Try That in a Small Town Podcast
In 2023, Jason Aldean's groundbreaking song and video "Try That In A Small Town" resonated with a resurgence of conservative values in America. The writers of the song, Kurt, Neil, Tully, and Kelley, took the opportunity to launch the Try That In A Small Town Podcast. This platform allows them to reveal the true inspiration behind the song and discuss the importance of common-sense values. With a lineup of influential guests, the hosts will entertain you with the stories behind their music, while also addressing challenging topics affecting our communities and country.
Try That in a Small Town Podcast
Debating Cancel Culture, Holiday Controversies, and Unexpected Hunting Adventures :: Ep 32 Try That in a Small Town Podcast
Can cancel culture truly silence voices, or does it fuel even more spirited debates? Join us as we jump headfirst into the fiery world of political opinions, where trumpets sound for Trump supporters and the "Happy Holidays" vs. "Merry Christmas" debate lights up like a Christmas tree. You'll hear us share some hilarious moments, including Thrash's unexpected squeaky voice from a recent hunting trip and Neil's infamous venison and deer jerky that not everyone managed to get their hands on. With a mix of humor and genuine camaraderie, we dissect the cultural and political climates that have everyone talking.
As the festive bells start to jingle, we can’t help but get caught up in the holiday spirit. Thanksgiving leftovers make way for the twinkle of Christmas lights, and we treasure the warmth and joy that this magical season brings. Reflecting on the traditions and memories that make this time of year so special, we invite you to join our celebration and embrace the anticipation of the holidays. From heartwarming stories to laughter-filled debates, this episode captures the essence of what makes the holiday season a favorite for us all.
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Speaker 1:By the way, it's going to be amazing. They're going to be like who is the fourth?
Speaker 3:guy, I know it, I know. I'm wondering who this is too.
Speaker 4:It's amazing. So any more of this being held down because you supported Trump. That's the president. Over half the country voted for him. So the fact that you can try to cancel someone or try to run someone down or push someone off a show or not hire somebody because they voted for Trump. You should definitely check yourself if you have those thoughts.
Speaker 3:I'm not doing the happy holidays thing, that's going away. Trump's in, that's gone.
Speaker 4:Wait a minute now. Hold on Happy holidays is fine. No, it's in, that's gone. Well, wait a minute now. Hold on Happy holidays, or something Happy holidays is fine.
Speaker 5:No, it's not. What are you talking about? That's a big topic. Happy holidays. Happy holidays, don't stop In the words of Ronald. Reagan, I paid for this microphone.
Speaker 7:The Try that in a Small Town podcast begins now.
Speaker 1:We are back. This is I'm so forceful. We are back. Yes, this is a Try that in the Small Town Podcast We've got TKK, lo and Thrash. I'm Kurt. I feel bad for Thrash. His voice is he's a little under the weather. I'm a little squeaky. Are you under the weather, or is just your voice badash? I'm Kurt. I feel bad for Thrash. His voice is he's a little under the weather. I'm a little squeaky. Are you under the weather?
Speaker 3:or is just your voice bad? No, I feel fantastic, you do not sound fantastic. No, I really do I don't feel bad at all, I'm just like squeaky and I've been haunting.
Speaker 4:Is it a bad time to go sing? Some of we see you try that in a small town mask to where we don't want to get the COVID.
Speaker 6:You're not going to get sick, it's good for you anyway, but you're not sick? No, I'm not sick.
Speaker 5:I feel fantastic. What was it, peter Brady, from the hunting trip? Is that what?
Speaker 3:happened Walking into the wind like 15 miles. I walked like 15 miles across these fields and the wind was blowing like 40 miles an hour in my face and my throat is usually the first thing that takes the brunt of it. It's like it's stupid, the things I do for hunting. It's a good thing I don't have a show this week because I can't see.
Speaker 4:You know, I don't ever want you to stop hunting, because Neil sent me home after our last podcast with some venison.
Speaker 1:Oh, he sent you home.
Speaker 4:Did you get the?
Speaker 1:venison.
Speaker 3:The deer jerky. Yeah, it was out there. It was there for everybody.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, yeah it was.
Speaker 3:It must have been there for TK and. Kalo no, it was there.
Speaker 1:What do we need? You got some too. Everybody in this room got something from Neil. You didn't get any.
Speaker 3:No, well, that's your fault.
Speaker 4:Happy holidays everybody. That's not my fault.
Speaker 1:How did I not?
Speaker 3:get something. What happened? And you lost me at happy holidays. I'm not saying that ever. Why Happy holidays? Well, I'm just saying I can. Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm just saying I don't do happy holidays. Remember when Kamala said how dare we say Merry Christmas?
Speaker 7:How dare we say.
Speaker 4:Merry.
Speaker 7:Christmas. How dare you say.
Speaker 4:Merry Christmas. Was that fake or real? No, that was real. Did she actually say that? Yeah, that's a real thing. Okay, I don't care. You really hit my soft spot now. The holidays are my favorite. I mean, we get to November, so Thanksgiving just happened.
Speaker 1:We're coming into Christmas.
Speaker 4:Christmas this time the tree's up, the lights are going on, merry Christmas, it's a whole. I feel. I love it because I feel like everybody's starting to really stretch out the season, like everybody's putting their tree up earlier, lights are going up earlier.
Speaker 3:I'm not doing the happy holidays thing. That's going away. Trump's in, that's gone.
Speaker 4:Wait a minute now. Hold, that's going away. Trump's in, that's gone. Well, wait a minute now, hold on. Happy holidays was something that Happy holidays is fine. No, it's not.
Speaker 5:What are you talking about? That's a big topic. Wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 6:Happy holidays Well don't stop.
Speaker 5:That's a freaking, you know. Wait a minute In the words of Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 1:I paid for didn't Do people do that, though, in lieu of?
Speaker 3:saying Absolutely. That's the only reason that you ever hear it anymore.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, because they don't want to say Merry Christmas. They don't want to offend believers.
Speaker 3:They don't want to offend the Christians. They don't want to offend the evangelicals.
Speaker 4:Are there people? I'm so tired of people trying to you know to offend somebody.
Speaker 5:No, but I don't think they're worried about offending Christians. They're worried about offending other people that aren't Christians. That's why they're saying happy holidays, exactly, you're not going to offend Christians by saying Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3:No, they offend them by saying happy holidays. That's what I meant to say. It's kind of a riddle Interesting, okay.
Speaker 4:I would love some episode on the comments. Does anyone actually know anybody that won't say Merry Christmas? I don't think they exist. Do they exist? Oh there, oh yes.
Speaker 3:Absolutely yeah. Oh gosh, there's a lot of them.
Speaker 4:Yes, even I'm taken back by this. Who out there won't say Merry Christmas? And what is wrong with you?
Speaker 5:I'm serious. Tune in next week. Oh, I'm serious you, I'm serious.
Speaker 3:Tune in next week. Oh, I'm serious, we're on that too.
Speaker 4:No, I'm serious, that breaks my heart. Come on everybody, merry Christmas. That's right, merry Christmas.
Speaker 3:Merry Christmas, who I want you to. My dad lit into somebody at Cracker Barrel one time At Cracker Barrel.
Speaker 6:Who was it? Merry Christmas At Cracker Barrel, at Christmas at Cracker Barrel.
Speaker 3:The person behind the counter taking his credit card Really Happy Holidays. And man, he turned around.
Speaker 5:No, wait a minute. He's probably told to say that Are you kidding me? Wait a minute, happy.
Speaker 4:Holidays. Hold on a second. It's for everybody. Well, I don't think anyone ever thought about saying Happy Holidays 10 years ago before all that, you're right. Happy holidays isn't a negative thing.
Speaker 5:Happy holidays. It turned into a negative thing for sure. It used to be Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Okay, because holidays are coming after you got New Year's Eve and all this stuff.
Speaker 3:You also got Thanksgiving. I'd rather hear let's celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas instead of saying Happy Holidays, Happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1:Happy Merry Christmas.
Speaker 4:I agree instead of saying happy holidays, happy Thanksgiving, happy Merry Christmas? I didn't know it was such a thing. I still can't believe that people won't see Merry Christmas. I think you guys are lying to me.
Speaker 3:No, they're still out there. There's a lot of them out there. Millions, millions, it's the same damn people that kept Jason off the top 100 list.
Speaker 5:Maybe 100 million. It's a lot.
Speaker 3:Really yeah, it's a lot really, yes, it's a lot.
Speaker 5:Bless your heart, you're in this bubble. You know why you're in this safe Christian bubble this time of year which we love and enjoy.
Speaker 4:It's so close to my heart that if you won't see Merry Christmas and I have no time for you, I don't believe you exist well, that's not the spirit of Christmas. Kalos says there's hundreds of millions of people out there that won't say Merry Christmas. Hundreds of millions.
Speaker 6:Thank you.
Speaker 1:Kurt. So I kind of lied I said Thanksgiving just happened and a big news flash. We're actually recording this before Thanksgiving. It's actually this weekend for us, when this episode airs, thanksgiving will have happened. But what are you guys doing for thanksgiving? I'm going up to minnesota in the freezing cold. You hang with waltz? Is he up there? I will not be hanging out with waltz. I will possibly see some of his supporters.
Speaker 4:But, um, I tell you what what I have to ask you this because you were in the middle of this. I don't want to delve into your personal stuff, but there's some-.
Speaker 1:Sounds like you do, let's do it. There's some feeling members that differ in opinion. It could be an interesting Thanksgiving. It could be a short one for me. No, I'll say this. I did see a short one for me. No, I'll say this, I did see a thing.
Speaker 3:Sorry, no go no. I did see a thing Go ahead and talk about politics with your family at Thanksgiving and you're going to save a shitload of money during Christmas.
Speaker 5:We saw that today. That's hilarious.
Speaker 3:I saw that too.
Speaker 1:It was pretty funny, really, honestly, the way I feel about it and maybe this pertains to people at Thanksgiving, but I actually really don't care what you think, I really don't. Everybody has a right to believe what they believe and that's fine and, as always, like we've said, just let me believe what I want to believe it really comes down to that.
Speaker 2:That's all you're comes down.
Speaker 1:I love that, so I'm not worried about it. And yes, I do have some family that thinks the other way, and that's fine and great and you bite your tongue.
Speaker 3:What's that you bite your tongue? No, I don't bite my tongue.
Speaker 1:I mean, if somebody brings it up, I'm more than willing to talk about it. Who's more willing to bring about it?
Speaker 3:but who's for? Who's more willing to bring something up, the left or the right? In a family, I think they want to get it going, don't they? They do because they oh boy that most of them most of them are convinced that they are correct and they know better it's a game at this point, because there's no convincing and there's no changing, you're not going to convince anybody. Yeah, I think you're right about that.
Speaker 4:It's a game. At this point, I miss the days. I miss the days of, and you can't have these days anymore because it's just it's too polarizing one way or the other, but when you could actually have a conversation about politics and everyone has a right to think what they want to think, and unfortunately it's really not that way anymore.
Speaker 1:yeah, no so good luck. No, it's actually. I mean, I'm looking forward to it. All the family that I have we're gonna see are amazing people. I love them. It's gonna be a fun weekend and you know, getting back to the just no, no, it really is. And Thanksgiving is an awesome holiday, right, I love.
Speaker 4:Thanksgiving. It's amazing. Yeah, I love Thanksgiving. Is that still okay to say? What's that?
Speaker 6:I don't know you guys tell me Well, it's okay, because it's not a Christian holiday.
Speaker 4:Okay, Well, I am learning something tonight.
Speaker 3:Well, who are we giving thanks to if it's not a Christian holiday?
Speaker 1:Okay, fair, but it isn't derivative of Christian belief, right?
Speaker 4:True.
Speaker 5:We just took a bunch of land from the Indians. What's more Christian than that? Siri, google, thanksgiving and the people?
Speaker 1:that we took things from. Anyway, we hope everybody had a. Oh. So what are you doing for Thanksgiving? You're going to be in Nashville, yeah.
Speaker 4:Having a small one, small Thanksgiving, just the kids and the wife.
Speaker 1:Do you eat to failure?
Speaker 5:Back to this, like on Sundays, oh, nfl stuff, it's pretty it's going to be a lot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's going to be a lot Because it's a weekend. You guys are with me and Tully I know Tully's like me I eat all weekend. I eat the leftovers. Do you guys do that? Kalo's in such good shape. I don't know if he does that anymore.
Speaker 5:No, I get bored of the same thing Like I say that I eat eggs every morning of my life. Get, uh, bored of the same thing like I say that I eat eggs every morning, my life every morning. But for thanksgiving food, I get tired of the turkey fairly quick. The dress. I'll eat the dressing for a couple days after that. You got to get off that or bad things are going to happen you, you dress your turkey with hand sanitizer no, I don't sanitize yes, you do no, no, no, now what I do, uh, it's a, it's really interesting, yeah, but yeah, but that's a whole different thing.
Speaker 1:No, we're going to get there.
Speaker 6:We're definitely going there.
Speaker 3:You're not going to get away.
Speaker 1:Okay, who we do need to kind of get into, but we'll bridge the gap with this. On Thanksgiving, who is doing most of the cooking and are you monitoring how well they're sanitizing?
Speaker 5:Hmm, Okay, that's a did?
Speaker 1:I just ruin your Thanksgiving. This is fantastic.
Speaker 5:Um, well, I don't do the cooking. My brother and my mom they live in the same neighborhood and they're great cooks, and so is my sister-in-law, Kristen they cook everything. Um, I don't think about people preparing food.
Speaker 2:You don't, no, no, that's disappointing.
Speaker 6:That blows me away.
Speaker 5:I mean no, because my mom I mean she'll be 79 on Saturday and I've never gotten sick from anything. She's eaten, so I feel like she's got clean little angel hands and so I've been fine. So I don't worry about that. But I will say, because Thanksgiving is in a buffet style, right, and so I do kind of look at, you know where my place in line is. Obviously women and children go first. Oh, so you aren't thinking about this. But a lot of times you want to notice who's got a little cough or anything like that, and you do. I kind of. You know, even if I'm going last, but no matter what, when you touch the utensils you put everything on there, get to the table, set hand sanitizer, go, and then you're ready, because you got to think there's 20 to 40 people touching all the utensils and there's kids.
Speaker 3:I want to know from our listeners if there's anybody out there that's as bad as he is.
Speaker 1:So what Neil is alluding?
Speaker 3:to. I've known this guy a long time.
Speaker 1:You do have a little bit of a thing with germs.
Speaker 3:He comes over to my house and he puts his hand underneath his shirt before he opens the fridge. And he does. I mean it's, it's amazing, but I'm consistent, I do it on my own, you are consistent.
Speaker 1:Not just your fridge. Yeah, so you're a little bit of a germaphobe. When did this start?
Speaker 5:Well, that's a long story, Okay.
Speaker 3:No, can you give a rated PG version of that story?
Speaker 4:We have no guests tonight, so feel free to expand. We're reaching here Kalo of that story.
Speaker 3:We have no guests tonight, so feel free to expand. We're reaching here. Kaylo, this is a pretty good story. Just give the pg version okay.
Speaker 5:So I was a little bit of a germaphobe. I wouldn't say germaphobe, but I'd wash my hands and things like that. But uh, but I feel normally yeah like wash your hands, but.
Speaker 5:But I was at the ymca and this is a long time ago this is, I mean, it's 20 years ago probably and I went in there and it was after a workout, and usually I'll go in after a workout. You've touched all the weights, all the stuff, right, that people have been touching all day, sweating on everything. So I'd go in and before I'd use the bathroom I would wash my hands, then use the bathroom, let's call it the one.
Speaker 1:Did you get a rash? Well, then use the bathroom. Let's call it the one.
Speaker 5:Do you get a rash? Do you get a rash? Well, so I'd usually wash my hands use the bathroom at the urinal, okay, and then wash my hands again and go out right.
Speaker 1:You wash your hands before you pee and after yes, because it's crucial.
Speaker 5:It's crucial because you've just touched all the stuff right, okay, fair. Then you, it's crucial because you've just, you've just touched all the all the stuff.
Speaker 2:Right, okay, so then there, then you're gonna touch your self right to your stuff, you know, to your bathroom and you put all that stuff on your stuff yeah, right.
Speaker 5:So this one time I, I went there, I just forgot. And then I and I and I, I went to the bathroom and as soon as I did it I went hands-free, real quick and went oh shit, and I panicked and then I thought to myself, okay, it's one time, surely it's going to be fine. With no less than 48 hours, exactly where I had touched to use the restroom Right, these boils, I'm telling you, I'm telling you. It's a thumb and a forefinger. Boils came on your area.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, that's nothing to laugh about.
Speaker 5:I'm just telling you.
Speaker 4:Are you sure it's from the gym?
Speaker 5:No, it was biblical. It gets worse. It was biblical. So they actually was biblical and it gets worse. It was biblical so they actually turned black and it was terrible. Oh my gosh, and my lymph nodes on the side that I had touched right by my waist like the size of a softball. Okay, I could barely put my Christmas sweats on.
Speaker 4:You know your compression pants.
Speaker 6:The length of the drawstring.
Speaker 1:I couldn't tie it. I refuse to believe this is from the gym. I refuse to believe this is from the gym you can't make this up.
Speaker 4:Sounds like you went down the deja vu 20 years ago.
Speaker 5:No, so I went to the Vanderbilt. I went to the Vanderbilt clinic and I saw the doctor about it and everything and I told him what happened and everything and he said you've not been having, you know, extramarital. I said no, no, no, it's not even happening at all. So and he says okay, and so he goes out and I could hear him talking in the hall and he goes I'll be right back and he's talking to another doctor guy. He's got, this area Looks pretty bad. He goes, he says it's not an STD or anything like that, but come check it out. I'm thinking great, here I'm going to show it to another guy. Anyway, he comes in and they said so, no, extramarital or anything like that. I said no, no, not even marital.
Speaker 4:Not even marital.
Speaker 5:He goes out and then they talk to this lady it's another doctor come on, she says yeah, you may want to check this out said hey, we've got, we've got, uh, dr, uh, so, and so in from vanderbilt, said great, and said there you go. And here's, yeah, anyway it's terrible. So, uh, in my I mean by that time the lymph nodes up here on the same side not it's just the side that you were, you know, yeah, that was affected, that was all your lymph nodes, the whole side of your body was swelled up, and so they gave me this women's and antibiotics, but actually just time it went away. But anyway, that really, really heightened my OCD.
Speaker 3:It really is.
Speaker 5:When you hear the whole story, you kind of get it a little bit and there may be some editing in there, Jim.
Speaker 3:No, no, no, that was fantastic. No, no, it was fantastic.
Speaker 1:All I can think about, though, is that you repeatedly have to show your private parts. Oh, that was terrible and you're probably not feeling the best.
Speaker 5:No, it was just terrible. I mean, you turn your head and just you know.
Speaker 1:So anyway it's cough Okay so that heightened your sense of making sure that you're always clean.
Speaker 4:and yeah, how was your confidence level?
Speaker 1:when that was happening.
Speaker 4:When they were like looking at you. Oh, it was terrible.
Speaker 5:Because you're being judged. They don't believe you. It's like okay, dude's been in, I don't know where he's been.
Speaker 3:I do get kind of offended, though, when you come to my house and you got to. I get that, you know, and it's like you think what do you think? We got diseases running around my house. Yes, that's what he thinks.
Speaker 5:I get that and me at my house do the same thing. Yeah, because, yeah, well, I mean I try not to do it as much like in the house. You know I'm trying not to.
Speaker 3:I'm wanting to talk. Dude, give me listening my voice tonight. I'm wanting to talk.
Speaker 1:I got, maybe you know, with no, a little girl now and kids. It's your wife. She's like my wife's. I wouldn't say she's a germaphobe, but it's close. Wife, she's like my wife's. I wouldn't say she's a germaphobe, but it's close, I mean she's. It's like the kids. It's hard because there's they just get sick all the time and they're around kids that have stuff going on and it's just and I'm not the most clean person in the world. So like which?
Speaker 3:can be good, cause you're opposite sides, yeah, but you're exposed to stuff which is really good, but what blew me away about you is not too long ago you were telling us, like you, what two showers a week. Maybe I don't know what he meant. No, no, I don't know what what that's what you're well now, no, no, I don't know, you'll go like two ways, that kind of couple of days and not shower.
Speaker 5:Really that's true. But here's the thing we're not working construction. I mean we rhyme stuff, we sit down all day. I mean I don't Sure.
Speaker 7:But you work out.
Speaker 1:Yes, I can wear the same shirt two days.
Speaker 4:You work out and don't shower and we keep it very cold.
Speaker 3:I mean it's good for the listeners. I'm sure they're riveted. They are, They've got to be. It's fantastic yeah.
Speaker 1:But anyway, but no, I shower frequently but, yes, neil, you brought up to save K-Lo here. Thank you, yeah, neil brought up.
Speaker 3:I'm going to take it right back to him. I don't know.
Speaker 1:Okay, go ahead them, I don't know. Okay, somehow, let's tie it in. You brought up the billboard uh, listeners or writers or something. Uh, just recently we had a um an article, I guess, from billboard that came out that said, or that uh listed the hundred, uh best country music artists of all time. And they had a lot of great artists on there. Uh, one that was not listed was our friend, our boss, jason Aldean Tully, and I took to Instagram because I want you to read what you said.
Speaker 1:I want you to read it. Tully, you want to pull up your post. Pull it up. I thought you had a great post.
Speaker 3:Both of y'all did.
Speaker 1:But listen, and Tully has said, said this, and I think he's on the money with this like that's, that's our guy, right, and he's not gonna come out and say that's bullshit. So, like we, I think we felt like we had to speak for him, um, because it was bs.
Speaker 3:That's just stupid I know britney came out and said yeah too, yeah, and.
Speaker 1:Brittany did too. You got your post up.
Speaker 4:Because I thought you said something good. What I said was and the whole reason I posted this is because Jason can't, you know. So Kurt had posted. Then I posted. I said it ain't always easy standing up for what you believe in. I don't know what's funnier at Billboard, how ridiculous this makes you look, or the fact that you think it would bother us. Thanks for making that chip on our shoulder just a little bit bigger. And I said proud to make this music and be on that stage with you every night at Jason Aldean Love you. So my whole point behind that was getting his back because he's not going to, he can't post anything, he's not going to post anything about it and he can't to lose, lose really for him. So I think me and Kurt the same way, where it's like, well, that's our brother and really am proud of what we've done and what he's done, and but you know, that kind of stuff kind of drives us, you know, and still makes us feel like we're the underdogs a little bit, which is probably true again.
Speaker 1:You know the biggest problem I had with it. You can say whatever where he ranks, and all that, but and I heard you say this and I agree up 100 with it Jason Aldean forged a new era of country music Like nobody was doing what Jason Aldean was doing when he broke. Nobody, nobody. And it changed music for the next however many years. That's influential to me, and how you can't recognize that is BS.
Speaker 3:Absolute BS. Even beyond that. I mean 28 number ones. Artist of the decade, and there's all those facts that go along with that. You got all those numbers that go with it, and that makes it even more obvious how intentional it was.
Speaker 4:Well, yeah, and I always say, even with an artist that maybe I'm not a fan of, you can argue with awards and the Grammys or a CMA award or ACM, or you can argue with that stuff who gets the award, who walks away with it, who remembers it, who doesn't?
Speaker 4:What you can't argue with is sold out stadiums and arenas and amphitheaters for extended years, and you have artists on there that can barely sell out a theater. So I think there's a huge disconnect there and it's fine and, like I said, I know it really doesn't bother him or bother us per se, but it but it needs to be addressed. Yeah, just because and I've had a lot of um, just incredible response to that, I've also had the last you know week, a lot of really hateful response, and you can check out my post on instagram um, there are some really really hateful response and you can check out my post on Instagram. There are some really truly hateful things that are said on there and, regardless of what you think about someone's politics, you can't argue with the reality of success. Even as an artist that I don't necessarily love, I'm never going to sit there and tell you that if someone's selling out three nights in a football stadium or three nights at wembley that this isn't deserved. I don't care who it is.
Speaker 4:I know I don't care who it is and that comes back to the morgan wallen thing. You know where it's like. It's morgan wayland. He's been, uh, he's been raining for a couple years now. I've been talking three nights football stadiums yeah, nobody's doing what Morgan's doing. So you don't have to like what he stands for. You can hold some sort of weird grudge over something that doesn't exist.
Speaker 1:But you cannot argue with a hard ticket sale.
Speaker 4:Yeah, Morgan's killing it and kind of to. And he's talented, he's awesome, he's great, he's amazing.
Speaker 1:CMAs just happened. Morgan finally won Entertainer of the Year, which was long overdue, long overdue, like ridiculously overdue. And then, who was one of you guys? Neil just said Jeff.
Speaker 5:Bridges, he's a flaming lib too, so it's like which I hate because I love his acting, which I hate. He's amazing, he's amazing.
Speaker 4:He's so sad I know all his great actors should host next year it's so ridiculous.
Speaker 5:I mean, he's like he's a stream lib but he's an amazing actor. I'm with you. He's great. He's had some of my favorite movies. I hated it too.
Speaker 3:That made it even more. It made it more look like it was so intentional to call him Morgan Whalen. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 5:I really don't think that. Not that I know Jeff Bridges, I just think he doesn't know who Morgan.
Speaker 3:Whalen is on the show?
Speaker 5:I don't think he did that on purpose.
Speaker 3:It's ridiculous to have somebody on the show that doesn't know anything about country music.
Speaker 1:That's insane If you look at the name Wallen on a piece of paper. You would never say Waylon. Let me tell you this.
Speaker 4:Let's stop the conversation. We've played the CMA words a dozen times. It isn't like he walked up there and didn't know what he was going to say. Someone would have told him. That's how you pronounce it. So even if he either someone didn't tell him anything, w-a-l-l yeah, does not say whalen no, it's, it's failed english and grammar and it's whatever. And I guarantee you morgan doesn't give a crap either you know, he's you know he's and don't why I understood that you think we're pissed because we're not pissed about all this.
Speaker 3:It's just, I saw when I first saw that I just kind of chuckled well you know what's interesting?
Speaker 1:I don't think. Well, I would guarantee none of our listeners would know this about the the awards. This is not a any kind of statistical based or factually based winning award. It isn't for entertainer of the year, it isn't. They don't look at who sold the most tickets or who sold the most records. That is not how it works. All political, it is political. It is political and it's just like how I used to grow up and watch the Grammys or the Oscars and you think, oh, that must be the best record of the year or the best film of the year because they won. That is not how it works. It is political. It is people buying votes. I'm sorry the secret's out, but that's just how it works.
Speaker 1:But people get in cahoots with other labels, other management companies, other publishing companies and they say listen, if you can vote for my artist, I'll do you a favor and do this. That's just how it works.
Speaker 5:It's not. That's not supposed to happen anymore, like I mean it 100. I know there there's. It's supposed to not be a thing, you know, but even let's. Let let's say that that is happening. The thing is it's voted on the CMAs by people like us in the country music industry. So let's say there wasn't blot voting, you know you'd say, um, it's still somehow the majority of of country music uh industry is voting.
Speaker 1:I can guarantee a certain way I can guarantee you and I'm sorry I'll probably get in trouble for saying this no, say it. People get told who to vote for, absolutely, and they get asked and persuaded can you vote for this person? And I'll help you out.
Speaker 4:Well, if it was a numbers game, we would have played. Try that in a Small Town on the CMA Awards. Yeah, that's exactly right, you know. So that's what we're talking about in this post.
Speaker 3:Tell everybody about that night. You would have played Try that in a Small Town, of course. Yeah, we had a huge song.
Speaker 4:But they asked you to play something else.
Speaker 3:Yes, no, they told you to play something else.
Speaker 1:Well, that was, that was uh, acm awards.
Speaker 4:That was acm, yes, about a year and a half a year and a half ago yeah, we, we, we played tough crowd which we all wrote yes, which was nice for all of us, but yeah, we were not a lot of not allowed to play try that in a small town, and so it's um, it's good for everybody to know that yeah, yeah, I think it is, and I also think it's important to understand. That's why, when this post was made, me and Kurt made in support of Jason for all you haters out there, it was a great post by the way, but it wasn't about us being mad.
Speaker 4:It's about recognizing some of the craziness out there that goes on inside the business. I know I feel they've been trying to push country music to the left for years. It's there. They've been trying to do it. The business has. The business for sure has. The audience has not let it. That's why people still come to hear us play after 25 years and they don't want that. The industry and the business is trying to push it left and push an agenda left for the reason I really don't know. I mean, I, I, that's, I always um. It's kind of the same way I felt when trump won the election this year. The left is so disconnected with the working people. I feel that way in the music industry. The industry needs to spend more time out at shows Because they're missing the fan base.
Speaker 6:I like that.
Speaker 4:Their personal agendas. They're trying to outweigh that over the people that actually buy and love and listen to the music. Um, and every time they try to do it you know we have a try that in a small town comes out and it's like, hey, we're not gonna be told what to listen to. This we, this is great, you know. So anyway, you know it's my two cents on that, but definitely feel that push to the left. It's been happening for a while.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, it's infected a lot of big artists too. It's obvious who they voted for. They cannot bring themselves to utter the word Trump. It's like a forbidden word for them, and they still can't say it.
Speaker 4:What's messed up? And I've heard Kurt say this. This really bothers me. Everybody has a right to vote for what they want to vote for. Trump get used to the word Because he's elected president and everybody voted. He won the popular vote and everybody voted, he won the popular vote. So any more of this um being held down because you supported trump or that's the president, like over half the country voted for him. So the fact that, um, you can try to cancel someone or try to run someone down or push someone off a show or not hire somebody because they voted for Trump that you should definitely check yourself If you have those thoughts and I kind of understand why some artists won't say the word Trump and they won't.
Speaker 3:You know? You know what I'm saying? They won't. They won't say it, but I'm still like there's. Even after he got elected there, they're still going to be afraid and fear for their job that is really concerning and I actually feel a little bit like though that means that they're still owned by the industry, but that's really sad.
Speaker 4:They don't have to be if you see what's happening, though, I think I think people, when trump won, I think people felt a relief. Who voted for him? You notice a lot of sports stars now when they're celebrating touchdowns.
Speaker 2:They're doing the Trump dance. They're not scared.
Speaker 3:They're finally saying finally we can have fun with this.
Speaker 4:Yes, we can have fun again.
Speaker 3:And they're getting backlash for it.
Speaker 1:All right from the NFL.
Speaker 3:They're getting backlash for it. Taylor Swift's not afraid, she's not afraid to endorse Kamala Harris. She, taylor Swift's not afraid, she's not afraid to endorse Kamala Harris.
Speaker 4:She wasn't afraid at all. No one should be afraid to endorse who you want to endorse.
Speaker 3:But what I'm saying is the conservative country music artists, the majority of them, are still afraid they're walking around doing their shows and they're still afraid You're right.
Speaker 1:That's how big of a hold the left has on all the businesses.
Speaker 3:They'll post an American flag and they'll post this in a picture, but they will not post anything that has the word Trump in it. Still to this day.
Speaker 4:I think it's going to come back a little bit because I think people are. There's a freedom in what happened, where it's like look, he won the election, it was, it was democracy. Like is amazing. Yeah, it is Right, and it's funny that people actually are happy again. I'm happy.
Speaker 6:I mean seriously I really.
Speaker 4:I really believe that that people are there. There's a freedom in this Like you know it's amazing.
Speaker 3:If the other side had won, I'd still be happy.
Speaker 4:Okay, that's great.
Speaker 3:It doesn't affect what I do from day to day. I'm still thawing out my turkeys in the refrigerator for Thanksgiving. It doesn't change anything. Are those vegan turkeys?
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Speaker 5:Oh yeah, back to the CMA just for a minute. And we had Jamie Johnson perform. We all love Jamie, he's amazing, one of the best singers ever. And somebody had sent around this meme or whatever about Jamie and he apparently got arrested a couple days before the CMAs. What?
Speaker 1:did he get arrested for I?
Speaker 5:don't know. I really don't know what it was, but was it something weed related or whatever?
Speaker 3:Yeah, oh wow, I don't know. I oh, I don't have no idea, but anyways so it just said.
Speaker 5:It just said. I said Jamie Johnson posted bail and performed at the CMAs two days later. Country music is alive and well, folks, because back in the day you had just that, the outlaw country music. You know, you had Waylon Willie.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he's a real threat and a real threat to society, but you know, but he just has has that persona and everything.
Speaker 5:I just thought that was really funny that he was arrested and a lot of people actually have had a good amount of success from things going bad or breaking the law just a little bit. Or, for example, like Tracy Lawrence got shot in the hotel close to the Shoney's back in the day when the Shoney's was close to Music Row. That really helped him. You had Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney stole a horse at some point.
Speaker 5:Well, that propelled Kenny's career for sure, right, but there's some little things that has to do with you know, whether it's breaking the law just a little bit or a lot. That kind of helps a little bit sometimes.
Speaker 3:Maybe you should get arrested tonight on the way home. I don't know, it's so close to Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1:You might be on to something, Neil.
Speaker 3:That's not a bad idea. That could help our podcast Maybe. Come on, caleb, we'll take one for the team.
Speaker 4:I got one thing I want to bring up. Okay, this is a shameless plug for a guest I want to have on Ooh. So you know, me and Kurt, massive Boston Red Sox fans, lived through years of torture so they finally won the World Series in 04, coming off a heartbreaking year of 03. 20 years ago so, anyway, on Netflix there's this little docuseries called the Comeback and it is. If you're a Red Sox fan or baseball fan in general, watch the Comeback. It is about as well done. As you're a red sox fan or baseball fan in general, watch the comeback. It is about as well done as you're gonna see. I've watched it easy, easy, six times through you told me to watch it for whatever.
Speaker 1:How long it's been out a month now and I I wanted to wait and watch it because I knew when I started I would binge it, and I did. I watched it all in one night because it goes by that quickly and it's that good. Are you guys baseball fans at all?
Speaker 3:Baseball lost me at the strike.
Speaker 4:That's okay, because this happened before the strike.
Speaker 5:But yeah, the Braves for me and I still watch them some. But I'm more into college baseball. I watch that a lot. Tennessee Vol fan here won the national championship last year. Go ahead, aluminum bats.
Speaker 4:With aluminum bats. Okay, so don't get me started on that. But anyway, for any hardcore baseball fan and I love baseball, I love the tradition of it, I love everything about it Red Sox finally won in 04. Anyway, this docuseries is great and I, kevin millar, if you're out there listening, I'd love to have you on um I would venture to say.
Speaker 1:By the way, kevin millar was like he was kind of a role player with the socks, uh, but a good, a good player and a great teammate. He, great teammate, he was like the glue. He was a clubhouse guy, yeah and uh, I bet he's a fan. I have a valdine, not necessarily, if you're listening, I have dm'd him with no response and oh, you have.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I tried. Um, it's falling on deaf ears, but kevin, kevin, what's going on there? Uh, would love to have you want to talk some baseball, because I think it's, in the whole, the way it's done if you're, if you're a baseball fan like it is. It is done really, really well. That's my plug for kevin millar. Anyway, there it is, it's out there, do you think he?
Speaker 5:ever used an aluminum bat? Maybe not, I don't know, because you bashed all of college baseball by saying they use aluminum bats.
Speaker 4:All of the pros use aluminum bats. Here's my theory.
Speaker 6:They all used it before they got to the pros.
Speaker 1:We're not watching Mickey Mantle. I'm with Tony on this.
Speaker 4:Here's my thing. Listen to me. I'm with Dwayne on this. I'm with Dwayne on this. Here's my thing. Listen to me Now this goes.
Speaker 4:I mean these are college sports fans. I have no choice, it's right. So here's the thing If you're in college, you're getting ready to go in, you're trying to get drafted to the majors. College should have to use the wooden bat. Same thing in college football To go along with the wooden bat in baseball. This college football rule, where only one foot has to be down for a reception, that's high school. You go to college two feet down what is the high school rule?
Speaker 1:is it one foot? Does anybody know?
Speaker 3:yeah, it's one foot.
Speaker 5:It is one foot yeah, I'm just assuming since we're just in college graduates as you get, you know more professional you know it.
Speaker 4:Just what's bigger than tennessee football, dude? You should have to have two. Yeah, but it graduates. As you get more professional, it graduates to a harder level. What's bigger than Tennessee football, dude?
Speaker 3:you should have to have two feet. There's a lot bigger than Alabama football right now.
Speaker 4:No, listen to me you should have to get two feet down. For a reception, you should have to use a wooden bat. Come on.
Speaker 1:I think they should use wooden bats too.
Speaker 2:And I'm just saying this, my son plays.
Speaker 1:He's 11 years old man. That ball gets off the bat quick and they're 11 years old In college. I feel like it's actually almost dangerous. Those bats are crazy. Imagine being third baseman.
Speaker 5:Well, they just have to be more talented catching.
Speaker 1:I'm just saying it skews, what kind? Of power you have, it just does well it doesn't.
Speaker 5:I wasn't thinking of it as a safety level. What I was thinking about from college it's a lot of scoring. It's people watching the game a lot. Then they follow those players to the major leagues then they start watching then they're into wooden bats because that's what they use there. If they could use aluminum bats oh, my program, they certainly would. If you have the choice, if I'm playing and I have the choice I'm definitely using the best instrument.
Speaker 4:If I'm a scout, for the Boston Red Sox, which maybe I will be someday. I don't know. I want to see what they got in college with a wooden bat. Yeah, I do, anyway.
Speaker 1:Okay, neil, you brought up Alabama. It, I do Anyway.
Speaker 6:Okay, neil, you brought up Alabama.
Speaker 1:It's been tough, I really don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 3:Let's talk about it.
Speaker 1:Are they out of the playoff?
Speaker 3:Is Alabama football out of the playoff? They're not out of it, but they should be.
Speaker 6:I mean if I was a voter they would not be in as bad as they got beat by Oklahoma. Maybe this is my fault.
Speaker 4:They have a 36% chance right now. Why is that? I went and worked out the facility last year.
Speaker 1:I feel like I tainted the Did you wash your hands, did you?
Speaker 6:use sanitizer.
Speaker 3:You don't have any boils do you?
Speaker 4:I tried to use the machines, though, and I couldn't reach half the stuff.
Speaker 5:No, but long ago in a podcast and you were sitting where Kurt was sitting before everybody decided that Kurt brings the show on better than everybody.
Speaker 1:Hey, we lost a light, Jim, by the way.
Speaker 5:But you did tell Neil that Alabama could name the score on Vandy. And you were just laughing about Vandy, Remember Nope? Okay, no, I actually. No, we did.
Speaker 1:We did kind of kid about Vandy.
Speaker 3:But Vandy I mean they're not great and Tennessee is going to have to watch out. They're competitive. This may be after yeah, it'll be after this will be after the game so this episode. So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1:So Vandy Tennessee is Thanksgiving weekend.
Speaker 3:It's Saturday, so as this airs.
Speaker 1:we will know who won that game. Yeah, so what happens?
Speaker 5:I'm just praying that the Vols bring their A game to Nashville and crush Van. You need a quarterback, you know.
Speaker 6:You don't have a quarterback. He's a freshman. We do have a good quarterback.
Speaker 4:Is he Hawaiian?
Speaker 5:We got a good quarterback. I don't know what he is. Is he like Tua? I worry about concussions. I think he is from Hawaii, but he's a solid quarterback.
Speaker 4:He is from.
Speaker 5:Hawaii, but he's a freshman. They got soft skulls. Oh my gosh. So you?
Speaker 3:said something about you know, titans during the break.
Speaker 5:Oh, you're now a fan of Will Levis, no, no no.
Speaker 3:I kind of mumbled that word, but you said something about that.
Speaker 4:Will Levis got a victory strange day. He trashed the Texans. Well, look, I mean, doesn't change my overall thought that we need a QB. You know what I do like, though what? Crazy enough when the QB plays decent. Pollard ran well, he's been running well, but crazy enough, you know, when the QB plays decent. If Pollard ran well, he's been running well. You know, a little too late, no, I mean it's all too late, but get a QB.
Speaker 1:Have your thoughts changed on Will Levis? No, yeah, mine either.
Speaker 3:No, not at all it's the same way I feel about Milrow?
Speaker 4:how do you? That's a great. What is your thought? I'm curious. I want to get your take, you know that they haven't changed at all.
Speaker 3:He's like, he's a tremendous athlete, he's a running quarterback. Yeah, who cannot? Yeah, it's, it's. We don't. We can't have a balanced attack at Alabama, we can't. But I blamed the Oklahoma loss on coaching and lack of preparation. Completely Before I was like blaming it on this and that, but now it comes down to freaking the staff, the play calling. It's all come down, in my opinion, to coaching now.
Speaker 1:They shouldn't have got beat by Oklahoma.
Speaker 3:It was ridiculous. We looked insanely beat by Oklahoma. It was ridiculous, we looked insanely horrible against Oklahoma.
Speaker 5:It was bad and there was a pivotal play, though Y'all got a penalty. I don't know the guy's names I don't follow Alabama that much but it was number two. He was a receiver.
Speaker 3:He was. And they said he was covered up. Ryan Williams. He made a great catch. I don't know who was paying off the ref, but he throws a flag.
Speaker 6:We're not going to get fined by the SEC.
Speaker 3:We can say whatever we want, but you know what? It was too late then. Anyway, I don't care if we scored anyway. We were playing so bad. The lack of preparation, that wasn't a Saban, the athletes that Saban left for to play with, and they show up with that.
Speaker 1:That's a high bar, though it's like Saban, I mean. Listen, I don't like he's easy to hate, but you can't deny it's kind of like Belichick Now you see it though. You can't. That's what I was going to get to. With Saban, he's the pinnacle of what coaching is, that's right. And with Belichick, he's the pinnacle of what coaching is. And you see the drop-off with the Patriots and the Crimson Tide. It's just you go. Oh, that's not a disciplined team, oh, that's not how they should be coached.
Speaker 4:Hey look, this week we saw on the pro level Drake May, our savior. You're badass and I'm sorry you have to get your head bashed in every weekend, but you look great. The coaching on the Pats right now against the Dolphins. Even you were texting during the game 10, 11, 12 penalties stupid penalties. That Belichick you would have never seen that under him. Say what you want, mayo, you got to go. You're in my Levis file. Got two people in this file.
Speaker 7:The leveled files, you know it's funny.
Speaker 1:I saw a thing with Belichick he was talking about when he was at Cleveland and he was like you know what used to piss me off? And he'd say these reporters would ask him questions about the defense and like God, do you think the coaching needs to be better? And it's when Saban was coaching the defense of the Browns he's like that's when my hatred for the media started. I had Nick Saban coaching the defense and they're questioning me about that. Yeah, but I got to ask you guys something, because you're SEC guys. How do you feel that Texas came in and just dominated the SEC?
Speaker 3:They haven't really dominated yet.
Speaker 1:Dude, they're going to be in the championship game.
Speaker 3:They're going to be, but they haven't dominated. That's a strong word.
Speaker 1:They haven't dominated. That's a strong word. They won that division.
Speaker 3:That's a strong word right now.
Speaker 1:They won the division, right I?
Speaker 6:love it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, vandy, almost beat them. Vandy beat Alabama, I know it.
Speaker 1:The number one team in the country.
Speaker 3:I'm just saying this might be the last podcast.
Speaker 1:No, it's not. I'm just saying everybody loves to brag on the SEC, but Texas is now, as of right now, in the championship game. Yeah, how does that make you feel you can?
Speaker 5:argue schedule.
Speaker 5:And it's kind of you can look at it every year and it is kind of luck of the draw sometimes of who you play and do you play them away or you play them at home. It's sometimes luck of the draw and they had a. I'll say they had a favorable draw this year and they're they're a good team. I've watched them play. They're a good team. They have a great defense. They've got two solid quarterbacks, you know um and they're. They're really good. They move the ball well, but their, their schedule has not been what all the other teams in the sec has played against.
Speaker 1:I'll say I was trying to get them riled up and they didn't go for it. You know what I do love that you guys said you can't do it SEC.
Speaker 5:I'm glad Oklahoma's been throttled it is fun to watch.
Speaker 4:I'll tell you that. Speaking of another show to you guys, you two SEC guys, have you watched Swamp Kings on Netflix? Yes, yeah, I watched the Hawks games. I did a rewatch of that. Really great, like that is a great. You know the whole power of the SEC and that whole thing is not growing up in it. That was pre 12 team playoff. But not growing up in it though. Yeah, Like it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 1:Are you guys cool with the 12 team playoff? I think it's gonna be a good thing.
Speaker 3:I think it's gonna no, it's, it's, it's exciting, it's great for the fans but I think so too. But that that uh committee is left with a shit show the yeah.
Speaker 5:The only thing I think is that who's gonna be the top 12 teams?
Speaker 3:oh my god, I wouldn't want that gig.
Speaker 5:Well, just by having 12, it just lets in a lot of weaker teams that are going to get so exposed.
Speaker 4:You need it though.
Speaker 6:You need it, but it is for the fan bases and for money, for money for TV, for everything you saw, ohio State and Indiana.
Speaker 3:Yeah, indiana got so exposed and it's like If Ohio State doesn't win the national championship, that head coach is gone. $16 to $20 million they spent I think I don't know how much it was. It was a lot. They have the best athletes in the world. If they don't win the national title, he's done Thrash talk. I love it there it is I'll?
Speaker 5:say this Having the 12 teams, it's still like that strength of schedule. You can have an undefeated team in a different conference that has played no one and get in and your team again. We're SEC biased, but it just is. The better conference, it just is. There's just more talent, there's better players, better coaching.
Speaker 1:Okay, so the argument would be this Like Alabama just got beat by Oklahoma.
Speaker 3:Five and five Oklahoma.
Speaker 1:Should they be in?
Speaker 5:the playoff no, no, not.
Speaker 3:Based on that, I would not put my own team in the playoff right now.
Speaker 5:No.
Speaker 3:I don't care what happens, I wouldn't put them in.
Speaker 1:Are they better?
Speaker 3:than Indiana, though Probably Probably, but it doesn't matter.
Speaker 5:No, definitely I think Alabamaabama would beat indiana. But like you say now, now three lost team, there's not an argument to put them, to put them in there, unless everything just falls completely apart this coming weekend. Well, I say this coming weekend when we're filming.
Speaker 1:It's a little bit different but that's the only thing that bugs me is the strength of schedule undefeated teams get in and it gets people like nobody talking and the whole world talking. It's good for the sport.
Speaker 4:It's good for the sport I tell you this, for for people like me who love football, but not the biggest college football fan, I like it because it does make me want to watch it a little bit more.
Speaker 5:That's right, you know what I mean, so I can see that like it's yeah, it's yeah, and it does make us watch other teams like that I wouldn't have watched before, like Indiana, it does. So now I'm watching those teams say, okay, let's see how good they are. So it's expanding the interest level, I think.
Speaker 3:I love how we can talk about everything in the book. We almost have. I love it. We almost have. We can get political, we can go to football, we talk about the music business.
Speaker 1:It's insane, the knowledge that we have God. We're so good we are so good.
Speaker 5:I hope everybody else thinks so yeah. Anybody else got anything I mean that was fun, though that was fun, that's a fun episode.
Speaker 1:I think the Jimmy.
Speaker 3:Johnson thing is a joke, though. That's like are you kidding me? You're going to arrest him Really, really, are you just that? I think that cop's just trying to get his name in the paper.
Speaker 5:Maybe I don't know, I don't know, there's so much bad shit going on in the world.
Speaker 3:You arrest Jamie Johnson.
Speaker 4:Hey, they arrested Tyreek down in Miami. I'm like this is a joke.
Speaker 1:Opening day? Yeah, opening day they did that.
Speaker 4:How many kids is he up to now?
Speaker 1:Tyreek yeah, it's a lot bro. It's kind of a thing.
Speaker 6:It's like 12, right.
Speaker 1:There's a weird thing going on with some athletes they just have a lot of kids, a lot of different baby mamas.
Speaker 5:It's biblical Go forth and multiply.
Speaker 7:And on that.
Speaker 3:I want to know who Tyreek voted for.
Speaker 1:That's I want to know. Well, all I know is this I was watching, and again we're a week behind, but I'll say this we were watching the dolphins patriots. Uh, last week tolly and I were texting, of course, uh, got a little sack. I saw a little trump dance in there from the Dolphins guys.
Speaker 3:I think it was my voice, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I saw two of their. Two is a Trump guy, I mean.
Speaker 3:I'm. Can I ask y'all one question while I still have my voice? Yeah, yeah, what does it mean when you see in the end zone in the NFL it says it takes all of us?
Speaker 4:What does that mean?
Speaker 3:It takes all of us what it means to them. It's painted in the end zone. What that means is what do you?
Speaker 5:mean to them before we start it, because I haven't even seen that.
Speaker 4:It takes all of us the saying, I think, what it means, the way they're To do, what To make change? Change for what I don't know. Don't get mad at me.
Speaker 1:Are you mad at me?
Speaker 4:I'm just telling you what they mean. They mean change. I don't know why or what has to change, but that's like the league stuff.
Speaker 3:Inspired change. I see that on the back of helmets too. Inspired change. Yeah, that's like the league stuff Change from what?
Speaker 4:What's wrong?
Speaker 1:Don I think, but I'll say this I think that all of the leagues are starting to learn Just stay out of that, right, just stay out of that.
Speaker 4:It's not working. It's just stay out of that. I think I'm with you on that.
Speaker 1:We just want to watch football. I'm with you on that.
Speaker 4:Yeah, they tried it, you know, and this was funny.
Speaker 1:And I don't care what side they're on. Just stay out of it. Yeah, like a few years ago they tried it.
Speaker 5:That lasted about two months and then, yeah, it didn't go over in the NHL. I'm just, you know, spitballing, I would just assume you know they, they want everybody to be accepting of everyone and everything not working. I'm just saying I mean, just a guess, just a guess, just a guess.
Speaker 3:No, that's a good guess yeah.
Speaker 5:Because you're probably right Of which, like Kurt was saying earlier talking about Christmas, just do your thing, just whatever that is, do your thing and don't judge other people.
Speaker 3:It's pretty simple yeah.
Speaker 6:Right, it should be simple.
Speaker 1:I guess, Really.
Speaker 4:I mean, and I hope they would have learned this from the election but the left never does. People just want to live their lives.
Speaker 5:Yeah, they want to pay their bills.
Speaker 4:They want to raise their kids. They don't want to be force fed a bunch of shit, just Language. Let them live their life, and if you don't, then they're going to make a change. Yeah, and that's what you saw and that's what we saw, yeah.
Speaker 3:It takes all of us guys. It takes all four of us.
Speaker 6:It takes all of us. It takes all four of us, God. Thank God for our podcast.
Speaker 1:Hey, I hope we all hope that you guys had a great Thanksgiving and happy holidays.
Speaker 5:Happy holidays.
Speaker 1:Don't you dare, don't you dare, don't you dare.
Speaker 5:Neil, give us a big old Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1:Seriously, though, we appreciate we're thankful for all of you Merry Christmas from the Patriot Mobile Studios. Thank you, Neil. This is we got. You know, Neil, We've got Kelly, We've got Tully oh, that's still so weird.
Speaker 5:Oh, I like the first names, I love it. We've got Tully oh, that's still so weird.
Speaker 1:Oh, I like first names, I love it and we've got Kurt. We're, of course, from the Patriot Mobile Studios. This has been Try that in a Small Town Podcast. Thanks for listening, guys. We will see you next time.
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