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#693 FireSide Chat w/ the Crew; 5 Jul 2026 · The Lost Art Project: Veterans’ Voices

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these yahoos i just sent them a coin
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freaking coins for being on here and a
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big thank you to you guys for coming
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on and doing this that is why i'm
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sending those out to you guys uh but
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anyways uh we'll go around we'll see how
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everybody's doing the guy that has an
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awesome beard and i'm incredibly jealous
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of aaron how are you doing
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uh doing good uh yeah i believe i
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got all my coins by being a yahoo
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so i'll just add another one to it
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nice nice but yeah i'm working staying
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busy uh trying to stay out of the
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heat but that that doesn't seem to be
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working i was out there all day today
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I went and picked up our older two
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thousand thirteen traverse from my
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daughter and her boyfriend.
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It was been sitting at his shop forever.
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Nothing wrong with it.
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Just sitting there.
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So I was like,
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I need to drive this thing.
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So I went and got it and cleaned
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it up.
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Nice.
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Yeah.
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I just I don't I don't want to
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dog anybody on this on this podcast.
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But the chemical thing is the chemical
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guys.
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They make some cleaner.
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Yeah,
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you either have to read the label really
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close,
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or it says to test a small area,
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and I didn't.
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I just sprayed it on the wood.
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And let's just say my chrome lug nuts
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are not chrome anymore,
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but it cleaned them for sure.
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Did it strip your nuts?
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Did it strip your nuts?
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Yeah, it did.
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Were your nuts stripped?
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Did you dare those things?
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How dare they?
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How dare they strip them?
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You dared your nuts, son.
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You nared your nuts.
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Applied to nare.
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It smells close enough to nare.
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Does it?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Very interesting.
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Very interesting.
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But it cleans if you're looking for a
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cleaning product.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Well, that's good.
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I mean,
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that's what you need out of a cleaning
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product, right?
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Speaking of cleaning, and Mr. Clean,
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look over there.
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That zero mustache on Mike tonight,
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he got rid of it.
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He said, nope, I'm done.
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Mike, how you doing, man?
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I hope.
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Doing good.
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I'm enjoying air and heat down there too.
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Heat up here.
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I had to cut grass to finally get
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my front yard done.
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I was out there at nine o'clock this
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morning cutting grass.
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I hate cutting grass on a Sunday.
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It doesn't bother me it's a Sunday,
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but I hate bothering other people.
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I'm like, well, let me get out there.
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I went outside, got the mower out,
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and I was like, it's hot out here.
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Pulled my phone out and looked at it.
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I was like, what's the temperature?
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It was ninety-seven degrees.
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I was like,
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Are you freaking kidding me?
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I thought I was going to have a
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freaking heart attack out there in that,
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you know,
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I'm not used to that heat anymore.
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Yeah.
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Six pass,
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I was back up there chugging a bottle
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of water and it didn't help that I'd
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had a couple,
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one too many bourbon and cokes last night.
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But, you know, it was.
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Well, you had to celebrate last night.
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It's important.
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First off,
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if you don't on the two fiftieth,
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but that's just that's un-American.
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Yeah, this is true.
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Yeah, yeah.
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That's what I'm saying.
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It's un-American.
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It's un-American,
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but when you're sitting there doing it by
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yourself, it's like, maybe I should.
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Yeah, okay.
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Whatever.
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You're not alone.
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That's right.
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We were all.
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You're an un-American out there.
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Even I was drinking last night.
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I don't do that at all.
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As long as it wasn't a cup of
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tea.
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I was drinking it like this.
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I was drinking it like this.
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Yeah, that makes sense.
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He's out.
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He's out.
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A special occasion.
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The two fiftieth.
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You got to drink it that way, right?
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Yeah.
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I feel like a traitor.
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I have two T's in front of me
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right now.
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I'm like,
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I'm going to go find a harbor to
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throw this shit in now.
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Nice.
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Is it hot tea?
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We'll call it.
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Oh, okay.
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I have a London Fog from Barnes &
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Noble.
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Or at least it has a regular...
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Earl Grey with a little bit of milk
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in it and you're sitting there stirring
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around with your little spoon.
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Is that Earl Grey?
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It's all of the teas, I guess.
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English breakfast.
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I guess there's nothing wrong with
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drinking the enemy's refreshments after
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you murder them, right?
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Yeah, after you've gone to battle and won.
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Yeah,
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there's nothing wrong with it at that
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point.
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I'd agree with that.
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It's the spoils of war, right?
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All right.
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I watched the guy take their tea.
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yeah see i watched a guy eat catfish
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and cheese and grits and he about had
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a mouthgasm was the best way to explain
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it he just dropped his fork i don't
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even know what's going on right now in
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his life so i guess we're winning them
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back through our culinary oh yeah and if
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it's southern food which is not my
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favorite then imagine what they'll have if
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they ever come up north where the real
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people live
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Is that right?
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Is that right?
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He's going down a gauntlet about this
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right now.
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Yeah, mudfish and leftover corn.
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Imagine if they eat real fish and real
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corn.
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I mean,
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just got to say that out loud.
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Hey, we got some real corn down here.
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We got some rural corn down here.
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Grits ain't corn.
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It's the leftover corn.
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I don't do grits.
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We don't do grits here.
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We got corn fields.
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We got some corn, baby.
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it's not as much as up north like
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walleye and stuff like that that's what
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you got walleye is pretty good though it
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is i have to say that's our state
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fish well um mark's sitting there
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listening march like don't go mu mu i
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ain't eating it so that's funny yeah he's
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right i mean he's like south dakota jason
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so you know you know yeah sorry i
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didn't even agree
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It's what for dinner.
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We know Jess is doing good up there,
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drinking his teas,
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rubbing it in the face of our enemies
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from seventeen seventy six.
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That and us southern folks.
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Yeah, that's right.
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I bet you anything his tea is not
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sweet.
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I bet you it is not a sweet
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tea.
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It is Arizona.
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Is Arizona a sweet tea?
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I've not had one.
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Is it?
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Oh, that's good to know.
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Arizona puts all the sugar in their
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drinks.
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Is it the real sugar?
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It's a bucket can.
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Bucket can.
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Love it.
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Well, let's go over here to Vic, man.
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You have some awesome paraphernalia there.
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Wait, not paraphernalia.
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What am I trying to say?
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That's a cool sticker you got on your
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glass there.
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I've had this mug for probably seven or
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eight years.
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And every time I get a different kind
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of cool sticker, I put it on here.
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This is my freedom mug.
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Yeah.
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Motorcycles and because I'm a cool dad and
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all that kind of stuff, you know.
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uh you know a little motivational stuff
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and you know do better yeah i like
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that yeah actions are better than bigger
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than words or whatever you know um let's
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see but i always call i just call
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it my green a mug um this is
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my water to recover from last night i'm
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still recovering um
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And I'm trying to replenish my hydration
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stores because I leave on about a three
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thousand mile road trip tomorrow morning.
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That's going to be awesome.
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But let's see.
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Let's see.
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Last night we blew things up in the
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middle of the street.
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It was awesome.
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um like the four the four houses uh
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across the street over here next to us
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um we all got together and uh pitched
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in and uh we all watched fireworks and
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set off things and rockets and things and
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smaller things that blew up it was awesome
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we blew things up it was great um
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yeah so uh and then uh yeah so
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uh the motorcycles all packed up and uh
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all i gotta do is i think i'm
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gonna try to get on the road pretty
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early to avoid some of the heat
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um yeah good luck with that yeah it's
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gonna be rough tomorrow which is like i've
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been down in water all day long trying
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to get pretty hydrated because it's real
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it's uh for i'm sure you know the
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motorcycle riders know but uh uh it's real
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dangerous on a motorcycle in the heat
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because you don't uh you don't sweat as
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soon as you start sweat it evaporates uh
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so you don't know when you're getting
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dehydrated until you get off the bike and
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then you're about to pass out you know
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Because, you know,
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you got a seventy mile an hour air
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conditioner keeping you cool-ish,
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but when you get off the bike and
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you're not sweating and all that kind of
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stuff, it gets dangerous.
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So,
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I guess my SOP is I stop every
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hundred miles, whether I want to or not,
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get off the bike and down a giant
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bottle of water, go use the bathroom.
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By the end of the day,
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I'll be chugging water all day long.
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By the end of the day,
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it looks like iced tea.
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you know just because i'm dehydrated at
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the end of the day and then i
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just spent all night drinking more water
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so yeah it's uh you just got to
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be really careful out there because it's
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going to be somewhere close to triple
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digits all the way across the the south
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so and i'm going straight it's almost like
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a
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It's a wind tunnel.
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It's a blow dryer.
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That's what it feels like.
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It feels like a blow dryer in your
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face.
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It's going to be good.
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I'm going to have a good time though.
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Stopping to see my sister first.
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Got no cigars tonight because I'm saving
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them all for the trip.
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when I get up to Oklahoma,
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I got a buddy up there that likes
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to smoke cigars.
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So, uh,
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I know a guy up here that does
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that.
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I won't say who it is, but yeah.
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So, uh, yeah.
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So, uh, yeah.
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I'm looking forward to the trip and it's
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going to be a good time.
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Nice.
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Nice.
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Speaking of a good time,
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look at that guy over there.
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Mark, how you doing?
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Doing great.
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Doing great.
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Andrew, uh, just came up.
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It's beautiful weather here.
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It was beautiful yesterday.
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Uh,
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But today, well,
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we had the Fourth of July yesterday,
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which was phenomenal.
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A lot of things going on.
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I went down to the parade at Coronado,
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California.
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It was a really good parade.
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And then today we had a...
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presentation uh went over the uh
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historical aspects of the start of this
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country which was just phenomenal it was
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very well put on uh presentation and then
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of course had some libations and some chow
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so just got done with that that's why
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i'm a little late i had to drive
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from carlsbad oh carlsbad yeah yeah burn
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ice very nice
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Well, shoot.
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Everybody,
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we turned two hundred and fifty as a
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country.
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I know we were already two hundred and
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fifty.
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I get it.
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But the country,
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the rest of them finally caught up.
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The rest of us,
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we we caught up the rest of the
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country to, you know, the Army,
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the Navy and Marine Corps.
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So congratulations to everybody.
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Two hundred and fifty.
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Now,
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we had a blast yesterday for the two
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fifty.
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The city of Sallisaw is not doing their
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fireworks until tonight.
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So actually, after the podcast here,
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we're going to go watch some fireworks.
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But last night,
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all like everywhere in the city,
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everyone was shooting fireworks off.
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And it was awesome, man.
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I've never seen so many daggum fireworks
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in the town or in a town like
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that.
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Just, you know,
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individuals shooting them off.
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And of course, the girls,
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they got they got to shoot their fireworks
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off.
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And, you know, they had a good time.
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No fingers were lost.
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So we're good.
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We may not be able to hear very
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well after some of those,
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but it was a good time.
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They had fun and we got to see
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lots of fireworks.
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So it was great.
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It was a good time.
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City of Salisbury fireworks are tonight.
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So I don't know if it'll compare to
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last night though.
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I don't know.
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We'll see.
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After our fireworks display last night,
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I spent about an hour.
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So immediately after we were done setting
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off fireworks in the middle of the street,
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we cleaned up all the mess in the
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street with flashlights and, you know,
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leaf blowers and all kinds of stuff.
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And then I woke up this morning and
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came out on the front porch to drink
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a cup of coffee with my girlfriend.
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And we could count all the shell pieces
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and all the shrapnel all over the yard.
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So I spent about an hour picking up,
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you know,
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firework pieces all from my yard.
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And now looking here at my driveway...
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That's about ten feet that way.
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I can see, like,
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shell remnants and paper and wadding and
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all that kind of stuff all over the
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driveway.
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It's awesome.
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Nice.
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I mean, it was a good time.
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It was a good time.
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Yeah.
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Of course a good time.
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Yeah.
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Man.
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And zero fireworks.
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It was super happy.
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It just seems like it seems cheap to
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me now to do fireworks.
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It just doesn't feel the same.
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I'm broken.
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That's unfortunate.
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Mark, I mean, hear me out on that.
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You know,
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it just kind of seems like I'm playing
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with Legos after I played with the real
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thing for a long time.
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Legos are fun.
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It's just not the same.
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I can't get down with it.
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It's like kind of going back to like
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coloring books at a certain point, man.
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It's like, well, I don't know.
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I'm sorry, man.
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The Jordanians and they used to take their
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fireworks are like on another level.
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So they take a shape charge or a
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crater charge.
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You remember the old shape charges glass
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down?
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It puts like a spot for like telephone
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poles.
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You can bury them in.
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Right, right.
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They turn upside down or a fifty five
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gallon barrel of diesel and then they put
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like a bag of red dye in this
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thing through the diesel and they create
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this giant red fireball.
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You can see for like miles.
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I'm like, that is fireworks.
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Wow.
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I'm like, yeah,
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this is something I would... Aaron,
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your buddies were doing some stuff kind of
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like that, weren't they?
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Yeah, they were blowing up Tannerite.
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There it is.
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Yeah.
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That was their fireworks.
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Yeah.
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They frowned on that in the city limits,
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I think.
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Except they realized they were probably
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too close at at twenty five yards away.
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Oh, God.
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Yeah.
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It felt a little bit of heat.
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Nobody was harmed.
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Nobody was harmed.
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But it was like your eyelashes,
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your eyebrows.
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That's how you get rid of them.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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You turn very Hispanic very fast when you
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do shit like that.
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You're going to put that show the marker
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from that on.
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That's what I'm talking about.
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They do tattooed eyebrows now,
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so they just get them tattooed.
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Oh yeah, that's right.
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Sharpie it.
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They even do like their lipstick.
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They do lipstick tattoos.
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They do all kinds of crazy things now.
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Tattooed hair.
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That's weird too.
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Tattooed hair?
20:10
Yes.
20:10
What?
20:10
That might be the only way we get
20:11
Mark to grow a beard.
20:13
yeah we're gonna we're gonna hold him down
20:17
and and we're gonna do a tattoo on
20:19
us on his face we'll get it we'll
20:22
get it there we got you mark don't
20:24
worry about it feed him a steak he'll
20:26
be all right yeah yeah yeah he'll do
20:29
mark will do anything for a steak
20:37
Ah, shoot.
20:38
So have you guys,
20:40
did anybody take a look at that link
20:42
that I sent out today of the guy
20:44
that compares?
20:47
uh different people or what have you um
20:50
i i don't know if there's anything to
20:51
it or anything but uh it was very
20:54
interesting to watch uh and you know i
20:58
don't know maybe there's something to it
20:59
but he was talking like demons uh being
21:02
reborn and all kinds of craziness now i
21:05
do believe in demons and uh all that
21:07
type of stuff but uh i don't know
21:09
it's pretty neat pretty neat little clip
21:12
yeah i i i just i i would
21:17
i've seen a lot of those videos and
21:18
and i didn't watch too many of his
21:21
but i i know somebody commented on there
21:24
uh i read one of the comments because
21:26
i like to see what people got to
21:27
say about it but oh yeah one of
21:30
them said if you really thought that this
21:33
was like a skin walker or whatever they
21:35
call them uh a demon uh going and
21:39
you know entering somebody else's
21:42
is, you know, shape-shifting or whatever,
21:44
right?
21:45
Yeah.
21:47
Don't you think they would like
21:48
you know,
21:49
have more power to do like fix,
21:52
fix the aging issues and,
21:54
and all this other stuff.
21:55
And I'm like, I was like, yeah,
21:58
I don't know.
22:01
There's a lot of stuff.
22:02
There's a lot of stuff that'll fix your
22:04
aging.
22:05
Yeah.
22:06
You face facelifts.
22:08
I'm going to put two barrels in the
22:10
face of this real quick.
22:12
Madison was like five foot tall.
22:13
Okay.
22:14
Yeah.
22:15
Yeah.
22:16
Billy Madison or Adam Sandler is not five
22:20
foot tall.
22:20
How tall is he, by the way?
22:22
He's like six foot tall.
22:25
He's not short.
22:26
He's really six one?
22:27
I think he's over six foot.
22:29
He plays basketball all the time.
22:31
But I mean, Madison was like a midget.
22:35
That's right.
22:35
He was short.
22:37
That's interesting.
22:38
His voice was super high.
22:41
No, Adam Sandler is... I mean,
22:43
over the years, maybe his balls dropped.
22:45
You know, it's possible.
22:47
There's also a billion people,
22:49
a few billion people.
22:50
The odds are that somebody's going to look
22:52
kind of like somebody else.
22:53
It's pretty good at this point.
22:55
Yeah, that's a good point.
22:57
Okay.
22:58
I'm not going to make this real dark,
22:59
but how many times are you rolling down
23:00
the street and you see somebody who's
23:01
like, oh, shit,
23:02
I haven't seen that person in a long
23:04
time.
23:04
Like, oh, no way.
23:05
That's someone I knew from Afghanistan.
23:07
They're not alive anymore.
23:08
So there is that.
23:09
You see, like, ghosts every time.
23:11
Yeah.
23:12
Transpose certain things on somebody else.
23:15
Yes, he goes.
23:17
How long have you been around this game?
23:19
That's a good point, man.
23:21
Good point.
23:23
There's a book out there called Thinking
23:25
Slow and Fast,
23:27
and it explains how your brain can come
23:33
to conclusions so quickly,
23:35
how you can come to answers so quickly,
23:38
because your brain will fill in the gaps
23:41
of missing information without you
23:43
realizing it.
23:44
So,
23:45
and that's where I think a lot of
23:47
the deja vu and some of these,
23:51
I think I saw something.
23:53
That's your brain adding information where
23:55
it needed information.
23:56
It didn't have it.
23:58
That's just how the brain works.
24:00
It's a very, very interesting book.
24:02
Thinking, comma, slow and fast.
24:05
Thinking slow and fast.
24:07
Malcolm Gladwell with Blink along those
24:09
same lines.
24:09
I mean,
24:10
those books are kind of filling like all
24:12
those things, right?
24:14
It's not witchcraft.
24:15
It ain't demons.
24:16
It's just brain power, man.
24:18
Hey, I don't know about you.
24:21
I don't get a lot of deja vu,
24:23
but man,
24:24
almost every day I get vuja day.
24:27
I mean,
24:27
stuff happens to me that I didn't know
24:30
was going to happen at all.
24:31
I mean,
24:31
it's all day long most of the time.
24:35
Well, what do they always say?
24:36
It's like mental exercises.
24:37
If you go through enough scenarios,
24:38
you're not going to be surprised by
24:39
anything.
24:41
So...
24:42
park i mean you played this game too
24:44
the red cell if you let your red
24:46
cell run wild you're going to go through
24:48
every type of scenario that you can
24:49
possibly imagine without a doubt yep and
24:54
the red cell people are some of the
24:55
trickiest nastiest people you ever met in
24:57
your life they're scary sons of they are
25:04
I've been a couple of scenarios where like
25:06
I was playing blue cell and the white
25:08
cell just injected like a red cell like
25:09
scenario.
25:10
Like, and it was like,
25:12
these guys are sadistic.
25:14
Uh, we were doing a exercise off, uh,
25:17
Sierra Island, the tabletop.
25:20
And so we're trying not to take our
25:22
assaults or our, uh, troop chop,
25:25
troop choppers cross because it gets ESU
25:28
twenty three fours.
25:28
So we're going to take everything,
25:30
do a faint on this side of the
25:31
island, hit them this side of the island.
25:34
Well, he took his ZSUs, dug them in,
25:35
and put them on direct fire so all
25:37
of our amphibians got smoked in the water.
25:38
I was like,
25:39
he's a son of a bitch, man.
25:41
Just dropped the guns down and was like,
25:43
just pour our stuff apart.
25:45
That guy is mean,
25:48
and he's very well good at it.
25:49
He's very good at what he does.
25:54
Love it.
25:56
So did anybody stay up for the fireworks
25:59
last night on TV?
26:01
There was fireworks on TV last night?
26:05
Yeah.
26:06
Like on the National Mall right now is
26:08
the National Fair.
26:10
So they have like a big Ferris wheel
26:12
and everything going on right now.
26:13
No kidding.
26:15
But they they.
26:18
Yeah.
26:18
So but like they got rained out.
26:20
There was a rain delay last night because
26:22
like hail and all that kind of stuff.
26:24
So everybody went into the Smithsonian's
26:27
and at eleven o'clock at night,
26:29
they started letting people back into the
26:31
fairground area.
26:32
Um, and then right around, uh,
26:35
Trump came out, gave, uh, about a fifteen,
26:37
twenty minute speech, and then,
26:39
which is really cool, um, because...
26:41
Before the fireworks?
26:42
Yes.
26:43
Uh, but what he did is he, uh,
26:45
he basically, you know, like, uh,
26:47
when he does the State of the Union,
26:48
or how he does, uh,
26:49
he invites all kinds of people out,
26:51
and he
26:52
honor this person well he kind of did
26:53
the same thing but he did it to
26:54
all the flags in history so all the
26:57
flags the actual flags you know throughout
26:59
history um were up on stage with him
27:02
and he would tell a story about some
27:04
kind of you know hero and that hero
27:05
would come out and salute you know the
27:07
the the first flag of the continental you
27:10
know united states or
27:11
then the you know the first you know
27:13
the actual stars and stripes uh the flag
27:15
over iwo jima you know so it was
27:17
he kind of went wow yeah he went
27:19
through america's history through all the
27:21
flags um and then and then uh you
27:24
know at the end then fireworks started and
27:27
uh i guess they they tried to break
27:29
some kind of guinness world record or
27:30
something like that they had to have more
27:32
than four hundred
27:34
things in the air in one second,
27:35
within one second, something like that.
27:37
So, I don't know.
27:38
But, like, I mean, it was a solid,
27:40
solid, like, I don't, like, the,
27:45
I guess the fireworks were on,
27:47
it wasn't just one bank of fireworks.
27:49
There were fireworks all over the city,
27:51
all going off,
27:51
all coordinated and all this kind of
27:53
stuff.
27:53
So, I mean, it was actually pretty cool.
27:55
I thought they did a,
27:56
they thought it did a really good job.
27:59
So, they tried to outdo San Diego from,
28:00
like, ten years ago?
28:02
I guess.
28:02
Oh, yeah.
28:03
the big boom they launched every firework
28:07
at the same time on accident is that
28:12
what happened in san diego yes
28:17
That's funny.
28:17
It caused a huge smoke screen so you
28:19
couldn't see anything.
28:23
It's messed up.
28:26
All the timers were set for zero and
28:28
they switched it on and it just shot
28:31
them all at the same time.
28:33
It was amazing.
28:35
It had to be impressive when it happened,
28:37
but can you imagine you get there
28:39
expecting this kind of
28:41
maybe a half hour show or something like
28:43
that.
28:43
It's a couple of seconds.
28:46
Well, there it is.
28:47
All right.
28:48
The smoke was so thick that you couldn't
28:52
see nothing for probably a half hour.
28:59
That's funny.
29:00
That's pretty good.
29:03
We took our fireworks display when we were
29:05
on our cruise.
29:09
We had a whole day of on the
29:10
water when we were coming back from
29:12
Lookout Key all the way back to South
29:14
Carolina, or back to, I'm sorry,
29:15
Port Canaveral.
29:16
So there's a big pirate party,
29:18
everybody dresses up like pirates,
29:20
and then basically the whole pirate show
29:23
ends on, and the explosions!
29:26
And then this one little red flare goes
29:28
across the bow of the ship.
29:32
That was it?
29:33
It was supposed to be something else.
29:35
It was supposed to be a huge firework
29:36
display, but the way the ship was facing,
29:39
the wind would have brought all the
29:40
fireworks and all the smoke back over the
29:42
ship.
29:44
So you have all this dramatic music that's
29:46
supposed to have fireworks to it,
29:47
and then all you see is this one
29:49
flare.
29:51
Then about three minutes later,
29:53
one more flare.
29:55
Then about five minutes after that,
29:57
three flares.
29:58
And that was it.
30:00
Literally had some guy down there with an
30:02
orange flare gun.
30:06
Reload!
30:13
The best term I could come up with
30:14
was overwhelmingly underwhelming.
30:16
No, overwhelmingly underwhelming.
30:23
Oh my god, that was good.
30:25
Let's see, what does this say?
30:28
Missed out from the storm.
30:29
Our building that I live in in the
30:30
center part of the building,
30:31
the ceiling completely collapsed.
30:33
Oh, my God.
30:34
And the workout facility and the fire
30:36
company were there.
30:37
It's absolutely crazy.
30:39
They may have to condemn the building.
30:41
Holy moly.
30:44
Steve-O building may be.
30:46
Man, it didn't hurt anybody, did it,
30:51
Steve-O?
30:51
I'm glad he's safe.
30:52
Yeah.
30:53
Yeah.
30:58
or at least alive, holy cow.
31:06
What does that say?
31:06
I love it.
31:07
I love it.
31:07
Well, shoot.
31:07
What else do we want to chat about
31:08
tonight?
31:09
What do we got going on in the
31:10
near future?
31:11
What do you guys got coming up?
31:15
Soon as I come back from the trip,
31:17
I think I actually have to cut my
31:19
trip a day short.
31:20
I was going to stay one whole day
31:22
in Lynchburg and tour the Jack Daniels
31:24
distillery,
31:25
but I think I'm just going to wake
31:27
up in Lynchburg and leave because I need
31:29
to be back for a school board meeting
31:32
that's
31:33
following day and if I wait a whole
31:36
day to leave I'll be still on the
31:38
road at the time the school board meeting
31:39
starts so uh-huh so yeah I was really
31:42
I was kind of for that but then
31:44
the next day after I'm going to fish
31:46
concert with my kid and I go yeah
31:49
yeah I got some pretty decent tickets
31:51
we're not on the floor because they wanted
31:53
two hundred and sixty bucks for floor
31:55
tickets but we're like three three three
31:59
rows up from the floor so that'd be
32:01
fun
32:03
um and then that's like yeah and i
32:05
mean she asked me if i wanted to
32:07
go so uh i'm looking for like my
32:11
first concert with my kid um well not
32:13
my first concert but my first fish concert
32:15
with my kids um we've taken it to
32:17
other concerts but uh and then after i
32:20
come back it's uh two weeks um to
32:22
get my classroom and uh the choir
32:25
classroom ready uh for school to start and
32:27
then
32:28
um we start professional development on
32:30
august third so uh i mean it's right
32:33
around the corner yeah it's crazy like
32:37
fight club where if it's your first fish
32:39
concert you have to rip a bong or
32:42
how does that work it's a requirement is
32:47
bong ripping a requirement a fish i assume
32:49
it is i mean
32:52
I mean, it would make sense, but I,
32:55
I mean, I, I mean, I,
32:57
I wouldn't say that, you know, I have,
32:58
I have partaken in any of this stuff,
32:59
but I've seen lots of stuff being passed
33:01
around, you know, at a fish concert,
33:04
but not, never a bong, never a bong.
33:06
I never,
33:06
I've never seen it because those are,
33:08
I mean,
33:08
I'm told they can be kind of large
33:10
and hard to conceal.
33:11
It's a fish concert.
33:14
I see that, yeah.
33:15
I bet you had a fish concert.
33:16
It's very similar to San Diego when they
33:18
had the explosion, like all the smoke,
33:20
right?
33:22
I would imagine it's very similar.
33:24
I'm not saying it's in Florida,
33:27
but if they were to do one in
33:28
Florida, nothing is concealed.
33:33
They don't conceal anything.
33:37
They didn't at the Hank Williams Jr.
33:38
concert.
33:39
Your bong's got wheels that you just
33:41
turned for a show.
33:45
Yeah.
33:46
Rolling up with a huge bong.
33:51
Oh, man.
33:53
I will say the Hank Jr.
33:55
concert was pretty good, huh?
33:57
Yeah.
33:58
He changed hats quite often.
34:01
I wrote a couple songs in there where
34:03
he didn't, and I was like, oh,
34:04
he's not changing hats anymore.
34:05
And the next thing you know, he changes.
34:09
And I don't understand the reason why,
34:12
but man,
34:13
he was changing hats on almost every song,
34:16
man.
34:16
It's craziness.
34:17
But I'll tell you,
34:18
for seventy seven years old,
34:19
he was still getting down.
34:21
Oh, yeah.
34:23
You got to sweat through those hats so
34:24
damn fast on the stage.
34:25
Was it outdoors or indoors?
34:27
Oh, yeah.
34:28
It's outdoors.
34:29
Yeah.
34:30
I like every song.
34:31
Oh, yeah.
34:32
Yeah.
34:33
I about sweat through when I just hit
34:34
the first pass on my lawn.
34:36
So I'm like, I understand.
34:37
Yeah.
34:41
At the end of it,
34:42
I just take it off the washer.
34:43
It's like, oh,
34:43
we just didn't wash this thing.
34:44
All right.
34:54
Mike, what do you got?
34:54
I need to throw in the washing machine.
34:59
Oh, shoot.
35:02
What did you say?
35:04
What am I doing?
35:05
Yeah.
35:06
Working.
35:09
Damn the man.
35:14
We leave Thursday for a Mediterranean
35:16
cruise.
35:17
Nice.
35:17
Oh, wow.
35:17
Where are you going?
35:20
Yeah,
35:20
I'm working on a Mediterranean cruise.
35:22
Spain, France.
35:27
Yeah,
35:27
we're flying to Barcelona and then it's
35:31
Barcelona.
35:32
We get there two days before we do
35:33
a seven day cruise and we're there two
35:35
days and then fly home.
35:36
So.
35:39
What's that?
35:40
What are you looking forward to?
35:43
All of it.
35:45
That and out of that and keeping anything
35:48
I want to bring back with me in
35:49
my front pocket so I don't get
35:51
pickpocketed.
35:53
They do know how to pick front pockets
35:57
just like back pockets.
35:58
Yes, I know they do.
35:59
Chain that stuff down to you.
36:00
Where are you stopping at?
36:06
I'd have to look here.
36:07
I don't know.
36:08
I'm going to lie to you.
36:09
I don't remember now.
36:10
I can pull it up.
36:11
I might need to ask a favor.
36:12
I got a pallet stuck in customs over
36:14
there.
36:14
It's still over there, huh?
36:21
While you're there, stop.
36:23
Put a boot in her ass and tell
36:24
her to get it through.
36:27
That was good.
36:29
Mike the expediter.
36:31
Yes, I might need to expedite this shit.
36:34
I don't have a passport.
36:35
I don't know why this shit's still sitting
36:37
here, damn it.
36:43
day two we're in uh marcel marce and
36:47
then niche in monaco nice nice visa then
36:53
we're in sicily salerno and then rome was
36:57
our final yeah while you're in rome i'm
37:02
going to send you an address go take
37:03
care yeah
37:06
Policia.
37:09
Hey.
37:10
When in Rome.
37:11
When in Rome.
37:12
I'll give you the sign, okay?
37:13
They're good.
37:15
They're my boys.
37:17
You're good.
37:18
Just go put a boot in this guy's
37:19
ass.
37:19
Some customs house is holding on to all
37:21
my film over there.
37:22
I've been trying to get it back for
37:24
two months.
37:26
I mean, that is the American way.
37:29
I don't want to know anything.
37:30
The Earth.
37:31
Pictures of the Earth.
37:34
Um, yes.
37:37
Putting a boot in somebody's ass is the
37:39
American way.
37:40
Yeah.
37:41
There's a whole song to say.
37:45
Yeah, I know.
37:46
Last night we have a largest archive for
37:48
images of the earth and on the world.
37:50
So we get pallets of stuff sent to
37:53
us from everywhere.
37:54
So then we digitize it in the archive
37:57
and then send it back.
38:01
So, wow.
38:02
The film, because.
38:03
It probably went over Vic's house,
38:05
and he was out in the yard in
38:06
a thong, and that's probably about it,
38:08
and that's all I would say.
38:09
I mean,
38:09
that is how he mows his lawn.
38:11
Doesn't everybody?
38:12
Vic was still doing other things.
38:14
Doesn't everybody?
38:17
It's not young.
38:17
It's archived stuff.
38:18
I mean, we got stuff way back when.
38:23
In the early spring and late fall,
38:25
he might put a jacket on.
38:27
Why?
38:27
Yeah.
38:29
But still the thong.
38:30
Yeah.
38:30
Yeah.
38:30
Yeah.
38:32
So if you go through Salerno and there's
38:35
anything you can do for the landings,
38:38
I highly recommend it.
38:40
Well, that's one thing I was looking at.
38:42
A couple other people had said the same
38:45
thing.
38:46
Sicilian landings,
38:48
especially with the southern coast.
38:51
Anything that's close to the beach is
38:53
going to be just amazing.
38:55
Yeah.
38:57
It should be fun.
38:59
Which grizzly?
39:00
Norwegian.
39:01
Nice.
39:04
They're still going to be hungover from
39:06
the World Cup, so watch out.
39:13
Did Mexico and England already play?
39:19
I thought that was today or tonight.
39:21
Is it tonight?
39:24
I'm not sure what time, but yeah,
39:25
it is today.
39:28
Did Brazil just get knocked out yesterday,
39:31
I think?
39:32
Really?
39:32
Yeah.
39:35
Yeah.
39:35
Norway kicked him butt, huh?
39:37
They said England's the last Muslim
39:40
country that's in the World Cup.
39:42
Morocco's still there.
39:50
Morocco?
39:50
I see what he did there,
39:51
by the way.
39:52
That was nice.
39:53
That was nice.
39:54
Well,
39:54
I guess the fun part is Perryway got
39:56
the shit kicked out of him by France.
39:58
And that's a good thing.
39:59
But Bobby got him.
40:01
But Paraguay is just like the dirty
40:03
players,
40:03
like the Philadelphia Flyers of the World
40:06
Cup.
40:06
Every time you go by them,
40:07
they're gonna trip you or throw something
40:09
at you.
40:10
They're just a bunch of pricks.
40:11
So there we got knocked out finally.
40:15
Who's the US play?
40:17
What's the next game?
40:18
Belgium.
40:20
Belgium?
40:22
Belgium tomorrow at seven thirty.
40:24
Mexico and England's on right now.
40:27
Yeah,
40:28
Morocco knocked out Canada yesterday.
40:32
and then the great spice race so so
40:37
the sixteen hundreds is recreated so
40:39
portugal and spain are going after each
40:40
other uh yeah norway got brazil yeah so
40:46
it's been uh it's interesting somehow that
40:54
was sad very good or fun to watch
40:57
like going after argentina i mean
41:00
You had a country of, like,
41:01
forty thousand people going after, like,
41:03
Argentina.
41:04
I was like, yeah, get up, boys.
41:06
They missed in overtime.
41:08
That was cool, though.
41:09
Pretty good.
41:09
Yeah, wild times.
41:13
There you go, Vic.
41:14
I helped you out.
41:18
No,
41:19
so Mike's going to go through Marseille
41:20
and Nice and all those, like,
41:22
southern French cities.
41:23
That's going to be wild.
41:24
I don't know.
41:27
I've never been.
41:28
And then to Italy?
41:33
You've been to France?
41:34
What are you talking about?
41:36
Not in the southern cities.
41:42
Oh, no.
41:42
Yeah, it's a lot different down there.
41:43
Are they the same assholes to Americans?
41:46
Parisians are different, though.
41:48
They're way different than the rest of the
41:50
outside of Paris personnel,
41:54
which I don't know what you would call
41:55
them.
41:55
Frenchies?
41:57
Because that's what I was told to say
41:58
is come here, Frenchie, when I was there.
42:03
I could be why they didn't like me.
42:05
I don't know.
42:10
I used to do that to Davis.
42:11
Just call him Pepe Le Pew.
42:16
Pepe Le Pew, come here.
42:19
I tried to play nice and they were
42:20
still assholes to me.
42:23
I went in to buy cigars and it
42:26
was like,
42:27
and he looked at me and he went,
42:29
No.
42:30
Just like that.
42:32
No.
42:34
I'm like, all right, well,
42:35
shit just got real.
42:36
JVD, do cigars people play?
42:39
Without saying a word to me,
42:41
he went and grabbed my two cigars,
42:42
rang it up, looked at the total,
42:44
held out his hand.
42:49
Andrew,
42:49
you were there when we went to that
42:50
little cafe.
42:51
Remember that?
42:53
We stopped at a cafe and everybody,
42:56
because they heard me speak French in the
42:59
cigar shop,
43:00
so we go to our first little cafe
43:02
and sit down and then everybody gives me
43:04
the elbow.
43:05
Hey, you talk to them.
43:07
It's the same thing.
43:08
As soon as the waiter came out,
43:10
I was like, he looks at us,
43:11
he goes, fuck, American, what do you want?
43:25
oh my god that's great what do you
43:29
want i would i would walk around the
43:31
first time i got to go over there
43:33
uh was with uh davis uh band officer
43:36
davis and uh so i would do everything
43:39
that i possibly could to embarrass him so
43:42
i'd be like come here frenchie
43:44
like really loud.
43:45
He'd be like, shut up, dude, shut up.
43:50
It was great.
43:51
I mean, he, he didn't like it,
43:54
nor did the Frenchies,
43:55
but I got a good laugh out of
43:57
it.
43:59
I mean,
44:00
thank you for contributing to their
44:01
disdain of us.
44:02
I mean, it's, it's already there.
44:04
Why not continue it?
44:07
Medicaid asshole.
44:13
But that was only in Paris, though.
44:18
Any country that has an entire section of
44:21
their government dedicated to the
44:23
preservation of their language takes
44:26
themselves way too seriously.
44:28
They're so sensitive about the
44:30
creolization of their language,
44:31
they have an entire government agency
44:33
designed to maintain proper French.
44:38
Are you serious?
44:41
Wow.
44:41
Yeah.
44:41
Yeah.
44:42
How's that going?
44:43
So even if you're like from Montreal and
44:45
you're a Quebec asshole and you try to
44:48
go to Paris and speak French,
44:49
it's not the right French.
44:50
So if you're going to go there,
44:53
turn this into the biggest Texas draw you
44:55
can and speak as little French as possible
44:58
and see what happens.
44:59
You're going to get the best service
45:01
you've ever had in your life because
45:02
they're going to try and kill it that
45:04
quick.
45:04
So.
45:07
I wore my cowboy hat when I went
45:09
with Davis and when I kept saying,
45:12
come here, Frenchie.
45:13
I was in my cowboy hat.
45:15
I was just like, I don't care.
45:18
Whatever, D. And it was fun, man.
45:21
I had a blast.
45:23
Last time I was in France was the
45:24
middle of the night,
45:25
Charles de Gaulle Airport,
45:26
and I had a light machine gun hanging
45:27
off me as I was walking through the
45:28
airport.
45:30
We had to take him off the plane.
45:32
Come at me.
45:34
That's awesome.
45:37
were flying to qatar we got stuck and
45:39
uh of course tower airlines had another
45:41
problem with the airline so we got off
45:44
the airport and uh couldn't leave on the
45:46
airplane so walking through the airport
45:49
like two in the morning charles de gaulle
45:52
i saw hanging up you know the spare
45:53
barrel on my back and like that's i'm
45:55
in the shop they're not seeing everybody
45:58
got real polite real fucking quick yeah i
46:02
bet they did pro tips
46:05
pro tips bring your gun when you go
46:07
to not just any guy all the guns
46:11
all the guns all all the guns yeah
46:14
that's like the most American answer that
46:16
I've I've probably heard I've ever heard
46:20
it's like this guy is like lands in
46:22
uh it's either France or Germany and it's
46:24
like you where's your passport it's like I
46:27
think I it's somewhere hold on it's like
46:29
you know you need a passport it's
46:31
Bitch,
46:31
the last time I landed in your airfield,
46:32
I didn't need a passport because I was
46:33
dropping bombs over it.
46:34
So stop it.
46:37
It's dropping bombs over it.
46:38
And there wasn't any Frenchman there to
46:40
check it.
46:41
That's the whole story, right?
46:42
Last time I came to this beach,
46:45
it was like there was no passport
46:47
officials to check my passport.
46:48
Yeah.
46:51
That's funny.
46:55
Because I was busy saving your country.
46:57
For the second time last century.
46:58
Yeah.
47:02
you're welcome and every time we tell that
47:05
story they go back to like seventeen
47:07
seventy seven eight or we helped you there
47:11
was more french people fighting at the
47:13
battle of yorktown than there was
47:14
americans so oh wow well i mean they
47:18
helped us yeah yeah yeah we helped them
47:23
yeah back and forth yeah we've i think
47:28
we've helped them whatever yeah
47:30
And now when you order coffee at the
47:32
corner shop in France, you say, sure,
47:33
for sure, for Muhammad Jihad.
47:34
And there it was.
47:44
Which means we will have to save them
47:46
again eventually.
47:48
Right?
47:48
Right?
47:50
That's a solid translation.
47:52
Yeah.
47:52
Yeah.
47:56
So messed up.
47:57
Why are we having so many international
47:58
problems?
47:58
I don't know.
48:00
Yeah.
48:00
I know, right?
48:02
Mitch must be named ambassador somewhere
48:03
in Muslim right now.
48:04
He's going to be ambassador of France.
48:06
And vetted right that quick.
48:06
It's like, that was part of the archive.
48:08
Too much.
48:08
No, Mike,
48:11
I hope you have a blast out there,
48:23
man.
48:23
Yeah.
48:25
Yeah, it'll be a good time.
48:26
I'm looking forward to it.
48:28
At least to get out of here.
48:29
Everything I keep seeing,
48:30
it's as hot over there as it is
48:31
here.
48:33
Oh, yeah.
48:36
The Mediterranean is always nice for you.
48:42
No, I mean...
48:44
What was the old rule with the Italians?
48:46
If you're living on an island,
48:47
they eat not seafood.
48:49
And if you're living in the mountains,
48:53
all they eat is fish.
48:55
So that's wild.
48:59
Yeah, Italian food.
49:02
They can't figure it out either.
49:03
So that's fun.
49:06
I mean, they have pasta over there.
49:08
It's good, right?
49:11
Yeah, it's real good.
49:15
Andrew just asked,
49:16
they have pasta over there, don't they?
49:19
Seriously?
49:21
I've never been over there.
49:22
I'm just going off what America told me.
49:25
Where it's from.
49:28
They have spaghetti and meatballs and
49:31
macaroni.
49:32
What do they call it over there?
49:34
What do they call spaghetti and meatballs?
49:36
Spaghetti and meatballs.
49:38
Spaghetti.
49:38
Spaghetti.
49:46
I was waiting for me to answer that.
49:52
I got a I got a Jersey Italian
49:55
that lives next door.
49:56
They don't call it spaghetti.
49:56
They call it gravy.
49:59
Oh, yeah.
50:00
Yeah.
50:00
Sauce.
50:00
No.
50:01
Yes.
50:01
They call it gravy.
50:02
Yeah.
50:02
Depends on between Jersey and New York and
50:05
that whole area.
50:06
There's that English is hard.
50:08
Is it sauce or gravy?
50:10
Sunday gravy.
50:10
Yeah.
50:11
Yeah.
50:14
English is hard.
50:16
It is hard.
50:17
I can't keep up with anything.
50:20
That's why I don't even try anymore.
50:21
I'm just like, whatever.
50:25
I'll speak American,
50:27
which is anything I want to say.
50:29
It's Oklahoma.
50:29
You can get away with it.
50:31
It's true.
50:32
It's true.
50:35
I would say OSU.
50:38
There are some educated people in
50:39
Oklahoma.
50:39
Same.
50:42
Not really, Vic.
50:43
Come on, man.
50:45
You know the truth.
50:46
You know the truth.
50:48
There's not really...
50:50
I'm just kidding.
50:51
There are Oklahomans that are intelligent.
50:54
Just not this one.
50:55
So my wife's alumni at ASU,
50:57
and I saw a video the other day.
50:59
I picked a fight with her,
51:00
and I was so proud of my girl.
51:02
She got into ASU.
51:03
I was like, who's going to tell him?
51:07
Everybody gets into ASU.
51:09
So I showed it to her,
51:10
and she's like, shut the fuck up.
51:13
There she is.
51:14
There she is.
51:15
Everybody gets into ASU.
51:17
That's messed up, man.
51:19
It's true.
51:21
Harvard of the West, I thought.
51:23
It's like the Harvard of Phoenix, man.
51:28
Oh, my gosh.
51:36
I was like, talk to my daughter.
51:39
Did we go to ASU?
51:39
She's like, why?
51:40
I'm like,
51:41
i don't know just ask it she's like
51:43
no i don't like the good part is
51:45
you don't even have to go there you
51:46
just do it all online man she's like
51:48
oh okay oh in that case sure oh
51:57
my god that's great so my wife graduated
51:59
from asu has got her masters down there
52:02
and she went to arizona and came back
52:05
with an arizona wildcats hat and shirt for
52:07
me i'm like i don't think you know
52:09
what you graduated from
52:20
on the street so she comes back with
52:21
a hat like this shirt for me like
52:23
that's all i asked for she brings me
52:24
back a hat when she goes on a
52:25
trip like all right cool but yeah she
52:28
came back to arizona state or arizona
52:30
wildcat ua like all right cool she's a
52:33
sun devil i still get the magazines all
52:36
the time alumni stuff like i was just
52:38
like trash like okay cool
52:43
So you don't get them.
52:44
The trash gets them.
52:45
I cut the label off, shred it,
52:48
and circular file the rest of it.
52:51
Yeah, right there.
52:55
It goes right back in your ASU Thrive.
52:59
I just cut our address off and circular
53:03
file it.
53:04
Well,
53:05
I would love to sit here and do
53:07
this all night long,
53:08
but I do have important stuff that's
53:11
happening this evening.
53:12
I'm still celebrating.
53:14
I'm still celebrating.
53:17
Merca.
53:17
Merca.
53:18
And come here, Pritchie.
53:21
All right.
53:31
Hopefully y'all didn't lose your sound and
53:34
all that other stuff that's been
53:35
happening.
53:36
Are we still good?
53:36
I'm still here.
53:37
I'm still here.
53:39
Nice.
53:40
Whoa.
53:41
Wow.
53:42
We're moving up in the world.
53:43
You know what I'm saying?
53:44
We'll start with Jess with a book report.
53:48
all right i'm going to go back to
53:48
one of my favorite books i read in
53:50
a specific time um so we're in uh
53:53
hawaii and we're going to the solomons to
53:56
do a burial at sea and then we're
53:58
going to continue on with our western
53:59
pacific excursion it was a summer of two
54:03
thousand well it was the summer of so
54:07
we were kind of figuring life out like
54:10
everybody else at the time it was after
54:12
the coal so
54:13
but there was a book that i saw
54:15
at the aphes shop on hickam and it
54:17
was goodbye darkness by william manchester
54:20
william manchester great writer and it was
54:24
basically him going through his world war
54:27
ii experience and when i read this
54:30
actually on the way to the solomons where
54:32
we buried a sailor at sea or well
54:36
we committed into the deep in iron bottom
54:38
sound where the rest of his shipmates
54:41
didn't make it back
54:44
and and when you start thinking about
54:45
because we talk about guadalcanal like are
54:49
just kind of topically but this is my
54:52
first experience actually kind of digging
54:54
into the first marine division on
54:55
guadalcanal and the experience these guys
54:58
had so a great book it talks about
55:01
his time across the pacific so i was
55:04
at sea reading a book about a guy
55:05
going across on the troop ships in the
55:08
guadalcanal so if you want to
55:12
But he was probably one of the better
55:15
American history writers.
55:17
And he wrote two very good books about
55:21
Winston Spencer Churchill.
55:23
And they're kind of the definitive
55:24
histories of Churchill.
55:26
So The Last Lion and The Last Lion,
55:28
Visions of Glory, and then Alone,
55:30
about his time before America stepped in
55:33
into World War II.
55:35
But that's the writer he is.
55:36
And if you haven't had a chance,
55:38
this thing was on there.
55:40
There you go.
55:41
But A Memoir of the Pacific War and
55:44
William Manchester's Goodbye Darkness.
55:47
And it's an amazing book.
55:48
And at first, it's like a fever dream.
55:50
But as he's just all the memories hidden
55:54
when he lands in Hawaii and starts flying
55:55
back.
55:56
So you get a chance.
55:57
This is one of those books I'd highly
55:59
recommend.
56:00
But for me, it's a piece of history,
56:02
a specific time, and a specific writer.
56:04
So I'm glad I found it on the
56:06
stands when I did.
56:08
Very cool.
56:10
Thanks, man.
56:11
Much appreciated.
56:12
Let's jump up.
56:12
Aaron, man,
56:13
what do you got for us at that
56:15
glorious beard?
56:16
Golly.
56:17
He just gave up.
56:24
I'm done.
56:25
Nope.
56:25
Wrong button.
56:26
I'm back.
56:29
All right.
56:29
So the quote I found is life is
56:32
not as serious as our minds make it
56:34
out to be.
56:36
I like that.
56:42
Yeah, that's good.
56:43
We got to think about that, I think,
56:46
more often.
56:49
For some people,
56:51
they take life too serious instead of just
56:54
relaxing and trying to live life.
56:57
We forget to live life sometimes.
56:59
Oh, yeah.
56:59
Oh, yeah.
57:00
Yeah.
57:03
That was good.
57:05
It's the beard, man.
57:06
It's the beard.
57:08
I didn't keep it so straight, man.
57:12
I use a straightener.
57:14
Do you?
57:15
Look at this.
57:16
I have this problem with this.
57:19
It's right there.
57:20
Wild Willie's beard brush straightener is
57:22
what it is.
57:24
Is it like a steamer brush?
57:26
What is it?
57:28
It's a cultivator.
57:30
It's a cultivate.
57:36
Yeah,
57:36
I should show you where it grows wild
57:38
at.
57:44
You don't brush that part, though.
57:46
No.
57:46
Why not?
57:49
Why not?
57:51
No balls.
57:54
That's where the dare goes.
57:56
That's where the dare goes.
57:58
That's what happened.
57:59
How did you know what dare smells like?
58:02
I wanted to know that.
58:05
You know why.
58:08
We all know why.
58:11
I do have a wife and four girls,
58:13
and I was raised by my mother.
58:16
Yeah.
58:17
And my sister lived there,
58:18
so I know what nary is.
58:21
Good point.
58:21
That's a good one.
58:23
Stick with that.
58:24
It's a good excuse.
58:25
Good excuse.
58:26
I like it.
58:28
All right, Mike,
58:28
what do you got for us, man?
58:32
What?
58:32
Sit here and listen about an error.
58:34
I mean, let's talk about that.
58:36
No,
58:36
that's what you wanted to hear all night.
58:40
No, the one I got for you.
58:42
Mike wants to see the bikini lines.
58:44
What's that?
58:45
Yeah,
58:45
I said Mike wants to see the bikini
58:46
lines.
58:46
Oh, yeah.
58:48
That's what I'm going to see in those
58:49
pictures,
58:50
you and your damn tan lines out there
58:51
and your Speedo.
58:52
I was going to say, Nick,
58:54
the women don't shave in France.
58:58
That's true.
59:00
It's true.
59:02
They're cultivating everywhere out there.
59:04
Peter's us, Vic.
59:09
Were you there?
59:11
Creeper?
59:16
Vic uses your beard straightener.
59:21
I got my own.
59:22
I don't need to use anybody else's.
59:26
All righty, all righty, all righty.
59:29
The best words are the ones you are
59:31
ready to receive.
59:36
That's good.
59:40
Wow.
59:42
I don't know.
59:42
Mark's going to have a rough go tonight.
59:44
That was good.
59:45
That was good.
59:46
Well, the marks will be the best.
59:49
They're the words we're getting ready to
59:50
receive.
59:54
We haven't got big yet.
59:58
No pressure, man.
59:59
Come on.
1:00:01
And reflecting upon our two hundred and
1:00:03
fiftieth,
1:00:04
if you think the price of winning is
1:00:06
too high,
1:00:06
wait till you get the bill for regret.
1:00:13
Yeah, that was good.
1:00:18
Dang.
1:00:19
Are we kind of sorry?
1:00:22
We're not trying to be political.
1:00:25
Jess,
1:00:26
are you still drinking tea or what do
1:00:28
you got going on over there?
1:00:29
Oh, it's way past tea.
1:00:31
Now I'm back doing Arnie Palmer's.
1:00:38
I love it.
1:00:41
I love it.
1:00:42
I love it.
1:00:42
You know what time it is.
1:00:54
That's right.
1:00:56
with Sergeant Major Mark O'Loughlin.
1:01:00
So I think Vic has it tonight.
1:01:04
I think he's got the best one.
1:01:07
So I'm just going to give Mike some
1:01:10
great advice.
1:01:11
I'm going to pull out an old one
1:01:13
since he's going to France and Italy where
1:01:17
this cultivating of hair and things,
1:01:21
some of the wild stuff.
1:01:23
So I'm just going to remind him.
1:01:26
that no matter how epic a mustache is,
1:01:31
Mike, don't tell her how good it is.
1:01:43
Unless she's a dwarf and it's the Lord
1:01:45
of the Rings.
1:01:46
They're real proud of that shit.
1:01:47
That was good.
1:01:55
That was good.
1:01:56
I'm not going to lie.
1:01:57
That was good.
1:01:59
That's good.
1:02:00
Oh, my God.
1:02:08
And with that, oh, my word.
1:02:11
We had a very productive...
1:02:14
Yeah,
1:02:15
we had a very productive show tonight,
1:02:17
and I appreciate you guys for coming on
1:02:19
and doing this.
1:02:20
As always,
1:02:22
make sure you go check out your coins.
1:02:24
I don't think Mark was on here when
1:02:25
we mentioned that,
1:02:26
but I sent you a digital coin, Mark.
1:02:28
I don't know if you got that.
1:02:29
It should be in your email.
1:02:32
Thanks to AllCoin and Brav,
1:02:34
they hooked us up.
1:02:37
And I can send out digital coins,
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which is what I did to you guys.
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This is the first ones I've handed out.
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So you guys are the first to get
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the digital coin.
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So the guests will be getting those in
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the future, which is pretty cool.
1:02:51
And maybe sometime in the near future,
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we'll have actual coins that you can
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purchase, like legit,
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like in-person coins.
1:03:00
What do you call that?
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I don't know.
1:03:04
That's my Oklahoma coming out just in.
1:03:06
It's all good.
1:03:09
Well, hey, guys,
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digital is what I just gave you.
1:03:13
Oh, physical.
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Thank you.
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That's what I was looking for.
1:03:16
Thank you.
1:03:17
I appreciate you, man.
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I don't care.
1:03:21
It's easy to forget that word.
1:03:25
Never mind.
1:03:27
Keep going.
1:03:27
Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you.
1:03:30
With that, see, everybody out there,
1:03:32
if you're struggling.
1:03:33
Huh?
1:03:34
About colleges earlier.
1:03:38
Something about college.
1:03:39
Yeah.
1:03:40
Don't worry about it.
1:03:43
These are not your droids that you're
1:03:45
looking for.
1:03:47
To everybody out there,
1:03:48
if you're struggling, you need help,
1:03:49
anything like that,
1:03:49
don't forget the VA does have some good
1:03:51
resources.
1:03:51
You can always dial nine eight eight,
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press option one.
1:03:53
You can always text eight three eight two
1:03:54
five five or go to veteranscrisisline.net.
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Click on that chat icon.
1:03:58
Any of those options will put you in
1:03:59
contact with somebody that can help you
1:04:00
out.
1:04:00
But remember,
1:04:01
one veteran life loss is one too many.
1:04:03
I care about you.
1:04:03
The crew cares about you.
1:04:05
The whole veteran community cares about
1:04:06
you.
1:04:06
So please reach out for help.
1:04:07
And if you're out there and you're not
1:04:08
struggling, hey,
1:04:10
reach out to the buddies that you serve
1:04:11
with.
1:04:11
Ask them how they're doing.
1:04:12
And if they need that helping hand,
1:04:14
please, please give it to them.
1:04:15
All right, fellas, one last time.
1:04:16
You guys rock.
1:04:17
I don't care what I say about you.
1:04:19
To everybody else out there,
1:04:20
stay motivated.
1:04:21
Dangerous songs.
1:04:22
Dangerous songs.
1:04:24
Come on, you sons of bitches.
1:04:26
Your story needs to be archived also.
1:04:29
Listen to Dan Daly.
1:04:30
Tell your story proudly on the Lost Art
1:04:32
Project Veterans Voices.