Life Liberty Happiness with Jeff Helgeson + HR2 - 10.2.2024

Broadcasting on Grove Street FM, brought to you by Media Squatch. It's Life Liberty Happiness with your host Brian Schline with Trent water. Hosted flat in. It treated that my dam, I'll be bound the diesel down by the before railing. Took us all the week new only I took my art boom now. Of my dirty red Bandanna. I the wind said what Bobby saying? But there win you rappers happing time held and Bobby clapping hands. We finally singing a Pebber song. I drive freedom just another word nothing. Nothing, a word nothing, but it's free. Feeling good was easy? Lord, when I'll be saying the boom even good word good. All right, everybody, welcome to another episode of Life Liberty Happiness. I'm your host Brian Sly live in the studio with Trent Warner Audi. We are live in the David Homemaker State Farm Studios here in beautiful Bedford, Virginia. Coming up on the show a little later on, we'll have former Councilman Jeff eckleson. Yeah, I can't wait for We are. Excited about that. Do you have a good weekend? We got a little weekend review. Did you go over. Yeah. I had a fun weekend. How about yours. What'd you do? Where'd you go? Well? Well, Friday night went running to the lake because we got a condo over the lake with some friends of ours in the smith Mount Lake. Wene Festival was on Saturday between rains, so we were like, man, if we could just squeeze it in. Usually this does not work for me this way, but every time we had an event outside it didn't rain. Yeah. Usually it's exactly the opposite, like you just walk outside and it just starts raining on me. But no, it worked out perfectly. And then on Saturday morning I ran back to Lynchburg for we had a dedication for a happitat for Humanity House. Oh yeah, so that was really really cool. Is this your first one? It's the third one that I have been to for an opening since I've been on the board, and it was really cool. Man, this one was probably my favorite one because the little boy had such a smile. He could not stop smiling. Oh, it's like his first room in his real room. Yeah it was. It was really cool, really really really rewarding. And then went back to the lake and had a fun time with the wine festival, And that's great. From what I remember, it seemed like it was fun. How about you just actually for one weekend. I mean, it's been forever since we've been home on the weekends. Finally got home for the weekend and just did some errands, caught up on college football. That was. Oh, we'll get to that. Yeah, we'll get to that in sports later on. But I'll miss that cow. Yeah, so you didn't watch it. The bad thing about the condo was, which I'm okay with this actually in principle, was the TV was not a smart TV, so we couldn't really watch. But I got stuck watching the Virginia Tech Miami game on the little phone anyway, and we couldn't do it on a big screen. Yeah, and I guess we can talk about that too, how they got either robbed or not got robbed. But it was no. I didn't get to catch up on any football because no TV could have made it more fun. Well, we'll talk we'll talk a little more about that in sports. Right now, we'll move on to this day in history. And in nineteen now, this one shocked me. I did not know this. No bumper, No we cut it out, No, bumper. You need to come up with a different one. Yeah. I don't like that one. Yeah, if you're listening, he probably is. He's got a staff now, I mean I got I walked in here. It's like five people working. It's crazy. Yeah, this is a map. Yeah, he's grown. He's got to do something about a little more testosterone though. This is going to drive him crazy. That's a lot of walking in here. Yeah. Yeah, you know. October is coming up. I think it's twenty fourth. Well mark our fifth year. I saw him post that. Can you believe that? I enjoyed you? About a year and a half after that, I think. So. Were you here for the election? The last election? Yeah? Okay, I didn't realize you were doing this. Yeah okay, yeah. Our first one, Megan Kelly, was twenty nineteen, so it was before COVID. Okay, oh wow, it's crazy. That's that. That's wild. Five years. Yeah. Anyway, this day in history in nineteen sixty five, during the game between LSU and Florida, a new sports drink was tested. Can you imagine what that sports drink was? I know because of the commercial, Yeah, Gator eight. Yeah. The guy that invented it the way he said it was Did you know that? No, Yeah, that's where Gator the Florida Gators. It's where Gatorade was invented. The guy that invented it on that commercial goes Gator right. Now, here's what's funny. I tried to look it up to see who won that actual game. I couldn't find it, but I'd be curious to know if L s U Or Florida won that game. Now they did credit the next year, Florida was like eight and two or something, so it was a It was the Gatorade that helped them. So the electrolytes. Yeah, so do you what's your best flavor? Orange? Oh, that's the worst. That's because that's what I was stuck with whenever you played sports. They only gave you that. Oh all we got was the green one, the original. One, original, Yeah. In the green yellow, whatever the color is. I still don't know what's called the yellow. Lime green, the puky one. It's still I will still in fact, I got a Sunday that's my recovery drink. It's like my Gatorade. Really yeah, well, they come up with a stupid new flavor. I know everything. Do you like the white one. Why new age? Yeah, you got white and near beer. You don't go get white. Once you get old. You don't do that young stuff. Yea. But my history of the day in history. Uh, we've been talking recently about unanswered questions. Twenty seventeen, the Las Vegas shooting again, do we. Still not know anything about that? I mean we don't know. We only know a little bit about it, right, not not much, right, And they just let us keep doing conspiracy theories. That's what they want. I know that sound crazy. But this day in twenty seventeen, seven years ago, do you know what the numbers were on that twenty two thousand people at the event? It was what's the country singer? You girls like? It's not? Wow? Am I drawing Jason A D Jason great? Last person? I would have thought of what, Sorry, I thought, that's not Emma. She's zachmon and Garfunkle or something, Zach Bryn. Heck, it's a Garfunkle. There's twenty two thousand people there. He killed sixty Wow. I did not know that. Yeah, I didn't realize the number was that big either, injured eight hundred and fifty others. I guess through the trampeede and just missing shots. Yeah geez, it should be like a huge moment in art. Yeah, wish history. This should be a documentary or something. YE don't know anyway, that was what I found. All right. Up next on the show after the commercial break, Jeff Hackelson to join us. 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 Farmed. Their friendly staff have over fifty plus years of combined experience. Call him today at five to four h five eight six eight one ninety four or stop by their office next to Arby's are four sixty like a good day, David is day? All right, folks, Joining us on the show. Councilman Jeff Helgeson. Originally from Bloomington, Minnesota. He came to LU where he received his degree in education in nineteen eighty eight. Little known fact he was an assistant coach for Jefferson Forest Wrestling. Welcome to the show, Jet Well, great to be with you all. Yeah, I've known you for a little while, but I don't know a lot about you. So that's kind of we wanted to have you on to kind of tell your story and then we'll get a little bit into politics and talk about the current situation and what's going on in Lynchburg. But tell us a little bit about how you migrated down from Minnesota to here and take us through, you know, to your current. Well, I came here to Liberty University. My degrees in finance. Okay, so I studied finance and wrestled at Liberty University. Came here in eighty five, ended up staying, loved it, still do finance and helped coach a bunch of kids in wrestling, and it was interesting, just you know, the small world that happens. Just the other day, I went to a physical therapist I had a back problem and I coached her husband Oh wow, And it was like wow, yeah, I mean it's it's neat and so been here a long time. I think people who've known me for you know, forty years. They know, I've been about the same person I've always been and so straight shooter, say what's true and try to be nice to people and been about the same for forty years. So at Liberty were you involved? How are you involved in wrestling at at university? At Liberty? So it's Liberty University, and so I came here to actually wrestle on the team. We were Occasion two at the time. Shortly after I graduated, they dropped the program as it went to the Division one. They dropped the sport, and me and another guy are former congressman, raised a bunch of money, talked to the administration and brought it back as a Division one sport. And Bob Good yes, okay, we just had him on the show just a month ago and I were roommates. Oh wow, So we've wrestled together, and I helped kind of get him in politics and fantastic you know with that wee It was the two of us brought raised the money, got it back. They won their conference nine years in a row, and then they had to drop it again because of Title nine inder equity, and they added three women's sports. They added women's field hockey, women's lacross swimming and diving. It still wasn't enough, so they still had to drop the sport. So they now it's back to club. Oh it is. I did not know that, and they and the club sport is and they've won the nationals several times in the club level. This last year, I think they last two years, they took second because the team is transitioning from club to Division one and so they have the heck of a program. Ok, yeah, I think actually I think Bob's got a nephew or something that yes, wrestling, Yeah, absolutely, that's great. All right, all right, Well, so finance wise, how did you evolve from there into starting to get into politics. Some folks recruited me. They said, you know, Jeff, you need to use your financial experience in education to help the city live within its means, and so with that they recruited me to run and a little over twenty years ago I answered the call and ran and had been elected five times, I think, probably one of the longest serving council members, and every meeting I never changed from. The objective of what it is is. Using my financial planning experience in education to help the city live within its means it's funny. You probably don't know this, but I got interested in politics watching city Council. It would come on cable TV, and I was captivated with it. And it sounds horrible. It's like, I have a terrible life that I'm watching council meetings. But at the time, I had just gone through a situation where I had a job. They had told me that that was going away and that I was going to another company. So it was a situation that was going on with that company that was involved with city council. So I was curious about the situation. So I'm like, let me see what's going on with this. And this was all over the hotel. That's when I first saw you, and You're right. You were steadfast through it all. There was no wavering or anything. You're and I learned so much from you that I had no clue of what was going on behind the scenes because I was I was at Credit Cunningham at the time, and I was told, we're not getting paid for the hotel, so we don't have a job for you anymore. And then I flick on the TV later on and I see Jeff going, hey, there's a payment here. To CCAP for eight hundred thousand or whatever. It was a lot of money and I'm like, I just lost my job. Oh, I was so mad. But it got me watching and learning and understanding how politics work. And the biggest thing that I learned from all of it is moneies are earmarked for certain things and you can't just People will say, well, they're spending money on sidewalks, but not this. I learned a lot from watching you, and it was it was very interesting and so much so I ended up running for in Bedford. Now my experience is way different than yours. After four years, I was done. I just was so, how did you stay twenty? What was it about that kept you moving in it? I think it is my background of finance and wrestling. I mean, you keep on fighting, you know, you keep on looking at the facts and the numbers. And so with that, I saw that there's so much room for improvement for our city if you would get away from lots of liberal ideology or ablelesies that just take from producers and give to those that aren't producing. Yeah, I thought that's the wrong thing. I think we need to make sure that we have a really good city that can grow and thrive and prosper. It isn't just because we take more and more taxes, but we use those resources very prudently, very judiciously, making our city safe, have a good education, have good roads and bridges, and let free markets rule and let people keep more of their money. From that, there was always another battle. It was like every week there was something else, and so it was kind of had me hooked for quite a long time because I wanted to get results and I was one of the only conservatives on council for a long period of day. Amen. Yes, you you had the. Struggle, and so with that it was interesting when I look back in these twenty years, there's lots of things I've got accomplished, even being the minority. Oh, there's no doubt because of looking at facts and not backing down. Because of those facts, I agree one d percent. You know, Jeff, I've been in front of you a few times, right, I've tried to get things rezoned and you haven't voted my way every time. But what you just said, I always appreciate it. I mean I literally appreciate it. Every time you were steadfast in your answers, you didn't blow smoke up or you know, if we had a preliminary meeting, a neighborhood meeting, I kind of knew, man, that's gonna be a tough sale. Whether we did or not, you were always just when you had the vote. I always knew when I left there, he voted his conscience right. There wasn't anything that we could do, and it was probably the right decisions in some cases. Sometimes it made sense and it didn't when you first started. I mean I remember when I was coming up through. It was before the Cornerstone era, if it will, there was the Gillette era that it was there. Ye when you first started. What was the numbers? Was it like six to one? You were the one loan Republican at a time? Was that really it? Yeah, that's remembered the one for a long period of time. Yeah, actually yeah, because you had Bert right Mary Hutchison, Yeah, yeah, that's right. It is. It was that old school it was. It was in fact, it was kind of fun. I mean it was still when you still go up there, We still got stuff approved, we still did good things, but I saw it grow. What do you think attributed what was your success there when it was six to one? That you know, eventually twenty years later. Was five to two. If I think that's the number it is now, it's in our in the Republican favor. If it will what what what helped do that? Was it your keep to the city and the finances going in the right way, keep it healthy that way? What do you think happened there? I mean lots of things. I've helped lots of people get elected, you know, because you know, as as Brian just mentioned, you know, when you watch things and you see decisions that are made just kind of off the cuff, not without factual things, or you know, people like start looking and saying, you know, we need something different and we don't need to just that the government is always right, but individuals and businesses can grow and thrive. And so I think that's been helpful. And quite frankly, lots of those votes that happened originally that I lost six to one, even with the same group. Later it came the other direction, had a couple of votes that I lost six to one, five to two. Then it passed seven to zero because the facts kept raising their ugly head and they eventually said that actually makes sense, and they've switched. And I'm sure, there was a lot of work getting there, a lot of dialog. I always appreciated that. I always thought whatever you. Said up there at the pulpit or whatever you call your table, it was genuine. It wasn't smoke, it wasn't it was just, hey, these are what the facts are. Not always like to hear what your thought was when it came up there. I always appreciated that. And it's interesting. A long time ago I remembered reading about Abraham Lincoln that he said, no man is smart enough to remember all your lies. Oh yeah, so you don't lie. You tell the truth. Whether I'm talking to you here today, whether I'm on a council meeting, whether I'm at a public meeting or a private meeting, I wanted to say the same thing, because I'm certainly not smart enough to remember. What is something different that I told you versus something I told Brian, I tell the same thing. And I heard you say many, many, many times, and I would say, if I had to write down a philosophy here, which I did thinking about our meeting today, you had a term, you had a way you said it, But it was always what came down to is what is a need and what is a luxury? And really that's what most government officials should be thinking. This is our tax dollars that are being used. Is it a waste or is it something that's an investment and a benefit. I always appreciated that. It's a good. Background, and it seems to have grown that policy seems to be taken off even nationally, it seems to be taking off. Yeah. I wish nationally in other areas around here, we could learn how to be fiscally responsible. That was always that was the eye opener for me. I mean when I got into just learning, I mean, to be honest with you, you have to be there four years just to learn the process because it is a process everything. And I used to get tickled at you and Gillette. If I heard a hybrid motion out of Gillette one more time, I was going to go down there and go off on him. But yeah, I had some great battles, but it was always civil, and it was always it seemed to be for the right reasons. It was never petty or anything like that. Do you feel like some of that has gone over the years. Absolutely, it's gotten gotten very silly, you know, it's gotten silly nationally it's got silly all over, and it's got silly and Lynchburg at times. You know, I Mike. Gillette and I'd use hit him as an example lots because when we first we got elected at the same time in two thousand and four, Yes, and we're both novices, and so he's fighting from more the liberal side. I'm fighting from the more conservative side. And you know, we thought it's kind of more of a debate back and forth, and eventually he and I became really good friends. And because of the fact that we disagree, we agree, but we agree civilly and collegially. And there's reasons why I'm pushing something, there's reasons why he was pushing something. Sure, and with that we can come up with good things of that for the betement of the citizens of Lynchburg. Was there every anybody on council that you came across that you thought, man, they were really affected and you hated to see him go as quick, or any anybody that you were impressed with that you really felt could have done a lot more, stayed a lot longer. Because I think about that here at Bedford, there's been a few people I wish that have just stayed on longer, and I think they could have made a lot more difference. You know, there's been lots of people over the years, over twenty years, there's been. Several I'm sure you can name some that you wished we had a shorter time, a lot of me. You know, it was always one thing was quite interesting is the first mayor was Carl Hutcherson. Yes, and you know, sadly he got convicted of like seven felonies and whatnot, but boy, he actually did was the first mayor that I saw that when Bert Dotson and I would disagree, he would try to pull things in together. And he did a great job at Ribbon Cuttings. He was one that was very helpful in bringing things together rather than disagreeing, you know, and just fighting and going at that and saying, okay, well the meeting's over, We're okay, we're gonna vote and be done with it, rather than the president of council really should try to bring disparit views together and say, hey, I understand why you think this, and I understand why you think that, but I'm voting this way and here's why. And with that then you could move forward, you know, because you get some closure, well if it was on the winning side of the losing side. Just like sports, you shake hands and you're done, you know. And and he helped with that. He helped with closure on different things. That's yeah. When I left. When I first got on air, Mayor was Bob, and Bob was an older gentleman, you know, and he was ready to step out. But at the same time, he just didn't feel like it was the right time to leave. So he and I did not see eye politically, but I gained so much for effe from him because there were times where he would say, listen, we can vote that way, but that's going to be a four to three vote. I would rather not even bring it up until you can figure out if we can get closer. And I always thought that was stupid, right, the more I did it, the more I realized, gosh, he's right. If it's if it's a better you know, majority, then you you seem to people seem to accept it a whole lot better. And it worked in a lot of cases. And so I learned a lot from him politically that I enjoyed. Again, there were there were times that he and I fought, as matter of fact, I remember telling one of the other council members, I bet he won't speak to me again, because we absolutely did nan see eye eye on one issue, and I thought, I thought he's never And he came down the next day and shook my hand and he said, you're the only one that reads material and comes prepared. And that's all I've ever asked, and that have you seen any of that in Lynchburg? People aren't prepared for meetings because that's here. Oh, that happens all the time. It drives. Oh it does sound. I'm glad you brought that up. When they ask a question and it's like they're they're pushing emotion, ready to vote on something they have no idea even what it is. Sadly, last several meetings, our city attorney has done that. I mean he's the paid professional, and there was items on there that weren't even we're voting on dollars and cents and there's no dollars and cents, just words. And it's like and he's over there scratching his head saying, oh, okay, we'll change. It and adjust it. You know that is bad bad enough when the basically the volunteer, if you will the elected representative. That's you know, we're not in it for the money by any means. But the paid professional is the one that I shouldn't be correcting because I read it and they didn't, you know, so that's even more disheartened. Oh yes, that's that's. Why I hate the idea that you're not going to be there, because I will say this, never did I see you ever not prepared, and you helped. You even helped bring along the ones that didn't. If they said something wrong, you've even said, well it does say this and here, and you kind of helped them away in a gentlemanly way. I always thought that that the case. I did not. It just I don't know, the last couple of years just seemed to just get out of hand for some reason or whatever. But and as Brian mentioned a minute ago, that you know it takes a while. Yeah, you know, when you've never been on the planning Commission and you know, voting on the difference between a conditional use permit or rezoning or what those conditions are, that you never even read or understand what those are. Yeah, and it's that that is why, and I not to step on toes and I know there's you know, I got to go before a politic anyway. Later is my job is this? And I worry about these things at saying them. But it really did dishearten me that the party that I would be on the side of had someone with twenty years of experience to then have someone that has never worked a day become the mayor, and I thought, we're going to be stumbling for a while. And I think that is part of what the problem has been. We've stumbled because we don't know the processes and in many cases, and then there was a put up a wall against the person we don't like, who is probably the most valuable person on this of the seven that are sitting here, that knows more than anybody on the history of the city. And I just I hate that for you personally, seeing that you went through that at least these lasts. And it hadn't been good by any means of course, but for me personally, but it hasn't been good for the city. Either, Right. I agree, you know when you do that, because when you don't have any experience and you're elected to represent the citizens and you don't have any experience there, so what do you do. You don't represent the citizens, you represent the bureaucracy, and you say, oh, what does the city attorney say? What does the city planner say? Or the city manager? And that's what you go with. And that's totally the opposite. We're elected by citizens to represent their wishes to the government. They think that they're elect to represent the government to the citizens. Exact the exact opposite, And that's what you get when you have you know, fairly novice folks. That's right. What do you think when you look back on your twenty I know this is hard to encapsulate. You've done so much and been so part of so many votes. What's the what's the accomplishments. You like to look back at. See. One thing I drive on quite often is the odd Fellow's Road interchange. That road. I pushed for it from the city and Steve Newman from the state got the money. So I brought it in in our conditional and our Capitol Improvement Plan and put that in there, and then Steve came through with the state made that bridge and the connection, and I drive on that road all the time, and it's shocking to see how many people are using that road. Oh, because it's now instead of having that bottleneck at Kindler's Mountain Road, you're actually coming off odd Fellows Road. And it is fantastic improve the lives of so many people. And obviously we spent money on it. But that's a good thing. That's an investment, that's that's commerce. Look at what you did for Mayflower Drive and all. That's what I have to go out on Candler's Mountain Road. That is huge when you see how many trucks come in and out of that place, and with that, you know, and so that's where I would look back to the necessities versus niceties. I would rather do those kind of things than putting cobblestone down by the voter registrar. Those kind of things are cute? Are they good use of money? No? Is there one that you look back on? You go, I voted knowing that, but actually that turned out pretty good. I don't know if I was right to vote. Do you ever look back on that? There there there's only there's only one thing that I wish I didn't vote for, and that is over by Cotton Hill. It was an actual road, but the neighboring cemetery plot wanted to expand and it went through Physic Development Committee, and it's something in my gut said, this isn't right. We shouldn't just close this road and give it to the cemetery. And sure enough, but it's already past Physical Development Committee. They already recommended it, and it was kind of last minute, and it was like. It's gonna be. It would be a six to one boat where I'd lose. Yeah, And I just held my tongue and I just said, well whatever. Sure enough, two weeks later, once they should put up the road signed, the road closed where they had an actual road, a city road that citizens drove on about every day, and also it was closed. Then we heard from the citizens. And the rest of council said, oh, well we didn't know this and it's because they listened to the city planners or whatnot. And I knew at that time I thought I should say something, but I thought, you know, here's another fight. I'm going to go down six to one. Yeah, And I didn't say something. So every about every other vote, however I voted, it wasn't just out of spite or was it out of just a knee jerk reaction. Was thought through it so that's the only one. And that's yeah, that's the only one in which I'm thankful, but that one haunts me. So that's interesting. All right. So you're going to be winding up at the end of December, right, Yes, So have you endorsed anybody? Yes? Yes, And so with that we had, you know, I was the Republican nominee, which that had to happen by June sixth or whatever the date was. In June, after which I was still planning on running. I had been trying to find somebody to take my place. I wanted somebody who's gonna be similar in mindset. So you you had made the decision that you wanted to step down at that point, Okay, just tired of it? Well, yes, absolutely, yes, And it's been twenty years. Yeah, mean that's all it's you know, and and it's interesting. You know, when you get paid ten thousand dollars a year for doing something that encapsulates your time and your and your you know, I care about it. If I didn't care about it, be easy. If I did the material, man to be easy, just show up and you know what do you think? And great and go home. But I care about making good decisions, and so with that, I had been wanting to step aside, trying to find somebody. I finally did find somebody after the after we had the primary, which I've known him for a long time, and and so I announced that I'm withdrawing from this election coming up in November, and I endorsed him and he's been running solid ever since. And that's Kurt Deemer. He's I knew his mom and dad. I've represented them for twenty years. They passed away a few years ago, and he's been a long time resident here. He actually worked for Senator Newman, who was his legislative aid. He actually helped Steve Newman when he first ran for city council. How many years that was ago, so a long tenure. So it's nice to know people, not just in politics, but how they are at the little league game, or how they are in all sorts of things, because now you know what they're like, ye as opposed to somebody just getting here two years ago. It's telling you one thing and maybe do something different. Or you know, it's nice to know somebody for a long period of time. You don't just meet your girlfriend and marrier the next day. That usually doesn't go, well. Well, what would you tell Kurt Damer? What would you tell him that you haven't fixed yet and you wish you still could. What's the next thing you would have you'd like. To see worked on it. So what I'd really like to see worked on is really looking at are to grow our tax base. Lots of times that. More the liberal ideology is raised the tax rates. When you look at how economics works and you understand how money works, you understand that you can grow the economy, you can grow the tax base by lowering the tax rates, and then it has people happy and people thriving. You look at what happened at Trump's administration when he lowered the federal taxes. What happened. Things grew and revenues growing, people are happy. I'd like to see that, and I'd like to have that be kind of a long term plan as opposed to just, hey, you got this through because you had enough votes for it. But have that mindset that says we're going to constantly government isn't going to grow unless there's a really really good reason other than that. We need to rein that in so we can let the private industry and the private sector grow and thrive. That's something I'd like to see. Yeah. Cool, Well, we appreciate you being on the show, Councilman, Jeff Hegelson. Before you leave, we got one more question for you. If you could spend one day with one person from history, doesn't matter what time period, who would it be and where would you hang out with him? That's a really good question. You know. It was interesting. I just teach a teach finance and one of my students was asking about marketing. And there was a guy that I. Listened to his tapes all the time growing up, and that was zig Ziggler The Secrets of Closing the Sale, and interestingly enough, the guy who ran my first campaigns. He actually zig Zigler was his Sunday school teacher in Dallas, Texas, and I thought I would have loved that, just his energy as just a consummate gentleman and a consummate professional, recognizing that in order to get anything done, somebody's got to sell you on doing something. There being politics, whether it be in real estate, would be fixing, whether it be whatever. You got to get somebody to take action. And he was fantastic, and lots of other people, you know, I could think of biblical characters. I could think of Ronald Reagan, lots of people. Put just off the top of my head right now, would be fun to be with Zigzeg. That's great, thanks again for joining us on the show. Appreciating to be with you. Right, I could do that for another hour. CNS Business Services is your local place get professional services, payroll, bookkeeping, taxes, notary and quick books. Everything is done cater to your needs. Set up a consultation today. This is their new and improved website at CS Business Services dot online or call five ro roh five eight six one one two zero. It's nice to be greeted by those who know you by name. And CNS is a huge supporter of local high school athletics. Not only do they serve the community, they also invested in their community. Professional services, professional staff today, tomorrow and together see and that's business Services is located in front of the y in Sweet Gee called one five four oh five eighty six. All right, put a great interview. That was really cool, man. Yeah, I could have done that in another hour. All right, moving on, You know what I love about that? Just to tell you what I love about the podcast and the show, I listened to Jeff. I've probably listened to him double digit times, maybe twenty times. Yeah, on WL and I and every time he's interesting and engaging. But every time he comes on, they have it up against a commercial break or it's two minutes and you get to hear and they got to cut it off and he's got to go on to the next one. What I love about this format is he's just you can get his free flowing. He can tell I could easily have done that in another hour. Yeah, and you could tell. And that was one of the things that he was always prepared. And I listen, you're gonna disagree with people, that's going to happen. But I couldn't stand the people that don't know what they're talking about. They have no clue, and it just it used to aggravate me. And I can't remember the guy's name, but he used to oppose everything, everything, and he never was prepared for anything whatsoever. They were wanting a Walgreens on a corner. I don't know if you remember this, but it didn't fit the master plan and because you couldn't have a drive through because it had to be up on the street. Remember, and Jeff was pushing and that guy get going. Well, can we just go back to the developers and ask him to do this and ask him to do that? And it's like, do you think they just sit around? I mean they have a timeframe and he was the only one that got it. The rest of them just didn't get it. So anyway, it's good to have Jeff on the show. Moving on to drama, got it man, that good job. That was a good win. Yep, Alone season eleven. I finished that up. It was terrific. You really got to do it. Trent is the Western is no Alone is a I can't wait to see that. TikTok Uh. It is a reality show where they drop survivors. In naked and afraid. It is with clothes. Yeah, but you're by yourself, yes, okay. And it is. It is so you will learn so much from it, I promise you. Is this why you want men? While you and Brad are going hunting west men, you might just know, leave me out in the middle of nowhere. I'm telling you. I laugh at the people who always say they're going to have to pull me out of here, and they're gone within a week. They've been tapped out, what would what do you think would be the hardest thing about surviving? Now, they're in most A lot of times they're in the the Arctic is where they're at. It's definitely water, food sustenance, but cold never is. But they all leave for the same reason, being alone after a while. I mean you're talking about they're out there eighty ninety days and just the you you find out that you're by yourself. Yeah, your faults. My uncle Parry so happy when we show up, exactly, He's got friends. But it's just that. But that is it. I mean, there was there was a guy who's like, he's a loner and all he had was his mom and dad, and he's like he tapped out because of it. He's like, I haven't seen him and what if something happened to him? And it's just it's crazy, but you would enjoy it. The only thing I don't like, and I talked a little bit before we went on air with Caitlin about this, is the stupid regulations that they have locally that you can't kill something. Right. That seems fair, It seems fair until that little son of a gun has stole what you're eating that night and you literally. If it stole, stole anyway, I stole Okay, I heard stole all. He needs a hearing, and I'm telling you rewind it anyway. Anyway, Yes, they took the meat. So when he takes your dinner and you can't survive, it ain't funny. But the money gets to live. The who Oh no, we're talking about killing people? No, oh my god. You mean like if a beaver came down and took your peanuts and that's the only thing you had picked that day to live, you should kill the beaver and then you could live off the On. The show, there's certain, Yeah, there's certain to kill the beaver. And I felt so bad because this dude was working his rear end off and he actually did the right thing, and he had enough meat to last him weeks. And that it was it was called a pine Martin never heard of it. It stole everything, And I mean the dude crying. I mean, it's it. You're done. You you can't live without eating or stolen again. Anyway. I can't help it. I'm start listening to Life Liberty Happen is forget about your stupid drama. Okay, we're moving on. We're moving on to sports. All right, it's time for sports. That is a T shirt. We've got a lot to get do in sports, don't you think. Huh, We've got a lot to get to in sports. Okay, college football, you did not get to see. Well, I got to see some highlights and but no, I didn't get to see live all right. So I was watching it. Alabama goes up twenty eight nothing I think it was, and I literally said, oh crap, ls she's playing. So I flip it over and I watch LSU because it's boring. At that point, they're killing Georgia. I end up falling asleep because LSU was beating South Alabama. I mean I wake up the next morning and it was on replay right when Georgia took the lead. Oh wow, I got I was like, are you kidding me? I miss this. I had no idea the next play Alabama would get the lead back. Okay, that little wide receiver for Alabama, the seventeen year old, Yeah, how good is he? I mean he looked like a video game. Yeah, I mean he's doing spin moves and. Just mid air. Yeah. Then, but is he the. Same one that did the ball where the ball went up in the air and then he spun around and got the ball. Yeah. I was like, wow, this kid's incredible. Yeah. What always gets me with wide receivers, though, is sometimes they don't transfer to the NFL like you. Like, do you remember the guy that was at Alabama just a couple of years ago they won the Heisman. Yeah, he's not bad, he's not great, He's okay, he's not justin Jefferson. No, but I mean he's probably the leading receiver on the Eagles. He's not bad, all right. But I mean you just like, I hope this guy turns out to be what he because he is phenomenal to watch really fast. Yeah. So, anyway, you had Alabama beating Georgia. That's going to be a hell of a rematch. It's got to be a rematch. Right, No, we got tones see in there. And so you got Tennessee beating Alabama and Georgia this year. Whatever. Okay, Well, I'm not listen. I think George is beatable. Yeah, but I think they're really damn good. Well, obviously at that echelon of the SEC you gotta have things. Is Kentucky good way, I know, That's what I'm saying. You know, I said it a few weeks ago. At the end of the year. Sometimes you don't realize that loss was not that bad of a loss. So South Carolina loses to Kentucky or to Kentucky. No, South Carolina house Kentucky. Oh wow, it's like thirty five to six. Okay, Well that one is well, I don't know. Maybe South Carolina is good. That's what I said. Yeah, maybe they're maybe they're not bad. And then like Rutgers beating Virginia Tech and now you find out Rutgers is pretty damn good. Yeah, Rutgers still undefeated. How about that coach can go anywhere and be okay, but he goes to Rutgers and just dominates. What's up with that? It's crazy? Yeah? What about? What did you think on the your what is your take on the Virginia Tech catch? Listen, here's what I always think. When a commissioner of a league issues a statement, you screwed up, right. You're not issuing a statement unless something's wrong. So that I listened to Saban, and I listened to all of them say the same thing. You can't overturn it. Yeah, you could have sit in complete on the field but you can't overturn it. Yeah, and that's the way I felt. You can't sit there for six minutes and come out and say incomplete. That's just wrong. I really thought when I first saw the replays that it was going to be called whatever it was on the field, But that last replay on the bottom side, I mean, it look pretty apparent that he didn't, so. I can again, acc doesn't say that they issue a statement that the guy out of bounds had his hand on the ball. Since when has this become a thing? That's that was their excuse. That was their statement. That's the reason it was overturned. It wasn't that it was incomplete. Oh wow, I didn't even know that. And I'm like, if you have to issue a statement, you screwed up. You're trying to find a way out at this point. So if a guy standing out of bounds and I'm catching it on the twenty yard line, it doesn't have to be a hell marry, what keeps the guy from just touching the ball exactly, I'll stand out of bounds and go touch the ball. That's what I said. And that's why Nick Saban was like, you know, you can't overturn the call. You just you can if you look at it and go, all right, that's obvious, but not if you're going to say the rule is I would think it has to be obvious. I would think in the reverse, if Miami had thrown the hell Mary, they would not have overruled it. I would have think they would have said, hey, that was a catch, we can't overrule that. Agreed. But he kept a team in the top. Ten, exactly what I said, A lot of money on them. That had as much to do with it anything as anything. Old Miss. Yeah, really cool. And they lost to Kentucky, right, yeah, yeah. But that's why I said it can't be a fluke if Kentucky goes and shuts Georgia down. Yeah, but you can't be old Miss and talk as much trash as you do as a coach and lose that game. No, I agree, Yeah, I agree one hundred percent. So I'm curious. And he's just as likely to beat Alabama or Georgia whenever he faces them. Yeah, yeah, I mean that's why the SEC's so tough. Missouri had a tough game overtime, right, Vanderbilt? Oh no kidding, Yeah, I don't know. Like I said, I missed a lot this. Weekain Auburn terrible loss. They do those two, that's all. The record is not very good. They were winning crap. I haven't forgot who it was. I went to ask staff to do some research. Anyway, moving on, yeah, uh, you got the upsets this week with any any games. I looked at the games and maybe maybe Auburn loses because of that trap game. But they have Georgia this week, so played Oklahoma. Oh wow, so maybe that win by Tennessee was is better than you think I said it was. We got Missouri and A and M. That's that's easy. I mean A and M could win that just as easy. Right, Missouri's in the top ten in the Aggie's. You got SMU and Louisville. How cool is it the SMU's and the ACC and playing the winning Yeah, it's just weird. And then Old miss in South Carolina. That's actually a pretty cool pivotal matchup. Yeah. And then you've got Tennessee Arkansas. Oh. I hate these matchups because it's just like the team you think you should beat that you go into Arkansas and you get beat. This is where Pat McAfee is a genius. He always says, look at the spread. They know more than we do. So if they've got Tennessee up big, it's probably gonna be a Bill blowout. But if if for some reason something's tight, there's somebody injured that we don't know about, or somebody's tweaked an ankle or something. He said that a couple of weeks ago. He's like, wait a minute, why are they bigger? Tennessee's favor about thirteen and it's at Arkansas. That's pretty big spread at an SEC team. I don't know, that's pretty big spread. Sam Pittman can get him to play now. Oh yeah, and he's Pittman. Seems to me that old Lou Holtz talk up the other team and all that and then come in and beat your ass. And then these matchups are so crazy. Now USC playing at Minnesota, Yeah, I know, you. Know, alright, baseball real quick, we're in the playoffs, yep, anybody you see. I mean it's been pretty good so far. I've enjoyed it. You know what pisses me off is the o's just stand for oh, they ain't going to win. Do you know they've lost nine in a row in the playoffs. We'll give them a chance. Chance is another one today? Did they lose today? I don't know, man, if I look so help me. God, y'all better get the beat button ready? Pete Rose, passing your thoughts on that's very sad. It is sad. And the last sports item before moving. On, Jesus God. The Oriols didn't score yesterday, lost one to nothing and now in the bottom of the fourth one to nothing, score some damn runs. The O does not stand for zero bleep. For God's sakes, anyway, get the button ready. Tayla Dga this week? Hey, what was your thing on Pete Rose? Should he be in or not? My thought has always been that the only thing with Pete Rose that bothered me was when he got caught he lied about it. Yeah, and he continued to lie about it. Yeah. I think if he would have just moved on. But I've always thought this, what's wrong with putting him in and then just putting what really like? We can't Tony Cornheiser says that, and That's where I've kind of evolved to is that's the reason there's a placard. Write it on the placard that he was a liar, and he lied about it, and he voted in the game, and he was detrimental of the game. And he's the reason why that. You know, if you get caught gambling, you'd be kicked out. I don't get it. He's a Hall of Famer. I mean, he's everything about him everything. I mean. I used to say he should not be in because he reads the board. I think Timuless orders said this. He reads the same board that we all do. It's the first thing you read when you go in. And it was because of shoeless Joe Jackson, the Chicago White Sox. If you get bet on baseball, you were kicked out of baseball. He read it like everybody else, and he just chose not to and he didn't. They lied, So I can. I guess here's what's going to drive me nuts. Yeah, if you put him in, now I'm done. I hate that. Don't wait till he dies. Well, no, I think there's going to be this run where he and Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds are going to get the placards and they're going to get in the Hall just so that they can separate. Yeah, I mean, part of that argument has been someone labeled about three or four players that did had to do steroids, and they've gotten into the Hall of Fame. So it's just kind of a hard thing to to weed out. I think maybe just do it on the placard and let him know. Emma back there, anybody knows that she opened a beer. Oh Joe, did. Y'all hear that? Right on the job, the one that you gave me. Actually right on. I didn't get done, slack. Somebody stole the mine, stole like old miss all right, talladego this weekend NASCAR. NASCAR's got some grumblings and we got to move on. But NASCAR is in trouble. You got people sueing the division. Now, yeah, you got all of NASCAR be ensued. What's crazy about it is you got Denny Hamlin sueing NASCAR. And there's parts of me to think Denny is is mad because the rest of the owners sided with NASCAR and left him there with one other guy. I don't know what's going to happen. You know what's going to happen. Lawyers get in the room and it goes away. That's I mean, Denny's trying to save face, I think for being the guy to stick up. You know. Yeah, I just justin Marx, who owns track House. He talked to Kevin Harvick about it, and he just said, look, it's a good deal. I mean, eventually you get to to a point where you're like, it's not worth fighting anymore, and this is not bad. Some people think it can be better. But I just I don't know. I don't know what's going to happen other than like I said, Laureols will get paid and yeah they're they're good an agreement, but they're at Talladega this week. Any shake ups that you see M. See feels like an Austin Cindric Win feels somebody like that. You could still Tall Vega man, love it still. Yeah, Oh yeah, I had a great time down there. All right, Uh, moving on to what's happening. It's time for news. All right. Last night's VP debate, it wasn't even a debate. It was what I had hoped for all along. Finally someone prepared, Like we talked about what Jeff. King Eric said, Republicans have found a rock star. He can lea this party where it needs to go. And I'm like, you know what, I watched it myself and I thought the exact same thing. There wasn't any time he ever felt like he was couldn't answer. Clay Travis said, our side for so long has been begging and just hoping for someone to have the Donald Trump ideas, but in a way that they can articulate it. Yes, and he does, man, he does it well. And I said, after seeing this last night, I was telling somebody today I wanted Vec to be the vice president just because Vivek was so good at that. But I think they made the right choice. That's Whatnke wrote in his article today. I think he did. Yeah, I mean he was so good, Yeah last night, so good. And I just I don't understand the other side. I really don't. That thing that he did with the ladies and the fact checking and the illegal aliens. Yeah, when he took them to task. Did you see that part where he just goes at them, But he does it in respectfully, respectful, professional manner that hey, that's not what the rules are. But if you're going to fact check me, get the facts right. And the facts are and he went through the whole app that makes you and that smart ass lady at the end of that goes, thank you for explaining why it's legal. That's what she says to him. Let me ask you a question. If it's temporary, is it legal? They temporary they are doing and I've got a thing and have at it later. They are doing it where they're defining, redefining the word. They're redefining the term. It's you're calling it legal because it's a process. Because of the process doesn't mean you're a legal alien, doesn't mean you are correct. And that's what he told them. And then for that poor deer in the headlights, which, by the way, that's the memei of the week that they showed that drawing is there, Yeah, the meme of the week. So they have a deer standing at the in the road and the deer looks and then the headlights are on it, and then they got Tim Walls underneath it with that look that you had last night when he's getting killed, was. With you. I love the guy on CNN, the one Republican dude. I have him on high attitude. Dude, he's great. My question to Emma is how long is this guy going to be staying at CNN. No, he's going to Yeah, he's got hisself. You even know what his name is? No, okay, he's on every TikTok on CNN, right because he's the only voice of reasoning. I didn't know his name till today because of the show Scott Jennings, and my question was, how long is that guy going to be on CNN? I just love it, he goes this guy's a buffoon. Yeah, I mean, let's not mix words. He's a buffoon, yeah, and he is. He's right about that. All right. So speaking of the like we used to make fun of of Biden and his foreign policy of don't. Yeah, remember he would lecture us with a don't. Yes, nothing's changed, right, this is this is our foreign policy with the current administration, including Caamela where I ran right, yes, cut one. I wonder what is your message to Hesbola and its backer Iran? Don't don't? Don't don't? What's the message to Iran? Don't? As President Biden said, just don't exactly one word, pretty straightforward. I got that same clip, but it's a little bit different. You're gonna love it. How does that I mean what does that mean? It means don't do it? Yeah, but let me But for them, do they pay attention to that. No, you know what they do. They just threw two hundred missiles at. Them, now exactly. You know, you know what it does mean when you pull out a foreign leader's address and you say, if you harm one American, Yeah, yeah, that means something, right, And they listen, don't They is not foreign policy. It's absurd. It is absurd, which. By the way, and what's happening. And I know we didn't talk about this, but the flooding that went on, yeah this week, prayers or Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina. It's absolutely horrible. Actually, I offered my motor home to a couple today. Oh, I'm like, it's sitting in my driveway. I mean, if you need a place to stay, I will drive it to North Carolina and park it wherever you want it. That is really cool, man. But I'm waiting to hear back from them. So this is a little over a minute for this clip, but I like it's Megan Kelly do my best work, and it's got it's interesting cut too. Okay, So the Gallup thing is very interesting. Guys. Gallup their track record is very good on predicting the national popular vote by tracking party identification and leaners, right, like, how many identify Republican, how many identify dem and then whichever party gets the leaners, it adds to their score. And so just going through the numbers. In two thousand and eight, they said the country had it was plus eight on Democratic registrations. Obama won by seven point two. This is put out in a tweet by Eric Dotty but verified by our staff. Twenty twelve said D plus four, Obama won three point nine. Twenty sixteen it said D plus three and Clinton did win the national vote two point one, so very close. Twenty twenty D plus five. Biden won four point five. And you know what it says. In twenty twenty four, for the first time in some twenty years, r R plus three. Amazing. Just to see that Republicans have to be at this good stuff. It's incredible. And I keep hearing the same thing Pennsylvania Republicans have done this Republicans, and I'm like, I just don't get it. The more and more it goes in the next thirty days, I there's always an October surprise, But I don't know what you could be surprised at Trump about, unless they do send them jail because of one of these court things. But it's only going to get worse for Kamala. I mean everything she says, and now when a waltz, it's just embarrassing. It is. It's only gonna get worse. All right, Well that leads us right into eighty million, my ass. Life, liberty, happiness, eighty million. As come on, Brian fly wait, truth, truth over facts. This is your would be president if she gets elected talking that. When you listen to her voice, oh my god, I can't do it. Go ahead, cut three? Are on behalf of all the survivals, all the survivors that we have lost. Can you believe she said that all the survivors that we have lost, all. The survivors, Well, we haven't lost them. It wouldn't be survivors. I mean, dude, can you imagine if she wins? I'm can you imagine what we're going to be? We will be depressed more so than we were in the last time. Do you remember how depressed we were when it hunt and season me, you and Brad? Yeah, it was I mean, honest to God, and we shouldn't have had weapons. No, it's horrible. Oh. I got to ask because I want to ask this each week. Emma, Yes, have you voted? Oh? I did, Caitlyn, where do I vote? Have you voted? I will? I will? Did you ask? Where do you vote? Because I'm happy to tell. You even though I live in like where we live. Yes, because you're voting early. But Cambell Kenny rights, Oh yeah. Yes, you just go down the shifts department. Just go down like you're going to four sixty and just go under four sixty. Keep going and it's on the left. You'll see all the political signs. Yeah, Caitlin and I will go together. That's your homework. No, but you got to take one other friend with you. Make sure he's not a liberal. Yeah, don't cancel. I like you, Emma, Caitlin's dating a liberal. Weird logan, love you logan? All right, that was a phenomenal hour number one, really good man, Wait till our number two. Hey, I found this guy. This is deep what I love this song. This is a new kind of an upper coming. Uh. She won't know this song, but you will. This is old Hank Williams Junior old habits okay, but this is a new singer coming along and mean what you think of this? Right? We'll see you on our number two. The habit smoking back some time ago. I dried the hard stuff, but I had to let all that go and tumble thing I ever gave up was today. So haboots like here all bred, I use Lifesaver, so held me gett house say. You know, for your love, I ain't back the life save. Yeah, and I'm gone cool turkey not even monkeys today. And so. Habit's like you a hall brain. M old Habit's like you a harrd brain. Love with someone so hall all mad. Iverrol, So see you and all of your way. Yeah, so. Has flag. A gray. And now your top ten for the week. Now she's more like a five. All right, this week's top ten topic. Yeah, going off Pete Rose's death, I figured we would do the top ten hustle baseball players that hustled. Yep, what Emma, I like. The first top ten? Oh things you hate doing with your spouse. I would like to hear that, Emma. No, my wife would not want to hear that. We'll just say, Trent put it down, not you, Emma, Sorry, I want Brian wasn't feeling too good today, so I have to be on his side. I had signs. But I'm good now. Suit a Fit needs to become a sponsor of the show anyway, I don't want to hear. Sorry. The top top ten hustle players, now, yeah, most of these are people that I grew up watching. Yeah, so number ten Vince Coleman. I still love watching Vince Colan play. Yeah it was good. Uh. Number nine was a little before my time, but I've seen enough video to know the Willie Mays. Yeah hustled yep. Number eight George Brett definitely loved George Brett. Did you have to know any more about George Brett than when they called him out pine tard that he even hustled to the plate. He looked like a madman like Tim Walls. Number seven was Tory Hunter. Loved him, so I learned a little bit about Tory Hunter. They did a piece on him one time of why he was so good at catching balls in the outfield at center field, Like he was known as the guy that take hits away right and when others are not out there, he was always shagging balls in center field. And he said, that's how you gauge the skyline's different every night, and when you're at batting practice and you're catching those balls, you get the rhythm and the gauge of how it's coming off the bat. And that was his secret. Yep. And he just worked harder than everybody else. Number six Bo Jackson, Yeah, amazing athlete, He was incredible. Number five. I can't believe I put him above bow, but it was one of my favorite players. The ugliest guy to ever played baseball. Willie McGee Oh yeah, oh Willie. Yeah. Number four Trin's hero, Ricky Henderson. Oh man, definitely top top two players of all time. Number three Lenny Dykstra. Loved watching Lenny play. Definitely nails man. I guy, he's another guy you just were afraid of because he was such a damn yeah. Just god, he just went after it. Yeah yeah. Remember that collision in centerfield. Yeah, oh, it was one of the most nastiest hits I've ever seen, including football. I mean, that was disgusting. They hit so hard. Number two, As much as I hated it, Derek Jeter, that dude always made the right play. Remember that he. Always looked good doing it too. Yes, you know what I mean. Yes, but remember the play where he was catching the ball in the outfield and went over into the stands. Yeah, incredible play, blooded himself over Yeah. And then the play at home plate, yeah, where it was in between the cutoff throw. It was great. And of course from the number one was Charlie Haussel himself, Pete Rose, he is. I mean, I think if you polled one hundred baseball fans, yeah, he would be number one on one hundred. Yeah. And I heard somebody tell a story today about him. They said, what you don't understand is the way he played baseball is the way he lived life. In everything. Yeah, if he was eating, he had to be finished before anybody. I mean, it was just the way he lived. I just saw a thing. It was a TikTok and you could see all the video clips of him, which I love. Like he's one of those guys. It's like a Larry Bird story or a Michael Jordan story. You're going to stop to listen to it. Well, Pete Rose story, Well he is probably eighty years old. And he said he was at one of those because the dude sold himself like nobody else, right, And the guy asked him, if you were playing today, what would you be batting? And he said two hundred and a guy goes, my god, is the pitching got that much better? And he said, no, I'm eighty eight years old, you dumbass, Like he could still go out two hundred. I heard a similar story. Somebody was talking about the one of the best pitching years ever, sixty nine, seventy or yeah, seventy nine, whatever year was, I can't remember. Yeah, but the average batting average that year was like two twenty six for the whole league and Pete Rose hit three eighty something wow that year, And it was like, that's how good he really was, which was nuts. Wrote I wrote down a couple here, go ahead. These are baseball players you talked about history and the words about Ty Cobb. Yeah, how he just played and he was everything. He's one, but my favorite player probably if I ever got a chance to write top five down Kirby Pucket when you mentioned the toy Hunter before Toy Hunter in Minnesota was Kirby Pucket. That guy played hard every single night. I mean, and he was short, but he made up for it with all that effort. And then in center field, do you remember Jim Edwards? Do you remember that guy? He was an Angels, California Angels. Yes, he used to make the most unbelievable over the head catches. Yeah, that was another guy, Okay, and then you had guys that lay out. My list was guys that laid out, like when they played, they went after So it wasn't just baseball Dick Buckets. Yep, you hear about him all the time. It's another guy that I never got to watch play. But if you see any or hear any story about. Him, it was that dude. Like the next one definitely laid out. Hope Solo. She was incredible. She was Have you seen her documentary on that notes have not skiing? Right? Oh my god, I'm gonna come across. Is this not Hope Solo? Hope Solo was Are you a soccer goal? Oh god? Yeah? Yeah, Well who is the skier girl? Oh oh oh? When it went out with Tiger Woods? Yeah yeah, Well I got to mix up because Hope wasn't Hope Dayton. No, Hope Solo is. Dude. Anyway, you know those untold stories on Netflix, the documentaries, Yeah, you guys have got to watch this about her. She was incredible and she while you will appreciate it, Brian, she got ousted because of the Meghan rappinos of the soccer world. Oh my gosh. She she didn't play by everybody else's rules. She had her own problems with alcohol and that kind of thing. But are you talking about Lindsay Vaughn. Yeah, okay, go ahead with hopes. So she laid out with Mark Tiger Woods. And on the ski slope she totaled anyway, Ross Chastain tell me another the driver. That lays out more than him, that wants to win. Yeah, you know what I mean. And I guess Kyle Busch and and and the people that bump people illegally at the end. Who else is going to hit the wall in Martinsville to go all the way around the track? Anybody? Troy Polamalu, guy played like his hair was on fire Man. The other night I watched DJ mackintt Metcalf with Seattle. He's the one. Do you remember that that interception where the it's a secondary guy that intercepts on the five yard lines and he chases him down from the opposite side of the field all the way down the field and gets that dude. Yeah, that guy. And then my favorite I wrote this down just for you was Pinikey. I don't even know in the league anymore. I don't know if he is either. He's got to be a back up somewhere. Atlanta I think was the last place he was at. You know what I missed about him, though, I mean, why I loved him so much is because the dude would dive for a first down. Yeah, it's so hard to find that. I know you got one now. Yeah, I'm glad to have on you. Yeah, I hate it. You'll start liking the Redskins. What's gonna make it worse is when they do go back to being the Redskins. What do you mean, like they actually change their name. It's gonna happen. I hope, So I won't trump and make it happen. All right, moving on to have at it. I just got three things to say. God, bless our troops, God bless America. Start God, all right, These next three clips all have to deal with about the same subject. The whole thing. You played the whole thing with out ran and you know, yes, are we going to respond all those things that should be prevalent, by the way, the whole Iranian thing that we're dealing with. Is there any confidence in our leadership? Now? Run right? Well, here's some examples. So under dumbasses, listen to cut Tin. KGP has a handle on the truth. Just listen for her truth. And so Ran obviously we saw what happen today. They've also have an active plot to assassinate one of the candidates in the US election, which could be seen as a direct election interference. Is there any talk of consequences for RAND in terms of limiting their revenue going after their oil exports? So look, you heard Jake speak to this on what there will be consequences. You heard Jake say this. This is an ongoing situation. He had to get back to his desk to make sure that he continues to monitor what's happening occurring, having conversations with his counterparts as well in Israel. But this administration has not lifted a single sanction on Iran. We cannot forget that. Rather, we continue to increase pressure. That's what we have seen. Our extensive sanctions on Iran remain in place and we certainly will continue to enforce them. And you heard from the National Security Advisor, you heard what he said today. Well, Iran's oil exports have reached record levels now on one report showing a three point two million barrels per day. According to Opek, that's about ninety billion dollars a year. So when do we cut off that revenue. We have not lifted any a single sanction. If anything, as I said moments ago, we increase pressure. That's what sho Okay, this is just like the thing that we talked about in the debate where they say this is an illegal or legal alien, that they're legal because they are doing a process. Well, when you make up the process, you've created legal. But before you did the process, it's an illegal alien. You're just playing with word. Right. She's saying, they haven't listed any sanctions. Brian, on which administration did they give billions of dollars to Iran? What administration did that? Obama? Obama did it? And Biden right? Okay. So the next clip is listen, this is the funds that we released. Okay, and this is from September of twenty three. This is him answering, who's the guy John Kirby, Yeah, okay, the other guy that takes lies or John Kirby, yes, John Kirby okay, idiot. The first question is from September of twenty three. The next question is January of this year. Listen to the difference of the two answers Cut eleven. The US will have visibility. We'll be able to engage in oversight about where the money was going and for what purpose. If Ron tries to divert the funds, we'll take action and we'll lock them up again. And that will be sufficient oversight to make sure that the request is valid and that it's going through vendors who we and the cutteries can trust will actually contract for or the goods, the medical equipment, the food, whatever it is. The regime doesn't get to touch the money. Peter doesn't go to them, They don't get to they don't get to decide ultimate destination. Uh, and they have no direct access to it. John Aron made to transactions withdrawing from the previously frozen funds in Oman. What were those transactions for? I don't have the details on that, Jackie. You're gonna have to let me get back to you on that. Unbelievable dude and all of us sat here in September of twenty three and said, why are we giving billions to Iran? Period? And then they would say, well, it's for humanitarian aid. Well, Peter Doocey is the one that asked the question that said, well, if we're giving them billions, wouldn't the money that they usually use for that humanitarian aid be able to go get weapons? And what did they do this week? Right exactly what kind of negotiations? You guys are fools, and they're not fools, they're fooling up. Yes, they just lie to us in our face. I cannot wait till we have an administration that changes to the way we should be thinking. And that's what I want you to hear and cut twelve the difference between the two administrations. Here we go the message to Ron don't as President Biden said, just don't exactly one word, pretty straightforward. I'm gonna bomb the shit out of them. I don't care, I don't care. I cannot wait till we have that kind of philosophy again. Yeah, I mean listen, don't forget. During twenty sixteen, Hillary Clinton wanted to scare everybody into saying he's reckless. Yeah, and he's this, and he's that. We had four years of no wars whatsoever. Yeah, that's the part that it's Chris Cuomo of all people that said the world didn't stop in his four years. You can make an argument it was way better we know foreign policy was, and yet they still doubled down to his foreign policy was reckless. Yeah, they just lopped two hundred missiles at our ally. Exactly, and we're still giving money. We're giving towards to freaking Ziglinsky or whatever his name is. Dude. I saw probably the other MIMI that I love this week is not one dollar and it showed the American flag in the water right like it had come off a front porch. Not one dollar should go to any foreign country until this town looks like it did before the ren event. When is that? When are they? When is Iran going to give us a billion for he's dropping in. Food for us? Exactly? Nobody. Anyway, you mentioned this guy earlier, and this will end the best segment of the show I've had it. You mentioned this guy earlier on CNN. I see him all over the place, and my question is how long is that guy going to get to stay on CNN. He's the only one, Scott Jennings, He's the only one with a voice of reason. All right, go cut twenty five. This is what Kamala Harrison till Wilf believes is that is none of your business what women do with their body, and so stay out of our doctor's offices and stay out of our batty. I guess I have to speak up with the babies. They're not here to speak for themselves. Lord, have mercy, dude, there's no way this guy is gonna get to stay there no. Now. And they don't like it either. Yeah, when he gives them first of all, I'm still waiting, Trent. I'm waiting for jd Vance or any of them to say, who's in your who's making your decisions now? Right? What law has changed that's making you not be able to make your decisions? That's right? Just give me the law. There's no such things. She just is. She screams it loud enough, then it's going to It's believable. But that's why I looked about jd Vance last night. He was just calm, Emma, row versus way. Are you familiar with it? Overturning it? Does it keep you from being able to have an abortion? No, it just turns it to the States. Was actually smarter than anybody. I can't the rest of them get it. Yeah, why do they keep saying they're after your choices. I mean, there's no so not to get graphic or anything, but I saw it on Christy Clark's you know, we do the research on so CNN had a headline that said a woman that had a miscarriage was arrested for murder. Right, so Christy Clark does the real story, and not to get really graphic or anything, but the lady went to get that pill, all right, and when she had it, she called nine to one one because she had it in the toilet, okay, and they asked her to get it out of the water, and she refused. The baby was alive, so she was being investigated. Is that murder or not? I mean that that becomes a real legal question, right, get past how graphic and scary and horrible that story is, but it becomes the real legal issues that that. But that's not what CNN does. The headline is lady arrested for murder on a miscarriage. So it's it's it's a it's a lie, and they get away with it. Nobody's going to get fired for lying on a headline. But at least we have on social media that I can hear those things now I. Agree, and the one that they they never want to talk about. I think Scott Jennings actually brought this up on CNN one night. If if somebody gets murdered in California or any other state and that person's pregnant, they get charged with a double murder. Yeah, but somehow you don't think that it applies the other way around exactly. And that's the part that is I don't understand where that thought process goes. It's and for Tim Waltz to sit up there and and tell jd Vance about his own bill, just he acts like, yeah, it's written in the bill, but don't misconstrue the words in there. It's in the bill. You can do it because it's in the bill, so words do matter. He actually in his state has had eight babies born that has been killed after birth because they have aborted the baby and killed it. After it was born. Well, this is what Donald Trump has said all along when it comes to overturning Roe versus Wade. It was a terrible bill or a decision. It was never even the just liberal justices have said over time that it was the wrong thing. Stre De or Contineau, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I mean, it's given back to the states. So if you're California, what Donald Trump says is eventually y'all will learn how barbaric some of these state leaders want to be. They keep telling you, oh, we just want women to have their rights. No, they want to go further and further and further. And this decision overturning Roe versus Wade allows them to look like the idiots that they really are. What's actually happening now is the elections that states are doing. They're voting like the people are voting, and there is coming more in line with what most people. Think exactly right. It's within twelve weeks or sixteen, it's just it varies a little bit. But states are voting on that now exactly So. I'm sorry to interrupt, but have you guys ever seen the movie Unplanned that came out years ago about a girl that worked in planned parenthood. It was like rated R and it was only in theaters for two weeks. It's about how she worked in the front counseling women that were getting abortions until one day they called her back into the office, the emergency room, to do an abortion, and she literally saw the baby get sucked through a tube into a bottle and sold for parts during a miscarriage, and it changed to her whole view on things. And it's like from a Christian aspect, there. Is there is a segment of the Creation Museum that I went to a couple of weeks ago that is about that abortions and stuff, and I believe the whole room is about the lady who survived an abortion m and I mean it's when you hear her story, it's like, yeah, these these are the things. There's another side to this. If you're a woman out there and you're going, oh, I just can't vote for a Republican, there is another side. And the Republicans aren't saying, hey, no way, no how, that's not what they're saying, and stop being lied to. You're not right, that's not what's what's being done here. At my point, I've got I've got something along that line. Why don't it have we got Kevin coming on? Yeah, he won't be on for another few minutes. Okay, So I've got this thing so along those lines, dude, this election is more I mean, this election coming up, and I know everybody says this, like I hope the next election, they go, you know what, it's this one's not as imporant is the last one. But they don't do that. Every election is the most important. However, these people that are leading us have been essentially leading us for since Bill Clinton's days, and so we're talking about thirty years that even though George Bush had his little bit of run there, Trump had his little run, the swamp was created, right Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton helped create the swamp, and Obama created that big time where they made the federal government so big. So all these leaders that we're talking about, and I saw Charlie Kirk say it's about five thousand people that need to be taken out of the government to change the shape and the way the government has written. And he's got it. I don't know how he came up with that number, but he's a really smart guy, and it's about five thousand people. So listen to this is John Kerry. It's about it's a couple of minutes and we'll cut it off if he comes on, but listen to him talk about the First Amendment and essentially what we do as a podcast, what is going to end up happening on US cut thirty and. I think the dislike of and anguish over social media is just growing and growing and growing, and it's part of our problem, particularly in democracies, in terms of building consensus around any issue. It's really hard to govern today. You can't you know, you know, there's no the referees we used to have to determine what's a fact and what is in the fact that kind of been eviscerated to a certain degree, and people go and that people self select where they go for their news or for their information, and then you just get into a vicious cycle. So it's really really hard, much harder to build consensus today than at any time in the forty five fifty years I've been involved in this. And you know, there's a lot of discussion now about how you curb those entities in order to guarantee that you're going to have, you know, some accountability on facts. Et cetera. But look, if people go to own one source and the source they go to is sick and uh, you know, as an agenda, and they're putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to just hammer it out of existence. This guy canine. It's a long time, but this guy ran for president. Yeah, almost one, and he's been in government for fifty years, so obviously he's. In your leadership. This is why Trump is the people's president. Yes, what we know and you didn't even have to be taught to it's are in albill our rights. I can't even say that word. It's like inalible. Look at you stole to that one. It's like you don't. It is in us. Our freedom is in us. That's why our country is so damn good. Our founding fathers knew that any one of us could write that same bill. I mean there might be some discussion. Well, what I've always said is they put your words first, Yeah, above the guns. They said your words matter more more than gun. Yeah, that's why they meet it the first sentiment. Yeah, and yet here we we you have and to protect that, you're going to need your guns. Yes, you know what I mean. And what if we always said about Democrats, they tell you what they actually do, which that's John Carrey. They have had one source, Yes, for decade, they had three channels that they could control. Yes, right, Fox News changed Rush Limbaugh I think changed it more than anybody. Yeah, my personal opinion exactly right. And then you have Fox News and Roger Murdock changed a lot of it. And then Donald Trump has rode the way that we've been waiting for someone since Ronald Reagan to have that charge. And now you got people like JD Vance and Vivek and DeSantis and the ladies that are kicking ass. Garettula Gabritt. Yeah, man, can you imagine this cabinet? That's what Pierce Morgan and one of those was on his show. I can't remember. Oh it's a guy like the psychologist. I can't he's Canadian. But they they asked, here's more, going to ask him who he would favor, and he said, listen, at this stage, you have to say Trump simply because he has told us who's going to be in his administration. And I'm not sure how you could ask for anything better. The man's going to get one of the most brilliant people, Elon Musk, to come in his administration to help expedite things. Now, who knows how to do it better than the guy who can expedite that. By the way, can we just say this the same week that we've had this flooding. The person that has tried to help the communication is Donald Trump and Elon Musk, right, and they're trying to bring in the communication for the. People same week. Has anybody known for two months that we've had two astronauts stranded on the Space Lab? No? I didn't know that we've had because Boeing went to send their first ever launch of astronauts right, and they get to the Space Lab. It doesn't work. They can't get back up there to get them. So Elon has sent the space X up there and they just connected to him yesterday at the same time, this same guy. This is crazy. Like a loose what are like tenters and the ice train? Carolina Caver. Put up, Kate Dogg. What's up home man? First of all, are you dry? Oh? Finally yes? Are you back home? Yes? Good? Did you evacuate anywhere? Did you have to? I just I went to rock Hill State in the hotel, but I was I was actually in the cemetery because I left here when I started hearing stuff about six o'clock in the morning hitting the side of my place and I heard a big boom and then I said, well, the storm is coming from a totally different direction. It normally would come from the west or either south, but now it was coming from the east, and that's where the trees are, and I didn't want it to land on my car. So I left and actually went to Walmart parking lot in York and I sit there and waited for about an hour, and then I went to my cemetery. So I stayed at the cemetery during the worst of the storm that came up. I bet it was quiet, do you know. I just didn't want Do you know how many inches of rain did y'all get? Eight? Eight inches round? Say that again, eight and a half eight point five? Wow? Lord? And then and you were in the kind of the southern edge of that really bad rain. Then, right, Yeah, because the eye of the storm went kind of Spartanburg and we're on the east side. And they always say the east side of a hurricane is the trash side, which is the worst. Yeah, any any permanent damage. Around you, Yeah, there's the I was trying to explain to Mama when I was talking to her and to other people to get up a better understanding where Brian lives in Bedford. He's in the Lucky Historic Area, where there's trees are over one hundred and twenty years old and the houses are you know, built in eighteen hundreds. At the same thing in York there on East Liberty Street and twenty nine houses had those big oak trees that are one hundred and twenty year old laying on their houses. Oh god. So it was really really bad within the middle of town. Because York is Bedford. It has York City, which is about a thirteen mile radius around the city, and then it has York County like Bedford County. So they have their two separate departments like Bedford does, and so we're kind of like similar, you know when it comes to neighborhoods and stuff. But that's what was the worst is they just got those big oak trees just went over onto those houses and they'll never be able to get those houses back. Like I've been. Wondering about some of these towns that they show in Tennessee and in North Carolina, why would you build back? I mean, it's just they're gone, and it's like five it's literally five feet of mud and gravel rock that's as big as this table that a machine would have a hard time getting up. There's one picture on TikTok. I've seen it where the sand is so deep in the house, it's above the bar, like the dudes walking across. In the countertop. Yes, it's just nothing but sand and anything. Yeah. That It's crazy to me. How do you can't dig out of that? That's why I mean how I mean, I know you will, and you grew up there, that's your life, and I know the people are just resilient and community is resilient, but god, man, I just think, just live somewhere else that's higher ground. And you wouldn't leave here, dude. That same if that same storm had happened four hours north, Uncle Perry would have been that house we have on the river would have been wiped out. I mean, what do you do? Then? I guess that is what I was about to just tell you. I just see it. Put yourself in the same situation and perspective. Literally where you and Brian go hunting and y'all's cabins there and you're by the creek. Imagine you showing up and there's nothing there. The whole house is gone, the cabin, your garden, the road, everything from mountain to mountain, and that creek rows eleven or twelve feet and everything's gone. You still own the land. But Trent, you're gonna eventually rebuild that Cara will not be the same cabin and memories, but you will rebuild because I'm telling you what you're doing, You're rebuilding a future for what your daddy intended for you and what you are gonna intend for your kids, and you're not gonna stop that legacy from going on. I agree with you, man. I saw probably the TikTok that disturbed me more than anything. Like seeing the houses go down the rivers and all that stuff is one thing, and it's daylight and all that stuff, But one of the tiktoks that kind of got me was them seeing the river flash flooding coming and it's wiped out a house next to them, and here it comes and a four year old girl just screams and takes off running up the steps. Yeah, and it's it just added that there's humans in these things. Yeah, you don't think about it. You think they got out, but maybe they didn't. And that little girl the mud went past them so they didn't get wiped out. But there was a moment where that little girl thought she was man it was like, oh my god. Well I'm just now realizing that too. I'm reading and I'm finding out hundreds have died from being swept away. Yeah, and you just don't think about it because flooding, you think is gradual. Well, but in these terrains and that's dude, thirty plus inches of rain, I mean, even if it doesn't flow, even if it was flat land, thirty inches of rain is higher than our tables, right, that's but this has terrain. Yeah, so then all of that. Comes down in Ashville. I've heard described as a bowl. So it's like kind of a bowl amongst mountains all around it. So it couldn't do anything but destroy it. Crazy, these pictures of the highways, Like, I'm an engineer and I designed roadways, and I designed a similar road that swept away in Georgia, Pacific and Bedford, and I'm very prised, probably one of my proudest designs. And I look at that and I go, I don't even know where i'd start. I mean, the damn river is still up against the erosion. I mean, that's just incredible. The amount of work. I mean, this is a this is literally fifteen year project. How many construction sites without silt fence, would you have to have to amount to one storm? I just think of the millions of dollars that we spend in legislation, yeah, to stop erosion, and yet one of these storms just does. Just wipes it out just the sure. It's incredible. My daughter, which by the way, shout out to her husband, Josh past the PE. So she's a PE, he's a PE, and they're both professional engineers. But she sent me a thing today and dude, I'm telling you, I couldn't have been more proud. But she sent me a picture and said, I designed two pretty good sediment. Basins that was stood a hurricane. I was like, man, that just that's cool. You know a kid sends you something like that. I told her, I said, I don't think I could be more proud. That's just good, good stuff. And then Perry he told me that Audi he just packed up. Perry just packed up one thousand and forty boxes of food at their warehouse for hurricane relief. That's what I love. Man. Yeah, we're American. Did you get together? Yeah? God? Like I said back when Katrina hit, they should just drop paint bombs into the water and wherever that line of paint when it recedes, just don't build. Past that line. I mean, I know, but I mean I'm like, good lord, because you're just asking for it again, Kevin. Have you heard anything about this company that people were working at when the floods came. I was reading about this today in Tennessee, see. There where they told them they couldn't couldn't leave. Did people buy? The owners said that that did not happen, but the people that are working there said it did. Yeah, they had five eight dusts. Good lord, you gotta but I mean, you really have to understand. Seriously, what happened was catastrophic and it was compatible to a meal in sixty nine in Nelson County. Those twenty five inches and five hours. Literally you have and seriously they have. I mean down here we get a little bit more information than y'all do. But the areas they had to fly drones into in helicopters and stuff like, we got a memo across this morning. And they're finding people in trees and buried alive with them sticking out of the sand. And there's gonna be people that will never be found because they're gonna be Yeah, swept away and they're they're buried in areas. They'll never know where those people exist. M did so. Did y'all see Greg Biffles helicopter rides. I heard that he was doing a lot of good studio. He is incredible. I mean he's just stayed up and just filming more and more and then trying to help tell people where the devastations are. Yeah, yeah, it's it's Trent, you know Camille when that happened and all was of course it was at night time, but yeah, the mountain areas, when you have that much rain, it moves boulders the size of houses and they're moved and putting. You know. It's the mountain side is just reorganized, and so is the town's below. And I stayed at Builtmore Village three years ago, right before COVID hit. So I've been up there to Lake Loure and actually spent the night there over the weekend. Beautiful place right on the side of the mountains. And the pictures I've seen the Walgreens I was in, there's there's nothing there. It's just gone. And all the debris is in Lake Loure. So it's did Lake Norman get affected. Is it Did it rise much? Yes, yes, it had rains and stuff in the and and you know Lake Loure, in Lake Norman and Lake Wilie, all those lakes that are here, they're more downstream from what's happened. So it has taken a few days for it to re you know, to coming here and see significant increases in the water. And so it's kind of like the James River. You know, it gets a while before it empties into the Chesapeake Bay. But it's just it's something that happens once in a lifetime that people experience. It's not the lack of knowledge, it's the lack of the fact that I don't care how many years as an engineer, how many years of a meteorologist, how many years of any scientific major people who are out there doing data. You never can underestimate whether that is caused by the Good Lord above. He is the only one who knows what's coming and when it's coming and how it's going to affect. You can predict all you want to, but I can tell you you can't prepare for what it's capable of happening. And the thing that frustrates me is with anything gun laws weather, forecast, all of it. They wait until something actually happens that's catastrophic that affects sometimes it hits home to them, and then that's when they jump into action. YEA, My thing is why can't we It's as smart as we are as a country, and people come together because if we can do what we can do, And like Brian said on one of his part, and I just watched on on the media squatch when he's talking about the submarine, like you got to understand it. If we're capable of doing that, why are we not capable of being prepared for things like this that it's gonna happen? Or yes? And if we are, and hopefully we are. We have a whole thing called FEMA for emergency management. Why wouldn't they be on there to tell you the next steps and where what we. Are doing next? And and Trump actually called them out. Like where are you? You know what I mean? Yeah? Why aren't you here? Where are you when this happened? So what you just said is perfectly right, Kevin. You know I talk about COVID. We went through a thing where our country shut down. Do we know even today what we would do different than what we did. Then is there someone saying this time, we would do it this way so we can be prepared. Right, that's the thing about this thing that that destroyed. We should have somebody saying, hey, we're bringing water first, and this is where we're bringing the water from. And we have seen people say this is the supplies we need. But they're like private organizations, yeah, saying that it's gleaning for the world. Right, they're the ones telling you what you needing to meet at Walmart? Where is FEMA? Why aren't they saying this is what we're bringing. We should have warehouses of water just in case every year there's somewhere that needs it. Exactly, trim. Don't you say, have a saving an account? People prepare, Yes, you know when you're retiring stuff. Well why not do that same scenario when when you have don't we have stockpiles at Z DOT facilities of what salt? Exactly when the roads in the wintertime gets rough, they got a stockpile of salt that they go treat the roads and stuff. Well, why not have like you said, water's not gonna go bad in a plastic bottle that's sit in a warehouse somewhere that's these places that are shipped over countries. Take those warehouses that used to employee custom you know, employees, and yeah, stock house stuff, dried beans and water and exact stuff people are going to need. So when you have this happen, you have a plan. And if we do have it, why don't we know you know what I mean? There should be someone saying, hey, we do have that, this is where we're going in this from, but we don't have anybody. It's like somebody's afraid to take the reins because they don't want to get the darts. Who's the director of female We don't even know right. The only guy I see anything where is Buddha Judge. They seem to bring him out every time because people are afraid to ask that dude questions. He's scary. That's what we got lead. And now we've got the longshoreman getting ready to strike, getting ready. They're on I mean they're on strike, and we got Buddha. Judge is the guy that's supposed to go talk to them. Hey, when that guy said the longshoreman said we're going on strike, we want seventy percent more rays instead of fifty percent. I mean, this guy's been pretty bold. Have you seen him talk? Yes, I can't side with him. I'm sorry, I have a hard time siding with him. But I'd like to hear why he thinks he needs a seventy percent raise instead of a fifty percent raise when he's already making nine hundred thousand a year, right. I want to hear somebody ask him that. It's like everybody's afraid to asking that question. But do you think Buddha Judge is the guy? And when he says we want to raise, who's paying him? Is it our tax dollar that's paying him? Or who's who's he yelling at? He usually gets gets it from the his dues. From the dues I mean he's elected. No, No, I'm saying he's trying to get his Like he wants a seventy percent raise for the guys that are on the by the way, the dock workers are making one hundred and forty a year, right right, and he wants a seventy percent raise for them as well instead of rais by the way, I have heard that of the docs that goes into ports that we are in the lowest tier of lowest five percent of efficiency. So one of the things that they are striking about is they don't want automation, right, Well, I mean go f yourself, you know what I mean. But who's gonna say that, right? Well? True TRMP. My deal is this. It's very simple, Seriously, it is a very simple concept. I'm gonna say this, I'm gonna give you my picks, and then I'm gonna have the word of the day. All right, I'm gonna have it. End this with this. It's very simple. If you go to the grocery store and buy groceries and you bring them home and cook the groceries you bought versus going out to eat, what's the most efficient way throughout the week? Cook it, cook it the house. So my concept is this, if that's what the concept is, and that's what reality is, that you would go to the grocery store and buy food, come on a cook it. It's a lot cheaper than going out to eat. If people don't understand the same concept with the United States of America, that when you produce your own food and own energy and you don't have to rely on somebody else in another country and have to buy from them and have it shipped here and delivered to the stores, and then we as consumers got to bite. It's no different than going to the grocery store. Will buy your own food and producing it the versus going out to eat. It's no big difference. It's all the same. And whoever stands up their in Congress and starts to regurgitate out of their mouth and think that they're gonna make the American people believe that buying seventy five and eighty percent of everything we use in America today, it's better off buying it from another country is full of it because they do the same concept and sells the grocery. All right, what do you pick? H Martin True? Oh talladega huh galla daga Martin trueck. By the way, let's give him an out of boy, because my man literally picked Chastain to win the race last week now on this show. Yes he did. I don't remember that he did. He picked Chastain to win. Good job, Kevin, Damn. I think it's gonna be three green white checker start. He's predicted he's gonna win. He's gonna he's gonna tell you how it ends. And then I have checks A and M winning. Nice. I have my old game cocks there here in South Carolina doing a big upset. That's a good upset, old miss back to back. Well, maybe they just ain't good. And I've got to throw in there for NFL my main and old Baker Mayfield the Bucks to go end up winning. Who are they playing? They're off this week? No, I'm just kidding. No, they're not blind. Don't try. I'm up to date. And Trent, yes, sir, is the is the closer? Kansas City is going down by the Saints. Brother, what it in the book? You know Kansas City is probably due for that loss? What in the book? Oh it's tomorrow. The Buccaneers and the Falcons. There you go Thursday night. Asking how many more fights? It seems to be on clips everywhere in the NFL. Why can't people just go to games anymore, not fight in the stands. I don't know. I agree with you on hundred percent. I can't even watch those that. It bothers me so bad. It's me too. Although I did see a council meeting I think it was, and there was a woman talking and somebody was yelling in the crowd, and she turned around and started mouthing, and this dude who was at least six seven, three hundred and sixty pounds. Her husband stands up and starts to walk back towards the lady who's yapping. Well. Her husband then stands up, and he's probably woody size, big fella small. The big fella walks up and the little fella just lays him out one shot, drops him, drops him just like a Syco potatoes. And I immediately I thought of old Don Dalton. If you're gonna come, you better you don't come yap in your mouth. Yeah, you come a swinging. That dude one time dropped him and I said, there you go. You don't don't matter how big you are, you don't run your mouth. That stuff hurts my heart. It does. I mean, like thinking about the kids. And usually it's a woman that gets just raked over, a face over the seats and falls over, and all she was doing was trying to watch it damn football game and. Just smilers me. That goes in hand in hand with my word of the day. All right, what your word of the day gets? A hole? A hole. A hole. Two of my friends have never met each other, so before they spoke, I got with one and I said, look he can't here, real good, he's deaf. And then I told the other one, I said, look, he can't here, he's deaf. So they shouted at each other for a few minutes before they realized I ain't no moo a hop. I don't understand it, but it was good. I guess. Oh, Baltimore one, thank you, Kansas City two, one, said Baltimore. Just I'm sorry in front of these ladies that I just called you that. But oh and e no, no, it's top of the seventh. Yeah, it's two to one, one like the number one one. I'll go come across this desk and just choked. It, I said, Baltimore one, Kansas City two. Okay, still the seventh. That was a that's a con job. Anybody else would have said, Hey, Kansas City's landing two to one right now. Over the Orioles. Orioles is the home teams. Middle of purpose. Orioles score four in this inning. I hope, so we still got hope. Then, yeah, they're scoring four right here. They win, they win the series. That's how I just like a win. I'd like to see them beat the Yankees. That's who they have next. If they could get past the Royals. But anyway, good visit by Kevin. Yeah, next week, Yeah, I need to talk it. Maybe I think it's just going to be you and Travis next week. I guess I need to talk to Travis. Is it just who's gone? You're gone? Uh? Possibly? Well, pretty good chance there is. It is the homecoming parade here in downtown, and I've been asked to drive in it, drive a float, drive the high country. Man. Sometimes you have to put I mean, I think ranking priorities. I agree, But there was an honor to drive a float, to. Drive my truck. He's saying he doesn't care about us. Who are you know what I'm saying, Who are you pulling? A Warner. Bart Jake his son. He's in the homecoming parade. Oh wait a minute, he's gonna be riding on the back of your truck waving. Yeah. I can't trust anybody else to drive my truck. I actually could drive it. She can't. She won't. Am I wrong, Caitlin? She will not drive my truck. What's Logan doing. That's a good point. I might just switch up. That's a great point. See I'm here, that's why we're here. Problem solving. Logan can drive. Jake in the parade, And didn't you say something that you needed me to do a show for just an hour? When was that all the day? You're gonna make an announcement for that Grove Street. F M will be returning to Liberty High School for sports this year. And uh, there are three dates I think that are on a Wednesday, So Trent will be taking over right. For those days for those three just an hour long show, that's right. So Emma and I just going to No, no, Emma, she'll be at the games. Yeah, just you and Cyonara? Hey is what are you gonna then push the buttons for the JF basketball games? Yes, it's still in the air that they can work out in the range. Correct, it looks like but it looks like j F will be doing basketball. But you're just going to be doing boys, right. But no, no, I'm I'm just going to do Friday night games. Oh, y'all are only doing Friday night game? Yeah? I was thinking, well would we want to do? Are y'all doing every game? Yes? Oh my god, that's wait too much? Are you crying? Emma? Maybe see I'm just kidding. People tune in on a Friday night game. Why do they care about Tuesday night game? Like I was saying, a Friday night game, whether it's girls. Or boys, just do that. I didn't know that y'all were just doing a small schedule like that. I thought y'all were doing every game. Now we're not doing every boys and girls. We're doing every girls in two boys games. That's sexist. Well, the girls are good. Just saying, what the hell? Why are you all defensive? Yeah? I mean, you're right, I don't care. Yeah, I know that's what thoughts. So are y'all doing just boys and girls on? I was thinking, I need to look at the schedule. Maybe Tuesday night and Friday, Tuesday night and Friday night. We could do. You don't even want to get with your ad on this, and you'll figure it out. I have to talk to him about it. Okay, he's been waiting for what he did say he's going to do it so for just one night? Yeah, but how many nights? How many nights? How many nights a week are you doing a game? I think there's at least two, maybe three a week. Three? But wouldn't it be consistent if you just did, like, hey, we're going to do a game Tuesday night and Friday night. That's what I think people would. Hey, Tuesday night, they're gonna be here Friday night. Right now, we have every girl's game, so they know we'll be there. All right, you've yawned like three times in the last minute, Brian. I'm tired. Been carrying the way to the show for decades. Man, half a decade, five years. When is the fifth year anniversary? October twenty something. Okay, yeah, it's coming up. Are we going to celebrate my five years being here? Nope? If we ever make it that far ratings all right, I'm out in the show. Show we're a little send off with Chris Chris Christopherson. You forgot to say, Bobby, me and Bobby McGhee that he actually that he did write that song in that everybody thinks Jannis Shoplin, but that was he wrote that. But when you listen to the words with him singing it, it makes a whole lot more sense. Me and my Bobby McGee. It's not as good as. Me a Highwayman by Willie Nelson. Hold on, he's part of the highway Men, and so Chris Christofferson, I think his third in the list. I think it's Willie Whalon, Chris Christopherson and Johnny Cash. It's like this was like, have you ever seen the movie Tombstone? Okay, Tombstone's a badass. Maybe we're four cowboys of walking out in the street and then they just that's these are the original four cowboys. They were badasses. And this song was good. Yep. And for credit wise or music old Habit. Oh yeah, that was twenty the first second hour. Yep, that was c. J. Garten. If people listen to that and they want to flock him up, that's fine. How does that? I didn't think it was that good. Okay, all right? In the show with Chris Christopherson passed away this week. Shout out to Chris. How aremen? I was a highwayman along the coach roads. I did ride sword and pistol by my side. Many a young man lost her bottles to my tree. Many a soldier shut his life blood on my bleeve. The master tell me in the spring of twenty nine. But I am still alive. I was a sailor. I was born upon the time. With the sea. I did buy. I settled a schooler around the horn of Mexico. I went aloft in the world. The mains a little blue. And when the arms broke up, this si that I got killed. But I'm living still. I was a damn builder across the river, deep and wide. We're stealing water to Collise, a place called Bolder on the wild Blado, I sleppt and fell into the winter concrete flot. They buried me in my reaching the Norse Old Sound. But I'm still a round along the ways new road, round and around. I'll fly a starship or across the universe divide, and when I reached the other side, I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can. Perhaps I may become a highwayman again, or I may simply be a single drop of rain, but I will remain. I'll be back in sand again and again, sain sagain Ba