Broadcasting on Grove Street FM, brought you by Media Squatch. It's Life Liberty Happiness with your host Brian Sline with Trent Warner. All right, everybody, welcome to another episode of Life Liberty Happiness. I'm your host, Brian Sli along with Trent Warner. Hot. Emma's back there pushing buttons. And a little later on the show, we will have a special treat. Sergeant Specialist David Stokes will join us for his for our American hero stories. Can't wait for that. But first up, we are live in the David Honaker State Farm Studios. Can't thank David enough for his sponsorship of the show and his commitment for five years. Man, man, that's crazy. It's been phenomenal working with David. Thank you again. A lot of friends I don't even have for five years. Trust me, I have thought about our relationship before the show. Oh me. All right, we'll get along to a little backwards and forwards. This past weekend, my wife and I had a chance to run down the road to check out the new Caesars in Danville. No, you were interested that you thought it was small. Well, someone told me that it was. Their description of it was make a hotel and then put a casino in half of where the lobby should go. I could. I mean, honestly, when I told you it was twice the size of cross Lanes, that was wrong. It's probably three or four times. Oh my goodness, Like it's huge. I wonder if you know there was that transition. I was wondering if maybe somebody went in between that or they had to have because I even asked. I was like, you mean the tent and they were like. No, yeah, when you come in, well there's multiple ways of coming in. But basically, I mean it's a full fledged I mean they have an event center. They had huh who was playing that weekend? Was it crowded? I mean, did it have a good crowd? We went at ten because I said, hey, let's get up and go early because there won't be a lot of people there. Yeah. Wrong, Oh wow, good for Danville. And not the kind of crowd you would think with Danville. I mean it was they're definitely driving from North Carolina. Look like some high rollers very much. So huh Mercedes, yeah, all of that stuff in the Yeah, could trust me. I can't afford that. Yeah. And I was happy because they had these for every like the roulette table, blackjack and all that. They had a computer where you could do it, which was really neat. So you sit in a chair and there's still a roulette table, but you can do it electronically and then it'll shut the bets off and you're all sitting there around the table and then it spins and then. So there's no dealer, so there's no body standing there telling you not to Oh wow. Which I thought was great because you don't get that pressure, you know how I feel that pressure of alien Yeah, you know, no, none of that. And so of course I played for about an hour and a half. Started with one hundred, and I got up to like one fifty something, and I think I ended. With me making dollar nickel bets. The minimum bets there were three dollars, which was a whole lot better than the one in West Virginia. That's five. Yeah, it doesn't sound like a lot for two dollars, but oh yeah it is when you're playing. So I look over and Ashley's right beside me, and I gosh, we're twenty minutes in. Is she playing at the same time? Yes? Oh, okay, gotcha. Same thing started with one hundred. I look over and she's got like twelve to fifty's like, good lord woman, She's like, ah's all right, I'll get on a hot streak. And she did get back up, and then she cashed out and she started on blackjack. I just I don't know what it is. So I cashed out an hour and a half later with ninety dollars still, so I lost ten. Right, I was happy. I played an hour and a half, you know, little entertainment blackjack. Twenty minutes, I'm done. Yeah, lost it all. Yeah, they get you every time. Man, with the split bets and the all that stuff. It's too much for me. Doubling down. I would hit the button and I go ah, like I didn't even want to see it. But yeah, we had fun though, it was it was real. I sent you a picture of the sports Did you see that the sports bar area where you do sports bedding. I don't remember that. It is huge. Yeah, there's screens from Florida, Ceiland and it goes for probably one hundred. Feet hind like the screen like a Vegas. Oh yeah, that's really neat, like different channels of different sports. Yes, horses too. And it would automatically change to the crowd. Either that or there was a guy standing there because U n C. It is like people were flocking to watch the college or you know, the super regionals, and they started clapping, and so the main screen turned on you and c oh wow. And then when I'm trying to think of who the other team was, it got down to like a four to three game. People were cheering and then that one changed. Oh, it's like, oh, this is cool. Somebody managing it. Maybe you must have had but anyway, we had a good time. It's really cool. What did you do? We went to the condo, hadn't been since October last year, so it was nice to get down to Morehead City. Did great weather, didn't you. The forecast made it sound like it was a four days of rain. The first day was and then the second day when the sun broke out around noon, I told the boys, I was like, you better head to the pool because I don't know how long the sun is gonna be out. It never went away. It was great the whole rest of the weekends. But yeah, I got to see dolphins, wild horses out there. It was freaking awesome. You said, a picture of the guy trying to back the boat. Oh in his slip. I bet that was the best entertainment all weekend. Okay, So I didn't even realize this when we were going down there. So you know, they do the Big Rock Tournament, which is the Martin Tournament. Michael Jordan's down there. Do you see the dolphin that he caught? It was like a fifty five sixty pound dolphin that he caught. But anyway, so the Saturday was the women's tournament. So we're there at the yacht club. So, man, it was great. Gotta be careful what I say here, but the women will go on by taking they're taking their beer to the boat, right, They're taking all their beer of the boat, and it's just like a gaggle of them. They just keep going by, and I'm like, man, this is the heck of a good day to be sitting here at the pool. And so the next morning they they all take off and you know how we've done the deep sea fishing. You come back and you're exhausted. They didn't have near the energy they had when they were going out. It was a really rough day apparently. But that morning Marty and I got up at five am because they said, that's when the boats start going up, and it's just starting to get daybreak. Then from five am to probably six point thirty, the boats start going out and they are lined up bumper to bumper, like fifty yards between them. And I counted one time, I counted thirty boats all going out, and you know we're on the Beaufort side, that's right, So morehead City is coming this way, and they kind of did like merging in traffic where they do the zipper thing. It's just one boat after another and they're all heading to sea. I got a great photo of them coming back where the sky was blue and the boats are coming back in, and you know, the tournament ended for them around five o'clock. Five o'clock. Yeah, so you could tell the ones that didn't catch anything because they just came on into Beaufort. The ones that did catch something they went on into. But those ladies would come back and they didn't have near the zest that they had going out, because I mean they were and hollering and stuff like that. There was none of that when they were coming in with that boat. The question you asked about that boat comes up. I have no idea what those things cost, but the tide coming in it was so strong, and he kept trying to back the boat in into those docks that had the big telephone poles sitting there, and just as he'd get to it, man, he'd gun it and try to get back out of because he was about to nail those things. He must have tried six or seven times, and just people staring at you. Well I wasn't. I was up in the condos so he could have seen me. But it was awful. Laughing, serve wracking. Yeah. There's actually a TikTok guy that does that, Yeah, and it is very popular. Just rattle people as they are trying to back a campert watches them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's actually some real funny stuff. Yeah, I believe it or not. He ended up getting in there okay, without ditting anything. So yeah, I had a good time. Came on back. We did stop at the restaurant that you recommended when you went black Beard Black Beer. Oh man, it was delicious. We had a great scenae food down there, yeah, and the best actually, Yeah. I thought it was wonderful pace, good stuff. Do you have a wedding to do or anything? I worked all weekend. You worked on what. Uh coffee? No, I'm a server at a tie restaurant. Oh that's right, so yeah, I served which one? Which one can wind Hurst? Yeah? I love that place. Well, I put in my two weeks, so don't come after that. Well what we always say, all my friends love it so much, but when you go in there, there's no one ever in there, hardly at all. Definitely certain times, okay, like Friday's nights, Saturday nights are very busy. Nice, but there's only like three chefs back there, and they're the only ones who know how to make everything, like everything's homemade. Oh yeah, it's frozen. Food are so good. Definitely a hole in your pocket. But why you turn in your two weeks? Got somewhere better to go? Work here for. Jobs seven days a week. So yeah, yeah, well good you can put more time into life, liberty, happiness. That's right. You're doing a great job. Emma. Hey, and thanks for doing the game last night. That was a treat, wasn't it. Oh gosh, it was so much fun. We've never broadcasted a baseball game. You know, we've done so much basketball, right, but when we went to do base I was actually nervous before the baseball game, and right before it started, you threw a whammye at me. You go, hey, you're going to do the play by play, aren't you? And I was like, hell, no, are you crazy? Well, I mean I'd never done baseball either. Yeah, but how what an honor? But you're the talker. What an honor though? To get a call for us to broadcast. Just somebody that knows what we've done the basketball and they said, hey, would you come to the back? And I thought about it later as I went home, even though JF lost. How great for those parents that their seniors, their last game got to be broadcast and it's going to be on Emma. You uploaded it. She always comes. Through or other streaming platforms. Very cool. Yeah, And I you know, I thought about it as I went home. The kids that we uh interviewed, Yeah, from Woodgrove. I mean that dude, was he not. The night he was smiling? I can't. I had literally wrote his name down when I got home, just because I'm curious to see where he ends up. Did you see the list that I gave you? Yes, incredible three Division one commits from that team, but one of them wasn't even the picture that we saw last year. I know. Was that guy senior or junior that's saying fellow he went on to mail. Yeah he was a senior. Huh. And that guy's not going somewhere man. He had some he did have some heat. Yeah. So no, that one's going to o to U as a picture. Another one going to West Virginia. It's huge. It was just in the Originals. And another one going to air Force. It's unbelievable where Paulks went. Yeah, that's right that he started there. Yeah, yeah, but incredible. It was a pleasure to do it. Love doing it, and maybe, you know, maybe we'll start to get invited to do other seminole district stuff. I told you I think. Don't get me wrong. I love doing liberty stuff here because it's my commun unity. But dude, I would love to go to a Rusper Brookll game or Eacy Glass Heritage game, or just a you know, a seminal district that's fun. Yeah, do a game of the week. We should do that. Just figure out game of the week. That's right, all right, all right, moving on this weekend real quickly. I'm supposed to go to the River with you and your brother. Sweet, but I don't think I'm gonna go because we're gonna work. No, that's a part of it. That's stupid garden. No the uh so, my wife said that this is Reagan's pretty much last weekend of not having something, okay, because you know, she got in the Wizard of Oz play. So that's every weekend Saturday and Sunday until they do that. Does she want to go to the river? They did, but. Brad seemed to think it was too crowded. Yeah, I don't want me to go. No, that's not what he said. He just I didn't realize your dad was. Going Okay, Yeah he still is apparently touring into my mom picking up Joe's trump. Yeah, it'd be kind of fun different. Yeah, for sure, I forgot I was gonna say about that anyway. It's okay, Yeah, one shot at this. Yeah, all right, moving on this day in history. Yeah, in nineteen eighty two, Et was released. Do you remember that? That was a movie that I couldn't understand why everybody liked? Did you like it when you were a kid? It was okay, it was frightening. Frightening That thing is scary looking the extraterrestre et. I can kind of see where you would think it'd be scary if you were a child. Well, I mean I was, I was twelve. Yeah, but I'm scared of everything. I liked Wally. I just thought I was boring. I didn't understand why. So I think it was just everything special effects. Yeah, Steven Spielberg after Jawls. Yeah, I never I've never seen that. Never seen Jaws. No. Definitely a must see, must see movie, all of them. Yeah, did you like? All of them? Are just the first one. Of the Jaws movies and just the first one, Okay, the rest of them are awful. I had to I had a film class at Lynch for college. One of our things that we had to do is we had to watch Jaws without sound. It was to show you how important sound was. Yeah, a perfect movie because without the Dunna Undona, it's not scary at all. Yeah, the shark comes up, it's like, oh he got him. But without the dunn I mean it builds no suspense without the music. That's true. And I was like, wow, this is actually important. Very cool? All right, yep, all right, moving on to air greatest segment that I love is there American hero story. Joining us in the studio today is Sergeant Specialist David Stokes. Thank you for coming on a program. Thank you for inviting. I am really excited about this, As I tell most of the veterans that come in that we talked to, I don't do any research because I want to know everything about you starting today. So tell me where you grew up, what do you call home, and we'll start there and move on through it. Okay. I was born in Lynchburg, Okay. Graduated from Mecaglass in sixty five, got drafted into the Army in sixty six, so I tell people that was almost my senior trip. Wow. I was working for Otis Elevator in Roanoke, Okay. I was on the waiting list to start night school for electronics in March. In the meantime, i'd applied and been accepted to go to dan Technical Institute for Machine Shop that started in March, and Uncle Sam got me in February, and I got drafted before the lottery of us started. Oh wow. I was nineteen when I went over to Vietnam. Everybody I would run into was mostly from sixty nine to seventy two. They found out I was sixty six sixty seven. They called me the old man, but yet they were older than me. I was over there most of the time. If the thing about it was you went over as a unit. After my basic training, I was in Fort Hollibrod, Maryland Intelligence School. I got orders halfway through my class to go to Vietnam. And I go down to the headquarters and the captain said, stolks, you got orders. You're going to Vietnam. And I said, sir, I'm going halfway through my class. Soldier, your orders are cut. You all going. You bought a pass, so I went over by myself. I was an individual, and at the time I got orders to go, there was a nation wide airline strike. Friend of a family worked at Andrews. I went up and spent the night with him. He got me connections to finally get to California. I'd never been passed Tennesseee. I get there a day early, so I checked into the Army terminal. I want to go see what California's like. The gods locked the gate because too many people were going a walk. So today I'm supposed to arrive in California. My orders were Class A supposed to fly commercial land in Saigon. I'm in my Class a's with the first air calf on a maiden flight of a C. We made three emergency landing on the way to Vietnam. The last one was in Guam. They had the runway foamed up and all of the apparadis out, and I'm thinking, my god, I'm gonna get killed for ever get to Vietnam. Holy. Instead of landing in Saigon, I landed up country and play coup. And Vietnam has two seasons, hot and dry and hot and wet. As soon as we got secured at a tent, I changed into my fatigues. That night after Chav they put us in a deuce and a half and took us down to the runway which was metal planking, and we was in the little guard shack and they had three flights coming in to take us down to Saigon. First two flights came and went fine. Third flight, as it started to come in, we came under a mortar attack and we're standing there. No one had a weapon. We're standing there. You could see the blast go off and you could see silhouettes of the I don't know if it was viacong of NBA coming over the hill. Well, our plane pulled up. They cut the engine to the inside, left off and running. They dropped the ramp. We go to get on it. It's full of dead bodies. Blood was running down the ramp and we had a big master sergeant, big black guy, and they holdering, come on, come on, we're taking fire. He said, We're not riding on no dead people. Come on, we're taking fire. He said, we're not riding on dead people. So they raised the rent. The plane took off, probably half an hour later. The attacks overwhelmed, so waiting on another plane to come in. He said, men, I want to tell y'all something. When your numbers up and it's time for you to meet the Maker and the Good Lord has called for you, it's a done deal, he said. But you got all these thousands of bullets flying around. It says to whom it's concerned, that's the ones you got to worry about. Don't take any unnecessary chances. He told me that August is sixty six, and it's as fresh in my mind as if he told me that last night. Now, just to back up a little bit, we've had a few guests come on already, my dad being one of them. And I mentioned to you before that I learned as much about my dad's experience of Vietnam being at the show that I did living with him for eighteen twenty years before I went out on my own. So I haven't, I haven't. I don't think I've ever talked to anybody that had been drafted. So how how did how does that happen? Like you didn't have any intention of going into the military, You get drafted and you told you're going to go. So did you go into like a boot camp before you went to. LA I took basic training at Fort Gordon, Georgia. I graduated from there. I went to Ford Hollabird, Maryland from my AI T or Advanced Individual Training, and then from there straight to Vietnam. And you had no choice whether it was Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine as well. Just said, it's funny you said that I had already passed. You had to go to Ronto at deduction station. I had already passed my physical So my first detailed I'm shoppening pencils for the ones going up had to take the test, and I'm sitting on the front row, and the marine sergeant walks in and he says, men, the Marines are drafting. I want five volunteers one, two, three, four five. I'm in the number six chair. You heard of those five guys out? Wow. The Army slegeant come in, he said, Ben, the Marines are drafting this month. If you don't want to go into the Marines, raise your hand. I steal it up. Wow. So I tell people I came within an inch on what chair of being in a marine. Wow. And then it was kind of ironic because uh, I was military intelligence and the DMZ the then lens On was my area specialty, and I stayed with marine and interrogators five miles from the DMZ off and on for two weeks. So I came close to being a marine. Wow. But so then you so you're now you're over in the army and the plane when you finally get there where the plane goes? And then now do you have training? Are you ready to do? You said it was intelligence that you were part of, so are you gaining intelligence of recon? And was ready? But when we left plate Coup, we went to Saigon. Another mortar attack the next day. It took us down to ben Wa of Long Ben ninety replacement Battalion, another mortar attack. They lost my orders, so I got shipped to Cameron Bay for two months unloved ammunition off of ships. Finally they get my orders. I go back to Long Ben another mortar attack, and then I go into Saigon where that's where I was stationed. Our compound, we were eighteen clicks south of Saigon. They busted us in every morning and brought us back and sometimes it was two weeks before I saw a bed. We'd work twenty hours and they let us sleep on top of a desk for four hours. And that's how it was. Anywhere in Vietnam was really not a secure area because it was in the borderline, you know, war. Zoned in their country. Yes, exactly, and this is around sixty seven, sixty six, sixty six, so you're really early in the Vietnam. So intelligence you probably were critical to that whole mission of trying to learn is that what. Your Yeah, we were originally our headquarters was in on Thompson New, big sprawling airbase. We were cramped in a little two story building and one day the colonel walked out and the phantom jests were parked in hangers right beside our building, and the colonel walked out and the land instruct almost hit him. After that, they built us a brand new facility that was air conditioned right across from Third hosp Third Field Hospital, right adjacent to the AUV in High Command. So we were safe on that part. And our son of was combined intelligence in the Vietnam. We had Army Navy, Air Force Marines in the Vietnamese camp parts well as a courtesy, and most of the Vietnamese were either up us echelon, enlisted or officed, so as a courtesy the government gave their wives got them to come in to do janitorial work. Well, when you entered the compound, you had a badge you had to show to get onto the facility. Then once you got inside the building, you turned that one in and they gave you a picture badge that you had to wear at all times. Well, they found out when you went into the facility. The government had to hire the civilian police to fris the women coming out because some of them were trying to steal classified papers to give to the BC and their husbands were working alongside of us. Wow, so you really you couldn't. You couldn't trust anybody because one we were round eyed, bud to these you can tell if they were friendly or not. Because now looking like yeah, so. I mean, do you do you feel like you know what you're doing when you're there, like you've been trained enough to be doing your job? Well? Yes? Uh. My title was uh. I was an area Handlist Order of Battle Specialist, and I had a situation map and everything on it was confidential. And I had this overlay but updated daily, weekly and monthly. It's called SPAWS Special Agent Reports. And I evaluated the agents and they were operating under the auspices of the CIA, okay, and I made contacts and good friends with the CIA. So anyway they would send you a say, for inscis Fred, I would get a report from Fred, I'd get his coordinates. I'd put it on the map, and over a period of time you could see his operating area. And so I'm in there one day and we gave briefings all the time. I called it the dog and Pony show. And we was in there one day and Colonels came by and he said, soldier, what is that right now? And I said that Special Agent Reports sir, okay, So I gave him my briefing on it. They left. Captain Salmon came up and he said, stop, you got to change your map. I said, for what? You got to change it from confidential to secret. I said, okay, why you're not supposed to be smart enough to figure out the spoils and the agents? I said, okay, So I changed my map the secret. Well, I had to evaluate the agents and going back. If I saw that Fred six weeks ago, same location, same information, he sent it in to get paid, Well, I tell my friends over the next thing you know, there's no more Fred. Well, don't ask, don't tell. I don't know if they got rid of it or what they did to him. The next thing I know is Joe. And then it's kind of strange because I was nineteen to turn twenty. I took my job serious because I had troops on the ground depending on good intaeil. And when I've gone to schools, I've been asked about it. First question the elementary kid will ask, did you kid anybody? And I said that's a no in yes answer, and they get this bewildered look, and I said, okay, did I take the rifle, pointed at the enemy and pulled the trigger. The answers, no, I said, but because of naval bombardment, ground artillery and the jets, I was responsible probably tens of thousands of the NBA being killed. As you know, American casualties were a little over fifty eight thousand. It is estimated that between the Bigcong and then off at the Mes they lost two point five million. Wow. Lord, and they would never admit to that, but that's what we derived on casualt accounts. All right, So how long were you doing this particular thing? I did that until three days prior to me rotating back home. Okay, I had not gotten a replacement, and they said, were you going to You can do a thirty you can extend for thirty days. You'll not sixty days off of your enlistment. I told them one year's enough. I'm getting there. Well, we can we can slap an admin hold on you. I said, what do you mean? He said, we can extend you for thirty days. If you haven't got a replacement, another thirty days, we can do that. Finally, I had two days left and I had a replacement come in and I grabbed him and I hugged him. I felt bad because he did not have time to train him. I had to clear the clear post from there and had to go back to the compound to clear to make my flight out. And it was funny because when I arrived in country to replacement Battalion, we were in tents, and when I got back eleven months, almost twelve months later, they had two story pirates like you had in basic training. The one short time was that were going home. We were still intents, but they were double walled with sandbags. And so the night that I finally got to go out, we're on three flights and we go over to the airport and the first two planes come and go. That flight didn't come in, so they busted us back over another day to sweat it. The next night. You would think because we missed that flight, they would put a on the first flight. Sure, No, we're on the third flight. First two flights come and go. Fine, we look up in the sky, we see the landing lights. Hearts thought pounding, this is it. Here's our freedom flight back home. Guess what plane touched the runway? Mortar attack. He pulled up and he left skid marks with sparks flying all the way down the runway. So I told people I arrived in Vietnam with a bank and I left Vietnam with a bang. So I survived five mortar attacks, got shot at once on God duty. But I had an angel looking over top of me because I did not get wounded. Didn't have to. No thing ain't back safe and sound. Now there's a question we haven't discussed with anybody yet, and you're there, how do you communicate to anyone back at home? I mean, landlines aren't I don't know if that's prevalence. So is it just letters? Is that letters? And when you were sending a love it might take a week for it to get from from there to home and then from home and back. And that was the only way. Now you could go down to the USO, and they had kind of like ham radios, but uh, there's quite a bit of difference. When you're over there, you're a day ahead of back here in the States. And so there was ways, you know, no use trying to do that. But one thing that was kind of strange, and I'll tell you about it. We had I was in when they had me t TD Wine Cameron Bay unload ammunition. I was there when the Korean White Horse Infantry Division landed. They did god dauty for the same missile sites up in the mountains. And the American we never could understand the VC. We called them, Charlie. If you went by the American compound, you had these shipping connectes with slots cut in them, sandbagged inside and out, guard towels, floodlights, constantina wire, bob wire gates and everything. This was the American compound. You go by the Korean compound that looked like an old hitching post. No nothing, There was a white line. There was a VC with ice tongs sucking his head hanging over top of it. Charlie, did not mess with the Koreans. Wow. The first mistake they did. They attacked the Koreans. They run into the village, hid the weapons. You couldn't tell if they were friendly or not. You know, the Americans we got slammed by the news met with the Medli massacre. Okay, the Koreans when they went into a village, they killed every man, woman and child and burned it to the ground. And they would not stop till they got a three to one kill ratio. Well, the United States government says, it's no way possible, no way. They would cut the left ear off of the VC and put them on a piece of raw hide and they would throw them down on the desk and it looked like pork rides. Finally they con the Americans were convinced, Okay, don't bring any more ears than here. We want to do your word for it. Tally After that, Charny never messed with your Koreans. Yeah, good lord. So while you were there, what kind of is it breakthroughs that you're getting, Because, like you said, you're starting and you're trying to figure out who's friendly and who's not. And do you start building a report and you start getting some consistent, consistent, consistent. One you relied on intel from your other units. If we got in a report. I'll give you an example. I had a report of the Russian B one forty rocket off the on the ben Lnn province, which was right across the ben High rubble and separating the two countries north and south. As soon as I posted that, my lieutenant second Lieutenant Nash if you ever watched Beatle Bailey, Lieutenant Fuss, he was to post the boy for that. He had gone through in c old school. He was e five. Then he went OCS. He was my second lieutenant. As soon as we got posted about the one forty rockets, he and I had to go down to the MACV headquarters and we had to brief General Westmoreland. And wow, the lowest ranking person there was probably a full bird colonel. I walked in that room and I've never seen as many stars, and I mean stars, one, two, three, four star general while in there and I'm holding the map trying to point, yeah, I'm scared to death, shaking him like a leaf, and he's got his squeaky voice he's trying to say about the one forty rockets. It took twenty minutes to get from mac from MACV headquarters back to our unit. When we got there, we had orders cut to go with the Marines into the DMZ on interrogation mission. So I get my gear, we go up, we get a flight to dog Ha third Marine Division headquarters, and we're staying with the Marine interrogators. Well, somewhere along the way, the Marines misplaced their orders so they would not take responsibility of us going into the DMZ. Thank god, for that. So anyway, we stayed with interrogators off and known for about a week. They brought in. They would not let us set in on the interrogators, even though they were in the hoops right behind us. But I'll give you for instance, they brought in five NBA captured Christmas and three marine and the interrogators told us that they worked on the marines. The NBA they had minor cashness. Anyway, one of the marines died on the operating table, and this one north end of his officer sat down with a cheesy grin. He said, okay, we patched them up, we fed them, we gave them cigarettes. We put them over into the compound. The next morning they brought all five of them out and he walked up to the lieutenant and he said talk, and he started giving that cheesy grin. All right, you were the one that laught was laughing. One that marine died on the operating table. Now I've not told many people this. He said. We took detonate accords and we wrapped it around each one of their necks. I walked back up to that lieutenant, upon them at him and I said talk. And about the time he's tried to de Grin Pam. His head went one way, his body went to the other. He said, we had to take a baseball bat and beat the evil Ford to shut them up. Wow. Now, had the news media got ahold of that, that would have been an end of it. Because I told people, if you were in Vietnam and you were in a combat situation every evening, we were in your living room with Walter Cronkait, Yes, And if you were in a combat situation with a reporter and a newsman you had to put yourself in harm's way to try to protect those two. So they can tell you all of the negative stuff that took place. As you know, now, good news doesn't sell. It's always the bad news, the negative news. The news media lost the war for US Ho Chi Minh. Everybody thought Ho Chi Minh was pulling the strings. He was a puppet figure. General Gap. He was head of the notorious three three two four B Division, the most of the tourist division in North Vietnam, and he was the one calling the shots. And he realized that they don't have to do anything. The news media and the public back home is going to end the war. They were ready to declare a truce, and had the president continued with the bombing of Haifang Harbor and Hanoi, it would have been a different outcome to the war. But because of the news media back in the United States, we lost the war. And as matter of fact, Vietnam veterans, we never lost a battle. Congress and the public lost the war for us, no doubt. So how long you were there for about a year? Yes, and then you come back again done with your service. At that point I came back. I went to Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Okay, the rest of my class from Fort Hollibird stayed at Fort Bragg the whole time, complaining about the living conditions. I told him, I said, look, you don't have a clue. And I've gone to schools and I tell people, especially elementary kids, I said, when you were eating a meal at your house or your grandparents, did they ever give you any food that you really didn't like? You know, if the kids shaking their hiss, I said, I was the same way. My mama would tell me, you know that kid's overseas starving that would love to have that. And I said, Mama, can't you mail it to them? He said, well, they can't do that. Well, they told you the truth, because when we stayed with interrogators up at dog How there was two sergeants and one of them he kept wanting to go on patrol and go on recon and the other one says, no, you're too valuable. I can't risk you going oatdel So the second week we were up there, we're sitting there and at five o'clock you had a choice. You could go to the mess tent and eat up slop, or you could get a hot shower. The only time I got a hot shower in Vietnam was five miles from the DMZ with the Marines, so we would eat sea rations packed in nineteen forty five or forty six. My god. So anyway, he's bugging the sergeant. He said, why don't you get the trash together and take stoaks and go to the dump. His expression changed drastically. Come on, come on us for dump. He said. Yeah. We put all of our unopened cans in one box, took the trash in the other. We got into jeep. We go down on a dirt road. The if you've ever grown up on a farm and had pigs, you called it slopping the hall. Yeah. They would take a deuce and a half and have fifty five gallon drums and they would go down to the end of his car de sack and they would turn around and they would dump it out, and the truck was right in front of us. Well, we're going down the road in this garbage dump. These heads start popping up. The Vietnamese are living in the garbage dump. They would take boxes and ten in wood oven. They had a little holes dug out and they would wait for the truck to go down there to dump the slop, and they're standing under fighting for it. Well, the deuce and a half they dropped their stuff and they turned around and went back there. So we pulled up and turned around and he handed me a baseball bet and I said, what's the bat for. He said, hold on to it. You're gonna need it. So he would take a can and he would hold it up like this. And you've seen these apocalypse movies the zombies. These people started coming at you and they got this crazed look and he would toss it up and they would fight over it. He said, Stokes, when you get too close to you start swinging. If you don't hit them, they're gonna let her kill you this food, and I couldn't believe it. Well it was true, and we had people coming up and I never will forget that was this I reckon. She was an elderly woman. She had that craze look and the eyes like this, and she's grabbing at me like that, and he says, stops hit. If you don't, they're going to kill you. I hit her between the eyes. Her eyes rolled around, it never faced, her kept coming at me, and it was maybe fifty of them, and we at the time, we swung that bat until you could not swing it anymore. He jumped in the jeep and we go back to the compan We get back to the hoots and I'm in shock, and the other sergeant laughed. He said, how was your experience at the dump? And I'm just taking my head in disbelief. He said, I call that physical therapy. Said he'll be good for another month. That's how you got it out of his system. But you know they would have literally killed you for whatever they had there. Wow, did you ever get in did you ever have any liberty? Did you ever get any time? A time away from the Yes Central Intelligence. Once in a while we would get an afternoon off and we would go to Sigon, and they told us, when you go to Saigon, the national bell was bombie bar. They said, do not drink bombie bar. It's got for mail to hide in it. So we figured, hey, you already pickled, you could go ball hopping and you could get plastered. You could stop, get a coke, sip on it. Twenty minutes later you just thrown sober. You could start all over again. Oh wow, yeah, And then you know you've heard they'll saying, winn in Rome, do as the Roman. Well, on these street vendors, they had these little carts. I called them to have a Johnson's. You could get a bowl of steam rice and a raw fish head. Well, I'd get the rice. I'd give a fish head to the kids. I'm not gonna eat raw fish head. But a lot of times we had been a ball and so many girl ball girls would go out and bring something in, and I said, what is that? Okay, so I'd give them the equivalent of twenty cents worth, called twenty peas. That girl can't bring something in. I think one time, I think it was monkey nuts. I'm not sure. I think that's what you try. The thing other times they had something. It was on a clear broth. It had some weeds and onions, and it looked like a piece of water eight bologney, and it's back the thickness of a piece of white bologna. Well, you know, I'm plastered. I'm eeting. I don't know what it was. I think she told me it was wrong fish good. I don't know. Oh my goodness. I didn't try anything. Went in Rome do as the Romans. All right, So when you get back home, you're at Fort Bragg. How long are you there before you're out? I got back. I had fourteen days liberty at home, and when I went to Fort Bragg, I had not quite six months. The problem I had was before I left Vietnam, I had paper after paper after paper. I could not disclose what I did because of my clearance. Yeah, so I couldn't even tell my parents that. So when you came home, I know, my first weekend back, that was a roadhouse right across from the airport called Dicky's Place. So my first weekend back, I go there and people came up to me and grabbed me and hugged me, where have you been? We haven't seen you forever? Well, as I got back from Vietnam, poor, no kidding, they spaced out like you were contagious. Nobody wanted to hear about it. So I had a double wham in one. I couldn't tell the family what I did. When I did get out of the service. You did one of two things. You took a uniform off, either threw it in the back of the closet or you threw it away. And that's the way it was. Nobody wanted to hear bird Vietnam. Now they realized that we did make. Go with it. Matter of fact, a couple of years ago, we got invited to go to with the Exchange Club, go up to d C at the wall, and while there I was standing looking at the wall and a Vietnamese came up to me and he said, were you in Vietnam? And I said yes. He said when I said August sixty six to August sixty seven, he said, so was I? I said, oh, he said, but I was on the other side. There was a North Vietnamese. Wow, so we. Reached out and shook hands. No kidding, Yeah, So anyway. It was kind of strange. Here you are two people against each other and we're there at the wall in d C. And we shook hands, and so I said, you know, that's pretty cool. But anyway, we finished up there. We got a FBI escort going. You know, have traffic bed in ninety five we had. We were running eighty five going down ninety five and we went to Quantico and the general stayed oval waiting for us to get there, and he said, men, I want to tell y'all something. Y'all's efforts in Vietnam was not in vain. Y'all were the first generation of soldiers to go up against guerrilla warfare. And he said, y'all have y'all's legacy is making a difference because what y'all went through and what y'all experience, it's being taught in all of the military installations now. So he said, you can hold your head up high and be proud of it. That is y'all's legacy. Wow, as well as the wall as our legacy. Now, your description of people just van moosing when you told them you were in Vietnam, you know, reading your bio, and I appreciate it for you answering the questions that you have in that kind of thing. But I noticed you were very involved with Vietnam veteran efforts in the community and that type of thing. Is that why you're so active in that as. Well, not only the Vietnam veterans, but all that all of the veterans organizations except the Marine Corps dig in Purple Heart. I didn't qualify Purple Heart, thank goodness to that. I'm a mom of all of the organizations there, plus going to the v A in Salem. Uh if I sign in and I'm the only one representing report back to each of the each of the organizations, what's going on, what's coming down, and so forth. So yeah, you would say I'm a veterans advocate. Yeah, yeah, very good. And it was so needed. I mean there was like there was a time where it was a gap. But it seems like it's rebuilt. The patriotism the people that that respect, like Brian and I and what you did in Vietnam is unbelievable. It's it seems like it built back up. But it's a lot of it's from your all efforts through these organizations exactly. That that's one thing. One made a difference. When we were at at the Vietnam Veteran's Wall, young kids were coming up and they were shaking your hand and thanking you for the service. And when we left there, we went over to Arlington and Steve and I had the aunt of place in the reef at the Tomb of the Unknowns. Well, we had a World War Two veteran on our bus, and everybody else on the bus the one World War two, one Korean, and the rest Vietnam veterans. We were going down the sidewalk toward the main gate at Arlington, these teenagers coming up. You either stopped and stood still or you stepped there in the street. They'd walked right by you, no respect the World War Two veteran. He walked with a kinge. He said, if they knocked me down, I'm going to hit them. I said, well, you might as well get ready because they're gonna ignore you. And the same is true here in Lynchburg. Now, Winchburg is very veteran friendly. Yeah, yeah, I'm. Praud to say that, but there's still one group of people from Lynchburg that will ignore Vietnam veterans, and that's my age group. Once they graduated in sixty five. They I don't know if they still hold a grudge against it, yeah, or what it is, but they will not come to terms. You know. You say that, and I know it's getting out of what your purview is. But we discussed this a lot. It's the same people that still protest everything. You know, they just are not patriots. I don't know what it is. I don't know what. Happened, but yeah, you're talking about protests. Yeah, I'm on the Virginia State Council and I'm also Sergeant at Arms for Virginia State Council and publicity chairman. I got an invitation from the Army. They wanted first come, first serve twenty five Vietnam veterers to be up on the stage on the fourteenth for the Giant Parade. Oh yeah, yeah. And I didn't go for three reasons. One, you had to be at the Pentagon early that morning. They was bust you down to be on the parade podium to watch the parade. Second reason I didn't want to go. Well, first reason was the traffic. Second reason, I understand there's going to be multiple protests everywhere. I didn't want to get involved in the protest. And when I got the National dr Vetter of Year award in DC in twenty nineteen, it was eighty dollars then to park your car in the hotel parking lot. So if I'd have gone up, I'd have had to spend the night. Hotels are not cheap in DC, and I can imagine what the parking would be now, So I declined to go. We've got State Council coming up the end of this month, and I'm curious to find her how many took the government offer up on it to be on the on the platform. That's interesting. Uh, you're listening to Life, Liberty, Happiness. We're talking to Sergeant Specialist David Stokes before we let you go, because we think you've spending the time with us today. We always end their segment with a question of if you could any doesn't matter, any time in history. Uh, any individual, dead or alive, who would you pick to spend a whole day with and where would you spend with them? Wow? Only one person? Yep, you get one? Only one? Well, I'm uh, I'm a chat a mom of his sons of an American revolution, So I reckon I would like to spend a day with some of my ancestors that thought that fought into American revel. Yeah, okay, yeah, that's comparing then plus now. Yeah. Yeah, you know, that's amazing things have changed. Oh yeah, that would be a very interesting conversation. Yeah. Well, appreciate you taking your time out of your day to spend with us. We love doing this segment and we learned so much. I know I speak for Emma and Trent, but it's thank you again for your service. 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That was dude, you show it. You know I met I met him and Steve at monument Terrace. Uh, and we mentioned we needed to give that a plug too. So uh. They do it every Friday. Yeah, and they're gathering over there and every day every time at noon noon to one o'clock. Yeah, at Monumentariance in Lynchburg and went fifty people or so. Yeah. Yeah, they've been doing it. It's right on the street. I mean, people drive by, a blow of the horn, the flags around is so patriotic, so exciting. That's awesome. I got a text from you this week speaking of drama. Okay, you said Season five is coming out. You were it's like you're waiting on the edge of your seat the chosen. So did you watch the race? Did you watch the race on Prime? Yes? Did they advertise for it? Did you see the advertisement for ye and He's got the whip out or something like that that he Oh man, it was just made me realize I can't wait, not wait till that comes out. Yeah. No, I'm excited about it too. Yeah. Uh so that'll be coming out in a couple of weeks. We'll give our synopsis on. That oh, next week the American hebro that we have, So it's the first time we'll have a young lady. Daniel Young. She served in the Air Force. I met her at Monument Terraces as well, and I think she was interested. She worked. I think she stayed state side but during desert storm in the Air Force. So be interest to hear her story. Wonderful. Yeah, Cloxton Farm, yep. Still y'all night or you're starting to watch it. I watched all the way up to the last I'm kind of holding on the last episode because I've been watching Tiktoks and it's just it's kind of interesting of just reading some of the comments of the Tiktoks and then I want to watch the last episode. It's the last a lot of it's a lot of government involvement in the farming. Yeah, And so what's interesting that I found about it is he's basically trying to recreate He's doing a pub, okay, but in that pub, he wants local farmers to supply it. And what I found interesting about it is how difficult that process has been and he's just trying to promote farmers. But what's neat about the pub he's got a farmer's only clubhouse, So it's where farmers can come and go by themselves, talk farm and learn techniques, do all that stuff. And it's their own little area, which I think is neat. And someone on the episode had asked, well, I mean, how do you know whether or not they're a farmer? And he asked a question like what's a bushel? Yeah, and if you can't answer it, you're out. Like it's fun. I mean, but I thought about it, Trent, And I really did think about this the other night. It popped in my head as I'm watching this episode. My grandfather lived to be ninety six years old. That man woke up at five o'clock and my grandmother had biscuits, bacon, sausage, everything that they tell you is awful for you, right, And he ate that stuff every day in chicken at lunchtime and eggs and everything. But it was all sourced. It wasn't processed foods. And I think now and I go, why did we ever get away from that. Capitalism? But all we've done is separate ourselves from. I mean the whole food pyramid I just heard the other day and three square meals a day was created by the FDA so that we could sell food. Yeah, and could you imagine if there was a place here. And don't get me wrong, we have farmed the table stuff, But I'm not like, when you watch this episode, you get what he's like. Literally, he has a sign on his door that says no ketchup and the reason why there's no ketchup made within one hundred miles so it's not there. Yeah, well guess what it's done. Someone on TikTok has literally moved to England to make ketchup Wow, within one hundred miles so he can sell it there. And I'm like, you know. What's wrong with that? Yeah? How awesome it would be to go somewhere where we know the cow was just down the street or you know. And you understand it's expensive right now, and that's the whole purpose of them meeting and talking is trying to get that cost down. So anyway, it's interesting part of the show. So I have enjoyed it thoroughly. Recommendations from you let me guess murder, Somebody's Killing Somebody documentary, Yeah, I. Love those things. I don't have any of those today. But because we were on vacation this last week. I don't know that I've watched much of anything too. I've been by myself at the house for a few days too, so I've been busy. I don't know. I tell you one thing, man, if you can spend two and a half hours, which me driving down to Moorhead City was perfect for Tucker crosson interviews, the guy that we've played several times here on the show, that John Kurra Cairc. I have not watched it, and I want to. You won't. You won't stop watching it. It is it's not I mean two and a half hours was like, man, I could do that double I literally could. They stopped and it was just the names of the people that messed with him back when you didn't even know that those guys were the names of who we know now ran the government. It was like, oh, holy cow. So you watch TikTok sometimes and you see like conspiracy theories, right, So here's my take on the CIA. If you're watching or listening, they are. The ones that got us to drop veteran voices exactly. Yeah. So in all in all honesty, if you've ever eaten something and you it tastes so good, but you don't want to know what's in it, all right. That's kind of the way I am with the CIA. I know there's a purpose, but I also know just how evil it is, and so it's like I don't want to know, but I do want to know, but I'm scared to know. What's really cool about this is it's the names you already know, and they just give you the inner workings of how ruthless these people were and are. Because I saw a TikTok and I think it was him talking about some type of mask that they wore on a face, and there's a picture of him. I swear I think it's him talking about the lady wearing a mask in a meeting, and nobody knew it was her. That's how accurate the CIA had gotten with it. And how often have we talked about Joe Biden, like is that really him joking around? But then I see that and I see her in a meeting with other people and it's not her. Let's just go back to Sean Ryan. Everything's a lie, that's right, Yeah, but that if I had to recommend any drama even though it's well, I no, it's video. I mean it's Tucker, you know Tucker. I mean kind of like what we do just on the table, and he asked a question unless the guy roll. He just asked, And just as you're thinking, what's the next question, I would ask, and Tucker asks it. He's just so good at it. We learned some things today that I don't I'm not sure we were supposed to learn. But I know that's whereas white as yours. But it's that's wrong. You know, sixty years ago in war, the way they talked that the things they did and the things they had to do, war is war. War ain't here in Bedford in June in twenty twenty five. It's a completely different life. Yeah, you just got to roll with it. I think it was Roberty Lee during the Civil War said thank god, war is so gruesome. Yeah, or else we would grow fond of it. Yeah, Like that's a good quote, and that's he's it's true. Yeah, but I that's what these stories are about. Man, don't tell the stories and make people go wow. And that he did a gosh it was so good, Yeah, wonderful. Yeah, thank you again, Well, thank you for setting these things up to man. Phenomenal. I love it just my favorite thing that we do all right on the sport except for have at it. It's uh, yeah, I got you. Emma and I are communicating, but I just forgot. I was why secretly when she's sending me text and y'all are doing stuff on my back. Yeah. By the way, I'll watch it. I'll watch it on YouTube. Before we get into sports. We have massive news that I totally forgot about. Oh my god, I want to hear this. I want to get to these interviews with the veterans so fast. Yeah, I forget some of my obligations. I'm excited. Tell me all right, No, do I know I don't always know these things, all right. So, uh, Life Liberty Happiness has always been a part art of Growth Street U f M family, and we're going to continue that. However, we are branching out on our own the suite as far as social media is concerned. So you will now be able to get the show at L l H Underscore podcast, that's going to be on x that's going to be on YouTube, that's going to be on Instagram, that's going to be on TikTok, and then it's Life Liberty Happiness Podcast. Podcast. Excuse me l H Podcast on Facebook. It just keeps getting better and better. Dude, I'm telling you, I just love it. Give it a couple of days for us to start getting everything and the work. The longer and the more people that listen, the more chance that you and I can do this full time. Yeah, when we retire, I don't know if I could do it. My throw be sore. Oh no, support me. Yes, that's what that's my goal. You know what I there's the line that President Trump gave when he was at the union State of the Union address. He said, when he talked about the border crossings is stomped. You didn't need an Act of Congress. It turns out you just needed a new president. Right, All we needed was an Emma. How about that? Yeah, no trips to Disney, you just work. You just sit right there. Let's hope he's not listening. I hope. We're getting ready to get lit up. We're getting ready to get lit up. If you're trying to listen to the show, Woodie, it's l l H one. Anyway, all right, onto Sports College World Series. We have finally set all the teams there. Uh. I will say I loved the other night, Duke is playing Murray State, and Trent texted me Murray The only thing it said on the tech dema was Murray State. And I'm like, oh my god, they beat Duke, and I flip it over and know they had just tied it up. It was three to three, and then Murray State takes the lead. No, it was tied up still, and then they did take the lead, and then Duke hit into a double play, but then they reversed it. It was crazy game. But Murray State advances to their first ever College World Series and Duke season is over with. But the head coach for Duke has now accepted the head coaching job at UVA. Yeah, just like that, on to the next and I read something about it from an independent person, not a UVA site, that said it's the perfect fit for UVA, for the guy that got his perfect job because he's an Amherst County boy. That's right. No, in congratulations, Yeah, I laugh, because your son was the first in the SEC that that of our group. Yeah. And then Logan of course joined LSU and the SEC, and so for the last while they were in college, we got to learn just how powerful the SEC was and to give you an example, Emma, I saw this the other night when Ben McDonald brought it up. I think it was twelve eight hundred and some fans at LSU. The seating capacity for Duke, which was sold out, was one eight hundred. Oh yeah, that's when you realize just how massive baseball is in the South. Well, that's what when I was watching the last Tennessee game they were talking about because they were losing to Arkansas and they were going over the last inning of the future of that they said that the coach Tony for Tennessee is not just a program builder, he's a stadium builder. Oh yes, because they were at four thousand I think when he started, and now they're exploding. It's crazy and it's awesome too. I love the baseball. It's wrong. Aren't you a little surprised? Of the eight that are left, there's only like one ACC team and one SEC or two SEC teams. Yeah, you got Arkansas. We uh. I was talking about this the other day. I don't even know where some of these schools are now. Oregon State's not even in the conference? Are they? That's true? Are they still still as well? The PAC two? That's right? Yeah, well, good for them. I mean they make a World series uh Arizona. I don't where are they at now? Big? Are they a Big ten team? I think? No? No, no, they weren't on the Big twelve. Yes, you give be right. Yeah, and then U c l A out of the Big ten, which that's still shocking. Of course. Murray State and who knows what the conference they're is? Who else? Arkansas, l s U. Dude, I think there's only one one listen, Ohio. Louisville, Louisville. Yeah, that's the only ACC team. Murray State's in the Ohio. Vouch crazy wow for them. Yes, So anyway, I'll be tuning into that this weekend obviously, just to see you want to talk about I. Really wish they would have split them to and put it on in two separate brackets. Yeah, because they're building that game to be a massive and it is massive. It's kind of the World Series before the World Series. Yeah yeah, I don't know if you remember this when LSU wanted a couple of years ago when they had that group, but the World Series before the World Series was Wake Forest and LSU. Oh yeah, it's when schemes went against I can't forget the pitcher, but they both pitched scoreless nine innings. Wow. And then Tommy tank sens us home run in the eleventh to win it for LSU. But that the beer guy. Yeah, yeah, big guy, he's out. Oakland Athletics. Yeah, still cranking home run. You didn't see that catch that Oakland Athletic made it from the center field the other night, did you. Yes, that's got to be top five of all time. Yeah, unbelievable, all right, NASCAR? Yeah, uh, Michigan is the damp fuel knowledge man. I texted you and Brad. If the race ends as good as Stage two did, then this is one of the best races ever. That's stage two. It must have been six different people passing each other with you know, two laps to go. But then it became but you know the last stage, you know Stage one and two, but the last stage, the last third of the race is the longest. So then it became a fuel mileage race of boring. Yeah, boring. But we've watched NASCAR twenty five years easily, right, can you ever fifty could you ever remember a driver? I've seen drivers have bad luck and getting caught it up in accidents every week that. Yeah, that happens. But have you ever seen a driver or the worst luck? Oh yeah, I mean Ross Chastain had some of that too for a while. It's like some of those guys they just keep finishing second or something happened, But once they break through, then they just become something. Blown tire, yeah, blown engine, Yeah, I mean these cars don't do that. And then all of a sudden, it's like, and he's been in second or first each time it's happened. Did you see the TikTok of Rusty Wallace talking about the time he ran two hundred and forty five miles an hour, Yeah, at a two forty two a at a practice at Talladega. Yeah, it was a Talladega or Daytona, I think Talladega. Yeah, said that he was going up in the air just by because he was launching himself. How crazy. Yeah, it was headed in that direction. Yeah, Bill Elliott was heading it in that direction because the rest of them couldn't couldn't keep up. All right, NASCAR is are you ready for this? Emma? Where do you think NASCAR is this weekend? No? How about Mexico? She said, North Dakota? Jesus, how about a microphone. Do you know how to flip your button on? All that bragging we did on her? Good lord, I took my headset off. I didn't want HM to make noise. Anyway. They're in Mexico. Oh, Mexico, there's no way. I mean, does anybody who carry on American flag and protest and start stoning buildings and cars or anything from our country there? Yeah, it's crazy dangerous place to have it. So we'll see what happened. We'll have Carolina Kevin coming up. And apparently high altitude is a real reality, a real issue there. Well, we'll see. I did see a clip real quick of Max for stapping. Yeah, was doing a photo shoot with Connor Zilich, who drives for Red Bull for NASCAR, and they caught the audio of Zilich saying Max like that and he just should get in the car. Yeah. He kind of made the notion of you never know. Is that the same track to F one people race, because that's a road course. I don't know where this photo photo shoot took. I just wondered if the Mexico race is the same place. No, because F one is Canada this weekend. But yeah, I get what you're. Saying same track. I was just wondering if the Mexican track is like when he pointed him to like his turn together, if he was wanting him to race at Mexico. But I thought that was interesting. That would be I don't know, it'd be interesting to see, just like I'd like to see Kyle Busch and F one race. Yeah, it would be interesting. Not kyl Lars, Kyle Larson. Yeah, yeah, anyway, moving on to F one if you Canada this weekend, Hey, it's a Hey, it's a decent race. Yeah, there's a couple of long straightaway so we'll see if there's any passing whatsoever. NBA Finals start tonight or excuse me, Game three is tonight, tied up one one. Indiana should be rocking. I would think Indiana wins tonight, I hope. So yeah, kind of rooting for then you're rooting for Oka see yeah, okay us open any. I texted Perry last night about okay see. I told him the Thunder winning the championship will be the first time to Thunder his won since twenty fourteen Bedford County Championship because we were the Thunder back then. He said, amen, only because the pacers weren't around the US opener. Are we talking golf? Yeah? Yeah, I watch maybe a little bit. You know the US hoping is where they always do the tall grass. Yeah, make the hard Yeah. It's usually what one under two under that wins it. Yeah. So I'll tune in every now and then. All right, moving on, what's happening? It's time for news? What are you laughing at? I was just thinking about the interview we had, so la is literally burning? Yeah? Has anybody seen Gavin newsom? Oh? I cannot wait. You probably had the same clip that I was going to play. But that's okay, No, I'm not playing the clip. Oh good, that's I guess one of my have at its. I'm just in all honesty. I'm come on, man, it's serious about this the media. Yeah, if a Republican governor was in charge of California, now, could you imagine how brutal the coverage would be? Yeah, and I just I'm dead serious. La is literally burning, correct and nothing? And it made me think of North Carolina when the floods happened. Do we even know where the governor was? Did anybody interview him once? Let's see, let's let that happ an Aronda Santus. Oh my god, I don't understand it, man, I just and so we do understand it, all right. So well, so the question that I have, and this is a serious question, do we ever get to a point and I think Trump would do it if the courts wouldn't screw him up, because. I think he's tried before. Would we just let these freakin liberals just ruin their own cities and let it burn to the ground. Well, that's true. I mean just simply say, okay, you can riot, you can do whatever you want. You guys control it, but you get no federal funding. Yeah, what's wrong with that? You don't want the federal government in? So why do you get federal funds. That like even sending the Marines in? Who pays for the send of the Marines in? Is that a federal payment? Or do they make California pay us? Wouldn't it be great? Oh? No, that question came from a Democrat to be head seth, and I don't know what the answer was. But so my question, do you what's the lady's name that is the mayor? Bass? Yes, big mouth Bass, Hold, she's literally she. I don't know if you saw the clip of her saying that there's a curfew now, yeah, and did you see where she was asking business owners to band together to fix the graffiti because the World Cup is coming, not stop freaking putting the graffiti on the wall. Are the World Cup too? Yes? Oh, I thought it was just the Olympics. I didn't know the World Cups come there. Oh, they are splitting cities up in North America, right. And so she's freaking out and she wants them to but she's at the business owners who are getting looted as we speak. Can you guys, you know, clean up the streets a little bit? Yeah, I just I'm just baffled at the stupidity. Let me hold it a Mexican flag because I fled from Mexico. Yes, and I hate the United States. But yet, I. Mean, theoretically, that's what we have asked for. What's going on, what we've asked for. We just let them flood in the country. We don't do anything but feed them. Meanwhile, Elon Musk, Yeah, it has been a little backtracking. Thank god. I think he found real quickly that Megan Kelly, the popularity is Donald Trump. Meghan Kelly hid it. The day after it happened, she had a phenomenal show and she said, get in line. Yeah, it ain't about him, it's the movement, and you're just a piece of it. You think you're a big deal, You'll see And dude, it didn't take a week and you figured out. It was a shame that that was going on. And you know, I follow X I follow Elon and when he when he texted that, man, my gut, it was like a gut punch when he made it sound like that the reason that the Epstein files, It wasn't until an hour later that I'm listening to smarter people. I mean, if he was in the Epstein files, which he's even admitted he's in the Epstein files, his list is there, But he made it sound like it was because of the pedophile stuff. Right, if it had been we would all have known six years ago. It would have been leaked for sure. And to think that it was all over the NASA guy, Yeah, like that really is what it ended up being over awful. What the person put in was xed out of the NASA head of NASA. Well, the thing I'd say about the argument and all that which I hated Donald Trump at the end of the day, is our American president? Yes, I mean Elon's a brilliant guy. Yes, but he's from South Africa. No, he's not strong enough to start a third party. No, but he was trying to get his best friend, yeah, you know, head of NASA. So I get what the argument was over, and I think he found out. But again, here's another check in. Donald Trump doesn't care who you are. Yeah, if it doesn't fit, you ain't going in. And that should make more liberals go damn that dude is not loyal to Well. I always think that they're playing for d chess. Yes, right, And so I always think, well, did they really just make the Epstein files come out on purpose? Even more because there's a person that I think there is being protected with the Epstein files, no doubt, And I believe Bill Clinton is the one that they don't want in those Epstein files. If he could pass away soon enough, it would come out. That's probably what they're waiting on. But I really thought that that's what they were playing this whole time. Did you see how he got the black eye? How Elon Musk got the black eyed? Donald Trump posted that he did it right. It was like he's totally trolling. But the guy that we love, I'm pretty sure it came from him, the Secretary of Interior Beset. Somebody did say he punched him. Punched him in the hallway. What's his Besset? I guess they got into an argument and he said, you haven't done anything. You said you're gonna find a trillion dollars a fraud, and you didn't. And this is the reporting that went on behind the scenes. Is Musk instead of arguing with him, leaned down in and did like a rugby tackle into his ribs. And when he did, he knocked him back in the hallway and Beset punched him in the face. Sounds like a cup of coffee. It gets smacked on. Somebody, that happens. Uh. The trade, Yeah, looks like Trump has made a deal with China. Yeah at minerals. Here we go again. We're just gonna get richer and people don't even talk about it. Yeah, like we're getting a trade deal and we're getting minerals on top of that. Keep your head down, go to work, let everybody squawk, Just go win, yep ye. And that's what we're doing. So that leads us to win, win, win. We're gonna win, win, win, and we're gonna make America great again. Well, I wish we had this up on the screen and maybe she can click any clock and make that happen. But this particular clip, I have to explain it because people can't see this. But this particular clip is Donald Trump, and I think it's the head of FIFA talking soccer and the guy is explaining to him the difference between the red and a yellow card. H and yeah, here it is so cut cut one yellow cops. And red yellow cot is awarding, right and when you want to kick out someone. So for those people can't see it, he the red card at the media. Man, he is such a good comedian. I mean it's spontaneous. And by the way, that's not a laugh track they laugh. Yeah. And I do think he has made a difference with some reporters. I they just fired the ABC reporter, right Moran that ended up saying some bad things about him right on Twitter. But what I have thought about Trump is he's the mean grandpa that before he dies everybody loves. Okay, So he has fought and fought, and when he gets in this last two years. I'm hoping the press is like, man, this dude, he sold out for the US. You know, he did everything he could for It would be nice. Yeah, all right, moving on to our Mount Rushmore of sports villains. That's our heirs today is Mount Rushmore of sports villains. Yes, so these are bad people, Yeah, the guys that you rooted to hate when they were in our life. So Emma doesn't have the lifetime that we do. And it's going to be very apparent. I know. Do you have all of yours? Could you get five? You did get five? Ye, look at you. That's why the monitor wasn't on. I was studying, you were not. What would you be studying. You're taking summer school. Yeah, okay, now you're five that you have, and I let's see them listed here. I like one of them that I did not have on my list at all. Actually I don't have any of these in my list at all, which is interesting. All right, So my fifth is a Rod. Your fifth head is a Rod. So you're counting down from well, the the least head, Okay. A Rod. But ay, Rod was my extra I got you. He wasn't on my original wall. He's your Trump head yes, okay. Yeah, five, there's four now and Trump. We would put Trump on Mount Rushmore's fifty five. There's only four. There's only four at Mount Rushmore. Well, we had so many last week. I got lost to his hand. His hands got tired when he anyway. Yeah. Uh A rod Is on that in Latrell Spree. Well, huh do you remember him? Yeah, so choke PJ. Carlsimo. Yeah, but it wasn't just that. He got into other trouble too. Yeah. He couldn't wonder what he's doing today. Uh. Tanya Harding, that's a pretty good one. I hadn't thought of her. She was a villain for sure. Do you remember Tanya Harding? Oh my god, what's sports figure skating? Emma? Do you like sports movies? Yep? Okay. One of the best movies I've ever seen in my life, Like top five thing. It's called I Tanya. Let me see if that's what it's called. It is so freaking good. Yeah, that's what it's called. I Kama Tanya. It's about this girl. You gotta watch it. And believe it or not. This is like a redneck hillbilly girl from West Virginia. If I got the state, right, I might be wrong. R And she the life that she grew up through to then become an Olympic medalist or close to medals. I can't remember what she did in figure skating. Yeah, it's just what a story. Wait, why do you hate her? You'll see watched the movie. Yeah, Oh, she definitely is a villain. Yeah, she's a villain. Number one in the United States for a long time. Yeah, all right, number or My next villain will be Floyd Mayweather. I kind of he was one of those guys I kind of liked that people hated. I hated him, and you know why I hated him because he was a guy that somehow finagled his whole career around not fighting the best people and to become. And then Duckham when he did, like when he whenever he fought somebody was good, they would go, oh, his defensive tactics are incredible. You know it's not he's it's just not get hit. Yes, he's just missing and just standing there. In all honesty, moving on, we always try to compare errors. But in all honesty, and I mean this sincerely, you stick him in the ring with sugar. Ray Hagler, Mar hearns Martin kill him. Maybe round one Roberto Durant would kill him. Oh well for Benina's gone. It's too completely different. Yep. That's why I never liked him. I couldn't stand him. I can see that. Uh in the last one, Bill Lambier, I'm. Shocked I did not have him in my top got I've got eight evil that I had to try to get down. He was evil. He was a hole like he would just tackle he was basketball and he would just tackle you. He's just a thug. Yeah. He was part of that what did they call it? Bad boys? Bad boys? All right, go ahead, trimp. So get this on mine. This guy was probably number one on my list as a bad guy but also a piston Dennis Rodman. Oh wow, yeah, yeah. You know. So the people that I have here are not just necessarily bad guy. They were just who I couldn't stand because sometimes, like Michael Jordan, in some respects that I hated that guy so badly. Not that he was a bad guy villain type thing, so I don't have him on my list, but I just wanted him to lose. So some of these guys are like that number two bad guy. I had him tied at the hip with this other guy. But because it's a Mount Rushmore and I have to choose five Bobby Hurley and I know that kills you, but I had Christian Layner Owens equal, and I was trying to think which one did I hate more? Which one did I hate more? And Bobby Hurley was just that little guy that just kept was that thorn that kept winning. But god, he was so good and I just hated him. Yeah, same time, I could see that a bad guy. And I don't know if he deserves to make Mount Rushmore. But there was a couple of years Terrell Owen, Oh was the worst worst. Remember when he was doing setups in his driveway. Yeah, like, he's the best free agent and I need to be. On our team and get your popcorn. I think he's the one that came up with that that theory. Oh my god, you just made me think of somebody who oh the freaking kneeler. Con Kaepernick. Yeah, so Terrell Owens. A story about him that you may or may not remember. There was a linebacker that had once been a bad ass on the Philadelphia Eagles. He was now on the coaching staff, but he was just one you removed. I think his last name was Douglas, might be Hugh Douglas. But he was the badass on the field. The year before, well, Terrell was running his mouth with the Eagles so much about Donovan McNabb. It had started splitting a wedge, and so the can the talk every day was about Donovan and whatever, So that the coaches in their coaching meeting told Hugh, your job is to go shut Terrell Owens up. So he waits till he's in the training room and he goes in there to shut Terrell Owens up, and Terrell Owens beats him to a pulp. Hmm. Terrell Owens was a bad dude. Oh yeah, yeah, but he was a bad guy. So there's two on my list that I wrote that I took off. Roberto Duran I was scared of as a kid. I wanted him to lose so bad. John Rocker, See I liked John Rocker. He he just was that bad guy. I didn't mind him, and even some of the stupid stuff he said about New York it didn't bother me. But then he wouldn't stop. He kept doubling down, like like, dude, stop, just even I know that's not right. So this is gonna be hard for you to believe, but this guy is number four on the list. Mike Tyson. Hmmm, not now, Mike Tyson, Mike Tyson, you love now. Of course, if you did the Mount Rushmore, you'd have to do the tattoo on his face. Yeah, you'd have to put that up there in black. But man, he was such a bad guy. He had that white, uh like tablecloth around his neck and he just walked in with black boots or black shoes, no socks and just killed you. See, I always I had a soft spot from Mike Tyson because of Custamanto. So I was a vander Holyfield fan. Oh yes, yeah, but see Cuss had died. Yeah, and then yes, to me, Mike Tyson became a villain. That is true. So you are right, So I that's exactly how it went. Yeah, because Cuss was like Mike was gonna be in prison, yeah, and Cuss took him out of the streets and made him the best boxer in the world. Yeah. And then when he died, I mean, let's be honest, Mike lost his father. Yeah, and then he just went off the deep end. Bit of Vander Holyfield's ear Oh, I mean, there was no worse competitor. Kind of guy. But he wrote versus villain. Yeah, those boxing matches were phenomenal. If Vonder Holyfield, who couldn't root for him? Yeah, exactly. That's why I had him as a bad boy, even though and this last guy you're gonna think this is sacrilegious, But Dale Earnhardt, he was that. He was that bad guy on the track cut. Do you know what county you're in? Oh? You know what? That's what I meant to bring up in drama. I watched the last two episodes of Have You Seen Him? Yeah, I don't want to give anything. Well, oh, I watched him the day they came out. When Michael Walster talks about not passing Dale Junior in that race, and he asked himself why and his answer that it was the greatest part of my career is to finish second. Oh man, I get chills now and thinking about him saying that, oh, it was so good. But bad boys when Earnhardt I hate did in the early nineties. Yeah, there was no one worse late eighties, late eighties, all the way through the nineties. I didn't really like Earnhardt until he got old and started losing and he needed to win the Daytona five hundred. Then I started rooting for him. But oh gosh, she's on my Mount rushmar of guys. I hated Emma. Okay. The only reason this first one's on my list is because Trent. Saiven moving on to have it just kidding, you're now on her list? Yeah, there, Angel Rees. Yeah, yeah, definitely, So hers is going to be more of a younger yeah, yeah, which is great. Yeah. Draymond Green, oh great one. That is the only reason great. One I like one percent like him is because he's on the Golden State Warriors. You're exactly right, ninety nine. But every time, every time I try to give him a benefit of the doubt, he does something dumb stupid. Yeah, like they wanted to ease him into NBA. Yeah, on TNT. They think he's the next Charles Barkler. No, Charles was great, Yes, go ahead. This one might be a little. Anthony Edwards. Oh, I think he's a. Good basketball player, but he's a terrible attitude, Like I hate watching him. Wow, An, I love him, but I can see it has a terrible attitude with John Moran, Oh. I forgot one. Dylan Brooks, Uh yeah, and sure we need to do an m A sports segment. Yea, Emma, I did not know this. I went back and watched it after I saw it on TikTok. Dylan Brooks was the guy in the NCAA tournament. Yes, that had the biggest flop of all time. But do you remember when he hit a three pointer beating Duke. Duke lost to Oregon and they were up by like fifteen or whatever like, and it was two seconds left. Well, he launches a three pointer in half court and makes it, and Coach K just walked straight across and shook his hand and then left. And they asked him after the game, what did Coach K say to you? And he just he said, Coach K said, you're too good of a player to do something that's stupid. Evins understood you. Oregon was up fifteen, he still launched a three correct. Okay, Yeah, if you look. Up the biggest flop of all time in basketball, it's him. How cold? How can it be worse than Lebron? Lebron flops like that. Every Lebron falls out of his car like. There's nothing funnier that showing lebron flop and they put the goat over top of him. Yeah, so good, like the fainting goat. The Chiefs as a team on there. That's the whole fifth head is twenty five or fifty two people. I forgot about Dylan Brooks. So my other one was Antonio Brown. Oh, that's another good one. Like a terrible human being. He's a huge Trump fan. Talking about Antonio Brown, I've become a fan of his of all of a sudden. Have you seen him ravage California's Gavin Newsom? Have you seen what he's talking about? What he's going after? No, Sir, Antonio Brown apparently is banging Gavin Newsom's ex wife. Or wife, well, ex wife was the one that Junior was doing. Trump Junior, Oh, oh, I thought you meant Dale Junior Trump Junior, Oh no, you shouldude. If you can get on Twitter and look at Brown's tweets x tweets, it's okay. Okay, okay, mm A, have got it, Trent. I don't know that I've ever seen this. What this is Dylan Brown's flop? Oh my god? Okay, yes, that you might be right. This was a joke. Right, No, it's Dylan Brooks. He's such an h that is awful. All right, have that. I just got three things. God, bless our troops, God bless America. Stock God. If Kevin wants to interrupt me, which is great, am I just interrupt me with Carol, Caroline and Kevin. Okay, so I know we might go a little bit long and I can do the rest of it after him because this is too good to pass up. Okay, all right, man, my favorite thing, so you mentioned it earlier. Does this guy okay, let's play the clip first. And does this dude exude exude toughness to cut tins. When the borders are said to me yesterday? He did not rule out literally arresting you, nor mayor Bass if you interfere in his. He's a tough guy, wasn't he do that? He knows where to find me. But you know what, lay your hands off four year old girls that are trying to get educated. Put your hands off these poor people are just trying to get live their lives. Man, trying to live their lives paying their tax has been here ten years. The fear, the horror, the hell is this guy come after me? Arrest me. Let's just get it over with. Tough guy. You know, I don't give a damn, but I care about my community. I care about this community. The hell are they doing. These guys need to grow up, they need to stop, and we need to push back. And I'm sorry to be so clear, but that kind of bloviating is exhausting. So Tom arrests me. Let's go. He's an idiot. Okay, So this is what I heard. I can't remember where I heard it, but somebody this part what he reminds me of. I'm sorry, I'm staying right here. He reminds me. Do you remember Al Gore how uncomfortable he looked when he was trying to do something that somebody's taught him to do. Correct, Okay, somebody's gotten the Gavin newsom and said how popular Trump got after we arrested him. So if you can get arrested, you're going to become more popular. Okay, you can't fake it. No. When I watched this clip, what I think you're what you're talking about is that reporter in him rehearsing that three times exactly. That look they're in a studio. I mean, they're kind of about that they're not on the street. He's not down there where the Mexicans are waving the Mexican flag. Yeah, why aren't you with them? Gavin? By the way, you're the one that's actually telling them not to go to the streets to do what to stop the the riots? Oh? Peaceful protest? Oh, I've got that. I've got that too. So this would you call her? Nancy? What did you call? Close? What you call what'd you say? Boxer? Okay, yeah, so it's Clovershar really close. Yeah, all right. They ask her about the Democrats and the polling and how miserable their leadership is. And we just heard Newsome he's supposed to be moving to the top of the presidential campaign top with no leadership skills whatsoever none. How the fires go his leader. Yeah, let's burn the streets now, we burnt the forest in the houses. Now, let's burn the cars. And yeah, so listen to what Clobhar's answer is when the Dems can't have can't find leadership? Here we go cut twelve in our poll. Though are it also shows among those polled that congressional Democrats are overwhelmingly seen as ineffective and challenging Trump seventy one percent of Democrats say their leaders are ineffective. You are in democratic leadership, Why are they wrong? So when you look at what's happening here, Trump is doing some really bad things to people. Right All businesses are closing down, the economy has retracted in the first quarter. And when I get out there talking to Independence Republic and they're Democrats are basically saying the same thing. They're really scared of what's happening right now to their families, and they want to see leadership. So we cannot be the party of the status quo. That is first, So. What kind of answer was that? How can you come on there and so ill prepared to answer that question? And by the way, how choked up was she to have to ask it? Yes, I get killed her. Yeah, which, actually, you're right, that's a decent question coming from CBS, but she couldn't get it out. And by the way, let's not forget CBS probably gave her those questions and are shocked she didn't have an answer for like, that's a softball question. Okay, you asked me that question. Just ask it. Well, it's first of all, you're down seventy one percent. Yes, why would you be down seventy one percent? Yeah, you know what we have got to take restock and what we've been doing. We have to get rid of the fringe. The twenty percent people have been running our party, and it's going to stop. We believe that Trump is doing a lot of good things, a lot of things that we actually created. We created a lot of his ideas. We're going to say yes to those things. But we're going to do better things than he's done, and we're going to do it nicer. You just gave the speech that John Fetterman gave exactly. He's the guy that seems like the most rational person in that party. Correct, trust me. I heard his answer and I'm like, dude, how is everybody? And they're calling him the looney. Yeah, so Clay Travis thinks that is going to next be Quomo. So you know, they did Kamala and they've done Newsome. The next one's going to be Quomo is coming back the mayor Cuomo, which is shocking to me. But he's getting ready to become mayor again. Of New York. I thought that too until I heard today there's an immigrant that's running against him. Okay, forty points down two weeks ago. Yeah. Now, guess what this immigrant has proposed to the City of New York. They are going to go to grocery stores and they're going to fix pricing in the City of New York. Like just tell you that you have to you can't go to a certain. Procitato chips one dollar, that's a max. That's the old Russian way. Okay, but if they don't get in line, you won't be allowed to do business in New York, and New York will provide groceries to their citizen. I have heard rumors that that's that is. Guess what the poll was today. That guy went from forty points down to six points down this week. I never really believe those things. I don't either, but dude, yeah, how scary if true. Yeah, well, they've run off the sensible people on purpose. They used COVID to run off the sensible people. Remember the governor of New York. If you think like that, we don't want you here. Yeah, I mean literally ran you off. They don't have people like us. Is Kevin coming quite yet? But yet you got tim okay for one more. Let me in fact, this is us squeezing in a peaceful demonstration. Let's hear what's going on. Cut seventeen. Large group of people. It could turn very volatile if you move law enforcement in there and the wrong way and turn what is just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn into a massive confrontation and altercation between officers. That's short. We'll play this, play that again and just hopefully you can hear what he says here. Could turn very volatile if you move law enforcement in there and the wrong way and turn what is just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn into a massive I. Don't know about you, and it's been a while since I've seen people light a car on fire and sit around watch I have fun with it. So Saturday, when you're with Reagan and it's your last weekend with Reagan before she goes and does the plays for the next few weeks, right this weekend, do you I have a place where you're going to watch cars burn? That's not on your list because really, it was a peaceful demonstration, and once we put people in there to stop these people from watching cars burn, that's the problem. Again, here's the problem they have TikTok exactly. Yeah, we watched them burning and killing and doing everything. Dude, somebody said today and I thought it was one of the most brilliant things I've heard in a while. Four hours on January sixth, got you four years detained, four days of rioting in nothing. Yeah that's I mean, yeah, that literally is what we saw on January sixth. And you know exactly what they're hoping to do. So they've got protests and dude, I think we should do a new segment reading what our liberal friends post. Oh dude, I can't wait to talk about that. Okay, so oh yeah that guy again? What up? Kevin a lamp? Not a laughing matter there, Brian and Trent just because it's Kevin's time? Oh we got oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we get Kevin. Now here's what's funny now, because I was getting ready to play a clip and I didn't know I was stammering. Here's what's funny is when Kevin got bumped from six forty to six forty five. Right, Yeah, so he Hims gets his feelings hurt. What Hyms doesn't understand is he has like a ten to fifteen minute segment. Sometimes you just had a four to five minute segment. Yeah, and him's mad, You're. Not, no, because I know my four to five minutes as good as many people as fifteen minutes. Oh my god, I've been saying that since I was sixteen. Started at five o'clock. You started at five. I'm all, man, Well. Kevin, we're doing these American hero stories now to take up about five minutes. And I just said you started at five o'clock. So you know, I'm making a statement factual. It was fact all I'm doing. Ain't no heating between us. I'm just making a statement. It's factual. All right, don't flid over that democratic lane overyond the mountain. We're gonna watch some cars burn. Yeah. Have they got protests in your area? No, man, we don't. We don't have none of that down here. Where did you see your protest happening this weekend? Raleigh? Okay, so here's what the clip. Well, I don't want to we can talk. Oh I don't want to cut off Kevin. Okay, steer them away from his mojo. Well I'm listening. I mean, I. Oh gosh, all right, we're we're in Mexico City this weekend. Right, Oh yeah, I meant to look at that when when's the last time we raced there. I don't think we've ever raced there, have we? Yeah, we've been. They've been in Mexico before. Protests gonna happen down there. They're not gonna be able to race. Oh really I heard. I heard they were gonna stand on the Star finish line and just standing there and they ain't gonna be able to get through. Face called nothing. So might not have a race? That would be awesome, That would be great, to be honest with you, Maybe we'd stop doing stupid. Stuff, all right. So where do they race? Is it a road course? Okay? So yeah, so Exfinity race there in Mexico City from two thousand and five to two thousand and eight. I swear I thought the big guys did. I don't think they've ever been there. Has NASCAR ever been out of the country. That's a good question. Thanks the Cup guys. That's a great question. Sometimes I wonder how many football games are going to be played outside the country this winter? That's true. So do we know who are who are pixar this weekend? Kevin? I'm gonna probably go Denny Hamler again. Uh, you may want to rethink that. Why because there's a chance Denny Hamlin may not be making. The trip, Oh because a baby. His wife is pregnant, and he said, if the baby is going to be born, possibly he will not make the trip to Mexico. And the only thing I gotta say about that is, don't y'all make enough money that you scheduled that out a little better. Trip? The good Lord above has that determination. You are a woman. No, I'm just gonna say you get back and get that can get a sea section? No, No, I'm saying you can schedule a sea section. Once you get to a certain point, you can do it. That's what how we had Riley. I'm just telling you. Do you ever do you ever think did I say something that was wrong? Well, I mean most people don't like you're a advoctaking from planned parenthood or something. No planning the well that it would be planned parenthood, wouldn't you're literally planning to be a parent. Oh my lord? All right? Anyway are you taking? Are you taking? Are you taking? Denny? Yes? All right? Baby or no? Baby? I get you? All right? So he's going Denny Hamlin, who do you got a second? Chris Bush? Oh, that's a good one that's a good pick and your dark horse. It's nice to see RFK up there this weekend. It was. Austin Dylon Jez in a road course. Well, okay, what you got, Brian? All right, I'm gonna go God? That is it easy to just take Shane ven Ginsbury and that's what I'm taking. I won't. I will take Tyler Reddick. And I don't think Carson Jos Savari is a good road course racer, so I don't think I'm gonna do that. So I'm gonna go of you know what, I will go Ross Chestein in My last pick will be let's see, uh where is. Shoot? I don't see him? Man, you've often dealing his way down there. You better picked the one that might end up winning. And that's Daniel Swore. That's who I got. Second? Where is Almondinger's who I was thinking? I knew Trent was going probably have Daniel s all right, that's who I got. I'm done Almondinger. That's a good boat, all those good road course drivers, all right? Who you got? Well, I'll do s v G. I'll do Daniel Suarez. Man, I put money on him last week. Would y'all put Would y'all give me that Kyle Busch is a long shot. Or not? Man? Yeah, but I will I pick boards said, I'll go Kyle Busch. No, I say he'd be a long shot. I say he'd be a long shot. Yeah. He qualified so well last week I thought he was going to be good at Michigan and he just sort of hung around. Would y'all have guessed that Kyle Busch would be higher better odds than Denny Hamill? Mmm, because I don't think that. They don't think Denny's gonna be there. Apparently he never heard of a C section. I know, I don't. That just seems like to me, you can schedule that out anyway. I'm not going to. Get into the science that it is possible. We all know it's possible. Yeah, schedule for I got two. Things on uh, I got two things on nas call. I want to ask you all about number one. What's the deal with not having a white flag at the last lap? What? I've never heard of such a thing. I've never heard of such a thing either. What are you talking about? Well, apparently it's offended Bubba Wallace. Why do we have to have a white flag at the end of. The race over. Oh you know what, ID say a headline about that. So I wanted to know what Trent's thoughts is because I think he is the same as mine. I mean, my thought on that, since you're asking, is why do we mess with everything? I'll tell you stuff alone. No, listen, it's obvious to me that Bubba hasn't done anything this year. Where is he at in points? I think he's pretty good. I'll check, and. This is a way to get him back in the news. Sixteenth, that's true. I think it's sixteenth or seventeen. We're not somewhere around. He's a tenth. We're not seeing there's no way. I'm just telling you about the point show on ESPN. Granted ESPN isn't they don't give a damn about racing. Their stuff is awful. He's really tenth. That's what they're showing. We had ten winners. I'm talking mineor total points. Mine's showing how good he's done this year. So I don't know if it's it's probably not the chase points. In fact, I'm sure it's not the chase points. Essentially, what I'm saying is he's a top ten driver this year. Based on how he's been doing well. If he doesn't make the playoffs, is he out? Yeah? I guess it depends on how many how close they get to sixteen. What's your take on the white flag. Kevin, I'm like you, it's always got to be something wanting to be changed, and I don't understand why. I mean, it's been like that for years. What's why do you got to bring that into it? Because it seems to me they're bringing that into it. As he upset that they put black on the final victory flag. I mean, well, you can keep doing this for everything, just kindly. White is the most visible color when you're on the track. NASCAR is actually extremely cultural. You've got a white flag, a black and white flag, and a yellow flag. You've covered everything, and their black flag is to get. Over now the campers that come out there, they get all kinds of flags. Yeah, all right. My second thing is is did y'all hear about it's going to be a Days of Thunder number two? Oh? Really, what's that gonna be? Who's that gonna be about. It's gonna be Jeff Gordon in there and his idol, which is Tom Cruise. But who's the depicting. I think they're gonna have some young boy coming up. And the way that I just heard just a little caption on it was Jeff Gordon was like, Yep. There's gonna be a Daze of Thunder number two, the. Stupid because I mean the reason Days of Thunder one was so good. It was a depiction of Harry Hyde, right, the crew chief Earn Hart and what was the other uh bow dye? Yeah? What do you have in NASCAR that's even close to that right now? None? He and his original name what in the movie was what Cole Trickle? Yeah, and you know Dick trickles from Dan here and on where I'm at, So not too far because he's buried at that cemetery. So, but the whole that was when NASCAR was at the peak. That's what brought NASCAR up to the peak, I believe is because a movie like that just it was kind of like that was old school stuff. Didn't have no none of these gen X cars and all that stuff. That was old school. Yeah, now that's what I'm saying. It was the movie depicted it, so you could of. It'd be fun just kind of all even a gimmicky movie it'd be kind of fun to see what a NASCAR movie would be. I'm interested in the Brad pitt onin the Formula one movie. Yeah, F one. That's sure that advertisement came out looked really good. I did hear people were upset about KFC in the F one commercial. They're like, who do they think is actually going to buy a chicken with an F one car? TikTok. People were like pissed about it in the movie. Or No, I guess KFC has done a commercial with the new Cadillac F one car. Yeah, oh, well that's because they lost their best them sighlight man. That was Trent got on. I agree. I need to do something. I want to be able to sell buckets like you could. Yeah. Does the even know you're famous? Some people? Maybe we should go back to that, Trent. We should do our own. Yeah commercial, Emma, Trent was in a KFC commercial. Why for commercial you did a cook I'll take you by a chicken man del or and Hart Jr. Seriously, I don't want to see it. Well, it's you have to literally stop it because you won't see it. It's so quick, it's rude. He just he bit a piece of chicken. I handed the bucket to some hotties and ate a piece of chicken. He said he had a wardrobe. Sow it up. I'm gonna tell you. He bit that thing and bit it like a monkey and then turn it up. He would get these residual checks and every time he even see the commercial on TV, he'd go, ah, I got another check coming. Yeah, made about fifteen grand. Seriously, it just kept coming in the mail for every time they showed the commercial on literally two seconds worth of Sometimes the check would be twenty seven cents. Another time it would be one hundred and twenty dollars, and they just kept coming. Yeah, and we drank it. Yeah, it's like free money. The gambling for doll racers. You can you can YouTube. You can YouTube KFC del Warrenhardt Junior bucket commercial and it you'll find it. She's reading the book. It's very exciting. You're not interesting to her anymore. She's reading a book called Producers For. Thanks. Brian, Oh, be. Just kidding. Hm, what was the guy's name? What? He just laughed, what was the guy's name? Well, you said it too fast. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket commercial or put bucket after Dale Earnheart Jr. But you he looks the same today as he did then, dashing. He reminds me of Drew carried. I'll take that as a compliment. First of all, let's be honest, Kevin. He pushed Brad out of the way to get this commercial, like he literally screwed his brother over. It's amazing how your all minds changed things. You tell everybody that I pushed your father out of the way for a fish you did. That's not true. You did knocked him out of the way. Brad was the one getting you cast for that. You knocked a marine Vietnam vet out. You didn't care about veteran voices. Then he was asleep. I'm confused. Where are you what? It's so quick you have to keep watching. You got to put her on the screen. Here, I'll tell you where. He's got on her phone. Oh yeah, let him let him sign your let him sign your pizza paper favor. Mm hmm. How's the Guardian coming, Kevin. Man? I got vegetables everywhere around here, got beans, beans, I got, I got it all. I got. Damn here it is Kevin two thousands wore. I'm never meal prepping as an empty nester again, stupid YouTube. Here we go skip. Okay, I'll show you as sin as it pops up. Bob's excited. Not mere KFC deal junior collectible book. It's right. Hand? Are you gonna? Red? And a white one? There going? I was in the red there and that's me. That's it right there, that's me eating piece of chi. You serious, I did? I did a wardrobe change. Yeah, that's a you can't let itself on it, I know. And I made fifteen grand for that whatever. It's actually three scenes stupid glasses thanking him to me. That wasn't mine. He stole those. It's wardrobe. How old were you? I was twenty four? Were you really young? Emma? They gave him three to watch. His movies, Emma, Emma, I did the same commercial, but it took me a thousand takes. That's how I. Was thirty four. He got it done with one piece of chicken. Good thing. I got my core. Power here for these trollers. Kevin, you spent it this way, yo, TikTok. A watch and keep going. Nope, the TikTok, Kevin, you have people going after your brother. I can read the comments. It's quite funny. We should do that. That should be a segment. Yeah, read comments from sick top. The dude on the left is actually not sitting in a chair. He's just a perfect height to stand at the table marking about Brian. What does that even mean? It looked like, oh my god, and. Then good thing he's drinking a die Mountain do that would. Make me laugh? Read the one about both of them. Could use salads or something. Oh, there's more comments on them. Yeah, if you click down at the bottom, it gives you more comments something like that. Yeah what wait? Can I ask what that means? Typically liberals are snow of snowflakes, but you took it as I didn't say because we're complaining. I didn't say anything about it. I think people are just dumb. Yeah, snowflake would be somebody that s woke liberal. I can't think. I can't remember what the subject was about of the TikTok cliffs. The snowflakes are triggered. Somebody gotta start shoving a salad in your's faces too. For real, it was you talking about Target and their gay pride stuff, and how now it switched to patriot patriots. Well, somebody misunderstood that. If they thought that was woke, that ain't woke. No. I think they were saying the other people's comments were snoopkes, I got you. They're talking about the other people. I think people. Come now we've got people fighting each other on it's even better. All right, Kevin, got anything else for us. No, Just wanting to tell Trent one time story about Brian and Ashley. We went out to eat one night. Brian he was holding the door open for him and he's like, come only Ashley, and uh she said thank you, and uh. He ended up opening for another woman. And then all of a sudden, they asked to looked at him, was like, really, like, you're going to open the door for another woman? You only done this this one time? What about the rest of the time? He goes, What the rest of the times I did it? You just didn't know? He's like, you remember that time he threatened to leave me. I just kept holding the door for like hours, but you wouldn't never leave. There's no truth to that. No, that's the truth, man, Brian. I'll bring it back to. You, ma'am. Trip bet on a dog because he thought it said. It was like tupple or something we had had something to drink. Who is David Hoge Hoague Warren just from just texting me that David Hoag was removed from the DNC. I's trying he was the stupid idiot from Florida, skinny us. They got a lot of pub way back for gun violence. And then he's moved. He's positioned himself in the Democrat Party and they don't like it. So now he did what you said Klober should do. He basically said we need to clean out the Democrat Party. So that's why they removed them. Yes, okay, so they claim not yes, So is he like more of one of us or oh it's just trying to like a wolf in sheep's clothing? Correct? Yes, Well, I'm telling you. After they start losing multiple times in multiple times, eventually someone like what's the senator that we love from Virginia Jim Webb? Yes, you remember they ran him out of the party. Of course, he did what he could to win. They run off. Okay, interesting, before you get to your end of show. Here, Well, I've got a couple of clips before that before you may or may not remember this, but. They were the new Jersey governor race. They had a primary, Trump picked a person, and the media made such a big deal out of it because they were like, well, this will be a telltale sign of you know how his you know rating, you know how they always pick an election and say this is going to tell you well, Trump's pick one the primary. And I don't think they were expecting that, And so there's a real possibility you could end up with a new Jersey senator. No, I think it's governor. Oh, okay. That it's those kind of things when they happen. Listen, you can't keep running things as the twenty percent, you know what I mean. That's why I'm saying we just have to have some budget wins. That's the one thing that's bothered me right now, yeah, is we're not getting your budget wins. Okay, do you want to hear cut twenty five? Rational verse irrational? Listen to two people talk about the on the same network, talk about the riots. Cut twenty five. Brad, what are you thinking, Well, we got to this moment because California has a sanctuary policy. The state law forbids local law enforcement from cooperating with or local government from cooperating with immigration enforcement. We have immigration laws that govern the entire land, and California is willfully ignoring them. California's left wing politicians set this up. If California had long been cooperating and helping enforce immigration laws all alongside this. It's not the whole state. You do know that some of this is jurisdictions. There are certain towns that do. Yeah, but there are certain law But there are certain towns that absolutely have cooperated with federal authorities. Shouldn't they all? You know, this is part of the issue that is always interesting here is when Republicans want to talk about states rights, it's about states rights when it is thing that they're interested in, and not when it is something that perhaps Democrats and their states are interested in the. Getting stopped there. So that's really it what I wanted to talk That is like basic misunderstanding what government even is. She's kind of referring again to the abortion issue. Right, it's state rights. State rights are okay, okay when you want to stop abortions from some states, But when you want to stop immigrants illegal aliens from coming across the border, that's a national issue. That's a federal law, and for you to be a sanctuary state. You're putting your thumb in the nose of federal law. Now, I'm glad you brought up abortion, because what's so funny about that is put the shoe on the other foot. You wanted to be a federal law and not a state's law. Right, But I'm saying that's part of the problem. The codification has never happened, right, goes back to the states. That's exactly what the problem is. And the states do have laws about it. Each individual state does, right, But this is a national law. This is codified. Correct. Yes, that's that's just basic misunderstanding. She just and she's making an argument that has no merit. I don't understand how you can get on a show like that. This dude just ruled her right, right, Okay, you're a response. You're going to love this lady. So these you know, I go through dumbasses. This is the smart I think they're doing this every week. Now. I just caught this one. But listen to this man, Listen to how we are winning. Cut forty seven was. Another very busy week here at the White House, so let's break it all down in this week's mag a Minute. The United States economy added one hundred and thirty nine thousand jobs in the month of May, beating expectations for the third month in a row. The Congressional Budget Office released a report stating President Trump's tariffs would reduce the US budget deficit by two point eight trillion dollars and the trade deficit fell in April by more than half as a result of President Trump's America First trade policies. President Trump hosted German Chancellor Murrs in the Oval Office for a visit, and the President took part in a roundtable discussion with the Fraternal Order of Police, who just endorsed the One Big, Beautiful Bill for the no Tax on Overtime provision. President Trump also delivered a rousing speech on the South lawn of the White House at the summer soiree for administration staff, and on National Egg Day, egg prices were down sixty one percent since President Trump took office. Promise made, promise kept. Immigration in Customs Enforcement conducted its largest ever operation, resulting in the arrests of nearly fifteen hundred illegal immigrants, and the US Army met its fiscal twenty twenty five recruiting contract goals four months early. Jeez, the drill, baby, drill agenda rolls on. The administration has announced that we are opening thirteen million acres in Alaska to mining in drilling. President Trump signed a proclamation directing an investigation into who ran the United States while Sleepy Joe Biden was in office, and on foreign policy, the President held calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Shijing Tang, and the administration submitted a decisions package to Congress that would codify all of the DOGE cuts and clawback nine point four billion dollars. For the American taxpayers. If that wasn't enough, Next week, we're looking forward to celebrating the Army's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. We hope to see you there, and we'll see you next week for the Maga minute. Okay, remember Blinky, oh god KGP. Could she have put anything out like this? No? But notice wasn't it was this not a TikTok Yeah, Okay, dude, they're on social media, they're winning. They know where to put it. It's on my algorithm. This first time I've seen her do the minute, the Maga minute. Yeah, but dude, she's out there talking to she's calling sleepy Joe Biden. I mean, I just we are winning, and I feel as good about this election or the last election. This is exactly what we wanted. I hope. So yeah, in the show, Yeah, I found you know, the motivational speeches. Yes, they I don't think they do these things. This is supposed to be. It sounds like supposed to be Denzel Washington. I think these are AI generated, but still love the discussion. It's success demands eight things and it's just a quick clip. All right before you hit that, Emma, I want to remind everybody, hopefully people are still listening. But if you are listening, I mean I understand when have at It comes on, you start to I'm just kidding, But in all honesty, check us out on L l H Underscore podcast, correct, Emma, especially go to YouTube. We need one hundred subscribers very very soon. That way we can go live on YouTube as well. But I need one hundred subscribers. So I'm just right off from my hip right here. The person who ends up being the hundredth subscriber, would we know who that is? Is there a way to know that? I'll wait, is there a way to know that. I don't know idea. That's a question for logan. We'll have to ask that question. But I'm saying if we can get to a hundred, which is not a lot, we should be able to reach one hundred, but for sure quickly. But I'll give a gift card away to the hundredth person. See how quick that happens, free coffee? It so it's l No, you will do a fifty dollars gift card? How about that for eggs? All right? Go to L l H Underscore podcast and you can do that on Instagram YouTube X Who am I forgetting TikTok? Don't forget TikTok too. Yeah, I'll work on those tonight's ye if I can find them. And then on Facebook it's just L l H Podcast podcast. Okay, I'm on it. And we don't lose Grove STRYFM. We're not losing, no. Cool. Yeah, we're syndicated. Now, Yeah, I'm getting it. That's cool man, all right, see you next week. Success demands eight things. Number one hard work. Don't believe in luck, believe in hard work. Number two patients. If you are losing the patience, then you are losing the battle. Number three sacrifice. If you don't sacrifice for what you want, then what you want becomes the sacrifice. Number four consistency. Consistency is what transforms average into excellence. Number five discipline. Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing. Number six self confidence. Confidence is not like they will like me. Confidence is I'll be fine if they don't like me. Number seven positive attitude. A positive attitude won't solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to. Make it worth the effort. Focus on your goals, not on your obstacles.
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