Ginger Billy talks Comedy, Southern Life, and Dale Earnhardt Jr. | Off The Water

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The end of Dale Jr.'s career was the launch of mine.
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I cannot believe it.
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It was when uh Dale Earnhardt Jr.
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retired from NASA.
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That was the trade-off we got.
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It was Dale Jr., but you won me.
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The house needs being grassed.
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He's gone.
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Hey, and welcome to Off the Water with Hank Parker.
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And I'm gonna tell you, we are not in kindergarten.
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You're gonna think this is kindergarten class.
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We're having so much fun.
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My co-host Josh Bradley, and I've got an absolute bona fide, certified nut in my buddy Ginger Beer.
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How are we doing today, ladies and gentlemen?
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Here we go, boys and girls.
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It's gonna be fun.
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And again, I'm gonna tell you up front, I'm not responsible for what may go on on this podcast.
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Exactly.
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Lucky for y'all, I've got I've got two people wrangling me in today, so it'll be all right.
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If you're a member of my church, um look you can turn it off right now.
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We don't want you to like it.
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No, uh we would really just uh just go to another channel uh because this might get you get educated.
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Hey Josh, I met Ginger Billy at First Baptist Church in Lockhart, South Carolina.
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Ain't that something?
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He met me at church.
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Yeah.
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Matter of fact, the first time, I guess it was the birth of Ginger Billy, and you correct me if this is wrong, but I was standing on the front porch of First Baptist Church Lockhart, and my wife Martha said, I want you to see this.
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This is the funniest thing.
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I said, Funniest, the craziest thing I've ever seen.
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I cannot believe it.
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It was when uh Dale Earnhardt Jr.
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retired from NASCAR.
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Yeah, yeah, Dave.
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And uh I, you know, I ain't I'm not gonna lie, I'm I'm kind of mad at you right now.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I saw pictures posted on Facebook a couple weeks ago just bragging.
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Dale Jr.'s been at my podcast.
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I live a mile from there, Hank.
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A mile.
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Yeah.
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And you couldn't even invite me over, man.
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Well, I didn't want to invite the superstar of all superstars.
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I mean, Dale Jr.'s under you, and I'm under him.
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So it would have been a shadow he could not have survived.
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I mean, you know, I raced dirt track six times last year.
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I finished two races.
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I could have told Dale Jr.
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Me and him could have taught racing, man.
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You know, but it's all right.
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It's okay.
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Well, that's his loss, and my bad.
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I should have put that together.
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But the first time I saw you, you said, What you doing to breaking my heart?
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He did, Dave.
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Oh my Lord.
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You all know NASCAR ain't never been the same.
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I could get on my soapbox and preach right now, but I ain't gonna do it for that.
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Well, that that was like the launch of gingerbility, right?
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When you when you when he retired.
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The end of Dale Jr.'s career was the launch of mine.
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And uh it's weird, you know, how that happened.
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That was the trade-off we got.
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It was you lost Dale Jr., but you won me.
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Ginger Billy.
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You know, it's a wheel.
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It's like trying to trade in a Rolex for a little stuffed animal with a claw machine.
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I like it.
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Yeah.
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Did you have any clue?
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That thing went viral.
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I mean, it kept going and going and going, and it was no stopping point to it.
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And the next thing I know, there was a follow-up and a follow-up.
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Here we are.
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How many years later?
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Oh, nine, dude.
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I'm nine years in.
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Nine years in the booth.
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I I never thought that I'd be able to hit them home runs like that, Hank, you know, but uh apparently people are desperate for entertainment and they don't care how bad it is, they'll just sit there and watch it, you know.
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So I keep giving it to them.
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There gotta be something in the water in Lockhart, South Carolina, because that's where Franco Hill was.
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Yes, sir.
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Hey, that's a crazy that's a mad man too.
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That was a mad man, yeah.
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I don't know.
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It's something in there.
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I don't know if there's a lot of lead in the water or or what it is.
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It turns us we different.
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Well, I didn't think anybody could be as funny as Franco, and then here comes Ginger Billy.
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I don't know.
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That dude's a good that dude was just as crazy.
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Thank you for trying to you know make me feel better, even though you you did me wrong with calling.
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Trying to offset.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I'd never forget that.
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Let me try to help you forget it.
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Yeah, that's the main thing.
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This is kind of a therapeutic session that we're going through.
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That's why you brought the preacher in.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Good job.
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Yeah, my schedule.
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I was at home.
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So yeah, this is busy.
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I'll tell you this, though.
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He did sign a hat that Miss Martha has, and if you go by the house, she'll show it to you.
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Oh, that's that's super nice.
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You ain't gonna find anybody that's got a Del Earnhart bash.
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Come on, tell it.
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On their countertop.
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Yeah.
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Tell it.
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I got a Del Earnhart batch uh that he gave me.
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Ah, now there you go.
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Every night before I go to sleep, I kiss it.
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I kiss my wife, then I kiss that fish, and then I go to sleep.
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Is it in that order though?
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The white is in that exact order.
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Hey, it depends on the day.
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There's lots of times I sleep with the fish too.
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Yeah.
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I did I you do the other day when you were trying to lift her up.
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Oh my gosh.
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I never laughed so hard in my life.
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She's a good sport, thank the Lord.
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Because, man, uh yeah, I um you know, she's she's uh solid.
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She's well grounded.
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She's a normal size woman.
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Yeah, man, she but she's tall, dude.
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She's five foot nine.
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She's a tall chick.
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You know, and and she ain't, you know, she's just she did roller derby for years.
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And more tie in jujitsu and she lifts.
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And so, yeah.
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A roller derby woman is a dangerous woman.
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She's dangerous, bro.
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She's dangerous.
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If you'd have seen the type of women on that court, you know, you got nicknames like lipstick lumberjack and stuff like that.
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And these women's got more muscles than me out there.
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It's scary, bro.
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Oh, well.
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That's that's good.
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What would what do you what do you think your roller derby name would be if it weren't gingerbilli?
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What do you what do you think it would be?
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All 911.
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I don't think I would survive on the women's team.
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They would take me out.
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That'd wipe you out.
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Yeah, I watched because that's a cement floor, man.
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Yeah.
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I watched, I mean, these women's taking their heads trying to take heads off.
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It's scary.
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They have kids, they have a lot of pent-up emotions.
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They got pent-up emotions.
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They have children, they're trying to get them to school.
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Yep.
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And they're like, you know what, honey, I need to chill out.
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The roller derby's still going to go.
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Oh, yeah, man.
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There's world tournaments.
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Yeah.
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Seriously.
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Yeah.
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I got friends that do it just for fun.
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Yeah.
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And I'm like, that's a that lady.
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It's different than what you probably watch, though.
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They used to have it on TV, right?
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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They'd be on a real steep.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And they go round and round and they elbow each other.
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Ain't shame now.
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Yeah.
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They try to murder each other.
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It's awesome.
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It's fun to watch.
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It's fun to watch.
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Man, it's it is wild that the two of y'all like live a mile from one another and you have just like, you know, global influence.
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Um that is wild just out of Little Old Union, Lockhart, South Carolina.
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That's a cool thing.
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Tell tell me this.
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So that Dale and Hart, that Dalen Hart Jr.
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clip was like the launch of everything for you.
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Yes.
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And then, man, what was that like?
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Learning like your life was literally changing by the day, by the month.
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Like, what was that like?
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Oh man, you know, I still lived in, I mean, you walk out, I still got a double eye, I still live in the same spot, but now people's just coming up to you all the time.
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And for a fella who, you know, you you you've got the same thing.
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It's it's cool because you know you're relevant.
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You know, the people coming up, and that means they enjoy your stuff.
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But then as it gets bigger and it gets bigger and it gets bigger, it's like you can't go anywhere without people.
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And it's awesome because that means that people love what you do.
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And so it makes me feel good, man.
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Because people come up and they're like, dude, you got me through COVID.
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And I'm like, I got them through COVID.
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Okay.
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That's what that's they they me.
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I mean, I never would have thought I would get anybody through anything.
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Okay.
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But they they just enjoy it.
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And I continue to try to put out quality stuff that people can relate to that is clean enough for people to be able to watch, you know, and enjoy.
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You know, watching Franco Hill.
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Franco, uh, again, from our hometown, and and that's the reason I'm in union with Franco.
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But anyway, he was on Johnny Carson, did the movie Stroke Race.
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And if Franco, somebody came up to him at Walmart and wanted to talk, he had he'd entertain him.
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He had sat there for, and this gingerbelly is exactly the same.
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He can be outside of Walmart and it won't be long.
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There'll be a whole crowd and he's just entertaining.
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I go to a Bash Pro shop, it's gonna be a meet and greet.
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I go to a Harbor Freight, I go to any of your redneck gathering areas, Waffle House, Dollar Gentral, Dollar Gentrals, it's gonna be a meet and greet.
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Hank, do you remember if you if you rewind like one of the first times like where you realize you got noticed somewhere and you like life is changing now, somebody's recognizing Hank Parker in public.
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Do you remember that?
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Well, you know, it happened for me, it happened just by one tournament.
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When you won uh that's kind of like winning the Super Bowl.
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You know, all of a sudden you're a nobody when you're just out there fishing, and then you win the Super Bowl if you're playing football, and all of a sudden now you're a hero because you're a Super Bowl champion.
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And that's kind of the way it was with me.
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So it was an explosion instead of just a geographical discovery, you know, it's all of a sudden boom, you're you're uh uh a household.
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And you gotta think, you know, Hank back then wasn't no shows.
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They was doing typewriters.
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So it's chiseling and stinking.
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Oh, dude, yeah.
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So for him to blow up the way he blew up is totally different than the way I did.
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Like this man didn't have a TV, and so that's that's wild to think that he got that famous just off of you know how he did it.
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I I mean I I I remember uh I I told this story last time of the I'm not real impressed with like famous people, but there are certain people.
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I told my wife this this week that I there's only been two or three people, he's definitely one of them that I have asked for a picture when I met them in the past 15 or 20 years.
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Like I just don't do that.
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Like I don't, I just don't do that.
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And um I'm preaching over at our church, I'm about to step on stage.
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He walks up to me and says, Hey, I'm Hank Parker.
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And I was like, what is going on right now, bro?
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Like, how do I even deal with this?
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But I I can imagine though, like the the shift in your thinking, your mindset now, when you go to the store, when you, you know, when that first happened for you, that had to be a major difference in life.
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I had a lot of embarrassing situations.
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I was in Colorado.
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Well, there's no bass fishing for the for the most part in the state of Colorado, so I don't have any notoriety in Colorado.
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And we were at uh we were at one of the ski resorts, and my son Timmy, my youngest son, he wanted to go he wanted to go skating at night.
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They have a big rink, ice skating rink.
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So we're down there, and my wife looks at me and she says, You're a stick in the mud.
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I wouldn't skate, I wouldn't do anything, so I thought, well, I'll show her.
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So I went in a little gift shop over there, and they had one of these Arnold Schwarzenegger cigars, and they had a hat that had a ponytail coming out of it.
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So I got me that hat and that big cigar, and so I'm going to show that I'm no longer a stick in the mud.
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Nobody there knew me.
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And so I'm sitting over waiting on her to come back to surprise her with my big Schwarzenegger cigar and my ponytail coming out of my hat, and this wonderful little beautiful family came up to me and said, Are you Hank Park?
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Oh, see, that's awesome, man.
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That's awesome, man.
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Yeah, I dropped the play, guilt.
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You were you were like the original gingerbility in that bowl, man.
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Well, you see, that's like like I said, during COVID, we went to Alabama.
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And you know, you had to wear masks and stuff.
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Man, I had a mask on, so I'm thinking, okay, I'm sure that was true in Alabama.
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Nobody's gonna, well, they just all wear masks where I was like, man, they're wearing it everywhere.
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I didn't expect that, you know.
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But I'm walking around, I got the mask on.
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Now, of course, you can still see a little bit of my beard, but I'm like, I ain't nobody gonna be able to tell.
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Dude, they could hear me.
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If they heard me talk, they'd be like, You're you're gingerbilly.
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I'm like, man, that's wild.
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They hear your voice and they know who you are.
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You know, so uh but you don't have a really recognizable like everything.
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Yeah, well, that's that's I'm I'm I'm glad of that.
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You know, now one thing that I do get a lot is people be like, man, I got a cousin who looks just like you.
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And they'll be bald and they'll have a beard.
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I'm like, that is the ugliest summer gun I've ever seen in my life.
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Just because he's bald with a beard does not mean he looks like me.
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And they show you a picture of it.
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Yeah, yeah, we look identical.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, man.
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Um Well, hey, let's let I want to talk a little bit about maybe life before gingerbelly, right?
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Now you you were uh grew up in Lockhart.
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Yes, sir.
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Yeah.
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Tell me a little bit about what that was like.
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So I grew up on the outskirts of Lockhart.
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I didn't grow up in Lockhart.
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Okay.
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I grew up across the bridge in a little place called Wilkesburg, Wilkes.
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South Carolina, yes.
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There's a man, you get past Lockhart and there's a four-lane out in the middle of nowhere.
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It don't even make sense.
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But you the the road is not, I mean, the grass is growing up on the road.
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I mean, I grew up out in solidarity.
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Okay.
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There was no kids around.
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It was me and my mom and my nanny living in his little bitty house.
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My neighbors was these farmers.
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It was a two brothers, two sisters that never got married living in a plantation house with 300 acres.
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So that that's that was my friends with 70-year-old farmers.
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So that's who I hung out with, and I'd play with the chickens and uh bull.
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But I think that's, you know, I had to have an imagination, dude, because I was by myself.
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I didn't have nobody.
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I had 14 imaginary friends.
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And uh, you know, but I lived out there and then I would go, I went to school in Lockhart and got my education.
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Now, if y'all don't know, Lockhart is like the Harvard of Union County School.
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Oh, yeah, yeah.
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Okay, that's where there's a lot to lose from kids come from.
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But as I I played down there in the flats, I had an aunt that lived down there, and so we'd go down there, and mama take me, and that's where I did my socializing, you know, uh hang hanging out with my kids, and I stayed on that river.
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Stayed on that river, man.
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We stayed out there in the river, fishing, swimming, doing all that stuff, and you know, that's just that was my life.
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And seeing the personalities in that place has a lot to do with the way I am, because there's some personalities in Lockhart.
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So I heard I heard the other day, um, Hank and I were talking about this a little bit, that um, you know, Hank lost his dad at a relatively young age, um, died in a a tragic kind of situation.
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You lost your dad at uh at nine.
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Yes.
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Yeah, now how'd your dad pass?
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How was he?
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He was in a car accident.
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Somewhere he was coming back from Kansas and somewhere around Louisville, Kentucky, they had a wreck.
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Now, was he in your life?
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Oh, yeah.
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He was big time.
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Nice, nice.
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My dad and I were kind of divided because he he was an alcoholic and he got saved, and his life completely changed while he was trying to recruit me for salvation, and I was still in that rebellious state.
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How old was you?
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I was when he got killed, I was 21.
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Okay.
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So you got to live through your childhood and your man.
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That's right.
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Yeah.
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Nine would be really devastating.
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My dad was my hero.
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Yeah.
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Uh at nine.
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Of course, about the time nine is about the time that the alcohol took over and he became very abusive.
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So uh we we were on the outs from about nine to about fifteen or so.
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And then uh when he got saved, we we really patched things up and we were pretty tired.
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But he was trying to recruit me to Jesus and I didn't want to come.
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I got you.
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You know, I was I was pretty wild.
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Yeah.
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No, understandable.
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Yeah, my my daddy was a he was, man, he's like a legend around there.
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I mean, because literally when you say, Oh, that man ain't afraid of the devil, that man wasn't scared of nothing.
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I mean, like, he would jump off the big bridge in Lockhart.
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And you know, you got all these rednecks, you come up to me like, man, listen, your daddy didn't most people just hang from the bridge, your daddy jumped from top rail.
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You know, that's kind of like my daddy was a legend, son.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Yeah, yeah, it's like it's like Lockhart wrestling.
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Yeah, dude.
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And then three, he had a three-wheeler, and I actually went and purchased a three-wheeler uh a few months ago because I wanted one that was like his.
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But just the stories of him on the three-wheeler, they'd say, Man, your daddy take that front tire, put it on the tailgate of a truck, and be right in that ropes.
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You gotta finish the story about jumping from the top rail off the big bridge in Lockhart because you're jumping into the Broad River where there's rocks on every side.
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Yeah.
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And so you have to hit right in the right little pool.
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One spot.
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Yeah, that's exactly so.
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You know what's awesome from a guy who did not grow up in Union or Lockhart?
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Y'all just talk about the big bridge, and everybody knows exactly what it means.
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Yeah, hey, man, uh jumping off the bridge is not that big a deal.
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Jumping off the big, oh no, I wasn't gonna jump off.
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You gotta have the perfect landing spot.
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You got rocks in front of you, rocks behind you, and rocks on both sides.
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There's one little landing spot.
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Yes, and these ain't little rocks, dude.
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These are rocks to size, I mean, tons.
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You know, they weigh tons.
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And you you'd have somebody swim out there, they'd show you where the hole was at, and then you have to jump, you have to line up from the rail and jump.
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Right, you've done it.
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No.
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Okay.
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No, I wasn't that dumb.
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You wasn't that dumb.
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My dad.
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I know his mom well.
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Okay.
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His mom's a sweetheart, and she is very, very, very conservative.
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Uh-huh.
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Nothing at all.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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No, my mama is, man.
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It did like it's two people that you don't even, you're like, how did this happen?
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Uh-huh.
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Because my mama never smoked, she never drank, she never did any of that.
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My daddy was like a party animal, you know.
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Jumping off bridges.
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Yeah, man.
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Yeah.
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But so he he really, my mama was my daddy of my mama.
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Like, she and dude, I give her a million and just all the credit because being raised by a woman, I could have, you know, I could have ended up acting different.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Not nothing, ain't nothing wrong with that.
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I'm just saying, I could have been that fella that that didn't want to fish and hunt and fight and and and do jujitsu and football and all that.
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But she raised me like a man.
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And so I was very fortunate because I had a kid bully me in school one day.
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I actually I was walking out and my mama saw him grab my book bag and start shaking it.
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Got in the car, she said, What was that about?
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And I said, Oh, his girlfriend broke up with him for me, which happened a lot, by the way.
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But uh she said, Oh, okay, okay, okay, cool.
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We're driving, I think we're going home.
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She pulls up in the kid's yard, knocks on the door, the mama comes out, she says, Hey, your son wants to fight my son, but get him out of here.
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Because we ain't doing this.
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My son ain't getting suspended.
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And I'm thinking, great, now I'm gonna get beat up in front of my mama.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Like, I'm about to get beat up in front of my mama.
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And so the woman, the mama was so scared, she was like, You can hear the kid back there, and she was like, Like, I think she was worried that my mama was gonna beat the kid up and then beat her up.
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That's funny.
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But as far as my daddy goes, I have some memories.
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Like, he rode from Union County to Chester County with a Easter, it was Easter.
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He rode that three-wheeler with an Easter bunny, like taped around him for Easter and rode it to the house, to to my nanny's house.
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Now we know.
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Now imagine riding riding down the road and you see a man on a three-wheeler with an Easter bunny, a life-size Easter bunny taped to him, cruising down the road.
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So now we know Ginger Billy's not original.
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There was one before me, man.
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There was one before me.
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And I've got pictures on my phone of him wearing daisy dukes, no shirt, barefoot.
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He was barefoot all the time.
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He'd go coon hunting and he would climb trees.
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If somebody, if somebody needed to get a coon out of the tree, he'd climb that tree barefooted and throw that raccoon out of the tree for a dog's get.
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Like this was a man that you could have made a movie about.
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He was a wild man.
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The Tarzan of Union.
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Yes, yes, the rednecked Tarzan, yes.
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Did you did you have early memories of of like spending time with him?
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Was he a part of your family much?
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Not really.
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Not really.
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He my mama at two left.
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See, because my mama was a worker and provided, and my daddy wanted to take his money and party.
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Okay.
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And daddy loved women.
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He loved women.
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And so mama left.
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We moved in with my nanny when I was two, and he made efforts to come see me.
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You know, but he was also uh trying to uh get his bloodline spread out a little more.
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Yeah.
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Genetics out there.
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You know what I mean?
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Yeah, yeah, he's delivering Easter bunnies to more than just me.
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We'll say that.
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And uh so you know, he he was in my life some I don't think I've ever heard it called delivering Easter bunnies.
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You can use that in my.
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I'll be sure to bring that up on Sunday.
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But no, he was he was uh it's one of them things where you hear so many stories from people about your daddy that it turns them into a legend.
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Like in my eyes, every kid thinks his daddy's like superhero.
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You know, and even though mine didn't really play a big part, he kind of did because if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be.
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You know what I'm saying?
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So it's weird, man.
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It's really weird because my mama is like just it.
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She's it.
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And then she's everything that I needed, but yet I I'm playing a character that really didn't, you know.
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Well you you said your dad would come by and see you periodically at time to time.
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You're the exact opposite.
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You will not, when you're home, I know you're on the road, you're traveling, you're doing things, but when you're home, it's like All about spending time with your boy.
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You you were late to do the podcast this morning because you had a two hour school delay and you wanted to be the one to take him to school and spend that time with him.
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Yeah, I man, I might I might regret it one day because I've probably lost millions of dollars.
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Because I've spent there's times I've sold out I sold out four shows in Eugene, Oregon in a few weeks, and they said, Man, we want to add a Thursday show.
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We want to add one.
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I said, dude, I'm coaching a basketball game Thursday.
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My son's game is Thursday.
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I've missed shows that I could have made big money on because of soccer games, because of football, and stuff like that.
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Because I spend more time with that child.
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That is he's 11 now, but I'm not I'm dude, I'm I'm gonna spend as much time as I can with him.
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That's my dude, that's my best friend, and uh I had a mama that did everything for me.
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And I'm lucky.
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I'm so that's why I moved right down the field, man.
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She's across the pasture from me.
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There you go.
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I could have moved anywhere in the world.
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I didn't.
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I moved right down from mama, right?
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Mama's boy.
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Yeah, man.
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And that way, you know, my boy, Dale Jr.
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Jr., which is my son's name, if you didn't know.
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Probably gonna change it to Jeff Gordon Jr.
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since nobody invited me to come see him.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But my child can, he can experience what I experienced with my mama.
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He can go right down there and hang out with my mama.
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And and so, yeah, I've probably ain't no telling how, but I don't care, dude.
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We got a good life.
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I don't need to be a multimillionaire.
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I've got I got what I want, you know.
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You know, you think about that, you know, like at the end of your life when you come to those moments to where you know, okay, time's time's short.
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Like what will what will it be that you really remember?
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Yep.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Hey, how have you navigated that through life?
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Just thinking about the time investment for family and and and everything, everybody wants a piece of you.
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That's why I retired.
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You know, I I'm 36 years old at the peak of my game.
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And moms do okay with kids when they're young, but my kids wanted to race go-karts, they wanted to go hunting, they wanted to go fishing, and they needed a dad.
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Mom just didn't fit that role very well.
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So uh the pressure for me to retire, uh, and then I was at the peak of my game.
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I had all my sponsors in place.
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They were all disappointed, they didn't like the fact that you retired at 36.
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36.
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Ern.
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That's crazy, man.
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Use the city.
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Well, I used to use the word retire.
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Oh, wow.
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You used the word retire.
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I retired from tournament angle.
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Tournament.
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I jumped into the fire and fan, but I control my schedule.
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I could be there for ball games, I could be there for birthdays, I could be there for opening day of hunting season, I could take them to the go-kart tracks, and if it was a big race, I could sign off and be there.
00:24:39.759 --> 00:24:44.160
So it it it but I don't regret one second of it.
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And if if you say how much would you take for your son?
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Not dude, nothing.
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That's it.
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That that's the whole thing.
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There's no amount of money that could offset uh what you do for your kids.
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And uh it's really cool now.
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You know, Hank Dreamer's 51 years old, and he still calls me.
00:25:01.039 --> 00:25:03.839
Hey, Dad, I got this equation and I want your opinion on it.
00:25:03.920 --> 00:25:04.079
Yeah.
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What do you think I should do about this?
00:25:05.680 --> 00:25:10.079
Billy calls me, Ben calls me, Lucy calls me, uh, Timmy calls me.
00:25:10.240 --> 00:25:16.640
All my kids call me, not so much Lucy, but all my boys call me uh and want advice.
00:25:16.799 --> 00:25:18.400
Well, what do you think I do about this?
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And uh Yeah, man, the one thing that gets me about my son, I've coached everything he's done.
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Like I played baseball, I played baseball, I played football.
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And so I've coached everything he's done.
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But what's uh what I don't know, man, I think it it it is I don't even know what you'd call it, but every time he gets in a truck, in my truck, after every game, after every practice, he'll look at me and say, Daddy, I do good.
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Like looking for my validation.
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And dude, I you know, I make sure every single time, I don't care if he shot 50 times and missed it, dude, you did great.
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You hustled.
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Yeah.
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You know, and and because that's just like to me, it's like I didn't get to do that.
00:25:54.880 --> 00:25:58.079
I didn't get to have a deal where I said, hey man, did I do good?
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You know?
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And so for him to look at me and just ask, that's uh, I don't know, something about it.
00:26:02.400 --> 00:26:02.640
Oh, yeah.
00:26:02.960 --> 00:26:03.519
Something about it, man.
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That's important.
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You know, I think I think every man, it doesn't matter how old they are, are always asking the question, am I man enough?
00:26:12.400 --> 00:26:20.079
And the interesting thing about that question, it really can't be answered unless it's another man you respect.
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So all people do that, primarily your father.
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If you didn't have that, if you didn't have a dad or you didn't have another man step into the role of a dad, that's how you end up spending a lifetime trying to answer that question with sex, money, power, all the terrible things that this life will promise you that you'll get the answer to be yes.
00:26:39.680 --> 00:26:45.279
And it never pans out to answer the question the way you want it to be answered because you're always searching, am I man enough?
00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:50.079
The fact that you're answering that question for your boy, I saw you yesterday.
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You know, he's in the gym.
00:26:51.599 --> 00:26:52.400
I think he's bigger than you.
00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:53.519
Hey man, he's gonna be.
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He went to a during to the doctor.
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Now, y'all, I'm I'm 5'9 standing on my high heels, like you know, standing tall with good posture.
00:27:01.279 --> 00:27:02.880
You did come in on your tiptoes, though.
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I felt good this morning.
00:27:05.519 --> 00:27:09.920
But the day he went to his checkup, he's 5'2, 140 pounds.
00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:12.799
Now, I wasn't that size till I was a senior in high school, probably.
00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:16.559
But the doctor said, Well, you see, he looks like he's probably gonna be about 6'2, 6'3.
00:27:17.359 --> 00:27:21.359
He looked at me and I was like, Don't even, bro, don't think about it.
00:27:22.559 --> 00:27:23.920
Because I will tase you.
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Like, I you ain't never beat me in a fight.
00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:29.599
Like, we'll wrestle, son, but I daddy will cheat to beat you.
00:27:29.839 --> 00:27:30.559
Exactly right.
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That's right.
00:27:31.759 --> 00:27:33.680
Uh, you're talking about how important that is.
00:27:33.759 --> 00:27:41.759
I I did that documentary with with uh uh on Dill Learnhardt, and the reason I did the documentary is to keep his memory alive.
00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:43.359
A lot of people think I made money off that.
00:27:43.440 --> 00:27:45.200
I didn't make anything off of that at all.
00:27:45.279 --> 00:27:55.839
I I spent a lot of days, but I did it for the purpose of uh of sharing a little bit of different light to keep his memory alive because he's so deserving of that, in my opinion.
00:27:55.920 --> 00:27:57.920
He was American hero, he was the John Wayne.
00:27:58.240 --> 00:27:58.559
Yeah, man.
00:27:59.119 --> 00:27:59.920
Yeah, no doubt.
00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:06.880
And uh so they were all perplexed by Earnhardt, could never be satisfied.
00:28:07.039 --> 00:28:09.759
When he win a championship, it it wasn't enough.
00:28:09.839 --> 00:28:14.079
When he when he wins races, it's uh nothing ever satisfied.
00:28:14.160 --> 00:28:17.680
And I said, guys, what you don't realize is he's chasing a ghost.
00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:18.079
Yeah.
00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:25.119
Ralph Earnhardt was his hero, and Ralph never validated him as you have your son.
00:28:25.359 --> 00:28:35.039
He Ralph never told him, he always tried to demean, belittle, and that was Ralph's way of trying to build a fire under him.
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Yeah.
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But it never validated.
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And you know, you can say, well, you can either use vinegar or sugar.
00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:52.880
Uh I think sugar is better than vinegar, but Ralph's method of trying to develop Dell to his dream of a NASCAR driver was hard.
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And so he didn't get to live long enough to come back and say, I'm proud of you, son.
00:28:58.000 --> 00:29:00.400
You so, and now Dale Jr.
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has struggled with some of those same issues, but he did get to spend enough time successfully with his dad that he realized his dad did really care for him.
00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:13.759
Yeah, hey, let me tell you, let me tell you, you know, you you're talking about being a big Dale Jr.
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fan.
00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:14.400
Yeah.
00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:18.799
So, so um I for a second, just forget that you didn't get to be there.
00:29:19.119 --> 00:29:33.200
But um, and I might shouldn't say we might have to cut this out, Hank, because when they were recording the podcast and they're sitting in these two chairs, and uh and and Brad and I from from the studio here, um, we're sitting back there just watching it.
00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:38.319
And and and I'm I'm looking at Brad and I was like, this is like history being made up.
00:29:38.559 --> 00:29:38.960
Yeah, dude.
00:29:39.039 --> 00:29:40.559
No, Dale Jr.
00:29:40.720 --> 00:29:48.880
looks at you, he looks at you, and I was watching you because man, I don't know, Hank, if you I was telling somebody this this week about you.
00:29:49.759 --> 00:29:57.440
You're you for those of us who are my age and grew up watching you, you were like a father in a way to all of us.
00:29:57.680 --> 00:30:05.519
Like it it really, we would watch you with your boys especially, and I would think, man, it's like an extra dad that I got, you know, it was a my TV dad.
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It was like like that.
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But when I watched Dale Jr.
00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:17.519
with you, he looked at you and he says, There are a few people in my life that I know that if I wasn't acting right, that they would call me out on it.
00:30:17.599 --> 00:30:19.680
He said, Hank, I I think you're one of those people.
00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:26.079
And then he said, I hope that I've turned into a man that my dad will be proud of.
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And I'm sitting back here and I just see Hank.
00:30:28.559 --> 00:30:32.079
Hank sat on it for just a few minutes and then he came back.
00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:39.279
And man, Hank, what you said to him that day, you know, I thought, I was thinking in the moment, first of all, how fortunate was I to get to watch that.
00:30:39.599 --> 00:30:47.119
But most men, most men will never hear a man that they respect tell them that they're good enough.
00:30:47.279 --> 00:30:47.599
Yeah.
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And you know, the chasing validation is true, man, because I don't I don't even see where I'm at.
00:30:54.559 --> 00:31:00.480
I see a lot of social media people get numbers, just decent numbers, and they think they're a celebrity.
00:31:00.960 --> 00:31:03.839
I I don't even think of the numbers I have as good enough.
00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:05.279
Man, you blow it out.
00:31:05.599 --> 00:31:06.400
Yeah, man, really, I don't.
00:31:06.559 --> 00:31:11.039
I look at it and I look at other people and I'm like, well, he's got more, he's got more, they get more views.
00:31:11.359 --> 00:31:19.759
But I've never I don't look at my my my views or my follower amount as anything even close to what I want it to be.
00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:21.279
So it's always chasing.
00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:24.880
And then putting out something, a video, I'm never happy with it.
00:31:24.960 --> 00:31:26.079
There's never happiness there.
00:31:26.240 --> 00:31:30.799
Now there's happiness with my family, you know, but I feel like I'm never providing enough.
00:31:31.119 --> 00:31:35.839
Like I wish they it I could do more to give them more and and constantly, you know what I'm saying?
00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:36.319
Yeah.
00:31:36.559 --> 00:31:40.160
But I I don't know, I can see his whole thing with the validation.
00:31:40.319 --> 00:31:41.519
I I I can feel that.
00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:44.880
You're talking about not satisfied with your numbers.
00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:51.519
How much time did you spend building that electric car that that the smaller man?
00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:59.519
Dude, that car, I probably got tetanus from all the darn cuts from the metal, but it took us, it took us too much.
00:31:59.680 --> 00:32:00.319
It took us too much.
00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:04.400
I mean, night and day you worked on that bag and you put it on the software.
00:32:04.720 --> 00:32:04.880
Yeah.
00:32:05.599 --> 00:32:11.839
And I tell you what was bad is we bought, I went and bought the golf cart and didn't realize it was a 36 volt that would barely move.
00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:14.240
And then the frame was broke already.
00:32:14.319 --> 00:32:17.440
So we was like, we done built it before we even noticed the frame was broke.
00:32:18.160 --> 00:32:21.839
But no, that that Tesla truck was uh that was a beautiful work of art.
00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:22.559
I'm so proud.
00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:23.519
I look at that thing every day.
00:32:23.680 --> 00:32:24.880
I'm like, we don't draw.
00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:26.720
Me and my buddies the ones that build this stuff.
00:32:26.960 --> 00:32:29.440
Well, you made one run, but that was it.
00:32:29.599 --> 00:32:30.640
Yep, it fell off.
00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:32.799
Yeah, just like the real Tesla truck.
00:32:33.200 --> 00:32:33.680
Yeah, yeah.
00:32:33.759 --> 00:32:35.200
I mean, I hit that T.
00:32:35.519 --> 00:32:36.880
I'm gonna put a disclaimer on there.
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I didn't say this.
00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:40.480
That back end just fell right off of it.
00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:41.119
Uh-huh.
00:32:41.440 --> 00:32:42.319
Oh my goodness.
00:32:42.640 --> 00:32:49.839
But hey, before all right, grew up, lost your dad and mom, still growing up, then you spent a a career.
00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:53.680
You had a career, um, a successful career as a respiratory therapist.
00:32:53.920 --> 00:32:56.000
Yeah, if you want to say it's successful, yeah.
00:32:56.400 --> 00:32:59.359
I mean, 12 years, you know, in into business.
00:32:59.519 --> 00:33:02.240
Um, yes, I I'm an asthmatic.
00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:02.880
I got asthma.
00:33:03.039 --> 00:33:05.200
I know you can't tell because I'm a phenomenal athlete.
00:33:05.359 --> 00:33:05.519
Right.
00:33:05.920 --> 00:33:07.680
If I can all run like a gazelle.
00:33:08.079 --> 00:33:12.000
But anyway, um so I got asthma, man.
00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:16.559
I was in the hospital several times, like almost dying several times.
00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:21.839
And uh saw some guys come in there and they did the the uh the respiratory therapist doing what they had to do.
00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:22.960
And I was like, that'd be cool.
00:33:23.119 --> 00:33:24.720
I know what they have to do.
00:33:24.880 --> 00:33:29.839
I mean, and so went to school and did not realize that giving breathing treatments ain't all they do.
00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:32.480
You know, you have to operate life support.
00:33:33.119 --> 00:33:37.279
You have to put a tube down into their trachea and put them on life support.
00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:41.839
And then you have to run title volumes and and all this stuff in different ventilator modes.
00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:45.279
And so I I ended up, I'm not a book guy.
00:33:45.519 --> 00:33:46.480
I'm not a book guy.
00:33:46.559 --> 00:33:48.960
I am a look and learn type of fella.
00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:55.680
So at first when I got in there and I, you know, it was all book work for the first semester, I was like, I'm I'm going to the army.
00:33:56.240 --> 00:33:57.599
This ain't gonna work.
00:33:58.480 --> 00:34:00.160
I love that that was the backup call.
00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:02.079
I was like, there's people gonna die on my watch.
00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:04.000
Like, I can't be doing this.
00:34:04.079 --> 00:34:04.319
Yeah.
00:34:04.480 --> 00:34:08.800
But I finally got out of the first semester and then got into the clinical part.
00:34:09.119 --> 00:34:11.840
And dude, that was when I was like, oh, I'm good.
00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:12.559
Hands on.
00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:16.559
And then it just it was no problem.
00:34:16.719 --> 00:34:24.079
And and being a people person um and working at hospital and being able to help people was it was very much a joy.
00:34:24.320 --> 00:34:25.039
It was fun.
00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:29.360
Um, for so many years it was fun, but then the medical field has changed.
00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:35.440
It changed a lot and it got to where it wasn't as much fun anymore because you have to chart and chart and chart and chart and chart.
00:34:35.599 --> 00:34:37.840
It's not about the patient, it was about just charting.
00:34:38.079 --> 00:34:41.280
And so all of that came to an end at the right time.
00:34:41.440 --> 00:34:41.760
Yeah.
00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:47.840
This all just came at the exact right time with the comedy and everything, because I was ready to get out.
00:34:48.159 --> 00:35:04.320
Well, if you look though, if you just stopped where you were at, uh you got out of lockhart, and you got out with uh with a medical career that uh was successful and uh you were able to pay bills and eat and yeah, that was it was it was there when I needed it.
00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:06.079
But a lot of people didn't get out of lockhart.
00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:07.840
No, no, and you know, that was the thing.
00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:11.920
It it was there and it provided for me and did everything I needed.
00:35:12.239 --> 00:35:15.679
And then I met my wife when I was working at Richland.
00:35:15.840 --> 00:35:20.159
Um and when we met, she was a nurse at the time, she's a nurse practitioner now.
00:35:20.239 --> 00:35:22.719
Uh that's my retirement plan, if you didn't know.
00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:23.039
Yeah.
00:35:23.360 --> 00:35:26.400
Um and you know, it's so it's wild, man.
00:35:26.480 --> 00:35:28.000
It's wild how things fall into place.
00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:29.119
Yeah, it is so wild.
00:35:29.199 --> 00:35:32.480
I could have never told you this story was gonna happen the way it has happened.
00:35:32.559 --> 00:35:34.719
Yeah, but it's just uh it's cool.
00:35:35.039 --> 00:35:36.960
Man, you know, uh a lot of people don't know.
00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:42.880
And that's one of the things I'm really impressed with about about him, Hank, is a lot of people don't, amongst a lot of things.
00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:51.360
But a lot of people don't realize, like in the hospital, like like doctors aren't typically not the people saving your life in the emergency room.
00:35:51.599 --> 00:35:54.719
Typically, it's a respiratory therapist and a nurse.
00:35:54.880 --> 00:35:56.480
Yes, like they they are hands-on.
00:35:56.800 --> 00:36:10.800
So when he when when somebody comes in and they need ventilator support immediately, the the doctor is often looking for uh RT to come in to do the work that needs to be done because they couldn't hook up that machine if their life depended on it.
00:36:11.119 --> 00:36:12.159
Can I be honest for one minute?
00:36:12.400 --> 00:36:12.559
Do it.
00:36:12.639 --> 00:36:13.119
I don't want to be a good one.
00:36:21.039 --> 00:36:21.599
Could you imagine?
00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:22.800
Oh no, I'm belling.
00:36:23.039 --> 00:36:23.519
Could you imagine?
00:36:25.199 --> 00:36:27.679
I just want to see you in the bed.
00:36:28.079 --> 00:36:30.639
You in the bed, and then gingerbelly fashion.
00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:32.239
He could how would you approach Hank?
00:36:32.400 --> 00:36:33.039
Let's hear it right now.
00:36:33.119 --> 00:36:33.519
Let's hear it.
00:36:33.679 --> 00:36:34.320
Like, I'm here.
00:36:34.480 --> 00:36:37.199
Well, first I'd be like, I think he needs a rectal exam, Doc.
00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:39.039
Go ahead and get that done first.
00:36:39.519 --> 00:36:40.000
All right.
00:36:40.159 --> 00:36:42.000
We'll make sure everything's good there.
00:36:42.880 --> 00:36:46.159
Then we'll go ahead and get some propofol, knock him out, you know.
00:36:46.480 --> 00:36:47.360
Yeah, there you go.
00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:48.000
There you go.
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Just let me die in peace.
00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:51.199
Good point you made.
00:36:51.360 --> 00:36:51.920
Good point you made.
00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:56.639
Could you imagine the people in Richland County that are just waking up every day going, thank God?
00:36:57.119 --> 00:36:59.280
That is the dude that put me on live.
00:37:00.159 --> 00:37:06.159
It's my career, like, because I was in the hospital for like two years while I was doing the social media.
00:37:06.639 --> 00:37:11.920
And so it got to the point where I walk in people's room and they was like, no way.
00:37:12.480 --> 00:37:12.639
What?
00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:13.760
Just look at your pump.
00:37:13.920 --> 00:37:14.800
It's gonna be right.
00:37:17.039 --> 00:37:18.000
No way, brother.
00:37:18.239 --> 00:37:19.679
Yeah, you can see them faces, dude.
00:37:19.840 --> 00:37:21.360
And I was like, don't worry.
00:37:23.679 --> 00:37:24.480
I can say that.
00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:27.440
Oh man, that that is great.
00:37:27.599 --> 00:37:33.519
But no, that is that isn't that isn't like legitimately like I I you know, Hank knows this.
00:37:33.599 --> 00:37:36.639
You've spent time fishing with with my son Carson.
00:37:36.719 --> 00:37:38.800
Uh Carson's living with cystic fibrosis.
00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:39.280
Oh, wow.
00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:41.840
And I'm I know you know all about you know working with those kids.
00:37:42.639 --> 00:37:47.039
And uh man, he's super, super healthy, but all all of our kids have had something going on.
00:37:47.119 --> 00:37:49.840
And so we've spent a lifetime in the hospitals.
00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:52.480
Um, and man, RTs are some of our our best friends.
00:37:52.639 --> 00:37:53.280
Best friends, bro.
00:37:53.519 --> 00:38:01.840
And we when you come in and they know you by name or they know you, especially like with in pediatric care, um, when they come in and they can handle themselves with a child.
00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:04.639
Yes, um, especially because that's intimidating, you know.
00:38:04.800 --> 00:38:07.599
So I I do have a lot of respect uh for that, man.
00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:09.039
That's pretty incredible.
00:38:09.280 --> 00:38:13.679
You know when you got a lot of muscles, you have a lot of movement, you know that you know, so I don't move.
00:38:13.920 --> 00:38:16.800
I think I tore my rotator cuff scratching my back the other night.
00:38:18.639 --> 00:38:19.519
I'm serious, man.
00:38:19.679 --> 00:38:23.760
Yeah, my oil has hurt so bad for the last like two weeks.
00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:28.880
I did like this, I think, to wash my back, and I heard something like that, and it hurt so bad now.
00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:29.760
I don't know what I did.
00:38:30.320 --> 00:38:31.760
At our age, you might be done.
00:38:31.920 --> 00:38:34.239
Uh what is your what is our age?
00:38:35.199 --> 00:38:37.840
I don't eat I don't do a lot of rips.
00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:42.719
I mean, I don't do a lot of weight and a lot of strenuous things, but I do a lot of reps when I eat a bowl of ship.
00:38:42.880 --> 00:38:43.360
Yeah, I got you.
00:38:43.519 --> 00:38:44.639
I got them biceps going.
00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:48.320
I'm going from the bow to the right arm is pretty strong, too.
00:38:48.800 --> 00:38:51.360
Throwing that fish, throwing that fish in the room.
00:38:51.679 --> 00:38:52.400
Do you notice anything?
00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:55.679
Because, you know, there's a lot of guys like I've watched, you ever looked at drummers?
00:38:56.079 --> 00:38:56.960
Their arms?
00:38:57.280 --> 00:38:57.840
Yeah, oh yeah.
00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:00.880
Man, I had a friend at drum, and dude, there was a just tendon here.
00:39:00.960 --> 00:39:02.239
It was wild, dude.
00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:04.639
It was like, it was like way out there.
00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:08.880
And I'm like, that is just a because it just constantly doo doo-doo.
00:39:09.199 --> 00:39:12.719
He's the 120 pound, had 40 pounds of it right there in that tendon.
00:39:14.559 --> 00:39:16.159
Looks like you've been doing a little drumming.
00:39:16.559 --> 00:39:17.199
Yeah, man.
00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:18.719
Yeah, I gotta stay in shape.
00:39:18.800 --> 00:39:20.239
I can't be another fat comedian.
00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:23.199
I gotta you have a gym at your house?
00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:23.519
No.
00:39:23.679 --> 00:39:25.679
If I had a gym at my house, I'd never go to it.
00:39:26.000 --> 00:39:28.480
My problem is if I'm home, I'm doing home stuff.
00:39:28.719 --> 00:39:30.400
Like it that is my thing.
00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:34.639
If I'm at home and my child is home, forget it.
00:39:34.800 --> 00:39:36.559
Me and him's gonna be doing something.
00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:39.519
If I'm at home, I'm gonna either be trying to film or build something.
00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:40.960
So I have to go away.
00:39:41.199 --> 00:39:46.639
I have to go to the gym in town to work out where I can like there's weights and that's it.
00:39:46.960 --> 00:39:51.280
Because if there's anything else, dude, I'm so you can't focus if you're at home now.
00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:52.800
Where'd you come up with the idea?
00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:57.280
I saw the other day that you had a gigantic, probably the world's largest salt shaker.
00:39:57.519 --> 00:39:57.760
Yeah.
00:39:57.920 --> 00:39:58.559
You like it?
00:39:58.639 --> 00:39:58.800
Yeah.
00:39:59.760 --> 00:40:02.559
The snow was coming, and here gingerbelly with the end.
00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:07.280
Well, we ain't got but three salt trucks in this state, and I was like, I'm gonna help them, man.
00:40:07.519 --> 00:40:12.800
You know, as a voluntary member of the DOT, I'm uh you got volunteer firefighters.
00:40:12.880 --> 00:40:15.039
I'm a voluntary DOT member, all right?
00:40:15.199 --> 00:40:24.719
And uh no, I took the fiat, you know, which I drove today, and uh put me a shovel on the front, you know, scraped me a little path there, and uh put me a salt shaker on the back, man.
00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:30.000
And uh my wife is mad because there ain't no salt in the house right now, but the driveway and the roads is clear, son.
00:40:30.239 --> 00:40:32.239
Well, I took my truck to mechanic the other then.
00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:37.840
He said, it looked like my front hubs were real rusty that I'd been following a salt truck and I was behind this little fiat.
00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:39.920
You're welcome.
00:40:40.400 --> 00:40:41.519
Some lawsuits coming.
00:40:42.719 --> 00:40:43.119
Oh, yeah.
00:40:43.199 --> 00:40:43.760
Yeah, we're gonna be a little bit more than a lot of people.
00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:46.960
You made it safe, you make it safely because of me.
00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:48.480
So what do you drive?
00:40:48.559 --> 00:40:54.000
Uh I have a uh a Chevrolet and a Ford, and I'm I mix them up back and forth.
00:40:54.159 --> 00:40:55.679
So I don't have a fiat.
00:40:56.079 --> 00:40:56.960
A Chevy and a Ford.
00:40:57.119 --> 00:40:57.440
Yeah, yeah.
00:40:58.000 --> 00:41:02.719
I got one of each, and I haven't made up my mind whether I can like the Ford or not.
00:41:02.800 --> 00:41:07.920
I've been a Chevrolet guy all my life, and I'm trying really hard to like the Ford, but I'm struggling with that a little bit.
00:41:08.239 --> 00:41:10.239
You put both of them together, they still ain't no ram.
00:41:10.480 --> 00:41:10.800
That's right.
00:41:11.039 --> 00:41:11.280
That's right.
00:41:11.519 --> 00:41:12.079
Come on, let's get it.
00:41:13.679 --> 00:41:15.280
Mine's a 2500, but it's close.
00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:15.679
It's all right.
00:41:16.480 --> 00:41:18.239
You'll get to be a big boy when I'm a grown up.
00:41:18.400 --> 00:41:19.119
2500 is good.
00:41:19.360 --> 00:41:20.320
I'm gonna be honest with you.
00:41:20.400 --> 00:41:24.559
They tried and they tried with the Dodge and they couldn't dodge it, so finally they just said ram.
00:41:24.880 --> 00:41:26.320
Uh oh, it's all right.
00:41:27.360 --> 00:41:28.800
My front bumper's proof of it.
00:41:28.960 --> 00:41:30.400
Yeah, you can't do anything but ram it.
00:41:30.719 --> 00:41:38.639
All right, one of my really good friends is a Ford guy, and we deer hunted together for years down at down here in Woodship, right down the road on this on this old farm.
00:41:38.800 --> 00:41:42.559
Well, every day we're hassling each other about trucks, you know.
00:41:42.719 --> 00:41:45.440
And I was I I drive a Dodge, he drove a Ford.
00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:52.719
Well, if my truck or his truck ever got stuck, there was no question that you were not called.
00:41:53.440 --> 00:41:53.679
Oh, yeah.
00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:57.119
I literally so this was been in 2019.
00:41:57.280 --> 00:41:59.119
My truck got stuck worse than I've ever seen.
00:41:59.199 --> 00:42:03.920
It had rained, and I was on a farm where they were planting fruit, and it was it was wild.
00:42:04.079 --> 00:42:07.360
And I went I went down in there and got my truck stuck.
00:42:07.519 --> 00:42:10.639
And he was the only person I knew that was at home and close.
00:42:10.880 --> 00:42:11.599
I just stay stuck.
00:42:12.079 --> 00:42:18.400
I stayed stuck, I walked out and left my truck and called my wife until the mud dried up, and then I drove out.
00:42:18.480 --> 00:42:20.559
Like I wouldn't call him to come and get it.
00:42:20.639 --> 00:42:21.360
Why drove it?
00:42:22.480 --> 00:42:24.079
I bought a Honda Ridge line.
00:42:24.400 --> 00:42:25.280
That is embarrassing.
00:42:25.360 --> 00:42:26.559
Oh, just let me finish.
00:42:27.679 --> 00:42:29.519
I bought it to make fun of it.
00:42:29.679 --> 00:42:30.000
Okay.
00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:31.280
Me and my buddy took it.
00:42:31.360 --> 00:42:32.000
It was all stock.
00:42:32.239 --> 00:42:37.679
Me and my buddy took it down to uh the bushes down there at my neighbors, and there's mud holes and everything.
00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:40.559
Had a Toyota to come with it, you know, with me.
00:42:40.719 --> 00:42:42.800
And I couldn't get that thing stuck, dude.
00:42:43.039 --> 00:42:44.400
I could not get it stuck.
00:42:44.639 --> 00:42:44.880
Really?
00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:47.280
No, I had to pull the darn Toyota out.
00:42:47.519 --> 00:42:48.239
I never said that.
00:42:49.039 --> 00:42:49.840
I said it today.
00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:51.599
But I it has no torque.
00:42:51.679 --> 00:42:51.920
All right.
00:42:52.079 --> 00:42:55.440
It's like uh one of them uh electric carts at the Walmart that you see.
00:42:55.760 --> 00:42:58.480
It's about that much torque, but you can't get them stuck, man.
00:42:58.719 --> 00:42:59.679
It's an all-wheel drive.
00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:00.800
It's a man van.
00:43:01.119 --> 00:43:03.039
But yeah, it's all-time all-wheel drive.
00:43:03.119 --> 00:43:03.280
Yeah.
00:43:03.440 --> 00:43:05.840
But it was amazing to me that you couldn't get it stuck.
00:43:06.079 --> 00:43:07.280
And my suburban's like that.
00:43:07.519 --> 00:43:09.840
My suburban, you just cannot stick that thing.
00:43:09.920 --> 00:43:10.480
It's amazing.
00:43:10.880 --> 00:43:13.440
It's all-wheel drive and it keeps gearing down.
00:43:13.519 --> 00:43:18.320
Every time you you you try to spin the tires, it's got traction control on all four tires.
00:43:18.400 --> 00:43:20.960
So every it just keeps gearing down, gearing down, gearing down.
00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:23.599
That now I couldn't ever get it to spin.
00:43:23.679 --> 00:43:26.639
It would just go, well, see, I couldn't play in the snow.
00:43:26.719 --> 00:43:27.920
I wanted to spin my suburban.
00:43:28.400 --> 00:43:28.960
It wouldn't spin.
00:43:29.440 --> 00:43:31.199
No, I wouldn't play in the snow with my festiva.
00:43:31.440 --> 00:43:32.320
I I noticed.
00:43:32.639 --> 00:43:33.599
You see the reverse donut?
00:43:33.920 --> 00:43:34.480
I saw the reverse donut.
00:43:34.639 --> 00:43:35.039
That was like fast.
00:43:35.360 --> 00:43:36.000
Did you see the reverse donut?
00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:43.039
I got a four, you know, a four the one that's turned, I turned into an ambulance, uh, a fire truck.
00:43:43.280 --> 00:43:44.639
It's been 48 different things.
00:43:44.880 --> 00:43:46.559
It's got more things an ambulance.
00:43:46.800 --> 00:43:47.519
Ambalanche, yeah.
00:43:47.760 --> 00:43:47.840
Okay.
00:43:48.159 --> 00:43:50.400
It's got more holes in it and make squish cheese.
00:43:50.800 --> 00:43:54.159
But I got little four wheeler tires on it now with a lift kit.
00:43:54.880 --> 00:43:56.239
Yeah, a little lift kit.
00:43:56.400 --> 00:43:59.679
And man, I got that sucker out there in the snow and was doing both.
00:44:03.360 --> 00:44:04.800
But now you weren't on public highways.
00:44:06.639 --> 00:44:08.639
Back roads that were not public highways.
00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:09.360
No, yeah.
00:44:10.159 --> 00:44:11.039
It was in my property.
00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:14.400
My property extends out to the highway, so it's whatever.
00:44:14.800 --> 00:44:14.960
Yeah.
00:44:15.360 --> 00:44:15.599
Property.
00:44:16.079 --> 00:44:16.559
I pay taxes.
00:44:16.800 --> 00:44:18.880
The other day I did, I saw one of my pastor friends.
00:44:18.960 --> 00:44:24.639
He took some pictures of his front yard of their church, and somebody just tore it all up, and I immediately thought that was probably you.
00:44:25.599 --> 00:44:28.719
Well, I was it man, my yard was so pretty.
00:44:28.880 --> 00:44:29.599
It was so pretty.
00:44:29.679 --> 00:44:32.800
You know, it was like you don't ever get to see that, but every 20 years.
00:44:32.880 --> 00:44:32.960
Yeah.
00:44:33.519 --> 00:44:36.480
And I got out my uh your mama ha banshee.
00:44:36.559 --> 00:44:37.440
I got a 350.
00:44:37.519 --> 00:44:38.079
Yeah, yeah.
00:44:38.239 --> 00:44:47.280
And man, I come down through there hauling, and I turn and I did doughnuts, and I was like, this is my yard.
00:44:48.800 --> 00:44:58.159
I spent thousands of dollars to get grass to grow, and I just threw every single little blade of grass 400 feet for a video.
00:44:58.320 --> 00:44:59.360
Yep, for a video.
00:44:59.519 --> 00:45:01.840
Now I had to go buy seed with the money I make.
00:45:02.559 --> 00:45:04.800
But that's why I'm amazed his wife didn't kill him.
00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:05.760
No, she didn't.
00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:08.079
Because she don't walk outside to see what the yard looks like.
00:45:08.239 --> 00:45:08.800
That's why.
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All right.
00:45:28.480 --> 00:45:30.079
Here's what I wonder for real.
00:45:30.159 --> 00:45:34.719
Like the last time y'all filmed that little video with him like fishing naked in your pond down there.
00:45:35.119 --> 00:45:36.079
I am curious.
00:45:36.320 --> 00:45:41.599
Did you ever legitimately trespass on the Parker farm without him knowing it?
00:45:41.679 --> 00:45:42.880
Like, that's what I'm curious about.
00:45:43.039 --> 00:45:46.159
I've always, man, you know what's wild to hear legends of Hank Parker's land.
00:45:46.320 --> 00:45:46.800
Oh, listen.
00:45:46.960 --> 00:45:49.280
And say Hank will put you in that dungeon down there if you go.
00:45:49.519 --> 00:45:50.079
Go ahead.
00:45:50.320 --> 00:45:53.519
There's three dead bodies in the dungeon down there on Hank Parker's land.
00:45:53.840 --> 00:45:55.039
You go ahead and trespass.
00:45:55.599 --> 00:45:56.559
I don't, I won't do it.
00:45:56.800 --> 00:45:56.960
Listen.
00:45:57.199 --> 00:45:59.599
I've heard gunshots, people never come back from down there, son.
00:45:59.679 --> 00:46:00.159
I don't do it.
00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:03.760
I've only I've only known Hank a few, like almost a year now.
00:46:03.920 --> 00:46:05.280
We've we've been friends.
00:46:05.519 --> 00:46:10.000
And just recently, I started asking him about turkey hunting.
00:46:10.159 --> 00:46:13.280
And Hank looked at me, his face smile went away.
00:46:13.440 --> 00:46:16.239
The Hank Parker persona went away, and he looked at me dead in my face.
00:46:16.320 --> 00:46:17.679
He goes, Josh Bradley.
00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:19.920
Turkey hunting is sacred to me.
00:46:21.599 --> 00:46:23.519
I was like, oh, he he's serious.
00:46:23.679 --> 00:46:25.840
And I have, I don't know if you probably have heard this.
00:46:25.920 --> 00:46:29.119
I've heard this before I ever knew who you were in real life.
00:46:29.360 --> 00:46:35.519
I've heard, man, hunting on Hank Parker's land, he won't even let his kids hunt on Hank's land turkey hunt on land.
00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:36.880
You know, you hear stuff.
00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:37.280
Uh-huh.
00:46:37.360 --> 00:46:38.239
I heard that my whole life.
00:46:38.400 --> 00:46:39.840
And then I found out it's true.
00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:43.039
Let me tell you, we got uh I'm telling you about Franco Hill.
00:46:43.119 --> 00:46:51.360
Franco had posters made up that said, no hunting, no fishing, no walking, no sightseeing, no nothing.
00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:56.000
And at the bottom he said, survivors will be prosecuted.
00:46:56.639 --> 00:46:57.679
Take the whole treat.
00:46:58.159 --> 00:47:00.320
I got those poster signs for Franco.
00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:00.559
Yeah.
00:47:00.800 --> 00:47:02.719
And that's where I got the bad reputation.
00:47:02.800 --> 00:47:04.000
I probably shouldn't have done that.
00:47:04.079 --> 00:47:04.239
Oh.
00:47:04.559 --> 00:47:06.559
No sightseeing, no nothing.
00:47:06.800 --> 00:47:09.039
Survivors will be prosecuted.
00:47:09.280 --> 00:47:13.280
So I got a bad rep, but I got free, you know, free folks for sight.
00:47:13.599 --> 00:47:13.760
Yeah.
00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:15.599
No, I am asking, that's the thing.
00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:16.719
People say what they want.
00:47:16.880 --> 00:47:17.840
That's your property.
00:47:18.239 --> 00:47:22.159
You know, that's what people, people I I pulled up at the house when I love arrowheads, dude.
00:47:22.239 --> 00:47:26.480
I have found I have found probably 200 arrowheads in one spot.
00:47:26.639 --> 00:47:36.400
I had actually had an archaeologist come out because I sent him an email of him and he was like, man, you've got artifacts that are from as early as 2,000 years ago to 10,000 years old.
00:47:36.639 --> 00:47:42.159
And so he came out and he dated them and everything, and and we found basically what seemed to be a campsite.
00:47:42.480 --> 00:47:47.360
But this before I got my house built, I'm riding up the road and I see a car parked on the side of my property.
00:47:48.239 --> 00:47:50.159
And I see some fella just walking out there.
00:47:50.320 --> 00:47:52.800
And I was like, excuse me.
00:47:52.960 --> 00:47:54.159
Like, this is what are you doing?
00:47:54.400 --> 00:47:56.639
Oh, I was just hunting for arrowheads.
00:47:56.880 --> 00:47:58.800
I was like, dude, you know this is my land, right?
00:47:58.880 --> 00:48:03.280
And he's like, I figure it's better ask for forgiveness than ask for permission.
00:48:03.519 --> 00:48:05.199
And I'm like, what kind of moron?
00:48:05.360 --> 00:48:05.599
Yeah.
00:48:05.679 --> 00:48:05.920
Yeah.
00:48:06.079 --> 00:48:06.800
That does not be a good thing.
00:48:07.920 --> 00:48:09.840
That's a wrong county to be getting forgiveness of.
00:48:10.559 --> 00:48:11.440
Nobody ever saw him again.
00:48:14.239 --> 00:48:15.280
Did you entertain him?
00:48:15.599 --> 00:48:16.639
You know how it is, Hank.
00:48:16.719 --> 00:48:17.440
You know how it is.
00:48:17.679 --> 00:48:18.159
You know him.
00:48:18.559 --> 00:48:19.519
Everybody knows who.
00:48:19.840 --> 00:48:20.559
I knew him.
00:48:20.880 --> 00:48:22.400
I knew him, went to school with me.
00:48:22.559 --> 00:48:24.400
So I was like, dude, just get leave.
00:48:24.559 --> 00:48:25.199
Just leave.
00:48:25.360 --> 00:48:26.000
Just leave.
00:48:26.239 --> 00:48:27.599
So Yeah.
00:48:27.760 --> 00:48:28.000
Yeah.
00:48:28.159 --> 00:48:29.599
It's that communal property.
00:48:29.760 --> 00:48:33.039
People, it is interesting how people think they just can just do whatever they want.
00:48:33.360 --> 00:48:34.960
Won't let nobody go on that lane.
00:48:35.119 --> 00:48:35.440
No.
00:48:35.599 --> 00:48:36.960
It's my hand.
00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:38.719
I don't let you in my house.
00:48:39.039 --> 00:48:39.440
You know.
00:48:39.599 --> 00:48:40.400
You're not a hunter.
00:48:40.480 --> 00:48:42.000
You're not saying a hunter, man.
00:48:42.880 --> 00:48:44.639
Now, I was a hunter.
00:48:44.719 --> 00:48:47.519
I used to rabbit hunt my papa, he's a rabbit hunter.
00:48:47.679 --> 00:48:48.400
And I loved.
00:48:48.719 --> 00:48:52.320
I enjoy getting them little dogs out and beagles and just watching little tails.
00:48:53.599 --> 00:48:56.079
You know, and just hearing that bark when they strike.
00:48:56.320 --> 00:48:57.360
I loved rabbit hunting.
00:48:57.440 --> 00:49:00.480
My uncle Jeff, his brother, my papa's brother, had coon dogs.
00:49:00.800 --> 00:49:02.000
So I could coon hunt with him.
00:49:02.320 --> 00:49:03.599
I just that was w the moving.
00:49:03.840 --> 00:49:04.400
The moving was fun.
00:49:04.800 --> 00:49:10.400
Deer hunting is just and I'm too, as you can tell, too hyper.
00:49:10.800 --> 00:49:14.880
And I shot me a big buck back in my senior year of high school.
00:49:14.960 --> 00:49:16.079
I shot me a big one.
00:49:16.159 --> 00:49:19.280
And after that, dude, I was like, I just don't like it.
00:49:19.440 --> 00:49:21.679
I'm just, I'm just, it's not a challenge to me.
00:49:21.840 --> 00:49:22.800
I could be doing something else.
00:49:22.880 --> 00:49:24.320
And no offense to anybody hunts.
00:49:24.960 --> 00:49:25.679
That's cool.
00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:31.119
But I got I like my guns, but I just, I would rather watch it through binoculars and take pictures of it.
00:49:31.760 --> 00:49:33.119
I'm gonna make him come clean here.
00:49:33.360 --> 00:49:34.159
I'm gonna come clean.
00:49:34.559 --> 00:49:38.000
Could you today shoot one of them big brown-eyed rabbits?
00:49:38.320 --> 00:49:38.639
No.
00:49:38.960 --> 00:49:46.079
Dude, I about cried the other night because my dog, I let my dogs out, and we got a little rabbit stays in my yard, and one of my darn dogs grabbed it, man.
00:49:46.159 --> 00:49:46.480
Oh, man.
00:49:46.719 --> 00:49:48.400
And it was a big old rabbit, man.
00:49:48.559 --> 00:49:53.039
He was see, he'd been living under my dog kennel, and I guess it just got a little slack.
00:49:53.280 --> 00:49:54.000
And it was a biggin'.
00:49:54.320 --> 00:49:54.880
It was beautiful.
00:49:54.960 --> 00:49:56.480
And one of my dogs got out and got it.
00:49:56.559 --> 00:50:00.480
I I gave it a burial ceremony and, you know, did all that.
00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:02.159
But yeah, I'm I'm a softy now, dude.
00:50:02.480 --> 00:50:03.920
My son's the same way, though.
00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:05.679
He he gets it honest from me.
00:50:05.840 --> 00:50:08.400
I mean, we we just uh we soft.
00:50:08.559 --> 00:50:09.199
We soft.
00:50:10.400 --> 00:50:12.159
Can't make yourself pute that little brown eye.
00:50:12.559 --> 00:50:13.119
I can't do it, man.
00:50:13.840 --> 00:50:14.320
I can't do it.
00:50:14.559 --> 00:50:15.840
I watch him through binoculars.
00:50:15.920 --> 00:50:18.480
I watched eight of them yesterday walking across the pasture.
00:50:18.639 --> 00:50:22.559
I got a 10-point on my prop, beautiful young deer, big 10-point.
00:50:23.199 --> 00:50:23.679
They'll do.
00:50:24.239 --> 00:50:25.280
Doe don't hunt neither.
00:50:25.360 --> 00:50:26.000
He watched turning.
00:50:27.199 --> 00:50:27.679
He's questing.
00:50:27.760 --> 00:50:28.320
No, turkey.
00:50:28.400 --> 00:50:28.960
He loves turkey.
00:50:29.119 --> 00:50:29.199
Yeah.
00:50:29.360 --> 00:50:30.480
He loved turkey hunting.
00:50:30.639 --> 00:50:32.639
But no, we man, we watch them now.
00:50:32.719 --> 00:50:34.079
We just let them frolic.
00:50:34.559 --> 00:50:36.000
Have you been turkey hunting?
00:50:36.320 --> 00:50:37.039
One time.
00:50:37.760 --> 00:50:42.480
And I sat there and I was like, this is just not fun to me.
00:50:42.639 --> 00:50:45.519
And then I heard the bird and I was like, like adrenaline, man.
00:50:45.760 --> 00:50:46.079
It's wild.
00:50:46.320 --> 00:50:47.119
You hear that bird.
00:50:47.199 --> 00:50:47.280
Yeah.
00:50:47.360 --> 00:50:48.800
And for whatever, it's a bird.
00:50:49.039 --> 00:50:51.360
But it's like, oh my gosh.
00:50:51.840 --> 00:50:56.880
And and that was, I didn't get to kill it, but it I could see the the adrenal there.
00:50:57.039 --> 00:50:57.360
Oh man.
00:50:57.840 --> 00:51:00.639
We call his stepdad Dottie, who is an awesome turkey hunter.
00:51:00.800 --> 00:51:01.440
He's a great crawler.
00:51:02.480 --> 00:51:02.639
Yeah.
00:51:02.800 --> 00:51:05.199
So were you hunting with uh your stepdad?
00:51:05.440 --> 00:51:06.719
Uh I was hunting with his brother.
00:51:06.960 --> 00:51:07.760
I was hunting with his brother.
00:51:08.079 --> 00:51:08.239
Okay.
00:51:08.400 --> 00:51:13.280
Yeah, but I mean it it was it just hearing that darn turkey, it was cool.
00:51:13.440 --> 00:51:20.559
Um, but I that's as far as I've got, I ain't and what's wild though is and y'all know, it's like these turkeys keep a calendar.
00:51:20.719 --> 00:51:20.960
Yeah.
00:51:21.360 --> 00:51:25.280
Because turkeys like the day before, you'll see them everywhere.
00:51:25.440 --> 00:51:27.679
Then the day of, dude, they disappear.
00:51:28.079 --> 00:51:29.440
It's the wildest thing I've ever seen.
00:51:30.480 --> 00:51:31.679
Be careful, we're gonna lose Hank.
00:51:31.760 --> 00:51:33.599
He's gonna get lost in turkey hunting, man.
00:51:33.679 --> 00:51:34.960
This is serious business right now.
00:51:35.360 --> 00:51:39.360
His his stepdad's uh Paul McCutcheon, we call him Dotie.
00:51:39.440 --> 00:51:41.440
And I I never could call him Dotie, you know.
00:51:41.519 --> 00:51:43.840
They'd say, oh, he's Dotie, but I never could.
00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:47.119
So every time I called him Paul, he'd correct me and say Dotie.
00:51:47.360 --> 00:51:48.639
So I call him Dotie.
00:51:48.719 --> 00:51:52.960
But he's a he's a great turkey hunter, and uh I don't like great turkey hunters.
00:51:53.199 --> 00:51:54.719
Hey, you gotta be, but you killed what?
00:51:54.800 --> 00:51:55.840
You did the big five of the five.
00:51:56.480 --> 00:52:00.159
I killed a whirl slam with the six, but I hey, I I don't like turkey hunters.
00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:01.360
I like people that don't turkey hunt.
00:52:01.519 --> 00:52:03.679
I got you that have a lot of land with turkeys on them.
00:52:04.480 --> 00:52:06.000
And they think that turkey's a nuisance.
00:52:06.079 --> 00:52:06.559
So they do not have to be a few.
00:52:06.880 --> 00:52:08.960
And you can go out there and rid them of the nuisance.
00:52:09.360 --> 00:52:12.320
Yeah, they want the flock control sort of land.
00:52:12.559 --> 00:52:13.440
They call Uncle Hank.
00:52:13.599 --> 00:52:14.000
Come on in.
00:52:14.079 --> 00:52:15.199
Uh those are the best guys.
00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:16.159
Oh, yeah, I love those people.
00:52:16.800 --> 00:52:19.519
I kill my biggest deer, which you wouldn't be impressed with.
00:52:19.760 --> 00:52:28.000
I kill my biggest deer from a lady who told me she was farming and how stressed she was every day that the deer was destroying her profits.
00:52:28.079 --> 00:52:29.599
And I was like, you know, I got something to help.
00:52:30.079 --> 00:52:32.239
See, that made you feel better because you felt like you're doing a good job.
00:52:32.480 --> 00:52:35.760
I felt like a month-old bug.
00:52:37.840 --> 00:52:39.119
Nine month preemie.
00:52:39.199 --> 00:52:39.920
It was a preemie.
00:52:40.960 --> 00:52:43.760
Got it away from its mama and got it all isolated.
00:52:44.079 --> 00:52:48.400
I was a suckled for the milk, and then it came on our turn.
00:52:48.800 --> 00:52:50.320
Still had a little milk mustache.
00:52:50.880 --> 00:52:58.239
We this is a recurring theme that we talk frequently about my my lack of success in the deer woods, but I'm having fun.
00:52:58.559 --> 00:53:02.159
We talked about a rabbit and we talked about a deer, we seen jackalopes.
00:53:03.679 --> 00:53:04.800
Yeah, my papa used to have one.
00:53:04.880 --> 00:53:07.360
I was like, man, I ain't never seen one of them in the woods.
00:53:08.000 --> 00:53:09.039
He killed a jackalope.
00:53:09.360 --> 00:53:09.519
Yep.
00:53:10.559 --> 00:53:20.719
Tell me, so as you know, we're happy we're having so much fun here, but tell me some of the things that you're thinking about, like as your career continues to grow.
00:53:20.880 --> 00:53:21.199
Yes.
00:53:21.360 --> 00:53:23.840
And you're continuing to do new things all the time.
00:53:23.920 --> 00:53:26.800
Doing you're doing a lot, a lot of stand-up, as you said.
00:53:26.960 --> 00:53:28.480
Like, tell me some of those goals, man.
00:53:28.559 --> 00:53:30.320
What are you what are you trying to accomplish out here?
00:53:30.400 --> 00:53:30.960
What are you trying to do?
00:53:31.199 --> 00:53:32.559
Man, I'm gonna tell you, it's day-to-day.
00:53:33.199 --> 00:53:35.920
I don't have no like a calendar.
00:53:36.159 --> 00:53:39.679
I just provide for my family is the main thing.
00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:48.159
And I want people to say that I am great at what I do as far as stand-up, because stand-up is I didn't just want to be a content creator.
00:53:48.400 --> 00:53:51.599
That's cool, but being able to get on the stage sets you apart.
00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:53.280
There's not a lot of people.
00:53:53.599 --> 00:53:54.320
People can make a third.
00:53:54.719 --> 00:54:00.079
And another thing I like to do is a lot of these people now in social media, they can't do but 30-second videos.
00:54:00.159 --> 00:54:03.280
Is that I I like YouTube long form.
00:54:03.840 --> 00:54:07.679
You have to really be able to hold people's attention to do long form content.
00:54:08.159 --> 00:54:11.360
So the stand-up, I just want to keep getting better and better.
00:54:11.599 --> 00:54:18.239
And let my thing is people it's it's wild to me that people will pay uh for tickets to come see me to this day.
00:54:18.639 --> 00:54:22.480
Like I sold out four I've sold out four shows in Eugene, Oregon, dude.
00:54:23.599 --> 00:54:24.239
Like, what?
00:54:24.480 --> 00:54:26.079
There's people who know who I am.
00:54:26.320 --> 00:54:27.760
Cameron Haynes is home right there.
00:54:28.239 --> 00:54:29.920
But you know, it's just wild to me.
00:54:30.079 --> 00:54:38.400
And so I try my best to make sure when they leave, they're like, man, that was well worth me getting a hotel room and and me buying tickets to come see this dude.
00:54:39.039 --> 00:54:50.079
So the main thing is just making sure people still enjoy it because right now there's so much just uh hate and bitterness and people fighting, yeah, and just constantly, man.
00:54:50.400 --> 00:54:52.079
And and I don't even keep up with it.
00:54:52.159 --> 00:55:00.239
I don't even I don't watch it, but now it it's pushed in your face on social media and you constantly see both sides fighting.
00:55:00.480 --> 00:55:10.159
And so as long as I can make stuff to where it takes people away from that for long enough to where they can enjoy and laugh for a little bit, that's all I want.
00:55:10.559 --> 00:55:21.599
Let me ask you, but the first time you went to Vegas, first time you went to big time man, the city of lights, you're there, you're in Las Vegas, you walked out on that stage, and all these people are sitting there.
00:55:21.760 --> 00:55:25.360
Did you ever in the back of your mind like, what am I doing here?
00:55:25.760 --> 00:55:28.239
No, man, I've always had to have an adrenaline pump.
00:55:28.480 --> 00:55:31.360
There's always been something that has always had to give me adrenaline pump.
00:55:31.440 --> 00:55:36.000
And to walk out there, it's like it's just happiness.
00:55:36.159 --> 00:55:40.079
It's happiness and adrenaline, and it's like, how did I do this?
00:55:40.159 --> 00:55:40.960
How did I get here?
00:55:41.119 --> 00:55:41.519
Oh man.
00:55:41.760 --> 00:55:42.079
You know?
00:55:42.239 --> 00:55:48.159
And so it it is walking out on that stage, when I step foot out there, it is just an it's an element.
00:55:48.320 --> 00:55:50.000
It's I'm in my element now.
00:55:50.079 --> 00:55:51.760
Uh all of these people are here.
00:55:51.840 --> 00:55:59.199
I have their attention, and I'm gonna keep their attention for an hour to 10, hour and 20 minutes, and when they leave, I hope they say, Man, it's the best thing I've ever seen.
00:55:59.519 --> 00:56:00.639
So no stage fright.
00:56:00.880 --> 00:56:01.679
No, not anymore.
00:56:01.840 --> 00:56:02.000
No.
00:56:02.320 --> 00:56:04.719
Well, in the beginning, oh Lord, yes.
00:56:04.960 --> 00:56:05.119
Okay.
00:56:05.440 --> 00:56:06.000
Yes, sir.
00:56:06.159 --> 00:56:06.559
Yeah, yeah.
00:56:06.800 --> 00:56:16.000
Five minutes feels like an eternity, uh I mean, you think there's so many, it's funny when people come to like an open mic on Comedy Night like, I do I can do five minutes.
00:56:16.159 --> 00:56:23.840
I'll do five minutes, and they get on that stage and they'll run through five minutes and 20 seconds, and then they're standing there like, uh oh, oh, what have I done?
00:56:24.400 --> 00:56:34.079
You know, and you uh you learn, you learn very quickly that uh it is uh it's a pace, you pace and and one word can change a whole joke.
00:56:34.239 --> 00:56:37.039
But no, there's no more, no more uh stage frightful.
00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:44.000
So the first time, I mean, what where did you first start thinking, man, all right, I'm gonna translate this character and I'm gonna put him on stage?
00:56:44.079 --> 00:56:45.360
Like, how did how did that happen?
00:56:45.679 --> 00:56:52.239
Um, I had a dude reach out to me and he was like, I've got a pretty well-known comedian, and I'd like for you to host for him.
00:56:52.400 --> 00:56:52.719
Okay.
00:56:53.199 --> 00:56:55.760
And I was like, okay, I can do that, you know.
00:56:55.920 --> 00:57:04.719
And the first dude, the first time I ever hosted or walked on a stage was in front of like, it was at the Gold Nugget Casino in Shreveport, Louisiana.
00:57:04.800 --> 00:57:06.880
That's like 3,000 people, 4,000 people.
00:57:07.119 --> 00:57:08.880
That's the first time I ever walked on stage, man.
00:57:09.199 --> 00:57:18.320
And so I walk out there, I'm a little Daisy Dukes, and they just start like you know, and I tell my joke and they laugh, and I'm like, that's I'm uh I'm hooked, man.
00:57:18.559 --> 00:57:19.039
I'm hooked.
00:57:19.360 --> 00:57:19.840
I'm hooked.
00:57:19.920 --> 00:57:21.360
That's it, that's all it took.
00:57:21.679 --> 00:57:26.000
And and then the guy that I was on tour with was not a good person.
00:57:27.440 --> 00:57:30.559
And uh I was like, I'll never be like that.
00:57:31.039 --> 00:57:42.320
And watch a guy who 4,000, 3,000 people paid tickets to come see you, and you won't even give them a time of day to talk to him or take a picture with them, and just be just bitter.
00:57:43.199 --> 00:57:50.880
And I told the guy that was managing me then, I said, dude, I said, I'm gonna work harder than him, I'm gonna be bigger than him, but I'm also gonna be a better person than him.
00:57:51.199 --> 00:57:58.719
And I ended up leaving them after a year because they were just you know, I don't want to be around people that are not good people.
00:57:58.960 --> 00:58:00.800
And so I started my own tour.
00:58:00.960 --> 00:58:04.320
Uh I I took a year and a half off, COVID and all that happened.
00:58:04.480 --> 00:58:09.599
And so started my own tour, uh, got my my black friend.
00:58:09.760 --> 00:58:11.360
I don't know if you've ever seen videos with me and him.
00:58:11.599 --> 00:58:18.079
We went on, man, we started up the tour, and and uh the first place that I went to, I sold out.
00:58:18.159 --> 00:58:20.079
I I we asked for a guarantee of$2,000.
00:58:20.480 --> 00:58:22.480
I was like, man, like$2,000, that's a lot of money.
00:58:22.559 --> 00:58:23.039
That's another fall.
00:58:23.360 --> 00:58:25.519
Four night there, and we done sold like$1,200 tickets.
00:58:25.679 --> 00:58:29.760
And I was like, I think that's more than$2,000, you know, to it.
00:58:30.159 --> 00:58:33.199
Yeah, I was like, wait a minute, I think I screwed myself over on this one.
00:58:33.440 --> 00:58:42.719
But uh that was just it to see that that people you know uh enjoy it and uh it takes them away from all the bad stuff that's going on.
00:58:43.039 --> 00:58:57.440
It's it's all nine years ago, gingerbilly was uh discovered and brought to life after the really revival from your dad, who really with the Easter Bunny on the three-wheeler was the was the real comedian that got it all started.
00:58:57.599 --> 00:59:00.719
So now you've revived and now you you come out.
00:59:01.039 --> 00:59:08.880
How long was it from the time your social media started going viral and just blowing up and gingerbilly becomes the household name?
00:59:09.119 --> 00:59:13.840
How long was that before you started doing stand-up comedy?
00:59:14.159 --> 00:59:14.880
Couple months.
00:59:15.199 --> 00:59:15.760
Couple months.
00:59:15.920 --> 00:59:16.400
Yeah, man.
00:59:16.639 --> 00:59:16.880
Yes.
00:59:17.119 --> 00:59:23.840
I I had made I had made three or four the romper video that I posted right after that video.
00:59:23.920 --> 00:59:24.960
I had the guy contact me.
00:59:25.199 --> 00:59:27.199
Golly bum, that is a huge deal.
00:59:27.280 --> 00:59:31.280
And you were not freaked out going to Shreeport and I was freaked out.
00:59:31.519 --> 00:59:31.679
Okay.
00:59:31.920 --> 00:59:32.400
I was scared to be able to do that.
00:59:32.559 --> 00:59:33.840
I would have been out of my mind.
00:59:34.400 --> 00:59:35.280
I was scared to death.
00:59:35.599 --> 00:59:36.639
I think most people would have.
00:59:36.800 --> 00:59:37.280
I was.
00:59:37.519 --> 00:59:52.639
And you know, I I grew that five minutes to to where I was co-headlining with a guy doing 30 minutes to where I then became just my own headliner for the last five years to doing like an hour and ten, hour and twenty minutes.
00:59:53.119 --> 00:59:56.079
And um I I had never done an open mic.
00:59:56.159 --> 00:59:58.159
I've maybe done three open mics in my life.
00:59:58.960 --> 01:00:04.960
But I write all my jokes and then I try them on stage in front of the crowd.
01:00:05.360 --> 01:00:12.880
And you like you learn what works, you learn what don't work, uh do crowd work, stuff like that.
01:00:13.039 --> 01:00:15.119
Um, but no, it was it was a lot of learning.
01:00:15.840 --> 01:00:17.760
How much do you do just spontaneous?
01:00:18.159 --> 01:00:22.480
Because I know you're very spontaneous if you just come off the cuff with something crazy.
01:00:22.800 --> 01:00:38.000
Yeah, I I like to have my set that is bam, it's structured, but I can always go off any, you know, uh questions, like if I have something or I see something in the crowd or somebody gets up or something like that, I'll fire off.
01:00:38.239 --> 01:00:42.480
Um you know, so yeah, I I can improv it or I can just stick to my set.
01:00:42.559 --> 01:00:43.119
It just can't.
01:00:43.280 --> 01:00:45.199
And what's wild is crowds are so different, man.
01:00:45.280 --> 01:00:48.400
You know, I'll have like I'll have two shows on Friday night.
01:00:48.559 --> 01:00:52.559
First crowd makes you feel like you are just Rodney Dangerfield.
01:00:52.719 --> 01:00:54.880
Like, oh my gosh, I am unstoppable.
01:00:54.960 --> 01:00:56.960
I am the best in the world at this.
01:00:57.199 --> 01:01:01.280
Then the late crowd comes in and they're drunk, and you're like, I'm quitting after this show.
01:01:01.440 --> 01:01:03.039
I'm never doing this again.
01:01:03.199 --> 01:01:04.320
I'm horrible.
01:01:04.639 --> 01:01:06.239
That doesn't happen at church often.
01:01:06.320 --> 01:01:08.159
Like the second service don't come in drunk.
01:01:08.480 --> 01:01:10.719
But sometimes it does feel communion, you know.
01:01:10.800 --> 01:01:11.280
But yeah.
01:01:16.159 --> 01:01:17.840
I mean, that's that's who you're after.
01:01:18.159 --> 01:01:24.239
From time to time, my personality will come out when I'm preaching, and I just start having a lot of fun, like making fun.
01:01:24.320 --> 01:01:31.760
Like recently, I was talking about um how like the modern church has turned into like a better version of the gas station, right?
01:01:32.079 --> 01:01:36.000
Like Bucky's and how it's let's just make it to accommodate every little need.
01:01:36.159 --> 01:01:44.000
And I was trying to describe Bucky's to the audience, and I said, you know, Bucky's is like Walmart and Gatlinburg had a baby.
01:01:44.239 --> 01:01:46.800
Yeah, it's just amazing, it is Bucky's is unreal, bro.
01:01:46.960 --> 01:01:51.119
Well, we got through and somebody came up to me afterwards and were like, you know, you would have been a great comedian.
01:01:51.360 --> 01:01:57.360
And I was thinking, I just poured my heart out in this message as a pastor, and you're telling me I'd have been a great comedian.
01:01:57.519 --> 01:01:58.639
Sometimes I think, oh no.
01:01:58.960 --> 01:01:59.599
Not a bad thing.
01:01:59.920 --> 01:02:00.800
Not a bad thing.
01:02:01.199 --> 01:02:03.119
You got the comedian thing covered, though.
01:02:03.440 --> 01:02:04.559
I like to think so.
01:02:04.960 --> 01:02:07.039
You know, I I still got a lot of work to do.
01:02:07.119 --> 01:02:15.920
I'm never happy with where I'm at because I see people selling out 40,000 seat venues, but I'm also, like I said, man, I'm providing for my family.
01:02:16.079 --> 01:02:17.440
My family's happy.
01:02:17.679 --> 01:02:18.480
Everything's good.
01:02:18.639 --> 01:02:19.920
My wife is extremely happy.
01:02:20.079 --> 01:02:21.599
She has the happy coolest.
01:02:22.719 --> 01:02:33.760
You know, most of the most of the influencers, as as they're called, the people that get recognition on the social media, their lifespan is from three to five years.
01:02:34.159 --> 01:02:39.519
And you're you're gaining ground when you should be declining and being forgotten.
01:02:39.760 --> 01:02:43.599
And then most stand-up comedians, they have a very short career as well.
01:02:43.920 --> 01:02:47.760
And it seems like you're in more demand and growing and growing and growing.
01:02:47.840 --> 01:02:49.119
You have more followers.
01:02:49.199 --> 01:02:50.880
Uh that's yeah, that's very unusual.
01:02:51.119 --> 01:02:54.159
Yeah, well, I feel like first, because I've always been honest with people.
01:02:54.400 --> 01:02:56.159
You see my life, it's what I am.
01:02:56.320 --> 01:02:58.239
I'm not living a fake life.
01:02:58.400 --> 01:03:01.599
What you see is what is really happening in my life.
01:03:01.920 --> 01:03:04.559
And people feel like they got a relationship with me.
01:03:04.639 --> 01:03:07.199
I have so many people walk up and they're like, man, how's your dog?
01:03:07.599 --> 01:03:08.800
And they know my dog's name.
01:03:08.880 --> 01:03:12.159
And like, man, I love Marshmallow's the coolest cat in the world.
01:03:12.239 --> 01:03:14.960
You know, and I mean, I saw your son wrecked his four wheeler.
01:03:15.039 --> 01:03:15.519
Is he all right?
01:03:15.599 --> 01:03:15.840
Yeah.
01:03:16.000 --> 01:03:19.840
So I'm not, this ain't been, this has never been about money.
01:03:19.920 --> 01:03:20.159
Yeah.
01:03:20.320 --> 01:03:26.400
This has been about making people happy and forming a relationship with people where they feel like, man, I know that dude.
01:03:26.480 --> 01:03:26.880
Yeah.
01:03:27.119 --> 01:03:28.960
Like, you know, on a personal level.
01:03:29.280 --> 01:03:47.760
In my life, people say, Boy, you had great vision because when I started the sport, Dance was Bill Dance was the only guy that was really had a plan and had a uh had a career that he built that appeared to be somewhat wise and and uh researched and and buttoned up.
01:03:48.000 --> 01:03:50.480
And so people come to me and say, man, that was great vision.
01:03:51.039 --> 01:03:52.559
I didn't have any vision at all.
01:03:52.800 --> 01:03:54.320
Man, I love to fish.
01:03:54.480 --> 01:03:58.239
I was able to make a living, uh, a squeaking out a living.
01:03:58.320 --> 01:04:06.960
I mean, I'm talking about very modest, and uh I I didn't have any plan, just doors would open and you take that next step.
01:04:07.199 --> 01:04:10.639
And I I don't really have a big long-range plan today.
01:04:10.880 --> 01:04:14.239
I just door opens and I keep it going, that's good.
01:04:14.320 --> 01:04:17.920
And and and I look at where you're at.
01:04:18.239 --> 01:04:20.239
My career should not still be going on.
01:04:20.480 --> 01:04:20.639
Yeah.
01:04:20.719 --> 01:04:23.280
I mean, look, man, you've been doing it and that's the thing.
01:04:23.360 --> 01:04:26.880
People would tell me, they always try to tell me, they say, hey man, get it while it gets good.
01:04:27.039 --> 01:04:31.039
I'm like, dude, if you're good at what you do, there's never a closed window.
01:04:31.360 --> 01:04:32.320
And that's what kills me.
01:04:32.400 --> 01:04:34.480
There's so many people, man, you need to get it while it gets good.
01:04:34.639 --> 01:04:37.440
I'm like, bro, I'm not planning on never being.
01:04:37.760 --> 01:04:40.159
Like, I'm gonna continue to be good at this.
01:04:40.239 --> 01:04:40.480
Yeah.
01:04:40.800 --> 01:04:54.000
I don't understand, you know, there's a lot of like one-hit wonders that they have one big video or a couple, and then they can't keep up with it because they're either not working and doing it right, or they just, I don't know, they don't have faith in this.
01:04:54.480 --> 01:04:55.840
It's not them necessarily.
01:04:55.920 --> 01:05:07.920
They create something that is sensational and they build on that sensationalism of that one event or what they dreamed up or what they put together, but that was a one time.
01:05:08.239 --> 01:05:10.400
That is not, you're a nut.
01:05:10.559 --> 01:05:12.159
You're a bona fide nut.
01:05:12.320 --> 01:05:24.800
And you do have you do have a personality that if a guy walks up to you in Union South Kyle, Walmart, you're in a hurry, you still take time to socialize with that guy.
01:05:24.880 --> 01:05:27.360
Yes, and and that's who you are.
01:05:27.519 --> 01:05:35.840
And so it's real, it's not fabricated, it's not uh uh the Tesla, the Tesla idea was just one of many.
01:05:36.079 --> 01:05:36.639
Yes, yeah, yeah.
01:05:36.800 --> 01:05:37.360
One of many.
01:05:38.079 --> 01:05:38.320
Yes.
01:05:38.559 --> 01:05:42.320
So you have to be a bona fide nut to be able to maintain.
01:05:42.960 --> 01:05:44.159
Yeah, I yeah, I I don't know.
01:05:44.239 --> 01:05:57.280
I just uh doing, you know, the I I was blessed with an imagination, but I was also blessed to have, I think, uh, like I said, a parent that taught me to be social and to be loving and to be nice.
01:05:57.519 --> 01:06:00.639
And uh, you know, my wife is funny, my wife is totally Opposite of me.
01:06:00.880 --> 01:06:06.719
She's a wonderful woman, sweet as she can be, but my wife can walk right by you and just not talk to you.
01:06:07.360 --> 01:06:08.880
I'm gonna walk by and I don't know who you are.
01:06:08.960 --> 01:06:10.000
I'm like, hey, how you doing?
01:06:10.159 --> 01:06:13.039
You know, and it's just like I don't know you, but I'm gonna talk to you.
01:06:13.360 --> 01:06:14.079
You know what I'm saying?
01:06:14.239 --> 01:06:17.360
So um, yeah, I I don't ever plan on just dying out.
01:06:17.440 --> 01:06:20.400
I it's so many people was like, man, I just gotta get it, why it's getting good.
01:06:20.480 --> 01:06:22.400
And I'm like, well, dude, I've been doing this nine years.
01:06:22.559 --> 01:06:26.719
I plan on this being my career until I decide, okay, I can retire from it.
01:06:26.960 --> 01:06:41.920
So You know what Frank O'Hill said when he was on the Johnny Carson show, he looked out there at that big crowd of people, and then uh Johnny was talking about how do you find it here in LA there are a lot of strangers, and he said, Johnny, there are no strangers in this world, just friends we've never met.
01:06:42.159 --> 01:06:42.320
Yep.
01:06:43.039 --> 01:06:43.519
That's true, man.
01:06:43.760 --> 01:06:44.159
That was easy.
01:06:44.239 --> 01:06:44.800
That was hell.
01:06:45.039 --> 01:06:50.639
Every time I posted I'm going somewhere for a show, they're like, Man, it ain't good people out there.
01:06:51.039 --> 01:06:53.280
And I'm like, there's good people everywhere you go.
01:06:53.599 --> 01:06:54.880
I've been to California.
01:06:55.039 --> 01:06:59.199
I've been to as far up as Reading, California, probably one of my favorite places ever to go.
01:06:59.360 --> 01:07:01.920
Reading was one of the nicest, some of the nice people.
01:07:02.079 --> 01:07:05.119
I've been through LA, all those places.
01:07:05.360 --> 01:07:07.199
There's always good people.
01:07:07.360 --> 01:07:08.159
Yeah, yeah.
01:07:08.480 --> 01:07:10.079
It's just people look for the bad.
01:07:10.159 --> 01:07:10.880
They don't look for the good.
01:07:11.519 --> 01:07:14.079
Well, there's enough bad to overshadow a hotel.
01:07:15.360 --> 01:07:17.760
And social media news show more bad than they show good, too.
01:07:17.920 --> 01:07:18.719
They got a crazy goal.
01:07:18.960 --> 01:07:21.440
So if you don't go outside of your house, yeah, yeah, true.
01:07:21.599 --> 01:07:25.039
And you if you don't go outside of your house, though, you don't know any better.
01:07:25.199 --> 01:07:26.000
You know what I'm saying?
01:07:26.079 --> 01:07:26.400
Yeah.
01:07:26.639 --> 01:07:27.119
You don't know.
01:07:27.280 --> 01:07:27.679
You don't know.
01:07:27.760 --> 01:07:30.880
You think you watch the news and watch Facebook, you're like, I'm scared, go outside.
01:07:31.119 --> 01:07:31.280
Yeah.
01:07:31.679 --> 01:07:33.599
A lot of great fishermen come from California.
01:07:33.679 --> 01:07:35.360
A lot of great fishermen, a lot of great guys.
01:07:35.440 --> 01:07:40.880
I got a friend that owns a uh a ranger dealership there, Rick Grover, just awesome, awesome guy.
01:07:41.039 --> 01:07:48.800
Of course, they're ashamed of their governor, they're ashamed of their politics, uh, but they're great people, and what a wonderful climate to live in.
01:07:49.039 --> 01:07:50.239
It was some awesome fishing.
01:07:50.480 --> 01:07:52.880
The California Delta has to die for.
01:07:53.199 --> 01:07:55.360
Yeah, I'm going out to Utah soon, too.
01:07:55.440 --> 01:07:56.880
I uh all those places out there are beautiful.
01:07:58.400 --> 01:07:59.440
We love, we do love the West.
01:07:59.679 --> 01:08:01.679
But then when it gets cold, I'd want to come home.
01:08:02.000 --> 01:08:02.880
What do you know, man?
01:08:03.039 --> 01:08:04.480
We just had six inches of snow here, bro.
01:08:04.719 --> 01:08:05.039
It was gone.
01:08:05.199 --> 01:08:05.760
It was brutal here.
01:08:06.079 --> 01:08:06.800
It was brutal.
01:08:07.039 --> 01:08:07.599
It was brutal.
01:08:08.320 --> 01:08:08.639
Two weeks.
01:08:08.960 --> 01:08:10.320
I saw you, you enjoyed the snow.
01:08:10.639 --> 01:08:12.480
Oh, I enjoyed the heck out of it, man.
01:08:12.639 --> 01:08:13.199
I enjoyed it.
01:08:13.360 --> 01:08:20.319
Hey, I I want to Hank, I want to ask this, and and um and and the same question to both of you guys.
01:08:20.479 --> 01:08:26.239
Um, I'd I'd love the conversation between the two of you about having a career that lasts.
01:08:26.720 --> 01:08:41.600
Like, Hank, tell us like if if you're talking to a younger guy, younger entertainer, a younger person, it doesn't matter if they're that or not, and you're trying to talk to them about staying grounded throughout all the ups and downs of life.
01:08:41.760 --> 01:08:45.760
Like, what has kept what has kept you grounded throughout your career?
01:08:46.399 --> 01:08:58.880
First, you know, I have so many young kids that I try to mentor that uh uh high school fishing or just love to fish, maybe not even on a team, that wants to build a career.
01:08:58.960 --> 01:09:01.119
And they what is the first ingredient?
01:09:01.279 --> 01:09:05.680
And the very first ingredients to be a professional angler, you gotta love it.
01:09:05.760 --> 01:09:08.079
You gotta absolutely love it.
01:09:08.399 --> 01:09:16.560
And then to build a foundation on something that'll work, uh, Christian principles be honest, be fair, be real.
01:09:16.960 --> 01:09:21.279
Uh don't don't overstate what you cannot deliver.
01:09:21.520 --> 01:09:35.439
And understand that your value, uh, if you you're looking for sponsors and and you hook up with a company that you're representing and they're paying you money, it doesn't matter if you win every bass tournament in the world.
01:09:35.600 --> 01:09:43.840
You've got to be conscientious of the fact that you're a total financial liability if you don't offset in sales what you're being paid to do.
01:09:43.920 --> 01:09:48.239
So you've got to sell a lot of product to justify money being paid.
01:09:48.399 --> 01:09:58.159
And it is just like Ginger Billy said when he was in Shreveport and did that first uh appearance on stage and had three or four thousand people there.
01:09:58.399 --> 01:10:05.199
Uh the comedian that he opened for wouldn't walk out and sign autographs, wouldn't engage with the crowd.
01:10:05.600 --> 01:10:06.800
He wasn't real.
01:10:06.960 --> 01:10:11.439
He he was just he was just a showman, but he wasn't a real person.
01:10:11.520 --> 01:10:17.600
So he comes out there on stage and tells jokes as if we're buddies, but you're really not buddies.
01:10:17.680 --> 01:10:18.640
It's all fake.
01:10:18.800 --> 01:10:20.640
And there are a lot of fishermen out there.
01:10:20.800 --> 01:10:29.680
Forrest Wood said when I won the classic the first time, Forrest Wood was the founder of Ranger Boats and my mentor and the one person that I had the most respect for.
01:10:29.840 --> 01:10:33.600
Forrest said once I won the classic, he said, now we'll test his character.
01:10:33.760 --> 01:10:37.600
You give a guy success, and you'll really see their true character.
01:10:38.000 --> 01:10:38.560
Super true.
01:10:38.720 --> 01:10:40.239
And and it works both ways.
01:10:40.560 --> 01:10:44.640
Failure and success, those two will bring out your true character.
01:10:45.039 --> 01:10:45.199
Yeah.
01:10:45.680 --> 01:10:46.079
Oh, yeah.
01:10:46.159 --> 01:10:48.000
I mean, I have seen so many people.
01:10:48.399 --> 01:10:59.520
When you start this social media thing, you start, you get intertwined and tangled in with other social media people, and you realize very quickly how many of them it has turned rotten.
01:10:59.840 --> 01:11:07.760
And some of them it don't take many numbers for them to just turn into something that they think they're just they can use their name to get what they want.
01:11:09.279 --> 01:11:21.119
And I never, ever, I mean, like he said, you as far as any product or anything like that, if they come at me, first of all, it's gotta be something I believe in, something I would work with, and somebody I'd work with.
01:11:21.199 --> 01:11:27.520
I'm not just you can throw all the money at me you want to, but if your product don't line up with me, I'm not I'm not touching it.
01:11:27.760 --> 01:11:28.079
It ain't you.
01:11:28.319 --> 01:11:28.880
I'm not touching it.
01:11:29.119 --> 01:11:37.199
Some of these people will absolutely sell their soul for money and do it don't matter what product, it don't matter what they they just do whatever.
01:11:37.439 --> 01:11:39.199
And I've never been about that.
01:11:39.600 --> 01:11:43.840
I just want to, like I said, provide for my family the way I can.
01:11:43.920 --> 01:11:49.920
And as long as I'm doing it being honest and I ain't hurting nobody and I ain't cheating nobody, I feel like I've done it the right way.
01:11:50.079 --> 01:11:50.880
You know what I'm saying?
01:11:51.199 --> 01:11:55.119
Dude, listen, other other day you took me through you took me through the boat shop.
01:11:55.279 --> 01:12:07.119
And from time to time I'll see you Hank on uh, you know, doing a reel, talking to people about um uh whatever whatever thing you're using, if it's if it's loose rods, if it's liquid molly, if it's whatever it is.
01:12:07.279 --> 01:12:08.479
Well, we're in the boat shop.
01:12:08.560 --> 01:12:10.479
There's not a camera around.
01:12:10.640 --> 01:12:15.199
And he's picking up this stuff and he's like, Josh, here's why you need this product.
01:12:15.439 --> 01:12:15.760
Right.
01:12:16.079 --> 01:12:21.199
When when he figured out I didn't shoot Schwacker broadheads, he almost kicked me out of his house.
01:12:21.359 --> 01:12:28.479
And and and that for an hour, he he sat and told me how wrong I was for not shooting a Schwakker broadhead.
01:12:28.720 --> 01:12:32.319
You boys driving them Ram trucks might want to steal that liquid Molly.
01:12:32.479 --> 01:12:34.960
You might want to steal a can of that Molly before you leave.
01:12:35.359 --> 01:12:41.039
Listen, last year I spent out for$11,000 on that, the engine and the transmission.
01:12:42.000 --> 01:12:43.199
You might want a can of that Molly.
01:12:43.680 --> 01:12:44.960
I should have dumped it in there, man.
01:12:45.039 --> 01:12:46.960
But but I do love that about you.
01:12:47.039 --> 01:12:49.279
Like what what you what you put out there is real.
01:12:49.680 --> 01:12:52.159
Hey, tell me, how would you answer that question?
01:12:52.319 --> 01:12:57.119
Like what what keeps you what keeps you grounded no matter how many followers do you have?
01:12:57.359 --> 01:12:58.239
First of all, I have a question.
01:12:58.399 --> 01:12:59.199
Can I tinkle?
01:12:59.279 --> 01:13:00.079
I have to PV.
01:13:00.319 --> 01:13:02.319
I mean, it would be weird to do it on camera.
01:13:02.479 --> 01:13:05.600
I mean otherwise you won't take time out, take a commercial break.
01:13:06.239 --> 01:13:06.399
All right.
01:13:07.600 --> 01:13:07.840
Yeah, yeah.
01:13:10.640 --> 01:13:11.199
No, yeah, yeah.
01:13:11.439 --> 01:13:11.920
Oh, I didn't.
01:13:12.079 --> 01:13:14.319
I was like, what kind of podcast do you think this is, man?
01:13:14.640 --> 01:13:16.880
This is not do you want to make money or not, man?
01:13:18.159 --> 01:13:20.079
All right, we're gonna go on the commercial break.
01:13:20.640 --> 01:13:21.439
Commercial brew, right?
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Sorry, commercial, commercial, all right.
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And with that, we're gonna get back to the episode.
01:13:49.760 --> 01:13:57.359
We're right in the middle of the heat of the most important conversation, and we've got to take a restroom break.
01:13:57.600 --> 01:14:00.319
And now we got a brownie, but keep eating your brownie, don't you?
01:14:00.479 --> 01:14:01.840
Got your little sprinkles on it.
01:14:02.159 --> 01:14:05.359
Hey man, look, my sugar drops, y'all gonna be all right.
01:14:05.680 --> 01:14:06.880
We're gonna sugar yum.
01:14:07.199 --> 01:14:07.520
Shaky.
01:14:07.840 --> 01:14:14.399
Yeah, we're coming to the close, we're coming to the white flag has waved, and uh we had the most important question.
01:14:14.560 --> 01:14:15.119
Look at this.
01:14:15.920 --> 01:14:16.319
Type one.
01:14:16.479 --> 01:14:18.960
I didn't I ladder though, I didn't find out until I was 45.
01:14:19.199 --> 01:14:20.720
That ain't even a manly type of diabetes.
01:14:24.079 --> 01:14:26.319
I don't know what that means, but I'm immediately offended.
01:14:27.439 --> 01:14:32.399
Like I'm like, even my like we're talking about trying to be good enough, even my diabetes isn't good enough.
01:14:34.000 --> 01:14:42.399
So Josh asked you a question that was the just a serious point on what keeps you grounded.
01:14:42.560 --> 01:14:49.039
What is the basic fundamentals that have kept you grounded and kept you in the right direction?
01:14:49.439 --> 01:14:59.520
And we're right in the middle where people were just hanging on the edge of their seat by their fingernails, just holding on, waiting on the answer.
01:14:59.760 --> 01:15:00.880
Can I go, Pipe?
01:15:01.279 --> 01:15:02.159
My bladder, man.
01:15:02.239 --> 01:15:02.880
I can't help it.
01:15:03.119 --> 01:15:03.439
Can I go?
01:15:06.399 --> 01:15:08.399
I have a bladder the size of a toddler.
01:15:08.479 --> 01:15:08.960
I had to go.
01:15:09.439 --> 01:15:11.199
There's a fair lot going on with toddler.
01:15:11.520 --> 01:15:14.079
I mean, we're very buttoned up and formal.
01:15:14.479 --> 01:15:15.119
Apologize.
01:15:15.359 --> 01:15:17.039
We are just so disrupted.
01:15:17.199 --> 01:15:20.239
Our whole podcast has fallen apart.
01:15:20.640 --> 01:15:21.279
Apologize.
01:15:21.520 --> 01:15:24.399
I was a bit worried he wanted to pee on camera, though.
01:15:25.039 --> 01:15:25.359
I was.
01:15:25.680 --> 01:15:27.920
I'm gonna just be as on the class and that.
01:15:28.319 --> 01:15:30.720
Well, I had to take a towel and clean up.
01:15:30.960 --> 01:15:38.159
Well, just if that's the case, I'd have lost all control of my bodily functions and I need to go to the ER right now.
01:15:38.720 --> 01:15:39.439
Don't stand up.
01:15:39.520 --> 01:15:40.720
Just let's go, let's go.
01:15:40.880 --> 01:15:41.279
Oh, yeah.
01:15:41.520 --> 01:15:43.119
We're gonna get through this before we call it.
01:15:43.279 --> 01:15:43.840
We're gonna make it.
01:15:43.920 --> 01:15:44.800
Yeah, before we call it.
01:15:45.039 --> 01:15:46.239
The platter won't, but I will.
01:15:47.920 --> 01:15:49.199
Hey, for for real though.
01:15:49.520 --> 01:15:50.159
All right, here we go.
01:15:50.239 --> 01:15:50.560
Here we go.
01:15:50.640 --> 01:15:51.279
Back serious now.
01:15:51.439 --> 01:15:51.920
Oh, we're back.
01:15:52.000 --> 01:15:54.399
We're gonna we're gonna bring this thing home.
01:15:54.560 --> 01:16:03.039
I I mean Hank, I love I love that about I love that about your career, and I think there's something we all can learn from that.
01:16:03.279 --> 01:16:07.039
Like, what is what are those consistent pieces that keep you grounded?
01:16:07.119 --> 01:16:23.680
I mean, you've given your testimony all over the nation where you've talked quite extensively about like what what a life of faith in Jesus has meant to you, and that's that's been a huge and you you talked about that grounding, and those Christian principles are are huge.
01:16:24.079 --> 01:16:42.479
And and today's society, I think there's just so many young men that don't have models like that to look at and think, you know, I need I need to I need to be a man, I need to, I need to wake up today, I need to take care of my family, I need to take care of my wife, I need to take my son to school, I need to be that kind of man.
01:16:42.560 --> 01:16:45.680
Like that's just so important for I think our community to hear.
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For me, it was kind of uh maybe a little bit uh out of the normal or away from the ordinary, but I'm I'm reading the Bible, and I I started reading the Bible more and more and more and more.
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And I'm reading the Bible one day and I'm thinking, do I really believe this?
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Do I really believe that this Bible is true?
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And I came to the conclusion, absolutely I do.
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Well, then why don't I act like it?
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Why don't I act like it not just on occasion?
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Why don't I prioritize to live it?
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And so everything changed for me.
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It wasn't that I went to a revival meeting, it wasn't that I heard uh a great message, it was the reality of if I really believe this and I believe it's true, then why in the world am I majoring on minor things?
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Because everything about this Bible, everything about being not your own, being bought with a price, all of that just makes sense to live it.
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And I wasn't living it.
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And so I went a lot of years.
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I I was a lot of people say, oh man, he's a great Christian guy, he's great this, he's great that.
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But I didn't really live it like I live it now.
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And it just all of a sudden occurred to me, if this thing is really real and true, why don't you live like it?
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So that changed everything for me, and that's been about 15 years ago.
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And my wife Martha, you know Martha real well.
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Martha was a big help of that.
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Her priorities are are are very solid.
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And uh that's kind of where I went, and that's what's important to me now, uh, more than it ever has been before.
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And of course, I'm getting close to the finish line.
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That white flag waved a half a lap ago.
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So yeah, we it's time to get serious.
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So that's where I'm at.
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Man, what about for you, man?
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What what do you think what has kept you grounded through your life into being a great dad and will keep you grounded as you move forward in your career?
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Well, like I say, I was raised by a really good woman.
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I can't brag on my mama enough, dude.
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She did more for me than any I she did more for me than most two-parent households did.
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My mama was at every single everything.
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There was times where I didn't want her to be at stuff.
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You know what I'm saying?
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I'm like, every PTO, every ball game, I'd hear her up there in the stands yelling at me.
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I'm like, Mama, I've struck out three times.
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All right.
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I'm not gonna hit a home run.
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Okay, thank you for being positive.
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Uh I mean, but do she'd be out there throwing a baseball with me, throwing a football with me.
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So that just just that right there, I think has just been my whole basis of why I am the way I am, is because of her.
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But then as far as my career and everything going forward, there's so many times I get stressed out and I wonder, I'm like, man, is this what I'm supposed to be doing?
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I get mad and all that, and then I think about it like there's so many people that have it way worse than I do.
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Like I have a wife, I have a kid, we're healthy, and they're like, there's people dying every day.
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I've got friends that died in their 30s and their 20s, and I'm like, dude, shut up.
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Like, shut up.
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You have a great life.
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Just because your video didn't go the way you wanted it to, you're gonna complain?
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So just remembering stuff like that, just remembering that, man, my life back before when me and my wife first got together, we were absolutely broke.
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I was mad.
01:20:12.880 --> 01:20:16.880
You know, I was very mad uh because I was just like, I don't nothing's going right.
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And then you see things, man, it's so wild the way things slowly got better.
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And there's only one way it could have.
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There's only one way it could have.
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Because it was like, man, I was I was bitter.
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And then you see this little thing happened.
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It's like, oh, okay, this little thing happens.
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This little thing happens, and it's like, ah I got you.
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I got I got what you say, I know.
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I had to go through the bad times.
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I'm going through okay, I gotcha.
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And and now it's like you know, I I anything bad that happens, it's just like, bro, it's it's gonna happen.
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Just get through it.
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You're alive, everything's gonna be okay.
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And um I I think just just living like that, man, just being happy that I have what I have and not being bitter about what I don't have or being mad because something didn't work out.
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You know, I've I've got everything I could ever want.
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Everything.
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When I was a younger, a young dad, there was a song that came out that said it's a five dollar fine for whining.
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So every time my kids would start to whine, I'd say, that's a five dollar fine for whining.
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So I told my kids one day, I said, I I guess it's that five dollars that scares y'all off and you quit whining.
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He said, No, it's your horrible singing.
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We don't want to hear it.
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We're plugging.
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So we'll say whine if you don't say.
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I didn't want to say anything, hang on.
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Yeah, man.
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That's my son.
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I tell my son all the time, I'm saying, uh dude, and he's a good kid.
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My boy's a good kid.
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He is a good boy.
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He's a good kid.
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Yes, sir.
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But you know, there'll be times where he gets all pouty.
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I'm like, son, you got nothing to pout about.
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Like, you don't, man.
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You get, you just, you, you have a good life.
01:21:53.520 --> 01:21:54.880
You know, I have to remind him of that.
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And then I also have to remind him of how hard I work.
01:21:57.920 --> 01:21:58.319
Uh-huh.
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Uh-huh.
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Daddy works hard, son.
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It's fun, but it's fun you grew up poor, though, because you turned you did what all rednecks would do when they grew up.
01:22:06.560 --> 01:22:08.640
How many, how many, how many dirt bikes do you say you have?
01:22:08.800 --> 01:22:10.000
Oh, I had a lot.
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I had a lot.
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Dirt bikes and side-by-kindes.
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Some people invest in 401ks.
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I invest in dirt bikes, side by sides, ATVs, you know.
01:22:19.600 --> 01:22:19.760
Yeah.
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I'm right there with you.
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Yeah, man.
01:22:22.800 --> 01:22:23.359
I got boats.
01:22:23.600 --> 01:22:24.800
I got boats, man.
01:22:24.880 --> 01:22:25.680
I can go fishing.
01:22:26.079 --> 01:22:26.880
Me too, boats.
01:22:27.199 --> 01:22:28.319
I just want to have a little bit of fun.
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That's all I want.
01:22:29.279 --> 01:22:29.840
Oh, man.
01:22:30.079 --> 01:22:33.520
Well, I know that you want to go pick up Dell Earnhardt Jr.
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Jr.
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And I know it's getting.
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I'm glad you gave him to Earnhardt last night.
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It's beautiful.
01:22:38.000 --> 01:22:38.479
Beautiful.
01:22:38.640 --> 01:22:40.239
Just rub it in a little more, eh?
01:22:40.800 --> 01:22:45.199
Well, I I know you want to go pick him up, and it's time that he gets out of school.
01:22:45.359 --> 01:22:51.199
We got uh still got a little snow on the ground, and so it's been a very, very fun podcast for me.
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And I sure do appreciate you.
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And and and I tell you, the most important thing uh for me to say to the audience, I live in Union and I see that you're real.
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And when you are at Walmart, if there's 50 people or one person, you're entertaining them.
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And it's who you are, and uh, I'm proud of you.
01:23:13.760 --> 01:23:19.199
And uh I I think that uh I'm gonna stay away from Lock Art because I don't want to drink that same water you're seeing.
01:23:19.359 --> 01:23:20.319
Oh, come on, man.
01:23:20.560 --> 01:23:21.520
You broke it.
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I don't think there's enough room.
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Makes you healthy, being strong.
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Appreciate you having me on.
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Yes, sir.
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It's been a good day.
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Josh, thank you, my buddy.
01:23:30.239 --> 01:23:33.600
And uh Ginger Billy, I'm gonna shake your hand and tell you thank you.
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Thank you.
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And uh we appreciate everybody for watching or listening.
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And uh we'll be back next week.
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Thank you so much, and God bless you.
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I'm Hank Parker.
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Love y'all.