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Government Shutdowns, Masculinity, And Ballrooms :: Ep 80 Try That in a Small Town Podcast

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Ever felt that slow-burn anxiety when the headlines say “shutdown,” but the real story is families missing checks and plans falling apart? We crack open why these standoffs happen, how add-ons and brinkmanship stall basic governance, and what it means when the fallout hits the people least able to absorb it. Then we do what we do best: veer into the messy middle where culture meets everyday life.

Cigar etiquette turns into a bigger conversation about consent in shared spaces. A simple question—what kind of man do most women prefer—pulls us into modern expectations around provision, safety, ambition, and partnership. We weigh “traditional masculinity” against two-income realities, swap stories about cooking and caregiving, and admit that making someone feel secure and respected still matters more than labels. We even argue over flip-flops, short shorts, and the quiet politics of what you wear.

We’re not afraid to pivot. We marvel at Shohei Ohtani, debate the value of a White House ballroom, and dream up our own additions that would actually host the world well. The gloves come back on for tougher topics: drug-running boats getting blown out of the water, cleaning up cities, and why some leaders say no to help when public safety is on the line. Through it all, we keep it honest—reading a listener’s sharp critique on-air and showing how strong opinions can coexist with real respect.

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SPEAKER_10:

How long till the Palisades they start cleaning up the Palisades and rebuilding there?

SPEAKER_07:

They're still waiting on permits and stuff.

SPEAKER_10:

Just like Trump had said that happened. Newsom's getting sued by the by the residents.

SPEAKER_07:

That's why he's running for president. So maybe get away from all those lawsuits.

SPEAKER_09:

Gosh. What would your addition be? This is a good idea. That's a nice question. Very nice question.

SPEAKER_07:

Not a stupid question, Kurt. I would build.

SPEAKER_10:

I'm never gonna hear the end of this. What kind of man do most women prefer? Liberal women trying to answer like a women in general. It's a good idea. And we can we can split it. We can split it to conservative and liberal women.

SPEAKER_05:

I do know something that liberal men all do. They all make bread.

unknown:

Really?

SPEAKER_05:

Breadmakers? They're bread makers. I don't have time for bread. I'm telling you, all the far left guys that I they make bread. They'll post about it. They'll post about it. I like bread.

SPEAKER_08:

Isn't it like the bread, but then you post about it? Yes. They post about it.

SPEAKER_03:

A try that in a small town podcast begins.

SPEAKER_09:

We're back. This is a try that in a small town podcast. Across from me, we've got trash. Got Klo over there. We got TK. I'm Dude. Duke! What's up, dude? And special guest tonight, Jeff Jeff is off camera.

SPEAKER_07:

He happened to be in the studio passing by and we invited him in. Yeah. And uh we're lonely.

SPEAKER_10:

You just made it. We're gonna start charging like 200 bucks a ticket. I was gonna say 200, I thought it was a big one. 200 bucks a ticket. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07:

We're gonna see how this goes. So Jeff travel run. Yeah, he's fine.

SPEAKER_10:

Yep. We'll let him slide this time. Neil, you're very stiff. What's going on? I'm not gonna be moving much. You're like, I tweak, I tweaked my freaking neck, shoulder blade. I can find a position and just need to stay right there. And I'm good. As long as I don't reach for anything, you know, scratch.

SPEAKER_09:

Neil. When I walked in, Neil was sitting just like this. He was sitting just like this, and then there was nothing said, and then he went.

SPEAKER_10:

I did. It just hits me out of the blue. Didn't know what that was. Oh, maybe you can sue.

SPEAKER_09:

Can you sue Jason for that?

SPEAKER_10:

I'm gonna sue. Patriot Mobile. I'm gonna sue them. They sponsored the tournament. You'll get your money.

SPEAKER_07:

Maybe we should start over.

SPEAKER_04:

Maybe we should start over. I know the weather debate. I wish we could keep it. I wish we could keep it. I know. It was too easy to get it. Treat it like a trade. It was right there, Jim. We can leave it out there.

SPEAKER_07:

We hadn't been rolling for 90 seconds.

SPEAKER_08:

Bear's ass. Start over. It was good. Yeah, no, keep it in the middle.

SPEAKER_10:

Yeah, you can edit it out. He's good. So you do feel like a golf injury.

SPEAKER_07:

They say it doesn't get better after 60. That's what they always say.

SPEAKER_04:

Great. Where'd you hear that from? Where'd you read that?

SPEAKER_07:

A lot of 60-year-olds and plus.

SPEAKER_04:

That's true.

SPEAKER_05:

It won't really ever heal.

SPEAKER_07:

Like you're not going to feel better. Like you're not when you get to be 70, you're not going to say, Man, I feel so much better than when I was 60. You're always progressively worse.

SPEAKER_09:

That's not going to heal.

unknown:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09:

Well, so you got that to look forward to. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah, and that's good. The good thing is around the house, you said you can't reach for anything. The good thing is you don't have to because your lovely wife does everything. I know. It's true. So that's a blessing.

SPEAKER_10:

I won't argue that. It's going to go away. It always does. I've pinched nerves before. It's good. That's more than a pinched nerve.

SPEAKER_07:

I think with your your physical regimen, I think you'll work it out.

SPEAKER_10:

Dig O'Neal today, isn't it? It's going to be fun tonight. Yeah, it was a little spicy.

SPEAKER_09:

Before we get going, let's think uh seriously, let's thank Patriot Mobile. If you go to patriotmobile.com, put in the code SMALTON, you get a free month service, and then you probably won't stop at that. We want to thank eSpaces. Seriously, the studio is amazing. Amazing. It is amazing. We want to thank Original Glory Beer, of course. Where are we going to start tonight? Anybody got something fun that we can start with? Government shutdown. What do we think about it?

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah. Well, how many days are we on? That's in the 20s. I feel really down about it.

SPEAKER_05:

No, uh it's in the twenties, right? It is affecting the plane travel, which is no good for me right now.

SPEAKER_07:

So yeah, it's it's definitely affecting things.

SPEAKER_09:

Why do they do that? Explain to me as they say, like I'm five years old, what what's going on with the government? Why do they shut down? What is what is what happens to it? I'm seriously. I'm too like I'm a dummy. Do you know, Jeff?

SPEAKER_10:

Jeff, you know?

SPEAKER_09:

Can you explain it? Well Jeff does not know. Jeff doesn't know. Jim, do you know?

SPEAKER_07:

Well, yeah, it it's it's all about the the budget and the fiscal year, all that stuff, and so that it comes to an end, so they have to renegotiate just like a songwriting deal or whatever. But the problem is it's just keeping the government open. The Democrats and Republicans, they'll have stuff tagged onto that. Yes, we will sign off on keeping it going and fund all government employees if you give us this, this, this, and this. You know, so and there's a lot of squirrely things that get tagged on there. Um and so it I from what I understand, the Democrats seem like that's a good point in time for them to hang tough. Yeah. You know, and uh But they always do that.

SPEAKER_10:

I mean, the government always says things on camera that the majority of America it's not it goes unexplained. We're gonna shut down the government and and that's it.

SPEAKER_05:

That's all we hear. Usually it but it doesn't happen usually. Remember, it's that like we got four days till the government shut down, and then at the last minute out the deal. It'll happen.

SPEAKER_07:

But there there are definitely people, because there's some people that are you know, too to both of their incomes, their family income is both government. You know, you have a serviceman and you're and um you know somebody working for the government and accounting or whatever, well, they don't get checks at all. So, you know, and they got kids and stuff. So it's really it's affecting um and whatever it is, it's one of the longer ones, right?

SPEAKER_09:

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07:

I don't know what the record is, but it's definitely because now it's affect affecting two pay periods, like for if you're a family, you're you're missing two checks now. They trump and then they took it.

SPEAKER_10:

They took care of the military.

SPEAKER_05:

It always affects the people that need the money the most on their own. Like like usual. I mean, it's just all these people.

SPEAKER_09:

You were saying that they took care of the military. Did wasn't it like the anonymous? Did you guys hear that? That somebody donated an anonymous huge lump sum of money. Yeah, how much was it? I don't know. How much was it?

unknown:

I think it was 130.

SPEAKER_09:

Yeah, it was a lot of money.

SPEAKER_07:

Thanks, Jeff.

SPEAKER_09:

See? Jeff, you're pulling his weight here.

SPEAKER_07:

Um yeah, and it's even I mean, it's you know, it's affecting the our podcast. I mean, obviously. I mean, I don't know if it has anything to do with the shutdown, but we're still not making any money.

SPEAKER_05:

Let's blame it on the government shutdown.

SPEAKER_07:

Maybe it is. Maybe it is. Maybe we need to write to our congressman and see if we can get some income on this thing.

SPEAKER_05:

That's it's it's really true. Maybe that's why we haven't made money. The government's been shut down for almost two years.

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah, or maybe we shake it up. Maybe we start smoking cigars in here. Can we smoke cigars in here? I don't think so.

SPEAKER_09:

Are you guys cigar smokers?

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah, no, I'm I'm occasional cigar smoker. I I used to surprises me. W a lot uh during golf, but then I then I stopped doing it during golf because there's so much going on. It's hard to keep it, you gotta remember to keep it lit, and oh, there it is, somebody rolled off and they took off with it.

SPEAKER_09:

So it's interesting that you're a cigar smoker. We were at an event a couple weeks ago. Yeah. And there's these people smoking a lot of cigars, and I thought to myself, you know, the only people that smoke cigars are pretty. Hmm, how do I say it? How do you say it? Yeah. Usually people that don't care about other people's feelings. So you're lumping, wow, that's yeah, you're lumping all cigars.

SPEAKER_10:

But I love I love the smell of it though.

SPEAKER_05:

Uh I'll take it one step further. I don't think they even like it.

SPEAKER_09:

They might not be able to do it. I think they're just attitude thing. They're snipping on those smells.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah, you got your little end snipper and you're snipping it. I don't think they do. Redman, Redmond smokes cigars. He actually might like it. Yeah. But I think most people don't. I think they like snipping it off the end, and then they're what is it? What is a cigar? Do you do you do you just tobacco? I bet Jim smoked it in. Do you smoke it?

SPEAKER_07:

No, you don't smoke it. Some people do. Wait a minute. They don't breathe in too. You don't breathe it in though. You shouldn't. You do breathe in a little bit. What's the point? You can't help from it.

SPEAKER_04:

There's no taste in the city.

SPEAKER_07:

You're still getting the nicotine. You're still getting nicotine just just from uh puffing on it. You are getting that. So knock it unless you try them. So I have to do it. Would you smoke a cigarette you smoked a good cigar? No, and no, and the no. Finish your question.

SPEAKER_09:

That was it. Okay. Because when you're in a public setting where it isn't a cigar bar or by yourself, it is very rude to the event we were at.

SPEAKER_07:

Yes. I had saw the cigar table, which I've I've never seen a cigar table at at an event. It was it was in someone's house, you know. And so I saw people, I thought, oh, sure they got a cigar room, you know, where you have the ventilation and everything, and it sucks it up through the ceiling, you know. That wasn't the room. And a lot of people had have that. So anyway, there's a guy right in front of us just puffing away. But right before that, I was thinking about, I hadn't had a cigar in a while. That'd be fun. You know, I may do that. And then then Kurt comes over and said, Hey, Kayla, we may slip out on you. He said, We can't stand this guy smoking a cigar. I'm not gonna do that. But I did think about it, and I d I definitely don't want to be one of those people if unless everybody's smoking, I don't want to be the one that's you know, it is kind of arrogant to just be smoking and let everybody make everybody take it while you're enjoying your own.

SPEAKER_05:

Well, I got a question. Why I know reaching for content tonight, maybe, but why is that completely acceptable to just let loose on a cigar? But you know, you wouldn't do that smoking cigarettes. I know. That's what I mean. It's against the law. I mean to cut up an eight ball and say you're just offending anybody.

SPEAKER_07:

Well, well, and the difference at that event also, I will say, is the host of the event, it was at at his house, he had the cigar table set up for people, and they and the and the guy was lighting them for people right there on the spot. So so really it was it was encouraged on the and that's the first time I've ever seen that.

SPEAKER_10:

You know, so the last time I saw that was when Alabama beat Tennessee. The whole stadium lit him up. Interesting. It was great. Oh, it was crazy. Yeah. You didn't see that? Oh, it's so great. We'll show a clip of that on this episode. Why would you do it?

SPEAKER_07:

No, no, no. Out of nowhere. We're talking about cigars, right? Uh yeah, but now you just it's let's hurt killos.

SPEAKER_05:

50,000 cigars go on that night. Neil had a good question.

SPEAKER_07:

It's not much of a crowd.

SPEAKER_05:

Off mic. Before we started, ask your question. Because I I I like to know this one.

SPEAKER_10:

Oh, what most what kind of man does most women prefer? Yeah. Oh, give me the question again. What kind of man do most women prefer?

SPEAKER_02:

Liberal women.

SPEAKER_10:

Women in general. It's a good question. And we can we can split it. We can split it to conservative and liberal women and talk about each.

SPEAKER_07:

Because you might you might have to. I think it's different.

SPEAKER_05:

I do know something that liberal men all do. Far left, they all make bread. Really? Breadmakers? They're breadmakers. I don't have time for bread. I'm telling you, all the far left guys that I they they make bread. I didn't know that they're bad. They all post about it. They'll post about it. I like bread.

SPEAKER_10:

It's one thing you make the bread, but then you post about it. Yes. They post about the bread. They're breadmakers. That's a little much. No idea. I think they're breadmakers. Kalo, I'm serious. Hold on, Kalo, do you make bread?

SPEAKER_05:

I I haven't. I'm not saying I I won't. See, I'm telling you right now, all the far left guys, I'll look on on Instagram, they'll see, and they're like, they're making bread.

SPEAKER_07:

I'm like, well, it's because it's because their their wives are out making money, so they have to do something. That could be.

SPEAKER_05:

Wow, there it is. That's a real You just blew my mind.

SPEAKER_08:

No, I mean there's a lot of different ways we can go with this. It's true. Do you like a golfing hunter guy?

SPEAKER_10:

Yeah, I mean, uh I would I would call it a big thing.

SPEAKER_05:

Or breadmaker with a beard.

SPEAKER_10:

Well, uh the breadmaker could have made up for it if he had a cigar in his mouth while he's making bread. He probably could have made up for it a little bit. That'd be some smoky bread.

SPEAKER_09:

But are you talking about it'll look a little tougher, I think. Yeah, but I'm just trying to get to the root of it. Like, are you asking What kind of men do they? Do they want the traditional masculinity?

SPEAKER_10:

Right. I would hope so. They're looking for skinny jeans. What are they looking for? Toxic masculinity.

SPEAKER_07:

It's diff it's different for everything. A lot of women, uh definitely on the left, just because there's studies on it, they don't they're not looking for a masculine man to help them run their life because they can run it themselves. Yeah. And they don't need that. They don't need to be able to do that.

SPEAKER_10:

You think that's the way they grew up too.

SPEAKER_09:

Do you think a lot of liberal women like to run the show, wear the pants, in that relationship? I think the men are scared of the screen.

SPEAKER_07:

Yes, I would guess to say. Yeah. You know?

SPEAKER_05:

I think liberal men are scared of women.

SPEAKER_07:

I don't know a lot of liberal men. I'm not sure. I don't know.

SPEAKER_05:

I know a few. They're definitely tone the line of terror terror.

SPEAKER_07:

But I do know some that are that are, you know, like Neil the Great Hunter. I mean, they'll they're kind of manly men. They're they're on the left. It it they exist.

SPEAKER_10:

I don't know. I I don't know a I don't know a liberal hunter. You'd never seen one. Surely there's some liberal guys.

SPEAKER_04:

I'm a can't be thrash. I'm not a Mike Walls guy. He was a great.

SPEAKER_10:

Hey, I want somebody out there in our listening audience to prove to me that there's a liberal hunter out there. Good one. It might not be a good one.

SPEAKER_08:

Tim Walsh. Oh. Oh.

SPEAKER_07:

You see him handle a shotgun.

SPEAKER_08:

Oh, you see him handle that piece of machinery.

SPEAKER_10:

I think that's a facade. It's a blow to shit. That's a load of booster. Or I should call him Braveheart.

SPEAKER_04:

He's trying to play both sides, uh-uh. Oh gosh. No, he's he's actually he's the worst. I guarantee you his wife drives.

SPEAKER_07:

It's just an elmer phone. He's just an Elmer phone.

SPEAKER_10:

He's in his pastor seat, not saying nothing. He might be in the back seat. He might be. When she drives, I promise you. Whenever I see that happening, actually, no. It's just a bad first impression on a dude when his his wife or girlfriend is driving. Well, maybe he's sitting over here. It's just a bad look.

SPEAKER_07:

Maybe he's drinking and and she's being respon responsible and and didn't want to get a DUI. It's just like you, Kalo. And just I mean, you never know.

SPEAKER_09:

I know he's out there politics and I used to think I they used to call me Sweden, him and Rich, because they would always be fighting, and I'd just be in the middle and be like, well, you know, I see his point and I see his point, but you way outdo me on that.

SPEAKER_07:

Well, I mean, it's podcasts. I mean, we gotta we can't all agree on everything. That'd be real boring, right?

SPEAKER_10:

Why can't we just all four agree on something and slam the stuff?

SPEAKER_07:

That's what I'm saying. Let's everybody love a real I do uh agree with Neil.

SPEAKER_05:

I don't I don't if there's a liberal hunter, that's gonna be a tough unicorn.

SPEAKER_07:

But why couldn't that I don't understand why a liberal man couldn't be a hunter?

SPEAKER_10:

They don't like guns and stuff. Yeah, I mean they're is they're anti-guns for the most part. PETA. You got PETA, nobody is. That's a good point.

SPEAKER_07:

If you don't have a gun, it's gonna be hard. But what a bow and arrow.

SPEAKER_10:

They're not gonna kill something. They're not gonna kill an animal, a poor innocent animal. That's true. I actually wouldn't be on this. I just I haven't seen one. I've never met one.

SPEAKER_07:

Well, we need to get some uh some fans weighing in then.

SPEAKER_10:

Have you ever let me ask you this have you ever carried like when Lucy was a baby, did you carry her around on one of them pouches on the front?

SPEAKER_07:

Uh no. And she's still a baby, technically. She's not too.

SPEAKER_10:

No, I'm talking about an infant.

SPEAKER_07:

Like, I mean, but no, I don't I haven't, but I've seen the uh the little backpack thing, which I like that. I hadn't got it yet, but I'm hoping to get it for Christmas from the podcast team.

SPEAKER_10:

Just don't just make sure you keep her in the back. Yeah. Don't put her up here.

SPEAKER_07:

Like a kangaroo.

SPEAKER_10:

Yeah. That's a bad first impression on a dude, too.

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah, I I'm not gonna do that.

SPEAKER_10:

I don't the carrying the kid in the back in a camouflage backpack or something.

SPEAKER_07:

That's that's yeah, because they've got it kind of like a tree stand, and you just set them back up.

SPEAKER_10:

Exactly.

SPEAKER_07:

And they're used to it. It's pretty cool. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10:

I'm thinking about that. Makes a strong back. This just makes a back hurt. And it's a bad look. And it looks very womanly. Yeah. So I don't know what kind of I don't know. I know there's a lot of conservative women. I know what kind of pretty we have a pretty good idea what kind of man you know.

SPEAKER_05:

I know one thing all women like is when the man makes money.

SPEAKER_09:

Well, actually not really. I think there are some Caleb uh you know, was kind of hit on it. I think there's some women on the left that like to be the moneymakers.

SPEAKER_05:

Interesting.

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah. I will say, though, in the opposite, like I'm a conservative. Make sure you want to date a liberal woman. I'm a conservative. I could go wrong here. You guys would hold that on me.

SPEAKER_05:

So wait, liberal women like to make all the money? Damn, what have I been?

SPEAKER_07:

Well, I mean, I wouldn't mind the scenario. Like like I won't be emasculated if there comes a point in time where my wife is making more money than me. That'd be great. That would be amazing.

SPEAKER_10:

I think we all agree. We've all been there. But that's a you're you've you you you married uh you married a a smart business-minded woman. So did I. Yeah. And you're not gonna stop them from doing what they want to do. I mean, when when we had kids, Lana quit working. Right. Yeah. How lazy? She raised the babies. She didn't she stopped working. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because that's what she wanted. Yeah. I told her that's the way it was doing.

SPEAKER_05:

And I and I love that. Like that's that's yeah. I mean, who who what husband would make their wives work after they had a baby? Well, the majority of people would do that. Oh, hey Caleb.

SPEAKER_07:

Now wait a minute. Now I'm not making her work. I'm not sure. But I will say in kind of a response to that, the majority of families, just the way the world is set up, is they're set up on two incomes, and generally mom and dad are both working because they're you have to do it. Some of them like it, but some of them have to.

SPEAKER_10:

You gotta consider, you gotta they gotta go something, they have to stay somewhere. Yeah. Yeah. I and I I'm all for that.

SPEAKER_07:

If you have the luxury, I get it. Like that would be that would be awesome.

SPEAKER_10:

But I think a w I think uh a a sensible woman loves it when a man cooks for her. I don't see that as being light in the shorts. Well tell me what you'd cook.

SPEAKER_09:

What's your what's your go-to?

SPEAKER_10:

I can cook a mean breakfast. I'm good at that. And we grill. And we grill. We do grill. Come on. We can grill like nobody can grill.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah. You can you can give us a lot of grief, but men can grill.

SPEAKER_10:

Yeah. But you know, to go completely old school. I mean, back in the day, like my grandfather and all, they didn't if they grilled hamburgers, it was on a Sunday or something. Yeah. But they didn't, they never went to kids. They never touched a thing.

SPEAKER_07:

No. My dad, my dad, and this is this is funny, did you bring it up, like uh because my mom still talks about it, he's been past for six or seven years, but uh he would uh and it was it was just an older school thing, you know. She raised, you know, I had two other brothers, and and so mom stayed at home, raised the kids, and and dad uh worked. And so even she'll say as as far as she knows, he's never loaded a dishwasher, never washed a dish. Oh, right. Um and then when they did cook out, uh he would he would get the grill going, you know, the old uh charcoal, get it, get it going, and then he would come in and say, say, say, Gail, Gail grill's ready. And uh she would go out and throw on the steaks. But I think you're right.

SPEAKER_09:

I think that's just how it was kind of after those generations. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10:

Hmm. You see the man walking the little dog in the neighborhood.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah, I got a little dog. I do have a little dog. Just saying. My little dog's awesome. That's where I draw the line. Yorkie is mad ass. Take down most big dogs.

SPEAKER_10:

I love all dogs. I'm just I'm just saying. Yeah. It's like it looks like it just looks like mama made him walk the dog. It looked like mama made him walk her dog. Love my little dog. Take it back. I didn't I didn't say I didn't love your dog.

SPEAKER_05:

No, but I walk my dog all the time.

SPEAKER_10:

It's the sight.

SPEAKER_05:

A beautiful sight. A man and his beast.

SPEAKER_08:

It's an amazing sight, dude. It's beast. Don't make me laugh.

SPEAKER_07:

I've had little dogs before, and I swore that I would never have them again because I don't want to walk them and I don't want the I don't like the little yappers. However, now that you have a little girl, when when she wants a dog, I mean it's gonna be hard not to get a dog. And I'll be the one out there, you know, walking.

SPEAKER_09:

Yes, you will picking up the poop.

SPEAKER_07:

You can't say no.

SPEAKER_09:

You gotta pick up that poop now.

SPEAKER_07:

Or take it to somebody else's yard in the dark, you know.

SPEAKER_05:

You can't say no to a little girl. I I I I can never say no to my my daughter. I'd be to her. I just had a hard time. I still have a hard time with it. She asked me something, you know, it's different than my my son. You can be like, oh no.

SPEAKER_10:

No.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah. No.

SPEAKER_10:

Now do uh do real men wear short shorts?

SPEAKER_05:

I don't wear shorts at all. Like Birkenstocks. Richard Simmons shorts. Okay. I'm talking about real men. I'm talking about real men. You know what? I I have a issue with Birkenstocks as well. I don't get I don't like it.

SPEAKER_07:

I don't those German.

SPEAKER_05:

Those weird those weird To be completely honest with you, I don't think men should wear flip-flops or anything ever. I don't think anyone looks at a grown man's feet in things. Unless you're at the beach, you need to get a pool or yeah. Yeah, yeah. If I'm talking about out, like going to dinner, you're going someplace. No one wants to see a dude in flip-flops. I I I just think as as I mean, I'm gonna take some flack for this for me. Some very close friends of mine, but I I don't I don't think anyone wants to see see man's feet. I I gross.

SPEAKER_07:

I got some pretty cool flip-flops that have about a year and a half. And the coolest thing about them is on each one of them on the bottom that's a bottle opener. On the bottom of the flip-flop. It's pretty cool. Sounds weird. It's gross. No, it's just the bottom of a shoe. Is it clicking clock when you walk? No, no, it's just it's in it's it it's inside.

SPEAKER_05:

No, you don't you don't you don't hear anything. You're gonna open up the put the bottom of your shoe on top of a beer, then drink the beer.

SPEAKER_07:

Oh no, see no, they they when you you gotta know the physics of it when you when you pop it open, the glass is not touching the the shoe. Anyway, they're on sale right now. They're on clearance.

SPEAKER_05:

And yeah, I think I think to come back, circle back to your question. I think it's a legit question. What kind of man do a woman prefer? I think I think most would prefer Don't you think they most want to be taken care of? Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_07:

I mean, I don't know about taken care of, but you know, I think I feel safe.

SPEAKER_10:

Like I don't know.

SPEAKER_07:

There's a lot of career women uh that I don't uh it's just different now. I don't I don't know. Well maybe they love their career.

SPEAKER_05:

I think it's awesome yeah, they may love it and they don't want to stop, but I think most women, if they didn't love their career, would rather just you know be taken care of. And there's nothing wrong with that.

SPEAKER_10:

I got another good question. Do you think most men would want to fully support their their wife? I would I would think so. I think I think most especially if you have kids, especially if you have kids. I think so. Yes.

SPEAKER_07:

You know, that would be good. And I and I would think that even a lot of career women, even if they can't, when they had kids, wish they could take a pause for several years, raise the kids, and then go back and not lose any place in the business world.

SPEAKER_10:

I think most real men want to they have the natural instinct to support and completely take care of their family. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah, but I think you're completely or at least you feel like you should be doing it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10:

I think it's just instilled in us when we're born.

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10:

Some of that may not be the case with all men today. No, it's not, but it's it's it's it's how they came up. It's gotta be.

SPEAKER_07:

You know? Wow. But being rich, you wouldn't yeah, I mean, rich people wouldn't I don't I don't I'm not pointing at you specifically. You did. You looked and you pointed.

SPEAKER_08:

Yeah. Oh boy.

SPEAKER_05:

Um I got some emails from the company the other day, and I noticed on the the email the pronouns are still there. I thought that went away. Me too. Have we passed is that gone? I thought we were past the pronoun area. The pronouns are still there, but I thought those went away. Why would you send pronouns if you're everyone knows you're married and you're a straight dude?

SPEAKER_07:

Well, cor corporately, I know they had to. You had to you had to do that sometimes.

SPEAKER_09:

Yeah, I think certain businesses you were required to and the vaccine? That's too much, man.

SPEAKER_05:

That too. That too. I mean, can't we not do the pronouns anymore? We don't have to do them here. I was like, he him is.

SPEAKER_10:

But you don't you never did have to. So you never did. I never did. Right never.

SPEAKER_05:

I mean, I don't even know how to use them correctly, I don't think.

SPEAKER_10:

Uh yeah, I don't I mean, I don't pr I don't play pretend with anybody in their pronoun in their pretend world, it's not gonna happen.

SPEAKER_05:

I don't think Neil's listed his pronouns on any of his emails.

SPEAKER_07:

So so let's say let's say hypothetically you were working for a corporation and you're making so much money that you didn't want to be fired, and they said Neil, you have to you have to use a pronoun or we gotta let you go. And for whatever reason you couldn't, you had to keep that job. Like, what would your what would you put on your card?

SPEAKER_10:

It's not.

SPEAKER_09:

You'll got old in the last 24 hours. I know. It is it's a good question. It's a fair question.

SPEAKER_10:

You know, you know me. You know me pretty well. I mean, I'm like, I'm not playing games. I mean, what games? With stuff like with stupid, immature, pretend world stuff like that. I'm not playing their game. That means they've won.

SPEAKER_09:

That means the depraved idiot has won. You know, but it's an interesting question because we have the luxury of saying that we all have we're self-employed, so we can you know have those beliefs without having anybody come down on us. If you depend on your job to provide for your wife and your son, and somebody said, Hey, all you gotta do is just put the pronoun in your email, would you do it?

SPEAKER_07:

What would the option be? Because I and this is out of the way. No, I mean, like, like what is the acceptable pronoun? Let's say you're married, heterosexual male, can what would what do you put? Do you just put that? Is it he? I guess he. He, him, right? Is it he, him? I mean, it if I'm you know, if I'm working in corporate America and they say, hey, you gotta put he, him on there. I mean, for me, I would do that. Like I'm not like that. That's what you are. That's what you that's what you are.

SPEAKER_04:

What a terrible thing.

SPEAKER_09:

Halo Kill is falling in line, she's so meaning to Kelly. Right. I mean, I have no other options.

SPEAKER_04:

I have no other option to do it. Why are you so mean to him? No, because you're fall you're just falling in line. No, listen to me though. Follow me.

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah, first off, you said it's a stupid question.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah. No, that's the cheapest thing to do.

SPEAKER_05:

Neil. Yeah, but reality though. They're winning. Listen to me though. If but if you've got someone's got a family and they're providing, they're not gonna like not, you know, screw their family and say, I'm not. They would just suck it up and be like, you know what, I don't believe in it, but I gotta suck it up for now until something else changes. Because you can't just say, Okay, now my family's not gonna eat.

SPEAKER_10:

Right. True. It's a bad situation back then. Because I'll tell you what. But a real man knows how to kill shit and feed his family. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05:

Well, we're not talking about I mean, yeah. I was waiting for that, you know, 10 point buck to walk into around my neighborhood in Williamson County.

SPEAKER_07:

We're not talking about rich guys, we're talking about the normal American that has to have a job.

SPEAKER_10:

If the world ended today and I lost every penny I had, okay, I could survive. Easy. What a stupid comment.

SPEAKER_07:

What a stupid comment. Easy. Yeah, but most people can't. I know.

SPEAKER_10:

You know, they ought to be real men and learn.

SPEAKER_05:

That's why the liberal men make bread.

SPEAKER_07:

Good point. With with ingredients from the grocery. Oh my gosh.

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SPEAKER_07:

Anybody watch that game last night? 18 innings. Okay, no, I didn't. Now this week this won't come out until next week.

SPEAKER_05:

So I made it till the 13th, and I was like, I and we had the you know long day, so I was like.

SPEAKER_09:

Yeah, but so by the time, just for people for reference, by the time this comes out, this will be a week and a half. Yeah, yeah. But it's a good point because no, I I love watching baseball, World Series. Yeah. Man, I I went to bed, just people know, we're referring to the game that went to 18 innings, third game. The Dodgers didn't bottom of the 18th with Freddie Freeman home run. But I didn't see it. And how many people do you think saw it?

SPEAKER_05:

Like the percentage of people who started watching the game. Probably just on on the West Coast. Yeah. I mean, eight. I woke up this morning and I immediately wanted to see who won. Yeah, 18 innings. Freddie Feeman walked it off a course, but what a I mean the World Series, it it is magical. I love the World Series. I love this time of year. I love it. I mean, that Otani, he he's he's not he's not real.

SPEAKER_09:

I'll I'll say this. Do you guys watch any baseball? Not much. I watch college. Okay, but have you seen Shohei Otani play at all? I I feel comfortable in saying we have never seen anyone like this. Even compared to Babe Ruth, he's probably more talented than Babe Ruth. I don't think he's human.

SPEAKER_10:

I think he should go out for the draft. I think he should play football. Yeah?

SPEAKER_05:

I mean he's probably got it in there. Yeah. He got walked intentionally four times last night, on base eight times or nine times.

SPEAKER_09:

I don't know, but it's stupid. And then the game he pitched in the other series. He struck out ten, hit three home runs. And he's pinching tonight.

SPEAKER_05:

So, I mean, like you said, this will air a week from now, but he'll probably get bombed and he'll probably not. Probably the perfect game. Yeah. The guy's not real, I'm telling you.

SPEAKER_07:

Well, I'm definitely gonna have to because I I haven't watched uh professional baseball in a long time. Like I watched the Braves back until that strike a long time ago. And then uh I never picked it back up. I still still pull for Braves, but I don't watch him. But now I'm gonna have to be a San Francisco Giants fan because Tennessee's coach, Tony Vitello, he's the general manager, went directly from being a head coach in college to general uh to the manager of professional baseball, and that's the first time it's ever happened at all. Which and he's he's just a great coach and a cool guy. And he's got some of his players that are already there, so now I am gonna watch that to see if what he can do.

SPEAKER_09:

Yeah, I don't know much about him, but he seems like he's a great coach. He took that program, he made a pretty solid contender now every year. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah, so so but definitely sad seeing him go, but I'd but he left he left the baseball program in great shape, you know. So it'd be fun watching that, see what happens. Yeah, right? What are you thinking over there?

SPEAKER_10:

My neck just went crazy for a second, and I'm getting over it, but I'm I'll be back. Are you taking anything? I took some ibuprofen before I got here.

SPEAKER_07:

Okay. Jeff, do you have good strong hands? Hey uh Jim, can you cut Neil's camera off? Jeff, be a real man and rob me. Speaking of uh that, uh what about the uh the Trump ballroom?

SPEAKER_10:

I know. I just Obama did it. Obama does this.

SPEAKER_09:

I can't even believe it. I haven't actually been able to keep up too much on the news too much lately, but so clarify for me what's happening. He's making or he's doing an addition that he's turning it into like a ballroom or something.

SPEAKER_07:

It's a huge ballroom, gonna have gold all over it and everything, but he is financing it himself. He's paying for it.

SPEAKER_09:

And the argument that the left is saying is he's desecrating the the White House, right?

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah, so it's like they're saying this is this is your your house, not his house, and he's destroying it, you know.

SPEAKER_10:

Trevor Burrus, Jr. But surely they knew they were gonna get it was gonna be thrown back in their face when we st when everybody started showing clips of Obama's edition. Oh, sure. And it cost twice as much. It was a basketball court. I mean I mean, surely they knew that, right?

SPEAKER_07:

It doesn't matter. I did see a tweet. It didn't exist, it didn't happen. It didn't really happen. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09:

I think I think I did see a tweet that Chelsea Clinton, you know, was coming out with. I saw that. What did you say?

SPEAKER_08:

Basically, that he was desecrating the White House and do yourself a favor and read through the comments.

SPEAKER_04:

Your old man, your old man ran through him in all those rooms, man.

SPEAKER_10:

I think did he say something I'd stay out of this one? You might not want to sit this one out. Wow. Let's talk about what your dad did to the Oval Office.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah, I mean, and just and I mean to be I mean, come on. We don't need to he's yeah, he's building the ballroom. Every president does this. This is what they do. Sure. They build what they want.

SPEAKER_09:

If I was president, what would you what would you what would your addition be?

SPEAKER_07:

This is a nice question. Very nice question. Not a stupid question, Kurt.

SPEAKER_01:

I would build I'm never gonna hear the end of this.

SPEAKER_04:

Is that at me? No.

SPEAKER_07:

No, Kurt, that is not a stupid question. No, that was that was Tanil. Tanil, thank you.

SPEAKER_05:

What would your addition be? Well, we have a full recording studio, of course.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay.

SPEAKER_05:

Be like like a massive recording studio, right? Okay. And off of it.

SPEAKER_10:

And how does how does the world get to benefit from that? By by hearing the stuff we come out with. Like don't you're gonna bring world leaders in and we're gonna cut records. World leaders. No, we're gonna write and cut music in there.

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No.

SPEAKER_05:

Wait a minute. This is my question. So full studio, full studio. I'm talking like tracking studio, rooms to write, mixing studio, all of it. Run the White House records right out of there. White House Records. Yeah. It's fantastic. And then off of that basis. Off of that room? Full movie theater. Because I like to watch movies. I bet they've got one. There's got to be a movie. I would think there is, but I I'm just saying that's what I would want. Okay. I'd have a with the best popcorn. Well, yes.

SPEAKER_10:

I want to hear what Caleb would build.

SPEAKER_09:

Okay, Caleb, what's if you're a president, you're a president, what's your addition going to be?

SPEAKER_10:

Remember, you gotta, I mean, you gotta entertain the world and the leaders that come in.

SPEAKER_05:

You know what?

SPEAKER_10:

Not to interrupt, but world leaders.

SPEAKER_07:

Oh, there's a not to interrupt.

SPEAKER_05:

It's because I just thought of something about my addition to the White House. Okay. Oh, you weren't done. There's nothing that world leaders love more than to like take part in the making of music. They love it. Yes. They want to feel they do. It's just they want to feel the music. Yeah, I feel like that's gonna be a good one.

SPEAKER_07:

Caleb, yeah.

SPEAKER_05:

You're on you got it.

SPEAKER_07:

I really, you know, Caleb, not to interrupt, but I think they already have. They've they've got golf greens around there. They've got a gym. They do? Yep. You know? They do? Yep. And I really can't imagine anything. I I'm fairly simple. Like I I don't know the I bet anything I would want to do, they probably have. Hmm. I would guess. So they already have simulators. Make his movies. I don't know if they have a simulator or not, uh, which that could be important during the winter months for training and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_10:

Oh, simulators. But outside of that I bet you there's one in there.

SPEAKER_07:

There's gotta be.

SPEAKER_10:

Gotta be. Gotta be. Trump's. If not, there should be.

SPEAKER_07:

Because that's not that expensive compared to a ballroom or something.

SPEAKER_10:

I like the studio thing. The studio thing's cool. I think they should actually do that. I think I would have a stage too. I'd have a stage for now you're getting somewhere. Live performances. Karaoke. And then I would have to go. What's the ballroom?

SPEAKER_04:

Karaoke. That's a great thing.

SPEAKER_10:

Karaoke would be fantastic.

SPEAKER_07:

You'd have all the reporters come in, they can have a huge party.

SPEAKER_10:

I'd have a bow range, an archery range, I'd have a gun range so they can see how good we are at shooting. You know, it's it's a little intimidating.

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah. Well, I think even the ballroom, like like Trump's been everywhere and he's seeing all these grand places that he goes to. I think he wants America to stay on top, be on top, and when other world leaders come, you know, to the White House, he wants them to be impressed and intimidated and kind of like, oh, all right, they got things rocking, you know. So and there's gonna be, I mean, I mean, everyone is gonna use that ballroom that I mean over and over and over again. You know, so anyway. Hmm.

SPEAKER_09:

It's all good stuff. It's all good stuff. That was a really good subject, Kalo. That was great. Thanks, Kirk. What would you build? Uh I I think you guys got all the answers. Because like Caleb said, I can't even think of anything else that you love golf and yeah. I mean, it would be a room that I could be alone in, actually. I need I need a room to be alone. That's what the bedroom's for. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07:

He said alone.

SPEAKER_09:

Oh, yeah. Did you guys hear this will be dated too because you know uh Joe Flacco got traded to the Bengals. He's done great since he's been there, but he had some interview, and somehow he was talking about you know being new to Cincinnati, and he went to the bar and he went by himself, and he was kind of saying, you know, when I was younger, I'd go and I'd see a guy that was sitting there by himself and be like, oh, poor guy. And now he goes, he he has a total different perspective, like, oh my gosh, that guy's lucky.

SPEAKER_08:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09:

That's your only time that you get to be by yourself. And we actually talked about this before we came on the podcast. You know, you being in your stand. Uh how much time do you get alone? I know that everybody probably craves alone time, but how much time do you actually get alone? You don't like it at being alone as a tension.

SPEAKER_05:

As long as I'm with my wife, I'm happy.

SPEAKER_08:

Spoken like a true liberal.

SPEAKER_05:

That's great answer. Sure. Uh I love, yeah, there's there's a certain I think the older I get for sure, or in general, I think the I've always loved though that alone time. Yeah. I've always just I don't I don't know why, you know. For a little bit of time anyway.

SPEAKER_07:

So what do you do with that alone time? And don't be graphic, just kind of that's the whole point. Nothing. Nothing.

SPEAKER_05:

Sad to say, I probably just create scenarios in my brain and think about things and go O C D. So that's not peaceful time alone. I can't see each other's brain being peaceful ever. I even this is a great story. We were living together. Oh my Kurt, I never told you this. So we me and Kurt and Rich were living uh in our second house together. This is probably 2002. I don't know. And we and in the and the wheels were running off. I mean, we were you know, we were busy and we were partying a lot back in those days. And I remember I had this moment with like, you know what I'm gonna try to do? I'm gonna try meditating. So so because I don't know what I read, but I remember at the old house, uh the Hermitage House. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09:

Good place to meditate.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah, so this house, you had a picture. So if if you it was this really nice neighborhood, and at the end of this really nice cul-de-sac lived me, Kurt, and Rich. And this is a family neighborhood. So you can imagine what that looked like. So geez. I mean it's America, it's okay. Um but anyway, so I I was upstairs in my room and I actually I was like, I'm gonna start meditating today. And I um sat down and I put my hands wherever we were supposed to do like this, whatever. I I did. And I sat there and I tried to do it, and I I tried to get to five minutes, and by uh I remember thinking, oh I can't do that. And it caused me more stress.

SPEAKER_07:

Did you do the um did you do the stuff? I was trying to breathe. I was breathing in.

SPEAKER_05:

What is meditation exactly? What do you actually do when you meditate? What I hear is you you just fall into this state where it's like you're not asleep, but your your brain empties out. And that's when I realized I can't empty my brain. And I still can't empty my brain. It's brutal existence. Like I can't, I'll go home on from here to home, I'll be thinking about songs we have to do, what we gotta work on, I gotta put that bass track, I gotta, you know, what's gonna happen if I don't? Yeah, how many days?

SPEAKER_10:

So it's more worry than anything or concern. Constant stress.

SPEAKER_09:

Yeah. That's that's my that's my meditative state. But what about at the very end of the night? Nope.

SPEAKER_08:

Like you have you have trouble going to sleep? Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_07:

It takes me. Uh I'm kind of the same. Yeah, I think we all are.

SPEAKER_10:

But sometimes I talk to God, get my soul right, get my heart right, and I go, I do, I I do that.

SPEAKER_05:

I do that, and it's still, it's still I still I know. You're you're a man. You're a man's man. You're a real man. Well, I mean, I'm I was thinking like, okay, I gotta provide, I gotta you know, real man kids in school, I got yeah, it's like I so that keeps me up, you know. It's all good. I mean I it's oh it's not all good because I really never shut down.

SPEAKER_10:

But y'all ever do you do you ever and this is for all of you guys, do you ever just go to this the place after you've stressed yourself out a little bit and get all this stuff, do you can you mentally go to this to the to the spot of going, why am I why am I doing this to myself? Why am I why am I doing this? It's hard to really. Everything's gonna be alright. You get to that point. It's gonna be great. We're not gonna starve. Crit's good at that. We're not gonna mainly. You know what I'm saying? And to stop the stress, yeah. To stop that black train going down the track. You know what I'm talking about? And it's like, oh, we're gonna be great. I'm so blessed, man. I got a great family, got a great wife, we've got a beautiful home, and and you start looking at the positive things and you make all that stress go away. You can do that mentally. Yeah. Anybody out there that needs help? Well, I think I mean three of us here at the uh need help. No, it's just but there's a there's an you can do that just as easily if you let yourself, you can do it just as easily as you can. You're right, it should be just as easy. You can let the negative stuff infiltrate your brain. You can you can also let the positive stuff.

SPEAKER_05:

And I do, I'll I'll say those things out loud and it helps, and then slip right back into the They say when you wake up, that's the first thing you should do.

SPEAKER_09:

Say the things you're thankful for, say the things that you know you're blessed with, get yourself on the right path for the day.

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah, wake up, but waking up is definitely by here, it's a great thing to do. I got yeah, I didn't like I don't wake up stress. It it is at the end of the night when everything's really quiet. That when you wake up, it's zero stress. I don't know why. It seems like it'd be it'd be opposite.

SPEAKER_05:

I have that I wait my eyes open, and that's that panic. No, my eyes open, my eyes open, and there's like a couple seconds of like emptiness, and then the weight comes on. I remember starting remembering everything like first thing. Pretty early. Wow. Within the first few seconds. Alright, okay, all right. But you know what? I've always been this way. I I've I've always been this way.

SPEAKER_10:

Well you want to do you want to get I mean, do you want to do you hate it? You hate it because you're that way?

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah. I mean, but some of the some of the um It's also gotten you where it's a good thing. Yeah, so some of it I used uh is my superpower, which is uh, you know, I'm so worked up all the time that I use that as a uh what's the word I'm looking for, the catalyst for not stopping, you know? Yeah. Not saying it's a good thing. It's hard to juggle.

SPEAKER_10:

There's a fine line between stress and drive. Yeah. You know, you're right. That's what letting that stress you out. That was very weird. You guys are making up there. I like that. Klo, you and Nina. And I think every real man feels that. And I think that's what women love about a real man.

SPEAKER_04:

You brought it back. We just answered the question.

SPEAKER_09:

Nice. Maybe we are a therapist. I don't know. What's Kal's superpower? Now you got me on superpowers. You are a people pleaser. You people feel better around you. Everybody loves Kalo. I'll say that. He doesn't have any enemies. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07:

Everybody loves every kid.

SPEAKER_05:

Everybody.

SPEAKER_07:

We'll we'll settle for that.

SPEAKER_05:

Oh my god, I got something funny. How about the uh uh just saw this last night, maybe it came out the day before, but you see the Morgan Wallen quote? No. Is it a real thing? Is it a real no it's real because it came out it's it's his it's the uh him in the backseat of the cop car after you threw the chair off of the bar. Okay. So he's in the allegedly. Anyway, Jim, you can find you can find this on uh Instagram or whatever, but anyway, there's a recording of him in the back of the cop car and he's talking to the cop, and Morgan asks the cop, he goes, Who's your favorite country artist right now? And the cop's like, Well, you of course, you know, and I like so-and-so, and like so-and-so, and Morgan and the and the cop's got like country music playing the radio, and Morgan goes, Well, just don't play any Chris Young because he's terrible. Oh, are you serious? I'm dead serious. It's out there, it came out like last night or freaking awful. And so it's all over, and he's taking a little bit of heat because you know, country music fans, what's great about him is they like the genre. So the same people that go Steve Morgan may love Chris Young, or they may love Al Dean, or they may love whoever, right? So, anyway, it's pretty funny though. It's pretty funny.

SPEAKER_04:

Because what's that's hilarious? I mean, nothing wrong with that. No, I mean, I and that's it's his opinion. I know it really is. That's a beautiful thing.

SPEAKER_10:

I've enjoyed a couple of clips.

SPEAKER_04:

Nobody likes everybody's singing. Have you seen those clips?

SPEAKER_10:

You seen those clips of Chris Young when he's drunk singing? Uh allegedly drunk. No, I haven't. Yeah. Those are floating around. There's a couple clips of him on stage. And he's like Chris. He's like way, he's like way behind the beach. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05:

He is a little bit of a he is a little bit of a wuss, though. Chris Young. Now you're lighting it up. He is. Isn't he, Kurt? You you started it.

SPEAKER_10:

Let's go. It's true.

SPEAKER_04:

This is a true story.

SPEAKER_10:

Hey, we wouldn't have. We wouldn't have met Christy Noah, me and Kalo, if it wasn't for Chris.

SPEAKER_05:

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_10:

No. Okay, well, this he's a good thing. Yeah, he canceled her show, and that's the one we went and did.

SPEAKER_05:

Okay. Well, we're what year is this, Kurt? Oh, right. 2010. Probably. Eleven, twelve, something there. He's on tour with us opening up. And back in those days, we played basketball uh on tour regular.

SPEAKER_09:

Every day we played basketball.

SPEAKER_05:

So Chris Young is a big guy. He is six, three, four, two hundred and twenty big guy, right? I am a small guy. So we're out playing basketball, I'm guarding him. You know, I know. So he goes up for a layup, and I go up to like try to reach up there and like block it or stop him again.

SPEAKER_07:

Touch his knee.

SPEAKER_05:

Somehow he comes down and my elbow, this elbow, catches him like on the chin. He goes down and starts wailing, just like causing the giant scene, like get the get the ambulance, get the EMT. I'm like, dude. Yeah, we were canceling the show. He didn't know if he could play. I'm like, there is no way. And I trust me, I didn't hit him that hard. And I was like, you are a wuss. Did you say it right there? No, I didn't say that there because my brain. I was so surprised. And it was uh Kurt was there and a couple other you know people that we work with, and I'm like, you gotta be kidding me. Dude, I barely grazed your chin. And it was quite a production. Like he has had ice in it and stuff. I'm like, bro, you're gonna be fine. He's a wuss.

SPEAKER_01:

That's an awesome.

SPEAKER_05:

No, it's an awesome. Sounds like a gory. Yeah, it sounds like a challenge. But that but I love this. But it's just what happened.

SPEAKER_08:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05:

I mean, I'm not fabricating.

SPEAKER_08:

I bet his girlfriend drives. And moving on. I don't think he has a girlfriend. Okay. I was gonna move before with the noise coming up. That's another question. No, I don't know. What about Jimmy?

SPEAKER_10:

That's fine.

SPEAKER_05:

I don't think he has a girlfriend.

SPEAKER_10:

He might not have a girlfriend.

SPEAKER_05:

Is that what we're saying? I don't know.

SPEAKER_07:

He's never taken a girl to any award show. Hey, what do you think about Trump blowing up all those Coke boats out on the open sea?

SPEAKER_10:

Is that what you I mean, is that what you are alluding to?

SPEAKER_05:

I wasn't alluding to anyone. I'm not alluding to squat. The basketball thing's true, and it's true that I've never seen him with a girlfriend. Maybe he has one.

unknown:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08:

Caleb, where were you leading us?

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08:

No, it's that's great stuff. What do you think about that, Caleb?

SPEAKER_07:

This is gold. No, I was just seeing what you guys thought about Trump blowing up all the Coke boats on the open scene.

SPEAKER_09:

So again, I've been out of the news cycle.

SPEAKER_07:

I don't Oh, like in uh all all the drugs that are coming over. They're just they're just blowing up, you know. Yeah. A lot of drug boats. Really? Yeah. A lot of drug boats.

SPEAKER_09:

So that's awesome stuff.

SPEAKER_10:

But all they all they see is is Trump killing people. That's all that's what that's how they couch it. And when the people that are actually on the boats and bringing that poison into our country, they don't they don't think past that.

SPEAKER_09:

Where are they coming from? Everywhere. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07:

Venezuela area, that's that's that's definitely a hotbed for sure. And uh and then you have uh yeah, the left is saying that they're they're fishing boats, they could be fishing boats and they due process and all that stuff like that's been working.

SPEAKER_10:

Oh yeah. Like, do they honestly think that they're gonna that Trump's gonna blow up a boat and he's not absolutely 110% sure that yeah what it is? Seriously? Yeah, right.

unknown:

No.

SPEAKER_07:

And uh I will say, after the first few have been blown out of the water, uh there's not as many boats out there. It's uh it has slowed down the trafficking uh quite a bit.

SPEAKER_09:

But seriously, it's like the National Guard and that whole thing. It's like everybody's bitching about it, but you know what? He's cleaned up a lot of cities so far.

SPEAKER_10:

Yeah, we talked about it on the on the one of the episodes before.

SPEAKER_09:

We were in Washington and DC is immaculate. Yeah, it's like sometimes the initial optics aren't great, but what is happening is.

SPEAKER_05:

Imagine how you're and I saw the footage of the last boat being blown up that you were talking about. You know, and the crazy thing about it, you know, the boat, like imagine being in your cool boat and you gotta you know, you think you're you think you're getting away with all this, you gotta, you know, full of your product and you're gonna move it and you're about to be rich. Be rich. And you're just cruising and you think you got away, and then out of the blue smoked. What's that? I've never seen that about what's that? You don't even hear that. It just happens so quick.

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah, they're not even seeing the drones, they're not seeing any of that. God, it's crazy.

SPEAKER_10:

I mean, bad day to he is truly, truly though. He is truly making America great. He's making it safe, dude. He's truly doing it, and they hate him for it. They hate that he is successful.

SPEAKER_05:

He's making it he's making America safe. There ain't no doubt. And it's like that that's what I love. It's like, don't you you know, want to go up and and visit our great? I love going to New York City and and walking around showing.

SPEAKER_10:

Why does Pritzker not want Chicago cleaned up and safe? Can we can you can you can you answer me that? No, I can't.

SPEAKER_07:

Because Trump wants to do it.

SPEAKER_10:

What is that guy on?

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10:

I mean, I mean, besides the anger in the in the in the you know the demonic brain waves he's got going on in his head. What has he got against cleaning up Chicago? Who are you talking about? Pritzker, the governor of Illinois. Oh. Pritzker. That's his name, right? Pritzker? I don't know. That's his name. Jeff, do you know? That's his name. JD Pritzker, is that his name? Is that his name?

SPEAKER_06:

That's good, Neil. That's a good pull. Sounds right. I don't know. Yeah, let's go anyway. It's the governor of Illinois.

SPEAKER_10:

Yeah, but why doesn't he want Chicago cleaned up and safe? It's a beautiful place. I don't know.

SPEAKER_09:

Chicago is one of the most awesome cities there is. But it's one of the it had been one of the most dangerous cities to get to. It's you know, do you remember this? We actually, after the first election in 2016, right after Trump won, we did a show in Chicago. It might have been the next night, but it was at like a little private show. And there were pre-riots in the streets, and they were trying to get us through, and I'm like, oh my gosh, this is unbelievable. Chicago is a great city. It's a fantastic city, but it has been it is a great city. It's a it had been a very scary city as well.

SPEAKER_05:

And who doesn't want it to be to your point? Don't we all love it? Hey, um our wonderful producer sent us a message, Kurt. Okay, what's it say? It says we have a new amazing DV comment alert.

SPEAKER_07:

Well, so uh you are you gonna give it to us or Hey, and before while you're thinking about that, to me to to kind of close up on the Chicago thing, I mean to me it's just as simple as if because it wasn't you know that mayor, that governor's idea to do that, and you have Trump come in and clean up the city, they just don't want anybody else getting it. Well, I don't think they want it.

SPEAKER_05:

I think they want the the destruction. I think I think they get off on that. I really do. It's the only explanation. It's the only explanation. Look at Portland. You know, I mean I don't think they really care. They don't care, and I think they're they want the anarchy. I I right what's the other I don't know.

SPEAKER_07:

I don't know what the benefit is. I don't think they care.

SPEAKER_05:

I don't that's what I mean though. I the benefit is to just tear down America. And at some point you gotta look at it and be like, okay, if you don't want it safe, you must want to tear it down. I don't know what the why wouldn't you want as as a governor or mayor or whatever. If you're having a crime epidemic and the president's saying, let me help you fix this, and you say no. Yep. All that says to me is we want to burn the house down. That's right.

SPEAKER_10:

If it was Kennedy wanting to help them, yes. Yeah. I'm talking about John F. Yeah. Back, you know, if it was him today, they would be all about it. If it was Obama, they would be all about it. Yeah, you're right.

SPEAKER_05:

But the but the liberals today, they they want the interesting. It's the orange man. They don't want the orange man meddling. Yeah, orange man bad. Yeah, but if it was if it was if it was Kamala Harris in there now, gotta help us, or whoever. Kamala. Kamala. Sorry. I still can't get that right. And she's running again. But think yeah, it's good. But if it but she would never she would never do that because she wants to burn it down. That's my point. Like they, for whatever reason.

SPEAKER_10:

How long do you how long till the Palisades, they start cleaning up the Palisades and rebuilding there?

SPEAKER_07:

They're still waiting on permits and stuff, you know.

SPEAKER_10:

Just like Trump had said that happened. Newsom's getting sued by the by the residents.

SPEAKER_07:

That's why he's running for president. So maybe get away from all his lawsuits.

SPEAKER_09:

So uh let's go. Well, we're gonna we're gonna end the podcast with a uh what is it, Jim? Amazing DV other comment that we need to do.

SPEAKER_03:

Yes, this is from uh episode 78 where we talked about uh Taylor Swift, bad bunny, and the culture fight.

SPEAKER_09:

Okay, is your mic on, or do we need to repeat this? Okay, people can't hear you.

SPEAKER_03:

Uh he says, this is eight days ago. Way to go, fellows. Finally trying to verbally stand up to what Thrash is saying. That sounds so divisive and extreme. Tully, Kirk, and Kevin sound open to actually listening to people. Kevin? Thrash just always having things his way.

SPEAKER_07:

Well, we know that some of that's quite accurate.

SPEAKER_10:

Well, I'm not having my way, I'm just voicing my opinion.

SPEAKER_07:

No, but no, but like in life, you like things your way. Everybody likes things your way. Well, yeah. Who doesn't? Yeah. I mean, I'm just saying Kirk.

SPEAKER_08:

Kevin. Kevin Lovelace, everybody. Kirk, Kirk. I will not hear this from you.

SPEAKER_04:

It's your new name.

SPEAKER_10:

Let's call Kirk Kevin for now.

SPEAKER_07:

No, he's calling me Kevin and Kirk Kurt. Kirk. Kurt Kirk Kirk. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10:

I'm I that's not me getting my way, amazing D V. I'm just voicing what I believe, and you know, that's just what I believe. I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_09:

Yeah, I I I agree actually agree with you. You I don't think are trying to get your way. You just have a very strong uh opinion and you want to make sure it's heard. It's not like you don't respect our opinion, right?

SPEAKER_10:

Yeah, I do. I respect everybody's opinion if it's if it's common sense and it's not stupid. If it goes along with yours.

SPEAKER_07:

You made you sound like it earlier in the podcast.

SPEAKER_10:

I mean, I mean, come on, Kevin. You brought up you brought up the Taylor Swift thing. I didn't even bring it up. You brought it up. The album thing. Your album just dropped. But you brought it up. I didn't bring it up. And that was that was all I needed. Because I'd read the lyrics. And you brought it up. And you hadn't read the lyrics, but I had. Hey, Neil, you didn't think I brought it up. Oh.

SPEAKER_09:

Oh, you tried to trigger old thrash. Well, and you did trigger. We got a lot of things. We got a lot of for 79 weeks. Sorry, you done. Sorry. No, don't have time. All right. That was fun, guys. Yeah, it was fun. I mean, uh was that it? Yeah. And like what do you got? You got something that we have to get to? What do you got?

SPEAKER_07:

He's been holding on to something.

SPEAKER_09:

He has. I think he is.

SPEAKER_07:

No, there's just things. No, there's just there's things. No, it's nothing on my heart that I'm gonna drive home, you know.

SPEAKER_10:

I don't have to be home. I'm not I don't I mean, Lennon, I mean What? Is nobody home? Yeah, she's there. Oh, okay. But I'm a real man, I'll just get home when I get there. Wow. I have to go to the bar. No, a real man. Not hardly.

SPEAKER_07:

I was wondering what you guys thought and listeners too, you know, like uh the the killer, the Charlie Kirk killer, the guy who shot him. You know, there and I don't know what the maybe the the response has already come back, but his attorney was fighting for him, not coming in you know, the courthouse and going through that trial with in handcuffs stuff, he wanted to be in street clothes, dignified so he doesn't look guilty. It's just the oddest thing to me. I mean it's okay.

SPEAKER_09:

Sorry, because this is the first time I'm hearing this.

SPEAKER_07:

I heard that repeated so they're yeah, so the so the shooter, uh the guy who shot uh Charlie Kerry, I don't even say his say his name, but um instead of coming in through all those proceedings, right, you know, in in your prison wear jumpsuit, whatever that is, your handcuffs, things like that, that they wanted him to come and be allowed to come in in street clothes to look more dignified and to not already be guilty when he walks in because he looks like I totally get that.

SPEAKER_09:

Why does he get a choice? What is protocol? Yeah. You're not until you're proven guilty.

SPEAKER_10:

He shouldn't be he shouldn't be I get that. He shouldn't be in prison attire when he comes in for his trial.

SPEAKER_09:

Technically, though, if you're in custody I don't know what the protocol is. But whatever it is, it's what it should be. I don't even know how that's an issue, really.

SPEAKER_07:

It just seemed like it, like you know, at first when I first heard that I thought Alright, well they they already know it's the guy. Like, right.

SPEAKER_09:

That is true. But Neil, it is also true. You are innocent until you're in a court law improving.

SPEAKER_10:

I get the defense fighting for that. I totally get that. No, I get why. Yeah, and I don't think it's gonna change anything at the end of the day.

SPEAKER_07:

Probably not.

SPEAKER_10:

No. But if he comes in there in orange and white striped jumpsuit, I mean it already looks like he's done.

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05:

When they go in? I mean the majority of them, yeah.

SPEAKER_07:

And you get to shave and stuff. That's what I do.

SPEAKER_10:

And usually they look we gotta we gotta let our listeners know that we do go back and forth on a lot of different issues, but we all respect and love one another like nobody else. You love me and you know it.

SPEAKER_05:

I know, I hate it. Oh Neely, we uh you're a crucial voice. No matter what D V says. No matter what Amazing D V says. You're too curt, but you know what?

SPEAKER_10:

I love you, Amazing DV. And I mean that because I'm a real man.

SPEAKER_07:

But also, Amazing DV, I uh I would speak for uh Kirk as well. Thank thank you for our compliments. Yes.

SPEAKER_10:

Yeah, that's the part of it. He basically said that you guys caved.

SPEAKER_09:

No, I think he didn't know he didn't know.

SPEAKER_10:

It was good, whatever he came.

SPEAKER_09:

He was like, it's finally good that you guys stood up.

SPEAKER_10:

He called y'all three he called y'all he called y'all a bunch of Chris Young's. Oh my god. What he just didn't know.

SPEAKER_09:

I didn't hear that.

SPEAKER_07:

I didn't hear that.

SPEAKER_09:

Oh my gosh, this has been fun. Lots of fun. It's always you know, but speaking of amazing DV, we actually do love those comments. I mean, that's great. We read them.

SPEAKER_10:

We remember them. You're not keeping me up tonight, amazing.

SPEAKER_09:

I'm stress-free, bro. But if you're watching on YouTube, do that. Please leave us a comment. Ed always leads the way. But we need people to follow suit. We need you to leave those comments, leave a review. Uh download the episode. That's always a great thing. Caleb has been preaching that from the beginning. Uh, we want to thank Patriot Mobile. Uh, go to patriotmobile.com, put in the code Small Town. Get yourself a free month, and then uh don't ever look back. Also, eSpaces, they've been incredible. They've been absolutely incredible. It's been awesome being here. And of course, original Glory Beer. We're very thankful for them. We're thankful for you guys. We got Thrash. We got Kevin, we got TK. I'm Kirk.

SPEAKER_07:

Kirk.

SPEAKER_09:

Thanks for listening to the oh, and we got Jeff.

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah, we got Jeff.

SPEAKER_09:

Thank you, Jeff, for sending through the try that in the small town podcast.