Life Liberty Happiness - 7.02.2025

Broadcasting on Grove Street FM, brought to you by Media Squatch. It's life, Liberty, Happiness with your host Bryan Schly with trend Water. All right, everybody, welcome to the David Hallmaker Steak Farm Studios. We are live today. Back. We had a little bit of sabbatical, unexpected break, unexpected. We want to say, yes, well it was nice though when we don't have it is how many people tech to me like something is wrong? Did y'all not do a show? Did am I not upload it? Yeah? No, okay, I agree. I was speaking of Emma. Emma is on vacation. So she sent me a little clip to play for the new person that's in the chair. Cut a hello, mister George. How much you pay for the for the new guys? Twenty bucks? No too much money. It's no good, no good, that's good, no good. Operator. She's not wrong, she's not wrong. Oh I got my little uh hydrogen water purify. Looks healthy over there. It is. It's supposed supposed to have a lot of listen. I'm a sucker for product. No, I am too, So if you're listening out there, send me product. Yeah, but seriously, it's supposed to have health benefits to it. Well, listen, if Joe Rogan and Dana White recommended, I'm buying it. They also look different. That's a fit. Listen. I gotta do something that The comments that we get now ruthless. That's so funny. Boy could use a salad. Thanks for throwing me in there. Asked what you're sitting on the floor like one of them is like he's actually standing. Good thing. He's drinking diet Dountain. Yeah. The comments are great. I'm telling you, I think the comments. That's great. Man or Wood he in his room in his underwear, the comments I live for. The TikTok comments logging on with different names, use their names. Man, we got a great show. Yeah. A little bit later on, we'll be joined by Air Force Master Sergeant Jay mccooley. Can't wait for that segment. Very cool. Got fourth of July. We oh, Yes, big week coming up. Brad's coming by stopping by by Brad short drink a little short all right back with and forwards. Yeah. I did something while we were gone last week. I made a purchase, which is why we couldn't be on air. That is why we do it was so stressful like this is one of the most stressful things I've ever done in my life. That's a big purchase, man, dude. It was crazy. And so look, the jury is still out on whether General r V is where I purchased the new fifth wheel toy haul. Or new camper. Yes, you had a motor home before. Correct swapped it out, So I'll just give you the ins and outs. They gave me a price on my motor home trade in. I had read Tiktoks that Camping World. General RV. These places give you a decent number, and they'll even negotiate. They're easy to give you more money, and then when you get there to actually do the transaction, they go, I'm sorry, man, we just found this problem and found this problem and they just you know, that did happen? Okay. I was furious at first, because you've got you've gone through the trouble of driving that far. You went to Richmond, right right. So but through some negotiations, I got some of the money back, and all in all, it was a decent experience. So they when you trade in, they give you this VIP pass right and there's all these steps they want you to go through like it's your day you know. Let me just tell you it was one hundred degrees that day. My day was hand me to the m keys, let me go. Yeah, but I couldn't. We had to wait for a guy to take us through the camper. He happened to have a broken leg and was on a scooter. Oh man, one hundred degrees outside. I didn't care. I just wanted to leave, like you'd already made the agreement. Time to go, yes, But but you couldn't leave with it because you don't have a. Truck and I haven't signed the document yet. They don't let you skip steps. So they you have to do the walk through car. You have to. So we finally get through that, then we have to go to the finance guy. That's where we did some beating up, back and forth, and we finally came to an agreement. And you know, I was okay leaving. It's Ashley with you during this whole time. You leave her in the car. No, she wasn't there for the transaction. Oh I thought she was riding with you and you called me she was. This isn't my name. This is in case things go bad, I've got somewhere to live. That's actually a prediction. Oh no, we've been together sixteen years hopefully even the last night of sixteen okay, twenty all right, So anyway, your brother came with me because my truck is still in the shop, and so yeah, it was we took we finally she was with. You because you called me and you said hey, because I said, well, when are you going to pick it up? And you said Wednesday. Yes, she was with me at the original when we went down there to look at okay, but she wasn't with me. You know, they had given me a price over pictures. But that's when I said, dude, what about the show? And you went, oh, it's like you had I think you were so focused on the camper. Oh yeah, you forgot that we have a show on Wednesday. Yeah, and then I saw everybody. Yeah, I thought we were going to be able to Once they told me it's a four hour process, I'm like, there's no way we're driving back. Yeah, which was a good thing. We camped that night outside near near the place, which was nice. It's a good idea yea, test it all out, yep, before you come all the way home, so you still can't use it, right, So it's parked, but you still. Have its waiting on Chevrolet. Dude, that's five weeks since we went to Cross Lanes. Oh yeah, problems with your truck, and it's a. Good possibility it could be another couple of months. So that's the problem with supply chain, I mean General Motors. Problem with Chevrolet General Motors right now. And they were listen, they called, they gave me a case number, and they said, you know, put on a different priority list now because it's a company truck, and blah blah blah. We'll see. But I mean they've been nice. They gave me a rental and they said, we'll get you a fifth wheel whenever you want to go camping. So it's your transmission, right, it's a part on the Yeah, yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, it's good. Well listen, it's not at twenty nineteen, I think, is when Chevrolet essentially took over building their own transmissions and they stick the Alison name on it. So there's something wrong with the supply chain. If you've got to wait six weeks and still not have your vehicle. Didn you say it. Could be longer? Oh dude. If you go online, there's people that have waited seven eight months. That's unbelievable. They should you be able to sell a truck if you can't support that. I agree, that's ridiculous. Anyway, yeah, yep. And this weekend real quick, before we get to yours, we're just we're around the house. So we'll probably just, you know, go down to the Speckhouse to watch fireworks because it's a perfect view. Oh okay, sit in front porch and wait for somebody to buy it. If you're interested in a new home. I have a beautiful and built right right off of Bedford Avenue. You can literally walk to Liberty Station, drink and then walk right back. And it is a front seat to the fireworks. If I lived down here, I wouldn't think twice about that. That's a perfect spot. I love it. Anyway, go ahead, yep, Oh nothing, we didn't nothing big at our house. Marty's been on vacation. She went down to the condo down at Beaufort and then so it's just been being by myself because we also got ginger Spade, so she's been walking around with her little cone head all week weekend, so I've been watching the dog. So did hang with friends at the pool and went to the lake, So we'll be doing probably the same thing this weekend. Nice nothing, big cool Yep, all right, onto this day in history in history nineteen sixty two, that's the new bumper Woody, thank you. I you don't remember that I had could play I do it each week. The other one was too long. He just had to make an executive decision. Yeah, Immo said it sucks, so we got on this day in nineteen sixty two. Yeah, this store opened its doors for the first time. Do you know what store that would be? Anybody sears? No, jeez, serious, would have been the forties ess? Oh Walmart really saying that that was an eighties inventions. In nineteen sixty two, No kidding. Yeah, that's a good trivia question Arkansas. Interesting. Yeah, what do you got? Two thousand and two? Do you remember this when it was big? Where this guy kept trying to these attempts? In two thousand and two, the balloonists went up in a hot air balloon and was the first person to make it all the way around the world. Do you remember how eound try those others and you make it like three quarters away and land in Africa or something? Do you remember that? Yeah? What I never understood about that is, why did it take him weeks to do it? Why couldn't he just go straight up and wait one day and come down? Yeah, no, I'm not done. Old you just go up. You just wait, you let the world come around, and you just come right back. Now, why couldn't you just wait it? Won't you do that? Because technically, yeah, it's been around the world one day? So get this. That guy's name is Steve Fawcett. So I always like to try to find out. You know, okay, you and I do the same thing when you're watching a movie about a documentary someone. What's the thing you do during the movie towards I google you Wikipedia and find out. So, okay, I was like, that's an interesting story. So that same guy, I was like, that's the same guy. Do you remember three years later he's also the first person to make it all the way around the world in a plane without refueling. He made it all the way around the world with remember it had that solar plane. Do you remember that way back in the day? Yeah, I think so, two thousand and five, it was the same guy. I was like, wow, I don't even remember that being the same dude. And now then in two thousand and seven he went missing. He took one of those you know, those like John Denver when he was one of those pilots that would go up with those test vehicles. That's how John Denver died, right, No, he died hitting a tree skiing. It was one of those guys. Now, there was a famous dude that used to and he died in one of those the test planes. Well, this guy went missing in two thousand and seven, so much so that in two thousand and eight his family won a court case to declare him dead because they couldn't find it. Oh wow, yeah, So in two thousand and eight he was declared dead. Later that year they found him, his plane, his engine, and his remains were in Nevada. Oh okay, yeah wow. So that guy that went around the world did both. That's what he ends up don and one of those little test planes. Yeah all right, yeah, onto our next American Heroes story. The American dream is built on freedom, and that freedom comes at a cost. American Heroes Stories, presented by Life, Liberty, Happiness, is a new series honoring the men and women who've sacrificed to protect that dream. We're proud to play a small part in preserving their stories for future generations. Life, Liberty, Happiness, a media squatch podcast presents American heroes stories. All right, we welcome to the program. Air Force Master Sergeant J. McCoy. Man, that intro was for me. Yeah, I was getting excited, like, man, who we about to hear about it? That's so legit, that's all. Yeah, that's a lot to live up to you right there. But that's brand new. And when Emma goes away, that's what we gets. That's what it comes through. And that's what a bumper. What a start job. Well, welcome to the program. Glad to be here. All right, start us off with your early beginnings. Where's where's home? So home? I guess home will always be South Louisiana. What part of little town you never heard of called Santama, Louisiana? Okay, I guess now, where's that near relationship to Baton Rouge. Yeah, it's about twenty five thirty minutes south of Baton Rouge, about the same to New Orleans as it growth lies. Okay, gosh, I'm trying to think of the name. So if you were to go keep going south. There's one little beach where you can go fishing down there. Did you really think one little bat that was going to describe. A lot of times? Grand that's it, yeah, Grande. Yeah, it's not. It's not a beach like you think. I thought Louisiana has a long coastline. It's all swamp. Yeah, it's got a jacked up coastline because it's right there in the Mississippi Delta. So it's a lot of marsh and grand Isle. You know, I like to say I'm spoiled ritten by beaches now because grand Isle right there at the mouth of the Mississippi. I mean, you've got brackish brown water, you got dead fish everywhere. But that was going to the beach as a kids that we were pumped about it. Now take me to you know someone, We just me and my family just spent a week at Emeraldal, North Carolina. I'm like, this is beautiful. Yeah, that's where I'm That's where I'm retiring to. I'm going down there. Man. Yeah, that's great, that's awesome. All right. So when you like, last week was deadly hot here, when you walk outside of you like, this isn't heat. You'd think so, But I've through the military and through my career, I've lived so many places. No, I consider myself a native Virginia at this point, as far as the temperature goes. I was stationed in Alaska at one point, and when I came back down south, I went to go visit mom and dad in Louisiana. It was July and my Dad's like, hey, I need help setting up this deer stand. Come with me. And about thirty minutes in, I went and sat on the foe wheeler and I'm like, Dad, you got to take me home. I'm about to pass out. And he thought I was joking, and I'm like, no, man, this heat's about to kill me. Awful, you know, I'm a Virginia boy. And I go down there and I'm like, I can't take it. Like there's no air moving, you can't hide from it. It's a wet, hot blanket. Ye all summer long. All right? So you spend your whole childhood basically there. You graduate high school there. So out of high school, are you going straight into the military at that point. Yeah, straight in the Air Force. I was delayed en listening, so I actually signed my enlistment contract the summer between my junior and senior year of high school. Okay, so as fast as I could get into the military, I went, what. Was the itch? It's part of me thinks it was a calling. It's what I was put on this earth to do. I mean six years old, I think I saw the Blue Angels fly for the first time and I was hooked. Ka. You know, I was born in the eighties, grew up in the early nineties and Top Gun, you know, and that was I just I feel like that was action movie culture. It all went back to the military. You know. It was either some former special operator or you know, you had movies like Top Gun and I think it was Iron Eagles. Yes, there was one about helicopters that was super cool. Now, are you picking the Air Force because of the pilot stuff? You know that's Navy. But how did you choose the Air Force over over the other branches? Good advice? Okay, Yeah, So early on as a kid, I did want to be a naval aviator and following Maverick's footsteps, and then obviously nine to eleven happened. I'm still in school and that really changed my trajectory. And seeing the war televised, you know, the early parts the invasion of Afghanistan, invasion of Iraq. I really want it to be on the ground, you know, I was. I was aware enough to know as an aviator, Well, the Afghan Air Force is non existent, so Dom's Air Force, well, we took care of that for the most part in the Gulf War, and I don't think they recovered very well. But there wasn't a lot of dog fighting going on in the Gat. So I wanted to be a ground guy. And early on, you know, late middle school, high school timeframe, I'd kind of switched and just was infatuated with the Marine Corps and everything that the Marine Corps stood for. But my dad, he was a law enforcement officer for twenty seven years, and obviously in that community he worked with a lot of veterans. He wasn't a veteran himself, but I think half of his crew at any given time were veterans and a lot of combat veterans. And so, you know, between him being a father and wanting to protect his son, and just like I said, good advice from a lot of his coworkers. They said, man, have your boy joined the Air Force. You know, they've got the best schools they've got the best living conditions, they get the best deployments. The Air Force is where he needs to go, you know. So it was really that I think that paternal advice from my dad and his coworkers, and I think the final nail in the coffin. I had a really good friend growing up named Anthony Hen and I were like brothers. And he had an uncle that had served in the Air Force and went on to start his own private security company and was doing really well for himself. And he sat me down one day and explained his job as a OSI Special Agent in the Air Force, and I want to say, he was responsible for protecting the program, the classified program around the SR seventy one Blackbird, and I just thought that was super cool. I didn't know, you know, you could do that in the military, and you know, he described it as counterintelligence. And I go back to that movie A Few Good Men, and there's a scene in that movie where Jack Nicholson's number two is XO. You know, he kind of goes off the map, and somebody had makes a comment in that movie and they're like that guy he was, he's spent ACX out a year's encounter intelligence you'll never find it, and that kind of stuck with me, and oh maybe that's cool. Maybe that's where I need to go. And that's what happened. All right, So you're you've joined. Now where is where is? Uh? Where's boot camp at? Where's where do you get sent for that? Yeah? So everybody in the Air Force, at least in my generation, goes through Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Okay, all right, So was there ever a time when you get off the plane whatever or bus you go all right, this was the wrong decision or you felt the whole time you were that's where I needed to be. I was grinning from ear to ear and listen, Like I said, I tell people, I fell for the government's long term recruitment strategy. It wasn't just the movies, you know. But then because of the movies and my desire to join, I was active in scouting all the way up to high school. Our high school had a junior ROTC program, so I was active in that all the way until I left. So I feel like my early childhood years and and my formative years were spent preparing for the military. Ok So, when I finally got to step foot on a military base, I guarantee I was grinning ear to ear. So most of the people we've had on were Marine Corps, Army. But so, what's the Air Force boot camp like? I mean, how is it different than the other branches of the military for me, you know? And I kept in touch with a lot of my buddies who went to various branches. The biggest difference was mine was short. I think they've extended Air Force basic training at the time, but mine was only I think six weeks long, whereas my buddies and Marine Corps were there for double that twelve weeks. But as far as the environment, and I know that the military branches, we like to pick at each other and know, you know, there's always these memes going around on some guy with a silver platter and a suit on bringing you your lobster for dinner and Air Force basic training, But it's just not the case. I think the military as a whole, the Department of Defense knows how to conduct basic training and knows what it takes to break somebody down and build them back up as an airman, soldier, sailor marine whatever. And the process looks the same across the board. I don't think it was that much different. So what was after basic training? What's after that? Yeah, so for us we call it tech school. Other branches would call it a school. But that's you know, you get assigned your job either before you leave or while you're in basic and so very shortly after that you go to your tech. School and that's how you got os I. Was that. So I started off. As an enlisted airman. You can't go straight into os I, so you have to you have to start somewhere in the Air Force, and my first job was Security Forces. There was kind of a longer route to get there. I came in with a guaranteed contract to be a SEER specialist, which is a stands for survival, evasion, resistance and escape. You teach pilots and special operators and folks going to some high risk environments. You teach them survival skills. And like I said, I had a guaranteed contract for that job. But once I started to learn a little bit about it still in basic training, I decided that wasn't the job I wanted to do and found myself volunteering to go into Security Forces. And I didn't think that the law enforcement aspect is what I was really going to be into. But I found a love for law enforcement there that that continued on. So that was it was very fortunate. So what does security what what does security forces do? Like? What do you what is your job job? Yeah? So security forces in the Air Force, it's kind of dual had it between military, police and and security, right, but that's your that's your ground force element, uh in the Air Force because we don't have an infantry, soho who protects air bases? It's security forces. But then you also do the law enforcement mission as well, and because of that there's a lot of great opportunities in that job. I've got buddies who've gone to Army Airborne School because there are certain bases who are dedicated as air Base Defense Groups and their mission is you know, if things were to pop off tomorrow with Iran, you know, after some air battles, one of the first things that would probably happen if we're putting boots on the ground is the Army rangers are going to go and see some airfields. Well, once they've gotten under control the Army, the eighty second Airborne whatever, eventually a bunch of security Forces. Guys are going to roll into that air base. They're gonna build a perimeter, and they're gonna hold that perimeter so that the army can then project outwards and do their job. You know, that's really interesting you say that because one of the things that Brian and I love about this segment that we've been doing is learning so much because he and I hadn't served, and I learned something each time. And so your pictures that came through, you know, we did the promotion for the show. I was like, who in the. Air Force has that much weaponry on them? And you know, I never thought about you have to secure your own place and yeah, your own military police. I hadn't thought about that being that part of the Air Force. You know, it's kind of cool. So where is where'd you end up doing your tech school? That's also at Lackland Air Force Base? Okay? And then after that, where's your first. First duty station? Was Holloman Air Force Base? New Mexico. Was that different? It was very different. I mean I grew up in the Land of the Pines, you know, Flat Texas wasn't that much different, you know, and for the most part, through basic and Tech School. You're kind of confined to San Antonio. So it's a city, but you know, it's still hot whatever. I get to New Mexico and it's there's mountains there and I've never seen mountains before. Oh wow, that was new. But then it was it's high desert, you know. Yeah, very different, but I learned to love it. Okay. Yeah, and uh that's where you're learning your skills that you're going to use in the Air Force. Well, so you learn all your skills at Texas Tech School. So and when they push you out to your first duty station, you're you're considered mission ray. You're a three level airman, so you know you have someone doing some on the job training with you. You've got some more upgrade training, but you're handed a gun and your secure and stuff. Day one. You got a job. Now you've got a job now. Yeah, okay, I am learning this Like when I was Trent and I worked together years ago at a place where we did a lot of government facilities and bowling. Air Force Bace was the that's probably the only Air Force space I've ever been on. But now that's a totally different Yeah. Up in the Navy yard. Yeah, it's a little cocoon of Department of Defense and everything else. It's like in that whole area. Yeah, that was definitely a learning experience. Now, you mentioned that you were in high school and you'd already heard about you know, Iraq and Afghanistan. We've had nine to eleven happen and you're in the police force. Are you thinking that eventually I'm going to go to Afghanistan? You end up going to Afghanistan? Right? Is that I did? Yeah? And for security forces, it was a guarantee unless so my wife, her and I actually met in tech school. We've been married seventeen year now. But her first duty station was Mountstream Air Force based Montana, out in the nuke fields. So she had to get a special clearance and special additional training to guard nuclear warheads. And those people weren't deploying much because it took it took a special person to do that job. But if you weren't in the missile field, you were almost guaranteed you were getting a deployment within your first two three years in security four. Yeah, so I hit the ground. I think I got to New Mexico. I think it was like March of eight and hell probably by October. I had already had I was already slotted to go to Iraq, and I wound up missing that deployment because my wife was exiting the Air Force and she was pregnant with our first child. We moved quickly if you did, if you know that one. But I told my chain of command like, hey, my fiance's moving here, she's pregnant. Babies do and and they were greatacious enough to let me miss that first deployment and see the birth of my oldest and and because of that, I never made it to Iraq. All of my deployments were Afghanistan or elsewhere, but I completely missed out on the Iraq theater or war. That's not not that I'm sad about it. Sure Iraq sucks, right yeah, yeah, all right. So you're you're getting your deployment to Afghanistan. Are you aware of what you're going to be doing like or is it just they bring you in and this is life? I mean, yeah, I'd say I had a really good awareness and and the Air Force again during heigh of the war and during my time, the Air Force had a really unique way of deploying troops because I think most most people think of the Army or maybe the Marine Corps when you think about combat deployments, and you know, for the most part, the Army, you know, if you're first Battalion, five h third Airborne, whatever, you and all your buddies are going together, you know what I mean, the whole the whole unit deploys. Whereas in the Air Force they kind of pick and choose. So they'll they'll send a tasker to a wing, which for us in New Mexico's a forty ninth wing, forty ninth Security Forces squadron. They'll send a tasker and they say, hey, we need thirteen bodies, and you pick thirteen bodies from within the squadron and you build them into a package. And then when you go down range, you're joined by thirteen bodies from this base and thirteen bodies from this base. And it's you know, because the Air Force is a smaller and leaner force. And you know, whereas Fort Bragg, for example, if you're talking about the eighty second Airborne, you've got a bunch of different infantry units on that base. So if one leaves, you still got guys left behind to guard the base and respond to contingencies or whatever. If you wiped out the entire forty United Security Forces, there's no more Security Forces members on Holloman Air Force Base. We are all they got, So they would they would call these, I think Air Expeditionary Forces and AE is what they would build out of all these different bases. So the tasker would come down and they'd say, hey, here's what you're going to be doing on this deployment, whether it was Gardener prison or convoy operations. My first deployment, I hit the jackpot. I got to do what was called a flyway security team. So in security force is one of those cool opportunities you have is the Phoenix Raven program. And you go through this school, you learn some combatives, you learn how to deal with all these different situations, and you become like an in flight security body. You wear a flight suit, you're considered aircrew, and you fly all over the world transporting cargo, troops, whatever. But the whole idea behind it is anytime a plane, an Air Force asset lands outside of an established perimeter, you've got security guys. So I got to do what I call Phoenix Raven light or diet Phoenix Raven and do flyway security. So my first deployment or a flight suit with a you know, armored vest, carried it in for and got to fly basically every country that touches Afghanistan and every air base in Afghanistan to some extent, I got to visit. And so does this include like high ups in the military that are going to different places, so. They'll typically have anything, Yeah, like the Secretary of the Air Force has his own personal security details cos agents in theater. Sometimes we would get some of those guys on our planes. But but the goal for us was we might fly to Cobble International Airport, be able to get off the plane there, you know, because that's it's it's a big military base on one side, get off the plane, the aircrafts and child and then the next place that plane was stopping was the middle of nowhere desert in Afghanistan to resupply the third Special Forces Group who are out there living in caves or whatever, you know what I mean. So when you're landing out in the middle of the desert, there is no security, So me and my partner would be the first ones off the plane. We'd hold security. They could do whatever they were doing. Whether there was cargo, passengers, whatever the mission was, the aircrews could do that. We had security. The bad part about the job is if if the Taliban were to attack that airplane while we're on the ground, the protocols for the plane to leave and we're we're sitting there on the ground. Wow. Yeah, And I've got some funny stories about that kind of stuff if y'all want to hear it. Yeah, of course, that's awesome. That's why we're here. Yeah, So didn't sound funny, but go ahead. Yeah, So there was you know, and I'll start with I'll start with with a you know, a real word, I don't know, kind of not not an intense story, but for me at the times, an eighteen year old kid in Afghanistan, first deployment, you know, it almost got pretty real. But me and my partner we had parked at this this one little strip and there was a fence next to where the planes parked, and there was an Afghan village right there, and we'd been there. Hell, i'd probably been there thirty times in the in the seven eight months that I was in Afghanistan. But on this one mission, we could see this guy. There was this green like tarp laid over the fence and we could see this guy squatting down behind it and he had this huge metal bowlt when he was messing with something. So we're trying to, you know, not be suspicious, but get an eye on what this guy's doing. We're going up to the flight deck of the aircraft trying to look over the fence and we can't see. And finally my partner, Corey, he says, hey, I think that guy's building an explosive. And I went up. You know, I was I was the team leader for that mission. So I go up and I talked to the aircraft commander and I tell him what we think's going on, and he's like, what do we do? And I said, well, like, here's the protocol. You guys take off, leave us on the ground, and we'll see what happens. And sure enough, you know, when the plane starts to take off, and then we see this guy start to get active and he's peeking and he sees us still on the ground, and finally me and Corey turned and we put our guns on him and we just started yelling at him probably, hey, what do you do? And he doesn't understand us anyway, but we're yelling at him and this dude takes off running, so plane's gone. We get we get on the radio. We contacted the army because they did have patrols in the area, and they said they were going to dispatch somebody out. You know. Eventually we got another plane to come in and pick us up, and we found out the next day that they did. They recovered an ied. Wow, so it's our guest. This guy was just waiting for the plane to take off, and he was going to try to throw it, you know, over the fence and try to damage the plane while we were on takeoff or whatever. It was amazing about that story. First off, when we talk about this is one of the things I've also learned in the show. How much responsibility an eighteen year old kid has. Oh, I tell you know, I'm fifty five now and thinking about how much responsibility you just had to to diagnose something, go to the pilot of a plane and then tell him what he should do, and then what the protocol is, and then go engauge. I mean, wow, yeah, I know there's times my wife I can't unload the dishwasher. You know, you're you're freaking letting a plane leave while you're standing there only. And you don't you don't realize it in the moment. Yeah, you don't. You don't realize the value of the training you get in the military, even that young. We had another incident, this one we flew into an old Russian airstrip. It was in Konduce, Afghanistan, And I always this one always sticks out in my head every time i'd fly there because it reminded me of that scene from the movie Gladiator where he's walking through the fields. Well, it's just golden. There was these golden fields all around. I mean it was absolutely beautiful. I tell you. If it wasn't for you know, the Taliban, Afghanistan would be great. Oh wow, it's so beautiful there the. First person i've I know, that's first time I've ever heard that. Oh, I mean, I see pictures of other like I know y'all heard seen pictures of Iran in the nineteen sixties. Yep, it's I mean, it's a beautiful place and everybody's enjoying life and cobble. Afghanistan was the same way in the sixties. I mean you if you put up a picture of kabble in New York broad Street or Broadway or whatever in the sixties, and you'd see, like the way the women were dressed. Guy, the cars are driving, you wouldn't know which was which. Yeah, it's crazy. So yeah, we rolled in the Kundus and we landed on the ground there and we've been there a couple of times. This time was different. This time there was an old, blown out, rushing air traffic control tower and at the top of this tower they had some sandbag set up and there were two snipers up there, and I'm like, what this is new and plane the engines are still running. I get off the plane and me and my partner and we're doing our thing and this guy comes walking out of a hole in the side of this building. He's got a beard down to here, great long hair, he's got you could tell his full sleeve tattoos, flannel shirt rolled up to his elbows, and some five eleven pants, and I'm like, this dude's an operator. So I'm already excited. And he comes walking over and he's like, you were raving and I was like, yeah, I wasn't, but you know, in the moment, I say no, and he's. Like right, arm man. He's like I was security forces too, and I'm like, oh man, what are you doing now? He's like State Department. I'm like, all right, not tracking. And he's like, you know what you're doing here today? And I said no, and he's like, you're we're yelling over the engine plane or the plane engines. But he's like, you're picking up the ambassador to Afghanistan. And I'm like, this is cool. Suddenly one of the snipers cracks off around and I'm alert and I see popping over this hill this f two fifty three to fifty duly truck and there's a guy standing in the back Mexican Federale style with a with a machine gun mounted to this cage. And this diesel truck takes off over this hill and they start going down and I hear this mini gun opening up, and guys come running out of the hole in this build and they've got the ambassador between two of his State Department diplomatic security agents and they're running kind of heads down, and I'm like, we're under attack, you know. I'm amped up, but I don't see any threats. And they're like, come on, get on the plane, get on the plane. So we rushed onto this dang plane and we do a hot takeoff. I mean we're it's of like when you're hot breaking, but in a sea one thirty. The whole plane is rattling. They've got the engine spooled up, and when they take the break off, you fly sideways in your seat and you're up in the air in no time. And I'm I'm amped. And this guy sitting next to me, so I take my head set off and a leader, I'm like, what's going on? And he leans over, cool as a cucumber and he goes cows and I said, what cows. There's cows on the runway. We're having to clear them off so the ambo doesn't miss his next meeting. They were using sniper fire machine guns to scare away cows. And I mean, if you want to talk about going from. That, you tell you were in there. I thought we were about to get some the Talaban was coming for us. This guy's sick cows. Yeah, And that's honestly, guys, that's my experience. That's that's combat, that's deployments. You know, it's it's it's levels, it's highs and lows, chaos and sometimes you're all jacked up and you're ready to get after it and it's just cows on the runway. Wow. Yeah. How long were you in Afghan Afghanistan? So that deployment was typically the Air Force does six month rotations. We got extended a little bit, so around seven and a half eight months from my first deployment. Oh so you've been, you've been multiple times? Yes, okay, yeah, second time better, worse, same. Uh, they progressively got worse. Yeah. So second deployment it was to Saudi Arabia and we've got a little or I don't know if we still have it or not, but it was it was too a compound for American service members that were helping to train the Saudi's. You know, so the Saudis buy a lot of military equipment from US fighter jets, tanks, whatever, And whenever they do that, it comes with a package. And I said, well, you know, we're gonna sell let's say it's a tank, We'll sell you the tank, but we're also going to sell you, you know, training from a couple of tank drivers and then some tank mechanics and some the guys who fuel it up, and they spend time over there teaching the Saudi's or whatever military we're working with on how to use that stuff. So there was a compound there that they lived on, and I was really mad when I got sent there because in my mind, again it's I'm going, I'm going here to babysit these families that live on this compound in Saudi Arabia. There's men and women dining in Afghanistan every day, and here I am. You know, we had a pool. You could go to a local restaurant and have a couple of drinks and get a steak dinner. But it was actually pretty cool. There was so when I when I first got there. You know, before you deploy, actually you go through that pre deployment training where you're getting trained up. You know, my first deployment, I went to the Raven School and I learned all that stuff. This one I went down an Egglin Air Force Base in Florida. We had a program down there at the time called Brave Defender, and you'd live in austere locate environment. You know, it's out in the woods. You're living in huts and you're just wargaming. You're clearing buildings, you're doing patrols, you're doing all this combat related stuff that falls within the Security Forces mission and you're getting trained up. So there was a tech sergeant there who I guess I had impressed, And when we got on the ground, like the second day we were there, I got pulled and they said, Hey, you're going to be the nsuice of this gate complex. You're gonna have twenty three airmen you know, working for you, and you're responsible for all the foot traffic that comes through, all of the vehicle traffic, and then our main search pit for anyone driving on in the base, they come through you and you got to search the vehicles. So we I was on shift one day and I get a call down in the search pit, Hey, Sara McCoy, we we think we got something. And it turned out there was a vehicle trying to get on base with an IED So you know, we had to evacuate that area, court on off the area, called the EOD texts to come in and I got a medal for you know, for that operation. So you know, it was it was hard towards the end to say I didn't do anything or you know, I didn't contribute, because there was a real threat there and there was another kind of a turning point for my career, you know, because you wanted to make rank, because you wanted to pay, but you never wanted the responsibility. Especially me, you know, I liked I liked being responsible for for myself and doing the job. And here I am thrust into this this mantle of leadership. Not that big of a deal, but anyway, uh, I think it was an F sixteen had gone down in Afghanistan. I remember a plane had crashed, and somehow the tasker came to us in Saudi Arabia and they said, hey, we we're gonna put together a team of guys to go forward to sit on this plane and secure it until you know, the Air Force can get a crash recovery crew out there. You know, but there's you know, when it comes to our fighter jets, there's there's sensitive equipment in there and the avionics or the way it works, all this stuff. So they were gonna they were gonna send a group of guys forward to sit on this thing so the Iranians couldn't get it, I'm guessing. And so I got picked for that mission. I got to do all the mission planning for it and get everything approved, never wound up going. They decided I think they just probably dropped a bomb on the thing. But you know, up until, you know, the the hour before we were supposed to go, I was in charge. I planned it, I picked my team, and it really gave me an opportunity to do some mission planning and see what that would be like and I and I enjoyed it, and I thought, you know, this is something that I could do. Because everybody in the military can relate. You've got good bosses and bad bosses, and eventually there comes a time where you just got to say, man, I could do this better myself, and if it means me doing it or working for that guy, I'm gonna do it. So yeah, so that was that was an interesting opportunity. All right, So did you re up after your first four years? I guess I sure did, Okay, I think, yeah, in between those two deployments, I had to re up a little bit early because in security forces, uh there's there's two different uh you call them shred outs, and it's like changing jobs. You got to go to a whole different school, but they still fall into that security force's umbrella. So one of those shreds. Your alpha shred is your canine handlers. So think of a military working dog or a police working dog. You can specialize in that and do that for your career. Uh. Then we have a B shred which is called Combat Arms, and that job is responsible for all of the weapons training and weapons maintenance across the Air Force. So I got to be a full time fire arms instructor for three years, and that was my role. When I first went to Saudi Arabia, I got pulled out of probably working in an armory. But yeah, so in conjunction with that cross train, I needed more retainability in the service. So I think I didn't even make it to the end of my first initial four year contract and I had already re upped because the goal for me was always twenty years in the Air Force. Oh wow, yeah, okay, so did you pull the whole twenty. No, I'm actually in the reserves right now. Okay, So I did twelve years active and then switched over to the reserves. I'm at eighteen right now, but I just re upped again at Monument Terrace for three more years. I'll retire with twenty one years of service. Did you do it in the ceremony at Monument Terras I did. Yeahde man, that is freaking awesome. They loved it. Yeah. Cool? Is that? I wish i'd have seen that. How long ago would you do that? That was. Three weeks ago now for yeah, congratulations and you were probably that's cool. It might have been the weekend, the week after you and I had met Trent. Oh, that's really cool. Hey, let me ask you this, and that's you know, and you don't have to answer this at all. And I could be completely wrong. When we left Afghanistan that famous picture of the guys trying to hold onto the plane that the cargo ship that was leaving. I don't know if you have familiarity with that type of flight and that type of plane. But wasn't that an air Force plane that was leaving? Am I wrong on that? It was? Yeah, it was an air Force I believe those were air Force C seventeens. Yeah, So would you have been on something like that and what would you have done with people trying to hang on, hang on and come on? What would you have done in that situation? Right? So that that is, you know, part of that role that I talked about those Phoenix ravens within the Air Force. They fly around on SEE seventeens. My plane in my first tour was the CEE one thirty, which has the propellers. Yeah, seventeen's a little bigger than SEE one thirty. It's got jet engines. But yeah, so they may have had ravens on that plane securing it. Yeah, you know, and if and if there's guys hanging on, I mean, the biggest thing is keeping people from rushing inside the plane and causing harm. Obviously the rules on the ground at that time. I'm not sure what directives they had because they were obviously transporting people out. I mean, I've seen pictures of those those planes filled with refugees. Yeah, But as far as people hanging on the outside, I mean, I think once the plane is buttoned up, yeah, it is what it is. And if you're going to hang on to the side of an airplane that's taken off, yeah, and think you're gonna make it, you know, that's unfortunate. But what that always reminded me of somebody is willing to do that then stay. Yeah, I mean, that's all you really need to know about their lifestyle and what they have. If they'd rather do that than stay where they were. That's just amazing to me. Take me through when you you've done your tours or whatever and you're finished with your I guess full time and now you're in reserves, right, So what is that? I mean? Can you explain what that looks like as opposed to. Like when you step away from active duty into the reserve role because you're going to go get a regular civilian job and start your family or build your family a little more. That kind of thing. Is it similar to what we think National guards is your only can be can be? So the reserve program and you know the Air National Guard exists as well. There's different programs that are neat there, you know. And I'll start with you have the AGR positions, which is an Air Guard Reserve I'm sorry, Active Guard reserve. So you could be a full time employee of the Air National Guard or the Air Force Reserves and work three hundred and six five days a year just like an active duty member. But you fall underneath that component, so some people do that. Then you have in my case, traditional reservist, which would be you know, when you hear the news on the radio, all it is is one week in a month and two weeks in the summer, and that's essentially what a traditional reservist is. My program that I fall under is called the IMA program, So that's the individual Mobilization augmentee in our program. Versus being assigned to an Air Reserve base or an Air Reserve unit, I'm assigned to an active duty billet. So somewhere in the Air Force is an active duty guy sitting in a chair and on paper, I'm the ghost that sits behind it, and if he were to get activated and go forward to deploy, I would then get activated to do his job statesidea. So the IMA program for me, it's great because it's very flexible. I do have basically twenty four individual reservist days to complete a year, so to me, that equates to essentially a week in a month, and then I do have a two week annual tour over so where you know, I'm activated for that two weeks and I go to a base here in the United States and do my job for two weeks. But I could I could choose if I want to do a week in a month or if I wanted to knock out all twenty four of those days in one stretch. So where is that? Is it in Virginia somewhere? No? Right now, I'm assigned to a base in Alabama. Okay, Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama. So how do you get into Lynchburg? How did you go from Texas, New Mexico to Afghanistan? Hopley? And where did you call because you said your wife was pregnant? Yeah, so where is home? I'll lay it out real quick? So sure, first two station is Holoman Air Force Base. Deployed to Afghanistan. Out of there, became a firearms destructor and they moved me to Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. Okay. Second deployment happens out of there, the one of Saudi Arabia. And then I find the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. So now I have the time and service. I've built up my resume because really, when when OSI is recruiting, especially enlisted airman, they're looking for the best of the best. So you you've got to work on your resume. You've got to have some deployments, and you've got to be a top performer, uh to get in. But I was recruited, went through the federal law Enforcement Training Center in Glencoe, Georgia, and became an OSI I Special Agent. During that process, I got new orders, So this time it was to Elmandorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska, and I remember calling my wife from the Law Enforcement Training Center and telling her, Hey, babe, we're going to last and she just broke Oh, that's awful. Yeah, it was my favorite assignment and she she ended up loving it. At the end of our three years there, we were trying to extend for another three CAS was just incredible. But you know, and we had talked about moving back there when I left the Air Force, but uh, the winners were just a little bit too long for her. But I think me and the kids all would have went back in a heartbeat. So from Elmandorf, Alaska, I got my third deployment, this time back to Afghanistan. And this was my first deployment as an OSI agent. So there we're doing counterintelligence and counter terrorism and we're protecting the base and the whole mission. You know, there's a lot of different missions in OSI, just like anything, but our mission at a task force level for OSI Special Agents is what we called keeping the airfield green. If the airfield is in a green status, and that means planes can take off in land. That means bombs can go where they need to go, troops can go where they needed to go, supplies, et cetera. Whenever the Taliban would shoot rockets at our base or you know, a ground attack was happening something like that, planes couldn't take off, all movements stopped. People had to shelter and take cover. So our job was to proactively seek out the terrorists who were trying to launch rockets, plan attacks, plan IED's all that stuff, and go ahead and get them. During that deployment, I lost six of my teammates to a motorcycle borne I du and that really, uh, that really affected me. So came home, you know, dealt with PTSD and that kind of changed the trajectory of where I was going and what I want to do with my life. But from that assignment, I also I got forwarded to Pope Air Force Base or Pope Army Airfield and Fattefeld, North Carolina, and then co located with a unit on Fort Bragg. So I got to do a lot of really cool stuff that last assignment. It was underneath the Joint Special Operations Command, Umbrella, So one of those one of those units that we don't really talk about, right, but I got to work with the best our country has to offer, the best our Air Force has to offer. You know, my teammates are guys who uh There's been books written, in movies made about stuff that that some of my teammates have done. So for me, it was like stepping into this world old where I was an aunt amongst giants. You know, I just. Constantly impressed and blessed to be able to stand amongst them and do some of the work we did. But also the imposter syndrome was real for me. It was like how did I get here and I don't belong here type of thing. But ultimately I saw that as like the pinnacle of my career. It's doing a lot of really cool stuff and the thought of going back to the regular Air Force after being in special Operations just was not appealing. And because of where I was and the type of work we do, we got a lot of exposure to the FBI's hostage Rescue Team, which is you know, it's it's a full time tactical team and I think it's the best in the country as far as their operators go and you get a lot of guys that come from really high level units, seal teams, high level army units, the Air Force, and they joined the FBI to go to that team. So I had met some of the guys there and they convinced me, hey, you know, you've got a background as a special agent already, you do the counter intel stuff. Why don't you join the FBI and you know, make your way over to us. And so I did part of that. I decided to leave active duty in twenty nineteen. I'm ets or you know. My final day on active duty was in June. Middle of June. By the middle of July, I was in Quantico at the FBI Academy And that is what sent me here to Lynchburg and ultimately what kept me from going to the FBI's hostage rescue teams. Once we landed here, got integrated into this community. You know, me and the family designed we never want to leave. This area is such a special, special place. Well, Quantaqua was still a couple hours away. How do you is was it an office or the FBI. Yeah, so the FBI's main office that covers most of Virginia's Richmond Field Office, and then underneath the Richmond Field office, you've got satellite offices in multiple cities. So we had an office here in Lynchburg that I was assigned to. Yeah, and we just loved it, never want to leave. Yeah, people don't realize. It's just like you were talking about with the military, with different things that responsibilities that people don't think about, Like when you know, I mean doing background checks and stuff. An FBI agent does that. So they're located in different regional There's just so many different duties. You don't think like I do. I think of FBI. Oh, you know you're doing some special investigator. But that's it's about everybody, right. You think people know about the New York Field Office and you think DC. But the amount of people actually had a buddy I worked with, I think I'll get this story right. He was he was down and I think Pennsylvania County, and he had knocked on this lady's door. I think she was being defrauded by somebody. So he was there to let her know, Hey, that's not your boyfriend, that's some guy sitting in Jamaica and he's stealing all your money type of thing. He knocked on the door and he showed her his badge said hey, you know, I'm such and such with the FBI, and she said, I'll be right back. She closed the door. Next thing he knows, two Pittsylvania County Sheriff's step and he's pulled up behind him and they're like, oh hey, buddy. She said, somebody who was out here and personating the FBI. Oh wow. And she could not wrap her mind around the FBI being in pitt County, Virgi. You know what I mean, out in middle of nowhere, but they really do, you know, you can go everywhere. So yeah, that became my career for the next five and a half years. You know, I'm proud to say I was a part of the FBI and proud of the work that I did there, but ultimately not wanting to move. Stress of being in law enforcement for eighteen years or at that time, sixteen years, seventeen years, there was a lot of things that I just I woke up one morning and said, I don't want to do this anymore. Sure, and I've had this side project growing since twenty nineteen. So I'm wearing my shirt now, but index archery and I'll go back to the training that we talked about early on, because you know, the military does a great job, especially the Air Force. They do a great job giving you the skills you need to do your job. But then there's all this other training you get, and you do it every year, and a lot of times you roll your eyes and one of those trainings is about mental health and resiliency and suicide awareness and all this stuff, and you're like, oh, this again. But when I got home from that third deployment to Afghanistan and dealing with the loss of my team, I started the things from that training started popping up, and I realized that I was in a bad place and I needed to get some help. And ultimately, you know, it's a much longer story, but ultimately that help start it with a bow and arrow, And that bow and arrow made me acknowledge that I was having this problem. It made me go tell my commander. It made me walk into the mental health group on base and talked to a counselor for the first time, and it led to all these good things and all this growth. So in twenty nineteen, you know, as soon as I graduated Quantico, I decided to launch Index archery and with the goal of just letting people know, oh hey, this worked for me and it could work for you too, And very quickly introducing people to archery and then watching them spend upwards of two three thousand dollars on a complete archery setup made me feel like crap. So I turned it into a nonprofit. And now what we do is we pay for one hundred percent of the equipment that heroes need to get started. So we work with veterans, law enforcement, first responders, and people struggling post traumatic stress, you know, because they're a hero to us because of what they did for their country. But they're also a hero because they're willing to face their demons and face that storm and do something about their mental health. So it doesn't have to be a service member. It could be an extraordinary civilian who's ready to take their mental health into their own hands. But we pay for all of the equipment they need to get started, We mentor them, and we help them get fully integrated into their local archery community. So that could be you know, bow hunting, but it could also be a three D league and indoor league with the goal of just one it's your mental health it's your physical health. We get them outdoors, we get them moving, get them doing something. And then it's the social wellness aspect. They find a community. And that for a lot of service members when they leave, they missed that camaraderie. Yeah, you know, and they. They miss you know, every now and then. Every now and then. You got to have that buddy who calls you an a hole when you laugh about it exactly, and when you're shooting archery, you. Find yeah, he's been calling for thirty years. So for me, the archery community is just this amazing, supportive, mind blowing community. And and that's the biggest gift that I give these guys. They think the bow's cool, the bows just to start. When I let you know that this community's out there and you get integrated into it, that's the best thing that I can give something. I was fortunate when I was a kid, young teenager, my brother and I my dad introduced us to archery. I don't hunt with it anymore, but as a young kid, it taught me so much, and we were part of the Isaac Walton League. We would go to twenty yards shoots every Saturday night and we would target practice, competition, and we would do that. It was it's funner than bowling. It was just it was so much and you just learned so many skills about concentration and focus and confidence in yourself. It was a huge thing as a teenager to be able to do that. That's really admirable. Man. So are you doing this do you help nationally? Is it a local group that you're doing this with? So we have what I call ambassadors in multiple states, and right now a lot of the work we do is one on one. The majority of it happens right here around Lynchburg, Virginia. But our long term goal over the next four years now, I hope to build a wellness center here in central Virginia, and the goal would be my ambassadors wherever in the country identify heroes and need they send them to us for a five day intensive retreat. It's going to be archery eccentric, but our goal is to introduce them to as many wellness modalities as we can during that five day period. And then when you send them back home, they've got a bow in one hand, they've got a couple other tools in this hand, and then the ambassador works them in their local community at that point, and I stole the idea. We've got a great psychologist working with us now, doctor Leah Kaylor. But I had met her through the FBI and through a process that I went through. So anytime you're involved in a shooting or a mass casualty event or something like that, in the FBI, they sing you through a similar program. For me, I went out to Florida and stayed in this really nice hotel and they had booked out like the conference center, and for four days. It was just that, you know, you started seven in the morning and it's thirty men in or hour long blocks where they're introducing you to all these new things and you're getting time with a therapist, and at the end of the day on the last two days, you kind of choose your own adventure, right it's, hey, we've got tai chi in this room, and we've got grief counseling over here, and we've got yoga here and massages, and you know, pick a couple things you're interested in, but also pick a couple of things you're not interested in, so you get the exposure because you never know. And some of those things for me, one of them was art therapy, I had no interest in art therapy, but man, was it was? It a game changer for me because I've been able to take art therapy and translate that into arrow building. So in archery, you know, building your arrows, and now there's these companies that make these these fancy raps that you can put on the end of it. So a military veteran, Dustin Adams, he's got a business called Adams Precision Archery, and he does all these custom builds and they're beautiful and some of them are funky and wacky and you can really express yourself. But he supplies us with the materials, and I can have a veteran, you know whatever, speaking to them in the moment, you know, focus on some of that trauma, those negative experiences, and pick out your your vein color, pick out your rap color. Let's build this arrow and now let's go excuse me, let's go shoot it at a steel buck, a target made out of steel. It's gonna blow that sucker up. And it's that release, right is you pour your that negative energy into that arrow and you build it and then you go destroy it and you get a release from that. That's amazing, man, that's awesome, how long you been doing that? Sorry? So started mentoring in twenty nineteen, official nonprofit in twenty twenty two. Yeah, yeah, how do you get your funding? It's all donor driven right now? Oh well, I can't say that. This year we won our first grant from Virginia Wildlife. Okay, so we did win a grant this year. But yeah, it's always been donor driven and we're one hundred percent volunteers. But we are looking for corporate sponsorships. We're looking for more grant opportunities and building this wellness centers and ambitious goal. It's going to take a lot, but hopefully, you know, Coca Cola or somebody will get behind. Us, or hydrogen water maybe yeah. Maybe you look even better healthier than you did when we started. Yes, all right, So how does somebody get in touch with you? What's the best way for them to reach out? Yeah, so our website there's a contact block. So that's E n D e X archery dot org, Index archery dot org and that's a that's a military phrase that stands for end of exercise end xarchery dot org. You can also find us on social media Instagram, Facebook. You can shoot us a DM. You know we're still small enough that you know I'm answering every DM. I get cool. All right, you're listening, Life, Liberty, Happiness. We've been talking with Air Force Master Sergeant Jay McCoy. Thank you for being with us today. Before you leave, we always ask one last question. Uh, if you could spend twenty four hour period with one person, who would it be? And where? Anybody in history doesn't matter, but where would you spend with them? And who would it be? Gotta go Jesus as a it's a favorite get answer. Yeah, yeah, I think twenty four hours is with Jesus and Capernaum or Jerusalem or wherever. So cool. Yeah, that'd be it'd be something awesome. We have a drama segment that we get into after you leave here, and that's actually on my list. He's gotten me hooked into starting to watch Chosen. Oh, it's so good. I'm in fifth season right now and today we had lunch. You just don't tell me anything that's going on. Yeah, that's awesome. Man. Well appreciate you being on the show and good luck to you and thanks for all the information. Terrific. Oh man, it was fantastic and I liked saying this to others that have done this, that come talk about helping others. You served our country and you're still serving our country. Man, I appreciate everything you're doing. That's cool. It's an honor. Yeah, it's awesome, good stuff. Good to have you meet Insurance in Bedford. I'm David Honeker, local State Farm agent. Whether it's home, auto, or life insurance, You've got you covered with personalized service and great rates. Let us help you protect what matters most with the reliability and trust of State Farm. Call us today at five four zero, five eight six eight one ninety four, or visit our office that is conveniently located at one two three two East Lynchburg Salem Turnpike in Bedford, right beside the Walmart. We are your go to state farm agent. 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Sometimes you just realize there is so much importance in just serving every day. Yeah, it's crazy. And then you know what I noticed a common theme is all of them, every single one we've had so far. Have I always talked about somebody else having served more? Yeah, you know what I mean? Yeah, I mean you made up a great point about not being able to unload the dishwasher. Right. What I think about is, man, I struggle to get a waterline approved, right, and I'm struggling to that. This guy is looking at somebody putting an id to get together. Holy cow, Yeah, oh man, it's so awesome. And even a small task. Sometimes it's just moving cows. Right, dude, I was on the edge of my seat. Had a guy come in with. That was all. But you know, as he's telling the story, it popped in my head. I was like, oh crap. We do have idiots like Lindsey Graham that fly into zones. If somebody's got to protect them, yeah, like I never would have fought, you. Know, I mean, you know what I learned today. I didn't know the plane takes off without security, like if it hits the fan, he's got to go, and they got to hang back like that easy. What do we do now? Oh? All right? Yeah on the drama. Back to the show. Look at quick buttons over there, and I'm not letting you all talk about me when Imma gomes back. And by the way, Emma texted me poor poor Ginger because of the dog the conehead. That's why I said the thing about the uh the bumper. A couple of good shows I've been watching, Yeah, and would he let me know if you have seen any of these. It's not Star Trek or anything like that. But then I'm out. One of them is called blind Spot. Have you heard it? No? Dude? All right, so I'll tell you real quickly. It's really a neat premise. So the show starts. It's a show. It's had five seasons so far. It started back in twenty twenty. There's a girl in a Duffel bag in the middle of Tomes Square. Okay, they don't know it's a girl at the time. They think it's a bomb. So the FBI there and they're getting ready to unzip this bag and it starts moving and this girl unzips herself out of this Duffel bag and stands up. She's completely nude. Nice, I'm in. But she is tattooed from head to toe. I'm still in. I know you wouldn't be. You don't like tattoos. So one of the tattoos on her back is Weller and that's the name of an FBI agent who's in the New York field office. So they take her to the field office and from that point on they find out that every tattoo on her body is leading them into some sort of crime or something. Okay, and so it's it's all of that into It's pretty neat so far. I've really enjoyed it. You know, you trigger a movie that I know know that what he had to have loved. It was called memento. Oh, one of my favorites. Absolutely. It's the guy that loses his memory every night. Okay, so he tattooed you made me think of it. He writes things on himself to warn him about it. Don't tell me because I'm wondering if that's what this is. And I'm wondering if she's tattooed herself because she has no memory, she doesn't know how she got tattooed. Well, memento, he is going to wake up, and he knows he's going to wake up the next day, so he takes polaroid pictures and he writes things so that he knows. It's like what I do now because I can't remember anything, so I trigger myself. He finds notes that says, don't forget. Yeah, wonder what that was about. I have done that. I've literally put reminders and wondered what the reminder was. Uh oh yeah, it's all. And the other one is called Countdown. So blind Spot is on Netflix. Countdown is on Prime. Okay, I have seen the I've been on Prime lately, so I've seen the promos for Countdown. I can't remember what it is though. It's sort of a I think it happens out in La FBI. Same thing, just well, sort of a squad that was put together trying to fight crime. I don't know why I get on these kicks of crime or murder or something like that, but it's crazy. What do you got? I sort of did the same thing. So it's marketing genius for Amazon to have done five races, Amazon Prime to have done five races, because now I know what the other shows are on Amazon. I never go to a Prime. Never thought about it, except you know, it's been a while since Chosen had come out, and it's been a while since I've seen the last season had Chosen, so I knew that was coming out too. So but Reacher three. My mom is a huge Reacher fan. Have you seen the third season? Is it just come out of it? Yes? Oh no, I have not. It'rent it's out now, dude. There's something about his bad acting that either he's a great bad actor and that's part of his stick, or he's just a bad actor. But I am in, you know, engaged by it. I think it's acting is hilarious. It kind of reminds me of the old Arnold Schwarzenegger with the bad jokes every now and then Reacher. Yeah, yeah, the season was really good. Did you have you seen it? No? I have not. Yeah, it's good. I can't wait and then chosen. I am down to the last episode. I won't tell you anything good. It is riveting. I can't wait to watch it. Yeah, Like we do it for by and I'm getting anxious because like they're off on vacation blah blah blah, and we haven't been able to have Bible study and I'm tired of waiting. Like y'all watch it for Bible study. Yeah, Like we start and stop it during Bible study, and we ask questions and we actually look in the Bible and try to find where this is. Okay, So I'm going to say something here, and I'm not going to give it away. It's just how dumb I don't know about the Bible. And every morning, you know, I call my mom and I had no idea. My mom knew so much about the Bible. But did you know that? You know, of course Judas was the trader, right, sure, and we knew that, but I had no idea. So sometimes when I'm watching the movie. I don't know if this is the director's interpretation of something or if it's really in the Bible. I don't know. So I said, I said, did you know that Judas actually negotiated? And I think it's a caiphas of how much money to turn over Jesus? And she goes, yeah, forty silver coins? Yeah, or maybe it was thirty. Can't earn. I've already watched it and forgot if it's thirty or forty. And I was like, how did you know that? She goes, it's in the Bible. Yeah, so that is that is And I'm like an idiot. That's like, that is what we do, and we try to decipher what's the directors put in and what is actually biblical. And it's so funny. That's why I told you that we're all sitting there as adults, and Reagan's watching it and she doesn't have to look at the Bible like she's yeah, that's not biblical, or she'll say yeah, that's it's like, yes, we do know. I'm going to give it credence only because before I ever watched the first episode, you know, Glenn Beck is a really really religious guy. Yes, and I remember him interviewing the guy that did chosen and he was just amazed at how accurate, yes, that they held to the Bible to do the things that they did. So I feel pretty confident I'm watching something true. Oh no, no, I would say ninety percent. But they obviously and that doesn't mean they're changing. It's the interpretation of what had to have, you know something, because obviously the Bible doesn't give you day by day. Yeah, so there's some things that happened in between that had to have. And I appreciate they give Jesus a sense of humor. Yes, I literally love that because he says stuff and sometimes he's sarcastic and they don't know as is that real or not, because of course not exactly. It's like being here. All right, on to sports. It's time for sports, all right. NASCAR was in hot Atlanta. Yep. Did you like it? Loved it? Yeah? I thought Atlanta just doesn't disappoint. It was amazing to me, Trent. It almost reminded me of the old days where you would see a car that just would get momentum and I don't even know how or why, Yeah, but they would fly past two or three cars. Yeah, and it's like, whoa, what just happened? And then two laps later they're getting passed because they're loose or whatever, and it just it had the old days of Nascar. Yep, did you say? And I know you're not a fan of his, but man, I love his show because he's so honest about the discussion Deny Handlin Hamlin saying that the wreck actually made the better race because it wasn't forty cars out there doing it was twenty. They had more space to be able to do what you just described. That's true. Yeah, how'd you like to tdde Dylan? I don't know what happened. I don't know that, so you know it's. The end season challenge, okay? And after the race, he said, I knocked your favorite driver out because he finished he. Nonched ahead of Dan Handlin out okay, And. People were mad about it, like, you know, he's a jerk, And Denny said, dude, that's what it's all about. That right there is hilarious. Yeah, well, it's hard for me to do an end season yeah challenge. I'm not sure what it means. How are they doing it? They're all doing it? Is it like a no, no, are they doing it like a bracket style? Yeah? Okay, so you against another guy and whoever. I thinks is high. Yeah, and there's no way anybody had tied Dylan Beaten ambling. That's funny. All right. So we'll have Kevin coming up around six forty. Well, uh, we'll have him on and we'll talk our picks for last week because he ended up winning. Yeah, picked Chase Elliott. So when you sent me the winner, the cash winner, but he picked Chase Elliott, what do you do it bet for him? Well? Yeah, he's in South Carolina. Remember, he can't do it. Oh okay, Well, hopefully let's keep this quiet. I'm not I didn't take any money, so it should be legal, right, right? Do you wink? I didn't think he actually asked. He's like, I'm like, you haven't, No, you do not? All right? NBA Finals recap, Okay, see wins the title? Yeah, it is okay, it was kind of on. It was antaclimatic after did you say it was fifty decline in ratings. From last year? Was it? Really? I went back and looked at the ratings, so you can actually see the chart if you just google it and AI now gives you great things to read. I went through and dude, literally, not only is it half of last year, it's only a quarter of what the nineties had the number of people. Okay watching it. So when your league is having a problem, Yeah, and your commissioner comes out on Draft night and he spends the first couple of minutes telling you how great the league is. Yeah, because we just had the youngest team in the history. When that tells you how bad their league has gotten. You're fooling yourself. You're having to promote it because it's so bad. Yeah, that's that ain't good. I mean I would be excited for a young team coming on, and I am. I'm happy for Oklahoma City and I was Frandiana I hated a halliburt and got hurt like that. But they're not acknowledging what the problem is, which is the. Woke Oh yes, No, they're never going to do that. They're not going to acknowledge that Lebron James took their brand and. Buried it correct part. I mean, not just him, but you know that whole issue. No, you're right, I mean, if you go back to when it was in its heyday, your magic Johnson's and Larry Bird and Michael Jordan's those people. They didn't get involved in politics. They just played basketball and it was a rivalry and they hated each other and it was great. I mean, obviously Kareem Adul Jabbar got into it that kind of thing, but not to the extent of the kneeling, the not coming out for the national anthem. And it wasn't just Lebron, it's everybody else was doing it too. They buried their brand. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, No, the difference trend is it was off the court. They've now put it on the court. Yeah, with the T shirt. That's true. That like you can't that's why you turn it off. You know, I'm not doing that. That's right, all right. So let's see moving on to Cooper. Flag was taking number one overall. Yeah, how about Duke having three players on the top ten. It's crazy. And Rutgers, how do they have two people in the top four in the five? Yeah, they didn't even make the tournament. Right now, both those coaches should be fired. If Duke can't win with three lottery picks and Rutgers can't even make the tournament. Okay, get out here, you yep, all right, uh F one, f you Max? Don't I texted you or did you watch? And you said no, don't tell me? Yeah, So did you finally watch and what did you? Yeah? I text you later that night. Yeah, I finally got to see it. I was so mad. I mean that guy just drove straight into him in the first turn. Yeah, it was weird and he's out, yeah, because it wasn't that he was behind him, right, he literally had to pass like two or three cars to. Get to one that was the Mercedes guy, right, Yeah, Anton Elly, Yeah, I think he got a bonus from Tito Toto. So yeah, he's pretty much out now with any chance of winning. About the only interesting thing now with F one right now is a can Max breakthrough? That's an interesting story. But which McLaren guy is going to be the winner? That seems to be the Yeah, the only thing. Have you picked a favorite? Would you like? Would you rather see Piastree or I. Kind of only want Lando only because he's been there longer. But that's only I'm rooting for Lando because I feel like, but. He's such a whoosie too. Yeah you know what I mean? Yeah, I don't have a care are you Wimbledon watching. I usually watched the finals and I'll watch Joker. I kind of have watched it only because I was in Charlottesville at the hotel, so I'm working and I just had the TV on and I didn't you know, it's on during the morning like live. And it sucked me in because it was an American playing a five setter that ended up getting delayed to the next day, and there was an argument at the end, like I had never known this. So Wimbledon, you're not allowed to play after ten pm or something. Because of the neighborhood. Who knows. I think that is some of the case. Some of these are ordinances. Yeah, so forty five minutes before they go to both players and I guess they ask do you want to wait till tomorrow to finish or do you want to keep playing? And then we stop wherever we stop? And I don't know what happened, but literally, you see the American mad and you read his lips where he goes, then why did you ask? Because apparently they said they were going to postpone it. So later on he said, why are you asking me if you're going to postpone it anyway? Yeah, what I said was, we have played a seven to six uh in every set the maximum, and it hasn't taken over forty five minutes to play each set. Yeah, so why now are you asking why wouldn't we just have we would have finished before Yeah, and so they ended up having to finish it the next day and he ended up winning. Okay, but yeah, anyway, it kind of got me hooked and then I was like, oh, crap, I actually want to watch this. So that's why our Mount Rushmore is what it is today. Yes, top wmbled wimbledon't play that? Why are you mad about that? I'm not you said, No, I didn't mean to smirk. You do smirk a lot. I smirk a lot. I'm a smirk I'm a smirker. Smirker. All right, Uyeah, this is kind of the dead period for sports, wouldn't you say? Absolutely? It kind of sucks. We're kind of lulled now the NBA Finals, NHL and you're just waiting for college football to start. That's true. So you got about a month of no sports, So what could ever fill that void? Like, what would be Why wouldn't the uf L try that? Now that's a great point I think what happens is everybody just goes on summer vacation and nobody is interested. I can see that, all right, Moving on, what's happening? It's time for news. I thought what he might play that rerun? What's happening? Remember that old days? I love that he ain't got that. Does he delete? I'm I didn't think he's a delet he just changes names. I own the sign company. Yeah. By the way, we now have a web you. Need to make a note. Yeah you need to make an announcement about media squash too. Yeah, no longer, go ahead. It's what's happened, It's what's happenings happening. I do have y'all have an official website now, all right? And what is that l O H show dot com? It's easy. All the episodes are there, and it's gonna we're gonna put more stuff on it. But right now that's the hub. I would have made it l each my Show. Oh god, that domain was taken of course, Trent. I'm a little worried about l EH Show because I tried to look that up and it was lesbians. Oh that we might get some good traffic. Then that was on YouTube YouTube. Yeah, yeah, you gotta be careful when you look ups on YouTube. Ye, what do the what do you think that l stood for? Lick? All right, anyway, let's get back to it. I love it when our side is winning. Yes, man, the feelings are good right now. No, I mean listen, how often have we you and I saw Republicans A go, god, man, what are we doing? Like this? Stop being Weenie's Yeah. These people are awful. Yeah. So now I see clips and I go, oh my god, that guy's great. So check out this guy. He is Republican. Wesley Hunt love this guy. On the Bill Maher show cut one. Did you think of Whoopy Goldberg saying it's worse to be a black person in America today than a woman in a wren My. District in a Grands out of Texas is actually a white majority of district that President Trump would have won by twenty five points. As I said, I'm a direct descendant of a slave. My great great grandfather was born on a Rose Down plantation. I am literally being judged not by the color of my skin, but by the content of my character. That's the progress Because like. A lot of white people had to vote for me a lot. So I don't even ever want to hear Woopy Goldbert's conversation about how it's worse to be black in America right now, that's a bit. And my father, who's seventy five years old, he was a man that was in the French quarters that had to go get a sandwich to the back door of the building. And his son is now a United States congressman in a white majory district in Texas as a Republican. That is America. That's America, dude, surprise he got a clap. Did you notice in the clip of the white liberal. Yeah, tried to tell him what he feels. Yeah, as a black man in America. It's just god, their hypocrisy is. And first off, the white liberal not letting him talk and to interrupt him like he's wrong about his own story. It's unbelievable. Yeah, all right. You know what's crazy, as you know how I say, there's always so much stuff that you and I never mixed clips. I had that clip. I mean, now, no, I'm saying, it's just cool. That's how much I love that too. Great, it's what that needs to be talked more because I'm going to play the Whoopie Goldberg thing here in a minute, and it's just amazing the difference. So oftentimes I wonder what happens to these reporters when they go how did they become this liberal right to literally instead of just reporting the news or asking a question or whatever. How do you get so entrenched? Where does it go wrong? And so I found this clip of Caitlin Collins. Remember she was the one that she interviewed Trump I think in twenty sixteen maybe, or maybe it was when he was no. She did the debate when they was running against Biden. Terrible, she got this permanent grin and just she's a nasty person. I think Trump has called her that, Oh the one in the white pantsuit. Yes, okay, yeah, yeah, I think that's right. Yeah. So anyway, I found this clip of her when she first started her career. Do you know her first job the Daily Caller. I don't know what that is. Isn't that I hope I'm right? Isn't that? What's bench Barrow's Daily Wire? Daily Wire? Okay? So what is the Daily Caller? I don't know. There might be a liberal yeah, that could be they probably anyway, Yeah, i'd like to hear what she said. So she used to do guest segments on different networks, right, you know how they always have it. Well, guess what she was on Fox News? No kidding, Yes, not exactly what she would consider liberal. Listen to her own words. Cut two from our nation's capital. Yew, that's her. Does that mean? What's George Soros trying to do with the immigration crisis? Good morning? Okay? So George Soros is this foreign born left wing guy who essentially wants to change the nature of our country. And in this data dum one of the memos was about the refugee crisis and it made three points. They think that they've been successful at influencing immigration policy across the world. They think that the refugee crisis is an opportunity to continue doing so. And I think the refugee crisis is the new normal. And George Soros is this guy who is a staunch advocate for open borders. He wants people to be able to go wherever they want, want, whenever they want, for whatever reason. And for him, he sees this immigration policy, this crisis as a vehicle to further his immigration agenda. That's amazing, inappropriate at this point in time. Yeah, but I'm like, what happened? Like, where did it go wrong? I think they sell their souls to whoever their bosses are, and I think she knows who is paying her when she's doing those things. Now, it's interesting because Tucker started on MSNBC, That's right, it's kind of crazy, and he spends time on CNN, which Glenn Beck did as well. Right, but they didn't make it because they didn't succumb to those to the new regimes that took ownership. Yep, all right, that's interesting. So what drives me nuts about politics is the fake fakeness of some of it, right, yes, one hundred percent. And this one I found of aoc U better known as what was her real name? Sally? I think no, she wasn't Alex Koto. No, no, no, you'll see, okay, all right, cut three. I speak like a girl from the block. And again I grew up first generation in the Bronx. Yeah, girls from the Bronx are welcome everywhere. In fact, aoc just pulled the Bronx girl card again this week, responding to President Trump saying she would eat a queen's boy like Donald Trump for breakfast I don't. Think he knows how to deal with a girl from the Bronx. Something's very wrong here. What functional adult repeats where they're from? This often someone who's lying. And here's the dirty little secret. AOC is not actually from the Bronx like c was an infant. Her family has lived in a beautiful little hamlet called Yorktown Heights. This little town is the opposite of AOC's gritty, downtrodden working class persona. It's clean and beautiful and safe. The neighborhood that AOC grew up in is well off, leafy, and manicure. AOC went to elementary, middle and high school here. She graduated from Yorktown High where she went by the name Sandy shut Up, and then she graduated Boston University with an economics degree. Since AOC is about to run for president, we thought it would be important to investigate. Is that crazy? That is wild? Is this not? Like? How do people not know this? How is she gotten this long? I love Benny Johnson. He does great reporting. But it's like, are you serious right now? That is uncre incredible, unbelievable. Brought to you here on Life Liberty Happy. The footage of him walking around the pretty park is the best exactly, it's leafy, he describes it. Is there nothing that Dems won't do? Ye? Now doan you go from that to what's uh Pocahontas, I mean. Will she will be the leader for the next thirty years of the Dems. A. She's smoking right. I would vote for her against JD. I'd have a hard time. Like there was a time I would say, there was a time I would say you're crazy, right, Yeah, there's no way. But then like like she's pretty dumb. And when you hear her talk, Yeah, but look what we just had and they got seventy some meal. She's more polished than way more Kamala. Yes, she could answer a question whether or not she's honest about it. Yeah. We've been to the border. Yeah. Well, I mean I haven't been to Europe either. Yeah. Man, so all right, Uh, big beautiful bill past the Senate now it's in the House. Yeah, I heard that. I think Chip Royd described it just before we went on air. Yeah, he was being summons. Yeah to the office. I want who's the guy in Tennessee that we love? Yeah, in Hencliff or something like that. Hitchcliffe yeah, whatever. I know he did the same thing. He's also been summoned and he said, I think I'm going to the woodshack. Yeah, like they're gonna whip me. Well, listen, hey, politics is nasty. But that's what it's supposed to look like. Exactly what it's supposed to look like. That's correct. Like somebody was in listen. I don't like her Markowski, but somebody was in her face asking her, you know, about them putting in, yeah, millions of dollars for her district or something at the tail end. That's what's supposed to happen. They're supposed to represent the people they represent. All right, So let me ask you a question. If you' have you gotten off four sixty onto the road that carries you now over to eighty one? No, graves Mill, not graves Mill, over to what's that road? Oh uh? Mayflower? Okay, yeah, that interchange now Candler's Mountain Interchange, the new one that comes over to Mayflower with a roundabouts. Oh yeah, I fella's right, odd fellas, there you go. It's named yeah Steve Newman, right right, Well, it didn't get named without money, that's right. So I'm telling that's your job. That is what they're supposed to do. Correct, So I never look at they always. As long as it's not obscene pork correct, that's the stuff that's yeah, you know those So to. Get her vote, they had to do it. Yeah, and that's part of it. So we'll see what gets done. Everybody has a price except for Rand Paul. Thomas Massey is not going to do it either. Yeah, and listen, well, I love both of those. Here's what I'll tell you. I love them. You can't just say no forever and not have some sort of solution. Rand has. I know Rand has provided what the solution would be, which is, don't give me more debt. Okay, but how do you. Take out the more debt? Go back to twenty twenty one spending. Just don't give me more debt. That's how easy it is. So and they haven't done it. However, I will say about the big beautiful Bill, what I always come down to. I'm rooting for Chip Roy, I'm rooting for Thomas Massey, I'm rooting for Ram Paul because that's how I think we should not be spending more. But when I also love Trump and Bassett, and Bassett goes on and says, hey, if we can get four percent growth, this deficit is actually a surplus. Yep. So I'm going to. Lean to the people that have been right every time so far. That's right. I hope he wins. All right. One last thing. The Sean Ryan Show had a guest on recently, and I'm trying to think of her name real quick, Natasha or something like. Anyway, you got to be careful Woodie when you listen to these shows, yeah, because they will ruin you. Yeah. And she has ruined me because she's literally telling about the Mexican cartel and it's everything I have seen in movies, like they're now taking farms in Canada and basically moving their fetanyl operations through Canada because the southern border is closed, and just everything. It just doesn't seem real to me that this stuff happens, but it is real, and I don't know, it's scary. It's so scary. Like she told a story about in Mexico, one of the biggest lucrative things is avocados, right. Well, you have five generations of farmers that have built at these avocado farms, right, So she said it is not uncommon for a cartel just to walk right in the front door and say either you're gonna give me eighty percent of your revenue not profit's revenue, or we'll just kill you and you're done. Like there is no what's what's your recourse? You're gonna go talk to the law. I did see clips of that where they said that the cartel has started diversifying instead of just drug running. Oh, the oil and gas blew my mind, and Sean run brought up a great point. Why not just do that if it's creating three billion dollars a year for you to steal oil and gas? So what they're doing would he They'll find a gas pipeline and find a small town like Pamplin, Virginia, right, it's nothing there, and they'll tap into the oil line with people who know nothing about construction, and they'll start stealing that and they'll bring it to America to refineries, and the refineries will take it because it's cheaper, and then they'll refine it and sell it. Well, Sean said, nobody gets hurt. Why not do that instead of drugs. We'll leave you alone if you do that, And she just said they're diversifying, like you said. Just do it, honest business. Well, they gotta steal. They see my good hustlers, you know, they hustle by land Bill jo own farm. Yeah, farm room. Got enough money, you just go to it. Honestly, I don't launder it, all right. How to win, win win. We're gonna win, win, win, and we're gonna make America great again, all right. Cut for. We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time. People that whack people over the head with a baseball bat from behind when they're not looking and kill them. People that a. Knife few when you're walking down the street. They're not they're not new to our country. They're all to our country. Many of them are born in our country. I think we already get them the hell out of here too, you want to know the truth. So maybe they'll be the next job that we'll. Work on together. But I think getting them out, you know, we forget about them. We have some very bad We have some bad accidents in New York and they're not accidents. Well, I just love he speaks plain. Yeah, one with a baseball. Yeah, oh me, that's uh gator alcatraz yep, yep. Uh, that's it. That's all I got for what's happening? Moving on? Hey, the way we've been doing it too. If you know this, but Carolina, just Kevin just when he calls, we just we just. Put in You'll changed so much since I've mean to go with. We're growing, We're growing. You're growing, man. I don't even see a bumper in here. Nope, don't need to have at it. There's no music in between because we don't want to get because we were told if we put music in between the episodes, we can't get on YouTube. That is true. So we're growing. Did listen? That's great? We do try to listen. Yeah, I still because of you today drew the middle finger on the. I appreciate the program. I really appreciate that. I don't thanks, all right. Today's Mount Rushmore, Yeah, is in honor of Wimbledon, yep, tennis players. So what do you since you don't watch tennis, will skip you. You know what's tennis? This is the top Wimbledon players. Yeah, not just tennis. Correct, they have to be I just remember growing up as a kid watching these matches. And so my my Mount Rushmore of Wimbledon tennis players is Yvonne Lindall hated him. God, I liked him. Foreigner to kept beating John McEnroe pissed me off. At the end of John's career, John couldnot get past him. Uh. I loved Von Lindall. Yeah. Pete Sampress. Pete Sampress was great power, but I never really considered him a great He won a lot of tournaments, don't get me wrong, but he did it because of the power. He was kind of that first real big power hitter guy. Sure. Roger Federer, Yeah, Artistic, yeah, uh, Novak Djokovic, He's on my list for sure. And then my extra was Jimmy Connors. He's your fifth guy, That's what I made. I think he was my I don't know if he was my fifth or not, but I did have him on my list too. I love Wimbledon. Yeah, for me, my first head is Joker, okay, and I think he's one of those guys. Obviously, you could do the Mount rushmore of any tennis tournament and he would be in the Mount rushmore. So you know how you have Nay doll Or it might be good, or Federer is good at Wimbledon, but he's Joker's been good at. All of them. My number two is McEnroe. You didn't have mc and roe on your list. I did not for Wimbledon. I wasn't sure how good he was there because I remember him losing so much to Linoll. Yeah. Well my third guy was because you can't have John McEnroe without Jimmy Connors. Those two really went out of a lot. Ye and because of Wimbledon. Bors Becker, Oh, Bors Becker. Yeah, he's the one that ended up putting on the my list and my Trump head man. I debated because I love Michael Chang, but Michael Chang was more of a French show. Yeah. He was my favorite underrated player because the dude just he was kind of like Steph Curry. The dude could just play all over the place and you couldn't get past him. But he didn't win enough. And Andy Roddick was a favorite American. But I went with number five was Andre Agassy. Okay, so I know. There's other guys that won more time. These are my favorite guys to watch. I remember Sampress winning, but I just looked it up. He won seven Wimbledon titles. Yeah, that's incredible. One of my favorite plays was not a play was back in the day. Was it was a fault, but it was Pete Sampras and you know he hit it one hundred and forty miles an hour. Let's yea one hundred and thirty five for sure. Was it was a fault and Andre Agassy was so good at returning. Remember that was his forte. Was it was long on the line and the things coming one hundred and thirty miles an hour. Agassy would take his racket and instead of hitting it back, would hear the was fault. And catch it. Oh, that's incredible, Like. He would take his racket and just catch it and then give the ball to the ball boy. Boy, m that was incredible. Well you mentioned so the tennis match that I told you I was watching the other morning with the guy from America. Who was it. Oh god, I can't remember his name. Okay, you would know him. He's like number third in the world or something. Okay, but he was almost got upset because he went five sets. But tfo is, no, it's not. He's got a sort of an attitude. He's a white kid. Ben Shelton. Nope, I don't know anyway. So he the big play at or point in the match was the guy he was facing in the first round, while not a great player, is the best service player in tennis. He hits one hundred and fifty eight. Oh my god, well he hit one one hundred and fifty eight, broke a record, and it was at that player's chest and he was able to return it for a winner. O great, And he said that was kind of the turnament. Like the guy said, you know, that was kind of an amazing and he laughed and he goes, that's why I don't like serving body. And he said, I argue with my coaches over that serving body is not a winner. And he said, he served it right at my chest and guess what, I returned it. So that's actually what Andrea, I guess he used to get in trouble for. Was during play he would hit it at you, all right, and that's that's like a no, no, it's like a dirty play. He's get in trouble for. That, all right? Uh? Is Kevin Kevin on yet? I could We'll go to this quickly because Trent and I had talked about a segment of comments or things that we've read during the week, so Facebook. I came up with a name for it good liberal tears. Liberal tears is perfect. We're gonna come up with a little segment tears. And it is so easy that we just find one of our liberal friends. It does take me five seconds to go to the person and see what his latest post is. So there was one. There was a couple. You got one. Yeah, So there was a couple on Facebook. There was one about the Lynchford Library closing that I could have done a thousand comments. The people were just like, oh, you should drive me nuts. Like when Logan had his elementary school closed. Yeah, all the people that showed up to try to keep it from closing. And I looked at my wife and I said, half of these people have never been inside that school. I know. It's time to be mad about something. So but what got me was the reaction to the UVA president. Oh my god, he resigning, right, yeah, as they right forced to lead. Yeah. Yeah, the Trump administration came down with handcuffs. What they didn't tell you was he refused to resign. The board asked him to. Yeah, why because the Department of Defense said, hey, her, Department of Education, you're violating the law. Right by the way, they don't like to tell you Trump violates the law. What about when your guy violates the law? That's right. So anyway, by the way, do you know how many years he had left on his contract? One? Oh Jesus, he never I mean, come on, man, you really sacrifice yourself there. All right, Kevin, what do you think about this an issue? I'm just listening to. Well, quickly, let me finish up mine. So we're doing liberal tiers. We're doing liberal tiers, Kevin. This is things we've read on the internet of liberals complaining. So they're mad about the reaction to the UVA president resigning. One of the comments was Thomas Jefferson would be appalled. He was really into diversity, equity and there's nothing. Been an inclusion his life. And the other one is the king got his revenge. Oh, there you go. And I mean it's just which. By the way, elections have consequences, because do you know who helped swing the votes on the board for UVA because it's a public school, Governor Youngkin appointed three new board members. Oh there you go. Interesting, So that's why voting matters. By the way, he wasn't the only president that resigned. There was another one that resigned too. Right of a college Virginia Military Institute. Oh yeah, all right, he wouldn't give up the DEI stuff either, got rid of them. Yeah. Maybe when we get Stonewall Jackson's name back on the actual stuff, since he was a. Professor there, Stonewall would be appalled. Oh yeah, that's right, all right, Kevin. Do you want my liberal tier? Yes, let's hear Tren's liberal tier. Okay, So I just went back to the for this segment. I just go to one of two people that I know is going to make a post, and his last post was a repost of Pete Boodhaje Edge. Oh god, he said, is it shouldn't be lost that just today senter Republicans have voted to closed nursing homes, close rural hospitals, cut food stamp benefits for children and veterans. Is that all they've got? That's it? I mean, the same old playbook. Come on, man, there's a clip I should have had for the show today of a Republican, a black, old man Republican, and he's singing, I still get my Social Security check today, Like it's so stupid what they say, It's just lies. Don't you know that? In the next six months, they're going to try to find the families that don't have their check that. They used to have. These people I know, of course it's crazy, Kevin. You have any liberal friends of yours? Yeah, George, Steve marsh or George Backing in Randolph State. Mem, I ain't no homeways back in the day. You have any liberal friends that complain? Oh no, I don't, Thank God, God, that's hilarious. How you been. I'm too blessed to be stressed, so I ain't worried about too much. Good good pick for the race? Yeah, Saturday night with the old Chase, the hometown hero. Yeah, I knew he was gonna pull one out one day, but. Yeah, it didn't pay a lot, but it did pay. Yeah. I got three three, three good ones coming up. All right, So what do you got for the Chicago race? Oh? We got Chicago? Yeah, yeah, we got the road course. Uh, actual street course. I guess you'd call it. Who you got, Kevin, I'm actually gonna my three drivers is gonna be Bush, Gibbs and Stenhouse. Push Gibbs and Stenhouse. Dude, I thought I had to pick. Last weekend. Stenhouse was leading with six laps to go. I was like yes, and he ended up finishing six. All right, Bush, all right, so hold on, Kevin, because I got to do this for you. So you got Ty Gibbs Man. He's actually a favorite, that's hard to believe. So he pays sixty bucks if you win a five dollars bet Stenhouse. Yep. Stenhouse is. By the way, we are on our fan duel app. If FanDuel listens to the show, Hey, can you tag tag FanDuel too? Yeah, we'll attack them Bush Stenhouse and who. He's got Gibbs Bush, Gibbs and Stenhouse. Uh, so we're going Kyle Busch again. Right, he's got to come through at some point. It's something maybe I don't know. It's been a couple of years, right, Yep. He pays on long as it. Was for Elliot to wind. What was it raised? Was it really? Oh? Guys, if I can tell y'all anything, And I know you know more about racing than I do. But the race was on TNT, right, yes, And I told you I was confused because I asked you about it. But I was on something that said it was going to be on Max. Yeah, when that's HBO Max. So I wanted to see, well, what is Max doing? And I looked, and you can pick any car, and I think maybe Prime did this too. I'm not sure. You can pick the car and you ride with the car and the only thing you do is they're on the bumper cam, the end car camera, and then the spoiler and they keep changing based on what's more exciting. And you just listened to him and the spotter and I went back and watched the last ten laps of that. They stay with him while he does the burnout. Oh wow, it was cool. You can hear him pound the top of the roof when he got out of the car. It was so cool to. Go watch that. So here's what angers me about that. Okay, I have HBO Max and one other that I pay for. Yeah, MGM, I think it's caught. But when I or yeah, But when I click on that that you're talking about, it tells me to subscribe. Really, but if I go up to subscriptions, it tells me I have Max HBO because that's how I watch the Sopranos. Yeah, that's weird. Something must have been must held. You mouse wrong, Maybe you had the wrong race. Sometimes I can roll with and try to do it number of times. It makes me mad because I wanted to do that. It is fun to watch, it's but you and you don't get to hear the announcers, which is nice to you. Just hear the spot and the spoder for Chase La was it was great. So who do you have this week? Trent? I'm gonna go SVG okay, I'm gonna go Busher okay, and and let me find a long shot guy. SVG, Busher and. Only Joy. I will say this. Busher and Kaslowski are coming on their cars are good now every week? Yeah, that's what I'm hoping for. Then you need to kind of a pick me up, uh, trying to find somebody download that's actually decent. I don't know who do you have? All right? So my picks this week are SVG, Alex Bowman and Justin Haley. Bowman did good there one time, right, he won last year? And Hailey? Yes? And do you remember Haley was the one battling SVG the first year? Yes, So I'm hoping I'm hoping that happens again. Would you say Haley or Justin Haley? Alex Bowman and SVG. I don't remember Justin Haley battle on SVGH. SVG had to pass him in the last couple of that. Oh I thought that was Bowman. I don't know. Last year was Bowman when he won? Okay, yeah, yeah, I remember. I remember SVG and Busher going at it during the Infinity Race at a road course. That's one of the best ones I've ever seen. I'm gonna go to My third guy is going to be Daniel Suarez. I think the announcement that he's leaving it's going to be one of those stories where he has to try to win again. Oh boy, ye walk off? Yep? How the uh what happened? What brother did the same thing? He didn't walk off? Now do you know how many consecutive years they used to have a crack four hundred daytime? I know I missed that. I'm glad you brought that up. It's it really ticks me off that they're in Chicago and not Daytona. It's crazy. Yeah, it's mean rude to us, you know. Yeah, next year they're talking about doing a street race in San Diego or something. I think. I don't mind doing the races, but don't do more road courses and still do the old road courses. Now, I don't mind the street races. Like I told you, If they did that in Nashville, it's kind of cool. Nashville is cool. I don't like the road courses. You're right, but the street courses are neat, and I don't mind them moving into San Diego. But don't do it when it was our whole lifetime. You watched the Firecracker four hundred, I know, and that's Americana. I mean, that's the point. That's the great American track. God, you watch what I tell you. In five years, they gonna have the Great American Race from Daytona somewhere else. Oh, don't say that that'll seek now. You mean the one to start the year in no way? Yeah, I cry. Well, I'm gonna tell you. Look how much the changed and you thought, oh, that'll never happen, And look what's doesn't happen Everything. I Brian said that. IM not going to disagree with you. I would be shocked, but I'm not going to disagree with you. Everything is different now and it's like I'm so much done out of Spike. Yeah, you be honest with me. Now, if when you were in the high school in the nineteen eighties. If I come up to you and said, Trent Man, don't worry about rooting for them Redskins because they ain't gonna be Redskins one year. They gonna be the Commanders, you would have looked at me and been like, you're an idiot. You're exactly right, you are right about that. But I mean, I mean, I'm being serious, but y'all are saying the not y'all, you're saying things that can't happen. I'm just telling you, look at what has transpired over the years that we. Do aunt Texas the right owner. Do you know the first day of hunting season where we went to high school closed They closed the high school up well, the first day of hunting season. Yeah, still doing Highland County really really for two days. That's really school because kids boys weren't going to school. I'm just saying there's a lot of stuff that people think, oh no, that'll never happen. I mean, look at what's going on this day that. But you're you're mixing sensationalism with I mean, that is their biggest net rating of the year. They're going to go away from that. I would just agree with Kevin never say never. I never say never, but that it. Would be a huge thing. But it would be somebody that owns the track and wants his track to be the first of the year or something like that. It'd be something dumb. And what would you say if they all of a sudden come up and announce, Hey, guess what we're wanting the Great American Race to be at Palladego. Yeah, right, that's exactly right. I mean, you would not have convinced me up until five years ago that they would never run the Firecracker four hundred on Saturday night at Daytona. It's crazy. You don't do this to us, that's absurd. I agree with you. Did you see where Dodge is nor. Do you do the redskins? You don't do them that way. Did you see where Dodge is back in racing? That's a good thing. M Are they going to race the Challenge? Sure? Or the Charger? It's probably it's in truck series, So I guess it's the Oh it's not rand Oh okay, So they're not NASCAR, Corse next Ell Generous Truck right now. Okay, but they said they want to get back into Nascars. So okay, I wish it would do the Challenger. I think that's the baddest of the muscle carse the America makes. I think the Charger does look good, but I think the Challenger it still gets my eye. When somebody goes in buying a hell. Cat, right, sounded like a sick cat. There is that, Boots. I'm glad to hear that Woody was online or somewhere near y'all. I hadn't heard his voice in a while, so I. Just like to say, you missed me, Kevin? You think now? Not really? Yeah, because you're the nucleus down there in Bedford count nucleus. What do you do? And I saw the big, big announcement where you're gonna be doing coming up? Uh? What is it? The Fourth of July festivities? Ain't you gonna be. Alone? We're streaming them tomorrow night. Best fireworks around. How about the guy in South Carolina promoting something here in Bedford? You go watch it live here in South Carolina. You're watching them live in the app. Wait a minute, aren't you coming in town? Kevin? Yeah, I'll be coming into town, coming up? Heare and see you signing autographs? Where are you gonna be at you're gonna be signing autographs for people. Shooting fireworks. You can find them on the sign up. What's Carolina? Is covin coming? Hang with you? Or hang with or? Do you know that they're legal day in here? So we I can bring up there to Virginia a display of fire where this. Display? Oh god, are you that bootlegging? They get seventy percent off, So I mean, hey, are you When are you coming in? If it's late tomorrow night? Depends on what's going on here with these funerals. They doing construction? Remember trying I told you bout around about Yeah. All right, so answer the question. Well, I'm not gonna get into that right now. It's either gonna be late tomorrow night or either Friday morning. Okay, all right. I saw a comedian the other day that made me think of Kevin and he was talking to the audience and he goes, tell no, he said, this is always like it's always bothered me since I was a little kid. I have never heard of nor seen a new cemetery. Every cemetery is always an old cemetery? True, Why do you start one? As many years as you've been in business, Trent, have you ever designed a cemetery. Nope, I gotta start with one. So do you start it? That's a great point. Where is Kevin? And when's the last time you've heard of a new cemetery? Well, I mean I've heard of expanding cemetery. Correct, Well, they're expanding every time. Somebod like is bear. That's what I'm saying. It's not like that slowed down. There's still millions of people dying. But how do we start one. What's happening is the baby boomers are gonna be passing away, and once that's done, there's not gonna be a there's not really gonna be death. I guess I should say they're gonna People are transitioning from traditional burial to cremation. So you're saying we shouldn't invest into a cemetery. Still believe in traditionally buried. Now the next ten years, it's gonna be unprecedent because you're gonna have We've seen an antique, I mean an uptick in burials by at least fifteen percent, seventeen percent because the baby boomers still believe in traditional burials and they still got to pass away the next ten years. You can't do over the family cemetery cremation. You can't start one. No, you gotta zone it, get it rezoned. No, you can't even do that. That's if you pay attention when you go out past you know that. Uh what's the guy's name that owns all that land back there that passed aways troubox? Okay, if you'll notice his mausoleum is on the by the church because they would not allow him to be buried on his property. Oh yeah, because it has something to do with the law that was passed. Because you can't pass that down anymore to other people to have to maintain. I'm serious, correct, because you'd have to you'd have to disclose it. Whenever you're selling a piece of property that hey, there's a cemetery or a burial on your property, and people will may not purchase that property because of that reason. It over my dead body's value. Anyway. And that comes to the point, and that comes to the point of what I'm about to say that I'm gonna get off. Well what Trent has said? All right? What so we just. Heard news then in South Carolina that the federal authorities ruled that you can't be prescribed to medical marijuana if you're taking laxatives. Apparently they want you to either ship or get off. The button. Said it, idot. It's a free time this weekend. I'd like to come back and see the old k C. Yeah, see k K. All right, Oh gosh, we still got a whole set. I know what happens is we have these veterans and they just the stories are so good. I'm okay. If we don't want to do it, I know. No, go ahead, he's gonna do what is what he's got the late night he doesn't come, It's fine. No, I don't want to do it. I don't. I don't want to do it. If you've got no, I'm here, let's do it. Come on. I don't have a bumper though, Yeah you do. It's gonna have at it. Wait are you ready? Yep? I just got three things to say. God, bless our troops, God bless America stock God. All right, I'll go through these fast as I can with it. All right. Hey, by the way, I. Wanted to say it earlier too. I'm already backing up a little bit, but I wanted to give it. I wanted to give a shout out. I wanted I meant to do it when you did what's happening, But last night I was at a town hall and we had in fact what he was here. Do you remember Jacqueline Timmer. We had her on syl Okay. She's a freshman city council person. She had a town hall meeting last night and she's had two to three very tough votes that she's had to do that people were upset about. So she wanted to have a town hall meeting to defend herself, essentially, and so she asked me to come because she had voted on one of our projects. For one of our projects, and man, what a talent she is. Okay, so our vice mayor was there. His name is Kurt Deemer. He did a prayer at the at the end of the meeting. They did one before, and he did one the end of the meeting, and he said something to the effect just paraphrasing, thanking God to bring such an intelligent mind to the city of Lynchburg. Man, I'm telling you a. It was the perfect prayer because it was exactly right shout out to her. It was so refreshing to see a young person have so much care, with so much data that she puts put a lot of into her vote. So I just wanted to shout that out. I'm only smiling and laughing, yeah, because again I love to read comments in the whole library closing. So the one of the comments that I stumbled upon was they have nicknamed Jacqueline Jacqueline Skimmer. Oh my god, just it drives me nuts because in all honesty, I was on council here in Bedford. If a developer came to get a project done, nobody is getting paid by a developer. Let me just enlighten the people of Lynchburg. We ain't that rich. You go to Northern Virginia somewhere, Like, I don't think people here understand this. To develop in Northern Virginia you have to agree as a developer to pay for part of the schooling that has to be built. Like these are requirements, and it's like, we think what we do here is big development. Don't get me wrong. It's ain't nobody getting paid under the table. Well, so what they're saying is because donations were made towards Jacqueline, that she would have She had such a beautiful answer that last night she was accused of being an outsider because the moneies that she was getting this is why she's campaigning. Of course, So now that she's making votes, now she's an insider because someone has given her money. She had such a beautiful answer that a getting donations has no you do not have to what do they call it, where you refuse yourself from a vote? Oh, yes, she. Said, because first off, you donate to the people that you think, think like you do, right, Yes, so of course you're going to donate, But that doesn't mean you can't do business. So she said, if we use that as the model. We would never get a quorum, correct, because people donate to a bunch of different people and they don't want to know what the facts were. The vote was five to two for this particular vote. Yes, one of the people did not get any money, and the two people that voted against it did get money from the same developer. So it was It was a beautiful night because she controlled the room and she was just so good polished. Yeah, for her, very good. We need to have it back on the show. I totally agree. Yeah, I was thinking that when the whole stuff went down a couple weeks ago. Here directly from them by the way. All I had to do was look all pictures, and I'm just like Godeah. What I found of the people. Yes, maybe Lynchburg's different, I doubt it, but what I found in Bedford, it's the same people. It is, Yeah, And they just complained there by the way. They're not like people always say they're not listening to the voters. You're not my voters, and that you weren't going to vote for them anyway. That's right, So stop stop saying that I'm not listening to people without really knowing. There's probably eighty people in there last night, maybe even more, but without knowing, I would say sixty percent came in hostile like. It was, yeah, somewhat. The feeling in the room was like this could get out of hand before it starts. She handled it. I guarantee you ninety percent of the people that left there last night, because there's always that fringe, it doesn't matter. There's no way that they didn't leave there going this woman knows her shit. Yeah, I mean they really have to know that. Yeah. Yeah, oh no, Well okay, so let's play a game. Let's let's go play how long you can listen to this, which I know you know what's about to happen. But this is that whole whoopy Goldberg thing that you've listened to. And we'll we'll stop as soon as you say stop cut ten. And it's right and it's slow. But let's just the Iranians literally for gay people off of buildings. They don't have here, the basic. Humans here's the let's not let's not do that. Let's not do that because if we start with that, we have we have been known in this country to tie gay folks to. The where, Hey, but where do Irani day. Are just hanging black people? So it's not even the same. I couldn't step No, that's. Not what you mean to say. It is the same. No, it's not your twenty twenty five United States is nothing like if I stepped foot wearing this young. From I'm sorry, I can't have my hair showing, I can't wear a skirt, I can't have my I'm telling you, and I literally. Said it was up to the Iranian people to say it up. And that's why I am saying that it is the same. Murdering someone for their difference. Is not good. Whoever does it's not good? You people truth, So That's why I said, she's you. You weren't saying what you What I heard was not. What you meant. I think it's very different to live in the United States in twenty twenty five than it is to live in. An You're not for everybody, not if you're black. Guys don't go to turn you and you know what it is. Let me tell you about being in this country. This is the greatest country in the world. But yeah, I know that, I know that, and we all. Know that you don't. But every day we are worried. Do we have to be worried about our kids? Are their kids going to get shot because. They're I can't. I can't seven hundred million in her career, you know what I mean? Come on, Like, first of all, when she said that that they're being attacked for their difference, Yeah, who right? If you're talking about Joyce George Floyd, you're telling me that the cop just walking down the street attacked him because he was different. You left out all the other criminality that he was doing. It's the same gotcha thing that they always try to pull you in here? Do you remember this, lady, e Jen Carol, God, please tell me these are. In the domasses. This is another one. How long can you hang with this? Right? But you always said you always say like did this have we ever found the cocaine? Like? Who? Brother? Right? Things like that? Yeah, has she ever gotten a dollar? That's right? Do you know she did or didn't? And I don't think she has, correct? I think in fact she has to pay him, if I recall correct, I know that was the summers. Yeah, No, I'm this girl won the she won. The rape case was rape case? Right? That was totally made. Up, totally made up past this point of whatever this is. This is the person that would do something like this. So this tells you who would create the long losses. She he is literally crazy cut fifteen. I know my own pleasures and they don't. And that doesn't that doesn't involve buying things when my pleasure comes. Is making him so pissed off he can't think. We need to prick his little balloon constantly. And one of the ways to do that is to give his money to women's reproductive rights. Oh hell yeah, to. Binding up the wounds of democracy, which he is destroying by the very instant that we're sitting here, shoring up voting rights can you imagine how angry he takes this. Well, he made six hundred million last year on bitcoin grif griftin. And as Robbie says, do you know anybody except criminals who make money on bigcoin? No? Do we We don't anyway, So it's just so delicious. Earlier, remember we were asking whether the Daily caller was liberal or not. Oh, there you go, there's your answer. The caller. So that lady, oh is can you tell any difference between her and the wife of Tim Waltz. Oh, do you remember the lady that said turn the page, turn the page. I mean, they all look the same, they talked the same, and they don't have any facts with what they say. Oh, God just made us stuff, all right. So for every dollar she says she's going to give to reproductive rights, Trump just got sixty million from CBS. You keep doing stupid stuff if you win stupid prizes, all right. So this is you might recognize this Democrat. This is from two thousand and seven. Listen to the question that she answers, and this answer two thousand and seven, listeners, would you allow these cities to ignore the federal law regarding the reporting of illegal immigrants and in fact provide sanctuary to these immigrants. The reason the cities ignored the federal law is the fact that there is no funding at the federal level to provide for the kind of enforcement at the federal level you need. Pick up the New York Times a day. There's a city not far across the river from my state that imposed the similar sanctions, and what they found out is as a consequence of that, their city went in the dumps in the dumpsters, stores started closing, everything started to happen, and they changed the policy. Part of the problem is you have to have a federal government that can enforce laws. This administration has been fundamentally derelict in not funding any of the requirements or they needed even enforce the existence. Senator Biden, yes or no? Would you allow the cities to ignore the federal law? No, that's the AOC thing that you just played earlier. They just make up because they just absolutely lie. Yeah, all right, Uh, you can cut this off to really quick, but this is just kind of a long list of I. Want to put this in perspective. So one point seven percent right now from Biden. It was down one point seven percent for Oboma. It was down three tents percent. For Bush, it was down six tents for Clinton, it was down sixtens For the first Bush term it was down three percent. Even on a Reagan it was down almost one percent. And so but here's what's more interesting, Brian. Right now the national unemployment rate is four point two percent. For construction workers is three point five percent. Know where it was in January six point five. You think about how dramatic that is in such a short period of time. Manufacturing unemployment three point six percent from three point nine percent, non durable goods three point seven percent. Now we started the year five point two percent, Mining, oil and gas extraction four point two percent, We started the year five percent. This is dramatic. This is this is mind bottling stuff what we're seeing right now, this speed. How do you get an unemployment rate to go from six and a half to three and a half percent in five months? It's just more winning. They can't answer though, like why I read the news. It's like all the jobs report wasn't good. Yeah, but they never give me how bad it was. They just say it wasn't good. Do you remember the jobs report? They always just give you a number and then they give you the correction the next month exactly. And do you think they're going to do the corrections anymore so, which, by the way, the Dow has been killing it lately. Yeah, did you notice that? Yeah, we're higher than we've ever been. That has Brad sent us that photo? Of course not Okay, mister Pessimus, all right, cut, has this guy the top and nobody has to be in the top three of all people that Trump has appointed, right, yes, so we just had the judge ruling or the Supreme Court ruling that these rogue judges. So that's okay. Look at what Steven Miller this cut forty seven, Steve be ruled. By a judge in San Francisco. Nobody living in Oklahoma consented to be ruled by a judge living in Chicago. But under the system, any judge, any communist judge, any Marxist judge, any crazy left wing judge, could decide major national questions for the whole country. A single district courts judge could decide, for example, that an entire class of legal aliens is exempt from deportation in all fifty states in the entire country. Or a single judge could rule for example, that a major federal agency would be forced to pursue illegal race based discrimination diversity equity inclusion. So, policy after policy after policy was being decided not by the elected president, the one official elected by the whole American people. But by unelected judges. And in many cases we're talking about unelected tyrants who are imposing their will on the entire nation. So this is really a momentous ruling. Is a ruling that we had hoped for, not just by the way over the. Last five but I mean he explains it. So yes, yeah, straightforward, stop giving me the as bull. When Nuwke Gingrid's was testifying in Congress this year about this very issue, and the Democrat was trying to say, hey, did you know that you had, you know, seventy two conservative justices that stopped Biden from his policies, and Nuke Gingridge said, thank you, you're making my point. Yeah, why do we have any Yeah, so let's do something to stop it. Right. So, I mean, they're just so stupid they don't even realize. Newts on my mount Rushmore of conservatives that I followed, we should do a mount rushmore conservatives. Good, he got his. Shoes on trying to get out of here, and then the last thing I have here, This is the before we get into the show clip. But I love this guy on CNN. But dude, this is one of the best answers to winning that I have heard in a good while. Cut forty eight. Knows that the lower courts cannot carte blanche stop him, which hugely increases the power of the executive. Yeah. Look, this is a great week for him, not just because of this ruling, but earlier in the week the Supreme Court handed him the ruling on being able to deport illegal immigrants to third party countries essentially, So he's on a little bit of a winning streak in the courts right now. And you know what a lot of Republicans are saying is nope, We're not tired of winning yet. This happened. The stock markets at a record high. He brokeer the ceasefire in the Twelve Day War, his peace broke out between Rwanda and the Congo. I mean, gas prices are at a four year low for the summer. I mean, win after win after win, and this particular one is the most important because these individual judges had been I think unfairly stopping the president from governing. He won the election they did. We don't have six hundred presidents. We have one president, and now he's going to be able to actually govern. And so you could make an argument that this week or. The last two weeks the best week or two weeks. Of his entire presidency. I mean, that guy's just so good on this show. Don't you love the facial expressions of all the liberal That is my favorite thing that they cut to their face and they don't know how to answer. He nails it every single time to it. During too, I'd be yelling at these people that are yelling at him. Oh my god. Okay, I'm sorry, but we got to play before. You got to play this late. This is that evil woman that got fired from MSNBC. Joy Reid. Listen to what she's talking about with the alligator Alcatraz, cut twenty nine. I had to forget about him. But Ron DeSantis is still governor of Florida. He took the Comfy Couch hosts on a tour of the concentration camp that he's building in Florida in order to round up people brown people and throw them in a camp. Because he doesn't want them in Florida. Surprise, surprise, the economy of Florida is going to be severely harmed by rounding up brown people who, by the way, all over this country Latinos are afraid to go to work. Anybody who is perceived or looks Latino is afraid to go to work. I know people who to forget about. It, Jesus dude. I mean, I see she's on her own show. I don't know what channel that would it be on podcast? That's her living room. She's not she should not be allowed. I mean, hard time. Can we get her in this studio? My god? What is going on here? Can we get her in this How about you take her in your home studio and let her do a show there. At least it would look look at the cart, Oh god, I'm pretty sure. Go back. Oh sorry, I can clicked out of it. Just if you looked at is was she sitting in the floor? I know it looked like the stuff. Maybe maybe that's why somebody thought you were still standing at the table. Then you're screwed up their algorith of them. That's alright, that's all right, man. You gotta. Anyway, So this last thing you know, I've been doing Preachers and watching Chosen and stuff like that. There's something on TikTok that has hooked me lately, and it's these it's these stories that people have of their death experiences, not near death. So is this the end of this Indus show? Yeah? All right, before you get to it, you've got to figure out a way to transition from your have at it to end the show without it being because we've got to talk about next week before you do your endo show. Okay, so you need to. Step it up. If we didn't have the military stuff, Carolina Covin comes after me. No, no, I get that. But I'm saying, when you transition from your have at it stuff, I'm trying to get out of here. Do I need to do I need to make another bumper? I can do that. No, No, we won We just need to let everybody know that. Next week's guest. Is Greg Meacham and he started Marine Corps and I think he was also part of CIA and he was part of a group that they made a movie about on Netflix. So I've got a question for him because I saw this the other day and I want to know the answer to it. I was told just by watching a segment that the CIA is illegal for the CIA to operate inside the United States, that it was developed for foreign intelligence, and it is illegal for them to obtain any information on any US citizen whatsoever. That is why the FBI is oftentimes brought in to work with the CIA, is to basically do their bidding in the United States. Because it's the domestic investigation. And so I want to know if that's the case. Well, this guy, I remember him telling me his story. I want to put him on the list. There's a movie called mosoulmh Esul on Netflix. It's about the group that he helped train. Oh wow, really interested? Ye did you know that when he said joint Special Operations? Is that JAYSK, I don't know. I just could Joint Operations, Special Command or joints anyway. Should google it right now anyway. So sorry, Well we can work on what to do between that. It was good to have you back. Thank you having me, Thank you for all the upgrades that we're doing. Now. Everybody walks in here is just so impressed. It's and you should be. Yeah, I mean that guy that we had today, Jay McCoy talked about being on several different podcasts, and he was wowed what we had here. I love how cool is that? Yeah, man, if you just get the outside to match the inside. I talked to the landlord about it. I got to do something with the landscaping. As you say, right, shine, that's my side. I don't want to hear it. Okay, all right, But in all honesty, if you're a listener to the show and you know a landscaper or somebody who likes to do that type stuff I need, it's I just don't. We don't have anybody. I'd love to. There's a lot of stuff I'd like to do around here. Open a landscape place. We could an idiot just our one where they don't exist. Loka, Dude, my lawn is horrible, and I really want it fixed at your house. Yes, I don't know if my guy will come this far, but I can ask him. Yeah, I don't need a grassmower. I got a grassmower. There's a big difference between mow and grass and having a lawn. He does both. Okay, I need to a fix my lawn. I need anyway. I don't want to get off on a tangent. We're already at seven thirty. Anyway, this is a video that we put together here Woody that's going to end the show. Look on your face. Brian worked on it. You know, it was six minutes. It was touching to me because I've been watching Chosen and it meant so much that way he described in reality. It gives me hope that you know, there's hope kind of a thing faith. Yeah, hope. Have a good weekness having a good week. Folks. Will see you next week. Emma will be back, so things will be a little bit more back to normal. Yeah, middle fingers, no more metal fingers, no more middle fingers. All right, Emma, if you don't listen to this week's show, you're out. We'll test her. I know she was at the beach. I don't know what she doesn't go to Disney World. That's not like a company thing. Well, you don't send you in Disney World. Now that's my spot, that's for me. Does Laura listen to the show, Yeah she listened today. Yeah? Nice? Does he do the dishes? Laura? We love Laura? I do? No she does? We we we we we we. I do love the house. Stuff that you guys that you post on there and mull one and all that. I'm so happy that you guys are in there. Ah, thank you. We love it. We look type of them over do you have? Yeah? I think I am convinced. I like it's an American company. Dude, anything green, I'll buy all the attachments. All about her. Mine is Green Works. I like the Green Works products. Yeah, I'm in it too, all right, folks, see you next week. Surgical table. I look to my right and out of nowhere, Jesus is standing there, the physical person. And I look and I'm really confused. I'm thinking, what is going on here? And then I thought to myself did I die? And I thought, you know, I've heard of people when they die they see themselves floating up above their body. And I thought, I didn't do that. That's almost not be dead. But what's going on? It wasn't like it was a dream. It was like heightened reality. And it started right when Jesus stood there. Everything was different. His skin was much darker than I'd seen as a kid. He almost looked like an Arab man. He was wearing a white robe. He had like wavy brown hair, and he had these dark greenish blue eyes and when those eyes looked into my eyes, he looked into my soul. I could just feel this love emanating from this man. That was what convinced me that it was Jesus. Everything about him just radiated love. He holds out his hand and he says, I want to answer your prayer, and I'm thinking my prayer, what the heck? I didn't make the connection right away, but I thought I used to pray as a kid that Jesus would show me Heaven. It sounds like a great place, you know, I'd like to see that. I reached out, I took his hand immediately. When I took his hand, we were standing on a hill. Everything around me is white, like the whitest white I've ever seen. It's almost blinding. But I looked down at my feet and I'm barefoot. I'm still in a nightgown, you know, the surgical gown. And I see this beautiful green grass. It's like it's manicured. It's perfect. It's bluish green, pretty at grass I've ever seen. And my senses were heightened to the point where I could count every single blade of grass under my feet. I could feel every blade of grass. I knew how many blades of grass were touching my feet. It was crazy. And I look around. I'm trying to adjust my eyes to this white so I can see. And I look and off to my right is another brighter white. But this is like a light. And I look at that light and I think, wow, that's really cool, you know, And all of a sudden, out of that light, it starts sending these light beams. When I was looking at this, I was just in awe and you know, obviously confused. Still, I spent a lot of time confused because I'm thinking, what is this? Where am I? And I'm watching these things and one of them is coming straight at my head and I'm looking at this thing, and I'm like, what am I supposed to do? You know? Should I dodge this thing or what? You know? It hits me right in the forehead, and as it does, it makes this kind of buzzing sound, a light buzzing sound as it goes through me. And it warmed me, like all the way down to my feet. So that cold that I felt in the surgical room now I was replaced with this beautiful warm feeling. All of a sudden, it's like somebody is pulling a curtain from my right to my left, and the white whatever it was, the white fog or veil or just the whiteness, just gets pulled to the side. And now I'm looking at this beautiful scenery. I see that I am standing on a hill. Below me are these little flowers. They're almost like describing like sweet peas, you know, like they have like these little they're like little petals, little soft petals, but they're all like a pastel color. They're purples and yellows and orange and pinks and just beautiful. And they're they're moving like they're dancing in the wind, but there's no wind, so I'm thinking, well, why are they moving? And then at the bottom of this hill, the white that was pulled away from from me is now settled in the valley, and there's a great big city down there, but I can only see the rooftops because it's like it's it's like there's fog on top of the city, so I can't see the whole city, but I can just see the rooftops. And there's there's one real big gold dome, like a capital dome, and there's other smaller gold domes. I mean, the city is huge, it's like miles apart. You know. I'm just looking at it, just go and this is amazing. And when I look back at the light where they were starting from emanating from, Jesus says to me, it's the glory of the Lord. And when he said that, I just. Got weak in my knees and I couldn't. I fell to my knees and the instant my knees hit the ground, they shocked me and they brought me back