Johnson City

No.

There in Johnson City, Tennessee, and Whitey Caldwell, of course, and in those days, Dory was booked as champion in the territories big and small.

And Johnson City was one of the small ones.

And Whitey Caldwell, for years, was the top babyface to go along with Ron Wright, the top heel in East Tennessee territory.

And Dory comes in, sits his bag down, in those days, the traveling champion.

He was a tremendous professional, had a great match, realistic, tough, and rugged.

Hurt business in the town.

You know why? The people in Johnson City knew there was no way in the world anybody could last an hour with Whitey Caldwell.

to fight immensely powerful tech companies.

This movement started in places like St. Charles, Missouri, Johnson City, Tennessee, Pike County, Georgia, Putnam County, Indiana.

Regular citizens standing up at city council meetings, demanding answers and transparency, and using every tool they could find to resist data centers.

communities are being sold a well-worn corporate marketing pitch about how data centers will bring jobs and revenue, and they're not buying it.

So I was very fortunate to have, I think, an incredible childhood.

I was born in Johnson City, Tennessee, lived there until I was in first grade, and we moved to Knoxville sort of for college.

a work opportunity.

My dad was chasing in first grade, um, and moved into Westmoreland, uh, lived down in like the gatehead area down there.

He was one of these guys that was like sort of serial entrepreneur trying different things.

So I got to watch that as a kid.

Yeah, he, so my dad grew up in Johnson City, went to UT for undergrad and then went to law school at Memphis afterwards and practiced law for a little while.

And then his father passed away when he was, I think, like 21 or 22 years old.

I ain't going back.

Well, does it keep you out of Longhorn and Olive Garden and Carabas? You mean you go into Carabas and sit down and there might be a pervert waiting on you? They sure enough around Johnson City.

You mean to tell me you're going to let some homosexual write down your steak and write down your bread and his hands is going to handle your food and all of that stuff and you won't come to the house of God because somebody said no, they don't live right.

Shame on you.

They'll never look at our website.

You know, I had a dealer in Johnson City that was breaking all the rules, and I turned him in to the Tennessee Motor Vehicle Commission.

They had...

Enough violations, there were 300-plus violations.