK: The Highwaymen. Thank you. I’m sorry. You’re cutting off a little there. But he was saying he likes Kevin Costner’s The Highwaymen about Bonnie and Clyde.
CLAY: I haven’t seen it.
BUCK: Very good. Very, very well done. Very true to life. Excellent. I would say that was one of my favorite Kevin Costner appearances.
CLAY: It’s no Yellowstone, I’m gonna guess, but it was good.
BUCK: (laughing) I like that you’re all-in on Yellowstone.
CLAY: Oh, I love it. I love it.
BUCK: You’re absolutely all-in on Yellowstone. Ray in Iowa. Ray, what do you got?
CALLER: I like Field of Dreams — I’m not a baseball fan, but I like it — and I like Dances With Wolves and Silverado. The rest are kind of iffy or corny, however you want to call it.
CLAY: Have you seen Yellowstone yet, Ray?
CALLER: No, I haven’t.
CLAY: Add it to the list!
BUCK: Yeah, Ray, thank you so much, man. Clay, I would just say this. We’re also not even counting that movie where Kevin Costner is the last vote in America to determine the president.
CLAY: I forgot about that one.
BUCK: I know every actor has their —
CLAY: He made some questionable decisions in his career.
BUCK: He’s got some rough stuff along with the ones that were all thrown out there and talking about. It’s funny, I remember we talked about sports movies, your favorite all-time you said was Major League. I said Rocky, right? That was our breakdown on that.
CLAY: I think from a pure entertainment perspective. I asked people what their favorite baseball movie was and people loved The Sandlot. Now, The Sandlot a little bit younger than us but my kids think The Sandlot is great.
BUCK: Oh, I love that movie. That’s a great movie.
CLAY: It is a great movie.
BUCK: Let’s come back into some weekend thoughts for all of you as well as Friday the 13th, if you’re into horror. I never asked Clay about scary movies.
CLAY: Oh, I love scary movies.
BUCK: I had a feeling you would. I’m actually —
CLAY: We have a big Halloween party every year. My wife is all-in on it; it’s one of the favorite things that we do.
BUCK: I’m a little bit… I don’t know. I stay away from super scary movies.
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BUCK: We’re in the closing segment of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show for this Friday, and it is Friday the 13th! We’re gonna talk a little bit about some scary movies to close it out here. I’ll just get right to it, Clay, for me nothing comes close — and there’s a quick backstory to this one. I used to live on Prospect Street in Georgetown, and I lived in a little place and apartment —
CLAY: Oh yeah.
BUCK: — and I had to walk past The Exorcist steps from the end of that movie every single day, and every time I walk past, you look down those stairs. They become kind of a tourist attraction now.
CLAY: Yes.
CLAY: They’re remaking The Exorcist, I think, right? Like a new trilogy, I believe. I feel like they just sold that recently to one of the streaming companies. But I gotta tell you this. In college, one of the most fun places to be was Georgetown for Halloween. People go all out. Everybody’s dressed up. It’s an incredibly awesome scene in our nation’s capital, Georgetown. For college, that is one of the most fun things you could do. I love scary movies, and —
BUCK: No but what’s the scariest of all time, Clay? We gotta pin you down, buddy .You can’t appeal to all the scary movie fans you gotta pick a side.
CLAY: I will tell you this. After one of the Conjuring I went to go see it by myself, I came out home and my kids and my wife were out of town, and I left every light in the house on, and I locked the bedroom door because I was scared. This is me at 36-37 years old. It’s not like I was a young guy.
BUCK: You’re in Nashville! This is when you cock the 12-gauge. You’re all right.
CLAY: I was a grown man who left all the lights on in my house and locked all the doors after I went to go see the film. I love those Conjuring movies. Those are spooky. Those are well done.
BUCK: Conjuring? All right. I’ve never seen one and probably won’t.
CLAY: Oh, they’re good.
BUCK: Ooo, scary movies. Especially anything that has to do with demons or possession.
CLAY: Yeah, there you go.
BUCK: Oh, that’s…?
CLAY: That’s what it all is.
BUCK: Oh, my gosh. No, no. I can’t. I spoke to a priest once who does the whole exorcism thing, and I said —
CLAY: Oh, that’s scary, which is real.
BUCK: — I don’t ever want to talk to you about this again.
CLAY: Yeah.
BUCK: That’s not something we’re gonna do. Let’s get to some of the calls here, shall we? Friday the 13th. Wanda in Maine. Wanda, welcome.
CALLER: Hi. First, I love Kevin Costner. Yellowstone, best television show on TV.
CLAY: There you go.
BUCK: Look at that.
CALLER: Beth is my favorite, next to Kevin Costner.
BUCK: I wonder how Clay gets his cousins to call in with such regularity.
CALLER: (laughing)
BUCK: Wanda, thanks so much for calling in from Maine. We appreciate it.
CLAY: Right now, Succession is my favorite show.
BUCK: I would cosign. But it’s not on right now, right?
CLAY: I think the new season’s about to start.
BUCK: Is a brilliant show, absolutely like Succession. Totally great.
CLAY: So well done. But Yellowstone is my second favorite.
BUCK: And I would recommend for anybody out there, Peaky Blinders, but don’t be shy about putting the subtitles on because it’s really hard to understand what the heck those people are talking about.
CLAY: Oh yeah.
BUCK: Sal in eastern Pennsylvania, what’s up, Sal?
CALLER: God rest Rush Limbaugh. With Biden in the White House, every day is Friday the 13th.
BUCK: All right, Sal.
CLAY: That’s not a bad line.
BUCK: Thank you, Sal, gentleman judge. We appreciate it. I gotta say we’re trying to close out things positively and Sal comes along. “We’re not done. We’re not down with Biden yet.”
CLAY: There’s been a lot of negativity out there in America. We’re going to say, “Hey, let’s send people to the weekend in a good mood,” and Sal says that. There’s some truth to it. There’s some truth to it.
BUCK: David down in Tampa, Florida. What’s up, David?
CALLER: I just wanted to say, he would never be doing the current movies that you’re talking about.
CLAY: Kevin Costner wouldn’t have been as good?
CALLER: Yeah, without first being tutored by Robert Duvall.
CLAY: Oh, Robert Duvall is so good. If you like westerns — my wife makes fun of me about this — watch the television miniseries Lonesome Dove based on the Larry McMurtry novel. Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall. One of the best westerns ever made. You seen it?
BUCK: Haven’t.
CLAY: The book’s phenomenal.
BUCK: I just made myself watch The Outlaw Josey Wales for the first time —
CLAY: Oh yeah yeah, yeah.
BUCK: — which, I have to say, I think held up very well as a film. I think it was really solid. I was impressed. Clint Eastwood’s such an American icon. I think we probably would agree on that one.
CLAY: Yes.
BUCK: Incredible, and you look at his recent movies… I actually watched In the Line of Fire recently, too, because it was on TV.
CLAY: Still good!
BUCK: Great movie. Holds up really, really well. Mark in Ohio. You got some Field of Dreams thoughts?
CALLER: Yeah. As a Cleveland Indians fan — which, I’m not sure if I’m still allowed to say that or not.
CLAY: (laughing)
BUCK: We’ll bleep it in post.
CALLER: What’s that?
BUCK: We’ll bleep it in post. Go ahead.
CALLER: There you go! I was watching the game last night and I thought it was interesting that the only mask I saw being worn was by a girl sitting right behind home plate. So every time the camera would go to the batter, you would see her right back there, and then she’d say, “Oh, I gotta put it back on.”
BUCK: Okay. Mark, thanks so much, man. Thank you, everybody, for calling in and joining us here to have some fun on the Friday, some movie talk, some show talk to end things.
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