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New Year, New Focus | Goals, Growth & Momentum to Start the Year Right · Single Tree Nation Show

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welcome back to single tree nation guys
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i'm your man charlie evelyn and as always
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we have our illustrious ghost mr dairy
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wells with us today what is up happy
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freaking new year d yeah it's good time
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twenty twenty what six yeah we are here
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we are here um
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I'd like to take a quick second and
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make sure that we thank Toast,
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our primary sponsor,
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for being on our side.
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Yeah.
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They have absolutely helped us through
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everything.
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All the things at the restaurant and then
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here on the show as well has been
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pretty, pretty cool.
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Well,
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I know that you've been able to visit
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headquarters in Boston and stuff and,
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and kind of do a lot of face
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to face with a lot of them.
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And, uh, you know, the,
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the podcast where we had, uh, the,
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the episode on with Kelly, it was just,
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it was great to be able to just
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put names with faces and kind of just
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see the background and how they operate
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pretty soon.
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Yeah.
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And so it's, uh, it's,
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it's been an absolute blast to kind of,
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uh,
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Because if you're not in it,
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which I'm not as heavily into the toast
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end of things,
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it becomes just a name and it's almost
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just an obligation of what you got to
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make sure you mention or do.
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And then you start putting faces and names
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and it's like, man,
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it's a lot of fun.
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Well, we are hoping,
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I don't have any dates yet,
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but we are hoping that we will see
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all of them this year here in Nashville.
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Nice.
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And if we do, maybe something...
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You run with a good crew.
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I've met a good chunk of that with
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Walsh F and some of those guys,
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and that's a fun pack.
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It's a good time.
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It is.
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It's a good time.
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I do like the way that,
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at least for the one dinner that I
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was at, Troy was the center of attention,
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and he was the center of the table.
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Like, that was...
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Makes sense.
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Everybody gravitates.
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He's a big personality.
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I love me some Troy.
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You've got a couple more to meet.
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Hopefully you'll meet them this year.
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We need Berkowitz to come into town.
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He's been on the show.
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You've met him on the show,
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but you've got to get him to come
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to town.
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Okay.
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have you met Matt Wampler yeah Wampler was
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that there and he was in town uh
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and he was he is the dry side
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of the humor of that group oh man
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and it was fantastic yeah so and then
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there's uh there's another one Justin um
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Ulrich you'll have to meet him he's uh
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He's a hoot, too.
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But, yeah, it's good stuff, man.
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Yeah,
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I think twenty twenty six is is going
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to be a pretty cool year.
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We have some cool stuff happening for the
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show.
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We now air twice a week,
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every Saturday and Sunday on ESPN.
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Ninety four point nine.
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The fan from eight to nine a.m.
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every weekend, twice a week.
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I still don't get over the fact that
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I pull that off my phone on a
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Saturday morning and I hear myself.
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Still my favorite one so far and the
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complete just like self-brag here or
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whatever.
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My son called me.
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He's driving through Nashville and
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actually heard it on the radio.
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They were channel surfing.
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and he's like me and the buddies heard
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your voice we listened to the whole and
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i was like i said hey son you
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you know how to hear all the episodes
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already right but you know it just is
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funny though because there it was in the
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car with them you know and we're so
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used to everything being on a phone or
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you're streaming or you're doing whatever
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and there it was just live and over
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the air and it was just that's that's
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a cool uh that's a cool phone call
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to get so um um
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Yeah, yeah,
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well congratulations are in order for you.
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Sure.
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You just got a new house We love
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that aspect I also love the aspect like
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like we're already putting our touch on
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it.
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Yeah Had a I've seen the picture.
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Yeah,
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I had several friends come over with a
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help paint and and and just got a
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ton done right off the bat and as
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we're starting to settle I'm starting to
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kind of I've Removed a wall or two
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and I will be relocating a wall or
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two over time and doing that kind of
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stuff and it scratches an itch that I
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Forget that I have sometimes to be able
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to kind of just get in there and
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get dirty a little bit and watch the
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plant Come together what I have found Me
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and my wife do not use the same
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terms
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when it comes to construction okay and
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that would never guess that that's a
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that's a challenge we literally yesterday
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spent thirty minutes going back and forth
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on how I'm going to work this new
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vanity that I'm building for the bathroom
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ultimately to realize we were saying the
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same thing uh-huh
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but the same thing was not being said
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i finally get out a pen and paper
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and start sketching she's like yeah that's
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what i want i was like oh my
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gosh that's what i've been saying the
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entire time she's like we're fine then and
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it just so take a just a deep
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breath and yeah because ultimately she's
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easy going
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very fun very just like hey you do
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it but she'll tell me what she doesn't
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want she's not wanting to tell me what
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she does want so we're on the same
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page there but the vanity is not planned
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so that's that's all so if you're looking
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back at um and and go all through
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it if you could do it all over
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again would you change anything uh i
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wouldn't i would change one thing um
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we looking back i think we dragged our
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feet on listing our town home when we
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wanted to sell that i think we would
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have made that happen a little sooner
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However,
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if I take a step back and look
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at the big picture,
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the timing worked out on everything as it
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was.
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While I think, well,
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I could have got a few more thousand
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out of the deal or whatever it was
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if we had sold a little sooner.
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At the same time, I'm like,
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we got into the house that we wanted.
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All the chips fell into place.
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um and and so it's hard to say
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i would have done that sooner i'm thinking
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from a business sense i would have done
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that sooner just for uh like i said
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just a few more thousand in your pocket
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or whatever but
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the grand scheme because of how it did
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work out and that time frame much of
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which because of real estate i didn't have
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control over it just it happened the way
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it did so i what i did learn
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and this is where i thought you were
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gonna go with this my word for i
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didn't know it it was patience but
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Like it was just, it was learning to,
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to be patient with the things that I
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have the ability to maneuver or control,
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but that there are plenty of things just
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outside of my ability.
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And just, I mean,
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like I'm waiting on a phone call now
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and I reached out to a lady for
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some insurance stuff, whatever.
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And I,
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I'm just like,
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she'll get to me when she gets to
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me.
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I know I've put it out there.
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That's all I can do, right?
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I don't need it to carry to twenty
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twenty six.
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Now I need some ambition and some go
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forth and conquer ambition.
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Yeah.
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So twenty twenty six word is ambition.
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As of now, one weekend.
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So, I mean, I've torn out a closet,
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painted five rooms.
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I've got plans on one, two, three, four,
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five cabinets.
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Is that expanding my kitchen?
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Ambition?
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Ambition?
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Or is that
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I think the,
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the accomplishment will come from the
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ambition because I've got to get there and
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it's, it's, it's more of a vision.
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Like I know where I want to go
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and, and, and,
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and I've got a checklist of things that
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I can get to and, and, and,
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you know,
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mark off and be able to get there.
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So, so that brings me to my, my,
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my first serious question of
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Do you believe in New Year's resolutions?
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No.
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Why not?
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Why are you waiting?
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I think they're horseshit.
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We put so much in starting a new
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year when you have the ability to start
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a new twenty four hours every day.
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Amen.
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Or start a new week every Monday or
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whatever you want to do.
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We I think society has
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put a spotlight on January first of, oh,
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look,
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we drug through the end of the year
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and you finished out.
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And what a great start.
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And the truth is,
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is why are you waiting until the first
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to start?
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And because if you waited until the first,
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you've already missed a whole bunch of
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other.
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You've missed eleven other first,
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February first, March first.
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You know what I'm saying?
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I mean,
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like and so I don't know that.
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Also, I think.
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there it's it's fad it's a sale it's
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a whatever i was at the gym let's
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say wednesday i was at the gym monday
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it's packed i'm glad people are going like
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uh don't get me wrong i'm not going
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to ever put down a person that goes
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but you i was parking like four parking
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lanes over again glad people are there
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They're going to have four weeks.
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It'll settle back down.
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There'll be people that...
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It's funny you say that.
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The gym, I work out of gold.
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I got one here in the borough,
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and I got one in Smyrna.
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I typically go to the one in Smyrna.
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I went to the Murfreesboro one the other
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day, right after,
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right after the new year and the parking
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lot was packed.
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Yeah.
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And I was like, ah, man.
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And that was normally busier than sure.
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And it says anyway, but you know,
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and I was like, ah, man, and I,
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I pulled out a parking lot.
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I went to Smyrna.
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I pull it in Smyrna.
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It's the same thing.
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I was like, oh, golly, man.
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Same thing.
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Why all these people got to be here?
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Just, just, can we just fast forward,
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get back to where it was?
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Nobody in there.
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I can do my routine.
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I don't have to worry about it,
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but I agree with you on the fashion
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of multiple things.
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One in three weeks,
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nobody will be there again and it'll be
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right back to normal.
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But
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That's why I don't understand New Year's
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resolutions and I think they're hogwash
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because my thing is there's two times to
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get started doing anything.
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And I don't care if it's,
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you want to learn how to speak a
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new language or you want to lose some
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weight or you want to, you know,
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learn how to do something else or start
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a business or whatever.
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Go back to school.
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It doesn't matter.
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You want to start doing something.
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There's two times to start.
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One of those times was right now.
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And the other time was yesterday.
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And I agree.
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And that's what, like...
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Again,
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I feel like the New Year's resolution side
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of it, it almost is fat.
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It's cliche.
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It's whatever.
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The statement, New Year, new me, please.
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If we could just drop that.
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You ain't going to change because the
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clock struck midnight.
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one hundred percent because what you're
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probably doing and this isn't everybody
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but you're probably doing the same thing
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at midnight you've been doing every other
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weekend night or whatever and you're out
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and about you're blowing money you
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shouldn't be blowing you may have had too
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many drinks now look I'll have my a
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drink or two but and here's what put
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this in perspective for me my wife we
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were talking and she was like look past
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for her she's like if I look back
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at my last four
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uh new year's eves maybe his last five
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whatever the number was you could you
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could see the growth in her life oh
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yeah one yeah and and i mean she
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i hope she might be saying this like
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five years ago she doesn't remember new
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year's eve four years ago her and her
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best friend had a falling out probably the
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last time they're ever gonna speak for
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various reasons
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three years ago uh she's in a uh
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she and i are together it's our our
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first one together and as far as like
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long term we know where our life is
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headed and stuff and two years ago we
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barely made it to midnight this year we
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were in bed by ten fifteen because we
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had i was right there we had the
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next day got something to do we got
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stuff to do and what you know what
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we did we woke up
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Cause she had the day off work and
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we're up at seven breakfast is, is,
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you know, like just calm, cool.
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Here we go this morning.
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And we got some yard work done at
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the new house of stuff we were hoping
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to do.
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And instead of having to sit here and
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recover and get enough fluids,
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and did you, you know,
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sleep until eleven AM, whatever,
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like we're up and ready to go.
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And, and she was like,
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look at the growth in my life.
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through that and and i think that there's
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a consistency there that she hadn't
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realized until she kind of put these last
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five in a row in a row and
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i was like wow like because now you're
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painting a picture right now you can see
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a scale you can see a measurement you
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can see a whatever and uh and same
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for me it was fun because i mean
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not look i've had some great new year's
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eves i mean i got some wonderful stories
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but uh also at the same time
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know you're starting to get age out of
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that and a buddy of mine that uh
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we met up with and we're playing cards
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with uh we got to their house like
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five five thirty on a friday night and
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we're going home by eight thirty he's like
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i just there ain't no reason to go
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out and do all that stuff anymore and
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you know i don't know if it's age
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maturity a little bit of both uh wisdom
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whatever you'll call it and just life is
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better when
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you've got a plan and that plan can
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include adequate sleep and doing things
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the right way.
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And you know, whatever it is,
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I just call it,
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I'm old and I just don't want to
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go do it.
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I'm trying to put all flashy words.
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I'm getting old as crap, man.
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My birthday is around the corner and I
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feel like I feel it.
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And I know it's great, man.
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So I got a phone call from a
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doctor appointment.
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I've not been late.
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It's one of those like, well, you're,
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you've passed the forty five mark.
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We need to schedule this one.
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Hey, why are y'all calling me?
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I'm
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They're making sure you're getting it
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done, buddy.
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It's because my general practitioner
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referred me.
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Yeah.
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Again, I knew it was happening.
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He's got your birthday on the calendar.
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But I went in for my physical.
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Well,
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we'd like to go ahead and submit this.
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I'm like, oh, my gosh.
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You know how you can not have that
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happen, right?
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No.
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Just not go to the doctor?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I don't.
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I feel great.
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I do feel like.
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I got to ask your opinion.
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I got into an argument with a guy
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today, not an argument, a conversation,
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anyone elevated discussion.
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It was an elevated discussion with my
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father.
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Wasn't just some random dude,
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but every time I've gotten the flu shot,
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I've gotten the flu every time.
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Not just once, not just twice,
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like every time.
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So.
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eight years ago,
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maybe I stopped taking the flu shot
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because I didn't want to get the flu
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at some point in time in my life
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that year.
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Right now I got yelled at this morning
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because I didn't get the flu shot.
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If every time you go get the flu
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shot and you get the flu,
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would you continue to take the flu shot?
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Uh,
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I can answer that with accuracy that the
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last time I had the flu shot,
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I did get the flu.
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I was about twenty years old.
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I was in college.
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I was like, man,
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I bet it's flu shot, right?
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Like it's whatever.
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I got the worst flu I've ever had.
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I'm not a,
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I'm not a expert on viruses and vaccines
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and all that stuff,
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but I will say this.
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I know they take their best guess on
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which flu strains are going to come out
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popular here.
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They try to cram them into that vaccine.
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You're only getting the top two or three
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anyway.
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And there's a fluke that you may have
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just gotten another strain and it never
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was the shot and it could have been
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fifty-fifty.
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But the only time I ever got the
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shot.
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I got the flu and I haven't,
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I took a flu shot one other year
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because I don't remember.
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I won't say insurance needed it or
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preferred it or something like that.
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I didn't get sick that year.
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I got like a little cough, like nothing,
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but like I didn't go down like with
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the flu, so to speak.
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i just i haven't got it and because
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that one time and i'm sure there'll be
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somebody that's like this guy don't know
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he's talking about and i probably don't
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you can say it about me too because
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i'm i can tell you right now i
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haven't had the flu in seven years yeah
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and that was the last time i took
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a flu shot i mean your own personal
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data says it works
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Kind of six, one half dozen.
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And I know that's not to say I
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know plenty of people who get the flu
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shot and don't have an issue.
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I'm not saying it's a blanket thing.
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Uh,
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and there's people that got the COVID
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vaccine and don't have an issue.
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And there's some people that are growing
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three eyeballs.
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Yeah.
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I mean, it's um,
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And I know,
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I know various people that got various
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levels of the vaccine.
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They got the first two rounds and then
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bailed out or they got,
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I still know several even family members
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that are like fully caught up on whatever
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the rounds are.
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And a buddy of mine asked me the
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other day, he was like, um,
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or not asked me, he told me,
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he was like, I finally got COVID.
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I was like, what do you mean?
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Finally got, and he goes, well,
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I've never had a vaccine.
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And I've got COVID for the first time,
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according to whatever, you know,
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his little test.
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I was like, how'd it feel?
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He goes, I had a cold.
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I kept doing what I was doing.
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And so, and again,
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I think it's just one,
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everybody's different in how we react to
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sicknesses.
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And I think part of it relates back
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to a, your immune system as it is.
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I think it relates back to, I mean,
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I hate to say it like this.
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A lot of the people you do see
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at the gym don't get sick very often.
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Yeah.
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The body is already working and staying
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ahead.
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Um, and again,
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I'm not the epitome of health.
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I mean,
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you can look at me and tell that
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I enjoy food,
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but you are a specimen of sex.
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It's something, uh, but you know,
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within reason, uh, I am a healthy person.
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So, um, at least my doctor says so.
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So that's what matters.
19:37
Yeah.
19:38
I love it.
19:41
Are you, uh, a stranger things, fella?
19:45
No.
19:45
No?
19:46
Hadn't been watching Stranger Things?
19:47
I'm not anti it.
19:51
When it first came out,
19:52
I just couldn't get into it.
19:54
A friend of mine told me the first
19:55
season's kind of slow.
19:57
Let it build and keep going.
19:59
It's also the same reason I'm probably
20:01
going to upset,
20:02
but I haven't watched The Office.
20:05
My son hates that I've never watched it
20:07
all.
20:07
I know a few episodes.
20:08
I know the little what you see on
20:11
Reels and Instagram and TikToks and
20:13
whatever,
20:13
but
20:16
They're slow developing.
20:17
It didn't catch my attention right at the
20:19
beginning.
20:21
I'm assuming you finished it.
20:23
Or close.
20:24
Supposedly.
20:25
Okay.
20:27
Something's supposed to happen today.
20:30
But it didn't happen today.
20:34
It was fake news.
20:38
I mean, there was,
20:39
so one of the main characters was on
20:42
Fallon and let some slip alluded.
20:46
No, he didn't let anything slip.
20:48
He just alluded to something may be
20:51
happening.
20:52
And then Netflix put out something
20:55
happening, you know, tomorrow.
20:59
And then nothing's actually happened.
21:03
Then they posted that there was the season
21:05
finale was live,
21:07
but it wasn't live on their thing on
21:10
Netflix.
21:13
So as of today,
21:14
are you fully caught up?
21:15
Yes.
21:16
I am fully caught up as of,
21:18
as of the last episode that was aired.
21:20
Correct.
21:21
And, uh, I am rather irritated.
21:25
Really?
21:26
I was not happy with the ending.
21:28
Really?
21:29
Well, the problem is this.
21:31
If it's the ending.
21:33
If it's the ending.
21:35
Honestly,
21:35
I don't even really like the second to
21:37
last episode if that's not the ending and
21:39
there's another episode, but...
21:41
there was just too much too much wrong
21:45
with the last episode like all these kids
21:48
were supposed to graduate in and they got
21:52
up there and said he graduated the
21:54
graduating class in they all had orange
21:58
little graduation gowns on but that wasn't
22:03
their school colors
22:06
So you're talking about from a detail
22:07
standpoint,
22:08
there were just some inaccuracies,
22:10
a lot of inaccuracies.
22:12
A lot of them is that again,
22:15
I'm playing devil's Africa here.
22:16
I don't know the series or the show,
22:18
but that's the thing is like they're
22:19
playing into the,
22:21
that's the stranger thing because you miss
22:23
something or kind of, okay.
22:26
Yeah.
22:26
Cause if you go back,
22:27
the thing about stranger things.
22:30
that i've noticed and trent you can pipe
22:32
up if you want to but i i
22:34
the thing i noticed about the show is
22:35
that you have to pay attention to the
22:38
small details okay like and when i say
22:41
the small details like how you know the
22:45
clocks what time is on the clock what
22:49
color is something is in comparison to
22:51
what it was in a previous episode okay
22:54
details of a flyer that you see for
22:56
like eight seconds
22:59
you know what what's written on a tape
23:01
that you would have to pause and go
23:05
back and look at it again to make
23:07
sure it said the same thing yeah but
23:09
i like stuff like that i do too
23:12
maybe i do need to settle into it
23:13
i do too
23:16
But it's frustrating when you're supposed
23:18
to be on the final episode.
23:21
Bro, the final episode was two hours long.
23:27
Make it two episodes.
23:28
Two hours and sixteen minutes.
23:30
Like it was a full grain movie.
23:33
So like, that's fine.
23:35
Like if you've got a,
23:37
now you want to come out with a
23:38
finale.
23:39
Sure.
23:39
And just the,
23:40
like the whole storyline and how they were
23:42
describing things was not accurate.
23:44
And you know, like you can go, dude,
23:46
you could go down a rabbit hole.
23:48
You ought to see that on purpose just
23:51
for all the spinoffs.
23:52
It's never,
23:53
I think it's going to go forever.
23:55
There's leaving an open ended enough where
23:56
they can do a lot.
23:58
They've already announced several.
24:00
They've already announced spinoffs and
24:02
yeah, there's already kinds of spinoffs.
24:05
That makes sense then.
24:06
It's going to be cool.
24:07
I love it.
24:08
I thought it was pretty cool.
24:09
My theory.
24:11
I love it.
24:12
Let's go.
24:13
Our theory Trent set up just said that,
24:19
uh,
24:19
the whole thing is being ran by one
24:22
of the,
24:22
the bad guy Vecna and that the last
24:26
episode he was inside their mind and
24:31
making everybody believe that's what
24:35
actually happened.
24:37
And it,
24:38
but it didn't actually happen in real
24:41
life.
24:41
Oh, that's
24:43
yeah and the reason is that because the
24:45
other girl l who has all the powers
24:49
like you see her getting ready to get
24:51
swept away in this void of space and
24:54
never to be found again there's like a
24:58
little glitch in her hand that makes it
25:01
look like it's a hologram which you would
25:05
get from an earlier episode yeah of
25:10
the same thing happening in an earlier
25:12
episode but if you didn't catch it in
25:13
earlier episode you wouldn't have caught
25:15
it in the finale either right so all
25:16
right that last episode but that was sick
25:17
though you know so you take that and
25:21
then you take all of the like the
25:23
graduation stuff and the storyline how he
25:27
he says something about going to a
25:28
hardware store to get milkshakes but vecno
25:33
would have remembered that store not as a
25:36
hardware store but as like a soda shop
25:38
where you would get milkshakes
25:40
You do realize you've talked yourself into
25:42
a circle of why this all makes sense
25:44
when you said it frustrated you at the
25:46
beginning.
25:50
You're proving your own why it worked.
25:54
They did a great job.
25:56
Did your kids like it?
25:59
My kids have not watched it.
26:03
Charlie is not...
26:05
he's not a movie tv kind of guy
26:09
anyways yeah that's fair if it's not you
26:11
know baseball football and basketball he
26:14
doesn't care about watching it that's cool
26:17
mason wanted to watch it and we told
26:20
him that we would wait because we didn't
26:22
watch season four
26:25
before season five came out to just have
26:28
something to so season four and five were
26:31
pretty much they were done before we you
26:33
know pretty much done before we even
26:35
started watching season four so we told
26:39
mason hey man we'll wait we won't watch
26:43
any of it go watch the first three
26:46
seasons catch up and then we'll start
26:49
watching season four together
26:52
And he wouldn't ever do it.
26:54
That's quite a commitment for a middle
26:56
school kid.
26:56
Nah, they got plenty of time.
27:02
Make the commitment and move forward.
27:05
I'm not a huge TV movie guy either.
27:10
don't know like my wife can watch the
27:12
same rerun as like as a matter of
27:14
fact the more she watches it the better
27:15
because now she knows the nuances she
27:17
knows kind of what to expect whatever i
27:20
if i've watched something once with
27:22
exception of a few things i'm probably
27:23
done with it just because i've consumed it
27:26
i'm over with it whatever
27:28
But there's a new show that is on,
27:32
I think it's on HBO Max.
27:33
I don't know.
27:35
Whatever it's on, though.
27:36
It's called The Pit.
27:38
Oh, yeah.
27:38
Yeah.
27:39
I love it.
27:40
Yeah.
27:40
Yeah, it's a good show.
27:41
Okay, so you're familiar with it.
27:43
Yeah, I watched it all.
27:44
Uh,
27:44
I cannot wait until season two comes out
27:47
on the eighth.
27:47
Like it, I'm looking forward to it.
27:49
It's a good, um,
27:50
are you familiar with it, Trent?
27:52
So it's,
27:53
it's an ER room and a crap part
27:56
of Pittsburgh.
27:57
They call it the pit.
27:58
Right.
27:59
twelve season or excuse me twelve episode
28:02
season is a twelve hour shift one hour
28:05
per episode oh that's cool and you realize
28:08
how much can take place in twelve hours
28:10
at a hospital and when you're breaking
28:11
down hour by hour and all the stuff
28:13
whatever that's great i have loved this
28:15
show and i'm not a tv guy but
28:18
i stumbled in on that one and um
28:21
makes you realize what all those people do
28:23
as well it
28:24
It makes you realize that big city ERs.
28:29
It's not just you got the flu and
28:30
you're going in after hours to get checked
28:33
up on.
28:36
A buddy of mine who went through med
28:38
school and does all the stuff,
28:39
and he works in emergency medicine now.
28:43
he he used to joke that scrubs was
28:45
the closest thing to being the real deal
28:47
like that that show just as the goofiness
28:49
and the whatever it didn't have all the
28:50
drugs i used to love too but when
28:53
he's coming back yeah he's like that's
28:54
probably the closest one i was like but
28:56
now i need to he he doesn't live
28:58
in the state anymore but now i want
29:00
to give him a call about hey
29:02
I need you to give me your honest
29:03
assessment of the pit.
29:06
Is this more hands-on here?
29:07
I would hope so.
29:09
Exactly.
29:12
There's a lot going on.
29:14
From a TV standpoint, it just is...
29:17
It's unique.
29:18
It's different.
29:18
I think that's one thing that TV,
29:22
I think,
29:22
competes with now because you do have so
29:25
many things that stream live or they dump
29:28
a whole season out in a matter of
29:30
a few days or whatever.
29:32
It's the either you've got a strong genre
29:37
or topic that you're basing everything off
29:39
of,
29:39
or you've really got to come with the
29:41
creativity,
29:42
just your standard what we used to call
29:46
a sitcom.
29:46
Just it's not going to fly anymore.
29:49
But, you know,
29:49
say like the years of twelve seasons of
29:53
Friends for thirty minutes at a time just
29:55
ain't I mean,
29:57
i got people who love the show friends
29:59
i'm still a big seinfeld fan but that
30:01
side that that sitcom kind of a thirty
30:04
forty five minute episode now it's just
30:06
it's not going because you've really got
30:09
to hang on there's five days a week
30:10
right right and so it's a unique aspect
30:13
of where we are just in media and
30:15
i think that's one thing that media um
30:19
has an avenue to do even with podcasts
30:21
and other stuff is that you have a
30:24
platform now to where you're reaching a
30:27
more people than you realize.
30:30
b you've got very unique opportunities uh
30:35
that are in front of you like even
30:36
with you know our set of what we
30:39
do here we've got plenty of people that
30:41
come in studio but then we've got plenty
30:43
that we're having you know through a
30:45
stream a video share of whatever and it
30:47
just media is just wide open now and
30:50
it really is to what the creativity
30:53
chooses to be you know it's funny uh
30:56
the episode the the
30:58
you and I most recently recorded,
31:01
I could tell where you and I,
31:04
from the holiday break,
31:05
we were kind of out of sync just
31:06
a little bit, right?
31:07
Like there's a little bit of this and
31:08
that.
31:08
And I was like, boy,
31:09
we got to knock the rust off.
31:10
So it's good to kind of,
31:12
and I'm glad we got it out of
31:13
our system, you know, kind of whatever.
31:14
But I think that's also a growth.
31:17
Cause we're seeing that we're tweaking
31:19
that we know what's going on.
31:21
Um,
31:21
like I've been thinking about different
31:22
stuff and like just various elements of,
31:25
of a whole lot of things, um,
31:28
that it just,
31:29
it causes you to think about it now.
31:30
And, uh,
31:32
cause you're either going to grow or
31:33
you're gonna get left behind.
31:34
You know what I'm saying?
31:35
So sure.
31:36
Let's take a quick break and we'll come
31:38
back and, uh, continue down.
31:40
Yeah.
31:41
Avenue.
31:45
How, how long we got in there?
31:46
Okay.
31:46
I got to,
31:50
I got to chatting and yeah, no, I,
31:52
I was, I looked over at your,
31:53
your clock there and there wasn't anything
31:56
there.
31:56
I was, oh, he ain't got it running.
31:57
No, I,
31:58
we started at forty-five on a dot,
32:01
I think.
32:01
Oh, okay.
32:03
And I, uh,
32:04
so I've just been looking at that and
32:07
just knowing at six forty-five,
32:08
we should be done.
32:10
Okay.
32:11
All right.
32:11
We ready?
32:13
Yeah.
32:15
welcome back guys i'm your man charlie
32:17
eblen and our illustrious co-host mr derry
32:20
wells right here in murfreesboro tennessee
32:25
talking all things yes and beyond
32:35
I've seen a lot of people talking about
32:38
being a, um, a year of growth,
32:42
a year of overcoming a year of success
32:45
after having gotten through a year or two
32:47
of some difficult stuff.
32:49
Um, and I know that's,
32:51
that can be just individual based,
32:54
but I'm kind of hope that I want
32:56
to be careful how I say this.
32:59
Uh,
33:01
the world kind of needs to heal a
33:02
little bit let things settle let things
33:05
calm down and uh just just kind of
33:09
let things be you know what i'm saying
33:14
i don't know if i'm saying that right
33:15
but it's uh yeah i i'll put it
33:18
to you in in my words or my
33:21
thoughts for i have felt like uh
33:29
Been kind of on a hamster wheel.
33:31
Yeah.
33:32
Right.
33:33
Yeah.
33:33
Just running, constantly running.
33:37
And, and I thought a lot about it,
33:39
prayed about it, the whole nine yards.
33:40
One of the things I keep going back
33:43
to is, uh,
33:46
a professional athlete practices not to be
33:52
better.
33:53
They practice.
33:54
So they can't get it wrong.
33:56
Hmm.
33:58
Well, I'm a professional.
34:00
I own a restaurant.
34:01
I do it professionally every single day,
34:03
right?
34:05
But I still get it wrong.
34:07
It happens.
34:09
So I have to go back.
34:11
Twenty twenty six for me is going to
34:13
go back and work on it to where
34:16
I can't get it wrong.
34:19
I'm going to try and perfect it.
34:21
Because if I can't move forward,
34:23
I can't do more until we've perfected it.
34:26
Right.
34:26
Right.
34:27
Right.
34:27
So the more I put into it,
34:29
the more that I go and work on
34:31
my shot, work on my putt,
34:33
work on whatever it is,
34:35
the better I'll get.
34:36
And if I can get it to where
34:38
I can't miss.
34:39
Hmm.
34:42
And I won't miss.
34:43
Right.
34:44
Right.
34:44
And, you know,
34:45
it's really kind of struck me, you know,
34:47
we've been really pushing real hard on the
34:49
six ninety nine lunch menu.
34:51
It's it's something that I created from
34:54
others in town and just ideas and
34:56
thoughts.
34:57
And and I kept wondering all of all
35:01
of December, really.
35:02
You know, what, what, what is going on?
35:03
Why can't I get people to come in
35:05
for this?
35:06
Six.
35:06
Ninety-nine menu.
35:07
Yeah.
35:08
I got a half pound hamburger that I'll
35:09
sell you for six.
35:10
Ninety-nine chicken tenders, slaw dog,
35:14
man, that slaw dog bologna sandwich.
35:16
Right.
35:16
You know, all these, I got a great,
35:18
I got this killer six.
35:20
Ninety-nine lunch menu.
35:22
You can't go anywhere and get my menu
35:26
for six.
35:26
Right.
35:29
Why are nobody coming in?
35:31
Like the food's good.
35:33
It tastes yummies.
35:38
I like it.
35:39
Yeah.
35:40
People tell me they like it all the
35:41
time.
35:42
I get great feedback on it.
35:43
Why they not coming in?
35:44
Yeah.
35:45
And I tell people all the time that
35:47
you have to go tell your story because
35:49
nobody's going to come tell it for you.
35:52
And I built this amazing platform.
35:54
Why am I not telling my own story?
35:57
Why am I not on Facebook and posting
35:59
in the groups hyper-local to me to get
36:02
the hyper-local people to come in and see
36:04
me?
36:06
Print out flyers and go give them to
36:07
people.
36:08
Why am I not,
36:09
these are all basic things.
36:12
But I wanna know why I'm not getting
36:15
the desired outcome.
36:16
It's because I'm not doing the work to
36:18
get the desired outcome.
36:20
I didn't put in the practice.
36:23
Stephen Curry shoots a thousand shots a
36:25
day.
36:26
Kobe used to do like, well,
36:27
like five hundred free throws or something
36:29
after every practice.
36:30
Like, I mean, like, yeah.
36:32
So if you're not putting into work,
36:34
you're not going to get the results.
36:35
Right.
36:35
Right.
36:36
So, you know,
36:37
I want to I'm glad you brought up
36:39
your lunch menu because I came during my
36:42
school break.
36:43
Me and my daughter came up there one
36:44
day and I got that slaw dog.
36:47
That's why I kind of because I just
36:48
want to have a little I've had your
36:50
burgers.
36:51
one of my favorite burgers in town like
36:53
legitimately uh and you know like i've had
36:56
your wings i've had your barbecue like and
36:58
i was like i'm and i was feeling
36:59
kind of simple that day i was like
37:00
man slaw dog that's where it's at let's
37:02
go
37:04
And you came up and asked me,
37:05
you were like, how is it?
37:07
And I was like, dude, this is killer.
37:09
I said, it's simple.
37:10
And your response was just do the simple
37:12
things well.
37:13
And when I was telling a buddy of
37:16
mine, he goes, what comes on it?
37:18
I said,
37:19
it's a smoked hot dog with slaw and
37:21
barbecue sauce.
37:22
He kind of looked at me like almost
37:24
like that's it.
37:24
I was like, it was perfect.
37:27
like it was it's simple but it's done
37:29
well and i will tell you this my
37:31
daughter ordered the uh chicken tenders on
37:35
the lunch menu i got the slaw dog
37:37
we walk out of there you know for
37:39
twenty bucks basically whatever and i am
37:43
like just telling you right now that was
37:46
the most satisfying
37:48
Just like,
37:49
just like you hit all the little nuance
37:52
things, by the way, big shout out.
37:55
You nailed the ranch.
37:56
Well done.
37:59
We're making our own ranch in the
38:01
restaurant now.
38:01
Yes, we are.
38:03
And we're getting ready to start making
38:04
our own mashed potatoes.
38:06
So, you know, from that aspect,
38:09
it's doing the little things.
38:11
And when you can make something simple
38:13
that good.
38:14
And I will tell you this.
38:17
I have cautioned myself telling you what
38:19
I'm about to tell you for a long
38:21
time, okay?
38:24
When we first started doing the podcast,
38:26
started kind of hanging out and seeing
38:29
each other,
38:30
you brought me a bottle of barbecue sauce.
38:32
And I used it.
38:33
I made some ribs with it, whatever.
38:34
I was like, it's not very good sauce.
38:38
But I have had to so hard go
38:42
back on that.
38:45
here's why.
38:46
And I'm going to go.
38:48
I'm cause I'm hearing like guys like
38:50
Rodney Scott, uh, Kevin blood.
38:52
So some different guys that we've heard
38:55
carry bringle.
38:57
You don't have to not like mine.
38:59
No.
39:00
Yeah.
39:00
You don't have to like mine to not,
39:01
or whatever the saying is.
39:02
You don't have to hate mine to like
39:03
somebody.
39:04
That's it.
39:04
You don't have to hate everybody else's to
39:05
like mine.
39:06
Here's what the deal is though.
39:09
Your barbecue goes with your sauce.
39:13
Yeah.
39:15
Your barbecue sauce on your proteins at
39:18
your restaurant, you freaking nailed it,
39:22
man.
39:24
Whatever I did with your sauce at my
39:26
house may have been the rub that it
39:30
didn't pair well with or whatever.
39:32
If you take,
39:33
and I will tell you this.
39:35
If you take my barbecue sauce and put
39:38
it on ribs and try to glaze them
39:40
with it, it's not good.
39:42
Well, that's exactly what I did.
39:44
And now if you take my barbecue sauce
39:48
and glaze them on a char grill,
39:51
it's perfect.
39:52
Okay.
39:52
Well,
39:53
whatever you're doing with your regular
39:55
barbecue sauce is not a good glaze.
39:57
My hot sauce is a good glue at
39:58
your restaurant.
40:01
You've nailed it.
40:01
And I'll tell you what I likened it
40:03
to,
40:03
and I hope you're not offended by this.
40:05
Probably not.
40:05
McDonald's ketchup.
40:07
Maybe so.
40:12
McDonald's ketchup is not – look,
40:14
I'm a ketchup guy.
40:15
McDonald's ketchup is only good with their
40:17
fries.
40:19
It's not, it's not a,
40:20
it's not a Heinz ketchup.
40:21
It doesn't go with most things.
40:23
Right, right, right.
40:24
Your, your sauce goes with your boy.
40:27
That was a big kick in the car.
40:29
I'm sorry.
40:29
I gotta stop you.
40:33
That's just, you just,
40:34
you just can probably not.
40:39
Yeah, you did it.
40:42
He couldn't have done it any better,
40:43
actually.
40:44
That was outstanding.
40:46
Man.
40:46
But your sauce is perfect with your food.
40:48
Just need some yellow shoes and a big
40:49
red nose, and I'm perfect.
40:51
I'm not going to clown out all of
40:52
us, aren't I?
40:53
Look,
40:53
there's already been one clown in my
40:55
shopping center riding up and down the
40:56
street.
40:56
I don't need another one.
40:58
Your stuff is perfect.
41:01
and i don't just say that because like
41:02
i'm like i learned that slaw dog i
41:04
added more to it and i i could
41:07
not i can tell you i can tell
41:08
you man like it's it's the saying that
41:11
carrie says you don't have to hate
41:13
everybody else's to love mine it's so true
41:16
and you don't have to love mine
41:18
and and hate and hate everybody else's
41:21
it's uh my barbecue's different like look
41:24
carrie can come down and eat my restaurant
41:26
not like it you know bletzo could come
41:28
over and eat it not like it you
41:29
know rodney scott all these fellas that
41:31
we've had on it are amazing barbecue guys
41:34
they come to the place and not like
41:35
it that's fine
41:38
But like Bledsoe says,
41:42
it can be different, just not be bad.
41:44
Right, exactly.
41:46
There's a difference in bad barbecue and
41:49
just not what I like.
41:51
I will say this.
41:52
You were concerned about widening the
41:56
six-night-and-nine lunch menu,
41:57
taking off or doing whatever,
41:59
not getting the tread you wanted to get.
42:01
I'm also going to say this.
42:03
When I came in for lunch that day,
42:07
there was not...
42:09
I think you had one two-top table that
42:11
was empty.
42:12
Every table was full.
42:14
It started to pick up.
42:16
And...
42:17
Most of the tables were not ordering the
42:19
lunch, though.
42:20
Yeah.
42:20
They were getting the full plates and
42:22
whatever else.
42:22
Because I watched a grown man with his
42:25
wife and daughter polish off a massive
42:28
plate of barbecue,
42:29
and I was a little jealous.
42:30
I was like,
42:31
this dude just wore that out.
42:33
He took home three to-go boxes of stuff
42:37
that I think between he and the wife
42:39
they didn't eat.
42:39
I saw a guy and his wife order
42:42
that same community platter today.
42:44
Yeah.
42:45
Two people.
42:45
This is enough food for four.
42:46
Right.
42:48
all right and there wasn't a bone left
42:51
see that's so i mean i think i
42:56
think i think he took one of the
42:57
the rib bones and picked his teeth with
43:00
that on the way out i love it
43:01
but to me though that still goes hey
43:05
six nine nine might got me in the
43:06
door but i saw something else you know
43:08
you know that's part of the reason why
43:10
i do it like i literally lose money
43:12
on the six ninety nine burgers right
43:15
I make zero dollars,
43:16
I lose fifty-seven cents on the burgers.
43:19
Every burger I sell.
43:24
I would rather you come in and try
43:25
my burger, check us out,
43:27
see the atmosphere,
43:29
realize that we are local veteran owned
43:31
doing everything we can for help build our
43:33
community.
43:34
Absolutely.
43:34
And enjoy it.
43:36
And then come back later and get a
43:38
brisket plate or a pork plate or,
43:40
or the community sampler or, or sausage.
43:43
You know, we are,
43:43
we are doing one of the things that
43:47
I absolutely love about my team is we
43:51
all try to get better every day.
43:54
Yeah.
43:57
So we have ideas.
43:59
We're going to probably start doing loaded
44:01
potatoes on Thursdays.
44:04
That's my wife's idea.
44:06
But I took that idea and went to
44:08
the kitchen and said, hey,
44:09
here's two potatoes.
44:10
How are we going to make them?
44:12
You know, it's not just me.
44:13
Right.
44:15
I got some very talented people that cook
44:17
in my place and really know food and
44:19
profiles and palates and all nine yards.
44:21
And
44:22
We've got a great loaded potato.
44:23
We're going to do a chili cheese potato.
44:29
I think I'm going to tweak the chili
44:31
cheese potato a smidge just because
44:35
literally sitting here talking to you,
44:36
it kind of hit me like a ton
44:37
of bricks.
44:40
Who wouldn't like a little bit of mac
44:42
and cheese inside that chili and potato?
44:47
i didn't know he was going to talk
45:02
dirty when it comes to food pictures they
45:06
were x-rated yeah they were they were
45:09
delicious but uh
45:11
You know, look, those things, that's,
45:13
that's, that's the kind of thing.
45:14
That's the theme that I'm kind of going
45:16
for for twenty twenty six is is to
45:20
continuously get better.
45:22
And and the things that we do well
45:25
right now, we need to do great.
45:27
Yeah.
45:29
As a entrepreneur, as a business owner,
45:31
when my feet hit the ground in the
45:33
morning and I get stressed about why sales
45:36
are down or people aren't coming or
45:40
why we're not selling this or that and
45:42
we're selling more of x y and z
45:44
whatever it is as the owner and the
45:47
entrepreneur it's my job to figure it out
45:48
yeah and i think we do a really
45:51
good job on a lot of things i
45:54
think we do a an excellent job on
45:58
a couple things and and i have to
46:01
flip that metric we have to do an
46:03
excellent job on a lot of things
46:06
and and a really good job on a
46:08
few things and continuously get better on
46:10
those few things right um you know it's
46:13
why we're making our own pickles it's why
46:15
we're gonna you know start making uh all
46:21
of our every side in our restaurant is
46:23
homemade like there's not anything in my
46:26
restaurant that's no longer where does
46:28
that
46:29
And the picture of being scalable,
46:34
if single tree two is on the horizon.
46:37
It all comes down to the recipe adherence.
46:39
Okay.
46:41
It doesn't matter whether or not you're
46:42
making it in-house or not making it
46:43
in-house.
46:44
Okay.
46:45
It's still got to be the exact same.
46:46
We've had guests on our show that say
46:48
it.
46:48
I'll say it a thousand times.
46:50
Consistency is the number one reason
46:54
businesses fail.
46:56
Okay.
46:56
Right?
46:57
If you, you know,
47:01
you ever go to McDonald's to eat?
47:03
Unfortunately.
47:04
You do?
47:05
Yeah.
47:05
Okay.
47:06
So you going to get a milkshake?
47:10
No.
47:11
Why not?
47:11
I don't like the milkshake.
47:12
Because consistently the milkshake
47:14
machine's broke.
47:15
Okay.
47:19
fair see what i did there yeah i
47:21
do right now i do now that cheeseburger
47:24
they sell you ever seen one of them
47:26
things you know it's about a i try
47:29
not to look at it i do consume
47:31
it right um it comes out the same
47:34
way sure you know it's it's cardboard
47:37
right it is not a it is not
47:38
a culinary delight no it is not there
47:41
is no questions about how awful that is
47:44
now
47:45
You know exactly what you're going to get
47:48
hands down.
47:49
You know that you can go pull in,
47:53
get a number two and get two
47:54
cheeseburgers, fries, and a drink.
47:56
And it's going to be, you know,
47:57
ninety seven sixty.
47:59
Right.
48:00
And it's going to take like.
48:03
Go ahead.
48:03
I'm going to come back to this.
48:04
Go ahead.
48:04
And you're going to pull in.
48:05
You're going to get all that.
48:06
You're going to get out.
48:07
Three to five minutes,
48:08
you're going to be in and out of
48:08
the drive-thru,
48:09
and you're going to be on your way.
48:10
Yeah.
48:10
And you're going to be driving down the
48:11
street,
48:12
and you're going to be chowing down on
48:14
that cardboard and the fries that may or
48:17
may not be hot and may or may
48:19
not be too salty and the Coke that
48:21
may taste a little off.
48:24
That's what you're going to get pretty
48:25
much every time you go through that
48:26
drive-thru.
48:29
But you go buy it because it's
48:31
convenience.
48:33
You can get it.
48:33
You can go be on your way.
48:35
I'm going to throw something at you
48:38
though.
48:40
Convenience plays a factor in this.
48:42
My wife stopped off at a little fast
48:45
food place on the way home, um,
48:47
over the last two couple of weeks.
48:50
And she was like, Hey, you want anything?
48:51
And I was like, look,
48:52
I'm really busy at the house.
48:54
Just snag me this.
48:55
it was one singular item she got the
48:59
same singular item and there was an up
49:02
charge for mine to go from ground beef
49:05
to grilled chicken which fine whatever
49:08
with the up charge two singular items was
49:12
almost fourteen dollars yeah now hear what
49:17
i'm saying here oh i heard it
49:20
i could have gone to a local restaurant
49:23
and sat down for lunch for the same
49:25
price and gotten side items and gotten
49:27
side items yeah and been waited on at
49:31
my table yeah and so from i'd even
49:35
gotten a hug for at least got a
49:37
handshake and it may not have been from
49:38
the owner of the boss because i walked
49:40
in the other day and somebody called my
49:42
name and i spun around i was like
49:44
They do not need to be known on
49:45
this side of town.
49:45
But point is,
49:47
you start realizing there is one singular
49:52
only reason we go, and it's convenience.
49:54
I'm not going there for culinary.
49:55
I'm not going there for value anymore.
49:57
The market has shifted so much that even
50:00
what we considered to be value or fast
50:02
food has no longer become value.
50:05
It is just that's gone.
50:07
And so that's one reason when I look
50:10
at
50:11
what you have to offer here's here's what
50:14
I'm gonna say is the downside I can
50:16
see that I can do your restaurant for
50:19
a six nine lunch menu but that means
50:21
I gotta drive across town which by the
50:22
way
50:24
My new house.
50:26
It's a lot closer.
50:27
It lets me go across Broad Street now.
50:30
It does.
50:31
Dude.
50:31
That's great.
50:32
I did not realize how easy I can
50:34
access a whole lot more eateries in town.
50:37
Oh, yeah.
50:38
And still be able to get home in
50:40
a very quick fashion.
50:41
Oh, yeah.
50:42
Our location is so nice.
50:44
It's wonderful.
50:46
Beyond wonderful.
50:47
I didn't realize my access to downtown.
50:50
You want me to tell you something crazy?
50:51
Yeah, go for it.
50:53
You can order through my website and have
50:55
it delivered.
50:56
No.
50:58
Is that third party?
50:59
No.
51:00
That single tree is going to deliver it.
51:03
Yes.
51:05
I have a third party delivery service that
51:07
is partnered with us to do it.
51:09
Okay.
51:10
Okay.
51:10
But they don't take a cut.
51:12
Or not as big of a cut.
51:13
Oh, they don't take a cut.
51:14
Oh, cool.
51:15
If you order through my website.
51:16
Okay.
51:17
Okay.
51:17
Well,
51:17
I may have to keep that in mind.
51:18
Just saying.
51:19
So, but.
51:20
If you get a night where you're just
51:21
sitting there and you're like, man,
51:23
some chili would be good.
51:24
I got you.
51:26
I just,
51:27
I'm amazed though at truly what a
51:29
location,
51:30
because we may only move a mile and
51:32
a half, maybe two miles.
51:33
Tops.
51:35
and what it did from our location in
51:37
town.
51:39
It made a huge difference.
51:41
The only thing I did realize,
51:43
I kind of moved myself out of the
51:45
convenient,
51:46
I always go to this grocery store factor.
51:49
And so now I've got two that I'm
51:50
kind of peddling with.
51:51
And it really is depending on, well,
51:55
what am I doing next as to which
51:58
one I may go to.
51:59
But with regard to that,
52:02
downtown's fast going across broads fast
52:04
anything on broad now is fast and like
52:06
it is just it's truly a it's a
52:09
unique and i was joking with my wife
52:11
i was like i can go to charlie's
52:12
now to eat she's like you always could
52:14
go to charlie's eat i said no but
52:15
now i could cross broad like that was
52:17
my
52:18
Now it doesn't take me nine million years
52:20
to get there.
52:21
And it's amazing.
52:23
And the day that I drove out to
52:24
your place,
52:25
it literally took about seven or eight
52:26
minutes.
52:27
And I mean, it is so nice.
52:30
I love it.
52:32
Let's spin off.
52:33
Sure.
52:34
It's twenty twenty six.
52:36
I need some predictions.
52:38
OK.
52:38
All right.
52:39
So first.
52:41
We got...
52:42
The Chiefs won't win the Super Bowl this
52:44
year.
52:46
I would put... I would put...
52:49
I would double down on that.
52:50
Okay, yeah.
52:55
I'm taking the Titans.
52:58
In what decade?
52:59
Let's go with...
53:01
let's start with college football all
53:03
right because that's that's that's uh
53:06
coming up when this when this is live
53:08
will be you know today so um you
53:13
have Ole Miss yep Miami yep who you
53:16
taking they play each other they play each
53:20
other yeah
53:22
I'll be real honest,
53:23
I've been so wrapped up in working on
53:25
this.
53:25
I just know the four that are in.
53:26
Is it Friday?
53:27
Yeah.
53:32
Ole Miss and who, Miami?
53:33
Ole Miss and Miami.
53:36
Here's my take on that.
53:37
Miami's defense somehow got better.
53:41
They've been pretty killer all year long.
53:42
They have.
53:43
But these last two games,
53:45
they have done something a little bit
53:46
different.
53:46
I don't know if they found the magic
53:49
wand or what they did.
53:52
That said...
53:54
Ole Miss can put up points though.
53:56
Ole Miss is stout.
53:57
Ole Miss is stout.
53:59
I did not.
54:00
And I tell you what,
54:01
let's avoid the Lane Kiffin side of
54:04
things.
54:05
Their new coach, he's the real deal.
54:08
He's a dog.
54:08
He is going – I think he has
54:10
got – You know Ole Miss is not
54:11
losing – they haven't lost any coaches.
54:15
The only coach that's not there is Lane
54:16
Kiffin.
54:17
Right.
54:18
And as far as game preparation,
54:21
all of them are still in game operation
54:23
goes and game day, nothing has changed.
54:26
I know.
54:27
And Kiffin didn't call a play.
54:29
He didn't put a game plan together.
54:31
Right.
54:31
He just signed off on it.
54:33
But I'm saying when, when, when you,
54:36
he was a figurehead essentially,
54:38
but this new guy,
54:40
I can't remember his name right now.
54:43
He has got the swag.
54:45
He can get all those young men to
54:48
buy in, and they ain't missed a beat.
54:51
And I think that actually helps him.
54:52
I think the fact that they came out
54:53
and did what they did last week.
54:55
Yeah, they got crazy momentum.
54:57
They got all the momentum.
54:58
Hey, you took, quote, took our coach,
55:01
and we still out here balling out?
55:02
Like, they just,
55:04
that's hard to argue with.
55:05
I think they're walking around like we
55:07
don't need him.
55:08
Yeah.
55:08
Possibly.
55:09
Very much so.
55:10
We got this without him.
55:11
Now, I will say,
55:16
do you know the most amount of points
55:19
that Miami has given up all year long?
55:21
It's only like seventeen or something,
55:23
isn't it?
55:23
Twenty-six.
55:24
Okay.
55:25
I didn't think they broke twenty.
55:27
Twenty-six to SMU and twenty-four to
55:29
Louisville, twenty-four to Notre Dame.
55:33
That's impressive.
55:34
That's the most points they've given up
55:36
all year, those three teams.
55:40
Now I will say that with Miami's got
55:43
some gumption and they're in no slouch.
55:45
Right.
55:47
But I got Ole Miss.
55:49
I think Ole Miss takes it.
55:52
I think it comes down to Ole Miss
55:53
versus.
55:54
So now you got Indiana playing Oregon.
56:00
Yes.
56:02
I can go back and show you.
56:05
I got receipts the first week of October.
56:10
I texted a buddy of mine who's a
56:11
big Ohio State fan.
56:12
Yep.
56:13
I said,
56:14
Indiana's number one team in the country,
56:15
just the AP doesn't have the balls to
56:17
do it.
56:18
Yep.
56:19
I agree with that wholeheartedly.
56:19
You said that week one?
56:21
No, first week October.
56:22
Oh, gotcha, gotcha.
56:23
I said it first week October.
56:25
Dang.
56:26
I would have agreed with you back then,
56:28
too.
56:29
Now, Indiana is serious.
56:30
Now, fast forward to January.
56:32
Yeah.
56:34
Indiana looks good.
56:36
They got all the swagger.
56:38
I will also say this,
56:40
Oregon's playing with a different set of
56:43
gumption than they've played with in the
56:44
past.
56:45
And I think losing out on that,
56:50
being able,
56:51
did they not play for the Big Ten
56:52
Championship?
56:52
Was that what it was?
56:54
Whatever it was,
56:55
but they getting put out of that.
56:58
They've got a chip on their shoulder.
57:00
And I think that there goes in.
57:01
Now, that being said,
57:03
I think your championship is going to be
57:04
Ole Miss versus Indiana.
57:06
So do I.
57:07
And if it comes to that,
57:12
I think that's a heck of a game.
57:15
It's a heck of a matchup.
57:16
Yeah.
57:18
And because it's on a neutral site –
57:23
I'm almost going to go and give the
57:25
nod to Ole miss.
57:27
Interesting.
57:28
We're on the same side because the neutral
57:30
side, I think that plays there.
57:32
Now I will say this.
57:34
I think every playoff game should be a
57:36
home hosted game by the higher seed team
57:39
until the championship championship should
57:41
always been neutral.
57:41
My opinion,
57:42
those games should be at their home field.
57:45
And this weekend,
57:46
Indiana should be hosting Oregon.
57:49
And Ole Miss should be hosting Miami.
57:53
You tell me you wouldn't want to go
57:55
to Oxford,
57:55
Mississippi this weekend for that ball
57:58
game.
57:59
I just want to be in the state
58:00
for that game, much less on campus.
58:02
That'd be phenomenal.
58:04
Me and my middle son went to the
58:06
UT Illinois game.
58:08
Yeah.
58:10
I will tell you this.
58:12
I've never been to a college bowl game.
58:14
Okay.
58:14
So this was really cool for me.
58:16
Sure.
58:16
On multiple levels,
58:18
not even just the bowl game,
58:19
but to be able to take my son,
58:21
who is the biggest UT fan in Tennessee.
58:25
That's fun right there then.
58:28
It is something.
58:31
But for him to look at me when
58:32
they put on a Jumbotron and said there
58:34
was fifty one thousand fans in the
58:36
stadium.
58:38
And and I said and I said, yeah,
58:43
yeah, that's a lot of people.
58:44
And he goes, yeah, but daddy.
58:47
Neyland's over one hundred thousand.
58:49
So that's only half an hour.
58:51
And he went he went, you know,
58:53
it's crazy.
58:54
Has he been to Neyland?
58:55
He has not been to Neyland.
58:56
Oh, all right.
58:59
I don't know.
58:59
Put that on your bucket list.
59:00
Oh, man.
59:01
It's on the bucket list.
59:03
So I've been to Neyland several times.
59:06
I've never been with my son.
59:07
My son somehow acquired Vandy Tennessee
59:13
tickets.
59:14
They were second row behind a whole row
59:17
of Vandy guys.
59:18
Oh, snap.
59:19
And they said it was the best atmosphere
59:21
ever.
59:21
Like, obviously, I mean,
59:22
but they said just everything there.
59:24
Of course,
59:25
they've got their checkerboard overalls
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on.
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Like, they're all decked out in orange.
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Here's the black row of Vandy folks with
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the anchor down, whatever.
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And it was just,
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they didn't miss a beat.
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And he said it was an experience.
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Get him up there.
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Go pregame early.
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I love it.
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Get the ball walking, everything.
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We were running short, long time.
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Real quick,
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twenty twenty six Super Bowl champs.
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Carolina Panthers.
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We would have never guessed.
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Hey, division champs, baby.
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With a losing record, division champs.
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Jeez, man.
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I'll say this.
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If Buffalo doesn't do it now,
1:00:04
they ain't going to do it.
1:00:06
They've got the easiest pathway that
1:00:07
they've ever had for it.
1:00:10
But I genuinely believe I'm still going to
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go AFC.
1:00:17
I think if the Broncos can stay on
1:00:21
it,
1:00:22
I think it's the Broncos or the Patriots.
1:00:25
And I may be dead wrong on that,
1:00:26
but they're playing good ball right now.
1:00:29
I like the Patriots.
1:00:31
Honestly,
1:00:32
the only reason I like the Patriots is
1:00:34
because I want Vabral to stick it to
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the Titans.
1:00:37
I want the same thing.
1:00:39
and take it absolutely and then turn
1:00:41
around and go hey guys how you doing
1:00:43
yep you got a friday feel good for
1:00:44
us always look uh i'm looking at a
1:00:48
picture of a nickel and a dime and
1:00:52
it says sometimes the circle decreases in
1:00:55
size only to increase in value make sure
1:00:59
that those around you are adding to your
1:01:01
life and you're adding to theirs keep that
1:01:04
circle small keep life intentional y'all
1:01:06
know what to do find somebody you know
1:01:08
tell me love them
1:01:09
Amen to that.
1:01:10
Yes, sir.
1:01:11
Yeah.
1:01:12
I, uh, yeah, I'd agree with that.
1:01:18
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