You an with the eyes of munch Happy Friday World. Let's go, come
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here, good stuff today. On the downbeat, I'm Kevin. That's Danny,
It's Mike, it's j J. Let's roll, Mike. We're gonna
do the the way new listeners can associate our names with the voices. Absolutely,
that's me. I'm Mike, Danny ding Dong to TJ Miller, I'm
Kevo yep, JJ O jorjer. Introduce yourself to people. Know which one
because JJ could be a dude. Dude. Yeah, A lot of bigger
things they do, yeah, oh no, no, no, I get
a yes, sir a lot when I'm like telling them the information about on
the fucking Sometimes really, if they don't, yeah, they're like new,
well, ridiculous. You have a very feminine voice, I think you do.
You know. Yeah, I've always thought my voice was a little I
want to say deep, but no, you know, a little on the
lines of I don't know, you know. I'm just gonna say it's traumatic
when you're like fourteen years old and you call someone on the phone and they
say, yes, ma'am, it's a bad day, you go oh,
or you get the opposite. Like my son's mom is almost forty. Gosh.
When she was in her twenties, people would call, like a sales
call, and she'd answered the phone, is your mommy, your daddy home?
She's like, I'm thirty, your mommy or daddy? Oh yeah,
pick your poison on that one right. This She always bugged me. I
think I had a high pitch voice late a late bloomer, I was.
I think, yeah, I probably I was. It was hard to tell
because I to this day am virtually hairless, like a seal pup in Alaska,
a man of the water. So I have like no hair on my
legs. People have asked me you shave your legs every a couple of years.
I'm like, no, but you don't start sprouting hair, you know.
And when you're sixteen, what about your chest? You have a little
bit of chest. Do you have bigfoot butt? What? Bigfoot? But
that means hair? Yeah, I don't have one hair on my butt,
I said, seal pup, Well, it's got a hair somewhere other than
I mean, other than your beard. You got armpit hair right, look
that arm You can't see one hair. I mean, yeah, there's a
little, but they're blonde and thin like I just don't. I don't have
much hair. So when you're spread, when you're going through that at fifteen
six, whatever did your parents? They still loved you even with this malady.
When I was born, I remember they lifted they all the whole room,
lifted me up and said, behold, God's mistake. That's the first
thing I heard. So it was the opposite of what happened with Simba exactly.
They lifted me and they don't let pirates into your house. And then
they rotated me over a trash receptacle and dropped me. Oh, God's mistake.
No, So anyway, not hairy. So it's just a great gray
area when you're I mean, because it is. You know, you see
people their leg hair when you're now those years. That's one of the easiest
indicators. Not like you have a clock on your friends when they're hitting puberty,
but you notice when someone is you know, pitched voice and not a
hair on them. And honestly, by the time you're into junior high,
you know you're playing football, you're playing sports, you're showering in school.
That shouldn't be allowed by the way. I agree, it's too intimidating for
the kids that are that's traumatic what you're to do. And then you got
dufus over there tucking it for fun and I'm like, hey, you have
all that hair? Man crazy just because he's like eight months ahead of you.
Yeah, it's all it is, like, dude, I'll get there
fun. The dudes that have excuse me that that have the hair and all
the other stuff, they'd make fun of you. Yeah, not my fault.
I don't know. Yeah, I'm two years younger. Look, fifth
graders should not be showering with eighth graders in middle school after football practice,
and we shouldn't also shouldn't be treated as tackling dummies. Okay, that's how
it was for you. Fifth grade does seem very early, dude, it
was seventh for middle school. Was you started football in the fifth grade and
you it was five and six and then seventh and eighth grade, and all
the practices happened concurrently, and when you were done, you hit the showers
and you're in there as afing eleven year old with a fourteen year old that
does not need that. Okay, Yeah, granted this was you know,
nineteen eighty. I don't think that does happen now, fifth grade and eighth
grade. Yeah, and I could be wrong. You put all y'all on
one school. It was middle school where I went FI through through eight.
Yeah, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth for me. Yeah,
it's as it should be. Yeah, that's interesting. It was called middle
school to school go tell something in a small town like Danny and I went
to. They could go say something to one of the girls, one of
the more developed fellas at the time. Yeah, he goes say something to
one of the girls that the girl just never forget. Therefore, you never
had a chance. Your baby, you were a junior, your baby,
d Kevin the whole life. And it's like, well, hold on,
honey, the clock finally what'd you say? The what the world's clock?
The world clock finally started, Dick. And now I'm back. Notice I'm
taller than that guy. Now weird, he's the rump to the litter.
Now he says he was a stud boy. It is funny. There was
a couple of dudes in my high school that were considered, you know,
super handsome guys and athletic and all that. In my high school, and
boy, the way they ended up turning out as adults because I was the
skinny kid with eft up and effed up grill and glasses and stupid hair.
Thankfully, I had a little bit of humor to me and had pretty cool
friends. Was actually friends with a couple of the good looking dudes, so
I was in a good group, so I didn't get the snot beat out
of me too much. Yeah, but boy, to see where those things
ended up for them, Yeah, whoo went the other way now, guy
and Danny's on ninety seven won the freak hell yeah, two ticks to the
right, baby's right, top twenty five in the top five market. Get
some, get some, get all of it. Were you not a cool
guy in high school? Like good looking dude? Okay, I mean senior
year, that's senior year. I finally got my mom to break down and
realized that contact lenses weren't that expensive, so I could stop wearing the whatever
state issued military horn rim frames state issued you know. So yeah, I
got rid of the glasses and that was a big help. And the fact
that I had a job and could start buying my own clothes because we're super
poor, I mean, I'm not and I'm not trying to play that up.
We were very, very poor crows. Yeah, it's super gross.
So you would have to wear pants that were a size or two too small.
So especially over the summer when you grow up, you don't have enough
money to get school clothes and you show up where, you know, the
first thing they see, they say when they see you, is like,
what do you expect in a flood? You know, because your pants are
like six inches above your shoes and it just looks ridiculous. I know.
Yeah, being poor is awesome, but getting my own job, it could
afford my own clothes, and you know, it could kind of upgrade the
style a little bit. And so year was not bad. Yeah, you
rallied, rallied a little bit. Were there was there rich kids? Oh
yeah absolutely. My best friend was probably the came from the wealthiest family and
uh really in the town. Yeah, one of the and you would have
never known pretty much. Yeah yeah back then, Yeah for sure. But
he owned his own, uh oil field supply company, and I actually worked
for him for a summer or two. And but yeah, you would have
never known it from my buddy Tracy, who was just salt of the earth
and never flaunted it or anything like that. But he always, you know,
brand new GMC truck junior year walking to school. He wouldn't pick you
up, Tracy wouldn't pick you up. I lived a block away. Dude
wouldn't go to school in the Googler. Oh yeah you have. Yeah.
I think the virtual tour of Knox City oh so boring. I'm just pulling
my phone out, looking at it on my lap all day, and he
was over my shoulder and here was another fence. Mike you He's looking at
the map and just kind of going down the streets and he goes, this
just looks sad. I was not mean, aboud. I'm sorry I said
that. It didn't take you among to run through that tour. You had
to be creative with your entertainment to figure stuff out. I hope we are.
I wonder how those towns are today, with the Internet now and phones
and all that stuff. I'm I'm sure it's not near as bad as it
felt for us at the time. All those There are things that I've out
there I remember that are awesome and seem really great now. But I think
that's probably everyone when they get older, looking back at when you know,
when they were a kid. But I do think the technology wave because actually
I don't think I'm knowing. Not everyone thinks I'm young, but I'm thirty
six. Still didn't have phones growing up there, so like a video games,
but the technology, the internet was crap and slow and yeah, barely
useful. You barely had access to knowledge of what was cool. I mean,
you had TV and that's all you really had. But for Danny,
what you're gora to high school at eighty six? Eighty six? Man,
Yeah, so you almost just the people in your town dictate what is I
don't even know cool looks or clothes or trends if you could even care,
right, Yeah, And the only influence that you got on any type of
trends or style or music was from TV or magazines. That was it.
Maybe movies, you know, if you were able to drive to Abilene not
stuff to go see a movie at the mall of Abilene. What about when
you were in junior high were you looking up to the high school kids in
non city, Oh, my god, yes, heroes, right, heroes,
Yeah, and they looked like thirty seven year old men in retrospect,
you know, they just were otherworldly. You just could not imagine what their
lives must have been like a sixth grader, he was so cool in the
football players so elementary. For me. It was one through five, first
through fifth grade. Well, when the football players would come in and they
would read. Once a week, they wo'd bring a football player in to
read a little book to you is oh I got the quarterback, Oh I
got the running back. It's Jeremy Johnson. And they all read Curious George
to you, and you feel like he's signing autographs. It's crazy. You
may have been like this for you because you yes audious and I go back
to read to the kids. No one asked for autograph, No one cares
because I didn't get to play much. You State champion, Danny. I
don't know. It might be Kevin. It might have been like this for
you because your town was just a little bit bigger than NOx City. But
I remember looking back at the time thinking these guys are huge. But then
in retrospect you look down the roster and I'm telling you, I think in
my entire football career in middle school and high school, Knox City may have
had two players in that eight years that were over two hundred pounds. Yeah,
that's insane, right, you thought they were big and oh my god
huge. I was the tallest kid in school at the time at probably six
' one. I'm about six three now. May have shrunk, I don't
know, but yeah, I was the tallest kid in school at the time
by quite a lot. Did they have any plays like, I know you
didn't play much, but did they like in practice, whether it was your
tight end right? Mm hm? I mean, did they have a pass
to the tall guy? I played left left weak side for us. We
always ran to the right. My goal was solely to chip a tackle,
a defensive tackle, and then run across field and try to cut a safety
or what they called they called them half backs at the time. To had
cornerbacks and half backs on defense, and it was it was your job because
we just ran power sweeps were so fast, and it's my job is to
get downfield and be a lead blocker and just take out basically their last line
of defense. It was pretty fun. I mean, you're getting to mow
down these one hundred and thirty pound safeties blindside block the crap out of them.
They never see it coming when that was illegal. But I have a
lot of passes designed for me. My hands weren't great. I wouldn't particularly
fast. Just the body, tall body. Put this guy into the uniform.
Did y'all have plays? We had plays, Kevin, No, I
school plays. There was a theater department. Yeah, my sister was very
involved, but no, I never did because you alway have been made fun
of. Huh. Oh, that's the thing. I always wanted to do
the theater stuff, and I got scared, really because I know that I
would have been teased for that, There's no question. Meanwhile, them I
wanted to do like an improv group and maybe act a little bit, find
myself the bright lights of the stage. It's so amazing how underdeveloped our brains
are when we're in incredible and how much how much outside influence has over our
ways of thinking and our choice making. Because if I had the brain that
I have now, would have never played football. Wouldn't have given a rats
ass how much shame I got from the coaches or other players, and I
probably would have gotten into theater. Yeah, and I probably would have taken
band a little more serious things that I'm actually applied to. What turned out
to the person that I ended up evolving into in spite of the fact I
didn't know that at the time. I was peer pressure because I didn't want
to play football. It scared me. I didn't want to get hurt.
But boy, if you didn't play, if you were able bodied and not
in special classes, you damn sure tried out for football. And if you
tried out and you could walk, you've got a uniform that was okay.
But yeah, oh dude, yeah, I played both ways and special teams,
all of it, all of it. But if you didn't play,
dude, you were shamed by everybody because that's all that matters out there,
dude, in West Texas is effing football. Football. I always kind of
regretted getting out of band because I was pretty good at trumpet. It's football
for a reason, and I was pretty good, but I quit when it
was time to transition into marching. I had no interest in marching messer.
I just didn't want to do that. I would I loved playing the music.
I loved it, but I did not have it. I mean that
part was gonna I would, so I would have quit it the way with
the but you're on the theater stuff always seemed fun. Those kids always semp
they're having a blast. Never went to their plays, and I was like,
I feel like I could have really found something there. I felt I
could have unlocked something. I did a little theater. That's cool. Yeah,
and you didn't get you didn't get uh, you know. He was
in a name call too. Yeah, it was this big school. Maybe
that was the big difference we had. I don't even know five six hundred
people in our graduating class. It was big. So yeah, no,
I don't recall any beef for that. And my brother was in theater.
He got screwed because when we moved from Miami to Sarasota, i'man a whole
different city. It was his sophomore year high school, you know. So
that's a hard one to get thrown into a new city, new school.
And I was in seventh grade, so I got to at least have a
couple of years before we got to Reverview, the big old high school.
So yeah, it was hard for him. But yeah, he got in
a theater and then I did year or two, did a bunch of plays
and it's fun. I remember it being fun, and it's probably good for
you. It's definitely good for that if you have any if you're reserved at
all, which I don't think I really was, but it's still good for
any coming out of shelves. Plus there's girls in it. Yeah, it's
like the loosest class as far as interaction and messing out. You're supposed to
hookers, you're supposed to mess with each other, and you know, interact
more than most classes were just sitting there. So it's just good for your
social game. I think this good for your social game. It's good for
your public speaking skills confidence. Yeah. Yeah, So get this word got
around that they were playing charades in theaters. So my senior year, I'd
pretty much died like two classes. I'd take my senior year. But they're
like, we can't just let you go home all day, so here office
hours, office hours, office hours. I was like, Okay, well,
screw that, I'll just go sit in with the theater class. Some
went sitting there my senior year and had a blast. It was so fun.
You you either did nothing or you played games all day. And then
they started to string together because at the time, whose line is it anyway,
it was still very popular and they started from well if we did an
improv night, like every Wednesday night up at the auditorium and people would come.
It was so fun. It was so fun. We also had something
where, oh yeah, students could get out of something else if they came
to our place. Yeah, so they know it'd be packed. Yeah,
it's like a class. The auditorium is well, yeah, because they don't
have to do whatever. And you see, I mean now, if you
do a play at night, yeah, it's gonna be sparsely attended or only
parents. But yeah, when you did the one during the school day,
yeah, it's were you holding the skeleton? I don't even be not last
poriotic. I remember grade school, I did the Shaky Tale of Doctor Jakie
and I got the lead role of doctor Jakie. And I was traveling,
uh like medicine salesman in the olden times, you know. And I had
the cart, you know, and I was doctor Jakie selling my potions and
my tonics. And that's how you became a drug dealer. Yeah, that's
gonna do that, transitioned into soroy industries. Probably these people in the play,
they're buying this crap. This is amazing potion, this no wonder.
He believes in magic so much so but extra extracurricular activities were a wonderful escape
and reason for to get out of a lot of stuff, a lot of
it just being at home all the time, which I really rarely ever was.
But you know, did you guys participate? I mean, Kevin,
I know you had UIL literary events and stuff like that. Did you Were
you part of that group at all? Yeah? I did a few things
I did. I mean as a kid, I growing up, I was
very good at spelling in math. But as I got into high school and
open and quit trying to do things like that, I got into like creative
writing. Yeah. Same. Oral reading was one too. I think I
believe that was what it was called, where you kind of take a story
or a book and then you kind of replay it in your own Yeah.
Almost like honestly, it's almost like five minutes of stand up. It's if
you're kind of prepared and you're going off a script and regurgitating a book in
your way and what you took from it. And they had like weird they
had like a fiction and a nonfiction, and that was that was fun to
do. I did that, but it was also but it was great because
you got to go. You'd get out of school to go to the competitions.
I mean I was out of school so much. Being they called it
GT back in the day, Gifted and Talented. Did you have to there's
like a handful. It was like maybe five or six or seven of the
upper classmen in high school that were part of GT. And we would go
to all these literary events and spelling was one. Creative writing. We did
this thing called headlines where you could read the body of a story and you
had to come up with the headline for the newspaper. But not only did
you have to come up with the headline, it had to be creative and
interesting, but you had to format it to the template. Yeah, it
had to you knew what the value of each fun each upper case and lower
case letter was and it had to fit under a certain amount of spaces and
these parameters that they gave you. That was really fun, but they had
all kinds I mean de bait. Yeah. Like I wasn't part of a
debate team, but my senior year I did l D which is Lincoln Douglas
Debate where you debate one other person and you have to I'm sure regular debates
like this as well, where you're presented both sides of a of a of
an argument and you have to regardless of how you feel about that particular topic,
you had to. You were assigned one or the other, the pro
or for and against, and you had to. You had a certain amount
of time to research that topic and then prepare and go in and debate it
against an opponent. And that was really fun. Man. That's good.
Yeah, but that was kind of like, I guess that was adjacent to
the theater experience for me. Yeah. Yeah, those are real life things
that you could use to you feel you're going up against competition too with other
schools. Oh dude, the other school that's where you met the girl?
How you met you weren't peeing in your own pool? Loved you I Elevents,
Yeah, you pe and your pool? And gory why Munday Haskell,
Haskel, Stanford, Stanford, Stanford, Hamlin, what's some Which one of
those was like HALLI the hub for hotties for you guys, Like which was
that distance school? There was the one twelve miles away. There was the
one school that it was called Winert and it was near Monday and they had
a crop of basketball players these girls that played basketball there was like they're starting
five were five's and above out in the country, which is like the Globetrotters
coming to town. Yeah, come come to your gymnasium. I mean,
our our basketball team would go to these girls games with Winer. It was
in town just to sit there and watch watch them play back terrible creeps,
boobs and ass hot hot hot Henrietta from Rita right next to it. And
the problem with Henrietta as all their guys were huge got I hated playing them
in footballs. They'd just talk us and beat the crap out of you.
We're just three uncle ricos sitting around the table this morning. How much you
want to bet we going football over that? And tell us fitness bill.
Okay, so today, what a lot of stuff, Mike coming up into
about ten minutes. Something happened yesterday and it shook everyone's day up a little
bit. Let's just say today's most important thing in the world. It was
easy. Yeah, it was very easy. It was sure problems. Sure
wasn't hard. Sounds the alarms, we got problems. It definitely wasn't hard.
Luckily, I had an old sports illustrated magazine with Kathy Ireland. You
know what that probably made you want to do? Are letting creek a little
rod? Get the are letting creak a little the at seventh Sports at seven
you guys were singing that when I walked in. It's the hit of the
day. It is, guys at seven thirty, get this, Get this,
I got another shocking gator attack. Are new airplanes? Well, okay,
plush, please, no, there's not. At eight o'clock we'll have
the news of the light. The flashing light stopped working on a plane.
Were gonna talk about it for an hour. Okay. Someone someone's comfortable letting
Boeing control their life. Not me. We got to call these people out.
Man. My grandfather, Winford Boeing, did not build his company from
scratch to have YouTube this small town Winford or Winfrid. I don't know.
The News of the week recap at eight plus. The crowd loved it.
Last week. The audience was like, oh my god, so funny.
More church fails. Okay. My one pastor friend did text me and he
said that and they have like a pastor because they have conventions and stuff.
Sure, he's like my pastor friends and I have all shared all these with
each other. There's a text train of of pastor sharing just pastor fails,
dear heavenly farter, the classic ones. I guess that's like industry industry comedy
for those guys, of course. And at nine o'clock to Saint Patrick's Day
eruption, we'll get you ready for Sunday with everything you need to know about
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