Comparing Amish Cultures, Taylor Swift's Growth and I'm Still a Guy :: Ep 44 Try That in a Small Town Podcast
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It just sounds to me like if you're an Amish person, you'd be mad at the Mennonites. Oh, I think so. Because they're kind of... Posers? Yes. They're taking some of that credit, but yet...

Not following the strict guidelines of the Amish. That's what it sounds like. Let's start a war. Well, you got Taylor Swift. I mean, she used country music as a stepping stone to get where she is so she could step in the bubble. The stepping stone went into the bubble. She's still in there. She's not going to come out. Ever. She's got her jet. She's going to spew her jet fumes all over the atmosphere.

And then bitch about somebody else that's doing it. We all have a text, right? Hey, I got this person, got this person. So I was watching TV a few days ago, and it's on Fox, and they're doing the RFK confirmation hearings. And he gets through, and he gets confirmed. And I text the group, and I go, RFK confirmed.

And then I get the responses. Bro, what? Amazing. Dude, that's incredible. You'll hit it first. I'm right behind you. Badass curtain. It's freaking amazing. You're on fire. I read that and I'm like,

he got RFK to come on our podcast. I was like, no way. And I was like, these guys really didn't think he was going to get confirmed. Confirmed was the loose term there. The Try That in a Small Town podcast begins now. Try that in a small town.

We are here, this is the Try That in a Small Town podcast, coming to you from the Patriot Mobile Studios. We love the Patriot Mobile Studios. We got Neil, we got K-Lo, we got TK. We're going with first names today, huh? Yeah, I feel like we need to get reacquainted.

Did you see Ed's nicknames that he proposed for me? They're a little too cool, I think. What are they? What are they? That'd be great. I didn't see that. Sky. Sky. Sky. Air. Air, Kurt. Because I jump in the air, and also I'm a master of the airwaves. So we got Sky, Air, Kurt.

It sounds like Ed lives his life high. It sounds to me like. No, it has to be like old sky because you jumped higher later. Like earlier in your career, you were really high. So it's old sky. I get zero vertical these days. Some days, Kurt is blue sky. Some days, he's gray sky. Some days. Today, he's been kind of in between. Yeah, a little bit of cheap dark cloud. Yeah.

A few passing clouds here and there. Partly cloudy. We've got a little bit of an eye issue here at the table. Caleb, what is that thing you got called? Oh, I don't know. It's a couple things. Sorry I was late. But I've got a sty. Yeah. So hopefully they can zoom in on that. But you've got something way worse. Well, I've got that, but then I've got like...

I don't know if it's a great topic, but you have rosacea, which is one of these things that breaks down your face, nose, everywhere, and you can't get rid of it. It's forever, right? Like herpes. Kind of like herpes. Yeah. Except you don't get it the same way. So I've heard. You don't get it the same way. I'm going to start saying that. It's just rosacea. Yeah, but you don't get rosacea below your neck, though. It's kind of like a wine. Oh, it's a rosacea.

It's an older rosacea. It's an 03. But anyway, so this side's rosacea. Then you get a little sty, but then they've kind of combined. So I had to get somebody to come over the house and give me a steroid pack and hot compress and stuff like that. Do you see Tully seething at you right now? I really don't care about your eye problem. I'm sorry. I'm sitting here with a useless left eye and you got a sty? You'll be fine. You'll be fine. Rosacea.

Hey, a lot of people struggle with it. I'm going to send a picture to Jim so he can show it on the podcast. I had rosacea once. I expected Caleb to look worse when he walked in, but I can't even tell. I didn't even notice. That's because I've been working on it for the last two hours. You still look good. I had some hot compresses and everything. All right, let's get to something good. It's not easy being on camera. By the way, I like you growing your hair out.

Thanks. On the sides. Thanks. I'm growing mine out too. Well, it's too expensive to buy your hair and stick it up like that. I just put a hat on. I'm just jealous of it. Oh my gosh. You know, you said you had something good to say. That's not really good. Oh,

I don't know if they've actually taken Uncrustables, the Smuckers Uncrustables out of the grocery stores yet because they haven't been to the grocery store in a while, but I sure hope.

Okay, so what's the deal with Uncrustables? Because it's unhealthy, they say. What's an Uncrustables? Is it the dye? You don't know what Uncrustables is? I don't know. Uncrustables, it's just this beautiful, round, crimped. It's a sandwich with no crust. Oh, do you put them in the fridge and stuff? Yeah, you put them in the freezer. I've had one of those. They're really good. Beautiful, crimped edges. Okay, I got you. And it's a round sandwich, and I would put them in my backpack when I would go deer hunting or turkey hunting. Did RFK take them out? Yeah, I was going to say. I hope he didn't.

I really hope RK is not going to It's the one thing, it's over the line It's kind of like Cool Ranch Doritos It's over the line A little bit I saw an Instagram or an expo So it must be true

But they were talking about, oh, we used to eat all that stuff when we were kids, but it is made differently now. Doritos used to be real ingredients. Now it's seed oils and all the crap that goes. That's why they're trying to ban that stuff. It isn't that they didn't. It's like McDonald's fries used to be done in beef tallow, but now it's seed oils. They added all those things behind our backs. Yes. And why? Why?

Well, you know why. Because they were good. I mean, I really don't know why. Why didn't they just leave it alone and just keep making them like they used to make them? Because we loved them then like we love them now. Are they trying to literally... It's probably cheaper. Well, no. Are they trying to kill us? It doesn't make sense. It's cheaper if there's more ingredients in it. It doesn't make sense at all. A lot of it is the marketing. They do things to make things look better to our eyes, which makes us process things different in our brains. Yeah. Like, for example, milk.

is not that white, guys. It's just not. It's not pristine white. You're right. It's not really healthy to make it that white. That's true. Is it yellow? That's why I'm picturing it as yellow. Well, if you've ever been to a farm, you've got relatives and stuff. Yeah, we can say teat. It has a teat tint to it. But no, if you've had real cow's milk and stuff like that, and you're used to having stuff out of the store, you're like, what the hell is this? It tastes terrible. What about breast milk? Is it that white? No.

He's just not. No, it's about the same color. I'm not pretty sure. It's been a while. I've had whole milk from the Mennonites in Perry County where my farm is. And when it's ice cold, you're right, it has a little darker. It's got more vanilla color to it. But there's nothing better on the planet than straight out of the teat. Nothing. Hey, Neil, is a Mennonite an Amish? Is that the same thing? No. Mennonites actually have cell phones.

Some have electricity. Stop. When I had a company called Men of White Chicken, I didn't get off the ground. A Mennonite? Mennonite. Sounds like something out of Star Wars. No, no, this is the real thing. You've never heard of a Mennonite? No. Really?

Yeah, I kind of thought they were Amish-ish. They are Amish-ish. Do they like that term? That's correct. I don't know. That's what they're called. That's what they're known as. They have Mennonite communities. But they get a little more creature comforts. Yes. They have cell phones. They have trucks. They have power. So what's their thing? I don't know. They're Amish-ish, but with the tad. It's kind of like Lutherans to Catholics. They do eat what they grow. They don't do a lot of, you know, they don't do a lot of... Do they just...

Have a certain dress code like the Amish? Some of them dress like we do. Some of them dress like Amish-ish. I've got a great idea. We need to get an Amish person, a Mennonite, side by side. Okay. And let them go at it. Let them go at it. So they don't get along. Because I guarantee you... Oh, I bet the Amish do not like the Mennonite. I guarantee you they're not... Well, because a Mennonite is...

It could be one of us, it sounds like. If you don't have a just coat and you eat with the wand. No, they can't look like you. Mennonites don't have hair like you. They don't wear tattoos for sure. Yeah, that's frowned upon. No. To say the least. You're the furthest thing from me. You're... You're... No. I'm not a Mennonite. You're not at Godly Mountain. We call down in Perry County, the ones that drive the trucks and... Where's Perry County?

It's about an hour and a half southeast, southwest of here. Past that big rock. Yeah. We call them semi-minis, the ones that drive trucks. Now, that can't be a politically correct term. They're not fully Mennonite. Semi-minis? Semi-minis. Is there a Mennonite community that they have to live inside those structure of the town line? Some people, they have communities, yes. What is that like? What's their house like?

It's pretty basic. Very nice. They have Wi-Fi? That I don't know. They have a lot of jams and candles. I'll tell you this, though. If you're going to call yourself a Mennonite, you can't have Wi-Fi. Really? I agree. I don't think they can. They don't have much cell service where they live, too. Their communities are in the volleys.

In the volleys? Not valleys. They're volleys. Down in the volley. Down in the volleys? And everything goes up. Is this all made up? No. I feel like you're making this up as you go. No, no, no, no, no, no. We have neighbors down there. They're in the volley, and everything goes up when they talk at the end of their sentences. And everything goes up. I want to go. But they're super, super smart, bright people. How? Very hardworking. They can build, grow, survive anything. Like an Amish person.

But the Amish sound more hardcore. Amish sound more hardcore. Amish are real hardcore. Hey, we have a, not all Mennonites have internet access, which would imply that they do have some. Okay, well, some more progressive Mennonite communities do use the internet, particularly for business purposes. You know, so yeah, some of them. Makes me think of Kingpin.

Amish, right? True. But that's Amish for sure. That's horse and buggy. We should all watch that. And some of the Mennonites have horse and buggies. Some of them are... Mennonites are more Amish than they are Mennonite. It sounds like it's a little...

loose in the rules. We'll have to get some more information. They're super people, though. I can't say enough good things about that community. The ones that I've met are. I've had a couple trespass on my farm, and they don't care. Those are the bad Mennonites. There's a couple of them down there that have... A couple of bad seeds. They think if his dirt runs into my dirt, it's everybody's dirt. And

So they make themselves at home. Kind of like we did with the Indians. Can we start over? We're definitely not pleasing a big crowd tonight. Maybe we are. No guests tonight. Well, if they don't have internet, I mean, they're not listening. No, it's fantastic. And the ones who are shouldn't be Mennonites. If they have internet. They can't tell anybody.

All right, let's move forward. Okay, let's do it. Who's got something? What do you think is more interesting to our listeners? Well, give me a choice. I mean, we're going to get there. We're going to get to something good, but I think the Mennonite story is very interesting. It is to me. I learned something. Me too. I may need to study up on a little bit to make sure we're accurate as we can be. Yeah, we don't want to sound like we're belittling the Mennonites. I'm not belittling the Mennonites. Not that they're listening. To me, it sounds like...

This may upset some Mennonites, if you're listening. You know how many Mennonites and Amish are from where you're from? Tons. Not exactly where I'm from. Close. Close-ish. Not really, though. It just sounds to me like if you're an Amish person, you'd be mad at the Mennonites. Oh, I think so. Because they're kind of... Posers? Yes. They're taking some of that credit, but yet...

Not following the strict guidelines of the Amish. That's what it sounds like. Let's start a war. Like I said, I think it's kind of like Lutherans and Catholics. I don't see the comparison. Where's the comparison? There. Because Lutherans were basically formed from Catholics, but allowed a little bit more leeway. I didn't know that. I didn't know Lutherans were... Different beliefs. Yeah. I thought that Lutherans were more of...

I think they're one degree of separation from Catholicism. See, I'm Catholic. Yeah. And so when you're Catholic, you just think everyone's Catholic. Yeah. Well, on the Amish and the Mennonites, the thing that you do respect about them, or I respect about them, and I get it, there's a sense that they try to stay just as keeping a lot of the media, the TV, everything out as much as possible for them and their kids to not be sidetracked and get them away from

and the Lord's work. Well, that is an excellent point. They're trying as best they can to stay true to the word. Who is? Like the Amish and Mennonites and stuff. They're not distracted by things that I'm distracted by. Like I'm watching Breaking Bad right now. They're not caught up in that. No. They're not having to think, oh, God, I missed an episode tonight because we're recording an episode. True. That's a stress they don't have. That's true. That's a good point, though. We could definitely learn from that. Maybe we should go –

like live with the Amish for at least two hours for a week no for a week and then do a do a podcast and have some on I don't think they'd do it you don't think they would well we can't do the Amish because we couldn't record there they have no power we could do the Mennonite I forgot about it we could do a podcast at a Mennonite we could do the Mennonite I'm gonna do my hair no that's a hat day bro hat day okay

Uh, Kayla, tell them, tell them about some guests we got coming up. Oh, we just, uh, confirmed, uh, softly confirmed, uh, Ashley Gourley is the most, uh,

commercial successful songwriter of all genres of music so he's going to be here next week so probably a couple weeks before it comes out good buddy of all ours and great guy and uh we're going to talk about a lot of stuff outside talk about music and how he's surpassed 80 number one hits 80 number one and by the time he comes on it'll be 84 probably maybe more yeah he might have five on there now who do you think do you think he he would reveal his how he did it

because i've done the math in my head and the hours put into writing i've done all that and i still don't know how it's even attainable you think he'll reveal it i think you i think anything you ask him he'll tell you he'll tell you yeah i think those are things we ask that's gonna be that's gonna be awesome it's gonna be good and he's a really good man because we'll get into other topics too you know he's he's huge on mental health you know and uh

But I'll let him tell that story. I'll take what he's taking. Yeah. Yeah. So that's going to be good. But we got somebody coming that same week. Yeah, we softly confirmed Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise. That's a really soft. It's very softly confirmed. Well, because we'll have that after the. That's actually the first lie that's ever been told on this show.

Well, that way we can get into Scientology to follow up our great wisdom on the Amish and the Mennonites. So we should tell people the story. So we have a text thread.

and we go through and, you know, we're all trying to get different guests on and we've got, we do have some great guests coming up. I'm not just saying that by the way, we really do. And in March we've got, um, well we can tell him probably, right? Yeah. Our good friend John Rich is coming on, which we think is great. Um, DC Drano, if you follow him on X or Instagram, Rogan is his name. He's an amazing guy. Uh,

He'll be here and some others that we can't say, but you'll need to tune in for. But anyway, so we all have a text, right? Hey, I got this person, got this person. So...

I was watching TV a few days ago, and it's on Fox, and they're doing the RFK confirmation hearings. And he gets through, and he gets confirmed, and I text the group, and I go, RFK confirmed. And then I get the responses, bro, what? Amazing. Dude, that's incredible. You'll hit it first. I'm right behind you. Badass curtain. It's freaking amazing. You're on fire. I read that, and I'm like.

He got RFK to come on our podcast. I was like, no way. And I was like, these guys really didn't think he was going to get confirmed. Confirmed was the loose term there. Yeah, yeah. So we don't have RFK, but you never know. We have DM'd him. If we ever get him on, I'm asking him about. About the crustables? Yeah. Okay. Cool ranch and non-crustables. I almost think he would actually do it. And cheese it. Oh, I think he would. I do. I mean, we had cash.

the FBI director in waiting. We'll have cash work on this for us. Yeah. Okay. Once he gets through some of the FBI stuff. Jeez. All right. What do we got? Let's what's on the, what's on the docket here tonight? Well, one thing I know that we're talking about it beforehand, you know, and a little bit disappointing for me, but, uh,

But the Sheryl Crow thing, once again, has kind of come up. So this is topical, and this is good. Oh, it's good. It's good stuff, because she bashed our song. And I will say, because we never really talked about this part of it. You know, like...

Cheryl Crow to me and to Neil was always, I hadn't seen her in a long time, but for a minute, you know, when you're writing and recording, for a minute, everybody's best friends. You guys wrote with her yesterday. Wrote a couple songs with her. And she's an incredible artist. She's an incredible artist. One of our favorites. Seriously. Can't argue with it. And out of everybody, if people ask, still to this day, they say, hey, what's the coolest artist

I always come back to Sheryl Kroger because she was so nice. All the time, she was so nice. She'd just come downstairs and say, hey, here's this title. I said, y'all get that going. We'll record that tomorrow. I remember it was me and Chris DuBois at the time. Chris said, oh, we can't. We're writing tonight with Brad Paisley and

And Cheryl said, is Paisley cutting tomorrow? And he said, no. And she goes, I suggest you write this one. And then we did and she cut it. She's the coolest artist ever. And she had us over to the house and stuff for dinners and stuff. Just a very cool person. So I was, it

It did bother me when she came out early on Try That in Small Town and was bashing it. And now, did she know that we wrote it or would it change her comments? Probably not. But I didn't love that. Because she went after the song as a bad written song, right? Yeah. Yeah. And I don't remember all the exact stuff, but it didn't make us feel great.

No, of course not. I remember that. And I don't think it was very positive about Alden either. I could have cared less what she thought of my song. But anyway, I didn't really like that. It's disappointing. So that's just the setup to the second disappointing thing of her. We just saw her giving away her Tesla, right? She sold it and gave the money to NPR of all places. NPR, yeah. Which is, first of all,

I don't even get, she already paid the money for the Tesla. She already gave Elon the a hundred grand for the Tesla. So I don't understand the statement she's made. He already made the money off you. I don't understand any of it. I don't understand any of this. It's like madness to me. Like I really do miss the day. Talk about Sheryl Crow. Huge fan. I mean, me and Kurt, we used to be in bands and cover her music and,

Wanted to write songs like hers. She's incredible. Incredible. You look at her and to me, it goes back to the thing of like, look, it's like, okay, she, the thing with the Tesla, look, here's the administration, the whole, the country voted here. I miss the days when the country voted. Here's the president. This is the next four years. You may not have voted or liked it, but this is what it is. And then in four years,

You can try to change that. Yeah, it's just the way America works. Let's put the question out on the table. Why do y'all think somebody like Sheryl Crow hates Donald Trump so much? What's the number one reason, in y'all's opinion, that she would hate somebody like that? Can I get to that in a second? Because I want to say this about her video. She's on a tow truck. She's waving goodbye. Okay.

The trees are full of leaves, and there are leaves falling on the ground, which means she lives in Tennessee. Yes. It means it wasn't filmed this month. No. Yeah. So it was a staged thing from a couple months ago, and she made it seem like this is her opposition to Elon Musk. And on top of that, and this has nothing to do with it except for... It's BS. Except for if you're a rock star...

Don't disappoint everybody and come out in sweatpants and your hair back and glasses and stuff. You look like a rock star. That was disappointing. Okay, so what was your question? No, back to the question. Why do you think she hates Donald Trump and conservatism and our song,

Why do you think she hates what we all stand for so much? First of all, I don't really care if she doesn't like the song. I don't either. It doesn't bother me because that's the thing. There's lots of songs I don't like. Let's go back. Take it back to Trump. Why does she hate that so much? I don't know if she knows. What is it? I don't know if she knows or anybody really knows why they hate him so much. Neil, that's a good question. I don't know. That's always my question. Yeah.

It's pretty obvious what kind of leader he's going to be. Like him or hate him for his character or however he comes across and the things that he says, the comments he makes. I get all that. Whatever. Let's go deep here. The type of leadership and the leader that he is and the leadership that he brings to the White House and to the country, these people have to feel good.

a thousand percent safer underneath that kind of leadership than the previous leadership. You have to feel so much safer. I agree 100%. So I'm always wrestling with why do these people hate him so much? Let's get past all the other bullshit that, you know,

If you don't like him, you don't like him. So what? Well, he doesn't align with anything they believe. And the better he does, the madder they'll get. Now, when you say what they believe, what are you talking about? Be specific. Let's be specific on the beliefs here. I don't know because I haven't talked to Sheryl Crow personally about what she doesn't like. But if just watching the channel of news that I'm watching, if you flip over to another one,

It's completely opposite. And for, we talked about this a couple of weeks ago for a few days, you know, the left was saying, you know, we kind of missed it. You know, we missed our base. You know, we're not talking about the working man, like tell it, tell him to say, you know, um, you know, we, we completely missed it. And then, I mean, it wasn't, it wasn't a week or two weeks later that,

to where the attacks have just went again. So it's not about anything they would be doing. It's just about attacking everything that he's doing. So the only thing I would say is like, what do they not like about him? At first, they don't like him as a person. They don't like that he exists on the planet. They can't stand him. And I've already, let's put that aside. And once you hate a person that bad, you hate everything.

You hate everything about that person. He can't do anything good for that. It doesn't matter what it is. They won't agree that, yeah, that's a really good thing. So real quick, before I forget on that point. So I feel like it started to happen again with the immigration thing in the border. 145 Democrats opposed that bill to deport migrants. 145 Democrats. So how did...

It changed so much because if I'm – tell me if I'm mistaken, but I feel like Obama, even Obama was for a strong border. You can go back and see it all. So it's on. You don't – I mean, I'm not making that up. Back in the day when Biden had his brain, he was the same thing. You can see him talking about it, like strong border. Well, that's what they ran on. That's what Clinton ran on. That's what Obama ran on. I mean, and they – I've seen the numbers.

They have deported a lot. Yeah, I don't think I was wrong about that. No, no, no, no. So that's what my confusion is. But to Kalo's point, it's like, well, Trump's doing it. It's bad. That's why I don't understand. And that's pretty much it. Trump's name's on it. It's bad. It's all bad.

And now Elon's there, boy. They don't like Elon at all. They used to love Elon. They used to love Elon. Now they don't. He's coming after their money. They're showing the thing on the IRS. They're showing the thing with the, you see this with the social security numbers. Yeah, yeah. And, you know, they've, I forget what it is, but they found over 60 million active social security numbers than there are people in the United States. And you see the age grouping. Have you seen the list? There's people that are like,

250 years old. Like, there's still a million people. He's just doing some housekeeping. I just saw the number on that, too, the money that's going to those people that don't exist. Yeah. It is unbelievable. And somehow they're related to somebody in a blue state. It's like $45 billion or something that has gone out to people that don't exist. Oh, man. Just numbers. They're going out to numbers. Congratulations are in order. To whom? Congrats to Elon. He's going to be a dad again. Oh, my God.

For the 13th time. So nobody's perfect, right? And Elon's, one of his Achilles heels is he just gets people pregnant. Yeah, but if you have a mountain of money, I'd have like 40 kids. Would you really? Why not? But with, I mean, he has them with different...

Yeah. That's his call. That's his decision. It's a free country. He's keeping it free. Well, that's called old school. It's like real old school. It's like Moses old school. It's like Tyreek Hill stuff, man. Tyreek Hill. I saw a thing where Tyreek Hill. I don't know if it's Moses. They said Tyreek Hill had more kids last year than he did touchdowns.

Which is amazing. He had like five kids last year, but four touchdowns. That's funny. He likes his kids, man. I mean, he's got paying for isn't a problem. Well, there's issues. Well, yeah, there's issues, but it's not like somebody we know, if they have six kids, it's going to be rough times. Do you know a third of the deficit has been uncovered already?

I know. A third. It's mind-blowing, dude. People are mad about it. Oh, they're big mad. It's taking away their money. Yeah. Kickbacks and all that. And we're songwriters, and I can do that much math. It's amazing. All right, listen. We're going to stop right here. We're going to take a break and hear a word from our sponsor. Stick right with us. This is a Try That in a Small Town podcast. We'll be right back.

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I like that they have access to three networks. I've always kept, can I say the other company? Can I say that? Yeah. I've always kept Verizon because of the coverage, but now they're going to go to Patriot Mobile based on the fact that we had them on the podcast. So I thought it was really cool. Listen. Tell Glenn that they did a great job for being on there. And just to piggyback on this, and seriously, we love that they're our sponsor, but this is a great company, their mission. But listen, if you just have one carrier company,

You're missing out. Patriot Mobile will combine two carriers on your phone. So if AT&T isn't getting service, you can go to your T-Mobile service. Like, you can't lose by going to Patriot Mobile. Do it, please. It's incredible. And make sure you use it. Unless you're a liberal. Okay, that could be the caveat. You think they get the same service we do?

Yes. Liberals? Yeah. I think they do. I think Patriot Mobile is for all Americans. You think Sheryl Crow would get the same service I get? I don't think Sheryl Crow would give you the same service. I don't think she would be on Patriot Mobile, number one. But if she was. I would think Patriot Mobile is for all Americans. It's all inclusive. That's what I would think. All inclusive? For all Americans. I would think they would want business from all Americans. Yeah. Yeah.

I think so. You okay? Why do I feel like I'm on an island over here? That's what Thrash Dog does. I don't know. I don't know if Sheryl Crow won. If I was the owner of Patriot Mobile. If Sheryl Crow needed another line, Patriot Mobile would give. Now, Sheryl Crow probably wouldn't take the other line. I would charge her double. But that's the great point. She's not going to get Patriot Mobile. It says the word Patriot in it.

It's got the word patriot. She's not going to do that. That's the thing. No, I don't like she'll eat it. I don't think she's a patriot. Do you? I don't know. I'm not. Caleb's staying out of it. No, no, no, no, no. Let's be real. She's a wonderful person. I didn't say she wasn't. I have no idea. I don't know that. Did she cut one of your songs? She didn't cut anything I wrote with her. Okay, now I understand. No, she cut a couple things. Caleb's playing it smooth. I like it.

I have the freedom to say what I want to about her. What record is it on, Caleb? She didn't cut anything that I wrote with her. What record are you on? I don't remember the name of the record. It had Sheryl Crow on it. That's all we need to talk about. That's all we need to say. It was her country record. I'm not sure what the name of it is. I'm with you. I love everything about her music. She is incredible when it comes to that. But when we change the subject to patriotism and common sense... But for some reason...

Why does it seem to happen? For example, I was watching the star night live 50th anniversary special. Great. Really the best parts were the Eddie Murphy was on there and he was, Eddie Murphy is so funny, really funny. There was, there was some decent stuff, but I love Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks movies are amazing. I love Tom Hanks.

I really do. He's been in some great movies. I love how y'all sugarcoat these people. No, I'm not sugarcoating. You're fixing to slam them. No, no, no. You can separate it. No, it's good. It's good. I'm fixing. I'm going to listen. I appreciate what they do at their talent. Like movies. I love movies. I love it. But he did another little parody of a Trump supporter. He had done it in 2016. Oh, really? Yeah.

Did it again the other night. He reprised his role. He did it the other night, and it really fell flat. And I was watching it. Why did they feel the need to do that? That's my question. Because especially now where it's like, look, are you trying to insult over half the country? Because in this character, it was very kind of a ridiculous character. He had a MAGA hat on, and then he...

He refused to shake a black guy's hand. That was his character. Like a racist thing. That's insane. I don't understand where that comes from. I guess my point is, I guess to go back to Kalo's point earlier, it doesn't feel like they've learned anything.

Or from the election or as far as how people are thinking. What's his motivation there? I don't know. And I love Tom Hanks. I would love to ask him. I think they're just in that bubble, man. I just feel like they're in that bubble. Like the De Niro. And De Niro is off the rails. I love De Niro.

I love Robert De Niro. He's a great actor, incredible movies, but he's flying off the handle. Those people live in a bubble. They don't have a freaking clue what's going on out here in the real world. You're right. They are so separated from reality. They don't have a freaking clue. They're rich. They don't have to worry about anything. Whatever their belief system is in their bubble, they're going to stick to it and bash whatever's outside their bubble.

That's all it is. They have their bubble and they're safe in it. They can say what they want. They're not going to lose anything. What are they going to lose? Nothing. They have nothing to lose by saying whatever in the hell they want to say. They have nothing to lose.

The bubble people can kiss my ass. Let's go, Neal. No, it's just really – and we even have some in country music the exact same way. They live in their freaking bubble. They don't have a clue what's going on out here. They don't know what's going on in my neighborhood or your neighborhood, and they don't care. So they can say whatever they want to. Who are a couple of those? Yeah.

I'll name names. I've asked people to name names before, and I will freaking name names. Yeah, Neil ain't scared, right? Makes me realize who's been quiet in the... Well, you got Taylor Swift. I mean, she used country music as a stepping stone to get where she is so she could step in the bubble. The stepping stone went into the bubble, and she's still in there. She's not going to come out, ever. She's got her jet. She's going to spew her jet fumes all over the atmosphere. Yeah.

And then bitch about somebody else that's doing it. But she has that luxury. But you have country artists that have jets also. Yeah. You don't have to be a pop artist to have a jet. But some of those guys have common sense. Some of those jet people, there's nothing better than flying private. I was going to say, let's just hold on a second. I love flying private. I agree. Everybody relax. That's my whole point. Cut. Cut. No. I'm kidding.

I would fly private every time. The times that we've gotten to do it, it's amazing. It's awesome. It's a time machine. It's freaking great. It is amazing. And I'm never going to bitch about the fumes that that jet puts off, but the people in the bubble do. The bubble people...

It's the hypocrisy. I'm telling you. Oh, it's the hypocrisy. The bubble people. I love that. The bubble people. And it makes the bubble, the dome of the bubble get thicker and thicker. Their hypocrisy is a joke. Neil, you're on fire tonight. Well, you know. You're going to gain us some followers. It is what it is. Well, you know who country music has really missed? I don't know how we've managed to carry on.

Since the loss of Maren Morris. Because she, it just reminded me when you're talking about Taylor Swift, I haven't heard a peep. Oh, she went pop. Yeah. Yeah. I haven't heard a peep. She's trying to get in the bubble, but her head's sticking out the top. They're like, pull me in, pull me in the bubble, please. But they won't pull her in. They don't know if they should pull her in or not. The bubble people.

She wants to be a bubble person so bad. That was so good, buddy. She really showed herself. I don't get it. I really don't understand any of it. So the choice is for everybody, do you want to be a bubble person or not? Because common sense does not exist in the bubble. You have two choices, bubble person or Mennonite. That's a fact. Right? Exactly. Exactly.

Two ways to go. Yeah. There's tons of people crawling on the top of the bubble trying to get in, and some of them won't get in. They won't let them in.

please are there any trying to get out no not that i know of like they're trying to get out but they're kind of holding on i think there's a lot funny you should bring that up i think there's a lot i've there's a lot of libs that have been that are on the left side that have climbed on the fence and they're riding the fence right now and they're like god i don't know which side i need to fall on because trump has affected them that much and everything he's done in the last four weeks four or five weeks has affected them that much hey i gotta i gotta tell you um

hate trump or love trump it's a free country but it's nice to have a president who's who's getting stuff done i mean he's doing work they can't deny yeah he is doing and he's doing work can't deny it i mean you know and now all of a sudden everybody's bitching about egg prices well i did i did yesterday yeah yeah nine dollars but no it is expensive but then i go that's less than a buck an egg

I wasn't that mad. Did you go to the store? Yeah, I went to the grocery store. Really? You went off campus? But it's like less than a buck an egg. Everybody's still bitching. I'm like, what's everybody bitching about? Go buy some chickens.

Quit bitching. Go buy some. Fix your own freaking problem. Quit bitching. Buy some chickens. Come out of your freaking bubble. I mean, your freaking bubble. I know. You can beat that. Come out of your bubble and buy some chickens and quit going to the grocery store. Make a chicken bubble. There's plenty. Last I checked, there's no shortage of chickens. You can have your own chicken coop. We've had them before. We've got a healthy chicken. Hey, I started buying past year raised chickens. I'm sorry. I'm getting out of hand. Sorry.

You know what we should talk about? We were saying this the other day, how we should have a golf tournament between the four of us.

Neil, and we're going to have, Oh my gosh. Okay. Are we going to do this? We're going to do it. Please tell me we're going to do this. So, but Neil is a really good golfer. He's really good. Those of you listening. He's yeah. He's scratch. Okay. Let's just say a scratch. Explain what scratch means. Scratch means basically you shoot par. Explain what par means to those. Uh,

Now, the three others at this table, Kalo actually has been close to that. What are you shooting now, Kalo? Oh, I'd be bogey golf now. Which is pretty good. Bogey golf means you shoot 90. He used to be a four handicap. He can hit it. So the challenge is this. The three of us, Tully...

Me and Kalo. And you have to ride in the same golf cart. That's fine. Three of you. Oh, yeah. We're going to all ride in the same golf cart. Do we have to ride all in the front? No, you can ride on top. Nope, you can't hang like a caddy on the back. You all have to sit on the seat. I agree. All of you. But we're going to play best ball against Neal.

I may have to give y'all strokes, though. No. I need to average out handicaps. Neil, I have a full handicap. It's okay. Hold on, you're going to get a handicap. Whatever that means. You have full handicap. I have all major forms of it. It's okay. We'll take the strokes. You're going to give us strokes, too? Absolutely. We'll take them. It would only be fair. You have to do it fair. Hey, can we invite Alveen, too? Can he be on Team Mentally Handicapped? No, no. He can't. He can video.

K-Lo, I could probably average out his handicap right now.

I would probably, you're probably going to cover the team. I'd probably give a stroke a hole, every hole, probably. If you give a stroke a hole, we'll kill you. I think so. That's not true at all. If you give us a stroke a hole, you'll lose. So let's do it right now. You'll definitely lose. Let me say something. Let's do it right now. Let me say something. Let's do it right now. You know, on Salt, this is the worst conversation for me. You've never played golf with me. I'm just going off what you told me.

It's way worse than what you think it is. Okay, that's fine. I mean, there's times, Neil, where the club doesn't make contact with the ball. Does that still count as a swing? Yes. Okay, well... It does if you don't hit the ball. Well, if you intended to hit it. If it's a practice swing. Are you on the honor system? Yes. We'll know when it's a stroke and when it's not. I didn't intend to hit that ball. Okay, let's ask the listeners this. I know I'm not going to get a real-time response, but...

Should we do the three of us best ball against Neal, or should we go like Bryce DeChambeau and say the four of us try to break 50? No, you should try to beat Neal. I think that'd be fun. But he does it from the ladies' tees. I'll let y'all play from the ladies' tees, and I'll still beat you. I have to play from the ladies' tees. So let's do this. You guys can play from the red tees.

What are those? Hold on. The three of us can play from the ladies' tees? Yes. I'll let you three play from the... No strokes. Wait a minute. I'm against men and women's sports. Here, here. No, no, no. Here we go. I voted against that. Listen to me. Listen to me. We either play from the same tee and I give you strokes or you play from the red tees and I play from the silver tees. Can we play from the same tees maybe? No, I'd rather just take the stroke. Well, you want the strokes. Okay. Okay, let's just say we want the strokes. Wait a minute. Can we just play this like men and three against one...

No. No. You don't want to play me straight up. If you play me straight up, you'll lose. No, we'd be playing like men that don't know how to play golf. So let me ask this. How can we make this productive for...

a mission of ours. Like, can we have people bet? Can we set up a thing like, Oh, $10. It would be great. And that's what I'm going to say. What we'll do is like whoever votes or bets $10 is the, whatever the maximum you can put in, but we'll collect all the money and we'll everybody that bets we'll pick a town that

Somebody is from and will donate to the local fire station or police department. Maybe. Yeah, something like that. And we'll get the rules set before that happens. We'll figure it out. And we'll do the episode during the round. The basic thing is it's me against y'all. And you have to ride in the same cart in the bench seat. Yeah, we're small people. Three of you crammed in there together. We got small butts. My cigar hatchers, they're going to burn it open. Do you drink when you golf? No.

Maybe. Depends on how bad it gets. Neil, do you drink when you go? Yeah, sometimes, yeah. Not all the time, but sometimes it merits it. I have to drink when I go to FIBA. And Yeho is like swing juice for me. Swing juice? Yeah, it's swing juice. Okay, so we need help from the listeners, though. We need some responses. That's a great idea, though. I've won the senior club championship at my club twice now. Oh, yikes. So what did you shoot?

I shot, the first day I shot one under. Oh, my gosh. Second day I shot 75, I think. But it's because the guy in the senior championship, his oxygen tank fell off on the last putt and it made a sound and he missed his putt. What course are we going to do this at? It's so not good. It's so wrong, dude. But Neil hasn't felt the pressure, though.

Of me playing behind him. There's no pressure. I don't feel pressure. Oh, once you see the way I play my slice, bro. I don't feel pressure. The way I play my slice. No, I laugh at slices. The way I play my slice, dude, it is intimidating. I lick my chops when I see somebody slice. Like, this is bad. Okay, well, we need to make this happen, right?

And you're giving him strokes? I don't like that. I feel like we need a fourth. I don't like that. He might have to give us strokes. Why can't we just try to see what happens straight up? Because here's the thing. Okay, so look, you have a scratch golfer. Then you have, let's say, that's even, right? So if 72 is par, that's even. I understand what this is. I know, but listen. But listen, this is going to help you, okay? So Tiger Woods would be, in his heyday, would he be what? A plus five, seven, right? Okay. Easy. So you could have...

You could have 40 people playing against him that are our skill level, and he would win. It's not about the numbers of people. I understand. Okay, so we want strokes. But imagine if we won and didn't take strokes.

It's not going to happen. I don't think we would. You're just dreaming now. You're living in the bubble now. Because you've got to think about it. Because if you're saying – He went into the bubble. He went into the bubble. But listen, if you're saying accurately that nine times out of ten, you completely missed the ball, then you're not even on the team. Not nine times out of ten. Then we have me incurred. Seven times out of ten. So I'm just saying it's not about numbers of people. Yeah, knowing my luck, Kalo would be feeling it that day, and he would –

He would see, he's already, you see what's happening. No, no, no, no, no. It's already a tiny crack in the site. If we, if we got to doing good, he would stop talking to us and he would destroy us. So we gotta, we gotta practice. We gotta have a team meeting. Okay. I'm very excited about this though. Well, we need to make it happen. And I still think we should get Aldean out there. Cause I, I play my best when I'm just swinging free. Of course. I feel like a best ball situation. Yeah.

Knowing that you guys have already played a good ball, I could just let it fly. I could hit the ball 80, 90 yards. It might be a good idea. You and I need some range time. If you check Aldean's handicap, it might be a good idea to have the four of us. I don't know what he's shooting now. He and I are close, so not good either of us. What's your handicap, Kurt? I'm a bogey golfer.

You're not an 18. Yeah, yeah, no, I am. He's really good. No, no, no. I like our chances here. Here's the thing with me, Neil. If somebody gets me in the fairway, I'm good in the fairway. If somebody gets you in the fairway. Yeah, I'm not good off the tee. Really? Yeah. Hey, that's where my slice comes in handy, off the tee. That's right. If you give me an approach shot, I'm pretty good. Or I shouldn't say that. I'm at least...

It's adequate. You're saying your short game is pretty good. No, I'm saying if I'm 160 out, I got a good shot of putting one on. His ball goes high. Too high? Too high. I like my odds. No, I love your odds. Let's wait until after the winter storm, and then we'll get something to go. Well, I'm looking forward. The winter storm. There is a winter storm. I'm just looking forward to seeing what Tully's going to wear.

Well, I'll tell you about this. For our match. Oh, I better look cute as a button. I actually just got them out yesterday, my knickers, because I was preparing for this. It's something. I feel comfortable in those knickers. You really? I do. You have great calves, Dan.

Have okay calves. He's got good calves. I have good calves. I mean. Kalo's got the best calves I've ever seen. Kalo is. Wow, thanks, Neil. Kalo's a machine. But they're not all buttered up. They're not tanned up. I haven't seen the sun since I had a baby. I love this idea, though. Charity. But we have to make it, yeah, we do need people to. Local first responder, fire department, whatever. Yeah, we need to make sure we're doing something good for somebody. Oh, we will. I will beat y'all's ass for something good. I will be much obliged. Okay.

Well, you want to talk about the old bags of The View? What? Please. I don't know. The old bags on The View. Listen to him. Yes, and she brought them up. What you got, Neil? No. Speaking of The View and speaking of guests coming up. Whoopi Goldberg.

Not whoopie. So Michelle Tavoy is going to come on. Michelle Tavoy is going to come on. I think it's next week. So it'll be a couple of weeks before it airs, but she was on the view. She was a guest host for a couple of days and she's obviously more of a conservative voice. And she went, she was talking about COVID when that came out and just her stance on that. And she,

They let her go immediately from her guest spot of The View, ESPN. I think they had a fallout when that came out. It's going to be really interesting anyway, so make sure you check that out as well. It made me think of that when you said The View. Who watches The View, by the way? Did you see that Travis Kelsey meme? Sorry, Travis. No, let it rip.

He had more boosters than yards in the Super Bowl. Oh, no. What happened to Travis? His hair looks great. I feel like just a few years ago, we were best friends. We were going to play pickleball. He was coming out to shows. We were at the Masters with him, and now he's getting boosted. Taylor Swift is like, you have to be boosted to be in that suite if she's in there, I wonder. Sorry. Oh.

You said D.C. Drano just posted something. What was that? D.C. Drano just posted something Donald Trump Jr. said, and Trump Jr. has called for the 25-year-old pizza delivery guy to—

That rescued the four children out of the burning home. Nick Bostic, who we interviewed that just a month or two ago. Yeah, he deserves, Trump Jr. says he deserves the Medal of Freedom. Wouldn't that be great? The Presidential Medal of Freedom. And if you haven't seen that episode, make sure you go back and check that out because it's like a, how long was it? 15 minutes maybe? Yeah.

We just went over basically what happened that night and what he did. It's an incredible story. And basically he's calling for people like that to get to. Yeah, instead of clowns like George Soros, he said. And he's dead on right, and I couldn't agree with Trump Jr. more. Couldn't agree with that more. People like Nick deserve the Medal of Freedom so much more. 100%. Than most of the people they give it to.

I agree. Like Sheryl Crow. In the middle of freedom? She may. Which the album you were referring to earlier is called Feels Like Home. Oh, okay. Check out K-Lo's cut there. Yeah, it's called Shotgun. What's the name of the song? Shotgun. That's funny. Shotgun. That's funny to me. It is funny. What's the hook?

It's about a shotgun. No, I don't even remember. You don't remember? Was it her title? Is she riding shotgun? That's original. I don't remember. I don't remember exactly. It was a good cut. The way you hooked it. How dare her cut a song called Shotgun. It wasn't about guns.

Of course it was. How dare her? Somewhere she's rolling down the window writing shotgun. I'm sure of it. I mean, I'm sure of it. She wanted to write a country song. I want to write shotgun. Feet on the dash, rolling the window down. Good Lord. Well, God, now you're talking about every artist. You know what? All we can do is pray that these people come around and gain some common sense. That's all we can do.

Out of the bubble. Yeah. We hope that one day the bubble pops and some of them get out. Hold on.

We got the lyrics to shotgun. We got the lyrics to shotgun. You'd beg if I was under your edge, but ain't doing us any good. Rolling through town, going too slow. What we need is an open road. 400 horses need a little room to run. Well, if you ain't going to do it, let me show you how it's done. Drive it like it's stolen. I like that. Park it like it's rented. What's the point of money if you ain't going to spend it?

There's a reason roads go past the city limits. Do you want to drive? Come on. You can ride shotgun. You damn right you can.

I like it, Caleb. I don't know. I actually like it. Pass. I don't know what the music is. No, I like it. We just wrote it. What do you mean? You're kidding? You got a Sheryl Crow cut. That's amazing. It was really cool. Now it's really fun. It's actually amazing. I'm triggered. But yeah, we're not bashing her music or her artistry. No, that's what's so frustrating about it is because you like these people. I love Sheryl Crow. Well, they're friends, but they're completely different. I like what they do. I like how it's...

Before everything got so weird, it was just, hey. Yeah, you had to plant a flag on either side. Yeah, I just hate that. I was always the guy that was like, shut up and sing. We don't care what you think. I was always that guy. Just do what you do. We want to be entertained by your music. We don't care what your political stance is, but they started it. And once they did, we had to start standing up against them.

Actually, I don't disagree with you. I mean, it was like, okay, enough is enough. I was like, no, we got common sense over here, and what you're saying is pure filth and bullshit, and I'm not going to sit here and take this, and you're not going to infect the next generation with your crap. I'm not going to stand here and take that. I think what's so alarming and scary to me is the fact that made to feel that you can't

say what you think. That's why you have artists in country music that, you know, are afraid of the labels. They're afraid of... We have artists afraid to come on this podcast. Yeah, we have friends afraid to come on this podcast. That's right. Lifelong friends...

And listen, I mean, we did talk some politics tonight, but sometimes we just talk music. But the point is, if you want to talk politics, that should be okay. Yeah. And it should be okay to disagree. It's still, it's probably why, you know, seriously, like it's probably why this podcast isn't bigger. It's because, you know, people, certain people won't want to partner with us or sponsor us because we just have an opinion about something that doesn't feel crazy. Yeah.

But yeah, the whole divide started with all the moral issues, all the social and moral issues with me. It all started there. We may disagree on foreign policy, you know, the economy. We may disagree on those kind of things. But the whole the whole divide started with the social and moral issues. I mean, and I feel like it all started right where we believe, right? And it's always it's a spiritual divide and it's getting wider and wider. We're never coming together on that. Yeah. But listen to me, though. Did it not get crazy?

It felt like COVID happened. We got locked inside. Some things happened. George Floyd, stuff like that. It felt like, am I losing my mind or that when everything just got really weird? Yeah. Like COVID, everybody's locked in their houses. It was everybody's opinion and outtake on that and how they perceived. It's like a perfect storm of like social media, COVID. Mm-hmm.

It's the same thing that happened with our song. They perceived our song one way. We knew how we wrote it and what it meant. There was nothing racial about it. We had no intent, but they created that whole narrative over there, and that's exactly what they do on every single issue in the world right now.

You're right. They create their own narrative about it. You're right. And that's where the divide happens. Yeah. It reminds me of something to segue. I think this is something I think would be great for all the listeners out there. I think we need to try to, like this Nick Bostic was a small town hero or whatever it is. I think if any of the listeners DM us, put it on YouTube, whatever, but we need to highlight this.

that kind of action, whether it's a random act of kindness or something like really tried that in a small town is meant to be a positive thing. And I think if we could highlight some actions like that, it would be phenomenal. So leave us the review on YouTube, DM us, do something because I think we need to highlight some of that too. I think it's a really cool thing to do.

I think it'd be awesome. Yeah. It'd be great. I think we should write another song called Try That in a Small Bubble. Or a big bubble, maybe. And write it for those people in the bubble. The bubble people. That's my favorite about this whole podcast is the bubble people. Try That in a Small Bubble. You guys ever see that John Travolta? You're probably too young. There was a movie. He was a bubble boy.

Oh, yeah. What was that? On Seinfeld, there was a bubble boy. Well, there was. Which is great. John Travolta was in some movie as a kid. He was a dick. I got mad. He was so angry. I would be too, but he did not like Costanza. Hold on. Keep talking. I'm going to figure out this. The Boy in the Plastic Bubble was the name of the movie. What year was it? 76, before you were born. No, I was born. 76? I was born in 75. Oh.

I was giving you credit for being 77. That's Aldine's age, isn't it? I was drinking out of a water hose in 77. The boy in the bubble. You got anything else for us? Should we close it? You want to sing one for us, Caleb? You want to sing one? You guys want to end on a song? You want to sing one? Oh, I don't know. What do you want to do? Rosacea something? Yeah, Rosacea. Can I make a request? Sure.

What is it? Are you feeling it? I don't know. No, I'm not feeling anything. You're not? I've got to go to the bathroom. Now, close us with something. Sing I'm Still a Guy for us. When you sing. Somebody pick up a guitar and say, come on. We're losing followers, Kalo. I don't know if this is going to. No, it's going to be fantastic. Do the big one. Yeah, grab the big one. Where was this in your number one streak? No, we haven't sung. You haven't sung this song.

Where did this fall in your number one streak? Do you know what number it was? No, I don't know what number it was. Remind people how many number ones you have. It had been 18. 18? Yes, I've been here a very long time. He doesn't like it. I'm stubborn and I refuse to leave. That's an impressive number, bro. It really is. Thank you very much. But no, like a lot of people know, you guys know,

You know, Brad Paisley is very good to me. We lived on the same farm. You get to know him so well, just like you guys know. Al Dean, you know what they would say and wouldn't say. And so me and my co-writer, Lee Miller, you guys know Lee. Oh, yeah. And we'd struck out for, you know, a good few months, you know. And I finally threw out the opening two lines of this song, and Lee said, he said, what's that? And I said, I don't know, but he'll record that.

He said, what's the title? I said, I don't know, but he'll record it. And so we got in the framework, you know, you know, enough, you know, outlined it enough to call Brad to get him over to the house and,

And then, uh, no, we finished it and it's about four o'clock in the morning. So for all the times we say, Oh, we wrote this in 45 minutes, which that never happens for me, but, uh, sometimes it's really work, you know? And, um, but you had, you know, Brad high-fiving us and laughing and laughing and everything. We're all laughing. And anytime you have a artist in the room with straight up songwriters laughing and high-fiving, um,

That's a good sign. Yeah, the Sturdy Hip songwriter is saying, yes, we can stay in our house for one more year. This is great. But anyway, I'll tell you the rest of the story later. I'll go ahead and play this. That's probably a half step higher than you're used to. Don't worry. The rosacea has gotten his voice. Are you going to sing with me? I'll sing with you.

♪ When you see a deer, you see Bambi ♪ ♪ I see antlers up on the wall ♪

You see a lick, you think big nicks, and I see a large mouth up under that long. Well, I know you're thinking that you're gonna change me, and in a few ways, well, you might. So I scrub me down, dress me up.

But no matter what, remember, I'm still a guy. You see a priceless French pain. I love this song. I see a drunk naked girl. You think that riding a wild bull sounds crazy. Well, I'd like to give it a whirl.

You know love makes a man do some things he ain't proud of And in a weak moment I might

Walk your sissy dog, hold your purse at the mall But remember, I'm still a guy And I'll pour out my heart, hold your hand in the car Write a love song that makes you cry

And then turn right around like some jerk to the ground. Cause he copped a feel as you walked by. Well, I can hear you now talking to your friends. That was nice, Neil. Saying, yeah, girls, he's come a long way. From dragging his knuckles and carrying a club.

♪ Building a fire in a cave ♪ ♪ But when you say a back rub means only a back rub ♪ ♪ Then you swat my hand when I try ♪ ♪ Hey now, what can I say at the end of the day? ♪ ♪ Honey, I'm still a guy ♪

And I'll pour out my heart, hold your hand in the car, write a love song that makes you cry. And then turn right around like some jerk to the ground, cause he copped a feel as you walked by.

Nice. Well, these days there's dudes getting facials. Not around this table. Manicured, waxed, and Botoxed. With deep spray on tans and creamy, lotiony hands. You can't grip a tackle box.

Yeah, with all of these men lining up to get neutered. It's hip now to be feminized. I don't highlight my hair. I've still got a pair. Yeah, honey. I'm still a guy. Yeah, my eyebrows ain't plucked. There's a gun in my truck. Oh, thank God. I'm still.

Yeah, boy. Yeah, woo-hoo! One of my favorite country songs. Thank you, thank you. That's killer, man. That's unbelievable. That's fantastic.

I'm still a guy. Thank you. I love it. Thank you to Brad Paisley. That's a good one. That's a really good one. Guys, thank you guys so much for listening. That was fun. That was fun. You guys surprised me. I got a little bit off my chest. I thought it was going to be crap tonight. You guys really brought the heat. Make sure, listen, listen, make sure you follow us. Go on X, follow us.

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Yeah. Well, Dark Sky. I'm not doing it. Air, Scott, nope. What makes me think of Mr. White's wife, Scott. Ed, go back to the drawing board, Ed. It's kind of like when Tully wanted to be called Maverick. Help us out. It's too cool of a name. I know. Still holding out for that. Yeah. So you don't like Captain? You didn't like Captain. Ed, let us know what you think about Captain. I mean, it's pretty perfect. Yeah, I mean, I get it.

All right, we'll keep thinking. Ed, go back to the drawing board. We love you. We love you, Ed. Oh, we love some Ed. Oh, we love us some Ed. We need us more Eds in the world. Come on, Ed. Spread the word, buddy. Yeah, spread the word. All right. From the Patriot Mobile Studios, this is a Try That in a Small Town podcast. Thanks for listening, guys. Make sure to follow along, subscribe, share, rate the show, and check out our merch at trythatinasmalltown.com.