This is Life Liberty Happiness with Brian Schly and Trent Warner. Find us at l l H Underscore podcast on YouTube, across all social media platforms and wherever you get your podcasts. Real Talk, Real Freedom. Hello everybody, Welcome to another episode of Life liber Happiness some years Brian Sly, You're listening to the greatest show in Bedford Live in the studio with me is Trent Warner. And it was back there pushing buttons and literally going nuts. I need a towel to hand her. She's sweating. I am consisting. Yeah, all my stuff got here, would he? If you're listening, make sure you put it back the way you found it, Yes, Woodrow, she acts like young the places. A little later on in the program, we will have Stephen Hill with the Bedford County school Board join us for some tough questions. Man, I got some real tough My god, I do not calm down. Freaking sixty minutes. We got a great show. We got lots of stuff coming up. Our number two. We will talk to Carolina, Kevin get his picks for racing, and don't forget Aaron mount Rushmore. This week. Yeah, in honor of our women ladies and sports. Yeah, Aara mount Rushmore of women athletes. Yeah, I didn't know which, like how you were. I did my own list. I just did my own things. Thank you, Emma, you get it. I did it at first, but now I do. I just did what I wanted to. Well, I mean, your list is right. I just so there was a part of me I was like, does he mean like like players we like or is he talking about like athletes, like. Like the best women athletes? Okay, would you like for men? Would you include a stock car driver? No? Right, So what were you gonna do, Jeff Guthrie. You mean I just was saying it was a part of me is like, because if I think athletes, I'm thinking just basically that. His friends gave me one tennis player and you you gave me the other one where she would come from behind and beat that one. So I mean, it's kind of cool that people came up with that, and then a lot of people was Caitlyn Jenner. That's a pretty good one. Yeah. So anyway, we've got that list coming up a little later. But you are listening live in the Accounts Realty in Auction Towers in Bedford, Virginia. Visit counts auction dot com, the only true form of selling and buying. Thank you to Counts for smat so we can do this crazy stuff and there fans listen to us. I read one of the comments. It always reminds me, I forget to read comments. Yeah, well, I don't know a lot, but every now and then i'll go. But I read one a few minutes ago. I think it was and it was insulting my intelligence that. You should do post of the week by an idiot use that. It's and it's always the idiot responding like, yeah, I could be wrong. Yeah, but you probably are. Yeah, actually I think it was your VIDI that's fine, all right on the backwards and boards. By the way, where at one hundred and ninety eight subscribers, we're just too away from getting them past two hundred. Thank you. L H Underscore podcast on YouTube. Yeah, and their Facebook, I don't know how, but their Facebook is that seems to be the one that launches getting bigger and bigger and bigger, and then uh Instagram, TikTok and all of it. And you can find us at YouTube if you want to watch us live and go to at lah Underscore parked by the. Way on the way down here. I believe Scott Jennings is listening to our show. He now does this day in History and Drama. Then our show gets ripped off constantly. That's okay, it's Flattery's what the rustling ball said. That's true. Flattery is imitation, inmitation is flattery. All right, So this past weekend I really didn't do much. I got little stuff, knickknack stuff done around the house, caught up on some chores. Does Ashley think so? No? No, all right? She went to a what was it called the wedding shower? Okay, so not for Kaitlin nephew? Oh okay, yeah, it's a little early. Do they know when? Does Logan and Caitlyn know when they're getting married? How's that? If both of you were laughing at that? What's going on there? Did they already quit the already break up the engagement? Something? I don't know, but it's good. It's a whole Oh wow, they're thinking October? Yeah, first or second? Yeah? Of twenty seven? Yeah, okay. Perry announced his August twenty first of twenty twenty seven. Nice, yeah, very cool. Very nice. Yeah, it's exciting times. Exciting times. What'd you get done? Uh? Perry and Sarah came back. They had their engagement party. Nice. You know what, when people do things, I often think, what are we doing that for? You just got engaged two weeks ago? Why would you do that now? But because they were doing the wedding like in Northern Virginia, this was a chance for everybody to celebrate and had a great crowd. All his friends from high school were there. It was just the best party ever it was. It worked out really really nice. It was a lot of fun and uh did that and it themed drink a lot of beer. That was the main thing from my side of the deck. They decided to do it in Northern Virginia. The debt Wilers put on a heck of a party at their house. Yeah, it was really nice. Just you know, they live in Knoxville, have friends from all over. They have friends, even their friends that are here in Forest. They've they've moved on and live in different parts of the state. So they just I think she said, she just googled some factors and found a venue that met budget and was nice. So they're in Leesburg. Scott's probably listened to this going. Please. He offered that I'll write a check wherever you want to go. Yeah, were they doing? Why? Everybody would have done? So destiny careful what you say? Yeah? And then I called him yesterday Scott, this is hard. It's a lot. Uh. And then this weekend Finn, another Bedford County school graduate that's in our house, is going to Rona College. Nice. When does he get dropped off or Saturday? Is he driving? I don't think they don't do that stuff anymore, do they? With the freshmen they're allowed to drive, not allowed to drive. So he is. But we have decided, or his mom and he decided that he didn't want that burden. He wants to be there and study. Okay, good, it's probably the best thing for him, is I think that is the best thing is not to have a car your first year? Oh? I agree, and so it All three of my kids before this didn't have a car either. But yeah, so he's not taking his down so he'll be stranded in his dorm's just studying. We sent Logan in a vehicle, so I was. Well, I mean you were in Louisiana. That's a little different. Good luck. Yep, So doing that this weekend, right, Uh, Emma went. To a wedding celebration last weekend. Is it sometimes not a celebration, Well, it wasn't like a wedding. Really, it wasn't a wedding, Like it didn't have a ceremony. Examples. Look, there's so many different things now of these weddings that I just don't like. I'm a traditionalist. I like to go to a church and then you can have a reception wherever. They got married, up in the peaks with just their family, and then they had the reception at their house with like a tent outside and chairs and tables. But nowadays it's they've added so many things to it, Like I didn't something about doing your vows before the wedding, Like I only what is that I heard that? Usually it's like you don't look at you can't see each other, and you do your vowels. That's a thing right now. Instead of My wife still says to this day, the preacher wouldn't let her finish. She was trying to say, I had some things to say, she said, I said, I do not, but he would not let me. She had some conditions, she said about out there. Bless her heart. Yeah, that was a great wedding. That was a mount rushmore weddings I've been to. It was a fun wedding. I don't remember much of it. I know you remember none of it. So anyway, this weekend coming up, I think I'm gonna slip up to Pelaski again. Yep. I had a good talk with Larry, trying to get the car right for him. Good. That is a total joke. But I don't even put you on the pit crew so you can get a. Straight hell no, he always like. I did talk to him, and I was asking about the tire situation because it is a doubleheader, so I was like, are we running new tires or are we running old tires? What are we doing here switching them between racists? And he said they got four new ones, so they're on new tires. And he did say that the they had issues with the shocks that is why they weren't better. Oh okay, he said, his fourth pair of shocks this year. They've had problems with so people. We need to switch many stop at makeo. He's listening, probably like I'm only kidding. Where you do a wonderful be a monarchy? I don't know we talked about like watching the Dale Junior Show and cheating like he's not right and does not like any of that. Yeah. Yeah, and we could probably do some cold bine, especially short tracks you get Buster for stuff like that and you're only out for the season type thing. Yeah, so but anyway, fun. Yeah. So I think I'm gonna slip up there and watch a doubleheader. I think, by the way, I got it nailed. I'm gonna be able to camp with you and Brad at Martinsville. Nice. Yeah, so that's gonna be a good group. Dw is cooling. I'm not going to no, no, he's he's got a place there. He's gonna be there anyway. Yeah. Uh. And he's actually gonna let us pull my camper in his lot. But he owns a house there, so that would be cool. That'll be fun. I think I gotta work out. That's awesome. I did. We did talk last week, but Generator didn't. He fixed that, so we're all good there. And we've got a few listeners on at l l H Underscore podcast and if they want to chat or test any message, any questions, they can do it live. And where are you going this weekend? That was the Ronut College thing this weekend. So you're you're going, okay, somebody. Got to kill you the heavy furniture. Yeah, you may go with. You some stories. Yes, let's not tell that one. Anyway. Uh well, good luck to that. Yeah. Uh, Emma, I'm gonna use my oven for the first time in three months. Wow? Which one the one on the porch? That one's gone it is, thankfully. Yes. I was a little worried there. Who leases a property to someone and doesn't have an oven for you? Well, okay, I didn't notice until month then that it didn't work because I didn't need it. And then yeah, watch him landlords man. Yeah, Scott is very nice. Scott's very nice. It's greedy bastards. They are tough, all right. Yeah, moving on to the most important part of the show. Yeah, yeah, talk about this. Welcome in our special guest, Stephen Hill. He is in Bedford County Board of Supervich. No. I almost screwed that up, benfor Kenny School Board. I don't want to. I really don't want your parents yell on edge it for that. Uh all right, tell us a little bit. I think for the most part we'll spend a little time talking with you about possibly. I don't want to say the word because it is a dirty word, the redistricting word. That's right, all right, dive into it. Tell us what we're doing. I gotcha. Well, I just want to kind of first introduce myself. My name Stephen Brown. How'd you choose to be on the school board all that? Oh, don't just jump right into district. Yeah. So I grew up in Bedford County. I went to New London Academy. I went to Forest Middle School to JF. Once I graduated, had a family moved back into Bedford County. My first year of my oldest child going to school was COVID and so we're starting to go kindergarten twenty twenty. The school board at the time told us, hey, no mass required for elementary students. We're all good, We're going in there a week before school begins. They changed their mind, so they so me and my wife had to make a decision at that time. And my wife grew up in private school, so she was always leaning towards sending our kids to private schools. So we were we were really that was a big deal to us, and so we kind of made the decision at the time of you know what, We're not going to give up. I'm not going to let you know, this group of people that I disagreed with, you know, run our county in a way that I don't think needs to be run. Sure, So then we kind of got involved. In twenty two twenty three, we kind of worked with the redistricting effort, working actually working against the re districting effort of to move my kids. You know, we built a house and good specifically to send my kids New London Academy, gotcha, and they were working to redistrict them out of there. At that time, I didn't support it, and I had a lot of a lot of arguments back and forth with the with the school board with that. And then in twenty five, the representative for District three, Dwayne Nelms, was moving out of the the district. He found a house and he was moving his family to another location. And so he called me up and said, hey, you know all the complaining you've been doing, now it's time to So I interviewed for the physician, got appoint it. And then this past year and last fall I got elected to serve a four year term on the on the school board. There so that's kind of how I got there. And you know, a lot of it's just about I want I'm passionate about keeping Bedford a place that we want to raise our kids in and I want my kids to want to be back here. Sure, So a lot of that is is making sure we have great schools, making sure we have a place to put kids as we're growing in certain areas of the county and as we're shrinking in others, being good sorts of our taxpayer dollars, making sure that we're doing what's right, not just for the students that are there now, but the students that are going to be there in the future. So to say all that kind of get into the meat of it. Bedford County has a not necessarily a unique problem, but we are growing as a as a population. Our population is growing, but it's not growing because of birth rates. If you want to pull over to the I pulled up a couple of slides here from our presentation last night we had from a consultant if you want to go to the Bedford County in brief, so this is our this is our our housing going back to nineteen hundred, as good of records, as they could pull from going back there. And you see we kind of spiked up in the you know, in the nineteen nineties. In the two thousands, we're putting in you know, sixty three hundred new houses or new dwellings every year or ever, excheping every decade. Well, you go to the twenty tens, and obviously that was affected by you know, we had a recession in eight slow growth, but in right now as we stand right now in the twenty twenties, we're looking to if the pattern continued to be about where we were at the nineteen seventies. It's hard to grow a population if you don't have houses for them to go to. And if we're not replacing houses in such a rate that we can continue to grow, it's going to be a problem. And obviously there are areas where we're growing, like in Forest and New London kind of coming out to good now in the areas of the county that's shrinking. And so when we talk about redistricting, we're really talking about how we can most efficiently use all the buildings we have in our inventory. We have twenty one schools that we currently run in Bedford County. The state says we need about nineteen of them. So we've already made the decision to close Stuartsville at this next academic year. That was a tough decision, and you know, some of the numbers that we went through last night and our board meeting with our analysts was showing that that was probably right decision. But there still needs to be more more that we talk about more balancing out. So we're using we're using our building and our staff to the best efficiency. Because if you're running a school, a school cost about a million dollars a year to run once you remove all of the teachers. I'm just talking building maintenance, administrative counselor secretaries. If you've got a building open, if you've got four kids in this building, you've still got to have those people there. So in order for us to be able to say, hey, we're most we're being efficient with the money that we're provided, we've got to make make some really tough decisions in order to do that. We, like I said, we've already chose to consolidate one school. We're looking now forward to all right, how are we going to be more efficient with the rest of our schools and kind of seeing what On September tenth, our advisor is going to come back and give us scenarios and then we're going to start hosting town halls to get feedback from the community before we vote to make this final. But the if you want to pull up the two thousand aige structure you see back in two thousand, So I'm gonna get a little dorky with some of these graphs here. So this is the pyramid graph. It's showing our population based on age. The ideal shape that you're gonna want to have with this is a pyramid. You want to have the most amount of people in your zero to four range and the least amount in your eighty five plus as we are, and obviously this one back in two thousand was closer to that. You know, have the little airhead look to it, but you know, you still have more younger people than you had older people. If you look now into twenty twenty four, and the two thousand data was based on our was based on the census. Twenty four is based on projections, so you have a couple of anomalies in there, but it's starting to become an inverted pyramid, which is you know, in Bedford Gunty, we have an aging population. We have more people in the in the fifty five plus category than we do below it, and it's typically those people aren't having a whole lot of kids to put in our elementary schools, and so as our cohorts get smaller, we've got to now plan for the future of all Right, Well, we have areas that are growing because of net break migration. We have areas that are shrinking. If you go over to the components of population change, this is this is how Betford County is growing. It's it's migration. If you see that that blue line there, that is our that is our migration, that's our net migration, people moving to Betford County. Don't you think a lot of that has to do because your school systems are good? Like That's what I've always felt is development. People follow because they want their kids to go into good schools. I absolutely think that's part of it. I think that's you know, Betford County is not all just our school system. We have a lot of great things that are going on. We have a fantastic parks and rec department. We have really good, I can say really good community environment, but I think schools are a big part of that, which is great, and I want to keep on attracting people here. But in saying that, so we have all these population concerns that we have. Now we also on the other side of things, which is really kind of motivating everything that we do in the school board right now, is we have what's called the reversion coming up in twenty eight twenty nine. Back in about fifteen years ago, I believe in twenty thirteen twenty twelve, are the town of Bedford. Excuse me, the City of Bedford became the town of Bedford. We had an agreement that to do that, we locked in the Town of Bedford's Local Composite Index the LCI number, and the LCI number is how we get funded from the state. So right now we're at a point thirty to one, that's the number. So that means sixty nine percent of our funding come from the state. Well here, when the reversion happens here in just a couple of years, it's going to change to we're projecting right now about a four or five. So really what that means is about eleven million dollars that we're not going to be getting from the state. Anymore. So we've got to be more efficient with our buildings in order to soften that blow. It's gonna be a blow regardless. Yeah, and we're either going to have to make cuts or the boord supervisor is gonna have to make tough decisions on uh, finding more revenue for us. And I don't envy them on that side, because that's never fun either. Nope. But so we've got the big push. Now, how big a budget do you have? I'm sorry, so we're about one hundred and thirty million dollar bud Wow, good grief. And that budget, you know, it's it's it's big. So you're about to lose ten percent of your budget, right. Yes, sir? Yeah, yeah, And and you know we've been planning for this for years. It's not like the board supervisors and the school board have not been planning for this. Right now, we're looking we've set aside about eight million dollars. But in doing that, we've also got I want to be able to frea go to the board supervisors and say, hey, I need more money from you guys. I want to be able to say we are running the most efficient operation we can. And you know, there's certain things that obviously you don't want to sacrifice. Really proud of Bedford County Schools. We are ranked thirty first in the state as far as the testing metrics go, and at the same time we're about one hundred and eighteenth in the local funding. So to me, that's a great As a businessman, that's a great ROI and I'm proud of that, and I'm proud of that number. A lot of it has due to we have fantastic teachers and staff and counselors. We have great parents in our organization. I think outside of of just the teachers, the parents are by more. They're the ones that make us stand apart. If we didn't have parents that were engaged and involved, we're not going to see the results that we're seeing. How big how many are total in the state, you said one hundred and eighteenth and five hundred and thirty one, so we're we're almost at the bottom and funding. We're there, And I'm not necessarily complaining about that. Yeah, I'm you know, I'm politically probably closer to a libertarian, So I'm not saying that we need to be the most well funded. And I don't think you see the top fund at schools. They're not necessarily the best school. Yeah, that's right, But I do think that, you know, it's something to take into account. Our teachers, you know, were ranked about one hundred and twelve in teacher pay. That's something that you know, I really want to focus on making sure that we do better at that. But I say all that to say, this is why we're really looking at redistricting. It's been on the table for thirteen years now. The first proposal that I could find back in our board docks was thirteen years ago to redistrict, and every school board has, for good reason, bad reasons, indifferent, have decided that that was not the right time for you. We've come to a head now to where we have places like Stuartsville Elementary at under fifty percent capacity. You have Otto River which is just above you capacity. Where at the same time you have Forest Elementary School which is closing in on one hundred percent capacity. You have New London Academy which is closing in on ninety five percent capacity. We've got issues and we've got to figure out a way to balance those out in order to protect the organization for the future. I agree is a hard decision and the reason it's spent thirteen years technically, just like you were in that camp, you didn't want to you don't want to have n LA kids going to Otto rever am I saying that the right way. Well, so that was a proposal back in twenty three where we had a good amount of kids switching over there. And it's hard. Yeah, it's you know, no, no. And it's one of those things of you know, you get your friend, you get your kids that have friends there, you decide on where you want to move. Because I went to New London Academy. I went to send my kids in New London Academy. Sure, and so there are a lot of real world where you know, it's easy just sit here and look at demographics and oh man, I can switch all these these roads around. This is easy. But when you start factoring in the human cost of it, the human cost has got to bear in something. So our goal is and what we what we told our consultant last night when we were he's gonna be designing the maps on September tenth presenting it to us is you know, we're wanting to balance the human costs. We understand, I understand and make it efficient. I didn't need a hire consultant to make it efficient. What and he's done a fantastic job in laying out data that I didn't even know existed, but being able to sit there and go balancing all that out, understanding the transportation cost. You're not going to want to send a kid, you know that's zoned right now for Forest Elementary School to Big Island. That might be the quickest route, just popping right over Charlemont, but you don't want to send them that way. So is it one of those things where you and I have had this discussion too in the past about once you go to a school, you finish at that school and the new kids would go somewhere else. Or if you were in the third grade, now you in the fourth grade, you might be going somewhere else. So that's something that we've got to determine. We were talking about that last night, is do we grandfather kids in, do we let them finish out their their school career at that school and then move on, or or do we go ahead and say we've got to do it right now, because there's some schools where, to be honest, we have to do it right now, Like Forest Elementary. We've got to we're we're bumping right up against you know, having to add extra units to those schools. Yeah, yeah, I mean so when you listen to it, the argument makes a lot of sense. With what you're saying. With you know, you've got a school like New London, you want your kids to continue to go there. But like the kids that we're going to Stuart's Stuartsville, good View, whatever it's called, what is called Stuartsville, you know, their option was closing. That's right, right, that's a tough one to swallow. Absolutely, And we've closed Faxton now body Camp, body Camp, body Camp. So I mean those those kids didn't they had a choice, but they really didn't. I mean, it closed, So you got to go somewhere else, yes, sir. And so in this particular case, when you think about those they look at that argument and go, you're going at least you're going from you know, New London to Otto River, right, yes, sir. And so that's the other the other side of the argument. But it all makes sense. There's no sense in keeping the school open that's at half capacity or less, right, I mean, that's absolutely and the smart decision to make and you know, and they. Came up with this in twenty twenty four, this was voted, they got voted down. It may have you know, I don't know that they have the They didn't have the backing behind them to really have the data, right, which I would, you know. And I actually fought against hiring a consultant because again I've got libertarian tendencies. Yeah, I don't like spending money, especially taxpayer money because I'm a taxpayer. But I will I will give it to our consultant here. He did a fantastic job in laying out So now I cannot just go of, hey, me over here in District three. I'm going to change someone else's district out there in one and it's not gonna affect my my constituents at all. We have actual hard data of this, says hey, this is this is why this exists. This is why we're doing it this way. How are your other board members? How's that going along? There's seven of you? Right, yes, sir? How's that going along? With what they heard last night and what you're about to get into. I haven't had a lot of conversations with the board murdersons last night, but I will tell you, you know, just from the questions that were answered during the public hearings, it's it went really well as far as we were all extraordinarily impressed with the level of data. And I brought just a few slides here. I think he had like forty five slides that we went through last night. I would encourage everyone if you get a chance, whether you have students or not, this this affects your property. You know, if you are in Bedford County, the property value may change. Be aware. We're begging for people to give us feedback because we don't know what we don't know, and so we have all of this analytics, and analytics is great and I can make a decision based off analytics, but it's hard for me to make a decision based off of the human costs without understanding that. So I'm just curious. Tough question. But you previously had stated that you were against redistricting, Yes, sir, So would this data have changed your mind when you were against it? I think it would. I think it would have at least given me a And that was what I argued previously. I went to the board and I argued, and the data that makes sense the gentleman that was there, that was presenting the data. He's no longer with the school system, but he he didn't have the data make sense. Now he was an employee of our school system. He didn't this for a living, but the data didn't make sense. The data was going off of of potential trending that may or may not happen. Sure, well, now I have the Hey, these are the permits that have been pulled. This is how we're looking, going all the way back to the nineteen hundreds. I didn't know we could go back to the nineteen hundreds, but the man did a great job. And I honestly I would say that. You know, as a businessman, I always say I'm going to make the decision based off of the data. Ship So I think there's still you know, there's still room for the human costs. But at the end of the day, the data is what the data is. And I appreciate how Brian approached that. This is a good way to say it. So these are tougher questions, and you and I discussed this that you wanted to be on an air on air where you could have long form discussion. We're not up against commercials that's not sound bites. Yep, sure, and we're too dumb guys that just asked the questions. But when you say, I think it was six nine percent comes from the state of your your budget. Is the other thirty percent coming from the board of supervisors? Are they? Where do you get your other? So about twenty five twenty six come from the Board of Supervisors and then about four or five percent comes from the from the federal government. So another tough decision that could be made that might help you all set the eleven million that you're losing, is the board of supervisors raise taxes or attribute more money, send more money to the school. And that's why I'm glad I'm on the board of supervisors. Yeah, yeah, that is a that's you know, raising revenue. Fortunately, as a school board member, I got nothing to do with revenue. Yeah, yeah, all I can do is ask for more. Yeah, and you're a steward of the taxes. I mean it's obviously you hear. That, absolutely, but I think I think that's something to be looked at. I you know, personally have a real hard time with you know, raising taxes and better I think that's part of what makes that for great is our low tax rate. But to count of that is if we want to continue to offer great services and continue our our net migration increase. Schools are part of that. And you know we've we've spent and the Board Supervisors has done fantastic. We just renovated the auditorium at Stanton River and Liberty High School and man, those state of the art facilities. Yeah, like those are those are amazing facilities. I'm really excited for what they're going to be able to do there. Yeah, but that costs money. It's got to come from somewhere. And you know, we were very fortunate that the Board Supervisors, you know, set aside those funds and let us go after that. Well, one other formula in the variable, or one other variable in the formula is to increase the number of people that are getting taxed, and that is density. Yeah. And we have a board member and I know that you don't have to hear this, but I'm on my soapbox a little bit. We have a board member out there trying to make it sound like we don't need any growth. Obviously we were. We do, and the way to do that is to do the migration that you see here is attract people. Sure, yeah, you know, and I've always felt like, and we had this discussion a little bit last night, but when you have great schools, you attract people. When you attract people, you attract development, You attract good parents, right that come in when I have their kids go to good schools. So you get smart kids, and you get good schools because you got smart kids leaving those schools. It's a beautiful cycle that works as long as all those things keep happening. So yeah, and you got to stay on top of it. Absolutely, Actually you set me up perfectly. Yeah. Can you move over to the enrollment forecasting. This is what scares me. So, yes, we get our funding from the state, from locality, and from federal government, but really our numbers are tied. Our funding numbers are tied to the students that we have in our schools, and that's continuing to go down. You know, in two thousand and six, two thousand and seven, we're sitting there at eleven thousand students. This year we're probably gonna be around eighty five hundred, and it's you know, looking at it, there's a real good chance that it's continue to decrease and a lot of that is birth rate that we just can't help. That is a national trend, international trend really of decreasing in population. You know, I was talking to the advisor last night and he was saying something that shocked me. Here, in the next ten to fifteen years, Nigeria is going to be the third most populated country in the world. And so because we're trending the opposite direction, I think we're at one point seven on a birth rate. And I don't know if y'all realize this, but it takes two people to make a kid, So if you're producing under two point one, it's going to be you know, we're going to continue this decline and enrollment. You know, there is a portion Bedford County has a great homeschool community, so there's a portion of our population that goes there. We have great private schools at both ends at Liberty Christian Timberlake. Well they're also dropping. I mean, it's a national trend. It's a national trend. And so what I want to also talk about is we've got to find more way to bring more people to Bedford, to bring more students to Bedford. And we have the school board a year ago we even dropped our tuition for out of county residents to come in to attempt to continue to fight those not sure because I think again, I think Bedford has a great product. I think we are we are top notch. I mean it shows by the testing we're thirty one out of one hundred and thirty one. We're doing great. We could always do better. There's always room for improvement. But the only way that we're going to continue with that is to continue to get population. So here's here's my tough question. Yeah, because you're the business you got your business at on, yes, sir. So if you see a trend where you're steadily losing enrollment, how has your what's the word staff hiring? How's your staff hiring gone with that? So what we've done is so our big thing is we want to have small class sizes. So even though our population has dropped about eleven percent in the last ten years, we have hired four percent more teachers in the last ten years. But in doing that, we've also dropped our central office stuff. Our central office has decreased by about five percent in that same time. Can you decrease it by fifty So that's my soapbox. Absolutely. So the example that I give is when I went to school, your your central office made up of about eight people, and it was pretty much they had. It was your superintendent, a secretary, your bus maintenance, you know, and then I think one or two others and that was it. So Betford Kenny, that is something that and I will give all the credit to our previous board, Marcus Hill did a great job at starting to work to trend to trim that down. Okay, the state says, so we have what's called SQ Standards of Quality. The state says that we should have eighty two eighty two point five people in our central office. We have twenty six less than that in our central office somewhere in the sixties, and we're going to continue to make that more efficient. The problem is is the difference between when you went to school and when I went to school is we've taken a lot of society's problems that we have and we've thrown it on the school. Oh I don't disagree with it. So we've got, you know, in the summer and during COVID and we've still got to support our students nutrition that's on us. Yeah, that you know, that's we're educators. That's not something that we should be having, but it's on us. So we've got to keep that running. We've got, you know, all these mental health services we we you know a lot of our a lot of our central office staff falls into that. And again I don't think that should go under the schools, but it does according to the State of Virginia, it does go under the schools. Sure, I think it's part of a whole education, and I think that is part of it. But I don't think we should have to staff this many full science psychologists, but we do. We're required to. Uh. And so if we're going to continue to throw more things on the schools, unfortunately, that means that our administration is going to have to increase. Could you kind of have somebody to supervise that. Yeah, And that's what I didn't know is whether or not it was state mandated. There's some of that that state and mandate some of that that, like I said, especially with teachers and instruction, we have added more on that. We have said, you know what, in Bedford, we're going to keep classifians as small as we can. In Bedford, We're gonna we're going to prioritize instructions, so we do have every just about every subject has its own instructional coordinator that that's what they do is science, or they do math, or they do because we think that's important. I want to create a county that produces really smart kids that can go out, continue to get into the workforce, and then continue to thrive in Bedford, grow Betford as a community. Yeah nice, did you. I warned them too. I tell them what your pet peeves usually are. But if he left here, you would think later and we're like, tag, I forgot to ask about sports funding. Sports funding to me and that obviously you've got budget issues. I get it, but I honestly believe well I know. I mean, we've had coaches that were in the Bedford County School District that went on to coach college and the very first thing they will tell you is when they were recruiting. The state of Virginia is by far the lowest paid when it comes to athletics. It's atrociously different than other states, and yet we are one of the highest recruited in athletics. So our kids are going to college through athletic scholarships, and yet we continually to do nothing to fund them. And when I say nothing, I mean it's very, very bare. Like most athletic directors will tell you they start a deficit from day one. They're already in a deficit just to write a check to officiating. Their whole budget's gone. And yet we somehow get through it. And it's like it's getting more and more difficult with the way things are. For me. I look at it because I coached for I don't know, fifteen years, and you see the kids that if they don't have this avenue, they're absolutely not going to make it. And it to me, I watch school boards go through these processes of and I'm just using Chromebook as an example, the billions of dollars that are spent in that when I have a proven curriculum that has worked perfect for forty years in teaching you how to work as a team, something you're going to have to have at a job, you're going to have to learn, how to show up on time, you got to work with. It teaches you everything, and yet we don't fund it at all, you know, at a decent pace. Absolutely, And I think a lot of that is because a lot of our funding, like I said over. You know, sixty nine percent of our funding comes from the state. The state a lot of times dictates where those moneys go based on the SQS. Sports is not not high on their priority list. And so I'm one hundred percent, you know, I'm big. The two things I'm passionate about are physical education with our children, and I would I would consider sports part of that. I wrestled, I played football, you know, I went through the whole FYA program when I was when I was a student. I think there's invaluable skills that I learned from that. But we've got to fund it. And right now we're having such a hard time with our funding in general, it's it's almost inconceivable to go, all right, we're gonna add something else to that. And so a lot of the programs are you know, supplemented by boosters or parents or you know, some type of of organization, and that really kind of and you see it across the state. It really. Advantages these schools that have a more affluent population. And so I agree that's the problem. I just don't know the solution. Yeah, and I don't know how to get that. I'd love to if someone has a solution. I'd love to get that, but we have so many other budget constraints and budget concerns, and I hate to you know, it's our kids. There's no amount of money I wouldn't spend my own personal sure, but at the same day, I've got to balance this budget, and we've got to be efficient, and we got to be smart with it. And so I've said this plenty of times. We get a lot of proposals in the school system. You know, last year there was about fifteen that the superintendent brought to us that said, hey, I'd love to fund all these and all of them are great things to fund, but we only have a finite amount of money, and so it's a zero sum game. So whatever I take from one entity, I'm going to add to another. That entity loses. And so I think we've done a decent job. We've expanded our sports into middle school, which I think was very important. We did that, the previous board did that to where you know we have now organization school is all the ways going back to middle school. I'd like to continue that. I'd like to grow those organizations. I'm just runningup against brick walls right now. No, I know, and it's it's very difficult. I mean I can understand because and I don't want to just say it's athletics, it's any extracurricular stuff that's like the investments that you're making in the auditoriums is important. I mean, those those kids dedicate. We've been to plays at JF and Liberty. I mean, they're phenomenal the work that they do, and it takes it goes past high school onto other stuff, and so I just I don't know how you get there either. I've never figured it out. I've tried, but yeah, it's just it's it's tough. I think our board is willing to work on those things. We're just I've not gotten someone that's come to me and said, hey, this is a this is where we can have a solution at Yeah. And I'm not an educator, yeah, I you know, I'm a businessman. I can you know. I'm a father. I've got three small kids. I want to see that I want to have them a place to play sports and to grow. I want to expand all of our ex curriculars, but that comes at at a local cost. And if we if we want to, you know, we're not getting money from the state from that, We're not getting money nationally from that, so that's going to come locally, and we've got to really we've got to encourage the tax base to go, hey, we're okay paying more money for this. And I don't know about you, but I don't know many people that want to pay more taxes. Well, can schools individually? And I'm curious. I don't know the answer to this, but a good example to me is Liberty High School has a phenomenal FFA program. Can they work to directly with you know, tractor dealerships or things like that to get more funding for that? And it's excluding JF or Stanton River, whereas those those have their own. Yeah, and a lot of you know, a lot of ptas do that, you know. I'll just I'll talk about New London because my wife's the vice president of their PTA. Their big fundraiser is that fence outside of their property. They put advertisements on that thing and we all run diet fifty times a day, that's right, And so they take that money and they put it towards I think last year they bought two big smart screens for teachers classes. I think this year they're raising money for playground equipment, and every every school has something like that, and those are obviously the The public private partnerships are huge because the private sector wants to be part of the community. That's a great way to be part of the community is by supporting these public institutions. They do. But I get angry at the big businesses because a lot of their employment comes from our local high schools, and you don't see, like if you go to a smaller community, like I went to Honeacre for a state semifinal game, you pull over and I don't know if you've ever been to Honaker, but when I say it's in the middle of nowhere, I mean you're going thirty miles before you get to a convenience store. So but when you pop over the hill, there's this gorgeous school, the turf fields, locker rooms, everything's immaculate. But everything has one name on it, and that is their manufacturing facility that pretty much employs the old town. And they donate millions back because that is their employment. It comes from that school, and I would like to see our businesses do that here more of it. We have millions of dollars you know, that should be pouring back into our local schools. Yeahsolute, and you know I will a lot of times. You they've also have those programs. It's just you got to know where to look for it. Now, this is not a big thing, but last year in New London wrote a letter to Walmart and said, hey, we need new balls for our for our recess yard. And we got buckets of that kind of stuff and now they're good for years now. Sure, and so I think those those exist, but you got to find it. You got to work for it. And you know, I would love for more businesses to approach us instead of Tide and reach out to them. Yeah. I did see something in Tennessee I thought was a cool idea. I actually sent this to Marcus, and Marcus was busy then he didn't. I bet Marcus probably replied to eighty percent of what I sent him. But it was really cool. In Tennessee, the school buses actually have ads on the side of them. They're like just a school board, you know, the along the chain link fence that you were talking about. Yeah, absolutely, it was kind of the cool thing. They're driving around neighborhoods. It's a perfect billboard to put on the side of something, so it might be something to look into. Well, how I mean, like what Brian just said about trying to find local companies that hire local kids that come out of the school. Is there a liaison or is there anybody that does something like that that reaches out for the school board to local their businesses. So that's what that's what we just created a position for you. That is what we do with a minimum Club. We did separate than the Booster Club because we wanted we only go to those big businesses and they donate to our organization and then we of course give all the one hundred percent to the schools. But our whole philosophy was we want to make relationships with these type of businesses so that when we do capital improvement projects we can ask for a ten thousand dollars check and not a five hundred dollars check. And we've got currently we have eighteen businesses that pay us one thousand dollars a year to be part of the club. We've started at ten and now we're up to eighteen, and we'd love to have thirty because that's thirty grand starting from the start, just annually. They keep you know, but it's to be able to develop. You can't walk into someone's office and say, hey, we're doing a locker or a new weight room that's cost in one hundred and twenty five thousand. Can you do anate twenty five thousand. They're looking at you like you're stupid. Yeah, you've got a fifteen year relationship with them. It's a different story. And so that's what we've tried to do over the past eight years with a minimum club. Yeah, and I think a lot of those those local schools do a great job with that, but as a school board office, that's not something we've ever really pursued. I think we've allowed each individual school to do that. But it does benefit some schools more than others, depending on their organizational level. And we did get we did get money, you know, we sent out we did a what's it called a grant you know with Dick's Sporting Goods. We asked for ten thousand, they gave us three. Yeah, and we just asked. But I'm not a grant writer. If you've ever filled out a grant, it's a process. Yeah, that's right, And so finding a grant writer would be phenomenal. And especially in our Forest area. A lot of those grants they're not eligible for. My wife just tried to do a grant for I think it was Clorox and it was to provide hand washing stations in the school, something very and she got to the last page after about fifteen pages, and it was like, you know what percentage of your school has is on the free lunch program? Right? Yes? What your average media and the income. And so then it go and then they just say, hey, thanks for setting that in, but we're not interesting and so you know, you run into a lot of that as well, which is neither good nor bad. But it is just the facts of being in Bedford and Breen in a population that does have some influencies. Sure, what what are some upcoming dates that if people are still tuning in after listening to Brian, just kidding? What what do? What are some upcoming dates that people can attend that you want to know. To know that. So the next big important day to September the tenth, and that's when there our consultant demographics analyst advisors. They're going to come in and present different scenarios. We haven't given them a number. It's probably going to be four to six different scenarios that we can adopt, and then we as board members are going to be holding individual town halls throughout the month of October November to determine, you know, what the feedback is, what the community wants, what's their hard lines, what they definitely don't want, and you know, well, we get a lot of hey, this is great, and I think you need to do it, just not my house. Yeah, And so it's it's it's figuring out how to create those those scenarios where we are we are understanding that, yes, everyone doesn't want to be affected individually, but how do we do it in fact that is fair to all of Bedford County, is fair to every individual district. And so that's gonna be our challenge. And so we're gonna be having several of those town hall meetings. I know in District three, I'm gonna be having three different ones. I'm still waiting on the different locations to respond back to me on the act exact dates. If you follow my Facebook page Stephen Hill for Bedford County District three School Board, I post up regularly. I post up several times a day sometimes and I am I have a commitment to where I will answer every email. My phone number is on there. Call me, text me, email me, I will answer you. One of one of the legends in my life. Most of influential people Russia in Balld but i'd say Charlie Kirk. Oh, it was right in there. And Charlie Kirk says, you're going to change the country if you change the school boards. If you're on the school board and just your passion, you can hear it. And I'm so glad we have someone like you on that school board. Man. Well, I appreciate it. And you know, I've got three kids. I got a fifth grader, a third grader, and a kindergartener. So I'm gonna be in it for a while. You got the question, Oh yeah, you can't get out without a question, all right, all right? So if you could spend twenty four hours with one person past future president, who would it be and where would you spend with them? Where? You know, where would you go to spend your time with them? Brett Favre Duck hunting oh Man, Mississippi. Yes, sir, that's awesome. It would be a fun time. I grew up in the nineties when you know, my dad was a bigger Packer fan from the sixties and so I kind of inherited and that it was a great time to be. A Packers fan. Yeah, he might not have been the best quarterback to ever played the game, but he has to be one of the most fun quarterbacks to watch play a game. Definitely. Well, we appreciate you, Steve from coming in again Stephen Hill with the Bedford County School Board. And this segment was brought to you by State Farm. Neat Insurance in Bedford and David Honaker, 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 five four zero, five eight six eight one nine four, or visit our office that is conveniently located at one two three two East Lynchburg Saale on Turnpike in Bedford, right beside the Walmart. We are your go to State Farm agent, like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. Call us today? All right to moving on to this day in history. That's a great interview. Man. He said he was difficult or like he had a lot of slides. I was like, you should see the amount of the trim you guys, said me man one day it was eight from Brian and like ten from Trent's funny yep. Uh no that was a good interview. Yeah, excellent. Yeah, it's never a dull moment in Bedford, Kenny. You gotta make hard decisions and I like that we have you do thoughtful people you do and not to be rude, but not doctor Ritz, you know what I mean? The PhD is smarter. Than everybody else. That's that's that's what remember you and I used to watch the meeting at COVID. I don't know who Marcus Hill was. I found him because of the way he acted in those meetings. He was fantastic. I should have asked, but I'm not gonna go in that road. But with the now just it is a listen. There are people that are not a big fan of Randy Dunton and we're not gonna go spend a lot of time on that. But the organization that he has created is phenomenal. And to think that we just turn their back and just say we're not going to be the district that allows kids to go to that it's just beyond me. But that's another day and another time to complain about. All right, this day in history, This day in history, nineteen o nine, remember it well? The first race was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Wow on this day. That's kind of odd. It is not Memorial Day weekend. No, all right, moving on to dry old brickyard. Hey, did you remember this? In nineteen ninety one? Do you remember that Gorbachov was in a coup? Scott Jennings, that was his this day in history. I thought it was great because I'd already sent this to you, But that was his choice too. Gorbachev was ousted for three days. They had him locked in a room with not locked in the room, but he couldn't get out, and when he picked up the phone it was dead. He knew something was going on because he was circled by his military advisors and they failed because they had no plan. When he said no, he thought he was going to be murdered. Oh wow, he and his wife. He thought it was going to be like old school, you know, Russian takeover. And it was like the people that tried to take over just assumed that he was going to give in. What was happening was he was trying to get out of the communism and get out of that old Soviet style and just be Russia again, and the Soviet military was trying to stop it. So they ended up going to I guess they have a white House in Moscow, which I didn't know that, and the tanks were there and the people kept it from happening, and Boris Yeltsen became famous for climbing on a tank and telling them all to go home, telling the military to go home, and they did. So. Where was Putin in all of this? Yeah? I wondered that too, because he was he would have been part of the the group that were going after him. O kgb oh. I don't know. I mean that was in the nineties, early nineties, so it was nineteen ninety one. Yeah, I thought he would because I thought I remember reading something about him being part of that. He was not mentioned in any of the articles. Okay, he would think all the all the Russian names, but I did not remember that. That's interesting. He was held captain by eight men for two days. All right, Moving on to drama. All right, Lioness, Yeah, five of my all time favorite shows. Every week mood, they just step it up even more. Have you seen it, Emma Trent. I'm just telling you the last episode that I watched the other night. Like I'm just I'm not gonna break you know, any sixth sense stuff here. But they're in a room and they're talking to a consultant who is from Ukraine. She's a double agent, okay, from Russia, and she is telling us how other countries are at war with us. And I'm gonna briefly say she says, Russia is like a pack of wolves, and China is like a lion. They cannot beat the bear, which is America, and they won't work together because they'll try to kill each other, so they do this instead. And they had a pyramid up on the wall, and they were explaining how these countries beat the bear, which is through infection, and they handed out a packet to the special forces people and they said, these are the people that have infected your country. And the guy opens it up and he goes, so, tell me again how his school board superintendent is infecting my country. Huh. And she said, well, let's see. We take him to a strip club. We get him hooked up with a girl, and then we take pictures of him and then we say we're going to ruin your life or you're gonna put this curriculum into the local school system. Oh okay, And I'm sitting there going, how did air school system get the way it's gotten? You and I have talked about it for years, How our curriculum has gone crazy? Sound like Eric Swalwell. Fang fang that was on up the pyramid. Politicians were part of that, and they explained it to a t. And I'm like everything they're explaining we're literally reading on Fox News the next day, and I'm like, like, they know it. Why can't they stop it? So great show, I'm telling you cool. Barstool Survivor is still heating up? Love it? How long is that going when they finally survived? Don't give it down to one. Wasn't it wasn't the one have to be Portan. No, he's not even in it. Huh uh. They have dud Arstenal has like thousands of employees. They have a great bar at Nashville. Yeah, they did. So. No, it's pretty cool. So the episodes don't come out every day. They come out on Mondays and or excuse me Sundays and Wednesdays, and so they're just now getting to the jury. So it ought to be pretty good. Got you, gotcha? All right? Uh mine, Oh I wanted to watch it, but I'm like, man, I've seen so many times, how is this one going to be different? Oh? Okay, so that's awesome, So I said, I said the exact same thing. So both Jeff and Brian to give proper credit, French and Rupert both said that they had watched it, and dude, you can't. It's three episodes. You're not just going to watch the one set aside three hours because you're going to just jump right into the next. Okay, it's really cool. I learned so much about him, I mean, just right off of bat I never knew he was from West Virginia. Wow. It was just some really cool stuff. So they do a really good job. I mean, they sort of do the reenactment thing, which not a big fan of. But after a while, when you get into it, you realize you forget that you're not watching him. So it was it was real well, really well done. All right, Moving on TDS headlines. All right, this week's Trump Derangement Syndrome headlines now ABC News, Oh, yeah, Tuesday primary results in Florida. Trump endorsements only goes so far. They can't wait to be able to say something like that. And what did he not get one right? Or something? Was two that he lost? One was an incumbent though, that was kind of interesting. Oh but he was the guy? Was he the guy that was kind of in trouble. I'm not sure the one that did lose. I don't know that Trump endorsement was that Mills guy. And I think I think Mills got in trouble for some controversy type stuff. So yeah, as long as we win in the general one. Yeah, still the Republicans against Republicans, domes against THEMS. The big one is now from now on. Yeah. So NBC News, Yeah, they wanted to tell you that a Florida socialist will now face a Republican for Senate. Huh in a big upset over Colonel Vindamin remember him. Yeah, they're they're a butt boy. Yeah, and their little darling military leader. Yeah. I hate that guy. I hated that guy. I'm pretty sure he was the one they leaked everything. He was. He was the one that did the recording of the call with Zelensky, way back before we knew who Ukraine and Zelensky was. And then he made it sound like that Trump was trying to bribe him when there's literally a video of Biden on a stage saying, if you don't fire the prosecutor, I'm not giving you money. How did they get away with all that? I never understood that, because that the whole argument was that Trump was trying to influence the election by getting a foreign leader. When don't you remember they were like, oh, you said something in the transcript, and he was like, release the damn transcript. That was the best move, one of the top ten moves he's ever done. Yeah, he didn't care. What was funny was once he learned that he can declassify anything. Yeah, these people are thinking, he'll never declassify something this top secret. And we'll have these secret hearings. And then he was like, naw, play the damn thing. Didn't But by the way, again history he was right, yeah about all of it. Yeah, yeah, that's well. It was crazy, and yet they impeached him over it. Yep, ah right. CBS News Iran's top diplomat and Trump cast doubt on any hope of a peace deal. I'm at the point now where let's just us run the straights of horror moves and. Well I got that coming on. Okay, good, all right. Our TikTok TikTok shout out this week is one of my favorites. This is the uh recovering Californian. I like when you send me her stuff. This is Caroline, a recovering Californian cut one. Hi, my name is Carolyn. I'm a recovering Californian. And it's a wild Saturday night out here in the South. I wanted to go see a movie, but UT is playing, so no. I wanted to go to a restaurant, but UT's playing, so no. I don't really know what UT is, but apparently those people do fun things on Saturday nights. She's so good. Yeah, And what's funny about that is I remember when my dad first moved to Nashville. I was going to come see him and he said when are you coming And I said Saturday and he said what time are you coming through? And I don't know. I said I should be coming through Knoxville, probably around noon, and he went, Nah, better not do that. He said, it's kickoff at one o'clock. He said, you either got to come at four o'clock or you know, you need to come earlier. And he's like, cause you're not going to get through traffic. And I was like what He's like, yeah, you he's playing. I mean, I'm not trying to exaggerates. It's two to three hours leaving a parking garage. Oh yeah, when you leave the stadium, you're just going to be there. You might as well just take a second round of food with you because you're going to eat in the vehicle. Yeah, the put her back up, Ama, How many I think she's got like one hundred and eighty seven thousand followers? Huh? She oh that from the actual Hi my Name So? Yeah, is this on TikTok or was that on YouTube? That's on She's yeah, she's on TikTok so one hundred and what was one hundred and eighty six thousand followers? Grief? Uh, there's so many good ones, Emma that you would like. She's so funny. She is hilarious. Do you see the one with her in the bathroom like at a park? It is so funny. See she was at a park and she said, I'm on a homeless shelter. Yeah, that might be it right there to the left. Sorry, Recovering California. Yeah, Hi, my name is Carolyn. I'm recovering California. And today's Southern lesson is a Southern uber it just like. It's great. You get in the back. They always have sun drop all the skull you could ever want all. You don't even need an app. You're just anywhere on a street corner usually Hi Billy, and they get you and it only goes to the Dollar General though, So that's. Kind of. Oh God is good? All right? So that was there TikTok of the day. Do we have a clip for that yet? Like, I mean a bumper, I'm working on it. I got you TikTok shout out. Just like that that one does a shout out. Hey, let's get one of our TikTok people. Maybe do the bird guy to cut us like Tyler Panel, Yeah, to do a little promo. Yeah, it's TikTok child out all right, Moving on sports, It's time for sports. What I haven't done my mount Rushmore. I thought you were gonna say long live or something. I mean, I can. I don't know if you followed this Trent. Okay, you may or may not have with I said something to somebody the other day. I said, have you been following the jade and Daniel memes? And he went, no, what's wrong? And I was like, dude, they're destroying him on social media. And he said, oh, about his mom sleeping with players. I was like, no, I hadn't heard that one. Wow, I said that's the thing, and he goes, oh, maybe not. I was the Vanderbilt quarterback. Oh was that that? Yeah? His mom was an who's the comedian guy, the funny guy Shane Gillis on Joe Rogan all the time. Oh, Jimmy Poulin, No, the. Guy, the country guy from Alabama. And anyway, he was banging Pobby. As mom theo up banging really. Doing een. What was ressuing that situation was probably. I don't know, perfect perfect censor all right, So yeah, you really haven't followed any of this. So Jadeen Daniels I think it was his mother. But then he didn't make things better. So they sent a letter to l s U and they've asked them to cease and desist allowing anybody to wear the number five because they said that it is uh ripping off name and likeness of Jadon Daniels because. He's that's weird. So it immediately set off a trend because LSU fans are pretty damn passionate. You don't tell them who is their legends and what I said it didn't help things is Jaden made the statement that you know, you haven't let Joe Burr or anybody wear the number nine since Joe Burr graduated. Well, neither one of them have their jerseys retired yet, but you can't compare yourself to one who won a national championship one, yeah, and two. I mean, it's just it's a bad look. And it's they continue to say because as a student who was promised the number five to get him to come to it's just crazy that students would select a school over that. But they all come up with some reason. But like it's the NBA has now agreed to go four and four out of respect for Aiden Daniels and is stuff like that. It's no longer it's four, no longer fives, it's four guys, burgers and fries, and it just his NonStop man's it's across the board and it's I don't know what he was thinking. But anyway, yeah, moving on, I just uh the w n B A yeah, unbelievable. So last night again I watched a fever. They were in Toronto, and I'll tell you what gets me to watch them is the dem tich knocks that Sophie Cunningham does are hilarious. They were in Toronto for the first time and we don't think about this, but this first time these players have been in another country. You know, they were college kids, so they they were going to Toronto. So her, Caitlin Clark and Alexi Hall were trying different snacks that are only in Canada that aren't in the United States. So one of them was please chips and some phi was like they were disgusting. So apparently they were booing her last night. But they were booing her because of and that's what I don't understand. You're booing a girl who was standing up for women in sports. Are because of the blaze ketchup thing. No, but that's what she joked about in the conference. Somebody said I heard them booing you and she said, yeah, they know. I don't like to catchup, gotcha. But yeah, it was it was a good I mean the crowd was ridiculous. They had to move into a bigger arena, which I just that's the story. How come that story is not the one written? You know, Indiana Fever, Caitlyn Clark, Kelsey. They're jealous, you know, but it's not just Caitlyn. It's the Fever team right now. It's scoring, averaging almost one hundred points a game, and you know, promote the hell out of that. You're having to move your games to bigger arenas. But no, you know what we heard last night, freaking Angel Rees, Angel Reaes, Angel Reaes, Angel Rees halftime when they played each other, because they played each other this weekend. Oh yeah, the halftime. They spent the whole halftime telling you how great Angel Reese was. She was three for ten, Trent, Oh goodness. Caitlyn had twenty points, but Angel was three for. Ten and she did miss that lay up to win the game. And she missed the layup to win the game. Yeah, I thought that was funny. That was a good little mimi of Caitlyn Clark's face smiling. Yeah, but that actually happened. I mean, I'm just saying it wasn't altered. She did smile. Yeah, that killing me quite like, so if you're doing the pointing, yeah, that was real. Anyway, I can't watch. But Warren watches, so I can't wait to always see his comments as they cracked me up. But college football, don't forget next week? Who's coming in? I mean, didn't you say that a dream didn't even get come out of the locker room for the National Dead Right, you're in Atlanta. Dude, it's even worse than that. Like they showed, they showed the Indiana fever. Yeah, and Sophie cunning Him was the only person that had her hand over her heart. The rest of them are just standing there looking at the flag, which I'm not going to get mad if you've got your hands behind your back, right, but you obviously see the one that's patriotic and gives a shit about her country. To me, I know you're watching, and I say this again, but this is no different to me than when Colin Kaepernick and everybody started kneeling and people not coming out. I quit watching, and I'm gonna watch till you guys get over that dumb shit. Yeah yeah, all rkay. College college football Preview. Who's coming in? Oh? Good question, because I don't think it can be. Aaron he told me again that he's can't be here at five. Well, effort somebody. If we don't, we'll do it ourselves. We're damn good at this. Yeah, we can do it. I'm excited about it. It's gonna be interesting. Is next week your last show. Before you raise? Hail Praisdale? What next week your last show before you leave? Oh? Yes? Are we out two weeks? Yeah? Yeah? All right, Emma, do you want to do it? Loan? I can bring uh em do you get paid? Let's see if Travis or Grayson want to come in. Yeah. Yeah, and then the third week I won't be here, so don't get looking. No you are, but all right, yeah we'll come up with something. Nascar. Yeah, how has Richmond become everybody's favorite short track all of a sudden? Oh I didn't know that? Yeah? Yeah? The rave was how great the race was this past weekend of just passing and different grooves and and the stands were absolutely packed. Good. It was amazing looking. Probably cutting it to one track one year has helped. Yeah, but the racing has definitely helped too. Like it was, it was really good and I'm not saying it just because Logano won. But no, no, I'm just saying it was a really good race. Yeap Logano did win, by the way. Cool uh for you, bag Fago. So I did pose this question and I opposed it to you, And now I ask Kevin later on who's had the better career currently as we speak, Denny Hamlin with sixty nine wins I think he's got or Joey Logano with forty wins. Well, I mean I would definitely say Hamlin. You would. Yeah, No, that's just like you won't say anything good about uh Hamlin. I'm not gonna give you any credit. No Logano? All right? Mark Martin? Yeah, who's had the better career of Mark Martin or Joey Logano? Mark Martin. Championships don't matter. Not on that gimmicky championship. Oh here we go, Yeah, same rules Hamlin had. I mean, how many gimmicks did he win? He only got in because Bowman cheated, and how many gimmicks his hambling won? First of all, he got called cheating two weeks ago. He's the worst. All right, moving on? What's happening? It's time before news? Am I paying attention to reading? Well? You had cut two up there. So I was waiting for you to say in a local news yeah you never did cut two. Oh yeah, let's go back. That's a good one. I think you'll like this. Thanks for staying on board, am. I I know I was waiting. He's not even focusing on his own damn show. So Kenny Wallace, Yeah, does a little coffee talk type thing. Yeah, and he is hilarious. I don't know if you've seen this clip, but apparently you got dirt track drivers out here going yeah the askphall people don't know what they're doing. You know this, You know how hard it is to drive a dirt track. So this was Kenny Wallace's response to. I'm up to here with these dirt racing fans and dirt racers crying foul? Oh what about me? I deserve attention. I deserve attention. Sound like a bunch of democrats, y'all want to be equal? Look at me. I'm good. Yeah, you're good on dirt. Be like Kyle Larson, be like Christopher Bell. Make them hire you. You know, I wanted to be Jeff Gordon too, but I'm not good enough. Have a great Tuesday, everybody. Up. He still races a lot of stuffy still. Yeah. Oh Kenny Wallace, Yeah, the other Wallace. How many Wallace is weather? Rusty? Kenny and Mike and then they had a kid. Oh yeah, they're one of them. Steven Blink. I don't know how you grow killing people. Yeah, run over somebody in the pits. Right, local news Lynchburgh has paused its flock camera. Yeah, what do you think of that? Good? You don't like it? Now? It's evasive? Yeah? Why can't we just live and stop spending money? Okay, stop spending my money? Stop? And I'm also influenced because I watched half the movie of Snowden. I didn't finish it, but remember the guy that dropped the bomb that the NSA was spying on anybody they wanted to instead of foreign adversaries. Yeah, anytime you give anybody a chance to be able to look in on you them, that's right. Government, stay out on my damn lap. All right. Yeah. Some in Congress are pushing for a federal mandate to raise the state the minimum wage to twenty five dollars an hour. Hell yeah. Studies show that if that happens, five million jobs will go away. Who cares about them? Yeah, what do you think of that, Emily? Emma, Emma, give me twenty five an hour. I'm just kidding, not about all the jobs on but hey, Emma and everybody else is making twenty five dollars an hour. What do you think is going to happen to the candy bar you were buying before the show? Ten dollars? Yep, I'm just kidding. Guess what happens. I'm content where I am. You're at the same level you were before. It doesn't change. Yep, I'm just kidding, she said. A polling firm in California, Trent, mysteriously has shut down after the elections. Imagine that the primary elections. They admitted they were polls were fraudulent, but they closed down first before. Like, how many times have we got to just keep letting this happen? Dude? I sent you a poll that this week. Yeah, it was Tom Perry Yello beating. McGuire fifty two to thirty eight or something like that, right, I mean, it was just this disparity. And guess who published a poll Perry Yello. That was his site. God, I don't mind. Come on, man, does. Any Republican lead in a poll before the race really gets going out. They never do. But hey, man, I heard a story today that will blow your mind. I did not know this, and you may have because you're a political buff and you can remember things better than I can. Two thousand and eight, Yep, what was the big landmark bill that got passed like fifty to forty nine or fifty one forty nine in two thousand and eight? Oh it was Perry Yello did it with stupid Obamacare? Okay? Did you know in the Senate? That's the vote the Senate was fifty one to forty nine whatever, it was fifty forty nine and they broke it time fifty fifty broke it tie. Okay, how did they get fifty Democrats on the vote? Voter roll was? They fired the Republican senator from Alaska and had an emergency vote to replace him. Wow, the Alaskan senator was found I guess the Department of Justice sent him to prison for tax evasion, lying on his taxes. It took him years to get exonerated from it. And the reason he was exonerated is because the prosecution, the DOJ left out the important parts of his fraud, which was where he said you know it's confusing when you're doing taxes or whatever, but he actually stated, what if that's a problem, I'll pay that. Like he was willing to pay that before it became the issue that they came out with and busting him. They withheld that from the jury that he was willing to pay it. So he goes to jail. That's what exonerated him. But the person that won that runoff election was a Democrat, of course, and then they won fifty one to forty nine, fifty to fifty, whatever it was to break the tie. They did all they could to get Obamacare pass the wrong way. Yeah, and then what was the Charles Wrangell? Remember he was hell he had tax evasion for his whole career. Nobody sent him to prison. How about the guy in Jersey with gold bars and his drawers, not his draws, as Marty says, his drawers. Oh me, all right, beware Amazon. Okay, I did not know this. So apparently there's a couple of different ways, and I don't really know some of them. But I did notice this with the chemicals in my pool, not my pool, my hot tub. So I order chemicals off Amazon, right, and sometimes when they come they look different than they did the previous time. And one time I couldn't get my water clean, and I'm like, man, I've tested this, and it keeps coming up that I need pH, and I keep putting pH in it. And so it wasn't until later that somebody had said, oh, you know a lot of those places, you know, they will buy a five gallon bucket and just fill the smaller jars and put them and sometimes they don't put what's supposed to be in it. Oh god, same thing with vitamins, things like that. Apparently they'll buy an off brand and put it in a brand and sell it to you because it's different. There's no checks on Amazon to ensure that it's the proper stuff. So I'm just saying buy or beware that you may not be getting what you're actually buying, and so be careful of that. And then real quickly people who think businesses don't pay taxes, Oh god, dude, I got a letter today from Albumarl. So we do work from time to time in Charlesville. Right, yes, so you have to have a business license. Well, if you get a business license, wait till you hear this, Emma, I did a job last year in Albamar for one point five million dollars. Right, Yeah, I have to pay taxes for that one point five million, even though I don't see the I mean, I get the one point five million, but it literally lays in my hands for two seconds before it goes out. Correct. But here's what's crazy. Half of that contract went to a subcontractor. Yes, but I don't pay for half of the contract. I got to pay for the whole one point five million. I'm about to be pole thing, right. Yeah. Well, the subcontractor that I hired, they're also paying on that seven So that's dope. The concrete that they got was from our tomorrow. Yeah, so that's being taxed. Yeah, it is taxed ten ways to Sunday. Yeah. And I just it, by the way, that one point five million is taxed by Bedford. So I'm taxed here albumorrow. Everywhere I move, I'm taxed. Yeah. I'll tell you one thing that I see catching on because I saw Governor DeSantis say this, and I just saw it here recently, and it'd be cool if somebody started running on this that once your house is paid off, you shouldn't have to pay personal property taxes anymore. Great point. You bought that. You've you've done all you can, You've said it. Yeah, I don't know, and maybe that just incentivizes anyone from moving. I don't know how that would work. But we got to figure out a way to stop taxing every damn thing and under the sun. Listen, but we want to have more sports funding. Well, my point to that was, let's stop buying two billion dollars worth of chromebooks and maybe invest into. Damn that technology. It's not just technology, it's everything. Yeah. I mean, we spend a lot of money on curriculums that don't work. Yeah, and yet it's because it's a curriculum it must be good. I'm just saying, yeah, all right, uh, our win, win, win. This week, we're gonna win, win, win, and we're gonna make America great again defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated. Pretty soon, I'll be declaring the or most straight a territory of the United States. Set news to you, what was what do you say. He's going to be announcing the straits of News being a territory of the United States. No ships get through unless we want them to. But and how about Venezuela. Venezuela was a one day war, and now we work great with them. We've taken in millions and millions of barrels of oil, but we're doing really good. We're doing good in every way. You know. I built the military and now I used it a little bit more than I wanted to do, frankly, but that's okay because we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. Yeah, that was this week's video. I saw today the UAE has separated ties with Iran. That's a big game changer too. Absolutely. Yep. Does that sound like somebody's actually could be bringing a coalition together? Remember that word that they wanted to use all the time. Them, Hey, it could be using all the tools and his tools. Yes, wait till you hear about the big tent from Chris Matthews later. Boy. Yeah, all right, moving on post of the week. Yeah, this one says, if you really want to save children, then save them all. Yes. Yes, the top of that list started with have to be trans kids? Yes, yeah, like we don't care about them, it's just crazy. Yep. The one that I've got post by an idiot. Listen to these just listen to these facts if Trump had not torn up Obama's Iran nuclear agreement, Oh my god. We have. We'd have forty more billion dollars like we didn't send over the billion or whatever we did to them, three hundred fewer injured Americans, twelve less dead Americans. Gas would be two fifty and zero. Bases would have been severely damaged, and Iran's uranium would have been capped. The world would have been a safer place. Let me ask you something. There a reason why we had to use bunker bombs, right right, that was under his agreement. They were still making them. That's the part that I don't understand is when they argue for it, and you go, hey, dumb ass, do you not remember that you were literally saying, well, we couldn't. They couldn't have had a nuclear weapon within minutes, you know, there's no way. And then ten minutes later, well they were ten minutes away from having a nuclear weapon. I mean, which is it? And then by the way, how about we found out that they had missiles that could hit Europe? Right, that's great? So all right, moving on to Mount Rushmore. Yeah, oh, we don't have a bumper for that either. Oh, we're working on that. Yeah, all right, our Mount Rushmore of women athletes. Yes, so, uh you got Christmas right, He's got a good list here. Serena Williams, Okay, I would definitely have her on my list. Candice Parker Man. I don't know how I've missed her in basketball. She's not even the best basketball player in my mind. She was decent. Yeah, Layla a Lei, I guess that's pretty good. She was a boxer. I always wondered was she really good or was she just Muhammad Ali's daughter, you know what I mean? Caitlyn Jenner and Jackie Joiner Cursey. Oh well, and he says, Jenny Finch because he's got through that softball in there. Ye, all right. Mine was Maria Navratalova. Yes, dude, I mean she was incredible when when I was young. And I see that's the one that I said would come from behind. Because on our list, Catherine Has, Chris Everett Lloyd. Remember those battles in the yees Have they were free a u. Serena Williams, Yeah, just because she dominated, Yes, Jackie Joiner Cursey yep, uh, Mia ham At yep. And then Katie Ladecki. Oh yeah, that's a great one. The swimmer. Yeah, yeah, excuse me. I love her. I've got the same that everybody else has. I would say, though, one thing we leave out is those damn UFC fighters. What's the girl's name that's from Brazil? That just I think she just retired. She was like a champion. Oh yeah, that girl. Yeah, it's freaking amazing. Yeah, she's so good. Yeah yeah, so any I got. I guess we could have, said Ronda Rousey. She dominated for a long time. She did until. It's amazing how one kick to the head can change everything. And that's not just women too, I mean men for sure. Yeah. I mean look at that to Poria. Have you even heard of him since Justin gage Be? Oh yeah, he was unstoppable. That just happened July fourth. So they give the man a chance. Uh, somebody says Marty said Marion Jones. She was she was a cheater. Sorry, it's hard to get her in. Nancy Kerrigan about that? Uh good answer here, Brandy Chastain, she pulled the shirt off. Yeah. I think that's got to be part of your sport. And pulling your shirt off. Yeah, is Caitlin Clark in that. I wanted her but you got to have a little bit more. Yeah, now, Jeff, you know what, that's the Brian French. It's a really good one here Simone Biles. Oh, but I would say the best basketball player Cheryl Miller. Jeff to hit that incredible. Jeff is on my list of who we could bring into the football thing. He brings in some sports from a sometimes a different perspective. But I think that's all the people that I would have had to. And Amma, I'll did the three that weren't on your guys' list. I had Alex Morgan, Alex Moore soccer player, yes, very good. And then I did Lindsay Vaughan. Oh ship, yeah, I did more Olympics. Yeah. Then these I, as Trent says, I did my own thing, and I did like a two athlete combo, Misty. May and oh yeah Walsh Perry Walsh. Because they won twenty one consecutive game. But yeah, yeah, yeah they were. Yeah. I guess Caitlyn Jenner you could put in there in today's world. She did when. Uh the kathlon, not as a female, Yeah, Brian Prince said, Billy Jean King, There's no way I'm putting her into in that. Yeah. By the way, but nobody ever really talks about is when she beat the guy Bobby Riggs. He won the first match, you know, that was the second match that she beat them. No, and the dude was like fifty six years old and she was twenty five. Ors Im to me, dude, that's like Mike Tyson before me. Start half at it and you're going to start chewing. Well, I'm doing half at it. That's going to you gotta scratch on my throat. I'm trying to get it with a cracker. No one ever go ahead. I had it's propty by. Was he not? Just vinsense. If you have the responsibility of managing the sale of a loved one's estate, please call the Count's Realty and Auction Group. Since nineteen sixty three, they've been a trusted name and have helped thousands of families navigate a state and retirement sales with care and professionalism, ensuring your family gets maximum exposure and value. Whether it's your home, farm, vehicles, personal or investment property, you can trust the experts at the Count's Realty and Auction Group. Visit them at Countsauction dot com or call one eight hundred and seven eight zero one. I just got three things to say. God bless our troops, God bless America stock God. Oh, dude, you know what I just thought of? I could have done? What a mount rushmore of men that have gotten in trouble with women? Yeah, Tiger Woods, Kobe Bryant. Yeah, that's a good one. All right. So you're gonna have to hang in on here on this one. And I know Emma's going to be bored by this guy, but you're not gonna be bored by this guy because of how outrageous you'll get by listening to him today. Chris Matthews is part of the problem of the Democratic Party. His Remember the he gets a tingle down his span when Obama got elected up his leg. Yeah. Yeah, So this dude now listen to what he wants to talk about. The Big Tent is no longer the big Tent anymore. I think, and I've been thinking about this for some days now. The DSA has done a favor to non DSAY Democrats, to regular Democrats who are regular members of the party. They've listed what they believe in their chair, made that clear, it said. Peggy Nowton's column this week is very clear we're gonna get rid. Of Ice, not just Ice. We're gonna get rid of the border. We're not gonna have a border anymore. We're not gonna effectively read control people coming in and out of the country. And so I think we're not gonna we're gonna get rid of prisons. You know, we're gonna get her of the Pentagon. We're going to negotiate. Well, what happens when your hostages are your former diplomats, like what happened with President Carter. People take your hostage, your diplomats hostages. What do you do? Then you need an army. You don't like to like to have an army, but you do. Need to have one. All these positions can be denied by any regular Democrat. All you have to do is go out there to say thank you DSA for telling us what you believe in. I don't believe in that stuff, and discriminate because you can't follow AOC. I like AOC generally. But she came out and said, we're just a big tent party with a problem with the big tent defenses. Every Democrat has to defend all this craft coming from the left. They've got to say, I believe in all this crazy stuff, and that makes me a Democrat. You've got to say no, no, I'm not a member of the DSA, and here's why, and make it very clear. So it's going to require politicians to be good politicians and say. Here's where I stand. Right, this is one I'm a regular Democrat and for labor unions, I'm for opportunity for everybody. I was floored that dude fifteen years ago was rippling Republican Party is not being a big tent and now he's living dying by his own words. But at the end of the day, let's make no mistake about it, it has nothing to do with whether or not the socialists are getting elected. Yeah, it's power. Oh of course they're losing their power if they thought they could remain in power and bring in they're all about the stuff that he's saying. Name us a middle Democrat that you're talking about. I just unplug something like. I think that was just. Put up. Kevin just worried about how. Yeah, I was worried about Trump. There, I know I'm electrocuted. I have to watch that back on film to see what my reaction was. It was quite funny. I know. I just I just need to know of emos day. Yeah, h the phone works, and I need to. Get something off you need to get something off my chest. I just want to let you know. Last week when I call it in nine times, Brian blamed it on you. So it was heavy on my chest. He always on me. That song come on. Someday somebody's gonna turn around. And Mickey say goodbye. That song come on and inspired me first. I said, I've got to tell him, Uh. He's lying. He said, we all doing down there, ain't can't Emo figure out how to fix a phone, blaming me too, Kevin. Being Brian threw you under the bus and ran over you five times. Always does. Oh and any of it. We had a bad storm, had a bad storm and it knocked something out. I think it just knocked out the phone. I said, y'all don't do a thing check or note. No, no, we don't do none of that stuff. We just wing it. We wing it on through. I said, oh, okay, glad to have you back. Anyway was up, Trent? I heard your time. I want to chime in, brother, good to have you. Glad you're here, brother, glad you here? When am I gonna get some salsa, yea spaghetti sauce. Oh, I could send it tomorrow, but y'all can't open it up when you get it in the big box. You gotta wait till next Wednesday. But yeah, I can put it on. I'm matter of fact. I got an Amazon box right here I'm looking at. But I got another box over there and put them in there. But I have to get some bubble wrap because the ones I got womping selling cards on eBay and I'm out run out and I'm gonna have to go back to the Walmart and get another big role. But yeah, I'll bubble wrap. Got a man staff phone next Wednesday, which would be the what twenty seven twenty eight? Yeah? Or you got something going on? Well, I was going to say, also next week, you're going to have to come up with your college and NFL picks. We're having our preseason football show next week. Oh for like college and NFL and taking your prediction. He's gonna go to the super Bowl? Who's going the National Championship? Yeah? You know how you usually do, Like super Bowl week, you tell everybody that's who you picked. Mm hmm. Kevin, did you like the Richmond Race last week. Yeah, I mean it was. It was pretty good. I liked I think it was better than last year. So who is, in your eyes a better Who's had a better career, Joey Logano or Denny Hamlin. Well, probably Denny Hamlin because Joey Logano ain't nothing. But you know what interest So I just don't wipe him because the simple fact is when he first came on board. Now, I don't even want to get into debate because Brian, I know you like Joey Logano and you're gonna take up for him. It don't matter if he runs four people over like Austin Dillon did last year Richmond Race and ended up winning. If he done that, you would support him right through it. You'd never be negative about it. So there's not an honest answer I could give. You would debate be about it. That's a I'm gonna leave it at this. Okay, That's way NASCAR always is, you remember, I mean that is how three championships to zero. Well, but he was a laugh away from getting one. So Matt kinsis too, He's better than mat keensis. Yeah, I don't know. I guess you're gonna say Damn Marino ain't as good as Lamar Jackson. I mean, come on, man, you can't be comparing apples to apples when you got all that stuff going on, Like if Ernold Senior didn't win today tone of five hundred, you'd be like, well, he ain't never won the Daytona five hundred is always gonna be a astid right to Kevin. No, yeah, first of all, you said, you know, first of all, that is wildly inaccurate. If you had said, uh, damn ma Reno and Trent Dilfer, but. You're comeback was Legano is on the pedestal because he's won this many championships and Denny Hammon has won zero. That was your actual argument, but you said I responded to that, but you didn't like the response because you wanted to go to another level. When I said I don't want to get into date with you tonight about Joey Logano and Denny Hammond, I spoke my peek and I'm done. Let's move along with Lamar Jackson and Dan Marino. Good one, let's move along. That's great. Well, I've got nothing to talk about now. What hy to cat this meat? What would you say? Is the top female athletes. If you had a list a couple of them, Who's who's the best woman athlete? You would put on your list that was our Mount. Rushmore from from our lifetime, our era. Yeah yeah, yeah, or. Well, one of them is in contention now because that's probably Caitlin Clark right now, so she's kind of in the contention. I would I would think, uh, I'd probably say, I don't know that trench. You're gonna have to help me because I will get slumbered on her last name. But she was a tennis player and it was Tina Navtelova. That's her, Martina Navratilova. Right, yeah, so that would be one of them. Yeah, I would probably say, uh. I'll tell you what we missed. The sport we missed, Arena Sablenka. That's an athlete. I mean, she looks like she could play other sports. The one that's number one now, the Sablenka woman. Girl looks like Andreotic in the face. I think the Mary lou Rettna. Oh yeah, Marrily Retton. Hey did you know that she drug promise? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, but I told you I got problems with the last name, So don't make fun of the man, come on, I even warned you before. She was from West Virginia and she is like the Appalachia pain medicine problem freak, she said. You said, like, oh that's good. I've got a question I want to get to. All right, I'm not. Brian has been patient and he's had enough. Oh did either one of you see were Connor's village has signed with Hendricks Motorsports any alright? Like lifetime? Yeah? No, he was under contract with track House Racing. Okay, so in North Racing eight right, So. By Trent's calculations, there's a zero percent chance that will happen. As you said that with Tyler Reddick, he's not going to spend a whole year with a team that he's leaving. I would fire him, right, So if you signed with somebody else, I'd let you go. Now. So the rumor mill because Justin Marx when he was interviewed about that, how could you let Connor Zilich leave? His answer just was kind of weird. So the rumor is maybe that Justin Marx is wanting to get out of NASCAR and he may be shopping his two car team with SVG and Chastine and some people believe that could be Junior's way in. You just gave me my last name for this week, so because it's odd. I mean, you've Bowman's going to be back in the seat next year. But what happens to Zillig but sounds that's what I'm saying. It sounds to me like they're allowing him to race one more year because Justin's probably on his way out. I got you out fire. Who are you picking this weekend, Kevin? They're at New Hamps. Oh yeah, I gotta get there. Pulled up? Uh three Bean three b B B B Bean Blainey. I'm gonna go with my man Byron. Okay, I'm gonna go with Barry and Bill Byron. Barry and Bill. Barry did pretty good last week. That was good to see. M h. He's got to make He's got to make a land next next year. He still hasn't. I don't get it either. Yeah, I mean he obviously I think he can drive. He's won in that car. I might have got to be picking up Corey Heim too. Corey Heim's already under contract. Is he racing with a Nasca Cup theory? Yes, he's already under contract with twenty three eleven. He took Riley uh Herp's place place. He's been under contract with him for three years now. All right, So who you got. Shot? You give me yours because I got a Ryan Blaney, Austin Cindric Ross Chastain. And by the way, the points now are I've at eight sixty six Brian, and you're at one o three to two, and Kevin you're at one thy fifty seven. Does this race have a name yet? I've got That's funny, it doesn't have a name. I know. I just want to make sure I'm doing the right one, right, all right, I will go with Man. I hate that guy, so I'm not choosing ty Gibbs. Let's go Tyler Reddick. Yeah, he needs he's kind of. I can't stand him. Oh y'all, and he's gonna come up. You're right. The forts have been awful dominant lately. Did Logano again? I'll do Blaanie Blaine Reddick and. Oh that's a good one. We keep wanting each week. It's like all of us want Priest Busher and Keselowski to do something and they just haven't done anything. You just you got a figure that's got to at some point. That's got to change, Hendrick too. Their cars haven't done Jack, CHEVROLETZ really haven't done anything. Man, What how unusual is it? And if it was that easy, why doesn't it happen a lot more often? Your boy Carson Joseovar makes a simple mistake and it blows the engine up that fast. It seems like to me that was such a that would happen more often. Yeah, he down shifted and set up. Yet you wondered, like how Carl Larson doesn't do that as many times he gets in and out of cars. Yeah, and you know some of them are h patterns, some of them are forwards and back. That's wild. I remember Denny Hamlin saying that was the hardest thing that he's had to adjust to, the downshift versus the eight shift. Mhmm, yeah, might have a good weekend. Good huskvarna is what Ward Burton calls him because he can't say hmm all right, Well all right, Kevin, when are you coming down to see uh? Your son? When you come down here to see me, take your take your nephew. I feel bad poor fellow can't even see his daddy. All right, sir, I got I got songs for you. Okay, it's just the inside joke, but you know it's it's for me too, because I could say the same thing. Okay, not for Brian. I can't wait to hear this. If you ever any if you mentionally times, if you get a call from your ex and there's like three o'clock in the morning and she's like saying, Trent, I can't sleep. You just tell us, say listen, Isaiah Isaiah forty eight twenty two. There is no rest for the wicked? What do we got today? For? End of a riveting show? Thank you again for. Clips? Oh my bad? I forgot we gotta go back all right, and circled them up for later. But no, it did for so I circled him up for later. This is later, all right, the hell, thank you, Emma. We're almost out of here, Thank you, Emma. So let's just jump right into him. This lady, she has the answers, Brian, Let's focus. The show's not over. I know your part's done, but let's refocus. I am she has the answers. See, I'll tell you. I think we've got to be ruthless. Ruthless, and by that I don't mean the way they are not it's not cruel, not cruel, but we have to be uncompromising and we have to to understand that that we're going to have to toughen. Up a bit. Let me start with your job really being focused. On results, saying focus, focus. Sitting around waiting for Republicans to have an epiphany. You know, people's rent can't wait for that, People's health care and affordability can't wait for that. Being able to afford childcare can't wait for that. Can I remind Can you remind me? Who raised. Some things that we need to do that are just about our attitude? About these attitude. You know when I was growing up, you got an attitude. Well, actually I am advocating for ASPIC. Gosh, can you see her do a press conference every single day at the big table, Like I just. Want the Democrat Party to go this is what we got? Yeah, like you will talk about attitude and results. Who's the guy from CNN, Jake Tapper? Okay, I'm seeing that he's doing some interview with some liberal woman and he's answering the questions. So what do they call that? Where all the cabinet secretaries get together around the table yeah, you know, this is the first time I've ever seen anybody do that. The President, he didn't even do that the first time around. He makes them all sit there and answer questions right off the bat. Jake Tapper told that lady the other day that they had scripted comments whenever they had and it wasn't even covered by the press. They had just to be able to play off of Joe, and Joe had scripted comments to make we forgot all that right, But how does Jake Tapper, where were you when this was going on? You know, you're doing it when you're trying to peddle a book, but where were you when this was actually going on. It's just awful that they would let Jake Tapper, even any of these people do a debate. They're so biased. Okay, hey, listen to this person. I think she's running, but it's okay to steal. Now. You just got to hear why I cut twenty. What we saw were kinds of poverty. People who were stealing things like tooth beach, toothpache, people who are stealing things like you know, soap, And that means if you're stealing those things, you need them, and we are choosing to protect billion dollar companies like CBS and Walgreens over the people who are struggling to get by. So I would say that the true prime is that there is such incredible wealth disparity in this city that there are people who can be thrown in jail simply for having a biological need. And so one of the main biological at. The state level is to make sure we pass things like treatment not. Jail, and that we haul the line on the incredible criminal justice reforms that we have done over the last ten and twenty years. Those mean old companies that sell you things. And guess what happens as soon as one of those companies leaves a city because of theft, they get after them about letting them not letting them steal. I mean, it is so asked backwards of what should be taught. I'm going to skip this one mainly because of the end of the show and we're going on. But this is the Chicago mayor refusing to say the word illegal. This one and the one before that was the Chicago mary saying refuse to say legal. But I'm gonna title this. Can someone tell her we don't care? Like we really don't care what you look. We don't even care what you do. But listen to this racist woman talk about us, thing about me. Two things for certain, I love making white people uncomfortable, And by that I mean I love showing up in a space where white people are and they think it belongs to them. And I show up autentatively, myself, big and bold, ready to be seen. I'm not gonna give my life, and no one tell me how I'm in nature what we're sitting there. You know, it's for everybody to enjoy. I put up with my music, but when white people see me they sing with my music, all they can think is ghetto and disturbing. And I'm here to make the place ghetto and disturbing. Yes, I'm putting up my hammock and I'm gonna enjoy this bitch just as much as you are. You're gonna leave, Oh yeah, I'm gonna make you so uncomfortable, You're gonna yeah, I'm not moving. Yeah, I'm gonna be ghetto, and I'm gonna be ratchet, and I'm gonna be as black as possible. Yeah, yeah, get uncomfortable. Bit so. Racist. So the white person that she was talking about, did you hear him, I never heard. Uh no, it's quiet. Yeah, so he's not bothering her. Yeah, and yet she says, I'm gonna make him uncomfortable. Yeah, like he makes me uncomfortable. Yeah, but what is he doing to make you uncomfortable? Like where the racist was, You're literally just spinning out racism. And what my whole point was that cauld Somebody just tell her we don't care, Like, don't put your music louder than I have mine, you know what I mean? And I do this all the time, Like if I go to the pool and I have my music, it doesn't matter who's at the pool. I was like, hey, is this too loud for you? You know what I mean? I just don't want to intrude on you. Most of the time, it's not. But somebody says, yeah, I mean I cut it down. It's not a big deal. This woman wants to violate and cross into your path, tries to be crazy. Uh, dude. For those that are still with the show or watching it, this is almost as cool. So you know how we had a couple of weeks ago voices that you would recognize anywhere. Johnny Cash is one of those, right, I don't know if we wrote him or not. He did not make our list. He did not make the list, but he should have because okay, this not only sounds cool as shit, just the video that went with this is coole at all. Get out by the way, let me do live chat anaka Sorenston Chris Lax has turned that. And then Laura, miss Laura, says Danica Patrick, is that your top female athlete? Danica Patrick? He's a race car driver? Oh gosh, who's been Laura mar She wants. To be the president of Kevin's first fan clubs show she wants. Also, I don't care what she wants. Her daughter doesn't know what a race car driver is? A female race car driver? Great? Great teaching mom, Well, but must be that. I will say there is a fan club for for Kevin. Yeah, they're like my friend group. That's you need in here one day? Yeah nope, No, I wonder if I can get him to come in when you're gone. That's a good idea. That'd be awesome. Check that alrighty, Yeah, we will see you next week. Can enjoy the college football preview. I hope you enjoy this. Sex is really cool. I am the nation. 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