Episode 33: Tim Connelly

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I got the whiskey. Let me have a drink of your whiskey.

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Better get out of here.
My name's Ken and I clean Willie Nelson's under hole.
Under hole?
I know you don't agree but I think he's the king of country.
Get the fuck out of here.
I try to be cut for this.
Get out of my studio.
I'm just kidding.
No, hell no.

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From the Ramona radio studios, it's the Travis Billy Ross Outlaw Country Show.
Alright, we're here. We're live.
Happy Sunday everybody. Hope everybody had a good week.
Welcome to the Travis Billy Ross Outlaw Country Show with me as always, Sweet Curbs.
Hey, hey.
Here we go. Cue it.

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Sweet Curbs with a twinkled in her eye.
Dance around the field where clovers lie.
Her smile's a charm.
How are you doing today, Sweet Curbs?
I'm doing good.
Man with me as always, Mr. Sound Guy over here.
The mad man behind the machine. Eric, go for it. What's up, dude?
Hi, buddy.
Happy Sunday.
Thanks.

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We got a very cool guest with us today.
We might have to write him an AI song.
Is that an AI song?
Yeah.
We all have theme songs.
We'll have to play with that a little bit.
We all have AI songs.
So with us today, we've got the honorary mayor of Ramona, Mr. Tim Connolly.
I'm cilantro.
Ching, ching, ching.
Hey, cat man.

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How are you doing?
Doing well. Thanks for having me.
Second fun thing I get to do today.
This is a wonderful, wonderful day.
Yeah.
I heard you've been writing some songs.
I got to write a song earlier today with Ashley and that was just a kick.
So being that I'm not that guy, to be part of that process.
I like putting words together, but to hear sound added to them and hear how they need to be massaged was, it's a treat.

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And then coming to doing this, I've never done anything like this.
I'm wearing headphones and looking at three of my friends.
And this is just, this is a joy.
Hey, this is what it is, man.
We're sipping whiskey.
We're hanging out and just bullshitting whatever, whatever we want to talk about, man.
I got a question for Tim.
We're talking about his song.
When you did say cheese, did you do it the same way you wrote out the words and then someone put music to it for you and then you sang it?

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Yes.
Okay.
I sang that one, that was my lifelong partner, David Kirk Grant.
And he's made a living out doing music and he, it was, it's same, yeah, same idea.
Dave, that one took longer to put together.
Ashley's really got away with it.
So that was neat to see.
With Dave, it was a longer process.

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Yeah.
But both, I've enjoyed, you know, I've only written four songs, five songs, but I've enjoyed the process each time.
And each time it's been a little bit different.
So I enjoy hearing, but even with this, I had written out something that I, I enjoyed the way I put the thoughts together and handed to her.
She said, well, how do you hear it?
I said, I don't, I don't.

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How do you hear it?
I don't know.
How do you hear it?
I'm not a musician.
What do you mean?
I stop at the words.
No, Ashley's got a way of, man, she can write a song in like 20 minutes.
No doubt.
I don't know how she does it.
It takes me months to write a song.
But I'm enjoying that process.

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It's what I had just discovered in myself is that I had, I've always wanted to get something done.
So I'm always, I'm always designing the product.
That's, that's the way it works with farming.
That's what I'm coming from, farming background.
You want to be done with something.
You don't want to be doing something.
Yeah.
And this creative exchange is something you enjoy doing.

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You don't want to be done with it.
So to enjoy the doing, as the wife would say, to enjoy the process is different for me.
But I do enjoy this creative banter that you get to do when you do something that's creative.
So where are you from?
You're not from originally, Ramona.
I'm from Temple City, so near Pasadena.
I moved down here when I was 19.

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Nineteen.
In 85, 86.
Oh, wow.
To Ramona.
To Ramona.
And been here the whole time?
Wow, man.
I only lived in a handful of two.
I've been in Mike house for 29 years.
Wow.
Oh my gosh.
And you farm.
What do you, what do you?
My background is specialty vegetables.
So I'm still a produce salesman and I sell produce to everybody.

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All the produce in Children's Hospital or Verona Casino or.
And throughout San Diego, I sell product.
I sell produce.
And the new Rachel's Restaurant that's opening here in Ramona in December.
I sell the product or all their produce.
Oh, that's cool.
Very cool.
That is my background is food.
So I was a farmer and as all farmers know, you do it until you go completely broke.

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And then you have to figure out how to get another job.
So.
Hey, maybe you can start writing more music.
I'm sure that's another way you can go broke too.
But it was my, my knowledge really is if you ever want to know how to grow something, if you want to plant a garden.
Yeah.
It's very second nature to me.
I'm very, I'm good at growing things.

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That's cool, man.
Right on.
We got to have Tim come out to our property and teach us how to grow things.
We got a whole lot of land for it.
Yeah, no, I can.
I know how to grow stuff on us.
I've grown.
I've my mom had gardens and stuff my whole life as a kid.
I don't have a green tomatoes and all kinds of stuff.
It's fun.
I like, I like dabbling into that.
I just haven't had a chance to really do anything.
Well, you live in kind of challenging area, the wildlife.

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Yeah.
Yeah.
The birds.
Yeah, everything where you live and want to eat it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Including our goats.
Including our goats.
Yeah.
Our own animals.
Well, the chickens, though, we've come up with the solution.
They're pinned up, which sounds bad, but they have a very large area we bought.
We didn't buy.
We were gifted an old trampoline.
And so we took the frames and put chicken wire around it and over the top.

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And then their coop is inside of it.
Oh, nice.
So they have the whole perimeter.
I mean, there's only eight of them.
So they have the whole perimeter of the inside of the trampoline.
And it's light enough.
We can move it around and stuff if we need to.
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Yeah.
We had chickens before and they all got eaten by coyotes.
So we had to figure out a way to keep them safe.
Well, because we had a coop and we would close them up at night.
During the day when no one's home, it's kind of hard to monitor.

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You know, most of my chickens that I've lost, I've lost lots of chickens.
But most of my chickens that I've lost were from raccoons.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Just get into the coop because raccoons just kill and kill and kill and kill.
Yeah.
They won't eat them.
They'll just kill them.
That's wild.
Yeah.
I'm pretty sure ours was a coyote then because we never found any of them.
Yeah, and there are coyotes out there.
And there wasn't any like trail of feathers, maybe one or two.

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Yeah.
And they were just gone.
So farmer and then photographer.
Photographer, yes.
That's your main thing.
Well, produce sales is my main thing.
I sell a lot of produce.
Photos is the main...
Photos is where my joy goes.
And it's increasingly becoming my revenue and I enjoy it.
I really do.
And I get to go behind the scenes at places where I normally wouldn't go.

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I just mentioned to you shooting a funeral.
Oh, yeah.
And that was a very touching event.
And I've shot a few funerals that are extremely touching events.
I've been asked to shoot end of life photos with the children, with the children addressing the mother,
making sure she's looking as good as she can and shooting those photos.
And I get to be involved in such real life stuff that...

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And people pretend you weren't there.
I did the wedding photos for a couple in town here.
Lovely couple, Jania Olson.
Oh, yeah.
We were at the reception.
We were there.
We played there.
Jania and Josh.
That's right.
You were there.
So the only people that were there for the...
The only person that was there for their vows was me.
And they didn't see me.

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And we stepped into the tasting or the barrel area.
Okay.
And the two of them said their vows to one another like I wasn't there.
So I'm really the only person who heard them other than each other.
And to be given that kind of trust and be able to take those photos.
That's cool.
That is... It's a neat thing.
So I enjoy... If you look at my photography, I enjoy people.

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And because I enjoy the emotion, I try to capture the emotions.
And when people allow me to come into something where I really have no business,
but they trust me to be there and they're comfortable enough to be themselves while I'm doing that,
I enjoy the photography, but I really dig the people watching.
And I spend more time with a photo of somebody...
I've looked at you in greater detail than you've ever looked at yourself.

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And it's because I look at every little thing and I enjoy that.
All right.
Fun fact, actually.
My band's logo, you took that picture.
Yes, I did.
And I enjoyed that.
That was a fun shoot.
I just thought about that.
That was killer.
Right on, man.
Well, shoot, this is an Outlaw Country show.
So I know you like country music.
Absolutely.
You like more the older stuff or the newer stuff?

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I did like that 2000-y stuff, 1990, 2000 stuff.
90s, 2000, okay.
And I like old stuff.
Old?
When they started rapping and country music, I felt left behind.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I wasn't a fan of that either.
No, I'm an old school kind of guy, dude.
I like old...
I like... My favorite's Hank Williams, Sr.

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Maybe you like new stuff too.
It just depends on what you guys...
Yeah, I do like some new stuff.
It's not mainstream.
Jamie Johnson, Cody Jinx.
If it's got the older vibe, you know, like Cody Jinx, Jamie Johnson.
Tyler...
Tyler Childers, who's pretty good.
Childers.
I was like Childers Childers.
Did you know who I was talking about?
I know.
That's what I told the guy.
I was like, man.
Yeah, there's all the controversies like how do you pronounce this loud?
Childers or Childers?
Or like Childers Childers.

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Did you know who I was talking about?
Yeah.
Okay.
I think the last good country show we went and saw was Brad Paisley and I enjoyed the
heck out of it.
It was just a fun show and I enjoyed reading about him and learning about him before I
went and saw the show.
I enjoyed his music, but his book was concise and if you're a guitar person, it was a wonderful

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book and then to go see him, that was just a delight.
You know what?
I got a Brad Paisley CD one year for Christmas and I did not like him.
I don't know why.
I didn't really have a reason.
I never really even listened to it.
And that CD sat forever and ever and then one day I started listening to it and I love
Brad Paisley.
He's such a good songwriter in the sense of his songs tell a story like a whole like start

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to finish like a story and some of them are funny.
Some of them are beautiful.
Some of them are sad.
Whatever.
Didn't he do that song?
I'm going to miss her.
Yes, but that's what I mean.
That's a funny one.
From start to finish or the one that's called Waiting on a Woman.
Oh, Waiting on a Woman.
That's a good song.
From his first date to that he's going to die first because he's going to be waiting.
And on one of the renditions of Waiting on a Woman, he does it with, oh gosh, he does

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it with not Merv Griffin, he does it with Andy Griffith.
And Andy Griffith is old at the time and you can hear the age in his voice and he does
it as a spoken piece and it's a great song.
It's just a great song.
I think my favorite Brad Paisley, there's Whiskey Lullaby with Alison Krauss.
Such a good, just beautiful, heartbreaking.

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That's a Head in the Oven song though.
Kind of a sadder one.
That's what we dock Dirty Confetti's bass player termed Head in the Oven for any song
that's depressing.
That's depressing.
So we did, he stopped loving her today and he's like, ugh, that's like, I feel like I
want to put my head in an oven.
So that song is affectionately referred to now as when they play it, play the Head in

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the Oven song.
Play the Head in the Oven song, right.
All right, well, let's listen to some tunes, man.
What would you like to listen to?
Anything in particular?
I want to hear that song you mentioned before we came on.
Oh, well, yeah, okay.
Well, tell us about that one.
He was asking me about what I like.
So I figure a formative song and if I had a formative song, it was from an album my
sister had around when I was five and six years old and I enjoyed the rhythm of it and

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I enjoyed the words to it as I grew into them.
But it's Phil Oakes Outside of a Small Circle of Friends.
Phil Oakes.
All right, man, let's check it out.
Oh, look outside the window, there's a woman being grabbed.

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They've dragged her to the bush, that's how she's being stabbed.
Maybe we should call the cops and try to stop the pain.
But Monopoly is so much fun, I'd hate to blow the game.
And I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody outside of a small circle of friends.

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Riding down the highway, yes, my back is getting stiff.
13 cars are piled up there hanging on a cliff.
Now maybe we should pull them back with our towing chain.
But we gotta move and we might get sued and it looks like it's gonna rain.
And I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody outside of a small circle of friends.

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Sweating in the ghetto with the colored and the poor, the rats have joined the babies
who are sleeping on the floor.
Now wouldn't it be a riot if they really blew their tops?
But they got too much already and besides we've got the cops and I'm sure it wouldn't

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interest anybody outside of a small circle of friends.
Oh, there's a dirty paper using sex to make her sense.
The Supreme Court was so upset they sent him off to jail.

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Maybe we should help the fiend and take away his spot.
But we're busy reading Playboy and the Sunday New York Times and I'm sure it wouldn't interest
anybody outside of a small circle of friends.

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Smoking marijuana is more fun than drinking beer.
But a friend of ours was captured and they gave him thirty years.
Maybe we should raise our voices and ask somebody why.
But demonstrations are a drag besides we're much too high and I'm sure it wouldn't interest

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Oh, look outside the window there's a woman being grabbed.

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They've dragged her to the bushes and now she's being stabbed.
Maybe we should call the cops and try to stop the pain.
But monopoly is so much fun I'd hate to blow the game and I'm sure it wouldn't interest

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Oh, look outside the window there's a woman being grabbed.
Maybe we should raise our voices and ask somebody why.

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Oh, his guitar can't lack the feeling of music.

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It's the only thing that keeps me hanging out.

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There was a time I could drag my cares away and drown out all of the heartaches that hurt
me night and day.

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When the thought of you came crashing through I'd have one more.
But now the whiskey ain't working anymore.
I need one good honky tonk angel to turn my life around.

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That's a reason enough for me to let this old bottle down.
Woman, woman, woman, that's what I'm looking for.

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They knew my name at every bar in town.
And they knew all of the reasons why I was coming round, round, round.
Sing it, Travis.
Cause in my mind he said fine when they'd start to hold.

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Sing it, Travis.
I need one good honky tonk angel to turn my life around.
That's a reason enough for me to let this old bottle down.

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Oh man.
Good old Travis Tritt.
I couldn't imagine a day when the whiskey stops working.
At some point you go, I really need you to work whiskey.
Come on, whiskey, don't let me down this time, baby.
It's been one of those days.
Oh man, we're here hanging out at the Ramona studio.

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We're hanging out with Tim Connolly, Mr. Mayor.
Thanks for having me.
Well, it's having a man.
Dude, how did the Mayor thing come about?
Well, it came about, people started calling me Mayor long before I was Mayor.
John Dagenfelter was Mayor who did an amazing job for quite a spell
and really helped out the Town Hall.
But then there is an official, unofficial, honorary Mayor of Ramona.

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You actually have to do something.
So Woody Kirkman, who is the longest standing member of the Town Hall Reconstruction Project,
asked me if I would be one of the participants in the honorary Mayor campaign,
which is just a dollar per vote campaign.
So it's a fundraiser.
And it was Garrett and I and Robin this year,

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but Robin's votes were split evenly between Garrett and I
because she is an actual elected and works for Sand Dag.
So Garrett and I did our best and we raised some money, but we still need plenty more.
We were able to keep the lights on and maybe clean the carpets a couple of times.
But we were hoping for that whale to come forward,

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for that person to say, you know, those folks have been working awful hard
and they're trying to get something going here.
Because that's what it's going to take.
It's going to take a real chunk of change.
We're still a million and a half short to do it right.
And that's not people say, oh, write a grant.
Well, there's not a lot of people hanging out a million and a half dollars on the grant.
So that's nothing.

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But that's the way it was built.
It was built by the benevolence of two families, the Barnett family and the Santee family.
And it was a bunch of money to them.
It was eighty thousand dollars at the time for the Barnett's.
They put they gave to the town and they had no intention of keeping the building.
That was 18.

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Eighteen ninety two is when they began the project and finished in eighteen ninety four.
And they gave eighty thousand dollars.
It was eighty thousand dollars.
I want to see what that would be today.
Yeah, it was they put in.
So that was and the land was given by the Santee family.
So there was two people.
But what it did and the reason that the town is the building is important.
But what it did is it made an anchor for the town.

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So there was people were driving through here to go to Viena because this wasn't really even going to be the town.
The town is going to be about another three and a half miles out of town.
It's growing into be the town.
And this was an area that was a big wide street where there was nothing.
There was five buildings up there.
And for some reason, the Barnett said, let's build the biggest building in the entire surrounding area right in this middle of nowhere.

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Well, they did it to us to make a statement.
And it did make a statement.
And eventually it made a town.
And that's why we need to support.
That's wild, man.
This is such a cool history in this town, man.
I love it.
It's a crazy, crazy history.
Eighty thousand dollars and eighteen ninety.
That would probably be like I just looked it up.
It's that would be the equivalent of three million dollars today.

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Wow.
Three million eighty three thousand dollars today.
That's crazy.
Inflation three thousand five hundred and seventy percent.
Oh, my God.
There was a couple of rough years.
Good Lord.
That's a lot of money.
So I so I have a brick from from that building.
I think I painted our I got it from you.
Yes, part of our fundraiser.

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And you won the lottery and that one was painted by Lori Sutherland.
OK.
Yeah.
It was the nice acrylic.
Yeah.
White and blue flag.
Yeah.
Flag on there.
I was perfect.
It sits on my piano.
And that was a neat fundraiser that we did because we have so many wonderful artists here and we have lots of bricks.
Although we're trying to put all the bricks back on the town hall for seven bricks with with three or six bricks with three artists.

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We generated four thousand dollars.
So we can buy a lot more bricks with that.
That's a lot of bricks.
So yeah.
So they're trying to keep it completely like original using the same bricks.
I'm trying to put the original bricks as much as we can back on the outside.
So and so the brick the brick will be a facing to a modern built structure.

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Masonry wall cement block with metal structure.
The original structure.
Imagine this the original structure was 17 by 17 inch adobe brick with regular red brick put to the outside.
That was the design.
So it was the walls were 22 inches thick.
It was done for heat to preserve heat.
But there is no steel.

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And if you know anything about adobe you don't want to be stacking it two stories tall.
Yeah.
And you want good adobe.
So the adobe for the town hall was from here.
And we don't have adobe.
So what they made was increasingly poor adobe brick.
And to the point where towards the end they were running out of straw.

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They were running out of oil that were necessary to make a good brick.
The person who was in charge of making the brick the old man who owned the brick or I don't know what you call a place that makes brick.
I like brick.
You can change like brick.
The guy who was making the bricks didn't didn't know these run out of stuff because his help didn't want to tell him he's run out of stuff because it would mean they lost work.

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So the last of the brick was in very poor shape and it just didn't take long for a couple of leaks on a funny shaped roof on the old adobe for that building to become unsafe.
One wall really took a beating.
So that's the wall that we had replaced.
Took a lot of time a lot of money.
Tom found a grant for us last two years ago.

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Yes.
And we were able to get a piece of it done.
That was great.
But now the building is not going to fall over that wall was sagging 10 inches.
It was really wow.
It was really coming out.
And so now it's the strongest it's been ever probably.
There's only one wall has been done.
But that being said, in 1993 the front two rooms in the foyer were rebuilt.
So that was a huge investment by a lot of people in town, Darrell Beck being a person there.

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Oh, yeah.
And so we do have two rooms town hall that you can rent now and it is reasonable rent now.
And that was done through people who worked hard before me.
So I'm taking my turn right now saying go town hall go.
And at some point I'm going to pass my torch and just as John Degenfeld did to the next person that says go town hall go and hopefully it'll get done.

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I still believe and I believe the only reason I took this on is I believe it can be finished and I believe that sooner or later the right person is going to hear my pitch and they're going to say, you know, we get it.
It's a good thing.
And my pitch is find reasons to gather.
That's what I'm about.
The community coffees that we've been doing for years.

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The next one is on December 14th.
If you're looking for something to do on December 14th.
We're having two community coffee at the town hall this time.
What day is that on? Is that a weekday?
It'll be a Saturday.
From 10 to 10 to noon.
And I don't know what we're going to do.
We always do something fun and goofy, but we'll do something fun and goofy.
I like watching you make people do animal sounds.
Yeah, it's always a fun one.
And that last one, the pig and goat impersonations were a ton of fun.

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And it's getting it's creeping up on me fast this time like the holidays always do for everybody.
So I should have already put this out there.
But I think what I'm going to ask a couple people to do anyway is get a couple skits.
We're going to be at the town hall. We've got a stage.
And I want to see if I can get a couple of Christmas skits out of people.
So watch for that. Maybe we'll get that going.

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I know you won't have much time, but we're going to make it happen.
And that's the idea of the community coffees is to let people be silly and see one another for the similarities and forget their differences for a couple hours.
I love that.
You know, it's wild about Ramona.
There's so many musicians here that all play music and write music.
But I don't know if a whole lot of people who act like who are like actors or actors do.

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No, I don't either.
No. And I think we could support a small theater.
That'd be cool.
And there was I've read some articles in town hall.
There's been some neat things that have happened and they kind of fund themselves.
And it's doable. It's doable.
People want to have their kid in a play.
And, you know, if you start doing the Ramona play every year and you get a kick in from the parents to pay for the kid to be there, at least they can afford the set and we can get one show a year.

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Maybe we get a Christmas show a year on the stage out there.
Maybe we can get a couple of years.
That would be cool.
When the town hall closed, the next thing that was going to show was a play. The last thing, the last play, the last thing other than Ashley that happened in town hall was a play that was going to happen in 1985.

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And it was written by townspeople and it was a silly play.
And I can't think of the name of it.
Woody would remember.
But Woody remembers everything.
And it was that's what they did is there was some local theater and there was some local written plays that would go on there.
I'd love to see that happen again.
That'd be cool.
I've dabbled in acting a little bit in my younger days.
I've worked.

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I was in this dinner theater thing for the Sopranos.
You know, that TV show or it was like an interactive theater dinner type interactive theater, kind of like a mystery theater type thing, you know, where they would have dinner.
And I say I didn't really act, but I sang, you know, for the dinner hour of the event.
But it was pretty fun.
We had a good time.

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Well, I'm a big theater fan and I mentioned my partner, Dave Grant, and he's done theater his whole life and his whole life.
So we were in a rock band in high school and he was able to figure out how to never take a real job and make music his whole life.
And a bit of that was Disney and he was Jafar, if you ever saw the play there.

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He was Jafar Disney.
And a bit of that was traveling the world doing plays.
And that first off Broadway push that they do around the world, he would get to do these and go see Australia and Japan and all these cool places and do what he enjoyed doing.
So I thought, you know, it's not an easy way.
It's a lot of beating the bush.

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I'm going to stay busy as an actor is a lot of looking for work.
I mean, staying busy as a musician is a lot of work.
To pay the bills, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, Ashley works her butt off, man.
I mean, I have a normal day job.
Not normal, but I have a day job.
But yeah, to just rely on just the talent that you have or the skill that you have to play music and then to be able to pay the bills doing that is I couldn't imagine.

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I could imagine it's pretty tough, pretty challenging, especially here in California.
Absolutely expensive.
Yeah, that's wild, man.
All right, man.
So we ask everybody all the guests that we have on here.
There's always this topic, this question, the king of country.
Who would be your king of country?
You know, I have to say Willie Nelson.
Willie Nelson.
OK, that's doable.

(32:33):
Julie said that, too.
Yeah, Julie said that as well.
There's been there's been a couple Willie Nelson said that's that's acceptable.
As long as you didn't say George Strait, we're good.
You can stay now.
All right.
And then we also ask the next.
So we got it.
But that being said, I was introduced to country through bluegrass.

(32:54):
Bill Monroe would really be my my king, but it's not technically country.
I would consider bluegrass country.
Yeah, I mean, it's not going to fall in the other category.
Yeah, I mean, bluegrass.
I mean, where at in the record store would you find that album?
Not in the rap section, not in the rock and roll section.
You know, like that would be in the country section for sure.

(33:17):
All right. So Queen Queen Queen of country.
Well, it's a little red land.
Red land from my generation.
You have to remember commercial that played every five minutes.
Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Loretta Lennon.
That's funny.
Well, that's cool.
So it's a it's a pretty wild consensus that Dolly Parton's the queen.
But then we get a lot of Loretta Lennon, too.

(33:40):
You know, she's a close second.
Dolly Parton is amazing.
And you're not sound like getting sweet on Dave.
But I'm thinking of Dave Gann again.
Dave is in a he wrote in in in a Dolly Parton review.
And that's what he's doing right now.
That's his job.
Oh, yeah, I'll be there.
He's doing the Dolly Parton.
I'm trying to get him to come.
What a fun life.
Yeah. And it's a it's a fun.

(34:01):
It's interactive.
The gal who's playing Dolly's a hoot and she's interactive with the crowd.
And where does he do this? Where's the show right now?
They get him.
I think the last this next one is in Costa Mesa.
They just go wherever they get.
That's what you do is wherever they hire him, he goes.
And it's I want to get it to happen here one of these days.

(34:23):
Yeah. Oh, that'd be awesome.
Yeah. Well, we're going to play some music.
But before we do, we do a shout out to our sponsor here, Mr.
Outlaw Barbecue, Dean.
Have you had a Dean's Outlaw Barbecue?
I love Dean's. So good.
I was turning around to see if he's bringing something.
He usually does.
I know he usually does.

(34:45):
Give Dean a call today.
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Welcome home, Goldfish.
Welcome home, Goldfish.
Anything.
Bar Mitzvah.
Farewell, Goldfish.
Whatever.
Farewell, Goldfish.
Flush the Goldfish. Have a barbecue for him.

(35:06):
I'm a grief eater.
That'd be perfect.
Yeah. Hit him up today.
Eight five eight three five four seven seven one two.
Book your next outdoor event.
We love you, Dean.
Nobody wants to party.
Now, let's see how they have the beat.

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Blue moon of Kentucky, keep on shining.
Shining on you when it's gone and prudent too.
Shining on you when it's gone and left me blue.

(36:00):
It was on a moonlight night.
The stars were shining bright.
And they whispered from on high.
Your lover said goodbye.

(36:21):
Shining on the one that's gone and said goodbye.

(36:47):
Shining on the one that's gone and prudent too.

(37:19):
Shining on you when it's gone and left me blue.

(37:47):
It was on a moonlight night.
The stars were shining bright.
And they whispered from on high.
Your lover said goodbye.

(38:09):
Shining on the one that's gone and said goodbye.
Cowboys ain't easy to love and they're harder to hold.
Let brother give you a song than diamonds or gold.

(38:34):
Long star belt buckles and old faded Levi's.
Tonight begins a new day.
If you don't understand him, he don't die young.
He'll probably just ride away.
Mommas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.

(38:59):
Don't let them pick guitars or drive them old trucks.
Let them be doctors and lawyers and such.
They never stay home and they're always alone.
Even with someone they love.

(39:25):
Cowboys like smoky old pool rooms and clear mountain mornings.
Little warm puppies and children and girls of the night.
Them that don't know him won't like him.
And them that do sometimes won't know how to take him.

(39:47):
He ain't wrong, he's just different.
But his pride won't let him do things to make you think he's right.

(40:08):
Let them be doctors and lawyers and such.
They never stay home and they're always alone.
Even with someone they love.

(40:30):
Hey, how about you Alabama? Roll on.

(40:54):
Roll on highway, roll on laws.
Roll on daddy till you get back home.
Roll on family, roll on crew.
Roll on mama like I ask you to do.
And roll on 18 Wheeler, roll on.

(41:16):
Roll on!
Well it's Monday morning, he's kissing mama goodbye.
He's up and gone with the sun.
Daddy drives an 18 Wheeler and he's off on a Midwest run.

(41:39):
Three sad faces gather around mama.
They ask her when daddy's coming home.
Daddy drives an 18 Wheeler and they sure miss him when he's gone.
But he calls her every night and tells her that he loves her.

(42:01):
He taught her this song to sing.

(42:22):
Roll on!
Well it's Wednesday evening, mama's waiting by the phone.
It rings but it's not his voice.
It seems the highway patrol has found a jackknife trick in a snowbank in Illinois.

(42:45):
But the driver was missing and the search had been abandoned.
Cause the weather had everything stalled.
And they had checked all the houses and the local motels.
When they had some more news they'd call.
And she told him when they found him to tell him that she loved him.

(43:07):
And she hung up the phone singing.

(43:29):
Mama and the children will be waiting up all night long.
Thinking nothing but the worst is coming.
With the ringing of the telephone.
But the man upstairs was listening when mama asked him to bring daddy home.
And when the call came in it was daddy on the other end.

(43:53):
Asking her if she had been singing the song.
And roll on 18 Wheeler.

(44:14):
Roll on.

(44:36):
18 Wheeler.
18 Wheeler.
18 Wheeler.
18 Wheeler.
Roll on, roll on, roll on.
Roll on.

(44:57):
Ha ha ha ha.
Tim, have you ever driven an 18 Wheeler?
I have not.
No.
I did it for a job.
You did.
For a couple of years.
I was a long haul truck driver.
I was going to say there's nothing that sounds more terrifying than driving an 18 Wheeler.

(45:18):
I was more scared driving an 18 Wheeler.
Oh really?
Oh yeah.
The plane is my, when I'm in the airplane that's my happy place.
Yeah because there's like no other things around you.
I don't have to worry about people running stop signs.
I don't have to worry about people not using blinkers.
I can just, it's my happy place.
I think driving an 18 Wheeler would freak me out.
I would not like to do it.
I was a helper on a tile truck for a couple of weeks and it was a cab over.

(45:41):
So a stub nose Mac so you're like in front of the wheels.
And it was LA traffic.
And if you've never been in one of those, it feels like you're falling out the front of the truck all the time.
Ha ha ha.
I was just sitting past you driving.
No.
You're really close to the back of this car.
Because you're like literally right there.
There's no.

(46:02):
Oh yeah.
So Tim when you were a kid, how old were you when you started driving a car like 15, 16.
16.
16 years old.
I started driving my brother's Javelin.
That was a Javelin?
Yeah.
Well tell me more about this car.
Because we've had this conversation before.
It was an odd Javelin.
It was the first car.

(46:23):
Propane powered Javelin.
What?
Propane powered?
Propane powered.
How does that work?
It had a propane tank in the.
That seems like a lot of things could go wrong possibly.
Like a forklift.
Yeah.
Was that an aftermarket thing or did they actually sell them that way?
No it was an aftermarket thing.
And I don't know where my brother.
I was going to say yeah, OSHA would not approve of that.
Because gosh, that would be 1980, 79.

(46:46):
So it was a long time ago.
And it was an older Javelin at that point.
So probably a 74 Javelin that was converted.
Wow.
And yeah, it was an interesting vehicle.
But that was my first and then off to Datsun's.
And then I was a Datsun guy for a long time.
Datsun.
My friend in high school, his name was Matt.
He drove like a brown rest colored Datsun.

(47:07):
And we called it the potato.
But he was the only one with a car at the time.
So he.
Nissan bought them.
Oh, they got absorbed in?
Yeah, they got into the Nissan.
That's going to be the next like they just came out with the Broncos again.
The Datsun.
Yeah.
So yeah, like Datsun in.
2024 Datsun.
And I drove like a fool.
And I did drive like a fool.
I had Datsun 510 and I.

(47:29):
I drove like an idiot.
I mean, manual transmission.
I would kill somebody if they did what I did.
And I remember getting away with it for a couple of years and driving out in the desert,
down in Anza Borrego with with three buddies in the car at 120 miles an hour,
the car that was built to do about four or five miles an hour.
And I remember driving like a fool.

(47:50):
And I drove like a fool.
And I remember getting away with it for a couple of years and driving out in the desert,
down in Anza Borrego with three buddies in the car at 120 miles an hour,
the car that was built to do about 55 safely because I didn't keep all the tires up.
And and we're doing 120.
I shut off the lights and my buddies, my buddies, you should.

(48:13):
And I turned the light back on and partnered another partner,
different Dave in the back seat said, dude, why, why, why, why do you do that?
I honestly believe that as I knew this wasn't my time.
Yeah.
And he said the next words he said was, you know, when it's my time.
And I took my foot off the gas and I was 18 years old and I didn't drive like an ass.

(48:34):
I mean, I've had periods where I drove like an ass.
Yeah. That changed me.
That humbled you up really quick.
It really did. I love these guys.
And the thought of killing one of them was crazy.
That was a very poignant thing to say at that moment.
Yeah. Do you know when it's my time? Oh, man. Yeah.
That's the thing with me, man. When I'm right, my Harley, like when I sweet curbs has no idea how I really ride my Harley.

(48:56):
And I don't want to know. So please don't tell us on this radio show, please.
If you'd like to continue writing it, she rides on the back and I ride like, you know, a gentleman, a gentleman.
I was going to say grandma, because my grandma drove like a crazy lady.
Oh, man. So you're drinking some whiskey over there. You good?

(49:18):
I am. This is very enjoyable. What are we drinking by the way?
This is Gentleman Jack.
Excellent. Thank you.
Also, we're still trying to get a sponsorship, Gentleman Jack.
If you could see the picture of bottles underneath the desk here.
I don't think you would fight us on it.
No, I know. Each bottle has one or two numbers on it.
Usually two numbers, which is the episodes that we drank those bottles on.

(49:40):
Oh, right on.
So I think one of them only has one.
And that was, yeah, it depends on the guest.
I don't remember that show very much.
Sometimes we sleep in the studio after the show.
You have to listen to it to find out what happened.
I know. I go back and listen to it. I'm like, oh, God, I remember that.

(50:01):
Damn, I was drunk. I said that.
I do that all the time. Oh, yeah, we did talk about that.
Oh, good talk. So is that your normal go-to drink? Whiskey?
My go-to of late is kind of odd, but it's port.
Oh, OK.
I'm enjoying port. And I drink very rarely.
I normally drink once every couple of months,

(50:24):
but I've taken up having a glass of port in the evening four or five nights a week.
And it was not that anybody cares, but it was a fluke that I did.
And we were on a remembrance vacation for a dear friend in a tight group that had passed.
And we had had a wonderful meal. And we finished it with a port.

(50:46):
And I introduced the group to port because I was more familiar than they were.
And we all enjoyed it. And now every time I pick one up,
I remember my departed friends and my three closest friends.
And it's kind of a, I enjoy the drink, but I enjoy the...
It's like having a moment with your friends every night, which is fun.
That's kind of neat.
Well, so since you brought up port, I'm going to give a shout out to our other sponsor,

(51:11):
Palmo Valley Winery. Thank you so much, Jennifer.
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All that to say, we have a port.
Yes, you do.
So definitely come in and have a glass and say hi and enjoy our port.
Smokey port. Yep. Smokey port.
And it is on special right now.

(51:32):
I mean, me, I'm not really a port fan because it's kind of sweet.
I feel like it's like I'm eating wine. You know what I mean?
Like, I mean, I'm a whiskey guy.
It's definitely a thicker viscosity than wine.
Yeah. Yeah.
So it's wine and brandy.
So your younger days, what was the drink?
Whiskey.
Whiskey. Okay.
And now what we keep at home, if the wife and I look and grab something,

(51:55):
I keep a good bottle of tequila.
Okay. Tequila.
And yeah, I had the new country wine and spirits, if you're into tequila,
the new one.
Oh yeah, we got to go check it out.
The one in the Albertson Center there?
Yeah.
He's got more tequilas. He's got 400 tequilas.
Wow.
Tequilas.
How big is the store?
The store is bigger than it looks like from the outside.

(52:16):
The way they have it organized is just incredible.
It's where Hallmark was?
Yeah. And there's so much alcohol in the store. It's mind numbing.
Wow.
But I can't even think of what he pointed me towards for the last tequila,
but I said, you know, I only drink good tequila.
I drink Don Patrone, and he kind of giggles.
He's up.
Good tequila.
That's good.

(52:37):
Don Patrone.
Steve, yeah.
And then schooled me on the fillers there.
I didn't know, did you know there's fillers in alcohol?
I didn't know there's fillers in alcohol, but there's fillers in alcohol.
And if you're drinking cheap alcohol, you're drinking fillers.
And I don't want to drink a filler. I don't drink very often.
I want to have good alcohol.

(52:58):
So I bought myself, I brought my wife a $70 bottle tequila a month and a half ago,
and I still have more than a half a bottle.
But it's something that we keep around to get home on a Friday night.
Well, and that's obviously a sipping tequila, not we're making margaritas for like Taco Tuesday tequila.
Yeah, no, no.
We're salt and lime and fast and dirty.

(53:21):
Oh, you just shoot it. Okay, I got you.
Well, then that's like, Joni and Alan, they always drink that.
I think they call it a Nejo.
A Nejo.
A Nejo tequila, and they do it with a spice of lime, orange, but they just sip it like on the rocks.
Yeah, I couldn't do that.
I can't.
Now, I actually like tequila, but it puts me to sleep within 60 seconds.

(53:44):
I feel like champagne does that to me.
It's nuts because Cassie and I got on this kick for a long time trying to find the best margaritas in town,
and we were driving all this when we lived down the hill, but all over Santee and I mean everywhere,
trying to find the best margaritas.
I enjoyed the quest, but every time we did it, I said, I need to go to bed.
Also shout out.

(54:05):
She got really tired of me just going to sleep after.
Tracy Wines-Apple, you still have the best margarita story on the show.
We miss you.
Oh, yeah, we do miss you, Tracy Wines-Apple. God dang it.
Well, that's been an hour.
If I get the best margarita in Ramona, then I'm going to put my money behind Victor at Casa de Vila.
Oh, I will say, his are damn good.
I love Victor.
I'm not a margarita guy, but I did have one that a couple weeks ago.

(54:29):
And they are strong. He puts a whole bunch of stuff in there.
I was watching him, and I was like, what is happening?
Yeah, I drank it.
Don't order the house. Order the Cadillac because he kind of looks away when he makes the Cadillac.
He's a talker. He'll be looking at you talking to pour it.
Just be pouring that contra.
He's the nicest guy, too.
I love that guy. He's cool.
He is the nicest guy.

(54:50):
Well, Tim, thanks for hanging out with us, man.
This has been a gas. I appreciate you guys. I appreciate what Ramona Radio is doing for our community.
It's helped bringing us together. It's given us a common voice.
Walking in the stores, hearing the voices of the people I love in this music community is really encouraging.
And not just the songs, but even hearing the station announcements, hey, man, there he is. Hey, there she is.

(55:14):
And it's just so comforting. It brings the town around.
And back to you, Travis, on what you have done and Dirty Confetti has done.
There's a couple people who deserve a lot of credit in this town, and it's Dirty Confetti and it's Ashley.
And the culture that you created at Ramona Family Naturals is unlike anything that I've been a part of.

(55:40):
And people that I have loads of differences with, but nothing but commonality with when I'm there.
And it's a ton of fun. And hats off to you.
Thank you.
That's awesome.
It takes the, you guys are creating the community, and that's what I'm about, is creating community.
And you're doing it with song and being able to share a voice in whatever we can do.

(56:03):
And without you guys, our community would be weaker. So thank you for being here.
That's a lot. That's a lot. That's a very nice thing. Thank you. Appreciate that.
Man, we need to clip that. We need to use that.
We're going to use it. I don't know what, but we need to use that for something.
There's a couple sound bites in there.
Travis's affirmations in the morning. He's brushing his teeth.
I'm going to hit play right now. I'm going to brush my teeth.

(56:24):
I matter.
I am a good person.
Tim, how do we get ahold of you if we want to get ahold of you for photography or talk about the town hall?
You can hit me on Facebook. I might know I'm a little active on there.
But you can find me at Tim Connolly on Facebook or on the Love My Ramona, or you can hit me on my phone, 760-535-2212.

(56:47):
And if you have any produce needs, please remember I am the sales guy for Mosseri Produce.
So I got to plug Mosseri Produce.
If you want something to eat, I'm your guy as well.
Heck yeah. I love it. Thanks for hanging out, man. That was fun.
Cilantro. Thank you, Tim. Cilantro.
Thank you, sir.

(57:29):
Really, man, come on. Six o'clock news says somebody been shot.
Somebody's been abused. Somebody blew up a building. Somebody stole a car. Somebody got away.
Somebody didn't get too far. Yeah. They didn't get too far.

(57:52):
Grandpappy told my pappy back in my day, son, a man had to answer for the wicked that he'd done.
Take all the rope in Texas by the tall old tree, round up all of them bad boys, hang them high up the street.
For all the people to see.

(58:14):
That justice is one thing you should always find. You got to saddle up your boys, you got to draw a hard line.
When the gun smoke settles, we'll sing a victory tune and we'll all meet back at the local saloon.
We'll raise up our glasses against evil forces singing, we'll skip for my men, bear for my horses.

(58:46):
We got too many gangsters doing dirty deeds, too much corruption and crime in the streets.
Stand the long arm of the law, put a few more in the ground. Send them all to their maker and he'll settle them down.
You can bet that he'll settle them down.

(59:09):
Cause justice is one thing you should always find. You got to saddle up your boys, you got to draw a hard line.
We'll raise up our glasses against evil forces saying, we'll skip for my men, bear for my horses.

(59:35):
We'll skip for my men, bear for my horses.
You know justice is one thing you should always find. You got to saddle up your boys, you got to draw a hard line.

(01:00:03):
We'll raise up our glasses against evil forces singing, we'll skip for my men, bear for my horses.
Singing, we'll skip for my men, bear for my horses.

(01:00:42):
Well, let's all go down to Doomer's Walker. Let's all go down to Doomer's Walker.
We'll get a slobbering prize and a bottle of whiskey.
Bring it on out to my baby and me. Yeah, we're headed to the drive-in on a Saturday night.

(01:01:12):
Just me and my baby and a six-packing light. Got a pocket full of money and I'm raring to go.
Down to Doomer's Walker right after the show. They'll be shooting marbles in the back of the store.
Laying money down on the floor. Let's all go down to Doomer's Walker. Let's all go down to Doomer's Walker.

(01:01:44):
We'll get a slobbering prize and a bottle of whiskey. Bring it on out to my baby and me.

(01:02:15):
He takes all his orders down one at a time. Don't need a pad, he's got a full-to-genic mind.
He don't like the young folks hanging around. He's quick to let you know we got a law in this town.
You ought to see him grin when money walks through the door. The marble king's ready for more.

(01:02:37):
Let's all go down to Doomer's Walker. Let's all go down to Doomer's Walker.
We'll get a slobbering prize and a bottle of whiskey. Bring it on out to my baby and me. Here it comes.

(01:03:21):
Well, you filled up my head with so many lies. You twisted my heart till something snapped inside.

(01:03:50):
I'd like to give it one more try, but my give-a-dance busted.
You can crawl back home, say you were wrong. Stand out in the yard and cry, oh, not alone.
Go ahead and water the lawn, my give-a-dance busted.

(01:04:18):
I really want to care. I want to feel something. Let me dig a little deeper.
No, sorry, nothing.
You can say you've got issues. You can say you're a victim. It's all your parents' fault. I mean, after all, you didn't pick them.

(01:04:46):
Maybe somebody else has got time to listen. My give-a-dance busted.
Well, your therapist says it was all a mistake, a product of the Prozac and your codependent ways.
So, who's your enabler these days? My give-a-dance busted.

(01:05:13):
I really want to care. I want to feel something. Let me dig a little deeper. No, still nothing.

(01:05:40):
It's a desperate situation. You're telling what you'll do. If I don't forgive you, you say your life is through.
Come on, give me something I can use. My give-a-dance busted.
Well, I really want to care. I want to feel something. Let me dig a little deeper. No, man, sorry.

(01:06:12):
Just nothing. No. You've really done it this time.
My give-a-dance busted.

(01:06:36):
All right, we're back. Man, that was a cool dude, man. Tim Connolly.
He's got to be one of the nicest guys. He's one of those genuinely welcoming guys that you talk to and you just,
he just feels like family almost right out of the gate. I love that guy. And he does so much good for the town, which is cool.
Absolutely, for sure. Well, we've got a special guest sitting with us right now for a couple minutes. He just dropped by.

(01:06:59):
Just dropped by. Mr. Outlaw BBQ.
Because nobody likes to party with salads. They have the meats. And the man's right here. Mr. Dean. What's up, man?
Good to see you all again. And it depends on what salad you're having. How many of you have had an Outlaw salad?
I think everybody's having an Outlaw salad right now.
Yeah, so I am here to say. How come Dean got the fancy glass?

(01:07:24):
Because I'm fancy. Everybody knows me. That was my nickname in high school was Fancy Pants.
Oh, I was going to say Fancy Glass. That's hyper specific. He's got the bougie glass.
Well, I'm bougie like that. Look at me. I'm all kinds of fancy.
Whiskey with. Fancy like Applebee's on a date night, though?
That's a salad. It's whiskey with croutons, ice croutons. Yeah, so I just got the newest edition of our T shirts and hoodies.

(01:07:49):
I gave some one of you got that. I got the crouton crouton salad. I got the salad.
I did. I love it. So now we have three T shirts. We have the original Outlaw logo on the back.
We have the next one that says you don't make friends with salad. And the latest one is the Outlaw secret recipe for an Outlaw salad,

(01:08:12):
which is an arrow pointing to a highball glass that says bourbon and on the other side, an arrow pointing to it that says H2O croutons.
That's an Outlaw salad. It's a very simple salad. That is exactly what I'm doing right now.
Isn't it good? And we can say we had a salad for dinner. Yes. I mean, as many salads I've had, you think I wouldn't be so fat.
All right. I know. So now, so everybody's going to be around town. We're going to start seeing around town.

(01:08:38):
But if somebody wants to get one for their own. Yeah. So if somebody wants one for Christmas, here's what I've got for Christmas gifts.
Because I got asked so many times last year, I'm bottling my sauces, the ones that Costco wants, but I won't sell to them.
They're only for people on the Hill or I'll mail it to you. And so I'm doing the Texas. I'm doing the peach jalapeno.
And I'm doing the newest one, which is a Thai chili and honey additive that you mix into your sauce and it's on fire.

(01:09:06):
You would like it. It's hot. I got some in the car. It will light you up. I just smell it. I'm on.
Oh, man. Last time I met.
I met it always tries to outspice me though. He's I'll be like, I made stuffed jalapenos that like seeds out. And he's like, but I saved you a special one.
And I'm like, oh, that was good. It was spicy. He's like, it wasn't like too spicy. I'm like, no, I didn't even take any seeds out. I just stuffed it.

(01:09:34):
Your taste buds are sweet curbs is a fiery redhead man. She's just like spicy.
Even that hot sauce that you guys have. It makes me sweat, but it's so good.
So for Christmas, here's what I've got. The bottles of sauce, no matter which one you want, they're 12 bucks a bottle.
And it's a half pint bourbon bottle. Oh, cool. And on the t shirts and hoodies. So hoodies are 25 t shirts or 20.

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And you can either text me or order. And if you're local here, we'll deliver it or meet me at Red's or someplace.
If you're out of state, I'll mail it to you. And it's just the charge of whatever shipping is. No, no added.
Now I have a question. I have an answer. I know you're not digital. You don't have Venmo and all that.
So if it's out of state or someone wants to pay you, how do they pay you?

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Well, you all know my my stance on people paying. I prefer cash. I do take Venmo now.
Just like I've told everybody for four years along the road. If you don't have money, just order and pay me later.
Same thing with the shirts. If you want a shirt, order it. Pay me later.
This is a true statement. The first time I ever met Dean, he was at Smoking Cannon for one of their anniversaries.

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And we had come and we didn't know he was cash only.
And so Travis and I both ordered two plates of food and we get up there and he's like, it's this much money.
And I said, oh, I I only have a card. And he said, I don't do card. I only do cash. I said, do you do Venmo?
He's like, no, I only do cash. And I was like, well, shit, I got two plates of food and no money to pay this guy.

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Like, what do I do? And he he literally was like, no, it's fine. Like, I'll be around. Just take it.
You can pay me whenever we are. We are friends now. He didn't know me from Adam. Yeah, I know.
I went to Carlin said, can you give me twenty dollars and I'll Venmo you? And then I went back out and paid him.
But I could never come back. Yeah. I remember when you were on the show last time, you told a story about a kid that caught up with you like months and months later.

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I think I owe you twenty bucks. Several times a month. Not an exaggeration that I'll see somebody in the grocery store.
Yeah. And they'll say, hey, hey, barbecue guy, I owe you forty bucks. I'm like, I'm glad you remember.
That's cool. Cool. Just came up. Just see me on the street and pay me. It's pretty cool gig.

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Right on. So you got on any hunting trips lately or anything? I'm leaving Friday morning to hunt hogs and pass the rebels with Dr. Odell.
Oh, OK. Yeah. Mike Odell. That man has changed my life.
I have really bad back problems. I've been going to doctors for twenty eight years and all they want to do is give me pain pills.
Yeah. Or they want to fuse titanium rods to my spine. And I don't want to do that surgery either.

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A friend of mine just kept pushing. You've got to go to Dr. Odell. I went in there within two months, changed my life. Very cool.
I mean, really. And he has no idea. I'm say this. He has no idea. I promote him. I get nothing from that.
That's awesome. This man changed my life. Yeah, I like Mike. He's a cool. Did you know he's a musician to his base?
I did. I was going to say I couldn't remember the instrument, but I know he's played with you guys before.
He's played with chasing the sun. Yeah, chasing the sun. And then he also plays at the blues jams. Oh, yeah.

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The John Hawes puts on. Yeah. So we're going Friday morning. We leave at five.
We're going to hunt hogs and pass the Robles. And then my next hunt will be January. I'm going up to Washington State.
And so when I used to own my company, I had reps all over the country. And I remember talking to this one guy, he hunted also.
And I said, you know, when I turn 60 that year, I'm going to take off if I can afford it and just hunt all year, just hunt.

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And I got a text from him on my birthday, October 18. And he says, hey, you know who this is? I said, yeah, I saved your number. This is Shell.
He goes, yeah, buddy. How you been? We talked. And he goes, I remember what you said about going hunting.
He goes, you want to go goose hunting with me in January? I'm like, I do. That'll be a great way to kick off my year of hunting.
So in January, I'm going to Washington State. Nice, man. Nice. So we'll expect some geese on the menu next.

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We will have geese. And then Friday, I'm going to drop some hogs and then I'll be making wild boar brisket sausage.
Oh, yeah. Try that one too. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Make them make them extra spicy for sweet curbs.
I'll make a couple of them. Yeah, make them not spicy for me.
You got to make more of those beef sticks with that. Oh, those were good. I've got two more batches. Ghost pepper. They were good.

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But you even said they weren't super spicy. They weren't super hot because I wanted to eat them.
I just wanted a little kick, but not light you on fire like you like. Yeah, no, I had one. My nose ran for a couple of hours.
I was OK. See, but as long as there's flavor, I don't mind like my nose running and like sweating. It just means it was good.
No, it means it hurts. To me, it means it hurts. And then it hurts later on. That's your body say. Please don't do that to me again.

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And then I'm trying to sleep and then sweet curbs can't sleep because I got tums shaking. I don't notice it. I mean, I can feel that it is spicy,
but it doesn't really bother me until I'm done eating. Like it's gone and then your mouth's just kind of on fire for a little bit.
But yeah. Well, cool. Where are you going to be next? Where are you going to be next? Cooking? Yeah. I don't know.
I've taken October, November off. We are on sabbatical. To take care of some medical issues and stuff. And then I'll start up again in December.

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I don't know where yet. All right. Probably Reds. I'll start out at Reds. Cool. And I might do along the road. I don't know.
Whoever I feel like it. But I do have one more product. I just told you about it, Eric. The bourbon. Oh, yeah. Break it down.
I'm working with Lee at old Julian Vineyards. If you haven't been there, you got to go. Oh, we love where you're just there.
I absolutely love that. Oh, yeah. I was talking to him because I tried to get you guys in there to play a year ago. Yeah.

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Yeah. And I said, you got to get them. They'll pack this place. I'll cook. It's going to be epic. And when I saw him last, he goes, I got Travis.
How come I didn't get an invite to go? But anyway. Yeah. It was their wine pickup situation. I don't know if it was private or not, but it was a it was a freaking awesome, man.
It was so fun. I did their last wine pick up before that one. Okay. It was just a blast. But so my newest product, I'm working with Lee and I'm going to make my own outlaw bourbon. Nice, dude.

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So I make I got two three gallon charred oak barrels. I'm bringing the barley and wheat from my ranch in Montana. And I'm working with Chris White at White Labs for the East.
So we're going to batch one and it's going to go three years and then we're going to have a little party and drink that. All right. And you know, not a downer in any way, but I'm making another barrel.
It's going to sit until my time's done. You know, it's my turn. I'm passed away. Yeah. Yeah. And then y'all are going to come drink it.

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All right. All right. Well, I'll drink. I can't wait for that. That's terrible. But I hope that's a 30 year old 30 year old bourbon.
Right. I know. I'm hoping that's an 18 year old. That's fine. Thanks for popping by for a minute. Yeah. Yeah. I appreciate it. It's always fun when you pop by and say hi.

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Yeah. He comes and checks on us. It always comes with gifts. We got shirts. I know he really does. Food, hot sauce. I actually made a whole batch of smoked pork stew, but then I ended up giving it to the guys at Performance Archery today.
So, oh yeah. No food for you. Just so again on the t-shirts and the hoodies. If somebody wants one, my number is 858-354-7712. And that's sauces, hoodies and t-shirt. Excellent.

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Well, thanks for popping by man. It was cool. Hey, let's play a hunting song. You got any hunting songs? What's a good hunting song? I don't know. What do you listen to when you're hunting? Do you listen to music at all or are you just like all quiet? I'm all quiet. All quiet. I'm all quiet. Okay. Hunting songs. There's a couple. I don't know the title. One of them is sitting in his stand. All he's killed is a 12 pack.

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What's that Luke Bryan song? Fishing, hunting, loving every way. That's a good one. Luke Bryan. Praying in a deer stand. All right. There we go. Find that one out. That's great. I think some of the funnest hunting trips I've ever had. Oh, I'm sorry.
Did you want to say something else? I'm sorry. I don't want to say anything else. I just want to drink this.

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I do my prayer.
I got a thank you. I might miss a Sunday from time to time, but I get there when I can. We're all good in these woods. Cause here I am. Praying in a deer stand.

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Some find it on a pier where they used to fish with their old man. Some feel it when the choir sings and that light hits that stained glass.
We're all down here searching for an answer or a sign. The way those clouds are moving in. I think he's hearing me just fine. Do I pray in a deer stand on my back for the church.

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Taking my life on a cold sunrise. Yeah, that's my heaven on earth. Me and God in a cold field. Got a thank you on the stands. I might miss a Sunday from time to time, but I get there when I can.
We're all good in these woods. Cause here I am. Praying in a deer stand. Praying in a deer stand.

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My boots back on the ground. My head back right. You've got your ways of getting through. I got mine. I do my prayer in a deer stand. Out on my back for the church.
Taking my life on a cold sunrise. Yeah, that's my heaven on earth. Me and God in a cold field. Got a thank you on the stands. I might miss a Sunday from time to time, but I get there when I can.

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We're all good in these woods. Cause here I am. Praying in a deer stand. Praying in a deer stand.

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A farmer and a teacher. A hooker and a preacher. Riding on a midnight bus bound for Mexico. One was headed for vacation. One for higher education.

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And two of them were searching for lost souls. That driver never ever saw the stop sign. And eighteen withers can't stop on a bind.
There are free wooden crosses on the right side of the highway. While there's not four of them, heaven only knows. I guess it's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.

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That farmer left to harvest a home in eighty acres. The faith and love for growing things in his young son's heart. And that teacher left her wisdom in the minds of lots of children. And did her best to give them all a better start.

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And that preacher whispered, can't you see the promised land? As he laid his blood-stained Bible in that hooker's hand.
There are free wooden crosses on the right side of the highway. While there's not four of them, heaven only knows. I guess it's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.

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That's the story that our preacher told last Sunday. As he held that blood-stained Bible up for all of us to see. He said, bless the farmer and the teacher and the preacher.
He gave this Bible to my mama who read it to me. There are free wooden crosses on the right side of the highway. While there's not four of them, now I guess we know.

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It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go. There are free wooden crosses on the right side of the highway.

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I set out on a narrow way many years ago. Hoping I would find true love along the broken road.

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But I got lost a time or two. Wiped my brow and kept pushing through. I couldn't see how every sign pointed straight to you.
That every long lost dream led me to where you are. Others who broke my heart, they were like northern stars. Pointing me on my way into your loving arms.

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This much I know is true. That God bless the broken road that led me straight to you. Yes, it did.

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I think about the years I spent just passing through. Lying to have the time I lost and giving back to you. But you just smile and take my hand.
You've been there, you understand. It's all part of a grander plan that is coming true. Every long lost dream led me to where you are.

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Others who broke my heart, they were like northern stars. Pointing me on my way into your loving arms.
This much I know is true. That God bless the broken road that led me straight to you.

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And now I'm just rolling home into my lover's arms. This much I know is true.
That God bless the broken road that led me straight to you. That God bless the broken road that led me straight to you.

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Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
See you, man.
All right. We're back. That was good old Dean. Love that guy, man. He's a cool dude.
He's kooky, man. I love him.
Yeah.
Good guy.
Cool cat.

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He's a cool cat.
All right, so guess who we got now?
Ba-ba-ba-ba.
Ba-ba-ba-ba. Where's his theme song?
I know. Where's the theme song?
Come on.
Oh, yeah, you got the reggae one.
She's got a ska one.
I just want to be on a beach somewhere, man.
Cassie moves through the mess. She's a shining light. Keeps us all on track. Makes the chaos right.
That's pretty much all you need to know.

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Cassie keeps us steady. Makes the world bright. Scattered minds and frantic feet. Fire and peace.
All right.
Yeah, someone's got to keep you all in line.
I know. I don't know what we'd do without you guys.
She makes the chaos right. Writes the chaos. Did it say makes the chaos right?
I don't know. Where there is chaos, it's organized chaos.

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It's so funny you use those words because that's what I call my office. It's organized chaos.
I know every pile, everything. But you can walk in and go, this is a disaster.
Oh, man.
Well, that was fun that Dean stopped by.
I know. That was a surprise. We weren't expecting him. Bye-bye.
He just showed up.
You know what, Dean reminded us as he was getting ready to leave the studio that he has this thing that if he sees you wearing his apparel when he's just out and about town doing his day-to-day thing, he'll give you a free meal.

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Oh, wow.
Buy a shirt, wear it around town.
As long as it's not an event where he's cooking or something.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. When he's out and about doing his day-to-day thing.
He just bumps into you at the grocery store.
He's like, hey, next time you see me at wherever. Oh, that's awesome, man.
Yeah, he'll give you a free dinner.
Cassie, have you ever been hunting?
No.
Wait, that took a minute. What the heck?

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Are you thinking about what we were hunting for?
Well, here I am.
She got you.
She went hunting when she didn't need no gun.
I'm like, my sister and I used to catch moths. I don't know, did we call that hunting? I do have a husband. Caught. I've been fishing. No, you didn't say what we were hunting for.

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Okay, fishing. You like fishing?
I have been fishing.
You have been fishing.
I have been fishing.
You don't like it though.
Yeah, it's not my favorite, but I raised boys, so I did a lot of those half-day boats and certainly family reunions on the lake or the river, trout and yeah.
You know, bluegill, lots of bluegill I've caught.
Bluegill, yeah.
Here's the thing. I like fishing as far as I like sitting on a boat.

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And having some drinks.
I get excited when it bites, but I don't want to touch the worm or the fish.
Oh, I had to get over that having my boys who were into fishing taking them on half-day boats, but it wasn't worms. We're talking ocean fishing.
Oh, so those are little mackerel or whatever.
You're looking for big fish, so you have to feed them little fish.
Oh no, I still wouldn't make him.

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I love to fish, but I really don't care if I ever catch anything, so I've been known to just throw the empty hook in.
Crack a beer, float around.
I love being on the lake. I love sitting there with the pole in the water.
That's great. I was out on a half-day boat one time. I was a kid and I threw my pole out or threw the line out and I was just reeling it in.
You know, I didn't think I caught anything and then all of a sudden it starts going crazy.

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I'm like, oh, shoot, okay. I'm reeling it in, but the hook actually caught the back of a fish. I caught it by the back. It didn't bite.
Wild.
Caught it by the tail?
It was like on its back.
Oh, it caught the spine?
Yeah, it caught it and then I reeled it in and I'm like, what the heck?
I don't know why that's worse, but that makes me sad for the fish.
I know, dude. What are the odds in that? It was just a bare hook.

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That's crazy odd.
I'm assuming when I threw it out, the little mackerel that I had on there flew off, so it was just a hook sitting there and I'm reeling it in and all of a sudden it's going crazy.
I'm like, what the hell? And it was probably about maybe a foot long. I don't even remember what kind of fish it was, but the hook caught the back of the freaking fish.
What a trip.
So I just went across it and caught it.
That's nuts.

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I'm going to play the line. I need to play the line.
I thought you were going to tell me that when you pulled it out, it was half gone because the sea lions around here will do that.
Absolutely. And I've watched them do it.
It doesn't hook them or they know how to do it.
They know how to do it.
You'll pull up a head.
Yes.
The whole fish is gone and they'll be just a head on you.
They'll just bite the whole fish off behind the head and you'll come up with a fish head.

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They know it. They're like dogs, man. Sea lions are like dogs. They're very smart.
I never ocean fished.
Really?
That's kind of fun.
Only like lake and...
We own a sailboat and it's based down in Oceanside and today it's been in maintenance for the last couple of months or whatever.
Today we went down to go pick it up and down on the dock they have a mannequin sitting in a lawn chair.

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I thought it was the strangest thing and my brother-in-law and I were kind of doing our thing and we were asking, what's up with a mannequin in a lawn chair?
I was like, it's chair grow, huh?
Yeah.
So we finally asked the guy in the boat yard, we're like, what's the story with that?
And he goes, it's to help keep the sea lions off. They think there's somebody there.
I go, does it work? And he goes, no. They caught on.

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Do you remember in the day before the day?
They're smart.
People were putting like five gallon buckets on the backs of their boats.
They'll put Home Depot five gallon buckets, but they'll fill them with ocean water and just put them on the back of their boat just so the sea lions don't use the back of their boat as a perch.
Oh yeah. Sea lions will take over.
No, so I had a boat years ago. Me and my dad and my kids used to go out all the time out in the bay or the Bight Point Loma.

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And we'd go and get the bait in a little place before you go out of the area there.
The bait barge.
Yeah, the bait barge. And man, there's frigging seals all over that thing, man. They would go crazy.
And then we'd get all the little fishes in our little bait tank and then we'd start heading out and there'd always be like three or four seals following the boat, like right behind us, just swimming right behind us.

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Are they like aggressive or are they?
I never dealt with one that was aggressive. Actually, funny thing.
We were riding around the Bay Area and it was over by Shelter Island. And there's like, I don't know if it's like the river or something.
But anyway, there's like a bridge. But there's a spot there. It's like a little store that you park your boat in. You can get like snacks and stuff.
And there was this little baby seal. It was probably about three feet long.

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And it was like friendly. It was like a little dock. Like you could actually pet it.
Oh, until a big mama came back around.
I ran into a very aggressive one once.
Oh yeah.
Boy, this is a long story. We almost sunk our sailboat one day because the water pump had sprung a leak and we thought the boat had sprung a leak.

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So we ended up calling, well, my brother-in-law calls the Coast Guard. The Marine Corps shows up.
We had helicopters.
We had a Marine Corps helicopter show up to help us. Anyway, long story. So I'll tell you that story some other time.
But we eventually get the boat back into Oceanside Harbor. We had to get towed in and they put us on the guest docks because they went.
Anyway, they put us on the guest dock. And as we're getting off and we're all just exhausted from this whole ordeal of dealing with our boat almost sinking and everything else.

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And we're just exhausted. We go to get off the boat. And first of all, it's covered in this black slime, which is their shit, right?
So these sea lions and everything just seal shit all over the dock. So you're slipping around like an ice rink on seal shit.
Yeah. And I'm in my slippers because it was because they had taken me over to get the car to Arslan.

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Right. So I'm getting off the boat and there's a few people on the boat and this, that and the other thing.
So anyway, there's a big bunch of seals on there. And I grab it. We have one of the we have one of those super spotlights on our boat.
Battery powered at like 5000 kilowatt. And I shine it in the in the in the front seals face and I shine it and I just start walking towards them and they all scatter.
I'm like, oh, that was easy. Get everybody off the boat. I go off. I forgot something on the boat.

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So I was coming back from the car and I was trying to come back to the boat to get on.
And yeah, so I had to go back to the boat. I go to get off the boat and they're back on the dock again.
And so I just thought I just look aggressive, right? I would just like his stamps and make a puppy, you know, and I'm like stomping.

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Oh, no. Oh, no. There was one bowl on there. He he he said, no, these are my bitches. This is my dog.
He went charging at me. Yeah.
Are they fast for how big they are? They're fast enough to make you poop yourself.
Especially when you're running. He was slipping on a slippery seal shit dock.

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Yeah, I almost contributed to the ship. That is our one experience.
When that and that that thing. I mean, I don't know what these things normally weigh, but this thing looked like it had to have weighed two thousand pounds.
And he was trying to rescue me because at that time I was coming back down and I'm like, honey, there's seals here.

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Get them off before I'm done. Yeah. And so that's why he was coming that way to scatter the seals.
And yes, my husband's truly chivalrous. We we were at the zoo. This was not a seal.
This was a gorilla in Fort Worth, Texas. We had gone for my great grandmother's hundredth birthday.
I was like seven years old. My grandmother had just had open heart surgery. So she was in a wheelchair.

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It was me, my sister, my grandma, my grandpa at the Fort Worth Zoo. We're standing in front of this gorilla cage and I'm my grandpa standing behind me, my sister.
And I'm sitting on my grandma's lap in this wheelchair. This gorilla out of nowhere is just walking around totally normal, walks about, I don't know, 40 yards away and just runs full speed at the glass.

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And even though you know the glass is there, you're still and my grandma's here. The gorilla's coming straight.
He hits the glass. The whole thing's rattling. My grandma rolled that wheelchair back so fast she knocked my sister over on the ground, ran over her foot.
That sounds like a sweet curvy critter corner story.
There you go. I'm like we should have played the tunes. There you go. You just got the critter corner and didn't even know.

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But we still joke about it. I mean, we were terrified at the time. And my grandma said the same thing. She didn't. But she's like, I think I just shit my pants.
I don't blame her. Oh my goodness. It was scary.
They're, yeah.
You realize how weak you are when something that big comes running at you.
But you asked me, this whole conversation, fishy and gorillas, but hunting.

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You were talking about hunting.
Hunting. So yeah, I see it. This all started from have you ever been hunting?
This is why I love this show, right?
I don't know why I asked you that anymore, but I guess it was Dean. I'm guessing it was Dean.
So you never have been hunting though. That's the thing.
Caught myself a husband.
Caught yourself a husband. That's fishing.

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I've never been hunting.
Was it fishing?
As long as you didn't catfish.
You ever been hunting?
I have. I've never pulled the trigger.
Really? What were you hunting for?
My dad took me when I was very young. He lived up in the Seattle area and he took me out, what, elk maybe?
Elk.
I don't really know. We went on a hunting trip and he gave me my little.22 rifle, which wouldn't kill anything.

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It would piss a bear off pretty good.
But it was a father and son.
It's a whole other chase story we don't want to hear about.
Did you hear about that hunter that escaped a bear attack with a.22 rifle?
No.
He escaped. His friend that he shot didn't.
That's a dad joke. My friend.

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I just pulled that one out.
Now, when I was in South Carolina, we used to go hunting.
For what?
We did rabbits. We did duck. Duck hunting was pretty fun.
I mean, it was kind of...
Oh, I do have a funny hunting story. I did go hunting once. My buddy and I went out with BB guns.
Oh, BB guns.
And we thought we were going hunting. This was in Escondido.

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And we traipsed around the hills of Escondido before they built all the crap that's out there.
And we didn't find anything.
How old were you?
Oh, probably 11, 12.
You know what? There's another side to this whole thing.
If you saw two 11-year-olds walking through your neighborhood with...
With rifles shaped BB guns.
Essentially rifles.
You can't do that today.

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I got a funny story about that.
But, so anyway, on the way back, I saw some doves up on the wires of the power line.
And I thought, I want to shoot the gun once.
I really did not want to hit them. I didn't care if I hit them.
And I hit them. And that BB did this big long arc.
You know, because they're not bullets.
Yeah.
You know, they're not accurate.

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Brown muskets.
Yeah, they're basically, yeah, modern day muskets.
But it did kill it. The bird, I think, popped it in the butt.
How did you feel?
I hated it.
Yeah.
Yeah, I didn't like it.
Yeah, so in South Carolina, it was me and my buddy.
So I lived out in the sticks, man.
My buddy lived a little bit closer into town, into the little town that I lived in Aiken.

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And it was just me and him.
And we were walking around his neighborhood, same situation.
We had our BB guns.
And we had shot three dove that were in the city.
In the city, though, you're not supposed to shoot dove in the city.
We got three dove.
And all of a sudden, the sheriff drives by.
And he's like, what are you boys doing?
And we're like, we're just shooting squirrels and stuff.

(01:41:16):
He's like, get in the car.
Give me your BB guns.
He's like, where do you live?
This was the first time Travis was arrested.
I wasn't arrested, almost.
But you got to ride in the back of a car.
I did get to ride in the back of a cop car.
So he's like, give me your BB, give me your guns.
And we're like, all right, no problem.
Here you go.
And so he drives us back.
And we had the doves in our hands, and we were holding them.

(01:41:41):
Stupid.
So he brings us back to my buddy's house, and his dad was super cool, man.
His dad was an old history teacher.
And his dad was super cool.
And we get out of the car.
The sheriff's got the BB guns.
He's walking up to the front door.
His dad opens the door.
He just hands them the BB guns.
He says, they're not supposed to be shooting these in the middle of the city.

(01:42:04):
Here you go.
And then so that he left.
And then we come in, and he's like, all right, what'd you guys get?
We got three dove.
He's like, all right, let's clean them up.
We'll eat them.
Let me tell you my story about a BB gun.
And this is not my story.
Travis's younger son was visiting us and staying with us.
His older son lives with us.
That's when we lived in.
This was probably six years ago.

(01:42:25):
Five now, like five years ago, four or five years ago.
We have a BB gun that doesn't look like a BB gun.
It looks like 22.
Yeah, it looks like.
So the boys are in the front yard.
Our driveway at the time sat lower than the street.
So if you were on the street, you could see into our driveway.
They were out there shooting cans.

(01:42:46):
Like I knew it was a BB gun, but have fun, whatever I get in the shower.
I get out of the shower.
My phone has been blown up.
I can hear helicopters over my house.
Some lady walking her baby in a stroller, saw them, thought it was an actual,
like gun that was going to do harm.
Also side note, both of these fools in the middle of the summer are wearing
black hoodies and jeans in my front yard.

(01:43:08):
Oh, well.
Good plan.
Like I come outside to the cops talking to them and Travis's one son was 16 and
the other one was 21, I think.
So the one was underage and they're not letting him leave.
He wasn't 21.
He was like, well, he was older.
He was like, he was over 18 and Chas was not.
And so he's trying to be like, dude, it's my brother.

(01:43:30):
We didn't do anything.
Like what's going on?
Our roommate was there, comes out.
Oh, no, it wasn't.
It was Michael Moore.
Comes out and is like talking to the cops because I'm in the shower.
I'm trying to get dressed and figure out what the hell's going on.
Tells them like, oh, it's like this total misunderstanding, but like three Ramona
police officers, a helicopter, a drone.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.

(01:43:51):
I guess a drone followed them because they had left.
They didn't know the lady called the police.
They went to McDonald's, came back and a drone's following their car.
So they were like, they were flipping it off, they tell us, because they didn't
know it was the police.
They didn't realize it was them.
Why are you following us?
Get out of here.
What?
It was just like this whole wild, wild.
So what ultimately happened?
Nothing.
Nothing.
It was a BB gun.
Yeah, of course.

(01:44:12):
And we were in our front yard and they were shooting cans.
It wasn't like they weren't even shooting animal, anything.
They were shooting, you could see the cores, cores like that they were shooting in the
front yard.
How many?
A few.
They all had a few dents in them, a couple of holes.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
There was definitely several holes in the cans.
Okay.
We're talking about hunting.
That's strange though.
Go ahead.
No, finish.
No, go ahead.

(01:44:33):
I have a dad joke about hunting.
All right, let's hear it.
Okay.
For reals.
I'm ready.
I'm ready.
Here's your moment, Patsy.
What's the difference between beer nuts and deer nuts?
What?
Beer nuts are around $1.79 and deer nuts are just under a buck.
Under a buck.
I like it.
They're just under a buck.
Dad joke, duh, and hunting.
That's like the pirate joke.

(01:44:54):
Combine them all.
How much does it cost for a pirate to get a disease?
$1.99.
$1.99.
$1.99.
$1.99.
$1.99.
$1.99.
$1.99.
$1.99.
$1.99.
It costs $1.99.
That's pretty cheap.
$1.99.
It's the perfect price for a pirate to get his ears pierced.
A bucket in the air.
A bucket in the air.
We're going to the dad joke territory.
We're going to integrate some Christmasy dad jokes to hear about.

(01:45:14):
You've got to get Amanda on here for a dad joke segment.
Al Bini from Lady Psychiatrist, she always does her dad jokes.
Oh, yeah, Lady Psychiatrist.
She does.
She's hilarious.
We've got about ten minutes.
Let's play a couple songs and then we're going to do some, name that tune.
Yeah, you want to do name tune or you want to do trivia?
What are you all doing?
I don't care. We'll do name that tune name the tune. All right, let's play some let's play some
Let's play some Christmas evening. No, it's this

(01:45:38):
We're just a couple of weeks away from Christmas play Merry Christmas from the family by Montgomery gentry. All right
I think it's Montgomery just don't play Mariah Carey. We let you all get away last week without any Christmas talk
All right, it is coming up. It's coming up. We're now like, I don't know. What are we two weeks away?
It's today's but December 8th. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah, just about a couple weeks

(01:46:02):
Yeah, a couple of weeks. There you go. All right, here's your Christmas banger
I

(01:46:25):
Mom got drunk and dad got drunk at a Christmas party
Party we were drinking champagne punch and homemade eggnog
Little sister brought her new boyfriend

(01:46:46):
He was a Mexican
We didn't know what to think of him till he sang please nobby died
Please nobby died

(01:47:08):
Brother Ken brought his kids with him
the three from his first wife
And the two identical twins from his second wife Mary
Now, of course he brought his new wife Kate

(01:47:28):
Who talks all about hey, hey
Jane smoking why the stereo plays no
No, well the first no well
Oh, oh

(01:47:49):
Carver turkey turn the ball game on
It's margaritas when the eggnog's gone
Send somebody to the quick pack store. We need some ice and extinction cold
Oh, can't a baby play some dying ride a box of peppers some more

(01:48:15):
Everybody say
Merry Christmas from the family
Friend and raider drove from harlem jen
I can't remember how i'm kin to them

(01:48:38):
But when they tried to put their motor home in they blew our christmas lights
Cousin david knew just what went wrong
So we all waited out on our front lawn
He threw the breaker and the lights came on and we sang

(01:49:00):
Silent night
Silent night
Oh
Carver turkey turned the ball game on
Makes bloody marriage cause we all want one

(01:49:21):
Send somebody to the stop and go
We need some celery and a can of fresh snow
A bag of lemons and some dying sprite
A box of my dolls and Salem lights
Hallelujah everybody say Jesus
Merry Christmas from the family

(01:49:43):
Family

(01:50:13):
Yeah
Yeah, I was always a crazy one broke into the stadium and I wrote your number on the 50 yard line
You were always a perfect one and a valedictorian
So under your number I wrote calm for a good time

(01:50:37):
I only wanted to get your attention
But you overload me somehow
They said you had too many boyfriends to mention
And I played my games hard to love
How do you like me now?

(01:50:59):
Now that i'm on my way
You still think i'm crazy
Standing here today
I couldn't make you love me
But always screamed about
Living in your radio

(01:51:21):
When I took off to Tennessee
I heard that you made fun of me
Never imagined I'd make it this far
Then you married into Money Girl
Ain't it a cruel and funny world?
He took your dreams
And it's worth it
He took your dreams
And it tore them apart
He never comes home

(01:51:43):
And you're always alone
And your kids hear you cry
Down the hall
The lock, lock starts ringing
Who could let me sing?
And it's me, baby
Would you wake up, call?
Now that I'm on my way

(01:52:05):
You still think I'm crazy
Standing here today
But always screamed about

(01:52:37):
Now that I'm on my way
You still think I'm crazy
Standing here today
But always dreamed about

(01:52:59):
Tell me, baby
I will pre-tone
Alright

(01:53:21):
It's that time, folks
It's that time again
Getting real
It's time for Travis Billy Ross to get his ass kicked again
Your words
Alright, we're gonna do Name That Tune
Name it in the tune
And I'm gonna hand pick some of these songs
No random, I'm hand picking
So no decades

(01:53:43):
It is all country
Travis's entire set list
For those that are tuning in for the first time and don't know the rules, go back and listen
Okay, so is it going to be a mix of female and male artists?
Because we know
Cliffs Notes, your name is your buzzer, that's all you need to know
Go back and listen
She's like, let's do this
Just know Kirby always wins
Alright, hold on, I gotta make sure all my buttons

(01:54:05):
I got all my stuff ready
And that means you don't have to sleep with one eye open, Travis
Yeah
Are you guys ready?
Did you just yawn?
No
Kirby
Alan Jackman, Chata Hoochie
Ding ding ding
I wasn't ready
I know

(01:54:27):
Are you ready now, Travis?
Okay, let's do this
Travis
Travis
Nope
Just say you don't know
Carolina Tales, California
That's true, who sings it?
Kirby
Jodie Messina

(01:54:49):
Some Lady
Some Lady
Kirby
Dust on the Bottle
We're at 5 to 1
Travis
Kirby
Let's get that countdown, Eric
I got it
Kirby
Grundy County Action

(01:55:11):
John Michael Montgomery
I know this song
Alright
He's typing, I'm like, I got the countdowns, don't worry
I know this song
I know this song
Music
Travis
Go ahead

(01:55:33):
Oh, I know it
Cash
Kirby
Randy Travis
Cold Rock Bottom of My Heart
9 to 1
Whatever
How many more minutes do we have?
Travis
All My Exes Live in Texas
Not the King of Country George Strait

(01:55:55):
There we go
9 to 3
I don't know why
Travis
Copperhead Road
It is
Come on
Kirby
Steve Earle

(01:56:17):
Travis
The Jets
Why Not Me
6 to 10
Closing in
The song never gets old
Travis
Hank Williams Jr
All My Radio Friends Are Coming Over Tonight
See, I feel like it's taking a shift, Eric
8 to 10

(01:56:39):
Kirby
Kathy Matera
18 Wheels
Hold on
I'm going to fully qualify the name
title of this song
18 Wheels and a Dozen Roses
Come on, Eric
Try to short us, Sweet Curbs
That's what you're saying, it's Kathy
You know Kathy

(01:57:01):
It's that lady
It's that lady
Travis
Elvira
Boombabamowmow
Kirby
The Oak Ridge Boys
Travis

(01:57:23):
She Got the Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft
And that's going to be
Jerry Reid
Oh, good job, I was like, come on now
You gotta get it
13-11, Kirby
I love this song
1, 2, 1, 2
Travis
Willie Nelson
We have an official tie

(01:57:47):
Travis
Song of the South, Alabama
I'm just going down the list
I'm just going down the list
Here's the next one
Travis

(01:58:09):
Travis
Only
Only
Only
Member of a Country Club
There you go
Did we get it in time? Nope, but that's alright
Kirby
Faith Heal This Kiss
15-17

(01:58:31):
We got time for about two more
This would be one of the ones
that Eric thinks everybody knows
There's always one of those
He's the only one that knows
Alright, I'll give you guys time on time
Travis
Stuck on Denver

(01:58:53):
Ricky Skaggs
Ricky Skaggs
Travis
Saturday Night
I need you to get more specific
Small Town Saturday Night
There you go
Who Sings It
This version is

(01:59:15):
Kirby
I'll Catch Him
Kirby
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights
Nope
That was a trick
I know what it is either way
I Try to Think About Elvis
That was fast

(01:59:37):
Kirby
Patty Loveless
Oh Gosh
I Just Can't Concentrate
You're All I Think About These Days
Negative, I Try to Think About Elvis
Alright, last one
12-13

(01:59:59):
Not 12
17
Kirby
John Deere Green
Joe Dippy
Was that our final?
That's it

(02:00:21):
What did we do?
She got him by one
I think I won by one last time too
You're getting better babe
You're getting better
19-18
He was ahead for a good portion there
I think he just goes
Wait, how do I want to sleep tonight?
I make it so I lose by one

(02:00:43):
Every time
Alright, it's been fun
That's a wrap ladies and gentlemen
Thank you all for tuning in
Did we get to all of our sponsors?
No, we're missing one
We have not heard the princess chime
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Ramona Family Naturals
Thank you so much for your sponsorship

(02:01:05):
Make sure you go check it out
Every Thursday there's a cool band that plays there
I know them pretty well
On Sundays they have live music typically
If it's not too freezing outside
Usually a duo or a single artist
They have mimosas and brunch
It's really good
Miss Victoria
Y'all have a good night

(02:01:27):
Have a good rest of your week
Thank you for watching

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