The Wrighter’s Block Episode 35 – Brett Corrieri Gets Wrighter’s Block

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all right put down your pens put down
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your pencil step away from the keyboards
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and settle in for this week’s episode of
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the writer’s block a muddied week waters
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media production thank you to the
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narcissist cookbook for allowing me to
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use their music and also to Don and
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Sally right for giving birth to me
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because without them none of this would
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be possible and to stateside cava for
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the cava I am drinking on today’s
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episode to all those above bula vinaka I
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am very excited to bring on my next
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guest he he’s quite possibly one of my
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favorite people in the entire world not
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even quite possible he is one of my
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favorite people in the entire world we
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first met in Nashville Tennessee we
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bonded over a baseball team and a great
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basically he’s my older brother
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so without any further ado I would like
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to welcome on a regular activist in the
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Liberty movement the closest thing to
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Ron Swanson in the real world
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he’s the Ron Swanson that you wish real
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life Ron Swanson actually was and my
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spiritual big brother Brett Corey Airy
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Brett thank you so much for coming on
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man I am so happy to have you here hey
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I’m happy to be here it’s been a I
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should have been on here earlier but
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that’s probably my fault because I’ve
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been you know Ron Swanson in building my
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own house right yeah exactly
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no actually that that is a hundred
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percent my fault because I’ve always
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wanted to get you on but I never wanted
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to bring you on until I knew I had a
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good enough quality show that you would
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be proud to be on my show I would be
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happy to be on your show even if it was
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a pile of steaming dogshit well thank
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you some would argue it still is one of
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those yes so you and I met when I
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started working I started working at
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mafiosos which you were you were my boss
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yeah and I believe the first words you
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ever said to me were if I catch you
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eating in this kitchen I will fire
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are you I’d be yeah I believe that was
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it I was like man I don’t know who that
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guy is but I don’t like him
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and then I donate my kitchen right now I
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caught that I caught that that was a
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rule real fast
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and then and then we started talking
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then we eventually got to baseball i
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think either you saw my you saw my
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tattoo or one of us was wearing a Red
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Sox hat and like from there we just
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started bonding more and more and more
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and eventually like you became one of my
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favorite people in the entire world and
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somebody who I look up to and just
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respect the ever living shit out of it
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still is but so for everything I’m gonna
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stay up front thank you and I know that
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later on I’m gonna give you like this
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really long heartfelt off-the-cuff
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speech that I definitely didn’t write
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down before I really didn’t like there’s
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nothing on that piece of paper but but
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yeah again thank you for all you’ve ever
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done for me because honestly you’re just
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the greatest but um so everybody that
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comes on my show pretty much everybody
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that comes on my show has something to
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do with the Liberty movement and I don’t
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know if you actually know this or not
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but you’re a big reason I am a
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libertarian I am glad to hear that I
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like to I like to get more people push
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in that way yeah when I first got to
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when I first got to Nashville and I
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started working at mafiosos 12 South I
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don’t remember the address roadside plug
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it for you but I was like that’s it I
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was like I haven’t needed to know that
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in a really long time twenty four
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hundred twelve thousand new South I yeah
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you we were talking and I just kind of I
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just kind of mentioned that I was a
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libertarian and you were like oh great
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me too and I was like awesome and then
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we started talking more and I was like
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oh I don’t know if I’m actually a
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libertarian
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no idea what he just said so then I
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started having to look into everything
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we would talk about what brought that
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about what what what was something that
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I said that actually made you go I don’t
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know what he’s talking about
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um so at the time I was still kind of
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like I was my I took I took one of the
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what is it the the no the no one quiz
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the Noland test no whatever is go I took
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one of those and it said that I was a
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libertarian and I I was kind of
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politically apathetic at the time but I
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knew what I believed and I didn’t care
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what anybody else believes I have
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obviously changed in that manner but we
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were talking when and I was like yeah
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I’m a libertarian and basically at the
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time I just wanted to be able to drink
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as much as I wanted to without being
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arrested for it and if I decided to go
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back to doing drugs I figured I don’t
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want to get arrested for that either
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and then we started talking you started
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talk to me about immigration and taxes
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and all of these things I knew like
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immigration was like yeah whatever but I
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saw at the time I would I didn’t really
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see why we should have open borders or
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why or how we have illegal immigration
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or and I understood why we got illegal
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immigration and then as we started
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talking more about it I started
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researching more acid this is really
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stupid they’re paying taxes because they
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have social security numbers that they
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got from somebody so they’re paying
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taxes they aren’t living here scot-free
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and then I just started reading more and
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more into that and then we when it came
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to taxes I was like yeah but you know we
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kind of need something for the defense
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and then I started reading more I was
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like well no we don’t need that much for
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defense no like and we can fund that in
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other ways and I started so I just
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started kind of rolling through it like
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that a little bit like by a little bit
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by a little bit and that was during the
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2012 election cycle and Gary Johnson
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Mitt Romney Obama and I was watching the
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debates with you and at the time I was
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thinking I was going to vote for
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Mitt Romney even though in 2008 I did
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vote for Bob Barr which I’m not that
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proud of but I wasn’t voting for McCain
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or Obama and we were watching the
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debates together and you said neither
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one of these guys can hold a candle to
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Gary Johnson and so that I started
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looking into Gary Johnson and I was like
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well this is this just makes sense this
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is who I’m gonna vote for and that’s how
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and that was sort of how everything got
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kicked off it’s just you and me just
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having regular conversations and me
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wondering what it was why you felt the
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way that you did and then I would
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research it so that way I wouldn’t get a
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completely biased point of view and as I
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was researching it I was like huh that
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makes a lot more sense and then it just
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kind of grew from there and then when I
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moved here in 2014 I started working for
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the Libertarian Party yep yep so so why
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haven’t you developed into a full-blown
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anarchist yet so spike is definitely
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working on me becoming a full-blown
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anarchist he is doing everything he can
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to get me there and I’m like a step away
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I am just like one tiny little step away
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and the one thing that I have some sort
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of issue with is a currency like would
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we all just use silver because if so
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cool or gold you know whatever precious
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metals Bitcoin whatever like but what
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happens if so here in my area we’ve all
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accepted that we’re using silver as our
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as our currency and then I go back to
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see my friends in Tennessee and they
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know we don’t use silver here and I’m
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like well fuck all I have is silver
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somebody that’s like an opportunity to
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create an exchange right yeah exactly
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but yeah that’s where that’s where I
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start getting a little that’s where it
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starts like muddying the waters a little
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bit for me on the anarchy but spike is
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definitely attempting to get me all the
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way there and slowly it’s slowly it’s
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working but so I mean basically that was
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kind of how I found myself in
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libertarianism but how did you well in
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the Liberty movement how did
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you get into the Liberty movement cuz I
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remember at one point you had the LP
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sticker on the back of your car I don’t
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know if you still do or not I don’t I’m
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more about a small L now I it’s kind of
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like any organized religion that’s how I
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feel about any kind of organized party
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or politics I prefer to I prefer to make
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my friends and just live my life and be
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outside of the system as much as I can
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but I got started I grew up I mean my
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mom voted for Ross Perot I mean that’s
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the first that’s the first setup that I
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remember really paying attention to
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politics and it was all about she was
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just kind of like well screw both of
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these guys who were who have been
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telling us live forever I’m gonna vote
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for this other guy just because it’s a
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it’s a third party right and when I
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first voted and then of course when I
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when I was in high school and could
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first vote senior year I think that was
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the Clinton years and it was you know
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there was the pressure to you know for
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the first couple years of high school I
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was all you know screw homeless people
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you know I I was more of the Alex what
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was that guy’s name
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Alex family ties guy which got Michael J
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character Michael J Alex P Keaton
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actually I was more an axpy Keaton in
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high school and I just I felt like give
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me your hate I will I will accept it
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from my teachers I will take it just let
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it run through me because it was it was
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easier to do that then and I just
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started to slowly got a little bit a
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little bit molded by some of my more
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liberal my middlebury sociology
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professor just kept pushing and pushing
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and pushing and eventually I just got
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tired of fight and then I would just
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start accepting it and I became a little
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bit liberal in high school and and I
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didn’t realize then that it wasn’t a
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black or white thing
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there’s none of binary things when I one
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or the other you have to be Republican
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or you have to be Democrat it was
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more along the lines of now that I know
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it’s more long lines up you could take
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what you want from each as you’re
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feeling and and not be pigeonholed in
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each one of those I mean I love it when
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people don’t when like say my
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brother-in-law doesn’t know what I am if
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I agree with one thing if he asked me
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how I feel at one policy he thinks you
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know had a penis only everything else
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right because I think if you want a
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grenade launcher you should be able to
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have one he’s like what’s the next step
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you need a nuclear weapon I’m like do I
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need one no do I want one maybe yeah
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yeah we we here at muddy waters media
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support make nukes yeah I mean we should
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we want recreational make nukes to be
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available to everybody but yeah I I got
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into a debate with somebody it was
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shortly after the shooting down here in
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Florida you know David hogged the one
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David hog wasn’t at but claims he was
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and people were going off on gun control
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and I got into a debate online and I
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said what what weapon I choose to defend
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my home with has absolutely nothing to
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do with any of you like if I decide to
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you know use a handgun or if I decide to
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use a R or an m16 or whatever and I
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don’t know a lot about I don’t know a
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lot about guns which a lot of people
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find funny because I’m so such an
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advocate forum but they’re really one of
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my one of the guys I was in the debate
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with me he said you don’t even own a gun
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and I said and yet here I am thinking
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that you should be allowed to and and
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then they said okay so what if it’s land
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mines and I said yes absolutely I should
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be allowed to protect my home with land
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mines
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I wouldn’t be able to set up a tiger
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trap outside my window if you try to
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break into my house and you fall into a
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pit of dirty sharp spikes that are laced
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with I don’t care pick pick your
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horrible disease and you fall into it
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that’s the wrong place in the wrong time
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but right now
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yeah that’s illegal I mean yeah it’s a
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like I was like I’ll be kind enough to
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put up signs that say landmines on
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property but that’s just because I don’t
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want you coming on my property at all
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and yeah and that will that will be
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enough to make you go wait a minute
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maybe we shouldn’t walk on this dude’s
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property here Larry’s gonna make you go
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he’s lying and then you’re gonna come on
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the property and find out I wasn’t and
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then we turn right here you want to hear
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something crazy yes I spoke on a panel
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back when a nashville was debating a law
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– up until about i don’t remember the
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exact year but it was probably before i
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met you you couldn’t go to a place to
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serve alcohol even if you had a
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concealed carry you could not carry your
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weapon inside that’s a law down here in
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florida right now they changed the law
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to be that restaurants could allow it if
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they didn’t they could prohibit it so it
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was it was a prescriptive thing if the
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law said you could carry it in unless
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the restaurant said no a place to serve
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alcohol and I went and debated somebody
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and stood up on this crazy debate with I
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forget somebody from Young Republicans
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and somebody from Freedom Foundation and
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somebody from one of those other coke
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for other things that I must kill for
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that I work for another thing too and
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they they had a ringer in the audience
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but my argument was as a business owner
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I think that the private property thing
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is more important than your right to I
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mean it’s my house if I say if I have a
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sign on the outside of my house that
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says you have to wear a green hat and be
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barefoot when you walk inside my house
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who’s to stop
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choices to not come into my house right
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I feel I feel that’s the way a
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restaurant is as well and because that’s
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that’s my property
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absolutely and I argued that you should
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be able to outlaw guns and your property
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because I’ve been there many nights
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where people say I’m not drinking the
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night I’m just coming in to enjoy some
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food and then I’m calling them a cab at
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3 o’clock in the morning because they
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got should have right III believe you’ve
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done that for me actually but I mean I
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was pretty sure you weren’t carrying a
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handgun that’s also very true and I know
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people who had I mean that’s the way
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that I thought about it property rights
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are ultimate to me as far as that goes
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right right if you want to carry a gun
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and come to my house I don’t care but if
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you want to carry a gun and come to my
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restaurant where we’re serving copious
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amounts of alcohol I’m probably going to
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put a stop to all and that’s very and
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again you and I agree 100% on this like
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it’s your property it’s if I don’t think
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that cities should ban smoking in
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restaurants I think that should be up to
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the restaurant to the owner of the
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restaurant to say whether or not you can
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smoke and the smoke in the bar totally
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okay if they’re like no you can’t smoke
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in here
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fine by me like even when I was a smoker
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I would go to those places and I didn’t
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care I would smoke outside I didn’t care
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but when the but when they started
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banning it everywhere that was when I
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started having an issue I was like why
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you have no say in that that is not your
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business let that restaurant closed or
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die on the vine if they decide not to
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let smoking or they make the wrong
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choice and their customer base want
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smoking exactly that’s their that’s
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their call exactly and I got so many I
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got so many hate mail not even mail hate
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cocktail napkins who had seen my debate
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or see us put the note
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the no-gun sign on the door I will never
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come back to this place again like I
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honestly I think this may have been your
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first and last time here anyway but
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right and I choose to live by that
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because I don’t want to have I’ve seen
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drunken fights I’ve seen people passed
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out people make bad choices and if I
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could prevent a little bit of that bad
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choice in my small sphere of influence
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that’s great if you want to do it your
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house I’m not gonna tell you not to you
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want to do it you’re a business I’m not
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gonna say not you know exactly I
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remember there was a there’s an annual
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party that happens in Nashville mafiosos
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that it’s always a good time I would
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never go back since I stopped drinking
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but it every time I was there it was a
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great time and that was all people we
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knew and liked and the stuff that
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happened at that party was just insane
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and yeah I could imagine like a stranger
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walking in off the street about right
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exactly and a stranger coming in off the
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street dealing with that party and that
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stranger packing I could I I totally
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understand why you’d be like no you
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don’t get a gun in here like I get that
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but again that is your choice as a
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business owner and it’s not something
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that should be brought down upon you but
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the state over one night we we had to we
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had to throw so you called me you’re
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like I need your help throwing this guy
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out of here and I was like let’s do it
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I’m hammered let’s go literally
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literally literally yeah you and I
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helped get him out the door and then TJ
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got him the rest of the way cuz yeah
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because that’s what TJ did hey by the
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way doctor up one another cool I was
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gonna put that on this screen and give
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you updates but I don’t want to slow
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anything down so I’m glad that you’re
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doing that so you recently left
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Nashville and you moved out about an
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hour outside of Nashville because
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Nashville had become
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just way way too liberal basically
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correct like I’m trying to think of the
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best way to put that it’s not I mean I
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saw things changing it wasn’t necessary
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liberal or conservative thing it was
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Nashville was not the old Nashville and
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I don’t even have the right to say old
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Nashville because I moved there on 95
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right my wife was born and raised there
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and well here’s a perfect story well me
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I remember when I first came to
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Tennessee my wife looked at me coming
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from Boston right just like if you honk
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your horn people are gonna follow you
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home and ask why you were so upset that
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you had to honk your horn and that was
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and that was even for like a little hey
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the lights green not a Boston you know
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yeah nothing wrong layering Wow you know
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you hit it hard so I took that into
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consideration and I tried not to honk
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and I think I did a fairly good job over
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the past
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more specifically the past five six
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years with the immigrated with it with
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the influx of people moving from from
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other places Nashville has become not
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what I recognize and never mind the
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things that don’t have anything to
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liberal-conservative the traffic the
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property taxes going up sky-high the the
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schools are awful
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the public schools are awful and just
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the congestion I just got tired of it
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we we moved out here and before we even
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went back up we we bought an old
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farmhouse we brought it down to the
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studs but our first day out here the the
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house had been sitting vacant for about
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four months the yard looked awful so I
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borrowed a lawn mower from a friend of
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ours who lived out here as well and I
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was I was mowin with this narrow turn
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mower had never used one before it never
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mowed this lawn and hit this like oh
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there’s a ditch boom and I got a spec
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and I within 10 minutes of me trying to
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pull it
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getting stuck the neighbor from across
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the road had already come over two guys
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had stopped as they were driving down
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the highway and said hey do you need
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some help and that is what old Nashville
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was right and it’s not that way anymore
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no it’s not so I left Nashville Red Sox
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won the World Series in 2013 yeah
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when I left that summer 2013 because I
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came back to watch the Red Sox won the
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World Series in Nashville because I
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didn’t know anybody down here and and in
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the time period from then until the last
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time I was up there in November the city
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has completely changed is all it’s grown
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straight up and I love innovation and I
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get that big cities are gonna attract
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people and I and I get that you need to
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continue fixing the infrastructure but
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with property taxes constantly going up
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with them putting restrictions on air
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BnB ‘he’s like the issue that you had
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with the place that i used to call my
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house that wasn’t my house it was yours
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and and everything and everything else
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just from 2013 to now it has become a
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completely different City I still love
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the city is still my favorite city on
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the fricking planet and most of my best
25:22
friends from throughout my life all
25:24
still live there or Nashville adjacent
25:27
and but I don’t know I would never be
25:31
able to move back to Nashville proper
25:33
because Nashville proper has just become
25:35
such they’re just so involved in every
25:41
aspect of your life now it seems yeah
25:44
yeah they keep trying fast big big
25:47
transit initiatives and and those types
25:50
of things
25:51
they’re you know multi-county and the
25:56
things that they don’t mean nothing
25:57
can’t control is the property values
26:00
going up so high and it made no more
26:02
sense for us to live in nashville
26:03
anymore we had a way to big house we
26:07
thought we’re gonna have more kids we
26:08
didn’t we had one who is we have one son
26:10
who’s 20 years
26:11
hey Calvin if you’re watching and he
26:14
were like we don’t need this big house
26:16
in the middle of green hills anymore
26:18
right so so for 10% of what we sold that
26:22
house and green hills we bought two
26:23
acres out here right with a house I mean
26:27
that’s and we’re 45 minutes an hour away
26:29
with the coming change in technology
26:34
you’re gonna be able to work for that 45
26:37
minutes while you’re in your car if you
26:40
want to commute to Nashville right
26:43
exactly
26:45
print Brandon Brandon shishun’s is
26:48
watching and he said that’s why he moved
26:50
to Nolensville
26:51
what’s up Brandon I have not talked to
26:55
Brandon in years
26:56
what’s up Brandon and what’s funny is we
27:00
that’s where Brad for it is I know a
27:03
bunch of people who moved out there and
27:05
I know some people who moved out there
27:06
15 years ago who were like oh I’m out of
27:09
here
27:09
this is getting too busy now and they’re
27:11
looking for places south of me down in
27:13
like Linville almost the Pulaski almost
27:17
to the border they’re just like it’s too
27:21
much yeah that that’s insane like I I
27:25
still need to be at least somewhat close
27:27
to a big city because I’m of the age
27:31
that I am and I’m still single so I like
27:33
I need to be somewhere where people are
27:36
and there are no there are no kava shops
27:39
here in a where I live in Lewisburg not
27:41
yet and one day apparently they just
27:45
opened one in Knoxville one of my
27:48
friends now when you moved it when you
27:52
moved out to not clerk’s Lewisburg
27:56
Lewisburg looks like Clarksville knows
28:02
right when you moved it when you moved
28:06
out there you rebuilt your house
28:08
completely by yourself right
28:11
we had a friend Bethany’s friends from
28:13
growing up childhood was it was a
28:15
contractor and he helped us out with a
28:16
lot of it but yeah I weighed thirty five
28:21
more pounds than I do now and
28:23
we we’ve you know we tore up the carport
28:26
we we had to hand bigfooters and the
28:31
foundation because there was no footer
28:33
of foundation on the old part of the
28:34
house that was built in the 1850s 75
28:38
nobody knows because it was the the
28:41
courthouse burnt down in the War of
28:44
Northern Aggression
28:44
as they call it here and so nobody knows
28:48
are the exact the exact timing of that
28:50
but it’s an old house right the two by
28:54
fours are still true they’re solid oak
28:57
old growth two by fours we saved every
29:00
single scrap of wood that we could pull
29:02
out of this place
29:03
you know we redid the trim on the wood
29:05
doors and windows in the old part of the
29:07
house with the old one by six poplars
29:09
rest on that we pulled out it’s been a
29:12
lot of fun I’ve learned how to do a lot
29:13
of stuff you know before that I just did
29:15
a lot of woodworking little wood turning
29:17
a little bit of a little bit of welding
29:20
we took some classes I mean here’s the
29:23
idea of bethany’s of my good time is for
29:26
anniversary we took a class on welding
29:30
and she’s so married to me yeah that’s
29:33
oh that’s amazing
29:44
so when I was out there you were you
29:46
were showing me around and you should
29:47
you were showing me picture you’re show
29:49
me the befores and then you were letting
29:50
me see what it looked like now and it’s
29:53
it’s like a completely different house
29:54
like what you’ve been able to I yet like
29:58
you kept I believe if I remember
30:00
correctly you kept the original hardwood
30:02
floors right we did wherever they were
30:05
we kept them a few places we had to we
30:08
had to do some patching the original
30:10
hardwoods in the old part of the house
30:12
were its heart pine about four inches
30:16
wide and it goes from one in the room to
30:18
the other so it’s not like a staggered
30:20
board kind of thing beautiful but it was
30:23
in in most parts the house where they
30:28
had it it was it was either painted over
30:30
and then carpet pad and carved or tar
30:34
paper carpet pad carpet or painted over
30:37
particleboard carpet pad carpet and then
30:40
somebody that their dog crap all over it
30:43
and pee in there and use it as their
30:44
personal yeah their litter box they’re
30:48
caring litter but the very first thing
30:52
we did after mowing the front lawn was
30:54
and me getting stuck was to rip up all
30:56
that carpet and and it was all built on
31:02
the old part of the house current
31:04
construction methods are different you
31:07
know 16 inch centers two by twelves on
31:09
your floor or two by tens on your floors
31:11
or two by twelve things on what maturity
31:13
using and this the old part of the house
31:16
is it’s on 24 inch centers and there’s
31:18
no there’s no sub for I mean this this
31:21
pine and the old part of the house you
31:23
can actually feel that kind of it’s a
31:27
little bouncy and it’s not a ton of
31:29
groove so they’re not locked together so
31:31
you feel the board’s gonna kind of move
31:33
and creak and I like that oh part I like
31:35
that part of in the old part of the
31:36
house right but that also means that we
31:39
had to encapsulate the crawlspace and
31:43
I didn’t do that we hired somebody for
31:45
that right listen I think I think he
31:48
encapsulated a snake he freaked out
31:52
there was a snake in the crawlspace and
31:53
he had that foam gun going and we just
31:55
look back and just and just covered it
31:59
just covered it there was a horrible
32:01
smell for about for about three months
32:03
and then it went away I think it I think
32:06
it finally rotted out completely and
32:08
there’s no more smell Wow sir
32:11
Sarah Branyan says you don’t look old
32:13
enough to have a 20 year old I can
32:15
attest that he does have a 20 year old
32:16
and you’re right he definitely doesn’t
32:19
look old enough to have a 20 year old
32:22
you should see my wife people give me
32:25
the tisk tisk look because I think I’m
32:27
robbing the cradle or something right
32:28
yeah my wife when I’ve been married for
32:30
22 years oh gosh no I spend more than
32:35
that I want to get yelled at here we got
32:38
married in d6 this year is going to be
32:40
23 in June we met when we were I just
32:46
turned 21 and she was 20 and we got
32:48
married when we were 22 and 23
32:51
so I’m a I’m I’m in my mid-40s and I’d
32:56
like to think it’s all the all the good
32:58
living I did that makes me look so good
33:00
but I think it’s just genes right yeah
33:02
when people ask me when people who know
33:04
how old I am asked me how I don’t look
33:06
that age I go oh it’s really simple when
33:10
you turn about 19 years old
33:12
Kopp the biggest drug habit you can
33:14
possibly get but you have to quit at the
33:18
exact right time because that that’s
33:21
like preserves the skin in a youthful
33:24
glow if you go too long you just age
33:27
rapidly and it’s over so you have to
33:30
make sure you automatically feed the
33:32
semi right look like you you’re gonna
33:36
look like Keith Richards did at 25 who
33:40
still looks like Keith Richards at 25
33:42
yeah so when you’re out there you were
33:48
you were telling me last time I was out
33:50
there that you were building an
33:52
aquaponics system wage I had to look
33:56
that up after I left because it was one
33:59
of those things where I was like I’m
34:00
gonna write that down on my hand and
34:02
look that up on my drive home later and
34:06
so so my wife calls it nerd farming
34:11
right yeah that’s basically what that is
34:13
but it’s a but can you explain what that
34:19
is to anybody who’s watching me who
34:21
doesn’t know and I may be the only
34:22
ignorant person on that because maybe
34:25
everybody else has heard about it but
34:28
reading about it and then getting your
34:30
description right before the show it’s
34:33
so cool like that is one of the coolest
34:35
things you could possibly do in your own
34:39
property well we love it because you can
34:42
you can really you can get a lot out of
34:46
a little bit of space so on on the
34:49
surface the most basic of that is we
34:51
have fish that we’re growing inside of a
34:54
big tank and we pump the water out of
34:57
that tank with all of their fish poop
34:59
and the food that they don’t eat into
35:01
other tanks
35:03
other grow beds some of them have lava
35:07
rock in the bottom with a with a little
35:09
bit of skinny rock on the bottom like a
35:12
little bit of sea gravel so that we can
35:14
plant things in it and some of the beds
35:16
that we have have lava rock with real
35:19
dirt on it and that lava rock creates a
35:22
place for bacteria to grow and they take
35:25
the fish poop nitrite and convert it
35:30
into nitrates and that is what feeds
35:35
it’s like a fertilizer it’s a
35:37
fertilization system for the plants the
35:38
plants grow great and the more plants
35:41
you have the more fish you can have in
35:42
there you can have a higher stocking
35:43
density right now I think we have about
35:46
15 little bass in there but our system
35:49
is really new right but you were just
35:53
getting a set up in November so yeah and
35:56
then I had a you know the other part of
35:59
that is it’s all about community and I
36:03
learned this from from some people that
36:05
I’ve gotten to know really well and we
36:07
we got together and think of it like an
36:12
Amish barn barn raising and we we have a
36:16
group that we call Tennessee get shit
36:19
done crew and we’re like-minded people
36:22
we listen to a couple podcast and we all
36:24
met through and another podcast you
36:29
listen to em that’s about a podcast for
36:31
jack spirit though I actually I actually
36:33
lost you there for a second you said we
36:35
met through and then you blanked and
36:36
then you said in another podcast with
36:38
jack spear co Oh Nicole Nicole Williams
36:42
okay you know who used to work with the
36:43
spark freedom she has a living free in
36:45
Tennessee and then the other person that
36:48
we’ve kind of all met around is Jack
36:51
spear Co with a survival podcast and
36:55
that we are a little bit like minded and
36:59
it’s like you know that’s f the
37:00
government leave me alone I’ll do what
37:02
I’m gonna do
37:03
but let’s create a community of our own
37:04
and it’s not like we’re gonna go into
37:06
the bottom of a bunker and eat a bunch
37:08
of beans and rice it let’s make our
37:12
world a better place and prepare for
37:16
that
37:17
just in case something goes wrong well
37:20
you know what we’re making our world
37:21
better even if it doesn’t go wrong so
37:26
that’s why we’re doing what we’re doing
37:28
and we get together and the great thing
37:30
about that get shit done crew is we’ll
37:32
we’ll take a project somebody will be
37:34
like hey I really need to have this done
37:35
so like I’ve got three extra bedrooms
37:41
and I will feed you and supply you with
37:43
a bunch of booze and I’ve got some tent
37:46
camping areas so we’ll have ten people
37:49
come over to the house and we’ll just
37:51
knock out a project for a weekend and
37:54
you participate in one of those and then
37:59
you go to someone else’s house and do do
38:01
that and it just keeps popping around
38:02
right everybody is helping everybody
38:04
you’re creating that community of the
38:06
people that you can kind of count on
38:08
yeah yeah and I mean so that is sort of
38:12
the way that I have if I were to create
38:15
an anarchist society that’s the sort of
38:17
society that I would kind of picture
38:19
where you find a group of people that
38:21
you can all work together and you all
38:24
work on projects together and then
38:25
that’s the community in which you kind
38:28
of just you make that community flourish
38:30
if other people want to join they that’s
38:32
up to the people of the community and
38:34
then you just set aside different
38:35
community and then you just figure out
38:38
how to trade with each individual
38:40
community right and that’s kind of the
38:42
way I’ve always picked society and
38:46
community just community doesn’t have to
38:47
be a physical location I mean we are we
38:50
just did a Nicole just did her big
38:52
workshop when I tell the class up there
38:53
on on how to make out of a how to cure
38:56
meat to make bacon and stuff and there
38:58
are people coming from Missouri and New
39:01
Hampshire and Texas and Oklahoma North
39:05
Carolina everybody met there for about
39:09
four or five days to learn from one
39:11
another and to have a good time
39:13
right so the community isn’t necessarily
39:16
a a physical space it it’s what you make
39:19
of it right
39:23
completely off subject you you said
39:26
something about smoking meat and making
39:28
bacon and
39:29
I remember you took a trip to Alaska and
39:33
you were smoking was it what did you are
39:40
you smoking in the back of mafiosos that
39:43
was so good that I probably thought I
39:44
definitely did not eat in the kitchen I
39:48
think we brought back we brought back
39:51
some salmon from the copper wood family
39:54
right and we were testing out new
39:57
recipes for amber ski lodge next door
40:01
and that was that was the smoked salmon
40:03
okay yeah okay I was thinking it was
40:05
sand but I I’m getting it mixed up with
40:08
my trip to Alaska where I was eating a
40:11
lot of like elk and stuff and I was like
40:16
but I didn’t share with anybody yeah
40:19
that’s the best thing I don’t blame you
40:21
it’s really good but yeah no you had the
40:23
smoked salmon going in the back of
40:25
mafiosos and I definitely didn’t eat it
40:27
in the kitchen but it was really good
40:30
my co-host spike says totally unrelated
40:35
would Brett and his wife like to come
40:36
for a beach vacation in Myrtle Beach I’m
40:40
gonna say that so you know which Beach
40:41
is talking about maybe encapsulate our
40:43
crawlspace oh yeah I forgot the snakes
40:48
in there for me to make it think for
40:49
about it for about a month right the
40:56
rest of the world’s gonna be rummaging
40:57
through landfills for scraps of food and
40:59
Brett’s going to be pairing bass with
41:01
water Chris yeah yeah pretty much yeah
41:07
so I remember when you first started
41:09
getting into wood turning you like you
41:10
were just like okay this is something
41:12
I’m gonna do now and you came in to you
41:15
came into work one day I believe it was
41:18
a Sunday it was a Sunday or Saturday I’m
41:20
gonna say Sunday and you early
41:23
yeah so I just got this new lathe and
41:25
I’ve been working on wood turning and I
41:27
was like oh that’s cool instant and I
41:28
made you this and you handed me a pen
41:30
that you had made me I said yeah and I
41:35
saw that the other day it that was a
41:37
pretty shitty pen I’m sorry I still have
41:40
yeah I still have that
41:42
and I still use it all the time it’s in
41:45
my back it’s in my bedroom next to my
41:48
bed and that’s what I write stuff down
41:50
on at night I write stuff down with at
41:52
night is that pen buddy and every time
41:55
that like I’m like Brett made me this
41:59
pen this pen is staying right here
42:02
it never leaves the house nothing like
42:05
that I’m glad to hear it I’m glad to
42:08
hear it
42:08
yeah and then you you started the it
42:12
wasn’t an Etsy store I don’t think but
42:13
it was it was some sort of store where I
42:17
could buy like your pens and your bowls
42:19
and everything that you were turning
42:21
online and I bought like every pen you
42:23
had so yeah I hope that you what’s that
42:33
you broke up and I said I hope you I
42:35
hope you gave them all out no I didn’t
42:37
know I still have all of them I believe
42:39
three of them are right here three of
42:44
them are right here one of them is in
42:45
the bag that I always carry with me and
42:47
then one of them that was always in my
42:49
pocket recently got replaced sorry to
42:51
say but my buddy got me one of these
42:53
bolt action pens for my oh yeah
42:57
so I’ve recently I’ve recently switched
42:59
pens from one of the ones that you made
43:02
but you know this one this one breaks my
43:06
nose time moves on this one breaks
43:09
windows so I’m a big fan so living
43:15
living out there in not Clarksburg
43:17
Bernie was Berg living out there in
43:20
Lewisburg I know that you’ve got some
43:25
crazy neighbors according to things
43:27
you’ve told me but you’ve been told
43:31
basically you basically like when you
43:34
were remodeling your house like you went
43:36
to go get permits and they just kind of
43:37
looked at you funny and we’re like no
43:39
it’s your house well what’s funny was we
43:44
thought that’s the way it was when I
43:46
went to go get I was used to building in
43:48
Nashville and I know I’ve worked on it
43:51
you know we’ve built four restaurants
43:55
and I’ve opened a total of nine
43:56
restaurant so I’m used to having a deal
43:58
with codes department right and I’ve
44:02
been to places where you had to get a
44:04
permit to start demolition so I went and
44:08
said hey how do I get a demo permit you
44:10
know like you don’t need a demo permit
44:12
like okay but then when it came to I I
44:18
asked the head of coach to come by and
44:19
and let him know what I wanted to let
44:21
him know what we were doing and he
44:24
seemed pretty cool but the very first
44:27
time that we got inspected my contractor
44:30
friend had a little argument with the
44:33
very first inspector we had and that
44:35
just set the stage for us to be unhappy
44:41
right so if I love I love the county I
44:47
love Lewisburg love the county I live in
44:49
Marshall County but it is one of the top
44:51
of the places I’ve ever had to deal with
44:53
the codes department really because yet
44:55
when you and I were cuz when you and I
44:57
were talking about him you were like
44:58
yeah we don’t need a demo you know you
45:01
were talking about the demo permit and I
45:02
was like oh that’s real different from
45:04
Nashville cousin Nashville you need a
45:05
permit for anything well you need a
45:07
permit to braid hair in Nashville I knew
45:11
not anymore that just changed did it
45:13
good yeah well actually you can’t just
45:17
braid here instead of getting a
45:18
full-blown cosmetology license now they
45:20
have to make sure that you know how to
45:21
wash your hands and I think it’s like a
45:23
20 or 20 or 30 hour thing instead of a
45:27
3000 hour thing which is still a load of
45:28
shit but it’s a lot better right now
45:30
yeah exactly I mean I remember I needed
45:33
a I needed a permit to wait tables to
45:36
know that I wouldn’t over sorry
45:39
yeah and granted that permit lasts for
45:41
seven years or whatever it is I don’t
45:43
know it’s been a while that permit lasts
45:45
for seven right when I say that laughter
45:48
four – oh really it was only a tweet
45:51
your class and you you had to sue to
45:53
that nine hour class you can actually
45:55
take it online now which is fantastic
45:58
that’s yeah that’s better
46:00
I um I did not have that I did not have
46:02
the online option at the time and I had
46:04
to
46:04
at some convention hall on a Saturday
46:08
morning and you remember me back then
46:11
Saturday mornings were not a good time
46:12
for me ever
46:14
because morning good morning doctor
46:17
Saturday right right just mornings in
46:19
general and I mean they still aren’t a
46:22
good time for me and I’m sober so back
46:26
then they were real difficult I was
46:30
sitting in that class and everything
46:33
that this teacher was telling me about
46:34
alcohol safety anybody with a brain knew
46:38
and he he was talking to us about
46:42
finding fake IDs which again anybody
46:45
where the brain is going to know how to
46:46
do it and he said I’ll never forget this
46:49
and he was what’s the largest organ on
46:50
your body and I’m gonna remind everybody
46:52
who’s listening I used to drink a lot so
46:56
I raised my hand and goes no I already
46:58
know your answer so I just put my hand
47:00
down because obviously not my body a
47:05
body in general right and he goes and he
47:08
said it’s your skin and I said oh and he
47:11
said that’s why you don’t want to bathe
47:12
in alcohol and I said what and he was
47:16
yeah it soaks it in and they could kill
47:18
you Oh what if it’s just beer and he
47:22
said no don’t do that I said okay and
47:25
then I raised my hand and he’s like what
47:27
what if and hear me out what if you get
47:33
one of those foot massager thingies and
47:35
you fill it with vodka and you only put
47:38
your feet in it and human I I don’t I
47:42
don’t know if that would kill you but I
47:46
wouldn’t recommend it I am NOT gonna say
47:50
I recommend it but but if anybody out
47:56
there tries it it is not a bad time not
48:02
that I recommend it cuz it could be
48:04
really dangerous and I got lucky
48:07
that is what that is the one thing I
48:10
remember from that class is he said do
48:11
not bathe in alcohol and I said man if
48:13
that ever comes up in a restaurant yeah
48:15
if that ever comes up in my serving
48:18
rear I I think I think I have an issue
48:21
get out of it think you’re out of the
48:24
think yeah why why are you sitting in
48:30
the sink for so long pouring alcohol
48:32
over yourself if you were doing that in
48:34
your restaurant you have been sitting it
48:36
you have been at work way too long or
48:37
you have a real drinking problem be to
48:40
just find yourself in that situation but
48:43
all in all I easy course if you have to
48:46
take it but just stupid that I needed
48:48
things to go sit in this class for that
48:50
long in order to wait tables at mafiosos
48:56
you have to take the whole class over
48:59
again to renew right if not a there’s no
49:03
just like a refresher course like and
49:04
then if you did that ahead yeah and then
49:08
if you didn’t take the roof he didn’t
49:09
take the class again they would come
49:12
into your work and just do surprise
49:13
stings and anybody who didn’t have that
49:16
license had to go home and I remember
49:18
they did that to us on a Tuesday night
49:21
and how come I knew yeah of course they
49:24
knew they did that to us on a Tuesday
49:26
night and for anybody who doesn’t live
49:27
in Nashville which is going to be most
49:29
of you Tuesday night at mafiosos was two
49:33
for one beer double pour on liquor and
49:35
two for one slices of pizza it was a
49:38
busy night that made me hey everybody
49:42
the unperson to meet market net yeah yes
49:45
I did enjoy that but they came in one
49:50
night and they sent half of the staff
49:52
home so we were I think we were down to
49:55
like six servers running this Tuesday
49:58
night usually running 10 to 10 to 17
50:01
depending upon the time of year ready
50:03
and I remember me and Virginia V we were
50:08
the two servers inside just in a dead-on
50:10
Sprint all night long and one of our
50:14
tables was a table of regulars that came
50:17
in and mass and would take up half of a
50:20
restaurant who I’m not going to name
50:22
here but they were awful they’re always
50:24
awful and on that night they were really
50:26
awful so
50:31
so somebody wants to like start doing
50:33
their own aquaponics if somebody wants
50:35
to start moving outward outside of the
50:38
city obviously the first step is to move
50:39
outward outside of a city but like how
50:42
do they disconnect from all of that like
50:44
how would you recommend somebody does
50:46
all of that with the least amount of
50:49
stress possible well you use the term
50:53
disconnect and I and I I’ve been apart
50:56
with that you need to connect you need
50:57
to connect with the people that you can
51:01
learn from No so disconnect trying it
51:04
out does that disconnect from the big
51:06
city is what I meant like get away from
51:08
the big stuff
51:09
yeah not disconnect from people but
51:11
disconnect from the big city where we’re
51:12
used to everything being right there
51:15
having the water no there’s no uber here
51:18
there’s no postmates there’s no breeds
51:20
there’s no shift or whatever the grocery
51:23
store one is we don’t have my grocery
51:26
store my grocery store options are
51:29
Walmart and Kroger and like a food lion
51:33
or IgA or something so plan on getting
51:41
getting stuff once a week if you make a
51:43
trip into the city if you’re close
51:46
enough to so do that we we choose
51:48
Wednesday to go into town because we
51:50
know it’s the quietest day and we hit
51:52
Trader Joe’s that’s it
51:55
and you know it’s a good liquor store to
51:58
pick up good wine and stuff start
52:03
growing your own stuff
52:04
there I mean and and I have four
52:06
restaurants there are no restaurants
52:08
here in town to speak of there’s there’s
52:11
a bunch of chains it’s like everything
52:14
you’d see driving down any any town
52:18
Street USA you’re going to each one of
52:20
those chain restaurants there’s a couple
52:22
of little mom-and-pop places but they’re
52:23
all meeting trees and there’s nothing
52:26
like there’s no place where you there’s
52:28
like 15 Mexican restaurants and a new
52:30
one seems to open every week there’s no
52:33
like a little chef driven restaurant get
52:37
used to that so you’re going to be
52:38
cooking at home learn how to cook or if
52:42
you’re like I am I started a service
52:44
where people can
52:45
order food that I’m gonna prepare they
52:48
order all I prepare five different types
52:50
of meals a week they order by Wednesday
52:52
I have ready for pickup on Friday so
52:55
it’s kind of like a meal prep strip yeah
52:59
I was gonna say yeah you got like a meal
53:00
prep service going on that’s and I found
53:04
the stuff that sells of the stuff that
53:05
people can’t get here I’ll cook some
53:07
Thai food or some Vietnamese or some
53:08
Indian food and that is the stuff that
53:11
people just kind of wow I have to drive
53:14
an hour to get this or like that well
53:17
you don’t have to do that here now
53:19
anymore right and that’s in your fridge
53:21
you can heat it up when you want but be
53:23
prepared to to be on your own but not
53:27
get to know your neighbors and that’s
53:29
that’s the whole reason you’re moving
53:30
out here I mean we lived in the middle
53:32
of green hills I don’t I knew the name
53:34
of one neighbor lived there for 20 years
53:37
right everybody in the city was so
53:41
isolated but because their kids go to
53:43
different schools they have different
53:45
our I mean here you just hey you see
53:49
somebody across the road you go say hi
53:51
right and and green and and Nashville it
53:54
didn’t feel that way wasn’t it wasn’t
53:55
comfortable like that no that’s that’s
53:58
definitely true the when I was living in
54:01
Nashville I I knew one neighbor at the
54:07
two houses I lived in after I broke up
54:09
with the girl that I had been dating
54:11
when I first started when I first moved
54:12
there I lived in two houses I knew one
54:15
neighbor at each of those houses no one
54:17
of those was – I forgot about Lou I
54:19
never considered him a neighbor does he
54:24
just ended up just being always around
54:26
so he wasn’t a neighbor he was just blue
54:28
but like I knew one neighbor in each of
54:31
those places and that was it I did not
54:34
get to know any other neighbor everybody
54:37
I knew everybody the spike says he loves
54:40
you spike every uh every everybody I
54:47
knew I met through work through going
54:50
out to bars through going out to
54:53
different restaurants or
54:55
from the gym like that that was it that
54:58
was my circle of influence if you lived
55:00
around me I did not know who you were
55:02
and I was okay with that
55:03
at the time I could see that yes one of
55:07
the things that I learned out here was
55:12
it’s a much smaller it’s a much smaller
55:15
pond and you don’t have to be a big fish
55:17
but you can you can have much more
55:19
impact right you know we bought an old
55:23
house that was a circle house in town so
55:27
people were wanting to see what the
55:28
house looked like people would come by
55:30
all the time
55:30
and just drive up it will work on the
55:32
house and ask us how we’re doing and
55:33
what we’re doing and that kind of thing
55:34
and when it came to it we we were asked
55:37
if we would put our house on the tour of
55:40
homes for the Rotary fundraiser right at
55:43
that allowed us to meet a lot more
55:47
people a lot more people and then it
55:50
allowed me to join rotary which is a
55:52
it’s a good organization they get they
55:55
basically there they gather money and
55:57
distribute it to they may have we have
55:59
fundraisers and that kind of thing and
56:00
distribute it to other organizations
56:01
nonprofits places that need it in town
56:03
and those are the types of things that I
56:06
would prefer the government here I mean
56:10
you’re working with you’re working with
56:11
people you can you can give money to
56:13
people that you agree with their thing
56:15
their what their what their mission is
56:17
or what their project is right and the
56:20
other side of that is I’m getting to
56:21
know the local government people and if
56:23
we all know there’s anybody who can be
56:25
more problematic its local government
56:28
because the only they can do is make
56:30
more restrictive laws than the ones that
56:32
the federal government made or the state
56:34
or the county and then you get down to
56:35
town and then get an HOA on top of that
56:39
no which it seemed like everywhere that
56:43
seems like everywhere in Nashville that
56:45
was what you were dealing with you were
56:47
dealing with those restrictions on the
56:48
federal you’re from the federal from the
56:50
state from the county from the city and
56:52
then everywhere I lived I think I we had
56:55
an HOA so it was just restriction upon
56:59
restriction upon restriction granted I
57:01
ignored most of them because who’s
57:03
really checking but yeah at the same
57:05
time I could have gotten busted for a
57:07
lot of the stuff that I
57:09
yep and out here I hate to say it but
57:14
it’s more about relationships and that’s
57:17
I think you know we had relationships
57:19
with different politicians and stuff in
57:21
Nashville some good regulars at the
57:25
restaurant who I think you know I’m
57:26
talking about right but the out here
57:29
it’s a little different it’s not a
57:30
there’s never any expected quid pro quo
57:34
it’s just hey how can I help you you
57:37
know I haven’t come across any of that
57:38
nobody with our hand out the local
57:42
politicians that I’ve run across seem to
57:44
be fairly uncorrupt and they’re there
57:48
but legitimately like hey welcome to
57:51
town what can we do you know we were
57:54
asked to go speak you know to a couple
57:57
of different organizations in town
57:58
people were best like what it boiled
58:02
down to was like why the hell did you
58:04
come out here why did you choose
58:08
Franklin or why don’t you live in East
58:11
Nashville or why don’t you stay in
58:12
Nashville and our answer was we wanted
58:17
to be we wanted to be outside of that
58:18
mess we wanted the place where we could
58:21
get to know people and the one who place
58:23
we can be left about if we wanted to and
58:27
that’s it and that’s how anybody should
58:31
yeah I mean that I understand wanting to
58:34
be immersed in like a city kind of
58:36
environment I absolutely I get it I
58:38
absolutely get it because I that’s how I
58:41
sort of live right now I’m on like the
58:43
outskirts of that and this is Florida so
58:46
I mean if I go any I have this option or
58:49
I have an option I definitely don’t want
58:53
it’s like wow yeah
58:55
this whomps the Gator country so I get
59:00
it I get wanting to be in the city
59:02
environment I also get wanting to get
59:04
away from the city environment wanting
59:06
to leave that and just be with your
59:08
neighbors and your families and all of
59:11
that I understand I understand both
59:14
sides of it and I know that at some
59:16
point in my life I’m probably going to
59:18
lean over to the other side and be like
59:19
okay I just want to get away from all of
59:21
the local governments here are starting
59:24
to just piss me off beyond repair where
59:27
I’m tired of arguing at City Council
59:29
meetings and I’m tired of fighting with
59:32
people in writing op-eds for the local
59:35
papers in order to try to get them to
59:37
let me Airbnb a house that’s not in a
59:42
correctly zone directed owned yeah
59:46
which is something we’re dealing with
59:48
here in this tiny little town that I
59:50
live in out off of st. Petersburg like
59:53
if you’re not down for business you
59:55
don’t get to Airbnb your house and then
59:58
you also have to apply for a business
59:59
license and it’s to me it’s stupid like
60:03
it’s my house but so yeah I can I can I
60:08
definitely understand that normally I
60:12
say at this point do you have anything
60:13
you want to plug I don’t really know if
60:15
you’re working on anything that you
60:16
would want to plug go to Bret Shep calm
60:21
and buy some Bibles yes
60:24
BR e t t CH e f dot-com and real quick
60:29
like I’d like I said the beginning I’m
60:30
gonna give you like a heartfelt speech
60:32
because I’ve been doing those recently
60:35
literally you’re again you are one of my
60:37
favorite people in the world and truly I
60:40
look at you you’re not a friend you’re
60:43
you’re not a friend you’re not like a
60:44
former boss you are family to me you are
60:47
a big brother I look up to you immensely
60:50
I look up to you immensely and I I can
60:56
never show you all the gratitude for all
60:57
that you have helped me out with and one
61:01
of those things which I’ll mention real
61:02
quick is when I left Florida they threw
61:05
me a going-away party that I have never
61:11
been to a party that was this wonderful
61:12
ever in my life we floated two kegs of
61:16
beer which I think there was like 15 of
61:19
us there so that was just impressive and
61:21
and I couldn’t even tell you how much
61:25
liquor we went through and I know I
61:27
definitely didn’t eat enough of the food
61:29
because Brett is the most amazing cook
61:31
in the world
61:31
Gordon Ramsay would disagree but I mean
61:34
he really is and you know I learned to
61:39
not yell like him anymore
61:40
that took me a while right you probably
61:43
still threaten people who eat in the
61:44
kitchen but you know you and Bethany and
61:49
Calvin you’re all my family and it’s
61:52
weird because you’re like my brother and
61:53
she’s like my sister but you guys are
61:54
married but again everything that you
61:57
guys have ever done for me
61:58
I can never stop saying thank you and I
62:02
love all of you immensely and as always
62:05
I’m always here for you and I will once
62:08
again say one day I’m gonna make it back
62:10
up there I just really need everything
62:12
to work out for once for me to get back
62:14
up I understand that we love you too
62:17
when we wish you the best luck with this
62:19
and keep keep it going yeah no
62:21
absolutely but I’m definitely not moving
62:23
back to Nashville proper I’m gonna go to
62:25
that city outside outside that yeah yeah
62:29
that one city that we talked about last
62:31
time I was up there yeah the one that’s
62:34
a country I don’t remember the name oh
62:38
yeah I was just hanging out there today
62:40
were you nice yeah I need to go and
62:43
check that place out
62:44
but yeah again thank you I love you more
62:47
than you could possibly possibly realize
62:49
you probably do because you know me but
62:51
yeah I truly love you more than more
62:54
than almost anybody else in the world
62:56
and I will always and forever consider
62:58
you just one of my closest friends and
63:02
my brother Maddie you are family and I’m
63:05
sure Bethany is watching us sitting on
63:07
the porch and she probably crying a bit
63:08
right now yeah that was my goal that we
63:11
love you and you know let me know how I
63:14
can help you anymore all right will do
63:16
to everybody else I love you thank you
63:18
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63:38
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63:40
you hang out for a couple minutes while
63:42
I do the closing song and then I’ll talk
63:43
to you after
63:45
now get beautiful remember that we are
63:48
closing out this week with Jason Lyon
63:50
tomorrow night this weekend I have the
63:54
wonderful pleasure of hanging out with
63:55
all of the libertarians who are going to
63:57
be in town for the Florida libertarian
64:00
convention and I will have many great
64:03
pictures and stories from that so look
64:08
forward to that next week starting
64:10
Monday Jason Lyon is going to be
64:12
starting us off next Tuesday we have an
64:15
all new episode of muddy waters of
64:17
freedom and Wednesday I think fingers
64:20
crossed that spike Cohen is back with a
64:22
brand new episode of my fellow Americans
64:25
so tune in for all of that have
64:27
yourselves a wonderful weekend do
64:29
everything you can to make it beautiful
64:30
and we will see you soon
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