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The Uncle J-Mar Show - Episode #1 · Porch Talk

• Uncle J-Mar: Hey, welcome to the Uncle J Mars show. And for any of you who are confused by what that means, it is a new show. it's just gonna be me and guest. but it's also it's gonna be on Porch Talk, Porch Talk YouTube page and all that stuff. so tonight for our inaugural show, we figured it'd be easier just to have the co host of Porch Talk, Cameron Barbado with us just to see how this goes. But what's up, Cam? Cameron: How you doing, man? It's good being back on here with ya. It's been a minute. Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. I think this is a good idea just to get didn't want to have any kinks out, you know, to get all the way, just have you on, kinda let people know what we're gonna be doing. Porch talk's not going anywhere necessarily, it's just schedules and life gets in the way. So I'm gonna be doing a new show, like I said before, the Uncle J. Mar show. but it's gonna be on all our Porch Talk platforms. We talked about that. but Porch Talk and in itself, me and you, if we record if we can, it's still gonna be Porch Talk. we're also open to the possibility of having other shows on Porch Talk. But it's all gonna be from that original studio, I guess you wanna call it. But this is a new one. This is Uncle Jamar's show. I'm Uncle J. More. So our first guest is as I said, the co host of the Porch Talk podcast and One of my really good buddies, teacher at Honeacre Elementary School, right? husband, father, Cam and Barbado. Welcome to the Uncle J Mars show, Cam. Cameron: Thank you, man. I I just wanna say that you know, just to kinda echo what you're saying, yeah, I mean this show's gonna be kinda under the umbrella of Porsche Talk and I'm super excited to not only be a part of it today with you, but also just to watch the future episodes. I think that it'll be a really good place for good conversation when it comes to sports and life. And and I and I think that and I'm sure we'll get into this as the episode goes on, I think there's a lot of great local sports pages out there now. I feel like we kind of were among some of the first. but I think what your ideas that like I said you're gonna get into explaining, I think your idea with this Uncle J. Moore show and what you plan to bring with it, I think is unique and I think it's something that a lot of listeners will really enjoy. Uncle J-Mar: Yeah, we're not really I mean, the plan is to not be set in any kind of real like not sports, not i anything. I'm just gonna whatever I wanna talk about or whatever my you know, if I have a guest on that I'm interested in or whatever people wanna hear about, we're just gonna talk. I mean, I don't know how long this will go on, I don't know how often I'll do it. It's just kinda, you know Luckily the one silver line about not getting like we're not getting paid, you know, we're not making money on this is we don't have to treat it as a job. You know, we can treat it as or not as a job, but we don't have to treat it as in, hey, we gotta do one this week to get extra money and I can just do it whenever we want. So that's the one good thing about not getting any, you know, any revenue from this. also it can make make you a little lazy. I know the you know, when you don't just You know, maybe that's too tired this week or don't feel like it or whatever, you're like, I'll just record record next week. That's one thing that we run into with porch talk is we were just so busy and it's hard to make yourself sit down and do it. But I'm gonna try to this won't be a very long podcast e either. I think it'll be maybe an hour, an episode, I don't know. Depends. We start talking, get a guest in it won't you know, it's interesting, we might go longer, but that's the plan. Cameron: Yeah, and I I guess I meant to mention this too, you know, as you said that it's gonna be under like the Porsche Talk thing, you know, whenever it's uploaded, if I'm not mistaken, it'll go on the Porsche Talk page, right? Mm mm. Yeah. Uncle J-Mar: I'm a seeah, I think it's how we said it would work out. Like we're still using the Ports Talk Facebook page and the YouTube or whatever if we do that and Spotify, whatever wherever we find everything at. It'll be on there. It'll just be labeled, I guess we're gonna label it Uncle J. Mars show episode, whatever, Cameron: Sure. Yeah, Uncle J-Mar: I guess, but Cameron: and so like with that, you know, guys, as you're watching J. Morris show, you know, right there under the same like label pretty much, or under the same episodes, you also have a lot of the older ports talk episodes. So I'm sure for some of you guys that you know, especially I know we cover some sports around this area, but we also had a lot of like really good guest episodes too. Like you can go back and like watch those and stuff too. So it's Right all there together. And so that's also a a good little benefit to it. Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. I forgot to mention you're also a a a co host, I guess, or maybe I'm not sure if you co host if you're the main host and you have guests on how y'all do it, but the third hour podcast, which is one of yours that people need to go check out. Forgot to mention that. but that'll be my first question of the interview, I guess, is you got into podcast obviously with me. That was a wild ride and we figured that out. What's it how much easier was it moving to the third hour podcast and getting that started that you knew like how to go about it and and also if anything, what was harder also I guess about it if if anything? Cameron: Yeah, great questions. yeah, we learned a lot through Plat Forge Talk and what you know, I know we've talked about it and you've already mentioned it tonight. at times it kind of felt like a job because what people don't know is that we would have pretty low budget computers and we would be doing these episodes and there would be times I mean, I can tell you I remember Grundy versus Patrick Henry. when Logan Lester ran for like, you know, I don't know, four hundred yards that night or whatever happened. Yeah, Uncle J-Mar: yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cameron: that night prior we had interviewed, I think, my cousin, Carson, we had Logan or we had like a few different people that we had interviewed that night prior. And we wanted it out that night or that next morning. And I remember that it took me all night to like two or three o'clock in the morning. Then the next day it didn't upload right. And I was up like the whole day or like the next day, probably four or five hours trying to get it to work. And so when I say that you know we we learned a lot through that process and endured some so some struggle when it comes to editing and stuff like that. We did. so I did learn a lot there. as far as like the third hour thing, right? So I I started kind of my journey of surrendering my life to Christ and I started thinking of where can I like try to be effective within the kingdom of like kind of spreading the gospel and and doing something, right? And so like for me, I was like, Well, what skills do I have? And I'm I you know, I'm thirty some I'm thirty years old, thirty-one years old, and what can I do to try to make some kind of impact? And so I knew how to podcast already, and so we started that up and it was something that really my wife also Chelsea wanted to get into and so it happened quickly turned into some people in church wanting to join in with it. And the idea of it was was that we liked listening to a lot of Christian music. We wanted to give people week to week music like they could check out Christian music. There's not a lot of podcasts out there like that. but at the same time have a lot of like conversations of faith through guest and stuff. but I will say, for those that I happen to have watched that show and are watching this one now, we haven't recorded an episode in it in a minute too. we ended up going through why I end up getting hired on to be a teacher, just like you had mentioned before and I'm sure I I can probably get into that a little bit more here in a little bit, but Through going through that and go going through final exams, praxis tests, busy summer schedule, it kinda pushed us back and and we kinda ran into the same issue that like what we were talking about with porch talk and and trying to keep that week to week episode thing up while also, you know, acknowledging that you're not getting paid for it or anything like that, which is fine. But it it's also like when you gotta start getting up for for work or when you have things you gotta do, when you you know you got time and you need to spend the family, it does make it kinda hard. And so we're still trying to navigate that. and I think we're gonna dial it back and try to do some more just like interviewing some we got some local preachers and stuff like that we might do and some local musicians, like Christian music musicians. but it's still there. But it's also kind of you know, kind of bogged down a little bit here recently. but but it's it's been a a cool journey for sure. Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. Have you all thought about or or you don't wanna have to have to give anything away if it if it is in the works, if it's something you're trying to keep, you know, un you know, like a surprise, but have y'all thought about doing like at your church, like sitting up there and doing your podcast, like maybe not live but recording while you have musicians there playing or anything like that? Has that how would that work? Cameron: Yeah, so we we've done that one time, with one of my good friends, Justin Baldwin. if you guys haven't heard of Justin, we had an episode with him on the third hour, kind of shared a little bit of his backstory, but we also had him play two of his songs. At that time it was right before his song Living Stone came out. And you know, that was kind of our thought process was k kind of like the show with Bert Kreischer, right? The Uncle J-Mar: Mm. Cameron: Like where he's in that living room setting, the music's playing. we didn't really have a living room setting. We were on stage. but he did play a few songs. We haven't got anybody yet. We ha we've had people, we have people that want to Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. Cameron: do it. we haven't got another one set up yet, but we do have a little back room there that we are recording in when we get the chance. And then it's still a work in progress. but we're very fortunate to have it. and and really just, you know, I got a new computer, editing has been easier. So we're just blessed to have like some of those things at our disposal, but it's still, you know, we're we're still not like sponsored by anything and getting Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. Yeah. Cameron: paid or having funds come in, so it's still you know what I mean. Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. yeah. I guess this is a question I I like I'm I should have known the answer to this, seeing as you know, we're we're buddies and stuff. But I guess when I'm around you I don't really think about asking this these kind of questions, but now but it's it came to me. what is something you just started teaching for the audience? This is your first year full time teaching c classroom and everything. You can tell everybody what you're teaching, but what is something that has well not just one thing but like something that's really, really like surprised you, I guess about it that you wasn't expecting maybe and just how it's going in general. I'm I I mean I know you're enjoying it. I do know that, but I guess every job you go to it's new there's something you don't expect. I'd imagine with teaching it's probably a lot more than one thing. But this talk you know, what what's some things there? Cameron: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so I don't know I don't know if I mentioned it when we were in Porch Talk and stuff before, but you I had used to I w I worked at the jail before, you know that, but a lot of people maybe don't. so when I first got into school system, I helped out, but it was more of like an aid, right? And so I I did sub and stuff a lot too. So like going into this first year, getting to spend time with the kids and teach them and just all of that. it has been amazing. but you know I've I've kind of been around that a little bit over the last two years, which I am so thankful for. It's kind of got me prepared for being in front of them and being able to talk to them. I would say the things that I did not expect, and this is a shout out to the other teachers that have been doing it a while, I did not realize how quickly papers can get stacked up on your desk. I did not realize how quickly grades could get behind how messy the room can get in just a matter of a few hours. So there's a lot there that not that I I knew, you know, I I know they worked hard. I knew they worked hard even when I was a sub. but you really don't realize just how much goes on. and and at the same time you don't realize how easy it is to get sucked into like staying after every day and just try to catch up. And so that's been my biggest challenge so far is like trying to get done what you know I need done, but don't get too sucked into, you know, staying after and not being home and trying to get ahead. I I just have to Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. Cameron: try to let it go and know it's it's gonna come. So Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. It sounds a lot like w when you hear head coaches talk about people don't know what goes into coaching about half the stuff that goes into it. you hear say that people probably look at it like, well, you know, obviously a lot of practice hours. Obviously after hour you know, you know, staying late, whatever, then you gotta deal with parents, teach you know, everything. But there's probably other things in coaching that you just probably irritating stuff also of just like I don't know. Just random tasks that you have to make sure this is d done or like some kind of paperwork that probably nobody thinks about that would have to be a headache. So I'd say it's probably a lot like that. It's little things you just don't even think people would never even dream about you having to worry about. Add it up a bunch of those. It's pr you I can see it being a a lot to think about. Cameron: Sure. And and you know, it's always been like my dream and and I know you know this, from way back that I've always wanted to like get into coaching and stuff and and and I thought going into this year I was like, I might help out with the little league something 'cause just feel like the the greatest need right now 'cause th there's a terrific staff. Well they have terrific staff at the Little League as well. Here we had terrific staff at the high school and they got many members. Like they got they got a great big team there. And so I felt like the greatest need might be to help with the little league. just they're equipped, they're they're great at what they do, but I was like, well maybe I could be a helping hand. You could always, I'm sure, use more. but going into this year, thankfully, I said, you know, I may need to wait. wait another year because I d I really wasn't sure like what it was going to be like as far as on the teaching end. and you know, I've got other things I'm doing as far as like in ministry with helping with the youth and doing small groups at the church. So I'm very f glad that I didn't like kinda take on the coaching thing with the Willowing this year. I do still kinda have a place for it in my heart like going forward, but I just know that with everything I go got going on at school too, that I just can't imagine also processing trying to do the like helping with the coaching thing right now. Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. Cameron: so it's yeah, it it'd be be tough. Uncle J-Mar: Yeah, I'd say it would you know, you we mean you've talked about it. I would love to get into I I coached middle school well not middle school basketball, but sixth or seventh grade for a year, a few like I don't know, six, seven years ago now. I love it and I like my plan I I just wanted to do like that, like se grade, sixth, seventh grade, something where they're old enough to where you're not having to worry about like Not necessarily that you shouldn't worry about it, but a little bit more advanced than just teaching basics, you know. But also at a age where they can get a lot better in a shorter amount of time if you are teaching stuff. I like that age that that whole teaching aspect and like watching get better instead of the whole there's not as many eggs and oh's at that age you have to deal with and not that I I'm I mean I would like that part too, I think, but this that the v developing players is something I really enjoyed. and I would love to get back into doing something like that. Maybe a travel team would be I would love to do that. I don't know that I'll ever get the opportunity, but that would be something I would really like to do. But that w one question leads me into my other question I was gonna ask you or one of the topics I was going to bring up. travel ball is blowing up today. Like it's every sport. It's they w they seem like they play all year round. I was talking to somebody about this the other day about how, you know, if you're gonna do multiple sports, you really can't do multiple travel sports because they all run into each other, it seems. But I I know people do it and pull it off, but one kid who they were telling me plays softball seventy five, eighty percent of the year of the year. Well, if she's gonna play basketball travel ball, how does it you know I mean, it seems like it's getting to be a lot. what are your thoughts in general about not the not if it's are too much, but just the way it's ex exploded over the last, I don't know, ten years I guess, maybe less. Cameron: Yeah, I mean, it it really has as far as like what it was when I was growing up and I'm sure like when you gr you know, growing up as well, it's a lot different. I don't even remember travel ball being a thing. but now I'm, you know, McCann County. I I'm just not sure that there's a whole lot of teams doing it out that way anyway. There they may have been and I'm just wasn't good enough anyway. So not to mention that I don't you know, growing up I only participated mostly in football. So, and and I think that's even harder to find as far as like travel ball in. but as far as like the topic of travel ball, I mean it can provide a lot of like good opportunities, I feel like. so especially like getting to play some competition outside of your, you know, sphere of like like your county or whatever, I guess. And and it provides like a little community for kids, they're a part of something. now I I do think that in some ways I think personal development sometimes gets left behind and and I know we talked about this I think with maybe Mark or Neil, maybe both, when we had them on for the porch talk and stuff and and like your opinion and and their opinions I value a lot because you all competed at like, you know, like at a very high level. I never did that. And so I try to listen to other people that have done that, that know what they're talking about. And I just think that where travel ball can be fun and it can provide opportunities and provide a community, I just hope that the personal development of things doesn't get left behind. and and that's you know that's my thing. And and so but I I think there's obviously good and with anything, I mean you if you did personal development and you never got out to be, you know, in a community of people and be with a team, I'm sure that would have drawbacks as well. So hopefully when all these teams, you know, especially in the area right here, like when they get to high school and they have their high school team, hopefully that becomes the top priority. because I feel like there's probably nothing more special than competing for a state title, Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. Cameron: you know. Uncle J-Mar: I mean, I think that's the main thing, that, you know, we were growing up we wanted to have a better a better team. I think I think it's fine to have to, you know, obviously want to make yourself better. I just feel like people I was with when I we were playing, w we wanted to get better, but w it was we wanted we always said w which is our parents told us this, when you y'all need y'all stick together now, when you get older you'll have have a good team. I I'm I love the travel ball aspect. Like I said, I played Maybe F for since second grade to seventh grade. So like I love it, don't get me wrong. But we didn't play all year round. we played there's a stretch of like whatever the stretch the time is where we played every weekend. But I think personally if I if I had a kid, I would be more ha apt to make sure they I think the practice part at a certain point becomes a little more important than the weekend tournaments. if you're having a travel team and you're going every weekend and playing, you're not getting any better necessarily just by playing. you you can get more experience and you can get some game experience and that I'm sure that can help you get better. And I'm not sure what age that's this kind of changes, but I know for younger kids, I feel like the practice and the development and the basic skills and the fundamental stuff If you're not doing that during the week for a a practice, I don't see the point in going every week and playing. That was the good thing about the BBF was we were all from basically the same area. We had a couple you know, well when I played, we didn't really have but like one kid from Van City, I think, but I know some guys from Hurley played with the groups behind me. we all kind of were the from the same area, so it was easy for us to get together and practice. And our practices consisted of a lot of just fundamental stuff at the from the like and we did the s same stuff just a little bit more advanced every year. and we would practice three or four days a week. If we did if we didn't do all that, I don't feel like it would have mattered if how much we went play, we never would have gotten better. That's the problem I find I I see with a lot of it is people are going to play and they thinking they're they're thinking they're taking their kids to play in these things and they're paying a lot of money and they're doing a lot of traveling. Pl they're not getting any better f in a lot of situations. Some kids are, but also those kids probably have parents that make them work on fundamental stuff at home. I just well, that's the basketball part of it. Like the baseball part of it, I know practice has got to be important, but playing can help with that. I you know, I mean, obviously some too. It's just it's weird to me because I've heard a story about a kid that didn't play for the school's actual baseball team for during all stars because they were playing travel ball. And I don't know how that sets up for like I get it to an extent, 'cause you want the high level competition, I guess what what the reason was, I don't know. It's nobody I wasn't around the whole situation by any means. I don't know these people. Just if like I said, this is like second, third person story. But You know, is it competing for your school even at that age? Wouldn't that be the main goal there to make sure that you're doing that? I'm I just find that weird. What do you think about it? Cameron: Mm-hmm. Yeah, well, I want to say like two things. You know, first, I do agree with you on the fundamental thing, and I do agree with the practice stuff. You know, it it kind of hits home close to me because my stepson plays travel ball. And shout out to the Bristol baseliners, that's where he plays for. And they practice two times a week, even out in Bristol. And his dad they do a great job over there with that squad, and you've already we've already seen like huge amounts of improvement from the last season to this past tournament they just had. so shout them out real quick. But I will also say to your point about especially when they get to high school and it's like, you know, skipping out on like high school stuff for the travel mall stuff. I personally I'm going to side with the high school stuff because I just feel like that's where I would like to see their loyalty like kind of go to. And I think those are kids that you go to school with, you know, school pride. I still believe in that. not to say that like, you know, I think we all like the the rivalries and stuff like that. don't ever want to get like too bad blood or anything, but we like that and we grew up in that. but I I will just say this, just to be fully transparent. I didn't grow up with a tribal team. Some of these kids today I feel like are growing up with a travel team and it's almost like the travel team they have and like I don't know eight U or whatever is the same travel team they have as a senior in high school. And so I I personally would prefer that they lean towards their high school, but I I can also be, I guess, transparent and say, I guess if they played with that team from my eight you all the way to a senior, I'm sure they probably feel like their loyalties are with them too. I don't under s I you know, I can't say I understand that 'cause I've never been in it. But Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. Cameron: me personally I would wish and hope that because I'm a fan of just school pride and and and them Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. Cameron: taking pride in that. I wish it would go there. Uncle J-Mar: Yeah, I'm not saying I I'm not telling anybody or doing the wrong thing. I just find I just find that weird, you know, that you were play for like a regular season for a school and then you end up not playing regular s in a rec like the regular school team because you're doing travel. But I guess, you as long as they're getting it out and getting something out of it and they're getting better, that's what's really important, I guess. But it's just I just find that weird. You didn't used to hear about that I was like I said we didn't really have travel ba baseball as much around here as we did as we do now. but the all go ahead. Cameron: I do want say this, can I say this real quick, just because I just before you if you happen to go to another point, I meant to say this 'cause you mentioned that you really enjoy not only do you think it's important and vital coaching the fundamentals, but you also as a coach, when you coach something, you enjoyed that as well. Like you said, you enjoy the X and X's and Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. Cameron: O's, but you love player development. Me personally, that's how I feel too. Like whenever I was able to coach, and even whenever if I ever am blessed enough to do it again. The X's and O's are fun and all. Like the winning is fun and all, and yeah, we wanna win. But I love going out there and watching the players, like the ball is going over here. I love watching the players that are fighting on the line of scrimmage, looking to see where their hands are, looking to see if it's you know in tight and they're driving. When they tackle, like where's their pad level? Like I love those fundamental things. And my thing is, Where and where I guess the fear would be, and I think you've kind of said this too, is that if you get to where you're just chasing wins and losses, well, chasing wins, I guess, but you're just getting wins and losses on the weekends, but you're not getting those important things throughout the week, are you getting better? Or are Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. Cameron: you just a part of something? Which is fine, which is important too, but you don't Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. Cameron: want to lose the player development. I just wanted to say Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. Cameron: that for you. Uncle J-Mar: No, I agree with you. And as far as winning goes, like I I d I I feel like you gotta try to win it. I'm sure there's a cer a si a situation and circumstance where at a age level where it's not obviously not the most important thing, but I feel like you should still tell it's the important 'cause I feel like that's a bad stupidly sub to get down that winning's not what you're trying to do. But I get at a certain age obviously. But my thing too is like well, we had s when I was playing BBF, we had a team that we played against in a lot of tournaments that were from around our area. I think they were the Black Diamond Blue Devils. we had a couple I think at least one it was Logan and Shorts played with him. So instead of BBF he played on it. and they had some guy him and g some guy a guy from Haysai, council. I think Kent played when he was at Council. I think Jake Collie was from Haysai, he played on it. And they I mean, obviously it didn't hurt them guys 'cause that's, you know, obviously Jake's one of the best players I ever played against and Logan and Kent were great. So it didn't hurt them, but I also know that they had at home people teaching them those fundamentals. I think where people slip through is and it's not any fault of the parents if they don't know what to teach these kids or, you know, if it's hard to make time for it. But when you're doing all that and you're traveling and you're playing if you if your parents don't know the game very much, then you're not getting that in a practice, where are you gonna get it at? You know what I mean? Like I could have went and played and not practice bec because my dad obviously knows the game and I had that family basketball history where I was still gonna learn it. A lot of kids don't have that. And that's I think that's some of the problem is, you know, i it's just and again, there's no right or wrong way to do it. I just think it's interesting some of this dynamic that's goes on in these travel tournaments and stuff. but anyway, get off of that. So unless you got anything else Cameron: was just gonna say you know one you know like Mark had mentioned I think in the podcast he said you know you can do you can do your practices just like anybody else would and you can be a fine player. if you're already just God you if you have that God given talent, yeah, you're gonna do well especially at the high school level or at the local level. but if you want to see your game take another step, it's that work that you do when you're not practicing. Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. Cameron: And excuse me, not only that, but you you know, you mentioned with the parents and stuff like that. And and I do, I I understand that. Because like for me, I don't know a whole lot about baseball. I don't feel very equipped to help my oldest on a lot of that stuff. His dad's fantastic with it. but when it comes to like even basketball. I never really played basketball a whole lot, but I helped coach my youngest one's team. and I would just say this, and I've kind of picked up on this. shout out to and I don't know if she's watching this, but shout out to Amy Smith out here at Honeacre. she is a fantastic coach in the sports and stuff she works with. but her daughters, they're young, but they are terrific athletes. And I remember I don't know if I was talking to her or if I was talking to one of them, but they talked about how they would just walk around the house and and dribble all the time. And so I think I would just say this, like even as a parent, if you feel like that, well, I don't know how to teach to do a crossover, I don't know how to teach how to bunt or like how to do some these things, like even something simple, like just have walk around with a ball and dribble. Like you'd be surprised at just getting them familiar with something like would help them. and and you know, of course, it would be nice to adapt and learn those other things too. but you would be surprised that just and I'm speaking I'm speaking to myself, if I just had like my son, like maybe quit watching T V for a second, and let him walk around with a ball. You know, like what what that would do for him going forward in in sports. So I I would just say that, like there there could be something that if you want if your son or daughter is playing something and you feel like you don't know what to do, just give something simple like that and and I think that repetitions that you'll be surprised how much that'll help them in the future. Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. one more thing. I will admit that just the whole practice thing I was talking about being important and maybe not playing as much. You can also have your have a coach that doesn't know what they're doing either and has teaches terrible habits. And if you're teaching that then those kids may end up getting good at shooting with the wrong form. You can be a good shooter and have terrible form, that's true. so also that's another thing, a whole nother dynamic of it that you know, I say that about practicing and making sure that's an important thing and doing that instead of playing, but also if if who you're playing for, if you're teaching if they're getting taught bad habits and bad stuff, like what do you do? You know what I mean? It's a it's a hard it's a weird slippery slope, I guess. There's a right like I said, there's no right or wrong. I mean people can figure it out for themselves, but It's funny, th you meant you sent me a text earlier today and I had seen it three times this week that I and I meant to send it to you every time and I forgot. But the fighting the the I can't remember what's called something in the cage or whatever, it's at the Bristol Casino. yeah, yeah, cage ferry, yeah. Cameron: Yeah, Cage Fury, I think is what it was, maybe. Yeah. Uncle J-Mar: first of all, that'd be really cool to go to. Cameron: Mm-hmm. Uncle J-Mar: Secondly did you ever go to any thing around here, any of those local fights that used to be put on? Cameron: not in MMA. no, I did we we went to Redneck Brawl there many years ago. I think it was actually Barstool's first ever one that like after they took ownership over, the first ever one they done. I will say this. shout out to my buddy at church, Thomas Van Dyke. He is MMA fighter and I think he told me and I'm not sure the exact date. I want to say in September, but they're supposed to have one, I think, at r in the Richlands area or somewhere in the Tazel County area. Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. Cameron: and he had mentioned me going there and helping with that. And so I've not been to one local, so I I'm excited to go to that. Maybe even looking into going to the Cage Fury thing. I think that'd be cool. I have saw, of course, a UFC fight in Louisville and and I'm still standby as an avid football fan I still stand by that UFC event was maybe the best sporting event I've ever been to my life. Uncle J-Mar: not been to the right game, I feel like. But I I can see it being I can see it being amazing. Don't get me wrong, but I just I don't know that I'm gonna say that's it Cameron: You just you just you Yeah, you need to go. Uncle J-Mar: would be the best ever. I got a funny funny story about a local one. We were there was one at Tazwell. I was at in college at the time and they had it up at Tazwell and I guess the dude that was supposed to fight I guess the guy he was he was supposed to fight didn't show up. And they I guess they were looking around the room looking for people that were like maybe close to the same weight class or something, I guess, so they come to they come over to me, it's like, Hey, we'll give you this much money, fight this dude. I think it well, I think they're offering me like three hundred dollars or something crazy. 'Cause he'd come from a pretty good ways away. He just wanted to get a fight in. I was like, I don't know, man. Like I've never done that before. That's kinda w kinda odd. I think we went during it wasn't during basketball season, but we were It was before I the I guess it was the fall, so we were we were doing workout stuff and that we were leading up to it, cut season coming up. I was like, I don't know, I you know, get hurt something, that'd be a bad story to tell why broke something, you know what I mean? And I was like almost on the verge of doing it though. I was like, three hundred dollars a lot of money. I mean, what's the worst that could happen? I get you know, maybe if I get knocked out, I who c you know, whatever, like never been knocked out, but people get up from it, you know, as long as I don't break anything. I looked over at the dude that it wa that I was gonna have to be fighting and I'm talking like this jacked dude, just r I mean, but he was probably six inches shorter than me, but probably weighed more than me, 'cause I wasn't fat like I am now at the time. But I wasn't skinny. But this dude was like the short, stocky, boulder of a d of a dude, and was warming up. And I was like, No, I'm good. I'm out. like But I always regretted it. I always wish this at one time I w even if I'd have gotten knocked out in the first ten seconds, I always wish I would have just done it that one time just to say I did it. But have you ever thought about not now, obviously I'm assuming not now, but did you ever think about getting into anything like that or trying it? Cameron: Yeah, first off I've never heard that story and I've been around you for years. yeah. Uncle J-Mar: I don't it's it's a it's a old one. It's from way back. It's from like two thousand what, seven, I think, eight, or yeah. Cameron: Yeah, that's awesome. you know, I I guess I'm trying to think how old I was. It was out of high school. I was getting heavy into like lifting and stuff like that. And it wasn't I don't know that I ever really thought about getting in the cage, but I did go one time to a little MMA gym and at the time I think it was over in Belfast. Dylan Smith, I think he still has again, I think in Lebanon now. and they were just they were fantastic. I only went there like one time, but they were like super nice. I walked in and they were like just all in on helping me helping me with everything. And and the reason why I went was just I was really into like working out and exercising and I was like, you know what? I would love to learn jujitsu for one. But two, I just know the cardio that you'd get from that would be insane. So Quick story. We ended up like they showed me how to do some striking and we rolled around on some other stuff. how to like break guard and stuff like that. but we like wrestled for a little bit and the person I wrestled was like a high school kid, I think at Richland's at the time. I don't know, he may have been like maybe fifteen or something. I'm telling you, J Mark, that minute or so that I walked up with him and was wrestling, I thought I was gonna die. Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. Cameron: Like I really did. And there is something different about like Uncle J-Mar: Ha ha ha. Cameron: going against somebody else's will. Like it's just there's something about that. And so whatever thought that I maybe even would have even like the tiniest shred of consideration to like fighting just to say I did it or or whatever, went out the door when I realized how awful that was. So Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. Cameron: And and I never did go Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. Cameron: back there. not because of that, just you know, st like I'm not gonna go pay for something when you know So Uncle J-Mar: Yeah, yeah. I I mean I don't I don't think I ever would have been a great fighter. I I always liked the idea of maybe trying to pursue something like that. I honestly I just don't like the idea of getting hit in the face. So it never never did, you know, I don't think it would have been for me. there was I can't remember who the guy was in high school. They were talking about fighting some one time and not fighting like that kind of fighting, just street fighting. And that I can't remember we were on a bus maybe and we're talking about it But he was like, you can't said, You go to Grundy he said, You can't pick a fight, no, them dudes and they like, you know, what are you talking about? I was like, 'cause you don't know which one's gonna knock you out, and you don't know which one's gonna take you down and tie you up like a pretzel. He's like, that was his rule. He said, You do not go down to grindy and get in a fight 'cause you don't know if it's a wrestler or not. So that was that was his main thing. He said he'll go over anywhere else and fight, he'll even get beat up if he he don't care. But he's like, You cannot go down there 'cause you just never know which one you're messing with. And I always remembered that. I was like Anybody want him tries to fight me or grindy, just no f just be aware. They will take you down and just do whatever they want. So that's kinda like what you're Cameron: No. I'll say this too and it this is not like completely off topic 'cause I just saw it today. but I wanna say, 'cause you talk about grunny wrestling, I wanted to shout out Fred and Cody off of Fresh Off the Clock. I don't know if you saw but they they went yeah, they got on the Grundy Mats or the not Grundy Mats, the Southern Gap. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah. Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. Yeah. yeah, better be careful to edit that out, for sure. Cameron: they got on the Southern Gap mats over there, I think. And you McLanahan, I believe. I gave Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. Cameron: a tour of the facility and that was a pretty entertaining fight that they had or wrestling match rather. but it was cool seeing those guys in their neck of the woods. that Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. Cameron: just that was neat. Uncle J-Mar: Yeah, they get they get around everywhere, man. Them and then the Mountain Mojo Cameron: Yeah. Yeah. Uncle J-Mar: though guys. I mean there's a bunch now that they're ever that seems like they're all over the place. Cameron: Yeah. Yeah. Uncle J-Mar: unl except for us. We just w we're don't we don't get out like we used to. But Southern Gap, that was a good segue into min into something else we gotta talk about. We're not gonna go in depth about like football and all this stuff. Just we'll save that for like a porch talk episode, but we can talk about it a little bit, but you've not got a chance to go yet, hopefully this weekend. But what are your thoughts? You're hearing your you know, what you've seen from videos and stuff. What what's just your your first impressions of well everything really from the f game Friday night to the pictures of the field and s everything like that? Cameron: Yeah, I mean, it's crazy. Like I just, you know, remember years ago, like when it was just tossed around and I'm sure I feel like the way I feel I'm sure is how a lot of people in McCann County feel. we heard about it for so long, so just to s finally see it and I've not got to see it in person, but even just to see it in pictures is just wild. It really is. but I'm super happy For that community to get something like, like, yeah, and I've not been in the schools, I'm just gonna talk about the football field. To get something like that for them to be proud of, because it is one of the best football fields, I feel like, high school wise, like anywhere around in their area. so that's cool, first and foremost. And and those kids get to go on that and play on that. That's awesome. as far as the teams specifically, like talking about. what we've seen so far maybe watch like looking ahead for Friday, I f I feel like that that was a good win against Holston. it's good to kind of get that W to start the the year off. and there's always just something about like if you don't get it then it's all always like well when are we gonna get it? And that's kind of looming over your head. so I think it's good to kind of go ahead and get that. I do think that just like with probably any team going into their first game of the season, we're probably gonna have this same discussion with any of next week. you always have a lot of those mental mistakes, just those even fundamental mistakes, 'cause it's one thing to practice it. And and I know Coach Caster is probably I mean, that crew they got over there, that staff, they know how to run and practice and I'm sure they have them well equipped, but it's still different until you actually get to go out there and compete against another team. And work out some kinks and stuff. So I feel like that we saw some of that Friday night, probably for them at Holston. so but going into Ridgeview, the margin of errors, you know, so much smaller. I mean Ridgeview is a great team. I watched a scrimmage last week between them and Lebanon, and I just feel like they got a lot of depth. they can pass the ball well. Their defense did a great job last week at stopping the running game for Lebanon. And so you know, going into Friday, that's what Southern Gaff likes to do. And Redview's really good at stopping it, so it'll be an interesting, you know, Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. Cameron: thing to see. But but I mean, the one thing that's cool, and I sent it to you earlier, they got a big old trophy now Uncle J-Mar: Mm. Cameron: for that game. And so that and I and you were there last week so you could definitely talk about it more. But it sounded like there was a good bit of people up there for the first game. Well, I can't imagine what it's gonna be like Friday because I'm sure Ridgeview will bring a crowd as well. So I'd say it's gonna be a packed house. Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. I will say this for anybody that's still listening this far into the show. if you are going to a game at Southern Gap, buy tickets online. It just save you a lot of time apparently. just it's my advice, buy them online. They you go through obviously like a regular game, scan If you gotta stay in line for tickets, there's just one gate and two people taking up money and selling and so it's a little bit of a funnel. you know, you don't ain't no really can't it's just one single file line. So if I I would say give that advice out. The other thing that I noticed about about it is first of all it's just it's amazing scenery up there. Just, you know, the sky like you're on top of the mountain, so you know, what Dad was talking about. He's like you can see everything coming, storms coming, you can see forever. You know, there was well we we watched a storm and rain cloud come in for what seemed like an hour before it ever finally got over the school. super nice facility. not sure about a about the parking yet. I don't know if they don't have all of the parking lots finished or if that's just if it was just gonna it's always gonna be like that for crowds. I I think you're still figuring some of this stuff out, like I said, kinks and what to do, what not to do, how can we make it better. It wasn't bad, you know, I mean, just like you're going anywhere. Like I'm I walked a lot less di of a distance to up there Friday than I have at Lebanon before or if we've had to go to go to a game at you go to a game at Bullet Park, if you're not there three hours for the game, you're walking a long way. So like just any b any of those places that are packed out, I don't want to ramble too much about it, but I do hope that that support continues all throughout the year and that crowd is always a good crowd. Cause you're gonna have some people probably that first week that wanna go see the school and see everything that maybe not be might not be like dollar football fans, you know, that just are there. So I hope the crowd stays up and regardless of their wins and losses, hopefully this whole year they get that support. 'cause they they play a pretty tough schedule as far as I mean it's not a it's not a I don't want to say it's a tough schedule 'cause these people are gonna be like, well they're two A and they're playing these many single A schools. Yeah, they're a two A school, but the three schools that they combine together or three teams, they've combined four schools. I mean get out get that out there because you're gonna have people saying, it's not three schools, it's four schools. Three football teams that they put together. I would imagine that If those three schools were still playing this year, I would think that a combined total of wins of more than five for the between the three of was probably be a good year. I don't think Twin Valley would have been a minimum might have won a game somewhere. I don't know if they would have even had enough to have a team. Hurley was borderline, I think, not gonna have a team last year, it seems like. They probably if sa say they win two or three. Don't know what kind of schedule Grundy had. They had a tough one last year. So if theirs is their schedule was difficult and they were gonna be low on numbers this year and they great I think they lost some graduated some good some good players. I think those I think five or six wins between three teams is was probably gonna be good. W it's a build it's a building year for for them, basically. And you get thrown into the fire of a you know being a two A school and you're kind of building still and you got young players and not a lot of seniors, you know, the the program's going in the right direction. But that schedule, man, you got Ridgevie week two, people picking them one of the picks to win the Mountain Seven. Then you have Honeacre on there. That's people picking them to win the Hobahgee, then Matchill Halley one. You got East Side of Rye Cove on there. e one of those teams are probably going to be in a racing championship game, if not playing each other. Just depends on how things fall. and so your single A competition as far as is pretty daggone good teams you're playing. So then you throw in, you know, Riverview, I don't know what they have. You throw in Giles, not sure how how good they are. And then you just got, you know, it's not an easy schedule by no means, but it could be a lot harder. You could have a gram in there, like they will have at some point. But I just think people's expectations for this team this year, and I know the people who say this probably don't know a lot about football, but all you hear is, well, they got forty two kids and they're they're two A, they should be, you know, whatever. You know, I don't care how many kids you have on a team, you can only play eleven on the field at one time. It's great to have that that many p kids and you have depth, but you have to have a a qu quality of depth. To be able to take people in and out. So for anybody out there that thinks that this is team's just gonna be like really, really good at off the jump, it's not necessarily gonna be a a year where they're predic pr pr projected to win eight, nine, ten games. They could. And don't get me wrong, you know, I don't know what they're gonna turn into. I'm not saying they're gonna lose a lot of those games. I just we we don't know. You know what I'm saying? So I guess this is more for people who are out there thinking this stuff. I think people need to just kinda realize what what's going on. but I wish all the best. I mean obviously I hope they win every game here on out. I just don't think realistically you're gonna get that year one with the three. Now if you'd consolidated a Twin Valley team that was expected to win, you know, a lot of games and then a Hurley team that was gonna be really, really good and a Grundy team that was going to win it, you know, That'd be different. Then you'd say, okay, these are three really good football teams that you're putting together kind of like a pound and Appalachia. Everybody expected Union to be really, really good from day one because it's pound and Appalachia. I don't think the ex you could expect that with where these three were at with their numbers and, you know, how the previous years had been going. but anyway, that w I went on a bit of long rant there, but I just wanted to get that out there because I feel like It's too too high expectations, not from everybody, but I've heard certain people say it. And I just don't think it's fair to the to them, but the pressure is probably gonna be on them anyway from being a new school this year. but I hope I hope I hope they'll come out and like I said, I hope they're Cameron: Yep. Uncle J-Mar: impressed. Cameron: Well, I think too, and I think really like the heart of that too is like as a fan base, don't give up on Like and and I Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. Cameron: think that's really the heart of that is like, yeah, I know you want to see them do well and I hope they do well. I'm sure the fans hope they do well. But if you do have some hiccups, understand that that's part of it. I mean you're like you just said you're year one. into this and and I'm sure I'm sure Coach Tester and that staff's not going to go into a single game where they expect to lose. However, I do think that year one, I'm sure by the end of this year, no matter wins or losses, I'm sure that staff would be like, We want we wanted to set the culture and hopefully that is what happened. so that way going on to the next few years. And you know, Coach Tester's done a great job at that at Hurley when he was there. he had high numbers, I feel like, as far as like in the late room. He had kids bought in. And and that's what you need. I feel like more than anything. If you come out of this year and you win six or seven games, if you win more or if you win less, hopefully you ended the year with a team that fought hard every game, a culture that is set in stone that's you can build on, and a fan base that is committed and weathers the storm and comes out and supports them through this process. Like don't don't give up on it. Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. speaking of crowds though, it's gonna be really, really crowded Friday night. I mean if twenty if I keep wanting to say twenty miles, if Southern Gap has anywhere near the same amount of people on their side and Ridgeview is probably gonna bring all of Dickinson County with him. and is they're playing for, like you said, the big Cold Trophy, whatever it's called, the Cold Classic, which is a awesome looking trophy. It's gonna be a really, really, really cool environment Friday night. Let's just say that. I don't care what the score is with w a at kickoff, that's gonna be a really cool place to be, I feel like, for that moment. if and I'm telling you, people better get there early if they wanna get in for kickoff 'cause it's gonna be I got a feeling it's gonna be packed. I will say this, I was I feel like I was really negative in that rant and I didn't mean to be. I just, you know, obviously coach tester and the coaching staff as a coach you expect to win every game. That's how you should feel. I feel like my rant was more about some of these fans that don't maybe necessarily get it. I g I guess and it's not like I said it's probably the minority. I've just heard a few people talk about it. But you know th they could win some games this year that they shouldn't win. And they could lose a c some game they shouldn't lose either. You know what I'm saying? So it's it's that's every year. It's not just this year. But I do think the future looks pretty bright for They I there's some standout dudes on that out there that you see. a lot of good young players, since the seniors that are very, very good too, pop off like some of them linemen. I was very impressed. you know, the whole I mean whole team you can tell they, you know, it they they all play hard, obviously. That's that's one great thing about it. But it'll stay on the football topic. Since you have a honeycher shirt on and you're teaching at homeaker. What are the vibes Honeacre? Is I know you're in the elementary school, but obviously they got a lot of high expectations this year with quarterback coming back. That was fantastic last year as a freshman. Cameron: Yeah. Uncle J-Mar: I think I think there's a lot of higher expectations on them this year just because of the breakout season of from him last year. I heard a lot of good things, heard the line looks really good. Heard they got some maybe some guys from down the road to come up. and playing some ball an orange this year instead of another color. but I I mean people talking about winning being one of the teams to win the Hobahgee, which is Chill Halley's gonna be really good too, I think. but when you every time you get mentioned to win your district and w having a chance at winning region, obviously people are expecting good things. But what is what's the vibe, if any, at the Mills Gold? Does it kind of do you pick up on anything being a teacher there that Cameron: Yeah, I mean, I I feel like, you know, some stuff for sure, and probably more so just because I'm a fan of the sport, Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. Cameron: more so than maybe just being in the middle school. but maybe as far as like some of the like the roster stuff you're talking about, I can't say that I I know a whole lot about that part because I don't see it 'cause I don't see those kids, right? Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. Cameron: but I will say that well I'll say this too. Shout out to My brother in law, Connor Wallace, he's a part of the coaching staff up there too. So I do get to hear some stuff through there. you know, just stuff that you know, his excitement and stuff for the year. but I I do think the expectations are there and like there is a lot of excitement. I I do think that for them and I know the east side's not in the Hokahige, but it does help somewhat that where there is excitement here and there are people expecting big things, it's like they're not the team that the area is expecting to go to state. And and that and that's not to say I think I think they can make it there. But I think that when you carry that weight, like it it does add a little bit more pressure. And East Side, I think I feel like they've got that on and rightfully so. I mean they've got everybody back. Coach Rhodes does a fantastic job over there. I'm super excited to see what they do this year. but I think they are definitely the team that's coming in with the expectations more so than anybody. but I do think that as far as what Honecker can bring, man, I mean, the passing attack was amazing last year, you mentioned it. Parker's great. Coach Lowe does a fantastic job there. the receiving group is great. shout out Levi Honeaker. His mom works down there at the middle school. with me and and he's just I think he's gotten bigger and stronger and and he's been putting on he put on a lot of good games last year, had a lot of great stats and and I think even in the scrimmage him and I was trying to think of the other dude that they have a receiver cannot think of off the top of my head right now, but he caught like two or three touch on passes I think last week. They've got weapons, I guess is what I'm trying to say. to pair up with Parker. The line looks good. defense I think has been very active. I I I just think there's a lot of things to be excited about. but, you know, like I said first game, it's a rival I mean playing against 11 in the Cold Bowl, you just never know what could happen. And it's like that. It don't matter. I mean When you have two teams like that that know each other so well in a big game like that, especially at the beginning of the year when things are still getting worked out, mistakes happen, you really don't know what you could come up with. Now, obviously, I'm a Honeacre tiger now, so I'm throwing my hat in and I can do this, that you know, I I'm thinking Honeaker will win and I'm hoping Honecker will win. I want to be able to go to school tomorrow and not get ran out of my classroom. So that is First and foremost, I I I I do think that we'll do well Thursday night. but yeah, I'm excited for it. And and I think really the I mean they do have potential to go pretty far this year. I I really do think they got the roster for it. Uncle J-Mar: one more thing on Honecker. Do you like the new entrance? Cameron: Yeah, man, I I noticed that like a while back, you know, 'cause they play after middle school. And so I noticed they were like planting the things out there and stuff. And so I I saw that last week and I think that's awesome. I mean, I love that. And you we got the new field too, so Uncle J-Mar: I I'm not I'll I'll I'll tell you my first thought was I'm not sure how I feel about the Clemson walk down the hill into a f Virginia Tech Inner Sandman running out thing. That's kinda odd connect odd pairing, but it it looked really cool. but anyway, also talking about single lay for a minute, Rykov beaten I don't know what Lord Bottot has this year, but three A school, Rykov getting a win. Talk about Eastside. Yeah, on paper, Eastside should be the outright favorite to win the region this year. But they've had a little bit of a hiccup against Rykov here the last couple of years. I I mean I'm not sure people are look kind of overlooking Rykov also a little bit 'cause Eastside rightfully so what they have back should be the favorite. But you got a honeacre in there, you a Chill Howie in there and a Rik a Rykov in there that I wouldn't count any of out. I mean, you know, any given night, you never know who, you know. So also speaking of Ryko, I think today's our our boy landed, I think it's his birthday. I think I think so. Cameron: Yeah. Shout out. Uncle J-Mar: I may be wrong on that, but I think I seen that, so happy birthday to him. If he's still listening, I'm not sure if we lost him or not, but it's been so long since we've had had one. All right, I got one more football related question. And you you don't have to go into a lot of detail about it. I just I wanna know what your prediction for the final record of your Niners this year. We're gonna skip over your college team, we're not gonna talk about that team on my show. So we're skipping over that. but your Cameron: yeah. Uncle J-Mar: Niners final record and some thoughts you you you think this year about how things will go. Cameron: Yeah. I mean it's hard to give a number. I'd have to sit here and look at the schedule. But we'll we'll just like throw out I feel like eleven, twelve games, I think is doable and I think reasonable. you know, like with any year, especially with us, probably more so than anybody. It depends on injuries. that's a big, big thing. Now last year we had more injuries, I feel like, than anybody, and we still did very well. and so we could still Do that. but man, when you get into the playoffs, it like you don't have those pieces, you get throttled like you did last year against Seattle. And and Seattle had a fantastic year. Their defense was amazing, so they could have beat us anyway. but when you just don't have all those guys, like those big time players like Warner, Bosa, it hurts. I I'll just say this because I want to get into it because I can sit here and talk about it all night. We have weapons for Purdy and that's huge. In the last two years in terms of wide receiver separation, we we were last in the league in the last two years. And but still yet, Purdy was number one in like deep throws and especially intermediate throws, I think as well when it comes to percentage. So I think with what we've had, I think that they've done the best they could do with what we've had. But now we've got Evans, we've got that stribbling guy that just came in, he's been tearing it up. We've got Debo, we're gonna get Kittle back, got McCaffrey, we've got weapons. So there's really no excuse at defense. The most excited I am about anything is having Dre Greenlock back. Because him and Warner being back together gives a certain swagger back to the defense. So I'm excited for the football season. I'm sure you're excited, especially as your team just dropped some cool new uniforms. So I think that Yeah. Uncle J-Mar: I'm not I I I try my best to not get excited anymore, but Cameron: But you do like the uniforms? I mean. Yeah. Uncle J-Mar: F at first glance I think I do. I gotta see a little more of it. I I kinda seen it. I like, that's cool. And then I've not really given a lot of thought yet, but if I had to go for my first glance, I think they're cool looking. So I I I'll know more about it once I see on a field, you know, and I see how it goes. But Cameron: Better than the Jaguars spotted pants. Uncle J-Mar: I mean anything's better than the Jaguars, anything, so yeah. Cameron: Yeah. Makes sense. Uncle J-Mar: all right. last question. Is there anything that I didn't ask you that I should have? Cameron: No, I don't I don't think so. But Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. Cameron: I but I I will say this, before we get off here, just 'cause there was a few things I I did want to say. first and foremost, even the episodes like that I'm not a part of, I'm super excited to listen to you get on here and and I'm glad this is up and going and I hope gu I don't hope I know that people are gonna gonna listen to it because I mean just throwing out a post when you was at the game last week Threw a lot of intrigue. And and that says something, especially when we ha there is all these other shows out there. And it's like it would be really easy to like throw something out there like you did last week. And then people would just be like, Well, that's just another sports show. But no, like there's people that remembered and that they like watched us and grew close to us as followers and and they were excited. I mean and it wasn't even like it was just a picture of the football field. but you had people asking, you know. And so I just want to say first off that it's really cool and I'm excited to listen to it and any time I get to be part of it, super excited for it. I think it's gonna provide something different, just like some honest conversation stuff. And and while I I think that giving the kids their airtime is super important, and I feel like we did that, Very well when we done it. And there's a lot of other pages that are doing that now. I feel like there needs to be a spot for just some honest conversation about teams and just sports talk. Kind of like you used to have what was that old the website that used to have like the sports pickups on them? You remember what I'm talking about? I know somebody out here listening to this. Uncle J-Mar: I mean there's been there's been there's been so many different websites that I'm not sure how far back you wanna go. Cameron: Well, I mean like when I was going through high school, I remember there was like some pretty big ones on there. or one big website that I can't remember what it was called. Uncle J-Mar: I tell you that the big one that was very controversial and got people really riled up a lot when I was playing was I think it was called Virginia Preps. Remember that. Hey, it's been they've been a lot of Cameron: Virginia Press I d I know of Virginia Press. I don't think that was the one I'm thinking of. But you know. Uncle J-Mar: what's it called the when the the K D has when you you're you have an account, but it's I think there's a lot of I think there was a lot of burners on that on that Virginia Cameron: All burner accounts. Yeah. Uncle J-Mar: anonymous post that were being made that got Cameron: Yeah. Uncle J-Mar: people a little little a little angry about certain things. It's a that's more of a basketball Cameron: I've said it. Yeah. Uncle J-Mar: thing. I can't I think there was something about the Southwest Virginia sports or something that was a football Cameron: Yeah. I think that's what I'm Uncle J-Mar: Yeah, that was the one for football, yeah. Cameron: I think that's what I'm remembering. Yeah. A and I know I'm not saying that, you know, you want to get on anybody on here and have necessarily like arguments or whatever, but but what I'm saying is is that I think there is a a place there for someone to just be real to like sit down and have a conversation. And it doesn't even end up having to go to football. But you know, you getting somebody on and just the conversation one wherever, I think to have that have the sports elements into it. I think it's something that's good for the area to have. but also before I get off here, I do want to say, and you already mentioned I'm shouting out to like Mountain Mojo, Towers Talking Sports, to Fresh Off the Clock, that they're, you know, still doing that stuff. But I wanted to shout out especially Fresh Off the Clock before I left off here because two things. One, Fred Meiko you know, we talked about my third hour podcast. He came on there and for you guys that are watching this that know of Fred, know a fresh off the clock, go check out that episode. It is so great to hear about Fred, some of his story, him share his faith. It's amazing. but not only that, but they just did a I think a clothing drive or a food drive c clothing drive thing. Go check that out, guys. Like that's one thing that I really respect that they do. is that they are out there doing giving coverage to the sports and athletes, but they've done a really good job of getting into the community and doing these outreach things. And I just think that's amazing. So I wanted to shout that out too. other than that, I don't have anything. I don't think I'm sure there'll be something afterwards I'm like, shout out to all of our f our buddies. Uncle J-Mar: May though it yeah. Cameron: I meant to wear the construction hat tonight, Logan's hat. I just it just now hit me. shout Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. Cameron: out to them too. Uncle J-Mar: Yeah. we had I mean, what was it? Three hours of a draft we Saturday. a lot of a lot of back and forths and opinions about things, but yeah, it was a lot of fun. also appreciate you coming on. Thanks for being my first guest, being the guinea pig of this. I'm not sure if people will wanna 'Cause you mentioned them me messaging us and asking us about if we were gonna put out an episode and that was really cool to to actually people have people ask. But I'm not sure they're gonna wanna see just me, but we're gonna find out how that goes moving forward. Cameron: I think they will. Uncle J-Mar: But hopefully at some point we can get a Ports Talk episode in and r and record one. Well how do we wanna announce this thing about the not announce it, but like We talked about sending us messages. How would we talk about this? If somebody wants to send a portal a message and ask a question, we might cover it on here. Is that all they gotta do is just send a message to the to our Facebook. Cameron: Yeah, so yeah, so I'll go ahead and I I think that you could do it two different ways. So if anybody has made it to this point, and I think you will have some people that definitely will, in the same mindset of and I'm sure a lot of you guys have watched Friday Night Lights and what was the show called on the Friday Night Lights? Something Sammy's, right? Uncle J-Mar: the movie I think was what it's Sam and Sammy or something like that. Cameron: Might have been that. Yeah. And so I think the idea would be, you know, people at and or you could even look like right now at some sports shows like the Brandon Walker show, for example. But like people would they would call in, but what we're saying is like they could send an audio or they can send a written message to you and be like, Hey, I think that this is gonna happen Friday or Hey, what do you think, Uncle J. Moore, about the Colts this year? Or hey Uncle Jammer, what do you think about I don't know, that UFC fight, or hey Uncle Jammer, what do you think about the whatever, you know? And and yet Yeah. And I think the idea Uncle J-Mar: Yeah, just get a hot take or something or yeah, we'll figure it. Cameron: was for you to be able to well you play it and you could respond to it or however, you know, that's your chance. Yeah. Uncle J-Mar: Yeah, s yeah, yeah, we'll figure something out. But yeah, if you have anybody wants to has like a thing, just any kind of question or anything you wanna hear, like I don't know when I can work it in either to see that'd be a thing, depending on the guest. Might not even be able do this. I may do some solo episodes, just read off questions, give my take on it. Cameron: Well that that's the thing is like they could send it to you and then you could just respond to it. You they wouldn't have to be on air per se unless you of course you did have a guest. Yeah, but I mean like they could send you something and you just respond to it like in a segment or whatever. If you like. Uncle J-Mar: Speaking of hot takes, God rest your soul, rest in peace, Dolly Parton, but I Dolly Parton was really overrated. I hate to say that on a day like this, but Cameron: Too soon. Uncle J-Mar: I mean, I just I'm just saying I n as a person, she was a great person. She had some good music. I just feel like people go a little nuts over it and it's not as good as what I thought Yeah. That's my this my opinion. Just my d just my opinion. Cameron: Not not not not a huge fan of the music, but huge fan of the the person and the charity stuff that she did and what she was for community. I'll say that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uncle J-Mar: yeah, great person apparently. Yeah, like to do that did a lot of good work and come from nothing. But rest in peace, Dolly Parton. Sad day for America, I guess. anyway, that's that'll do it. We're in an hour fourteen in. Thank you, Cameron, for being our our first guest. and I don't know when we'll do this again, but y'all have a good one.