Life Liberty Happiness + HR2 - 2.28.2024

Broadcasting from wat's Creative Studios in Bedford, Virginia. You're listening to Life, Liberty Happiness with your host Brian schwi Us. Thank you all right, everybody, We are packing the studio live in the David Honaker State Farm Studios here beautiful Buttford, Virginia. I'm your host, Brian Slie along with my cohort Crent Warner. Yeah, welcome back to the studio. Been a little bit of a break, but basketball season is over for us. We are in the studio now, so we shouldn't have any more interruptions. And my phone gets lit up by people going, hey, did y'all post a new show? We didn't have one wood Yes, pushing buttons over there? Do you get my TikTok? I sent you today with a button push I did. That was funny. You call me anything, Wall, don't call me that anyway. We are excited to be back in the studio. As I said, I'm gonna get my microphey the way they staying alive thing. If you've got headsets in a studio that makes you feel like a real DJ. Yes, And I was like, man, we were in a rocking mood. Yes, nice, great, got a great show, got everything laid out for you, got some great sports drama, everything you need to make a show successful. On a separate note, Woodie, I went to look at a client's place today and as I was leaving, I said she had mentioned something about Bedford and retirement and all that stuff. And I said, yeah, I had to break down and buy a motor home and she said, oh, know all about it. I listened to your show here we go. That's really cool. Yeah that's how I was. No, are we getting that wrapped? I though we talked about it. I knew you were on the fensive. You got to get a Grove Street FM sports rap road on the games. I know it could be a big billboard when we're not using it, just sitting out there. I will say this, I was blown away at all the responses we've gotten from Grove Street FM Sports like you wouldn't believe. And when they found out we weren't going yesterday, it was devastating. People were texting, no, oh, come on, please, we're not going. So I mean the sports thing has definitely I see, how's the morning show thing going? I saw that being not in my it's not in my mix yet. I keep like, I get all the way to work and I'm like, damn it, I forgot to get the staff going. Yeah. So since we've been on air last we've added a morning show to the Grocery FM family, The Morning Jam with Janet Rose and Mark Lamb. Lamb every morning Monday through Friday six to ten be a Lamb Mark. So are they in here? Are they doing it right? We get the cool? Is that all it's And the downloads have been fantastic. It's a good collaboration. It's all the way. You can listen live too, correct, you listen live every morning? Okay, Yeah, I've been listening, and they got a good music channel. You can listen when they're not when they're off the air, Doc Doc rock Man. It's good like uh eighties, Like I just go a good mix, great mix, and I gotta do some work. Yeah, I get just listen. I guess it could be in the background maybe, but then I'd be concentrating on other stuff. All right. This day in his on this day in nineteen ninety one, the Persian Gulf War started. You remember that, Yeah, as my brother's war. Yes, it is Brad's war. I lasted all of four days. Do you remember the Iraqis holding up their hands, was giving up and we were making fun of them like constantly, But didn't didn't you think didn't we think that that's what Ukraine was going to do with Russia when Russia remember when they all kind of so we just kind of all thought they were just going to mow them down and being Kiev in a week. And it didn't happen. They're still fighting. Yeah. Is it three years later or two years later? God, it's two years two years. What's crazy about that is thinking I went back and researched the Persian Gulf. So Iraq had invaded Kuwait, Yeah, and had taken over Kuwait. What caused us to get involved? I always thought my whole life that it was Kuwait. Yeah, it wasn't. They were on the verge of of converging onto Saudi Arabia. That was their next They were going to take over Saudi Arabia. Iraq. Yes, huh. King fod who was the king at the time of Iraq reached out and basically begged for other countries to get involved because if he had it was successful in that uh, he would have owned forty percent of the world's all, well, that makes my blood boil. So we did that to saved Saudi Arabia, and ten years later Saudi Arabians flew into our building. Correct what I first got on just America first sounds like a good plan to me, doesn't it, Dude? I know we're getting ready to get into drama. Yeah, but let me just say this. Yeah, I saw a clip of the Argentina president and Donald Trump hugging. Did you see that? Huh huh? He said, maga, and he said, yeah, make Argentina great again. I mean, I'm just like, dude, gosh, if this would just take hold, right, yeah, Trump and Argentina in different countries, seeing what it's like to have freedom in the country's what it's what it can be, you know what I mean. Yeah, take the but you know what they're going to do. I mean it'll be let him have his honeymoon in Argentina, yep. And then probably around September you'll start hearing the stories of poverty and or welfare people not are losing their their income and their house. Sure because Argentina was so glorious before Hovey took over. Yeah, yeah, all right. Eighteen seventy eight silver dollar. Yep, I'd always checked this day in history too. Just see why you picked this one versus another one. In eighteen seventy eight, the silver dollar was created and minted. Oh yeah, do you own a silver dollar? That's what I was. That's what made me think about it. I do have a silver dollar, a silver dollar, and I remember every now and then, do y'all remember that, Like every now and then when I was a kid, you would have one, they would noel, they'd give you change back, and you'd get a silver dollar, like every now and then. Yeah, I think I got it, But I don't think anybody gets that anymore. Right, when's the last time you had a silver dollar that wasn't just handed to you by like a grandfather or something. That's a good point. That in two dollar bills, Yeah, that's right. That's another one news. And you used to get those every now and then too. Yeah, all right, owner drama, Oh good lord, where to begin? Man? I have it has been as busy as I've been, I somehow have found the time to been able to catch up on some Netflix stuff. So unfortunately, I made the massive mistake of watching episode one of F one drive to survive. You can't. It's like remember the commercial with the chips, I have just one. I've watched the whole you did. How many episodes did they have? Oh my god, dude, I know, I couldn't stop. They they did this year so good. That's hard to believe because it was such a blowout year for just one guy. Dude, they did it perfectly. They took you with one team through about halfway through the races, and then they would start back over halfway through the races with a different team, each kind of each team. And the drama that we don't know about, Yeah, we knew, and I'm not going to tell you anything, but we knew there was a contract dispute with Hamilton and Mercedes, right, and they played that perfectly in the Netflix series. Now we also knew that he signed a two year contract with them. What they didn't know was after the season, which after they filmed, that he would end up signing with Ferrari going you know into next year, right, I think it is. Yeah, So all you get in this series was the contract negotiations between him and Total Wolf and their relationship, right, So now that you know the other end, it makes that drama. You're like, he's full of crap. He's full of crap. Yeah, now that you know the ending, right, it's it makes it even more fascinating. And there was stuff going on that I did not know about. I forgot all about Gunther getting acts. Huh, he's not with hass anymore. You're kidding. Oh, I remember it happening at the end of the year, but I did. God, I didn't know that. Yeah, there's so many things that you're gonna go. Yeah, it was a blood here and they did a really good job of not even talking about the championship. Wow, because it really was a non story if you really think about it. Marty and Ilight was up last night or the nose because I watched the game last night, JF. But the night before we caught the first episode of the NASCAR one. Then that Yeah, did that was pretty good? Yeah? Yeah, I mean I thought she'd stay with it longer because she's a Denny Hamlin fan and it was mainly about Denny Hamlin. But I looked over and she was sleeping. Well, I'm excited because obviously F one is getting ready to start. But it was it was a lot of drama that I had no idea what went on. And then so I think you're gonna enjoy its cool. I'm wrapping up Breaking Bad. Yeah, it's still entertaining. Yeah, I'm in the I would I'm guessing it's the last couple of seasons. Now Fring is gone and he's sort of who's gone freeing us Gus? Yeah, the fried chicken gown. Dude, do you remember how he goes? Yes, he's catched in my memory, yes, yes, that and when that guy was in a ringing like a guy he was trying to warn him, trying to ring the guy in the on the yeah, in the wheelchair. Yeah. They do write it very well. Yeah, because they bring stuff up that happened so long. So now I'm doing this, would he Yeah, I'm watching Breaking Bad, and then I got to watch an episode of Better Call Saul, because all of it is intertwined, and it's like, oh, that's when the bell came along. Yeah, it's so good. They had a really good luxury though. Yeah, of taking a really great series and then kind of filling in this the yeah, the blanks. Yeah, it's just that they really well like they just yeah they find all cylinders with that. Yes, So then you would think all I did is sit around and watch TV. But I didn't. I promise. That's what's so this? How did I miss this? I'm still trying to figure out how no one has told me about this until I stumbled upon it myself. I'm riveted. Play cut one. I promised someone that I loved very much that I would be right. So I'm going to make an exception. You asked me what I saw when I loved What do you see? What you m? Oh my gosh, what do there? Denzel? How intense is that he's awesome? Have you seen him? I don't know. He's legit? Me neither, and I watch it and that you can't stop. There's three He's good. He is am I describing him correctly, that he is the black Jason Bourne. Yeah, but more, even more intimidating, even more right in your face. Like so I love Dunzel, like Training Day, like with the way he acts that movie I watched where he flipped the plane over. Yes, yes, he's just such an Then you will this is this is this is training Day on crack. But dude, I'm going I'm on it. I'm leaving night. I know, not tonight I'm going out right now, like it's dude, I'm watching it and I'm like, I'm like, this isn't gonna happen this way. Oh my god, what's what's it on? Do you remember? All right? So here's how stupid this is. So one you're gonna find on Peacock can I can't do it? Come out? Two you have to pay for on Amazon Prime. Now. The three is on Netflix. Just watch three. That is the thing. You don't have to watch one and two to understand three. You don't have to watch one to understand two. They are kind of separate. That's how we should do the show. We'll do the first hour on Apple, the second hour on Spotify. There you go make people hunt for Oh so agry. That's awful. Oh me, do it all right? Uh god, I can't stand with my wife text me during the middle of the show. I like it, all right, go ahead, Curb your enthusiasm? Hey Ashley, No, so this is the last season. Have you guys ever enjoyed Curb your Enthusiasm? Yes, he's the most amazed. He's the funniest guy. And what's crazy is I don't know when he started. Let's say it was fifteen years ago. I mean, I think this is the twelve season, so twenty years ago. So I thought he was old then. Yeah, And you know, I when the first episode started, the first fifteen minutes, I go, God, he's just so old. I don't know that I can enjoy it anymore. And dude, I'm sucked in. And by the time the end of the first episode, in the second episode, I've forgotten. Then he's even old again. He's just so funny and he it's the same wit. It's the same writing as Seinfeld. It is still relevant everything he does, except I think he's going out on a note of the liberal rant that he can go. So I think we just finished episode three, the first episode at the very end. No, this was episode four, the first episode at the very end. If I asked you the big controversy that happened in Atlanta about voting, yeah, right, it was about it was something about, uh, what is what did what did the big woman Stacy Abrons? What did she say? Disenfranchised? Like we're not we're not being able to vote? Yes? Okay, So in that episode he's down in Atlanta and I can't remember he was trying to do a commercial or something, or he was coming to somebody's house to do a promotional thing for free because he's a celebrity. He was taking advantage of his celebrity status. And he lost his glasses or they were broken. And the black lady that lived with him during Katrina is now living in Atlanta. The guy what's the guy's name that lives with Larry. It is so effing funny anyway, So she's in line to vote and it's one hundred and five degrees outside in Atlanta, and Larry goes to his car and brings her a bottle of water, and because he gives her water, the police arrest him and take him to jail. And he becomes this cult hero because he gave a black woman water and now he's taking advantage of the celebrity status. But come on, man, was that really the law that you couldn't give someone water? They took, they have taken. They've misrepresented a story, sure, and made it a real story, yes, like they always did. God, I hate that, Jesse Smollett. I mean all the same thing, and now you would end up saying two maga guys beat up a guy in the street, right. It was taking a story and doing that quick question about that if people were disenfranchised, how the hell did he get twenty million more votes? Right exactly? And who did they interview they couldn't get there to vote? Was he going to get forty million more votes? Yeah? So anyway, and then the other thing I watched, and I think what he would appreciate this one more if you have not caught it, Marty said she watched. I don't know what it was, but it was a promotion. It was a radio station saying the Dark Side of the Ring. Oh yeah, the wrestling, Yes, yeah, yeah, So I went and found it because I'm a wrestling fan, right like certain wrestling fans. I wasn't hook Line and Sinker, but maybe the top people that you know or stories that you know that's top ten. So the darks. Yeah, the Dark Side of the Ring. And we watched the first one last night or the night before. The Macho Man. Oh yeah, let me ask you something, Brian, Yeah, if the Macho Man, would you think that he's still doing slim gym commercials? No, you wouldn't. I would have thought he's dead. He is dead. Oh okay, Oh I didn't know that. I'm sitting there watching the thing and it's like, oh, man, remember that hot little number of miss Elizabeth Elizabeth? Yes, she did too. Yeah. Do you know how she died? Yes? Overdose with uh, don't tell me, don't tell me, because I've seen these Oh god, who, let's Luger, let's lea Yeah, yeah, yeah, so Lex Luger. They play the nine to one one call that he has and he is totally beside himself. He almost sounds effeminine, like he I just don't know what's going on with her. Yeah, I don't. And I was like, dude, you'r Lex Luger and you're talking like he was so out of it himself, and she died on his couch. Dude. I was hooked in the next episode. So it's a bunch of wrestlers I've never heard of, and it's the stories of it. But do you remember Owen Hart? What happened to him? I watched that one. Vince McMahon is a cheap, ruthless dude. Did they do what? I was Crispin Waugh, Yes, that's gonna be a man, that's crazy. I started to watch it literally that one, and I was like, it's getting too late. I want to see that. Watch it during the day. You've seen those, you had heard of those. I've seen bits. I'm on TikTok. Yeah, I haven't sat down and actually watched the whole you know, a whole episode. It was Hulu. It was on Hulu, So check that out. Man. It was pretty good, some good interesting stories on there. You're listening life Live, it happens. Now it's time, okay, would he yep? Nascar? Yeah, finally got it, right, I guess what a plus? Yeah, and and kudos to them forget that right now. I don't know if it's necessarily NASCAR as much as it was Mark Smith I think is the guy's name. It's uh well a not Humpy Wheeler or Bruton Smith's son that bought you know, that owns all the tracks. Okay, I think it was his idea to change the speedway, so let's give him the credit. Well, yeah, I mean that's been a couple of years now, right, Yeah, that they did that, But the brilliance was to move it after Daytona. Yes, to me, you have just captured an audience like the stupid stuff in LA that we criticize and ripped and the mud track in Bristol the domin. It's okay to try something, yes, but to move a super speedway with a super speedway was genius. Yes, it was a play. It was a better race in Daytona. I thought the racing was unbelievable. Yes, I will say that. Now. What's great about it was our Grove Street FM microphones were there to catch the ending, which was amazing. So this was the celebration in Victory Lane. Cut to again. So Daniel Sworez was, I cannot believe they're still getting away. Look, okay, I mean when frost jest Ain wins, he brings a watermelon and throws it down every time. But I feel a little creeped out. Did they give him they give a taco pinata and he like throws it. Yeah, I mean he doesn't seem to mind it. But it makes me uncomfortable that that's I mean, come on, that's a little racist. And I think at this point we've got to I probably have always been a big critic of his. Yeah, but I got to tell you, the dude seems to be coming into his own as far as a race car driver. I didn't realize that is since the reconfiguration of Atlanta. He has finished in the top ten every time, which is amazing, but the ending incredible. Back back to the taco thing, Yeah, just not to skip it. But this is how uncomfortable I am. If Bubba Wallace had won and they had given him spried chicken bucket, yeah, I mean that's what it. Would you get royalties if they did that? Oh man, yes, okay, that'd be great, sweet, but man that I mean, I swear to god dude that when they did that, that bumper picture at the finish, yeah, okay, you don't even see swarre as his car in the frame before, and somehow it looks like it's photo shopped. In the next frame, he is at the line with one frame and there's blaining just off of it. Now, NASCAR has a little bit of a problem, and I noticed this. So even the announcers didn't know, like immediately, Yeah, but the scoring column had it right immediately. Yeah. They obviously have transponders, so we knew, or at least I did. I saw the piline. I was like, dang, Sworrez won this. Yeah, And then it was a few seconds later they were like, sure is because I think uh, clip boy was saying Blane like, yeah, because even when I watched the live replay, I thought it was Blainey. Absolutely too. When I saw it live, I thought Blaney got it, yeah, And I was like, but maybe he didn't. And I was guess, second guessing myself. And then when I saw the camera shot of and there's no way you could have convinced me he accomplished was third. He looked like he was right there. Well, yeah, it looked like he was going to win. Is one hundred feet away he was going to possibly get it. Yeah, that was an amazing race. Is that the closest race in history? It have to be. You would think they say that, but I have not heard anybody say that. Man have to be. Yeah, I don't know. They'd be interesting. Looks that up because it think I think it seems like, how could it be close? It'd be a tie. If it was anything closer, it'd have to be a tie. That was Yeah, it was crazy. Wow, it's a great race and it you know, the sad part about it is if you're a NASCAR and you've seen what it does with the racing, dude, fix these other flat tracks, yeah, just fix it? Well, Dale Junior has a a good comment. You couldn't you can't overdo it. No, No, I agree, you can't overdo it, but no, you don't want to do it to every track. But could you imagine I keep saying Kansas or I mean, dude, you and I have gone to Charlotte our whole life. I've never been to Charlotte. God, I watched it. It's my favorite. I mean, Coca Cola six hundred on the day of the Indie five hundred is one of my favorite. I've always thought it's just something needs to change with Charlotte because it's just gotten to be. It's that flat last whoever lasts the longest. Yeah, you know, that's pretty much it. It won't be me. Hey, the tracks that because I had that thing here that you uh but Vegas, Yeah, Homestead, Pocono, New Hampshire. Yes, if all of those had they're boring. The tracks are just not exciting. Yes, agree, there's there's nothing about it. It make you wander like like I would have said a couple of years ago to do that to Phoenix, But Phoenix is it's kind of interesting because the guys have figured out they can go eight wide. But they did change Phoenix. Okay, yes, yeah, they changed Phoenix dramatically from what it really it used to be. It used to it would be like it was like New Hampton. It was I you are right, and you're right. That is a decent race. Now you can at least watch it. But there's no way. Homestead forget about it, and Pocono not even don't even care to watch it. In New Hampshire that has never been an interesting race for me. So anyway, But NASCAR's got it and they're hot right now, so good for them. F one starts this weekend. You interested in that? So I googled twenty twenty four predictions because how could you predict anybody? But well, I wanted to see going into the year because I look at last year's predictions and they were fairly accurate. They were red Bull runs away with it, and they said Ferrari should finish second, Mercedes and McLaren would would battle it out. Oh wow, Now they didn't even think of Aston Martin. This was last year's prediction. So Aston sort of came out of nowhere last year if you remember, Yeah, because of Rodriguez or Fernando yeah, loonzo. But then they ended up at the end, they sort of fizzled, and I think they ended up finishing fifth in points and Aston Martin was the opposite. They were horrible in the beginning of the year, and they I mean not as Martin McLaren. McLaren, yes, which I'm just going to be straightforward with you. I know you like him. I cannot stand Brown. I'm not a big fan of his. Dude, when you watch this, yeah, I hate I think he's a bullshitter. He's kind of an arrogant prick. Yes, I'm not a big fan of his. So I like the car. Oh yeah, So I'm curious this year here's odd zero driver changes. And I tell you why. I also do like Zack Brown in some respects. I'm not saying I'm one way to but he also dabbles an Indy car. Yeah, so he will have an Indy car. I think Kyle Larson might be even driving for them this year. Cool. Yeah, Well, I'm so I'm curious because when I read the twenty twenty four projections, it was red Bull is still way above everybody, and I'm thinking to myself, I don't understand, how could red Bull be that far ahead? This is a totally different car for red Bull branded Mercedes claimed that they scrapped everything and built a brand new car according to the way Lewis Hamilton wants it. And yet they're saying they're going to battle again for third or fourth possible. Now they finished second last year, So why did they touch on the show? I mean, I don't know what. Who's the guy that we love so much? Horner? Yes, Christian Horner. Did they have anybody mentioned why they're talking about him possibly getting kicked out of Yeah? I mean, so you have a female that has filed a complaint doesn't say sexual harassment, it just says workplace abuse or something. Well, he is the kind of guy that tends to say it like it is, and here's world that you can't you're asking for equal Yeah, but I'm going to but he's going to chew you just the way he would chew anybody else. And I think that's what this is, which is why I think Red Bull management has said he's not going anywhere now. F One is investigating, But a lot of what I've read is if it was something serious, f One would have stepped in immediately. So I think it's a she got her ass chewed and probably got fired. And this is you know, I don't know, we'll find out well so, but I'm curious to see just how. And I'm also curious to see how the Daniel Ricardo thing ends up. What is he doing? So if you'll remember last year, he came in in the middle of the season as the Alphatari. Yeah, so Alphatari has sort of gone away and it's basically Red Bull now. I mean it was always Red Bulls Paddick Yeah, what do they call it? A junior team? But now it's more on the same level supposedly. H So you'll you'll see when you watch the this season just how that relationship between Daniel and Christian. They have a good relate. He brought him back to Red Bull yeah uh, and put him in that Alfatari seat. So, but apparently they have this really good young driver and he's being asked to wait another year and it's really causing issues. Liam Lawson, he came in when Daniel got hurt last year and finished great, way above where Daniel was finishing, and yet he still didn't get a ride. The only reason I'm saying it's interesting is because Daniel is being pulled to race Indie and NASCAR. Yes, and that's a real thing with him. H Grojean is pulling them to some of those drivers to say, hey, your career's not over. Yeah, there is opportunities and these are good opportunities, which I dude, if he wasn't and I think I wrote that here. Let's talk about that while we're here. Honda is interested in joining NASCAR. Yeah, and they have a target date. So I have played this scenario out in my head where you're going to start to see two Red Bull cars the way we used to see because Honda and Red Bull are connected, okay, And I could see Daniel Ricardo and Christian Horner being a part of that, not running the Red Bull team for NASCAR, but being a part of that. I could see Ricardo in that. And I tried to think of another driver that would fit well, and I came up with Eric Jones. But it could be some money else. But it wouldn't shock me to see that those two being the Red Bull drivers for Honda. It's funny. I've even heard for a stepping talk about driving Yes, nice car. How cool would that be? It'd be awesome? So all right, basketball conferences are wrapping up. You see who's Yeah, before before the championship games even start, the a c C and before that even starts, and you don't even know what the brackets are. But who do you have in the finals. If you were to do a blind bracket right now, all right in the a c C, I would have North Carolina. No, I'm saying the n c A bracket, who's in the finals. I'm gonna go Kansas, Kansas because Bill self always seems to try to find a way. Oh gosh, man, this is hard. Uh Yukon, you got you? And then we'll go surprised. Man, this is really really, really hard. We think I'm gonna ask what you're giving me the two you're like picking the winner, But I just want to do Yeah, I go with those two in the finals. I'm gonna go I just man, I love that guy at Purdue. They just don't win big games. But that big giant guy, it's like seven four, got a hit. That head is bigger than my Torso I'm going Purdue in Tennessee. Tennessee is a good pick. That back kid, Oh gosh, connect connect whatever it is. No, that's great local sports. Jefferson Forest men's basketball lost in the quarterfinals to Loudun Valley. Is that how old is watched schools? Oh, I don't know. Their gym to me looked like North Side and High School's gym. It was not a very big gym. Is that? Uh? That county is the largest fastest growing county in the country, right, Louden County. Yeah, you it's crazy. Brian French went over to his house watched game last night and he has the app that you can that he subscribes to that you can watch anything pretty much anything. And the app that you clicked on it was an empty gym of loud And County like on that on the app. So we're like looking at and he's like, what in the world. So he had to like Google to find out where Louden Valley is and he found out it was in like Punsterville or something like that. So he picked the school and sure enough he was able to find the feed from Loudon Valley. It's crazy. I could be that wrong. By the way, still to this day, the worst website is a VHL. Still how far I was trying to see who won the indoor track stuff yesterday because JF I think finished second. The boys. Congrats to them and in class four for the finals. And I couldn't get on. You couldn't get the results. It is the worst website ever. You just from my congratulations to Liberty girls. They did win the track state championship girls. Oh for real? Yeah? In two a yep, So Liberty High School girls won the indoor track competence. I mean, I'm not I mean, I'm just saying I can't believe I hadn't heard that. It just I got that just before we went on the air. It said congratulations Liberty indoor track girls team state championships. That's crazy. There's nothing better than watching a true track championship when they're going around. Yeah, and that guy in forth is going around the three people to try to win it. Oh, that's good stuff. I guess it was. Was it relay? Yeah, so helped me out here. It was a track star at JF. Last name is Adams. It was his sister that's on the Liberty the point guard Adams from the girls. She was in uh the basketball game last night's Central and at Liberty University today for the indoor track championship. Oh so they their's is today? Okay, So three and four was yesterday. Okay, Okay, Oh that's neat. She had to have been worn out, yeah, because that's they spent tonight in Wise County, so she probably came back. But man, wow, to get that done, that's impressive. That's really cool. Congress to them. Yeah, and congrats to JF. Both the girls did lose last night on the liberty side against say Game Central Wise, but kudos to both Bedford County teams for making the States. So I watched I watched the JF game against Slidden Valley, and I know you're gonna love this, but I love watching good coached teams. Yes, so when Louden Valley comes out and they warm up, they don't there's nothing about them that looks like they're better than JF. Like it looked like, you know, Cooper Stamp. It looked like five Cooper Stamps. Yeah, and they were. They start shooting from outside and I'm like, holy cow, And it is so cool is that team was okay with a three point lead, Like literally they just held the ball and just moved it around, moved around, and when you finally made a mistake on defense, they would score by Yeah. That's great coaching and there was a kid like he goes left handed. Yeah, from the half court and he goes by two guys left handed, and I was like, oh man, this left he's pretty good, reminded me and my son. And then he gets to the rim, he goes up underneath and shoots it right handed. I was like, he did all that left handed, that's crazy. Yeah, then shot right handed. You made me think of something. Just now. One thing we haven't mentioned, the NC double A getting involved with volleyball. Oh what, I don't listen. You and I both agree the changes that volleyball made revolutionize the game for good back five years ago. Yeah, okay, but now you're taking the technical side of it out. So what they did was you had center to me and then I've seen my feed blow up where they it was shocking, was it not? You can now two hit as a sudd I mean, that's that's a I had one. I don't understand. That's like taking dribbling out of basketball, running down the court with it down. It's almost like our officiating is so poor in the controversy that seems to be the biggest controversy we have, So instead of teaching it better, we're just going to take away the controversy. Yeah, so it makes no sense. No, I don't know technically why, because I mean, I've watched volleyball for four or five years now. I still can't pick up a two hit, Like I just cannot do it. And I don't know. I see everybody throw up two fingers of two hits. Most of the time it's their side and they're just trying to explain it. Coach Phillips with Timberlake, explain it to me. It's she said, it's pretty simple. If the ball's got rotation, it's two hits, and so that's what I've always looked for. If it's rotating, then it's two hits. And then she said it's pretty simple call. Yeah, my buddy's rough said it's easier to see when you're on in the chair above you can. Ashley says, you hear it, and that's why she's she gets mad because a lot of these officials now put in earbuds yeah during the game, and she's like, well, how do you hear the double hit? Yeah? So I'm like, I don't know, I just trying out the noise. Oh we had in our last tournament. Myrtle beach. Kudos to our girls. Made it all the way to the finals. Man, it was great. God, it was Oh, it was so glorious. We were winning games we shouldn't win, and it was kept on going till the finals. Then we got stomped. But up until then it was great. And we had one of those situations late at night, the two undefeated teams us and the other team to get you know, seated for the next night. The dad that comes out and it has to be pulled away from the referee. Geez. Oh, he was brutal. What in the heck is wrong with me? It's so bad. And then we have a mom on our side that's yelling at him, and I'm like, man, God, can't we just grow up a little bit? I can't. They'd be like me. Reagan comes over after playing this weekend and goes, how did do and I went, I have no idea. I was reading what she went just like you, and I said, I'm just kidding. But the look on her face had your kid on the back. She was great. It was. We had a really good time this weekend too. We were at Fluvana County. Oh. I meant to ask you that because I saw TV TVC put a bunch of pictures up, and I didn't see Reagan in the in the pictures. I was wondering, was she sick or maybe I just didn't pick it up. We were six and three, Oh wow, good week. One game away from uh winning it, and we could have we just our rotation. If we get in a certain spot on our rotation and they happen to have a good server, yeah we're in trouble. That's just the way it is. So and that's what happened. But we were competitive. It was against a thirteen U team that we lost to. Yeah, so it wasn't bad. That's good. We have one more tournament. That's it. Well, yeah, that the same with us. We got JMU, but they've moved us again, so it's not at JMU, it's at Stanton. We have the what's that one called the she Amrock Tournament that's done in Roanoke. That's all we have. Love, all right. That is sports. Sports is brought to you by CNS Business Services. CNS Business Services is your local place get professional services, payroll, bookkeeping, taxes, notary and quick books. Everything is done cater to your needs. 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When Nikki Haley interviews and she says to people, when you look at those results, look how many people he's losing. Yeah, forty. That should be a wake up call to the Republican Party. And I'm like, you just got trounced. And your response is, so she's playing the card MSNBC to beginning. Look at how many people and their party don't want him. And that's but listen, if there was anyone running against Biden, if they'd let Kennedy run against Biden, he would be in the exact same person. That's exactly what. In fact, I have seen my first Kennedy signs already and I haven't seen one Biden sign. No, I don't know it's February, but good grief, I'm riding with Biden. Yeah, I bet you will. But I did see you and I talk about it all the time. I do love the Internet. I saw one with Nikki Haley holding up a participation trophy. It's like, that is what she's done. I mean, at this point, it's embarrassing. I think, like it's I don't want to say political suicide for her, but at this point, who are you trying to convince? I mean, if you ask me why I think that she would do it, it would be not for now, but for twenty four to be to start in the lead like she and I know, yeah, I could say in twenty twenty eight that she would be talked about enough that she would obviously be in every conversation that she's one of the front runners. That's the only reason I can see it. And we do have short enough memories. But at the same time, I think the longer she stays in it, the more people she's making. But I will say this though, her abortion stance I think helps keep people in. I think Trump has an answer for that. Yeah, well, I hope not, because, man, he doesn't seem to give a damn about what anybody says. No, listen, I want a person to lead like that, but it and I agree that it could be because I mean I know that the Democrats are running that already. Yeah. Oh yeah, I mean it's why they win. But I do think why they will win. My VP prediction, yeah, is definitely Tulsi. Yeah, Gabbert, I think it's a win win for him all the way around. How could he lose with Tulsi? Man, I know that you sent me a really cool clip to watch now. I was like, amen, I love listening to her, but I just heard a clip that somebody say. You know how we do We always rip whoever we don't root for, And it gets me every time that I'm reading it, but I mean just a couple of years ago when she was on the dim side. So I just I hope she's real. That's what I sentry reply to you. I love what she says. I hope she's real. My only thing with her is is and listen, I've had to remind people that Ronald Reagan was a Democrat. So people do change. And her career is enough. Like I judge people on their character and career. She's a military she still is in the military. I mean she still goes on missions. Yo. Yes, so she's still in reserves is what it's called. She could take me anywhere. Well, I mean so yeah. When she first came in, Yes, I think she was liberal. And I'm not saying it's not like she has she's not going to help shape his policy, but she definitely brings independence with her, don't you think. No, No, I think she's a great And I think you know, somebody's gonna say, hey, Donald Trump is pro life all the way and you are not. So I think it shows that Donald Trump is willing to win at all calls lost, even if he has somebody with him that doesn't agree with all of his policies. Well, you have convinced me, I'll make her eighth on my list. Okay, give me your because you've got a list here. Yeah, I got Huckabee, Desantas, vivek Ram, Paul Barry, Donald, Wesley Hunting, Wesley Hunt and Youngin mm hmm. Those are the dudes I love listening to. I mean, I think all of them. Yeah, would be very strong mean Byron, you confuse me with Barry? Oh? Okay? Byron Donald? Well, I was like, does Donald Trump have a brother that I don't? Yes, he's just waiting in the wings. Get it? What is it he's Byron Donald? Yes? Byron? Okay, Well what he got it? Brother? I'm still texting from another mother. Got dude? I tried. They they're trying so hard to make him likable. Joe Biden, Oh my god. In the Late Show, it was embarrassing. Did you see him put on the glasses? No? I just heard some of the answers and I was cringed. Was that the one where he said at least I can remember my wife's name and the crowd laughed. No, I didn't see that part. I saw where you have always talked about these stupid sunglasses, and it's like they've written the skit to allow him to put the glasses on so you don't see him staring off. Yeah, the dead eyes. So yeah, they were showing some clip of him having red eyes and and they asked him about it and he puts his glasses on that way you can't see his eyes anymore. And there was like pure set up to oh, absolutely, just so they could get you know, and it kind it was so cringe worthy. You just you felt like, come on, man, you shouldn't be out here. The parts that I heard it was it was he was trying. You could tell he had been working on the joke. That's why I think the one it might have been there where he said his memory in his age, at least he can remember his wife's name. And I'm trying to figure out when did Trump not remember his wife's name when that happened. Did they just make up another story again? And when they do that, it is so funny because you can wash Trump at any campaign, and if he misspeaks, all of us would misspeak, Like when we hear the show back, you ever hear it and you said a word you didn't mean to say. All the time, and you didn't know that you said it. You do it a lot more than me. But what in the world are they coming for us? Wind and Thunder? Is that the Feds? He put his shades on it. He's coming down. So when Trump screws up, it is strictly that like his all of us would do it in front of people. And by the way, a lot of times he's not reading a prompter. He's just going on and everything. I know he's doing it, you know, show after shows, so he's kind of got the stick down. But Biden does it reading. Yeah, I got one for you later that I'm hooking you. It's crazy. Yeah, I got I got one for half at it. That just makes your head spin. Holland County. Yeah, so you said, Trent News, I don't know what you meant. Like, I was just going to say what we did this weekend? Oh yeah, County said, it's a squirrel tournament, right, a little squirrel hunt. Yeah, it was fun. Came back with a whopping one squirrel. We got one, well, better none, we Brad got none. So I'll just tell you this. We also hunt with twenty two's and if we had had shotguns, we probably would have come home with six. Oh sure, so it's the game of it. It's not like I'm really hunting for meat, right, this was just and it was target practice. At least you did laugh when I texted his uncle Perry hunting because you've got no chance of he's going out squirrel hunt. Oh yeah, that dude takes Lily and you as we'll forget it. Yeah. No, he didn't hunt, but man, he was such a good host to us. The whole weekend is so much fun. But hey, get this. So my daughter, the thing that made me feel the best was she asked me how long we had been here? And I mean I mean, I said, do you mean like in Hyland or do you mean like at the house And she goes, no, like our family. And I was like, well, you got me. She got me ancestry dot com. That's right, and I sort of remembered. But I went back and I looked it up. So our family it's still at the kitchen table. I think, yeah, I mean I should have thought about looking for that, but I didn't think about that. So I looked and we have been Our family has been in that area for two hundred and fifty years. Wow. When the German that came across is a Lambert, and then we became a Warner ironically in the eighteen hundreds when we took the mom's name. So I think we're bastard kids, the Warners. It does make sense. It's all coming clear that it's in our blood. But anyway, that's my Trent news. We had a really good time and my daughter said that she felt connected. That's great being around that place in heaven. Man, I'm going this weekend so I cannot wait. Got some stone I'm taking up. Yeah, I'm gonna put some in a mudhole around the turn, get rid of some of that. Oh yeah, that's really needed now man, I get great. Yeah, and uh, I'm looking forward to put a front strain in or anything like that. I was going to, but right now I'm just gonna put stone in it. If I can get up there with the excavator, I'll do in a little minute. Right But right now I'm just putting these freaking engineers. They're the only ones that had to have changed the numbers. All my life, I've ordered fifty or forties and fifty seven stone and all that. Nope, nope, nope. Now they're ones and twos and threes. Huh. I called the other day and I asked for forties. Always been kind of sort of fist size. Right now they're number three's now huh. So apparently they've gone from millimeters to inches. I don't know. I hadn't heard anything like that. Yeah. By the way, the other news we haven't meant it on is Turtle leaving. Oh, yes, big deal. Yeah, listen, I take that as Donald Trump's victory. I do too. He ain't going unless Donald Trump forces him out. Hey, he wanted to drain the swamp last time. Yes, he's still draining the swamp. Yeah, he just had to do it from afar. That's right, I agree. Local news real quick, I'll get to that. Apparently there was a fight at Heritage High School. Yeah I have. I saw the video, but they blurred the faces out. Oh really, you've seen video, which I was really upset about. Not that, not that I wanted to see the faces, but there's one particular person I want to make sure because they keep talking about there being an adult in the room. Yeah, and that adult did nothing. Yeah, And I'm worried who that adult may be because I'm really good friends with a teacher there, really, and I don't want him to be that teacher because he has spent his whole life teaching. Yeah, and I could see that ruining somebody's career. I've read enough comments, Okay, so I get my news now. I Watching the news just doesn't do anything for me because it's usually filtered. It's usually someone's opinion and it's been washed to fit some narrative. Where I get my news is people's comments. Yeah, and a lot of times it's real. But it said, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, that the two guys stood toe to toe for twenty seconds. Yes, and it was a five second fight and a guy's in a coma. So I haven't seen anything to know that, but that is pretty clear. I read it was two people, but then a third got involved, okay, and the coma came from the guy slamming him onto the floor. Okay, and I think that's when he hit his head. Yeah, but I didn't. Again, they blurred everything out and there was a teacher just standing there. But here's what I will say about that. Yeah, I've been at schools when a fight has broken out when I was coaching football. You don't want to get involved. That was a lot of comments too, man, A lot of people said, you're not. In some places, you're not allowed. I was gonna say, they're actually told like you can't correct. Can you imagine? Okay, can you imagine? How old are they? Fifteen? Sixteen? Did they say two sixteen year olds? One fifteen? Okay? So if you're the parent of the fifteen year old that is willing to get in a fight and an adult person of forty two years old shoves you and you fall over a desk, what do you say to the forty two year old adult? Exactly? Why wouldn't you just let him fight it out? Yeah? Exactly, that's what they would say, exactly. Yeah. So I'm praying that it's not this one particular teacher, because yeah, I respect that personal lot. I'm sure he's probably worried about it too, or you know, did I do the right thing? Or yeah, maybe he has experience when he did and it wasn't the right way. That's why I'm worried, because I know he has Yeah, and so he's probably he's at the age also, yeah that I don't to touch that. Yeah, I mean, he's you get hurt close to sixty So I mean, right, well he can prayers for everybody. Is the boys still on the coma or I don't, I don't know. That's the thing. They really didn't give any Yeah, they were, like you said, the news was filtered and they were trying to give us this you know, filtered way instead of just giving us the news. Yeah. So anyway, eighty million life, liberty, happiness, eighty million. Mind. Come on, man, it's Brian sly Wait truth, truth over facts. So you'll hear this clip. But it's the visual part of it, that's the funny part. I got one like that too. It's Biden licking. He's literally getting ready to lick an ice cream when they ask him about a ceasefire. And dude, first of all, I can't imagine them asking Trump about a ceasefire. First of all, he's probably even as reckless as they said Trump was. Trump's not telling you what the National security advisor told him, right right. He's probably just going to say, look, we're in negotiations and I think this or I think that that's what Trump would do, or you're CNN this has lost it all right, cut cut three? Can you give us a sad thinking to start. Well, I hope by the beginning of the weekend, I mean the end of the weekend. My not security advisor tells me that we're close. We're close, not done yet, and my hope is by next Monday, we'll have to cease fire. Okay, okay, was that with him with the chocolate chip ice cream cone? And he's standing there? Man, Uh, you're the guy I love Travis. Clay Travis, Yes, bucketsam and truck Clavis trade whatever. See there, I am, I got my bike, Travis Sex Clay Travis. God. Anyway, my daughter and I had a big laugh this weekend. We can never say heat cedar, right seat heater heat cedar, And it's like, even when you talk about it, you can't say it the right way. Well, Clay Travis said, how many grown men do you know in suits have an ice cream cone? It looks, it looks ridiculous. You're trying to make him look like the grandpa and it's like you're forcing it and it looks it's not working. I mean, it just looks horrible. Again, it shows the inept people around yes, right, and I mean it just him is so bad. I can't even be anyway can we can I bring up something this real quick that things that we just accept now? Yes? Okay, did I put that on your sheet? Yes? Okay, things that we accept now? Masks? I saw him today, right? Is there another outbreak that I hadn't heard about? No, but I actually brought this up to my wife this weekend. I'm going to start like you a little more brass than I am. Sometimes you say things that are on my mind, but you'll actually say them, like you have said you got me kicked out of basket baseball games before, But I digress. You have said that you will make a comment at a restaurant Biden, did this or No? When I do the check out at the grocery store, yeah, I will say, God, groceries are expensive. Three years ago they were not that expensive. You've inspired me because when I go through Joe Beans and there's one particular person at Joe Beans that wears a mask, I'm going to ask are you sick? Because if you are, I don't want you pouring my coffee. Oh well, I'm going to say it, yeah, because why else do you have a mask on? Yeah? Exactly, That's a good point. Look around you. Nobody else does why do you have a mask on? Yeah? I'm going to start saying that's a good question anyway. If you are sick, I don't want your handle on my food. No. And if you're not, why do you have a mask on? Now? I will say when if I feel under the weather, now, out of respect to my if I'm going to go into work, I might wear a mask. Yeah, you know what I mean. I might. So if they were to say yes, but if you're a food handler, right, you shouldn't be here. And if you and I work together and you asked me, I go, yeah, I'm not feeling really good. So I thought just to make it look good, a'll wear it or something. So mass that's another thing we just accept now. Heart attacks amongst the youth. Yes, Like we just see a story now that someone died, and we don't ask, well, did he get the shot? We don't even ask, we just know it is. We just all know it is, Yep, that he got the shot. And then another one that we're going to have to get used to this year, killings and rapists by migrants. Yep. It's already happening. Yep. So they're making the big case down in Georgia about the lady being murdered. Yeah, and then I saw the tweet by someone saying, hey, get used to this. It's going to be in every city in America. And I've heard it in two more cities, and one of them is Campbell County. A rapist. Wow, a fourteen year old girl by the way. And I wanted to get that mug shot and put it on that tweet, but I haven't had a chance yet. All right, that's our number one. Our number one is brought to you by a State Farm. Oops, I had the song about it. No, for you, when you want reliable insurance, you should look at your local State Farm agent. That agent is David Hallmaker. He has been a longtime supporter of Life, Liberty, Happiness and my agent Home Auto and even life insurance. He can take care of your needs. Nobody likes having to pay for something you may never use, but when you do need it, you want to make sure you have somebody who can deliver. That is David Homemaker and State Farm. Their friendly staff have over fifty plus years of combined experience. 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Of all places, I loved the Pigley Wigglely when I was a kid. I wish we still had them here. There's one of Madison Heights when I first moved here. Yeah, and I don't I would really like to see one come back. I thought they were very popular. So anyway, that's what got me thinking about things. Places I used to go to the chop that aren't we don't have anymore. Yeah, so that's my top ten, number ten, but in most weeks. Sports authority. I don't even know what that was. Sports authority. They used to have one in the mall here of river Ridge Mall, I believe it was, and it was just shirts and sports stuff. But that's where I used to get my sports stuff. So it's gone. That sucked. Roses. As a kid, my mom used to go to Roses all the time. I just saw one the other day in Chatham. Yeah. I think there are a few somewhere, but not here. No, No, there's Roses still in Chatham. Yeah. Oh wow, right there in the man tight squeeze right there. Oh yeah, yeah, I just haven't looked the other day. That's a little food line. I looked at it, but I remember the kid going, I don't know that we ever bought anything there and that come think about it. Hum Best now I did love Best. I don't know what that is. You don't remember the best department stores? Trent Warner, I don't, all right. You remember Wiley Wilson. We had a Richmond office. Yeah, and it was in the old department best department store, No, I didn't even I don't know that I ever went. I don't recall going to the Richmond office back in the day. I remember going to the Paper Moon, all right. The best department store just got The best department store in Lynchburg was over at Pittman Plaza. Huh and it was a great uh wood. Yes, nothing, don't remember it. I mean I remember the sign. I don't ever I don't have any It was like Sears. I mean it was, but it was just more of a smaller kind of version of Sears. It had a restaurant in it counter anyway. Kmart, Yeah, that's probably one of the most famous ones I can think of. Yeah, I asked Ashley the other day, I said, did your mom chase the cart, the freaking blue light special cart? Do you remember when the blue light would come on and people would run because it was savings? Yeah, well my mom didn't run, but I think she did try to go buy stuff all that stupid little cart. You remember that? Wody Marty just text me best is where all my Santa Clauses came from as a kid. I don't department stores were great, but Kmart don't you think Kmart preceded Walmart? Yeah? Yeah, and so what happened? I mean Walmart just beat you so bad that you weren't ready to change, or what happened? I think me personally, I think they invest in all these infrastructures. Yeah, and because they have to because of taxes. So you just you keep getting bigger and bigger and then all that stuff. Eventually you have a couple of bad years and now you're liquidating these stores that were so expensive because you're not you don't have the cash flow to build all these stores. Yeah, right, until you're there's two what's what's where the k Mart was on Camera's Mountain Road in Lynchburg or Wardsby. That's hobby Lobby now, yeah, okay, I got you. Yep, that's probably the last k Mart I walked into. Was there you could have convinced me that's still Kmart. I would not have argued against. Uh. Did you know that's like hobby Lobby's thing. They literally where they find their locations. Uh. They go to a Yeah, that's a good mom. The size is what you want. Yeah, that's kind of the way US foods is now. They go to all the old office Max. Oh that makes sense, so oh Kmart. I remember my mom telling me this. This was like one of those moments where you realized, oh yeah, poor. I was no, I was embarrassed, like I didn't want somebody to see me at Kmar. Yeah, no, I had that, but it was it was It was the moment when my mom said, Brian, if they see you, that means they're here, and I went, oh, yeah, they're poor too. What's your mom had been? My mom? Mom, just shut the hell up. You're getting your track shoes. Oh god, there's stupid blue ones. Yeah, Velco drips geez, yes, we got those two number six. Circond City. What do you mean that? I mean to Walmart is like Circuit City the best Buy? Yeah right, what happened? What happened? How did you lose out? You had everything? Yeah, and how did you let best Buy it comes to your market. It's a Circus City messed up when you had to start asking for help because they set their store up where they had the displays and you used to go look at it, but then you could only get it if you asked an employee for assistance. And my best Buy has become that now and that's why they're going down here. It's because true was my best Buy was so good, and they beat Circus City here because you could go in. I could go in get a radio office shelf, yeah and walk out. Now you have to ask for you know so and so to go get yes, and those people do not know what they're talking about. And Circuit City worked off commission, so they bubged the crap out of you with best Buy did not. We should do a top ten stores that won't be around, and best Buy is going to be one ten years they're offully. Nope, I hate going in one. Yeah, they don't. It's the only option though, unless you're doing Amazon. Amazon's killed them. Yes, it's like the public look as smart enough to know what they want. There's no reason to go to best Buy if they're going to just deliver it to my head. And they stopped selling physical media too, so you can't even go in to get like a Blu Ray DVD. Yeah, they don't even have the things that you should point. Yeah, you write that down. Top ten stores that won't be around all right? Number five Hill's Department Store. I sort of remember them. Now. What made Hills so famous for me? Was that always had the stuff in the front, popcorn, the popcorn, the Slurpye. I sort of remember that too. Yeah, I loved that part. Could care less about everything else in the store. Couldn't couldn't number four Blockbuster. Yeah, that's that's real famous. I would have put that right where you got it. I have memories there. That's that's a good one. Yeah. I mean again, how long would you go? Would you be in a Blockbuster on a Friday night after work? After work? Yeah? Because I'm like, good lord, what's taken so long? Hey? Let me ask you all this. Do you have this problem? And I call it a problem because Marty she will actually just leave the room and just go up to watch her TV. I can't pick something on Netflix. I gotta watch the next trailer, dude. I'll cycle through for two hours. That's what I do. I have to find the thing that I want to see. I have to hand the remote to Laura. You something. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not a big Laura fan right now, I will never I never thought that would come out of someone's mouth, right, dude. First of all, she decides to come to a basketball game, the first one she's ever attended, and we lost. But that's not the reason. Uh oh. The reason is as I'm going home, Tara and my wife can't stop talking about all the things Laura has convinced them that they want to now do is just sticking money out of my pockies. Laura, man, she's a bright, shiny rainbow man. Everything she talks about just yeah, oh yeah. And I can't even know what. I'm not hearing anything bad. You should be this way, a single bad thing. And she knows what are you going to get? A ninja a creamy? That's exactly what you have cast me. Listen, that thing is you wait to you? It is amazing. It can't be an off branded what has what did you call it? What is it? It's a ninja cream creemy. I still don't know what you're saying. It's a ninja creamy creamy. I'm not buying that, Laura, Google that. It's I don't even want to see what it comes up. If I creates a shake, Oh, it's like a little blender. Now you make your own ice cream, You make your own ice cream at home. But it's really, it's dude, it's amazing, it's it's great. Yeah, I'm just saying, man, you on something. It's like, how do you go to a basketball game and come back with less money simply because the conversation is going on behind your magical Wow, I'm professionally working. By the way, Trent, you gotta next year something you gotta you gotta be indcause it was you gottadmit what it was pretty cool. That was nice. I know we lost, but the media part of it that was resolutely part of the media stands port side. You can get used to with reporters. You know, the news and advance stands right back to you and you're in your own little World's cool. Yes, here's so I picked up on a few things. And I don't want to get off on a tangent here because we're still in our top ten. But being court signed as an announcer, there are games within a game. There's a lot of trash talking that goes on in a lot of conversations that you don't see from the stands that you get to hear. But harder than that is calling a game and not being able to see things because the ref is standing right there. You would have never I never knew that. It's difficult. You have to look around. I'm assuming that's why they have a monitor in front of them, so they could see that each games will cost me ten thousand. There you go, he's getting your back dogg it. So, I mean there was a couple of buckets down load it. I couldn't see. I agree, he was standing right, and it's not his fault. I mean, he's doing the game. He said, hey, but when you're when you're there now, it doesn't help when Bart's going questioning the officiating and I'm like, he's right there, yes, like hush it man, But it wasn't. I really liked that experience though, Yeah, that was That was a nice experience. Yeah. You felt like you were a part of something at that point, So that was pretty cool. Number three, number three seers. Obviously everybody was affected by seers. Gosh, I mean, man, sometimes you're just bringing these things out and you're bringing up like how did they lose? They had everything they have If you needed a more a weed eater, a tool house, Uh yeah, I think I forty years house yea yeah really yeah yeah, catalog Yes, I swear man, you were Amazon. You had everything. You were Amazon. You were Amazon. It's just well, the catalog. All you had to do when you heard of Amazon would say, hey, take our store, I mean, you know, take it, take it online. Yeah, and you would have survived. Yeah, you had the catalog. Do you remember a series catalogs Montgomery Ward? You just made me remote Awards. We had a Montgomery Ward catalog and it was a pleasure when it came to the house because my mom would let us circle things that we wanted that we never got. We got to fold the men off. Ye. What's did you say that, Brian? If Blockbuster had done the same thing with Netflix. Yes, and we're seeing that even with traditional like you know, radio stations, anything else, like if they just refused the next next thing, they refused to change. They don't want to be a part of it. It's you know what, That's why your business sucks, all right? Number two? And I did. As you'll notice on list there isn't a Oh Toys r US because I was never a fan of Toys Run. But I was a massive fan of KB toys. I mean, I don't even know what the hell KB toys is. And why would you not put Toys r US because Toys of Us was more of a big block. Yeah, it's top ten stores that are no longer around. For me, I didn't shop at Toys r Us. It didn't come till after I was a teenager or probably twenty years old. But I did have a KB Toys in the mall. Dude, you were not twenty years old when Toys r US was around. Lynchburg. Toys r Us did not get here until probably two thousand. No, a little shopping center over there where Circuit City was. They had Toys r US when I was. I moved here in the nineties. No, I graduated ninety three. I'm telling you, Toys r US kid, Yeah, KB toys you didn't have. You didn't go to KB Toys in the mall. I don't know that's what it was called. I didn't remember. I remember spending more time in towards r US playing the demo video games like you know, Yes, I'm staying there for three hours, Trent. Yeah, I don't know why they did it this way. I would have I would have put graphics here. Stupid graphic needs a gopher video. Why would you put the Why wouldn't there be a big foot up there? Thrown barrel and otter? Sorry, it sounds like it was exactly what I said, idiots like a sports logo. I can hear Brian now motor and everything good? All right. Number one on my list is Davidson. I don't have no idea what david was a men's store that was over there across from you remember where Krispy Kreme was. That's one we should have come up with, Christmas Kream. It's no longer here. I'm gonna put this in my list. You just came up with. One that I need to ad list is a Krispy Cream in Charlton. Now though, all right, do you know where I'm talking about? Woody? All right? Do you know where the Kirkley Hotel is? Yes, across the street from there with Davidson or man, I do not remember. Oh it was a men's clothing store and it was old school where you went in and they measured everything. And the one, the one in Boonsborg closed two years ago, and I just was it wasn't men's warehouse. It was Joseph Bait. No our coffee. It wasn't men's warehouse. I think you're I think, yeah, our coffee. It is our coffee now. But something before that I miss. I listen, I'll pay the extra for a men's clothing store. I'm sorry. Yeah, I wish they were still around. So that was my number one. All right, your comeback. So I didn't want to do top stores because I thought we would just agreed with your list until we got into it. I don't know what else could be better. But this is the stores that I thought would be gone. Like in my life, I had a thought, well this that they're going to fail, and somehow they make it all right. Krispy Kreme I think is one of those, yeah, because I now like my son would go to a Krispy Kream over a Dunkin Donut, and as soon as they see the Hot and Ready, Yeah, the hot and Ready button, the buttons, they want to go and I'm like, they're just plain donuts. I don't get what the big deal is, but they love it. Yeah, Like the kids on the volleyball team want to go find a Krispy Kreme, not a Duncan you know what I mean? I do so, and I got Dunkin on there. To me, I'm seeing new Duncans everywhere. They dropped the Dame Donut and they're just popping up everywhere now y'all got a dunkin, come right to Carl. They just put to sign up yesterday's home. Where's that going where Little Caesars used to be across from Walmart? Oh? No, four, that's not a little Caesars where they go. Uh, they're rumored to be wanting to go downtown. That, by the way, to me, is a store that won't be around. And I'm with you, dude. If they went back to what they did originally the paper, Yeah, put them back in the paper and to call them pizza Paz. Yeah, they try to get too fancy. Yes, KFC, I think is made a rebound. I agree. They changed the look at their stores. Yeah, and apparently they have this new item out that's all over TikTok, the pizza thing. Yes, yeah, I saw that. I don't understand that cheats pizza. It does not look like but it looks like kind of like a chicken parmesan thing. Yeah, but they claim it's great. Yeah, dude, I thought Hardy's were going to be gone, and they may be gone again because it seems like they've dropped. But do you remember when they went fat when everybody else was going healthy? Yes, absolutely, and their stores rebounded. And here's the thing about that I don't understand about Harty's. If you go into the Hardy's here, I would say after eleven o'clock, there couldn't be twenty people that go into that store for the rest of the day. And I mean that there is nobody ever in that store but breakfast. But breakfast yep, can't get in it. Yeah, forget about it. So why not just simply go to Biscyville, Biscayville. Yeah, I totally become Biscuitville and just stay open for breakfast because you've missed it on everything else. By the way, Biscuitville is building a strong brand right now. Yeah, I see him going everywhere. Yeah, that's awesome. Bo Jangles did that for the last ten years. Every heart heart is of my thing. And this is not singling now any particular one. Everyone I've gone to for dinner when we used to like they take forever, and it's just the service has been horrible. Breakfast is wonderful, but like afternoon if you went for chicken tenders or whatever, no, horrible, just horrible service. And another store that I thought was gone, and this was in the nineties, I had this vivid thought, and I was like, I've never been so wrong in my life. No Number one is Subway. That's how wrong I was, And how one ad campaign changed a company forever, the biggest franchise. They're the number one franchise. And you know why, one guy you all remember his name, Jared the the Pedophile ended up being a pedophile. But that guy changed that whole marketing campaign where he lost all that weighty by just going to Subway. It changed I mean it changed America. You're right, that's definitely. But they do if you notice, they do change with the times. Like their stores were kind of outdated with all the subway paper, you know, like a Subway New York blah blah blah, and then they kind of went to a different It was the fresh everything and then the salads and all that, and they just keep reinventing them. So they do a lot of branding, yeah, which now is the double Meats and you know, so they're kind of gone from the nutritious to the look what you get here? You know, Charles Barkley to be a spokesman, yes, instead of Jared, Well, they do Charles's Yeah, that's a good point anyway, good LUs Yeah, to have had it. I just got three things. It's the same. God, bless our troops, God, bless America. Start God. I know we don't have much time here, right because Carolina Kevin so man, I have God. There's when you mentioned how there's a video. I mean like there's you do a clip, but you have to see the video. And I know you can't see the video. But this is going to be more for Woody than for you. But I think you can still enjoy it. And you may have seen it, but this is it's called it's white women. Leftists are in force, all right, and I think I think one of the comments underneath it was and they think MAGA is a cult. All right, listen to these white women. Go ahead, cut ten. What do you see the guy standing in behind the background? My god, all right, it's women standing around this one in the center, and they're like doing this tribal thing. The first comm Yeah, I could see the captists from here. You should see the woman in the beginning that might that might be the bumper we need for the MEMI. And they're gonna be the ones that down Trump, you know what I mean? The problem? Yeah, Oh my god, it is horrible. Okay, here's another guy. This is under the dumb asses category. We're in the last two days because we've got leap year of Secretary Levine. Listen to him? What is is it? He? Or is is she? What is it's a heat? Right? Okay, yes, sir, listen to how he Listen to how he or she whatever he or she is, is going to help Black History Month cut fifteen. Hello, I'm Admiral Rachel Ladin this Black History Month. I'm pleased to partner with OMH and advancing better health through better understanding for Black communities. Climate change is having a disproportionate effect on the physical and mental health of black communities. Black Americans are more likely than White Americans to live in areas and housing that increase their susceptibility to climate related health issues, and sixty five percent of Black Americans report feeling anxious about climate changes impact. You're scaring faster Health Equity and the Office of Environmental Justice. We're working with providers and community leaders to identify innovation, different approaches how aer communities. I guarantee you to health consequences. She ain't got the balls to go to a black neighborhood for I like, I like the back you didn't have the balls. Look, I don't remember what that was. It's just the good one. I don't know how to call it without sounding but it's like the yellow green they're pandering. It's the I hope black people out there. I hope you watch this, and I hope you laugh as well. I hope you're like, come on, y'all, listen. They are doing everything they can to convince you about climate change. The dude, there's another thing that they've come up with that I just read today. It was a master plan that I read today. So a community planner has written a master plan for a city I won't mention, but it's not close to here. It's it's just the far west actually, And I'm reading the master plan and one of the headings is what this city is doing about environmental justice? Dude, they's it's in our documentation. Now, how did you word to that? It's called environmental justice. It is what the Secretary of Levine was just talking about. It is talking about how you have built neighborhoods where they are susceptible to climate change more than others are because you're living in an urban setting where the rich white people are living in yards with grass. Man, it has nothing to do. Oh man. Just reading that thing was just mind boggling. But and the last one I got, we have Kevin on not yet, Okay, that's right. Cool. The last one I got is listen to Biden. This is still another better one to watch because of his glass eyes, glassy eyes. But listen to him talk about Trump and he's trying to down Trump, and you know he has practiced this line or I actually know what. I don't know that he's practice signed. I think he knew that the line was there to use. But because he doesn't work, he doesn't know what the punchline is is, he doesn't know how to So let's do cut twenty. He said, if an Ally did not pay their dues, he'd encourage Russure to quote do whatever the hell they want. What's happening. I guess I should clear my mind here a little bit and not say what I'm really thinking. But let me be clear, let me be clear clear. Actually I would like to know what he is thinking. Yeah, yeah, tell us he did not. He did not move on from there with the clear thought. I wish I had a little bit more of that because whenever he just let me be clear, it's not but he was. He was trying to do. This is another thing that I cannot stand. Which one is it focused? Yeah, like a fly, fly like fly, not a fly. So one of the things that I cannot stand. And I don't even like when our side does it too, when you use someone's words against them and you're saying that that person, like when our side said that Nicki Haley thought slavery was a good thing because she either misspoke or didn't say the right thing, and I wasn't happy that Vivek went after her. I don't like that stuff. Stop making a story that's not there. There correct When he says that Trump told Poland, if you don't pay your fair share that the Russians can just run you over. Okay, we all know how Trump talks. Most of the time it is exaggerated speech. But his point would have been, you're not going to stop contributing to NATO, right and if you do, you're susceptible to being invaded. Pay your fair share. That's what he meant. And for him to make it sound like he's a buddy of Putin, and he's okay with Putin invading poland shut the hell up. Yeah, dumb Like even you and I both know that the conversations. Trump will be in an interview and he'll say, listen, Putin's a smart man. Yes. By the way, that's not I hate when people go he's given listen, he's not a dumb man. Hey, you can listen to that one interview with Tucker and you'll go, he's the smartest politician. And I've heard this side of the Argentinean guy. I mean this dude, is that a genius? Now here's what you don't know. You don't know behind closed doors. Trump probably also said to him, go ahead, up, see what happens, because that's the Trump we know. And by the way, that is why Putin let the secret out of the bag that he did not want Donald Trump to win the exactly he's even wanting for it's a more of advantage to him to have Biden the inept and exactly. White people can't understand that. They don't want to tell you the truth. Of course not we all see and the ice train girl again, yo, yo, yo, my maids, what are you okay to night here? Why? Oh, I'm just checking on him. Yeah, why wouldn't he be okay? He seemed a little out of touch. He was late getting to you, probably because of mine over talking. It was Darryl Oates, right, what out of touch? But wasn't that yeah, Daryl, Daryl Hall and John Oates? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, call Kevin m hum. I'm thinking oh hey, uh, speaking of primaries, you were involved in a primary this weekend, right, mm hmmm? Since your text, miss you did that you'd voted? I guess, I guess sixty forty Yeah, in line for forty five minutes. Whow anybody bring you water? Nope? Mm hmm. So what was the sentiment when you were standing in line people talking politics did you get did you pick up on the feel of how the crowd was voting? Well, I picked up on something that here we go. What was her name? It was curb side voting. And of course what happened four years ago? Did they have curb side voting or did they have nailing voting? Yes, nail in voting battle boxes. Well, guess what was it so discreet four years ago? No? Mm hmm. Well, this time they like bringing out the voting machine on a roll or with a great big cardboard box that you look like an outdoor shower that they would place up against the car while the person voted. So to me, if they're going all out for this, where was all of this safety precautions four years ago? What's it four? Is it? Wait a minute, now, hold one, because you've got to give us the whole truth here. Is that just for handicapped people or is that for everybody? No, that was for curb side handicapped people. They brought it out on a roller, but they stood a big cardboard box that was like six foot tall three foot wide, and it unfolded and they placed it behind the cart that held the voting machine, and the person who was voting was in the car, and it was like so discreet. Yeah, it did not want to show. But then you think back four years ago, you could just sign something, put it in the mail, and I mean, they want no big deal. So I'm just like, where did the big change come from from four years ago till Nate? So my fear is what you just said happened is going to happen again in the strategic places. I haven't heard other people talk about it. Well I knew, having worked the polls for a couple of years. The handicapped people you would have to The problem was you would have to send someone inside. If someone wasn't available, you had to wait. They had to bring you a ballot. You voted, they had to go in, put your ballaty in and then bring you a like a receipt type thing. So it took forever. So I don't know. My only assumption is maybe they're trying to speed things up and they're bringing the thing out to you. Is maybe the change that they made. I don't know. And Klay Travis mentioned about the voting numbers for South Carolina. Did you know that to twenty sixteen there are ten percent more people in South Carolina in eight years? Wow, that South Carolina is the biggest growth population of any state. It's beating Texas for and Tennessee. There are more people in South Carolina than there were in twenty sixteen. A whole ten percent of the state is voting brand new. Nikki Haley, wasn't Governor Kevin's twenty eight that would have been is it McMasters? Who's what's the governor? McMaster? You got Cooper, Roy Cooper and McMasters. But yeah, that he's an idiot. Oh he is South Carolina's governor is an idiot. Well he must be doing so. Let me just say this. When I moved down here and I went to the DMV, I came out twenty three hundred dollars less. That's pretty much anywhere you go nowadays, they have an infrastructure feet pervy. It's per vehicle, not all of them. That doesn't blanket all of them. That's earth. So with my Camaro, the Silverado truck, the Yukon, Dylan's truck, four vehicles, I had to pay two hundred and fifty dollars per vehicle for infrastructure fee. And I asked the lady, I said, what is that for. Oh, it's to improve the roads. I said, shit, your roads here down here is no different than the gravel roads in Virginia. What do you mean is to fix the roads? That's a thousand bucks right there. Then with my driver's license, and then on top of it didn't matter if I paid the property tax in Virginia, I could pay it again. Danny, Wow, And the Licensing and Registration wanted three hundred dollars. Trim said, wow, Well, I mean it's a lot of mine. I don't mean to be laughing. Woody and I got on laughing about something else that was rude. Nothing can keep it to ourselves. What's going on in South Carolina? Oh? Just getting ready to flow out of my garden. Hey, what did you think of the Atlanta Race this weekend? Pretty good? Inches? One by inches. I've never won that battle, and I was so hoping that I was really wanting Kyle Petty to win that thing. Kyle Petty, I'm sorry, Kyle Busch at a moment there, Yeah, is there anything tucked on on me? Your coat there? Now, that's when Kyle Busch to kind of stick it in there for Richard Childress. Yeah, he's in it for the long haul. I think I think he is proven that Austin Dillon is it is not as good as driver. You know what I'm saying. They've never really had I always wondered how that was going to work out. Yeah, because they've ever since Austin Dylon came up, they've always had weaker cars around it. Yeah, to make him look bad or good. I've got breaking news, breaking news coming on. Uh h, this is Joe Biden's doctor has just cleared him that he is more than fit, of course, and his demeanor, Hold on, his demeanor and his attitude and willness is of a seventy year old instead of a eighty year old man. Oh my gosh, smoking crack. Did you see him run to the helicopter this morning? Instead of his one step run, it was three, Like he was can't wait to go see the doctor at this doctor is doing these evaluations. M doctors that are told what to do. I mean, lord, anybody believes that if you're watching and you honestly believe that that man still has the capabilities of running a country, I mean, you're you're smoking dope, You're crazy. He was eating ice cream yesterday, Like did you see he does that dust stare? You know? I bet he don't need a deal pickle. No, but he would definitely trip over a cooler phone. And I can tell you that damn thing right now. Oh, he definitely doesn't have a dial tone. Listen that they're gonna always it doesn't matter what you say. They're the news, the media. They go out of their way. Like at some point in time, you keep you just keep expecting them to stop all of a sudden internal on him, right, Yeah, And they showed glimpses, but then they come back around with oh, no, you know he's he's sharp, sharp as attack. Yeah, when come on like that dude. Right now, let's let's be honest. If you put him in a fifth grade spelling bee, he's not getting through the first word. Yeah, am I right? No, and the word will be fifth grade? Fifth or fifth yeah, fifth grade, fifth grade? That sort of yes, sir, I've been seeing old volleyball queen. My daughter's doing it up on the floor. Yeah, they did. You know we had that father daughter type, or at least I had it. Because the last tournament was in Charlotte I mentioned a little bit ago earlier, but it hit me. I was like, man, this is her last. This could be our lastest. She doesn't she'll be a senior next year and she could decide, you know, what's your senior You're kind of done with all the travel stuff too. We could have made our last trip to Myrtle Beach. That was the that was the traditional beach. Yeah. I was like agreeing with you because I was thinking the same thing. Trent was right here, just thirty miles away from me, and it could be the last time he could ever lay eyes on me. Never did come in there visit. How far are you from Myrtle Beach? Well, I aim the twenty miles away from Charlotte. Oh, I got you so I was closer to you at Charlotte. I was closer to you at Charlotte, then sixty five miles away from Myrtle Beach. Well, we'll have to make up for it and visit this summer. We have to hit Myrtle Beach. We've got tornadic activities here. What's the place called Thearriers Rocket? Oh? Yeah, trip, you're gonna go during bike week? Trip? Don't yeah what they have anymore? It's been so long. That's one of my favorite weeks. I went two times. I went down there, and the one time I didn't care. The first time was a mistake. Was Black Biker Week. That was so much fun. Good lord, we're expecting fifty five miles in our winds. It's supposed to be happening anytime soon. It's happening right now. And I have not strapped down insurance. No hot cos. We got insurance nowhere a bit. It's replacement. It is state farm. I have state farm insurance. David Hollmaker'll give him some business I do. Yeah, out of playing tomorrow ends up over there on the web side of that. Hey, so the leap, I'll be honest with you, I never really paid attention to it. So so from what I understand, so every twenty four hour period is actually half a second or a second longer. Okay, is that right? Well, we end up being shorter, probably because we have to extend the day. After four years, we have to extend the calendar, so we'd be short so tomorrow, I thought. No, I thought if we did, if we didn't do it, eventually the seasons would screw up. Yeah, that's what I thought. I thought it was that we're because there's twenty eight days in February, and because there's a second or two more in a twenty hour four hour period, it adds up to be a full day every so often. I don't know, that's what I heard. Thought. One of the brilliant things that I heard is why I guess the Arabic calendar would have been a better one to go with, and we chose the Roman one, of course, but it's damn Romans. But if we could, we could have had thirteen months of twenty eight days each and we never would have had to change anything. You'd have had twenty and every and every month would have started on a Monday and ended on a Sunday, Christmas. Why can't we just change Who screwed you know? Who screwed that up? Jesus? No, the person who thought the weeks would work forty hours a week? Who come up with that? Henry Ford? I guess it was Henry Ford, right, right, That's where the forty hour we came from. Yeah, it was the business week if my history, if my memory serves, I'm supposed to be going to trivia night tomorrow night, but it got canceled. So I'm trying to learn a lot of trivia. Where do you go to trivia the Yellow Sub on Thursday nights? Oh man, we used to do that. Oh man. Why don't you join us? The trivia a really hard Yeah. Well, Phil Benton wants us to go, so he canceled on us because I was too late getting back with her. I thought I got back with him earlier in the week, but I didn't do it. So we're going next week. Trent, sir, let me ask you this trivia Okay, pretty good one coming to you? All right? You reckon you be able to answer. I definitely give you an answer to the fast freaking question. Now I'm talking to Trent. Now, Brian you excluded, So I'm talking to Tn. I mean, you know, I'll just go ahead and tell you. I'm not waiting til the end of the segment here to tell you the word of the day. The word of the day is gellette. I don't understand why did you let Brian talk over you in this pocket? I mean, you know, let's just talk about it right now. Be a question Trent, not Brian, Yes, sir. Taxes mm hmm. Income taxes? Yeah? What were they for? And when they started? I know we went a long time without them, And I want to say it was the war effort of World War One, but it was World War two, okay, And it was because the United States was in a what war? World War depression and the only way that we could get out of the depression was the United States government said, if we was able to borrow money from what you're making as a salary, we'll be able to use that money to bring us out of the depression. But we'll give it back to you at the end of the year because we'll be able to draw interest off of it. The worreldly going to do it for a certain amount of time, and guess what, it ain't ended yet. It keeps happening over and over and over, and they keep getting more and more of your money and giving you less less of it back. At the end of the year. I just heard a new one in Virginia. My brother was telling me about his buddy had to pay because his daughter's car is too fuel efficient. They had to pay an efficiency tax or something like that. And the reason they're doing it is if the trend keeps going where people are buying electric vehicles, you have less fuel tax. So in order to get ahead of that, they are getting you to pay the electric infrastructure tax so that you will still get to pay taxes even if you're not paying for gas. And that that's what I've always said about cigarettes. It's just wonderful. They didn't want you to stop smoking, yes, because they needed that tax, right, And they don't want you to stop drinking beer, Trent so that you started drinking wine and liquor. I switched to white Claws for the year. Whitelaw is not a what do you categorize that Brian is a Seltzer, a Seltzer whatever. H blogan, uh Kevin. I saw a TikTok yesterday that cracks me up. It was a Ford F one fifty that has the cup holders in the center. Have you seen this, Trent? And the dude reaches down and pulls the two cup holders out and so it's just a rectangle shape now yeah, and he went, huh, genius and he sits down a six pack of beer and it fits right in. I'm like, no, I don't think that's what it was meant for. That's awesome. It was hilarious. I mean it fit perfect. And it was the guy that does the for for forty years. You tell me one that goes for f's sakes, I don't know that that guy I know who's doing about Yeah, yeah, ye that way, tell me for forty years. I love that guy. Yeah, we need to have that guy on for sure. He does the He does the best hacks. I saw one today how to take a band aid off? Oh? And he gets and he goes, well, how does he do the sound? Yeah? That is crazy. He's so good. Yeah, and I do some of the things though, I too, because it's at least his air factual. If you take olive oil and you put it on your band aid, it'll come off without ripping the hair. You got a saturay. I mean for telling me for forty years now, I could have been doing this. Ain't no way. Your bacon and cut it in hey, and you'll be able to take air for your bacon and cook it and take the package and put it back in thefrigerator. That's how I cook my bacon. I've been doing that for twenty years myself. I've been doing that for my own forty years. New York. Uh. The one I saw on there was if you take hot water and put it in the sink and then take your ziplock bag. Yep. I tried that. It does work. It worked pretty good. Yeah. Yeah, takes the air out of the bag without having a vacuum. All right, Kevin, we got a few other things to get to, so we gotta move on. You're telling me I gotta wait for Kevin for another week? Ain't no What was the people there? Like TikTok? Somebody must have called him. Somebody called up. No, he just hung up before I could click the soundboard. That is hilarious. Dude, he always brings it. All right. I got a clip, I got I got a text. I guess Marty's been listening. Oh oh, apparently the dairy air thing. It's funny you said that. I can't next week's top ten strip club. Oh none of them from Charleston, West Virginia. I can assure you that. Oh gosh, that is the truth. That is true. Yeah, yeah, it's not Charlest Saint Albans. But I'm trying how many times we went to Uh, this is many moons ago, and I can't think. Was it called Bottoms Up last week? No, this was many many years ago, twenty five years ago. That sounds like the name of a place like I think it was bottoms Up where you had to you could bring your own alcohol. Yeah, and we took an athletic cooler like that, one of those that are like, you know, four feet long. Yeah, and it was like eight of us and we just we brought the whole cooler in man and set it down. Nobody says the word you just pop open your beer and drink. And some of them are still like that. Uh. Anyway, that was pretty good. Their ears. I think it was dairy ears bottoms up, and these are the ones I've just heard of. Masters was one of them, The Masters Club. Huh. It was kind of shaped like a golf stages. Okay, it's kind of neat. I mean that's what I read. And what was the the real kind of famous ones? It was down there was a wild horse or something horse, crazy horse, crazy horse. That's it. Yep, you're not willing to give me. I don't know. I don't know. I just had my own little clique to when I was twenty. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It was many years ago. Yeah, well, damn, I can't remember half the stores that you had on the list. God, there was one in Greensboro too, that should have be in your touchins all. The best is the mouse is Ear. Huh. That was near Bristol, Tennessee, and the Mouse's teat the Mouse's Ear, And it was kind of neat because when you went in, they had one stage that was kind of shaped like a boxing ring, and they had one that looked like a basketball court. And it's Kenny. It was called the Mouse's Ear. I got a great story, though, I guarantee we have listeners going, oh yeah, I remember the mouse I mean, I don't know. I got to get whatdy to do a cartoon of the night. Brad and I went and got the car wash. Oh man, that is one of the best stories of my all time, absolutely, two young dumb kids. Gosh, oh god, it's funny. Man. There's so many stories West Virginia. Gosh, me and you leaving at the nick of time. Eric's bachelor? Oh god, yeah, man, where's you go? Back? The stories we could tell? All right? I found this clip. I thought you would appreciate this. This was I have to set this up. This was Rob Schnyder. Okay, what have you seen this? Yeah? I think he is speaking at the Conservative Uh is it? What is it? What's the turning point? Oh? Yeah, yeah, this is him speaking doing a speech. All right, check it out. Cut for approved slave reparations to be paid to people who were never slaves, to be paid for by people who never own slaves in a state that never had slaves. That's that's like paying child support for a child you never had to a woman you never fucked. That's great, that's funny. The analogy is right. He is spottles and there, and they're talking about it like they're trying to do the math to figure out what the number is going to be. Yeah, like like they're going to do it, they just have to figure out what the math is to do it. It's lunacy. And what's crazy about it is the people. Who is the girl that was on Bill Maher the fitness girl. Did you see that, Jillian? Yeah? Yeah? Where she was like, yeah, that place is nuts And he was like, what do you mean you lived there? And she's like, I moved and he's like, oh yeah you did. Like it's there's no difference. There is literally no difference between reparations and the student loan forgiveness. Absolutely, you are buying votes of young people for the next thirty years that are going to thank you for letting them. And you you blast, I mean, you just blasphillly. You just you just lie, all right, You're just lying and saying you found a new way to do it, and you like you didn't hear the Supreme Court tell you you can't. Yes, oh so, and we just let it happen. Let me ask this because it's interesting. Okay, So do you think, jilious, that's the same thing as subsidizing farmers? I know, that's an argument. I'm the only difference is that at least a farmer is working every day. These other people are getting for doing nothing. You've done nothing, and you're getting subsidized, and you're trying to control a market. So the reason you would do some of that is to control the prices so that they don't gouge people. So you're doing a financial interest. What you're actually doing is paying And then try to tell the trade unions that you are benefiting by the students getting free money. Yeah, crazy? And where I paid for my college, my kids colleges. How do I not get? Why is my money good and their money isn't? It's lunacy anyway, Man, do you want to do? You you got your weight loss update? Oh yeah, fifty five pounds. That's cool man. Yeah, I'm going down a good I really do. I can't figure out. There's a few things that like, I can't. I used to be able to tell when I woke up in the morning that hey, I'm gonna you know, I know, I'm gonna step on the scale and things are gonna be good, or man, I didn't eat well whatever, I can't. I can't gauge it it's weird. I still know I can. I'm so good at it because I've done so much of that intermittent fasting. I know almost what the scale is going to say. Well, I think it, and it seems to be the opposite. Like you know, last night I had the the wonderful beef broth, and this morning I waited, I was the same as the day before. Now tomorrow I'll step on the scale and it'll be three pounds lighter, and I'm like, ah, there it is. It's just it's different. But no, it's going in the right direction, which is phenomenal. So I am happy about all of that. Let me let me tell you because I know, let me tell you a couple of underreported stories that just wowed me. And I know I'm in the new yeah right, I know I watch more news than what Marty's like got you know, I mean, she says you just, I mean you read all that stuff, and so I know I know more than more people. Right, I'm not saying I know the most, but I'm saying, and you do too, And what do I know? You're into X and you watch it and you see headlines too. If you guys have heard this tell me that you knew about this that Minnesota had two twenty seven year old white cops and a paramedic shot. Did you know that in Minnesota? In Minneapolis by a black man that had kids and I don't know if it was his kids. He had seven kids between the ages of two and fifteen barricaded in his house, good lord, and then shot the two cops that came on the scene and the paramedic that was coming to help the kids. In the same city, not the same city, same state. I think it was near Minneapolis. What is famous in Minnesota that happened? George Floyd? Yes, And we can't have a story and know anything about it. I had to hear it from Christy Clark underreported story. It was like, when, when the hell did that happen New Hampshire? You talked about the women's high school team from Liberty won it all in New Hampshire. I saw that the guy that won the high jump was in the girls bracket. He wanted if my daughter had been training for four years for that high school and her glorious day was to finish second to a dude, we'd have had something to talk about at that bar. Now, it's ridiculous. It would it had been, there would be words, people screaming for women's right. Yes, I don't get it. Well, I mean, what is it? So you do it in New Hampshire because you got enough people there that will listen to it that then it migrates its way to that's what they do. Yeah, of course, the exactly what they did to normalize it. Oh, it's just it's so frustrating. It's not funny. Oh man, you're gonna enrage me. Well, and then you can feel better because migrants that are moved into Denver. Yeah, Denver is to save money, is telling employees, the temporary employees, that they just want work, so they're going to zero hours to save money. So the services will not be there of course, but they're not calling them layoffs. You're just gonna work zero hours, but we won't have unemployment because of it. Yep. I don't know how that works. Well, it works because they allow it to work. That's the problem. Anyway, that was I got a couple others, but I know we're up against time. But she's so good. I mean she I love that she still puts those news up. I was out and she gets me sometimes I will say this. I was what's the lady's name of Gosh and Coulter Man. I give her so much credit for doing what she does. Yes, she's one of those. She's like a Ben Shapiro. She's just Charlie Kurr. She just goes on shows and tells you you what is true. Man. And the crowd was stunned when she said it. Yeah, they were blown away when he was like, well, we don't know what color or we we don't know whose shooter. We don't know who the shooter was in Kansas City. After the super said no, he's not white exactly, and she's exactly right. It turned out to be right. If he was white, we would know instantly, instantly, and we would know everything about it. We had the video of it. Remember the guys, people forget about this, the camper that blew up in downtown Nashville. Yes, it took out on half a city block. Yeah, we knew where the guy lived, everything about him. Now the story went away quickly. Yeah, it's like here's their narrative, push it forward and now we move on. Yeah, what really happened there? Yeah, but dude woke up and just decided to blow up a block and not kill anybody. We're coming out with great questions that come up, and you know we have that thing about questions that haven't answered. Okay, So the Patriot Boys that they always showed were in the khakis and the blue. Yeah, just recently, about a month ago, they showed them in red like they have and they have Hitler colors now right, and they're marching on to the scene of somewhere. You don't have one reporter that gets mixed in that interviews one of those guys. Now you know what I mean, that's it's trash. Yes, remember the FedEx was it the U Haul? The U haul truck where they found the schwastika. Yeah, and that's all he had. Oh explosives, no weapons, no nothing. Yeah, come on anyway, so hey, some turn things around from being angry to motivational. I found a great motivational piece and it was something. What's saying with that? Something? I told I don't know. It's right, all the money, the back of it. It's lit up. Yeah, I don't know. It also has a temperature with it. Now, what do you mean we messed around with the settings a little bit. What's the light, it's bothering me. What's the I mean, the light in the bike is bothering you? How's that bothering you? It's behind it a bed over there. Well I'm sorry, go ahead. Are you paying the power bills? Are bothering you? Well? Yeah, okay, he is not fed power bill. Part of the discussion I had with my kids this weekend is what I want to do in my next twenty years. I feel like I got maybe twenty years to live if God lets me. I'm fifty five and it's my birthday weekend, right, and so I go to seventy five, and that's probably life expectant. See, so what if you could do something now, if you could do something and you spent twenty years at it, maybe you'd be really good at seventy five. I'm not going to pick up golf. You know, what could I What could I do? We were this is good. I can't wait to hear this. Well, we were just having a conversation about it. I don't really have an answer. One of the one of the scenarios that I have. No I'm just saying that's one of the things I've been thinking about. You just kind of you reach that stage of life, what do you want to do for the next twenty You know, I did engineering camp, I officiated, I coached, engineered. I've done a lot of good stuff. But what I was like, Man, I'd like to write a book. Okay, i'd like to I mean, I don't know. I just think that I could do something like that. One of the books I want to write is what we're going to close the show with. Similarly, it's called no Crutches. It's something I told my kids all the time. Or maybe it'll be a chapter in the book about dummies. No, it's like, don't don't come up with excuses. There are no crutches. You don't have the boss that's keeping you down. You figure out how to manipulate your boss, how to do better? Right, how did your boss get there? You do that? What I mean? There is no excuse. It's a teacher's fault. Yeah, it's a teacher's fault. Oh the boss hates me. He's a male showing us like I don't let my daughters think that way. Come up with a way to do something better or go past them, right, we don't complain, So no crushes. This is called you verse. You, and it's just a two and a half minute, three minute type thing and it's just to motivate you to succeed. And so that's what this is about. All right, Yep, we'll see you next week. People have this reoccurring nightmare that there's some thing, some force that's got a hold of them and it's holding them down and they can't bring freedom matter what they do, they can't breed free from that force. Well, I'm here to tell you that that thing in your nightmare, that thing that's holding you back, that thing that's dragging you down, that thing is you. There are two fundamental attitudes toward life and its sorrows. Those with the first attitude blame the world. Those with the second as what they could do differently. It's much easier and much more gratifying to your basis desires to blame someone else for your misery. You know what's so funny. We want people to make guarantees to us, but we're not willing to make guarantees to ourselves. And that's the problem with some of you. You always want to blame other people. You owe you an explanation. You don't need to look at your stuff in the mirror and say, why are you only giving a pick? What's wrong to you? Need to put your stuff on one. You need to tell you no more TeV no more snacks, no more desserts, no be working out now. You need to tell you that you owe you something. Every day. I demand more from myself than anybody else could humanly expect. I'm not competing with somebody else. I'm compelled. We aren't capable of My number one competition is me. It's always you versus you. You got to be the one to get up every morning, be disciplined, put in the consistent daily hard work, because that gained success. No coach, no trainer, no mentor, no boss can do it. You versus you. I value myself enough to give one hundred and twenty percent, but don't do it. There's no excuse but not living up to your fullest potential. No excuse. You walk out of this room. You owe yourself. I didn't get here making excuses. What change I change? And I stopped being a victim. I stop saying I've got to wait for good things to happen to me. And I said I'm a ride. I'm going to fight, I'm going to work I'm going to press toward I'm going to learn. I'm going to do everything in my power every single day to become a victor, not a victor. Why. Because I want you myself became nobody stopping me for me