Life Liberty Happiness - 12.30.2025

This is Life, Liberty Happiness with Brian Sly and Trent Warner, streaming live each week on Media Squatch Gluss and available on demand in the app or wherever you get your podcasts. Real Talk, Real Freedom. Welcome to episode two one hundred and fifty. Good, great, perfect time and into this year. We end with episode two fifty. That's the like the birth year of our country, two hundred. And fifteen, exactly. Welcome to Life, Liberty Happiness. I'm your host, Brian Slive. We are live in the Count's Reality and Auction Tower here in beautiful Bedford, Virginia. Shout out to the Count's Reality and Auction Tower people. Well, tower is just our studio. But yeah, shout out to Accounts Real with he in auction in the studio, Trent water Hattie. We have a special guest behind the booth. Heroes around sometimes comes around. Yeah, an oldie, but goodie. What he is back behind the screen. It was fun watching him during pre production here, just trying to find things. Oh yeah, I am. I've been nervous all day listening. So shout out to Emma and all the work that she has done this year. She'll be back. She's just enjoying her New year celebration. A big year for her, Oh, her year in review. Oh yeah, So we got a great show for you today. We'll talk a little sports like we always do in our number two Mount Rushmore. Today is color analysts. Uh they are sports analysts, right, yeah, that color commentating yep. Anyway, so we'll get to that stuff and little college football playoffs previews things like that. Have have at it. Oh, yeah, and have at it, Carolina. Kevin will not be joining us today. He's a little under the weather. He was fine at the beach. He thinks that somebody at the beach gave it to him. But I've checked with everybody in their family. We all seem to be fine. Yeah. Well on the beach, you get so many people, so many different places coming together. Restaurant. Yeah, you just never know. So anyway, we'll get to that backwards and forth, all right, just like Ema was here quick on the draw. Congratulations. This is as I said earlier at two hundred and fiftieth episode. That's wild. It's crazy. But when I was I always number my episode when I put the show together, and this was two fifteen, I was like, how ironic that we are going into a new year, celebrating two hundred and fifty years in existence in America. Yeah, and this that is their episode here, So I'll tell people to make comments. Stick it. That's right. We love y'all. Won't know. Air pre production meetings consist of of us reading TikTok or the comments on TikTok. Which is the best platform. Oh absolutely, yeah, YouTube. Okay, but if you really want to get dirty, nasty, just downright scoundrels, go to TikTok. Read what they got to say. Absolutely, they're important to us. Yeah, I mean they love our mountain dew, they love a mountain do with us empty calories, save it up for other calories. They need terrift podcasts. We love, we love our audience. Speaking of that, shout out to I can't remember the last name, but my nephew's girlfriend. She's a U n C student. Apparently she listens to the show and her father, so hopefully they were telling me the truth. Shout out to them. We're does the dad Loveleigh Man? That's cool. We're everywhere. Yeah, So anyway, shout out to them. I hope you've had a great year. Shout out to Dave Baxter for getting us so many YouTube signs up? Sign her up? Yes this week. Yeah, we are up to eighty nine. So we're literally eleven away from being able to go live on YouTube. Which do we know how to do that yet? What he am a We sounded confident, but it was sound a little shaky to me. We got it, Yeah, we got it. We got it. So and always thank you to our sponsors, The Counts, Reality in Auction and and State Farm as well. If you're interested in being a sponsor of the show, contact Woody at media Squatch. Are you his Google media squatching there it is, reach out to him. Become part of the growing show that we have. How many podcasts you have now? This media fifteen. We produce some out of state too. There you're a kidding up and down East coast now, yeah, we got one in Florida, one New York. Wow. Growing good stuff. And think about where it all started? Would he started? I said, we had a little spool, little school here in the middle of the couple of uncomfortable stools to sit on. Oh my god, I thought that's gonna break my back. That was pre me. I don't know how we could talk being that close together. Well, even at the Hunt camp. We sit on the opposite ends of the table. That's true. Yeah, Brad sits in the middle. Is it doing work? Yeah, I see, nothing's changed. I see that anyway. Yeap working well, I mean that's the way it is. Oh uh. And we're still working on And should we do broadcasts the JF games where that's still out? Oh yeah, God, I thought about it the other day. Would he like, somebody put something? Was it you put a picture of us broadcast? Uh? Woody media squatch? Oh man, I saw it and I was like, oh man, the good old days. That was fun. Makes you miss it when you see it. You know what it did do? It kept me from refereeing. And I had a referee text me last night, Hey, are you not doing the games? Kind of like are you refereeing? Oh yeah, but I'm not breaking out my massager to do that anymore. I couldn't do it. It was I'm fifty five, just crazy, kids are still eighteen. Yeah, I had that little gun, you know, the massager. Again, that's the only way I can make it through halftime to get to the second half. You think, well, I mean listen, if you did it, if you got back in it. Yeah, you would be fine, but I don't know to just pull yourself off the shelf. Yeah. Anyway, we did the beach. We were at the Outer Banks this week family Christmas. Had a great time. I think everybody loved it, probably the most relaxing. That house was incredible. Dude, you sent me a picture. They totally screwed up. I figured something was wrong by day two. I mean I literally were finding new rooms. That's not a joke, huh. I mean it was. It was so huge and it was so different that we were literally finding new places. It seemed like every day like. It was a maze. Absolutely. Yeah, but y'all are used to the scape rooms. Yes, so literally I was going through this like one area and I ended up in a bathroom and you're not you know, I don't want to tell that story more. Damn Sam, hell are you talking about? No? I mean one of the things is, you know, they don't come equipped with toilet paper, and so my wife had gone around to all the bathrooms and put toilet paper in them. She hadn't even found this bathroom. That's how many it was like it was. It was legitimately just a huge place. So they send you a text that you can you have up to a week after you leave to book it again for next year. It's reserved. So I was going to and I talked to you and I was like, but the price doubled. And you're like, well, call them, you know, to see if it's like an algorithm that you know. So I called and the lady was like, hold on, she's clickety clacking in and she says, it looks here like you got a discount. She goes, actually, it looks here like you got two discounts. For some reason. I was like, well, I never had. I just booked online. Yeah. And she was like, well, no, I mean that's great. I'm glad you guys are having a great time. I was like okay. She's like, well, do you want to book it for next year? I was like, well not at that price. It was like eight thousand now, oh my god. And so I was like no, you know, I said, now, if you can get it for three, you know, yes, And so she says, well, what about the following week? I said, if you get it for three each week, yes, I will book two weeks in a row. Oh wow. So she said she was going to see if she could swing that. So we got a life liberty happen this week. Oh my gosh, man. Media squatch, there you go Monday Tuesday. The house had everything you could think of. It was a full kitchen on every floor. It was massive. So we had a great time. We did our escaping room. Anybody goes to the beach, oh, right on the beach. People walked on the beach. I don't know. I'm not a beach person anyway, so I definitely want going out there. We had good weather, I mean fifties, mid fifties, you know, nothing bad. So anyway, that was her week. Now did the scape room go? So we did a competition between my family and my sisters. Let me think about that in a minute. Yet, Hammy, with that, you got her husband holding her back. On your side, you got Ashley, but you holding her back. It's probably even Well, honestly, I thought they had the upper hand being Jeff Tammy's husband, and then the you know, Nick's girlfriend who's really bright college student. At UNC and y'all got choice there, But huh and y'all got Logan. Yeah, and that's pretty much who's got to Well, Reagan and Logan carried the show, there's no doubt. Yeah, but we finished in fifty minutes and they did not finish, So we won. This doing there. So what did you do? Let's see, it was a long Christmas. Had the best Christmas I think I've ever had with my kids being home. It was really really good. So just just good camaraderie and all that. And then we after everybody went because you know, I'm doing that divorced dad thing. All my kids go to their moms for actual Christmas. And we went to rollsechool outside of Raleigh, and I spent four days down there, and I love her parents. They're just so salt of the earth, just good people. You do anything for them, Just great people. So I just had a good time to kind of I'll say it was relaxing, but just busy doing chores with them that they needed. And you know, is their feeling. I'm mutual, I hope. So yeah, I did. I should say this watch it. No, let's not start off the. Let's end to yere right with the bang. No, I got to go out. So you know, Marty, her husband had passed, and so I have kind of helped raise the boys, if you want to say that. Sure, So they've been in Lensburg for I've been dating her what seven years? That can't be right. It's way off. I'm a little burying myself here, way deep into that boy. But their grandfather invited me to dinner and he could not have been nicer and more gracious to me. And I was like, man, that was really rewarding. That's awesome. I had a great time. It's nervous, you know, before that hadn't talked to the guy really at all. And uh, yeah, he couldn't have been just a nicer, more you know, commentmentry guy. So yeah, it was a great time. What are you and your wife? Did you go to multiple different places? Hyah? We did a few. It's not as much as we used to. But we saw my grandmother and her she's a Liberty Ridge. That was fun. Oh nice, yeah, but yeah it was kind of low key. It was nice. Yeah, yeah, I don't I don't know that we really did. And that's one thing. My brother was like, y'all don't do nothing but sit around and do nothing, Like, yeah, that's pretty much. Yet I'm all for that. Yeah, like we man, it had a theater room, but that was real, you know, a lot of times the beach houses put a little room together and call it a theater room. Yeah. No, this joker was four you know, step ups of each seat was recliner electric, you know, I mean, it was date of the art. It was really nice. So Don he's the farmer, and he was totally just trying to be nice for me, because when I'm there, I don't try to take over a TV. I'm at somebody else's house. We watched with So I probably texted you and Brad six times this weekend. Are y'all watching gun Smoke too? You know what I mean? Or Perry Mason? Well, I didn't mind. I mean I don't. I haven't seen those shows in forever, but that's their channel, that's true. But he was trying to be nice to me. And so when I got there, he's watching a football game, a college football game, and he does He's the kind of guy that will ask you questions. It's obvious Marty knows more about football than he does. He doesn't know, and he's watching the game, and you know, after about forty five minutes, I said, don you do know this game is like three months old? Right? Oh lord? He goes, are you serious? I was like, yeah, neither coach is actually what they're team anymore. It was Ole Miss and Lsu. Oh wow, had shown that. That's great. Yeah, this weekend, I've got a hunting weekend up at Highland last week weekend of the season. Yeah. So I was kind of thrown in a loop because I texted you I wasn't going. Yeah. You kind of threw me off. Because Ashley informed me that Reagan has a volleyball tournament this weekend at LU. This is the first one that kicks it off the season, right. It's the second week. Well they've added a new one, okay, And I'm like, well, it's going to be the same thing two weekends a row at LU said, probably be the same teams. Yeah. So my daughter asked me Sunday if she could go over to a friend's house to spend the night, and I'm like, that depends. She's like on what. I was like, whether I can go hunting this weekend. She's like, I don't care if you're in a a man, I don't pay no attention to you. O sounds great, good for her letting you go. Yeah, so she's pretty sure I can go. I mean, I'm committed to you guys, and I'm going but you know, like when you think in the back of your mind, did I say we were going to do something? Oh, I don't have it on my calendar, so I think I'm open. Well, you need to come early because we're we're leaving four point thirty in the morning. Oh no, you guys are definitely dedicated. Well, we've got to get to that shape for place, and it's frozen tundrum. Yeah. I did talk to your uncle today. Okay, he hasn't seen anything. Yeah, my game camera showing nothing, So I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Well, man, I like being just up there me too. I'm looking forward to it. Cool. All right, moving on, Uh, what do you got anything any big plans this weekend? No, sir? All right? Moving on. This day in history, that's today. It is history. There's the first mistake. That's a mistake. That's it. Emma's writing that down on this day in history. How about this In nineteen twenty two is when the USSR was founded. So I saw that on the agenda and I thought, there's no way it was that late. I thought I would have it was like eighteen hundreds or something. So I put down what the USSR was made out of, just so people who were the ones that would fly the stupid Well, I shouldn't say stupid. I remember what stupid listeners know? The Ukraine flat, I remember all that cramp. Yeah, the war Putin's war, right. So anyway, the USSR was made up of Russia, Ukraine. I guess you say, belo Russia, Okay, and the SSR, which I thought was funny. The SSR was Soviet something something republic or something. Huh. So anyway, it was made up of those countries. So at one time Ukraine was part of Russia. Well yeah, so they were just shocking that people don't know. That's yeah, it's them saying that Putin is trying to get the block back together. Sure, the Soviet block yep in mine. Eighteen thirty two, John Calhoun became the first vice president to resign. He cited differences from Andrew Jackson. So I thought it, so I delved into it a little bit deeper. Do you know what The major primary argument was? Tariffs? He was he actually got into such an argument that Andrew Jackson. He took the vacant Senate seat in South Carolina to try to block every vote from the Senate to keep the terroriffs from happening. Wow. Yeah, so we think we think the political game now is the worst ever. Now It's always been this way. The system was set up to be this one. Yes, exactly, That's what I've said all along. It absolutely has been back and forth. It has ebbs and flows, and typically when we get along is usually when the worst you know what I mean. The like if you ever watched the movie Abraham Lincoln. Fantastic movie, but man, just him going through trying to get things passed in Congress because you've got a Civil war going on at the same time. All that stuff. Oh it is It makes you realize this has always gone on. Yeah, for sure. All right, moving on to drama. All right, a little bit of being watching at the beach. So I went down in the theater room sometime and then played this Blacklist that has been I bet I had four or five different people recommend that show, and so I thought I'll try it. Now. It was a show on NBC. I have ten years, so I started watching it. It's very interesting. I'm not a big fan of that state. James Spader yep, just because his character is the exact same in every single one he's ever done. I mean even in office. I mean, same guy, Robert California, same guy. But what intrigues me is another show that was done starting in twenty thirteen, and the stuff that happens after that show is what's happening now, So. It's like a precursor to what actually happens. It's crazy to me, like these are all government It's a sort of a unnamed unit of the FBI that's stopping all these world issues, right, and you've got this criminal who is working with the FBI helping take out these masterminds trying to ruin the world type thing. But everything, I mean it's like, ooh, that did happen? That sounds familiar? Yes, I mean a lot of stuff COVID, I mean all that stuff. Was it House of Cards? Yep, very similar, same thing. Kind of mimics exactly what went. On one of them was. And listen, the only reason it freaked me out is because Sean Ryan. I have watched his show where a gentleman talks about literally that the government can take control of your car and kill you, and I'm like, oh, like it sends a chill watching the show. That's what happens. Wow, the guy just flipped off the side of the road. I mean I read a long time ago that they were doing the autonomous cars. Yeah, that. I swear it was a Ford discussion, like a if you're not paying your bill, that autonomous car can make it right back to the dealership. Yeah. I don't know. It's it's a great show, but it's addicting to the point where you're like, oh, man, is that gonna happen? Like plane crashes, like it makes you think, you know, are they intentional? Yeah? I mean we've had an awful lot of little plane crashes, just little out of the blue. And the one I think that scares me the most was like a guy that was controlled by the government to assassinate somebody. And you're like, if that doesn't sound like the guy that tried to take out Trump. So this is inspiring your conspiracy theory. It's just it's it's good because I've often wondered, all right, come on, this kid just climbs up on a roof for what reason. Then there's no social media, there's nothing, and then you watch this show and you're like ooh, like literally backchanneling instructions to this kid of certain things to do and then it all disappears once he's gone. Yeah. Well that certainly is one of those on the list of we need more investigation done. Yeah. So anyway, we'll have you seen Yah, I think you're the one that said it and someone else told me about it. Mary Kingstown. Have you ever watched it? Yeah? Logan wants me to watch it so bad and I have not. Okay, I think that's the next one I might pick. Up, but I'm going to I'm gonna try it, but I'm gonna get through this first. Although this is ten seasons Blacklist. You don't have to watch commercials, so do Okay, It's on Netflix, gotcha? So looking forward to that and Landman, I know you're waiting. You're waiting till the end of the year. Yeah, I wait for the end of season season. It's it's good. I have enjoyed the heck out of it, so but then you got to wait a week. Yeah, or wife and I have enjoyed it watching it together. Yeah. So anyway, Uh, for me, I actually knocked these two out. No, you did the John Elway. The John Elway documentary Did you enjoy the Dallas Cowboy? One? Yes? Okay. So the reason I enjoyed The Dallas Cowboy even though I hated the Cowboys right is there were so many clips of things that I either forgot or have memories of, fond memories of. And it was really watching like I don't think Perry would enjoy it, but someone my age enjoyed the hell out of it. It was one of those things, and I learned so much about him that I had no idea. I can't wait to watch it. It's really really good. I think I might watch it tomorrow. And his interaction with Mike Shanahan and the story behind them is, Oh, it'll it'll blow your mind. Good, really really cool cool yep. And then I watched you did watch the Dave Chappelle. Have y'all seen Dave Chappelle yet? I have not? What do you have you seen David? I have not? No. I'm a huge like Mount Rushmore, He's number one for me. Oh wow, every one of his comedy things I have to watch. Cool. He tells a story like no one else yep. And the way he ties history together. But this one was hard for me as a Trump fan to stomach and watch because he's in DC, he's certainly entertaining the crowd that are there, and so it's hard to stomach it. He is not a Charlie Kirk fan. He mentioned stuff like that, so you have to be able to stomach through it. But what I always say is, I suppose I supposed to be able to laugh at myself some you know what I mean, And he'll rip you, but if you keep watching long enough, he will circle back around to rip the other side too, which he's so good at. Yes, he's very good at that. Definitely worth watching. He is an equal opportunity offender, yeah for sure. Yeah, all right, so very highly recommend it. So I didn't do Legacy Media this week because I just kind of wanted to do like a year in review. This is a end of year podcast like those things, So I thought we would just kind of take a look at what we've done this year. And these are the things that I just remember from us doing this year. First and foremost was adding our segment called American hero Stories. Yeah, that was a huge success for me personally, you know, starting with your dad, which was an honor to do. And then if we can find it again. If if not, we'll have it back. We'll give me a better chance, another chance. Can you retell some of those stories? Now? I mean it's one of those things where in retrospect, looking back on it, like after we did the interview, I'm like, wow, we got to interview that guy like David Harker. I mean, just an amazing, amazing individual, all of them. I've been at client meetings where the client has told other people at the table the stuff they heard on the oh in their interview. Yeah, I mean, just incredible. And then I enjoyed all of them, Like I've gone back and listened to some of them and I'm like, man, just what a unique position that we're fortunate to be in to be able to do it. So I'm looking forward to that again. That starts up after Memorial Day, right, and we'll run them. Through Labor Day, kind of a summer series. So yeah, So if anybody would like to sponsor that series, yeah, let us know. And by the way, if you want to, you can go to at LLH Underscore podcast on YouTube. Go there, subscribe, make sure it hits a little subscribe button. It's important because that's where all those interviews are you can, well not all of them, but all but one the first one, so seriously go do that. And then also if you have TikTok check us out there again. You can just underscore. We're at l H Underscore podcast and same thing on Instagram and X. We're on all of them. I think we're on X, right, I think so. I don't think I've seen this on X Spotify, Spotify you can. Listen to it. So I'm looking forward to going live on YouTube. That's that's my biggest thing, uh, just so people can check it out. Launching air social media platform. That kind of leads us into that, right, I mean before this year, we weren't doing YouTube and all of the Tiko talk and. It's probably late in the fall before we really started to YouTube, and you know, we really push YouTube. But TikTok is fun for us because of the comments. I mean, the comments are the best and I often wonder who the hell, I mean, how who the hell comments on this stuff? But they're usually really funny and I don't get offended like people are like I do. Literally have people go, man, that's mean, why would people be so ugly? And I'm like, dude, it's hilarious. It is that is mean, it can be both. Yes, anybody can hide behind a platform. Sure, it's not like you can find them. Yeah, well we should go. To their house and just be well, find us that IP address, go do it. Here's a mountain dupe. Oh me. The next thing was starting our mount Rushmore segment. Yeah, it's been cool, fun yep. So we've enjoyed doing those weekly. And then I would ever interview with Vince Everett Ellison. Yeah, was a fun thing to do, really cool and I always give Caitlin a hard time that works at Media Squatch. She said that Vince said that I was a smart guy, and I'm like, that's a man. I will remember that, right. And by the way, another guest that's really cool has committed that he will do it again is Tyler Panell. Cool. Wow pre Daytona. Yeah, so I thought, you know, I'm going to Daytona to race. No, I didn't know this. So at the end of January, I'm going to go to Daytona to do the track. The Oh that's right, you're doing the school Yeah. Yeah, so I'm gonna go do that. So I thought it'd be cool. I even thought about reaching out to him because he lives down to Daytona. Is just catching up with him down there. Sure, Now are you? Are you on the actual Daytona track? Yeah? Oh wow. Yeah. So I'm gonna do a ride along first with a professional driver, and then I'm going to get in and see if I can be at his time. Well, you know, I'm not saying you're going to do that, but that is sort of the path that Jeff Gordon took, right I'm in like he was indy. Yeah, and then someone convinced him to do one of those and he just was so fast they were like, wait, wait a minute, So I got a chance. No, geez, y'all record this. Meet Dave Marcus. Go down there and wear wingtip shoes. Oh man, that's what I gotta do. Yeah, watch them all make fun of you. Yeah. Who was the other? Was it Morgan Shepherd that would wear the roller skates and skate up and down the lane before the race. I'm gonna do dick tuckle and light a cigarette while the guy's going around the track. That was back when NASCAR was real. Yeah, so much fun. We should have a mount rushmore of what NASCAR should do to make to get it back NASCAR better. Yeah, and what's you know, Yeah, we'll talk about that. Yeah, that's awesome. You got any things off top of your head this year that we. Did Year in Review? I was thinking about Emma not being here. But the year in review is she graduated from Liberty. That's sure, she got that done. Congress to her, and she started drinking. She actually had drinking stories. Oh yeah, yeah, well we had. It's just a matter of. Time, that's right. Oh lord, poor Emma. All right, yep. That was a look back at every year brought to you by a State Farm. Neat Insurance in Bedford. I'm David Honeker, local state farm agent. Whether it's home, auto, or life insurance, You've got you covered with personalized service and great rates. Let us help you protect what matters most with the reliability and trust of State Farm. 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And then they left right as the last drive is about to happen, and Missouri's got the ball, and there is not a Uva fan that can do math that knows we're not going to lose. I mean, we're not lose. Everybody knows. If you're up six and the other team asked the ball to end the game, yes, Well, then the starting quarterback got knocked out on fourth down, like you see when he got up. How the referee saw that is beyond me, but he definitely, to me should have been taken out of the game. I mean, he looked like he was just rattled. Now, could he have made to play me? I don't know, but for everyone watching it knows. Oh my god, All walk On is going to come on the end of the game to make one throw. Dude. That was a hell of a throw. It was in the guy's hands. The defender just made a great play for Virginia. That's oh my gosh, it was exciting. It's great Tennessee place tonight, Illinois cool, but something you've mentioned before and we'll talk about it right now. I think it's definitely time to move on from bowls. Yes, Tennessee's a prime example tonight that have five starters that are opted out. Now, I love Charles Barkley when he says opting out is the dumbest thing in any sport, because he said, literally, we get paid to entertain. How are you entertaining anybody when you're opting out? Oh well, it's not good for my future. What future do any of us have if you're not entertaining people? So I hate it too, And what to me on top of it is, now you're getting paid and you're opting out, Like, at what point in time do you learn you're getting paid? I mean, I think the easy answer, and hopefully they'll do it. Stop opening the transfer portal before the bowl, before all the bowl games are done, all the playoffs are done, because really, then you have some incentive to play well, to be on film again. I'll agree, I said, I thought, because you know they're going to move it to sixteen, right the field, So just make the field thirty two. Get rid of the bowl games. Don't get rid of them. But all these bowl games that we're watching, you know, why not put your field from sixteen to thirty two in those bowl games and let them compete to be in the sixteen team playoff? Right, I think if you went to that, it's definitely going to have to be home stand games. For example, Clemson and Penn State is a good matchup, right, and no matter what, that's always a good matchup to watch. Those are half full stands. I mean it's half full. Yeah, now I do enjoy it now it was eighteen degrees. Yeah, Well that's what you're you're doing stuff at the end of December. It doesn't matter. It's not going to be great. I went My last bowl game I went to was the Gator Bowl. The last time Virginia was there we lost to Texas Tech. It was single digits in Florida. I was like, this is miserable. I'm not going to do this again. Yeah. So I don't know. I don't know what the answer is, but I think the Bowl games have run its course and it's going to continue to go down. The only thing I think is good about a Bowl game is if you were a Temple and Yukon something like that, you keep practicing and you have a reason to play down South for a decent game. In my mind, I'm thinking this, right, everybody says, well, Notre Dame should have been in JMU, shouldn't have been in tu Lane, shouldn't have been in and you. Know who was the other team up Vanderbilt, right all right? Or Texas? All right? So so you take teams like Clemson, h JMU, those teams and you match them up. At least they're having to play for something like you're not opting out of that game if you've got a chance to go play you know. You know n CA does the play in game anyway, right, you could do something like that. Yeah, you know the cheese At Bowl, the winner plays in you know whoever in the. It's got to keep evolving because they have to keep interest, you know what I mean. Yeah, because like you said, all the stadiums were empty. I mean, and and I get it. You're right. I used to love as a kid the Cotton Bowls. The which one was the there was there was a bowl every year that I always look forward to, didn't matter what teams were in it. And I'm trying to think of the name of. It, but probably the Liberty Bowl or the Sun Belt. There was there was there was one in San Diego that was always a good bowl game, the Peach Bowls. It was it was God, I can't think of the name of it. Last year I think it was Valero was the sponsor, but it was no matter who was in it, it always seemed to be forty eight fifty five was the final. It was always a high scoring game. And I was like, I'm going to watch Air Force versus such and such because they would sling it man, and it was fun to watch. Now it's just I don't know, it's like watching paint dry. Like you and I both know middle of the season, we are both tuning into Tennessee, Illinois. Who's tuning in tonight? Nobody other than Diehard's. Right, But I mean, at the end of the day, gamblers, you got five sitting out for Illinois and you got five sitting out, you know. I mean, like, how awful would it have been to watch UVA without Chad Chad Morris was at the quarterback what was his name, Chandler Chandler. Yeah, if he wasn't playing. Yeah, you know, And that's exactly what's happening. I don't know, So something's got to be done. I'm like it just we gotta do something. Speaking of college football playoffs, tomorrow, Miami in the Ohio State, I like, yeah, I mean, because that is I'm starving for sports, like I've been watching this stupid blacklist because I can't find any decent sports on what I'm just saying, I'm looking forward to least watching that game tomorrow. And then you've got Oregon, Texas Tech, Indiana, Alabama, and Old Miss in Georgia. How you got an eatch? I got Miami beating Ohio State because I just don't think Ohio State is that good, Like I really don't. Of all things, college can fool you because you and I look at the SEC and we think, man, what a dominant conference, and no doubt it is. I look at the Big Ten and I think, is it that tough? Because somebody gave me, gave me TikTok gave a stat that who is the quarterback for Indiana the Mendoza, Right, heusband winner. I think he has thirty two touchdowns that he's thrown this year. Right, he's thrown five touchdowns in the four games that were against top twenty five teams. Out of the thirty two, only five and seven turnolders. Well, where was that stat? Yeah? And that doesn't sound I mean when you say it like that, it makes it sound like you know. Now, I'm just saying Indiana struggled with Penn State. I think they're a really good football team, but I just don't know. I mean, who's Ohio State played this year? I honestly each of those games I could have circled either team. I have no idea which way to go. And you know, a high state I think is better than Miami. If they're playing at Ohio State and it's cold, no way Miami is going to win that. Where do they play or do they play? It a neutral? It's a neutral freaking sign? Okay, Well, that's a good shot. And then Texas Tech. I kind of root for Texa Tech beca. Isn't that a high school coach that's coaching them? Dude, he's done a phenomenal job there and nobody even knows his name? Yeah, which is any of a high school guy? What a you a high school guy? It's a good question. Because Baylor did that once too, remember, and they were good. I heard it. Well, yeah, that's where Browns came from, and his offense is still talked about today. But I had heard there was a donor that basically brought that guy in and they've been building this in Texas Tech, which is phenomenal. Yep. And it's not unheard of to think Alabama couldn't beat Indiana. Correct, although I really do think Indiana beats Alabama. Probably, But I'll go Bama and then Ole Miss in Georgia. I mean, Ole Miss just seems to be that team that's gonna play out of spite, right. I got Georgia by forty Oh really? I just man, Kirby Smart is so good. Yeah, I mean, and I think you're gonna see whether people like it or not. There's gonna be a drop off without lane Kiffin. Yeah, and we'll. See what's over under the lane trolls old Miss durned the game. There's one hundred percent chance. And how genius is his his uh uh, what do you call it? Agent? He's getting paid? Did you know this? Who's getting paid? Kiffin? Oh so when they win a Bowl he gets he got two hundred and fifty thousand for the last week they got. So he's a root and for all miss. Yeah, it's big time. And not only that, get this, his new contract matches it. So he got two fifty good grief's rooting like hell for old biz. Man media squatch got any kind of contracts like that? Yeah? Yeah, oh me. So anyway, I'm looking forward to those. Those oill be Thursday. Okay, are there any games Friday? Regular Bowl games? There are? Oh there was somebody. I said, good, we get to watch that, and I can't remember now who it was. See this is where Emma would already have it, but we didn't ask Star Trek questions. So there's no chance we get this right now. I mean she literally would be clickingy clacking up on the screen. Woddy, I don't think you realize how talented your producer she is, she is, She's really good. Sorely missed this week. Friday, we have I'll fill in for Emma Friday. We have Rice in Texas State. Oh, that's the one I want to watch because of your Yeah, I mean, dude, he is at a bowl. How cool is that? They're five and seven? I had Navy in Cincinnati, Arizona and SMU and Wake Forest in Mississippi State, so only one of those eight teams is ranked. Yeah, I do want to watch Rice. I mean, I mean you have a personal interest in it. Yeah, I mean the guy coached here at Liberty High School, right, I mean that's pretty neat. It's the Armed Forces Bowl without an Armed Forces team. It was kind of crazy, that's kind of stupid. But the Liberty Bowl, which is the Liberty Bowl in the Holiday Bowl, which were the two that always have great matchups, Arizona and SMU is in the Holiday Bowl. That's probably going to be a barn burner. How did Michigan screw up so bad and end up with a perfect coach? Yeah? That guy is love. I could not understand why he just resigned retired from Utah and then a week later he's named the Uh Yeah, he was gone from Utah. I didn't know that. Yeah, at the end of the year he had announced he was retiring. I think he had been there twenty seasons or something, and I was like, man, that guy's still young to be retired. So he didn't retire just so that he could break a contract and go. I'm wondering if there was some backchannel stuff going on, because oddly, you know, within a week he's in the Michigan coach. But yeah, he had already left Utah. Huh. I didn't know that. But great guy too. I mean, just a phenomenal he'll build them. They needed that because dude, they've been cheating for and they can't get out of their own way. Well, I say, less than four seasons. Oh you don't see. You don't think he's going to succeed. Have all the time thinking of that. Dude has been great at Utah. Not for a couple of seasons. I mean he's been in Rose Bowls. Yeah, he's an Urban Meyer guy. Okay, Like that's who the coach was before him. I thought they should have got Tony Elliott from UVA. That's a Listen. The more you see Virginia do well and the more you see Clemson suffer. Yeah, you go, dude, but there's your problem. Yeah, but I mean, listen, we've all I've always said, great head coaches have the ability to have great assistance. What made Nick Saban different than everybody is he would lose assistance and have better ones. Dabo has lost his assistance. I mean Venables and Tony Elliott and before Tony was a guy and I can't remember his name, but he was phenomenal. But yeah, I mean he's suffering and I don't Dabo's is stuck in his ways. I don't see it changing, do you. I knew, and I applaud him for doing anything. I messaged you this this weekend. Yeah, there's no way the offensive coordinator is going to survive. Yeah, Dabo is giving him the right act, much like Nick. Saban did to given Do you remember that, Oh you used to get on him. Yeah, Dabo was doing it. I was like, there's no way this guy's going to make it, and sure enough he got fired. He's got to find the right coordinator. But he's what I'm saying is Dabo is looking to build the program from the ground up and just I don't know that you can succeed. I applaud him for trying because he listen. I see it more and more in basketball. I see Cola PARTI talking about it and Tom Izzo of the game is changing and we don't want to change with it. So I really hope that he wins because I'm just praying that somebody that sticks their nose, that their thumb at. Yes, the transfer portal could win. Yeah, so, but it's gonna take. You can't when everybody else is putting two year talent on the field versus you trying to build it and they're leaving you. Well, I mean, and his the thing that he has in his character is also his detriment of four years of CADE. I mean, after a while, man, you can see kid is not the guy correct, but he sticks with them because of his loyalty. Yeah, I agreed one hundred percent, all right. NFL, Yeah, it's pretty much down to four teams that have a possibility for playoffs. Pittsburgh and Baltimore and how ironic they played this week, and then Tampa and the Panthers. They both have a shot. Are they playing each other? And they play each other? Okay, how lucky did the NFL get Yeah, that's great, so we'll see. I don't know how Pittsburgh lost to Cleveland. That was such an It's just an ugly game. Yeah, matchups in the NFL more than anything. Or is crazy? Who's the number one Seeds? I should know that. I think Seattle. Did Seattle have the one over San Francisco? I think you're right? And or is it Philadelphia? No, it's not Philadelphia. They lost. Seattle's number one, Chicago's number two, and Philly is number three. Wow, Chicago and Carolina is way up there, but I guess Tampa Bay still has a shot. And then in the American Football Conference THEFC, Denver's number one, Oh yeah, New England's number two, and Pittsburgh and Baltimore still have to scrap it out. That should be a blueprint of in the NFL. You have to have a great head coach Denver, Denver, Yeah you look what you inserted in New England. Yeah, Jacksonville's got a. New head coach. Yeah, how about that guy? And then my son was telling me don't count out Houston. The Texans. Yeah, they've been on a roll. The defense is so good. Yeah, somebody compared him to the eighty five Bears. You know, let's not go crazy. I know that's what I said. But all right, moving on from sports. Oh one sports note we did not mention, but a little while before we go forwards, nice is prayers to Denny Hamlin and his family. Oh yeah, and all that they're going through. I mean, that guy's been through a heck of a lot. Yeah, listen. Did his dad have an illness, yes, okay, he was terminal, right, he pretty much knew he wasn't going to make it the Daytona anyway. And then I mean, and we kind of lived a little bit of that during the playoffs with it meaning so much to Denny. Yeah. And then uh so, I don't know if I said it, but his parents' house caught on fire, and I still I thought I was reading the two people were taken to the hospital, and then I'm reading later that his father actually died in the fire. Yeah, oh man, and his mama is still in critical condition. At the at the hospital, yeah, at the burn unit. The worst miserable. I feel for that guy. So maybe you can drop your derangement syndrome for one week. How long is that morning last before you kick it up again. I'm done Okay, good for the guy. All right, moving on what's happening? It's time for news, all right. Dude, I swear Trent. I remember when Obama was running, and I think Hillary too, that Republicans would run ads that the Democrats are just trying to redistribute wealth. Right, that was kind of a saying and it was negative. I mean, you don't want your money going and then and that was a dude. They talk about it now like that's standard, that's in the history books. It shocked me when this lady was saying it. So I found this clip on CNN. I don't know if you've seen this where she's literally giving the explanation that is not her. Uh have you ever been to an in and out Burger? No? I haven't either, What have you done it? No? So anyway, we got to like this few what happens. I love the third That is great on YouTube, by the way, where you get to see the third clip. So anyway, this is a clip from CNN where the lady is literally giving us the democrats playbook and why this is normal? Cut one California. So here's the Democrats. The Democrats don't. Know much about my show. I'm incredibly critical of Democrats on my program as well. Okay, okay, well I do them. Yeah. I mean, look, you have Democrats in charge, and rather than looking at their own budget and saying, perhaps we're doing things a little lopsided, perhaps we're not spending money in a frugal enough way for our state, they don't do that at all. First, they never do that. They never look inward. And the same in Washington State where I'm from. We just also introduced a millionaire tax that's going after millionaires instead of billionaires. And what we've seen after them going after the capital gains tax implementing it, a lot of them left, including Jeff Bezos and a lot of high profile folks who decided to leave. You can go ahead and pretend that the folks who are billionaires are billionaires merely because they got handed something to them by the Democrat establishment or the Republicans. But at the end of the day, you're not actually doing anything to help people who are in a position right now, who are in fact struggling. All you're doing is punishing someone for being successful. No, no, I'm sorry. Thement government's redistribute resources. That's what we do, and we make these choices and the millionaire says a. Huge portion already. Oh really yeah, really, it's free taxes. It's called sales taxes. You would certainly concede that billionaires spend more in sales tax right now. Why can't my generation afford to own a home? And that's in part because of their property ownership. No, it's not their job. It's about it's about. The government's job to buy for you. No, it's not the government's job to buy people homes by government their money. Okay, because do you agree that the government's job is to redistribute wealth? But they do that. The Scot Jennings is so good? But who says that. By the way, when Scott Jennings has the hand under his you're getting ready to get killed and is waiting for his chance. He's going to strike. Want the government to buy your house? I mean that is so like they're literally running it. Now, Hey, she's been I guess in the propaganda everything that they read for her whole career of education. Redistribution of wealth is what the government does. They take from them and they give it to them. That's a benefit like that, that's I've all grew up in civics class right, that the government's job was to provide services, protect and service, right, and so like when town council and what he has been a part of this with his company covering all this stuff. The big to do was the annexation of a neighborhood here in town right, right, And all they wanted to know was what is my tax dollars going towards? And so you have to provide them. Here's a list of services. Guess we're none of them was in those services. Redistribution of wealth. So it doesn't belong in local government, it doesn't belong at the state level, and it sure as hell doesn't belong at the federal level because you know what does happen Minnesota. That's what happens when you redistribute wealth. You're handing out money. Oh, it's crazy, so corruption with no consequences. And so that brings us to Minnesota's insurance. And now HUD, I don't know if you've read about HUD. Huh. Oh they have found Remember the COVID you don't have to pay rent all that stuff, remember, And then then they were going to subsidize housing and all this other junk. Well, now they're finding billions of dollars worth a waste here we go. So my question to you, Trent, is the discovery of all this stuff? Is it doge? And if it is, how genius was it to have Elon Musk come in as the face, get just killed and leave and yet it's still behind the scenes working. He says, that's exactly what's going on. Well, I hope because the corruption that I'm seeing in Minnesota and what gets me is the Democrats. Yeah. Like I literally heard a lady the other day go, he said two billion. You know that's outrageous to say it's been the billions. Yeah, okay, you're literally conceding that it's happening, but you're just not as worried because it's not in billions. And of course it's been billions. You have daycare centers with no kids. It's ridiculous, Like nobody answers the question. Have you seen the journalists who's getting killed right now? I'm gonna play him on for just doing his job at it. Yeah, finally somebody doing a job. Homiees walking down the hallway, Trent, why do we have thirty daycare centers in one building? Yeah? Or you know, insurance whatever it was. Yep, so they got so not only did they have the daycares, they also had the autism thing going. Sure kids, some oli kids get money to be autistic. And then they also had the traveling cars like the ubers to be able to transport people with no verification that you transported anyone, You're still getting paid. Those are three different things that you were giving to a certain demographic of people. And nobody will go to jail. No one is going to jail. Nobody. Yeah, that's the infuriating part to me more than anything else. And that's what I hope twenty twenty six is different than twenty twenty five. Twenty twenty five. We found a lot of stuff. We bitched about a lot of stuff. Well, we intterested anybody. Correct, that's got to change. Yes, there should be raids in daycare centers now, right. How many raids did we have to go through when during Biden's regime where they just went running into mar A Lago, correct, right? Or they ran into somebody that was associated with Trump? Yes, how about rating an empty daycare center. Nobody's worked harder to stop fraud in Minnesota than the governor. Oh, Yeah, that's what he says. Yeah, and we're gonna hey, we care about it so much. Would he that we're going to spend more millions on a task force? Yeah, it's going to do absolutely nothing, but still more money. So is a task force free? Do you think? No? Of course not. It's more government crap. Do you think task force is just one person? A task force is a group? So all you did was redistribute the funds that you were spending on the Somalis to spend to not spend to the Somalis. And who's going to be on the task force? Do you think here? Is he to be? Somalis? Exactly? I think we should turn the page. Right. Well, that's a good one on the Minnesota governor. By the way, how is there no outrage at all? This is the thing that pissed me off more than anything. So one of the comments that I read was what is a shame? Was this was money that was supposed to be set aside for real Minnesota's Okay, my daycare didn't get funds, right, the daycare that I took my kids to, they survived because of the fees that their parents paid. Correct, there was no one backing their kids up. You're welcome to our country. Survive like we do. Stop handing them out. They take our money. Yes, oh man, it just enrages me. Well how about this one. I thought you would have get a kick out of this one. This one really should enrage you. How about in New York City. Don't forget mom, Donnie has told everybody that he's going to fix the housing crisis right now. Have you heard about this wood? He I can't wait. However, all right, dude, So they're introducing a bill or an ordinance or whatever that if you own a home in New York City and you sell it, you have to wait a period of six months before it can be closed. Wow. Wow is that supposed to help anything? Because they have a task force that will put all these houses up there and they will determine if your house is eligible to be sold or eligible for housing for the government. Good. Agree, So if you sell your house to a buyer and they deem that it fits within their blueprint. They get it. They get it. So they're the first writer for refusal. Basically, yes, yeah, wow, that sounds like that's a problem. But that you know, good and well, they'll pass this and who the hell would want to let me tell you right now, if. What they'll do is more than likely their offer will let's just say, five percent higher than your closing price, right, sure, so you're the you're the you receive a little bit more. I'm sure that's the way it's going to go. But then they have that house forever. Yeah, and they don't sell it, correct, They just keep a hold of it. So it's artificially keeping the market down. Yep. So you then go to try to sell your. House in the future, there's no one to compete against, right yeah. Yeah, it's awful. Like if you're in New York City right now and you own a home, isn't your best bet is to get the hell out now before this takes. Hold, Yeah, which is also what they look to do. Yes, mass exodus. Correct, all right, I found this clip. This is the difference between a real president and a fake you know, to me, just one that's sticking out there. So on the way down to the beach, I told you, I ran into a convenience store that had three dollars and nine cents diesel and it was one sixty seven for gas one seven, one sixty seven. Wow, Now I think that was just a weekend you know, people traveling type thing. Who cares? Yeah that, I mean, I've three nine place was packed. Yeah, of course three oh nine for diesel is ridiculously good. So of course I stopped and fueled up. But if you'll remember, during the Biden administration, fuel costs were at five dollars. Like, I don't think people will realize how much it's changed. But when they asked, this is Joe Biden and cut to about fuel cost and this was his response. Every price of gas nationally taking five dollars a gallon for the first time. What's your message to the people, especially if we're headed to the summer months were struggling with this. This was this outrage just what the war kind of Ukraine? The idea? So the war in Ukraine? Now what he don't forget and Trenton talks about this a lot. Don't forget that. He you he begged Saudi Arabia to lower fuel costs because it was killing him in America, right, and it's because of this war. Not only did that happened, but he started to use their reserves, yeah, to try to keep fuel costs down. Trump has done none of that. And there's still a war in Ukraine. Don't forget shut down the pipelines and oh not let us sell natural gas. How ironic Trent that three days after Powell comes out and gives a quarter point interest rate and warns how the economy is still unstable. Of course you're you're sitting here telling me he didn't have the data that came out three days later that the GDP was what four point three? Four point freaking three? Yeah, where is this horrible economy that we're having? Yeah, in that news, of course, people don't hear about this off for Christmas break. Nobody knows. Yep. I think we are in for a hell of a year. I don't know how we keep the house just because usually it switches hands. But if her economy is booming the way I think it's gonna be. The Golden Era has started. Like it's people are in for a really good tree. By the way, that's a that's a quarter that had a government shutdown, right or is that the quarter before that? Is? No, that's yeah, So imagine imagine if we didn't have a government shutdown, what that could have been. It's it's unbelievable, and all these things that we've seen from the tariffs that are coming to fruition. It's like, uh oh, yeah, maybe this wasn't And if you understood him, and that's the thing that people just like, if you don't have Trump derangement syndrome, but you're a Democrat, if you just took a step back for a second and went, dang, they told me that these teriffs were going to just cost We're going to go through the roof. But it hasn't. As a matter of fact, the inflation rate has slowed two point one something. Yeah, I mean it's way down right, And then they said the jobs were going away, and now I see GDP is up over four, like over four. Yeah, if you get rid of the fake the jobs that came back after COVID. I mean, what's the biggest Biden ever had or Obama? Maybe one point nine two point two. He's done four over four and this is his first year. It's about to take off, Like just give him a chance. And he's like, I saw, I don't know if you've I think there genius doing these little ads. Have you seen these? Marco Rubio just has one out basically wishing everybody happy holidays from Marco Rubio and he starts going over the accomplishments. Oh good, and I think it's genius. And he says, what a pleasure it is to work for the greatest president of all time. And I'm like, dude, Like, people don't understand little Marco, right, I mean that man was brutal to little Marco and the man is just calling him the greatest president. On have ad it. I got a clip of zeld To is really cool with some inside about we'll just like to work with Trump. All right, so or post of the week by an idiot? Yeah, this was an idiot that the clip was from a dem and that said we can't let Republicans ruin our health care, right, yeah, So this is a clip discussing healthcare. And this is the idiot Tim Walt of all people lecturing us on healthcare. Oh and just what comes out of his mouth is stupidity. All right? Cut three, and he is going to give you the money and you're going to go out there and buy this healthcare. Is the stupidest assessment of healthcare that I have ever heard out of someone in a position of authority. We've been working on this for decades. Everyone knows that that is absolutely not true. But apparently, now that's the plan spoken by someone who, I guarantee you has never had to purchase their own health care or look at a premium cost or worry about it rising. So it's easy to live your life when somebody else mowing your yard and somebody else is paying for your health care and somebody else is looking at the bills. That's not how life works for folks. So I'll tell you. What this is a guy who's never heard of the word affordability. He's never heard of the word accountability either, and in Minnesota will continue to do a weekend You mean fraud. Huh, what state had the biggest fraud during COVID. I would say California. It was Minnesota. It was Minnesota. Minnesota did and no again, no one's been arrested for that. Yeah, But I mean for him to say, this man wants to give you money for you to choose your own health care, it's stupid. Yeah. Who It's like I don't recognize America at some point in time, because I'm like, there would have been a time where all of us would have looked at him and went, of course, we are better off choosing our own health care. Do you think his business has had employees that had health care that had to have premiums? Of course they did, Trumps. No, But I'm telling you right now, Trump's definitely He's got employees he had healthcare plans. You best, of course, you best go back and look, let's not forget that there were two assassinations in Minnesota last year, and I'm watching the conspiracy people go. They were the ones that were going to blow the lid off of the fraud. Did the shooter ever worked for Tim Waltz? Yes, scares the crap out of you. Yeah, people can call me stupid or whatever, but it's not ironic, right, I mean, it's not a coincidence. I don't know. He did write a letter in blam Waltz the murderer did my post of the week back, idiot. So here is the report card of the Republicans in twenty twenty five. One point one seven million layoffs, forty three days of shutting down the government, twelve hundred dollars in tariff costs for each family. So you had twelve hundred dollars in apparently a tariff costs, fifty days refusing to swear in representative a Delita Grijava. Oh my god, what is that? I don't even know what that is. It's the lady who want to run off, but because the government was shut down, they couldn't swear in. Oh okay, yeah, two signal chats were leaked. So let me ask you a question. Yeah, what would she have been doing since the government was shut down if she had gotten sworn in? Not worked seventy nine days of playing golf? Oh my god, three hundred plus days of trying to bury the Epstein files, and voted for the biggest health cut in American history. That's your report card. Wow, Well there you go. I think I have solved the Epstein stuff. Okay, at least I saw someone who may it makes more sense than anything, which was that when they started unredacting and looking at everything, it's other world leaders that would jeopardize our relationships across the world. Is the reason for hiding it. I could see that more than that. Anybody who thinks that Trump is hiding these files because of Trump, right, I think is an idiot. And I don't think he's protecting any of his donors because the man doesn't. I mean it seems like the only new pictures I've seen are Clinton. Correct, these are the Clinton files. I think it is world leaders. Like, I'm just saying that. Would you know it may jeopardize every relationships with world leaders? Yeah? And I don't you know that me makes more sense than anything, don't you. I don't know. I have no idea. Okay, I'll just wait for somebody to break bigger news. I haven't heard any news being broken other than saying old Clinton in a hot tub. And maybe there was really nothing more because that's what Dirtwood said. You've seen pretty much everything. It's only going to justify what you already know. Is what he said, And so far that's all I've seen. So I mean, have you been shocked about anything? Nah? I want it's that the whole time I was to protect Billy Oh Clinton. Yeah, there's no doubt that dude was down there a lot two trains in a. Row, Like all right, at a certain point though, like don't you just look across the room at the photographer on Epstein's Island, Like if you're there, yeah. You're like, why are you taking pictures? Like I've been relaxing, Why are you? What are you doing over there? Is that a C I H jacket you have? Yeah? All right, moving on to Mount Rushmore. Mount Rushmore of sports. Color analyst For those who don't know, the color analyst is the person not doing the play by play, but the person will be laughing at the way it was spilled. Oh no, no, I did that on purpose. But yeah, it's the guy that's the professional usually has. Insights most of the time, a retired athlete or something of that sort. Yea. So I will start with my list that you have not seen. Oh okay, yeah that was fake list. Oh I gotcha. So my list starts with Troy Aikman. I've got him in mind. Troy has always been at the top because I did not see that coming. And he's just he's so good, so good, just relaxed. He doesn't try to be more than what is asking. Enjoys the game, tells exactly how he thinks it went. He can be critical, but he's also complimentary. It's not always critical, you know what I mean. He's just smart. Yeah. Uh. Joe Morgan, Joe Morgan is a great You had that on your first list and I thought, you know what I used to love Sunday Night, Baby God. Joe Morgan was so good. Uh, And I've got one that I guarantee you that will shock you. But growing up and even still today he still does basketball. Dan Bonner was one of my favorites. Oh man, that was so cool that you thought of him. I wish I had thought of him. I didn't have him in my list, but yes, Dan Bonner is fantastic, still is. Yes, him and Van Gundy staying and somebody else did the game with Virginia and it's just I just remember that just listening to him, go. I'll like the old uh for some Pilot days with Yes, is it Mike Patrick or it was some kind of Dan Patrick. Maybe Mike Patrick. I think it's Mike Patrick Patrick. And they used to do the Jefferson Pilot sports basketball games. Yea Food were sponsor. Yeah, man, those were great days. Loved them. That was acc was brutal. Oh man, it was so good. And then I've got which you had. You are correct, I had Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson. They almost have to go hand in hand. I've got them linked. Yeah. So they were so good. And then my last one is Kirk Herbstreet. How is it that Jeff Van Gundy is not doing basketball, but his brother, who will criticize Trump at a heartbeat, is doing basketball, and he's his brother is awful, terrible at it. I can't tell if it's a guy talking or a woman talking. He's just you know, who was your last one? Kirk Herbstreet. Oh that's another good one. Yeah. I like your list probably better than mine. Chris is our listener is back on the good side of things. That last week was a tough one for me to get past. His list was John Madden and who I've got that number one in my list of all time. I can't believe you don't have John Madden at all. I liked John, but there were just times I kind of got like cub like you get with Dick Fi Tael and some of the other one just the boom I never was. Oh God, I love that he was a man of the people. He's got Dick Fi Tao, which that makes me hurl yep, even though he's got d W. Dude, I wanted to put him on my list. I was a massive DW fan. Is it an announcer? Yes, loved him. I thought he was okay, but but I don't know, man, he was my favorite race car driver growing up forever. But after a while I got tired of the buggety boogety boogety. Yeah, some of that stuff was stupid, but dude, he. Would crack me up with He was humorous. Time to leave me loose wheel? Like who would come up with that in the middle of a broadcast? And didn't he have like some kind of a tornado like the cars keep the vote. Keeps the rain from coming in. Yeah. Uh, he's got John Smoltz and I agree with that. I am a big John Smoltz fan. During a baseball game. Oh you know who's we need to think about these the SEC baseball announcers. They're phenomenal. Ben McDonald and that other guy that they're both color commentators, but sometimes they do a game together and sometimes they don't. They are so good. Yeah, I know he's kind of bald talking about the bald guy. Oh, he's so good. He's not bald. Oh, I know exactly what you're talking about. Yeah, yeah, that's great. Yeah, yeah, But there's three of them. There's another one that I love too. That guy is more play by play guy, and then Bill Walton was his last one. I loved Bill Walton. I was so upset when he left. I still use his comment before we start the show sometimes, what you don't know this, but since Emma's been here, we start talking sometimes and they start asking me about stuff that we already have on the And Bill Walton used to say this to his announcer. Save it for the show. Bill Walton would sit in the stands. Yeah, like before the broadcast. He wouldn't do a pre production. He would wait until they go to do tip off and he'd come out of the stands and sit down. Now he's ready to do the game. My list, John Madden is number one, and that's what made me think about this is the movie. I don't know. I don't know how it's done in the broadcast. I have a hard time having Nicholas Cage is John Madden. That's been kind of hard for me to get past. Sometimes you don't want a famous actor playing someone famous because you can't get past him being also the famous guy. I can't I can't see John Madden there. But that's what made me think about the best color commentators. Troy Aikman is who I got a second yep, dude, how is this off everybody's list. John Gruden was good. God, I guess because it was a short period of time. Well, I mean it wasn't awful short at least five or six years, wasn't it. Yeah? Maybe? And then he went back to coaching. I did. Oh, I was so upset that he went back to coaching. He was so good. Uh. In racing though, because y'all said DW I thought about my favorite race car analyst, Benny Parsons. Parsons, Oh, he was so good. Was that a four year time? No? I mean I remember Benny. Yeah, he was sort of like John Madden. He was that everyday kind of guy and he would laugh and just didn't take himself too seriously. Yeah. And then my last one. I was thinking of the NBA. My favorite was the Van the team of Van Gundy and Jackson. Yes, how are they not together now on a channel that. Is a one thousand percent proof of DEI yes, because that the three Mike Breen, Van Gundy and Mark Jackson was as good as you can ever get of a team. Like, they were so good because Van Gundy was funny enough, and then Mark jack was that guy that just yeah, he gave you the game and then he could give you as a player where you know it just I don't know, they weren't like I can't stand the ones that give you too much. Yeah, like I don't don't explain to me, you know what a reach block is or something, right, I mean that's for. And then at doors Burks trying to be one of the guys like she knows all the cliches to say. It's like, come on, stop trying so hard. If she's like, you could play today, you could play a drinking game, bulley ball, because she's gonna say it a hundred times in a basketball game. Yeah, And then I don't like the guy that does the game with her. I thought that was used to be. But I've the guy that always. Does the uh is it Harlan No, the black guy that does the oh yeah Skip Jones or something, Yeah, that has to throw the young stuff in there. Oh you know yeah, yeah, he dribbled him out of his shoes or something like that. And I'm like, good lord. They just think if they add what you said the d I that everybody just accepts it. And it's not when those when those teams get together like you had Pat Summer on John Madden. That was a chemistry that was every Sunday you knew was going to be great. Yep uh. You couldn't have Troy Yateman, by the way, go to Monday night football and not be not bring Buck that's great. You had to bring the team. You have to get this just they have that. That's exrectly right. You can't just force it and think it's going to work and just shove it down our throats and go, oh, that's ESPN basketball is still going on. No, that's what happens when you get people like Woody involved. I'll tell you what about al Michaels. Y'all didn't put al Michaels. He is an announcer. We just play by play. This is not a color These were color coming to me. Oh, I had a whole different list in my head. Then, yeah, because you, I mean, woe Nelly Keith Keith Dude, that sounded exactly like. Who loved that guy? Yeah, we all have to do those because those were man. The play by play guys are incredible too. Yeah. Sometimes they just set up the color guy to be great. Yah know what I mean? Yeah? Yeah, definitely. Oh you know who we left off? Bart Warner. Oh, he was terrific in basketball. Liberty High School basketball. Right legend down in Portland, Maine. What is it down, Well, it's. Bridge and Maine, Bridge and Maine. That's the intersection downtown Bedford. Oh, Bridge and Maine. Yeah, I thought it was the state of Maine. No, Bridge and Main Street. Oh, okay, from Bridge and Main Street. Yeah, I thought it was a Bridgerton, Maine. No, but I listen. I did the school that we are available for playoffs, and I would love to do a game again with playoffs. It's fun going to Rono College and covering, like I would like to cover the whole What can we do that this year? Cover what we can do? Anything? Anything's possible. But last year we went and we covered the girls. Right. Yeah, but when you leave, there's another game, like I would love to cover like I do the game. A doubleheader? Yeah, gotcha? Like again, if her, hopefully Jeremy's not listening right now, if her stupid athletic directors would bring back the seminole district tournaments. Oh, I can stop with the like literally, I would do four games in a row. This is what drives me crazy about coaches. They look at you as a player, and they go, don't get me excuses. Yeah, well then when I ask about seminole district tournaments, I'm gonna get all these excuses. Yeah, stop with the excuses. Well, you used to do them. Other conferences do them, so don't tell me that it ruins whatever. Stop just give me no damn tournament. Man. That year that my son was in his senior tournament, it was LCA and JF in the finals. That's the practice gym at Liberty. You couldn't standing room on. And we still talk about Liberty not being very good versus Jefferson Forest, who was number one in the about this Randy running the damn four. Corners and we scored I think eight points in the first half. And it was funny. I remember JF fans being irate, and I remember you and another guy like literally texting me laughing like this is funny because eventually you knew it was gonna wear off. But it's a strategy, and it was you know, it was keeping them in the game. When it's your only shot and you have I don't know, we just missed so much. And everyone wants to say for the kids, for the kids, we gotta do it for the kids. That was for the kids. Yeah, I mean they get to go reset themselves and play in a tournament. Oh, it was so much fun. We got to bring it back. Yeah, and I don't know that gone it if we have to have three of them sitting in these chairs, oh yeah, and just make them explain to me why we can't do this. It is just beyond me. I mean, if you could do it easy, Glass, you could do it. Rushburg you could do it. Heritage not heritage. Their court is phenomenally horrible, right with the track and everything. Yeah, it's awful. But if you did it at Liberty, I mean, those are some great gems that can hold a lot of people. The excitement is so much fun. Yeah, so much fun. But no, hopefully we get it back. We can't do it all right, Moving on off of sports and onto or excuse me, off of Mount Rushmore and on too have thatt it. I just got three things to say. God bless our truth, God bless them America stuck. Two hundred and fifty shows and still the best bumper it's. It's when it comes across my TikTok feed. I get pumped still, get hey and anybody who's listening. You can go to YouTube and check out at ll H Underscore Podcast and subscribe and you can get that bumper every week. Be sure to comment to make it fun. You can do that at TikTok. Yeah, you can go to the other, but the other one, it's like YouTube, I think are smarter people. Yes, TikTok are just the if you're the lowest of our society, that's right there you. Go, and I love it. I can't wait for this to be on TikTok. It'll be Brian looking at his phone while I'm talking your brother. What did he say? Change of plans? Oh? Okay, well come here to include me. Oh it's because y'all were going to ride together. All right. So some of these clips are a little bit long, but because we don't have Carolina Covin, I feel okay because I was going to cut them off, but these are so important and especially today's news. And what I love about this. You know, we had a week off because of Christmas, right, we didn't do the show last week, so I thought, okay, I'm going to have some clips that I sent before Christmas. I can take some time off. But dude, the news that is going on this week is just astounding. So I didn't even use some of the older clips that I had. I've got twice as many. But this is what I would call real journalism. Listen to how this guy finds the daycare centers. And this dude is probably what Nick Shirley. He's probably twenty five, twenty six, I don't know, maybe something about that age. But if you see him doing his work, it's real journalistic work. Yes, all right, so let's listen to cut ten orders. I knocked on the door. Into my surprise, somebody actually answered the door. Hello, can we speak? I would like to check a child in the daycare? Can I speak to a manager? Where can I get paperwork to file for my son? I wanted to put my son, Joey in daycare. And after a few questions, the lady went silent. Looks like little Joey Shirley ain't going to daycare here and now where we are. Now we're going to Sweet Angel Childcare. We're in the middle of a strip mall here inside of this neighborhood. Fiscal year twenty six million views. This facility, which has its license for seventy four kids, was paid one point two six million dollars in tax money, and there are no kids, and all the facilities are the same way, all of them. Let's see if anyone opens. Yeah, let's see it once again. I try to find a spot for my son Joey, and they would not open the door. I want to put my son Joey in daycare. Can you pause this just for a second to put my okay? In all the daycares that I've ever signed up for, there's always been a vestibule. There's always been a lobby that I can go into and say, hey, now do they have it secure behind the desk? Sure? Yeah, yeah, but notice every. One of these doors. He can't go into the entrance. This is what kills me. Trent is the The Democrats claim he's the problem. Yoh yeah, I've got that too. He wouldn't let some creepy guy into a daycare, so yeah, he now. Needs to be registered as a pedophile. Then how how does people? How do people sign up? Exactly? Okay, I'm sorry, play, I just get jouraged. Yes is this your daycare center? No? What's happened? I just wanted to child in daycare? But all the daycare centers seem to be closed. No one's opening the doors. You work here? Oh? Was Yeah? What's helping? Where are the kids? Yeah? Says it's license for seventy four children right here? State of Minnesota. Where are the kids? They got paid one point two six million dollars in Fister Your twenty twenty five it says they have a capacity for seventy four children? When when? Where are the kids? Right here? State of Minnesota website? You work here and you don't No. I don't know. I was dead before. I don't know. What's going to go on? Were there any kids when you worked here? He's dead, He's dead with so many I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, you worked here. Okay, well then you're out of any help. Can I put my son in a daycare here? No? No, I don't know. Can I speak to someone? No, I don't know. No. Yeah, I would like to see if I can put my son Joey here? Who was his son? Joey? My son Joey? Can I check out daycare center? No? I'm the owner? Wow, Okay, I'm going to harke him back to the little beacon that was the place that's now actually not even open. That I took my kids to They paid their employees based on the number of parents that had kids in that program. And you couldn't have too many kids, right, and you have to limit so the health department make sure that you're not having an over abundance of kids per the rooms and per the teachers that you have, right, right, you gotta have a clean facility. Yep, those are the things the government should be doing, is making sure you have a clean facility and you don't have an over abundance kid abundance of kids. Right, things along those lines, not handing out money to non citizens for what. That guy that was walking up there that says I used to work here, that couldn't answer how many kids were there? Did he look like that he should have been watching kids that I know? Like, first off, I think it's the hardest job of all jobs. Sure, that is the last. Like I used to go pick up my kids from a little beacon and I would think, who in the hell could choose this for a living? It's difficult. I'm not I'm not taking care I don't. I mean, I was gonna say I don't like taking care of my own kids. No, I'm saying I can. It's tough enough to take care of your own kids, but then to be the kind of person that's going to take care of ten other kids. Well, flip the script a little bit. Yeah, you and I. You know, we've seen local news cover a daycare center issue where a kid and nanny cam caught something whatever, right, right, And there's government regulations that look at this stuff. Like you were saying, yeah, not no daycare I've ever seen. Okay, so I've done a little bit more research on this. So this guy, Nick Shirley is the one who did this, and it's got twenty five and a half million views just that clip, and there's some other clips that are really good of them slamming the door on them, not letting them in. And this kid is probably going to be murdered. I mean, honest to god. He goes into places and does things that I think, Man, are you crazy? Do you remember the name John Stossel? Yeah, John was great at it the best twenty twenty. Yes, that's who used to do these things. They would go like they would go to the car dealerships that are ripping off old ladies. Yeah, all right, where are you now? Correct? That's real journalism. Yeah. And by the way, John Stossel is still great. He is, He's got a page. Who's the guy I'm thinking about Project Veritas, Like how he's still how is he still alive? They tried to take him down, but that those are the guys. And what gets me is when they break the stories, they become the problem Democrats. They I mean, they go after him. He's a lunatic. You know. He was the one I think that broke the lady that the abortion clinics were selling off parts, and he had him in a hit, him saying it, and it's like he you know, oh, he coerced these they're selling off parts? Is the is the story and the problem with Minnesota. And there's state funds, but I know it's also federal funds. But it's so many of the white liberals that are saying. None of them are saying it shouldn't have been spent. You know what I mean. They're saying the fraud is the kids weren't there. I'm saying, what are you spending any of that on? Correct? Yeah, if somebody was really a capitalist from a Somalia and he started a some Mallian daycare, some Mallyan. People can bring their kids and pay them and he can be a capitalist that way, not us paying for it. That's right. It just burns me up. But Tim Waltz knows who to blame. Cut eleven. Do you want to hear more from members of leaders from. The small community to say we need to hold our we need to. Look at ourselves, we need to hold our own neighbors accountable because a little bit the damage that this is doctor to our community. What do you want to hear. More from instead of just saying don't way? Do you want to see more ownership and oversight from the look it's not law abiding citizens. If that were the case, there's a lot of white men. Should be holding a lot of white men accountable for the for the crimes that they have committed. I think for the community to maybe educate their population, because I think what you're seeing here is there are secondary victims in this that there's there's providers inside the can unity that are then victimizing the computing himself by signing them up. Because when we're going to some of these people, they're like, I had no idea I was in this program. So I think it's it's asking us then, you know, for every crime, which of course the majority being committed by white men, asking us to do more about that. I think it's crime in general. And I think the biggest thing on this is is just making sure that we're educating the population. And again, this is eighty people or so that have been convicted in this, maybe some more in that out of a what. Is he talking about? Okay, that video that this guy just did that wasn't white men five years ago? And how many white men were doing that? And he's oblivious his own state, like how did Okay? So let's think about this from what Rustling Ball used to say, realvill. Okay, from Realville. Realvill is some Sali pete refugees that were taken from Somalia or allowed to come in or a country and flock to a place where the original people started coming and saying, hey, we've got a boondoggle here. So when you come to the country, you make sure you choose Minneapolis. So we need more of you to come to Minneapolis. Do all of them speak English? Do a minority speak English? Probably a minority speak English, I'm guessing right. So they come in their own community so that they can have their own language, realvill How many of them would know how to fill out an application to start a daycare? Somebody did it. Sure, somebody knows how to rig the systems. Somebody knew how to do the autistic kids to go from six centers for autism to four hundred and sixty centers to autism. Somebody did that. How come we can't raid these places and take people to jail. Yeah, that's the part that I don't understand, and I don't understand how places like that, like right now in my whole life, if you said Minnesota, the first thing I think about is Vikings and like, literally, there's a company. I don't know if you've ever heard of, Marvin Windows, but it's probably the most expensive window manufacturer in the world. They make phenomenal windows, They're unbelievable, and they're made Minnesota. But most of their population is Vikings. And I have no idea how that happens. But when I think of Minnesota now, I think of lunatics, Like that is what your state has become. So there's the other I guess the third fraud that I've heard about besides COVID, was its own big issue that I've been waiting for people to get arrested for that. For the medical COVID fraud that they were having sure experience is the lift the transports. So they had let's just call them taxi drivers. They were getting funded to transport people for medical purposes. Yeah, they didn't have to report any of their own transportation, who they took, where they took them to. If you took an uber, Uber as a company knows you went from here to here, they know who paid you, they know who rode. How do we not track any of that and they can just be paid. I don't understand either, because in the private sector, if any of this stuff happens, you recognize it at a company level and you go whoha, whoa, whoa, whoa, what's going on down there? Yeah? Right, we got to fix that. Even massive companies, right, they figure this stuff out. How does the government never? Because I lived what you're talking about in a company here in Lynchburg. When we first started construction, there was two doors down from us. We were in a little shopping center, not shopping center, but a little whatever they're called you right, little storefronts. Yeah, two doors down from us was a education center and what they did was they recruited people and they would coach people on getting jobs, and then once they got the job, they would tutor them at the job. Like I had never heard of such thing. And I listened to the guy outside. He'd go outside and smoke right the recruiter guy, and he would say, look, they're changing the rules again. You know, they're not going to pay us every time we go out to spend time with these people. They will only pay us for the first two months. After that they're on their own. And he's like, however, I did find a loophole. They will pay us for every application that we fill out. We get two hundred and fifty bucks. So they're just going out literally, and he's like, I've got two vehicles assigned for y'all to go out and recruit every week. And he said, the first place you go, make sure you check the unemployment because they're required to do applications. Let's just bring them here. We'll fill out the application for them and then send them on their way. We don't care if they get a job. And he's saying this and I'm just like, dude, it's every government program. So I think this was let's say it I think I've heard eleven billion, but I can't remember. The numbers are just so mind boggling. Now I can't remember what the number was. But the problem with government is no one is saying that that money shouldn't have been spent. Right. The fraud is they were caught. That's the problem. They were caught. So what government would do. Let's say there's four hundred and sixty centers for the autistic thing. Now, let's say the FEDS came in and said, we're auditing, you need to clean it up. Let's get back to the six centers that it was before. They're going to say that the Republicans or the FEDS have cut you know, ten billion out of medical research or you know what I mean, how they do. That's the problem with this. Nobody is saying we have to stopped spending the money. As you said earlier, we're going to build a task force, like we're going to take that money and still use that money and bearing more employees in We're. Going to hire more irs agents to get more money. Yeah. So if someone embezzled and you mentioned a private company, and this happened to me personally too, a personal experience, if somebody embezzles a company, it can kill the company, Yes, but it only kills it once. Right, the company can't survive. If it doesn't survive, it's done. But not the government. This fraud is going to keep going. No one is saying they're going to be upset to the budget's not as high as it used to be. Yes, that's right, yeah, yeah, because for every facility that closes down, it just reopens. We'll spend it somewhere else. Correct. All right, So this I thought was hilarious. This is Oprah's prediction one plus year ago. Cut fifteen, sick this one out. We don't get to sit this one out. Can you hear the women? We don't show up tomorrow. It is entirely possible that we will not have the opportunity to ever cast a ballot again. Jesus. By the way, oh, we got three more years, maybe we can get it done. By the way, how are we how are we all glossing over that? Now they're admitting Georgia. Oh that one even in our news. Correct. And you hear her say that, and you go listen. They found three hundred and sixty thousand. Yeah, and Trump lost by eleven thousand. Yeah, Like, why are we now saying that we've found it? Like you and I talk about it all the time. Why did it take five years? Yeah? By the way, I always said, the math is easy. You go to the places where the numbers shot up and you figure out where do the numbers come from? God, So Rudy Giuliani ended up being right lost his money all the time. Oh God, She. Says, it was such conviction that women are going to lose their right to vote. I don't as Trump should he try that as an executive order? All right? Okay, So dude, I love these things, and I told you there's some clips that I do that I just. I can't wait for squeams. I can't wait. I can't wait for Grace and or Perry to watch these things because it's like. Right up there, Alley. But this is a woman. It's kind of hard to see it first, but she's sitting I think she's sitting like in a CBS and she's sitting down and she has see her dog as a husky. Her dog's paws are on her lap. She's got blue hair, green hair, and the dog is a what are they called? Service dog? All Right, let's let's listen to her get on this guy at the store. On the floor until she tells me I can get up? Can I get up? Cool? She's asking the dog, please don't do that. She is a working service dog. Distracting your service. Dog is a missed class misdemeanor in the state. Yeah, well, she's currently working, and distracting her is a class misdemeanors. Let's good. She's having a panic att out. Oh my god, I can't watch. That was so loud. I couldn't quite get. Uh So, what she's doing is I think she first started out. I think she first started out saying she's not going to get out of the floor until her do tells her she can't correct, all right. Then she's trying to talk to the dog, and I guess some dude is just distracting the dog. And so I didn't know this, but I guess what the service dog. If you distract a service dog, it's she caught it a class three misdemeanor. Sure, I just like what the guy said, What did he say? Service dog? My ass? God? And then she does the focus like focus like this dog is just so listening to me. Attack. Yeah, all right, so in the spirit of Christmas, this one, I think is a little bit long, but it's worth listening to. It's just the generation that we have here. So here's another one. I don't know if she has something in her nose or not, but she does. On both sides look at it. Okay, yeah, they always do for some reason. Staples, but okay, okay, I am not making fun of the angel like I've donated. No, no, I'm not. Oh no, I said, I'm not making fun of the process of the angel tree. Like my dad when he was a marine, Toys for tots is important, So an angel tree is something to do. But I've never personally, I guess, been fortunate in my life. I have known someone to receive on the other end, right, it's kind of an anonymous donation. Like, so this woman is now going to tell you what it's like to be on her end where you're receiving something. So Merry Christmas. Cut twenty. No. I didn't want to come on here and talk about this because I don't want people climbing ungrateful, But last Friday I got my kid's angel tree, and I'm really disappointed, and I'm not ungrateful, but I feel like, if you're broke, you shouldn't be trying to do Angel Tree for anybody. Tell me what my daughter, she's nine, All we asked for for her was from makeup does she wanted and they got her makeup, But tell me what they got her, like Walmart makeup like Mabeline, like cheap stuff like we wanted your for four brands, stuff like that that are high end. Like I do her makeup for school. She still learning to do makeup, but I want her to practice on good makeup because I don't want her skin to break out. But I do her makeup for school. I don't like overdo it because you know she's young. Like I do blush eyeshadow because like she doesn't really not as good eye shadow, but I do it on her eyeliner. Sometimes I do like really small like strips of lashes and stuff. Anyways, my four year old as war, I asked for one of those next playgrounds. There are only two hundred bucks. Tell me why they just got him, like a smaller like playground set that's like ninety nine dollars, Like you could just spend one hundred dollars more. It wasn't that big of a deal. It was not serious. So now he has like a smaller playground, which is fine, but like I wanted the bigger ones so we could all play as a family. But now he's the only one that fixing that. But anyways, she got tattoos. By the way, my eldest, my thirteen year old, we asked for a Nintendo Switch, the you know, the second the one that just came out. Tell me why they got him the old generation one, not the new one. It was probably like two hundred bucks more, maybe maybe a little less. I don't know, but I like, do you believe these are fake? And no, if you're not like an influencer, that's like rich. I feel like you shouldn't be doing. In because. Now, like my kids are disappointed, I'm disappointed, and like I want to come on here and tell you guys, but. She's crazy. Anyways, that's it, all right. The best part of this is scroll down and just let's get a out of the best. It's a joke, right, I don't, I mean, seem pretty serious. Plus I love if someone is really producing something to be on TikTok, would you really be chewing while you're doing the things and you took the time to make a video of this to bitch about it. So here's some. What is they did she eat all the presents and blame it on the angel tree? Uh? Good, yeap, Oh my gosh. So I'll give you some good news if you want to hear some good Christmas news. Oh yeah. So my wife always she volunteers her time down at the Christmas Station. Bedford has a Christmas Station which is totally volunteer, nonprofit, right phenomenal all year long. It's like a thrift store. They take all the old stuff off the shelves at the end of the year and they stock it with brand new stuff for Christmas, and families come in and they Christmas shop there at the place, and it's all It's perfect for my wife because she gets like a ten thousand dollars budget to go shopping in her department, so she. Has fun shopping. Correct, she doesn't bring it home. No, no, it goes on the shelf and then she works there like she works that throughout. She she donates her time once a month there to work, and then during Christmas time she's there when the families come. So I asked a serious question. I said, what percentage actually deserve you know, what they're getting. You know who's there that's you know, doesn't deserve And she said, to be honest with you, I would say ninety five percent of the people that come in desperately need what we're giving away. Oh nice, And I said that's wonderful, and she's I said, here's what my question is. Is it the same family going there and then going to shop with a cop? Is that another one that y'all do Woody with the town and then you know there's a I was like, is the same people going to each place? Though? She said, here again, this is where I think localities are awesome. They're actually come up with a database so it limits where they go, which I think is phenomenal. That's there are people that need this stuff. You know you spending time last year going to Lee County. There are people that are in need, and we all should do more. But it's when it's when people take advantage of that right there, just infuriates me. That's why I brought it. Well, give me some more, all right, So this one is a little long, she said, and. Lee Zelden and Patrick Bett David, Yes, So I. Don't know that Patrick Bet David God, I didn't even know that's what his name was. Millionaire Really, are you serious? Phenomenal God, I've seen him on so many things, but I didn't even know what his name was. He's really smart. So he's got a podcast that I get a lot of clips from that or that I see a lot of clips of. And Lee Zelden is doing an interview. And what I loved about this it's a little bit long, but it gives you the insight and that's why I called it cut forty seven is what it's like to work with with Trump. Okay, yeah, Trump's story of you know, spending time. I'm sure I'll give you a good one from recent memory. He calls me. Up's late at night. I am laying down in bed, light, lights are out, I'm ready to go to sleep. Fortunately he didn't call me a little bit later because actually was about to be asleep. I wasn't asleep yet. Phone rings. He's talking about an issue that he's pretty fired up over. He wants me to call another cabinet member and one other person and then get back to him. So, you know, mister President's getting kind of late at night. If I if I reach them right away, you know, definitely call you back. But let's say it's hard for me to reach one or both of them and it gets really late. Do you want me to just call you back in the morning. He says, no, whatever time it is, I'll be up. So I called the first person up and he answers the phone. It's a five minute conversation, boxes checked and had what I needed, hung up the phone. All good call. The second person can't reach him. I'm calling over and over and over again. I'm texting, I'm using different messaging apps, I'm using different devices. I cannot reach this other person who's a member of the cabinet. Eventually I do hear back from the person. We have a call, got the information I need, boxes check, We hang up. Looking at time. It is extremely it's the middle of the night. The President said, whatever time it was, I'll be up. So I call him. He is wide awake. I mean he is. You would think like for a normal person, you're like, dude, you just drank like seven celsius and he's talking India, he's talking China trade. He saw about all these other issues aside from what on top of what we were talking about. And he's fired up over this topic that he had called me about. He was passionate about it, and he was really engaged. And if you were listening to the conversation, you might say the President was emotional about it, like maybe almost in a bad way. And if you said that, you would have been wrong, because right when maybe that thought would have crossed your mind, and you could tell he was smiling. On his end of the phone. He says, don't you love this? Aren't you having fun? And I'm like, yeah, absolutely, mister President, I'm like, and you know, the conversation immediately became lighthearted. And even though he is passionate about what he is doing and he gets fired up over these topics that are really important to him in this country, he is really enjoying being able to do this in like a very positive way. It's one thing to have four years in the White House, to have four more years to reflect on it. The two assassination attempts. You win all the battleground states, you win the popular vote. You have these four years, and you want to make it count. After all his experience in life, all his experience as president, the team he puts together with the great chemistry, We work together. We know there's no competition and friction and conflict. We all we all want to make sure that these four years are as successful as possible. And its president does not sleep. He does not stop working for the American public. And we're coming off of a president who would wake up at like one oh five and they call lid by one thirty. And now we have a president who he just doesn't stop and uh man, that's just one of so many stories, but it really goes to show you that the type of president we have right now, who's fighting so hard for all of us. Yeah, Karine Jean Pierre said one time, Yeah, you're not going to get a hold of Biden after nine pm? Remember that rob was it after nine pms eighty? It was eight? Yeah, eight pm, you're not going to get a hold of the oh it was you can't get a hold of him before nine am. You can't get a hold of them after eight pm. And that's Karreeine Jean Pierre. What what would you round it up? Like five hours by five hours? What works with the president when you're negotiating with him? What does not when when you're trying to. H what's great about that is Patrick bed David. You said you've seen him, but I've watched his stuff a lot. And before the election, he had gone and had dinner at Marl Loggott and the stories that they tell about that dinner, he said that Trump was going to win. And he said the reason why is because of Baron. And he said it was obvious when they were having dinner who the smartest person at the table was and it wasn't Donald Trump. And he wasn't meaning to be detrimental to Donald. He said, I'm telling you right now, Baron could tell you every issue and he was basically telling us why this election is different. He's the one that chose where Trump would go on these podcasts. But he said, in the background, is Donald Trump walking back and forth playing with the music? Yeah, and. He's a big DJ. Yeah, he loves controlling the music. And he said, we're trying to eat dinner and it's different song and we look in the background and he's back there punching buttons and barons like sometimes like like he's embaressed of his father. Right. Well, Kid Rock just posted last night because I follow kid Rock on Twitter, that I spent time with the president of the day, and he introduced me to a song that I had never heard before. That was amazing. It was it was like a New Year's Eve song. Oh Man. Yeah, anyway, before you get to John Matten, John Mann is your end of year. That's my end of the year. End of show. And it's just a quote I sent much like him Woody an extra clip. Oh nice, and I want to I want to play this. It is a little long, but I think she. Will like it. Only what it's a little long. It is a little long. That's what she said. Okay, you might not have ever heard that. So you remember California changed its minimum wage, right, so, like everything, we have data now and this is what I love. This. Lady brings you the receipts, but then you find out things about the law that just infuriate you. Oh cool, So I think you'll like this. This is cut extra. What happens when the minimum wage goes up, Well, California is getting an experiment in that right now. Just ask Gavin Newsom. California wanted to make sure fast food employees earn their fair share. And that's when five hundred and fifty seven thousand workers across thirty thousand restaurants got an economic reality check. AB twelve twenty eight implemented a government mandated pay race for all fast food workers from sixteen twenty one to twenty dollars per hour. The bill requires annual wage increases a three point five percent and creates a special fast food Council within the government. This council holds the power to say set fast food wages until January first, twenty twenty nine, when the council and its authority allegedly end because government programs always end. And if you're worried about this impacting your favorite restaurant, well casual dining restaurants, the fay, smaller fast food chains, don'ut shop, snackshops, grocery stores, concessions spans, most delis, restaurants within a grocery establishment, restaurants connected to an airport, hotel, events in our theme park, museum, or gambling establishment, and Panera bread are all exempt from the law. Apparently, there's this weirdly specific exemption for restaurants that sell bread as a standalone menu item if it weighs at least half a pound after cooling, and Gavin Newsom pushed for that. You see Gavin Newsom went to high school with Greg Flynn. Greg Flynn owns the Flynn Restaurant Group. They owned twenty three hundred chain restaurants across the US and that their second largest panera franchising in the world. Flynn has donated more than two hundred and twenty thousand dollars to Newsom's campaign since twenty seventeen, and one hundred grand of that was to defeat the recall. So for some totally unknown reason, he really wants this guy in office. When called on this eyebrow raising exemption, Newsome said, the deal is part of the sausage making process. I mean, that's part of the sausage making. Those part of two fifty seven, the original bill, and there was part of the negotiation. It's the nature of negotiation. So maybe he'll exempt meat shops next. After the bill passed, Assembly member Chris Holden said. The rest of the country is watching what's happening in. California, and yeah, that's an understatement. One year after implementing the so called Fast Act, we are finally seeing its effects and they are exactly what you would expect. Rubio's Coastal grill closed forty eight locations across the state. Mod Pizza closed five and Pizza Hut laid off all twelve hundred delivery drivers. In total, fast food employment decreased by two point seven percent, which cost California eighteen thousand jobs. How much do you make per hour? After being fired? Restaurants replaced employees with digital kiosks, and those who did keep their jobs saw their hours decrease by almost two months per year. ABE twelve twenty eight is such a disaster even CNN admits its debatable job numbers. At the same time as Gavin Newsom, California lost fast food jobs, the sector has grown in the rest of the nation. To be fair, though Newsome is responsible for some exceptional growth. Fast food prices are up more than thirteen percent since the law took effect. So are Californians finally waking up to the unintended consequences of minimum wage hikes? Of course not. They're not going to say that was wrong. Oh no, they never admit when they're wrong. I'm not going to say that was wrong, Like, oh, let's go back. They won't do that. And you know what's even dumber about that? So less jobs, yep, less revenue, less taxes. Yep, zero, the thirty percent on zero is zero. Like everything you claim to be you're ruining, Yeah, including your own tax base. Yeah so I mean, but we got the wage, we got the weight rate. High, we got elected, That's what we got. Yeah, sure enough, all right, Well good two fifty You still here? Uh? Yeah, I was reading your stupid brother's text. Oh it's okay. He didn't listen to the show, Grayson, Sorry. Yep, Grayson, tell him. Uh, this is just a quick clip. This is what I loved about John Madden. Everything about him was just folksy, you know what I mean, like that kind of thing. And this was just a quick quote that I thought, this is the embodiment of what he was like. Please. I used to say something that halftime. I had no idea what it meant, but I heard it someplace and it sounded like a pretty good idea. The last thing I'd say was don't worry about the horse being blind, just loaded the wagon and let's go. I had no idea what it meant, but some guys kind of got excited when I said