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Fewer F-Bombs And "Weight Loss Journeys" :: Ep 89 Try That in a Small Town Podcast

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Frozen fingers, live riffs, and zero safety nets. We kick off the year with a behind-the-scenes look at playing a New Year’s Eve set in brutal cold, why we refuse to mime to tracks, and how TV “post-fix” can make a one‑song club cut feel more polished than the real thing. From numb hands at soundcheck to signature licks under pressure, we pull back the curtain on what audiences hear—and what they never see.

That honesty sets up two new series we’re launching this year. History Behind the Hits goes inside the songwriting and the moments that turned into staples, while Small Town Stories invites you to send the heroic, un-Googleable tales from your community so we can spotlight one each week. Along the way we argue about language levels, trimming the F‑bombs that don’t serve, and keeping the ones that punch with purpose. We also trade lake house fantasies for the maintenance reality and share a candid family health scare that reminded us how fast life can change.

Then we hit the hot button: Dry January and the weight-loss “journey” myth. We’re happy for anyone getting healthier, including those using semaglutide, but we call for clear language when shortcuts do the heavy lifting. The same truth-to-power energy fuels our college football breakdown: Alabama’s 38–3 gut punch, Georgia’s risk-reward calls, and why long layoffs, NIL, and the transfer portal are tilting the sport toward parity and yearly turnover at the top. It’s part therapy, part strategy session, and a promise to keep the conversation grounded in what’s real.

If you care about live music, small-town grit, and smarter sports talk, you’re in the right place. Hit follow, share this with a friend who loves a good myth-bust, and drop your Small Town Story for a chance to be featured this season. Your listens and reviews help keep the mics on—thank you for starting the year with us.

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SPEAKER_07:

A lot of people got your back on the tipping, by the way. I feel like I opened up the the thought process. You did? I think I think uh Everybody's happy except the people at Starbucks.

SPEAKER_04:

Did you leave any big tips this Christmas?

SPEAKER_05:

Um Yeah, I don't know why the older I get, the more F bombs come out. It's just like these come out.

SPEAKER_03:

I think that's over nothing. It's natural.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah. And I'm gonna- I don't think you I don't think you should clean it up. No, I'm gonna no no no no channel. No, no, no. I'm not gonna not all of them. Not all of them. Just just the ones that just don't sound good.

SPEAKER_03:

What about Tully? Have you heard of dry January?

SPEAKER_06:

I have heard of it. I'm gonna have an extra dry January. Okay, and why and and so why?

SPEAKER_01:

Is it is it try that in a small town podcast? Beginnings.

SPEAKER_05:

End of the year. Somebody end of the year. You said you would allow it today.

SPEAKER_08:

Not today. Today it's allowed. It's what it's doing. Today we're recording it's the second.

SPEAKER_03:

Who made that? Kurt doesn't like it. Five, six days passed five five business days, he's out.

SPEAKER_07:

That's what it was. It's it's usually January 5th or 6th is his cutoff point, which I fully agree with.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, we all know this.

SPEAKER_07:

I don't even ever say it.

SPEAKER_03:

Even our listeners know.

SPEAKER_08:

Yes, even our listeners know. Anyway, happy new year. Uh this is a try the app in a small town podcast. I've just been informed it's episode 89 in our wow existence. 89. That's pretty good. That's some staying power. Well, it's pretty good. We got the usual people here. Yeah. We got thrash, Caleb, TK, I'm Kurt. Uh as always, we are brought to you by Patriot Mobile, eSpaces, of course, original Glory Beer. Thankful for all of them as normal. How is the new year? How is everybody's new year? Star Warnil.

SPEAKER_05:

That was great. Went to the lake. Just got back. Do you have a lake house? No, I don't. And I won't have one. Okay. No, when you go, it's it's it's like exciting to think, it's like, oh man, let's go look around. Yeah. There might be something down here for us and the future grandkids and things. Then you get down there. No. The responsibility it takes to own a lake house. Yeah. Quite a bit of upkeep. It's insane. Especially if you got a dock and everything. All of it.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_05:

I'm not gonna do it. But I used, you know, Smith Lake in Alabama. That's where uh uh we went down there to celebrate the new year. That was a good fishing lake. Watch some shitty football and language. You know what? Speaking of language and profanity. I'm I'm I'm gonna clean it up a little bit. What is that your resolution? Yeah, I'm I yeah. Clean it up? Yeah, I don't know why the older I get, the the more F-bombs come out. And it's just like these come out. I think that's over nothing. It's natural. Yeah. And I'm gonna I don't think you I don't think you should clean it up. No, I'm gonna. I'm gonna protest. No, no, no. I'm not gonna not all of them. Not all of them. Just the ones that just don't sound good.

SPEAKER_08:

I'm gonna be talking or you talking. This is me talking. Okay. You know. It's too much time at the lake. No, it's not.

SPEAKER_05:

No, it's just I'm you know, shit's my favorite word, so I'm gonna always say it. And I'm just gonna use it. It's not terrible. I'm gonna use it or I'm just you know, I've been throwing some profanity around and I just are there levels of profanity.

SPEAKER_08:

Is there like shit's okay? Yeah. We all know the word isn't.

SPEAKER_07:

Like I think F word's fine. I mean, come on. It's part of well, it's part of everyday language. Come on. Let's go. There's other words we can't say. We know what those are. Let's start with those. Neil. Neil?

SPEAKER_03:

I don't think the F word, I don't think you get a pass on the F-word. You can't really say that everywhere.

SPEAKER_07:

I don't think you should say it. I think F-word, you gotta say it like you gotta have some common sense about it. There's kids around. Kids.

SPEAKER_08:

I mean, it's a different level. Just when you say it gets labeled as the F-word.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah.

unknown:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

Well if you were let's say you're a church. Let's say you're a church and you got a paper cut from the hymnal, and you might say, shit. Sorry about that. But you what you wouldn't do. What you wouldn't do is get a paper cut in the hymnal and say, fuck, you wouldn't do that. No. Right? No. Why? Because there's different levels. There's no. There are different levels.

SPEAKER_05:

The F-word's a lot. GD is huge. I mean, that's you hear that everyone. Everybody's head turns.

SPEAKER_03:

Whoa, he'd said he said GD. Man, he's never say that word. Bringing out the big guns.

SPEAKER_05:

I even called people out that say it.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah. So you don't hear that much. So yeah, I'd say there's different levels.

SPEAKER_07:

There's levels, all kinds of levels.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07:

Some words we can't say.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah. Like Daryl Whirley, like when he says hell right. Wasn't it him that says hell right? I don't know. Somebody wrote a song about it. Anyway. 2026.

SPEAKER_08:

Here we come. Let's see. What are we going to get to first? Well we got uh Caleb, you had uh you had this uh idea for a new segment for the year. Did we talk about it before or have we proposed?

SPEAKER_03:

I think we dropped a couple things, and there's there's a couple new things we're gonna try, which I think would be really cool. And we've had a little bit of interaction, everything, and a little bit of suggestion uh from uh producer Jim uh McCarthy uh through several telephone calls uh late night at uh no um anyway, but one is is continue to talk about the music, like you know, story behind the song, stuff like that. You know, or or I came up with a new one this afternoon is called History Behind the Hits. It's got a little ring. It's got a little stab. That alliteration that you're gonna do.

SPEAKER_05:

But then also uh you come up with this stuff like when you're doing squats and stuff.

SPEAKER_03:

No, no, I can't, I I can't I I'm not a multitasker. One thing at a time. Yeah, anyway. So uh but thought about that, and then also the thing we talked about was having the small town stories, you know, like heroic stories from a small town, or it could be a city, could be but we want we want these stories important. We want these stories to come from the listeners, you know. Uh so we looked up, you know, a bunch of them. You can find them everywhere, but we want we wanted that things that you can't Google, like somebody somebody just write in and say, Hey, my neighbor pulled, you know, little Johnny out from a fire from the his little bedroom window, whatever, and then have each week have a story because you're gonna have a bunch of them submitted over the course of time. You pick we'll pick one story each week, and so that'll be fifty-two episodes, and at the end, maybe we pick the best one, and there's a cash prize for the best one of the year. Yeah, you just lost Tully. No, but wait a minute. You just lost Tully. But yeah, wait a minute. So I thought that we could as Try That in Small Town Podcast contribute to figure out what that that that pot would be and give something.

SPEAKER_04:

Okay, our next break, everybody.

SPEAKER_07:

Welcome back to the Try That in Small Town Podcast. It was Jim's idea. Is he funding this?

SPEAKER_08:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

No, and technically, so because I knew this this may affect Tully, this technically it's not a tip, it's a give. See? And I know you have a giving heart. I know you do. Way under that black leather jacket. Way, way down deep.

SPEAKER_07:

Was running late today, and I I just grabbed it. It's a different leather coat than my Christmas black. I noticed it was different. It's my New Year's black.

SPEAKER_08:

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_07:

Yep. But I was like, yep. I said Kayla's gonna mention this, and I'm out of time. I don't have time to overthink it.

SPEAKER_08:

Is this the coat that you wore on the New Year's concert?

SPEAKER_07:

It is the oh this one concert. It is the coat I I wore for the New Year's concert. That we froze? It was very chilly. You want to talk about it? Maybe we give that away at the end of the 52-week deal. It's funny, my son's home from college and he comes into my bedroom the other night and he he's holding it and he goes, I'm gonna take this back to California. I said, No, you're not. He goes, I love this coat. I said, Me too. I said, This one you can't have. My clothes are disappearing. To your son? Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_05:

They disappear to your daughters, too. My daughters rave my closet. Really? Oh yeah. Everything.

SPEAKER_07:

Hoodies, everything. Yeah, but near um, yeah, it was it was it was chilly.

SPEAKER_08:

Fun time. It was fun, it was cold. Um the we sound checked or rehearsed the day before and it was very cold was bitter numb fingers rehearsal day. It was bitter cold. We were going through It didn't sound like it sounded good. Well, you must have had one before the new year rang in. Um it's it's hard. It's hard to play. I don't think people understand it's not just being cold, like oh my ears are cold, you know, whatever. I wore the hat. It's fine. When your fingers get cold, it sounds very it's tough to play because you're just hard to move. It's just tough to play. Uh playing guitar is based on feel and emotion, and it's not it's that's hard. You lose dexterity in your fingers.

SPEAKER_07:

Right after the right after the show, I told Kurt uh the day before it was a run-through day, which was uh you know, the day before it was very bitter cold. And so we get to the show the next night, New Year's Eve, we played it, it was cold. And it kept getting colder as the you know, we we sound checked at what? Three o'clock on show day, and then we just sat on the bus and watched the temperature fall on our phones. And um after the show though, I told Curt, I said, Man, you were such a G. I mean, playing all those SIG licks and solos in the cold. That's signature. It's tough for signature. It's tough. It's like you can't feel the the strings, you know.

SPEAKER_05:

You you definitely have the hardest job in the cold weather. Well, I don't know about Richard. No, Rich gets to move around.

SPEAKER_08:

He probably had two blow heaters on him, he probably had the heaters going. I think playing any stringed instrument is really hard. I mean, totally strings are you know this big. Yeah. The thing is, your guitar sit out there. I'm just talking about when you bring them in and out, because a guitar is, you know, if for people that don't know, if you're bringing them indoors and then outdoors, I'm just talking about when you had to do the siglic, we were just you were just talking about.

SPEAKER_05:

I mean, that's your own man, and you can't.

SPEAKER_08:

Well, you should have heard soundcheck because I bet I'd hit I was telling Tell, I bet I hit 18 clams, you know, like wrong notes during songs. And I was like, I don't know how this is gonna happen.

SPEAKER_07:

Soundcheck was so cold. I remember we were playing Cheese Country, and I remember thinking to myself, how is how is this working? Because I couldn't feel even the my fingers hit the strings. So I'm watching, I'm like had like an out of body thing. I'm like, and we played, look, we played in all kinds of weather. Sure. All kinds of weather. We played in cold and snow. And so when you're doing it though, it's like, how is this even happening? Because you can't is a string there? I don't know. I can't really feel it. It's like it's like that cold, you know. So it was it was it was fun. It was a good time. It was fun. It was a good time. It's uh once we get up there and start playing, and and I text all the guys after. It's like, yeah, I just love being up there with my guys, you know, playing the songs and cold or not, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_05:

I I feel it coming, Kalo. What is it? Well, it did go they're gonna they're gonna start going to tracks.

SPEAKER_03:

Well, I was uh you know that I I was wondering something like that if you'd have it on standby says but I'll say they didn't know it did sound great. I I watched I watched it in entirety. It sounded great. They didn't give the band a lot of close shots. It did see your skull cap or you know, yeah, uh whatever they tobogging, whatever you call them, but and it was a little bit blurry. They didn't give the band a lot of close shots. They it was obviously all on Aldean, which his he had a badass jacket on. Yeah, it was really, really cool. And he sounded fantastic. Yeah, you know, good. Um, and and the band sounded fantastic. There's nothing off that anybody would have heard one that y'all struggled at all.

SPEAKER_07:

We'll never that I'd rather freeze to death and get frostbite than to than to I did go back and listen to uh some of the other performances, and yes, there were tracks involved.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah, yeah. That was a joke. I knew you would never you would never do that. I was making a joke.

SPEAKER_08:

And then what people don't understand, you know, when you s watch that uh the New Year's show, they cut to wherever Tootsies or Legends and Such and Such was playing. They have the luxury of playing in what is it, September or October, filming that's right.

SPEAKER_03:

They're inside and and it's a one it's a one-song thing. And like and it's all like Bailey Zimmerman, he was kind of close to you know to you guys slot. And you were thinking, and he came out just jacked. I know he's ADHD and everything, but he was he came out like a like a man possessed, you know, and he sang you it did did really good and everything, and I was and I was watching, then you go to uh Megan Moroni, who's I mean she hasn't changed since the CMA show. I think it's the exact same outfit.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, you mean she hasn't changed?

SPEAKER_03:

I don't think she had I don't know, maybe but uh but it's sure been dry cleaned, you know. But uh but anyway, um but they go and it's but it's one song, you know, so it's not like a whole thing. So you do have to kind of come out and be ready and do that, you know. That has to be hard to be up for that one.

SPEAKER_08:

The Megan Moronis and the people that are in the clubs at the show, what people don't understand kind of inside baseball stuff is they record it and then they post fix the stuff that isn't right. They tune the vocal, they they get the guitar part right.

SPEAKER_03:

They, you know, so their performance wasn't all of them wasn't that night. No, most of them get performance.

SPEAKER_08:

Like we've done it before, yeah where we've gone in September and filmed the New Year's Eve thing. They put people in the hats and stuff, and so you think it is New Year's, but it's not. No.

SPEAKER_03:

Okay.

SPEAKER_08:

The only ones that are really live are the ones that we did. Laney and then Bailey was after us, right?

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah. And Bailey's got uh to to uh is what it is, but I I've about fed up with the artist coming out with three band members. He's got three band members reproduced the whole album. I mean, come on. And it's not just Bailey doing it. I you know, like it's a new day, I get it. I'm not gonna sound old and crot crotchety, but come on. They're trying to save money. Three band members, you know, it's happening a lot. You know, it's like it's uh the new thing, like an artist and drummer, two guitar players, or a drummer, a guitar player. For some reason the bass player has gone away. Yeah, they're they're doing that. They're they're they're doing their best thing. What are they doing? I don't know. I think I set the bar so high that it said screw it.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, so I'm not going out there. No way, man. I'm not competing with that.

SPEAKER_07:

Sometimes I hope I hold my bass sometimes. We'll be like making a record, or I'll be we'll be working on the road. I'll just be holding my bass and I'll look at it and I'll be like, wow, I'm holding a relic. It's a relic. It's like a relic. It's like I feel like it's a pickaxe, you know what I mean? Like it's just so non-existent. Someday they're gonna be like, what is this?

SPEAKER_03:

What is this instrument?

SPEAKER_08:

Do you guys stay up till midnight? Did you stay up?

SPEAKER_03:

I saved to to to midnight uh New York. Yeah. New York. You saw the ball drop. No, you see the ball drop.

SPEAKER_05:

I saw some pictures. I didn't know you went up there.

SPEAKER_03:

No, no, I wasn't there and just kind of watched it. But that's to me, that's the official one when it goes down and where were y'all?

SPEAKER_05:

Where were those pictures from?

SPEAKER_03:

What pictures?

SPEAKER_05:

Oh, maybe it was just a remote. Maybe it was just a year in review. Oh, yeah. It was a year in review. Oh, you weren't anywhere except you had a you had a black tux. Yeah, you were all dressed up.

SPEAKER_03:

Really?

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah dancing, yeah. I thought you were out.

SPEAKER_03:

I thought you were out. Somebody posted that? Your wife. Yeah. I didn't see that.

SPEAKER_08:

I think it was a year-in review. Okay. Is that the new thing this year? Everybody's doing a year-in-review. Yeah, did you not do a year-in review?

SPEAKER_03:

No. I guess we did. I didn't I didn't know. Calo, did you have to look at the remote? I at least have to go back and like the one we posted. What?

SPEAKER_05:

I barely made it too.

SPEAKER_08:

How would you even start doing that?

SPEAKER_03:

Me?

SPEAKER_08:

I guess there's probably no, not you specifically. How do people do that? I guess.

SPEAKER_07:

They pick all their favorite photos and pretend like nothing bad happened throughout the year.

SPEAKER_03:

That's true. We had a little uh hospital visit, a little emergency room thing with uh with little Lucy. It was the day before Christmas, or uh actually the 22nd. We got out on the 24th, so we went out on the 23rd, but you had a little pneumonia and everything. Went to Williamson County Medical, which we you've been there. Um I've taken Neil there and I've taken baby Lucy there. Uh but they did a great job. They're really, really uh it was just her oxygen levels were low, and you got you know, you get that stuff in your chest and you can't really babies not their toddlers, they don't know how to really cough and blow their nose, they can't really do that. Yeah, so their oxygen gets low, so they had them in there pumping that oxygen. She hated it.

SPEAKER_08:

That was on Christmas Eve.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, we got we got out on Christmas Eve, so it was the day day before.

SPEAKER_05:

So you didn't have to put the barbie jeep together, did you?

SPEAKER_03:

Uh no, we didn't have we just have a Barbie car, uh, which is very small and already comes together and it's just two little riders. Barbie man. Smart man. Yeah, and she doesn't really know what she's not didn't know exactly what Christmas is.

SPEAKER_08:

No, I think we did that for Levi whenever he was. I remember Tully telling me about this too. It's like, you know, when your kids are two, yeah. It's like I got them something extravagant. Oh, this is the best present ever, and didn't even get it, and then he starts picking up the coasters on the thing and is fascinated for two hours. Like, what did I just spend 200 bucks on this thing for?

SPEAKER_03:

The thing she likes the most is my believe it or not, my I've got this uh little plastic bowl of mini hand sanitizers in my office closet. Oh my god. And she gets in that closet. She dumps them all out and then she puts them all back in. And she dumps them all out. That's that's her favorite toy out of everything.

SPEAKER_05:

She mocks dad, too. Yeah. But she'll also come put it in the hand. She'll come oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

She'll she'll come make you hold your hand out.

SPEAKER_05:

So don't think they're not paying attention. So when Emma told me that, I was like, I just went, oh that's a good point. Don't think don't think they're not noticeable.

SPEAKER_03:

Training up another hypochondriac. You gotta have them.

SPEAKER_08:

So is Rachel uh this way?

SPEAKER_03:

No, no, she's not. She's she's the opposite.

SPEAKER_08:

She's on our team. So how does that she's on our team? So how does that work? Again, I'm sorry, we probably had this discussion, but I forget.

SPEAKER_03:

No, well, well, we argue about it, you know, because you know, it's to where and I I hate even talking about it, but like she's nor she's normal, and I'm not, right? So I wash my hands at all. So I'll go to the grocery, then you'll bring the bags in, and then you'll I'll wash my hands before you put the groceries in, and then you put the groceries away, then you still wash your hands because people have touched them and everything. So she's not like that. She'll come in, drop the you know, groceries off, and come over and grab my face and miss. Don't grab my face, don't grab my face and wash your hands. Well, ever since that doesn't go over great. I I know. Ever since the boil. Yeah, we've had that story, but anyway, yes. So no, she's normal and I'm more OCD.

SPEAKER_08:

Well, wait a minute. You need to search, sorry, real quick. You need to somehow do a search of our episodes of where when this all began. Yeah, do an AI thing with the boil and find that.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, if it comes in high demand, we'll do that.

SPEAKER_07:

Now, are you a germophobe or hypochondriac? Because I'm I'm like clinical level hypochondriac. I've even told them before I think I've got lung cancer or I've got brain cancer. I remember one time we're on the road and I couldn't breathe very well. I'm like, I think I've got lung cancer. It's pretty bad, actually. I'm pretty new you know this about me. It's I'm pretty much dying around the clock.

SPEAKER_05:

I think everybody thinks things because of the world we live in now. I think if you know you get the slight little headache you've never had before right here in the temple, and you're like, oh crap, I got a tumor. I mean, yeah.

SPEAKER_07:

You know, some people don't google I I'd The mistake of Googling.

SPEAKER_05:

Some people go deeper, go deeper than than most, and you're probably one of those people that go down.

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah. I believe it. Down the wormhole. Where it's like it's I've got I got four major diseases right now self-diagnosed with. So I'm four major ones that I'm trying to trying to get through.

SPEAKER_05:

Kalo's not what you call a germaphobe. It's I don't know what the level above that's called, but that's probably what you are.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, I'm not really sure. Yeah, I've got a little hospital visit coming up. Not really hospital, but it'll be something that probably requires some sort of procedure. But um we'll talk about it later because I'm not really sure. No, no, it's the same thing. It's like like you can't leave us hanging. No, something just a little different. So uh you'll get that checked out. Uh transitioning? No, no, no. No.

SPEAKER_07:

We got big news here in the Try That Pod now.

SPEAKER_03:

I don't I don't think so. I don't think so. We're having a new one. I was I was gonna ask. He wouldn't have to change his name? No, I wouldn't have to do that. That's right. I do have a girl name. I have to have one of those. Like Tracy. You know, you know, we do need someone on the inside.

SPEAKER_07:

Like a mole.

SPEAKER_03:

Rachel will be the mole. She'll tell you. She'll tell you most things. Not everything.

SPEAKER_07:

If you were going to transition, you'd be the best one to do it. You got the like the demeanor for it. Well, thanks, Telly. I appreciate that. I think I don't know what that means. I don't know. Just the demeanor. Yeah. Demeanor. Yeah. I mean you'd you'd be a a patient woman.

SPEAKER_03:

I don't know. I think I think Rachel would argue on that one.

SPEAKER_09:

Yes, she would.

SPEAKER_03:

Yes, she would. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think. Let's let's come let's come back to that. Yeah. What I wanted to ask is because this this will come out on the because we are shooting this on the second, so the listeners know, because it'll come out on what, six, seventh, something like that. Anyway, did any of you guys do the um the good luck stuff, you know, like the black-eyed peas, the cornbread, cabbage, anything like that? So nobody nobody did it? No. Even though we all found out that that was a real thing, right? Yeah. For my look it is. No, yeah, I do.

SPEAKER_07:

And I am superstitious, and I don't even do that.

SPEAKER_03:

I'm not the mom does it, and so I I generally I generally try to do it. And so it was on New Year's Eve, and I told Rachel about it. I said, Hey, do we got any black-eyed peas or anything like that? At least eat one of them, you know, because I wasn't gonna be able to make it over to mom's. And um, and and we didn't have anything. We had pinto beans, and I said, I said, Well, you got a sharpie? Maybe fit a little I don't know if that would work, you know. But then she goes, I I said, Hey, try cracker barrel. You know, because they'll probably be open. They took it away. It was New Year's Eve and and they didn't have black-eyed peas. They took it off the menu. And it I th I wasn't sure if they were out of black-eyed peas because they ran out because there's demand on that day, or if they took it off. But either way, I th the first thing I thought of was the new woke CEO. Doesn't know anything about the southern traditions and things like that and got took away. So it's very irritating. I'm still confused. Black-eyed peas is a staple.

SPEAKER_08:

What is it like a birthday cake and the candles where you wish something is you're blowing it out, like when you're eating or you're thinking of something, or is this it's just a ritual?

SPEAKER_03:

It's like a four-leaf clover. If you find one, you it's not like a four-leaf clover. That's kind of like what it is. Kind of it's it's it's in the same family.

SPEAKER_07:

It's not. It's just a good luck thing. I have heard of it.

unknown:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07:

I just thought what what I'm a Kurt though. You should have the one black IP for whatever year number it is.

SPEAKER_03:

Well, it's not just that. That's like cabbage symbolizes money, and uh like uh cornbread symbolizes gold. You know, so now that said, I've done that most every year, and I've had some really good years and some really bad years. So it probably has zero significance. Yeah. I was just curious about that. No, interesting. Uh and then also I was wondering uh about he's coming. Caleb is very organized in the new year. But but uh dry January. Is anybody doing January? Yeah, what is it?

SPEAKER_05:

Oh, you no drinking?

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah. I already run that. So you're saying that well, but did you start it though? Did you say, hey, we're gonna do dry January this year? Did you or no? Okay. So you did not? No. I haven't heard of that one either. Really? No. Wade? Have you heard of that? Dry January? That's where you people take, you know, they take the.

SPEAKER_08:

Wade's heard of that? Okay.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, Wade's heard, Jim Heard. What about Tully? Have you heard of dry January?

SPEAKER_06:

I have heard. I'm gonna have an extra dry January. Okay, and why and and so why?

SPEAKER_07:

Is there any is there any is it is it because for a later episode.

SPEAKER_03:

Is it a health issue or is it wife, is your wife sitting, you know, or is it you or you're just taking off for a little bit, taking a break for the old liver?

SPEAKER_07:

Um I had a fairly dry spring through January.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh so you got a head start. Yeah. Okay. I've got a head start too. I'm with you. I got a head start too.

SPEAKER_08:

Are you doing it? Are you not drinking?

SPEAKER_03:

I'm about six, I'm almost seven months uh and I like to go a year. Like every few years I'll go a year. Months? Strict opioids. That's it. Yeah. Um and that help that helps a lot with your calories and stuff. I wonder you're so on it. So you can have more, you know. All this time you've been hammered. No, I haven't. I haven't been there. But uh but anyway, I did, but back when I was, you know, having red wine and something every because that's my be my go-to, you know, and we did the dry January, you know, a few years ago, and that was a that was the longest three days of my life. Really was.

SPEAKER_08:

There's a month for everything. It kind of uh uh irritates me actually. Yeah, yeah. Dry January, no shave November.

SPEAKER_05:

November Yeah, which y'all didn't notice I shaved my beard off. Nobody saw it. Oh, you're right.

SPEAKER_08:

We did not know seen in a couple weeks, you're right.

SPEAKER_03:

I like it better the way you are now, I think.

SPEAKER_05:

I like the scruff better. Yeah, the scruff is okay, but my I you know what? Uh I shall look in the mirror and I go, your skin is it's my skin's too beautiful to cover up. I agree.

SPEAKER_08:

It's kind of foo and chewish.

SPEAKER_05:

Atlanta likes it, likes whatever, but I figured you grow the beard out, she's like she's got a new man in the house, and then I shave it off, and it's another new man. It's a this process and it's working. I like how you do that offer her. Okay. All right. It works. Yep. It's a win-win. Maybe you should go to the goatee tonight. Take some advice and old thrash over there.

SPEAKER_07:

Hey, on the New Year's Eve show, we did we played Try That in a Small. So we played, back to that real quick. We played like a whole hour set. You know, they just Oh really? Yeah, we just cut a freaking show. Yeah, no, but we did a full show. They just cut in and out, right? Um but it was fun playing Try That in a Small Town with a huge response to it. It was great. It was fantastic. Good time. It was fun playing that one that night.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, somebody sent us uh something, was it Jim, that said that they didn't allow Aldine to play that song, but it wasn't true. Yeah, it wasn't true.

SPEAKER_08:

Yeah, that's not the way it went down.

SPEAKER_03:

No, it's it's good to have guys on the inside to actually really know.

SPEAKER_08:

It's kind of uh you know, I don't want to give away your segment that we haven't done yet, but it kind of goes Kayla was talking about uh instituting a new segment, which I love. People are idiots. Yeah right? Oh, can we please is that's it? People are idiots. Can we go back to stupid can we just always do that?

SPEAKER_03:

I like the reason the I like idiots better. Why? Just because it has more of a smile to it. Can we stupid idiots?

SPEAKER_08:

It's not a stuff. People are stupid idiots. Yeah. I like that. I like that. Yeah, that's good. But uh if we were, maybe we will. We'll just give an example of it. I think Kayla was like, hey, let's all four have a small thing. One of it is that you f you see it's wheat, you take it as true, you spread the you spread the information. Well, did you hear Jason Aldean didn't you know did this and did that? And then it's all of a sudden it's true. People are idiots. You see something, it's true.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08:

Why do people do that? That's true. That's right. People are stupid. They're idiots. Kayla, what's yours?

SPEAKER_03:

Um Well, my mine, and actually this is what made me think of doing this little segment, which is kind of fun. And people can send in their things too, and we can use those. But um, but and this is uh it was a a little little bit ago, and we I was at you know the house and I was looking in the pantry and I saw these little brownie bites, you know, and and I looked at it, and I mean, because I don't really go to the grocery, you know, except for specific things, and I looked at it and said, 20 grams of protein every serving. So I took it out. I'm you know, we're trying to get my protein and all that stuff, and I thought, all right. So I took it over and Rachel's on the couch, you know, we'll watch TV. I looked over and said, 20 grams of protein. And I turned it over and said, 43 carbs. Well, and then the bad. And then all the other all the other stuff. So then I said, I said, I said, Rachel, I said, check this out, this brownie thing. I said, 20 grams of protein, but it has 43 grams of carbs and all this this junk in it and everything. I said, and I turned back around and I said, people are idiots. And then and I'm walking back to put it in the pantry, and she said, She goes, you know, that this is our pantry, that's this is our house. I I bought that. I said, Oh, well, they're beautiful idiots. I mean, I didn't say that they were we are people, yeah, we're people, but anyway, so I thought that'd be funny, just stuff like that, you know. Uh, and there's there's there's one other thing that I looked up today, and this is an example for listeners they can be comment. Apparently there's a new trend, or it may they were doing it last year, I guess, but they're like teenagers are not it's not just remember when we played uh ding dong ditch, like you'd ring a doorbell and everybody go hide in the ditch, right? Some people still do that, but now teenagers are like trying to kick people's doors down like at two, three, four in the morning as a fun, as a fun thing, right? And people are gonna get killed that way. Like people are idiots, like you have to be an idiot to do that, right? So those are the type things you know that I think I'm gonna do it.

SPEAKER_07:

I love that. I have one request for for all of like everyone in the country. I have a small request. Let's stop the weight loss journey stuff. Oh, it's too much money in that. Here's well, people are ready to say they believe anything, right? I'll use jelly roll as an example. Not that long ago.

SPEAKER_08:

Can we call him jelly roll still? No. Does he need a new name? I don't know.

SPEAKER_05:

Here's the thing.

SPEAKER_08:

I like the guy. I mean, actually, yeah, he's been nothing but a good to us.

SPEAKER_07:

He's a he's a nice guy. And this may not be the best. I'm not trying to hurt the jelly roll. I mean, I'm not trying to harp on him, but he was what, a year ago. How big?

SPEAKER_04:

400 pounds? Oh no. Oh, yeah, it's over 400.

SPEAKER_07:

I have 40 wages. Alright. Let's let's he goes on the pen or whatever he's taking. There's no journey in that. There's no weight loss journey. You're not out there, like you may be doing exercising along with uh Zempic or whatever you're doing. You don't lose 200 pounds in four months, five months, walking and you know, lifting some light weight. So no more weight loss journey. Let's just he's he's on the cover of men's health. He is on the cover of men's health. He's on the cover of that. No kidding. And I and I can't do it anymore. I can't stomach it.

SPEAKER_08:

Ah, I see what you did. But uh thank you for it, man. Nice.

SPEAKER_07:

I can't it's it's it's misleading. He's on the cover of men's health. The cover of men's health. And I'm thinking to myself with the shirt on. Yeah. Well, I mean that they haven't done for now. They haven't done the skin collecting yet. That's a good one.

SPEAKER_05:

Did he have a joint Did he have a joint in his mouth? A one his one hitter in his mouth.

SPEAKER_07:

Well, I just don't understand. My whole thing is like, look. I'm just curious. I'm just like, what? There's there's not much of a journey in it when you're whether whether you if you're taking the pen or you're doing everything. It's just there's no journey there.

SPEAKER_08:

It's just it's it used to be, I don't know, maybe it it just feels like if you whatever, ten years ago somebody lost all that weight. It was like, man, that's impressive to have the willpower to do that. What was the show? Now the willpower is gone. It really is. What was the show?

SPEAKER_07:

What was the famous show? Um, they're losing. Okay, they didn't know. Netflix has a documentary about that whole thing. It's pretty good, actually. Um but that's one thing. They're they're taking these people who are overweight and they're like doing beach runs and they're on treadmills and they're passing out. That's a journey. It takes mental fortitude. Shooting yourself up with a pen and getting yourself what you you don't eat because you feel like shit. Okay. There's your favorite word. Um it's not a journey. I I'm happy he's done it. But it's the cover of men's health. The cover of men's health, there come on. I mean, that's enough's enough. It's an industry like that. And it's not just an industry like everything else. It's not just jelly roll, no, it's I like jelly roll. Seriously, you're right. Absolutely. But it's uh it's not a journey.

SPEAKER_03:

And so and some people, and everybody has a you know, a different journey. Some sometimes it's for health benefits, some people are it does help a lot of other things, people that are have a lot of weight on them. Uh it's good for diabetics, things like that. But you're right now, you know, there's those success stories, especially when celebrities are doing it like that. Uh, there's so many people on it. Like it, like even some of our friends you'll see, and like each time you get with them, you think, dude, you look jacked. I mean, like, and you get with them like three weeks later and say, Man, you look twice as good as you looked three weeks ago. You know, and finally you ask them, said, Are you doing what are you doing any of that? I'm just working out, working out. And then if you push enough, you know, say, Are you taking any kind of semi-glutide, any kind of the smallest amount, the smallest amount possible? Ah, there it is, there it is. Yeah, so but I just don't know what the and it's I will say it's tempting. It's tempting to do it. I actually even thought about it because I thought, well, you can get to this place quicker and then just maintain that, and then you've shortcut. So I did think about it, it's very tempting. Uh, but I didn't I didn't do it, but I got really, really close to doing it. Just just for the vein, I know it's a it's a it's a vain thing, but it's like, all right, the working out takes forever, and you gotta be disciplined and you gotta do all your dieting stuff. So I I do get it. I just don't know what like a lot of my family is diabetic, and most of my family is diabetic. So I didn't felt I personally felt wrong about injecting myself, and I didn't have an there's not I wasn't sick. Right. You know, so I just didn't feel good about it for me. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07:

And I'm super like like I'm glad he jelly roll a lot because he's way more healthy now, I'm sure. My my thing is like it the cover of men's health, like, okay, that's a little much because you didn't like work out for three years.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, I mean, just you know, and and yeah, and he is apparently, and I don't know him either. Uh I mean you know him, I don't know him. He I did see him in and uh I think he's on Rogan and he is working out and he's running and doing stuff, so he is working out also. That's all I know to add to that. That's all I know.

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Well, and it's and that and that's great. I'm glad I'm not I see him walking and it's all good. Basic stuff.

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SPEAKER_08:

Let's pivot. Let's go to actually college football. Right? Yeah, I mean, let's go, because I mean we got I can't believe we waited this long. I can't believe Thrash waited this long. It really is Friday the second. Yesterday is college football playoff day. Uh they had one the night before. Uh we were all on a thread, actually with Jason too, throughout the day, uh checking out the games. Uh what do you want to start with? Do you want to start with the big one?

SPEAKER_03:

Well, let's start let's start with the earlier game. Kind of go in. Go ahead. No, no. I want you you started the earlier game because I only saw pieces of that.

SPEAKER_05:

No, the Alabama game?

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah. So you had three. You didn't watch the game? Three. No, I watched most of the game. Yes, I did.

SPEAKER_05:

Really?

SPEAKER_03:

But I'm not an Alabama fan.

SPEAKER_08:

I was pulling for Alabama during in in this game because I got no real I think most people were surprised uh because people don't obviously people don't see Indiana play like they do Alabama. You see Alabama play every week. It's like, oh Alabama, Alabama, Alabama.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah, but this this this year, this season, it was you know the jury was out the whole season because it was so inconsistent. It was a little inconsistent. It was really, really inconsistent. But it seemed like they were on a good So No, we went into that game. I went into that game going, I have zero idea what's gonna happen. That's because you didn't know of Indiana. Not a clue. Yeah. We could win, we could go out there and show up and do our thing, but it didn't happen. And and I also said Indiana could do it to us as well. If we're if we come out flat and we look like we don't give a shit about being there. And that's exactly what happened.

SPEAKER_08:

Until he text about halfway through, and he's like, what is this? Hoosier football? Hoosier's football?

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah. Because I I mean, you know me, and not the you know, I I follow the Bulldogs and I follow the SEC and I uh it's exciting. The Hoosier's? I'm like, wait a minute, is Bobby Knight on the sideline?

SPEAKER_08:

Like that that dude, I'm telling you, so I have seen Indiana play a couple times, but you don't know because you get so SEC biased that oh, nobody's good if you're not in the SEC.

SPEAKER_05:

Um Well, you can't gauge anybody else because of their schedule. You really can't gauge them. But I've seen it, they don't have a gauntlet year in and year out.

SPEAKER_08:

They're very, very well coached. They're very disciplined. The quarterback is obviously legit. The running game is great, the defense is disciplined, they play solid football.

SPEAKER_07:

What's the final score?

SPEAKER_08:

Oh 38, 38 to 3.

SPEAKER_07:

38-3. Yeah. Indiana beat Alabama. Right. 38-3. It's the worst.

SPEAKER_05:

It's the worst. It's the worst defeat since 98, 27. Any game?

SPEAKER_03:

And note uh of note, uh, that's the the last year that Tennessee won the national championship.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah. That was the last defeat. Back to you, that was the worst defeat. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_08:

I just I no I knew Indiana was pretty good. I didn't know how it would go, but I knew they were pretty good.

SPEAKER_05:

Well, they're they are good. They're I know I would never take anything away from that program. The coach and how disciplined they are and how well they play is a good thing.

SPEAKER_08:

You text something like no five stars on that team. Right.

SPEAKER_05:

Well, I s I read where there I read, you know, how many five stars we have on the roster and there's a A ton, you know, and there's a ton of four stars. As as far as five stars go, there's a lot. But f but four stars, but it I don't you know, you can't go by that stuff. It's like what I texted y'all. You know. On paper don't mean shit. Nah. It don't mean it, obviously. You know, because when you when you look at the just the talent, the level of talent on each team, and then you and then you A B it, it's like this shouldn't even be a contest. But it shows you the uh I guarantee you their locker room is like tidy and tight, and they are as a unit uh towards one another. Signeti, they all respect him. Like he's a winner. You know, they respect him as as a as a coach and a leader, and they're they're they're not afraid of anybody. Nah.

SPEAKER_03:

Well, and their QB too, to be led by mean I mean tell me a QB doesn't matter, right? Quarterbacks matter. Oh you're the guru. You gotta preach on that.

SPEAKER_07:

I have my quarterback system, right? Fernando's right into your quarterback profile. Yeah, quarterback profile.

SPEAKER_03:

Well, and and and it was it was encouraging to me to know to know that and watch that guy, you know, winning the Heisman and then playing like that. He's a stud. I mean he's a stud. And the the thing that impressed me the most about him was his speech after. And I don't know if y'all watched it, but for he said he's such a good kid. I was like, God, I wish I wish my team had had someone like that, you know, as to to lead the team. And I don't and and keep in mind, he'd been wearing that helmet for four hours. He looked like his hair looked like he just came out of church. He wasn't sweating. It was a perfect place. He was having a ball ball. Watch a QB. It was a QB you want. I mean, it was just it was just crazy, but he was just thinking Jesus and and his teammates and all this stuff, and it wasn't it wasn't fake. You could just tell it wasn't fake. It was it was really cool to see that.

SPEAKER_05:

But I could go on and on about what's wrong with Alabama. But do you want to? No, I don't.

SPEAKER_03:

Give us three things. Give us three things that you think are the biggest things.

SPEAKER_05:

I don't want to get I don't I think you know wanting Deborah's head on a platter is a little extreme. Yeah, yeah. It's a that's a little that's a little premature right now. He needs to he needs to get rid of his staff. I hate the offense we run. Hate it. I mean, if you're an offensive lineman, you know, the end of the play and they sit they reset the 40-second play clock right when it's right when the whistle blows, when he's when the previous play is down. And we go back there with no huddle, but we spend half a minute changing and and and adjusting and him calling audibles. In the meantime, our meat guys on on the on the they're they're down in a three-point stance waiting an eternity for the play to go. And if I was a coach, I'm gonna start measuring like blood pressure levels and tension levels on my lineman when it when you run an offense like that and they have to sit there and wait for the quarterback till he's ready. And they're there literally, 30 to you know, 30 seconds max, probably, in a stance ready to go. And and yeah, y'all try that one day, play after play after play. Yeah. That's why you see them go, you know, they're in a three-point stance and they go down to like one knee, like, are we ready yet? And by that time, they've lost their mojo. You know, they're not ready to attack. That's great, that's a great point. They've been sitting there getting stiff. And I hate that offense. Freaking hate it. And you s you cannot have much of a running game with that kind of offense. You can't. There's too much confusion that can happen, there's too much stuff going on. It's just it's ridiculous. It just seems like call the freaking play and and pound it.

SPEAKER_07:

The outside, the outside looking in, like Alabama cannot lose to Indiana 38-3. Alabama. Why the the Because that's what's programmed in the brain. Even as me, as like a you know, outsider looking in, essentially. Alabama football. I've been in that weight room.

SPEAKER_08:

That's right.

SPEAKER_07:

I worked out on that place. There's no way they should be losing. I could barely use any of the equipment. It was so large. That's just one thing. I was like, I think I'll leave that plate there.

SPEAKER_08:

Is the quarterback staying, or is he? I have no idea.

SPEAKER_05:

I don't know. They got they got bigger problems than that, I think. All right.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah. It was it was it was kind of um our uh sponsor, one of our gracious uh sponsors, uh, eSpaces, um, John Pertles sent us sent Neil and I as a meme or whatever, and it was the the the group Alabama, you know, standing there, and uh they're all in Indiana jerseys, and it says Indiana. So they're Alabama, and I knew Neil wasn't gonna take anything back, and I'm thinking, all right, I know John's. I don't even know if I saw it. John just having fun. And uh, and so it was today. So and and I thought, I thought, uh, and I waited a little bit because it was really more for you, because I'm not an Alabama fan. And um, and he said, he said, I'm sorry, guys. He goes, This is just too good. And so I waited a while, and then I and then I I try to let him off the hook a little bit. I said he la laugh out loud. I said, Maybe a little too soon for a thrash.

SPEAKER_05:

No, no, I I welcome all that. You can't get you can't get under my skin.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, so but no, we don't find it. Well deserved. It's not fun when your team loses. We're not if you're a buddy of somebody, Alabama fans are just we're just spoiled though.

SPEAKER_05:

That is true.

SPEAKER_07:

Spoiled, very spoiled. Yeah, yeah. And we had to suffer through the main event. You know, I'm like I said, my wife graduated from there and she's we're kind of watching the game, and they had a good comfortable lead, and we were kind of watching them. I thought they were gonna run away with it. Almost like that's what I was like, kind of kind of just kind of in passing watching it because it's like this is gonna be they're gonna run away with this, and it kept getting a little closer, a little closer, and the wheels just came off. Disappointing. Disappointing in a couple play calls. Coaching got interesting. It did. I don't like that that that fourth down, was it fourth and three on their thirty five or something like that? That's like horror. I thought that was a really good thing. That was the game. I think Kirby's awesome. His we've been around that dude, and he's like a he's incredible. Yeah. But I was man, why not punt that away and let your great defense let your defense put up a fight? You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_08:

It just it put all the pressure the risk reward factor, which is what I look at, it didn't work out. Because even if you get the first down, you're still on your own 30-yard line. It's not like you have points waiting right there. And the the risk is you give up a TD and you're down 10 with six minutes to play, whatever it was.

SPEAKER_05:

How about those people out there that you know had elimination bets? And the ones that put money on Ohio State, Georgia, and Alabama getting eliminated. It's how much money they want.

SPEAKER_08:

Do you know I know you guys do know this, so they've had the new playoff system for two years. The team with the buy four teams last year, four teams this year, all four lost last year. Three of the four lost this year. Yep. Wow. The only team that's won after the bye in two years is Indiana. These are supposed to be the four best teams each year. They've gotten because you have twenty what'd they say it was Ohio State, they said twenty-six days off. You can't keep your competitive edge for 26 days.

SPEAKER_07:

You can't do it.

SPEAKER_08:

No.

SPEAKER_07:

I don't even like the even even when my NFL team gets a buy.

unknown:

Right.

SPEAKER_07:

Oh, yeah. I don't even like that. Like, keep playing, boys. Yeah, yeah. Looking, you know, I mean, it's it it's it's gotta be tough to keep the energy and it was exhausting this year.

SPEAKER_03:

I'm exhausted. I'm gonna go. Yeah, the playoffs.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

I liked yesterday though. I didn't think we were gonna be there tonight. Again, my my team was nowhere close to being in the playoffs, but that was a fun day of football. Those are three humongous games in one day, which was as a as a just a football fan, it was great. You know, it would wouldn't be as great if you know your team got eliminated, but it was a good day of football.

SPEAKER_05:

I know people, I know Alabama fans that are friends of mine that will not they won't watch another game when when we lose. Like they won't watch it's over. They won't watch the title game, they won't watch the rest of the game. Oh, really? Oh, really? Oh, I like why I like watching them still.

SPEAKER_09:

That's how spoiled they are.

SPEAKER_08:

I didn't say we. What was last year Alabama won?

unknown:

Huh?

SPEAKER_08:

When when did they last win the national title?

SPEAKER_05:

Oh, they won last year. No, it was Ohio State last year.

SPEAKER_08:

Yeah, no, so it's been a few years or yeah, yeah, yeah. It's been a little bit.

SPEAKER_05:

No, it's been it's been a little bump there. That's a good one. I don't have to look that up. I can't remember.

SPEAKER_08:

So maybe that's how you know you've won a lot when you're like, I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_03:

It's not it's not that it's not that long. But it was, I mean, obviously the SEC is taking a you know, like social media and everything, you know, because it's always, you know, SEC, you know, we care more, you know. It's really taking a huge beating just because and everybody talks about the schedule and all that, you know, that SEC takes a beating, and then they don't have all their players and stuff, but but um that might be going away a little bit because as you're watching. It is going away. I'm sorry to tell you, probably. I'm just saying, and I'm I'm a I'm a proud SEC fan, but but it's like the okay, the system has now changed, and I think it's forever changed. SEC is still great, it's a great conference.

SPEAKER_05:

But I said that when when it was all when the NIL was introduced, and it all started house like the one maybe good thing about football now, it's gonna level the playing field like it's never been leveled before. It really is.

SPEAKER_07:

It is kind of cool to see, I don't know, again, as an outsider and hate that Georgia lost, but like Indiana, I'll say it's kind of cool.

SPEAKER_08:

They're got a kick-ass football team and it's one of the most I forget they gave the status, it's one of the most losing programs in college football history.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08:

And now, you know.

SPEAKER_05:

I think it's gonna be a different we're gonna have a different champion every single year from here to from here on. Yeah. I don't I think it I don't think it's gonna be hard to repeat.

SPEAKER_08:

But you are right, with NIL and all of the transfer stuff, it's just different. It's different. And the the one conference, yes, it just it's not gonna dominate like it did.

SPEAKER_03:

It was it was tough on the uh on the thread last night, you know, because all of us were on it. It was cool being on there, you know, with Al Dean because the you know, Georgia was winning, you know. So it's kind of cool, you know, and because I was watching everything and because we're all engaged and everything. Then as it started to turn, there's less texting and and less texting, and then then there's then there's some F-words and everything. Everybody's so mad so mad and and uh and there's just nothing there's nothing good to say uh you know to your to your buddy who's a big fan. That's there's nothing good to say. It's like uh say you hit a bad golf shot, like a hundred yards in the woods, and you're and and like let's say I do, and then Neil says, Oh, don't worry, Kayla, but we'll find that. I'm thinking, we ain't gonna find that. You know, you can't really you can't really make somebody feel good in those moments.

SPEAKER_08:

Let me tell you, you haven't been golfing with Al Dean then. Because there's no making you feel good after that. You got a four-foot putt, whatever you pull as your left ear. It's like nice read.

SPEAKER_05:

Okay, well, what is the never gonna say we do have fun with golf?

SPEAKER_07:

I mean, we can have it. It just depends on who you're playing with. Yeah. These guys always get me, they're like, man, just come out and TK, just come out and hit some balls with us, man. Come out and play. You've got to get out there and play. And actually refuse to play in the road anymore because it ruins my whole mood. So I don't I don't want to affect the show like that. But yeah, there's no picking your buddy up after. I'll go play in town. You know we'll go to we'll go play in town somewhere. And come out, just have fun. Just you know, you're not gonna get better if you don't play. We won't even keep score. It's almost like that. It's to get out there though. And of course, with these guys, like you show up, like never warm up. You just go right to the first tea box. I even I don't like that.

SPEAKER_08:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07:

But I'm out there and and I'm out there and I got my driver and my ball and my tee, and I start to feel the anxiety build, you know. I can't wait to feel I can't wait for us all the time. I can feel the anxiety start building almost to the point where it's like, shh, you know, it's like this is gonna be tough. And they hit, you know, and these guys play pretty good, you know. So I'm out there and I'm I always try to go last if I can off the first T. I stick my ball in and they're behind me, and I can I can hear Aldean the snicker starting to come out. I can feel it. I can feel the snicker and feel the I can see the smile on this. I can see the smirk. I know it. I've I've 30 years of it. And I hit the first ball, and there it is, and it's like, there's no mercy. I don't want the mercy anyway, but seriously, it's uh I just I mean the the pure shape one is like, oh good swing. Yeah, yeah. Looking good. You want to groove that one.

SPEAKER_08:

Stay hot, TK. Yeah, stay hot, stay hot. That one a lot.

SPEAKER_05:

We still gotta book we gotta book our golf match. We have to do that. We've got to do that MBE. And we can let it get a little warmer if you guys want to. Or maybe we should do it. Right now would be a good time to catch me. And I'm coming off a hunting season. Okay. Haven't swung a club in a while. It'd be a good time to catch me.

SPEAKER_03:

We gotta get Cletus T. Judd in there. He would definitely wants to play with us.

SPEAKER_08:

Yeah, we'll have to get Cletus.

SPEAKER_03:

And so then we gotta get Aldean even it out.

SPEAKER_08:

It's kind of been a fun episode. We just kind of our welcome back episode. Yeah. I'm kind of dragging butt a little bit. Yeah. Well, you better be better on the next episode. Yeah. You've got a week.

SPEAKER_03:

That's not for a long time.

SPEAKER_08:

Yeah, you got at least a week for the next episode. We got time to right. Um, you know, we well, what we should have done is gone through the comments, man, because you guys have been great on commenting. The listeners have been great on YouTube. Uh I know all of us look at it. You get a lot of people got your back on the tipping, by the way.

SPEAKER_07:

I feel like I opened up the the thought process a little bit. You did? I think I think I think uh everybody's happy except the people at Starbucks.

SPEAKER_04:

I know. Did you leave any big tips this Christmas?

SPEAKER_08:

Um, I always leave the tips to like the the trash guy, the trash guy.

SPEAKER_07:

I tip my tech. Yeah. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04:

You gotta tip your tech.

SPEAKER_07:

Um a couple restaurants tipped normally.

SPEAKER_05:

Like a normal man with the 10% on the restaurant tips.

SPEAKER_07:

No. No. 20%. Um zero tipping at Starbucks still never gonna happen. Right, right. Um we you guys know that.

SPEAKER_08:

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SPEAKER_04:

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_08:

It's in the books. Yeah. We got uh Thrash, KLO, GK, I'm Kurt. We got Jim over there, we got Wade right there. Whole gang's here. And the whole gang. Appreciate you guys. See you next time.

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