Share The Struggle
Share The Struggle
Navigating Election Anxiety, Family Life, and Patriotism 226
Feeling like a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs, we embark on a journey through the emotional rollercoaster of live election results, pondering what these pivotal moments mean for our family and our future. Joined by my wife, we discuss the all-too-real anxiety of living in these times, especially when unexpected moments—like her unsettling store encounter—remind us of the importance of awareness and community. Our conversation serves as a heartfelt reflection on patriotism, societal shifts, and what it all means for our young daughter, Paisley, as we strive for a clearer, brighter tomorrow.
As the national political stage influences our local community in Biddeford, Maine, from rising crime rates to Narcan buses, we share our insights and concerns about our country's direction and its impact on our business, Loud Proud American. Balancing family milestones like anniversaries with the intense anticipation of election outcomes, we express our commitment to fostering unity and perseverance. Our business stands as a symbol of proud American spirit, and we remain hopeful for political changes that will align with our vision for growth and positive impact.
Amidst the chaos, humor lightens the load as we juggle farm projects and family life. We find moments of levity on the "struggle bus," sharing laughs over Halloween costumes and attempts at Trump impersonations, while navigating the whirlwind of emotions that come with an evolving political landscape. As we close this episode, we invite you to join our community on social media, where the journey continues with music, laughter, and a relentless pursuit of the American dream. Your support fuels our optimism and determination to face whatever lies ahead with strength and unity.
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It's episode 226 of Share the Struggle Podcast and I am back with your weekly fix. Actually, I might need a fix because I am more nervous than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. I think that's what old folks in the South say.
Speaker 1:I think I've heard that somewhere Long-tailed cats in a room full of rocking chairs, something like that, long-tailed cats in a room full of rocking chairs, something like that. I'm nervous, y'all I am nervous. I am doing something that I said I wouldn't do and that is attempting to record a podcast during live election results, the fate of this country, the direction of America and the future for all of us, and to me, most importantly, the future for all of us and to me, most importantly, the future. The little miss paisley reign weighs in the balance of what's happening tonight and we are going to react to this live and do the best we can to jump, juke and jav our way through number 226 on the consecutive streak of Share the Struggle podcast. Let me tell you something Everybody struggles.
Speaker 1:The difference is some people choose to go through it and some choose to grow through it. The choice is completely yours. Which one you choose will have a very profound effect on the way you live your life. If you find strength in the struggle, then this podcast is for you. Do you have a relationship that is comfortable with uncomfortable conversations? Uncomfortable conversations challenge you, humble you and they build you. When you sprinkle a little time and distance on it. It all makes sense. Most disagreements, they stem from our own insecurities. You are right where you need to be Back on time reading the black words. The whole day gone running behind Oop, oop, oop, oop. What it do, what it do, what it hot and did it do. I am so excited to be back with you. Oh, it's true, it's damn true.
Speaker 1:We are shooting this episode of the podcast with live up to the minute election results on the big screen here. By the time this podcast is complete, by the time it drops into your little download button, by the time Share the Struggle podcast is loaded up on all the major podcasting platforms. With any luck, we will have an answer. We will know our next president of the United States of America and I hope that president is the same as the 45th president. Let's go 45 and 47. Let's keep America alive and let's make it great again.
Speaker 1:Am I supposed to sugarcoat my feelings and hide what I'm truly hoping and praying for? Because I've already blown that out the door, because I am on here with a hot mic and I'm already expressing my true feelings, emotions, man, this is a time, this is an incredible time in this country and it is something that I don't know if I've ever had a more anxious couple of hours for something that is just like completely out of your control, that you just think about the major impact that the next few hours is going to have on the next so many years in this country. This is crazy. This is a wild, wild time and thankfully I'm not going it alone tonight because thankfully I have my lovely, beautiful wife by my side over there across the room Getting ready to chime in.
Speaker 2:Hey y'all, it's me.
Speaker 1:It's a different election for us this year, and I think that I mean it's a polarizing election for everybody. But this year it's a little different because we just spent a few hours at my mom's house, sitting on the couch next to my mom, and on the couch there's you, me and little Paisley, sitting right between us, sitting up like a grown-up, propped up, like a big girl, watching the election results. And you can't help but just think about the impact that this already has on our two-month-old daughter, because the next four years can play a major impact on her life, on the direction, on the future, because the next four years, I don't think the decision tonight, I don't think there's ever been a time in our US history where the results of an election could really sway the direction of this country. I mean, we changed traumatically in the past four years, but giving another four years to this administration, to this current regime, I don't know if we will recognize America. I don't know if this would be the same place in four years. So I'm just going to say this we were just having a conversation, that we took a little break today and we ended up at a local store and you were just having a conversation with me while we were pushing record on how you didn't feel comfortable in that store because there was three suspicious individuals walking around just doing shady stuff, which just happened to be like in every aisle you were in yeah, just kind of tracking me and
Speaker 2:it was just like really weird. Like I just, you know, caught on to it. I had the baby with me, which I I tend to pay attention to my surroundings in general, even like before the baby, but I just happened to notice that these two gentlemen were in aisles that like they didn't need to be in, like I'm looking at like little baby children's toys, like why are you in this aisle? Like I mean, maybe you have kids at home, but like you were just in like the men's section and like I don't know, it just didn't give me good vibes and I was just like thankful that I was there with you, because the simple fact that like I was there at the pretty close to closing, like we were there and I mean, what was your ML Like, were you planning on following someone to their car? Like I have a baby?
Speaker 1:They were shady, they were looking at ridiculous things.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:One of them, I think, was with him there was a large fella on his phone.
Speaker 2:Three of them, yeah.
Speaker 1:And he was just scanning the place on his phone. Three of them, yeah, and he was just just scanning the place on his phone the whole time and having conversations. It was just.
Speaker 2:It was just strange you could tell the three of them were kind of working yeah in conjunction over something and I had actually like was standing looking at stuff um, and I like turned around to like one of the um shelves and it was just like honest instinct that I like grabbed not only the cart but I grabbed a hold of the baby carrier oh yeah like I, I don't know.
Speaker 2:It was just like an instant, like mom reaction, like that. I grabbed, not the cart right, but like if something was to happen, like they decided to take my cart or something, like I have a hold of the baby, like, but as I like turned and did that, um, one of the guys that was standing at the end of the aisle that I was looking at stuff had yelled to his buddy, who was a couple aisles over, to come over and also look at random like tchotchkes that were like why are you looking at these things like breast pumps and stuff like I don't know?
Speaker 1:it. Um, it's crazy because you know you think about not feeling safe and then you think about now not feeling safe and having a newborn, and those are some of the things that I truly feel are on the line with this election because, I've never felt less safe in our own state than we do now.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I'm sure that that statement is echoed throughout the country.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I mean our crime rate has gone up Absolutely Drastically. This is something totally random.
Speaker 1:I don't want to go totally off topic here, but it was a couple weeks ago. We were leaving an appointment and you had made mention to um. There was a bus like a uh city bus I don't know what you call the like city transportation, but yeah city bus. They always have like a marketing ploy on the side of the bus where it's like you know this real estate agent or this credit union. They were now fully wrapped advertising for Narcan. Yeah, remember that it was a Narcan bus driving around Biddeford, Maine.
Speaker 1:What the hell is going on when we have to market Narcan. It is out of control. But when I think about the impact of this election and we're talking about safety I'm thinking about a newborn baby and the safety in this country and in this state over the course of the next four years All things to think about. That, for the first time in my life, I have to think about, and that's the same thing for you.
Speaker 1:This is not something that we considered or thought about during elections. I also used to always say as a kid, you know what, it doesn't really matter who gets elected, because I felt like Maine was so unplugged from everything. We were so far away from everything. It feels like. As a kid growing up it was like there's a tornado, there's a hurricane. It's never going to happen in Maine. It's so far away, it doesn't mean nothing. If there's any kind of bad, crazy violence, it ain't going to happen up here. Mass shootings not going to happen up here. The cause and effect of a president it took us years to feel it up here. We didn't know what was in and out of style for four or five years up here, right, we were so untouched with everything Music yeah everything right.
Speaker 1:We always felt behind the eight ball.
Speaker 2:Because by the time we got the trends and got the foods and stuff, it was already so outdated, Gone. People are like why are you dabbling in this?
Speaker 1:As a kid I always felt like we just weren't affected by things. That has never been so further from the truth. Now we are extremely impacted by those things and we are so impacted by the presidential election, the direction of this country. We're so impacted by it that we have had a multitude of conversations to the fact that if Kamala Harris were to win the presidency, that I would consider closing my business. And we've had this conversation several times leading up to this. Because you start to think are you still a proud American in this country, if this is what's happening in this direction that we're headed and all the unknown, can you still be proud American? We might be quiet, depressed American, you know, because I was starting to be a little suspicious.
Speaker 1:Good Lord. And leading up to this, I mean we had these thoughts coming through 2020, right when we had all the social unrest, the riots, the looting, the pandemic, the election, all those things we as a family discussed the direction of our family and our business and decided it was crucial for us to continue on Loud, proud, american, because we felt that it was never more important in this country to be a proud American than during these just wild and crazy times. You needed to be a proud American. You needed to be willing to be loud about your beliefs, remain proud in your country and in your freedoms and have a willingness to stand for it and to express it and to share it. Because, just like this podcast, share the struggle. You need to share your, your, your strengths and your journey and your failures and your ups and your downs, because there's strength that comes from sharing those things. That if we were willing to be proud Americans and tell everybody else that we are proud Americans, that we would give somebody else the courage to be a proud American and we would continue to double down on American jobs, on American manufacturing and trying to make this country great again. And we felt that we needed to continue on as loud, proud American and that's the plan and that's the motive, motive and that's what we want to continue to do.
Speaker 1:But it's a scary, scary time if it doesn't go the way that we are praying for it to go. We're taking all steps to hope and pray and to proceed in the direction that things are going to go the way we want them to go, so much so that we are working on some major milestone moves, steps and just changes here for Loud, proud American. I'm not ready to share those things yet, but as we are on the verge of five years in business, we're coming up on our anniversary. On our anniversary as we approach five years in business, I have together you, me, even my mom, having these conversations. We are doubling down on growth and taking a big leap. That we feel is a big leap personally for our family and our business. But so much of that is just really hinged on what's happening tonight I thought you meant our anniversary, like our anniversary, because that's coming due that is true, that is true the day after I go back to work, though yeah, you are going.
Speaker 1:What is that?
Speaker 2:art. Is that our 10-year anniversary? Oh my god y.
Speaker 1:I think it is. You know what You're talking about dating anniversaries, right? Yeah, I think it's actually going to be our 11th.
Speaker 2:We missed the 10?
Speaker 1:I think we Didn't we start dating on like 11, 12, 13?
Speaker 2:We sure did yeah, yeah. So this is Are you kidding me? It's crazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, so this is, are you?
Speaker 2:kidding me. It's crazy. Wow, you really do kind of like me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I didn't like that noise. That thing lingered in my headset over here for the longest time.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's probably going to linger on the people's radio.
Speaker 1:Well, you know.
Speaker 2:Wake up when in Rome. Good morning America.
Speaker 1:I tell you what.
Speaker 2:I wonder what the anniversary gift is for anniversary gift for 10 years. Well, I just want to know what I missed out on that's a dating anniversary.
Speaker 1:That's not the same situation.
Speaker 2:Yes, it is. Yes, it is no, no, no. Anniversary gifts for years are traditional.
Speaker 1:Just scale it back right now, okay, Okay let's see, that was a dating anniversary. I'll take it into consideration.
Speaker 2:It's aluminum.
Speaker 1:Perfect, I got a bunch of that to haul to the scrapyard actually.
Speaker 2:Tin or aluminum, perfect, that was 10 years.
Speaker 1:I'm considering a load of tin and aluminum and steel headed to the scrapyard tomorrow.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry to break the news to you. That's traditional 11 years.
Speaker 1:As traditional as it gets dear Modern. No, that's bullshit. I'm not up with the times. I'm a traditionalist. Modern is diamonds'm. No, that's bullshit. I'm not.
Speaker 2:I'm not up with the times.
Speaker 1:I'm a traditionalist modern is diamonds yeah, that's post bolshevik.
Speaker 2:Nothing about that is accurate the next milestone anniversary is 15 years okay remember back in the day when you actually liked me and we used to talk about throwing a party at 10 years.
Speaker 1:We have not been married for 10 years.
Speaker 2:I know this. I'm aware what I was going to say before I was rudely interrupted. I was going to say that I don't even like people enough to want to have another party.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, there goes our listeners, they're gone.
Speaker 2:Oh, Trump just took Texas. No, that was hours ago, oh well, I'm only seeing it now, so it just happened.
Speaker 1:Trump took Texas. I mean, think about it, Our favorite places to go, Texas and Tennessee called early for big Trump, Except for the place we live. We're surrounded in the northeast by liberal states, which I think has a pretty big impact on our business. Let's just say you know. Impact on our business, let's just say you know.
Speaker 2:Well, speaking of Texas and Nashville, if y'all are looking to go to Texas or Nashville, reach out to your girl Preach, reach out to your girl. I will happily book you a trip. Explore with Liberty at gmailcom.
Speaker 1:There you go, is your social media live and active?
Speaker 2:yet no, but to all you listeners that keep creeping on me, thank you, but I'm not ready yet. I'm trying to write a bio that really just grabs you by the nut and clusters.
Speaker 1:Whoa A hundred bunches of votes.
Speaker 2:Really reels you in, I'm almost done, yowza. I'm almost done. I can still book, even though my social media is not live. I did get my forms back. They were approved. I can move forward. I just want it to be perfect.
Speaker 1:I'm kind of a perfectionist. At some point you're just going to pull the trigger on it. I'm the same way with so many things. I did the same thing with our social media as well.
Speaker 2:You just sit on it for too long and I know eventually, you just kind of pull the trigger well, I've decided that I am gonna just post it, like before I go back to work. Like hey y'all, this is what I've been doing I hear you speaking of posting it.
Speaker 1:I've been so I love him true, I've been so um scroll, nerved up, jacked up about the election, that I have all these posts to make for our social media that I just haven't done. We actually had a lady send us some pictures today of a beautiful young girl wearing one of our outfits.
Speaker 2:And a little baby little baby.
Speaker 1:I should have gone up today because she was wearing a Republican shirt that we made. And here I am slacking, but my mental capacity is in overdrive right now. I am, I don't know, I'm just, I'm running thin over here. I'm running thin on emotions. I just saw in Virginia that Harris took a one-point lead, which looked like Trump was heading towards winning Virginia, which was a big swing and a big flip. If that is the case, I think you get Virginia, pennsylvania, wisconsin.
Speaker 1:This thing starts to wrap itself up, but pretty close to some of these states, this is when we get a little nervous. And right now, as I'm recording this, I'm watching on a Fox channel and I keep going back and forth between Fox and Newsmax and it depends on which channel you're watching as to where their numbers are, but currently Trump's at 211 electoral points here and Harris is at 117. But if you guys remember, back in 2020, we kind of had the same similar situation where they started to call victory for Trump and then you know he had called for the, for the counting to stop, and then that's when all the craziness ensued and the next thing you know, y'all know so just kind of praying that they don't do that again. Let's just keep things rocking and rolling, keep it live, and I think we're more prepared as a country to make it through these things and to keep things honest. So let's let us pray, let us hope and pray. But I'm encouraged by the way things are going so far and I'm hopeful in a short amount of time here we'll start getting some real positive news in our favor.
Speaker 1:But crazy, crazy times, man, and we were thinking all day. At first we were like you know what, let's do our podcast early before the voting stuff and we can kind of try to just take all this in, but we're also going by the schedule of a newborn, so we're trying to figure that all out. And then we really said you know what, when they start counting votes, it's going to take forever, it's going to be you know an early um, like we're going to have time to record the podcast and watch all these votes get counted, because it's going to take forever. But we sat down and then just I just started chewing my fingernails off at the results gross.
Speaker 2:You know, any bugs are under your fingernails bugs, poop, horse shit maybe, but bugs no yeah, there's bugs on your eyelashes. What, what are you talking about? You're eating your fingernails.
Speaker 1:How do I have bugs on my eyelashes? And if I do, how does that involve my fingers and my nails being chopped off?
Speaker 2:I'm just making a point, because you touch your eyes when you put your contacts in. Everybody has bugs on their eyelashes.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, Everyone. This is a tailspin.
Speaker 2:We are going into a tailspin of an episode. Well, I mean, our country is going into a tailspin right now full of anxiety waiting for the results.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think that's probably the consensus throughout the country. I mean, if you're not giving a hoot, then I'm kind of surprised, I guess, right, you?
Speaker 2:probably didn't vote Iot.
Speaker 1:then I'm kind of surprised, I guess, right, you probably didn't vote, I know, but I mean, you clearly didn't vote. If you don't give a hoot, but it's just kind of a surprise.
Speaker 2:Can we also just talk about my video that I posted today?
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, shoot, go for it. Talk to me about it.
Speaker 2:I just think that it's important to remind the people. Okay, to remind the people. Okay, when you went to your town hall, your local school, wherever you went, and you stood there standing in the ballot box putting in your little answer, I think it's important to remember that who you chose is who you chose. Okay, Right, Great, important to remember that who you chose is who you chose.
Speaker 2:Okay, right. What happens all the time is the fact that, like, you'll stand with somebody until they lose, or you'll stand with somebody until they make one wrong move, like it's a. Well, I think that's the scenario in this country for everything right that's how relationships go.
Speaker 1:This country for everything right. That's how relationships go. That's how friendships go. That's how work relationships go. That's how um you know, romantic relationships go.
Speaker 2:You make your pick and you'll stand by it until something doesn't go your way, and then it's bye, bye, heading the other way yeah, but honestly, like win, lose or draw, that's your candidate, like that's who you need to stand with, because that is why our country is so divided, one of the reasons.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, I think the thing is, though, is that sometimes, when win, lose or draw, if you're standing with your candidate that lost and you're not willing to accept the one that did win, then we stay at a standstill in the same sense. Right, you know, we had to really concede to some things over the past four years, even though we didn't like it, but the thing that people need to remember is that we didn't send this country into an uprising over the stolen election last year. Over the stolen election last year, it wasn't like what happened in Michigan in 2020 with the BLM movement and just the violence. That didn't happen. So, whatever happens, I hope that this is an opportunity to unite America, and I really, truly feel that there's a special movement taking place with President Trump, and I think it comes down to a lot of the people that have crossed sides to be with Trump, that have crossed the aisle to be with Trump.
Speaker 2:Oh, we'll allow you to come over right now with open arms.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I just think you look at, as long as you stand, positively, staying in, united with Trump, um, vivek Ramsey, um, some of these people that he's aligned with, elon Musk, joe Rogan, uh, some some really powerful minds in this country that have just stood by his side, and that that Trump has been willing to listen to and to take advice from and to um have open dialogue with his meetings with the unions and all these things.
Speaker 1:This is the time.
Speaker 1:This is the time to unite a country, and I do feel like a lot of the results we are seeing tonight is a unification of America, and I am praying, so ever loving hard here, for these results to continue and that we can have a real positive impact on this entire world with this election.
Speaker 1:If you think about it, the fate of this world is in our hands tonight, because as we go, the world goes, and if we get President Trump back and we get this country back to the way that it's been, back to the country that we've all loved, the one that we've been so thankful and blessed to be a part of, I think that it's an incredible advantage for America and it's an incredible opportunity for every single one of us as much as we talk about the impact that it could have on our business if it doesn't go our way, the fact that we will consider not having a business. The coin flip to that is, if President Trump is re-elected, I feel like it's an absolute boom for our business. I agree, I feel like it's an absolute boom for our business.
Speaker 1:I agree it's so crazy for us to think that we're sitting here for the first time with a child, thinking about how this impacts her future, and then thinking about the major, critical, immediate impact that it has on our own business. We're talking about potential of no business versus a booming business. I feel like there's so much on the line in this election that it's hard to process anything else. That's why I can't talk about anything else. I hope maybe you can bring something else to the table that is not the election, because it's all I can think about at this moment. Hit me with something positive. Okay, great, back to the election. I got nothing. I'm trying to think like it's hard to think about anything else.
Speaker 2:This is polarizing right yeah, I mean other than other than the election. Like the only other thing that I'm thinking about, which also is anxiety driven, is like I'm going back to work on monday, anxiety driven.
Speaker 1:Oh, there's some anxiety there, sister, I'll tell you that's what I'm saying, we had another half day this week with me and little Paisley and this one wasn't as successful as the first one.
Speaker 2:I'll just put that out there.
Speaker 1:But you know we're trying to get through it.
Speaker 2:If y'all have any space in your prayers, please pray for my husband for Monday.
Speaker 1:So we are less than a week out for you going back to work.
Speaker 2:Yeah, full time.
Speaker 1:This weekend we have a wedding to do, but outside of that it has been cram jam city on getting as much of our to-do list done as possible. We're going ham outside on a lot of projects. We'll share some of the news about that and the reason for that at a later date.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, we've done farm stuff getting that ready Quite a bit of farm stuff.
Speaker 1:This is one of the downfalls to the schedule we keep. And then, when you think about you know you were pregnant and we were welcoming a little paisley in in September, so a lot of those barn projects, outdoor projects, farm things they just got put on the back burner.
Speaker 2:Yeah, normally we have them done by now. Normally we have our hay for the winter and all that kind of stuff stocked.
Speaker 1:Thankfully, we just got a big old load of hay, which was a nice little Sunday right there. Nice little Sunday throwing hay around.
Speaker 2:Thankfully they delivered it. That was nice, yeah, so preparing the barn for winter, preparing the hay for winter, all farm stuff cleaning up in the door yard.
Speaker 1:Trying to reclaim the fields that we've lost throughout the years.
Speaker 2:Working on the arena.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:All kinds of different stuff, because I mean, come spring we want to, we want it to be like bare bones, so we can, you know, lay seed down and we want to get to a point of maintenance next year, not a point of revival, which is kind of where we're at now.
Speaker 1:So a lot of big changes on the homestead currently, and we're trying to mix that in with focusing on the business as well, because I do have a number in mind that I want to achieve and attain by the end of the year. So there's a lot of moving parts going on over here. With Loud Proud American and the White Horse Ranch over here. We have a lot of things moving and shaking, all while adapting to a new addition and preparing for you to be at work full time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's a whole lot going on. There certainly is, we'll be okay. This too shall pass.
Speaker 1:Everything's fine. Have you seen that little meme of a little character sitting in his office and there's just a bunch of flames around him? He's like everything's burning around him. And he's sitting in the middle of the office going everything's fine around him. And he's sitting in the middle of the office going everything's fine, I'm fine, everything's fine, you know that's funny?
Speaker 2:no, I have not. But that right there reminds me of your dad, because, no matter what's going on that's one thing that I learned from him. It doesn't matter, you could literally be sitting in the middle of a dumpster fire and the one thing that he's gonna say is I'm okay, I'll always okay. That's what he taught me, and literally doesn't matter what's going on, I'll be fine, doesn't matter? You just don't show weakness.
Speaker 1:That is the truth. I'm not going to. That is hovering around the surface of some conversation that I want to get into about my dad. But I'm going to save that for the coming weeks because Are you kidding me? Well, we knew this was going to happen.
Speaker 2:Are you kidding me? You are a piece of crap.
Speaker 1:Maine goes to Harris, but Trump does pick up one electoral in Maine. That seems to be the consensus. That always happens. You can draw a line through Maine and the northern part of the state will always go Republican and the southern part, which is dominated down here by population that has migrated here from other states just always seems to go.
Speaker 2:That right. There is a movement, my friend, a bowel movement.
Speaker 1:That was a good one. I like that. That's why it's in the southern part of the state, because we're flushing it.
Speaker 2:Right in the ocean.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:She gone. That was terrible, Maine. It's freaking candy bunk, it is for sure.
Speaker 1:All. Of York County is a troublesome area.
Speaker 2:I will say.
Speaker 1:I'm curious to see where the numbers end up finishing in Maine, because we've talked about it over the past few weeks. I've seen more Trump signs and banners here than I have ever seen before, and I feel like that could be part of what's happened throughout the country is that some folks were a little nervous to show their support too early for the president or soon to be president, for fear of what could happen. So, man, what a wild time, what a crazy night. It's tough that I have the election results on the TV and I can't hear exactly what's going on.
Speaker 2:It's probably better on the TV and I can't hear exactly what's going on, it's probably better.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm getting a little nervous because I have seen some, some numbers go in a direction that I didn't think it would go a half hour ago when we started recording. So I'm eager to hear what some of those, some of those things are. But I don't know if everybody's going to enjoy this podcast episode. But, as we were talking about it earlier, here we go. That's a big one. That just got close. California, as we all knew what happened, went to Harris and now the vote total is at 216 to 193.
Speaker 2:Yuck.
Speaker 1:That is real, real, close. Earlier we were talking that we mentioned, hey, we might do the podcast early, but that didn't kind of happen. And then we said you know what, let's just do things during the election, we'll have time to get through it. We don't have time because our anxiety is on high. We are sitting on the edge of our seats. With every update, every board, recalculation, all those things, we just tend to get nervous and it's become incredibly hard to focus, to stay on track.
Speaker 1:But we feel like there's something to be captured here the fact that we think about the podcast and that it's a legacy time capsule. This podcast is really a history of you and me and our family and our legacy. And to think that whatever happens tonight in this election will have a very massive impact on the direction of this country and the fact that our real time responses and interactions are being recorded If you think about that, that Paisley, 20 years from now, could go back and listen to her being two months old and us processing this craziness real time, right, it's pretty, pretty wild to really think about and that's one of the reasons why we said you know what, let's take a shot at trying to do this. Let's navigate through the chaos and record this stuff in real time. So, man, I'm on the verge of a panic attack. Can you say something?
Speaker 2:I'm on the verge of shitting my pants. Why is that? Because I'm anxious. Oh, I'm either going to vomit or shit my pants. Not ladylike, I know, but listen, I know, I hear you.
Speaker 1:Based on the circumstances, okay, we're throwing all manners out the window when it gets this chance.
Speaker 2:Well, he took Tennessee, we'll take that.
Speaker 1:That was hours ago.
Speaker 2:I need something new, I know, but I need good results, okay, to calm my anxiety.
Speaker 1:I want to see North Carolina. I want to see Virginia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
Speaker 2:I want to see those start to come in. Michelle's over here texting me telling me that she's going to take Michigan and Oregon. Like, can you not? I can't handle it.
Speaker 1:It's crazy how the way people report on these things and then, depending on which channel you're on, as to what the outlook's going to be, so it's pretty crazy we're hovering between two channels that we can kind of rely on as much as possible, I guess, here.
Speaker 1:But I think we're preparing for some big things to come out soon here, like Michelle's telling you that she's going to win Michigan, which, on our side, trump is up in Michigan but, it's still early in the vote counting, so it's getting crazy here as midnight approaches, as election day kind of fades away as far as the actual day of election day, because November 5th is quickly going to be behind us. Hopefully, by the time this podcast drops, a miracle has happened, but regardless, either way, hopefully we have an an answer and this episode and our reactions and and our response to this will live on forever and ever and ever amen you see that a little georgia reaction right there, 90 in, that's a good.
Speaker 1:That's a good sign. That's a good sign Arizona's close. I'm going to bore all the people because by the time they push play on this episode they're going to be like dude. I already know. I know those numbers. But, the podcast is called Share the Struggle, and this is the biggest damn struggle in this entire country. Right now we're all aboard the struggle bus. This is the biggest damn struggle in this entire country.
Speaker 2:Right now we're all aboard the struggle bus, the struggle train. Oh, like, I'm getting like texts from Michelle. I'm watching this and recording a podcast, like I. I got texts from Matt over here from.
Speaker 1:JW, over here we're all kind of navigating this together. We're walking this tightrope together and it's a crazy time. But if I get the news that I want, I don't care what time it is, I'm going to dip into that fridge and pull out a bottle of Shine and celebrate.
Speaker 2:If you wake up that baby, I'll put you down.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:That got aggressive.
Speaker 1:Thankfully that's been recorded and can be brought up in court later.
Speaker 2:I played the fifth Guilty until proven it.
Speaker 1:You already confessed. That's a full confession.
Speaker 2:I just said guilty until proven. I meant innocent until proven guilty.
Speaker 1:You are guilty until proven.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1:Man, I don't know really what else to say.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're babbling, we're babbling.
Speaker 1:I'm nervous. This is apparently what happens when I get nervous.
Speaker 2:I hope this is how everybody else is feeling and we're not just overreacting.
Speaker 1:I hope that we are a classic image, screenshot, snapshot, recording of everybody else's emotions right now.
Speaker 2:And that they can listen to this and go. Yeah, that was us.
Speaker 1:That's what I did last night.
Speaker 2:Eating bonbons and shitting your pants.
Speaker 1:I could go for bonbons, and if I shit my pants I'd probably stay right on the couch. I'd just sit right through it. I didn't even change out of my jeans yet, and it's almost midnight.
Speaker 2:I have to apologize to Matt For what I said. Shit.
Speaker 1:I don't get it.
Speaker 2:He said I shouldn't swear.
Speaker 1:And I tried.
Speaker 2:I think he'll let shit slide.
Speaker 1:I tried Get it. That's a good one. I thought so too. I really tried. I know you've done a good job.
Speaker 2:You've been holding off on the profanity. I'm proud of you. I did I tried just for matt. Matt, that's for you. I apologize for saying shit please let let that slide.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, my God.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm going to run out of bad jokes and I don't really you don't want him to bring out the dad jokes, because they are terrible.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Ask the baby.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she doesn't think I'm funny yet. One of these days she will.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:One of these days she'll think I'm funny.
Speaker 2:Isn't that the guy from Shark?
Speaker 1:Tank yeah, he's a big.
Speaker 2:Trump guy, can we hear your best Trump?
Speaker 1:impression. You're going to be blessed. You're going to be so blessed.
Speaker 2:You already used that one.
Speaker 1:You're going to be tired of being blessed. You need another one. It's my favorite one.
Speaker 2:I know my favorite one. You need a new one. Did you see all? The kids walking around um for halloween dressed as trump on tiktok. Oh, hilarious, hilarious that's good yeah and of course they like, went up to houses that were not trump fans, oh perfect. And karen's had lots to say I'm sure they attacked little children. Yes, that's what they like to do and then there was this one little boy. That was like all right, so what is, you know, your candidate done for us?
Speaker 1:That's good.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's right. Nothing and literally just like shut down all these Karens. It was hilarious. This young kid. I'll have to show you the video. It's great, I like it. Trump for Halloween look it up on TikTok. It's hilarious, there's tons of them. The kids are the best.
Speaker 1:I don't think I have the ability to look anything up right now. I am over max capacity. I've exceeded my functioning limit. So, with that said, before things get weird, I think it's time we sign off, you with me.
Speaker 2:You got it, dude.
Speaker 1:I witnessed that signature, so I can notarize that for you if you'd like.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because you're a notary, just like I am, that's right.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 2:But until then Baby's moving Until next time.
Speaker 1:Thank you For supporting Our American dream. Now go wash your fucking fucking hands.
Speaker 2:You swore, you told me too my bad silly filthy savages it's the closing yeah, we can't take that part up.
Speaker 1:That's it and that's all Biggie Smalls. If you're a Loud Proud American and you find yourself just wanting more, find me on YouTube and Facebook at Loud Proud American, or the Face page, as my mama calls it. If you're a fan of the Graham Cracker, want to find me on Instagram. Or all the kids are tickety-talking on the TikTok. You can find me on both of those, at loud, underscore, proud underscore American. A big old thank you to the boys from the Gut Truckers for the background beats and the theme song to this year's podcast. If you are enjoying what you're hearing, you can track down the Gut Truckers on Facebook. Just search Gut Truckers. Give them, motherfuckers, a like too. I truly thank you for supporting Make it bleed, I hate to say. I told you so. I truly thank you for supporting my American dream. Now go wash your fucking hands, you filthy savage.