Yeah.

Prior to that, yeah, you know what I mean? I grew up in the Chicago area.

I was an English major in undergrad.

I went and worked for newspapers for a while, and then I, like, after I went back to school and studied, I did, like, a hybrid program in public policy and communications, and then I ended up working in government.

I've worked at, in the federal government.

I've worked at state level.

I've worked in a city.

Yeah.

... how did you go? Tell everyone how you went

Mate, um, yeah, so I was, I was actually planning on going down the South Coast, um, for the rut with a few mates and, um, I live with my sister, we rent together and, um, yeah, she was going to Japan.

She was like literally going in the peak of the rut, going to Japan.

She's got a dog, so she was like, "You need to look after the dog." And I'm like, "No, don't do this to me please, please." I'm like, "No." So anyway, I was like, I've, I've gotta make the most of it, you know? And I, um, yeah, I'm lucky enough, I've got a state forest not far from mine and I've, I've, yeah, heard of deer being in there so I thought, oh, I'll go down, have a poke around and, um, yeah, went out there and was just poking around and I was working out the deer were passing through the forest and going onto a private block and, um, yeah, once I worked out where they were going, I went, you know what? I'm gonna go knock on the door and ask these people, be polite about it, and, um, yeah, knocked on the door and just asked and yeah, the guy said to me, he's like, "Mate, you can come on as long as you give me meat." And I was like, "Perfect.

Done.

Perfect." You know, that's, that's great.

So yeah, went out there and, um, I was going for fallow and I started walking around and I started seeing some like some red rubs and I'm like, wow, okay, there's reds here.

Talk me through it.

How'd it happen, Jake?

Mm, boldest thing I ever seen.

It was about three miles out of town.

They throwed some cottonwood limbs across the trail so I'd have to pull up, and that's when they jumped me.

How many of 'em?

Just two.

Couple I never seen before.

Brassy as sin.

Fucking hippie.

And then I went to, like, the Santa Fe Bluegrass Festival, like, the... a year after I'd been playing mandolin, and they had a mandolin contest, and I knew, like, three songs, four songs.

And they were walking around the campground, "We need more people for this mandolin contest.

We're giving away a mandolin for a prize." And, and my dad's like, "You wanna do it?" I'm like, "Sure.

We'll go do these three songs I know." And I won the dang thing.

Oh.

We'd spent all the money we'd earned through the last couple years, dropped it all on this new album, in a studio, and all this stuff.

Had m- had this guy come out from Kansas to, like, do some, uh, bones playing and so- some dancing and stuff on it, and, like, invested pretty much everything we had into this CD.

Yeah.

I love that.

That's, yeah, that's what, that's what he says to Rachel, not Jake.

[laughs]

Get, get wide

... yeah, long, long sword action here for this pile.

Okay.

Pile number one here.

Okay.

Um, so I go right at the target, you said? No, you're good.

I got you.

Looking divine.

I mean, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna force something on someone that I wouldn't want to be forced on me, so yeah.

This is the problem with liberalism.

It's such a good ex-- There's so many good examples of this, and I'm-- This is actually why I really like coming on this podcast, 'cause a lot of people will, like, criticize this podcast and they'll say, "Oh, you guys are just talking to, like, you know, uneducated people." But I think that generally speaking, it's kind of a pretty accurate cross-section of the population.

Like, all the women here at the table today, I think if you put them in a pile, you'd be like, it's, it's reasonably average in terms of the, all the walks of life that you're from.

But what we get here is a lot of the sort of mainstream views that most people hold, and most people do most of the voting.

So this is why it's important to actually combat these ideas.

And this is, what, like, what you're espousing right now is just typical sort of liberalism.

[laughs] That's so fucked up still, but...

I think maybe we just start, give people a little bit of your background if they aren't familiar with you and your story.

Sure, yeah.

The brief bio is just that I, I was born and raised a Jehovah's Witness.

I was in the group until I think I was 28 w- uh, when I was disfellowshipped.

And, um, uh, I, I was eight years old.

Sorry, [laughs] I don't know why I turned into a stuttering old man for a second.

But when I was eight years old, I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, and so d- and, and I was sick.

I think we need to start with what is this blood doctrine, or what was it before the changes? Why does it exist, and how it is actually harmful? I mean, besides obvious.

[laughs]

...

the shadow realm.

Love that, you guys.

I'm still gonna continue, 'cause why not? I'm a professional.

Um, I really tried to approach this from, like, a trying to find the, like, 7 out of 10.

You know? Like, I, I c- I can watch a lot of really shitty TV and movies, but like I'm, I'm really trying to find the, the silver lining.

[laughs]

How do you expect reading comp will go relative to logical reasoning?

So after I spoke with Jet yesterday, he's my tutor, I kinda have a more streamlined idea of how I want to, like, attack just the s- the stimulus in general.

And even just after taking his advice that he gave me yesterday, I found that I was more efficient when I took practiced LR sections.

So I think that my reading, just, like, really focusing on pausing after each sentence and really trying to soak up the information, I think it'll go similarly to, like, my production with LR as long as, like, my production continues to get better, if that-

Talk to me about how you're reviewing your mistakes.

I'll go to each wrong answer that I've submitted, look at my answer choice, and then just really, like, dive deep because ob- I mean, obviously it's the wrong one.

So I, I'll look at the specific verbiage that they're using, go back to the stimulus, and just, like, pinpoint exactly where, like, I went wrong.

Like, a good example was there was a question that I did today that it was talking about the incident of people being confused by news broadcasting, and then the middle of the stimulus said, "Studies have shown that the amount of information sent out in a news broadcast at one time is not more than would be considered reasonable." And that specific portion where it says, "at one time", was kind of where I tripped.

So Jake, what are your thoughts on Josh Sarong down and then going, uh, Naz across to, to Archie Roberts? We talked about Archie Roberts a little bit before, but are you find a pay-up for him now he's so expensive, or are you on long lines of maybe go, if Jack doesn't have the Whitfield, you go there, the better buy and a bit cheaper?

I think this is...

Yeah, you, you highlighted it before.

I think under no principle should you be bringing Archie Roberts in.

But far out you also then have to choose to not watch any Essendon games.

Like, it is, it is one of those genuine decisions that, like, uh, it is outrageous watching that man play at the moment.

Um, I, uh, we haven't talked about this much, but I, I am putting myself out there as one of the first Archie Roberts truthers in the preseason there.

Would you rather just go Dugowie and, and get sort of the not put another rookie on field? Where would you, where would you sit with this one?

Then what exactly do you recommend, eh? Because from where I'm standing, we ain't got a hell of a lot of options

I don't know, but blaming machines and building bombs sure as shit don't feel like much of a plan.

This thing ain't of the world.

No bomb's gonna do shit to it.

So, uh, you, uh, you got any religion?

It's been an awfully long time since I could scrape together anything that looks like faith

Eh, I've never seen anything that'd make me think there's a god.

But the devil? Him I believe in.

Yep.

I couldn't believe it.

I thought there was a chance for it to be over right there, but Tyra, you know, he's, he's heart of a lion, man.

He fought well.

And then onto the main event, Sean Strickland, almost similar to how, uh, last year at the end of the year we saw Petr Yan defeat Merab, the perfect game plan of, you know, beating an unbeatable fighter that everybody thought was just gonna run through him.

And, uh, personally, I did think that Sean Strickland won the fight.

I was v- I thought it was very close.

he looked like he passed his time.

Nice.

And met Patty at Harmony Grass.

Uh, what year was that? Like, 2018 maybe.

And Patty sat in with our band that set, and that's how we met.

That's how I joined the band.

So honestly, stepping into Liver, you know, once I learned all the music, I felt pretty comfortable stylistically with everything, and I think it made it pretty easy to blend.

Mm-hmm.

Like, play it simple.

How about you, Jake?

Yeah.

You know, I, I, uh, I shipped an animal to somebody in 2024 and, uh, it had about 10 meals.

Um, the person I shipped it to had never dealt with Amazons before and, uh, the...

She got the animal s- ju- went...

It was just fine.

Uh, it was taking meals.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Okay? I'm facing the east.

I got a buddy, shout out, Joe Mata, 11 Bravo, Bravo 4, sniper.Two thirds of that building was collapsed in that explosion.

The remaining one third of that building, there was a ...

In Iraq, I can't speak for the rest of the Middle, Middle East, but in Iraq a lot of the, the Iraqis would sleep outside at night because they ain't got air conditioning, and it's super hot.

Okay? So most of those buildings would have a stairwell outside, on the outside of the building.

You could walk up the stairwell and get to the roof.

Right.

Okay.

They were, and we were taking over bars and such like that.

And then one year we, we came up with the concept.

We, uh, we're...

We love M4.

We love, you know, having events here and, and coming here on a normal night.

And, uh, we started Not New Year's Eve, and Not New Year's Eve was a concept because, uh, New Year's Eve was on a Sunday night.

Mm.

Blanton's Gold.

All right, so I gotta put it just above Blanton's.

Like, barely.

Barely.

It's definitely better than Blanton's, but it's, again, two times the price just about.

It's, like, 170 now for Blanton's Gold, and we've also had a very inexpensive...

Well, I shouldn't say very.

I had it once a long time ago

What took you so long to open the door? Or do I even want to know? Oh, ugh

ughI was sleeping, dreaming

Jacob, are you okay?

I, I don't know.

I had a dream that something was talking to me, something from way down, but deep below us.

It said, it said there's no way out.

To be honest, Bert, I don't think it was a dream.

It was that thing, thing from out there.

Mm-hmm

... wanted to, you know, understand how to, you know, get the pH right, and, you know, read the soil sample results.

And, you know, basically I just write out a chronological schedule of, you know, when they're gonna wanna complete which task e- exactly, and usually it's like a four or five-year plan, you know, for ...

That, the food plot one was, you know, just specifically for food plots, but the one in Kentucky, the guy had, uh, just bought I think it was a 90 or so acre piece, and it was m- mostly hardwood timber.

And, uh, um, basically he just wanted to know what he should do with it.

You know, he's, he was open to using fire.

He had not done it before, but basically just kind of marked out a couple areas to probably do some timber thinnings or even some clear cuts, you know, just on strategic points, you know, small-

Mm-hmm.

He has to be physical well.

Absolutely.

I think the, another thing too to- to mention as well is like the past bands that have been before us, especially, you know, growing up with, you know, dads that we've all collectively had music come towards us throughout our life.

Like you see all these bands, especially in the '80s, that they all have great times and like now, I shouldn't say all of them are in poor health, but like we wa- we wanna have, uh, as much energy as we can on stage and every bit of that is cost-effective of what we do outside of that.

And I think-

Absolutely

... you know, seeing anyone else, especially in their 50s, like if I wanna do this as mu- as long as I can, so if we can, you know, balance that, obviously it's the goal of everyone else's.

But like, I think, you know, seeing Vince Neil struggle on, on very basic songs-

Um, but there's not, there's not like there's a ton of easy potential people that would be wanting to s- dip their feet in, especially considering this'll probably be the third straight year of declining sales for Brown-Forman.

Brown-Forman.Yeah, I don't know.

My, my...

Something tells me that Brown-Forman was just kind of maybe testing the waters on what they could be worth here.

Mm-hmm.

I don't really see Diageo stepping in.

Um, you know, they, their portfolio is very diversified.

Um, what's going on with their single barrel program? Any things that you can let us know on that?

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Mm.

Then it all ended pretty much in the great fire/earthquake of San Francisco, where an earthquake and a massive fire just completely burned that city down to the ground and that was pretty much the end of the erasing period.

Now, fires are great.

They don't cover the buildings.

I mean, they burn them down to rubble, but it's the greatest way to erase the history of the land you're on.

W- all these buildings that burned down were city buildings, uh, governments, city hall, uh, record houses.

Uh, so all of the birth records, all of the, you know, tax records, all of the actual s- like historical records from these cities like Chicago, like Boston, like St. Louis, they were all lost in these great fires.

So I know that they get a charge out of that, and for them it's just on a, on a scale that's, that's almost hard to even put into words on how much energy they're able to, to harvest from that.

There you go

... total opposite wing.

Um, I, I'm gonna go B-.

Um, I, I'm gonna say that as a rookie head coach, I didn't think he was that bad.

I actually liked that he leaned, uh, on some of his veterans especially.

Um, and, uh, uh, you know, towards the tail end of the season, I, I thought he was testing out some of the rookies all right.

You know, Rashear Fleming, uh, yes, he did have a block and he had a steal, and then he did nothing else, um, i- in, in eight minutes.

And it's just wild to think, 'cause I mean, uh, Collin Gillespie, I, I still like-