Patrick and the People - 10/18/2024 Patrick and the People - LIVE! w/ Vantage Ruins

Episode Date: November 2, 2024

Guests: Ronnie James, Chad Sledge, Aaron Reddin & special guest Vantage Ruins w/ special acoustic performance!

Before that, working in the local shelter system. Before that, so too damn long. Too damn long. Now, you were actually on the Dr. Phil show. I was on Dr. Phil. Now, how long ago was that? That was 2011 as well. That was 2011 when everything kind of kicked off.

That was right before the van, actually. Oh, right before. I was still in my car. I was working at St. Francis House and got a weird email. Didn't believe it until I looked at the URL that said paramount.com. Wow. Paramount.com. Hold on, that might be it. And they flew me out like three days later, gave me 75 bucks to the bar tab. Didn't know if I was going to make it to the show the next morning. How was it? I mean, was it a good time? Did you enjoy it? It was all right, man.

I didn't understand why he flew me out there and put me up in a swanky hotel and everything and then talked over me for like five minutes. Really? Yeah, changed my hair, made me wear makeup. Oh, you had to wear makeup? Yeah. Really? You didn't go, no, I don't want that.

They said, no, you're going to put that on. I don't know, dude. I think they started embalming him like 15 years ago. Yeah, no, I'm certain of that. He is mummified, man. And that was almost, what, 13 years ago? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, what kind of makeup did they put?

Did they put blush on you and eyeshadow on you? It was the works. I had gone and gotten my hair done. I used to wear Prada. Yeah, right, right, right. It was probably like when we first met. Man, I watch Bar Rescue, and I don't know what's happened in the past couple years, but they've got lipstick on John Taffer now, and I'm like, bro, come on, man.

That is gloss. You should not be wearing that, man. To my right here, you may know Chad Sledge. He is the owner of Piercings by Chad in Conway, right there where Primal Urge Tattoo is on Donaghy. How's it going, man? Doing good. Good morning, everybody. What's going on in the world of piercing this week? Man, piercings.

Lots of piercings. Lots of piercings. All right, all right. Awesome. And to the right, right, it is rock star Ronnie James back in the studio with us today. Morning, morning. Yeah, Ronnie is a very accomplished musician and rock star and always has a take on something. Oh, well, this morning, I've been writing a song.

You've been writing a song? I've been writing a song. I've been writing a country song. A country song, even? Really? Yes, I mean, I'm going back to my roots. Yeah? I'm from Arkansas. Well, right, right, right. I get it. So, okay, well, I'd be, you know, everyone's going country right now.

I mean, hell, Post Malone just dropped a country album. I mean, you know, Jelly Rolls Half Country, who? Beyonce. Beyonce did drop a country album. Yeah, she sure did. Yeah, she did. Yeah, that country's the hot thing. You know, if you remember in the 80s,

rock encompassed most everything. Pop pop rock uh and and then there was country over here well rock moved way over to the hard side and country picked all that up yeah so now pop and rock basically are in country and then you have hard rock and metal over here yeah i mean isn't that kind of how it's gone country's kind of funny right now it's it's a lot of different things a lot of different things yeah It's a lot of different things. Yeah, it's been infused with many things. They're calling real country Americana now. Americana.

Is that like Hank Williams? Not the Nashville country. That's like outside of Nashville country. Oh, I see. I see. Because it has influences from other things or whatever. Blues and soul. Yeah.

It's all music, baby. It's all music. It's all music. Let's see, what do we have going on today? So today, of course, we have The Rant. Yeah, The Rant is back, baby. We're going to do that, and I'll debut The Rant cam today. We have a special cam just for The Rant so you can get the anger up close and personal. And we've got a live performance from Vantage Ruins today. Now, their vocalist, Luke Shoemaker, is the one who sings the theme song for our opening. So you'll get a chance to meet him and his partner and talk about their music and their band. And then they're going to perform an acoustic song for the first time ever.

And that's something we're going to be able to do more of here is more acoustic performances, a lot of bands coming in that we've got scheduled. And so I'm excited about that. And if all goes well for everyone else but me, at the end of the show, I'll be tased. Ooh. Which should be awesome. Can't wait. Did you wear your pampers?

You know, no, I didn't. But they did tell me I could fill the pants with a smush pad. It could happen. Dude, I'm more excited about this. Huh? People are picking them up a lot better. Oh, are they? Well, that's good.

That's good. That's good. I'm more excited about this taser thing than the time you let me dump a tractor load of ice water on your head. What was that called? Ice bucket challenge. That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, dude.

He called me and he said, listen, man, I got a, what is that, a backhoe? What is that thing? Tractor front end loader. And he said, man, let me fill it with ice water and dump that on you. And I was like, okay. Sign me up. Man, was that cold, bro. Oh, my God, man. I guess fill it with ice water and dump that on you. And I was like, okay. Sign me up. Man, was that cold, bro. Oh, my God, man.

I guess that was like the ice plunge somewhat. Yeah. Yeah, I hope that you can hear everybody better today. We made some more adjustments. You know, it's one of those things where it's kind of a work in progress to get everything where we want it to be. But I think for the first week, we've really got it dialed in by the end of the week pretty tight here, and it's sounding pretty good, man. Man, you guys were encountering some deer this morning.

You said, Chad, you said that there was a big buck out there. About a six or eight point on the side road when we locked eyes. He was kind of like, are you going to jump? Are you going to drive? Kind of like a little standoff. We're like sitting there staring. What, did he flip you the middle hoove and say, I wish you would? What happened?

He kind of felt it, man. Like he was a little intimidated. What's crazy is he told me that he called Bundy because he was on his way to Bundy's house. And when he got to Bundy, he said, hey, man, there's a big buck there. And when Bundy left, he said, he's still there. He's like he's still on the road. He's still there. He's just staring traffic still on the road. He's still there. He's just staring traffic down.

Yeah. And Ronnie, you said you had that this morning. Yes, I did. Right up my road. I mean, they are everywhere. Yes, they are out. So you probably ought to be careful. Now, let me ask you, has anyone here ever hit a deer before?

I have twice. You're trying to jinx us. You have twice? Twice. Twice. I got hit by a deer on a four-wheeler once. Did you really? Yeah. A live deer. It went to the side and flipped us, yeah. It flipped you? Twice. Twice. I got hit by a deer on a four-wheeler once. Did you really? Yeah.

A live deer? It went to the side and flipped us, yeah. It flipped you? Yeah. How did that go? How did that happen? No, the deer ran off, and my old man's laying there, cigarettes still in his mouth. Ain't going to let that go.

We don't tell nobody about it. You know, I don't know. Was your dad like mine? He never used his hands to smoke. He'd park it right over here. And then sometimes he'd just let it hang off his lip almost straight down. It'd just be stuck there. It's just a natural ash.

You don't have to ash that thing. Yeah. No, it's crazy how he could do everything. No hands with it. If you've got a beard, the ashes are just hanging in the beard. That's gross, man. That is gross. Yeah, I've not ever hit a deer.

I've hit a lot of things, but deers, I've never hit anything alive. Let me put it like that. No. I don't know what it is about them. They just, I mean, they see you and go towards you. Right, right. They're not very bright, to be honest with you. Pretty much not.

So when you hit the deer, what happened? I kept going. You kept going? I kept going. Normally, that stops the car pretty good. You must have had a good car. I do. I mean, the licks that, I mean, it was horrible the way when I got home and I saw everything.

Yeah. I mean, I had half his body inside my tire rim. Yeah. Because he hit tire rim. Yeah. Because he hit just facial. Yeah. And it turned his body around toward my car. Wow. And when that happened, half of his body got wrapped up in my tire.

So what you're saying is you had dinner. I had dinner. Yeah. That's right. Just get the gravel out and you're good, right? Yeah, right. Some people will stop and pick it. In some states, it's legal to get roadkill to cook it.

Bro, people will only stop if they hit an animal in this town. If you hit a human, no one stops. Oh, no, they keep going. No one stops here. No, no, you just keep going. I've had at least five friends died by a hit and run. Really? Yeah.

Are you serious? On the streets, yeah. No way. They do a lot of walking? Yeah, yeah. Wow, that's crazy, dude. Yeah, one right by our warehouse man left her there to die for real true story that's crazy that is we'll stop and throw some roadkill in the truck but man stop because somebody drops a a chair out and you'll stop to see if it's any good and put it in the truck you know ronnie i you messaged me the other day And said that Dovey had you dumpster diving

Yes she did Why were you dumpster diving man? Well We went to a yard sale Over the weekend Okay And I ride by that

That road daily Okay Well The people Stuck some of the stuff On the curb So I'm driving by

So in other words They were done with the yard sale And it was like free stuff Free stuff Yeah So I'm driving by. So in other words, they were done with the yard sale and it was like free stuff. Free stuff. Yeah. So I text her. I actually FaceTimed her. She said, stop and FaceTime me and let me see what's on the curve.

There I am in the middle of Chennault FaceTiming her, looking at items on the side of the curve of the road. Dumpster diving, in other words. Get that. Get this. Get that. Oh, she was directing you. Oh, yeah. Oh, wow.

Oh, yeah. That's pretty good stuff. It was pretty good? Yeah. I just didn't have my tool bag with me because she wanted the table, and it was, like, humongous. Uh-huh. But I didn't get it no i got some ugly fake plants but you know it it's what it is i'll dumpster dive for her any day okay all right hey baby can you

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and see what's going on in the news. Man, what was that dude's name from One Direction? Liam? Liam. Man, now what a sad story that is liam pain is that it yeah what a sad story that is they said you know they i guess they theorize he jumped from the third floor but he had just been dropped by his record label oh yeah man how terrible is that i mean i i mean, he must have just been in a bad place, man. Oh, he was. Yeah, that's a sad story, really, to be honest with you. I was, you know, I hate that for him and his family and for everybody.

I mean, even if you're not a One Direction fan, and I'm certainly not. As a matter of fact, I couldn't identify a One Direction song in a lineup. But, you know, let's talk about birthdays today. Mike Ditka, how do you think Mike Ditka is? Anybody guess? Man, he's got to be pushing 80. Okay Ditka. How do you think Mike Ditka is? Anybody guess? Man, he's got to be pushing 80. Okay, okay. What do you think? 75.

I'll say. 85. 85. 85, yeah. 85. Some people probably don't remember a show called Mork and Mindy. Yes, I do. Okay, well the actress Pam Dauber, who played Mindy, is 73. Wow. Martina Navratilova, you know the Tennis Hall of Fame star?

Yes. 68. All right. John Clyde Van Damme. Everybody knows him. Action star. How old is John? 57.

Nah. Yeah. 63, baby. Wow. I bet he can still roundhouse kick. Yeah, I bet he can. That's a limber dude right there. Yeah.

Dude can kick you straight in the face and never move. Don't do the splits like that. Yeah. No, I'd lose a grape. I would a limber dude right there. Yeah. Dude can kick you straight in the face and never move. He'll do the splits like that. Yeah. No, I'd lose a grape. I would. I'd lose a grape. I can promise you that. My wife got some kind of gizmo.

It looks like a bicycle seat, but it's on the floor, and then it has the thing. Crank it out? Yeah. Yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about. Yeah. I'm just like, hey, when are you going to get that out? I want to see if you can do the splits. Now, this guy's from Arkansas. A lot of people don't know that.

Neo, the singer? Yes. He's 45. Lindsey Vonn, the U.S. Olympic skier, she's 40. Zac Efron is 37 today. So, I like Zac Efron. You know, he seems like an actual laid-back cat. He's a lot of fun.

I've seen him in a lot of movies I thought he was really funny in. He was funny in, what is it, Zac and Dave Need Wedding Dates, something like that. Oh, yeah, I've seen that. That's a really funny movie. He's great in Neighbors. Neighbors. One and two. I like that.

Wolf of Wall Street. Yeah, yeah. That's awesome. They watch Wolf of Wall Street. You just like Margot Robbie. That's what that's about, isn't it?. Yeah, yeah. That's awesome. They watch Wolf of Wall Street. You just like Margot Robbie. That's what that's about, isn't it? Come on, man. I mean, let's be honest about it.

You know that's what it is. Okay, let's actually get to the news that's going to matter to you here. And I've got that teed up. So here we go. Okay, so we've got some early snowfall in Vermont. Winter here for parts of upstate New York and Vermont. Yesterday, the earliest a foot of snow fell on Mount Mansfield, the highest peak in Vermont, 15 inches on the summit of Whiteface Mountain in New York's Adirondack Mountains.

Is that what the chair is named after, the Adirondack Mountains? The National Service in Burlington, Vermont, said it's the earliest foot of snow since 2010. So probably good skiing going on. Instagram rolling out a new feature aimed at protecting teens from sextortion scams. That's good. That's when scammers threaten they'll share intimate photos of the user unless they get some form of payment. and they'll share intimate photos of the user unless they get some form of payment. Parent company Meta said one of the features expected soon is prohibiting the ability to screenshot or record temporary images as well as photos sent via direct message.

Allow replay and view once photos won't be allowed to be opened on desktops. And they're also teaming up with a crisis text line to support people who fall victim to it. And that would be pretty horrifying. But, you know, I mean, I never sent anyone a nude picture. I never took a nude picture of myself. No. That's not true. I got something off your hard drive.

No, I forgot about that one. So check this out. Uh, so check this out. Taylor Swift is going to have South Florida seeing green, not red, uh, with the first three of era tour dates tonight at the hard rock stadium. Her concert last year injected more than 300 million, nearly a hundred million into LA and Cincinnati economies, respectively. Dr. Elise Lancaster, who teaches a class called the Mastermind of the Taylor Swift Brand at the University of Miami. That's a course, people.

That's a course. Really? Yes. This is why the college degrees aren't working out so good anymore because you can take a course called The Mastermind of the Taylor Swift Brand. Anyway, they said her fans have no, quote, bad blood because she spent her career building a loyal fan base. Yeah, no, she does.

She is talented. I'm not going to lie. But, man, her marketing machine is amazing. What's the curriculum of that? I was kind of wondering the same thing. I mean, seriously. What do you think the curriculum is, man? Nothing.

Nothing. Talking about Taylor Swift for an hour, bro. Oh, my God. Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding allegedly decided to go a completely different direction after retiring. Became a drug lord. Wow. Now, that is a turn. The FBI is looking for him.

He's under investigation for eight felonies, including conspiracy to distribute and possess controlled substance, export cocaine, murder with criminal enterprise and drug crime, attempted murder, the FBI offering a reward they think he's hiding in Mexico. There's three of them. They haven't caught. Three of them they haven't caught? Yeah. There's three of them, plus him. Okay.

But, yeah, two tons. Two tons? You should have seen the tail. Of cocaine? Yes. Man, that's a lot of cocaine. A lot of sugar. A lot of cocaine.

That is a lot of cocaine, man. The Biden administration announced yesterday another $4.5 billion in student debt going to be canceled for 60,000 teachers, nurses, firefighters, and others. According to the Department of Ed, over $73 billion in loans have been forgiven for more than 1 million borrowers under this public service loan forgiveness program. That was signed into law by George Bush back in 2007. The Supreme Court voted 6-3 last year to block another plan by the administration to forgive debt of more than 40 million people. A five-day operation at the beginning of the month resulted in 157 human trafficking arrests in Polk County, Florida. Yeah, that's a lot.

That's a lot. Sheriff, they've really been cracking down. I mean, you're seeing a lot of this going on right now. Yeah. You know, no ditty. Yeah, Sheriff Brady Judd said in a press conference yesterday that Operation Autumn Sweep was planned to last longer than five days, but the hurricanes interrupted that.

Most of the suspects were involved in illegal acts related to soliciting prostitutes, committing prostitution, aiding and abetting. Four possible human traffic victims identified during the operation and one trafficker apprehended. during the operation and one trafficker apprehended. Okay, the Texas Supreme Court, shortly before he was set to become the first person put to death for a murder conviction tied to shaken baby syndrome. The Supreme Court halted the execution last night. Robert Robertson convicted of killing his two-year-old daughter back in 2002. That was scheduled to, he was going to get the juice about 6 p.m. local time in Huntsville, but they halted that from the court. A bipartisan group supported stopping it,

saying the conviction might be based on faulty scientific evidence. They said the baby died of pneumonia. Really? Not shaking baby syndrome? I saw that that baby had been to the hospital 40-something times. Really? Yeah. Wow. That's what I saw.

Did it say, was it health or was it abuse? It was health. Oh, okay. So it was already unhealthy. And the dad, he was diagnosed with autism, and that's why he didn't have the emotion when it happened. Yeah, no, I can understand that. So they're like, it's just an awful circumstance. Yeah, no, I can understand that. They're like, it's just an awful circumstance. Yeah, yeah.

There's a guy my wife loves, and they call it crashing out. But they kind of pimp him, troll him, and then he just snaps. And everybody enjoys watching him yell and scream and crash out. But I'm like, man, is that really healthy for this guy? Is that really the way that you want to go on that? I mean, I don't know, man. The Federal Reserve may have dropped interest rates, but the mortgage industry going the opposite direction. The average 30-year mortgage rose this week to 6.4%. That's up from 6.32. But a year ago, it was 7.63. So it's still down. Polls officially opened for early voting in North Carolina.

That's got to be a mess with the hurricane stuff over there. 76 early voting sites opened to the 25 western North Carolina counties listed in the disaster declaration. FCC has approved geo-routing for the suicide lifeline. What is geo-routing? Anybody know? I'm not sure. Let's see what it says. The FCC approved new rules affecting that lifeline. The new rules require all wireless carriers put geo-routing into place for calls to the number. Okay, so itoutes calls to the closest crisis center, which they have over 200 of. Officials say most calls.

Charlie Thomas was able to talk a man standing on the ledge of the Lincoln Bridge and convince him not to jump. He used his experience as a retired firefighter to bond with the guy. He was wearing a firefighter shirt. And after their conversation, the guy climbed back over the side of the bridge safely. Well, that's a win. That's a win. That's a win. That's a win. Man what is your teenage kid doing? I know what mine was doing avoiding cleaning their room and probably looking at things they shouldn't have been. In Snellville, Georgia 14-year-old Suresh Subhash was named America's

top young scientist. He invented a handheld device that detects pesticide residue on produce. The 3M Discovery Education Competition offers mentorship and a $25,000 prize to the winner. He was inspired by past winners. And, yeah, I wish my kid was inventing stuff like that. Yeah, he was probably inventing new ways to get money. Right, right. Does anybody watch the show The Penguin? No.

You know, it's got Colin Farrell. He's in that kind of a fat suit. It's a DC comic thing, you know. Well, if you haven't, you might want to check it out. It's more than just another superhero villain story, apparently. It's much more of a gangster story like The Sopranos. Yeah. It's much more of a gangster story like The Sopranos.

Yeah. But this fourth episode is one of the highest ever rated episodes for a TV show in history. That's kind of wild. I don't know what was going on with it, what's happening in it. What is that, Netflix or something? It's actually on Max. Oh. Yeah, on Max. Okay, let's talk a little bit of sports here.

Let's talk about the top ten players ranked in the NBA right now. You've got Jokic, Luka Doncic, Giannis, SGA, Jason Tatum, Steph Curry, LeBron James, Joel Embiid, Kevin Durant, and Anthony Edwards. You know, you might say, wow, LeBron James has moved down to seven, but you realize LeBron James has been playing in the NBA for like 21, 22 years now? I know. It's been a long time. Now, unfortunately. He don't have a ring yet, does he?

Yeah, he got a ring. He's got a ring? Yeah, he's got three or four of them, I think. Oh, wow. Yeah, I think he's doing all right in the ring category. He's lost right now. No one's, I mean. Well, now their team, the Lakers suck right now.

Yes. Yeah, and they spent what money they did have to get Bronny, his son, who is about as good as I am. I'll be honest with you. As a matter of fact, I think I might could score a little more than he does. Can you beat him in horse? Huh? Can you beat him in horse?

Yeah, I probably could. I don't want to say it, but yes, yes, I could. All right. check this out. This is a neat milestone. Going to be a long, plentiful year of new records from the great eight. Every game last season it seemed he was passing some sort of legend in some sort of scoring category, not slowing down this season. Talking about Ovi, he just became the sixth player in NHL history

to hit the 700-700 mark. 700 and 700 is insane because of how great a goal scorer he is. Sometimes people don't think on his playmaking ability, so that's pretty amazing that he was able to reach that record. And over in the NFL right now, talk about what the top five quarterback rankings are. Number five is Josh Allen at Buffalo. He's killing it.

C.J. Stroud is number four over at Houston. He was at Ohio State. He was a Buckeye. Joe Burrow, doing pretty good at Cincinnati, number three. Pat Mahomes is number two. Who do you think number one is? Anybody guess? Not Rodgers.

No, hell no. Lamar Jackson over in Baltimore. Yeah, yeah. Man, that's a very talented dude right there. He is a great, great. Lamar? Yeah. Oh, yeah, he's bad.

Man, he can run. He can do it all, man. He can do it all. The NFL owners approved the Jaguars' new $1.4 billion stadium renovation project. Do they bring in enough money for that? I don't know. When's the last time they had a winning season? I don't even know who's over there at quarterback.

Trevor Lawrence, wasn't it? Is that right, Trevor Lawrence? I'm pretty sure that's right. Okay, okay. All right. All right, well, let's change the topic up here. Let's do something different. Brought to you by the new Herpes.

If you have old Herpes, new Herpes is better. It's Herpier. Happy to have a piece. All right. So I think that a lot of people – oh, by the way, let me mention this. Something really cool that's going to start tomorrow. It's a brand-new feature that we're going to have. Outside of this show, we're going to have a live Saturday stream. It's called Patrick's After School Special.

And in that, instead of this kind of format, it's just one-on-one, me interviewing, in this case, we'll be interviewing Mike Baldwin, a comedian a national comic very funny guy and uh i spent i don't know about a half hour or i'll spend about a half hour interviewing him and then we'll air that live on saturday so if you're looking for a little extra content you can check that out by the way uh we're now uh the the after the show it rolls over to spotify it rolls over to iheart that's right suckers that's right you like that huh soul takers yeah that's right uh so it's everywhere now man i mean we're on kick we're on twitch i mean there's no format we're not on now if you're looking for a listen only option because you're driving you don't want to be distracted by video you can go

over to our website we've got a listen only option right there uh available for you anytime if you're driving you don't want to be distracted by video you can go over to our website we've got a listen only option right there available for you anytime if you're looking for all of the social medias that were on or the sites were on you can also go over to the website and they're all linked under there for you you can see them you can you know if you want to do it on X if you want to do it on Facebook Rumble doesn't matter where you want to do it on Facebook, Rumble, it doesn't matter where you want to see it. You can see it over there. Now, I'd kind of teased, I guess on Monday when I came in, that I was going to lay out the story of what went down at the station that sold its soul. And I guess now is as good a time as any to lay some of this stuff out. And listen, let me just say this.

I'm not bitter in any way. I don't have bitterness, and I'm not going to just roll the bus. What I am going to do is I'm going to lay these facts out, and you can make your own conclusion of what went down. Now, in order to tell the story, I have to go back in time, okay? I have to go back in time to where it all started, and it all started with the Angry Patrick bit, you know, the rant, and so I would come in on Fridays once a week to the studio and do that bit, and I did that bit for seven years, you know, every Friday, and rain or shine, and I was never paid for that. That was

something I volunteered to do, and I had a reason. I had an ulterior motive. I wanted to be in radio, right, and it worked out. It worked. The plan worked. The evil plan worked. Perfect. Yeah, it really did. It did, and it worked well, and so, you know, when Jay retired, you know, my number got called up, and there were 121 other people that applied for that role. So it was a blessing to get it, and I was always thankful for it. So we motored on, and about three years in, we started talking about the possibility of adding a third person to the show in some capacity, particularly a female. Because we were talking about, hey, you know, times are evolving a little bit and maybe we need a female voice, a little bit more of that on there. And we were kind of talking about it. And I said, well, look, you know, my wife's a comedian. She's really funny. Why don't we try to,

you know, bring her on here and there? Well, three years in, and he wasn't really, at that moment, he didn't seem fond. Corey didn't seem fond of that idea. And I'm only three years in. It's not my show right now. It's still more of the old show than it was what it would become, right? So we postponed that, and about three years later, it came back up. And this time, I did feel more ownership in the program.

I mean, we had better ratings than we'd ever had in the history of the show. I mean, we're number one, not just doing good. We were doing great. We were doing phenomenal. We had the biggest social media of any station there was. And I was the social media manager for that. And so I felt like I had exceeded all the expectations. And believe it or not, as much of a screw up as I seem to be, I'm a pretty good employee. I show up, I do my job, you know, I'm a clown, but I am, I'm going to work, you know, you won't outwork me, I promise. So, you know, at that point I said,

hey, you know, if we're going to talk about a female, we need to talk about Laura, you know, we really do because she's been coming in, she's, you know, filling in for you now when you're out, the audience really digs her, you her. They're down with the vibe. I think we should talk about that. He was not wanting to hear that. I kind of pushed back and he said, listen, I don't want to be pushed out

of my own show. I got that. I had to stop for a second and go, okay, look, let's be honest here. One beam is difficult to manage. Two beams may be impossible. Okay, and I get that. You know, I mean, both of us have very strong personas.

She's more feral than I am. And so maybe that was scary, you know. And look, that dude is about control, right? I mean, you know that from listening. You know that. You've heard the guy for years. You know, he needed control in the studio to feel comfortable, and I got that. And that represented to him, you know, maybe out of control, right? So I didn't like it, but I understood where it was coming from, right?

Yes. So she continued to, you know, fill in and do all that. And I had spoken with, you know, my boss. It was and i had spoken with you know my boss it was kevin before that it was jeff cage uh and i talked to him about it i talked to kevin cruz uh many many times about it i talked to my boss's boss about it is this is what i'd like to do in the future you know and we had had many conversations about it of which everybody was on board, so much so that my on-air partner said, I'll tell you what I'll do. Here's what I will do.

A year before I retire, I'll give you the heads up, okay, and then we'll start bringing her in on Friday, kind of like Jersey, and integrate her into the show. Because I said, listen, I know that you may want to retire, but I'm still probably going to want to go another 10, 15 years. I mean, there's an age difference, right? And I'm still doing my thing, right? And so I want to set it up where that everybody understands that this is the transition.

They can get used to it, you know, and set the show up for success in the future. And so, you know, we had that agreement between us, right? Yeah. All right. Now, let's fast forward to the day, D-Day. And so anybody who's ever been up to that studio probably knows that by that point, the only morning show in the building was that show. That show.

That was the only one. There was literally, he and I were the only two people in that building in the morning. No one else. Not a single other show. Not another person. Not a manager. Just us. So, but I had, you know, visual on the front door.

And so when it binged and I looked and I started seeing, boom, one, two, three, four, five, six brass. Six of the managers roll in. Not good. People I hadn't even seen before. Yeah. And I looked at him and I said, bro, this might be it. We may be done, man. And he goes, what are you talking about?

And I said, listen, we're the only ones here. And six managers just walked in. What does that tell you? Yeah. I said, it's time, baby. And he goes, there's something I got to tell you. What? Okay, what's that?

I'm retiring. Oh. Oh. Oh. When? End of the year. Now, this is October. Shit. This is October.

You're like two minutes. Now, you don't understand that a show like that or this or, you know, that kind of show, the way that show is built, there's so much what they call imaging. You know, it's all the sounds that happen between where it says, you know, da-da-da-da, Patrick and the people. Or, you know, all these different sounds that are integrated that are branded to the show. Yes.

And that production to do that takes a lot of time. A long time. So if you're going to transition to a different show, you have to have a good window of time to make these things, to build these things, to promote, to, you know, build all these sweepers and the, all these different things. And so now my head's spinning, I'm like three months, but I can do it. I can do it. I know I can do it. Right. So I say, well, let's go sit down and talk about this, you know? And so we sit down, and it's me, Kevin, and Kevin's boss. So my two bosses and me, right? And I said, man, so y'all ready for the next chapter you ready to make this move ready to take it to the stratosphere i got plans and i said well we don't have a budget right now for a new host i'm like

well didn't that guy and he retired he's i'm pretty sure he's got a budget way more than mine right because patrick didn't make that kind of money yeah you know that's that's the old radio money right there ain't nobody anymore getting in radio making of money. You know, that's the old radio money right there. Ain't nobody anymore getting in radio making that money. Oh, I promise you that. Nobody is signing up today. If you're not Ryan Seacrest or Bobby Bong or whatever his name is, yeah, you know, Pool Kid, you know,

if you're not a longtime legacy radio person, you're not making that kind of money. And I certainly wasn't. But I was like, so I know there's budget there. But, okay. I said, so what do you got in mind? They said, well, we think we got it worked out. We think we're going to put you with Kevin.

I said, this Kevin? Right here beside me? Yeah. It's this guy. I said, I love this guy. He's awesome's awesome he is awesome that's not a lot he's awesome i said but he's not done a morning show before and and it takes a little while to get your feet under you because you're not just going between songs and talking about a band for a second you've got to carry five six seven minutes of conversation and not just in not just conversation it has to

have a compelling value to substance right it has to have some meat something that's going to be either make you laugh or be compelling right yes and so i'm like here's the problem the problem is the the show that we have now it's predicated on two people who couldn't be more opposed to each other. We're diametrically opposed. We agreed on almost nothing. Almost nothing. That made for good conversation and debate, right? I said, me and this guy, he's like a bro. Nobody wants to hear two people agree on everything.

That's not cool. That's not going to be fun. Oh, yeah, you're right. Oh, yeah, you're right. Oh, yeah, you're right. Oh, yeah. No, that's not going to be fun. Oh, yeah, you're right. Oh, yeah, you're right. Oh, yeah, you're right. Oh, yeah. No, that's not entertaining to me. I said, but I got a plan, and let me put something together and come back to you guys.

And so I did. I went home, and I had it kind of prepared anyway, but I created a blueprint, literally a blueprint, like an architectural plan of how we would execute this show and take it into the future. Okay. And how that it would surpass the ratings we had, uh, you know, the, the things, the ideas I had, the visions I had. And, uh, I said, so, you know, what I'd like to do is Kevin, that's great. Kevin will be perfect. Let's leave him in the quarry seat. Just add a Laura over here on this chair right here. And then you'll have two pros, the veterans and the new girl. But we can keep her in the lines.

That's no problem. We can show her the ropes and that'll be great. And they said, well, we don't have any budget for that. And we're not really big on married couples. Oh, man. And I said, well, first of all, no one's ever said that in, you know, however many years it's been now, nearly, you know, at that point, 19 and a half years. Half years.

You know, and no one's ever even squeaked that to me. But don't think I hadn't thought ahead because I had. And I said, yeah, we talked about that. I've already talked to an attorney. We can be single by the first of the year. It's not a big deal. I told him, I said, it's not a big deal. It's a piece of paper.

It doesn't define our relationship. So if that is an issue legally, I can resolve that for you in about 30 days. I've already got my attorney on speed dial right now, ready to rock. Oh, we can't do that. Why not? Sure you can. And so we kept talking. I came back to them again because they were stuck on the money. And I said, okay, here's what I want you to do then. Don't give her a contract. Do not give her a contract. I get it. You know, she's, to you, she might seem unproven. How that's possible, I don't know. I mean, she's been on the program for eight years.

She's been the co-host. She was co-host on the Arkansas, you know, the Arkansas part of it. She was at every event, I think, that we had, you know, and volunteering her time and being part of that family that we generated. We made a family, you know, and she was part of it, part of that DNA. And I said, so here's what I want you to do. Pay her 10 bucks an hour, four hours a day for six months. That's nothing. I heart could shit that. Okay. That's nothing. $10 an hour, four hours a day for six months. At the end of that six months, I said, if the ratings and the advertising doesn't justify it,

we'll let her go and I'll finish my contract with a smile. How about that? No, we got to have a contract. Can't do that. Okay. I went through three more offers. The last offer was this. This was the last offer because it was never about money for me, ever.

I didn't ask for a raise. I didn't ask for an increase. I asked for nothing for me at all. You just wanted the show to work. I just wanted the – because I know if I make the right show, everything else will fall into place, right? Yes, yes. That's all you get.

You've got to make the program. Everything else will come. So I wasn't concerned about whether the ratings or any of that would be there. I knew it would. There was no doubt in my mind it was going to be there. You know, she's a feisty, spicy chick, and people love seeing her bust my ball. It's fun. You know, I get that.

So in that moment, I said, you know, here's what I'll do. Here's the fine. And this is about, we're now, we're into, you know, here's what I'll do. Here's the fine. And this is about, now we're into, you know, the end of November. I've got zero time almost to make a new program between here and there. I said, so here's what I'll do. You guys do this, okay? I'll take the show with Kevin. Just let Laura be a guest.

Come in like Jersey does, you know, because Jersey can't come in anymore. Health issues. He has health issues. But I said, let her come in like that. I'll use the TalkBack app to bring her in otherwise. And then after a year, if ratings and everything are good, you give her a contract. And they said, we can't commit to that. And I said, okay. And they said, we can't commit to that. And I said, okay. And they said,

this is where it went south. They said, but if you just want a female, we can do a nationwide search. I said, hold on. Back up a second. I said, so what you're telling me now is that I could have anybody but her.

That's right. I said, no, I'm good. Let me get out of this contract. I don't want it anymore. I'm done. I'm done. Just let me out. And they did. It was a little contentious, to be honest with you.

And I had to sit six months and not say anything and not do anything in that time. Now, let's fast forward back just a little bit. Now, let's fast forward back just a little bit because everything I told you wouldn't necessarily by itself make me harbor some resentment towards my former partner. But what really, really pissed me off and really mentally screwed with me a lot because when you ride with someone for 20 years, right? 20 years, right? You ride with someone for 20 years and you're loyal and you're good to them and you work hard and you bring positive in their life in the form of, you know,

better income, better ratings, all of those things, right? I felt like we were good, you know? I mean, look, no joke. We didn't hang out outside of the show. I mean, we're not the same kind of cat. We don't like the same kind of things, you know? I look no joke we didn't hang out outside of the show i mean we're not the same kind of cat yeah no we don't like the same kind of things you know i'm not into mountain men and gold panning and all that stuff whatever that is you know that's not my bag you

know uh but what really the the icing on the cake for me that that really set it in was that when he made his announcement to everybody, he also announced he had written a book with a chapter in it about me, which we did not discuss. Oh, no. And that's fine. I don't care. It's his right. But I'm like, hold on.

You had six months to write this book, including a chapter about me, but you couldn't come to your partner of 20 years and give me the heads up that you had met with them and already agreed to this nine months before. Nine months sat on that. Everybody sat on that on me. And I know why. Because they already knew they weren't going to let her come,

and they were gambling. They did gamble on that I would be like everybody else. And in the end go, okay, I'll just do what you want. Because most folks in the industry can't do anything but that. But that wasn't me. I had a long-term career before I came in. And so I was like, no, I don't have to have it. I'm not bluffing, y'all. Dude knows how to go get that money. And so I was like, no, I don't have to have it. I'm not like, I'm not

bluffing y'all. Dude knows how to go get that money. Yeah, I know. I will. And I'm like, I'm not bluffing. You need to understand the guys. I'm not going to back down at the end of this. If you, if you don't, we can't work this out. I'm not staying. And I went door to door. And when I say that, I mean, I went to every single person in that building on the sales team, the management team, everybody, and said, listen, here's my plan. If you work with me, we can make this magic happen, and it'll be amazing for everyone. We'll do things we've never done before. And all of them were like, yeah, yeah, yeah. But when the chips were down, no, They all disappeared like a fart in the wind.

Yes, yes. You know, they were all gone. And so to me, it was very, very disappointing, disillusioning, and it was a real mine. You know what I mean? Right. Because, you know, all these people that I've been working with all these years and I've stood beside, worked beside, helped,

you know, been in the trenches together and they just, gone. But they knew all the time. They did. And that's the problem that I have. That's the problem. Yeah. And that's why that, that I have, you know, that's why I'm here now. Because I decided, you know what, I'd rather gamble on myself and do it my way and do the show I want to do than I'm going to do what you want to do over there at the station that sold its soul. So there's no hate in what I'm saying. I'm just telling you the facts, and with that, you can do what you want,

believe what you want, but those are the facts as they were in my life. what you want believe what you want but those are the facts as they were in my life uh and and i still to this day think it was the dumbest decision that could have been made over there i think they shot themselves in the foot but hey what do i know all right hey you know what it's time for the rant cam yeah we're gonna redo that you ready That wasn't it? No. Just getting it started. This is Patrick and the people, bitches. We ain't playing music here. Get back to the jaw jacket. All right, let's do this. We're gonna switch over to this cam right here. Oh yeah, that looks right, doesn't it? And let's see, here's the new theme from the guys at, well, Luke Shoemaker did this for us. He remade our theme because it had some numbers in it that are no longer applicable. I think you'll figure it out. Let's do this. Patrick, are you freaking kidding me? Patrick, right here on P-A-T-R-I-C Suck it, suck it, suck it, man, this guy is really pissed

Angry Patrick Alright, let's get to it. Scientists in California have turned a sci-fi-like idea into reality. A company called REM Space has successfully achieved two-way communication between two people who were both asleep and lucid dreaming. The experiment worked by transmitting a word to the first person who repeated it in their dream and shared that word with the other person who shared that word when they woke up. Well, this is, man, this is the great

thing about science, isn't it? Are you freaking kidding me? You mean the one and only place I have left to go where my privacy isn't being violated by every greedy mofo on the planet? So what? Now I'm in the middle of a delicious dream involving my wife and a cartoonishly buxom set of twins who somehow keep running their thunder pumpkins into each other but now have brought their mobile dairy farms to the bed. Diddy's baby oil collection is magically transported to my bedroom, a bottle in each hand. I'm just about to load them up like the Exxon Valdez oil spill

when my wife leans in and says, we've been trying to reach you about your extended vehicle warranty. No! Now the twins have disappeared. My wife's been replaced with some mustachioed infomercial clown who looks like Mike Lindell. And there I am still buck naked and half-masked and mustache boy is telling me he'll bounce out of my dream as soon as I make a choice between powertrain and powertrain plus. And I'm like, if I agree to buy a warranty, will you bring back my wife and the Jiggle Twins? Nope. I magically transport to a window where I see the double mint double Ds

and my wife getting into my neighbor's SUV. And in this dream, Ryan Reynolds is my neighbor. Thanks a lot, CarShield. You scientists don't think I get enough emails from work at night. Now my boss can just pop up in the boat in my fishing dream and say, I need you to come in 15 minutes early to help prepare for the team building exercise. That's great, Bob. Now I've lost my large mouth trophy bass and somehow I'm naked again. And the boss has the whole team pointing a man missile,

which has returned to the silo because it's cold at the lake. The last thing I need is to be fighting off some psycho killer in my dream for my wife to pop up and ask if I remembered the trash because tomorrow's trash day. Hey, you can see I'm about to die here and what does she say? Well, I'll kill you myself if the trash doesn't go out. I'll tell you what, scientists, you better have a dome around your dreams or I'm showing up riding a dragon toting a magical can of whoop-ass. Next up, the holidays are almost upon us. I have some great news. DiGiorno bringing back their Thanksgiving pizza for a limited time. You need to find a Kroger store to purchase one since it's only going to be there exclusively. What a phenomenal way to get your turkey day on. The

DiGiorno Thanksgiving pizza features Detroit-style crust. It's topped with roasted turkey, green beans, gravy sauce, cranberries, cheddar, cheese, and crispy onions, and it's only $9.99. Are you freaking kidding me? You may as well just roll out some dough, hold it out, punch your brother-in-law as hard as you can in the stomach, whatever he throws up, just slap it in the oven for 15 minutes at 1400. You think after everything the pilgrims and Indians had gone through, a slice of DiGiorno would help bring peace? Hell no. Sitting bull would have been called shitting bull. If the pilgrims served that up, the chief would have told him he was going to get the peace pipe, but would have returned with warriors and a spirit of shish kebab you

and all your silly belt buckle hat wearing friends. While we're at it, what's with the hat with the buckle? How long did it take you to realize the buckle needed to be on your pants? No wonder the Indians didn't like you. I'd automatically hate you if I saw you with a belt buckle on your hat or those stupid flowy collars on your lady man shirts. You may have all gone to the outhouse, rolled out the pizza dough, squatted down and purged a plumpy right in the middle, throw it in the microwave for two minutes and yell, happy Thanksgiving. And yes, I know pilgrims didn't have microwaves, Mr. Smart Guy, but this is my angry fantasy. So not only they

microwaved the pooperoni pizza, they also faxed you a picture of their middle fingers and a cave painting that shows you and your fat friends, Isaac and Bartholomew, all on one spear over a fire with potatoes and onions between you. And that is an appropriate ending for anyone who brings that Thanksgiving atrocity to your home. And finally, would you love to have a piece of history? In one of the most unexpected, fascinating archaeological discoveries, the Lloyd's Bank Copperlight holds the title of the largest preserved human poop ever unearthed. It measures 8 inches long,

2 inches wide, believed to have been produced by a Viking in the 9th century A.D. This extraordinary artifact has got global attention. It's now valued at $39,000. They say it offers a unique window into the everyday lives of Vikings shedding light on their diet, health, and living conditions.

Isn't that fascinating? Are you freaking kidding me, man? And just when you thought the grossest thing you'd hear about was that Thanksgiving pizza looks like a sickly Viking literally honked a dirt snake all over your hopes and dreams today. First things first, do you think whoever found it immediately turned it over to science? Or do you think maybe it spent a year or two in prank rotation? Like when Rolf Svensson found it, he was like, by Odin's beard, if this not be that of a petrified stench serpent, I shall smite my brother with this comedy. And wouldn't you know, a few hours later, as the extended families are gathered at the fountain, Bjorn Svensson comes out of the door and exclaims, a festering barnacle on the

bearded balls of Hades, one of you are. Nigh, which of you foul cretins shitteth on my thinking rock? But jokes aside, somehow, someway, this Danish doo-doo log made it all the way from the 800s, not the 1800s, the 800s. And it's allegedly the largest preserved human poop ever. Come on. Eight inches long, two inches wide. I could see that in any Waffle House bathroom in America. I've seen curlers that L at the bottom of the bowl and stand out of the water. And this baby butt nugget is the biggest discovered Viking dump in history? Eight inches long, two inches wide. You bring shame on your entire family. I assume this must have been a weak, dying Viking. Is that what this represents? Because that poop doesn't make me think Viking conquerors. It makes me think less Thor and more dainty hands and basket weaving.

Meanwhile, I had a big bowl of oatmeal and a large coffee, so based on my math, I'm about to crank out a $100,000 crispy coily. It's literally history in the making. Bitters, get ready. That's right, baby. All right. How about that? First one out of the box.

That's dope. On the new show baby We did that We did that We did that Well was it alright? Yes it was Not too bad

I had to knock the rust off the wheels a little bit It's been a little while since I was yelling at people You know Great at it man Alright alright Eight inches isn't even a bull wrapper is it? No man It's terrible

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Too many buttons. This is the segment. Not like the other. People do stupid shit. You say, oh, brother. Hey, it's not a copy or a clone of any previous bit. But if you think so, hey, we don't give a shit Yeah. Man, it's the best song in the history of time.

What are you talking about? If I released that on iTunes, it'd be number one. In video released by the Seattle PD, an officer rescued a seriously injured man from the path of an oncoming freight train. Police said they tried to talk to the man. He was experiencing a mental health crisis down from a ledge around 25 feet above the train track, but he slipped and fell. So the guy ran across the tracks to rescue the man while the train approached at high speeds. An officer dragged him to safety with seconds to

spare. The matchers, but man, that's pretty impressive right there. An October 12th surveillance footage at a Portland home captured a coyote chasing a young girl as she was yelling at her dad about the animal behind her. Charlie Schmidt, the owner of the home, is seen in the video working in his yard when she appears in the frame. Said, dad, there's a coyote. And it showed the coyote running after her. Now, she was cool and calm. She jumped on the table. But her dad picked her up to run to the other side of the house and get inside, get inside. But the video shows the coyote running through the area without leaving a trace. Just went on through. Have you seen any wild animals out where you're at, Ronnie?

Other than deer. Not really. No bear, no cougars. Turkey. Other than Dovey. Oh, okay. Dovey. I said no cougars.

You ever out where you're at, Chad, see anything like that wild animal? A raccoon maybe. A raccoon. How about trash panda, I like to call it. Yeah, that's about it. We've had six people see a black panther out at the farm right here in North Little Rock. Really? Yeah.

They're out there. I'm trying to catch it, man. They're out there. I stopped in the road, looked at my wife, did it in the eyes, and then took off. Why do you want to catch it? I don't think he wants you to catch him. I'm going to take him home. What, are you going to make him a pet like Mike Tyson? Yeah.

No, that's a good idea, Aaron. I want to help you with that. Ride around like Ricky Bobby. That's right. You can put him in the car with you. That's right. Okay, let's see. An 81-year-old woman in Georgia voted for the first time in her life

after her husband forbade her from casting a ballot for decades. What? Whoa. That's crazy, man. Betty Cartlidge from Newton County, Georgia, had never been in a voting booth until this year. Her husband told her he didn't think she should vote, so she didn't. Neither did he, for that matter.

I guess that's good. She said she had thought about it before, but she couldn't read or write. So I was married for 64 years. I knew everything about him, but that was something he never discussed, never wanted to do. But with the help of her niece, she registered to vote, went to an early voting station, and just voted for the first time. Man, first vote in 81 years.

First vote. That is crazy, man. That is. But that shows you the difference in eras right there. Because if I tried to tell Laura she couldn't do anything, she's doing it right then and there. She's going to vote twice. I'm voting twice. You're not voting,

as a matter of fact. I'm taking your vote. I'm taking your car and your vote. Yesterday, a judge in Greece imposed a suspended one-month sentence on a man convicted of disturbing his neighbors by repeatedly sneaking into their properties to

smell their shoes what what yeah the 28 year old guy said he was unable to explain his behavior which had caused him great embarrassment said he didn't have intention of breaking the law or hurting anybody neighbors testified he was never aggressive during his nocturnal visits he was arrested before dawn. Police were called after a neighbor found him in his front yard sniffing his family's shoes, which were left outdoors to air. The court heard there had been at least three incidents in the past six months, despite neighbors asking his family to stop him. He's been ordered to therapy sessions.

Man. They need a game cam. Sniffing shoes. Get some shoes out instead of game cam. You see him just come up there at night like a little cat sneaking up. I've heard of toe suck. Yeah, toe suckers. Look, man, I know that they have

the people that sell their underwear online, right? Do people sell their socks and shoes too? Are there sock and shoe huffers that buy your dirty stank foot shoe? Only socks. Onlysocks.com. That's great. Onlysocks.com. At Marco's Pizza in Austin, 19-year-old Richard Curtis tried to rob the restaurant by slipping an employee a note demanding money and showing a gun in his waistband, but instead of complying, the employee put Curtis in a chokehold. Oh, wow.

While a co-worker called the police. During the struggle, they managed to take Curtis' gun, tried to shoot him, but the gun didn't fire. The manager then used the gun's handle to beat Curtis, and at one point grabbed a knife asking Curtis if he preferred prison or death. Curtis stopped resisting. Hold on, man.

Well, he couldn't get the gun to shoot, but they beat him with his own gun. He got pistol whipped with his own gun. Oh, my God. What does a guy tell the people in jail? Like, what happened to you? No, you don't want to admit that. No, man.

No. No, man. No, I was sleepy. I hadn't slept. It's kind of like the movie Life. Oh, we're in here for like a whole slew of... Right, right. We killed a whole city. Yeah, you know, a whole city.

I could take this spoon. In Mobile, Alabama, 37-year-old Roy Lee Clowder was arrested. That sounds like a prank call guy. How big an old boy are you? This is Roy Lee Clowder. This is Roy Lee. He was arrested after he kidnapped a woman at gunpoint outside a convenience store. After the woman agreed to give him a ride, he pulled a gun, forced her into the passenger side,

then took her to a church where he conducted a mock wedding ceremony, forcing her to marry him. But she managed to call for help. I guess he didn't take her cell phone. And so he got arrested for kidnapping and all kinds of things. Crazy. That is kind of crazy, isn't it? Wild. That is kind of crazy, isn't it?

From 2015 through 2022, Jamie Knoll served as sheriff of Clark County, Indiana. Now he's going to prison for 15 years, three of which have been suspended. He pled guilty to 27 felony charges, including misappropriating $4.4 million in taxpayer money. $4.4 million in taxpayer money. Yeah, he used it to buy over 100 cars, a Cessna airplane, Rolex watches, vacations, concerts, high-end clothing, military surplus, booze, alcohol, a $2,500 Hooters tab, child support, college tuition, and Amazon. I mean, he did get a lot for it. I'll be honest with you. he did get a lot for it. I'll be honest with you.

He did get a lot for it. We've all seen examples of the tiny home phenomena that's hit the nation. It's now hit Walmart. That's right. Currently on Walmart's website, you can purchase your own tiny home for under $20,000. Just like an iPhone goes for $17,400. For that money, you get a 20-foot by 7-foot-4 by 7-foot-7 modern office Apple house prefab modular garden office pod small log cabin studio.

Jesus Christ, man. While the living space is tiny, well, it wasn't efficient in the name. I'll tell you, that ain't no tiny name. It's ridiculous. Do you want a home that looks like a giant iPhone? Is that dope? Is that cool?

I guess it's a home. This is the American dream. The American dream to live in your iPhone. In your iPhone. I'm actually going to become one with my iPhone. Yeah, okay. Those who say Monty Python's meaning of life should remember a portion of the film entitled Live Organ Transplants. Recently, life imitated art when Natasha Miller realized something seriously was wrong with the body that was brought into Richmond, Kentucky's operating room.

Hold on a second. That story should not be here. Hold on. I got to. That should have been a lady. That did not go well for that body. I'll tell you that. Okay.

So we'll move on here. Watch out. Blessing scammers are now a thing. Communities in China are being targeted by scammers who trick old women out of their valuables by persuading them that their loved ones are in danger. Some call it an elaborate piece of criminal street theater where usually three women act out a script in Cantonese for an audience of one victim. And so they're having a big problem with that. A couple of World War II reenactors have forced a Massachusetts restaurant to shut its doors for a day while the owners deal with

blowback. The actors taking part in the World War II reenactment over the weekend, they were playing the role of the Nazis. Unfortunately for the owners of Kith and Kin restaurant, they didn't take off their gear before they sat down for a meal. Now, people said that's beyond thoughtless. A spokesperson for the museum said, in fact, those uniforms are only to be presented during the reenactments, have no reason to exist inside or outside the museum. Once word got out about the diners, the backlash started and the restaurant was forced to close for a day. They apologized for that. Now, let me just ask. If these guys are reenactors, and they've got a lunch break, and yes, they're in their Nazi uniforms,

should they have to cover or take it off before they go in a restaurant to eat? I mean, do you think that's the... I think they'd get their butt kicked if they walked in the wrong restaurant. Well, you don't think someone's just going to go, I mean, clearly that's not a uniform anyone's wearing today. They're not going to go, this is a costume. You think the Nazis just showed up out of the time portal? I mean, you know, it seems a little unlikely unless Indiana Jones is in tow.

Man, no. No, but if you saw it, you'd be like, hey, what's going on? No. No? What would you, if you saw it? I really don't know how I react, but it wouldn't be how you're doing. No, it wouldn't be how, what about you, Ronnie, if you saw it? Oh, man.

Would you think these are actors or would you think, what's going on? I would think they're actors. I would hope they were actors. Aaron, are you going to just start kicking ass? I lean to the punch a Nazi side. He leans to the punch a Nazi. Yeah, you know, and I lean to the punching Nazi side. He leans to the punching Nazi. Yeah, you know, and everybody wants to punch a Nazi. It is probably fun to punch a Nazi.

I've never punched one to my knowledge, but if I had, I would be happy about it. You could get one off on them for sure. Yeah, no, no doubt about it. No doubt about it. Hey, someone's lurking at the door. Will you open that just real quick? And I tell you what, if you'll do that, let me punch this. Brought to you by that gunk in the back of your throat.

That gunk in the back of your throat. Some today. He walked out as soon as he went back. No, did he? Josh Taylor over at AMC Mortgage. Good, good people. He is committed to providing you with an exceptional mortgage experience. He really values clients.

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It's 351-2579. And tell him I sent you. Who was out there, man? That was Luke Shoemaker. Oh, it is. I want to have Advantage Ruins. And Alex is here too. Oh, that is exciting.

We've got a live performance that's going to be coming up very shortly, as a matter of fact. Yeah, yeah, yeah. As a matter of fact, I think what we're going to do is we're going to kind of take a break. I'm going to push a comedy button here, and you can enjoy this amazing comedy. And we'll be back in just a minute, okay? Just be safe when you leave tonight. If you're drinking, don't drink and drive. And wear your seatbelt if you do.

Just be safe. That's all I want to do. I like driving around. I drive all over the country doing comedy and stuff. It's awesome. I like going long distances, listening to music and podcasts and whatnot. Audiobooks. I'm a big audiobook reader.

My friends are dicks about it because I'll be like, I read a book, and they'll be like, no, you didn't. You just listened. I'm like, so what? You just looked.

How's your sense better than my sense? We're both getting the information of the book. The only difference is I know how to pronounce all the names correctly. I remember when I physically read the Harry Potter books and I was like, Hermoine's my favorite. All the wacky Hermoine. And then the movie came out, and they're like, Hermione. And I'm like, that's not how you fucking say it. There's an E at the end.

Silent E. Hermoine. I listened to Game of Thrones audiobooks. Those were all good, but they split those up to where every chapter is a separate track. You know? And they don't say like chapter 2 and chapter 12.

They just start talking again. I listened to Game of Thrones for like five hours before I realized it was on shuffle. That's not even a joke. That's a thing that I did. I was following along and shit. I was like, what an interesting

writing style. She's marrying him? He died. Books are weird. I try to not look at my phone while I'm driving, but I like to watch TV and stuff. What am I supposed to do? What am I supposed to do? What am I supposed to do?

It's fine. They got those things on the side of the highway that tell you when you have to pay attention. Like, this is a good episode. Alright! I use my maps on my phone always. Even if I already know where I'm going, I still just like to punch in the address.

I just want another voice to back me up, you know? I'm like, I'm turning up here, right? My map's like, hmm? I'm like, hell yeah, that's what I thought. That's where I thought I lived. I wish you could change the attitude that the voice has while it talks to you. Like, may it give directions all sexual. Like, oh, just keep going straight, baby, yeah.

I'm just driving with a boner, like, hell yeah. Or make it ask everything in questions, like, turn left? Here? I'm just freaking out, like, man, I don't know. Or, if there was a pothead version, you're driving for like an hour and your maps thing is like, aww. You're gonna be mad, dude.

No, I was supposed to tell you to turn like an hour ago. Just go. Keep going. The world's round. We'll get there. All right, y'all. I'm done. I'm Mike Baldwin. Thank you very much. All right, we are back here. And scoot in towards me, Luke, and then Alex, scoot over this way this way there you go so everybody can see both of you guys really good here i got luke shoemaker and alex here with vantage ruins what's up buddy what is going on guys i'm so glad that you're here today man we've been waiting on this for a minute yeah man it's good to be back dude it's you know i'm i'm in the position now where i can creep back into arkansas pretty much when I want to and all that.

Still spending most of my time out in Nashville, but I'd say probably 25% of my time out here. It's good to be back, man. It's good to come see you, buddy. Last time I talked to you, you were hanging out with Corey Taylor and the guys over at Slipknot and doing stuff like that, right? Dude, that was a wild, not just that day, but that whole weekend, man. My buddy Rich, he's tight with a lot of those guys. Louisville, Kentucky is only about a couple hours from Nashville. Okay.

And Slipknot, they were headlining louder than life, I guess, that first Thursday night. And kind of got a little touch and go for a second on if it was going to happen, if it wasn't going to happen. And everything lined up just right, man. We got to hang out with Corey for a bit. Nicest guy on the planet. Really? Oh, dude, we just sat there. Because he's such a troll all the time, you know.

So I'm surprised that he's that nice. he was he really oh dude yeah we just sat there and talked about popeyes for 30 minutes really he likes the popeyes everybody loves popeyes oh dude yeah he uh i guess his wife cut him off from it he's like man i'm just i want to eat some popeyes again dude i miss their chicken bro his wife cut him off she's trying to keep him alive man yeah i got that i got that well uh so tell me about uh vantage run talk about the band yeah so you know alex and i we had already been playing music together for i mean lord knows six seven years something like that yeah i mean it's our music career is old enough to be in third grade now i guess but you know we had we had been doing like stuff just under my name for a long time and then i got linked up with kellen from memphis mayfire out in nashville oh wow okay

and we recorded some stuff and stuff kind of started going the right direction and the the tricky thing that we kept on running into was like they're used to the solo artist thing like in the country world but not really in the rock world so right it's more rock bands than than solo acts yeah you know and so eventually we made the choice to, you know, go ahead and pivot and just full commit to the band name, Ty Neal and all that. And it's been awesome, man. Funny enough, the band name was actually his idea, dude.

Okay. How did you come up with the name? It was really dumb. You used a name generator online? No, dumber than that. I was coming home from work one day and i used to live right off cantrell and there's this apartment complex called uh vantage point i know that apartment complex i lived there i lived right behind it i lived there for a minute yeah

uh and we were talking about all this like desolate type imagery and stuff like that. And I was just like, what if we did Vantage Ruins as a joke? And then he was like, wait a minute, that could work. Yeah. Yeah, sometimes it's the weird things that work. You know, it's the dumb things. You know, it's just like tomorrow we're airing for the first time. We've got a live Saturday thing that is different than this.

Yeah, it's different than this. It's called Patrick's After School Special. Oh, that's pretty sick. But it's where I interview comedians one-on-one or actors, things like that. But it's just a one-on-one setting, you know. But, you know, it's such a silly name, Patrick's After School Special. But it just stuck. You know, Gunnar said it, and I was like, no, I like that.

I get that. That's funny. I'm down with that name, you know. Oh, that's sick, man. So when is your first album, As Vantage Ruins Dropping, man? What's going on with that? Well, so, you know, we've done, like, the full record thing in the past, but, like, funny enough, the industry, for better or for worse,

it's kind of moving all towards, like, single format. Really? And the whole, like, four- to six-week waterfall kind of moving all towards like single format really the whole like four to six week waterfall kind of format what does that describe tell me what that means that sounds like an industry term i don't know what it means yeah so basically like a band will go in and they'll record a block of hat let's say like 20 songs okay they'll go record however many songs yeah and rather than like releasing two or three singles and then just dropping a whole record they're like they're basically mapping out their content for a whole year to year and a half.

And they're dropping a new single every four to six weeks. And so we've already got the new single uploaded, ready to rock and roll. But really what we've been holding off on releasing it for is we don't want to just drop something and then it just kind of sit there in the ether, basically. And nothing behind it. Yeah. We wanted to be sure to get Gone out there so people knew that stuff was coming right after gone came out you know we've got some management in the mix now and all that we've got

some other kind of irons in the fire about you know some some other cool stuff to try to get stuff out there the right way and so we just want to be sure we have all our ducks in a row and whenever whenever we hit the go button that it's full, just straight gas. Yeah. So what's, what's the plan with bandage ruins? What's the next in the stage of the band? What, what happens now? Man, if, if all goes according to plan, we're going to hit the studio with Kellen again

in January and record, I mean, just a ton of new stuff. And then really just kind of just do your thing. 2025. Yeah. You know, there's know there's there's been talks about some some festival stuff here and there yeah talks about just all sorts of stuff just really just trying to get out there and get her done and i know there's only so much you can say because some stuff is under wraps still you know there's some stuff that that it's just the

way the business works until you're there it's better not to say anything uh it's just the you know there's certain ways they like to roll things out so i understand that oh alex what inspired you to get into music uh my dad bought me a guitar when i was nine and i didn't really didn't really do anything with it but then uh my mom's third husband who is still one of my good friends, he played in a band. His name's Justin Corley. I don't know if you know him at all.

My name rings a bell, but I'm not sure. But he kind of put me on to Metallica and Guns N' Roses and stuff like that. Okay. And just took off from there. Just never quit. Okay, okay. Luke, what got you into music music how did you end up in it man i was always kind of like you know the divorced dad rock early 2000s nickelback creed and stuff and you know like i'm a big marvel comics nerd so if you remember back like in the early 2000s

all the spider-mans and daredevils and all that stuff they all had some just big rock song that went with yeah yeah they did they sure did there What was it? Spider-Man, the hero. The hero Foo Fighters. Yeah. Or Jack Kroger. Yeah, that's right. That's right. That's right.

Yeah. Yeah. What? You've got to speak English there for a second. Luke knows his Nickelback. Oh, yeah, dude. Look, you can hate on them if you want to. I mean, they're one of the best-selling artists of all time.

Somebody keeps buying their albums. And I like that song, San Quentin. Ohentin oh yeah it's a pretty good jam i don't give a damn oh yeah i'll jam that anytime no i've gotten alex on some nickelback here lately we've got on nickelback before you were out of diapers that's also probably true yeah i see you guys have been friends a long time you talk smack to one another yeah no that's the best kind of friend to have yeah talking smack to each other but no we uh i'd been listening to that stuff and then funny enough my mom had been good friends with jason truby from pod oh yeah okay i know who that is yeah and he uh he taught me everything i know musically and then there was a band i was in and i wasn't supposed to be the

singer but things didn't work out and i wound up having to be the singer type deal and you know alex and i did the whole kind of local band thing and we're still doing it. You know what I mean? Like we started, you know, running around that stuff for a little bit and then things just kind of progressed to where they were now. Yeah. So how is it different being in Nashville versus here? What, what are the big differences in, in, you know, what's available to you, what's going on there versus here? I guess just like the level of access and just knowledge that's just at your fingertips right there. Like the other night I was backstage at a five-finger show at Bridgestone. Okay.

And I ran into Jelly Rolls drummer Cody. Really? Yeah, and we were sitting there and kind of talking for a second about stuff. And just, you know, he was dropping game basically and just kind of, you know, giving giving some insider stuff and all that and just being able to talk to people like that big and it's not like it's not the dynamic of the fan and the like yeah it's not where you're going to get an autograph you're just saying you're just talking yeah it's just like how we're talking right now right right and like that stuff's just really cool man and you know funny enough when we were back there we were talking about when jelly had headlined Bridgestone for the first time a couple years prior

and how that was like a huge thing for him and all that. And you've probably heard Alex talk about it before, and Ronnie has heard me say this before in the past, but my whole, you know, everyone has their benchmark of having made it. Yeah. And mine has always been playing an arena show. Just an arena show. Yeah, no, that would be pretty much making it if you play an arena show. You know, yeah, I've never playing an arena show. Just an arena show. Yeah, no, that would be pretty much making it if you play an arena show.

Yeah, I've never played an arena show. Well, I was talking to Cody about it back there. And we were kind of talking about how Jelly did it the first time he did it and what they're doing now. And I said that same thing to him. And he was like, man, it's coming sooner than you think. And that was like the first time it kind of clicked that it actually is. You know, we're going to do this thing.

Now, you know, you've been out in Nashville for a while. And if people don't know, Nashville is really, really big in all music, not just country. A lot of people think, oh, well, it's just country, but it's not. So you've had occasion to rub elbows with many people. Who have you been the most starstruck by in the time up there that you've run into oh that's an easy one i uh i can't say where it happened but i'll tell you who it was okay that's fair uh it was billy from zz top really yeah i sat there and talked with him really given yeah i take the wow alex and his girl katie as soon as it happened and like

we me and billy sat there and talked for probably 10, 15 minutes. Really? And you look at, I'm sure. Oh yeah. And like, he was just, I mean, he shows up where, where he was at in a suit. Like he was about to walk on stage on an arena. He was just chilling, you know what I mean? But there's also still rocking the long beard. Oh yeah. And he was the, just the chillest dude ever. He was like, yeah, man, we're about to go to Europe and Skinner's going to open for us.

And I'm like, as it should be, you know what I mean? Well, I mean, they'd have to, I mean, is there any DNA of Skinner left in Skinner at this point? I mean, it's not much, I'll tell you that. I mean, I think it's residue, not even DNA. Yeah. No, Billy was cool, man. I, uh, my boy Terrence, he drums for Keith Urban. I wound up meeting him and he's the homie. He's good people. Um, you know, we've been writing stuff with Cody from wage war, which Cody, when he's not playing for wage war he also is like writing for jelly roll and falling in reverse and a day to remember yeah he's a good artist man he's a great writer no 100% yeah i mean i i think i i don't know uh if i'm not mistaken he he wrote some pretty big hits

oh yeah yeah i mean he was one of the writers on, like, Zombified. That's a great song. Zombified, that's a damn good song. It's one of my favorites, actually, from them. Yeah, and, like, funny enough, the next single that Alex and I are dropping was one of the ones that we wrote with Cody. Really? Yeah, and so it's going to be. That's very cool, man.

You've got to be excited about that then. Yeah, we've literally had it on our phones for almost two years. Really? We've been sitting on it. Oh, man, and it's been the hardest thing two years. Really? Mixed, mastered. You've been sitting on it. Oh, man. And it's been the hardest thing ever. It's got to be, man.

You're sitting on a brick of gold. Like, I want to show you my gold, but I can't. Yeah. No, like we recorded this one at the same time that we recorded Gone. Like literally the same week. We knocked them both out at the same time. So I've had them both sitting on my phone since spring break of last year. Wow. Wow. That's crazy. That is crazy, man. Well, what they're going to do for us,

they're going to do an acoustic performance. Now, let me ask, what do you need to, in order to, to be ready? Uh, I guess just a couple of minutes just to get set up. All right. Well, I'm going to talk while you do that. And, uh, I'm gonna have you guys sit over here with these mics and do your thing, okay? Cool. And let me make a little camera adjustment here while we're working on that and see if we can get that going. So bear with me. Just a little bit of stuff here we do technically.

So it's just going to be quiet for a second. Okay. All right. Here we go. That's going to look good. That's going to be good. That's going to be right up on you guys there. And then we'll zoom in. All right, here we go. Now y'all be patient with me for a second, okay? It's going to be a little loud. Yeah, so we've got the camera set on Vantage Ruins,

and they're going to drop a hot acoustic jam for us right now. And I'll mic them up real nice for you here. It's about as live as it gets. It's your world, baby. Oh, cool. How are we sounding? We sounding good? We're sounding great, man.

Do I need to back up off the mic a little bit, or are we good? No, I think you're pretty good, really. Thank you. Great. Cool. This is how you remind me. No, I'm just kidding. No.

All right, you ready? Come on Drilling in my own thoughts Without a sound Everything feels so When I'm falling down Whoa, I change the face I used to recognize

The only ghost in the man In the mirror this time Chasing the dark into the dawn Where the light is found Help me carry on Cause I'm still here, as paths make clear Now I know I won't break, won't fade, hold on till the storm is gone Paralyzed by every flaw, my design

Before you can't break my chains, will I run out of time? Been searching for answers, there's none around What's the silence all around? Chasing the dark into the dawn The light is filming, we carry on Cause I'm still here, this path ain't clear Now I know what won't break, won't fade Hold on till the storm is gone

Chasing the dark into the dawn Light is failing, will we carry on? I'm still here, as paths make clear Now I know I won't break, won't fade Hold on till the storm is gone And I'm still here And I'm still here Been searching for answers

Now I know I won't break, won't fade Hold on till the storm is gone Yeah! Yeah! That's awesome. Alright, so while the camera's still on you, tell me about the inspiration for that song, how it came to be, what's going on with that song.

Well, so it's two different layers. So firstly, it was kind of like, you know, dealing with anxiety. I mean, that's kind of the surface level of it. More so what it's dealing with is like, let's say you're in the middle of whatever you're dealing with and all that. It's just kind of acknowledging that, yeah, it could be screwed up, whatever you you're dealing with but just realizing that you got to just keep on going you know what i mean not to sound cliche no but you got to push through yeah you got to push through yeah and then like on the more kind of just funny like industry side of it when we were writing it i told kellen i wanted to be the heaviest song nickelback never wrote like straight up i can see that i can

see that it was the exact quote man like I was hearing this for like UFC WWE all that kind of stuff yeah no I could definitely see this song being a big hit

on the market so I think it's going to be awesome man and certainly I know that all of our viewers and listeners are going to share it with their friends and everybody and we'll post the actual video as well again again, on our blog today

of the regular studio version too. Oh, that'll be sick, man. Yeah, so big thanks to Vantage Ruins coming in, performing a dope-ass track like that. I know that everybody can't hear it, but here. Give you one more round of applause here. Debbie said hi, Luke. Oh, what's up, Debbie? Yeah, she said hi. All right, let me pull this back around here. Okay, all right. So you can scoot you in. And yeah, yeah, everybody get back in a place here, and we'll talk a little bit, visit a little bit.

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In Little Rock? Born in Little Rock, but I grew up in Glen Rose. In Glen Rose. Okay, okay. At the SC, baby. Yeah, that's where I'm at, the SC. In Glen Rose. Okay, okay. In Saline County. At the SC, baby. Yeah, that's where I'm at, the SC. I love it. I love it.

I live down in Haskell now. Okay. Same thing. Now, I asked Luke a while ago what his biggest moment of awe of a celebrity was. What's been yours so far? Oh, God. See, soon we'll be able to say that about them. Right. Remember when you met Luke and Alex?

You had them in the studio. Now these guys are on Guitar Magazine and playing arenas. Keith was cool. They're talking amongst them to try to determine who it was. I haven't met a lot of cool people yet. I've met some cool people, but nobody

big, big. It didn't feel like just a normal guy. I got you. When you're talking to them. I got you. That's the cool thing about like a lot of the people in this scene, when you meet them, it just feels like a normal guy. So there's not really that starstruck kind of thing.

Everybody's really down to earth. I think that's probably a lot of difference in my mind in the feeling in nashville versus la you know uh nashville is full of uh more i'm not going to say la is not yes i am uh nashville is full of authentic people who are you know trying to help each other and and seem to have a community la is full of a bunch of plastic ass wipes that are looking out for themselves you know i mean that's just facts you know as it is that's just the facts um i you know i tried earlier this year uh i said well i might try to play guitar a little bit and um it was terrible

i can't get my fingers to do the chords i've tried as hard as i can they're too fat they're too slow they're too whatever uh i don't know how you guys do it. I've got arthritis from 20 years of guitar playing. Does it do that? I don't know, but 10 years of mechanic. You think it was the guitar is what it was? Something did it. Just that grip?

It hurts. That grip right there? It kind of looks like this. Something like that. It might be the guitar. You got what? Hold on. Hold on. Let me guitar. You got what? Hold on. Hold on.

Let me switch. You got what? The grip. Oh, the grip. It hurts. You play guitar for a long time. I mean, does it give you the arthritis? Yeah.

In the mornings, I mean, it's numb. Everything's numbed. It stays numbed. I mean, it's numb. Everything's numbed. It stays numbed. I mean, it's a good thing, and it's, you know, I mean, sometimes it can be a good thing. Why is it a good thing? So you can do The Stranger? If Luke knows, I think me and Luke's played f***ing shows together.

Wow. And you can ask Luke, I don't like playing in the cold. Oh, yeah, no. I remember the show in particular. Yeah. It was in Adkins. It was with Smile Empty Soul. Yes. Me and Alex's old band, Signal.

Yes. And it was from day one. And it was 30 degrees outside on the river. Really? I don't like that. Man, I can't imagine doing a show in that temperature now. I don't even want to perform like that. And the whole time Rob's like, I'm not doing it!

I'm not doing it! I would think that in that temperature your throat would, I mean, it'd be real hard not to get to, you know, kind of burn it with the cold air. That's the scary thing with the voice, man. It's like the one instrument you have no control over it. Like, I mean, you have some control over it. Well, sure, yeah. Don't smoke crack. That helps as far as you know but like don't smoke crack that helps yeah you know like like the weather can mess with it like the time of day can like there's just so many variables you know two days ago i was sitting at the house and i was

talking on the phone all of a sudden i sounded hoarse and are you sick and i'm like man i don't even know what's going on right now and it was just sinuses but it'll come out of nowhere and wreck you real fast oh 100 yeah yeah now have you ever you know lost your voice at the wrong time oh yeah they looked at each other like there's a story though there absolutely is a story um uh so it was the first time we ever headlined Vino's. Okay. This was way before. I mean, not that I take decent care of my voice even now, but I especially didn't back then. At least you do now.

Yeah, you know what I mean? But we were doing a show at Vino's, and I downed a whole cheese pizza and, like, four things of pink lemonade. And I was sick at the time, too. Yeah. So I made it like a song and a half in, and my voice just kind of basically gave me the middle finger I'm done

Yeah, no, it was rough, dude It sounded like a koala bear Like trying to do Mongolian What do you do? You just say, guys, I'm sorry No, I mean, we kept on They even made me do an encore With no voice Alex is over here singing

Literally Like when y'all had me do the encore. I remember. Yeah. They used to do, you know, sometimes Jim Morrison would not show up and Ray Manzarek would be back on the keyboard just singing, you know, the Jim Morrison part of The Doors. Yeah.

Yeah. So it sounds like you guys are really meeting the right people, getting the right connections, and on your way, man. It's been cool man like kellen's been a huge help with getting us kind of introduced to those people man and i mean just being in nashville too it just happens naturally yeah you know what i mean like um at that same show that i met jelly rolls drummer at i was hanging out with the slaughter to prevail guys and with the guys from chelsea grin and then like just so many different people and all that and literally just walking down the street, you can bump into people, man. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I

assume it's much more laid back there where you can do that. Uh, you know, walk down the street and see someone. I remember I was telling somebody, uh, a couple of days ago when I, I was young, I moved to Los Angeles, uh, briefly, very briefly, uh, because it, well, it was a big culture shock to me. You know, I, I moved there, uh, at 18, I thought was a big culture shock to me. I moved there at 18. I thought I was going to go be an actor. I was going to be a big star. And, man, first of all, I had delusions of grandeur because it was the first time I ever met my biological father, actually.

And I was going to Hollywood, and I thought, oh, I'm going out here to live the life. I'm going to live like Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. I showed up, and first of all, A, he's an alcoholic. That's two of them in my life, if you're counting. B, he lived in a one-room apartment that shared a bathroom with the whole floor of six apartments. And he cooked ramen noodles in a coffee pot that's that's what that's what he ate he didn't have room in his apartment for me to sleep so i

had to sleep in his gay friend's apartment on the couch and so uh yeah but that's not why i left all those were good enough reasons to go but no no none of those were why i did there's a country song i did i promise you there is. But I was walking down the street, right? The first day I'm there, I'm going to get some cigarettes, walking to the liquor store. And I walked past, you know, this guy's coming to me and I'm going this way. And I say, Hey, how you doing? You know, because I'm from Arkansas and you know, we wave at people at stop signs and shit. You know what I mean? That's what we do here. And so he stopped and he looked at me, he goes, oh, do I know you?

And I said, no. He goes, then why the hell are you talking to me? And I was like, oh snap, I gotta go. So I get right at the intersection where the liquor store is. I'm about to cross the street. It was like something out of the movies. Two cop cars pull

up right in front of the liquor store. They jump out. They run in the liquor store. Next thing you see, this dude flies out the door of the liquor store they jump out they run in the liquor store next thing you see this dude flies out the door of the liquor store they throw him on the ground put the cuffs on throw in the back they're gone and i was like and it took like 30 seconds and i was like man i am not in uh saline county anymore i clicked my heels three times and brought my ass back to little rock yeah i was like no this is not for me over here, man. That's funny. Yeah, it was weird, too, because, you know, you see Los Angeles or Hollywood,

you know, all the stuff from the stars and the Oscars and all these things. But when you get there in person, it is the dirtiest, grimiest, nastiest, sleaziest place. I did see Jesus dragging the cross down the street. There you go. The full-size cross, man. He was pulling that mug. And that was before they even had viral videos and stuff. I'm like, this guy's committed, man.

See, I hadn't seen Jesus in Nashville yet, but I've seen a dude dressed as a hot dog that rides a bicycle down Broadway basically every two weeks. It's the craziest thing. He dresses as a hot dog driving down the road in Nashville. Yeah, so my first year that I lived in Nashville, I lived on 3rd Ave, which is right there in the middle of downtown. The Batman building was a five-minute walk from my apartment.

Okay, what's the Batman building? The building from Batman the movie or something? No, it's this AT&T tower, but it's got the little poles. Okay, okay, kind of looks like Batman. Okay, gotcha. But no, there's this dude that dresses up like a hot dog and rides his bicycle down Broadway like every couple weeks. but it's got the little little pulse okay okay kind of looks like batman okay gotcha but uh but no there's this dude that dresses up like a hot dog and rides his bicycle down broadway like every couple weeks and you just never know what you run into on broadway yeah no i i can understand that

i can understand that uh go ahead running uh luke i saw that your truck got broken into when you first moved there man dude so like. So, like, get this. March, I have a wreck, okay? Okay. Without my truck for two months. I'm in a rental truck and all that stuff. I finally get my truck back. And then two weeks after I get my truck back, I go out to this bar that I've never been

to with some friends of mine. And you know me, I don't even drink. Yeah, I know. I'm literally there just to go hang out with my friends. You know what I'm saying? You're the designated driver always. Oh, 100%, man. And, like, I walk out to my truck, and my passenger side window's busted out.

And I'm just like, damn it. And, like, then I get that fixed. A super nice guy comes, puts in a new window for $300. So all my windows are tinted except for the one that got broken. Oh, wow. You're right. And so then, this is when I'm still living in downtown, I down to my truck one morning the same damn window is busted out and the same dude comes and puts another window in my truck for 300 bucks like and this was in june the last time it happened

to this day i still find broke glass in my truck really and get this when i called the cops they were just like man you should just leave your truck unlocked so that way they can just they just don't have to break it to get in and i'm just like man are you are you kidding me right now that's that's the solution just leave it open so they don't have to break something it was insane and then get this so i had the wreck i had the two break-ins and then i come back to arkansas for i guess it was in july the last time me and you hung out and i'm uh and i uh go to start my truck up one morning, and you remember this. There's no AC, and I'm like, you've got to be shitting me.

Like, I've been through a wreck and two break-ins. And your AC went out? No, so it wasn't even that the AC went out. I took it to the Firestone over there off I-30 in Benton, and they found that a squirrel had built a nest in my blow motor. The squirrel had gotten killed and disappeared and the nest is still in there. Wow. Yeah, dude.

Once a squirrel built a nest in my wife's blow motor and it was bad. Yeah, I'm going to be in trouble for that one. Laura's going to get you. Yeah, no, she definitely is going to get me for that one. I couldn't help myself. I remember when I was starting back going to get you. Yeah, no, she definitely is going to get me for that one. That was a, I couldn't help myself. Yeah, I remember, you know, when I was talking about going to L.A.,

you know, where we parked at those apartments in my car, I came out the next, this was another reason I came back, I came out that next morning to go to my car. Literally every car in the parking lot had been broken into and the stereo stolen except mine wow and i don't know if maybe they got scared at the last minute they heard something or if they looked at the tags and said my ambassador's from arkansas i mean i i can't hurt him any more than he's already hurt you know i feel bad for him you know know. Yeah, it was crazy. Every car but mine.

I was like, I don't know how that worked out. But, you know, I didn't want to lose my docking tape. You know what I mean? Oh, man. What's the coolest car you ever had, Luke? Well, I'm just a truck guy. You're a truck guy? Yeah. I mean, I love my truck that i've got now i got

that ram but i've been probably next year i'll probably get into something newer it's you know not only is it about time but i've had so much happen to the truck this year that yeah it sounds like that truck's ready to look to rest yeah but uh alex just got a new truck though he's got this what'd you get what do you what do you get man i like old ugly beat up yeah and i just got a new truck though he's got this what'd you get what do you what do you get man i like old ugly beat up yeah and i just bought a it's not like old old but i just bought a 99 sierra okay just put a little lift on it put some 35s on it yeah 35 yeah have you seen have you seen these people now and i don't know what's going on but it to me first of all it looks stupid uh but that just could be my age second of all uh i don't understand how it doesn't mess the engine up it's

these these trucks that are dragging the front up way i don't get that man what is it called i think squatting squatting squatting well it's the dumbest thing i've ever seen in my life it looks ridiculous man i don't even know how you get in the car it seems like it's you know you need a rope to pull up into it i actually thought they were banned in some states they made it illegal in carolina you can't have more than uh like two or four inch difference between the front and back so you got to see the kid in front of you right right right yeah yeah well i mean it used to be the opposite i used to have a camaro uh back in the day that had a an air uh lift in the back yeah and so i'd get in and i'd push a button and make that ass in go up real high like that you know the problem was it had a six cylinder which

i was embarrassed of you have a camaro with a six-cylinder. It's embarrassing. Anybody pulls up, they think you're in a muscle car, and then you punch it. You go, and they're like, oh, get out of here, bitch. What are you doing? Yeah, man. You've got a dope-ass Dodge. Is that your favorite car you've ever had, that Challenger?

I appreciate it. Yes, sir. That's the first brand-new vehicle I ever bought. Oh, you bought it brand-new. Your ass is the only one that's in it yes yeah no that's dope man that's dope now what's what's the highest you've had it up to man that's a tattletail i probably had it what's the highest you might have seen it go to like 135 140 oh damn you're pretty bold aren't you 120 is about the most I think I've ever hit. When you first get them, you're kind of like you want to come.

Well, you got to know what it'll do, right? But I don't do that all the time or anything like that. Well, of course not. You're a very conscious, self-conscious person. You're very law-observing. Oh, yes, sir. You like to observe the traffic laws. I've driven behind you.

You're like an old lady. Yeah. Ronnie, what's the coolest vehicle you've ever hit? Crotch rockets. Oh, a an old lady. Ronnie, what's the coolest vehicle you've ever had? Crotch rockets. Oh, a crotch rocket. What kind? Habusa. Oh, man. 1000. I've had pretty much

every one of them. This guy that I know, and I told him, I said, you're going to have to bring this up to the studio. I want people to see this. His name's Sean. He ordered a bike from Amazon for $2,900. Full motorcycle. Came in a crate. I've seen those.

Yeah. And it's a crotch rocket, or at least it looks like a crotch rocket. I don't know the exact size of it. I'm sure that it's not the same motor as a Ninja or a GSX, but it's a damn motorcycle that he got in a crate that works. I asked him, I said, does it start? Does it run? He said, man, it runs like a charm.

It's great. $2,900 from Amazon, bro. Man. I started looking. You can get motorcycles on there for less than that. You can get them for $2,000, $2,200. Now, are they crap? I don't know.

But it's a damn motorcycle. It's not a mini. It's not a mini bike or anything like that. Like a Gromp or something like that. I think they're called Gromps. I don't know. I think that's the name. Oh, okay. I didn't even know you could order that kind of stuff

from Amazon. You can order anything from Amazon now. Oh, man. I think the coolest car that I had, I had a Z28 that was a 1980 and it was the most loaded up it could be. It had everything, you know. IROC? No, it wasn't an IROC. Man, that's later. That's the 90s. Maybe 89 even, not 80 though. 80 was more akin to the Bandit-style Trans Am. You know, with the air induction hood, the dope headlight. Fire Phoenix on the front.

Well, that's the Firebird had that or the Trans Am. Mine was a Z. But I did love that because I remember pulling up to high school and the first day and the guys were like, no way, man. And that was like the best feeling in the world in high school. You had a Z28 in high school? Yeah, man. He had a 96 Dodge with a bent crank.

Dude, listen, no. It was my older brother's. I got it. And I had it for about six months. And then the electrical harness messed up. And my dad said, yeah, no, you're trading it because it's too much to fix it. And I was like, no, I don't want to trade it. And I had to trade it.

And you know what I got? What? A Caprice Classic Landau. A four-door with a vinyl top. There you go. Now, did I still chrome out that motor? You're damn right I chromed out that 305. I had 17 fuzzy dice hanging in it playing the Beastie Boys.

I had one of those. A Caprice Classic. Yeah, it's not exactly a host slayer. It depends on how you do it. Is that right? You've done that in a Caprice Classic? No. I have not.

I have not. I would say that's impressive if you had. You've got strong game. In a Caprice Classic. You're real strong. Yeah, that's for sure, man. There's no doubt about it. Yeah, no doubt about it, man.

It's hilarious. All right, let's do this. Tonight on an all-new Becky's Got Crack. Yo, Becky's got crack. Yo, Becky, let's hang out, girl. Patrick and the people. Hey, if you're dealing with a family law matter, you need a lawyer who knows what they're dealing with and got experience.

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vapes a bunch of everything any kind of flavor of vape but he's got i mean you can it's like build a bear but build a bong build a bong. Build a bong. Build a bong, yes, definitely. You can build a Dr. Seuss pipe. You can build anything you want there. He's got some nice ones in there. He's got some cool pieces in there if you just like the art of it. Like the art pipe. Yeah.

Like he's got some nice, nice pieces in there. No, some people are that way, you know. I mean, some people have Billy Bong Thornton. Weed snobs. Yeah, and some people like the art of it, you know. I got a fancy one once. I dropped it. It broke, and I was like, that's it, you know. I got a fancy one once. I dropped it. It broke, and I was like, that's stupid.

I just get a silicone pipe. Yeah, right. You know, they're cheap, they're easy, and I'm done, you know. And they last about forever. I seen one in there one day. It was an AK-47 pipe. What? He had an AK-47 blown pipe.

Is it like glass AK-47? He's got some sweet stuff in there, man. And I assume the barrel is where you? I guess. I just seen it setting up. This is like glass? It's all glass. He's got some sweet stuff in there, man. And I assume the barrel is where you... I guess. I've just seen it setting up. It was huge, man. That feels wrong. It was as big as the AR-15.

It was big. It was big. I don't know. Maybe that's for sharing. I don't know what that is. It's like a conversation piece. That is a conversation piece. As a matter of fact, if you can tell Jay, if he if he's still got that oh that'd be sick to say you need to bring that

up here so people can see that let me show that i'm sure he's got something else he's always got some cool stuff in there yeah i need i need to come by there and say hey bring bring one of these things by here and definitely tell him the next time you see him say hey patrick said uh i need to bring one of your i'll I'll reach out this afternoon. Yeah. He'll be hearing from you. Yeah. You know Crazy Jay.

Yes, sir. He's crazy. He's crazy. Just to write enough crazy. But he's got good stuff over there for you. Yes, he's got good stuff. He's absolutely got good stuff for you. What do you got planned for the weekend, Ronnie?

What's your weekend about? More dumpster diving? Oh, no. I think it's just work. Just work? Yeah, and I'm getting my podcast. Yeah, yeah, you're working on that. You've been working, I know, some with Gunner and working on that, and that's awesome.

Gunner's the man. Gunner is the man. He is like a tech savant, and I'll be honest with you, it was such a blessing such a miracle uh to have him you know push me the way he has because he really did uh because my pushing me now yeah no that's good just let him let him because i it was real uncomfortable at first because i was like look i kind of i just want to do really like a radio show you know i want to do the same thing i was doing and uh that that was the goal i had, just do an audio stream. And the more we talked about it, he was like, bro, look, for the same money, you can do visual and audio.

And people will find you on all these places. You don't have to have a number on that dial anymore. And I was like, but do you think people will want the visual medium? And he goes, hell yeah. And so, you know, we started looking at equipment. And then, you know, when he got me the equipment list, I went, Jesus, man, that's not cheap, is it? And he goes, no, it's not going to be cheap, bro. And I said, all right.

All right, let me call Fitz. And I called Fitz Otto over there, my buddy Mark. And he said, Mark, I may need your help. I can't get this far in my pocket. I keep reaching down there. Don't go that deep. And he said, yeah, man, I'll definitely do that. And so he engineered the system and he's continuing to do, you know, things behind the scenes that people don't know that are making it better, enriching the program because, you know, we're just kind of scratching the surface of what long-term we plan for this to be.

There's going to be a lot more to the visual medium. And as I mentioned earlier, if you were not here and did not hear, tomorrow we'll actually have a live stream that will not be the typical Patrick and the people. It will be something called Patrick's After School Special. And as opposed to me sitting with my friends and having conversations about all this, it's a one-on-one interview. In this case, it's with comedian Mike Baldwin. We played a clip of his earlier.

And he's going to be a very, very, very funny guy. And we had a really surprising conversation because the conversation, we recorded it yesterday actually to play live tomorrow um we we had a really interesting conversation that was unexpected because i i would have thought we were going to go down the comedy lane and we did to some extent we did talk comedy but then it drifted you know into its own lane and and somehow ventured slightly into something that i never talk about which which is politics. I know, right?

But it was a really interesting conversation, and I think that everybody's going to enjoy it, and we're going to have one of those every Saturday. We'll have a Patrick's After School special that airs on Saturday, just to give you a little extra bonus content, something more to work with. There's no ads in that. There's no commercials. There's nothing. It's just two people talking for about a half hour and talking about cool stuff. Dope people talking about dope things, doing dope things, living dope lives.

At least he is. Let's take a look real quick. I haven't had a chance today. As you know, in the studio, it's been super busy. I haven't had a lot of chance to look at comments. Let's see what we've got here. Okay, so this person wants to know, where can we find the music for Vantage Ruins? Literally everywhere. Go to Apple Music, Spotify, all the things. We're on Facebook. We're on

Instagram, all that stuff. Just, yeah, wherever wherever you listen to music you can find us there it's okay all right yeah uh we're talking about vehicles james seaford i love jr uh he said uh the honda cbr 1000r hurricane was his bag that was his baby the hurricane man i remember those that's one of those 0 to 60 and too fast for me. I remember the hurricane. Yeah, man. That's awesome. That's awesome. Let's see. What else do we have here?

Audio only somewhere. Yes, Brad. You can do audio only on our website, Patrick and the People. We have an audio only stream if you don't want to do video. Mike Woodall, what's up, Mike? Good morning to you, my friend. Woodall. Yeah, Woodall, man. We're going to get him in here too, man. I want to get him in here.

Let's see, who else is on here? Eddie Fletcher. What's up, Eddie? Eddie and the Defiance. We're going to have them in the studio. I know we're going to have them. We've got several bands coming now. We've got Dark from Day One coming. We're going to have Stays in Vegas is coming. Josh Stewart's coming. We've got all kinds of folks that are coming in the studio, and hopefully we'll get all of them to do some kind of acoustic performance. I think that's great. It's a lot of fun to have, you know, guys. And I'm very thankful that you guys were able to come in here today and do that for us, man.

It was really awesome to have you guys in and doing that. Such a dope thing. Man, I ain't done nothing, man. Do you know? We're just buddies, man. We're just buddies. No, come on, man. You've done so much for us over the years.

Man. Man, you know what? I just like to help cool people. And you guys are cool people, and that's just that. You know, I mean, look, I've always said it's the sole principle of this show, and I say it all the time, is we all get there by lifting each other up. Absolutely. You know, we can all do it by ourselves, but it's a lot harder. It's harder.

And if we can just elevate each other and lift each other up somehow, you know, and if this medium allows us to do that then I think that's awesome it's great for everybody because there's nobody that sat in these seats and sat down here who's not a dope person who doesn't deserve to be more successful even than they are

you know and so that's what it's all about we're all trying to help each other so look maybe you've got a business out there. And, look, I'm only allowing small local business to advertise on the program. I'm not even letting large national corporations in here at all. It's not their real estate. You know, it belongs to the people.

This is Patrick and the people, not Patrick and the corporations, you know. And it's because that's what this is about. It's about people helping people, being cool people, having fun with each other. They're not being dragged down by everything else in the damn world that's going on because, listen, there's enough of that out there, you know, and I, for one, I'm just tired of every time I turn around, somebody's telling me why I'm a piece of shit, you know what I mean? And I mean, that's the facts, man. I mean, that's just how it is out there. It is.

Yeah, it's frustrating. So hopefully you guys are finding a lot of fun here and enjoying what you're getting. This guy said, I love the new show. I like and share every day. Everyone else should too. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate that very much.

Thanks. The van is really the way to get to help people, little doggy Mike Woodall said. You're right, Mike. They're great. They're great. I also said Ronnie James is a legend. Oh. He is.

He is a legend, man, for real. How long have you been playing music, Ronnie? I think it's about 27 years. 27 years. Yeah. You know, me and Luke sitting down there, we used to talk about the Wendy's stop when we used to go to rehearsals together. Yeah. I think it was going to rehearsal and back.

Even Alex has been roped into it a couple times. Yeah. The chicken sandwiches, man. It's that Wendy's at the Pilot in Russellville. Oh, yeah. That's the one in Las Vegas. Oh, yeah. To this day, man, of all the Wendy's I've been to,

this is going to make me sound like the biggest fat ass ever, but of all the Wendy's I've ever been to. They've got the best chicken sandwiches. The one at the Pilot in Russellville has got some good ass chicken. Yeah. That chef knows exactly how to spit on it. You know what I mean? Oh, my God.

A little Copenhagen spit right there. You like that Copenhagen flavor? Smoke it. You know what I mean? A little Copenhagen spit right there. You like that Copenhagen flavor? Smoke it. You like that, boy? That's hilarious. Two homestyle chicken sandwiches. Oh, God, it was good. Chicken and cheese only.

The big old natural lemonade. Yeah. You know, my younger son, Tyler, the barber, he loves Bullock's in Benton. I don't know. It's something about the chicken and the wings at Bullock's in Benton that I don't know Something about the chicken And the wings At Bullocks in Benton I don't give a damn

If we're going to have dinner If he drives by Bullocks He'll come home with wings Eat those and his dinner You know But yeah It's like Sometimes

You just have that one greasy place You love to go And it's just the best food As a matter of fact Ronnie What's your favorite Greasy spoon? You got to have one. I really don't have one.

At my age, I just eat at home. That's why you're thinner than I am. That's smart. You're a smart man. I appreciate that. Between that and dumpster diving, you're doing the right. Unless I'm riding Luke and I'm sure we're going to stop somewhere to get chicken.

No, 100%. No, I really don't. I don't eat out that much. That's good. That's good. I see a lot of people at work. It's always fast food. Yeah.

And Dovey's always talking about how bad it is for you. If I ate organically, my body might reject it. I think so, too. I give you this. Have you ever, I toured some. So it's like every different state you go to and you start eating the food, do you not, Luke, get upset stomach? It depends, like.

What you eat? Get on your mic, Derrick. I guess it kind of just depends on if it's like a mom and pop one or not. Okay. Like, if I'm going to, like, I've learned that Buc-ee's is a godsend. Oh, man. And everybody talks about these Buc-ee's. Dude, man.

Like, it's legend. Oh, dude, Buc-ee's is the greatest place ever. You get the little thing of cookie dough and them chicken tendies, man. Buc-ee's is great. Luke being good, y'all. Yeah. Luke's always. He's talking about the good stuff over here. Trying to make me hungry.

I did a run about a month ago with a buddy of mine, Cadence, and we went and did a run with Josie Scott. Yeah. And it was up in Cleveland. Well, right outside of Cleveland. It was in Lakewood, which that's a good trek from Nashville. And so, like, we stopped in Buc-ee's to get the food there Then we stopped right outside of Mansfield, Ohio

To get to this Mexican spot Loaded up on some chimichangas, man I heard something the other day And I know I can just look at a map But is Cleveland close to Canada? It is, and I had no idea I had no idea It's literally like 30 minutes

Really? 30 minutes to Nickelback Land I had no idea. Yeah. It's literally like 30 minutes. Really? 30 minutes to Nickelback Land. That's crazy. I had no idea. Yeah, dude. Nickelback Land. Yeah. My Canadian connection is Alanis Morissette.

That was my Canadian jam. And now I'm here. Yeah. That bitch was mad, boy. Yeah. I liked it. I liked it. Can I tell you something?

This is a little embarrassing, but I'm going to tell you the truth. I was a super fan of hers for a while. She's got good stuff. This is in the 90s, right? Yeah. Because she just was pissed off, and I liked it. So I dropped an unreasonable amount of money to go to Kansas City and sit front row. Front row.

There you go. And it was a damn great show. Okay, but here's the this is where my Alanis ride ended. Because I've dropped an unreasonable amount of money

to be in the front row of this concert at the Emporium in Kansas City. And she comes down the front row and slaps every hand. They're all girls.

Except my hand. I was a dude so I guess it was like she wasn't slapping the dude's hand. I was a dude, so I guess it was like she wasn't slapping the dude's hand. I'm like, bitch, I paid $300! She probably thought you were there with your girlfriend. In 1995! That's a lot of money then. Yeah, no, it was a lot of money.

So I was done with her then. I was like, you can't slap my hand after I dropped all that. I'm out. She probably thought you were there with your girlfriend. No, she didn't, man. No, she didn't, man. No, she didn't think that. She just thought, oh, this is a dude. I'm not doing it. Uh-uh.

No, I'm not. You're not even supposed to. What are you doing in the front row? Who let you up here? She was, I mean, you know, she was a chick chick. You know what I mean? I was just here. Well, she was with Ryan Reynolds for a while.

I think they got, I don't remember if they got married or not, but they dated for a while. You know, Alex met Ryan Reynolds. Did you? He's got a picture of it, too, man. Don't tell me this. Did you really? Come on, put the mic over here.

Come on. We got to hear this. Come on, Alex. Hold on. Here, let me pull it up real quick. Uh-oh, he's got the mic. Let's see. Hold on.

Let's see if we can see this. There it is. No. No. Let's see If we can see this There it is Yeah it's a prank picture But it's a funny one Yeah it looks like he's holding Alex's little baby In his lap That's crazy man That's funny Isn't that still the most popular profile picture you've had on Facebook

I'm sure it must be. It really is. Yeah. I believe that it is. It's got an absurd amount of attention. No, I mean, between Ryan Reynolds and you as a baby, I mean, what's not to like about it, right? I mean, you know, all right, let's do a little something here. Brought to you by that gunk in the back of your throat.

That gunk in the back of your throat. Some today. No one will recognize this singer. Oh. I'll tell you a story without a doubt. It's kind of gory. It's the worst news you could ever hear. Things just like this make you fear. Lying lunched on a dumb guy's knee. Oh, a big hard fuck drowned in some honey. Why you laughing?

Why you laughing? This shit ain't funny. It ain't. This shit ain't funny. And neither are these stories, all right? A man was stabbed to death early yesterday morning during a verbal altercation with his son-in-law, according to the Metro Police News. Officers responded to a report of a stabbing shortly before 2.30 in the morning. The victim, found inside the apartment apartment suffering from apparent stab wounds.

He was taken to a hospital where he later died. The victim's son-in-law was determined by detectives to be the suspect in the stabbing and he's been arrested. They said that he was stabbed 72 times. So I'm guessing that he might have been mad. So I'm guessing that he might have been mad. Sentencing has been postponed for a 55-year-old woman who repeatedly stabbed a man and hit him with a baseball bat at her Lake Halley home. Wow, you really are mad. You stabbed him, then hit him with a bat? He's already down. The Laura Fila pleaded guilty in July to one count of

attempted first-degree intentional homicide. Said the investigation, they ordered a mental competency exam. Well, yeah, she's probably got problems here. But according to the criminal report, the 56-year-old male victim located in the bathroom covered head to toe in blood, said he'd been stabbed in the left eye and then struck by a baseball bat. The officer observed 15 stab wounds to his body, including two over his heart, one to his thumb, two lacerations to his left eye, several on the top of his forehead, his hairline. two lacerations to his left eye, several on the top of his forehead, his hairline. Man, she was trying, man.

This dude missed it by an inch every way he went. This trick was trying to get him. When interviewed by police, the victim said she shouted at him over and over, you ruined my life, now you're going to pay. Said she stabbed him, he punched her in the face, the knife fell in the tub after he punched her That's when she left and came back With a baseball bat Hit him in the head and the back

Man that's He really must have done something wrong He must have cheated or something That's what I'm guessing Just key my car Can't you just put some sugar in the gas tank or something You know call my job Tell them I'm a piece of shit. I mean, all right.

Five girls between the age of 12 and 15 beat 64-year-old Reggie Brown to death in an alley in October of last year. A teenage girl pleaded guilty in connection with the beating death of that elderly man. She testified in court this week as two other young girls still face first-degree murder charges. But when they asked her why that she did it, she said they were bored. They were bored. Man, they beat a dude to death because they were bored. Now, I've thrown some trash can lids, kicked over some things like that. I've done a few pranks here and there, but I've never been so bored I just killed somebody. Wow.

Ain't got nothing to do? No, that's crazy, isn't it? That is crazy. All right, a man has been accused of attacking two people with a machete in a Florida horse barn. Of course it's Florida. Yeah. Yeah. Leaving a woman with her nose almost completely severed off.

That's bad. She can look like Michael Jackson in the later years. According to Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to the 911 call, said her nose had been cut off by a machete. Deputies arrived. They, in fact, found two victims, a man and woman, both suffering severe injuries in the horse stable. What's going on in the horse stable here? They were immediately transported to the hospital, but they said, once we found out it was Amy's, it's like, what the hell? You wouldn't expect anyone, especially an employee.

out it was Amy's, it's like, what the hell? You wouldn't expect anyone, especially an employee. The woman, stable owner Amy Waters, told detectives she had recently hired 56-year-old Abundio Yasso as horse groomsmen, allowing him to live in an RV on the property. Said that their working relationship had become strained due to his frequent drinking and aggression when she asked him to do his job. The incident escalated Tuesday night when Waters noted Yasso had not finished his checklist. Concerned, she and her tenant went to check on Yasso when they knocked on the door of his RV. Drunk, shined a flashlight in their eyes. And so they said, well, you know what, we'll just finish it ourselves. But moments later, he stormed into the barn with a machete. He first attacked the guy with her who

stepped in to protect her. Hawk-toed deputies after the initial strike, he witnessed Yasso hit Waters in the face with the machete, severing her nose completely and causing her to collapse. Now look, no matter what's going on in your day, at the point your nose is severed completely, your day just changed dramatically. I mean, wow, you're talking about sinus issues. There's a sense of smell. I might clear it up, you know.

Get in easier with the nose spray. Don't have a lot of boogers stuck in anymore. They just fall right out. Yeah, the two victims managed to escape and hid in a locked room inside the barn where they called 911. When deputies arrived, Yasso barricaded himself in his RV. Yeah, that's going to work. They'll never make it in there. He eventually told officers he attacked Water because he was angry she insulted him.

She suffered, of course, the severing of her nose, facial trauma, fractured jawbone. Her friend who stepped in to help her suffered a fracture on his wrist. You bitch. You bitch. A wrist fracture? She's lost a nose? Broken jaw? What are you doing watching over there?

Oh, my wrist turns. I can't get up. You're done. I'm breaking up with you. We're not friends anymore. Out of here with that. No. I bet he didn't get a raise.

No, he didn't get a raise. He got booted out. That's what he got. Okay, so the mayor of a town in southern Mexico brutally murdered less than a week after he took office. His photos circulated of his severed head sitting on a pickup truck. That's how they do in Mexico. You see, it's a little different. You know, if you get elected there and they don't like you, they just behead you and park it out somewhere on a truck.

You know, at least here, we just try to put you in jail or run you down with our mouth. But, yeah, they're just going to take your head right off. But invite the cartel over. It's a good idea. Alexander Arcos killed on Sunday just days after he was elected the mayor of Chilpancingo. That's about 170 miles south of Mexico City.

Officials confirmed the murder from the gory photos of his decapitated head shared on the messaging platform WhatsApp. Hey, everybody, look at this. Look at my new decoration. It's a hood ornament. Golly. He said, I want some head. Yeah, that is not what we were talking about right there.

All right, let's. You're so stressed. What made you have to eat my mouth? Yeah, I guess so. Hey, listen, if you have had, you know, a family member die and maybe there is some property involved. Maybe you have siblings. Maybe you don't all get along. Maybe it's a problem. It happens in families. I see it all the time. Someone dies, they don't have a will, they're arguing over this. It can be a real issue. You need somebody who knows what they're

doing. I'm gonna tell you who it is. It's Kristin Riggan over at Riggan Law. R-I-G-G-A-N-Law.com. Kristen, I've known her for many, many moons. She is an awesome person. But what she does is she understands exactly how the law works and how to help you get what you should be getting. So if you're having to get into it, scrap with family over, you know, who gets what. Just stop. Just stop. Just call Kristen Riggin. Again, rigginlaw.com and let her help you. You know, they know what they're doing. You don't. And you might do or say the wrong thing and cause you not to get what you should, you know, and that's a bad look. You don't want that. So what's the weekend about for you guys,

Chad? What are you guys going to do this weekend?'ve got much plans pretty chilled out hang around the house probably yeah i'm gonna hang around the house how about uh yourself uh luke alex what are y'all doing in town this weekend i guess just heading back to nashville pretty quick are you yeah okay so you're gonna turn around pretty fast and head back yeah like i'll still be in town tonight i uh catching up with a couple friends i hadn't seen in a couple years. But other than that, I'll be kind of turning and burning. You said you had to get back and you were hanging out with Shinedown playing video games or something, right?

I wish, bro. Brent and you were going to kick it and play some Call of Duty or something, you said? He's in Knoxville, not Nashville. Oh, he's in Knoxville. So he's close. Yeah, he's close. You'd be amazed how many rock dudes are kind of either in nash or close by now yeah i know i do believe that i mean i think everybody's i mean i don't know how much longer california's got with with with uh you know

everybody's bailing from there and and moving out of there i'll tell you what just kind of what i've seen man like music's but i mean the hub for music now seems more like Nash and it did L.A. Now, L.A.'s turning into the hub for movies and all that. L.A. And then, like, New York's where fashion and all that stuff's going and all that. Yeah. But it seems like, I mean, Nashville, man, it's not just country no more. Country's only half of it.

Yeah. You know what I'm saying? There's so much other stuff going on. Yeah. They like to say that about Branson, too, but it's really not true. It's still country as hell. It's still just country and hillbilly. Branson. And it's not about country.

Yes, it is. No, it damn sure is. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I'm not a fan of Branson. I know a lot of people dig it. I don't. I'm just not. It's not my thing. You know. Yeah, it is a bunch of hillbillies. But you know, I lived in Harrison and I hated it. You know, it, it is a bunch of hillbillies, but you know, I lived, I lived in Harrison and I hated

it. You know, it's, it's, it's man, it's, it's not a good place. It's beautiful. It's a beautiful area, but man, there's, there's some bad things that go on as people there, man. I'll never forget. I've told the story before, but I was a manager for Hank's and my delivery guy was like, will you help me on this delivery? And he goes, I don't know where I'm going, and it seems kind of weird. And I'm like, yeah, I'll ride with you, you know. And we pull up. It's in zinc.

Well, if you don't know, yeah, that's the KKK. And I'm like, who sold furniture to the KKK, first of all? That's what I want to know. Second of all, why did you ask me to help you, Dick? But we pull up and they've got the guard checks, dudes with machine guns standing there. And we stop and he goes, we're going to bring a truck up here and they'll load it from your truck to ours. I was like, good, because I'm not coming in. And that was, I mean, that Constantino wire is like a prison man but apparently i was vocal enough about not being that way that um they had a ku klux klan adopt a highway sign you know where you know you adopt the highway for litter and stuff go figure they had one and it

kept getting taken and and i don't know why but they came and they they they came and interrogated me twice uh we they thought i did and i said yeah they thought i was stealing it you know because they knew i wasn't i wasn't down with that yeah and i laughed and i said no i wish i had yeah i wish i had stolen it but i didn't you know i didn't steal it but yeah you can keep asking me come on back because it makes me laugh every time I hear it. But yeah, I didn't love that. And I don't love Branson that much. It's just, I don't like that old... I don't even like going to...

What's that? Cracker Barrel. I don't even like going to Cracker Barrel. No, it's too cracker for me. I don't need an Andy Griffith lunchbox. What am I doing with that? Come on, man. A track of Freddie Fender and Elvis

and their one song. Harrison's changing now. I do understand. I think that it is going to outrun that. People are dying now that we get rid of the clowns and move on. You know what I mean? That's good times.

I think the whole world's changing. It is. It really has. And it's getting, I think it is changing. You're right. I think people are, you know, most, as I always say, 10% on either side of the equation are assholes. The other 80% of us are cool people just trying to make it through the day, pay our bills, and have a little bit left over to get a beer or something at the end.

Does that about sum it up? Yes. You know, I grew up in the 60s. Yeah. So I was called that walking in the store. Right. As a kid. Yeah.

And that's terrible. And I don't know. Back then, you just accepted it. You know. Well, unfortunately. then, you just accepted it. You know? Well, unfortunately, the choice that you know you could be, if you didn't, you might be dead. Yeah. I mean, that's facts. And today's society, man, it's just not, it's not accepted anywhere.

But it still happens some places. Sure. Yeah, there's, you know, here's the thing about the world. You can't get rid of every a-hole. And there's going to be messed up people with, you know, sometimes people have limited experiences and they come from a complete place of ignorance. And then there's some people that are just assholes, you know.

And you can't educate an asshole. Well, you know, I grew up with some of those people, too. Yeah. I mean, my best friend, his dad was the biggest racist you could ever know. Yeah. I ate at the table with him. I changed his whole outlook. That's good.

That's good. The day he died. I mean, I was there every day at his house. We had those jokes. You know, I ate at the table with him, and his heart softened over the years. I know that. And I think a lot of people, when they get older,

they're like, hey, I've been ignorant all my life. Or they get real crotchety and just, you know, really dig into it. They get off my yard, guys. You know what I'm talking about. Yeah. You know, it's time to move past all that stuff, you know, and some people try, I think, try to keep it stirred up more than need be. But I still think, look, if it's 2024 and you're still thinking that

because of the way you look or how you were born, you're better than anyone. You can suck it because it ain't true. You know, it's just a bad look. And don't do that. Don't be that person. You're better than that. We're all better than that.

I will be the guy to get off my line. Will you? Yeah. I can feel that. I can feel that coming on. Get out of my yard. It's not about a color thing. I'm kidding. I'm kidding, man. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. We got. Get out of my yard. It's not about a color thing. I'm kidding.

I'm kidding, man. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. We got to get out of here. Falling asleep in your morning shower. We'll wake you up. Hey, don't forget tomorrow. We've got Patrick's after school special that will air tomorrow afternoon sometime live.

And you can see the interview with Mike Baldwin. And meanwhile, I don't know where my taser people are. Are they here? Go let them in. Go let them in. Are we ready? Yeah. Come on. Let's do it.

Must be taser time. This is going to happen, people. This is going to happen. Yep. They got it. yep they got it here we go what's going on man how's it going it's going good well this is my rescue guy where's my taser guy

you haven't seen him out there still trying to get his piece man alright I tell you what we're going to do. We're going to stop this stream because I haven't seen him either. I don't know if there's a miscommunication or what. Come over here. Walk over here, man. Just so they can see on the camera.

This is my guy right here. Came to help me. He is a former fireman, fire chief, right? Yeah. There you go. There you go. Anyway, he was going to be the one to help me out. And so when I get tased, he's a DMT, and he could, you know, if anything needed to happen.

But we don't know where our taser people are. So if they show up, we'll come back live, and you'll be able to see it. Yeah, you just want to jump me? You always want to initiate me to the game? Yeah, we'll just bang you. Just hook your jumper cables up to my nipples and fire it up? Yeah. I don't know what's up with this.

I'm disappointed. I'm not getting shocked right now.