Mm hmm. Broadcasting on Grove Street FM, brought to you by Media Squatch. It's Life, Liberty Happiness with your host Brian Schly with Trent Water. Ican girls and American guys. We'll always stand up in salute. You'll always recognize when we see old glory flying. There's a lot of men dead, so we can sleep in peace and not. When we laid down are. My daddy served in the army. We lost his right eye and he flew a flag out in our yark kill a deed out and died. Everyone and my mother, my brother, my sister and me to grow up and leave happy in land of the free. Now this nes and that I love its falling under attack. He mighty sucker punts came flying in from somewhere in the back. As soon as we could see clearly through our big flag eye. Man, we lit up your work or like the ford that you. Lie the sound put your name. That's all of his list. Statue Liberty started. All right, everybody, welcome to another episode of Life, Liberty Happiness. Sign your host Brian Sly along with Trent Warnerdi it must back back. Yeah, Hello, we were here last week, but it's been a long time in between. She's kind of skipped out on this episode. We got, we got a great episode today. Uh. Coming up a little later on, we'll have our first of our series of Veteran voices. Jerry Warner will be with us for Sergeant the United States Marine Corps. Is that what we're calling the segment Veteran Voices? You like it? I like it? Okay, I never read that. It's been on a gend. Just now reading it. So we've got that to get to, which is going to be phenomenal. Can't wait till that comes. Of course, we'll get caught up on our drama, sports, and all our regular stuff in an hour. At number two, I'm sure we'll talk a little talladega yep. And with Carolina. I'm sure his gardening skills are on full display right now, wouldn't you see? Yep, Sarge has got potatoes growing too. Sent me a picture of it today. Hey did we do did we do a garden? We didn't do potatoes at the river. This just had a little bit of time. Yeah, a lot of time. Yeah. I always forget frost and June there. My dad always said, wait till May twentieth. There you go Please tell Covin that yeah. South Carolina, you don't wait till May twentieth. In South Carolina, I said May tenth here, okay, all right, go ahead, please carry on. All right, backwards and forwards. Yeah, last weekend, sobo South Boston Racing. Yep, been in your backyard for a little many many years, and it was your first ever South Boston. I can't believe how many friends of mine reached out to me to say, I cannot believe you've never been to South Boston before. It's a gym. That was awesome. I mean we did Franklin County Speedway growing up, so very similar. But I guess South Boston's a little fancier. Oh you think I've never been to Franklin County, So I don't know. You know, shoot, that was thirty years ago too, so I don't know either anymore. I think they still have races because I won like a ticket or something to it once. I never went. We want to go check it out. We need to do a short track circuit tour. Well we I really enjoyed. It was a great time. I mean we did have a little bit of a rain delay. Yeah, but man, you talk about the drama that was involved in how cool to be in so of course everybody knows I have to sit in a booth. Thank god we didn't get wet. Yes, it was perfect, wasn't it. Yeah, air conditioning and it was so cool like when our driver of the car that we sponsor, yeah finished, you know, was able to get back in the top three after a horrible day. Yeah, of you know, swaybar going. Dude, he went from eighth to third in one lap, I know because he missed everything the rack crazy. Yeah, so I did catch a little. I think I got it, uh him mentioning us in his post race. He rattled it all from me like a pro. So this is Corey Dunne, the car we sponsor. Number seventy five. Yep, Jimmy Perlin with Metalworks, Hannibass and row Nick Beasley with Lichenster and rowing Grove. Street sound script here we got it on Grove Street. That was pretty freaking cool. Fight man, when he went around everybody and then we knew he was going to finish on the podium. Yeah, that was awesome. Yeah, and it's great like you got to the late model racing, so he races in the Sportsman division. The late model was sort of the big boys of that track, right, But. How about the biggest fight of them all was the little darts. Oh yeah, the little hornets. Yeah, they around. Yeah, that was the biggest fight of the night. That was a big dude. So that was the guy got wrecked was a dad driving and the son that was supposed to be driving wasn't. But his brother was in the stands and when his dad got wrecked. Every time the car went around, he gave a double bird to the car that went around. I mean a strong double bird he gave. He reached way back and threw them both out there with his two little girls next to him. Oh yeah, it was uh, I mean that's the that's the fun part of racing. It's the stuff that you know. And you're at a short track so you get to see all that. And these people work full time jobs. Yeah right, there's no you know, right, and then they you know, they raced on the cars at night. Pretty much every other weekend they're racing. Yeah, and so yeah, it's. Uh, Emma, have you ever had a sandwich called a blooney burger? I don't know if I can eat baloney? Oh, my god, I just answered the question you've never had a blunnyburger. Well, I'm fifty five years old and I had never had one in my life. All the trips that we made to Franklin County and they always advertised the world famous Bolooney Burger, I just couldn't do it. I mean, I love Blooney, but it looked like thick Bolooney. I wasn't sure. Man, that was the best dag on sandwich. Yeah, they are good, oh so good. Martinsville has the hot dogs, right, They also I think sella bloneyburg but they were famous for their world famous hot dogs is what they tried to get. They got Chris Meyer that eat a hot dog? Did you remember that on the coverage of the martins Still race And he acted like he did it? What a pansy. Yeah. So anyway, we had a great time. Yeah, it was neat and you feel like sense of pride when he you know, finished in the top three. Right, those was really cool. Yeah, so I'm going back in two weeks camping this time. To be honest with you, I think I enjoyed the afternoon race because we could get back home at a decent hour. Yeah. So because I'm not the camper that you are, or dead or bread or whatever. I think Bread's coming. We're gonna camp all weekend. It's gonna be fun. Race it's it is fun because when you leave, you just walk across the track and get in your haller. And of course, last time we were at Daga, which we'll talk about a little bit in sports coming up. Last time we were at Daga, I mean we all camped motor home and man, I love I don't know if you've seen it on TikTok, there's a there's like a page that shows left behind. Have you seen that? Oh, it's the most hilarious. Thing, Like all the campers left and what they left behind. Yes, it's somebody has gone around in videotaped like everything. And I mean it's a full fledged living room set, you know, and there's like a one of those fire pits, but it is burnt down. Said, how do you burn down a fire pit? Only in Dega. So anyway, that's all right, moving on unless well, yeah, we've got well we were together. So that was pretty much everything last weekend, right. That was my highlight all right? Coming up this weekend, Reagan is in a school play Elf Junior. Uh, and so that starts on Friday. I guess, but I mean it's amusing. Uh, I don't know. I mean, what does I'm not criticissed. It sounds like you are, but. It seems like to me that should have been in Christmas. Now. She also finds out tonight. Uh, she tried. She auditioned in little Town players for in the Wizard of Oz and Bedford. Yeah, my son in law got to act with the little Town or whatever they're called. That's a cool organization. Yeah, she's done two plays before. She stepped up a little bit this time, so she actually read for the Lion. I don't think she'll get it. Hope she's not listening. If she's, she's related to you. You have the best line impersonation of all. I have laughed at this for thirty years. Do your line impersonation, Emma, Emma, you gotta watch this. Put him up, put him up. I used to love the line man, he was my favorite. These we laugh every time. I mean, out of the blue. You did that one time and I've just been I. Still remember probably one of the nights you pissed me off. All right, Well you got coming up. Uh, we're starting into you know, my last ones graduation stuff. So this weekend is she's got her Governor school awards so that's on Sunday. So yep, we're getting moving in onto that. Got to start ordering catered food for the party we have. Hey, when she goes to college, can I show up to help move and just never get out of the vehicle that stuff. That's fine, it's the effort that matters. That happened. I'm just saying you could pay me back, all right, Moving on this day in his. Did Logan graduate or not? Yes? He graduated? Okay, so I didn't hurt anything? No? No, all right, oh you did? Okay, go ahead, all. Right, this day in history. Yeah, in eighteen o three, the United States purchased those Raisian casions. The Louisiana purchase was done. It was a Thomas Jefferson, right, I mean yeah, Thomas Jervis. Yeah, didn't you do that? Yeah? What was the So obviously some people may listen to the show and think that they just purchased Louisiana, that that was not the only the. Whole territories that was part of the Mississippi River. So do you know how many states were part of the purchase eventually because they weren't a state then, but eventually territory. Yeah, I'm going to guess thirteen. Nine, Elma eleven, sergeant seven, Jesus, why do I even ask? What is it? Fifteen? Yes? No it was it was fifteen yep, Okay, what do you get so. You can purchase a state? I mean, you can purchase the territory, like if we wanted Greenland or Canada, we could make a purchase. You don't have to attack them, like what's your name said the week before on the show. No, no you don't. Yeah, it's amazing. It doesn't have to take over you purchase it. I have this day in history just popped up. The Vietnam War ended on this day. Fifty years ago for realow in nineteen seventy five. Look at that? Sorry, shake his head. Yes, And how did I not know that? That's what we're told about. I wasn't about to say anything. That's incredible fifteen years ago today, Wow, it is awesome. How'd you get that on your. I am subscribed to news platforms. I looked up you thought I'd have seen that. That's awesome, So I had like a war type thing today. In nineteen forty five, Hitler committed suicide. Do you know how he committed suicide? Didn't he like drunk no sh himself? Yes? But what did he do before that? He took a sinide pill. So he took a sinide pill with one of his other generals. They both took the sinide pill. But he also sinide pilled his dogs when I was reading an article. If I can't this German, I think it was a German shepherd. He put him in a sling to do it. What if it was, I'm sure it wasn't a miniature docson. So I don't what was his wife's name of pill? No? Ava, are you just making up something? No? What's what's his wife's name? Ava? Hitler? So in my mind I had a picture in my mind, and I think it was from a movie of how he killed himself with the gun. Right, yes, we just said he shot himself after taking that tablet. But what do you picture having happened at that time? Like a braun? I was right? Okay, well good, sorry, go ahead. You could win an episode of Jeopardy. So what do you picture in your mind happened on that day? In nineteen forty five when he killed himself. Why he would have done it? Then? Why would he have shot himself after he just took a point? Well, I mean he he was very adamant that his generals shoot themselves before surrendering. He killed four thousand of his fellow countrymen. And so I think now I've watched some shows where they have claimed that he escaped and didn't. Okay, So what I've always pictured to answer the question and not a word slid, is that like the Russians are coming into the bunker. Yes, so he doesn't want to be captured, so he killed himself because the Russians are you know, they're the ones that are credited for having got him. That is correct? Did you know? I didn't know this to us reading this. They only got his ashes after he killed himself. It was seven days before the Russians actually got him. Wow. They they cremated him almost immediately after finding him, is what they said. So that lends to the story did he or did he not? Correct? I just always assumed the body was found by the Russians after they were trying to break into his room. Yeah, I don't, I don't know. I watched a whole series on and I can't remember. It's Argentina, that's where it is. They claimed that they ended up in Argentina. Now, what's crazy is that? I know that? So it's not out of the realm of possibility. Yeah, I know, so it wasn't wasn't one of his what do they call him? They're generals? I guess what. What didn't one of them end up living in Michigan or something that they called him Cleveland? Cleveland? Wasn't it just the weird was living a normal life? Holy crap? Man, Like, how does that stuff happen? Wait till we interview Sargie figure out what's gonna come out? Speaking of that, all right, moving on to our newest segment. It's the Goods and it's the Glory Tribes on Honda Stormies. It's the Pledge of Allegiance on the fourth of July. It's some handwritten let us from home. It's some sleepless nights alone. It's his newborn baby he loved with his wife. Mister real. All right, folks, welcome to air segment of veteran Voices. First up, you're the guinea pig, but an honor to have you. Jerry Warner, first Sergeant, United States Marine Corps, welcome to the show. Well, thank you. It's a pleasure to be here so far. So for those who don't know, we'll get that out of the way that you are the father of Trent Warner. Yeah, my whole life. Well, we're gonna make sure. That he was to Vietnam when I was born or no, right after. So you're a father of three, Trent, Brad and Jerry Lee, husband to Barbara Warner, and you reside in Vinton, Virginia where you have lived since nineteen eighty nine or somewhere in there. All right, So let's start off with so people can get to know who you are. You were born and raised I would say in Holland County, right correct. All right, So being a person that has been going up there now for probably twenty five years, there's not allowed to do in Highland, would you say. No, you, well, my day we trapped and went raccoon hunting at night. Yeah, when did you know? I guess as a teenager, do you start thinking about work, like what are you going to do when you graduate? Things like that? When does military service start to come into your thought process? In nineteen fifty eight, we had the only TV in Mustow. Wow, d'antanna had to go up on Gobbler's knobs three hundred and seventy five yards. I think I remember this well. Every day at one o'clock there was a movie come on, and I don't know who the MC was, but I'm sure it was either CBS or NBC because we only got two channels. Wow. But Jack Webb was on there. In nineteen fifty seven had a movie called The DII which he was a drill instructor. Oh wow. He was the head of dragnet. I said that that. Well, there was like six of us sitting in the living room and all of us said I've got. To do this. Oh wow. Out of the six or seven sitting in there, all my cousins, I'm the one who went. They all went in service, but they didn't go to the Marines. Oh wow. Well that's a great That brings up another good question. Why the Marines out of out of the four service places. Why the Marines. Well, according to that movie, if you made it through boot camp, you were going to be a success. And I just never forgot that. That's I don't know if you can even find that movie on the. Did you did you have a recruiter? Well, yes, back then I didn't know when that. He drove from Stanton to Monterey and I met him at the post office and he gave me that asvab or yeap. Yes, I missed one question out of the whole thing. Good Lord, why does a person rolling a boat moved their. He remembers the question. I didn't get it. There was so he don't bumpy his hip on the side of the boat. That's the only thing I missed out all the math. And so I guess they knew you weren't ready for the Navy. You're going the Marines, all right, so you know now you're Were you nervous when you first got on the bus? I guess and got shipped off? Well, yes, we got bordered a train in Richmond, Okay, and they took us down to I think it was Columbia, South Carolina, and they set us in the hot sun all day waiting on a bus to take us over. And I thought, what's this out there? The footprints, and this was our first step at becoming a marine. You turned the line up on the yellow footprints and I didn't have my thumbs along my trousers seams. I got treated pretty rough for a little bit, but no one ever did well, they do put your hands on you. Nobody got beat up, right man. That was the first After a week, it wasn't too bad. But the first week was scary. I mean, you're away from Was this the first time you're away from home? Yes? Like, oh, so you're gone from island. You're by yourself. You don't know anybody. Eighteen years old, nineteen eighteen, eighteen years old. When I went down the street, we called it a sea bag drag. Everything you get goes in a sea bag, and it's got to go a certain way. Well, we had to go like a. Quarter of a mile to where the barracks was double timing, And if you dragged that sea bag, you were in a lot of trouble, tearing up your government properties. Ah, that was a long night where you're a drill instructor's name, Well, you don't ever forget them? Yeah, well do you? Yeah? J. E. Murphy got killed two years later in Vietnam. Be damn. Now that's a good question I have for you. So admittedly I'm your son, but and a lot of people don't know this about the Vietnam guys that came back. All of my friends when we were in high school, we would talk about this. None of our dads ever talked about Vietnam. They didn't really talk about what they even did. None of us knew what our dads really did when we were in school. You guys just went to work. That's all I know when you come back. So, but in nineteen sixty eight, sixty nine, Vietnam has started. Do you have an idea that you could go to war? Or is that why you signed up? I mean, is that. Well thoughts were I had wondered to set my name into the head of the draft, but they said you may not get into Marines. So I went on to volunteer knowing that you went to boot camp and you were likely to go to Vietnam. Yeah. Wow wow. So when you're at boot camp, do you have a vision in your head of hey, I want to I want to be a sergeant, or I want to be this later on, or you just mentally focused on I don't want to get killed. No. I was focused on trying to do the right thing in boot camp. That's all I had on my mind was just get through boot camp. Get through boot camp. What did you think of boot camp? Was it hard? Well? I made a mistake. I didn't get in shaped for I went down there and we started out at a mile and a half on. Jogging and you had a physical fitness test. It like to beat me to death and that heat. I thrived there on June seventeenth, good Lord summer. But if I had to do it over again, I'd still go at the same time because when the humidity and the temperature gets so much, you get black flagged and you don't have to do anything that's right allowed to do petar in. Oh really yeah, oh wow, so caught have. A way of getting back around at to close the windows on the old wooden barracks. You know when I was at the little boot camp that I did for the officers, the same thing I was there in July, and it was they would black flag us too, as those were felt like good days because you weren't doing all the grind you knew you had to do. So after uh boot camp where you sent to at that. Point Camp Geiger, North Carolina for six weeks of infantry. Training, gotcha. So you went into infantry. I mean, was there was there other opportunities or you just pretty much go where they tell you. Yeah, you go worried. They tell you. Everybody. Everybody from our platoon in boot camp, plus the whole series went to it t R Camp to June Camp Geiger, and we trained with the M fourteen at boot camp, qualified with them. Started out with an M fourteen at Camp Gagger infantry training. All of a sudden to come out and says, stop, you're going to clean these weapons, and I want them spotless because you're getting some more here. After a while, I thought, more M fourteen? What are we talking about? It was the sixteen, no kidding? Oh wow? And they had been tested somewhere and they were so filthy. If our drill instructor would have seen one of them, you would have slept with it every night? Wow? Did it was? There? Was there a noticeable difference between the two? Oh my goodness, easier to shoot? No? Oh really it was too small for me. I was used to lay laying it out there, you know, and getting back from it. Shooting the peep sakes. Man, you didn't evenjustice sights on. You had to take your ink pin and turn. Yeah, you didn't move unless you were going to shoot more than three hundred yards. You flipped the backsighte that's the only adjustment you had. Yeah, I never knew that that you transitioned from them fourteen now vm. I. When I went there, we still carried them fourteen because. I still think it was the best rifle ever made. That's why I had to have a three h eight per. Oh yeah, deer rifle. Oh that's cool. I didn't know that either. Man, I'm running all kinds of stuff. That's really cool. All right. So after that, where do you head off to? I went to Cherry Point and thought I was going to get a aviation something. I went up to Highland County, didn't, got my wife and him and we went to government quarters. Thirty days later, they said you're a Westpac orderser in. I said, west Pack. What's that? He said, You're going to Vietnam? Oh man, oh wow. So I had to call my dad to come and get Trent and my wife. Holy cow. We didn't have a car. I only got thirty two dollars a pay day every two weeks because we were living in government quarters. And that's what was the distance back then to go from Cherry Point, which is near have like in the eastern shore of North Carolina. How long would it take you to go from that back up to Highland County if. You have I always hitchhiked it about all night. Can you believe that? Yeah? He went back and forth for it was wear uniform. Everybody picked you up. Oh yeah, I don't imagine anyone could go there now in. Three days hitch yeah, No, no one would pick you up. And they had a place called Swoop Circle of Tampa June and the MP's stand out there. All right, we got one going in to Stanton, Virginia. Who wants to go to Stanton, Virginia? It'd be eight or ten of. So what rank were you when you left to go to Vietnam? Private? First class? Okay, he too? So all right, what's so? What's it like? You've got these orders? Are you and I I've never been in the military, so I don't know. Or is this something where the group your platoon are going together, or is this where like you get this and you're like excited or upset, or you're all looking at each other and I got papers you didn't you know? Is that? No, we actually were sitting on pins and needles flying from Okinawa or to Vietnam. That was I didn't know it was plane. I never flew till oh. Wow, on there and that man knowing you're going to Vietnam and we. Get so scared. They said, there's trouble on the runway. We're gonna have to do a circle. Captain of the plane said that. I thought, man, they've already shot one of them down. They had wrecked one of them trucks that had the ladders on. They had flipped it over. So this brings me back. So when you leave, where do you leave from? Do you leave from Cherry Point or do you leave from another? Yes, we did, because what happened was we had to go through a different what to cost staging. They used to send everybody to Californian flying out of there, but they did that first cut of troops and uh, I don't think it was during Nixon time seventy one or something. It took too many out. People were getting over run over there, so they had to hurry up and send three hundred marines back over there. Wow. So I didn't go to the California staging. I did mine at Cherry Point. Okay. So we flew out of Cherry Point too, straight to Okinawa. Uh where did I don't remember? Where are we stopped? No? No, no, no, it was we stopped in La Lax and god okay, stopped in Anchorage, Alaska, and hit it on the okanall camp. Eg and you get there? Are you with people you know? Okay? So you at least feel a little comfortable you're at least around any of them after that, except when we come back from Vietnam. I met one of them at camp. Are you seriously? What was your did you? Did you pick up a nickname by the chance while you were in boot camp or along the way at Vietnam? I know j W j W. That's what everybody has always called me. The serge didn't come about to start driving truck. Yeah, I didn't know that too, because because if one of my troops had. Called me that. All right, so you've you've when they bring you to Vietnam, I'm assuming you're landing at a base in Vietnam, and and then your your platoon you said you they went different places, so you're they just stick you with a different group of people. Said we were going to Red Beach, I thought, make a landing or what gave us our war gear and everything? Red Beach was by Hivan Pass and that was our area to control. And I still believe that this day they only wanted us up there because there was an Exxon and a shell station refinery. Protecting oil. I got you, So, did you see much combat during this? We got shot at a lot, but I didn't get a return much fire. I'll put it well, we returned fire. My god, we shoot thousands of rounds, but you don't know what we hit. Right, couldn't go down there because the area was all land mined and everything. So what's the what's the quarters like that you're sleeping in? I mean is it a barracks type style or are you sleeping out of jungle? I mean sometimes night patrol that we sleep outside. Let the mosquitoes jerk covers off of us. Then, uh, the barracks when we was back to the Red Beach area was plywood with sandbags all around it exposed to before's rafters all that, but it did have a tin roof which typhoon comebined and took ours off. But good lord, and they had a boardwalk. We used to count How many rats were running down in Fort we were going to the chowel hall. Did you see Vietnamese people? Oh? My good friendlies, I guess, so they're everywhere I was. I was a guard at a chew Hoy village up in the tower, you know. I saw all kinds of upfair and that's where we used to get sniped at. Oh my god, they surrendered chew Hoy and thedn they go find them a gun in chew Hoy village. So when you were there, obviously Mom's back in Highland County. Is is Brad born? When? When? Did? Like, I really don't know this answer. So she's pregnant with Brad, right, Yeah, we knew that for her left. Yeah, so she has him before you come back, that's right. Yeah, I just I thought I just make sure he knew before he left. Brad. It's okay, Brad, you are really a warner. There are times he could tell you some stories. We doubted it. Oh, he to be desired a few times. So then you transition back and you come back from that. And I would like to have your opinion on that because some of the story for us growing up was Vietnam veterans were not treated well coming back? Could you still hitchhiked in? Could you be picked up for a while? I mean, was her animosity? Were you surprised when you came back? I about a sixty two chivalry supersport. I could travel back and forth when I could afford gas. Yeah, and get some government quarters to move my family down there. Yeah. Yeah, we had an awful time. They told us to not wear a uniform unless you want to. Well, my clothes I had dropped thirty pounds. I didn't even have a belt tight enough, so I had to wear my uniform. But they took us around back. We couldn't go in the main entrance. There was three hundred people out. There were signs talking about baby killers and all that. We didn't get a very good welcome home. And where was that landing? Where did you come back? It was lax at LX. We flew into a Norton Air Force base and twenty minutes they had us going home. Do you encounter other types of military people while you're while you're there, like do you see air force or army? Yeah? Okay. At we always went down to d Na Air Force Base because they could buy a whiskey. If you weren't a knee six or above, you could only buy a beer and it had to be at the club. You couldn't have it in the barracks or nothing. We'd go down there and take an old dirty bay in it or an old hoach you men hat or something and say, I'll give you this, you buy me a bottle of bourbon. Well, that brings up a question back in Vietnam, are you do you have days off or you just on duty? Okay, so on the day's offering. Your days off, you clean up your well, okay and all that. But yeah, we would about every three weeks we would get Saturday and a half a day's Sunday off. We could go to Freedom Hill. I was supposed to get down to see Bob Hope, but we didn't make it that day. Okay, Yeah, because I mean I've often wondered that, I mean, what, Yeah, we hear these tours right, Yeah? Yeah. I was over there for eighteen months straight. It's like, God, what did you do combat for eighteen You know. You're always busy, but there's times I liked being on patrol. There's times you go two days you don't do nothing to soak up sunshine and eat child and Marine Corps always tried to get us some one hawk meal. Today wasn't that bad? So when you came back, where were your I guess where? Where did you spend most. Of your time? Camp Lagun Camp La Gin? And that's when you started moving up your evening when you came back, or did you get promoted while you were there or when you come back? When I came back, I picked up corporal was waiting on me. I didn't even realize that I picked up corporal. It was already a warrant there for me. And I got to thinking Trent and Bradley boats had pneumonia. Oh wow. While I was there it was well. I got to thinking if I had been a civilian, i'd be bankrupt right now. Yeah. Instead, I think it was three dollars and fifty cents worth of food day, But I had that much, so. I decided I was going to make a career out of it. You did so that, I mean, what what made you just figured? You know what, I'm better off in here than I am out there. That's right, because I've never done anything. I cut a little pulpwood before I went in that wasn't very fun. No I had. I had some good tours. I spent four years there as a sergeant. Transferred. I figured I stood a chance of none to get a go on Iron Eye training reservists. So I knew there was one in Lynchburg for Marines, and I knew there was one in Roanoak. The gang Roanoak married a Navy gale and he wanted transferred back to Norfolk, and he said, man, I got to find somebody. Well, here's one that's already ready to go. So we came to roing Ok in nineteen seventy four, Wow picked up six and seventy seven, got orders for the second marine aircraft wing back at Cherry Point. I said, man, I always wanted a wing tour. Didn't happen. I got the wing tour, but my orders had been modified when I got there, and I'm always getting something different. They had relieved an administrator at Force Logistics Command, and that's a cherry point. So I went to Force Troops and that was a boy. I'm telling you, what's the fact I worked day in night for three of the longest years. At that place. That was a hard duty station. So that what kind of work is that force logistics, what kind of. Work force logistics for the wing? Is all those everything it doesn't deal with an aircraft that they use logistically is done by the Marines. There rt six thousand forkliffs piece of junks. There were probably twenty of them out in at the barracks there all the time. They were broke this way and broke that way. So it's a lot of things that people People always see the glory of the shooting, the front lines, the aircraft and all that, but there are so many more people that are all around that one and the logistics of that is a nightmare. I say, our motor transport section there, there's probably thirty men there working just in motor transport. Yeah. Yeah. And then they came out with the greatest truck I've ever seen in my life, a Dodge m A eighty. That was the sorriest piece of stunt that the government ever purchased. Wow, it didn't have enough power to pull the AMMO off of the you know, you have to stack the AMMO blocks underneath it so the tires don't get flat, you know, flattened out from something. Cause gotcha tons of ammos. Yeah, flats. We had to go back and get the old Whillies jeeps to pull them off. Wow, good lord. There was just always something like that. But then they got rid of that. He made eighty. They come out with a Chevrolet Cup V with a diesel engine. Another mistake. That's what Brian dries with a diesel engine twenty five. Yeah, these were remax they had to They never set up the rear ends right. They set them up for the highway and when we were in the Mediterranean, they didn't have enough power to leave it in low range to get us through the six inches of sand. Oh lord. But then the humvee come out. Oh boy, General Motors, that was a good vehicle. Yeah, which you couldn't see out right mirror. Nothing's changed. You weren't allowed to get out to put it in reverse. To your a driver which is your passenger in the front. He has to go back to your side of the mirror so he can guide you back because you can't see it right there. But boy, that thing had an engine in it. What rank are you when you're at that? Are you sergeant? At that point? That was first st Okay. I picked up Gunnery Sardant in Okinawa in nineteen eighty and. That that's something else to discuss. You too. You've also spent tours overseas, sometimes on a ship, right, Sometimes you go on a ship with the Navy and then you go around I guess the Mediterranean, and you remember that and that was a uss Nasshaull. Is that the one you want? And then you went with us out there has been decommissioned and Scrappedn't believe it. Peyton is on the same kind of one of the new lpds, a landing platform. Yeah, and so you I mean, that's something that I think most people don't know is you're doing. But they're not necessarily combat towards at this point. Well, you did the combat toward the Vietnam. Well, when I picked up First Sarden, I went to the Senior Academy at Quantico and I said, Man, I'm really worried about this going back to the Second Marine Division. I haven't been back there ten years, fifteen years. He said, I don't worry. You just get a line company. You won't have to worry about being in an ancient headquarters and service company, and you definitely will not get weapons company. That's the senior first sardant. I checked in the regimental headquarters and he said, thank goodness, you're here. We just relieved the first sarden up in Weapons company for a bible thumping somebody. And there I went to Weapons company and I asked ops chief. I said, where are the old mules shooting? Or one oh sixes? He said, how damn long have you been gone? We got rid of them a long time ago. They had weapons. I had no idea, but boy, they were some nice ones squad automatic weapons. So you liked that part, Okay, how long did you do that? Two years to eighty nine? Oh wow? Retire? So that that was right at the end. Yeah, But before you got to that part, you did serving you went to Okinawa. You went overseas two different stints, right then you noticed one just a long stint. Okay, yeah, Okinawa. Now I went through Okinawa a couple of times. Okay, yeah, because I think I was in the third grade when you were went to Okinawa, third or fourth grade? What's that like? Because I mean the Marines have been going to Okinawa now for Yeah. So you're in Japan the years. Well, when we come back from Vietnam, it was us controlled, and there was more non copper money, just silver quarters and dimes and fifty cent pieces. In nineteen eighty it was given back to the Japanese. A man when you could go over with the fight all bill, you pick up two hundred y this time she was almost dollar for dollars. And they had cut down all the training we used to do, fire and a lot of restrictions. But did Brad coat o kanhol No, he did not. I think he did a tour in Hawaii. I think he went when he was doing one of his Norway summer summer things. He went to Norway. Yes, yeah, I did nice northern wedding. I don't know why they said it was a wedding, but yeah, that was. I was looking for ring deer and he said, oh, they move them out of. Here, this kind of weather, but you're still there. It was all right for us to be there. And when we landed we hit the beach and uh is this at Norway? Yeah. Colonel Bathurst who had been every rank from private and he was a full bird colonel selectee. When we got there, he said, well, I'm gonna do something that they're not going to expect. I'm going in to war Hitler and them caught them down in that valley, but to all of them. So we're going the same way. Do you know they were down there again? I mean just not shooting real ammo, but assimilators. We wiped out every one of those scorpion tanks. That they had on. Never learned that. Then you also spent some time Morocco too, Right, didn't you did. Some trailing there? Oh wow, Morocco? Israel? Yeah? I remember you went to this. Oh wow, what was your Israel trip? Like? Didn't you go on some personal tours or yeah? Yeah, I went there. A whole bunch of my men got baptized there. Okay. They treated does like gold there, yeah, man, And you never know that there's problems there. But you have to learn how to live like they do. If you go to let's see, there's nothing over. But if you go to Kroger's and you're gonna walk next door to Tractor Supply, a door will fly open and they'll see what you got in that bag. You don't take anything from store to store. That's the way they lived their life over there, makes sense, So you wrap up everything in nineteen eighty nine, right, you were hired in Roanoke, Virginia. Was that scary because yes, it's been enough. You've been in a regiment, you know, for a long time, and then all of a sudden, I. Didn't know what I was going to do, right, but I knew if we go to Ronoke, my wife could probably get back with Civil Service again. And we come up behind a Virginia Carolina tractor trailer and said, we are hiring and we train our own drivers. And I said, that's what I'm going to do. Yeah, you drive a truck for many years and you became serge. That's that's that's when I became. That was a CB handle. Do you a lot of veterans join these different organizations? Are you a member of. I'm a life member of the Let's see American Legion in VFW and Disabled American vitorys. Do you get a chance to get around the old time I call them old timers? I mean there, Yeah, I had the pleasure of pushing a World War Two I don't think he knew I was there yesterday. When I went to the VA. I said it would be an honor if I could push you to it second floor. He said, I'm ready and he said, I bet he said your size. I bet you was one hill of a sergeant. I said, how long had you spend in there? He said forty to forty five? And I said, well he had a marine hat on. I said, simperfive, Bud. That's now. Tell if you could tell people that don't know this. One of the stories I remember you telling me I was probably in high school or early college life, was when you were the first sergeant and you were a command of so many enlisted troops underneath you. Right, the hardest thing that you had to deal with was not fights and battles and stuff like that. The number one thing you had to deal with was troops bouncing checks. In manned they thought if they had a check, they had money. Marines go out drinking. As long as they got checks, they're going to write them. So when we were out on the ship in Israel, the word came down all first sergeants report to Colonel Bathhurst quarters except for Sarden Warner. I thought, man, he must be going to relieve me or something. Well, what I did was if a man wrote a bed check, the sergeant in charge of that squad, his rear end was mine, wasn't taking charge of the check book. Sure, because everybody's direct deposit and service. Now you don't get checks. And I didn't have any bad checks. Some of them guys had stacks in their company half in the job. Wow, and that's that's it's a bad look for the Marine Corps because people a writing bad checks in the town's you know campus June where it is. You got Jacksonville right outside, so you could have troops writing bad checks and it just gives a bad name for the Marine Corps. Yep. So those are just little things you don't think about that the guys have to deal with. Oh and everybody's married now and has an automobile. Yeah, more nightmares for a first sergeant. Why would that be? What's because they get driving? Well, drunk driving is worse than a court marshall for a staff six and above, that's the end of his career. It's a drunk driving, especially on base. Yeah. And uh, wives, we leave out on a ship to go somewhere or something to messy just start coming in sold and so didn't left without leaving any money. This wondering that one. And boy, it just goes on and on. Wow, your mother was in charge of the wives. I remember that notization there man. She it was a new non stop problems out there. Yeah, because that's another thing you don't think about. All the guys are in there doing the tour on the ship, and the wives are back home with their kids. So they had support groups for each other. My mom was active in that too, Yes, she was like vice prisoners or something of it. So how did I'm just curious, this just popped in my head. When did you find out your little brother joined the Marine Corps? Uh? About nineteen let me think probably about nineteen seventy seven, seventy eight. Did you have anything to do with that or you were just like, oh wow, he just wanted to be like me. Figurre, I figured, just like Bradley. I mean, that is what happens a lot. I mean, well, yeah, I would say so. When I was about eighty five, before I picked up for Serten, I didn't have to stay on recruiting duty very long, and I looked at the regulations and if you owned a home, they had to put you in that area. So I still owned a no home Francis Drive, So I used that sow come back to Ronto and that was the hardest tour duty I ever had. Which one recruiting? Oh yeah, that's when I was in high school, right, you know I had sent eleven grade Patrick Henry and you recruit I remember the stress you were under. Oh you got to make numbers, all right? Yeah, so I had quota plus I had a guy I had to retrain every other morning. I remember out on st There was so much math involved, and I don't think he knew what two plus two was. And the reason you make a mark on everything is at the end of the month you can find out, hey, I got to start making more phone calls. Hey I got to do more you know this and that. But I picked up for Sardan. I was in Newcastle, Virginia, given a band award John Phillip susan award to a little girl and some little girl. I'll come out of the office. There's a guy named Master Sartin. McCain says you've got to speak to him right now. I said, well, you just have to take a damn number. So I went to uh, gave the award out and everything. She was so tickled over that, and I went back down there and said, I need to use your phone, said yes, he's called here twice. I said, well, maybe I've done something to go relieve me. He said, well, you're off recruiting duty. I said, what did I do? He said, you picked up first sardant. At that time, if you made master sergeant, you became a career recruiter. But if you picked up first sardant, which is the same pay grade, you couldn't stay on recruiting duty because they didn't want you to get any trouble ufter recruiting. And they were short on first ardens all Lord Marne Corps. Oh wow, the only thing they're ever over on the staff is serdant Majors. You don't need but one per Yeah, battalion. What's what's after that? I mean for an enlisting anything? Or is that about as high as you can get? First and he ate a certain major and master gunry sargeant or E nine. Oh, that's the top of it, and that's it. Yeah. Did you get along with officers? I always did until I went back to the infantry, and I never Some of them lieutenants needed why us up a little bit. They were too friendly with the truths for one thing. And Colonel Bathurst took over. When you were in the rear, officers stayed away. The first sergeants promoted, everybody read their warrens all for him. He let the enlisted people run it. Now, that was better. But the second lieutenant, you know they're right out of oc. Yes, you jumping their ass and they will say yes for st Yes, first sort. Did anything change while you were in there the twenty years? Like you know that you recall is it was it getting softer or the rules getting so or was it the same as when you got in? I mean it was it was pretty much. The same discipline and all that is. But yeah, I never saw a whole lot of change the booth about it. After I left boot camp, it was run the same. Do you think it's the same today? You think the Marine Corps looks the same today as when you retire? They've kept it the same. That's good. Yeah, tell you we still honor everything they did before, pride in their uniforms. Yeah. All right. We're wrapping up our segment with Jerry Warner, first sergeant in the United States Marine Corps. Thank you for coming on the show today. But before you leave, we've got the toughest question you'll ever answer, Okay, past or present. They can be dead or alive. If you had twenty four hours that you could spend with a person, who is that person and where would you go and hang out with them? Well, that's a good question. I had an awful lot of people I really admired in there. Probably Colonel Bathhurst, my last colonel I had. He seems like a real cool when he picked up colonel they send him to somewhere around Chesapeake training. There's poke people too, stopped drugs and stuff. He was training all the and I don't worder is now. Wow? Yeah he was man. That guy had ever decoration. He had six inches of ribbons. I'll be there. Well, thank you again. Yeah, it was a pleasure. Sports fans, podcast enthusiasts, and music lovers. Are you tired of the same old radio stations and boring content? Introducing the Grove Street FM app your one stop destination for local sports, engaging podcasts, music channels, and so much more. Whether you're into the latest game scores, thought provoking podcasts, or groovy tunes, We've got it all. Don't keep this hidden gem to yourself. Spread the word and let your friends know. Physic Grovestreet fmapp dot com and download the app. Now you're mic right, Gosh, you can talk all right? I started, Uh, drama, we're in drama was the commercial over. I was just talking like we weren't doing. At Ashley texted in my favorite segment of all time. Oh that is so cool. Yeah, I just I never would tell a quick story of myself being at the river. Yeah. I had just purchased a brand new thirty thirty excuse me, thirty all six. It's my brand new rifle. I was so excited. I'm at the river where all the cool people are hunting. I can't wait. I take my rifle out. We get back to the cabin and we're all sitting in the kitchen and I said it sard. She said, how do you like your gun? I said, man, it's great. I was like, but it only holds one bullet. Man. He jerked that gun out of my hand and he goes, I swear to God if you walked around with just one in the chamber, and I did because I didn't know clip. I always thought it was a clip, but you don't you load it from from the in side. And so he said, the only reason you're loud down here is because your wife is so pretty. Oh man, we get it's such a tickle out of that. Man, I swear, yeah, the river stuff is the best. Well, I'll tell you what I like about what we're going to do with the veteran's voices mentioned this, and when you and I talked about this about doing these things, if I could go back and do anything, would be to listen to my granddaddy Peyton. I took advantage of him. You know, I was probably I mean, honest to god, I was probably eight years old or nine years old, and he would tell these stories. I would go back if I could go back and listen to any of them right now. And I don't know a single one of them. I mean, I know he was in a tank, right, he was tank destroyer. There you go. Yeah, I would just if I could do that. So I just thought these stories and if a grandkid could go find the YouTube video that we put out that just you could listen to your grandpa. Yeah. He was on terrible Yeah, Wake Island too, right, I mean he was a badass. Right brother they were older together. His brother made sergeant and he always rubbed it into your granddad. And he only come back a corporal. It wasn't much ranking. Yeah, no, I know. It's like you know, I didn't find out most stuff about my dad until after he passed away. And then I was like, how come I didn't know about all this stuff? I mean, I learned a lot today and to let you know, So next week I'll be going to court, I won't be here, but we do have the next round. We have Captain Ben Wallas. He was in the Army for four years and I haven't run anybody like this. He was an Army captain. Well, he was an Army as an officer for four years and then transferred to the National Guard and served five years full full time, and he was ended up as a captain and he's one of the most organized construction guys I've ever run to. Had no idea he was in the military. He just started telling a story and I was like, man, can I get you to come on the podcast? And he said, yeah, I'll do it, so he'll be our next one. That's awesome. Yeah, all right, moving on to drama. Yeah, I started watching Sopranos again, and I don't know this TikTok gets me watching things sometimes it drives me nuts. But man, they're so I'm so glad I've started it all over. You're remembering things you don't remember before. Well, I listen, I'm telling you I never watched the whole first season, really because I didn't remember none of it. Okay, and then you reminded me the other night. We're getting older, But I swear to you, I've never seen that first season. I can watch an episode or a movie now and not remember how it ended. Oh so it's like watching it all over again. So the only way that I have found to watch it is you have to subscribe to Max. Netflix doesn't that Sopranos. No, Uh, you can buy it? Yeah, yeah Max, you can, right. But that's what's crazy because when you when it first comes on, it was, of course a HBO produced show. So I'm watching Max in on my TV. You know what I mean? What HBO owns Max? Oh I didn't know that. Oh, pretty well, you just told me something. So HBO is owned that and Cinemax for a long time. I didn't known. For some reason, they changed their name. Why. I don't know why HBO would have done that, but yeah, Max is the word they're goal with. Yeah, okay, So Anyway, I started that loved it and enjoying the heck out of it already, and probably because I've heard so many stories of how accurate it was. Yeah, outside of sopranos that I'm now catching and picking up little things that I now know have happened in real life. And I'm like, let me ask you this, because I tried to encourage friends of ours, the Frenches, and they could not get through season one. They thought it was so boring. Have you thought that? No? I didn't. I never thought that either. No, Oh it's rivity. Yeah, I was hooked to me. They said it was low. Sometimes mob life just doesn't do it for people. Yeah, but I love mob stories, drug stories, that kind of thing. Oh me too, you know quickly, I'll tell you a friend of mine that moved here from New York. I was talking about Giuliani one day and what an amazing job he did cleaning up New York back then, and she said, yeah, but he took away all of our protections. So I don't understand what you mean when you grow up in a neighborhood that's protected by the mob and now it's gone. Like she did not look at it as a positive, because you've now taken away the only protection we had in the neighborhood. You never protect the neighborhood, right, And I never looked at it that way, and I'm like, yeah, but yeah, you were under the thumb of the mafia. But you know, it's anyway. I thought it was really good, you. Know when I think of the Sopranos, and I wrote it here my introduction to TiVo. Do you remember when we used to get together on Sundays to watch it and we had TiVo to record it so we could watch it. Yes, that was my first digital recorder and I subscribed to Tvo back in the day to be able to watch that. Yeah, that's awesome. You're still working on dous Man. I'm in season four. I've been plugging almost every night, and I honestly, man, I could watch multiple episodes of it, but it is so intense that I just like, I just got to think about that one a little bit. And so last night I'm at the point where this the episode before and Okay, I don't know the Bible like I should. I will admit that John the Baptist gets beheaded. I didn't know that that had happened and so I can't wait to watch the next episode. But I was like, man, that was so intense. So I watched the next episode to find out, Yeah, I actually did happen, and that the episode last night is when Simon. I've been waiting for Peter to show up, and Simon's been Peter the whole time. I didn't know that he changed his name. I had no idea that. All right, am, I don't get. You said, I'm waiting for the other one to show up. That's the only thing I'm loving, Uh it is. I'm intrigued by it. It's an educational thing for me. No, no, I agree, and listen, I am just I have been where you currently are. I grew up in a Christian home and I knew nothing about the Bible. I mean, I've got I've gotten to sermons, which are my favorite. But yes, if the preacher decided to talk about something the next week, I just heard what a sermont was. Yeah. No, I know, I know what you're going through. But what I've picked up on little things like you mentioned John the Baptist. It blew my mind that before he was beheaded, that he is sending a message. Are you him he's the guy that baptized him, and he's still questioning, are you him? Yeah? Like that's that's when you realize just how difficult it all was. I love the dialogue in the show. For example, when he changes Simon to Peter, Right, they have honest dialogue going back, like they have trouble calling him Peter because they've been calling him Simon his whole life. Right, And they get home and literally Peter's wife says. Peter's wife says, well, am I supposed to call you Peter? I mean, I just think it's yeah, it was, That's what I really. I'm enjoying it, so I'll just I'll keep watching to the end. All right, don't tell me how it ends. Moving on to sports. It's time for sports, all right? Sports? Uh? Talladego? Was this past week weekend? Austin Sindrick was your winner, won me big bucks? So what's funny out of that? If you could say one of the highlights was he one of your picks? He was one of my picks from last week? Who were my picks? You have it? I'll find it because I think I I didn't FanDuel it when we were here. Interesting to me that you would make fun of me for writing things down and keeping stuff organized, but when. You need it, I don't think making fun is the word. Okay, Well, who did I have? You had? Blaney, jos of R, and Boucher, all right, I think that is who I ended up. That's who you Well, when I went home and fanduled, I couldn't remember, but that is the three that I did. Okay. Host of R did leave for a little while, so you did have centric Yes, ten bucks want me one hundred and fifty? Okay. So obviously the highlight coming out of that was the incident on stage two. I think it was where he yes, Joey Legano basically ripped him a new one on the radio. Yeah, for allowing the Toyotas to win the segment and then of course Cindric goes on to win the race. That's just beautiful karma. It is. That is ball don't lie right there. What is funny is I think it was his in you with Kevin Harvick or he mentions that he Joey or Austin with Austin, Yes, and he said they've talked, and you know it just it was funny. Austin Sindrick, I believe it or not, has a really cool sense of humor. Yeah, and he thought it was quite funny more than serious. I just Joey, you know how. Sometimes he did himself a disservice right there. What Harvick said is everybody in the Penske seems to have attitudes on the radio because Blaine's not exactly oh yeah, and he said it's an interesting room. But Denny Hamlin was great about that. He's like that whole team is like that. Yeah, I mean what you're just saying about Harvick. But Denny Hamlin was like, man, those guys get after one another. And Hamlin's like, I've either gotten old and I just that's what he says on podcast A yeah, but on the radio, I mean it's like Dale Junior said, you have to be pushing the butt and saying that, like you know, your voice is out, yes, doing exactly. You can do it in the car without pushing the button, right, that's right, Yep. Texas is this weekend. Yeah, I don't know if I'm a huge fan of the Texas Motor Speedway. I have like a carbon copy of Charlotte, right, yeah, so we'll see, Yeah, but I did reach out to FanDuel this week to see if they'd be interested in sponsoring their hour two talk with Kevin Huh. Haven't heard back yet. Tell them how much we spend on him every week exactly. NBA playoffs yep. I don't know if you saw the game last night? Mmm, I saw you're talking about the Bucks. How how do you blow that? It was? They were up seven with thirty seconds to go, yes, right and lost by one yes eight nothing run. Yes, and he just it went through his arms out of bounds. You know what's crazy? Man? Doc Rivers as good of a guy he seems to be, and he was a point guard, but he loses that way in the playoffs every single year. Yeah, every time he coaches something in that way. I mean, you know, maybe the numbers are just stacked against you the way the odds go, but man, that's how he loses. Did you see this? But Logan and I thought talked about it last night. Is the NBA is so bad with coaching, like they fire everybody like doctor. This is what his fifth team pretty much, And to be honest with you, other than the one year with Boston that he won a championship, yeah, and he did have the Big three. I mean, what's what's he done as a coach? Did you see what Anna Tookupo did at the end of that game? Yes? And I agree with Aunta Takupo. He is the old school kind of dude. Yes, I mean, he is not going to back away from you. He's gonna get in your face if he doesn't like what you're saying. And he goes back down in shock taking the dad side. I really understand. Huh. And he's like he said something to him. Why are you on the court. Yeah, there's no reason for it. That's pretty incidense. H F F one is back this week? Yeah, last week I think I said Miami, but it's this weekend coming up? Are we going down? We did South Boston last weekend. I actually saw something come across my phone that you can buy a one day ticket. How much would it cost to fly down to Miami. There's probably more to stay than it is to fly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, uh and I forgot to put it on the schedule. You're right, Schader Sanders. Yeah, is the draft was this past week? That was the big discussion. Yeah, and now what's crazy is listening to all the banter afterwards. Yeah, it's probably accurate where he ended up puilding. Yeah, you think I'm hearing stuff, so you don't. I think it was a dumb move. This move of Cleveland reminded me how dumb the move the Redskins were when they did RG three and Kirk cousins, if you want Shador, don't get the guy from Oregon. Well, the I don't disagree with you. The Cleveland coach said that they have no they had no interest in Shador. Well, I mean did you see them clapping? I saw that afterwards. Yeah, I mean they clapped like golf clap, like we were forced to do this. Correct. The NFL probably called the owner, and the owner then called them and said do it. Yeah, it ain't good. It ain't a good. Look. What I listened to was Brian Deebold say basically that he was not prepared for an interview, and you do have to realize this is a job. You do have to interview for it. And apparently they they found his worst play at Colorado and they said, just take us through what happened in this play and what would you do differently? And he refused to respond. So the thing about shador Man. And I love Dionn and I love what he's done where. He goes, but you have hurt your kid. He's got to be coaxed because the only person I mean when your son is up there saying at the draft, during the pre draft, not at the draft, but the pre draft workout. If you don't want to change your culture, don't pick me. Well you're dumb to know. The people you're talking to are the culture of those teams. It's built the culture they're they're there building that culture. And so what you've just said is we're going to change the culture. Well, what does that mean? As soon as I hire you, you complain about the coaching and then here comes your dad, So you're no one wants that on their team except well, I don't think they wanted that. No, you're right, I don't think they do. And I think if he's drafted fifth, the strategy there is he doesn't play right for a while, so that there isn't any if he's if he's drafted in the first round, then everybody wants him. Just go ahead and replace who is their quarterback? The massagic guy you've. Got four black Blacko Watson he's still there. Yeah, and he's still under contract. And they took that guy picket right or oh that's right, you've got you've got Watson Flacco Picket, the guy from Oregon, and then yeah you got five. Yeah, something's got to happen. It's could be trade or there. Yeah, all right. The sports Sports is brought to you by State Farm. Eat Insurance in Bedford. I'm David Honeker, local State Farm agent. 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Police arrested twenty five year old Elaine Alain Sanchez, And I mean that honestly. Why do we do that? When I say Alejandra Myorcis, I just say Alejandra Myorcis, But on CNN it's Adejandral Majorkis. I'm Irish. When police arrests someone with an Irish name, I don't say police just arrested twenty five. Year old Charlie McLaughlin. I just say police arrested Charlie. Often stop that stop. And it's for all of these reasons and everything that I just mentioned that America elected Donald Trump in twenty sixteen and then elected Donald Trump again in twenty twenty four. Yeah, can you argue with him? I'm tired of it too. Just give us the news and we keep going. We say that a lot, don't weep. So I've heard a lot lately about courts, and you know how we should adhere to judges when they rule, right. So I found this interesting clip on what you should do if you have a judge that you disagree with, which they're giving Trump a hard time with. Now, so cut four that I believe that the Biden administration should ignore this ruling. I think that we you know, the courts have the legitimacy and they rely on the legitimacy of their rulings, and what they are currently doing is engaged in an unpresented and dramatic erosion of the legitimacy of the courts. It is the justices themselves, through the deeply partisan and unfounded nature of these rulings, that are undermining their own enforcements. So you're saying the Biden administration should ignore this court But what does that look like? What does that actually mean? You know? I think the interesting thing when it comes to a ruling is that it relies on enforcement, and it is up to the Biden administration to enforce, to choose whether or not to enforce such a ruling. So you choose to enforce it now or not? Or then yeah then not now right? I don't know, man, the whole system is all bizarre. But you know what's really cool when you go into watching Lincoln or something like that. This has been going on since the beginning of our history. People when they're not in power. Oh yes, bitch hypocrisy, yeah, exactly, which I thought was interesting. I don't know if you saw where new Gingridge was in front of Congress a couple months ago, and Congress is actually putting a bill together that would limit the powers of judges, right, yeah, And the question was asked to new Gingridge and basically this the Democrat was dressing him down of you know this happened during the Trump administration where you know, judges blocked or during Biden administration where judges blocked Biden and Nut said, you're you're making my point. Yes, both sides do it. It needs to be stopped. And I thought that that was quite interesting. One hundred days or in the books? What is your thoughts? Well, I've actually that's how I'm closing the show today, is one hundred days. It seems like when you listen the prayer from the inauguration. Yes, it just seems so long ago. Man, one hundred days. There's been so much news it's hard to believe it's it's been one hundred days. I know, Yeah, it's yeah, it's coming at US one thousand miles an hour. So have you it's starting to gain steam. Have you heard about the Pelosi Act? Yes? Okay, most of the time. I hate when they name something and whatever they call it the Inflation Reduction Act, right, which isn't an inflation reduction You just call it something that that will get it passed. Right. But the Pelosi Act, I think limits the stocks. Right, It's like publicly elected leaders something about stocks so that they can't I mean, none of them should be able to be making money like that. Are you've got insider information? If Martha Stewart can go to jail because of insider tip, how the hell are they making so much money doing what they're doing. That's ridiculous, travesty what they did to that woman. Yeah, all right, moving on, You got anything else? No? Well, all right, this is there is there a segment a win win win, and uh I put in a e clip just to kind of show you where we where we're at now and where we're where we used to be. Yeah, where we used to be. So we feel like a win because we're not well oh yeah, because we don't have to listen. We this is this was normal, just like three years ago. Can't wait? All right? Cut five. If we build this world from the love, gotta die, die, gotta die and die, then God will build this world from love. That is uh in the background. That was Hakeem Jeffries. That was all of them. They were doing a sit in. That's Hakeem and there's Booker on the left. Oh my god, they were doing a twelve hour sit in and that dude is singing and I'm like, dude, what are you accomplishing? Dude? You know, how do you notice how the camera is to where it looks like it's a crowd. Yeah, that's it really when it zooms out, Look, the sit in is two rows of steps, that's it. So that's funny you say that because that picture I saw, and you know how the internet is undefeated. Yes it was. It was Booker and Haqum. But they were dressed like Milli Vanilli. That's great. All right, moving on, yeah, top ten? Hell now your top ten for the week. Yeah, she's more like a fine. All right, top ten this week? You know what I saw this listen, I didn't understand what this is. Oh this is my favorite. So when I scroll through my TikTok. Yeah. Occasionally there is stuff that I've seen before or whatever, or there's things that other people. It becomes a trend TikTok trends, if you want to call it that. I wish I had had time enough. I know people can't see it at home, but I wish I had time enough that I had gotten Emma to put all these together. This top ten TikTok's yeah, just so you could see it and laugh, because just verbally saying it, you're like, but I'm. Telling you, I think I know what some of it, and I wondered if that's what it was. So if you're listening, all you gotta do is type it in your search. And I'm telling you, these are hilarious. Man. So number ten hard to believe. This beaver built this all by himself. So these are dams, right. So there's a beaver, right, and he's like down at the bottom and then it pans up and it's like this big, huge dam. And it says, this beaver made this thing all by himself, but it's a man made concrete. The beer's just wandering along anyway. That's number ten. Number nine is the potato soap. I don't know what this is. So a guy literally carved a potato out to look like a bar of soap, and he puts it in his wife's sink, and then he watches her scrub her face in the morning, and she literally says, gosh, this doesn't feel right. Did you change my soap? And man, he just he has tears in his eyes. He's laughing so hard. That's funny. You got a different alger. I thought we had the same algorithm, but apparently not. You can't park your car here. Please tell me you've seen these. It's like somebody's car has hit a tree or something and they're standing outside the car and somebody pulls up, rolls and wind. Hey, you can't park your car here, it's out. See you're on Emma's algorithm. Sarge said, I've seen that one, all right. Number seven, Oh my god. Little people videos dwarfs, yeah, or midget whatever you want to call them. What do you call them? Little people? Little people? I guess, but you've seen those where they oh my gosh, they're hilarious, like they'll show watch these things, show them throwing a javelin. Yeah, I like a little pit. Yeah, I love those all right, let's the number six, that's Jason Bourne. You haven't seen those, man, I feel bad. I used to. I use X a lot more than TikTok, and I've kind of transitioned into that. But I don't know. I don't know what that's Jason Bourne. It's people by Size and they'll do a flip in the yard and then they'll play that clip that's freaking Jason Bourne. Like the what's that character Jason Bourne? No, no, it's not Mission Impossible? What are the movies? Are the Jason Bourde movie? Yes? Oh okay, I thought they were a Mission Impossible? No? Okay, sorry, God, you don't watch Jason Bourne. Is that they're phenomenal? Man? Is that the Matt Damon? Yeah, okay, they're good. I am all right. I just don't know, Like I can watch a movie and I don't know what Matt Damon's name is in the movie. At the end of the movie, I know it's Matt Damon, but I don't know what his character. All right, Well, I know that one's a little famous. I'm sure, all right. Number five Yeah, I ran over your dog. Oh my god. The guy he's the doorbell and he says, I ran over your dog and he goes, he says, h, I think I ran over your dog, And he goes, what does it look like? And the guy goes, these are the best. I love when I scroll and I hit one of those because I laughed so hard. Man, all right, now this I can watch the scaring videos. So I used to do that to my mom when she would round a corner. I mean, I'm surprised she's still alive because I literally scared the Bejesus out of her her whole life. But it was just so funny. The reactions are so good. The worst ever, though, was if you tried to scare my old man over here at the serge, like, okay, I'm gonna tell a story here. So he was coming out of the bathroom and we had an unfinished basement with a bathroom that was finished right. We lived in French Drive. He talked about living there at French Strife. So I got behind the unfinished part and it was completely dark. So when he came out of the bathroom, he cut the light off and I realized, oh, it's completely dark, and I remembered, shit, he went to Vietnam and he has those flashbacks what do they call those things? What it was? God? What do they call that? Where you had that trauma PTSD? Yeah, so I remembered, oh shit, if I do it to him, he's not going to kill me, right, So I just stayed quiet and crouched. Now, I was scared more than that he was as he walked by, and somehow this dude's got infrared night vision. He looked over and knew that I was standing right there because ha, like, you drawn back, and I screamed, oh my god, oh god. I love these videos. Yeah, the scaring ones are just they are good. I will reactions like how do you go from like this? One woman walking down a hallwage she does this? They are terrific. I don't know if there's one now that they've got called the dog jaw. I actually got one of my Oh yes, I got one of my employees today. He had a bottle of water and he was standing at my truck and I said, man, I've got this new thing called dog jaw. And he said, what's that. I said, it's a lump right there. Man, it hurts so bad, and he said where and he went to touch it. I went He threw his bottle of water on looking. No, it was Heath. I actually got scared afterwards, but yeah, anyway, they're funny, all right. Number three, he gave me a bottle of wine if I showed him my boobs. You haven't seen that one, but now I'm interested. So it's like a woman or whatever. Her husband He says, man, there's a guy that came by and he said, you give me a bottle of wine if I showed him his boobs, And he said where. She's pointing down the street and he's like, well, what. Did you do? And she holds up her bible. Oh oh. Number two green gas. These are daughters that get their fathers angry when they tell their father that they've found a new gas that helps the environment. That you die. Yeah, The father gets so angry. She's like, dad, my car's messed up. She's like, they have this new gas that helps the environment. It's got a green handle. And man, the dad. Gets so mad. You did not put that in your car. Yeah, but it's supposed to help the car, but it's made it worse. And man, they get so mad. The dad's yeah, that's number two. And number one is that another one that accidentally paints his uncle. I think he accidentally did it. But it was like two black guys and one of them is the old uncle and you know what I'm talking about. That's teaching the younger one. And the dude gets get up off the ladder and when he does, the guy comes up with the roller and he rolls right through his face. Dude. The anger from that old black guy. That dude took off running because he was so scared. And I'm like, man, I've been there before. Ah what did you put? I put? Okay? It makes me laugh every time. It's like a black guy does the voice of the dog and whatever the dog. That guy is the best, and. He does the voice of the dog like don't you tell him? Don't you tell him? And the other dog is like got his eyes cut and the other dog is trying to get him not to save the animal. Voices are the best. That was great, and uh I still do. Man, I saw one today. What's going on here? The guy that cooks Chubby he's the best? Ye what's going on with him? And then still ain't no way I pick up more stuff from that guy. Yeah, I cook, I cook. I think probably half the things I cook is something that he's made. That's cool. Yep, all right, moving on, have at it. I just got three things to say. God bless our troops, God bless America. Stock God's n is Kevin coming on today? So we got a roll. Not really, don't usually take you more than ten minutes, does it? Have you seen how many clips seasons? Oh? Go ahead? Well, I mean I do a lot of work during the week for this show. Thank you? Six forty five. All right, Well, no, I mean I can cut it from Kevin. We can. I can carry on next, all right, so let's start with dumbasses. All right. I feel like doing it this way. I like writing. Now this is CNN. Okay, So these are two clips from CNN. So the first woman is the one that did the debate, remember the one that had the white pants suit that he says Kristen, he says, you're awful. You're a mean one, aren't you. You know when she did that town hall with Trump. Okay, she's the one that starts. This is June of twenty twenty four, last year, before the debate where Biden lost it loses everything, actually loses the nomination. So listen to her describe it, and then the second part of this clip is from April of this year of them talking about the debate from last year, so the same channel. President Biden has spent days locked in intense preparation, surrounded by his closest advisors at Camp David, and our sources are telling us tonight that full mock debates are underway at the podium under the lights. He's even watching. Tape to know exactly what he's going to see when he steps up to that lecture. His team shot a video during a walk through the CNN studio, and as I reported while covering him at the White House, when Biden prepares, he does so incredibly intensively. So just how worried where Biden aids before the former president's does bosterous debate last summer. According to Ron klain Is, chief of staff, his concerns could not be overstated. At his first meeting with Biden for debate prep, quote, Clayan was startled. He'd never seen Biden so exhausted and so out of it. Biden was unaware of what was happening in his own campaign. Halfway through the session, the President excused himself and went off to sit by the pool. Part about the pool he went off. This is in the middle of debate. Prep went off to the pool and he took a nap. Same channel. The lady above, who's supposed to be an independent journalist. Literally she gave you the panline that, of course staff gave her right, but she added to that like I personally saw him Prep. Yep, I heard that a thousand times from reporters just lying I've personally seen him. Yeah, all right, get this. I don't know if have you seen this clip of Adam Schiff. No, No, listen to this. This is going to shock you. Usually I can't listen to him, but this is on Bill Maher. Listen to how Bill Maher. First off, Adam Schiff lies and ever talk. Yes, but listen to this point of his story. I mean, things are coming around because polls are making them change. And this is a little bit long, but listen to his whole story here. So we're gonna have to change how we do business in California. We're going to have to address people's legitimate concerns about crime. I was in South San Francisco two years ago after I had experienced in the city that all too many people had. When my luggage was stolen out of my car. They tell you don't ever leave your luggage in the car. I never do until the one time I did, and of course it got stolen. And what was most memorable experience for me is I went to this Target in South San Francisco ten o'clock at night, and I'm getting the toiletries I'm going to need for my next two days in the city. I get to the camp by yourself, not an assistant. I think I went there. Well, yes, I had. Someone dropped me off of the store. And so I don't mean to make that an issue. I see I waited somewhere I should not have waited. First of all, I had to get the clerk, which is hard to find, to unlock the shampoo or the whatever. So that's one thing. And then I get the cashier. The cashier asked me if I want one of those Target bags with a little bulls eye on it, and I said, yes, that Target bag is going to be my luggage for the next two days. And she asked me what happened, and I told her, and she basically said, in not so many words, yeah, democrats are assholes. And I thought, you know, if the cashier in South San Francisco at ten o'clock at night, believes that Democrats are assholes because the shampoo is locked up and my stuff got stolen out of the trunk. We've got a major problem that we have to address. And I think that's an awesome story. So I don't know why they're clapping. Of course they're clapping. It's a Bill Marshaw. Is this his first time in Dude? How I mean, what took you so long? You've been in Congress for twenty five years. I was floored when I watched that A the part about target and he accidentally calls him out right, so you went into a target? And he's like, well, well, I think I know. I was dropped off that kind of thing. It's what you and I always say, if you would be able to answer it, just like that. Yeah, when I asked Kamela if she what kind of gun she owned, yeah, she couldn't answer. Or like when they had the fires and the woman came up to Gaven Newsom and he says, I'm talking to the president right now, Oh, let me talk to him. Well, I'm not on the phone with him right now, you know what I mean. It's just they're so used to being able to lie. All right, So. The motto that I'm given here is listen to cut twenty one. Chuck Todd is a very quick clip here, but you can hear him what he says on CNN. By the way, it's just three straight nominations. Voters didn't get a chance to pick the nominee. The elites picked Hillary Clinton, the elites picked Biden, and the elites picked Kamala Harrison. There was no actual set of voters who felt like they. Had to say in this. We've been saying that for many years now exactly. I mean they literally rigged the process to keep Bernie Bernie Sanders out right. Oh yeah, and we know what they did last summer. Yeah. And so now Chuck tytas saying, I'm telling you, man, that channel has changed because of one guy, Scott Jennings has changed. Well I don't know if he's changed the channel, but I'm shocked that they let him say what they say on there. And I fear is they say it until the midterms are over, and then they that's truck who they were, and that is true. I mean, you just say to you start winning again. Listen to this what do we know just happened today? Have you seen the new story about sixty Minutes. They settled today the lawsuit they did, so they have decided to settle, and it's in the It was a sixty billion or two hundred billion dollars lawsuit whatever it was billion. I know it was billions. I can't remember what the number wow that he sued them for. So I did not know this till this weekend. So sixty Minutes claims they are firing are I'm sorry, claims their lead producer is stepping down? Okay, don't you think their lead producer's been there a long time? They says he's been there a long time. You just signed. He's resigning essentially, right or retiring, and they're using so I'm sure they're using this firing or resigning as because this court case leverage. So let's not forget what the court case is. They lied about what Kamala's answers were correct, they edited it, yes, Okay, So listen to what sixty Minutes said last. Week in tonight's last minute. A note on Bill Owens, who until this past week was executive producer of sixty Minutes. He was our boss. Bill was with CBS News nearly forty years. Twenty six years at sixty minutes, he covered the world, covered calm at the White House. His was a quest to open minds, not close them. If you've ever worked hard for a boss because you admired him, then you understand what we've enjoyed here. Bill resigned Tuesday. It was hard on him and hard on us, but he did it for us and you. Stories we pursued for fifty seven years are often controversial lately, the Israel Gazo war and the Trump administration. Bill made sure they were accurate and fair. He was tough that way. But our parent company, Paramount, is trying to complete a merger. The Trump administration must approve it. Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways. None of our stories has been blocked. But Bill felt he lost the independence that honest journalism requires. No one hears happy about it. But in resigning, Bill proved one thing. He was the right person to lead sixty minutes all along. Dude, you got caught. Yeah, listen, if it was independence, you wouldn't be in a lawsuit that you're literally paying billions of dollars four Yeah, so you think and correct me if I'm wrong, because I would think this part of the settlement was that dude's gotta go. Somebody's gotta get fired. It's just like the old dominion machines. Tucker's got to go. Yes, you know. Fox News said, hey, we've got to sell this lawsuit. Somebody's gotta get the axe. Yes, I'm sure it's what happened, right, But the guy that really took the sword has been there forty years, I mean twenty seven years there. Anyway, I'm sure he took one for the team, jumped on the sword. Yeah, he'll be working somewhere else. All right, So let's go to the smartest side. See, do we have enough time? Let's go to smort side. I love this guy. That's it is the best. What is this? What is is she secretary of what? He's treasury? Yes? Okay, this guy is so freaking smart. But I think he listens to our show. This is what we mentioned last week, all right, cut thirty. When I look at the sum of the things that are being published, there was a story ten days ago that said, this is the worst April for the stock market since the Great Depression. Ten days later, the Nasdaq is now up on the month of April, and I haven't seen a story that says, oh, stock market has biggest bounce back ever. So well, it certainly has gone back and forth. I think a lot of this is media driven. When I listen to how she discounts that, she cuts him off because she knows he's this is the ploy. She's a professional, she knows he's got a good sound bite, so she cuts into that. But our show last week, I said, I listened to ABC News and twice that night, I don't even think it was the same report. Twice that night they said the worst April we've had in the stock market for one hundred years. And I went back, remember last week. I went back and I said, we're at the same mark we were in August of last year, and we're higher by two thousand points than we were of April of twenty twenty four. Correct, I don't get it. I told you this morning the stock market shot up. Yeah. In the first article underneath was you know, strong numbers, blah blah blah. And then the jobs report came out, it went down five hundred points and it was you know, jobs report shows weak economy. Yeah, heading to a recession. Yeah, well guess what, it finished up two hundred points higher. They haven't wrote an article for that yet. Recession avoided. All of the day. All right, So get this, dude, this just happened last night. I don't know if you've seen these clips, and I could have pulled five or six of these things. But dude, there is no one more combative. He was great in an interview, face to face. I mean, he doesn't care who you are or whatever when you start spitting things off. So ABC News that the people that are doing the worst economy in one hundred years they go to have this interview. Is there anyone that answers like this? Guy? Cut forty seven. A very good defense hopefully a great defense secretary, but he'll be a very good defense secretory. You have one hundred percent confidence? And I do you have to have one hundred. Percent confidence in anything? Okay anything? Do I have one hundred percent? It's a stupid question. Look it's pretty important because I have no. No, you don't have one hundred percent. Only a liar would say I have one hundred percent confidence. I don't have one hundred percent confidence that we're going to finish this interview. Oh man, oh dude, he I don't know if you have that clip of him catching him when he said there had been no referral. I went to go find it, but the clip how long I didn't get to I couldn't cut it. Look on that guy's face of oh crap, how do you. Know we don't have any referrals? And then the guy says, I'm asking you the question. Now he goes, no, you didn't you made a statement. Yep, yeah, he's on it. Uh. In that screen, that's the guy that's coming up that leads us to the end of the show later, that's the inauguration guy of the prayer. Right, yep, you've got two minutes to field trip. Oh so we got Carolina Covin coming on. But one thing that I teased everybody last week, and man, I had such good feedback from people and it was so fun to watch. But when. His name just escaped me. Tyler Panel. Yes, so, Tyler Fanell does phenomenal. Tyler Panel did the color paint schemes for NASCAR. And when he got to the end, I was so waiting for you to watch it. I couldn't wait till you watched it. Just think about what your reaction would be that he did instead of the big baby scumbagint scheme of the week, he did the Life, Liberty, Happiness podcast paint scheme of the Week. Yes. So it was such a good feedback, And what was cool was to read the comments to see people we don't even know, yes, commenting that they listen to. The podcast now. And to our surprise, Emma, you'll you'll be shocked because I shared this news with you earlier. Emma didn't even know. So I asked Woody, it would be nice to know, you know, how our show is doing, to which Woody blows Trent's mind, in my mind when he sends us the ratings, like he never tells us no, he never says a word. And to our amazement, Yeah, we're in the top ten percent of a pall podcast in the. World, in the world. That's unbelievable. We have as many listeners of top ten Now, Dad Sarage might have ruined it for us today. Are gone. That's crazy because it could have said it could have said top fifty percent. I would have been like, oh, that's it's pretty awesome. Top ten percent, that's unbelievable. It is crazy, and of course, you know, people around me immediately go, well, let's do the what's the. Algorithm's three million, five hundred thousand podcasts, But it could have said we're in the lower ten percent. Oh oh, yes, it's freaking awesome. And Emma, it's because of all your hard work. Yep. In Carolina, she's even paying attention. She is. Yeah, she's just waiting for Carolina. Kevin to call and he'll he'll do the whole Well, I didn't know when to call. Hey, you know, you know, you know how we do things and we forget to say things and we want to say things and all that. I just got some feedback from somebody that was listening to the show and he said, cool show. Know you're proud of your dad. I mean, that's cool for somebody to go and then simperfi. I mean, that is really cool. And this is this is a guy that I work with. He's in his seventies and he enjoys our podcast. He listens to the show. It's really cool that he would reach out and say that. I ran into a client one day that I had no idea. Now we were talking and I said something about you, and he goes, oh, I try y'all do that podcast together. He goes, I listen to that. That was just we're so cool when people reach out. I mean, unlike Emma not going to say hello to somebody if you just if you're listening, did you see us to approach? We're approachable. The best was a volleyball game where Brad's boss came over and he was like, oh my god. The host of the show, Brian Slide. He's shaking my head and Ashley is doing the eye roll and he's like, man, I am such a big fan, so cool, so hard, and what I was going to say, Oh, we got. One around, Like, why are like gingers in the ice train? Caroline? Hello, Kevin? Is Brian making up fans stories? Again? My man? No, I'm not making up anything. I never make up anything. I am a truth teller. So if you were going to target and actually had taken you to target, I would remember, you would know that that's who took you to target. Correct, Kevin, do you have a target where you live? Yes? But I don't participate in entering the threshold. I have not entered one in two years. Me neither ever since I went in and they had that. I've not been there one or four years. I've been in Target four years ago. Yeah, And the only reason I went in there is really I had been a Olive Greens that night before, so I had to go and that we use the bathroom. Mighty gone to the shop. How's the speaking of call of Greens? Do you have Call of Greens planted? No? Huhuh? You got a precious salads growing. Now, Kevin. Oh, have you know that sars is sitting here and my dad he's been with us the whole show, and he would recommend that you don't plant till May twentieth? Different region. Well, I'm in South Carolina three hundred and ninety miles away, so it's a little bit different down. Here than up there in Virginia. But I just go by the old almondac and like the Friday before Easter, you can't. You can plant. That's good Friday, but not Saturday or Monday after Easter, because then your plants on rot and they'll grow like Brian's tomatoes last year, where they'll grow for six months, they on on it being like a ing Paul ball and just green. And I think, no, are they hard to grow? Turn them. It's easy. But you just get a bunch of them, you get tired of them. I did, I wonder if I can grow a couple of tobacco back to the old days growing tobacco. You could hang them in your gazebo where your hoota is. That is something from their childhood. And no joke. I mean, where would you drive around Virginia that you didn't see tobacco fields. When's the last time you've seen the tobacco field? I liken it to people that don't know what where I live is if you ever go to Napa Valley and you ever drive through that and you look at rows and rows and rows of vineyards. That's the way it was for us growing up with tobacco. Sure you could cars or corn, it's corner. Tobacco's one of the other. Now you don't, You hardly see it at all. Well, now you could grow weed hoot plants in Virginia like up to six or something, maybe four. I think. We just talked about the other night. That's why I think the answer is who would have thought about that? Like when we were growing up thirty years ago, we're just thinking it's gonna legalize where people just be growing weed now instead of tomatoes, and when they're just growing weed, if they could make. The gene pool of weed where it smells decent, I wouldn't mind it. But I'm almost at a point to outlaw it again, so it's not so prevalent. At every city street you walked through, it's awful, horrible, terrible. Kevin, you ever have somebody showing like, oh my. Gosh, I come into the office saying, sit down with me and make arrangements for their dead or mam or brother or sister, uncle. They they walk in and smells like petty latin. All right, son, I'm serious. Christ was like, did he get sprayed by a stump? I'm like, no, Chris, you've got a weed. So uh rewind to Talladega last week. Uh, Trent picked Cindric in one. I did get that one, Kevin, you had the luck I had because I remember Kevin saying Kyle Busch, and I remember me saying, Blainey, because sooner or later them two have to not have the bad luck. And sure enough we ain't ten laps into the race, it seemed like, and them two are gone. Well, Kyle kind of stuck around afterwards, but he wouldn't after that incident. Yeah, it was a bad situation there. But they moving on to Texas. I got Kyle Busch and horses Austin Billon. You know Dylan one the three years ago. Oh that's a good pick. What's the brother's name? Ty? Yeah? And what's the uh so Kyle Busch? And who else? Dylan? Okay, Kevin, this is like the thirtieth week in a row. You gotta have three, you gotta have three. Oh well, then I'll just go ahead and go with I think Chase Ellie would probably be in the contention too, he won last year. I think in the Spring race he. Looks like he looks like they're lost, like they just don't something's wrong about that car. I think he'd be surprised. How high? Isn't the point we said that? But I mean I'm watching the race and I'm just like he's they literally Carvick said, Man, this is like the fifth week in a row he's gotten a penalty. Oh yeah, that like speeding in I don't know. Something going on with him and Denny Hamlin gets a lot of those two. Yeah, So who you got Brian? Texas? All right, let's go, I haven't picked him all year, So let's go Joey Logano. You haven't picked him, I don't think so. Did you hear that he has not had a top five all year? That's crazy? And then he got disqualified? Wow? Uh man. Back to you? What is it? Karma? Yeah? I said karma when he comes back to you. All right, So I go, I'm just making a statement. Ahm uh. Let's see. I gotta keep wanting to pick Busher, but that just that whole race team just looks like they're out of it and. He's not coming through. But it's funny you said that because I just wrote his name down for me. All Right, I'm gonna go on a weird one here. I'm gonna do Chase Brisco. That is weird. Can I use that as a dark horse? Yeah, definitely, all right, And so I get a middle of the road pack here, Chase Brisco is I'm gonna do Tyler Reddick. Come on, now, you snuck one in on us because Chaseprisco is in the top eight, So you just sit so I know, go ahead. Sorry, who was your last one? Tyler Reddick? Well, how are you getting? Tyler Reddick? And Joey Logano. Anyway, Wait, Tyler is the middle of the pack. Taler Redick's third favorite third. You can call who you want. All right, let's get rid of Chase Brisco because I do want to have a dark horse here. Okay, let's uh yeah, there was no dark horse in your list. I will go with Denny Ham. I'm just kidding. All right, let's do cad I keep picking him, sooner or later. I think he's gonna win. Carson Hosemar Yeah, he had a good week. I've got Tyler Reddick, Bubba Wallace and well you took Tyler. Reddick too, They're both in the top ten in points. Yeah, I got Bubba Wallace and then Chris Busher. Who's thirteenth in points. Right, your dark horses at the top thirteen playoff drivers? What the hell is wrong with you? Dude? He's way down in this list. You got to look at the list for the odds. How come none of us have ever picked I Gibbs. I probably have bet them, But I tell you, man, do you think that they let him lead for a little while last week? Oh? My god, did you hear them talking about him? Yeah? Oh, he's finally turned things around. They've run really good lately. Yeah, I think it was. I think it was, Hey, we're riding around right now, might as well let him ride up front for a little bit. It's awful, yeap. Anyway, we'll see how we do. Yeah, I hate Kevin. Saw a podcast which, by the way, never would have guessed in a million years that that dude is still as healthy as he is. I saw a podcast was Richard Petty and just you know, and he was complaining about NASCAR, and he said, you know, literally, I can't imagine race car drivers driving three quarter throttle. Yeah, like, what what has happened to racing? Saving fuel? That's what he said, saving fuel? Like, they got to fix it. You can't keep doing that. It's awful. I mean, there was a time where the second place guy could be a lap down because the first guy has lapped the entire field. That's right, that's NASCAR. Jailor yarb Taylor. Yarborough used to do it all the time in the eighties. He'd be driving around. There was only like six races that come on Sunday afternoon. The rest of them, my uncle Larry used to go out and sit in the car. My pat Balls and listened to the race on the radio on w y y D because that was the only way you could get it was on w y y D. Yeah, on the on uh the radio. But there was only like the Daytona I think it was Talladega, uh, your big track. Yeah, it was only like five or six races it would come on a year. The rest of us was on the radio. Then they got where when Fox came on the scene. From it was only three networks NBC, ABC and CBS. But when Fox came on the scene, it wasn't very long after that when that's when they signed that deal with NASCAR and Mike Hilton, you know, was a president, and. Then you had the owners, which is the old man and son, and that was the years it started. And then, like I was telling Brian earlier in the week, you know, the peak of NASCAR was back when they had Days of Thunder and Talladega Knights. All the tracks were literally sold out and they even had waiting lists. But it's just back failed because it's the same thing with college football and the NFL and all sports. They keep changing things on man, for what reason, I don't understand. Well, I googled last night, just because I was curious the seating capacities for NASCAR, one of the biggest tracks, right whatever. It shocked me. I had no clue that Talladega only sat seventy thousand. Uh, but Bristol seats one hundred and sixty. Yeah, that's that's crazy that Bristol could seat that many compared to Talladega. Now, if you recall, there's a lot of places include Martinsville, but there are a lot of places that took seats down, so that didn't look empty. Yes, but Talladega was packed Sunday, wasn't it. Yes, that was refreshing to see Charlield. Looked, Charlie was. Charlotte was two hundred and six thousand back when we. Were going and it's heyday. It was amazing to watch Charlotte. Yeah, because the backstretch, I mean everything they built, those new towers and stuff like it was. If you get a chance to look up what the Indy five hundred as, yeah, it's four hundred thousand. Wow, I mean that's I love. That's a bucket list for me. I'd rather go to any five hundred. Now now that we've done Talladega, the three of us did Talladega. Now that we've done Talladega in the in the infielders, I'd love to do Indy. I'd love to do the Kentucky Derby. That's this weekend. Yeah you got. Yeah, your last year. Picked? Did you pick the horse? Now? Yeah? I texted mister Trent. He never did bet on. It, that's right, I do. But he was inebriated. That's a long that's a late in the that's late in the evening to be relying on me. All right, Kevin, We're gonna wrap it up. Gotta get out. Emma's got exams tomorrow. All right. Well, the only thing I gotta say is the word of the day is Trent t r E N T Trent. It's a surname and a male given name, and it means the flutter. Is generally associated with the River Trent, a river in Britain. Did you know, Yes, what a great interview we had earlier today. That will if you're wanting that episode, it'll be cut off, segmented on its own, just the interview with Sarge. You know, I want to write, am. Sure I talked about things that you wish you would said, and I still hadn't got to say it because Carolina then cut in, so I wrote it down so I wouldn't forget to say it. But I was glad that we had him to be able to do this. The intro I would say is he's the toughest man I ever knew in my life. So whenever I get down or get hurt or whatever, when COVID hit, I literally got up and went to work every day. Yeah, I just went to work every day. And you know, Grandad jack Cal's got to be fed. They don't know what's the weekend. I don't know. They don't know how much you drank the night before. They still got to eat. So he was the man i'd most admire. That's awesome. It's funny, not funny you say that, But I had mentioned that to a friend of mine the other day. There's an old soul here at the forks that I admire so much, and he's just a farmer. And I think about it all the time when I don't feel like getting up, I got man. Marshall is up right now feeding cows and he's seventy two and he's feeding cows. What am I doing laying in the bed and I do I think about stuff like that. I got gout in my toe, right, so I can't make it a work. This man had bullets going. Yes, all right, a good episode. We will see you next week and we'll take you out with Trent's clip of one hundred days ago. Yes, inauguration, all right, all right, see you next week. Forty seventh President, Heavenly Father, we're so grateful that you gave our forty fifth and now our forty seventh president a millimeter miracle. We are grateful that you are the one that have called him for such a time as this, that America would begin to dream again. We pray that we would fulfill the true meaning of our. Creed, that we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal. We pray that you use our president. That we will live in a nation well we will not be judged by the color of our skin, but by the content of our character. Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, we are so grateful today. That you will use our forty seventh president so we would sing with new meaning. My country tisathe swee land of liberty, of the I seen land when my fathers die, land. Of the pilgrim's pride from every mountain side. Let freedom ring. And because America is called to be a great nation, we believe that you will make this come true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious. Hilltops up New Hampshire. Let freedom ring or from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Dellaghatties of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snowcapped rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous hilltops of California. But God, we're asking you not only that. Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain, Georgia. Let freedom ring from the Calton Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and every mole hill in Mississippi, from every state, every city, every village, and every hamlet. And when we let freedom ring, we will be able to speed up. That day all of your children, black men and white men, Protestant and Catholic, jew and gentile, will be able to sing in the meaning of that old Negro spiritual free, Alast free. A last, Thank you God Almighty, we are free, Alast. If you believe where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. Come on, put your hands together and give your great God, great glory
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