Episode 33 Now Onto Article Two!

We have another episode just for you! R.J. and Fred talk about their weeks. They then start our current discussion on the constitution with article 2. This week's topic is pretty straight forward and easy to understand. Lastly the guys finish up the show with this week's wildcard. They talk about their start in sports and which sport is their favorite.

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SPEAKER_00 0:15

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unknown 1:45

Here we go.

SPEAKER_00 1:46

Hey dude. Hey. Hey, how how was your week? My my week was pretty good.

SPEAKER_01 1:52

Um work is uh outworking itself. So I had first real paperwork that I had to do, so that was fun. Um you kill a man? No. Oh, if I did, I don't know if I could say it on air. But you'd file paperwork. No, but yeah, I had to just paperwork. Um, which is a unique position because obviously, like when you're in the field, you just work with your hands and tools, and then you get moved into the foreman spot, and they literally like have told me not to work with my tools. So I'm supposed to be more of managing, and then part of that management is also documentation and paperwork and permits to do things and all that, and I'm just like, you know, working with my tools doesn't sound that bad. So home life, uh yeah, that's definitely helped. Um, I don't know if you knew this, but apparently April is like substance abuse awareness month. Didn't know that was a real thing. No clue. Learned that on the job site because we had to learn why drugs are bad, okay. And uh yeah, so they would like talk about all this stuff, and it just made the day like it's the first thing in the morning super long, right? So then I was like one day just really, really having a bad day, and I was like, I'm just gonna go home and hug my kids and hug my wife, and it was like one of the coolest things, and then the kids were like, Yeah, yeah, dad's home, no big deal now. Like, I mean, they greeted me and everything, and they were excited, and then it was like the newness wore off, and they're like, Yeah, let's go uh annoy each other again. So, but no, um, home, everything's going good. I'm gonna mow for the first time this year. Um dang, dude. Basically, the dandelions are taking over here, but the the clover's looking really pretty good. Yeah, which my front yard basically I feel like I'm the only one who hasn't that actually lives in my house, like on my street. But like everybody else is mowing their lawn like at least three times, and I'm like, man. Cause it's the the clover seeds doing pretty well. I mean, it's not gonna get cut, like it's still really small, but yeah, there's a section on the south side where it's south side? South side? The uh the grass is actually pretty tall, so I'm gonna cut that. It'll just I'll not be the one bringing down the neighborhood. So backyard, it's got it's got the summer spots, the clover's taking off, but then like you could just I I did it, and then it rained way too much too quick, so it just eroded down the hill, and kids are still digging. So I'm just like, it's alright. I don't have to have a nice green yard, it can be dirty spots, and it's alright. Went this long without mowing, though. That's pretty impressive for how much rain we've had. And I don't know if impressive is the right word. I'm just like, man, that was that was pretty log, but I mean most of my yard is clover already, like in the back, uh, except for the one spot, again, ironically, on the south side, um, it that's actually really good grass. But are you trying to cheat the system so you don't have to mow? A little bit. Like clover is like um I don't know why they claim clover is a weed, because it's really not, but like uh twofold. I've I'm cheap, so then I want to have bees, so you can catch a swarm if you're lucky. Like, dude, it's it's like catching lightning in a bottle basically, but at least for me, because it it's hard to do, especially like in town. Um, but it's also like clover is one of those things where it does really well with uh like large amounts of water, and then um you don't have to mow as much, like it's more forgiving, so um you have to like really baby grass to have a nice yard. Yeah, yeah. Um yeah, so then as far as this weekend, it's just gonna be a lot of yard work, um like uh doing a flower bed, uh, because my wife wants the two flower beds and then a little archway connecting the two. So, and then we're gonna try and give the kids a little garden thing and get that up and going and see how well that does. The older ones I think will do well. Um, raspberries, dude. I only had two like bushes that I thought, and it's like up to six or seven now, so that's pretty cool. I might get one raspberry, um, but because last year all the kids ate them. So we'll see how that goes, but yeah. Um other than that, everything's pretty good. Uh nothing too crazy happened, which is good. Sometimes the crazy stuff is just you don't want that, need that. So yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:31

Just like the nice easy ride. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:36

Nothing nothing too crazy.

unknown 7:39

No.

SPEAKER_01 7:40

Yeah. Yeah. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 7:43

How's your week? My week. It uh I'm tired, bud. Yeah. It's uh it has been a week. It's been it's been, I mean, probably about the same amount of hours, but it's been I don't know. It's just been long. It just feels like it's been a long week. Um I've been out pretty late, and then um not doing my extra run that I got back that I was so happy to get back, but I'm getting back later now, so now I can't even do that, so somebody else has to do that now. So like our job. Um I feel like I'm getting more pickups and like not the same cluster, but like further out. And uh like today there was three of them, but it's hard because they they want to close so early, and it's just not realistic to get out there. So um, yeah, since they all closed, I got off like an hour, hour and a half earlier than what I was supposed to. So um that was good. Gotta do my uh volunteer project for the year, took care of that, and uh yeah. Um keddos are doing great. The boy is potty training this week, and uh he's he's picking up, he's picking up pretty good. They'll have their times, but he's picking up pretty good. Um and then his speech, he is picking up some new words. Mom's work with him. It's fun to hear new words. Turtle's a big one now, and cookie. So, um, but they're doing good. Gonna spend all day with Cole tomorrow. I'm gonna babysit him while Mama does stuff with her pet project on the side. Um, it's like a Mother's Day gathering thing. And uh, so then Zoe will go with her and then I'll have the boy all day. But I feel like we're kind of just tied to the house since he's first week of potty games.

SPEAKER_01 9:48

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:50

So I really want to go out and do something with him, but what do you do? Maybe we'll have to try to sneak out for ice cream at one point. Just yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:58

After he goes right away is probably the best time. Yeah. So that's always a fun. Like, it's I think with the first two, it seemed like we went on a big trip.

SPEAKER_00 10:10

Like not the best, yeah, not the best idea, but we have our trip coming up in two weeks, exactly. So hopefully it gets grounded pretty well. But I think he'll just have to go on a pull-up all the way. And then see if I can't get him just to tell me when he needs to go.

SPEAKER_01 10:29

That's the hardest thing for us was getting them to tell us. Um some kids it was like, oh, I did, and you're like, Yeah, you gotta tell me before that.

SPEAKER_00 10:40

That's the whole are you guys doing like treats? Um, she just intro she just introduced stuff today. She just gave him MMs now. Yeah. So then, yeah, we we have I gotta go potty.

SPEAKER_01 10:54

And then they sit, and then it's like, yeah, you did nothing. But they're like, I want my treat, and it's like, yeah, you did nothing.

SPEAKER_00 11:00

No, yeah, but that was my daughter, she learned that one pretty quickly, so then we had to get rid of treats, and then um, I'm sure he'll catch on pretty quickly, too. But uh, no, just living and learning, having fun, and looking forward to the projects coming up.

SPEAKER_01 11:19

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:22

Yeah. So let's just jump in the midst of the yes.

SPEAKER_01 11:26

We are finally on Article 2 of the uh Constitution as we look back, uh going kind of through the documentation, basic stuff of our country.

SPEAKER_00 11:38

So our founding, helping us get rooted. So, like we always say, you need to stand. So getting rooted, that way we just how can we really stand or say we know much about a country if we don't even know the bare minimum, the basic right now. Kind of the foundation it was built on. Yeah, stand there. Pretty important stuff.

SPEAKER_01 12:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:02

So all right, let's just dive right in here, shall we? We'll do it. Article 2, section one. The executive power shall be vested in a president of the United States of America. He shall hold his office term during, hold his office during the term of four years, and together with a vice president chosen for the same term, be elected as follows. Here's a bunch. So just be prepared to listen. It's all pretty straightforward stuff. Yes. Um each state shall appoint in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct a number of electors equal to the whole number of senators and representatives to which the state may be entitled in the Congress. But no senator or representative or person holding an office of trust or prophet under the United States shall be appointed an elector. The electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves, and they shall make a list of all the persons voted for and of the number of votes for each, which list they shall sign and certify and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted. The person having the greatest number of votes shall be the president. If such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed, and if there be more than one who have such majority and have an equal number of votes, then the house of representatives shall immediately choose by ballot one of them for president. And if no person have a majority, then from the five highest on the list, the said house shall in like manner choose the president. But in choosing the president, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote. A quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. In every case, after the choice of the president, the person having the greatest number of votes of the electors shall be the vice president. But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the Senate shall choose for them by ballot the vice president. The Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors and the day on which they shall give their votes, which day shall be the same throughout the United States. That was a lot. That was a lot to impact, yeah. That was a lot. Just to uh explain the electoral. I was almost uh kind of just getting into it right and then almost zoning out in there is just a little much. But like like we were saying, man. Yeah. Like we were saying, it's it's all pretty straightforward and simple stuff. Do we gotta pause for you? Nope. We're good. It's interesting to hear how simple our election started, but it also reminds me of how reckless our elections have become in years past. Like um, they had an order to everything, yeah, as we've seen with a lot of stuff. Um, you know, the previous article, even just um oh goodness, grief, I'm so sorry. Um, Bill of Rights, just all these founding documents, they they had oh my goodness, I can't even think tonight. I'm sorry, but like a purpose, like order, yes. Yeah, whereas and sometimes you wish they a little more deeper, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:17

But I think everybody kind of I feel like they kind of took for granted a little bit, like this is how we're gonna do it. Um, but they were all true, like they had a love of country, you know, like these were men that gave up their livelihood and and literally put their life on at risk and on the line to have America. So as a result, they're they're like, everyone's gonna love America. But we have people who come in because of the freedom, and they take advantage of that, and they they just want to kind of get in there and just destroy it, it seems. And I I don't understand that. Like, I I just I can't understand that mindset, but the fact that they got in there definitely shows like how free America really is. Um but the people voting in there obviously they're saying that's what we want, that's what represents how we truly believe and feel, and it's so away from this that like they couldn't have imagined. Like I'd have to put something in there about this, you know. So I'd have to literally spell out how to vote, you know, because in 2026 they're not gonna get it, you know, and it's just that's crazy. And I I imagine these men would have never even thought of like potentially, we'll use the word, allegedly stacking and and uh uh having an election be under a lot of questioning as far as the legitimacy of it, you know. They're just like, yeah, we want all the people in America to come vote, choose their their elected representatives to to all three branches of government, you know?

SPEAKER_00 18:15

But and you know the census, which we've talked about before too. Um like states like California, who have a lot of illegal people there, um, being included in their census, which gives them more representation, which is unfair, and more power from them. Um well and then redistricting.

SPEAKER_01 18:33

I don't do we talk about gerrymandering stuff, or I'm talking like Virginia. Basically, Virginia is gonna break itself up to where DC, um, uh Richmond, and one other three major cities are basically gonna control the whole state. And I think they're gonna knock it down to one Republican representative. It will, yeah, multiple reasons. It'll yeah, it'll drop it and change it for sure, you know. But I don't know. I mean, like it's it's kind of sometimes politics can get kind of doom and gloom. And it's funny that the two things they say never to talk about is politics and religion. But it's like the more you talk about politics, at least for me as a Christian, the more I'm like, I need to get involved, but I need to pray more, you know, because me getting involved isn't gonna unless God does something through me, it's not gonna really, you know, one voice in the crowd of millions isn't gonna scream that loud, but it's it's amazing how like the founding fathers, it was God and country, you know, and that's that's not the case now. Now it's like don't talk about God or the country, you know. It's weird.

SPEAKER_00 19:51

But no, that's that's exactly right. And if I don't know, I have a strong feeling if we could just get back to the basics and just do the basic what we're supposed to do, how blessed and how different this nation could actually be.

SPEAKER_01 20:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:07

If people chose to do that.

SPEAKER_01 20:09

And I kind of wanted to bring a story to light, I guess. I don't know, this might be this is a little off topic, but the local level is where a lot of this stuff starts. And uh Missouri, I don't know if you've followed any of this stuff with data centers in Missouri. Like Missouri hates data centers. Well, they just slapped one up. We need to move to Missouri. They they slapped one up in a town, it might have been Wisconsin. Wisconsin had a local meeting, and I only know it was Wisconsin for the the one because it was that Charlie, well, you betcha guy. He's on like a lot of the social, yeah. He he actually spoke at one of his local level, um, but it was like a committee meeting for one of the data centers, and he's like bipartisan, you got Republicans, you got Democrats here, you got you know non-political people. He's like, you got blue colors, white colors, he's like, we're all against this, you know. And then because Conicot stormed because like in Missouri, they they approved building one, but the people like met and they were like, we don't want these here. So then that they're like, Well, we've already approved this, this will be the only one. Like it was supposed to be like six buildings, I think, and that's only going up to one, and then they're they have to move out of that town, and it's because the local level people came together and they're like, No, no, like we don't want this. Like, you you why did you think we would want this? Like, it's gonna put such an impact on all of us, and you didn't even bring it to us to vote, you know. So, I don't know, that's just one of those like examples of local level can change and have an impact immediately. Um, it's a lot harder because a lot of people again don't talk about. God, don't talk about politics. So most people are just like, I just want to be left alone. But when it's literally going in your backyard, you know, call to action. But yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:11

So okay, let's jump ahead. No person except a natural born citizen or citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution shall be eligible to the office of the President. Neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of 35 years and be 14 years a resident within the United States. So, as we previously discussed, it's it's cool to see the progression of the ages go up a little bit, especially having to be the president has to be the highest age requirement of 35 years old.

SPEAKER_01 22:55

And with that age comes wisdom usually. Well, and I like that they get they get specific on this, where it's like you have to be in our country for 14 years at least. And it's like, how long do they have to be in the state physically to represent that state and be considered a resident of that state? But sure. Yeah, I just especially with ties to England that people still had, I like that they put that in there, you know? Yeah. You can be an American-born citizen, but you I don't know, maybe you're in the military and you're stationed somewhere else. Well, you can't just jump into it. You gotta be here for at least 14 years, you know. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 23:36

So stake your claim. Yeah. In case of the removal of the President of the United States, I'm sorry, in case of the removal of the President from office or of his death, resignation or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, the same shall devolve on the vice president, and the Congress may by law provide for the case of removal, death, resignation, or inability, both of the president and vice president, declaring what officer shall then act as president, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or president shall be elected. Biden. Yeah.

unknown 24:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:24

Yeah. Nobody knew. Nobody knew except for all of America. Nobody knew. The magical pen. Nobody had uh the fortitude to say or do anything. So the president shall at stated times receive for his services a compensation, which shall neither be increased nor dis diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emul from the United States or any of them. Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirmation. I do solemnly swear or affirm that I will faithfully execute the office of the President of the United States and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. And I thought it was kind of interesting. You always see them take this oath with their hand on the Bible, but yet not a Bible is mentioned here.

SPEAKER_01 25:34

So I could have phrased that a lot better, but no, yeah, and and I think it was prior to Barack Obama, because I think he did it on the Quran, didn't he? I don't remember.

SPEAKER_00 25:45

I don't know if he did. I know I think Mandani did. Ah, okay.

SPEAKER_01 25:49

But yeah, it's just one of those things, again, they were I'm gonna say God-fearing men that believed the Bible and probably didn't think America would sway from that as the ultimate authority or final authority.

SPEAKER_00 26:12

It was probably just a given that when you did take an oath of some sort, that's just what you did.

SPEAKER_01 26:16

Yeah, because you know, that's the acknowledgement of the authority, the the ultimate authority uh in everybody's life should be God. And you're putting your hand on his word, which God can't lie, you know, the Bible tells us that. So it's like you're putting on your your hand on the Bible saying that you are going to tell the truth. And yeah, you know, obviously the the realization or the res uh reverence that they would have had for God is far deeper than what our cr our society or our country definitely has today. Yeah. Um so yeah, that again, one of those things where you're like, man, I wish they would have got a little more specific, but they felt they didn't have to. Right.

SPEAKER_00 27:13

So, right. The president shall be yeah, commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states when called into the actual service of the United States. He may require the opinion and writing of the principal officer in each of the executive departments upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices, and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment. He shall have power by and with the advice and consent of the Senate to make treaties, provided two-thirds of the senators present present concur, and he shall nominate and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and councils, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law. But the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments. The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session. And I messed up because I was totally going to do some research and throw this in here, but also with the appointments, they still haven't appointed all of Trump's appointments. It hasn't been approved. I don't think so. No, they haven't. And yet we're already in the world. Like yeah, we're pretty deep, yeah. And because it's coming up to midterm. Just we don't have time with all this time off, we know there's there's more important stuff to talk about. Of course. So um, but yeah, I I wish they would have added some kind of timeline where it have to get filled, or if it didn't get filled, then let the president just fill it, then I'm kind of surprised he's not pushing back on that a lot more than it's probably not important appointments, I assume. But yeah, I don't know. Then again, he has he's juggling a lot of stuff too. It's probably the least important, I'd imagine. Yeah. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:51

I did look up um yeah, because it talks about pardons in here. I did look up the um yeah, the whole when Biden left, he pardoned his son for any he pardoned a lot of people for any and all time um crimes that they may have committed. And uh I looked that up to see if that was uh legal, constitutional. And then I guess um Ford did that to Nixon for Watergate. So anything that like they found then it couldn't be he couldn't be charged. And I'm like, I feel like it should be you can get pardon for a crime, like you have to be accused of it first or something, you know what I mean? Like to just give me a blank slate and be like everything he does is alright by me. Like that's I feel like that's so shady. But yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:48

Because it should have been, I mean, I assume what they thought when we do talk about pardons is probably just oh, this man maybe probably was wrongly um convicted and uh wanting to get him out of here, but no, it's I mean, like you said, the previous administration, that dude let a lot of people go with stuff, like really bad stuff. Um section three. He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient. He may on extraordinary occasions convene both houses or either of them and in case or disagreement between them. With respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper. He shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers, he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all the officers of the United States.

SPEAKER_01 32:02

So with this. When he talks about receiving ambassadors and stuff, he's not an ambassador, but did you see how what Trump did, President Trump did when uh Charles came, King Charles? Uh I didn't I didn't see anything, I only heard snippets on the radio. He like had all the guards dressed in like the rev the revolutionary like uniform. Uh all of ours? All of ours, and I'm like, yeah, that was a good move. Um so just a reminder that you know we won. It's pretty awesome. So I'm gonna have to look that up. That's that's hilarious, but that is pretty funny, yeah. And I found it funny that he had King Charles over, and like, because I think it was last week we just talked about him, and you're like, no kings, and I'm like, yeah, I don't even have to call him King Charles, I just call him Charlie Boars or whatever, you know. Yeah, Charlie Horse. What's up, Chug? You lost, but yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 33:04

It's funny. Uh and last but not least, we're gonna cover section four today. That's a really short one. Yeah, it is. Alright, you guys ready? It's gonna be speed run. The president, vice president, and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for in conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. Feel like there's a couple that could have been impeached that weren't. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:37

A lot of bribery going on there. But do you know there's only been three impeachments in the country? Do you know who they were? I just know Bill Clinton. Yeah. He was voted on, but he wasn't, right? They're all three reached the same point. So it was Andrew Johnson, and he the House impeached him, the Senate, and came down to one guy voting, and he voted not guilty because he felt it was all political. Like they were trying to it's right after Civil War, big drama. So he voted not, so he basically was still in, but like yeah, just a figurehead of the thing. I guess I guess he still could do stuff. I just don't know how much they actually let him do. I don't know. And then same thing happened with Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton, I thought they said was a tie, but it has to be two-thirds that vote to where for the Senate. So, um, and then Trump was try, try, try again, you know. And then it only got through the House, but um yeah, it's just interesting that it's not happened because you had that bribery or bribery, um, just other stuff, you know. Treason. Where yeah, and it's like there's been people who have sold our country out, and I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 35:08

I don't know. I just feel like there's not an appetite for it, sadly. I feel like there's more of an appetite for it or more clamoring about things, and not just with, oh, I'm gonna listen to my my radio and rah rah rah rah, but like actually wanting it, like not wanting blood, but like wanting action to be taken. Yeah. But it's then again, it's hard again because I'll just write my email up to Senator Grassley and he can send something back to me two months later about it, you know.

SPEAKER_01 35:43

I feel like it's gotta be something that like our our whole state is unified on, then our state representatives on the federal level, as far as the House, would have to take notice, but at the same time, they're never here. You know what I mean? Like, you can't notice something if you're not there.

SPEAKER_00 36:03

But question Did you hear that somebody didn't show up for a debate presidential or uh governor debate? No, I haven't really followed that. There was two people I don't think that showed up this past time. That wouldn't surprise me. I don't think Fienstra did or Lane. Really? Yeah. I want to check the polls and see. Because I believe Lane's position was if he wasn't gonna show up, then what's the point if not if why everybody isn't there? So I need to get my get on done and get ready. Yeah. We'll have to only have till June. So that's a month.

SPEAKER_01 36:41

We'll have to Yeah. Yeah, we'll have to crack down for sure.

SPEAKER_00 36:45

And then uh I'm about 95% of the way there.

SPEAKER_01 36:48

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I yeah. I don't know. I need to look into it more because obviously it's easier to when it's new, I guess is the word. I wanted to see who was all like because you hear about them, and then I was like, oh, I'm gonna try and not necessarily let their words form my opinion, but I want to hear what they have to say. And you know, definitely I part of me wishes that the uh the debates or caucuses, whatever you want to call them, was more of a free-for-all. Um because I feel like whoever is uh not narrating, what's the word with the guy who like asked the questions? Um I'd call him narrator right now because I can't think. I can't think of the but moderator, moderator. I feel like they they guide that how they how they want that to go. And if you're if that person's already leaning toward one candidate, I feel like they ask questions that favor that person. You know what I mean? Whereas if they could just kind of this is something I want to talk about, and then everybody gets the chance to rebuttal or or talk about that that particular topic, and then the next guy gets to bring up a next item. That's I don't know. Maybe that's more chaotic. I don't know if that's true or not, but I would I think I would like to see that more because it kind of shows more of where that guy's mind's at, where his heart's at, and hopefully it'd eliminate those cookie cutting.

SPEAKER_00 38:21

Oh, I agree with that too, and it's like, but you don't, you know, that's like I wish there'd be more debates than what they have, and then uh, because really you're not you're not gonna get their message unless if you go out to local meetings or whatever, and uh so if they debated more, that'd be just so much easier, and uh you have more debates, so then you have more topics that pop up on the local level that you can cover. Well, and I feel like just uh regular cookie cutter topics.

SPEAKER_01 38:53

They already have the money to do it and the campaign ads and stuff, like it's ridiculous. Like, don't sit there and play the same commercial for me, like talk about it, you know, like have somebody there debate with them, and I don't know. It's I don't know, it's interesting. I mean, I know that they'll come and and it does like it's the same topics every election.

SPEAKER_00 39:20

It doesn't matter who you are, you're gonna hit these hot button items that you're gonna magically change, and yeah, because I think the only thing new that's popped up is like cancer, that's it. Yeah, because we're number two, baby.

SPEAKER_01 39:35

Number two in new cancers. So now they're talking about how they're gonna change that and all this stuff. So I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. Oh, you want to go to the wild card, dude?

SPEAKER_00 39:47

Dude, let's jump to the wild card.

SPEAKER_01 39:58

We have a listener submission. We're only gonna do that one, but um, so this one comes from uh actually one of my daughters. Uh, she wants to know when did you first play sports and what which sport was it?

SPEAKER_00 40:18

So the earliest I think that I played would have been I don't know if it was kindergarten or first grade, so five or six probably, and it was baseball. And uh baseball is a love of mine ever since I played and just growing up. Um man, I love baseball. Football wasn't the same for me. Um I don't think I ever found the right position in football. I don't think I really did because high school I think I would have found out what I maybe should have been. Um, but uh baseball, yeah. I uh started off a shortstop and then uh somehow got switched to catcher in the midst of all of it, and then uh I always wanted to be a pitcher, never was, now it's just a catcher, and it's funny because my dad played ball too. He always wanted to be the catcher, but he always thought he was always stuck at being pitcher, so um kind of funny how that happened, but um no, I I love the game, love the sport, haven't been able to watch it probably in the past 15 years or so, but um definitely after Jeter left, um the Yankees kind of really stopped following a whole lot. Just really hard. I don't feel like there's this new like when I was growing up, you know, you had the Mark McGuire's, the Sammy Sosis. Yeah, I know there's steroids, boo-hoo, but Barry Bonds, there's Jeter, I mean you had Alex Rodriguez, you just had these big names, and now I just I don't know, I feel like a lot of them just blend in. Um, you have a couple names out there, but like a show Hey Otani, like that's that's a really cool player right there. But then like you have a Mike Trout who's on the Angels that do nothing with him, so it's not yeah, yeah. So that's what they're I feel like that's what they're missing.

SPEAKER_01 42:11

To draw me back in, that's something that I do feel like the pitching game, you know, you're talking 90s, 2000s, you know, that was a lot stronger. There's predominant names and stuff, you know. Whereas now, I mean, I can I don't even know if Vernlander's still playing, but if he is, I mean he's he's pretty much going out. But I mean, the only reason why I know him really is because I'm a Tigers fan. But which ironically, you quit paying attention to baseball. I started paying attention, and then the Tigers are doing pretty well. So I know uh yeah, baseball is it's changed a lot too. Like, I did not like the they made the bases larger, and like I can't remember, like all these people now are getting like the steel like 50 stolen bases, and I'm like, dude, I remember King Griffith Jr.

SPEAKER_00 43:06

Like he was like the best at stealing base, and it's like his record's gonna get probably broken, and it's like that they switch with things like yeah, don't move the mound, don't move bags, like just I I can agree with them speeding up the sport. I mean, I could have sat there for a four-hour game and loved every second of it, and everybody else doesn't have the attention span because everybody wants to look at their phone. Um while you're in a ballpark. But anyways, so um so I I think it was a good idea that they kind of tightened things up and made it quicker. But yeah, like I I don't like how they mess with some things because then you always feel like there's gonna be an asterisk, yeah. Right, right. Which there's plenty of asterisk in the baseball.

SPEAKER_01 43:52

Especially in our era. Yeah. Yeah. But it's like every sport's like that. Like football, you know, they talk about how Tom Brady's the goat and everything. It's like, well, you really couldn't look at Tom Brady wrong without getting a flag thrown on you, you know, and all these receivers that have amazing stats and stuff. It's like, yeah, they weren't getting lit up and popped like they were in the 90s, you know. But I don't know. I sound like an old man when I say that. Just back in my day, football. But yeah. My first organized sport that I played, ironically, was soccer. And I don't remember anything about it. I just remember it was Bumblebee soccer, is what we always called it, where one kid had the ball and everybody on the field just basically ran around in a just Bumblebee as a swarm, you know? I hated it. Um that was probably like four or five years old. Um and then first sport I played that I loved was football. Um and that was when I was seven. I was a taller kid, so they let me play. Uh, because I guess you were supposed to be eight. Um, but yeah. I grew up, and my grandpa was really big in uh football and really big in the Iowa football for sure. And uh yeah, we would just watch football with them. He took us out to Kinneck and all this stuff, and I think he really wanted us to play football and stuff, so it was kind of one of those things, and I don't know. I really like football. So fell in love with the and then when I went to college I learned soccer instead of just some funny looking ball that you run around the field for all eternity and try to kick it into a goalpost. It sounds pretty dumb, but once you learn about it and learn the positions and team aspect, it it makes it better. I'll say it that way. So I like it. Um it gets exciting. Uh definitely the fan base, the closest I can relate it to in the US would be like college football. How it's like some places, man, you install the college football team, you're like gonna go fight, and it's like your team's garbage. So, but yeah, it's I mean, yeah. As I get older, you know, my wife and I we talked about before we had children whether or not we'd put them in sports, and I don't want to push my kids, like push that on them, like kind of like, hey, if you want to do that, we can make that happen. Um, they've kind of gone different directions a little bit, which is fine. Um, and then with my job, I'm like, dude, I don't know. Like, I want to coach my kids, yeah, but it's like a huge amount of time, which is I don't mind, it's just make being able to make that work.

SPEAKER_00 47:00

So yeah, that's exactly where I'm at. How many games am I gonna miss? I'm gonna be that dad that's never there. But let's uh let's just get out of here on that, yeah. So good job. Yeah, I like that question. That was that was that was from the heart of a child. Yeah. So thank you once again for listening to This Is The Day Show. Don't forget to stay in. Thank you.