LLH - FULL 2 HOUR SHOW - 5.24.23

Broadcasting from Watt's Creative Studios in Bedford, Virginia. You're listening to Life Liberty Happiness with your host Brian Schwide. All right, everybody, welcome to another exciting episode of Life Liberty Happiness. We are live in the David Huneker State Farm Studios in the studio with Woody. Hey, I'm here. This is the song about Trent. Yeah, we miss all Trent in the studio. I know suntime when she's gone. Warner is at the beach inebriated. We'll check having a good time. He's in Margaritaville right now. Yeah, we'll check in with him a little later on. He keeps trying to call, but we've got to show you do so. Anyway, we do have an exciting show today. I'm glad you're in the studio, would he Yeah, me too. Um. We'll talk a little drama, little sports, uh talk. We talk a little NHL in sports, but we also have some local news to talk about. Last year that council was was fireworks. Let's just say use the word fireworks. Fireworks were out. So in second hour, which a little tease to those of you out there, we will be giving away the next two weeks, I think, yeah, I say two weeks, two weeks. Good idea. So you'll be able to listen to the first and second hour. Um, so a little preview of what the plus members get. An hour number two. An hour number two, we'll have our top ten, a little comedy clip. We'll talk to Carolina Kevin, and then we'll wrap things up with mister Warner, who was on vacation. We'll check in with him and see how his vacation is going, which I'm sure his vacation is going good. Those that are around him are probably wishing they had booked a different vacation. Yeah, I can't wait for But congratulations to Perry, his son who graduated the University of Tennessee. So I'm sure he right now is thinking, Okay, if I had told him no, I don't want to go to the beach to celebrate, how would over? But anyway, we'll check in with him an Hour number two right now we will start to show off with this state in history. And in eighteen eighty three, woody, Okay, the Brooklyn Bridge opened. It seems like a long time ago. I read stuff like this, like the Brooklyn Bridge the first thing that pops into my mind is do we do anything anymore? Now? I know how like awesome that is? And then yeah, like the hoover damn, Now we don't do anything. But you know these I watched the little thing the other day about um the Pyramid and Memphis. Yeah, it was supposed to be three pyramids, and it was supposed to be a smaller replica of the pyramids. And where are the league? It's Egypt it over there. Anyway, the project was delayed, then started and delayed and then gotten rid of and then ended up with one pyramid half the size it was supposed to be. And anyway, it's like, we don't We just don't do anything any That's about right though, ain't it. And they were it looked their intentions were good. They were trying to come up with something like Saint Louis Us. Yeah, Yarch again there's something else. We don't do anything. No, we don't. When was it last? Yeah, when was it last? Like monument that it was not that it was epic and like like a lifelong monument, you know what I mean what I'm saying. Yeah, right, it's it's like the same thing with cars the sixties and seventies, you had the muscle cars and the like. What now they all look alike? I mean Alexis and Kiel looks exactly the like. Who's going? God? I wish I had a nineteen eighty seven Nobody or man. The two thousand and six super Toyota Supra was bad. Man, I mean nobody. Oh God, listen to me. I sound like today's word. Yeah, you got that right, kurk budget. It's funny. This is the word. Today's word is kurmudgeon. I use that word often. That is an old person. Uh that is well, like Trent, he's a chromog. I mean he's complaining right now. He wants to be part of the show. Oh God, he's just gonna spend the whole time texting and aggravating. But here's the best part. He's not here, so we don't have to where we should release his text to the plus membership. Just I'll put screenshot now, I will say he just sent a text that is funny. He put the fifth Street round about in Lynchburg was a feat that he did. It's iconic, iconic, that's the word. People from all over can't wait to come to see the fifth Race they'll talk about it. Oh me, anyway, that is the opening segment on Too Drama microphone up. Yeah, or at least in my head, it sounds like, oh, that's right now, it's much better. That's what it is. What was it? The dbay crew was recording. Everybody comes into this studio. Don't sit at the golden microphone, right, don't that's that's Yeah, it's so aggravated. Do not touch, don't touch, don't don't change anything last night. We'll get in a little later on with what's happening. But some guy touched the microphone and I thought what he was gonna have a heart? I almost got up in the middle of the love Street and I was it was too It took all I had to sit there. Oh anyway, under Drama, Um, Brandy, a little you got tripped with you today? I love you? Oh anyway, I took your intrins advice. Yeah, and I watched the Boston bombing. Dude, did you burn through it real quick? I watched two and then I followed the third one up. I think the next day or yeah. So, oh, there's a lot to unpack there. Oh. I just would like to know what the consensus is when people watch it. Yeah, when you watch it, do you take the side I took or do you take the side? So when they interview, And for those who haven't seen it, you need to go watch it because it is fascinating how people form opinions off of the same information. I watch it and I think I want the police chief of Boston working for me. Yeah, because I agree with him. I'm like, yeah, the dude was doing right. And then I watched the FBI and I go, yees, yeah, I don't know about this. And then I hear the reporter for the Boston Globe I think it was yeah, And I go, dude, you're so far out of touch, it ain't even real. There is a gunfight in the middle of the streets, and you're like, I can't believe the police department was shooting like that. Well, there's someone shooting at and actively throwing pipe bombs at cars like it was a war zone, and so much so that he ran over his brother in the street, Like that's the chaotic things that was happening, Like, come on, man, and yet you have this dude who quarterback. Yeah, how could they have just recklessly returned fire? Well, I don't know. Gee, I don't know about the sixth bomb that was thrown at him, I mean white. So what what was the conclusion you came to? Did you and I asked trentp this question, did you feel like there was a narrative especially in the first episode that they were pushing and then by the end of it, it's like, well, why were you even trying to push that narrative because you just you you validated yea, what your narrative? Like you you pushed this whole thing of air Country after nine eleven was so against Islamic people that we created this problem, which by the way, there's nothing new to that theory. That was the theory of nine to eleven. We pushed them to do it. So I guess what I didn't understand is when it was all said and done, it's over with to have the the guy who knew the bombers, who was of Islam, Like, what's Islamic faith? Ye say, I can't believe that they Well what are they supposed to do? I mean, I like they were right, it was you proved the whole thing was right. But the whole first episode was how, oh, we can't do this and this was wrong, and they were just like every other white American in school, and was like, well, wait a minute. By the end of the series, you find out that's not true at all. It's exactly what it was assumed to be correct. It was the only frustrating. So what I've always what I've often thought about with that is this, your view is that people of Islamic faith are being unfairly targeted. Okay, who's being unfairly targeted when a bomb goes off and kills people? Yeah, who's being unfairly targeted? Well? How about the whole range of people? Oh my gosh. And so I just I didn't to me. If you're in Harlem, yeah, and there is a video of a white guy fleeing a store that has just been blown up, you ain't putting a bulletin out that says we're on the lookout for a black guy. I mean, you're saying a white guy and we're targeting that white guy. Right, That's right, It's it's pretty you know. I got one question, Okay, all right, and we'll move off with this time. All right, because I want people to watch it. You need to go watch it. It's worth definitely it's worth burning burning through. Nope, Nope, no pun attended. So I wanted to know the answer to this. Yeah, who released who released their faces the video? I I don't know. I mean, I have my theory. I feel like it was I feel like it was the police, dude. I feel like or if he didn't do it personally, he kind of gave a wink and a nod to somebody to do it. Yeah, and that's how it's done. Definitely. I felt like it absolutely was. But he was awesome though, Like I feel like he I don't know, there wasn't a point I disagree with him. I was like, yeah, I'm pretty in line with what he thinks. So well. I mean they asked him point blank, yeah, and he denied it. Yeah. But you know, you know what is really interesting with this documentary and then there's another one true crime of Chris Watson. Imagine documentaries in ten years, the footage that's captured, you know, like back in the day, like archival documentaries, like you've got some scenes, but you you literally had the bomb going off in this one and you saw it and it kind of shook your heart a little. Like you've imagined documentaries now there's so many cameras out it's unreal, like nothing's missed. Now. I can't believe they showed it though, the Oriental guy, Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, awesome. You want to talk about a decision breaking game changer though, he changed it like if he if he hadn't got out and called for all, they were gonna kill him. Oh yeah, no doubt. So he saved his own life. But now the video of him coming into that's real video. That's real video, dude. The terror that must have been him, I can't. I just can't imagine what he was going through. And I think it is so. I know it's a little point, but the fact that he remembered his GPS number for his car for the cops to track it is an unbelievable. Not only was he his life threatened right by the two bombers, everybody's looking forward. He knows this exactly. He remembers the identification numbers so that they can try. Well done, man, Like I really like, awesome job. Unbelievable. Yeah, And that's what I'm saying. When you watch people say, oh, the cops to the terrible job the copster, listen, un the job that they did is remarkable. Yes, to go from oh my god, two bombs just went off too literally, there could be bombs anywhere to what do we do? How do we track them? Hey, we've got evidence, do we let it go? Do we do this? I mean all of that stuff is going on real time. And wasn't it like it was in the span of just a couple of days all this stuff was. It was it was a total of seventy something like that. It's so good. That was such a good documentary. Oh yeah, So anyway, moving off to that, that's a good one. You gotta go watch it. Boston Bombing, burn Through It. Yeah, it's great new series. I've started picking up that apparently you started watching. Yes, we started watching this and it and it already had us hook, Like I was like, wait, wait away, I don't know what's going on, but it's awesome. Right. So I'm always leary of Key for subtle one because he plays kind of the same guy on a lot of his shows, like twenty four The Designated Survivor. Yeah, but this one it's in that same line. But is it good? Yeah, Like it's it's scary good and it's definitely worth a watch. It's called rabbit Hole, and I think it's on Paramount Plus. Yeah, how far are you in to it? I'm on like episode four and it is deep deep, So for those of you are wondering, it's basically he is a paranoid think tank, if you want to call it that, and basically he manipulates situations to get a certain result. And when you watch it, and it's within DC, so you can picture it's it's a lot of politics, but it's other things involved, and when you watch it, you're like, wait a minute, that's happening. I wonder Kiefer has like an inside line all think about twenty four Yeah, what was the president where he designated design Survivor? And then this one he might have like an inside track to. It's a little worrisome. So anyway, those are my recommendations. Good news is I had listeners text me about my Clarkston Farm recommendations, so there are people taking our recommendations. And for those of you who don't know, we are advertising on TV this past week, I mean we have advertisements on radio, going on streaming television, and then this weekend I mean YEP, broadcast TV WFXR. Lookout for the commercial and it'll be during Nascar, yep, during the pre race, Baseball, so whatever, every sport that's playing. So that's great, yeah, big tim So life liberty, happiness is on everybody's mind and you're listening to life liberty Happiness. Onto sports. It's time sports, all right? Onto sports? And Nascar? Uh. Talking about that was they had their All Star Race, and so what do you in the middle of the NASCAR season, they have this thing called the All Star Race, which in years past has been great. It's lost a little bit of its luster. It's always so most of your NASCAR teams live in the Charlotte area. That's kind of the base of NASCAR. Okay, Yeah, there's a track in Charlotte, and the longest race of the year is every Memorial Day weekend. It's the Coca Cola six hundred. It's been that way forever. It's a big deal. It comes on after the Indy five hundred. That's the tradition. So I don't know how many years ago, but let's say twenty five thirty years ago, if you get how long, they decided to do a All Star weekend the week before that race. Since all the teams are in Charlotte and they're gonna be there. It would be a good time to have an All Star race. So they had it at Charlotte. Okay, it's not a points race, but they would give like a million dollars to the winner. First year they did it, I was there. Oh, Humpy Wheeler, who was the track promoter, took cash from a Duffel bag out of a helicopter and dumped it onto the crowd. I mean, the dude knew how to promote. And so it was. It was so so much fun, and it kind of, like I said, it lost its steam. And then they'd last year they'd moved it to Texas. This year it was at North Wooksboro. Now you're not a NASCAR fan. North Wooksboro used to be a race and it lost its race. It's a very small town like Bedford. It lost its race back in ninety seven I think was the last one, ninety seven maybe, So it's been a long time. The track had been abandoned government funds and the guy who owns Charlotte Motor Speedway took it over. They refinished it, redid it. It was packed. Everybody was there and it was phenomenal. Yeah, the problem was the race wasn't good, but productions really cared, like they were so happy that NASCAR was back at North Wilkesboro, and I think they will reach So they left the old surface there, so it was an old, old track and they're gonna resurface it. But there I think they're gonna change the banking to make it a better race. Okay, so, but kudos to North Wilkesborough for getting that back. Kyle Larson won it. There was an incident. Oh lord, I see his name on the agenda. So Kyle Larson won it all just dominated just swipped everybody. And listen, he's the best driver we've probably seen in our lifetime. Like he's that good. Yeah, he's really good. Bubba Wallace finished second. Everybody should be happy, but they're not because suppose then this is the problem I have with Bubba Wallace. Why does it always a racist incident that happens, but it never happens? And I mean that to Bubba's credit. The garage not if they thought was a noose, not gate. He was not there for that. By the way, did you ever know that? Oh I thought he saw it. No, No, I thought he walked in on it now was no, No, he didn't. NASCAR made that a deal, and then he just kind of went along with it because listen, he was getting yeah, and he admitted that. By the way. Oh so he didn't come out saying like he freely admitted I wasn't there. Oh no, he said from the keetcho. Yeah, this. Somebody reported it to NASCAR, NASCAR ran with it, called the FBI, and all of a sudden it blew up in the media. What he said later on on a talk show was you know, okay, Yeah, afterwards I realized, yeah, here's an opportunity, like he ran with the sympathy. Yeah. An't that funny? Though? It shows you media like it's you never hear of the actual truth. You hear the sensational headline. That's so this incident is the one I don't understand. Supposedly on his radio after the race, somebody hacked into his radio and said, you don't belong here inward. Oh boy, Okay, Now here's the problem I have with that. They said, Bubba didn't hear it. Okay, Well, if you know he didn't hear it, who heard it? Yeah, And here we go again, we think we heard this and you'll never get a recording of it, It'll never come out. But the media will run with this. How could we in the South put up with this? And it's like, look, if you catch somebody saying, like, let's go back to Kyle Larson. Yeah, four or five years ago, he said a derogatory remember when they were I racing during COVID. Yep, he got mad and a racist term. He got fired from NASCAR. Yeah, he got suspended for a whole year. He came back, ended up with a better team, and now he's awesome. Right, Okay, that happened. We all heard it. Yeah, multiple incidents, incidences with Bubba has been well he didn't hear somebody say it, but we heard it, but somebody and then there's no actual proof of it. It's just it's aggravating man's and then in eight months there will be an interview and come to find out it was something else. But nobody will hear that, correct. And it's a shame because the event itself was phenomenal. It was good to see North Wilkesborough. They sold out. I mean the place was absolutely he packed. It's the way it used to be. And even del Junior said, look, We've got to fix the racing part of it because people are wanting this, like it's it's back to the way NASCAR used to be, where it's packed and people are wanting it. So when you say a bad race, what do you mean? Like, well, like when like for somebody that doesn't want like when you say, just wasn't a good race? Like what the dude started last and finished he pretty much lapped everybody. It just wasn't exciting. It's kind of flat, I got you, But it was impressive that he just blew everybody away. Back in the old days, that used to happen because you had an engine builder that did it and you had better or arrow. Now the cars were supposed to be similar, and yet he just blew everybody around. So is he that much more talented than everybody? I don't know? All right, Moving on to the NBA. Oh yeah, yeah, I did. I did see some of this. The Denver Nuggets are going onto the NBA Finals. They beat the Lakers in a sweep, which a lot of people were blown away about. But I mean, listen, the Denver Nuggets are an old school what I call an old school team. They have a great center, they have a great shooting guard, point guard. They have people around them that make the whole team better and they all buy into the team. You know. Sided the Lakers are kind of the new age where they they get free agency and they put these big three celebrities if you want to call them that, on the floor and it just didn't work. Now, everybody says, yeah, but the Lakers barely made it into the playoffs. And you know, they made it all the way to the conference finals. Okay, maybe so, but everybody predicted them to be there at the beginning of the year. They sucked all year because they're old. That's just a fact. Act. So Denver's in the finals. It's the first time in franchise history. Oh wow, good for them, Yes, since nineteen sixty seven. Do you think so, it's good for the Denver yeah. Area. As a matter of fact, they were one of the original teams that came over from the A, the Abah. They're old school. Oh yes, what do you think Lebron will retire? And he teas in retire now, he's not go anywhere. You think he's just whining right now? Yes, yeah, yeah, yes, he's yeah, he's just he's got a Here's what I've always said about people like his personality, Make no mistake about it. They have to be in the news. Yeah, So if it turns into the Denver Nuggets and the Miami Heat, Lebron's gonna say something controversial to get himself back on the news. So if I contemplate retirement, then they're gonna keep asking me. Yes, you know if I heard the headline, not them exactly. That's Lebron to a t. So now, Miami last night had a chance to close out the series and sweep the Boston Celtics to be able to face Denver. But they did. Boston one actually gave Miami the worst playoff defeat they've ever had beat them. I forgot how many points, twenty some points. So they're back in Boston tomorrow night. So we'll see how that plays out. That'll be interesting to see. Now here's a question that I have. You'll be interested in this, Okay, all right? If if both teams had swept last night, it was gonna be nine days before the finals. Lord, no way, that's way too long. What do you do? Oh man? How do you get with these arenas and say, hey, we're gonna move it up a week. Yeah, how do you get with the networks and say hey, we want to move it up. That's a long gap. Yeah, well, I don't know, kind of like the super Bowl. I guess you can't plan for it. You can plan for the super Bowl, you know how they have that two week Yes, you know, you know that. Yeah, maybe they need to plan better. They have a contingency plan. So that's that's a long time to go that. If Miami and Boston end up going to a game seven, then it's fine because you've still got the NBA trickling. Yeah, you still got it going on. But if both teams had have slept and we're waiting nine the momentum oh yeah, people would have advertisers too, look like h So anyway, so that's the NBA update. Hockey who's on the Brads? Brad Love's hockey man? And I can't get it too. I don't know. I'll try, I've tried. If they fight, I'm into it. But then, like like soccer, here's what you gotta do. First of all, you've got to pick a team. Yeah. Once you pick a team and then watch a couple of that team, you're you're not gonna want to watch regular season, but when playoff hockey comes along, it's hard to beat. What's your what's your team? Like, what's the team you hockey? I like to Nashville Predators because my dad lived in Nashville. It was kind of a do they have a fan base that's unmatched? I mean, it's unbelievable. Now Carolina is in the Western or Eastern Conference finals and they are they have a pretty crazy fan base too, but they're down three zero I think, so they're kind of facing elimination now too. But hockey is just it's so fast paced in the action. Even a zero zero game, you're two seconds away from it changing. I mean you just you never know that how fast it is. Soccer is a little different. I mean you got to kick the ball all yeah. So anyway, so that hockey, you know, is they'll be wrapping up. You have Carolina versus the Panthers, and then that's the Florida Panthers, and you have the Vegas Night Golden Nights and the Dallas uh Starsky in Vegas I think is up in their series. So it's probably gonna end up being Florida versus Vegas in the finals. Now, Vegas is a new team. They've only been in the league like three years and then I think this would be their second finals. They're in What's what's the Carolina what's the Carolina team? What's their mask? Hurricanes? They have the best There you go logos, I like, you give me on the mascot. That's it's you should see it. You should go there right now. I'll effort that. Their logo is unbelievably Yeah, badass, I mean it's it's really I found my new team. There you go, and it's in Raleigh, North Carolina. You could actually drive down there and go to a game and it's phenomenal. All right. Sports is brought to you by CNS Business. 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 four O 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 their community Professional services by professional staff today, tomorrow and together. CNS Business Services is located in front of the y in Sweet g Call one five five, eight six one. I like that little fade out. Yeah, life, liberty, happiness, news. Wow, Um, we got a lot to get to and what's happened? What's happening? Is it a jam act segment? Like a top subject already? Um? All right, so last night locally we're in local news. So if you're listening naturally, which we do, hey people have we're in a small town, Bedford, Virginia. Two four five two three. That's right, two three, We're we're there two three or two three. Um. Council had a meeting last night, so they're annexing part of the county. Now, this wasn't counsel just sitting around going, hey, let's just take in some citizens. No, this was an agreement that laugh. Oh you have to do the Manichael, Yeah. They Yeah. This was not something they sat around and said, let's just let's put some tax burden on the people. They look like they're having too much fun. Uh No, this was an agreement that was made ten years ago. And I love some of the people that spoke last night that said, well, you can break an agreement. Yes I can. Would he if I decide to sell you my house for two hundred thousand dollars just to say, and you agree to that, and then ten years from now I come to you and go, hey, I'm gonna need that two hundred back. Yeah. No, that's not an agreement. You could do it, Okay, So an agreement was made. Part of the agreement was, hey, in exchange for adding five million dollars annually to the county budget, because that's what we're gonna be taking in now that you're a town, because the town people have to pay taxes to the county. Now, in exchange for that, we're gonna let you take in this part of the county because that will generate tax revenue for the town. That was the exchange. If you want too, great, I'm gonna let you in on a secret. There's this county administration building. They hold these meetings called border Supervisors. They have representatives that you vote for. Go ask them, hey, I'm curious, why did you serve us up to the town. They're the ones that sold you out. The town didn't say hey, I want these people. Yeah, Okay, so complain. You had people come last night that complained. Oh yeah, Now, listen, I'm gonna be straightforward with you. Having previously been on council, there are times people come in and give you valid reasons as to why you may want to vote one way or the other. Yes, when you come in and you say things that deep down inside, people are going, okay, stop. So let me give you an example. And people aren't gonna like, aren't gonna want to hear this. We are not New York City. You're not paying quadruple the tax that you should be paying. You're in one of, if not the lowest tax county in the United or in the state of Virginia. Yeah, okay, so you are one of the lowest tax bases. Okay. So when you show up to council and you say you're putting a burden on me so much so that I have to choose between paying taxes or buying medicine, yeah, I would say to you that should have been taken care of because Joe Biden has told us he cut medical prescription cost down to Harley nothing. Yeah, so you shouldn't be paying a lot for your prescription drug. He saved everybody. Why you can blame me, But this is what this gentleman said. He said, I'm gonna have to choose now between paying taxes or buying my medicine. So, as a taxpayer that has paid money to the county for ten years, that's me. Yeah, there are times this past year or so that I've had to make a decision do I pay my taxes or do I get that hot tub I've been won and I can't get my hot tub because I've had to pay taxes in the county for ten years. So deck gon it. I'm upset. But in all seriousness, I thought, Bob Carson, who is a representative, hit the nail on the head. Yeah, we can have dialogue. You can complain, and I hear your complaints and we can talk about it. But you keep spewing hate. And there was some hate last night. Yes, and that's only a sample of what we hear apparently behind the scenes for emails conversations, it was much much, much darker, and it's ridiculous. It is just stop stop it. We are I thought, he said it. Well, we are Bedford citizens. We're not county or town. We're Bedford citizens. Okay, we can get along. It's not you're in the county, You're not part of the town. You know, we're all the same people. I'm a county resident. Yeah, okay, it's a betterment of the whole community. I don't get it. So we all should be asking for better services, better everything. And so I council voted six to one in favor of annexing, and so that will take that will go into affect ju life first, I think. So there's a lot to unpack there. We're not going to get into any more of that because that's just the brief of the local news. But for those of you who are sitting there going un understone, why wild do you do lives? Let me explain to you why it changes everything dramatically. You're taking in a demographic that is going to look better to all these people that we are trying to attract to the town of Bedford. That includes developers, That includes people who live in other areas that may be looking to move here. That includes retailers who who have been waiting for specific numbers that the town will will be hitting. Now I know some inside things that I'm not going to divulge right now. But by the end of the next month, there will be big news that the town will be releasing. You will have development happening on that front. A national chain will be moving here. You have multiple housing developments that are going through planning right now. I on average, I want to say, two hundred and fifty new rooftops within the next two to three years. It's desperately needed. It really is, exactly so to the people, real quickly, because I want to wrap this up and I've gone a little too long. But for those locally, the people who complain about will they have been brought any business here? Go drive around, do me a favor. And I mean this in all sincerity. Drive around town. Yeah, you know what, You're gonna see a sign that says Bedford Weaving hiring, Pete my label hiring. All of these businesses are hiring. That tells you we don't have a business problem, Blum, we have a people problem. We need people, and we can't have people until we build houses. So Bedford's on the right track. They're doing fine. Uh, they've got the right people for the most part. The one council ever that literally I can't go. I just can't. I can't go down that room. It drives me nuts. People ushould just watch for yourself, go back and watch. Where can they watch it? Oh, they can watching the app and the girl I have all the Grove Street app and watch even if you're not from this area. Just check it out. And this last one watching yes. So anyway, that's local news onto national news. This is what I've been trying to tell you and Trent for a long time, and nobody listens to me, and I keep telling you this. This is the fight that we're going to be having over the next five years. And we're part of this fight. Even though we're on a small scale, We're still part of this fight. This is a clip of Dan Bongee on Megan Kelly Show and they're discussing Fox News and podcast play cut one. So I'm reading these articles about how Glenn Beck, oh man, it's over for Glenn Bill O'Reilly finished. Megan hasn't done anything that Dan Bongino and Tucker They're gonna be finished. And I'm thinking, these people really don't get it. And I'm talking about media in general, but I'm not sure some people at Fox really understand that. You know, they were good to me I'm not gonna knock them to me. The Tucker thing, I think obviously it was an enormous, catastrophic mistake. I have friends over there still. I enjoyed my time. I love them to death. And I'm not telling you anything. I haven't told them. I just don't think they understand that a lot of people in cable news Megan are fighting yesterday's war. They beat CNN and then it's over. That fight has They've been number one for twenty years. They're not the problem. Now you're the problem. Podcasts, Rumble, YouTube, Twitter with Elon. That's the problem, dude. They don't get it. Yesterday's war. They're fighting yesterday's war. It's the truth. That's awesome. You and I discussed this off the air. If you're listen, you don't understand. If you're an advertiser out there, I'm just I'm here to tell you something. He's hit the nail on the hit. I don't think advertisers understand, because let's just be honest. Let's just say I am a oh. I don't want to use them as an example. I am Channel eleven in Bedford. Yeah, okay, and I'm going out here and I'm selling advertisements, and I say, hey, we have ten thousand listeners or viewers. We want you to run you know, act me, you know, on our show, right, and we're gonna this is our best show and we're gonna run it. You don't know any different now. You don't know that there's any other options. If you said to somebody right now, hey, you can run an ad on Fox, or you can run an ad on Megan Kelly Show. What are the people going to tell you Fox? Right? Ye? And then when you say okay, Fox has four million viewers, Megan Kelly has fifty Yeah, yeah, fifty million. What are you gonna do? Right? And you go, well, wait a minute, I want to go with the one that's fifty million. When the advertisers figure that side of it out, it's over. Yeah, And he's right. They're fighting amongst each other. Nobody's watching CNN, though, And what they don't realize this is from a marketing standpoint, the listeners that you're getting on the Meghan Kelly Show, and like a show like ours, they are dedicated hyper listeners because they're seeking out the content they want. They don't have the TV on in the background just because it's filler like, these are people that are deliberately tuning in so when they hear a message, they hear it. It's not in passage. Yeah, so that fifty million is worth even more than the Fox like, it's worth even more. I think you and I have talked about this before. The funny part is is when they try to recreate it, When CNN tries to recreatefact and they spend how many millions did they spend for Chris Wallace in the online and it failed in three months? Right? It didn't horrible, it didn't even last that long. So embarrassing, and it's like, why can't they do So you should ask yourself, why can't they do what Meghan, Kelly, Tucker, Crossing and those are going to be doing. Why can't they do what glim Beck did Because they're they're in their own cocoon of stupidity and they still double down on, you know, uselessness if you want to really call it that. But I found that clip and I thought, oh my gosh, people need to understand man. I love the frightened Yesterday's war and he's absolutely right. I mean, the landscape has changed within the last six months, right, like and I and I'm and really people keep saying the advertise traditional mini and listen like when you live literally then ask people, well, how what do you watch? You can't like, what are you gonna tell me? I watched rabbit Hole on Paramount Plus. You know, like you no longer or like dedicated to networks going on? I don't know. I don't know. I couldn't tell you. I couldn't tell you. When's the last time you heard that. I can't tell you the last time I saw local news? What channel was that on? Yeah? Right, it's I'm telling you people are Oh, you know what was encouraging? This is side and I'm not gonna do rega too much, but um, over the weekend, we had a power blip and the scanner feed went out here at the studio. Uh, and you kind of forget how people listen. Yeah, and I got bombarded with messages saying, hey, it was really flattering to know, Oh people really depend my attention. Yeah, thank you exactly. No, it's great. Now I found this clip this and this is this is goes to tell you the media. I don't know if you saw this. Did you see where the U haul truck? Oh? Yeah, the White Uh, the White House, right, So to let the listeners know if they haven't seen this, A U haul truck attempted with a single driver too. I think rush the barricades out in front of the White House. Okay, I'm giving you the facts here. There's nothing but the facts facts. The U haul was empty, Okay, one person. Did they pull out a treasure trove of weapons in the car wooding? Nope, nope, no, no. But I need you to listen closely to this clip and you will hear at the end. I want you to pay attention to the guy's name and then what she says at the very end of the clip, and you try to okay, Cut two. There are new details this hour about the person who caused a U haul truck into crashing into a barricade at the White House. That suspect in that incident has now been identified as a teen from Chesterfield, Missouri. US Park Police say that nineteen year old cybar Seeth Condoula was taken into custody at the scene. He faces multiple large is including assault with a dangerous weapon, reckless operation of a motor vehicle, and also the threat to kill, kidnap, orange flick Bodley harm on a President. The collision happened just before ten pm. Law enforcement recovered a red, white and black Nazi flag from the vehicle. There were no injuries to any law enforcement or White houseman. Understand what she just said. Oh my god, we couldn't even pronounce his name. I could. Yeah, And yet you're trying to tell me that that dude's at a skinhead rally. I mean, come on, you see the picture. Yeah, and it's crazy. He's not, Like, no, he's not. He's not a Nazi. This is the farthest thing from it. And that's what I'm going back to. You're trying to tell me that a Nazi sympathizer tried to kill the president by taking an empty truck, no explosives, he had flag in it out, but he had a Nazi because he was gonna show them. I'm just I'm like, come on, do you remember when Jesse Smolet happened? Do you remember it was it Chris r who was the one was David Chappelle, But he said he's right. He was like, wait a minute, yeah, you had two Maga people in the middle of Chicago at two am. Come on, man, even I ain't that dough can can the subway subway saying really, really, and that's that's this, Like you can fool me, but I'm not buying it. Come on, y'all. It was it was so bad. Oh gosh, it was terrible. All right. I have no idea what that's all about. Oh I wanted to talk about um uh North Carolina? Yeah quickly, Oh yeah, all right, North Carolina. I don't know if you saw this or not, but they've got to North Carolina has a Democrat governor, Roy Cooper, yes, and Roy has a Republican led House. So the Republicans have decided they're putting together a school choice billy right in the school choice bill basically from what I've read. Now, I haven't read the whole bill, so I will say, but I've listened to his press conference and he didn't say anything that I thought. So you would think school choice would be a good idea. Yeah, so the pushback they don't. The Democrats can't stop it, right because it's a Republican led house. They have enough votes that if the governor vetoes it, they can override his veto Oh. So yeah, they don't have a slim majority. They have a massive majority. So what do you think he does? He comes out and decides that he's going to call a state of emergency because this is a health crisis because the Republicans are trying to crush our school system and this is going to be detrimental to our youth. Never mind that they're teaching some of the stuff they're teaching in our school systems, but Republicans are trying to ruin it. And all they're doing is saying, Hey, if you can't afford to send your kid to a private school, we think you should be able to use your tax dollars to send your kid to a private school. Yeah, that's the bill freedom, y'all. And that bill is so dangerous that the governor declared a state of emergency. So this is where I have problems. Would he as a constitutionalist, how do Democrats continue to just do what they want and get away with it? Doesn't make the FBI? I mean, nobody's gonna go to jail. No, they they all just get away with it, Like I don't. Did you see where? Um they have a document that the FBI has that directly implicates Joe Biden in corruption. Now here's the problem. In years past, you used to be able to say we have a source that Joe Biden has done some corrupt things. Yes, and we're going to have an impeachment trial, and at that trial, we're going to produce the evidence. Right. Yes, Now they're saying, hey, we don't want to do that. We want the evidence so we can show the American people so people can say, hey, this isn't Russia Gate, this is for real. Yeah, we went down the rabbit hole with Russia Gate with no evidence, and they got whatever they wanted. They got. Remember the eavesdropping phone call, They got all that information. The FBI just says, no, we're not giving you the document. We're not sorry. I will wrap this up with he But here's what I'm telling you, get better pay attention to RFK. Yeah, that dude is gaining momentum, and he's gaining major momentum on the Democrat side, and they do not want to tell you that. Last I checked, I think he's in the thirties in approval ratings with the Democrats. Yeah, or not approval ratings, but in like whether Joe Biden or he's up there with with Donald Trump in ratings. Interest within within his own party, but they don't. The media doesn't want to tell you that. Now. I'm not a big fan of his because he is as a person, I think he would he would probably be okay. But I don't care whether you're Democrat or Republican. If you stand up in front of a microphone and you say I'm gonna go to Orfington, DC and I'm gonna get rid of the career people who aren't politicians but are making decisions for our country, they're all fired and we're gonna start all you know, We're gonna we're gonna start a new including the FBI. We're gonna weed out corruption. I'm voting for you, don't care who you are, I'm voting for you. So if that and that dude is saying that the problem is, I don't know if he's actually can do it. I know one man that can and will. And I'm curious to see how the Republicans square up with Desantists now as well. So he said a lot. It's a good first hour. Yeah, that was a lot, a lot of good for what's happening. What's happening was brought to you by Stay Farm. When you walk reliable insure. You should look at your local State Farm agent. That agent is David Homeaker. He's been a long time 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 Homeaker in State Farm. Their friendly staff have over fifty plus years of combined experience. Call him today at five four o five eight six eight one nine four or stop by their office next to Arby's all four sixteen like a good thing. Dad. All right, you're listening to Life Liberty Happiness in everybody's favorite time of the show, Life Liberty Happiness eighty million, Miami. Come on, man with Brian Fly Truth, truth over facts. What's gonna happen when he's gone? Oh my god, he's no longer president. We have nobody to make fun of. He'll keep it, We'll keep it in the rotation. Oh no, listen, if Trump gets re elected, he's got plenty of material too. Oh yeah, yes, he's gonna say something crazy, so it's not gonna go anywhere. Yes, we'll just have a different bumper, so we'll refresh it. It'll be something that's right, all right. So this clip of eighty million my hands. I found this. I think he was speaking at the G seven summit where he was speaking, but he's talking about Nancy Pelosi and how she got things done. So a little backstory to this. I don't know if the death sailing thing is looming. Yes, Okay, I saw a pole on CNN, My Fox CNN sixty I think percent of the people they poled at seeing them, which you I've always taken CNN polls and add ten percent. Yeah, so sixty percent of people the CNN polled says that they believe we should raise the debt limit with government cuts. Huh. So apparently they're agreeing with Republicans sixty percent. That's a pretty big number. That's pretty big. Now the Democrats are still saying they ain't cut nothing. So I'm curious to see where this will all end up. All right, Eventually, somebody's got to look at Joe Biden do Yeah, it ain't looking good. We gotta do something. Come on, man, give them something to cut. I mean, find something. But I for once in our lifetime. I feel like the Republicans are in the driver's seed on the debt ceiling, and hopefully eventually I think he will figure it out. And I listened to RFK a lot. I have been listening to him a lot, and he says, you gotta sit down to negotiate. You gotta give it to him. I mean, they're in that we do need spending cuts. I mean that you can't just keep spending. So even he agrees with that. So we'll see how that plays out. But that is something that's going on in DC. So this clip is Joe talking of Nancy Pelosi. Pay attention at the end of the clip. Oh god, I'm just telling you. We'll play it twice if we have to. But listen to what he says about Nancy Pelosi and how good she is getting things passed any Leading away, you never had to worry about what the bill of pass, she said, Shad the votes, shot the votes every time, take last five the chat votes so many like changing piece of legislation. Shelf rescued, the economy the great depression? Did you catch what he's in? Leading away, you never had to worry about whe the bill of pass she said, shat the votes, shot the votes every time, chat bout so many life changing piece of legislation. Shell rescued the economy and the Great Depression. Shellscu the economy and the Great Depression. Job Nancy right after bow of I shouldn't say that because say, right after bo got killed on World War But I mean the dudes that he got killed in Iraq did yeah, in the line of duty. We're the fact checkers with him? Then they had they had one during the debate for Trump. Hillary set that up, you remember, Yeah, yeah, like they where's his fact checkers? Like that's not dangerous though, only it's only dangerous. Like I even Bill Maher like I listen to him now and he talks about the dangers of democracy. Hey, I did something this gosh, we're up against it. Never mind, I'll get to that later. Two hour two, that is the first hour. Join us an hour number two as we have our top ten Carolina Kevin Truth. We'll leave you with a little Acy Dissy. We'll see you on the other album. Having trouble with the go Ahead. He's having new the NEOs. You're gonna got to it. 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Everybody can listen first time ever. Yeah, this is it. First time listeners. People will be like, oh, what was going on in our number two that's so special that Dan to charge money. Peek behind the curtain. Yeah, anyway, welcome to our number two. I do want to give us quick shout out to my uh cousin uh Anthony, he uh he's recovering finally, Auntie, So welcome home Auntie. Um. We look forward to getting together. We have a cousin hooting nanny that we get together with once a year where we all our cousins get together man and have a blast. Has that been a word, hoot nanny? Yeah? Oh no, we have it all next week, here we go, hoot nanny. All right, welcome to our number two, our number two. We'll start off with Brian stop two. Now your top ten for the week. Yeah, she's more like a five. I like you faded in and now I look at you being a professionally. Look I'm using both hands over here. Anyway, today's top ten. Did you like this one? Dude? I just all right, I gotta admit I just saw it. Oh. I like being surprised, and I'm so this is probably my favorite top ten so far, favorite top ten favorite. All right, well I have to give so the top ten is top ten video games. Yes, of manufacturers, so some of these are legends. All right. Well, here's the thing. People have to understand. This is my top ten. So it is dated, but but I don't some of them, but some of them are still still you can't beat them. Yeah. Now, with full disclosure, I haven't played a video game probably ten years, maybe even longer. But these are my favorite and some of them, to be honest with you, I couldn't remember the name of I had to google it. But dude, I spent hours playing these games when I was a kid. Now, what console do you remember last? Like, what was your last console? My favorite would have been, um, Xbox all right, because I'll get into that one. Okay. Anyway, all right, so my number ten is Pitfall Atari. This is probably pre date the old school. Yeah, that's yeah. So you know what was fun about Pitfall? But you could go backwards? Oh my gosh the album. Oh god, somebody is listening to this program going, oh, you could go backwards in Pitfall. Pitfall was great. They go play it right now. They dig it out of there at it, Yes, and it was the graphics were so horrible. But to us, okay, I remember the album right now, Oh my god, it was great. Wow, this crocodile swing across the vine anyway, So that was number ten, number nine the Legends of Zelda. Dude, this listen, yeah, like that needs to be like they're new Legends of Zelda. I didn't even know that. Yeah, but I'm talking about the original freaking Ocherani of tom Like, come on, like all these are like yeah, I could go down the list, like I would play for hours and then I would get stuck. Yeah, and I will. I will have to admit something. I got stuck on Zelda and I couldn't get past a certain section. And this was the first time I'd ever heard of this. Someone had mentioned a cheek code, and I'm like, I have no idea what you're talking about. And they're like, oh, there's magazines, man, that tell you how to get through. I'm like, excuse me. We didn't have the internet, so there was magazine that went there was a store that had magazines that held you how to get past these and so I remember saving up my money and purchasing a magazine to figure out how to get through the next layer of Legends of Zelda. You know, in the cheek code. Didn't you feel dirty the first time? And then it got easier and easier, Like there's like I felt like you committed at they might delete my game, all right? Number all? See number eight. This is no almost number one for me? Right the PP seven. Do you remember the gun? Freaking I remember everything about that game. I used to have wars against a friend of mine's son, like he was the gamer and I wasn't right, but I was working late at while he Wilson, and you know, I would end up playing against his son. And there was a gun and I think it was called the PP seven or something, and it was like this, he knew where I had to find all the really good guns. Yeah, and I knew how to find this stupid little speed you had, the little freaking slingshot. Yeah. D The best part of this game is like the pause music. Oh yeah, it transports you. Yes. So I loved Golden Eye, y'all? That the classic classic, good choice, all right? Number seven Raiders of the Lost Arcs Atari. Man, this you're pulling out some Matari things. I don't. I only remember like a select few of Atari. All right. So you get to the very end of this one, yeah, and it was like a shovel though you had the dig it was so horribly bad, and you got down into this tomb that had the arc um and I remember the first time I got to it, I just thought I was the coolest thing, like it was, and I was young then when the Raiders of the Lark lost Ark was it was so much fun. Number six. This would have been my early high school years, maybe maybe my middle school years. Tony Hawk pro skater. This is when Brin had blonde tips in your hair, right, yes, yes, Oh how did you? I just assume the stuff that you use was called sonny. You sprayed it in your hands like peroxide? There, dude, this did you hear Tony Hawk? Like? Have you heard the interview where he gives about how much money money he has made over these games? So they asked him on the podcast he's still relevant? Oh, he's still So the first game he's done like four or five, like the first four or five, and they were writing him checks at one point the first like he was on the fifth game by this point. The first game went into some type of category that's like the classic category, right like the venage games. And they wrote and they said, well you've gone to this and it's a different category. They handed him a check on the spot for four million dollars for just that it's gone to this category and that's the first game reaching a milestone. Can you imagine how much he's made over the course of all of the Tony Hawk's unreal? But that was a fun game. Great game. Um. Now let's see onto our top five Mortal Kombat best. This is awesome. Oh the battles were just finishing the finishing moves. Yeah, like you rip his spine out. Yeah, they fall in the pit if you could learn the sequence. Yes, Mortal Kombat was great and mortal. These things were, by the way, like I don't know if it's like that now. These things took on a life of their own. Yeah, you played Mortal Kombat and Da gunted. If you were good at it, you bought that shirt yep, lifted. Yes, it's all right. Moving on to number four. Dude, I played this so much. I have my one play, my one play that was like a go to with the forty nine. It was Joe Montana and Jerry Rice and you'd throw to the corner and then that was it. Yes, that's exactly right, um, great game. Yes, number three is Nascar. I think it was called the Heat. Yeah, I never played this, all right, So this would be ninety five ninety six. Okay on the computer, the PC. What type of a compact? No, they would have been Dells because specifically built, dude, you get it down. They were specifically built at Wiley and Wilson. So, oh, you you made it as an employee when you got the list that you were gonna get the new computer, like that was the deal. You knew you were crapping if it was a hand me down computer. And Trent knows because he was there. Um, it was me and another guy, Phil, and you raced NASCAR Heat and it was you would push the up era down are dude? It was so realistic back then. Yeah. Oh the Coca Cola car was the prettiest car on the track. But that was so much fun. And that was number three, number two, And I know this will shock everybody. NHL ninety four, that's how long ago. Man hockey, dude, you would and yes, when you hit somebody and they didn't like it, the game would stop, the gloves would come off and you would start this fighting each other. Oh, that hockey game was so much fun and my number one of all time this is a surprise. What I'm well for you, I'm just surprised. I'm surprised. So we're gonna have listeners to listen to this. That know why? This is my number one? Yeah? My number one is Halo? And do you know why why, dude? I can remember playing Halo like for a twenty four hour period to your ozhard dude. We would have parties like old like friends over and one of them I know is listening right now, going, and you would fight each other. So you know the Halo where you would you would be shooting against each other. You know what I'm saying. I don't get what it's called, but oh, knockdown, drag out fights and just mean. Now, there's one listener right now who's mad because I didn't put um football what is it called Madden? Yeah, and there's a reason why I didn't put Madden on it, because he cheats doesn't mean the same to this certain listener who's listening, who's mad because I didn't put it on my list. I was going to beat him. He turned the game off and through the game outside didn't keep me from beating him. And he's listening right now, going, that's not true. It is true, It is true. But Halo Mike Maybury, remember we had him one. He and I would get into Halo battles, damn and I mean we would go for hours and it was so much fun. So Halo is my top good list. And I know there are younger listeners going Grand Theft Auto. Really you didn't do I never played Grand Theft Auto, not one. I played the first, the first one, and it was so different that, you know, it was so new that it was like, man, you can actually pull the person out of the car and steal. It's crazy. Yeah, it's crazy. Uh. And what's what's the other one that was big? My now you're Halo? See that is to me as Gears of War was okay, that was the one where I was playing marathons all night in the Horde modes and that was that was Pinnacle. That was about where I stopped though all right after that? Well, what's the one where you shoot and kill all the time? What's that on? The very popular one it's been for years? Call the Duty? There you go? That's still big? God, that's that's she's huge. Yeah, my phone is just can't I can't multitask like that? Man, everybody's tuning in for the top ten. Oh dude, it's going stuff to say. So it's a great list, good list. You got some good ones on there. So anyway, um, that is my top ten. That was video games. I had a blast playing video games back in the day, but that was not number one thing we played outside game, but video games did become and it's so fun looking back at these and you see the different from Atari to Nintendo and Sega didn't even make my list. Yeah, Sego was huge back in this Sonic Edgehog where you have a good you have a good selection though, because you go from Zelda, James Bond to skating to fighting to sports oh and then a sci fi. Oh yeah, I enjoyed the heck out. And I went from PlayStations to Xbox and Nintendo Atari and the computer loved my Nascar and on the computer it was so much fun. Absolutely, anyway, onto you can't make this up life, Liberty, Happiness Presents. You can't make this stuff on clean nor freak government. Right now with your curator of reality, Bryan Fly all right, so do you have any clue who Britney Grinder is? Yes? I do, yep, all right, Britney Grinder is the basketball player. She went to Baylor. She was in the w NBA still is um but she went to play in Russia and she got caught. Uh was it called TC Yes? Anyway, so she was put in Russia prison and we gave a terrorist and exchanged for a basket like a substantial gun like heavy duty terrorists. Yeah, yes, but we exchanged prisoners and we gave. Didn't it used to be a time where we didn't negotiate, I thought so. I thought that was But good for her. She's back home, and I think she has learned because she used to not appreciate the United States. She now stands for the national anthem and has been appreciative about that, I would hope. So you imagine if she'd come back and she didn't stand You imagine that really. But this clip, we're getting ready play and this is why you can't make this up. So this is the coach. Her first game was this past week out in LA I believe it was home game. The coach is complaining in this clip because apparently nobody showed up and she's appalled at hey, And this this is goes to what I have been saying all along. Yeah, a lot of this stuff is media driven. The media wants you to think that the whole world cared about Brittany Grinder and bringing her home. Yeah, well she came home, she played and guess what, nobody came. So play this clip cut three. But it was great but like, honest, come on la, like we didn't saw the arena fr VG like I expected more, you know, to be honest, right, Like it was great, it was loud, but um, how is how is it not a cell thought? Why is that? I love his whole bit Bill Burr is hilarious. It's the that whole set he does is hilarious. So you didn't get my coming Now, I don't have a comic clip loaded up. I was wondering, Well let me see. So for those people who were wondering, we typically set these clips up and not get my clip. And that's okay. I can pull it up if you just give me a second here, If I can get my stupid phone work, I will play a clip if I can think, I think this is uh all right, let's play this and it can become hard do She'll hire someone to fix something and they always come talk to me. I just think they're used to talking to husbands and they come to me and I'm like, I don't know why you're here. We had our water heater something I don't know, but I walked by at the wrong time. Now I'm in a water heater conversation and I'm like, yeah, well these tough times for water heaters. Yeah. Well, finally, you know, he's like, where's the water heater at? And I was like, I don't know. They're like, I don't like, I don't think we have one, to be honest, and we would like to buy one from you today. So if we could go out to your truck, I would love to pick one out. And he was very confused by this. He didn't know what to say. But you know, it's a new time. So he was like, is your husband here by any chance? O me? So good? He is so good. Um, And it's so true. I've been in that situation where it's like your wife doesn't tell you about something and somebody shows up and you're like, I have no way you're talking about Wait a minute, oh me, do we have Carolina? We got Carolina around like a loose Coopers in the ice train. Carolina. That guy all right, keep yo, all right, Now you've got to pick up the show because trans on vacation. Oh okay, that ain't a problem, so don't be asking for because just up the anny a little bit. Yeah, just up in a little bit, bring a little little liveness to the show. I got wait minut up too. Oh, just doing the same old same on. How are the plants doing pretty good? I had a couple of them to get some h disease on them. I had to go ahead and take them out because if they start having yellow spots on them and uh, they started to look a little funky, you gotta pull them on that and get them out of the garden because when it rains or you water it, when the water splashes up, it'll go on other plants and it'll spread to other plants. So it's fun. It's kind of like was it a fun guy or some type of you know, it's a good show when U Carolina Kevin uses the word fun hung guy, fun guy. Uh spread to other plants. So you got to get rid of it. So I went ahead and pulled them on out and planning new ones. So the race, the All Star Race this past weekend was in North Wulksboro Hot is North Wulksboro near your location, Um, Greensboro, to the west of Greensboro, a little bit south, so it's about an hour and south. That's a new word south. Oh God, did you did you go? No? I wasn't able to go. But they are coming to Charlotte. They got the Cola Cola six hundred coming in this weekend, but I do not think they will be able to get it in and maybe rain delaytors. You got rain coming in? Huh, well, everybody does. There's a a storm developer right now off the coast of Florida that's going to come across the Panhandle and start developing on the east coast and ride on up almost like a northeaster. Wow. And so it'll probably bring us here in rock Hill probably I guess three four inches of rain winds. So you're saying a Memorial Day, it's going to be a wet Memorial Day weekend, Yes, for the most part. But I've got a good segment on what to do. Oh good during your time of being rained out. There's a lot of people get together. They cook out, They you know, get together as a family and chill out. One thing that you can do is. I thought about this this week and I said, you know what, I think people should go back and try to cook a dish that you've not had since childhood. Bring back nostalgia dish. So like you and I, Mom used to fix us what was called goo last years ago? Yes, and you fix that before. Have I fixed it? Yes? I can't make it like Mom did. I've tried. I just can't. Well, I encourage people that's gonna be at home and having a more day weekend to try to fix a dish that your parents are grandparents cook that you have not tried one. You could probably try to cook grind is like, um, well the saying was on a shingle. You know what I'm saying, right, Yes, we did it. Well, you should have dad. You can fix like goulash. You can have salmon patties, rogan off yees, cheese, toast of You know, there's a lot of dishes out there, even them all and used to cook made yeast rolls. I mean, have you ever tried to cook yeast rolls? I have. Now here's something before you go further, I will tell you this. You learn a lot when you're trying to cook on things like I don't know how that previous generation did it yeast? I didn't. Did you know this, woody, Have you ever used yeast before? Has an expiration date? Oh? Okay? And when you buy yeast from the grocery store it has dates on it, which I didn't know. I was unaware of. But also you can also get a bad batch of yeast. I tried to make yeaest rolls one time, and I didn't pay attention to the temperature of water, and it's screwed it all up. So you have to have the right temperature of water. Or two correct sour dough bread. You ever made any sour dough bread? I have not. Uh. When they called Mamma used to make um corn pood? Have you ever made? For those people listening national they don't know who memo is. Let's just we have to give some context you. Mama is there, grandmother, their mother's mother. So mama cooked everything homemade. Correct, It wasn't anything that she did not cook. It was homemade, even to her three layered coconut cake. That's right. Um. But this weekend, everybody out there try to go back and check and say, hey, let me try to cook a dish that my parents or grandparents has cooked before in the past that I haven't tried, but it was good. A lot of those dishes was even brought to your homecomings at church. Another thing is is put your phone down, play a game of checkers, I mean, do charade, do something, because when people are together and all they do is get on the phone, you're not interacting socially. You're not experiencing what we got to experience when the week was like joing. But do those things this weekend, and after you do them, the outcome you'd be like, hey, this worked out great. You know this dis worked out great, but you know, just kind of change some things because it is going to be raining and a lot of pep are not going to be able to do outdoor plans that they wanted to play involved all or going fishing or such a such. And I knew Trent was at beach this past week. He's there now, so I know he's been gone in the vacation and and having a great town. Yeah. I think they had a low Country Bowl the other night. So on that on that topic that you're talking about, what do you have you ever did you have a grandmother or mother or aunt or aunt, somebody who cooked. Oh yeah, oh yeah you did. I've got I've got quite a few actions. And have you tried to make any of their stuff? Yeah, it just doesn't. It doesn't hit the same. It doesn't, it does not. I don't know. Like I will tell you. I've tried, yeah, and I some of them have turned out good, some of them have turned out bad. But here's what's consistent in all of them. You work your reary too hard, and when you finish, you're exhausted. And then you think back, Oh lord, they did this every yeah, yeah, every day born in noon and night. My mem all made everything from scratch. Man, Like, how did you do it? I'm exhausted. Yeah, well, Brian, it becomes an art. It's just like painting a picture and repetition. And you got to keep doing it because she didn't get it to a point unless she kept doing it over and over and over, which she never used a measuring cup. That's true. And when you get that precise on something making that you don't have to use a measuring cup. You already know because you know what consistency that it's supposed to be. You know by taking your finger and dipping in their tasting. It's saying, oh, that needs a little bit more salt, a little bit more pepper, or this grading needs for meal. But it's it's you're you're perfecting something that you was taught, that was handed day on by her, which is their great grandmother was handed down to mamma and then mama and so on. But you know those old recipes that people are able to cook and to enjoy. Oh, just get away from the fast food pizza and chicken and stuff for one day and try to try to do something that your parents or grandparents cook. Could It'll be well worth it to at least sit there and eat it as a family and reminisce back and say, you know what, this is what Grandma, Mimi or Mama. No, you're exactly right, and listen, it's more than that. Like, here's what I think like this this generation of like my kids. I mean, I consider and tell you I had an uncle that could make cornbread like no other Uncle Dewey could make cornbread like you would crave it. It was so good. My mama could cook, My mom could cook. You know, you had different in things like do you ever think about your cousins or children. I mean you want them to go, oh my gosh, you should have had my dad's barbecue or man, you like, what is this generation gonna say? Man? Like you know what I'm saying, Like I do one thing I think I can hang my hat on is my barbecue ribs. People die for them and I and I do spend a lot of time on them. That is a twelfth to thirteen hour deal. Yeah, but when they come out, man, they are they're pretty good. And well you ever got to that point unless you kept doing it over and over. We're just like, ma'am all you used to do so and you just gotta if it comes an art and a practice and it becomes something that's that you perfect yourself because one person's uh you know green being cast role is different from another persons. Now, what you don't do is make fun of people in their food like you did with my poor wife. Well she tried to redefine here we go, Oh that's going to delete a membership readside these yes, fundamentals of a that is probably in families homes. So what was wrong with it? Kevincent of the time during the week that most people had what was wrong with the mac and cheese? Kevin, spill it is it? What? Hello? Do we lose him? Shug? She put sugar in it. Shelly puts sugar in her back and cheese and it just ruined my brother. He couldn't keep his mouth shut. You know what I do. Oh, it's delicious. So let's just thank you so much. I love this dude. What and then he feed it to the doves under the table. Oh my god, you're making this art on me. Don't It won't be getting no truth to this. Whatsoeppen iditate you? He's like, Ashley, can you give me a drink? Real clear? She get up the next thing, you know, I hold the mac and cheese. Don't use the dogs like runners, because god or dog has diabetes. Now, you know, my wife told me one time, she said I cooked for my first husband forget about. So all right, Kevin, wrap up with you got a word for us this week or anything to wrap up? Oh? Yeah, I guess I got one. Um it's I guess. It kind of goes in with we're training is it's uh. The word of the day is designed. My favorite part of the beaches, all design girls walking a boy. All right, we'll catch up with you next week. These out. Oh my god, Oh my god, I'm gonna get killed. Man. You know, I would love to try this mac and cheese. I think it's um, I think it's good. Well, yeah, what he's over there giving me hand signals for people who I can't. I don't know sign language. I just gave you perfect sign language. I'm a little slow sometimes, man, you know. So anyway, if you're new listener and you've seen an advertisements, are come to growth to listen to highly produced entertainment. This is what we've given. You're getting ready to listen to our co host, who's probably three sheets to the wind at the beach. But we're gonna hope to get him on the line. I will. I'm waiting for a thumbs up from our producer. But I just got three things to say. God bless our troops, God bless America started whole time. All right, So welcome to the show, mister Warner. The best part about this is we have a mute button, so when you get out of hand, we can mute you. How's the vacation going, vacations great? It sounds so sad. He just got up from a nap. Oh you spoke up, it's all asleep? Turned show that snap you ever had? Oh you got some clips for this is what do you got to bring to us this week? Mister Warner? I don't. I don't have anything. I mean, I literally was just part of the show and you guys just you down. What does that mean? I don't, I don't, I don't. I don't want to have anything. What does that mean? You have clips? Nope? Do you do realize we're going to be in a national audience after these commercials run and this is what you're bringing to the table. You didn't include me at all? Uh So, I take it your vacation has been going well. Fantastic He loves that word fantastic. Did you do any cooking this week? I'm done well. Cook breakfast is borning? Who did the low Country Bowl? That was uh Ethan? He did low Country bull They like I told him, we're gonna eat will you catch? Like? Our supper tonight is dependent on what y'all catch today? And that's it. That's they They fed this fish, Spanish bacle. They fed the fish. Was it good? Oh? Delicious? Oh delicious? And fantastic? You know what I got through life with fantastic and delicious. Oh me, how's the weather? I hear it's getting ready to ring a lot? Yeah apparently so. But you know what, I got a roof over my head, I got sand in my feet. Which which beat? Are you at Atlantic Beach the Crystal Coast? Have you been to the sanitary yet? That's with me, mall tomorrow memish, Oh, come and Louise are driving tomorrow right and we will hit the sanitary. Oh that'll be fun the story. Do you have a special dish that you order at the sanitary? I like a tuna stake. Oh hm, well that's not bad. You you cooked a fish one time. Y'all, y'all read my text? Oh my god, we're doing a show, like literally a live show. I know. I was listening to the whole show and then no, you weren't. You were asleep? Well I did wake up for the I have video or graphic evidence of you sleeping during the show. Woody. Oh god, here we go. I'm over in the corner. What are you. There's about twelve texts that I've sent to you, guys, and with no replies. We're doing a show. I can't like, I can't right now? What the hell I was trying to help? Okay, you're you're on right now, and yet you've said nothing. Let me, I'll tell you what. Hey, Trent, let me read that Brian, just for the audience out here so they can understand. Here's the last text we got from Trent. It was a it was a Mimi. It says camp was your in bottle of water, passes, bud Light and monthly sales. So that's there we go. Oh my god, I think I'm gonna make them available to the Plus members. I think that's what the Plus members deserved first week for Yeah, for good, free bottles of bud Light, free bottles of bud Light. And Trent's text messages. You just brought up something. I'll tell you, Trent, because this was interesting to me. I was at a local store owner's business the other day and I asked about the bud lights in his case. You know what he told me, Oh what he gets twenty dollars for every case a bud Light he sells. They are paying him twenty dollars. What because it is going out of date and they have to get rid of it, and they're willing to pay you to sell it, to get rid of it, because they've got more products coming in. Have you heard of this trip. I wasn't even listen to what you just said. Oh my god, Well this has been a great section, and I'm so glad you can't prepared. This is I knew. I knew. I knew this was gonna be a struggle. Hey, when I'm on vacation, Yeah, I call in. Oh man, you get the zoom background going at the background, got the zoom going, ready to go, prepared all day for it. No, I said, clips, Well you're on right now and you've said nothing. I don't think that's true. Well, what do you have for us? Well? Nothing? Jeez, Well we hope you have a good vacation. Hello, it's I think he's falling asleep. I think he's following us. Sleep again. This is again, this is the episode that we're giving to a national audience, and this is what we came with. Yeah, but I mean I try to call in to start the show. All right, Well anyway, well you'll be back in studio next week. Correct If I don't get fired. Contract negotiations, you get your contracts. This is gonna this is not gonna be He's gonna take his show to Twitter. So I have a feeling he's gonna be in trouble tomorrow when Thelma and Louise gets there. What's crazy is has been calling me and I don't know what that's about. He probably would test drive a tesla right into a wall. I take this phone call. Yes you should, you absolutely should. Well, we'll get we'll catch up with you next week. Seeing Trent. Well, wait a minute, no gotta go. That was Trent Warner on Life, Liberty, Happiness. For those of you listening nationwide. He is usually in studio each week, but he was going on vacation this week, and apparently he is enjoying his vacation, having a great time. So much need to rest with his new jobs. I wonder how that how vacation is panting out. He did send us an end of show clip though we do have that good well too much time, but yeah, we will. We will definitely get into that. But it has been a fun show. Absolutely. I wanted to talk to you a little bit about Woody. I didn't. I didn't talk to it about it in the first hour. Um, but we'll talk about it a little bit. Well, I think we did cover some of that, But um, do you have any any plans for the what we've got Memorial Day this weekend? Yes, we're actually doing here locally again if y'all of us in local in Bedford zip code, we are doing U D Day, the national D Day. That's a fun thing. Yeah, they have Memorial Day, D Day and Veterans Day. They do three big events and we are doing the live stream on Monday for them. They're having a big event hopefully the weather will cooperate, and then the next week we're doing the D Day actual D Day event as well. We're live streaming that to their site. I'm to the website and to the grocery FM app. They're letting us do that, and yes, we gotta come cool U D Day stuff going on. And I actually, uh, my birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks, so you would appreciate this for your music choices. So we were deciding what to do, Laura and I we were like, well, what can we do. I'm forty two, I want to leave town for a couple of days and whatever. We saw that Kenny Loggins is coming to Williamsburg, so we're going to Uh, I got tickets to him all the law. Yeah he's still alive. I hope. I don't know how he's been sound, but whatever danger zone kicks in, it doesn't really matter. So yeah, we're gonna do that. So I'm really I'm really looking forward to listening to Kenny Loggins laying on the grass and get a colonial Williamsburg. No, you gotta bring an umbrella. Yeah, I know, I'm scared. It could it could go either. It could be like scorching hot or rainy. And then yeah, all right, before we've got some time before we get to her in this, I have to tell you, okay, story, okay about my precious daughter. So um, I'll start this couple of years ago before COVID, she went to a camp over the summer for theater. So we have a local theater here for those who are listening locally and nationwide. In the town of Bedford, we have a great theater company called Little Town Player, and they put on I don't know, a couple of plays a year. I think they just did Little Shops of Horror, which I heard was phenomenal. My wife went and my daughter went. A couple of summers ago. My daughter decided she was going to do a theater camp at Little Town Players and they did a play and she did really well. She had speaking parts. She really enjoyed it. She thoroughly enjoyed being around all the actors. You know, it was cool, it was fun. She's always been a part of the school play, which you did videotaping for last couple of weeks ago. It was fantastic. Timberley Christian did the Frozen Junior and it was good. So my wife and daughter go last week for Little Shops of Horror, right, and my daughter says, Hey, I think I want an audition for a little orphan Andy that's coming up at Little Town Players, Okay, to which I think both both Ashley and I decided, Yeah, that ain't gonna happen, right, And I, honestly I don't. I can't speak for Ashley, but for me, it was like, yeah, we got soccer, we got this, we got that, you got camps. Get Yeah. Well, yesterday I pick her up from school and she says, hey, we've got the auditions tonight for the play musical. And I'm like, oh, you're going to that. We're still on that. Oh okay. So I'm texting my wife, Hey, she still wants to do the audition blah blah blah, and so there's a form you gotta fill out. So Reagan is all gung home. She wants to do this, right, Yeah, my wife reading to the form and it says that you have to perform a song. Yeah, as part of your audition. Okay, Well again, my daughter's only eleven yea, So she's going to a professional theater for an audition. Is she prepared ned? Does she want to do it? According to her, yes, So she says, okay, I'll do it, and I believe in her. I'm like, okay, yeah, cool, you can do this, my wife says Regan. It says here, you've got to be there from Sunday through Thursday, from seven o'clock to nine thirty every night, and then I think two weeks before the play. It's pretty much every night, and that's not until the end of July, so you're pretty much there is no vacation. Yeah, So I just need her to understand there's a commitment there. She's all for it. Well, they leave, she goes to take her to audition. Why I tune into the town council stream. So I'm watching that show when my wife comes in, you know, fifteen minutes later. Yeah, and I'm like, hey, that was quick, and she's like she was fine, just me dropping her off. The lady said, hey, you're welcome to stay or you can just leave her, and that's fine. I was And she said, I came back to watch, you know, the council meeting. And I'm like, okay. So my wife goes and picks her up, comes back and the auditions were over about nine o'clock last night. So a couple of hours walking and my daughter goes into the bathroom and Ashley is about in tears. Oh no, And I said what. I was like, how did it go? Ashley said, well, I guess I let reagans God. So I'm thinking this is not gonna be well. So she does her audition and she says, everybody is walking over to the lady at the piano and handing her sheet music to play for her for their song. Oh no, Reagan said, I got up there and just said I don't have any She said, I sang happy Oh I bet she's sang happy birthday, like probably the best rendition ever. Oh she beat Marilyn I guarantee, but she said, and I thought, oh my gosh, that must have been scary, you know. Oh yeah, she was like some other little girls. She got up there and saying Twinkle Twinkle, little star. So and she was horrible. And I'm that's my daughter right there. Everybody else sucks. So I'm curious to see where she ends up, you know, if she's so, if she you know, makes the audition and ends up being in the play. I didn't good for your Juli's book. I would have never done that, never go to an audition of a theater. I mean I would know. I school play, yes, I get but down the street, you know, come on, I did one school playing up threw up the whole time before the all my nerves got yeah, I'll oh my god. I didn't even have a line, Like I was like one of the off characters that held a piece of paper up. That was That was it. That's It's funny you say that because I talked like, here's it's weird. I'll give you an example, counsel. Yeah, I don't think I ever got nervous. Yeah, I just talked that would be you know, people in the galley, and it just never occurred to me to be nervous. Yeah, when Trent and I went for air a court case, dude, Trent made fun of me because I was my lip was literally quivering as I'm like you, I mean stuttering. Why it's just a jub And never mind, you've done over one hundred and some episodes of Oh my god, dude, I don't know why an interview making Kelly. So it's funny because now I think back to Dale Junior, who said, look how popular he is and how he's out in the public. But when he was asked to do an award show, he said he didn't sleep, he threw up, he did not want to do it because he was so scared. Yeah, and he does TV. Terry Bradshaw, I've heard is has massive thing, right, Yeah, I get it, I get it. But it's just weird. Dudes can go out and play in front of one hundred thousand people and kill it and kill and are great. Yeah legends, right man, you put a microphone in front of him. Oh, it's been a great show. We miss our co host being in the studio. He'll be back next week. Crystal Coast trenta Crystal Coast Trent. I can't say that's fat. We'll say one time. I don't do you have vacations playing this year? We got that one where, yeah, we're going on a big one in September. We're going on our first cruise and to Disney Cruise. We're going to the Bahamas and then after that to kind of decompress for a couple of days. We're staying at Disney World. So it's all Disney, but it's a cruise and then Disney World and then yeah, that's in September though, So you're boycotting of Disney's now, Oh man, I'm I'm boycotting them. No man can boycott boycot Disney. We didn't even get to Target. No I did. I haven't been in Target, but I yeah, Disney, that's that's on a no boycott list. I can't do that. I can't. I love it, understand. Look I went to Disney and I loved it. Yeah, I did. I thought it was phenomenal. We've done it twice. We did it with Logan and we did with Reagan, and both of them I think had a great time both times. Yeah, um, and I mean I enjoyed the heck out of it. I just I can't. I can't. I don't understand why woke has to come into all of our lives, Like why can't we just can't we enjoy you? Well? And I think, did you see the advertisement for the Ford Raptor that's been circulating the new truck? All right? So I think my problem is it's like I have no problem, like I mean, that is a demographic of people that exist. I mean, I agree with the lifestyle completely, but if they're happy there, that's in their home. It's none of my business, right. I think the part that angers me is from the marketing standpoint, because I think these big corporations are just pandering or trying to capitalize, and these groups of people should feel they should be offended that they're being singled out for something. It's like when you watch a career, you want to know what the truck does, the features, the price, Where can I get it if I want it? Right? Instead, to these small groups, they think, well, they know they can capitalize, like bud Light that, oh, we can make a little bit of money off this group if we do this, and it's it's kind of offensive. I think that that's my main problem. I don't. Yeah, like you whatever. Yeah, that's exist in the world. That's fine, But it's the pandering. This's just kind of like a stop it, stop big business. Just just advertise your product. Don't try to cater and pull more money out of a group you don't think you have. I think it's deeper than that. I think unfortunately, these people sit in an office and don't have anything to do. There's no there's no ramifications for bad decision making. No, not now, Like if you had done something like that at Nike back in the day, you'd be out, you'd be done, fired, gone. Now it's like, you know, did anybody lose their job at bud Light or at Anah has a Bush and they're losing substantial yes, Like now they're starting to go, Okay, this isn't good just now figuring this out. But I mean it's not just them. I mean, you know, you have other businesses that are going down the same target like I did. I had no idea target was like this. I didn't know that that that part, the tucking part, and people you'll have to google it if you know. Oh it's that that part. I don't I don't protect I don't like that I really don't like. That's you're you're going into the child. Children should be off limits. Yeah, they're all and it's something all of us should be agreeing on. Yes, that that's that's ano. Not eighty percent ninety nine point nine percent should agree. Leave the children alone. Just leave them alone. Yeah. Did you hear some of them removing the display that those displays to the back of the store. Now because of that doesn't fix it. It does doesn't take it out. Take it out, ye, take it out. It doesn't belong ye. So I watched a creature recently on a clip where he was reading to the school board the most vulgar stuff I had ever heard of. I can only imagine it was like a novel that my parents or my mom, you know, Danielle Steel, Oh you know, Yeah, But I mean he's reading this book and it is disgustingly bad. Yeah, And the school board member asked him to stop. They've asked him to stop multiple times till he finally stopped. And he's and he said, and he's right, this book is out of your library. Yeah, this is not my book. This is your book. If it's not, if it can't be said at a school board meeting. How are you allowing aleven year old kid to check it out at the library? Like we've lost their common sense? Yeah, and we've lost what all of us. We have the majority and I don't mean Republicans, I mean ninety nine percent of the public thinks this stuff is crap. Yes, and they don't speak up in the one percent of people that half issues are the ones making the decisions. And like, I can't imagine what it's like to be in Congress and look at a witness that is sitting there telling you I saw one today. The lady asked, She said, you're part of government waste task force at the VA. You don't think losing one hundred and eighty four million dollars is waste? And he said, no, it's not. And you just scratch your head and go, do you understand what you just said? There's one hundred eighty four million dollars that could have went to helping vets. You don't know where it went, and it's not waste. You can't account for one hundred and eighty four million dollars. Nobody knows where it wet, but we can tell you that it wasn't spent frauduly and it was waste. Those were the two things he could guarantee. How do you guarantee it when you don't know where it went? Anyway, great show. Next week, we'll be back to normal. I hope Trent, if he comes back from the beach. Oh you know what, I may not be in studio next week. Well, those of y'all who saw that have seen the commercial and are tuning in. Oh, yes, let's keep tuning in. Now, keep tuning in. I'll be in Virginia Tech next week, but I think i'll be home Wednesday night. I hope it should be. But I'll take my computer with me because I will do my work and make sure it's a special zoom background. All right, everybody, we'll leave you with Trent's clip. He couldn't be here in flesh, but he was here in spirit. See you next week. Five minutes. I'm want to say the choir part out loud, because we all know exactly what's going on here. It wasn't a fully automatic machine gun that was banned nineteen eighty six. It wasn't the bub stock. It certainly is not the pistol brace, and it is not the Air fifteen of which I am the owner of multiple. The Left has been shipping away in our Second Amendment rights for decades, and I'm sick of compromising. Every time my colleagues on our right compromise on guns. The next thing the left says is we need to do more. If the Left can't repeal the Second Amendment, that they'll have an unlicked bureaucract like yourself, sir, it should a regulation that will make forty million Americans felons overnight. That's a fact compromising on our fundamental rights. It's not going to keep our children safe either. Our children should not be prey for homicidal maniacs, and our schools should not be safer. Should not be as safe as we have here in Congress. It should be far safer we have right now. And if we're spelling, if we're willing to spend one hundred and thirteen billion dollars in the Ukraine, that we can pay to keep our children safer. So the gentlemen in the corner, thank you, sir, for standing in the corner with a gun. And I feel safer by his presence already. And every school should have you present. I was in high school when Columbine happened, and prior to Columbine, we didn't have the level of violence that we're seeing today. In nineteen eighty six, you can walk into a store anywhere in this country and by fully automatic weapon, and being from Texas, acquiring a weapon has always been relatively easy in my lifetime. Were they more or fewer mass shootings across our country when machine guns were available? I think we all know the answer to that. We still weren't having these problems because it's not the guns, it's our core values that have plummeted. The Left has been chipping away at our rights for years. They've also been chipping away at our core values. In nineteen sixty, sixty one percent of Black Americans were married. Today that numbrest plummeted to thirty percent. I am a current member of Congress today because I was raised in a two parent household. We ate dinner together every single night, We prayed before dinner. We get to the church every single Sunday. My parents were heavily involved in my education. I said the Pledge of Religions every single day proudly, and I know every word to God. Bless the USA. By Lee Greenwood because of these values. My sister and my brother and I all graduated from West Point. We all served our country honorably. They're sixty years worth of military service just in my immediate family, which is by definition the American dream is because of these values. A recent Wall Street Journal survey came out and it kind of confirmed these decline in our core American values over the course of the past twenty five years. The question was, is what values are viewed as quote, very important? Patriotism. In nineteen ninety eight, seventy percent survey felt like patriotism was very important. Today thirty eight percent, religion sixty two percent very important today, thirty nine percent, having children fifty nine percent in ninety eight thirty percent today, community sixty two percent, and ninety eight twenty seven percent today. The guns haven't changed. The guns have always been available in the United States. Society has changed and has changed drastically, in my opinion, for the worst. So where does that leave us today. There's a reason why crime and gang violence is up. There's a reason why black women are the fastest growing demographics of gun owners in America. You know that, sir, many of them live in Democrat run cities with rising crime rates and district attorneys that put criminals ahead of innecent women like we see in New York. And by the way, it's not their husbands or they're significant others that are purchasing guns for them. Black women are purchasing guns theirselves because we know that Democrats replace black husbands with Uncle Sam. A long time ago, I've been listening to my colleagues on the left talk about guns all day. You have no idea what you're talking about. I fear that if you can't tell me the difference between a man and a woman, I am not surprised that you don't know the difference between five five six and three hundred blackout. The problem with this administration is always having people that are appoints to run these aghencies that aren't fully qualified. They don't understand exactly what's going on and how things work. And if I were running the ATF, I would know a thing about the F in ATF. And by the way, for the record, that's firearms, sir, it's firearms. And with that I yield back