Monday Beers Ep.83; Living The Dream

On this week’s episode of Monday Beers Podcast the guys slow it down and take it back, sharing childhood stories and the moments that shaped who they are today.

From early days in the woods and first hunts to the lessons learned from family, hard work, and growing up the right way, this one gets a little more personal than usual. It’s a look at the roots behind the lifestyle, the experiences, influences, and stories that built the mindset they carry every day.

Still plenty of laughs along the way, but with a deeper side that hits home. Grab a cold one and take a trip down memory lane with the guys. 🍻

Transcript

SPEAKER_06 0:04

Damn. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 0:06

Yeah, I'm good. Forgot to take the mucineks this morning.

SPEAKER_06 0:09

Oh. Yeah. Yeah, them allergies. Allergy pills. You guys feel them?

SPEAKER_04 0:15

I know. I I take I've taken them every day, and I just forgot to today. Like so I didn't have my regular medicine that I normally take this whole weekend, but I did remember to take the mucinks, and then I got back to work today, remembered to take all my other medicine, but I didn't bring my mucinegs.

SPEAKER_06 0:30

Well, damn. Maybe you should put them all in one place.

SPEAKER_04 0:35

You know, I bought one of those things that all the old people had when we were in the house. I was just about to say that. One of those pill container things for each day for the day. For every day of the week.

SPEAKER_06 0:46

Yeah, and then I uh You gotta remember to fill it up though.

SPEAKER_04 0:49

Well, you gotta remember to take it. You still gotta remember to I can take the shit. Well, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 0:55

I mean I do pretty good about it. I would never remember to fill that up weekly. It's I just keep my shit in a specific drawer in my bathroom. Oh, in the same book.

SPEAKER_06 1:07

Where when you open it to brush your teeth, you see everything you need for the morning routine. It just reminds me of that.

SPEAKER_04 1:13

So here's the thing. Yeah, no, that that thing I used it for a week. Yeah, exactly. And after that, I I couldn't do where the hell it's at. I didn't use it in three years.

SPEAKER_03 1:22

It does get a little bit hard keeping it in your drawer because some bottles are taller than others. Yeah. If your drawer isn't tall enough, then it's like, oh, I gotta lay it on the side, and then it's rolling around in the drawer. And I like drawers organized for my morning like routine. Yeah. Yeah. Because I don't want to open that drawer and be the first thing, like unorganized.

SPEAKER_06 1:39

Chaos somewhere in my side of that. My bad.

SPEAKER_03 1:44

It's not a good way to start the morning, right? You know, you opening a drawer and it's like clutter. Yeah, man. You know what I mean? Like you gotta start the drawer with some kind of like it's almost like the old uh, what was that? Like there's a marine or something talking about like always make your bed in the morning because it's like the first thing you accomplish. Yeah. I will I will say me and Maddie start your day.

SPEAKER_04 2:05

I do make my bed. Me and Maddie make the bed every morning. I mean sometimes I gotta remember, but because I get out of bed before.

SPEAKER_03 2:12

It's a little awkward for me because sometimes Lauren's still home because she's off from work. Because she only works three days on the house from the hospital. So sometimes she, Steve, she's still in bed whenever I'm leaving for work. And then other times she's gone. The day she's gone, I do make the bed, but then then you kind of just get in a routine. It's like odd. Because I don't make the bed when she's still in bed. Right. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 2:35

Mine normally starts with make the bed and stub your toe and run into a door frame and because I'm not the most oriented whenever I wake up. I'm be honest. Rolling around. I kind of stumble around for like the first five minutes.

SPEAKER_03 2:52

I have a clearer mind in the morning than any other time of the day.

SPEAKER_06 2:55

In the morning, yes. After the first grog, but it's not where I don't come up with any ideas in the morning.

SPEAKER_03 3:05

Even though my mind is completely clear.

SPEAKER_06 3:07

You just your mind's more quiet. Yeah. I can't lay in bed when I wake up. Usually I get up as soon as I wake up.

SPEAKER_03 3:14

Which it sucks, but like my good ideas for anything like video related or creative related is after three o'clock. So I'm like, fuck, I only got two hours to pull this off before I'm off work.

SPEAKER_06 3:26

Let me hey hey, does that happen? Do you get your better ideas when you're like physically tired but not mentally tired?

SPEAKER_03 3:39

Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah. I I definitely get better ideas while I'm physically active. Yeah. You know, like doing physical labor. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Or or uh road trips, listening to music, obviously gives me a lot of inspiration. And then I tr but I I try to stay listening to music in my office because then it'll sometimes start a little bit of a inspiration or something. Yeah. I I don't know. Like I do you never have a moment that just like because I know you do, actually. Yeah. Because you're I know you probably have a moment that's just like, bro, I could make a YouTube channel about this and I'm gonna do it like this. Yeah, it's probably when I'm outside doing something like that.

SPEAKER_04 4:26

In a creative manner. It's probably when I'm outside doing something.

SPEAKER_06 4:30

Well, like whenever whenever you have those ideas, like stop and think about what you're doing and like just repetitive like think about what you're doing in that moment and like that you had this great idea, and then see how many times it repeats it. Like anytime you're outdoors or you know.

SPEAKER_03 4:49

Yeah. I would re- retract my statement. It's not while I'm doing physical labor, it's while I ha I have been doing physical labor that day, but I'm on the fall-off from it. Yeah. Because while I'm doing physical labor, I'm solely focused on that. And that's the reason why I've kind of stopped filming a lot of my physical labor because I'm like it it takes away from me accomplishing my physical labor faster. But it's almost it's almost like cameras and all that shit.

SPEAKER_06 5:15

It's almost like whenever you're doing something that like you're not really having to think a whole lot about, but it's a physical exertion. And so your brain just feels a little bit more free to where I like you're coming up with these ideas.

SPEAKER_03 5:31

Yeah, well, I think it it's like uh your brain's been moving so fast to keep your body moving, and all of a sudden your body stops. Well, your brain's still gonna want to work. Because it's like, oh, this is what we've been doing all day. Now, what are we gonna think about? Like, what are we where where are we putting all this function? Maybe.

SPEAKER_06 5:46

I don't know. Just an interesting thought.

SPEAKER_03 5:49

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I uh I I actually I enjoy thinking about stuff like that, especially the older I get because I don't a lot has changed in the past few years. Yeah. The way I motivate myself.

SPEAKER_06 6:00

Trying to trying to remember how to get that spark out of your brain, you know.

SPEAKER_03 6:05

It's also the older you get, it's harder to motivate yourselves in that ways because it has a little bit of wear and tear on your body. Like right now, I am sore as a fucking dog from uh yesterday. I was building the remaining of the duck pen. Like I built all the framework for it and just had it laying on the flat on the ground. But my little brother, he helped me stand them up and then we connected all the framework, you know, actually turned it into a box. And then I had to trim it out, you know, put the wire on it and trim it out and stuff like that, build a door for it and everything. And I was out there from like 8 a.m. until like five or six last night. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. And and but I all my usually my dad is way smarter than this for me because he is older. I remember dad, he'd be I'd be like, Oh yeah, I'll just I'll just cut on the ground or something. He'd be like, No, we're taking saw horses, we're taking a table, you know, we're doing whatever. I just had the minor saw on the ground, and I had the little bitty table saw, you know, like a portable table saw on the ground. So every time I was doing stuff, cutting stuff, I had to kneel down and like bend over and do all that stuff. Well, whenever you're busy. Buddy, you're over 30 now. No, you gotta be careful. No, as soon as I got done and I sat on the back porch, I was drinking a beer, just like sitting there for a minute, you know, just calming down. And as soon as I tried to stand back up, I was stiff. Like I was like limping into the house. I was like, holy crap. Like done. Yeah, but actually it feels good today. Like you you know, whenever you do like a good workout, yeah, you got that little sore, like today. It actually kind of I'm like, damn, I did something. I did something yesterday. Like it actually feels pretty good today. Even though it's a little sore. Yeah, well that's good.

SPEAKER_06 7:42

We're we're talking about that. Like, I'm I'm a little sore today too, but it wasn't from doing work. It's rolling a kayak. I got in that kayak for the first for the first time this year, actually, I think. Yeah. Have a turtle box in there with you? Of course. Yeah, yeah. Uh ice chest. Laid down. I did not have the ice chest because Thomas was carrying the ice chest. And I wish he would. Because that poor fella went for a swim, didn't he? Went for a swim. And I it it was because of that heavy ice chest and that his like packed his whole tackle box and all of that, and like I fish out of a kayak regularly. I I pack pretty light. He wasn't prepared, and that kayak he was in was a little narrower too. But I think he leaned a little too far to one side, and the momentum of that ice chest and tackle box and everything just carried him on over. I thought he caught a big fish. He turned around, he's flailing in the water. Time I got up to him, he's just laid over it. He's like, just take my phone.

SPEAKER_04 8:50

Well, he he called me yesterday morning and I was sitting there. It was probably 10 30, 11 whenever he called me. And I knew I I had stuff I had to do yesterday, and he he was like, Don't be a bitch. Let's go fish. Let's come on, let's go do it. And I was like, man, I was like, I th I'm gonna shoot shade. I think I'm out. He's like, Well, I still gotta go down to mom's and go grab a kayak and stuff. And I was like, All right. And then like not even two hours later, he was already down at your place. I was like, shit, Thomas. I was like, Well, we had talked about it. You were scatting ass, I reckon.

SPEAKER_06 9:29

We we had talked about it. Uh, well, you know, Saturday we went to the seasons and hung out with a lot of really good friends. Um, it was Kelly's birthday. It was Kelly's birthday. Yeah, yeah. I saw that.

SPEAKER_03 9:42

Y'all got uh a friend I saw that y'all were with a friend of mine that I know real well and stuff like that. Uh but yeah, yeah. I was I was wondering what was going on.

SPEAKER_06 9:50

Yeah, it was Kelly's birthday. So that was that was actually a pretty good time. That actually we wasn't exactly we we were there before that, and that's rolled into that, and a lot of people I knew, like that I grew up with showed up and it was it kind of spiraled out. Yeah, yeah. Well, I left at a decent time, but I went back to Thomas's and we sat there and talked and we ended the Yeah, it was yeah. We we just sat there and talked. Um and we were like we ended it with I mean that's let's go fishing tomorrow.

SPEAKER_03 10:29

But that's hard to get that many people from our younger days all together at once. Yeah. So I mean you're gonna you're gonna stay out a little bit later. Keep on the conversation going and stuff. Yeah, it's cool.

SPEAKER_06 10:42

And I mean it was all it was all good. Well Grayson was down too. Grayson was great.

SPEAKER_04 10:46

He he had come down, he helped me move a dryer that I've been meaning to get for two months now from my parents' house. I mean, I he just rode with me. I pretty much, I mean, he helped me, he helped me strap it down and shit, but I mean Jack Jack said I did all the heavy lifting.

SPEAKER_06 11:03

I mean it was your dryer, you're supposed to.

SPEAKER_04 11:09

Yeah, no, no, no, no. I mean, if I knew the dryer was that light, I would have done a long time ago and not picked the rainiest damn day we've had in the last four freaking months.

SPEAKER_06 11:18

I I know we're in a drought and you picked a rainy day to move.

SPEAKER_04 11:21

My mom texted me and she was like, she said, I'm serious, get it today. And I was like, okay. And I was like, whatever. And she hadn't been outside because she wasn't feeling too well, so I was like, I'm not even gonna argue with her and say I'll get it tomorrow. I'll just get it today, you know. So did that, and I mean, after that, we had um we called Trey. It was me, Maddie had got off work by that point, and called Trey, and it was me, Grace, and Maddie together, and we were like, well, let's go up to open season and watch the Hogs play. I mean, not like we would have missed much. It was a freaking T-ball game out there on Saturday. It was like 26 to 11, I think, Georgia beat us. I don't remember what the finger. Or whatever it ended up. It was it was bad. But anyways, so we tried to go to open season. It was closed. So we were like, we went down here uh to watch it because RT was closed for a private event. So uh for the small batch batch. And we walked in, they were like, well, yeah, yeah, we closed in 10 minutes. We were like, well, hell, we were sitting here, we were like, is anything open in town? Everything we looked up was closed until like five o'clock or later.

SPEAKER_06 12:27

So we were like, well shit, we'll just show up here right at five o'clock now. I mean, there was nothing else to do.

SPEAKER_04 12:34

There it was raining, I mean, there wasn't anyone to go to the house. Yeah. Wasn't nothing to do. It was a good day to stay inside, without a doubt. But it was also like this was my last weekend home, like, you know, like home home for a little bit. So I wanted to spend some time with friends and Maddie and stuff. So I mean, I I think it was a good time. It was a good time. Yeah, it it we ended it off pretty damn good. I know the Oklahom race Saturday for that big like$1.3 million purse. Uh who ended up with Wasn't they Portnoy on that basket? I I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 13:11

No, not unless he he does he own sovereignty? He owns a few horses that are racing at Oakland now. Yeah, I know. Oh shit. That's actually pretty wild to me that he's not not really, but I just didn't like that he is I don't know. Is he home basin as far as like horses at Oakland now?

SPEAKER_04 13:35

Like I don't think so, no. I I I don't think so. Oh yeah, so it was Sovereignty Peak Net uh the uh hold on, sorry, let me pause. It was Sovereignty Journalism, White Obrero, right, White Obreros who won. And there was uh like two more horses that ran too, uh, I believe. I think uh yeah, I'm pretty sure, yeah. And I think White Sombrero won. And there was another horse. Uh David Ortiz was riding it, or whatever his name is, one of the Ortiz brothers. Uh I'm telling you, I don't know. Not that I know much about horse racing, but you know, I mean it's it's pretty cool. He's trying to kill a fly. Sorry. My bad. Sorry, you guys. There's a fly in here and it's driving me up the damn wall. And sorry for the banging, everybody. I didn't mean it rudely.

SPEAKER_06 14:30

If you didn't smell like that, it wouldn't be buzzing around.

SPEAKER_04 14:32

Yeah, yeah, I hear you. I hear you. I didn't see it until you walked in, though, to be quite honest. You know, it might it might have followed me. No hell.

SPEAKER_06 14:41

I I did like I have like double showered since getting in that water.

SPEAKER_04 14:47

Oh, I guarantee. Yeah. I guarantee. Did y'all just fish the reservoir by your house kind of?

SPEAKER_06 14:52

Uh we fished a couple different ones out there. Um started out in the one that he flipped in that was clear. And man, I don't know what it was, but they were hitting. It was it was a pretty good time. I never changed.

SPEAKER_03 15:07

It was about that time in year.

SPEAKER_06 15:08

Yeah, getting there, that water's starting to warm up. Uh just a watermelon worm with uh watermelon with the red flakes. So I got a green with red flakes. And that's it, just a weightless worm. Um Thomas threw a couple different things, some beetle spins, and they were hitting on it, but I never changed off that worm because there were a couple of times where I pulled one off a hook and first cast out, I got another one. And so I was like, I've caught some keepers too. Caught some keepers. I mean, we really we caught more than we kept for sure. Um and then moved over to another pond which was a little more muddy. And so I wasn't real sure how that worm would work. I was like, probably need to put something on it's gonna make a little noise in the water with how muddy it is. And heck, I saw one kind of hit the top of the water and swirl, and I cast right there, and I mean, got him. And so I just started doing that. Of course, we were out in those kayaks, and everywhere you saw one hit, if you cast in there, I mean he was hitting it. So it was it was a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_00 16:15

Heck yeah.

SPEAKER_04 16:16

I I uh I do have some shout-outs for the weekend though, um folks killing uh Forrest Row. He uh he tagged out in Tennessee yesterday afternoon. Finished out his Tennessee. Yeah, he finished that out. Uh I know a few more people who killed. Uh uh there was Colin Thunderburg, whoever uh who not whoever, who uh took A-rod hunting. Uh got A-rod on his first bird that he's been chasing after. Yeah, he killed one Saturday or Sunday, maybe something like that.

SPEAKER_06 16:52

It was Was it earlier than that? No, this was last week. That was Monday morning, I believe. No.

SPEAKER_04 16:59

No, not when Arod killed. Oh, when Colin killed one. Yeah. And then there were I I seen a lot of birds killed this past week, like quite a bit. Yeah. I mean, like down in South Arkansas, um, because it just opened today. This Fo 20. I smoke them like you got it.

SPEAKER_06 17:15

It just opened up here. It's been open down there.

SPEAKER_04 17:17

Yeah, that yeah, like South Arkansas. Zone whatever, two in it or whatever. Yeah, I forget what zone. Yeah, yeah. So I mean, yeah, it just opened today on 420. Puff Puff Pass. I'm joking, guys.

SPEAKER_06 17:32

We are actually doing this on a Monday.

SPEAKER_04 17:35

Yeah, we are. Yeah, first time in a little bit. True by Jay Beers. So how did the small batch bash go?

SPEAKER_03 17:42

It was good. Yeah. Yeah, it was good. Uh we had we had a good good crowd. Like, whenever I say good crowd, I mean uh involved crowd that had good ideas. Like we've we've had bigger crowds before at the event. And honestly, I felt like this year it was like the right number of people that their ideas didn't overlap each other. Because whenever you get too many people, everybody has their own ideas, and they're and they may all be good ideas, but whenever you have too many ideas, it's hard to pinpoint in one general direction for a whole group, right? But this year, it all the mixture of ideas was enough to narrow down to one general idea, and it worked out really good. And we made some we actually uh if John was here to talk about it, he could talk about it way better than I could, but uh we made the one general idea that was for the first series of the um Delta. Is it Delta series? Yeah, I believe it was the Delta series for that for that series that we were planning. And uh so we made the first one of that series. Turned out great, awesome. But also Paycheck was here for the event. He actually bought a ticket. So he was here, and John was like, Well, why don't you bring your tools and you can help me make this because it'd be kind of cool. Like somebody used to work here at RT and stuff like that. Well, he ended up making a second call. So I will say that second call, you probably saw a picture of it. I've seen both the calls. Yeah, uh pretty though now. The first one, the one that was actually for the first thing, I will tell you, I think it's gonna be get better, but we had to do it in that manner for the time frame that we had. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know, yeah. But I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say anything because I don't know how much I can say about that. But the second one was just an idea for like duck colorations, and they did a lot of lamination and painting and stuff, and it it is the best way we've ever done a rendition of a duck on a duck. It's very very and it but it's classy, it is classy, simple, elegant, yep, but it also, as soon as you look at it, you're like, that's a mallard duck.

SPEAKER_04 20:10

Like uh whenever I I I seen them, uh I was just like, oh yeah, I was like, oh, bam. I was like, come on now. And and there there was one of them I I I I was like, I gotta have it. Yeah. I I think uh you probably know which one I'm talking about, but I was like, I gotta have it. Like, no question about it.

SPEAKER_03 20:35

Pretty cool stuff. Me and me and Emily were working the counter, and my little brother and her son, Blaze, were hanging out, and they were like, Oh, send us pictures of what's on the auction, which they can't bid. Yeah. But they both were like, we want that one. And me and Emily both texted them back, was like, yeah, that one's not.

SPEAKER_04 20:52

Yeah, it was just people who were here that could bid on the call. Or bought tickets. Um let me rephrase that. People who bought tickets to it could could uh rap or not raffle, bid on the call. So I thought I think that was a pretty thing, uh pretty cool thing to do. Uh you know, uh we we switched it up this year at as far as Richentone goes, doing it differently like that. So I mean well, no, no, no, no, no. No, we did it like that last year too, didn't we?

SPEAKER_03 21:18

We had a separate night. It's even at uh what Callapalooza?

SPEAKER_04 21:23

No, no, no. It wasn't a part of Callapalooza, it was on a separate night like it was this year. No, no, no. Smallback spash.

SPEAKER_03 21:31

No, yeah, it was the same way. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, so like uh just so y'all know, like Callapalooza's coming up, there's there's special night, like the VIP night is the only one during Call Palooza that's really like that. But there's an auction with highly sought after calls, but you're in a smaller group. It's not a the whole event that's bidden on those calls. Now, not to say you're gonna get them cheaper or anything like that, but you at least get To bid on those calls, and it's usually more of the high-end stuff that everybody really is going after and stuff.

SPEAKER_04 22:08

What a beautiful time to be alive in God's America, man. Can you ins can you insert an eagle screaming there?

SPEAKER_02 22:18

Oh god.

SPEAKER_04 22:20

That's nowhere.

SPEAKER_06 22:22

That that's not true.

SPEAKER_02 22:24

I really don't feel like that was just a full American statement.

SPEAKER_03 22:27

Like, do you want to do like a full-blown American statement and do the normal thing that I do? You want to do the full intro all by yourself and do like an American statement all by the way. I want to see you do it all the way through it.

SPEAKER_04 22:41

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SPEAKER_05 23:37

Not Monday Boo.

SPEAKER_03 24:06

I don't think I'm better. No, I don't know. You did pretty good. I'm not gonna say you did bad. I'm just saying I'm not the I'm not the Monday blues guy. Like, I am not that guy. Trey, give it a give, you give it a go. I want to hear you give it a go.

SPEAKER_05 24:21

No. Not Monday blues. You're way better than I do.

SPEAKER_04 24:28

Still, you gotta get crisp on that blue.

SPEAKER_05 24:29

You gotta get that blues.

SPEAKER_04 24:31

Monday blue. Oh shit.

SPEAKER_05 24:35

You fucked up as much as I did.

SPEAKER_04 24:38

I can't even do it now. See, I'm sitting there listening to y'all do it. I'm fucking mine.

SPEAKER_03 24:45

Oh god. Bro, that was actually pretty wild.

unknown 24:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:50

I could see it. I got I could even visualize it while you were talking. It was actually like a public service announcement. Yeah. But it also it kind of also gave me like uh IMAX uh Discovery Channel vibes, too. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 25:03

You know what I mean? Like, like uh what what is it? Uh damn uh not bear grills, but uh Jeremy Wade. He was like, I am off the coast of Mexico seeking out the legendary fish, but first I have to meet up with an unmarked tribe. Or I have to meet up with like a bunch of cocaine dealers or something off the coast of Mexico. It's like something crazy. Like, you know how the narration always was in that TV show? Like it was just always like something. Off the wall's about to go down.

SPEAKER_06 25:35

Off the wall and wild, but we're just gonna talk about it. We're going into the darkness.

SPEAKER_03 25:39

We're going into the dark alleys on this episode.

SPEAKER_06 25:42

Anyway, so there is a Mandalorian thing down here. Like that I wasn't laughing at you. I was literally looking at that. Oh, the helmet? Yeah, the helmet holding the candy.

SPEAKER_04 25:54

There is a Mandalorian movie coming out, though. I thought that's a serious. Yes, sir. Did not know that. Be out in May. Pretty sure. Yep. Neito. And theaters only, apparently. You wanna go see it? I haven't been to the movie theaters in a long time. I've been kind of thinking about it. Dang, you gotta take out a small fucking loan to go. I mean, I literally seen this uh this person, it was just an Instagram post, but she was like, I took uh my niece to the movie, it was like on a big page, you know. It was like, I took my niece to the movies the other day to watch her, and it cost$90. They literally got two tickets, just her and her niece, so an adult and my kid, pop a large popcorn, two cokes, and a thing of candy was$90.

SPEAKER_06 26:38

Well, I mean, if you think about it though, like some of those movie theater, like movie theaters are a lot cooler than when we were kids going to the movies for like 20 bucks. Like what's that one, the tavern or whatever, that you can order an actual meal and you can have an alcoholic beverage. So, yeah. And like I've never been to that. I kind of want to explain.

SPEAKER_04 27:05

I've tried to go one me and Maddie went one time like to like an 11 o'clock showing, and I will say like noon, eleven o'clock. No, like eleven o'clock at night. Don't go that late. Yeah. Because by that point, you're like already tired.

SPEAKER_06 27:20

I was about to say, we're getting home. It's bedtime.

SPEAKER_03 27:24

I fell asleep in the movie theaters when I went that late.

SPEAKER_06 27:27

I was about to say, now they got those chairs that reclined, like you'd have to wake me up to get me to leave.

SPEAKER_04 27:33

Oh, and the thing is, it's not like a recliner at your house. This ain't your grandpa's recliner. This submitch is like nice.

SPEAKER_03 27:39

It's like having a damn lazy boy going to give you all the answer why movies are so expensive now because not as many people are going. So make up their money. Yeah. That is that is true.

SPEAKER_06 27:50

Well, like, so I mean, and here's the thing, and here's the reason why no one's going. Like, if you can get a movie that just come out, literally movie. Get it in your living room for 30 bucks. Maybe not even that depends on what movie.

SPEAKER_03 28:06

Also, sometimes as soon as they drop, they're going on something that you're already subscribed to. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 28:11

I mean, or even if you gotta rent it on the Amazon's bad about that. Like you gotta rent the brand new ones. But but it's but it's fifteen, twenty bucks, and I don't have to leave my house.

SPEAKER_04 28:22

Or hell, and sometimes you can buy the some bitch for you know an extra$10,$15, and you're like, well, I mean, might as well you're gonna spend less doing that.

SPEAKER_06 28:33

But I mean, you miss out on the movie theater experience. We can all agree, like, it was always cool, especially growing up, to go see a movie or going to it.

SPEAKER_03 28:42

But also, though, it's like, how many times did you get mad about people getting up in front of you and like, motherfucker, that was a good scene? Like, you just fucking at the house that don't happen. You can pause it. You can pause it. You go get you go get your drink or whatever. At the movie theater, if you got thirsty again or you had to go to the bathroom, you missed the movie.

SPEAKER_04 29:02

All right, so have have either one of y'all ever done drive-in movies? Yes. No. I I've never got to do it. Really? No.

SPEAKER_06 29:09

That's a cool point.

SPEAKER_04 29:11

It was close, or you know, out towards where my aunt Stacey lived in them. Like it was closed my whole childhood growing up. They opened it up uh just a few years back again, I think.

SPEAKER_06 29:21

Well, so there's actually a few in the state of Arkansas. Uh I think three that I know of for sure. There might be.

SPEAKER_03 29:27

There's one around Rogers, isn't there?

SPEAKER_06 29:29

Um, yes. There's there's one in northwest Arkansas. There's one up there at uh Mountain View or Mountain Hall. Uh close to where we went trout fishing. I don't know if it's still open. That's the one that I've been to. And I think there's another one over towards Hot Springs. Was it pretty cool? It was cool. Uh it wasn't a I don't even remember what movies I've seen, but they're never like fresh out movies or something. It's whatever they're showing that night, and a lot of times, like everyone I've been to, they'll be two different showings, and like of course you gotta. But so you could you could get the speaker that you put on your window, or you could tune in to a radio station and play on the vehicle. And I mean, you just sit in the room. Like, but it's cool. You're sitting in the back of the truck.

SPEAKER_03 30:22

Is there like edictsy that you gotta turn your vehicle off though?

SPEAKER_06 30:26

I mean, no, you can have your vehicle run, like headlights have to be off. Yeah, you don't know.

SPEAKER_04 30:30

Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. I mean that's pretty cool. You know, because like I I remember, you know, just talking to grandparents and stuff growing up, they were like, oh yeah, drive in movies were like the coolest thing ever. Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_03 30:44

Yeah, I mean you were you were you're the one to get in this conversation? Yeah, I mean okay, all right.

SPEAKER_06 30:49

Let's all right, you wonder why we were younger and you told your parents of going to movies and they wanted to know who was going what exactly.

SPEAKER_04 31:02

Every time I was younger, if I wasn't with my parents, I was definitely going to be. You were going with a girl or something. Yeah, I mean, it was always like a little, you know, when you were 13, 14, yeah, I'm going it was a date. It was a date, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 31:20

Think about that. We're like the lat like movie theaters are out.

SPEAKER_03 31:24

It was a little bit of a exactly where my mind went. Like uh I'm my first year anniversary's coming up. Yeah. So and when y'all started talking about driving, I was like, oh hey, hey, hey.

SPEAKER_04 31:40

Make sure that tent's dark.

SPEAKER_06 31:44

I mean, no, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 31:46

I I've always wanted to do it just because I think it'd be cool though. I mean, just for like that kind of nostalgic experience that I've never got to experience kind of if that makes sense.

SPEAKER_06 31:56

No, I think everyone should experience it.

SPEAKER_03 32:01

Yeah. I mean, I think that is what's uh cool about America in general. We have a bunch of different traditions that have slowly faded, but they're still alive. If you really want to search for it, you know. It's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_06 32:17

Y'all got me sitting here thinking about like if a movie theater's gone, like how much fun did you have in a movie theater? Like and kids aren't experiencing that as well.

SPEAKER_04 32:28

Like, I'm gonna shoot y'all straight. I I'm not talking derogatory about any business or nothing. I mean, if we gotta cut this, we do. But have you ever drove past the one in Stockhart? I mean, it's closing, from what I understand. Really? They're shutting it down. It doesn't surprise me. I mean, like there's never anybody there.

SPEAKER_03 32:48

It's just a very hard thing present day. Yeah, it it it is. I mean, it's not even like our generation, we still did it a little bit. Yeah. And then the kids that are be born in the last ten years, they're doing it less. Think about the next uh ten year batch of kids. They're doing it even less because of technology and the way that just we consume stuff.

SPEAKER_06 33:12

But like I'm getting at the like look at all the things our parents did that we thought it was really cool that we never really got to experience it. And now we're to the age where we're watching things that we kind of enjoyed as kids that the next generation isn't really going to get to experience.

SPEAKER_04 33:30

No, I mean I would say by the time we all three have kids, they probably won't ever have to go to a movie theater. Yeah, no, no.

SPEAKER_03 33:38

No, they they won't experience things. I think I think us raising kids will appreciate things like that, but they will not have the opportunities to see it. Yeah, I see what okay. I was make sure that y'all are that's what y'all are saying. Because I I think you can raise a kid to appreciate that stuff, but I mean it's a good thing. And you can also make a kid, you know, work hard, blah, blah, blah, not not be a uh iPad kid or whatever else. Yeah, yeah. Sorry, that's right.

SPEAKER_04 34:04

That one's stung a little bit, boss.

SPEAKER_03 34:05

My bad, my bad. Jackson's an iPad adult.

SPEAKER_04 34:08

Dude, I am I am 28. Almost 28.

SPEAKER_03 34:17

A couple that was a parent. Oh. And but their kids weren't there. And I just I assume that they raise like my vision is whenever I have a kid, I'm like, no iPad.

SPEAKER_06 34:28

Like they were you assumed they had a kid that eats. Just went out and did this. And catches frogs. But yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:34

I could also almost immediately like a sense like But not to say that their kid was constantly on iPad. But I could sense immediately that I'd offended them a little bit. And I triggered something. And I was like, oh, I just kept on because I mean I had my beliefs. That's the way that I would be. I was like, no, no iPad until at least they're 16, or they they gonna, you know, encompass, you know, like technology and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_06 34:59

Well, that's like maybe on a rainy day. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 35:02

Well, that's like some kids like uh still don't get phones until they're a certain age. Which I think which I think but but I will say like I got one when I was I think seven or eight. Now, this was a flip phone. It was seven, I was about to say it was a Nokia that only called.

SPEAKER_03 35:22

Yeah, but technology at that time is not what it is today.

SPEAKER_04 35:25

Right, no, yeah, I agree. But I the only reason I got it was for emergencies kind of thing. And I mean there is phones that they make that are like that. Yeah, which I do kind of think.

SPEAKER_03 35:35

My first phone, the only thing I could do on that was fucking play the little snake Nokia. Snake game. So I mean, like, it wasn't like I was like I got bored, I got bored with it fast because I was an outdoor kid. Up at like I literally grew up with no technology. Yeah, I mean, other than like Nintendo 64 and shit like that. But then, but I was always an outdoor kid, and then all of a sudden they gave me a cell phone and I had this little game on it. I'm bored with that because I'm used to being outdoors, like every second something's going on, and I was like, you know, I just threw it away. But whenever you raise a kid from five years old or three years, whenever they're old enough to always do that, and especially with technology now, they don't want to get to experience what's outdoors and and they can make their own timeline outdoors. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_06 36:20

Well see, and I feel like I don't know, it's it's weird because like I have a brother who very much enjoys video games and always has and always had a gaming console of some sort growing up. I never had one. Like I would rather be outside, like you give me a rope and a stick whenever I was eight years old, and I was the happiest kid in the world, and I wanted to be outside, but whenever it's raining and nasty, I couldn't really do anything outside, I'd sneak back there and get on it. Yeah, but I never found enough enjoyment, like, and that was just my me as a person. I never found enough enjoyment in it to justify doing that when I could be outside and doing something.

SPEAKER_04 37:01

I I will say, like, me, like, I love being outdoors, but I always had some type of gaming console growing up. I loved it, thank God for my parents, because I it probably it it probably kept me from driving them up the damn wall, honestly. But I mean, I mean, I think I found a good balance in it. I mean, it's not like I mean, you know, I won't I won't lie, there for a few years I was like very heavily into it. And hell, I still have a gaming console to this day that I still play. I mean, I I like I like to play, but I mean it's not like all the time.

SPEAKER_03 37:36

Yeah, so I completely agree with you. Like what you're saying, yeah. I did have gaming consoles all the entire time that I was gonna do.

SPEAKER_04 37:45

It's just finding a balance for it.

SPEAKER_03 37:47

Yeah. No, but I favored being outside, but when you can't be outside, at night, I think maybe I probably had a little bit of ADHD whenever I was growing up. I always had to be doing something, so yeah, you know, even at night, I still got the ADHD. It hasn't gone anywhere. So yeah, I would I would play games, but it was just kind of like a night thing, like, all right, yeah, yeah, go outside, can't do nothing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 38:14

And I mean I I will say though, there so it was like in our neighborhood, I say our neighborhood, I mean, it was me and Aiden, and then his older sister Michaela, and then my cousin Robin. So, like, a lot of the times, on a lot of days, we were always doing something outside. But, you know, we like even at night we'd go out and try to catch fireflies and shit like that in a jar and so I I remember one time there was this old cedar tree that wasn't very tall at all, but there was this damn possum climbing in it, and we thought we were gonna kill it with a pellet gun. But you ever seen a possum mad running at you when you're like eight at night? Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 38:59

You can't pick them up by the tail, they'll still ball up on your hand.

unknown 39:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 39:04

They're uh they're fierce creatures.

SPEAKER_04 39:07

They're like they're like a cat on steroids, kinda. Yeah. I mean, like they're and I say that because they're feral as fuck. Um you know, I mean, they're just killing. Killing. Yeah, whatever. I hit him. I swear I hit him. You think you're Bruce Lee or something? I am Bruce Lee. Look at this guy. This guy.

SPEAKER_06 39:29

I'm Bruce Lee. Now, uh, I did feel like I did feel like uh shit.

SPEAKER_04 39:34

Rest in peace to Chuck Norris, too. Shit, I don't even know if we ever mentioned that on here, man.

SPEAKER_06 39:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 39:39

That that I remember walking watching Walker Texas Ranger growing up a bunch. Man, he's watching. I mean, he's been passed away for what, three weeks now or so?

SPEAKER_06 39:48

You had to bring it back up. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. He's behind you just had to be like, Hey, hey, hey, hey, he's behind you.

SPEAKER_03 39:57

Breaks my doggy. I was definitely the kid. Now my dad wouldn't let me do this at his house. I I I grew up in separate households. But my mom at my at her house, like it was like I would rummage through the storage building or whatever else, and I would find like nails or like old wood or something, and I would just build a random fort. Like there was a full-on like fort in the dog pen, and I built I built a bridge to go from the outside fence to the fort in the center of the dog pen. That way the dog like it was like I was above the, you know. Yeah, like I it was just crazy shit.

SPEAKER_06 40:34

Like I would just build stuff like that. I was a kid. I built uh I got I got in trouble for this. Don't don't dig holes in your dad's yard, kids. Oh boy, I got in trouble for that. I had a pond with a little levee around it, had a boat dock going out to like mini-scale, obviously. I wasn't like operating an ex excavator in the yard or anything. Like I had a shovel. But yeah. Uh yeah. Don't do that, kids.

SPEAKER_04 41:02

Yeah, me and me and Aiden actually did that one time. Uh we were gonna dig the china in the backyard. And then, you know, kids I think. Listen, kids don't watch the weather for everybody wondering. Most kids don't watch the weather. And the next day, it rained all fucking day. All fucking day. And there was just this big hole full of water in the backyard. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_06 41:37

Jackson's staring out the window. I guess that puts a hold on our dirt work today. Just watching it rain.

SPEAKER_04 41:45

No, no. I think me, me and Aiden weren't allowed to see each other for like a week and a half, two weeks, or some shit. Like we got.

SPEAKER_06 41:51

You know your childhood was good if you're not allowed to see your friends because of something you know. Oh, yeah. Oh, that was y'all need to be apart for a little while. So that was awesome. I had brothers though, so it's hard to keep us apart.

SPEAKER_03 42:05

Yeah. Dude, I used to I uh I was talking to my mom about this uh at Easter. Uh I went over there and hung out with my mom and stuff. But at her house there next to our property was like a big wooded area that was owned by like the paper mill company. You know, they clear cut every once in a while. But there's all these trails and stuff through it. I would just disappear for half a day. And they knew had no idea where I was at. I was just on my fucking mountain bike. Well, I say mountain bike, it was just well, because we were broke. It was an old random BMX bike that I rode up and down. Whatever you could get at Walmart, but that wasn't a street bike, it was uh you know, off-road bike. Had naughty tires on it. I was out there just riding these mud trails like I was on some kind of dirt bike, and I would and then I would find creeks and stuff, and I'd take my fishing pole back there thinking that I was gonna catch something in this little pissy ass creek and stuff.

SPEAKER_06 42:59

Like I would just go on adventures and I can't tell you how many times, and this was the coolest thing, like y'all know dad, so for him to explain this, and I remember from years ago. But I would go on walks, like we live in the middle of nowhere, right? I'd go on my walkabouts, and I still have a bad habit of going on these to this day. But I'd just walk, and I might cover five miles like it's nothing, just take off walking. Oh yeah. And of course, at this time he still had horses out there, and I went on a walkabout, and he's like, Yeah, I knew exactly where you were. Like, what do you mean? He said, All I had to do is look at those horses. And like 'cause they can obviously see so much further, hear, smell. He's like, I'd look out there and just watch 'em for a little bit, and they'd look up and look at an area because he's like, I knew you were in that general area And I was like, How c how cool is that too? Like Have that kind of childhood where your dad's like not looking. He's not out looking for you and he's he's thinking in that in depth to watch the animals to see where I was. Yeah, yeah. He wasn't asking me where I was, wasn't using his own night eyes, he was using what was readily available to him in the area. Yeah, no, it's like pretty yeah, it's pretty damn smart.

SPEAKER_04 44:25

I I will say I never I mean, you see like videos, I guess, now I I do of like how dogs are with like little kids in like the front yard. I guess that's kind of how the horses were for you. They'd just be sitting there kind of watching you to make sure you were good.

SPEAKER_06 44:41

They didn't know it was me or anything. I mean, I might been might have been a predator, a threat that they were keeping an eye on.

SPEAKER_04 44:49

Yeah. Like, but they knew something was over in that direction.

SPEAKER_06 44:52

But knew something was over there that's not normally in that area because those horses, you gotta think about, they're obviously used to this area and used to what they see out the backside and all this. So hey, it's just crazy to think about.

SPEAKER_04 45:05

That is yeah, that is kind of crazy to think about. I don't know. I d I guess I never probably the farthest I ever really just kid kid walked was, I mean, I I never really had to walk far at either house I was at. My mom's house, I'd walk down from the house I grew up in to the house I'm in now, which isn't far at all. Maybe, maybe a quarter mile, maybe, on a gravel, dead end gravel road. So and then at mom and dad's house, or at dad's house, I'd just either have to walk in my backyard to go to Aiden's, or I'd have to walk across the street to go to Nana and Grandfather's. So I never really had to go far. Now, when I started getting older, I had this uh and Caleb Mitchell and Heath, or Heath had the bait shop there on Maine, and me and Kayla were best of friends, and I'd always I had had this town, it was Shelby Scooter.

SPEAKER_06 46:05

That's it was Jackson's Barbie Scooter.

SPEAKER_04 46:08

I hated going anywhere on scooter. We called it a bar, I called it my Barbie bike. It was a Barbie scooter. Little Barbie Razor scooter, and I rode that some bitch everywhere. I'd ride it from dad's to Johnny's house, down over to the bait shop, man. I rode that thing everywhere, man. You just never know where you'd see me. There was only one time I got chased by a dog, and I didn't really care. I didn't ride the side.

SPEAKER_06 46:33

Keep in mind, whenever he's a scooter, he's talking like moped style. No. Scooter. Was it not? No, it was like a traditional traditional like scooter. I always thought every time you take away. So you had a lot of experience riding this thing. Yeah. Didn't you wreck one in litter up?

SPEAKER_03 46:51

Man, he was fit. Oh man, yeah. That was a that was a motorized scooter, man.

SPEAKER_06 46:56

I rigged one too.

SPEAKER_03 46:58

I can't make too much fun of you. No, I hated scooters, especially on flat ground. Like, that shit sucks. Oh man, because you were just constantly do tricks on that some bitch, man. Yeah, but you're just constantly kicking. Like we we did we used to live in a uh a neighborhood in at my dad's house in Benton, and it had a big old hill. And that was the only time scooters were fun. Yeah. Because you're just coasting. Yeah, yeah. But like, but also making it back up the hill fucking sucked. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 47:23

Did y'all ever have a ripstick? No, I hate either. Oh my god, dude. I was just I was I could get onto one to this day and ride it just fine.

SPEAKER_06 47:32

I never had enough concrete at my house.

SPEAKER_04 47:35

Yeah, I mean that you have to have concrete to ride one. You could not ride one if you don't have concrete. It's impossible. But uh, I mean, probably not impossible, but just not advise. But I mean, I don't know. I really liked having a bike too. I will say that. A bike was pretty bad at I you know, I guess I had a pretty damn good childhood. Not that I didn't think I did, but I definitely didn't go without. I had a pretty I had a pretty fucking good man. Uh, I had a great good childhood. I mean, at one point, Trey locked me and him into a horse trailer. I mean, do remember that? We weren't even really friends. No, I didn't know you until like my junior year of high school or my senior year of high school.

SPEAKER_06 48:16

So, like, come back through, and it was weird that both of us remembered that situation. Same situation.

SPEAKER_04 48:23

Man, it was hot as hell that day, too.

SPEAKER_06 48:24

It was hot. So Jackson locked us in the attack room at this horse trailer. Actually, it might have been me. I don't remember who really don't know who did it.

SPEAKER_04 48:33

We were well, we were like actual kids' kids, like kids not old at all.

SPEAKER_06 48:37

Like, was that middle? It was at your uncle's place. Yeah, yeah. Middle of the summer, and it started getting hot, and we're just banging on the door. Somebody let us out, and my dad opens up the door. It's like, you idiots. Like, yep. And then years later we become friends and we still make dumb decisions like that. When it comes to that's very true.

SPEAKER_04 49:02

It's kind of crazy. It was kind of uh that was one of those full sucker.

SPEAKER_06 49:06

Full circle moments.

SPEAKER_04 49:08

Fuck I can't talk. Full circle moments. Yeah. You know, like you don't know anybody, you you remember somebody, but like then you see them like years later, and you're like, oh, okay, maybe he's not all that bad. We went through a traumatic experience together, you know.

SPEAKER_06 49:26

Like here we were with each other in a predicament, and now we decide to be friends and we get ourselves in.

SPEAKER_04 49:33

Yeah, predicaments getting worked. Like man, like we me and Colton, we were talking the other day about I don't know if you're there for this track. I know Thomas was. That day when we were frog gigging, and uh me and Thomas were out in the little pond, and then we look over and there is just the alligator. Yeah, the alligators just sitting there kind of and I mean it wasn't but it what about three or four foot?

SPEAKER_03 50:01

I was posted up on the floor there. They were they were the dummies that always got in the water. I was like, oh, if we're getting frogs, they're getting them. I'm just I'm just here to drink beer on the floor there.

SPEAKER_04 50:10

But I'm sitting here and I've already had me a couple beer, and I was just like, man, and we get over to the other side of the pond, and I was like, man, I think I can jump on that gator and grab it. I was like, I had some liquid encouragement, of course, and I was like, I'm pretty fucking sure I can do it. And I think it was Tom, it might have been you that talked me out of it.

SPEAKER_03 50:31

No. Could you think about it if you can? I think I was actually in the foil or in the water, and y'all were just wading around like pants rolled up, like just like barefoot walking around. I don't know, y'all might have had knee boots up, but I don't think so.

SPEAKER_04 50:44

I don't think y'all are just have my jeans rolled up, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 50:48

Yeah, I think y'all were barefooting it. Yeah. All I remember was is all of a sudden, you know, like we're listening to music, I was talking to somebody else, and all of a sudden I just hear like screaming and yelling, and see two people running like high knees, barefoot, like out of a movie scene. And we're like all like bullshit. And then of course we start spotlighting. Yeah, there's there was a game.

SPEAKER_04 51:12

No, we drove up to the other side of the pond, and sure enough, like he was like down there. I do remember, yeah. Man, I had some good damn times back then, man. I mean, not that we still don't have good times, but like Oh, we used to do all kinds of things. We used to do a lot of people.

SPEAKER_03 51:26

No, our our childhood shit of like, like, even whenever I used to come down here at Stuttgart and go to my my stepmom's mother, my grandma, and I would get on a bicycle and I would just tour fucking Stuttgart on my bicycle. Like that was just the kind of kid I was, and it just continued on to you know, later in age, whenever we were all hanging out, like down there at the farm, there was no telling what we'd get in. Whenever we would drive to the house, instead of taking the highway road, we would win, we would go through the dirt roads, like impassable roads. Yeah, yeah. Like we were like mud riders to get to my house. I was like, I was but now looking back, I'm like, what the fuck are we doing? But also looking back, I'm like, that was actually a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_04 52:06

Like it was a lot of fun, but I will say now I'm just like, I want the quickest way home getting the fuck home.

SPEAKER_06 52:12

You know, I mean But I was just like, I was about to say that. Like us as we got older, we weren't going and hanging out with each other and playing video games and in the base. Like we were hanging out where like we would meet up and sit around and talk about well, do we want to go fishing or do we want to go do this? Like, met up without a plan, come up with a plan, and it was always something outdoors.

SPEAKER_03 52:38

Or it was a phone call. Hey, I'm stuck. Can you come get me? Hey, it happens too. It was an adventure. It was an adventure. We learned a lot through that. We did. We did. When one freaking ass chewings in the process, too. Boy, boy, boy. Because we were we were kind of hellion, so I I will say that.

SPEAKER_06 52:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 52:59

It was good times, though.

SPEAKER_06 53:02

We were living fast and living free, and I mean, just whatever happens, happens.

SPEAKER_04 53:10

What you would think what other people would think about people from Arkansas County.

SPEAKER_03 53:15

But this was probably the safest place to do it, though.

SPEAKER_06 53:18

When we did something dumb and someone caught us, and normally they knew one of our parents or someone we were related to, and it was always like just young young boys being young boys. Like also we just made a mistake here, and you got that you got that, hey, don't do this. Next time just ask, and stuff like this. And we got a lot of life lessons in a lot of the dumb things.

SPEAKER_03 53:47

We we also knew well, it was the people that weren't in the group that would always tear up something that we had but we all we knew we were the ones we knew that we had to fix whatever we tore. We we followed up and and but it was always somebody else that would do the damage and then we would end up fixing it. Ninety-eight percent of the time. Yes.

SPEAKER_06 54:08

Uh we were not the porch.

SPEAKER_04 54:12

We were not perfect. Right where my head went whenever I fell off the porch and broke the damn thermostat on the fucking grill. God, that hurt, man.

SPEAKER_06 54:22

You didn't do that on purpose, though. No, I didn't do that. You weren't out rutting up someone's yard on purpose, like or you know, situation. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_03 54:30

Before y'all, there was a group before y'all that was at my house, and and the parties were probably way wilder than the y'all remember, but oh yeah, people come out in my yard, in which I was renting the the property in the house, and they would just do donuts in the yard because they got drunk and wanted to do donuts in the yard. Well, guess who got to sit out there and rake all the soil back into the ruts and rake it while you're you know, and that was the that was the stuff, but once y'all started being around me, I got a little bit older and also I trusted y'all a lot more. And like obviously that's the reason why I still hang out with y'all is because our parties never really got to that point where we were damaging something. Oh man. It would either already be damaged or we would just not damage something.

SPEAKER_06 55:17

It was always understanding the line, like, yes, we want to have a good time and hang out, but like we're not trying to for one, cause ourselves to have to do more work tomorrow because someone decided to tear something up. And two, like, just have a little bit of like the respect. Like be respectful of where you're at. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 55:40

Man, y'all getting all kinds of bro we could go down, but we can go down rod rabbit holes.

SPEAKER_06 55:46

I don't know if I want to tell you.

SPEAKER_03 55:47

I don't know if we really talked about our true golden days that much. Yeah. I don't know if you can call them the golden days. I would say the slum days, but no, I wouldn't say that. I wouldn't say we were broke. Yeah. That's all we talked about though growing up, is like, oh, I'm gonna get that job, I'm gonna make more money. Yeah, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that, I'm gonna have more, I'll be able to have more fun. No.

SPEAKER_06 56:11

What's what's the common thing you you look back on? Like 10-year-old you would be very proud of where you're at.

SPEAKER_03 56:19

Duck hunting scene. That's my only thing. Yeah. That's my only thing. I actually I think probably since I was probably about seven to ten years old, that's that was my true goal is like duck hunting. That was the only thing I was just really ate up with. I think.

SPEAKER_04 56:38

Uh probably just being in the hunting industry, honestly. Uh you know, I mean, I enjoy it. I've uh probably like he was probably pissed off at like 10, 18 year old me. The fly's still around, guys. The 10-year-old me is probably still pissed off at the 18, 20-year-old me, 21-year-old me.

SPEAKER_03 57:02

Can I give you insight? Uh what it make you think? Because you've always been a very social person. I'm gonna say it's your connections in the hunting scene because you I feel like literally you could go anywhere and have an invitation.

SPEAKER_04 57:15

Yeah, I I I I I talk to everybody though.

SPEAKER_03 57:18

You're you the way you You're good at it. The friendships that you have made.

SPEAKER_04 57:25

Yeah, I have made a lot, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_03 57:27

Um because you are into the hunting scene, you love that area. But yeah, you I literally feel like this dude could get an invitation anywhere.

SPEAKER_04 57:38

Oh uh that's probably like ten-year-old me is like proud just that I'm doing something that I love. I have a passion for, I guess, compared to because you know that's what my grandfather told me whenever I was growing up. He's like, if you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life. I mean, I completely agree. So yeah. I mean, I hate to be so cliche since you know, but you know, I I mean, it's kind of the way I view it. What about you, Trey? What about me? Well, what would 10-year-old say about you that he's proud of you about? Oh, that he's proud of me about? Yeah. I don't know. I hell everything. Still got hair. I do still have hair. Pretty impressive. It's pretty thick too, but Maddie cut mine Friday and she's like she's cutting mine Thursday. She was like, You're going bald. I was like, What? No, I'm not. Mine's receding a little bit. No. Thing is, like, that's why I haven't worn a hat. If y'all haven't noticed, for like the past year, yeah, I try not to wear a hat a lot because like I read on the internet or what the fuck ever that So it had to be true. The red, yeah. That the the less you wear your hat, the the more your hair will start growing back. Well, at this point, I'm just gonna start wearing fucking hats again because ain't shit helping. Like, I've literally got the same exact I'm starting to bald right there, kind of at the crown of my head.

SPEAKER_03 59:02

Damage is done, it's not irreversible.

SPEAKER_04 59:05

I ain't going over to fucking if I go bald, I go fucking bald. I ain't going over there and having a thousand fucking needles stabbed in my head. Just I'm good on that.

SPEAKER_06 59:16

But 10-year-old me would be proud of the fact I'll get a little sappy for a moment.

SPEAKER_04 59:23

Oh, get sappy boy.

SPEAKER_06 59:25

Ooh, sassy boy. There were a few years there where I wasn't doing as much of the things that I truly love to do. I was focusing on my career, I was putting all my time and effort into that. Um I really got to where I didn't go outside a whole lot. I mean, Jackson, you remember y'all gave me a hard time about I'm not near as tan as I normally was. I look like a ghost. I mean, I wasn't getting outside, I was wearing myself down, focusing so much on like bettering myself, so I thought. And so losing that, like I j I w I wasn't in a very good headspace. And getting back to where I'm actually outdoors every waking minute I can. Now I still work in an office. I'm still indoors all the time. But 10-year-old me be proud that I found that circle back and I'm still doing the same thing that 10-year-old me was doing for fun. Like I'm I'm still doing the same things. I I grew up out I grew up fishing, hunting. I mean, just always outside. So there's that.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:41

Well, you're I mean you're still allowing yourself time to do that. Yes. Because I mean I'm I'm making time to do that. Let's be real. It's really hard in present day economy and everything else to discipline yourself to live on a certain budget or whatever else and still allow time for stuff like that. I mean, let's be real. I mean, like, uh we may all live, even at this table, we might live at a different dollar sign of far as far as a budget. But whatever you're doing, it it's I can I can tell you it's it's even hard for me to find like oh I'm always thinking like, oh shit, I should probably be making more money. But eh, no, I want to go have fun outdoors. Like I just want to go do that stuff. Like, even though I'm not making money, like I know I make money during duck season, but all summer long, fishing and yeah, whatever else I want to do, that's just me time. That's me time, you know. Like it it gets hard in an economy that it is right now.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:45

So yeah, but I mean, I th I think it gets overlooked so much, like people I think it's a common thing getting too involved in work, a career trying to make trying to make money and thinking that's where you should be headed and what you should be looking at. And really, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:06

I would agree with that. I mean a hundred wholeheartedly I'd agree with that. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:12

I I and actually I think Jackson opened my eyes to this a lot because there was days that y'all were coming over and hanging out and stuff, and I would be staring at the computer while y'all were drinking beer. And I'd be like, Oh, come look at this. And they're like, Oh yeah, that's cool. But I was not socializing because I was so honed in on something. Yeah. And then I finally it just finally kind of clicked in my mind. It might have been that, you know, I uh got a job out of it or whatever, but now I'm just kind of like, man, I just my free time, I don't I don't want to focus on that stuff. I just want to live a little bit. I want to live, you know. Like I want to do.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:52

Well, I mean go to do like the fun, enjoyable stuff.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:56

I don't want to be thinking about dollar signs or work or you know, I just want to I just want to eat it. Living the moment. Living the moment. And yeah. Well, and also we were filming everything we were doing at that time too. Yeah. Yeah, it was like I had a camera in my hand.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:09

Like looking back on it, like at least at least for me, like, yeah, you were worn down and you weren't exactly the happiest you've ever been doing it. But you were doing good. Now don't get me, I would I would still do everything the same. I don't I don't regret how I did it.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:26

It taught me it taught I think the whole group, I think, it taught a lot. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:30

But I mean I I like it was necessary looking back, I wouldn't have done it to the extent that I did of isolating myself and stuff like that. You know. Okay. I would have still made I would have made a lot more room for doing the actual things I enjoy.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:49

Yeah. Having a social life kind of thing.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:51

Yeah, stuff like that.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:53

But I mean, everyone's Yeah, like I I see a lot of people like uh which is there's nothing wrong with it at all because I mean it's kind of what's hammered into our heads nowadays, a lot of generations. I I say generations. It's hammered into this generation. Yeah, or our generation. Or like what your job is off of social media. Your your job, as soon as you get done with high school, college, whatever it is, go get a job, work your ass off, make some money, and by 60, yeah, if you can retire great, if you can have a little fun, all right, fine, whatever. No, man, I'm here to say fuck that, have as much fun as you can, while still being able to provide and be a good, you know, a productive citizen to society kind of thing. If that makes sense what I'm trying to say. But like, I I see a lot of people that like they're getting married and stuff, and which is great, but like I don't know, let me rephrase that. Like, not just the married people, but like the people who are who aren't even married and they're just they got a job and that's the only thing they care about, and that it's literally the only thing that's almost like they live for outside looking in, but like you never know what goes on um behind closed doors.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:13

But yeah, yeah, yeah. But well once you get married, that is what you live.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:17

No, yeah, that that's why I said it's your family. Yeah, that's why I said let me back up. But I mean that's like there's also I I see a lot of people not having a social life due to like work and the like then they have a family and uh uh before they even uh get to really even have fun, if that may that's what I'm trying to get at. They'll have a family before they get to have any type of fun. Which I mean some people don't want to, which is fine.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:44

But I mean, I've been told that 'cause yeah, you watch I mean, obviously we've watched people our own age get married and have a kid within the first year of being married. Which is fine. Which is awesome if that's what you want. But I've been told And the older I get, the more I realize it. I've been told forever, like when you get married, do not have a kid within the first year. And it's nothing like if the marriage doesn't work, blah blah blah. Nothing like that. It's a simple fact of just enjoy being a married couple. You know. And Colton can obviously probably put more into this. Yeah, you know. Because you're coming up on your one year. And y'all just being a married couple who go and do things, travel, experience different experiences. And I mean, now y'all were together forever before that, but but just enjoy being a married couple. And I like the idea of that, but not everyone's the same.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:44

Like I said, maybe I didn't really phrase my statement well. No, it's like some people think it's a duty once you get married to the old school way of looking at it. It really is. Which is meant there's nothing wrong with that. I don't know, different in that manner. Maybe it was the way we were raised or what we went through, blah blah blah blah blah. Yeah, yeah, anyway. But um yeah, it's not it is it's not that's not everybody though. It's not everybody. I and I I wouldn't say that. I I think everybody has their own thing. Some people they truly that's what they truly want is to have kids immediately. There's nothing wrong with that. Yeah, and it's a beautiful thing to have kids. And I I actually, you know, I not I'm not saying I don't want kids because we've had we've been having a lot of conversations. I I mean I do want to have kids.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:33

But imagine just having a menu right now.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:37

Bro, we're going like on some decent. I know. We went from talking about Mandalorian movie theaters. I really love because it's actually been a really beautiful topic tonight. I I said beautiful, holy shit. Um it's been a a really good topic tonight. It's been a good topic tonight because I I really think it lets into people knowing like who we truly are, but uh we're normal.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:00

We're normal. Well, we're normal. Well, no, we're not normal.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:04

Normal uh I'm not gonna use uh we're normal Southern boys, I guess you would say.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:12

I mean, we're just uh it makes no sense. We are what we want about we're I no I want to say what I just thought of in my head, but I'm not gonna say it.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:26

Well, I was gonna say redneck, but you know, that's like I was gonna say hicks.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:31

That's the bad slang for we're we're not we're not really hicks. I would consider myself more of a redneck than a hick.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:38

Redneck doesn't offend me at all. No. Like if somebody calls me a redneck, I don't understand that. Have you not watched videos where the people are like oh redneck's a slur word for white people? I I it doesn't offend me at all.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:51

I mean, if you called me a hillbilly, I'd look at you funny because like when's the last time you saw a hill around here? Like I'm from the flat grounds.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:00

But it also doesn't offend me. No. Yeah. Alright, alright, alright. I'll just make sure I was just speaking that out loud. Just to make sure I'll see me.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:08

Like how we got really deep and then all of a sudden we're on this subject.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:12

Well, that's just how we conversate. Yeah, I mean, this I mean, we're just we're being really true tonight. Welcome to our real life. Yeah, I know. Um yeah. Well, fuck. We could do this for another hour, though.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:24

We could.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:25

Bro, like we're actually having a good conversation tonight. What do you have?

SPEAKER_06 1:09:28

What do you have planned?

SPEAKER_03 1:09:30

Well, no, we gotta shut down.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:32

Oh, is it that time?

SPEAKER_03 1:09:33

Oh, golly.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:35

How long have we been?

SPEAKER_03 1:09:36

Damn it. All right, all right, all right, all right, I'm sorry. I mean, I'd love to go if like I know, I know, I know. I'm sorry, guys.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:43

I bought a new fishing pole. I'm gonna go try and cast it out before it gets dark. I bet you will.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:47

It's almost dark, so uh not quite.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:50

No, we still got a little bit.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:52

Sucks. We hadn't reached the 9 p.m. sunsets yet.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:55

No, we ain't, but I I I will say that's the best thing about summer. 9 p.m. sunsets.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:01

Yeah, give you some more hours in the day. Hell yeah. We love more hours in day for all the outdoor shit.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:06

The older I get, the more I appreciate that. I I love an early morning and a coffee versus a late night in a beer. And I know that's sad to say on a on a Monday beers podcast. It is true.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:20

We're getting to that age where we go to bed still early.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:24

Not all of us do.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:26

Yeah, yeah. Alright. Well, this honestly, this was a good one. And we I think we gotta come back to this somehow. Yeah. Yeah, because this this is actually some pretty good shit. Yeah. Alright, so well, thank y'all guys for listening. And sorry that we gotta cut short, but we gotta go let the girls here at the flying duck tap room go home, and we are always appreciative of John and RT calls and flying duck tap room letting us do this here in John Stevens call making shop right attached to the flying duck tap room. If you're ever in Stugart, please come check out Flying Duck Tap Room. All right, who wants to close us out with a toast?

SPEAKER_04 1:11:06

Uh here here's to the good times and the friends that have gone by. Cheers.