Life Liberty Happiness - 8.27.2025

This is Life Liberty Happiness with Brian Schly and Trent Warner, streaming live each week on Media Squatch Plus and available on demand in the app or wherever you get your podcasts. Real Talk, Real Freedom. All right, everybody, welcome to another episode of Life, Liberty Happiness. I'm your host, Brian Sly. We are live in the David Hollmaker State Farm Studios here in beautiful Bedford, Virginia. Sitting across from me, Trent Warner, Hattie Emma pushing buttons as she does every week. A little bit later on in the program, we will be joined by Virginia National Guard Captain Randy Krantz. I'm very excited about that one for many reasons. But that's coming up in about ten minutes. Right now, we'll get right into it, backwards and forwards. A race weekend. This past weekend we had, uh, I was just you know, sitting at home, not didn't have a lot. Ashley and Reagan were doing something off somewhere else and uh oh, ash that's right. Ashley went out of town for a wedding venue check out stuff with her neighbor, and Reagan of course didn't want to sit at home with her father, so she went over to a friends. So that left me to actually be able to watch a race in peace. And of course she had the Daytona race at night, and I got a text from the car owner that we're sponsors of Corey Dunn at South Boston and wanted to know if I was coming, and I said, no, I'm not going to make the trip tonight, but I really hope you win. Obviously we've been up there numerous times. And uh, well he pulled it off. That's great, qualified third dominated really huh and uh, of course I texted him now I'm not allowed to ever come. He'll never let me at a race break the streak. No, So, uh, that was awesome to see our car in Victory Lean and it's cool. They took a lot of pictures and he, of course gave us a shout out. If Woody would stop changing the logo like cracker Barrel, we would, uh they would know that we're a media squatch and not Grove Street of him. Still, that's what's going around in the car. Yeah, okay, that's right, switch it back, would he? Anyway? Yeah, I had had a really good time this past weekend. What uh, what'd you get into. So Friday was a tough day. Well, great day, but tough days. We took Riley to college, so that's my last one. She's gone out of the nest. So we took her up to Shawsville and she started at UVA, and man. We were moving. That's a tough one. We were moving her in and I was talking to her about kind of wrapping up what we were moving. I mean, honestly, she and her mom had it nailed down, like measurements, this, this, this, this, I mean. But we were busy from nine till one pm and just about to where, hey, you want to get some lunch? What do you got to go? And I had to go to Beaufort to catch up with the vacationers. So I looked at her and I said, they look on your face, You're ready to get started, aren't you? Like y'all can go now? Kind of the thing. She had that look, and honestly, it was tough. So yeah, I can't imagine. Yeah, And of course I had to text you if you needed help, you could have just slept in the car. So Emma, quick quick story, it does have print. Went with me and Ashley to drop Logan off. He was supposed to help, but he slept. He literally woke up and goes, y'all need some help, Like, we just finished for the week. It can happen. It can happen for the week. What is she studying at EVA finance? Finance? Yeah, so she must get in the commerce school. Nice. Yeah, so that's crazy about it. Yeah, she sending pictures of her first class and can't wait to do homework, like literally just excited about getting into it. Oh, I bet it's good for her because you know, Perry kind of went through it and so did Logan with the whole COVID stuff. Oh yeah, it just wasn't. It was a hard start. Yeah, so well, good for her. And then ran down to the condo, caught up with friends that were vacationing because I didn't know that she was going to go that late in August when we reserved everything. So I caught up with all them and did some fishing Saturday morning, caught some red drum, and then my son came down. Perry came down Sunday and we spent a couple days together and fish yesterday actually and came back yesterday. But does he do season tickets to Tennessee. Not season tickets, but will go to a couple of games. Yeah, we're going a couple of weeks when they play Georgia. They played Georgia early this year. And Sarah, his girlfriend that does the sideline reporter stuff, she's got his tickets to go to that. So I will go in a couple of weeks for that. Yeah, Logan wants to go to LSU game and I just I mean it's hard getting there, well that and finding them. Yeah, I mean it's crazy. He couldn't have picked Liberty. We'll be going to a few Liberty games. Yeah, they got a big showdown this year, right, Liberty. That's gonna be That'll be a fun one. Yeah, let's check that one out. I think at conflicts though I looked, I looked at the schedule, conflicts was something I have. Reagan Scott. I forgot this weekend. Reagan Scott. Friday Night, she's singing the national anthem, not so low but with school, Oh okay, with a choir. I guess they're called they used to be called troubles, and I think now that she's in high school, it's called choir. So for where where's oh? At the Hillcats Stadium. Oh okay, yeah, well that's nice. Yeah, Ashley, you have spoiled her. I have spoiled her. Literally, she said, do you know any friends? I got a box that we could get, And I'm like, Ashley, We're just going to watch one baseball game. We don't need a box. She's uh, she's getting balboogie on us. I wonder I might be able to make a call for you. Oh, I wish you would. I do we remember the time we did the Box Man. We had a blast that night. You me and Brad, Yeah, or Brad, you and I whatever. The proper English is all right this weekend, we'll get into it a little later on the sports. Yeah, but yeah, huge college football weekendy. This is the time of year with all the tailgating and stuff. Just know, you can just you can feel everybody spending a lot of money right now. Yeah. So moving on to this stay in history, stay in history. On this day in two thousand and seven, Michael pleaded guilty to dogfighting. Oh wow, yeah, and has served twenty three months for that. Oh. I forgot. I mean I knew he did some jail time, but I forgot it was that long. Speaking of college football. And now he's catching it at Norfolk State. Isn't that amazing? What a wonderful runaround with his life. Yeah, because he easily could have went the wrong direction. Yeah, I mean literally, But and he had a couple of good years coming out of that. Remember with Philadelphia, he kind of showed some flashes here and there. But man, if he'd have stayed out of trouble, Oh yeah, he would have been spectacular. Hall of Famer probably Probably, that's a little stretch. No, if you had not got in trouble, and you think got two years of his career, yeah, true. I mean he owned the league for a while. He was dominant, Yeah, very dominant. All right, moving on to American hero stories. The American dream is built on freedom, and that freedom comes at a Coste and Heroes stories presented by Life Liberty Happiness is a new series honoring the men and women who've sacrificed to protect that dream. We're proud to play a small part in preserving their stories for future generations. Life Liberty Happiness, a media squatch podcast, presents American heroes stories. All right, everybody, we would like to welcome to the program. Virginia National Guard Captain Randy Krantz, or as most people in Bedford, Million, the Honorable Judge Krantz. Welcome to the show. Well, thank you all for having me. It's a pleasure. Yeah. So, can I tell everybody where you're from originally where it all started? Well, I grew up here in Bedford, Virginia, literally about three blocks over off of Park Street. Oh really here in Bedford. My parents both rite worked at Rubbitechs. So I went to school here in Bedford, from Bedford Primary through the Elementary School and then the Liberty High School. I graduated high school in nineteen seventy eight. I was thinking about doing a medical career. I was. Really eat up with a TV show back then in the seventies called Emergency with about the paramedics. And after high school, I went to community college in Rowan Oak at Virginia Western and got a professional nursing degree in my paramedic license and worked as a paramedic and as an rin in the emergency room at hospital in Ronock, at the Trauma Center. How long did you do that before you ended up joining the National Guards. So let's see, I graduated from nursing school in nineteen eighty and worked through about nineteen ninety and joined the National Guard in nineteen eighty eight when I decided to go to law school because I was gravitating from the clinical practice of nursing to administration and I was encouraged to get a law degree to maybe do hospital administration was the initial plan. Oh wow, But I. Continued to work as an rin while I was going to law school. So I from nineteen eighty seven to nineteen ninety I went to law school at the University of Richmond. I was married, I had a fifteen month old daughter and a newborn son, and so I commuted from Bedford to Richmond each week and would come home. I'd be in Richmond during the week for classes and come home on the weekends and work in the emergency room here at Bedford Hospital. I'd worked to twelve hours on Saturday and Sunday and get up a dark thirty on Monday mornings and drive back to Richmond, Wash Rents. Repeat. Yeah. But I joined. I joined the National Guard to quite honestly, to help finance law school. But because I had a nursing degree, I could get a direct commission and I was commissioned in the Army Nurse Corps as a second lieutenant initially, but was assigned to the Lynchburg second one hundred and sixteenth of the twenty ninth Division as a medical platoon leader. So I was a medical officer nursing officer rather in an infantry battalion, but as a medical platoon leader, I commanded a combat medics and an ambulance squad. What's the training like for like when you join the Virginia National Guard, yuards, what's that training process look like? Uh? Initially the first training round was an officer basic course and that was at Fort sam Houston, which is the Army Medical Center was called AHMED or back then was called Ahmed. That's where all the medical specialists are trained, starting out everything from physical training, UH, to how to wear the uniform, how to salute, the basic military UH drill. H went through that and then after that the specialty courses for uh you know, combat medicine, UH, some advanced training, and trauma medicine and trauma nursing. I could have been assigned to a hospital like a military hospital as a reservist National guardsman, but they worked it out because I lived in Bedford, h to let me go to one of the field units, an infantry unit. As you know, Bedford had the d Day Boys from Company A. Lynchberg was the headquarters company, and the medical unit was within that company, was a platoon within that company, And so I got to be an officer in an infantry unit commanding that medical platoon. Thoroughly enjoyed. It. Had a great bunch of young men and women who were skilled and trained in combat medicine, Corman, and my primary duties was their supervision, but also to make sure they were properly trained. Uh, and what's the commitment for that? So you've you've done the training, and then what's the commitment after that point? So it's it's it's. A minimum of two weekends a month, I mean, excuse me, one weekend a month and then two weeks in the summer of active duty. And do you know what that's going to look like before you get your two weeks or you find out pretty much once you get there. Pretty much the training camp calendar is pushed out a year ahead in advance. Okay, so there's always some changes, but you know pretty much, I knew when the when the weekends fell, and I knew when the two weeks would fall and then as I was going to law school, you know, there was no classes in the summer. So the two weeks were not. Bad to do because I didn't have to arrange and you know, take a vacation from full time employment. But once I graduated and was working full time, then you had to coordinate your vacation with the two weeks. Many of the employers that I had were very gracious and given some flexibility. Sometimes it would stretch into a third week if there was additional training or accomplishments that you needed to do. But basically a weekend a month, two weeks in the summer. Excuse my ignorance on this, but when it comes to the National Guard, like what are like where do the orders come from? At that point, I mean like the guests we've had on previous you know, they would say the orders came from General this or whatever. Where did Virginia National Guard orders come from? Well, there's a chain of command. There's even the chain of command. There's a National Guard commander or chief at the Pentagon Washington. I did not know that. And then each state's National Guard falls under the commander in chief, which is the governor okay, So primarily we're a state asset, but that can be federalized. So the official thing it's the Virginia Army National Guard. So you're part of the army, but you're in the national Guard, which is different than being in the Army reserve because initially we fall under a state chain of command all the way up to the Adjutant General. There's a general over the rgin, your Army National Guard, who answers to the governor. And then there's a. Command structure at the pentagon of all the national Guard units through all the fifty states and territories. So is there at any point in time would the Virginia National Guards ever have to serve overseas or anything like that. Well, certainly, of course. The best example was back during World War Two with the D Day. The Virginia Army National Guard here in Bedford was Company A of the second and one hundred sixteenth. I did not move that of the second one hundred and sixteenth and which was all part of the twenty ninth Infantry Division and the twenty ninth Infantry Division. History goes all the way back to the Civil War. The symbol for the twenty ninth Infantry Division is the ying and yang symbol the blue and the gray, which historically the legend goes is that at the end of the Civil War the Virginian and the Maryland troops swapped pieces of their uniform blue in the gray, and then they merged together after the war into the Virginia Maryland National Guard. Wow and so were the twenty ninth Infantry Division, so you'll see them wearing that blue and gray patch. And then a division is divided into companies, Company A, Company B, Company C, and then a headquarters company. And the Bedford National Guard Troops were Company A. So they got activated during World War II, and of course where many of them were killed in D Day, which is why the National D Day Memorial is. But yes, any National Guard unit can be federalized and called to active duty or call to active duty for state emergencies, everything from disasters. I think it was nineteen eighty eight, was right as I was processing in. I had not process then and time to go. But in Virginia Beach during one summer they had some riots in Virginia Beach and the National Guard units were mobilized to keep the peace. After I came in in nineteen eighty eight. In nineteen ninety, it was interesting. I'd graduated from law school in May of nineteen ninety, took the bar exam in July of nineteen ninety, was waiting on the results. In two or three days after the bar exam. Our unit was scheduled to go for our two weeks. Our mobilization point was at Fort Bragg. Oh wow, Okay, a different training. And it was while we were at Fort Bragg that desert storms started. Yeah, and so that was our all these Virginia National Guardsmen there in green uniform arms, and all of a sudden we start seeing active duty soldiers in brown uniforms. And we weren't sure what that was about because we were out in the field training. Our family members back home knew more of what was going on because they were watching CNN Wow, and we didn't know we did. I don't think we got federalized. I think we got held over a week see what was going to happen, and then we were released, but told to be ready because one of the missions then of the twenty ninth I'm thinking back, was to backfill the eighty second at Fort Bragg. If they moved out, then we would move into the base and assume those duties. But that didn't happen, But we did get to see everybody else going over to Kuwait in the first desert storm. And so, yes, Virginia National Guard or any state can be mobilized for a state emergency, a local emergency, or be pulled into the active army. Did you when did you make the transition from medic over to you did some jag stuff? Is that right? So when I again, the original reason I thought about and decided to go to law school was thinking that I would transition from clinical nursing trauma practice to administration. And so when I graduated law school in ninety with my law degree, I still wasn't sure that I was going to practice law. In fact, the very first job that I was offered after law school was to be an assistant hospital administrator manager at a hospital. And I also got a chance to join a small law firm doing health care law practice. And it occurred to me that if you're going to do administration, you might want to get some other clinical experience of practicing law under your belt. Health Care is just being so legally regulated and rules and regulation. I thought that would be helpful. So I decided to practice as I said, took the bar exam, passed it, and went to work with a small law firm in Roanoke for two years, and then came to the Bedford Commonalt Attorney's office as an assistant Commonalt attorney. And that was from nineteen ninety two to ninety five that I was an assistant. In Virginia we call them commonwealth's attorneys. Other states, their district attorneys were prosecutors. And I got assigned by my boss, who was a commalst attorney then Jim Update. He wanted to have two assistant commalst attorneys, one doing mainly vice and drug related cases and the other one doing violent crimes, and I got tasked with doing the violent crimes. So I spent three years prosecuting homicides, robberies, sexual assaults, crimes against children. And there was a. Lot of overlap between doing that type of law and the medical nursing experience. In fact, being part of a trauma team, you're part of a multidisciplinary team that you have to work together with other medical specialists. Prosecuting violent crimes, I was given the leeway to put together a multidisciplinary team to call the Violent Crimes Response team that we for here in Bedford in the mid nineties, and prosecutors, police officers, detectives, forensic sciences, we had profilers or behavioral analysis and some of the same skills working in a medical multidiscipline team transferred over readily to the violent crimes and of course a lot of them had medical issues, you know, injuries, autopsies, that sort of thing. And I did that until nineteen ninety five. Then when I became the Commonwealth's Attorney, Jim Updyke went on the bench, became a judge. I got a sign to fill his term, had to run in an election. I've never been in a political contest in my life, but about that time, I Branch transferred to the Judge Advocate Corp In the Virginia National Guard and was a sign from transferred from the Lynchburg Field Unit second in one hundred and sixteenth to Division Headquarters at Fort Belvoir and Alexandri where the twenty ninth Division headquarters was, and I was assigned to the Judge Advocate staff and was made Chief of Criminal Law for the twenty ninth Division for Virginia Maryland and so I did military prosecutions within the Virginia National Guard. Oh wow, So I mean what does just because I've never heard or seen it, what does a military prosecution look like? What is that? Well, just like any other prosecution, it can range from what is called non jude initial punishment or informal punishment of just keeping internal discipline within the units. The command staff, the commander of the military unit has a lot of say and oversight of criminal prosecutions. But it can range to prosecuting domestic violence, murder cases, theft the military equipment, drug use. So this would be like military police arresting someone and then it's going through the process. Correct. So as a criminal prosecutor or a prosecutor of crime in the in the Army National Guard, we work very closely with the military police and the Army's Criminal Investigated Division. So it would literally be during the week I'd be a state prosecutor and then on the weekends I'd be a military prosecutor and you just you prosecuted under different laws. For example, under the state law would be the Virginia Code, but in the military it's the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the UMCJ and they have their own body of laws defining the crimes, the penalties, and like I said, they can range from informal actions all the way up to full military trials. Did you ever find yourself when you're prosecuting is there more leeway as a prosecutor in the military than there is on the civil side. Does a defendant have less freedom on the military side than they do on the civil side. And did you find yourself crossing paths and going, oh, yeah, we can't do that here. You know, it's interesting, that's a very interesting question. I found the criminal justice process to be very fair, very clean. There were high standards. You not only had to meet the legal standards, you also had to have in your back of your mind maintaining proper military order. So you know, a judge, advocate general, you know, you had your own military rank. I got promoted to captain by the time I went to the jag Corps. But you might find yourself prosecuting a colonel or a major. Oh wow, I never thought of that. And so the structure would be so at the twenty ninth division, there was a general that was the commander of the twenty ninth division. Usually maybe a two star general, and then he would have the general staff, and he would have staff officers ranging from security, transportation, intelligence, medical, personnel. And there would be these other officers, usually sometimes lieutenant colonels or majors on his staff. And then also on that staff, there would be the Judge Advocate General, the SGA, the staff judge advocate who was the legal advisor to the division commander, and under most army protocols, a division commander would delegate to the staff judge advocate and his staff to handle military justice issues. So there is the court on a base. Okay, we had on torn out that we had a courthouse, a military courthouse. I hate to sound like I just just it's a side of the military that I don't know that I. Know much about. Do you true not greatly think good? I mean, we lived of what bel We just never got in trouble. I mean, I guess, I guess the common thing good that you would think of would be someone going a wall. Right. A lot of things are like that, I mean being the weekends prosecutors per se. A large majority of our cases were minor offenses. They were serious when it came to good order and discipline, like positive drug tests. Unfortunately, you had sometimes the theft of military equipment. Oh wow, things would disappear or be sold, so that took up a lot of time. Soldiers a wall. Uh. Sometimes we would have administrative discharge hearings, should it should should the person be separated from the service with less than an honorable discharge? So we due process that was allowed. In those cases. But sometimes, you know, we prosecuted assaults, sexual assault. I mean, living on a military basis its own city, city town, so you have the same they just have a different judicial system to take care of it themselves. As a civili I mean trip grew up in a military homes and on a base. Right, you were at kempla joun pretty much in Cherry Point. So I'm just I mean a civilian, my whole wife, I don't I mean, you hear of it, but you don't know how that process looks. So this is interesting to me because I'm like, I have no idea how this works. Not exactly, but very parallel is a jag officer, judge advocate prosecutor now in our in our section and the judge advocate department, if you would, or we called it the shop our shop. You had attorneys. There was the chief of family law, the chief of international law, the chief of logistics, you know, all of those things, and we had to coordinate. And then of course some JAG officers become military judges. Okay, so you know you can you can rise to that. But there were some instances where we were cross designated as assistant United States Attorneys, so we could, depending on what the situation is, it was theoretically possibly to pross someone through the military system or to prosecute them in federal court. And so sometimes we worked cooperatively with the Department of Justice, Okay, especially if something cross state lines, or when the National Guard units were on deployment or sent overseas. Then you know, there may not be one home jurisdiction. You would figure that out. We're the best place. But I thoroughly enjoyed it. I found the JAG system scrupulously fair. At the level that I was at. We didn't hide the ball. If we had put a case together against a defendant, their defense attorney, which could also be a JAG officer, you see, Yeah. We would say here's the evidence. Yeah, oh okay, here it is. And the procedure might sound a little different, but the basic concept was the same as if in federal court, and then there was at the trial level, if somebody was convicted, they had the opportunity. There was there's, you know, just like you have the trial court then the Court of Appeals than the Supreme court kind of structure. In the military, there's the trial court and the Military Court of Appeals, oh Washington, and so they can appeal the case all the way up through that system into the higher courts, and a lot of times, depending on what it was, we could refer a military personnel to state prosecution. We could say, okay, we're going to defer to the state because they may have had concurrent jurisdics, just sort of common sense, logistical, tactical decisions. That we would make. A large part of my duties when I wasn't in court was to make rounds to the field units to give legal advice to the field commanders. So sometimes the military discipline would take place at the local level in the local National Guard unit, and the JAG officer could hold hearings and make a decision. The whole uniform Code of Military Justice was designed that it could be done by any officer that didn't have to be a lawyer. So part of military officer training you got some training and experiencing the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So sometimes the commanders would want to do their own process, we would just give legal advice to make sure they stayed within the guardrails. And so sometimes I would travel go to start on Friday evening at a National Guard unit in Richmond area and by Sunday morning being taswell Virginia as you major rounds, and so I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I stayed. I stayed in the JAG until nineteen ninety eight when I came oh wow, yeah, from eighty eight to ninety eight between Army Nurse Medical Service and Jack. I wanted to ask you about the Army the nursing that you did there. You had mentioned that you had been in the er the nursing room for May eight nine years, right before you joined the National Guard. Did you find yourself Are you older than the rest of the people that are being trained. Have you had enough experience that you're actually helping train the people that are training you. I mean, you had some really hands on experience. Probably a lot of them may not have. Had well, well, it's very possible. I joined. Probably the biggest thing for me that got me started is I joined the Bedford Rescue Squad when I was sixteen. At that time it was all volunteer, but you could join at sixteen. I was a junior, and somewhere between my sophomore and junior year in high school, you had to have your driver's license and you had to have your EMT certificate emergency matter and I was able to do that and join the rescue squad. So from before I went to nursing school, I had four or five years of experience working as an EMT and then as an advanced EMT, And while going to nursing school, also got my paramedic certification. And the paramedic is an advanced level of care equal or that exceeds an Army corman as far as level of training. You know, paramedic can administer medicine, start ivs, use a defibrillator, put emergency airways in all those sorts of things. And so by the time I graduated nursing school, I had that experience, but the best experience I worked at Community Hospital in Rouindock right off of Interstate five. Eighty one and was part of the team that helped the hospital or when it was happening, rather get their certification as a trauma center. So what we were trained to do in the emergency room it was to be a mass unit. Oh wow. So when the patient arrived off out of a car crash or a gunshot wound in the ear, was to deliver that emergency trauma care within what was called the golden hour. What we learned from Korea and Vietnam War is the more seriously injured soldiers, the ones that were the most critically injured, had a better chance of survivor if you got them to a surgical hospital where you could do rapid intervention within a golden hour, you had a golden hour of sixty minutes. Even if you didn't do that, even if they survived the initial insult, the gunshots, the explosions, the trauma, they would die weeks later from secondary complications because they were in shock for so long. If you could air evact them over the field units to a definitive surgical hospital, a mass unit, it was called a combat support hospital, the survival rate went up. We learned that at the end of World War two, in Korea when we started using helicopters. Wow. So by the Vietnam really came into play. There was a clinical scenario where a soldiers shot and wounded and he doesn't get the definitive care but he survives. It actually had a name. It was called d Nang Lung from Danang in Vietnam. D Nang Lung. Even if they survived the initial insult, they would go into respiratory failure weeks later because a body just couldn't handle the trauma. They would survive, but not for long. But if you got them to a hospital where you could get in and do the surgical intervention, that had a high rate. So the idea of civilian trauma centers was that rapid evact even by helicopter or ground ambulance, and you had the surgical teams in the emergency room or available, so you could get them to the operating room quick. And so that's what I did for that seven or eight years, well actually through going to law school and worked at part of a multidisciplinary team that would evaluate, assess, and intervene and the goal was to get them to the operating room to fix the injuries or slow the bleeding or to restore the function within that golden hour, and that became a term of art, the golden hour. And so in the medic side, most of the medics that I were training their initial Army medic enlisted person's basic training as an EMT course, so they were going through basic what I had gone through, but you know, sixteen seventeen years old, and then they could advance up to more advanced levels of care. And a fully trained military corman is I would say, is almost, if not equally, equivalent to a physician's assistant. They can make very definitive trip because they may be the only medical asset absent that rapid evacuation by lupcut. So when I was doing that, I got to work in the er also be a flight nurse on the helicopter, either going out bringing them in or being there when they got there. Thoroughly enjoyed that. So when you get out of the military at that point where I shouldn't take that out, when you were done with the National Guard, you're still the Commonwealth attorney at that point I was. I was still the Commonwealth Attorney, so I was still doing criminal prosecution. Around about the time that I got out is when we in Bedford. As I said, we had formed the same concept as the Trauma Team, but a violent crimes response team, and that allowed us our Schurf's department Shurf Brown back then, working closely with his office, we applied and received a grant to develop what was called Internet Crimes against Children Task Force. Oh yes, and that was that was around about that same time, and we used to joke about it. The first grants that went out for about ten sites across the nation. I can't remember them exactly, but they were like New York, Brown County, Florida, Los Angeles, Seattle, Bedford. Yeah, but I think the reason we were competitive in that first round of grants was that we had already showed that we could pull together as an effective team. So I think that was very rewarding. And so when we first formed the Bedford Internet Crimes Against Children, it was designed to be a regional task force, not just combined to Bedford. You had the function of solving the Internet crimes, the child exploitation, but also training up other task forces within the region. So it was both delivery and training. And the code name back then was Operation Blue Ridge Thunder and then now, so Virginia was divided into two main task forces, one Northern Virginia Area, which was run through the Virginia State Police, and then the Southern Virginia Internet Crimes Task Force, which was run through the Better County Sheriff's Department. And so we did that. We had our violent crime team, the Internet Crimes. We also formed a cold case squad and there was about about half a dozen or so unsolved homicides from stretching back into the early eighties, and we formed a team. We found the team. I think if I learned one thing, both from the medicine and the law, that what makes things work is communication, coordination, and cooperation. If you can get good people on a noble mission working together, you can get a lot of things done. And we did that. We were able to solve or resolve some of the cold cases. And so I stayed as the Chief Prosecutor of the Commons Attorney till twenty sixteen, and to my surprise, got nominated for the to go on the bench as a judge. It's not something. It's not something you set out to do. I did not. I enjoyed what I was doing. I was very blessed. And you know, I think the biggest reward professionals if you can do something honorable and good in the town hometown that you grew up here. And I used to joke to people, they said, well, what's it like being Commonwealth's Attorney. I said, well, some days I had to be Andy Griffith and other days I had to be Matt Dillon. But it was just how to deal with people. Ought to call balls and strikes, treat them fairly. People didn't mind you being tough in the law as long as you were fair. Sure. But the opportunity to go on the bench came up. I was approached about it and agreed, and I went on the bench in twenty sixteen, and I thoroughly enjoy what I'm doing now, and I'm in my second term. Judges were appointed, not appointed for life in the state like in the federal court, for fixed terms, and then you have to be reappointed by the legislature when your term is over. Does politics get involved into that at all? Maybe, small peep, small peep politics. And in the in that that it's it's a legislative process. So you know, the whole idea of advice and consent. That's the the the the more cynical politics. I have not experienced that. Uh. There used to be an old jokes that if you want to be a judge, be ready to be traded for a bridge. You know, you may get traded for somebody's highway. That I've never seen that or experienced that. And every we're very fortunate with our legislative delegation statewide. I think they take the judicial nominations very seriously and even when there's some disagreement, I think they handle it very honorably. The way that that's good that we still have that. Yes, so you also teach as well? I do, Okay, I do so. Before I went to law school, and again that's sort of how it happened as I got a full time teaching appointment at what was called then called the College of Health Sciences in Jefferson College of Health Sciences, and it was a private community college part of the Karelian Hospital. System, and they had. Programs to get your associates degree in nursing respiratory therapy or your associates degree as a paramedic and as an rin and paramedic was I started out as the clinical director for that program, arranging the clinical rotations of the paramedics as they rotated through the hospital and into the field with the paramedic units, and then eventually became the director of the program. So right before going to law school, I'd been director of the paramedic program training program in Ruinoke. The college is now part of Ratford University Ratford Karellian University there and they offer even master's degrees now, and so I was teaching full time right before I went to law school. And to get tenured you needed to get your doctoral degree, and I had by that time, I had a bachelor's degree. And the dean of the college said, well, you know, what are you going to do about, you know, getting your doctoral degree? And I had some good advice. I said, well why don't you get your doctorate in law and hospital administration and combine the clinical part of nursing medicine with administration, because what I was teaching at the college was medical ethics and risk management and how to design emergency medical systems. You know, what do you have to do to design a. Rural EMS system or an urban system, or a port system or a mountain system that that designed the rules regulations, and so law school is a natural fit. But I've always enjoyed teaching, and so I teach now at Liberty University. I teach. In the School of Nursing. I teach in the Master's program. I teach health policy and ethics to nurses getting their master's degree. And just recently I've been teaching a class in the PhD program because they had Liberty has a you can get your pH d in Nursing, Health Policy and Ethics. Wow, And so I teach teach in those and then I teach trial advocacy how to do trials to law students. So did you retire from the bench to do all this and still doing that? Man, I've read so many things down. I don't know if I've ever written that's anythings down, Brandy. It's bored quickly. Some degree a schizophreniars. It works really well. So, for example, in Liberty, I teach in an evening. I teach an evening class. Sure, and it's usually on the day that I'm on the bench in Lynchburg, so I can go from the Lynchburg Cordasse. Over to the campus. Wow. And then so it works, it works well. I thoroughly enjoy. When I think about when you become a judge, sort of like uh, and I don't mean to use this analogy, it's bad, but referee in you're pretty much supposed to be right the day you start refereeing. Doesn't matter what level you're at. When you become a judge, you're not. It's not like you get to go through practice rounds your attorney judge, and I mean. That you know you're one correct the very first. So there is a judicial training program, a lot of at some of the administrative issues, the finance issues you deal with as a judge, of emphasis on the judicial canons of ethics, the dues and don'ts of being of judge, conflicts of interest, not allowing yourself to be swayed outside of the courtroom type things. Sometimes you have to find yourself extricating yourself from conversations. And so those sorts of things. But that's part of the orientine you eat. In my opinion, you even had that internal compass, but sometimes you need the training just to be more situationally aware. So they do a good job of that, but you're correct, there's no practice around that. The judicial orientation is a week long and then they'd give us some scenarios to problem solving that week. It's what was helpful, and then we go back each year for refresher training at our judicial conference. But the very first day that I went to the bench, because i'd been the Commals Attorney in Bedford for a year, I couldn't hear criminal cases in Bedford because they may have been cases I had touched or known about or been aware of when I was in that role. So it wouldn't have been right for me to set on the bench and then in a different role. So I spent a lot of time the first year setting in other jurisdictions. So the very first day that I had to report was in Lynchburg, and in the way the judges chambers are, you have your desk and your bookshelves in nice little office, but you come around your desk and you have to walk up like two or three steps, and you open the door and you're coming into the back of the bench. You're entering the courtroom. And I can remember walking up My first, very first day was to hear civil disputes. And I'd been doing criminal prosecutions for over twenty some years, and you've done your homework. They told you what to prepare for. So you've done the homework, reading and the re search and that sort of thing. But I will never forget. As I got ready to open the door, I remember I reached out to open the door and then I shut it back. I said, I said, wait a minute, what am I getting ready to do? And so you become humble pretty quick. But what I. Found, even now you know, I'm in my eighth going on my ninth year, Now it is okay to say you don't know something. And one of the things the judges depend on is the lawyers presenting the issues to them. And many times, as you do it more, you have to maybe do it less. But initially it's perfectly okay to be honest and straightforward and say, counsel, I'm going to need to research that or brief it for me. And we also, I mean, I guess there's an appeal process, right, so if you were wrong, there's a chance that you can learn from that to do it as wrong. In the last one, I mean engineering, and that's what I do for a living. We have had bridges fall down where we designed and then thought it was right, but the next one we build correctly. It's called established career. Yeah, so, I mean we had a beautiful system. I think that there is that appeal process in case you're wrong. It's all part. I think the biggest takeaway from the administration of justice, criminal or civil or family court is that is you first have to recognize that every human being is fallible, and so what our system bakes into the process is that checks and balance. It's not perfect, but every Thursday morning in Bedford I do I have about anywhere from twenty five to thirty people come into the courtroom who've been charged with offenses, they've been released on bail, and they're coming in to be advised of their rights and whether or not they want an attorney. And two things that I stress to them as I go through and explain their rights. Explain to them the Bill of rights. You have the right to remain silent. You have the right to counsel. You have the right to subpoena witnesses. You have the right to an open public trial. You have the right to disagree with the court through the appeals process. But then what I tell them, one of the things we have to realize as a community, there is no such thing as a right without a coequal responsibility. And I said, well, what do you mean. I said, well, if you have the right to remain silent, you have the responsibility to be careful who you talk to. If you have the right to an attorney, you've either got to hire one, be your own attorney, or see if you qualify for a court opponted. And then I get it down very practical. I say, if you've got the right to use the court to subpoena witnesses in your defense, you have the responsibility to get to the court on time the names and addresses of the witness And what I'm trying to connect up in their minds is each step of the process is a decision to be made, and each decision is going to have some repercussion to it. And then by the time we get to the end of that presentation, at least my hope is there's somewhat of a more informed citizenry. And I always ended by telling them, no matter how guilty you are, because right now you're the only one that knows whether you're guilty. I don't know, you have the presumption of innocence, But no matter how guilty you are, you have the fundamental right as a human being to be treated with dignity and respect in this courtroom. In order to get respect, you have to give it. And I've had people tell me that a they've never heard that before, They've never connected in their minds rights and responsibilities, or that respect is two way. But I have many of them come back and say that that is so old it sounds new again. Oh wow, And we go through that every week. So you've hit on something. And Brian alluded to it that we've been at a we had a little court fiasco that we had to deal with one time, and then I had another one the last year. Just fifty five and still dumb. But I've been to court twice in my fifty five years, and the last two was in the last I mean, the only two were in the last five years. Well no, actually when I was sixteen. That was at one campus Gene. But I was floored. And you don't have to say it, and I'm just asking this question. You had obviously have the right to say you don't want to answer that, or you can't. But I was floored by the people that came to court what they looked like like literally short shorts that I wouldn't have my daughter wear at a restaurant. Right, there's no way we're going out if you're wearing that. And they came dressed like that, and you talked about respect and gaining respect. To me, there's at least you're going to see a judge that's going to make a decision. And I was just disappointed, And I thought, and maybe it's because I grew up in the military family. In a military court, is there a difference between the two if you were to walk into one and the other and one's in uniform and the people in the crowd. Generally there shouldn't be. Of course, in the military, there's prescribed dress codes military uniform. I can remember even when I first started practicing law and did a little bit of private practice, I would tell my clients dress for court like you would dress for church. Sure, Okay, that reference just doesn't ring much anymore. So what we're finding is that in most courts there's a dress code that we have to publish, and so when we send out the court papers, it says no tank tops, no mid drifts, no pajamas, no bedroom shoes, et cetera. What we have to be conscious of, however, is why do we have a dress caught. You either set a tone that is respectful to the people in front of you, but if you don't set the proper tone, the respect breaks down. Now that being said, what we also have to be conscious of is we service a wide socio economic spectrum and so judges I think are pretty sensitive to someone who. What they may be wearing. You might go, well, I wouldn't wear that, but it may be the best they have, sure, and so you're trying to distinguish that. On the other hand, I'll just say, every now and then, there are some visual challenges in the courtroom and I have had to ask people to step outside and address that issue. Some people will try to challenge you with having so we usually don't allow them to have something obscene. Sure, we have to. Balance that against freedom of speech. We have. But at the same time, the more for. Lack of a better word, the more revealing risky things we try to address through a written dress code that we publish. If they don't follow it, they run the risk of not having their case heard that day, or or possibly even being found in content. But on the other hand, you have the same there is a code for law enforcement too, right, I mean they have to They can't show up in plain clothes, right, I mean they have Uh you know if. They're if they're a detective, they still have to be dressed professionally. You know, a good rule of thumb. I think today someone come to court business casual. Versus what you would word to the beach. Sure. Yeah, and somewhere in between. There's the tone. An older judge told me when I went on the bench that he said, the two things you want to avoid on the bench is being embarrassed and embarrassing someone else. And so I'll just say this, there's lots of room for teaching. Moments in the courtroom. Sure. And most of the time the bailiffs. I am so thankful for all of our Shirk's Department bailiffs and all the jurisdictions. They maintain their order and discipline, and the courtmen. Many times they will catch those issues and deal with them and I may not ever even be aware of it. Wow, So I'm very thankful for them. It's good. Well, we've taken up a lot of your time today. We do appreciate you coming in before you leave, though we always end our show with her guests, asking or answering this question. If you could pick one person in history, no matter past, present, whenever, who would you choose use and where would you hang out with them for twenty four hours? Other than Christ? I would pick C. S. Lewis. Oh man, Oh wow, first time we've ever read that answer. I am a huge C. S. Lewis fan. In the ethics classes that I teach, I have a section on it. It called Law and Literature, and we look at some of his writings to glean ethical principles and precepts, both his fiction and nonfiction. I thoroughly love. In fact, when I leave here tonight, I'm going to a church life group that I'm leading, and we're doing the Screwtape Letters C. S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters as a Bible study. But C. S. Lewis had a group of friends. One of his best friends was J. R. R. Tolkien, who wrote Lord of the Rings. Okay, so you had Lewis who wrote Chronicles of Narnia. And you had Lewis that wrote Lord of the Rings. And they were friends, one Protestant, one Catholic, and then they and other write a group of writers during the thirties and forties hung out at a pub in England called the Eagle and the Child and they met every week at a certain time and they discussed their works, and that's how those great authors started. Oh wow, I would love to be able to go. They nicknamed that pub. It was called the Eagle and the Child was right outside of Oxford and they nicknamed it the Bird and the Baby. I would love to go back and just spend one afternoon hearing them talk to me. Oh sure, yeah, all right, Well, we appreciate you being on the program, and good luck to you, and thank you again. Thank y' all. It was a pleasure to be here. Thank you so much. Need insurance in Bedford. I'm David Honeker, local State Farm agent. 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You know what I love about this thing? The American heroes and stories, the platforms. Yeah, when they start, I never know where they're going, right. I mean, he went through and he was doing the medical stuff, but then I just got fascinated with the judge ships. Yeah. I love to be honest with you. I never would have made the connection between the medical background and that makes all the sense, you know. Now. I wish I just knew more about military that I just I hate sounding ignorant. Yeah, but I don't either. I have no clue. I never I mean I knew there were military police, but I never thought, oh, shoot, they. Go to It's actually so the clips I'm going to start ending the show with here in the next the next theme is going to be uh clips like famous clips that we talk about here sometimes awesome. And so one of them that I just looked at was what is the one time cruise you can't handle the truth with Jack Nicholson. So that's only like real courtroom stuff that I know about is the movies. That's true. Yeah, so you know what also, man, I wanted to get into it, but I was like, I don't know if I said crossing the line or not. Did he do the end seering? I believe he was part of that prosecution at all. So Judge Updyke was the prosecutor, Okay, and I do believe he was in that office. Yeah, but he didn't ask him. But then I was like, I don't know if he wants to talk sticular cases. Yeah, I'm sure he worked on it at some point. Yeah, I know what he says about people about dressing in the bailiffs. But I'm telling you what the court that we were up there in Highland, it was a little scary. It was a little relaxed. Yeah, I mean and I understand. I love what he says. You got to think about the association actually that they're coming from. But somebody can wear something a little better than that T shirt today. Oh no, I agree. The guy that we saw, Emma, you're gonna love this. The police, the deputies are just sitting by the window, and the one guy goes, you're a kidding me. And they're looking out the window and the guy that has been busted for I guess multiple d u e s that is supposed to be at court for his latest DUI drove himself with no life, with no license to the court. Yeah. And then and they're looking right out the window and seeing him driving, got busted and glied. Yeah, oh my, you remember the deputy taking him back in the back room. You could hear him just yelling at him that. I have said this to my wife a thousand times. I'm gonna find a day when I get off, and I'm off every Friday, but I still go to the office. I just want to go sit, Like I'm telling you, I mean, it's not anybody can sit in a. Courtroom and just dude, you want to be entertaining. It's very entertaining. It's actually just kind of what is wrong with this country? Yeah, yeah, we have failed somewhere in some of the stuff. The reoccurrence like a friend of mine who was a magistrate, you know, we had picked up we a buddy of mine who was a cop'd along with him sometimes and it was an alcoholic that had stumbled down in the streets and literally was laying face down on a sidewalk and we picked him up and drunken public and you take him there and it's it's a recurring thing and he's you know, the magist. It's like, we're not helping them, We're just putting them and we're giving them food and you know, they we're gonna end up right back where they are. We're not doing them any service. And I'm sure it's like domestic abuse is the same house. You know, you're going to the same place again. Yeah, all right, moving on to drama. That was a good that was a good bring in. Yeah. So just so people know this that ends their series, yes until next year, so we will pick up on the late uh Memorial. Day, Memorial Day to Yeah, so on the off season. One of our goals is that you need to go to YouTube and go to at l H Underscore podcast and subscribe. So we've got to get air of subscriptions up. And Emma, ah, you can tell Trent's age when he puts on his post. It doesn't cost anything. The reason I because the old people that I know ask me it's not my age. But it's funny because I do that for my mom. Okay, but my aunts and uncles that would read that, they don't subscribe because they think, oh, it's another subscription. You've got like, you got to know how to talk to the crowd. It's an advertisement. You should try it. Sometimes it's not men, but it's it's funny. Yeah. So any way you subscribe, as this generation would say it, you're just liking it subscribing it. That note isn't there for Logan, Okay, it's there for Pat. I don't even know that Pat though exactly. She thinks that it might cost her. So for our young crowd parody, you subscribe. Go to YouTube and subscribe. But also we're gonna Emma. We're gonna put Emma in charge of this. You're gonna find a major corporate sponsor for our American hero stories. Which I think we could look up one we want to do some some stuff for these guests. I heard a great advertisement this weekend by one that was sponsoring a something I was listening to on a podcast. I was like, that company was looking for places to go donate for military type stuff. Perfect. So I'll let em know who that is. Right, So I subscribe to Peacock where you do have to pay. Yeah, and. I went in this weekend. I thought, you know what, I got some free time. The wife's gone, a child is gone with her friend. I got some time here. I'm going to catch up on Yellowstone. Okay, So I went back listen. I thought the last season was just as good as all the rest of I kind of got burned out on it. I think, oh, like I was kind of glad I took the break and gone back to it. To be honest with you. Hey, when did he get shot up in the street? Was that earlier sea? Yeah? That was you know, I couldn't remember. I think that's like my last memory of the show. Yeah, it was pretty good. I will say I enjoyed the last season. Beth is still ruthless, nothing's changed. She's my favorite character, is. That the blonde Reddish's the one that's married to that guy. I don't know he is beard. Yes, yeah, but I think they tied it and tied it up pretty good considering. Is it ever with Yeah, so that ended the yes, the whole thing. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I mean, it's just a lot of learning that is about ranching. I love that they don't make it politically correct, Like I deeply love that they're telling you we have a situation and it's old ranchers that have spent generations just not it's hard enough Trent to run a ranch, right, but having to deal with people encroaching there, you know, that's the stuff that just blows your mind. And then I loved in one of the episodes in the last season, the Texas side of it, they're like, yeah, we don't have that issue, like our neighbors are ranchers. Their neighbors are ranchers, you know, because there ain't no tourists down there. It's too he said, it's too hot, it's too dusty. Yeah, they ain't visiting here. It ain't beautiful. They just work. I was talking to a buddy mine. His son is going through the agricultural program at Virginia Tech and spent his intern position at a as a ranch hand in Montana, and I think he decided he does not want to do that, which I think is great about intern positions for anybody listening is sometimes it's best to know what you don't want to do. Yeah, Like for me, it was construction, and I did not want to deal with all those headaches, and so that's why I chose engineering to be at a desk. And he went up there and did that and he decided. I can't remember what it was that he was disappointed in, but he decided he didn't want to do the ranch stuff. I also caught up on I didn't put it on here, but I caught up and finished the Dallas Cowboy. Oh was that good? It was very good. Huh. It's very good. And as a Redskins fan, you, I think would thoroughly enjoy it. Yeah, because I like the trailer and I think I might dig it. I've never been a big fan of Jerry Jones and this just made it even Yeah. Oh good concrete? Did it? Do you think they should one? On? Dan Snyder. I thought of this the other day, Trent, and you may or may not remember this. ESPN did a a show of about football, but it was a show like Yellowstone, and it was really popular. Playmaker I think that's what it was called. It was really popular, really good, and they canceled it. Not because it wasn't popular and good, but because the NFL said, hey, no, like it was showing the NFL. I loved it because of how authentic it was. I really wish don't get hard knocks is fine, but that's preseason. Dude, give me an F one NFL right, the real stuff, don't you know, Don't give me the fake stuff. Because the stuff I learned about Jerry Jones, like I said, just made me think, what an idiot like you literally blew everything up over your stupid you know. Maybe watch it now, somebody said, somebody famous. If Jerry Jones was given the option of winning four more Super Bowls or never giving another press conference, he would choose the never giving another press conference. It just feels that way about him. Yeah, he's uh, I mean, yeah, he was gonna choose. He's going to choose the press conferences though. Sure he wanted to do press co It is definitely now. I had to understand this, and I tell this to people all the time, to a football coach and to a fan base, winning championships is the most important thing to Jerry Jones. He's a businessman who bought a franchise for seventy million and it's worth nine point two billion more than any franchise Baseball doesn't matter. He is the biggest franchise. He didn't fail there, and I do have to tell myself that. Well, he did it without succeeding. I mean, if you think about it, he's done all that was out succeeding. Imagine if they got good. Yeah, well, I mean and that you know anyway, it's definitely worth watching. I think you would enjoy it. Yeah, I'll check it out now you get anything. Well did all the vacation stuff. So I haven't not watched TV since shit, I mean since a week. That's been great. All right, moving on to sports. It's time for sports. What are you laughing at? I was laughing at Trent's mess up? What did I do? Or he just crossed it? He was like, oh oh h sports, Yeah, Daytona missed it, missed all of it, every single lap. Oh got mad at my friends for Soday morning. I was like, because I saw a picture of Blaney winning and I was like, how come none of y'all reminded me that the race was on last night? And Jeff, one of my friends, said it was on the TV at the bar. We rap like I was the idiot. I'm not able to notice it. I get it. I don't know if he's telling truth about that. So interesting. There were so many storylines because you had the playoffs. Playoffs and gosh, I do a handful of laps. Yeah, and the one person that couldn't afford to wrecked and that was Reddick. So that was the storyline. Oh he's out, Bowman's in, somebody else's in. You know, this is you know, not good for Reddick. He was able to patch his car back up. Later on, Bubba Wallace takes out half the field and there goes Bowman, and so those are the only two basically capable of making it on points. But if somebody wins, so Bowman essentially is the guy out because he's erected. Now his car is out, so he has to sit there and watch the whole race. And if a repeat winner doesn't win the race, he's out. If somebody else does. And Trent, I'm telling you, I was so excited. Eric Jones was upfront in the lead, right, and he's with a group of cars and he's doing so well, and they shuffled him out. Somebody got loose, pushed him up and he kept I don't know how he held on to the car, but he's gone back of the line and it's six laps to go and I'm like, man, God, it never well. Who's in the lead now? Is Cold Custer? Justin Haley? And I'm like, oh no, like this is not going to end well because there were no repeat winners in like the top four rows. Like it was. Yeah, it was not good. And you could see Blaney mounting that on the outside. I think he was thirteenth with one lap to go or two laps to go. Yeah, and behind him was Eric Jones and it was that's called straight to the front. I've got to record it. I need to check it out again. I've turned TV on since for a while. But I guarantee you Blaney was Bowman's biggest fan. Okay, So speaking of that, when you're watching the telecast, they do a great job of showing you the live stats of who's in and who's not. Right, I'm assuming NBC did that, Yes, they did, and so you know everybody in, and you know who's the ones this battling. When I the next day, I didn't see, like I didn't know who was in. Oh I still don't know because I went to NASCAR dot Com and I went to ESPN, and you cannot tell. They're still giving me who the point leaders are. It's awful. So is it sixteen inn or is it six twelve sixteen? It's sixteen? Okay, So who's the one who's the nearest one that was left out? Buscher? Yeah? I think it would have been Buscher and he was there too. He was in third going on the last lap. Yeah, so he had his opportunities too well. I mean there was a bunch. So that that leads to the question that Denny Hamlin had. He said, you know, basically, in a nutshell, Blaney was our savior to the sport because he won, or else we would have been talking about Cole Custer all week. Yeah, so what do you do? You change something? Because I guess what they're saying in the old timers, Mark Martin and all of them say, listen, it's hard work to point yourself into a race if you finished last and you're literally thirty fifth in the field, which Cold Custer was, Yeah, you're gonna skirt and kick a guy out who has legitimately drove good it all year long. It's they've they've w w E Nascar. Yeah, they're making an entertainment ticket versus a point season two. That's why they're doing I mean obviously, but I mean look at we're talking about it and how long we're talking about that's true. I mean, that's why they do it. Yeah, Now this week, Yeah, is Darlington first first race of the Yeah? Is this a throwback Darlington? Or is this just the South? Is it? Okay, we'll check it tonight Twler Panels at least yeah, Wednesday, so we'll check that out. Uh, let's see so that Darlington's this week F one returns from their summer vacation. If you and they will be at the Dutch Grand Prix, are you uh, are you gonna watch that? No chance? I'm asking are you gonna watch it? I'll watch all the f Okay, if I'm around, I think I'm switching my focus. Don't get me wrong. I still like Max first happened, but it's obvious. I don't know how long it's going to take to write that ship if they do it. Yeah, I'm starting to get on the bandwagon a Cadillaci. Oh it is nice. That's neat because we got somebody to we finally we could have done. Has But yeah, I don't know, you gotta succeed. Some Yeah, I'm excited about this, Like I could see myself getting some Cadillac gear here soon. That was kind of shocked that Botos would be the driver for well, you know, Cadillac. I'm just gonna throw this out there, and I know you're probably gonna think I'm silly, but Lewis Hamilton won all of his championships with Mercedes. Correct, Yeah, well Bortos I think he won them all with Mercedes, but Bortos pretty much was his teammate, finishing second in like four of them. Yeah, now that Hamilton has moved on, he's not good at all. I mean, I shouldn't say he's not good, but his teammate has way outperformed him. So, you know, is Bortos really that good? You know, we'll see, you know, and we'll see how long it takes them to actually put a decent card together. So anyway, college football obviously is the huge deal this weekend. You got Clemson, LSU, Ohio State, Texas. I mean that is the marquee game, right definitely. Uh, do you like college football where it's at now where this game is huge but it's not a game ender for a season ender for either. One because of the playoffs. Yeah, it doesn't. It doesn't affect me yet now I don't think it does to me. It doesn't diminish the game. Like back then, if you lost this game, your season is done. I don't I don't say I'm not gonna watch that game, because even if you lose, you still can win. Like, I'm gonna watch that game. That's a huge game. Don't forget Clemson or South Carolina, Virginia Tech. These are all huge. Just some big games this weekend. Yeah, if you haven't already, please go to check out go to YouTube, search at LH podcast and subscribe. Make sure that you check out the college football preview that we did with Aaron Stam last week. That was amazingly good. Yes, Like I'm gonna go back. I'm gonna head on over to FanDuel, which should be a sponsor of the show, but not. I'm gonna head on over to FanDuel. I'm gonna go back and pull up the podcast and I'm gonna start going through Aaron stuff. I'm gonna pick me a few college games this weekend. Okay, based off of his expertise. I need to go back and see who he picked between Iowa State and. Did he pick individual games? Maybe he didn't, but I think we did talk about that game though. Yeah, I think you thought Kanton State was gonna be really good. Yes, he did, right? All right? Moving on? Yeah, what's that? It's time for news? You never answered? Who do you have this weekend? Ohio State or Texas. Oh I'm gonna go to Ohio State. They don't have a quarterback. But I just, man, I'm not sold until Manning puts a whole game together. I gotta see it first. I think Texas robson. I think Texas has that ability to But it's college, man, and you just don't know how this all season went. Did Ohio State regroup and do like Georgia has done, you know, just refire or you know, we'll see. We should go to your picks. I got We've got them right here. So you're taking Ohio State. I will take Ohio State, Yes, who you. Got in Syracuse, Tennessee. Oh, that's Tennessee. Although them not having a quarterback either scares a piss out of me. But I'll go to Tennessee. Their defense is good. Ye. And the other big game, other big games, We've got Alabama Florida State. That's that's a surprise. Good game, isn't it. It can be convey because you know, don't sleep. A few years ago, that'd be the one that'd be just as big as Texas and Ohio State absosolutely. So you think no chance for Florida State. They're a home No, I don't think not in that game. I don't think it could be a trap game, but I don't. I don't see it. And then we have L s U and Clemson. Yes, obviously you got L s U. I'll take Clemson and Virginia Tech South Carolina. Yes, I will take South Carolina. That's what I'm gonna take. And then Notre Dame in Miami. I'm gonna take Miami to shock Notre Dame. I don't take a Notre Dame. All right, So we literally, I guess there's only two games, no, three games that were different on so. Two nights in a row. I have done the four leg parlay on baseball. Don't try it. I know both nights. I have won three games, lost one. It just was impossible. I just couldn't get it. Even when I got down to two games in a parlay, I couldn't do it. So they just suck you in, all right. Unfortunately, under what's happening? We had another school shooting today. Yeah, and you guys gave me the transgender that it was a transgender and they do have a YouTube manifesto on this one. So the government, thank god, Trump has already sent the FBI there to confiscate all this stuff and we'll at least know more than because we still don't know what happened in Nashville, right right, which is sad. But apparently he had the word Trump on his gun. Oh no, no, there's zero chance, like he was a matter of fact. No no, no, like Trump should die. Oh yes, no, that was writ written on us. Yeah, you're right, yes, yeah, yeah, it was pretty bad. So I'm just so sick Trent of the liberal mayor with your fake tears, you know, going after gun violence and this is senseless blah blah blah. And you know what somebody brought up a great point today. Where was your anger this past weekend when eight kids got shot downtown? You didn't care about those kids? Why are these kids different? And I'm sick of that too, crime. I mean, I hate for the families, but that's for them to grieve. I don't need your fake tears because that's what they are, your political bs. So I am so over that crap. And we you know, we had I don't think you were here, Emma for that, and maybe you were. We had gone school Resource Office from Mike Mayberry came on when the Nashville shooting happened. Remember, we learned so much valuable information on that on how law enforcement responds to school shootings. We shouldn't have them. Uh, it's awful. When Trent and I went to high school. This may blow your mind, Emma, but I weapons were allowed on school property. They were in my vehicle every day, visible hung up in the back. Of the truck. You had, Yeah, you had racks, gun racks. You were taught gun safety at school. Uh. And we we even had And I forgot about this, my mom mentioned it. We even ffa you could choose shooting like a target. Stuff by the way it should be. That way now, teaching gun safety is much better. You. I mean, that's the problem we you know. Anyway, I don't want to get into that. That's horrible. It's horrible that we still have this crap going on. So in my other news in my have it by the way, Yeah, remember the words before in twenty sixteen to twenty twenty when these things happened. What word do they use all the time? Do you remember this rhetoric? Oh? Yeah, Trump's rhetoric is causing these things. Oh my gosh, Well listen to the rhetoric now that's going on. And so that's what I have is the liberal rhetic. And there's nothing that he said before that is anything like what their side is saying now. It's crazy. And you get these psychos. They're a psychotic to start with, and you just get them fired up. That's the problem. Yes, so move got a cut one. Yeah, so this next one, it's still nice and refreshing to see. Dude, you hit the nail on the head one day when you were like, hey, watch YouTube, you'll learn what really is going on in America because you can see it. It's not fake. And this was a gentleman at a a town hall meeting, and he stood up in front of everybody. It was a black gentleman, and he gave this speech. It's not very long, but I thought it was poignant. Okay, cut one. I am the direct descendant of the North American slave trade. Both my parents are black. All four of my grandparents are black, All eight of my great grandparents, all sixteen of my great greats. On my mother's side, my ancestors were enslaved in Alabama. On my father's side, we were enslaved in Texas. I am not oppressed. I'm not oppressed, and I'm not a victim. I'm neither a pressed nor a victim. I travel all across this country of ours, and I check into hotels, and I fly commercially, and I walk into retail establishments and I order food and restaurants. I go wherever I want, whenever I want. I am treated with kindness, dignity, and respect, literally from coast to coast. I have three children. They are not oppressed either, although they are victims. I've taught my children they are victims of three things. Their own ignorance, their own laziness, and their own poor decision making is aw. Cool? Is that a video clip that we just don't have the videos anymore? She noticed that halfway through. Behind the scenes, it would have been nice to see the visual who that person was. But what's interesting is, other than them saying that about his heritage, I wouldn't have known what color. He was, right, you know what I mean? Yeah, But the point that he's making that I found to be refreshing is who's restricting you from doing anything? Like Charlie Kirk says, the most overrated lie is that this is a racist country. Sure, obviously we know that, but I'm just saying it's just been it's just been repeated about everything that And I thought. About this the other day when I'm so sick of seeing either bumper stickers or people say, you know, they lose their right? What what when Trump became president? What right did you lose? Exactly? I've yet to find a right that was taking away from anybody now. More voters than ever, except for the. One right that you have that you should exercise would be the one to remain silent. That would help us out a lot. Yeah. So twenty twenty, he was told that he had hurt the right to vote. They had more votes in twenty twenty than ever after his first presidency, whether they cheated or not from it, okay. And then the other one was the right to an abortion. And there's more abortions today sure than there were when the Roe v. Wade was overturned. So if you're a female in Virginia, can you have an abortion? I have no idea that I woulder the same. You can, Yes, of course you can. I mean, it's just the biggest misnomer of all of it. So yep, all right, moving on, And I think what you're referring to is when you said that, it's so what I love about TikTok. You get to see these things that you would never have seen on mainstream media. And that's why they wanted to ban TikTok. It had nothing to do with the Chinese. It had everything to do with where we were getting our news or where the young people are getting their news. Yes, exactly. And it's like I said, I wouldn't. I would have no clue that you do have people legitimately, not people showing off or just trying to make the news. You have legitimate people showing up to council. Now in Chicago saying hey, we've been doing this for forty years your way. And the unfortunate part is those people need to organize to make a difference because you're still electing the same people. So you have to do more than just talk at a council. You got to organize. You got to get voters out and stuff like that. I hope you've noticed an influx of when some seers. Support I do say a little bit of it, but not yet. It's gonna happen after Labor Day. That's when the big rush happens for everybody. Uh, moving on to win, win, win. We're gonna win, win, win, and we're gonna make America great again. Well, mister President, first of all, everyone's made this comment already. It needs to be echoed again. You you were elected as the president of working Americans. And that's why this Labor Day is so meaningful for me personally. This is the most meaningful Labor Day of my life. Is someone with four jobs and so. What was here for referring to Labor Day? Oh, he has four Trump keeps giving him more jobs to do. Okay, with Secretary of State overseeing this, overseeing that. Yeah, and so Okay, yeah, yeah, so he now has four jobs that is literally outside of his purview of Secretary of State that Trump would be like, he's Marco Ruby is going to oversee this. But you know that's what I love about Like, dude, he's had it's a cabinet meeting. Yeah, but what's great about it is, like I said this to somebody the other day, strip away Donald Trump, and he would be right now the most popular president of all time if he wasn't Donald Trump. Because let's be honest, if we really set down you and me and we were Freedom Caucus, you know, hardliners. He ain't no conservative, right, we should be livid right now, far left, far right, all that he is by far the most Yeah, I would say for everybody, like he doesn't exclude anybody, Like I love the people that say, oh my god, he you know he hates Kay's and lesbian they're all over his cap. You know what I'm saying. You don't know because they don't tell you their business, that's right. So anyway, I just it's so refreshing. To see it, all of it. Pam BONDI that we can be mad at her for not releasing Epstein's noff Right. It's it's funny how that works, Like we can actually disagree with our elected people. It's the one of the things I hate about our side is I say we eat our own. So like, when I'm watching TikTok, there's a guy that I really like. I quote him on here all the time, the older of Millennial, and he had a TikTok last week that just killed Tucker about this interview. And he took a snippet that was in the interview and made it sound like Tucker's has these hacks on his show. And I've watched probably more interviews than a miss anyone I know. I have more than anyone I know, but I've watched a majority of what Tucker releases on X Well. I listened to the guy on the way home yesterday from the beach. He took that one snippet to make it sound like the guy was a hack. That guy was one of the most brilliant people I've heard. He's an organic chemistry teacher at Cornell, at an Ivy League school. He just likes to dabble in things that are not just organic chemistry. Dabbles in a bunch of things and what you might hear him say, is I am a little kook, a little crackpot. I don't believe in anything like Sean Ryan. I don't believe in anything. And he starts talking about the murders of oh, the Las Vegas murders, the guys that we talked about. It was in our top ten things that we still want to know about what actually happened in Las Vegas. This guy starts going into that and you're like, oh, man, that's blowing my mind. But it was just the theme of the interview was what do we not know about? Oh? It was so good, it's crazy. But we had a guy eating Tucker. I was like, man, why are you beating up on somebody? Pam BONDI doesn't do so my like, it doesn't mean I want are fired? That's right. Yeah, headlines drive be nuts. I saw I don't know if you saw this where it said Trump What did it say trump dominated area turns Democrat right congressional seat or that's what I was thinking. It's the way it was written. And then I read the article it's a state race in Iowa, a run like one of those special elections that nobody's paying attention to, and we don't know how bad the Republican was. We don't even know if Trump won it by one point ten points. But they read the article like, oh, here we go. They're turning the tide. It's the worst polls ever. Come on, Oh, these are such lies. And it's what's cool is we just know we know their lies because they've been caught lying so much to us. The same people are still lying. I saw him give the press hell today about asking so many questions in these press meetings that you were that Rubio was there about. And what's really cool is he makes them all come to the table and talk YEP, it's in the public forum, and then the press is asking all these questions. And Trump finally said, it's amazing you guys are asking all these questions. Now we're done. All of you haven't asked questions. But what happened to the days where you just asked the guy what kind of ice cream did he have? Yeah? You know, yeah, you don't do that anymore. So I thought that was interesting. That's true. But I mean, in all honesty, the government is supposed to be of the people. How refreshing is it to have a cabinet meeting in front of the people. I mean, I got two clips in have at It that can't wait. That's from that too, from the same Catine mean one of them is Rubio and that crap. We skipped right over our picks for Darlington. We'll do it after have at It. Okay, let me forget that. Oh and now that we're not doing the interviews anymore, you need to bring back the legacy media headlines. Yes, you know what. You need to put that back in the age and I always like that. Okay, perfect, all right, moving on to Mount Rushmore. Rushmore. I've been holding onto. That one for weeks, which is kind of cool because that's now I get I get pre lists. Yes, I need to call Chris because he's gonna give me a hard time. We got to give the list for next week what the Mount Rushmore will be so we can get our pre list from listeners. What was Chris is just dude, this has been a rough week for me. But no, after you do yours, i'll tell you what Chris has worth. Okay, he knew what we were going to do because he listened to the last week's show. Yeah I won't ye know. And then he asked me what do I think it's going to be? And so I texted you, but you didn't read. It's not that I didn't read. It was a heavy week this week. I'm just saying it sounds like a country song. It was a heavy week. Emma, you're gonna make it through this show without reading a book. I'm not reading. I was looking at a picture of a video of a cat. The show is doomed. But it's not a cat from Vietnam? Is it. Oh, don't say that. I actually made a list today. Oh good, cool? All right, So you want to give it what your Mount Rushmore is? My Mount Rushmore is college football programs since two thousand. By the way, Rushmore is one word. Oh uh, wonder why it's called Rushmore. Sure's a guy not to do some We'll get staff on that for next week. But anyway, that's what it is, and the reason I chose from since two thousand. Well, I know why you did why. I'll tell you when you get there. Well, I mean we I guess you know. What we could have done is Mount Rushmore's from each decade. But I wanted to give him a chance because she doesn't know anything prior. To it was named Mount Rushmore because in eighteen eighty it was named after the New York attorney Charles EU. Rushmore. Nice, that's what I was thinking. Is it rush no hyphenated? Yeah? Hm, I'm not a bouying it. Emma, do you have yours? Yeah? Okay, I just laughed because I'm looking at you and then the my peripheral vision, I've got em over there, raising her hand like she had a question. She will strut. Just moot us is that the right? We're mute? Moot the moo moon moot. All right, we got. To the moon. Mine since that's best the college football programs and yeah since two thousand, yeah, okay, and no. No, it was actually easier than I fought once you really start. Yeah, it's only twenty five years, for God's sake. Yeah, but these teams have been dominant. Well, that's why it's easy. Ohio State, Yeah, Alabama yep, LSU. That's why we're doing since two thousand. Georgia and Clemson yep. Would you agree or disagree? All right? Do you have anything different? Yeah? I definitely do. But WHOA, Well, I have to because I did not do since two thousand. You did that, so you could get LSU into your list. Oh my god, that is why it's there and everyone knows it. Emma, what's your two thousand? Gee, Shalling, I did four? I did Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, North Dakota State. Oh you know what snuck that in there? That's fantastic, fantastic. That's the pick of the day. They've won eighteen national championships. Wow. So you had Alabama, Clemson, Clemson, North Dakota State. You didn't have you didn't have Georgia, not LSU. No, I guess I could an l s U, aren't they? Yeah, how would you say that? Yes? Recent history? Yeah, Nick Saban Nick, she's done it with three different Nick saban Is in Alabama. Two crazy coaches and one good one. Yeah. I don't know. I guess you're right. Think about it. You had the Mad Hatter and then you you turn around with ed. Orgeron North Dakota State. It's my favorite. That's that's a really good one. Like Carson went, oh yeah, how did he pan out in the NFL? He's at the Vikings now he's back up. He just got signed. That's the guy that keeps getting signed to be back up. Yeah, smart for me. I didn't listen. I did not know because I really didn't get a chance to look at the agenda. But I thought we were just doing football programs in general. So mine is more of a historical without choosing Yale in Princeton. Yes, right, so if you look at the list of champions of the longest time. But I also like pizzazz. So these are the people that I. Can tell you his list before he starts. Who go ahead, High State yep, Michigan yep, Notre Dame yep, Alabama, and Man, the one that I kind of juggled around but I ended up settling on was USC. That that program, yeah, is a historical historically really really really good. But man, that time when they had Reggie Bush, Reggie Bush and Matt oh Man, Carson Palmer before that, oh Man, that place, it was must see TV to watch that team go somewhere. Because I think people don't realize that Lionard was the backup, right, No, there was a backup that never played at USC that got drafted in the NFL. Yeah. It was a Barklay. No, No, he did play, but I know what you're talking about. It was like a Brooks or something like its crazy, and it's like, now, that's how good that program was at one time. So I think Chris Slax, who sent it in earlier, he had listened to me because I just said football programs and his was Notre Dame Bama. He had USC as well Michigan. But he had one in there that I did not look at but I should have thought about, was Oklahoma. Oh yeah, you know. But my question is, so you're just basing it off of bodies of wins and because that Dame has won championship in the last fifty years. I know, but dude, they're on every Sunday there. They just had that program. Okay, well that was my question. I guess we parameters. You know, there was like I was thinking Penn State. I didn't realize Penn State's only won two national championships. I know, that's what I'm saying. I thought for sure they would have had ten. You know what I'm saying, Oh yeah, yeah, it's a great point. And then Travis he called in, and I'm guessing Travis is more like Emma's age, so he's got Alabama outdoors at Alabama and Alabama. Yeah, and then he put a sixth one Alabama. I figured he's got a Obama, Clemson, Notre Dame, Texas, and Ohio State. I almost put Notre Dame on mine. Well, you had room for another one, so let's do it. But you just told me to id Georgia. So I did. See. I was thinking, if you took away to a town, Notre Dame's bigger than Georgia. If you took away the two thousands, I was thinking the Miamis. Oh, yeah, the nineties were so good. I'm gonna pick nineteen eighty seven to nineteen ninety three and put Uva in there. So I'm gonna pick those years. Okay, Well, I mean. That's what you did. You just no, no, I'm just saying the reason. I know what you're thinking. But to be honest with you, I could not even remember what Chris had put I put this, and the reason I went back to two thousand was one with Emma, and two I didn't want to go over the Miami's in. Some of the old program. Yeah, it really wasn't strategically to screw up the list. I had forgotten all about Chris's list. Yeah, anyway, I'm just saying, so Miami's one that didn't make anybody's list. That Florida state didn't make any list. Yeah, you know what I mean? Those are Auburn didn't make anybody's list. Wait till I throw this one out. Nebraska knew Nebraska? Oh my lord, they were dominant for twenty five years. Yeah, tom Osborne would be on the Mount Rushmore of coaches. Yeah, Tommy Bouten, tom Osborne I think won double digit games for almost like eighteen years in a row. Yeah, like that's impossible, man, that's crazy. Yeah, we need to come up with next week's Mount Rushmore. We have, But what's next week's Mount Rushmore? I have no idea. Why are you asking me? Would probably change it anyways. Will the NFL start next weekend? Yeah? So the Mount Rushmore of NFL head coaches? I like that. So it's out there head coaches. NFL head coaches since two thousand. No, yep, Oh you're gonna put Schottenheimer in there. Yeah, I don't know how you would discredit people like him. And uh, I'm not talking about Marty Schottenheimer. Oh, I'm talking about your coach, just a Dallas coach. Just stop. Kevin would pick him like a dude, Carolina Kevin watching. That Dagon thing. I hated him then and I hate him more now. Barry Switzer, oh really, Oh yes, kiss asked to Jerry Jones. Is that what it was? It was just the whole nine just then come on? Uh like now you'll see it. It was something he did to Troy Egman that he it's despicable. H okay, to me, it's unforgivable. His wife, Oh oh, okay, Well, I just didn't know what you If you just said yes, I would have watched. I didn't remember. I didn't remember it being a story, and apparently it was a huge story, but I didn't remember it being a story. And then when I watched the documentary, I went, you piece of crap. I'm about to watch it. You might made me watch it tonight. All right, so are we ready for the best part of the show. I just got three things to say. God, bless our truth, God bless America. Start God, didn't that is? That? Wasn't that different? Am I wrong? On? That? Didn't do it? Okay? You're wrong? Oh God? Is this song? Hold on? This came from a listener, and you know who this came from. In fact, Grayson needs to start getting as part of our list. Except he couldn't do the NFL head coaches. What would Grayson be able to do a Mount Rushmore of top ten headbanging rock bands? Oh yeah, he would nail that one. Yeah, not top ten, but Mount Rushmore, Mount. Rushmore, that Mount Rushmore dinners, yeah, to cook yeah, Mount Rushmore boat fishing boats yeah, Mount Rushmore, dear in Mount Rushmore h vact texts. Yeah, that's great. All right. So he sent me, when he sent me this, my reply was, I have to put this on the show. Emma. If you have not seen this, you have got this. Okay, So apparently we are we've kicked out another what do they call ANTIFA members or what was the name of the gang, the MS thirteen games. So we've kicked out somebody from our country. Okay, this is a group, oh Garcia. Now, this guy's name is Kumar or something like that. So we are kicking out a guy. And this is a bunch of people wearing pink. But listen to this guy sing and listen. I don't know if you can hear what he's saying, but cut tim. You can have him trump, No, you can have him frum. Okay, he's singing, kill mar is our neighbor. You can't have him Trump. Yeah, and he's wearing a pink vest. All right. The guy's an MS thirteen member. Yeah, it is kill mar Abreo Garcia, same guy. Okay. But what I'm saying is if you look at the video and this dude that's. A white little that's all it is. They would not live in the guy's neighborhood at all. Yes, yesterday, my wife and I set for seven hours at a general RV waiting on her motor home right her fifth wheel. Across from us was a lady who sat there the same seven hours and I I literally almost took a picture and sent it to you go, who's she voting for? And I told Ashley, I said, I nicknamed her Liberal Linda. She just had that look. And I told her, I said, I guarantee you because she was by herself. You told Ashley. I told Ashley, I said, I guarantee you. When she leaves here, she's getting in a Mercedes van that folds into you know, that is like one of those motor homes, the small ones, exactly what she got. Into, especially traveler country. Yes, yeah, And I'm like, she ain't pulling in in one of these, you know, fifty foot motor homes. Right, yeah, all right, So this is the rhetoric that I'm talking about. So, by the way, what we just listened to is the whole police state thing that they're talking about. The meme of the week is the one that I saw today. It was Newsome and Pelosi and somebody else, and they're both are all three pointing their fingers at Trump and said, leave our crime alone. Right, that's essentially what they're you're committing, right, yeah, all right, So listen to what do you remember that guy Beto? Was it Beto Uror? Yes, biggest nothing burger? What was his company that he made that he's so big that he made all his money from do you remember? Don't know? Is he Amazon? Is he not Amazon? Okay, I get them all mixed up. So anyway, Beto Auror. Then he ran for governor of Texas. Right, so he's lost two races, three races he ran against Cruise two. Oh, okay, senator for Texas. All right, so listen to what he's talking about here about Trump calling Trump hitler again. They're still doing it. Cut eleven. I can only imagine the history books written one hundred years from now, looking at the people of twenty twenty five. It's the way you know, you and I when we were in school. We're looking at the people in Germany in nineteen thirty three. That guy's named chancellor in January of that year. In fifty three days, he has destroyed German democracy. The Parliament or the Congress, their legislature passes enabling laws, just like the Republicans are doing in Congress today. That said, anything you want, you go out and do it. And he goes from being this buffoonish, clownish thug who can barely hold power to the undisputed master and dictator of the German people. And I know this shit doesn't repeat, but it sures how rhymes, and we got to be listening to that right now and acting with the urgency that the moment demands from us. Okay, other than executive orders. Some of the biggest news of him trying to get everyone in Congress to vote for the not on this bill, but whatever the economic one was here not too long ago. Yes, continue resolution, and Thomas Massey is against that side, and so he has. He didn't just dictator himself in to that right, and they're acting like Joe Biden never dictateord anything. Did Trump make us wear masks? No, dude, did Trump get try to get Osha to fire you for not taking a shot? Exactly? That's literally what Biden did. The Supreme Court stopped him from letting Osha fire you for not being vaccinated is a health hazard. So it's that guy, like just the stupidity to even acquer it. Yeah, like everything that he said, you have a president, you have a Congress, you have a Senate. That's all by the book. What you didn't do was by the book. You subverted those things. That's right. This president doesn't do that. I mean the student loan policy. Do you remember the Supreme Court said you couldn't do the student loan And what did Biden come out the next week say we found a way to do it. Yep, okay, you just said it. Listen to this lady talk about maga and lit'ten how scary this is. This is all on TikTok I think nineteen Okay, I. Guess so I would like to start a new movement called see Maga maga because people like that respond to fear and terror and aggression, not logic and empathy and I don't know intelligence, it doesn't work for them, So that fear works. So if we all get our guns and use our Second Amendment right at our common sense. At this point, this administration is begging us to rise up and revolt, and you. See somebody with a maga hot give you. That's what we do. That's the way, it's. The only way. Put them back in their basements, make them scared again to be a racist, homophobic and terrible, just awful fucking pieces of shit, because I would way rather live next emingents to mega people. Mega people deserve to be terrified and scared to walk in the streets because they should know that real Americans are. Going to kill them. Jesus. Okay, it's kind of hard to hear what she was saying there, but so she was saying, maga people that we're going to create a new group is going to be the people. So we're going to shoot magas. That's what she's saying, and that's the rhetoric. Yeah, it's okay for them to do it. Yeah, she should be arrested, Like I'm so sick of. Here, and CNN say dog whistle, Yeah, what's that. That's not a dog whistle. She literally telling you to do it. Yeah, that they need to do that. But yet with Trump, oh my god, I could decipher that's a dog whistle. Yeah. I mean, it's so stupid. We have the best way I've heard it is we have people that are that have been in the theater, running things like the drama department. Drama Department's good at what they do, yep. But they shouldn't be running businesses in countries, correct, right. You should make movies. Yeah, she shouldn't be making those videos like that. That's that's actually a direct threat that you put out there, correct. All right, So let's get to the smart side of things. Here are two superstars that to me have become superstars because of Donald Trump putting them in their spot. The first one is Beset. The second one is Marco Rubio. These are two of the I'd say a handful of people that we cannot wait to hear what they got to say on TV. Listen to what Bissett has to say about the economy, and I think. We're going to see a bigger jump from August to September. So I think we could be on our way well over half a trillion, maybe towards the trillion dollar number. This administration. Your administration has made a meaningful dent in the budget deficit. The average budget deficit during this term is twenty six percent less than the last twelve months under Boten. And even the CBO, and we don't agree with CBO on everything, as you said Friday on a summer Friday, had to admit that they believe over the next ten years the budget deflicit will be four trillion lower than they had previously scored, four trillion, three point three trillion of tariff income, seven hundred billion of lower interest costs, and I would expect that that number could go up from here. So, mister President, your return to the White House mark the return of the American worker. Thank you for reclaiming Labor Day for the American people. You're growing the economy for everyone, especially the middle and lower income households who suffered dispropor proportionately under the last administration. And it's an honor to do this under your leadership. And he finally has people on his side, doesn't I just give you chills? Yes, you got somebody helping him. Yeah, do you remember the people that were in the last cabinet that would tell you, I'm sorry, I can't help with that part of it. That would not be appropriate in that scene. By the way, that's the cabinet meeting that you were talking about. Who was at the top of the screen. It was a black guy from the HUD Service, That's okay. Next to him was a woman that I couldn't tell who it was. Did you tell me Beset is gay? Yes, he is married to a guy and has two kids. I never knew that or until you right, So, I don't know how they got their kids. I don't know if he adopted. Did he milk them? You know what I mean? Yes? And then we've got jd. Vance. You have some of the of the best people there, and it's it's multi people, is it. Not all of them look like Mike Pence. That's why I said, if you literally stop with all the Trump derangement syndrome and you just looked at it with an objective frame of mind, you would say, all right, man, for the first time in our lifetime, we have a president that doesn't cowtail to speaking properly in He just tells you what's on his mind and what's the truth. But then you look at his off his cabinet and you go Democrat, Democrat, democrat, you know, homosexual, Yeah. You just you go through the whole list and you go, but capable, capable, cable, right, you know, and supporting his policies, yeah, brilliant, not going back behind him and stabbing or telling China. I'm going to let you know if he does something erratic before you before it's too late. Yes, you know what I mean. Really, all right, here's speaking of another here's a Latino, a Cuban American Marco Rubio with a little humor today at that cut forty nine. I raise it. I don't even talked to you about this. It's a little controversial, but I think I need to bring it up. At this time of the year. This thing about people getting married on Saturdays during college football season is a scourge, Mister President. I don't know we can have an executive order on this. It's insane, but it's really difficult. There's you know, there's seven other months of the year that people can get married. So I just wanted to. Say that, man, it does suck when somebody has a damn wedding on a Saturday afternoon when you've got Miami in Florida State. Yeah, who'd you do it? Virginia Nebraska or Virginia Tech Nebraska. You got married on Virginia Tech Nebraska. Dey. Yeah, and it was the game where it came down to the last second where Tyrod Taylor threw a touchdown that beat Nebraska. Yeah. You should have had a TV either. I did. Everybody was watching. I wasn't tried, but he saw two games at once, picture and picture. I was out on a swinging bench literally, good times, good times, and that's what I had for half at it. All right, great show. We're back to a regularly normal program next week. Of got to get the followers up, you know, go to YouTube, go to TikTok, go to Instagram, got all those things like click, do all the good things so we can become more and more popular, so we can, you know, hey, keep working. And one thing I wanted to I had a little note here and I love it. And this is about college football too. But he mentioned about responsibilities when he talks about rights. Judge Krantz did when we were interviewing him. Yes, and lou Holtz had one of the greatest sayings that they asked him to changes in his years and years of coaching, and he said the biggest thing was in the seventies and eighties when he was coaching, it was responsibilities. Yes, and today it's all about rights, and somewhere along the way we've lost the word responsibilities. It was really refreshing to hear him say that in court, to tell people that in court that you're responsible for your rights. It's really good way. Yeah that I never thought of that either. I mean, that makes all the sense in the world. Yeah. Ye, great interview. This is my favorite. College football is about to start and I try to play this annually, so I thought this would end the show. My favorite clip regarding college football. Remember this guy from Coastal Carolina. Yeah, this is still the best. Have you heard this, Emma, you got to hear this. This is the best motivational speech. What we need, we need less. We need more dogs and less cats, Emma. So true. Everybody, have a good week, see. You next week. Trying to get our two boys ready to carry the golf tournament before practice. Right, twelve cats live across the road. Our door's open screens broke. We need to get a new screen. Door but the screens broke, so you can come in through the screen, but you can't get back out of I turn to look. There's a little kitty cat in our in our kitchen. So I said, what are you doing in here? A little kitty cat. By that time the cat turns tries to get back out, that scream won't go that way. Cat starts going all crazy, and I told our players, we need more dogs. Bows bargain in the back out to go shut bow up. Mels Like, what's going on? I said, A the catt and house catt in the house. I said, it is a cat in the house. So I told our players. I tried to let it out the front door. We cat's still going crazy in there now. I told our players, you needy move more like a dog. We don't need a bunch of cats in here. Yeah, looking in the mirror, do I look good? I got my extra bands on, I got my other shoes. Be a dog. We don't need no downs, We don't need no cats. We need more dogs.