Episode 43: Kaleb Weakly

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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 tried to be comfortable.
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.
Happy Sunday everybody.
Hope everybody had a good week.
Welcome to the Travis Billy Ross Outlaw Country Show.
I'm your host Travis Billy Ross.
I want to thank Ramona Radio for having us on this crazy podcast every Sunday.
It's no problem.
We've got Eric Goforth over here running the sound like a mad man.

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What's happening?
We've got with us as always Sweet Curbs.
Hey, hey.
Hey, hey.
Sweet Curbs.
Sweet Curbs with a twinkled in her eye.
I want royalties when the song kicks off.
I know.
When it's a top ten banger.
I'm going to expect some residuals.

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When it's played at next year's Super Bowl.
I'm going to be the performer leaping and twirling in the golden sun.
You'll be a hell of a lot better than this last Super Bowl.
What a travesty that was.
I don't want to talk about that.
Oh, Lord.
Man, today we've got a really cool guest, Mr. Caleb Weekly.
He's a welcome.
Welcome, senior.
How are you, my friend?
I'm doing well.

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Thanks for having me.
Yeah.
So Caleb's a Marine veteran.
Thank you for your service.
Thank you.
Started a nonprofit organization called Backcountry Heroes sometime in August of last year.
Correct.
Yep.
Yeah.
So how'd you go about that?
So for the last five, six years, I actually worked for another nonprofit that was based
here in Ramona, and then they moved to North Carolina.

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So I got kind of tired of the time difference.
And so there was a lot of other stuff going on.
So I just decided one day I was going to start my own.
My wife said, hey, do it.
I've been telling you to do it for years.
We were actually sitting at Heroes Pizza in Wynola.
Oh, yeah.
And we were workshopping names, and my wife and I could not agree on a name.

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And my eight-year-old daughter at the time said, well, all the military guys are heroes,
and you love the backcountry, so why not call it Backcountry Heroes?
There you go.
And I immediately jumped on Google and bought every domain that said Backcountry Heroes
because nobody had it.
No way.
That's how it started.
What are the odds?
Yeah.

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That's like, woo.
Yeah, right there at Heroes Pizza.
That's cool, man.
Yeah.
You know Adam over there?
I do, yeah.
Absolutely.
He's a cool dude.
Right on, man.
So what made you decide to start doing these types of non-profit kind of things for the
veterans?
You know, actually, this exact time 13 years ago, I was in Afghanistan.

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So February 23, 2012 is what's called my live day or my second birth.
And I got shot multiple times and then blown up, going to the helicopter.
And it was a very long day.
You know, I got to the hospital there at Bagram Air Force Base and got taken off the Helo.

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And the last thing I remember getting off the helicopter was the Brits.
We had the British, different British army guys with us.
Well, they have female nurses and they're hot.
So the last thing I remember before I passed out was it was worth it.
The beautiful blonde lady comes up and she goes, you're going to make it.

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And I rubbed her face and I was like, this is all I got to do to see a pretty lady.
My hands were dirty and bloody and I just wiped it down her face.
And then the next thing I remember is I'm waking up.
It's about five hours later and this doctor goes, hey, mate, you had about 90 seconds
or you wouldn't have made it.
And he goes into telling me everything that happened.

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He's like, you lost five liters of blood.
Oh, my gosh.
And you have about five and a half in your body.
So like it was very down to the last second.
But you were coherent the whole time until you until I got to that station right before
I went into emergency surgery.
Yeah.
So that that that one with the nurse and then actually as I was getting on the helicopter,

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one of my Marines comes running over and we just got blown up again.
The helicopter literally picked up and came back down and my Marine comes running over.
So I thought something was wrong.
He goes, hey, sorry, weekly.
Can I have your your M4 with your two or three?
Oh, Lord, really?
I don't care, dude.
It's empty.

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There's nothing left in it.
So I'll tell you how that whole thing went down.
We were actually on an observation post and we were looking over the city.
We were down southern Afghanistan, close to the Iranian border.
And we're out there.
We're watching.
We're getting ready to go on a dismounted foot patrol.
And I'm out checking on my guys.
I've got three trucks.

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Get make sure everybody's gearing up, getting ready to go.
And then all of a sudden I hear a single crack and it's a bullet bounces off our truck that's
right behind me.
And I'm like, it's going to be another fun day.
They're already shooting.
And in my mind, I take a step.
But in reality, my left leg doesn't move.
So then I hit the ground and I look down and I can just feel this burning sensation and

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I can just see blood.
And so I'm like, I'm the only one out of the truck.
So I grab a rock and I throw it at the door of my truck because I'm at the back of it.
And my driver opens a door.
His name is Jesse Beltran.
And he goes, I was like, dude, I'm I'm shot.
I'm hit.
I need help.
And he's like, quit playing.
And he slams the door.
Why?
And I'm like, oh, well, everything I had was in the truck.

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So I'm just grabbing everything I can.
I throw another one and he opens the door.
He's like, oh, my God.
Everybody gets out.
We get into about a 45 minute firefight.
Well, because we got involved in a firefight from about a 180, I have 13 guys there, but
they can't deal with me because they've got to deal with protection and everything else.
So I've got the radio in one hand.

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I've got a corpsman over here working on my leg.
I'm put I'd already put a couple of tourniquets on and I'm shooting back with my right hand.
And we we get a Army Black Hawk comes over and they're like, hey, you got a down marine?
Yeah.
Hey, we need you to move your landing zone a thousand meters to the north.
I'm like, I'm the down marine.
I'm talking to you.

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If I'm talking to you, we can't move.
Right.
So then the Marines come on.
Hey, hey, we'll come get you.
Move your landing zone 500 meters.
I can't do it.
So all of a sudden, the Brits come over and they go, hey, you got a down marine?
Yeah.
Pull your guys back.
So we pull our guys behind the trucks and they come in and just light up mini guns.
You just hear.

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And everything just stops.
And they come in and as soon as they hit the ground, I'm over two Marines because I wanted
to walk out of Afghanistan because I walked in.
We get about five feet away and step on ID.
Boom.
Helicopter literally go straight up 100 feet, come straight back down.
They're like, oh, fuck it.
They come right back down and I get on the helicopter and that's when my Marine came

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running over and I got out of there, got to the hospital and everything.
So that was, you know, a long day that happened.
That happened at 445 February 23rd, 2012.
Son of a bitch.
Yeah.
What the fuck?
It was a long day, you know?
And I felt the worst part about it was my Marines, they got in the trucks after all

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that and they were going to come up to the hospital because it's a couple of hours away
and they hit a multitude of ID.
So they were out there for the next six hours, which really sucks.
But the best thing that came out of that whole thing, seven months on the deployment, I got
shot twice and blown up, shattered my right ankle.
The only casualties we took on that were me.

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So I count that as a huge win.
That's a blessing when you think about when you consider all that.
Wow.
That's so crazy.
I think you've probably told this story, have told this story a couple of times, I'm assuming.
At least once.
And I don't know about anybody else, but you just sit here and in your head, you're trying

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to envision it.
I know.
You get completely lost in the thought of trying to understand that.
Man, that's insane.
Shit, man.
Thank you.
So what made you?
We talked to Caleb a little bit before the show and you have multiple family members
in the military or nephews, you were saying.
Are you from a big military family?
Like what made you?
Oh, I have about 110 years of military service prior to me, all army.

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And I was like, the army sucks.
I'm going to the Marine Corps.
And then my twin nephews and my niece all followed me to the Marine Corps.
Very good.
They're all still there right now.
One of my best friends is a retired Marine, Mr. Tony Hayford.
What's up, buddy?
This one's his best friend.
It's his boyfriend.
He's my heterosexual man life partner.

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You know, Tony and I are hoping.
Every Marine out there will admit this.
The Marines are the gayest group of straight men you'll ever meet in your life.
Right?
Absolutely.
We invented gay chicken and we never lose.
Gay chicken.
That is hysterical.
That's fucking hilarious, man.

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Wow.
So you're from you're from Virginia or West Virginia?
Virginia.
Virginia.
OK.
And then you came to California in 2008.
So I actually 2007, you know, well, 2001, 9 11, everything happened.
I was in school and that just motivated me because I wanted to get to Iraq as fast as

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possible.
I signed up for the delayed entry program in the Marine Corps at 16.
And then my principal, because I went to a private school, I talked to my principal with
my parents and they're like, hey, if you do all this over the summer, you can graduate
early at 17.
And I got my parents to agree to sign enlistment paperwork for 17 as long as I didn't go infantry.

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And so a friend, a recruiter was a friend of my dad's and he's like, hey, I know they
won't let you go infantry.
But if you go it's a combat arms designation, so it's still combat related.
You go artillery.
And what he didn't tell me, I learned once I got in the Marine Corps, is artillery is
the whore of the Marine Corps.
They send you anywhere they need a body for any reason.
Oh, yeah.

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It is amazing.
It was the best thing I ever did.
So 2007, I graduated at 17, joined the Marine Corps, hit boot camp, NCT, all that.
And then early 2008, I'm out here in Camp Pendleton.
2009, I'm in Iraq.
2008, into 2009.
Wow.
Yeah.
Were you excited when you first got the order saying you're going to Iraq?

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I mean, was there that moment where you like I asked for it?
I didn't know what was going on because so my dad goes, hey, never volunteer for anything.
And I'm like, well, he was in the army.
So obviously, he doesn't know what he's talking about.
I'm literally at Camp Pendleton for all of two months.
Like, hey, we need a couple of volunteers.
Like, yeah, raise my hand and like you and you go to Iraq.

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I was like, ah, and then I get to Iraq and I literally drove a truck and did not get
out of that truck and did absolutely nothing for three months.
It was terrible.
Oh, yeah.
And I got back and I was like, this sucks.
And then six months later, they're like, hey, you're going on a Mew, which is a Marine Expeditionary
Unit going on ship.
And then we took off.

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We were supposed to be in support of Afghanistan because this was 2010.
But then we were actually in direct participation and support of anti piracy in Africa and around
the Horn of Africa.
And so Captain Phillips, the year before us, but we were in support of all that.
So we got to hang out and do all that, which was a lot of fun.

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And then came back, went to Afghanistan, got back from Afghanistan, turned around, went
right back within four months or six months.
And then I got injured in 2012.
Wow.
Yeah, you did a lot.
I loved every minute of it.
It was the best way to do it.
That's fucking awesome.
Yeah.
I so being from Virginia, you are a country music fan.

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Absolutely.
There's a bear shit in the woods.
Yes, it do.
I live in South Carolina, just so I country music was always a part of my life.
What's your what's your go to type of country?
I know it's not like the new hip hop stuff is.
Oh, God, I don't.
You don't want my daughter.
Are you?
He's got to be on sale.

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Yeah, it's actually blaring in my truck right now.
You know, I grew up on early Hank and I really you know, I got a chance right before Joe
Diffie passed away to meet Joe Diffing, go to one of his concerts.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, those guys came up.
Listen to those guys.
So he's one of my favorites.

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Yeah, man.
Yeah.
He died in 2020.
He was in it was during covid.
I don't know if he died of covid, but I remember is in that turn at Spann.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Bubba shot the jukebox.
All right.
So I got I got an opinion on who might be the king of country and it's definitely not
George Strait.
My mind is Hank Williams, Sr.
I think he's the king of country.

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He's the one that kind of started it.
In my opinion, who would yours be?
I got to go and I don't think you're going to agree with me, but I don't say a big, big
Willie Nelson.
Oh, OK.
That's my guy.
That's been on the list.
He thought you were going to say George.
I was like, we're done here.
Anyone with George Strait, it'd be acceptable.
I think in the last 20 years, George Strait is up there.

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But original.
Yeah.
He's not an original.
The pioneers of the whole longevity.
That's why we say for the queen, I say Dolly, someone that has stood the test of time that
still is making music, still can hear him on the radio, putting out new stuff.
Yeah, I think Dolly and Loretta Lynn are my two go tos.
Yeah, absolutely.
I love the right to to.
Absolutely.
So you're Hank.

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You're a fan.
You can never go wrong with any.
I love them all.
Hank Senior, Hank Three.
He's got some pretty good stuff, but he's got some pretty wild stuff.
He's getting into that almost the heavy metal kind of stuff.
He's trying to keep up with what's going on.
Yeah.
I saw an interview with him saying that he was playing at a show and the venue or whatever

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wanted to do wanted him to play like the old songs and stuff.
And he's like, all right, I'll play him.
But then after that, I'm going to play mine because all the all the fans were there.
They're like, play Hank's song, play one of your songs.
Right.
And he's like, all these people want me to play and I'm going to do it.
So he did it.
And then the producers got all pissed off.
We can't have you play in your satanic double music.

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And he's like, you know what?
Screw this.
Why do they think his songs double music?
Oh, have you heard some of Hank Seniors or Hank Junior, Hank Three?
Sorry.
Well, yeah, but not anything that made me think it was demonic.
I'll show you a couple.
No, I'm good.
I'm out there.
I love Jesus.
I was just curious because I never heard.

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Yeah.
All right.
Well, you say Willie Nelson.
Let's let's pull up a Willie Nelson song.
We're ready for that.
Sorry, Eric.
See, he's fast with his fingers.
I'm always listening.
I'm always listening.
I'm ready.
If he's that good, he must have a happy wife.
Right, right, right.
Happy wife, happy life.
Well, let's take a break.
Let's listen to some Willie Nelson.
Here we go.
Whiskey River, take my mind Don't let her memory torture me

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Whiskey River, don't run right There, all I got, take care of me
Whiskey river, take my mind

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Don't let hermentry torture me
Whiskey river, don't run dry
You're all I've got to take care of me
I'm drowning in a whiskey river

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Bathing my mem'rid mind in the wetness of its soul
Feeling the amber current flowing from my mind
And weaving heart you left so cold

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And no letter of mem'rid torture me

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I'm drowning in a whiskey river
Bathing my mem'rid mind in the wetness of its soul
Feeling the amber current flowing from my mind

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And no letter of mem'rid torture me

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Well I got my first truck when I was three
Drove a hundred thousand miles on my knees
Hauled marbles and rocks and thought twice before
I hauled a Barbie doll bed for the girl next door
She tried to pay me with a kiss and I began to understand
There's something women like about a pick-up man

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And I thought, well, I'm gonna get a good job
I'm gonna get a good job
There's something women like about a pick-up man
When I turned sixteen I saved a few hundred bucks
My first car was a pick-up truck
I was cruising the town and the first girl I see

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Was Bobby Jo Gentry, the homecoming queen
She flagged me down and climbed up in the cab and said
I never knew you were a pick-up man
You can set my truck on fire and roll it down a hill
And I still wouldn't trade it for a coupe de ville
I got an eight-foot bed that never has to be made
You know, if it weren't for trucks who wouldn't have tailgates

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I met all my wives in traffic jams
And just something women like about a pick-up man
Most Friday nights I can be found
In the bed of my truck on an old Chase lounge
Backed into my spot at the driving show
You know, a cargo light gives off a romantic glow

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I never have to wait in line at the popcorn stand
Cause there's something women like about a pick-up man

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All stand on the top

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A bucket of rust or a brand-new machine
Once around the block and you'll know what I mean

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Yeah, there's something women like about a pick-up man

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Love is like a butterfly, as soft and gentle as a sigh

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The multicolored moods of love like it's set in waves
Love makes your heart feel strange inside
It flutters like soft wings in flight
Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing
I feel it when you're with me

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It happens when you kiss me
That rare and gentle feeling that I feel inside
Your touch is soft and gentle
Your kiss is warm and tender
Whenever I am with you, I think of butterflies

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Your laughter brings me sunshine
Every day is springtime
And I am only happy when you are by my side
How precious is this love we share
How very precious, sweet and rare
Together we belong like daffodils and butterflies

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Alright, we are back
Hope everybody enjoyed that little music break
Who was that last one? Was that Loretta Lynn?
It was Dolly Parton
What? You stupid?

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Was that Dolly Parton?
This is why I win all the country ones, come on
I wasn't paying attention, I was talking, sorry
It's Willie Nelson, Joe Diffie, Dolly Parton
She's sweet
You're so stupid
Man, we're hanging out here with Caleb Weakley, a hero, a marine veteran
So tell me a little bit more about your back country heroes nonprofit organization

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So we're based right here in Ramona and we are a nonprofit dedicated to taking veterans, first responders and their families on meaningful outdoor experiences right here in the back country of San Diego
So Ramona and Julian is where we primarily do what we do and we take them hunting, fishing, camping, hiking
Our goal is to get them outdoors not only with other veterans or other first responders but with their family members as well and help them reconnect and heal through nature

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Okay, I can get on board with that
You have a website for that?
We do, www.backcountryheroes.org
Cool, and there's like a donation thing that people can donate?
You can go on there and donate, we are 100% privately funded
The community here in Ramona really stepped up like I said last August is when we started and two weeks later we were in Catalina and the whole rest of the year we ran about 30 other hunts here locally and that all came from donations right here in Ramona

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What were you hunting in Catalina?
Deer
So they have a big deer population
I was going to say buffalo?
Nah, I wish, I've been trying for years
So do you do like gun safety with these people or are these people that already know like how to shoot, they're familiar, they're hunters?
So when they sign up we'll ask all these questions and we have a questionnaire and if they need it we'll go over it and before we go on any hunt we take them out, we have a private range in Julian that we use and we take them out and we get them familiar on the firearms that we have because we use ours for insurance purposes

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So we make sure that they're proficient, safe and they know how to do it and they're comfortable
And then from there once we get to whatever hunt we're doing, if it's here local we won't do it but like when we go to Catalina we'll go to another range there and we'll immediately get back on the range and get them shooting again before we go do anything
Okay, cool
Nice, and deer you set out?
We do deer on Catalina, yeah

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It's fun
It's not the buffalo
That'd be a cool ass trip man to go to Catalina
Yeah we go for a week and we take, last year we took four veterans and first responders and they each get two deer tags, a buck and a doe, and we camp in the interior, we get two or three trucks and a couple of guides from the island and we just mob around the whole interior

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So the place where people pay for those eco tours and they just do the little circles, we're on the whole 70 mile interior just on our own
Wow
It's amazing
Wow man that's super cool dude
That'd be rad, hey do you know the story on the buffalo on Catalina Island?
No
I've heard rumors
Because buffalo are not native to California
No, wasn't it from a movie script or something?

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It was, yeah they shot a movie back there in the 1940s and they imported all this buffalo and then when they were done shooting they just left
They were like, man we'll just leave him here
They just left him there
And the people were like, you forgot something
Man, I wonder what movie it was
I don't know, I'll look it up

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That would be an interesting little trivia thing to think about
It's black and white
Is that the movie?
I don't know what it's called but it's a black and white movie
Let's google it
The Vanishing American
The Vanishing American, Eric's already on it
It was filmed in 1925
Oh wow
1925
It was a film version of Zane Grey's classic novel released by Lasky Film Corporation in 1925

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Is it a silent film?
They brought 14 bison
14?
Yeah
I remember going out there and there was way more than 14
The herd grew to nearly 400 by 1969
They finally started sterilizing them
Now there's about 83
83? Wow
Roughly, I think it's 83, 85 somewhere in there
That's crazy

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I went to Montana a couple years ago doing a class out there for my work
And ended up going to Yellowstone
Bunch of buffalo were running around out there
And all these people were trying to stop their cars to get out
And there's signs everywhere that says do not try to pack the buffalo, they will gourd you
People always do it and I love watching those videos online

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I call them natural selections, travel of the fittest
You feel like you can see the signs and still think that thousands of pound animals are not going to do damage to you?
It's Darwin's law
You kind of deserve it at that point
A little bit
Have you ever been bear hunting?
I have actually
Last September I went to Wisconsin

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And I shot a really big just under 300 pound black bear
But in Virginia I grew up hunting bears and we'd kill a bear a year
I'm actually flying back up there in two weeks to pick up my bear meat
That's one type of meat I've never tried
My best friend's husband is an avid hunter and I've had pretty much everything
So in about three weeks you're going to try it?
I will try, yeah, I'm open

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Are you going to give some to Dean?
I'm going to make him do some but my wife is actually a classically trained chef
And she cooks everything I do
We don't really buy meat in the store other than last minute stuff
So we kill or catch everything
And my wife and I and my daughter, we butcher it all
It's like when you go to a restaurant your kid's like what kind of burger is this?

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My daughter orders like the wagyu type beef
Because the other stuff is not good for her
She's like sub par
$120 for a steak and I'm like dude
I want my cow to be fed beer and given massages all day
That's funny
At nine years old
That's my nephew with sushi

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You can't take him to sushi for less than $200
I would say probably about a year or so ago we're out where we live
My dog was going crazy barking and I was like what the hell is he barking at?
I got outside and this guy was walking up the driveway
My drive was like a quarter mile long
Oh yeah it's deliberate if you come to our house
I was like what is this guy doing?
So I opened the door and I was like

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He's like hey man, I just want to let you know
Somebody just hit a deer out here
So if you, I don't know
It's pretty fresh
If you want to clean it and do it
I just want to let you know it's out there
I was like damn
I really do not have the time
Or the energy to clean this freaking deer
But I would have
Or contraption to get it from the road to our house

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I could have thrown it on the four wheeler
It was Saturday morning and I was a little hungover
I was like you know what man
You go ahead and take it
That's crazy
I wonder if he hit it and he was just trying to cover his basis
I mean you see him all the time on the side of the road
I see him down the 78
Over by the wild animal park

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I saw just a couple weeks ago
There was a couple of them jumping across the road
I was heading to work
Really?
Yeah
The only times I've ever seen him is in our yard
Going to, when we were at KQ
When they ran across
Yeah
And then my dad had a church in Shelter Valley
And driving to Shelter Valley all the time
That he would run out
Yeah, I grew up in South Carolina
Hitting deer was kind of a normal thing

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Every day almost
You see him on the side of the road
Every truck's got the big bumper
The big
Deer car
Yeah
Yeah
You have to
I almost hit a deer with my airplane
How does that happen?
Was it Christmas Eve?
Were you flying out of Montana?
No, here's crazy
So I'm picking up a brand new airplane from Vero Beach, Florida
And I have to fly it back to California

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So it takes like four days
Because you fly in the morning and then you call out a day
Well, my brother lives in Joplin, Missouri
And so I say, I'll pop into Joplin, Missouri
He actually lives just outside
But anyway, I'll pop in there and say
Hang out with my brother for the afternoon
And they have an airport in the middle of nowhere
That's literally cut out of the cornfields out there
Yeah
And I had heard about this potential, right?

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And so I low fly down the runway first
Just to make sure I'm scaring any animals away
Oh, I do a sweep to make sure
Yeah
Something's coming in, okay
And then I come back around and I land
I'm slowing down
I'm not going very fast
But I'm basically just kind of taxiing along
And this damn deer jumps right out in front of my airplane
Can you imagine calling the insurance company saying

(33:59):
Okay, this plane that is two days old
We have a deer stuck in the propeller
We just hit a deer with the airplane
Yeah, yeah
That's insane
I was like, God
I'd love to see what happens though
Oh yeah, yeah
I mean, it's already cut for you then
Right
Yeah, it's already kind of halfway chopped

(34:20):
It might be a little hairy, but it'll be fine
Sorry, Bambi
Clean that out a little bit, it'll be fine
We don't need that
We don't need that
I just wanted to get the plane home
The worst part would have been the three hour phone call
I mean, honestly, it's like, oh yeah
Yeah, yeah
Geez
I love it, yeah, so this is a drinking show with a music problem

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And you're sipping some whiskey?
Absolutely
Good old gentleman Jack
Cilantro, man
We don't say cheers anymore, we say cilantro
Cilantro
It's a Ramona thing, if you know, you know
Well, I got to get in here and give a shout out to a sponsor
Oh yeah
Because that's the whole reason we have a show
Yeah
So we want to give a shout out to get those fingers ready
Victoria, Ramona Family Naturals

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We're so grateful and thankful for your sponsorship
For all you do for live music in Ramona
From Thursday nights with Dirty Confetti and dinner
To Sundays and brunch
It's always a good time
Full coffee and smoothie bar
Full dinner menu with options
Yeah
Definitely check them out
They have a really good brunch on Sundays with live music

(35:29):
Usually it's like a duo or trio or something like that
Really nice, easy listening music on a Sunday afternoon
Easy like Sunday morning
Commodores
Is that who sings that?
Geez man
I think it's Lionel Rich
No
No, it is
Geez
Anyway, so thank you so much Victoria

(35:51):
This is why I win
Bradley
For your sponsorship
We do appreciate you so much and all your support for all the live music here in Ramona
We love you, thank you
Victoria
Can I make a break, late breaking news?
We need to get that late breaking news
Do do do do do do
Oh yeah
You know thing going on
Oh yeah
Oh let's hear it

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You know your 50th show Super Special is coming up
Yeah, April 13th
April 13th up at Julian Station starting at noon
Have you heard about this?
I did a little bit before air
This dumbass is going to start at noon and we're going to broadcast until he falls over
That sounds like a real party, I'm in
Yeah, it's going to live

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Live music
Live music, live broadcasts, there's going to be what's 15, 16 bands playing
That's amazing
And guess who's hosting the VIP tent?
The VIP tent, we're going to have a VIP tent
That's a very important person
Her initials are
Victoria Bradley
Yes, it was announced today that Ramona Family Naturals will be hosting the VIP

(37:00):
Nice
Tent, area, booth
That's going to be so much fun
Get your tickets because you know it's going to be good
Yeah, Victoria don't half ass nothing
Get your VIPs
Definitely get your VIP tickets
Is that something, do we know how many VIP tickets we'll have available or details?
So check out the new website tbroutlawshow.com and it has all of the details

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Thank you Victoria
Yes, thank you Victoria and Ramona Family Naturals
She has decided to be the host of that which is pretty cool
She is the hostess with the mostest
That is cool
So Caleb is gentleman Jack your normal go to whiskey?
What's your...
You know for a long time Jack Daniels was probably my best friend from about 2004 to about 2015

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And then me and Jameson took a real stand together
Oh you got him to Irish
Oh yeah
The Irish land
You can see it's a little bit in there
We took a big stand together and now I think I'm becoming that old man
And it's a lot of like Mikaelynn and Will It and I'm really slowing down and doing the sippers now

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I'm just red wine and sipping whiskey is kind of where I'm at now
You know what man it's crazy I never thought I'd be a red wine drinker either
I didn't start drinking red wine until probably 2015, 16 when I moved back to Ramona
And then started playing at wineries
Music at wineries and then I remember the first one I went to I played at Ramona Ranch Winery

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He was like what you don't have whiskey
I was like do you guys have anything I mean I don't know I've never been to one I'm not a bougie I'm a redneck dude
So I go to a winery and I'm like do you have like beer or do they're like no Travis this is a winery
Let me tell you as someone that works at a winery you're the people that were like do you see that sign on the door that says winery
I was like but you got to have other things for people that don't drink wine right

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Yeah we have water, sparkling soda, sparkling water
I used to take like three flasks of wineries when I would go and just
Yeah I learned that little trick too
So I wear cowboy boots so I just keep the flask right in my boot
Take a little break, go to the bathroom, do a little chug
I used to have a shell so you remember Forrest Gump how he wore those weird things on his legs

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So up until about six months ago from 2012 until about six months ago I had one on my left leg
And it had this big computer system on the side because I couldn't control my leg at all so it did everything for me
It had hydraulics, it had everything
And so I would hide the flask in the case or the cast of it and I could sit like six of them in there

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And even when I went on airplanes they would scan it but it would all just come up and they would want it
I'd show it to them and they're like okay whatever so I would have all these flasks and stuff in there
That's amazing
So now that I don't have that I'm just like it's so much harder now
Now I gotta pay for the shit and it's expensive
Here you come with your computer leg with 14 flasks in it and I get flagged for a pound and a quarter in the bottom of my purse

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And they like take it and I'm like oh it's probably just quarters
And the guy is like there's no needles or knives in here that are gonna... I'm like no
There's like a lip gloss and a pound of quarters
I'm sorry that's where all my change goes
I was going through a TSA one time and I had one of those battery charger things
It was a solar panel, little tiny solar panel you plug like three USBs into it

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But it was in my backpack and she was ahead of me so she went ahead, they led her through and then it was me
And then they're like alright we gotta check your bag
They open it up and they're like alright we're gonna have to patch it down and all the stuff
It has nothing to do with the battery pack
He has like if you're... I don't try to smuggle things
However if you ever want to don't fly with Travis he gets stopped

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We've been together five years
Every flight we have ever been on together he gets stopped and pulled to the side and they test something in his backpack
I always tease him that TSA owes him drink vouchers because they like bat him around and
Yeah
And fresque him up
Are you gonna buy me a drink after this man?
Every time like I'll get my shoes on and I start walking I'm like son of a bitch he's still back there

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I got his bag
Every time man I don't know maybe it's the way I look or something I don't know
Cass and I went on a cruise once with the invite of Oliver it was technically we got married on the cruise ship
Anyway all of our guests and everybody were showing up for the cruise
Well one of our dear friends is a senior guy up in the sheriff's department
And in his bag that he had been traveling in one stinking little round

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One round got lost in his bag somewhere and they found that round and they grilled him for god knows how long
He's like just throw the round away
Yeah
But why did you bring it?
Oh god
Oh yeah he spent like 45 minutes
So we can have this conversation and spend this time together sir
Yeah I wanted to get on this boat an hour and a half late so that's
You know I would have said this is a test how are you doing?

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You cast
About two years ago I was going through TSA out of San Diego
I was flying up for a hunt somewhere and it was kind of a dumb moment on my point
I get my bag through and I'm getting searched and patted down and the police officer comes over the harbor police
And he's like you know you have a magazine in your bag and I'm like I only read magazines bro

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That's not me
He literally pulls it out and it's got like 17 rounds in it
And I'm like hey I totally forgot that was in there
I was just you know I was out in Utah testing some guns with another company and all this stuff
And he's like well you know same thing get in the grill eighth degree whatever
And then I was like well can I at least keep the rounds because those are expensive

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I was like I'll take it out of the car he's like no I gotta destroy it whatever so okay whatever
I get on the plane I'm sitting down and I'm like and I reach into my brace at the time
My pocket knife was in there so I made it through with my pocket knife
But the magazine that I didn't have a gun for did not make it through TSA
They did a great job that day
That's funny

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That's funny
So I had bought my kid back in the day a crossbow for Christmas
It was a little cheap but it came with like these little plastic arrows
Oh yeah
With like the little round tips you know they're a little pointy but look like pins
But we were hiking and we brought it with us and we had them in a backpack
I had to leave I had to go to town the next day and so I forgot that they were in the backpack

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The little arrows there was probably about ten of them in there
And so I was like I was like you know I took my backpack off
Took my laptop out put it in the thing and I opened up the side and it was like
Oh shit there's a bunch of arrows in here so I just grabbed them all out
And I just set them in one of the plastic bins
I was like pretend I was just popping them over there

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Popping them over and then I'm like scooting down the line and there's like people that were behind me
They were like what are those? They look like pins
I was like yeah they're pins with feathers on them
Everybody take one
Sir you sure know a lot about these pins in here
I don't know what they are I don't know
They were like red and purple and blue like different colors

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I don't know what they are man
Did you blame it on the old lady behind you? Oh Mrs. Jones
Oh my god
Lady are these yours?
No
So did you make it through?
Yeah I made it through because I just left them in the back over there
That was before that was when I was like emptying stuff out
See this is very upsetting do you know I've been stopped for a bobby pin in my hair
Literally the lady's like I'm going to have to feel your head

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I'm like I have French braids I don't know what you think I'm hiding
It's a bobby pin but feel away
No last time I flew from Oakland back home
Well Oakland
I totally forgot my pocket knife
It was my favorite one too
And I was going through and I was you know emptying my pockets

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And putting all the stuff in the plastic bin
I was like oh my god dang it
I forgot to put it on my check in bag
So I was like fuck
So I just put it in my backpack put it on the side
Maybe I'll see
So then it goes through and I'm watching it
And it goes through that little side thing
Okay they see it

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So I'm like pulling it through
I was like yeah fuck
I forgot there's a pocket knife in there
She's like do you want to go back and check it in and come back
I was like no I just waited an hour in this freaking line
I don't know just throw it away
God dang it was so frustrating
I was so upset man it was my favorite knife
It was like a bad ass thick sturdy steel knife

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There's have you seen that movie
A movie just came out about TSA
It's one of those suspense movies where a guy a terrorist basically connects with one of the TSA radar guys
And basically tells you need to let my buddy through
But there's a scene that is hilarious where they're all in the back room
And they hand out TSA bingo cards
And they're going to fill out their bingo cards throughout the day

(46:07):
And then it says you know there's a dildo
Drugs
Drugs
Making some guy cry because you're going to take his pocket knife home to show your son
Was it that movie carry on
Yeah
Yeah there's that scene where they're doing TSA bingo
There's a buddy of mine his name is Anthony Rios

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He's a veteran
We call him Rocket Mike because he's one of the few people I know that got hit with an RPG
And it didn't explode
Like yeah super cool it broke his knee but it didn't blow up
So he's very lucky
But him and I over the last five years have made that a game
Right before we get there we'll throw something in the other person's bag like the carry on

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The last time him and I were flying to Ohio I threw about a 14 inch double ended dildo
Got vibrated and I turned the batteries on and threw it in his bag because he was in front of me
So he was going down the thing and I took it out of my bag slid it into his and turned it on
And pushed it through the conveyor belt
45 minutes later

(47:11):
Oh yeah
They took him into a private room and everything
Because they saw that on the screen
That's it was amazing
It hasn't made its way back yet so I'm really like oh god but it's going to happen
That was a vicious one
That is a vicious one
That's brutal man

(47:32):
That's hysterical
That is funny
I got a new gate so I was my co-pilot you know when we're flying something
And every now and then we have to do commercial
Even in uniform I'm just going to have to start screwing with them
There you go
That is hilarious
You got to do something that makes people blush that doesn't matter to you right?
Right

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I guess the logic in my head I'm like well but why did they stop him?
Well his bag when it got through was vibrating
So then they brought it out and they literally had a robot come over and like
No one else is touching it
It's vibrating and the thing so when stuff like that goes through the scanner
It's all in black and white it's not in color
So you just see this round log like this vibrating

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So they don't know it's like this 12 inch round log that's just
His whole bag is going crazy
So they're like we need bomb squad we need a robot we need all this stuff
That's funny
Yeah it can be bad
Can you imagine when they got him in there and they opened it and he's like what the fuck is this
Not again

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I can explain guys
I wonder if those guys ever really get jaded to the crap they see in there
They must
They're like
All the working girls coming back from Vegas on the weekend
We're like oh handcuffs
Oops
No I don't think that I think that kind of stuff probably makes them laugh
It's the stupid shit like there is a girl in line in front of me that

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They tell you take everything out if you have a water bottle like whatever take it out
She just sends her whole bag through and she had like a bottle of water a thing a conditioner
All the stuff you know that she's gonna get hung up for
Oh sorry you can throw that away and they're like what about this
She's like oh yeah throw that away
So I'm like things that could be avoided that obviously is just lack of listening in two directions
Yeah

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I think it probably is the stuff that they're like come on
But like that would make me laugh like I made my day a little bit
If I saw that I would laugh my ass off that's pretty damn funny
That is funny
What did your buddy say when he came out he just goes he goes
He just looks like you Caleb
He just knows his comment
That's what I'm saying the next time we haven't flown together this year

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And I'm really waiting to see what happens
I would love to see his face when the TSI guy puts the glove on reaches in pulls out and goes what is this
And he goes
He's the type of person that goes like he's the type of guy that when that happens he's just like okay let's go
And the TSI guy is like whoa
That's what he's saying have you heard of OnlyFans sir I'm making a killing okay
A couple of years ago they were going through his bag and we hadn't started this game yet

(50:08):
And the guy's like would you like a private room and he's like only if you're gonna hold my hand and walk me there
And I'm like yeah and I was like I'll come too
And the guy's like you're good sir you're good
First of all I have asked they have asked me if I want a private room
And I'm like I don't even know how to be funny in that moment
I'm like nope whatever you're gonna do to me you can do it out here with witnesses
The last time I got asked for a private room I folded my hands behind my head and I pushed my chest out

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And I was like let's go
Right there next to the scanner I do that every day
My wife will be behind me and she's like seriously our children are back here
And I'm like yeah but this guy's going down
We got a flight to make okay
That's hilarious
Just trying to get my side hustle on you know
That's so funny
Alright man let's listen to some tunes

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What would be something you'd like to listen to?
How about this one?
Oh yeah
Absolutely
There we go
Alright
Alright
The preacher man says it's the end of time
And the Mississippi River she's a gold drive
The interest is up and the stock market's down

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And you're only getting mugged if you go downtown
I live back in the woods you see
A woman and the kids and the dogs and me
I got a shotgun a rifle and a four wheel drive

(51:44):
And a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive
I can flower field all day long
I can catch catfish from dusk till dawn

(52:07):
Make our own whiskey and our own smoke too
Ain't too many things these old boys can't do
We grow good old tomatoes and homemade wine
And country boy can survive

(52:32):
Because you can't starve us out and you can't make us run
Those women and old boys raised on shotguns
We say grace and we say ma'am
If you ain't into that we don't give a damn
We came from the West Virginia coal mines

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And the rocky mountains and the western skies
And we can skin a buck we can run a trot line

(53:16):
I had a good friend in New York City
He never called me by my name just Hillbilly
My grandpa taught me how to live off the land
And he has taught him to be a business man

(53:38):
He used to send me pictures of the Broadway nights
And I'd send him some homemade wine
But he was killed by a man with a switchblade knife
For forty-three dollars my friend lost his life

(54:00):
I'd love to spit some beach nut in that dude's eyes
And shoot him with my old forty-five
Because a country boy can survive
Because you can't starve us out and you can't make us run

(54:21):
So put them old boys, raise your own shotgun
We say great, we say ma'am
If you ain't into that we don't give a damn
We're from North California and South Alabama
And little towns all around this land

(54:47):
We can skin a buck and run a trot line

(55:22):
There'll be no strings to bind your hands
Not if my love can bind your heart
There's no need to take a stand
For it was I who chose to start

(55:52):
I see no need to take me home
I'm old enough to face the dawn
Just call me angel of the morning angel
Just touch my cheek before you leave me baby

(56:17):
Then slowly turn away from me
Maybe the sun's light will be dim

(56:41):
Then it won't matter anyhow
If morning's echo says we've sinned
Well it was what I wanted now

(57:03):
And if we're victims of the night
I won't be blinded by the light

(57:28):
Then slowly turn away
I won't beg you to stay
Please, through the tears

(57:58):
Oh baby, always
Baby, just call me angel of the morning angel

(58:23):
Just touch my cheek before you leave me darling
Just touch my cheek before you leave me darling

(59:12):
There's a little girl in our neighborhood

(59:35):
Her name is Charlotte Johnson and she's really looking good
I had to go and see her so I called her on the phone
I walked over to her house and this was going on
Her brother was on the sofa eating chocolate pie
Her mom was in the kitchen cutting chicken up to fry

(59:56):
And daddy was in the backyard rolling up a garden hose
I was on a porch with Charlotte feeling love down to my toes
And we were swinging, swinging
Yeah, just to swing, swinging
Little Charlotte, she's as pretty as the angels when they sing

(01:00:18):
I can't believe I'm out here on a front porch in the swing
Swinging, swinging

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And we were swinging, swinging
Swinging, swinging

(01:01:06):
Now Charlotte, she's a darling, she's the apple of my eye
When I'm on a swing with her she makes me almost high
Charlotte is my lover, she has been since the spring
Just can't believe it started on a front porch in the swing
We were swinging, swinging

(01:01:27):
Swinging, swinging
I said little Charlotte, she's as pretty as the angels when they sing

(01:01:49):
Swinging, swinging
Swinging, swinging

(01:02:10):
Alright. Alright, sweet curbs, who was that?
John Anderson?
We had a lot of birds flying around the studio just a minute ago
Alright, so you were telling us a story on the break of a musician that you got a little connected to
Oh yeah, got the country music musician

(01:02:33):
Mark Chestnut
I'm like Kenny Chestnut
I was in Ohio at a private event for veterans and Mark Chestnut was there
threw up this flag with I'm a veteran thing
I written on it and he invites us up, me and another guy
and he tells us his story, we didn't have backstage passion or anything, he brings us out

(01:02:56):
and he tells us that his son is a United States Marine
and how he loves the Marine Corps
he loves the military but he favors the Marine Corps, I get it
we're the best
he looks at his manager and he's like hey give him my number
and the manager starts giving me a number and he's like no, no, I say give him my number

(01:03:20):
so the manager was giving me his cell phone number but Mark told him to give me his personal cell phone number
so to this day I still have his number and I still talk to him like every month
I make it a point to connect with him, just talk to him, just say hey how's it going, how's your son, how's things
he lives in Texas, he's having fun, especially during COVID
I talk to him a lot because he was really worried about his son being employed with everything going on

(01:03:41):
and then his son was really active with a lot of the other stuff that was going on after COVID
so it made a point to connect with him and make sure I'm there and just talk to him
and it was amazing and what was really cool is to see someone that's been on the main stage
and made it so far just connect
all these guys say hey we're here for the troops, we're here for this, we're here for that

(01:04:03):
but to see someone at that level actually put his money where his
you know, just, yeah, he just really, you know, he really just came through on it
and I really appreciate that because a lot of guys don't
I love stories like that, like of people that have made it or like famous, you know
like Toby, Toby Keith, that are down to earth, they want to help give back, you know

(01:04:28):
Right, absolutely
Toby Keith was a Marine, wasn't he?
I don't think so
I think he was, he was either, I know he was in the military before
Well he has that song Ballad of Balad but I don't know if that's like a autobiographical
Yeah, I do, I think Toby Keith was a Marine
Let's Google it
I think Eric's already on that
I'm Googling, I'm already on it

(01:04:50):
You know what we haven't done yet? A Sweet Curbs Critter Corner
He did not serve in the military
No he didn't?
No
He was very patriotic
He was a strong supporter of service members
He performed for troops around the world with the USO
and was known for his patriotic songs
Oh yeah
True that
Very cool, very cool
Alright, Sweet Curbs

(01:05:14):
Sweet Curbs with a twinkle in her eye
Dances from the fields where clovers lie
Your smile's a charm you cannot deny
You guys are going to get sick of this but we're back to the Woodpeckers
Oh, these fucking Woodpeckers
I'm not exaggerating
Can you eat Woodpeckers?
It is the worst
It's time to go home
There's not a lot of meat on them
And it's kind of illegal

(01:05:35):
I mean I've had back-chewed wrap-dub
You can make bacon wrap with it
I've eaten dub before
Dub is good
They've now taken over, it's not just the wall, it's our house and surround sound
Yeah, they're in the front, back side of the house, everywhere, every morning
And if they did it when we weren't home during the actual normal hours of the day, I wouldn't care
But it's between 6.30 and 9 o'clock every single morning without fail

(01:05:58):
Look, I'm just going to be the realist here
You've got to figure out how to get rid of the Woodpeckers
Your house is going to fall apart
Because the house is going to start looking like Swiss cheese
It already does
It's the side of the house
It's called a pellet rifle
But then we have to like sit and scope out
Because even I can hear them tapping when I walk to my car and it's on the side of our wall
Just me walking to my car, they fly away

(01:06:20):
And I'm a hundred yards from them
Yeah, well
The second they see a person
I'm going to build you a robotic salt pellet gun
A saltinator?
Yeah, it'll just
And a salt gun?
Yeah, a salt gun
It's going to have motion detectors
I think we should put those things out from my birthday, those doily, sparkly things
We should hang them up and see

(01:06:41):
I know, we need to do that so we can try it out
They'll be pre-salted so when you do finally catch one
Because, I mean, there's nothing worse on Saturday morning after you've been out late
And you just want to sleep
After a birthday or something like that
6.30 in the morning you just
After your birthday
Kind of hung over a little bit
And it's in a rhythm like that, it's not like a consistent like

(01:07:02):
No, it's steady
There's bright swirler rods on Amazon that apparently deter them from coming near you
Bright swirler rods
Apparently they deter them from coming near you
We will hang those from the eaves
I still think you should paint like a big lion mouth around the holes
See?
Or get a shotgun
You got a problem? Call a Marine
There you go, solve

(01:07:24):
We'll give you a solution, I don't know if it'll work
But we'll give you one and we'll be confident about it
Adapt and overcome
And get swirlers
I would hang like a net up
Sparkly swirlers
I don't want to hurt them, I mean I know I joke or I want to kill them, I want them gone
I do want them gone
But I don't want to hurt them, I don't want to like
Yeah
Until it's 6 a.m.
Well, all bets are off at 6 a.m.
I haven't had my coffee yet

(01:07:46):
Yeah, if you ever want to see sweet curbs angry
Wake her up at 6 a.m.
Well, that's not even that, he's the one that he goes
It's on my side of the, my bed is on that side of the wall
He walks all the way around and like slams the wall
I was like ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
And then they go away for a while so then you get about another 15-20 minutes of sleep
Yeah, like writers are about to fall asleep again
And then they realize the gig is up and then they come back

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They don't care
Trouble
Oh man
Alright dude, so tell me something real quick
So, Virginia
I just got to ask because I think I probably know the answer
How old were you when you first drove a vehicle?
Oh god, I think I was probably 10 or 11
Oh, absolutely
Down a dirt road

(01:08:29):
Yeah, down the old dirt roads we used to take the, drive the truck
Yep, manual, it was a manual
Yeah
You couldn't drive unless you could drive a manual
Oh, three on the tree there, yeah
Well, I would still not have a license
We didn't have licenses, we just drove the truck
Wow, I'm just saying
If it was a dirt road, it's free game, right?
Anything that wasn't county paid, you were good on

(01:08:52):
That's funny
How old were you when you drove in South Carolina for the first time?
I was probably 10
Yeah
No, I had been over 10, probably about 12
Yeah, I was about 12
12 years old
Drove a little S10
29
Oh yeah, my dad had a Ford, it was like an 85 Ford F-150 two-door
Oh yeah
And my sister had hit a deer, my other sister had hit a deer, my brother had hit a deer, it was all banged up

(01:09:16):
But we all got to drive it because we couldn't hurt it anymore
Literally had to crawl out of the passenger window because it was all caved in and you couldn't open the door
Yeah, so we didn't have trash service where we lived in South Carolina because it was way too far out
But there was a dump probably, you know, three miles down the road
And it was basically just on the side, kind of thing

(01:09:38):
But there was cans there, big old dumpster cans, but it got a little overwhelmed with people taking their trash
The cans were always full
But yeah, we'd drive down there, take the trash
By yourself?
Yeah, me and my sister
Did your Chevy S10 have the two seats in the back where you have to sit with your knees like this if you're over four?
Yeah
Yeah

(01:09:59):
Over four
My friend in high school had one and I remember I hated, we'd always literally fight to the death for shotgun
Because if you were in the back, you better hope the person back there with you, you were real close to
Because you were just playing footsies the whole time
Yeah
When it was practicality over safety?
You know, wait a minute, I got to shove three kids in this box
Well, I will say though, I was the kid when everyone was cramming in and someone was like, I'll drive

(01:10:22):
And I'm like, there's 15 of us and it's a Corolla and they're like, it's fine
I was like, whoever can sit on my lap, they can sit on the floorboard
I'm having a seatbelt
If you guys don't care, that's fine
She's such a straight arrow
She's such a straight curve, she's such a square
I mean, I'll go to the party and that's fine, but I'm getting a seatbelt, you can do whatever you want
Dude, I remember driving down roads in South Carolina with like 15 people in the back of the truck

(01:10:44):
Oh yeah, all the time
Yeah
Absolutely
Drinking beers, we were 16
See, my mom thinks I was so bad and then I hear your stories and I was like, dude
Oh my God, man, are you shitting me?
Yeah
We were like 16, so there was the Edisto River in South Carolina, we used to on the weekends, me and my buddies
We'd go down and canoe down the river, paddle down, we'd camp out

(01:11:05):
When you were 16?
Yeah, 15, 16
Oh yeah
But we would bring tents and stuff
And your parents knew you were going, see this doesn't make me sound so lame
Your parents knew you were going with no parents?
Yeah
They would just like go to the river?
We'd bring our pellet guns
I need to talk to Stephanie's mom to confirm that in fact this is okay

(01:11:26):
No, guns, yeah
We'd bring pellet guns and we'd, Buddy had a little jumbo, a little canoe kind of thing
And then we'd go canoeing down the river, the Edisto River
And we'd stop, you know, when it get dark, you know, and then get off the river and find a place to camp
Put a tent up, wake up in the morning, get up, cruise again
But the cool thing is we'd find people at liquor stores who were usually pretty cool

(01:11:51):
So we'd walk up to this guy
I'm like, hey man, you think you could buy us some beer?
And he's like, oh, looking at me, he's like, I'd probably look like 12 years old
Like I had, I got carted until I was 30
You told him it's for my mom
I still get carted sometimes if I shave, but anyways, no
So I walked up to this dude, I said, hey man, you think you can set us up some beer?

(01:12:14):
We're just trying to go fishing down at the river
And he's like, he's like looking at me, he's like, fuck
He was a younger guy, he had long hair
He's like, yeah, I'll do it for you
I was like, yeah
Then he said, you have to tell me if you're a cop
No, he did
So I gave him 20 bucks and I was like, just 12 pack of Ice House beer

(01:12:37):
Because it had like the 5.9% alcohol is the higher
So more bang for your buck
So I was like, just get a 12 pack of Ice House and we'll be sitting in the Pontiac Sunberg out there
Tell me your stories from the 90s without telling me your stories from the 90s
Yeah, it was a Pontiac Sunberg
Anyway, so we're sitting in the passenger seat, buddy was driving
And dude comes up and I see him coming out and I was like, alright cool, here he is

(01:13:00):
So we roll the window down and then he has the beer
But then he stops for a second, he's like, he like yelled at me
He's like, are you with ABC?
And I'm like, I'm like, what? I don't even know what the fuck ABC is
He's like, are you with ABC?
I'm like, what?
He's like, you know, you have to tell me
And I'm like, what are you talking about, dude?
He's like, alright, you're good

(01:13:22):
He gave me the beer
Yeah, and then we went to the river, went camping
Went canoeing, fishing, all kinds of fun stuff
My closest brother was five years older than me
So he joined the army at 18
So he gave me one of his old IDs
So everybody thought I was a young active duty guy

(01:13:43):
Because we look kind of alike
So I would show them that
And in Virginia, they were like, oh, you're active duty? Cool
You can buy whatever you want
I would buy beer, liquor, everything
And I was like 13 or 14 years old
They didn't care
But same thing, we had an old jeep too
We'd take this old 1979 CJ-7 to the river

(01:14:04):
And we could drive it across the river
Because you couldn't get that thing stuck
Drive it across, we had a little campsite
And there'd be 10, 15 of us
I'd just tell my parents, yeah, we're going down to the river
With some friends from the church
And Saturday, that's what we'd do
Sunday morning, we'd be at church
Yeah, absolutely
A little red-eyed
Going to church
Half asleep on the back queue
Yeah, absolutely

(01:14:27):
Oh, man
So the first car you ever had was that truck?
My dad had that truck and that jeep
Those were the two
And they were both manuals
And you couldn't get your learners until you knew how to drive both of them
Yeah, I've told this story before, but not to you
So I'm going to tell you about it
I had bought a jeep, a 1973 jeep, CJ-5
When I was, I don't know, 17, 18, somewhere

(01:14:50):
And driving down the Aiken-Augusta Highway in South Carolina
It's the road to get from Aiken to Augusta
Right, it's a highway, it's I-20
But they called it that
But a friggin' steering wheel popped off
Driving down the highway
It was an old-ass jeep
Doing the steering wheel just went pop
That's amazing

(01:15:11):
But I never heard the end of the story
How did you safely maneuver it?
Just kind of very, very, very gingerly slowed down
And stopped, finally
And then I worked at a, oh, I was 18 actually
Because I worked at the body shop at the time
And I had a friend that drove a tow truck
So I was like, you know, we left it there
I don't know how the hell we even got home

(01:15:32):
Because we didn't have cell phones
You left it in the middle of the highway?
That was on the side of the road
That's what I'm saying, how'd you get over the side of the road without steering wheel?
They had Lamis's back then
Yeah, it just drifted
You just had to lean to the right
Just drifted
Just lean to the right
No, I think we had some vice grips or something
And we were turning the, yeah
Probably a pair of Kleins where you're from
Yeah, Kleins, Kleins
Huh?
Yeah, the old Kleins

(01:15:53):
Yeah
Yeah, I got it over and had a friend of mine
Pick it up, tow truck, drove it back to the shop
And I was like looking at it, I was like
How the hell did this steering wheel pop off of this fucking thing?
It was the craziest thing
Yeah, good times, man
Hey, you want to thank one of our sponsors for helping us out?
Oh yeah, I do, I'd love to thank one of our sponsors

(01:16:14):
I'd like to thank Dean Honey in Outlaw Barbecue
You know, check him out, his number is 858-354-7712
You know, he's been a long time sponsor of this show from the beginning
And he's done so much for this community
He does a lot for the Barnett School here
And he's actually partnered with me on my property here in Ramona
To start a Ramona Archery Club for the public

(01:16:36):
We've got a bunch of 3D targets
We're adding more targets
We're making a walking course right now
And we're just making it, and it's super affordable
We're making it to where the public can come out and learn
If you need lessons, if you just want to shoot
Whatever you want to do, get ready for hunting season or competition season or whatever
Just want to give back to the community outside of what Dean already does with Outlaw Barbecue

(01:16:58):
And his amazing barbecue that he serves around Ramona and the surrounding areas
I'll tell you guys a quick story about that
My daughter, she's 9 years old
We went to North Dakota last year when she was 8
We drove a refrigerated trailer up there
And she actually shot a bison
9 years old on her own
1,900 pounds

(01:17:20):
Damn!
Shot that thing right behind the ear at 100 yards
It flipped backwards and died right there
So her and I spent the next
Oh, 6-7 hours processing it, hanging it in the trailer
We drove it back down, me, her, my wife, and one of our buddies, Brian Horn
He helped us and we carved that thing up in 3 days
Put it in the freezer
So Dean comes over one day and he goes

(01:17:42):
Hey, I'd like to, can I trade you for some bison or whatever?
Dean and I have a unique relationship
I'm his gunsmith because I'm a gunsmith by trade
So he trades me barbecue for gunsmithing
Nice, alright, fair enough
Everybody works out
So he comes over, he's got some gunsmithing for me
He's like, hey, give me some bison, I'll do something up for you
And I go, well, that's all Scarlett, you gotta talk to her

(01:18:03):
So I go in there and I tell Scarlett that Dean's here
And she goes, oh, yeah, this is a 9-year-old kid, okay?
She comes out and she goes, what do you want?
So they make a deal and she goes
You can have whatever you want
But I want 30 pounds of smoked sausage
I love it
Now every time she sees him, she wants smoked sausage for bison
And that's what she does
When they have the events at Barnett

(01:18:24):
She goes right up to him and he'll text me beforehand
See if we're coming
He'll have a whole tray set aside for her
And she'll be sitting over there eating it
And they're like, how did you get that?
She's like, I know a guy
That's so funny
Don't worry how I got it
This is all there is
Don't worry about it
Dean, what a class act, man
What a great guy
What a giving guy
I mean, he's such a generous, loving guy

(01:18:45):
He's really cool
Yeah
And his barbecue is absolutely amazing
I'm gonna be the one
He's alright
I'm just kidding
No, everything he makes
He always brings me stuff too
I love Dean
I like spicy stuff
So he always tries to outspice me with his
He's like, I got something for you
But I only made one
Tell me how spicy it is
It's funny because my wife's a chef
And he tells me, I'm afraid to give you food

(01:19:07):
And I go, well, if you could come to my house and just listen
Because my wife's like, this is so great
So good
Yeah, I've not had anything bad from him
She doesn't even critique it
She's just like, this is amazing
Oh yeah, man, it's so good
I don't let him know that
No, I don't
I know
Oh, crap
Yeah, no, you can't let him know
I'm like, just give me more and I'll let you know
She's not sure yet
We need another sample

(01:19:29):
She's been evaluating this
We need a
Yeah
Alright, what's his phone number one more time?
858-354-7712
Dean hunting and outlaw barbecue
Nobody wants to party with salads
They gotta have the meats
And Dean's got the meats
I like his t-shirts, man
Nobody makes friends with salads
Oh, right

(01:19:53):
Have you seen his new shirt?
What's it called? The outlaw salad?
Yeah, yeah
It's a rocks glass of whiskey and
Four water croutons
Four water croutons
I brought my daughter one and she's like, I'm gonna wear this to school
And I'm like, no, you're not
That's a Saturday shirt, sweetheart
Go ahead and try it, see how far we can push this

(01:20:19):
Alright, this archery thing you guys are doing
Where and when and how do people get connected with it?
So, Dean, it's still kind of
We had a small meeting
February 1st
Just some locals
Dean put it out on Facebook
We're still literally coming up with a name
I think it's gonna be the Ramona Archery Club
And it's gonna be a
It's gonna be a

(01:20:41):
It's gonna be a big archery club
And it's super inexpensive
I think it's like 50 bucks for the year
Just trying to make it
To where everybody can be a part of it
And we've actually got some people
That are a little bit well
Well off that have said that
They would be willing to sponsor other people if they can't afford it
So, you know
We're just trying to get kids and families

(01:21:03):
Interested because it's a lot of fun
We had probably 30 people at my house
February 1st out in the back field
And we set up six targets
We've got all the hay bales
The livery here in Ramona came out
And donated a bunch of bales at a really discounted cost
And then a bunch of patrons
Here in Ramona have either
Donated or bought targets
For this event and we still have more coming in

(01:21:25):
The bow shop down in
Lakeside
And the bow and arrow shop
They've all came out
And donated bows and arrows
And all sorts of stuff, they're really supportive of this
So, it's just great to see a community
Like this coming together
And it's just archery is such a fun
Thing to do
It's different than rifle, you can do it

(01:21:47):
Anywhere you want, you know
So, when you say they've donated like bows and arrows
Like so, for instance, I don't have a
Boner, I've never bow hunted or done anything
I could come and spend the day and there's
There's a handful of bows that you
Could use, we have all different
Draw lengths and sizes and different
Arrows and everything, so if you don't have
Anything, you can come, we have it for you
If we don't have it, we'll

(01:22:09):
Take down your info and we'll get it
But we'll let you use our personal
Bows, because we all bring out our personal bows
And we just want to get people interested
In the sport, because the sport itself
Is a lot of fun, you don't have to hunt, you don't have to do any of that
For instance, we had a couple
There the other day, a guy's retired Navy
He's a huge hunter
He hunts, hunts, hunts, hunts
His wife shoots archery because she enjoys the

(01:22:31):
Target competition
So she doesn't hunt at all, but she
Goes around to these different courses with him
And shoots the competitions
Doesn't hunt, doesn't want to be a part of it
But it's so fun to watch them
Out there, and then, you know, they came out, it was their
First time, and they were like, hey, we'll
Be right back, they literally ran to their house, they lived like
Five minutes away, they came back
With 15 bows and they

(01:22:53):
Were like, hey, here you go, whatever you need
For the kids, the adults, whatever, and they just
Brought out all their personal stuff
And this community here in Ramona
Has been so open
To our veterans, first responders
Their families
It's just such a welcoming community
I'm so grateful to be a part of it
And I love seeing how all these people
Are coming out and helping each other

(01:23:15):
Because you don't see that a lot now
Unfortunately in this country
And this community here in Ramona
We've got such a small
Town community where everybody
Loves and helps each other, and I just
Am so grateful to be a part of it
So cool, I love that
We've got an archery club coming to town
Sweet Curbs, have you ever shot an arrow?
I have, so I was telling you, my best

(01:23:37):
Friend's husband is a hunter, he does
Guns and bow and arrow
But he got my best friend, Nicole
Into archery and she's like
She did it more for like the kind of target
Stuff, so I have tried it
But he's funny, we used
To go camping in Cuyamaca every year
And we would be driving down the road
And all of a sudden we would just slow down and I'd be like
Why are we slowing down? It's like James sees a deer somewhere

(01:23:59):
Or there's a deer, like he's got his
Jedi sense
And I'm like, we're just going like four miles an hour on the highway
There's cars behind us
Just keep driving, okay? You can hunt
When we get there, I don't know
I agree with that though
I've been hunting many
Times, I've gone bow hunting
A couple of times, never caught
Shit, never got anything

(01:24:21):
With the bow, got a couple
Of a, got a couple of doves
A couple of ducks
I might know a guy if you want to get
Something
I know
Dude, from South
Carolina coming back here, I was like
There's nobody, there's no hunting out here
It's so different out here
When I first hunted out here

(01:24:43):
Being from the East Coast, you sit in a tree stand
You get in there at 4.30 in the morning
And you sit there until after dark
I get out here and these guys are like, we're going to get high on a hill
We're going to spot, we're going to stalk these deer
We're going to get in close and I'm like
You guys are wrong, you don't know what you're doing
The deer come to you
This is dumb, we don't do this
The whole fun of it is just sitting there hanging out
Right

(01:25:05):
Now when I go back to the East Coast, they're like, what are you doing?
I'm like, guys, I cannot sit still for an hour
This is terrible, I cannot do it
It's a different world
But it's so much fun
That's so funny
Alright, so here's my suggestion
We're going to play another batch of music
Alright, let's do it, Eric
You're the man behind the sound here

(01:25:27):
Him, Kirby, and you have all been
Throwing banters about who can do lyrics the best
So we're going to change up the game tonight
So instead of naming that tune
We're going to play fill in the lyrics
We haven't done that in a while
It's probably been 10 episodes or so since we've done that
So we've done that
So is that alright with you, boss?
Yeah
You're the man running the sound, Eric

(01:25:49):
You're going to play with me?
He said boss

(01:26:21):
He said boss

(01:26:51):
Things like this are never final
I'm still paying on the vinyl
Flooring in the laundry room
It's multi-colored and waterproof
It's a little bit tough to face my friends
The ones that said that I jumped in
River of love a little too soon

(01:27:13):
That was August
This is June
And it's a different tune
I'm going through the big day in domain Dallas
I can't believe what the judge had to tell us
I got the key, she got the powers

(01:27:48):
I can't believe what the judge had to tell us
I got the key, she got the two-bedroom mortgage
Just two side light blue powders

(01:28:27):
You may think that I'm talking foolish
You've heard that I'm wild and I'm free
You may wonder how I can promise you now
This love that I feel for you always will be

(01:28:48):
You're not just time that I'm killing
I'm no longer one of those guys
As sure as I live
This love that I give is gonna be yours
Until the day that I die
Oh baby, I'm gonna love you forever

(01:29:14):
Forever and ever, amen
As long as old men sit and talk about the weather
As long as old women sit and talk about old men
If you wonder how long I'll be faithful

(01:29:35):
I'll be happy to tell you again
I'm gonna love you forever and ever, forever and ever, amen

(01:30:02):
Basically time takes its toll on the body
Makes the young girl's brown hair turn gray
Well honey, I don't care
I ain't in love with your hair
And if it all fell out
Well I'd love you anyway

(01:30:23):
Basically time can play tricks on memories
Make people forget things they knew
Well it's easy to see
It's happening to me
I've already forgotten every woman but you

(01:30:44):
Oh darling, I'm gonna love you forever
Forever and ever, amen
As long as old men sit and talk about the weather
As long as old women sit and talk about old men

(01:31:05):
If you wonder how long I'll be faithful
Just listen to how this song ends
I'm gonna love you forever and ever, forever and ever, amen

(01:31:27):
I'm gonna love you forever and ever, forever and ever, forever and ever, forever and ever, amen

(01:31:48):
Just a good old boy, never meaning no harm
Beats all you never saw
Been in trouble with the law since the day they was born
Straightening the curve, flattening the hills

(01:32:15):
Someday the mountain might get up but the law never will
Making their way the only way they know how
That's just a little bit more than the law will ever lie

(01:32:59):
Making their way the only way they know how
That's just a little bit more than the law will ever lie
I'm a good old boy, you know my mama loved me
But she don't understand they keep her showing my pants and not my face on TV

(01:33:49):
Alright, we're back! Oh, them good old Duke boys!
Hey, uh... Oh, you knew that one, huh?
I knew that one. Hey, Caleb, what was your favorite TV show when you were a kid?
Oh, man, the Duke's a hazard. Oh, Luke Duke, baby!
I liked it for the car and Daisy, of course.

(01:34:10):
Absolutely. Daisy was the draw. The car was secondary.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Daisy was definitely the draw for me.
The Daisy Dukes. And then the cool car was the jumping stuff.
Not that they went through a thousand cars or anything.
I know, dude, I heard like that was the Challenger, right?
Yeah, I used to think they went through one car and I was like, how?

(01:34:33):
So they started running out of Challengers because of that TV show.
They destroyed so many of them, they were becoming hard to find.
Yeah, there's a place in the Blue Ridge where there's like over a hundred of them
that have just been destroyed that are just stacked there.
From that TV show. Yeah.
Dude, that's so wild, man.
Alright, let's do a shout out to The Barn here in Ramona

(01:34:56):
over on 344 Main Street, off of Main Street in Ramona.
I want to thank Vito for sponsoring the show. Thank The Barn.
They have really good food, good live music.
They have music usually on weekends, Saturday, usually Friday night or Saturday.
And then they also have live music on Tuesdays.

(01:35:18):
In their lounge. In their lounge.
Yeah, it's usually a good time on Tuesdays, their little lounge there.
Eric, you've been there, haven't you?
Yes, it's my place to hang out and have a colossi.
Yeah, dude, you can be all bougie, you can be all fancy in the...
They've got these big, beautiful green leather chairs you can sit in.
Oh yeah, man, it's a cool spot. And listen to music with a full bar.

(01:35:39):
Yeah, and the lounge is 21 and up, so no little rugrats running around
while you're trying to eat your food or drink your old-fashioned.
Right.
Alright, thank you so much, Vito, for your sponsorship. We appreciate you.
He's a swell fella. He's a swell guy.
He's a swell fella.
Heck yeah.
Alright, well, what do you guys want to do? You want to play some trivia here?

(01:36:01):
We've got some time to play some good trivia.
This is going to take a little longer anyhow because of the format, right?
Oh yeah, we'll try to do that.
Alright, so here's...
Do, do, do, do, do, do.
...
Alright, so here's how it's going to work.
Alright, what's the rules?
I'm going to start playing a song. And it's kind of a round robin thing here, okay?

(01:36:24):
So there's no calling your names out or nothing.
I'm going to start playing a song that you all better know.
Okay.
But do how well do you know it? Because at some point I'm just going to pause the music and I'm going to call out a name.
That name has to start filling in the lyrics from where I paused it.
Okay.
If you get it wrong, then I'm going to have to move on to the next one.

(01:36:46):
Okay.
The next person, right?
Like we can steal it or someone else can know it?
Yeah, something like that. We'll figure it out.
Are you going to call names at random or...?
Yeah, pretty random. I'm going to kind of go around.
Okay.
He's going to call on me the most.
Yeah.
Sweet Curbs.
It always starts with Kirby.
It always starts with Kirby and ends with Kirby.

(01:37:10):
All right. You ready for the first one?
All right. Let's try this out.
Okay.
So are you going to tell us ahead of time who's going or are you going to play the song and then before you stop and then say Caleb or...?
I'm going to call out a name.
All right. What's the genre? Are we doing 80s, 90s?
Yes.
Yeah?
Everything.
All the things.
Just country.

(01:37:31):
If it's just going to be songs, you better fucking know.
Okay.
Okay?
Nothing after 2005.
All right.
Nothing after 2005. All right.
All right. Let's see how this goes.
Move to the first one's a warm up.
All right. We'll see.
All right. Here we go.
All right.
Travis, sorry.

(01:37:54):
No, you don't have to sing. You have to wait until I pause.
You can't just arbitrarily start, you know.
Just for fun, who's singing it? Do you know that much?
Willie Nelson. Come on now.
Okay.

(01:38:24):
All right. You ready?
Go.
I have no idea.
This part.
Travis.
I just never took the time.
You are always on my mind.
Okay.
Let me see.
You got it.
No, I don't.
No, I just never took the time.
Girl, I'm sorry.
Fuck's sake.
Here we go.
All right.
Travis.

(01:38:45):
All right.
We'll give you that one.
All right.
See how this is going to work?
No, there's no points on that one.
You have to know.
You have to know the song.
All right.
Let's see what happens.
Okay.
You ready?
This is for reals.
For reals.
For reals.

(01:39:06):
Here we go.
For real points.
Here we go.
L-O-R-O.
Don't sing it because you're going to give it away.
L-O-R-O.
L-O-R-O.
My heart's on fire.

(01:39:34):
For L-O-R-O.
As that look like heaven.
Caleb.
You guys are killing me here.
What I got?
Lips like cherry wine.
Come on.
You want to try it one more time?
People are listening and they're like screaming at the radio.
You can't just know the chorus.
Everybody knows the chorus.
That's the easiest part.

(01:39:55):
I know.
That's hard.
This is hard, dude.
All right.
Sing along with it then.
I need something some more contemporary.
I don't know all the words to this.
L-O-R-O.
L-O-R-O.
L-O-R-O.
L-O-R-O.
L-O-R-O.
L-O-R-O.
L-O-R-O.
L-O-R-O.
L-O-R-O.
L-O-R-O.
L-O-R-O.
L-O-R-O.

(01:40:17):
L-O-R-O.
Travis.
All right.
What you got?
Fill in the blank.
Oh, shit.
I wasn't even paying.
I thought we were going over a different song.
I did too a little bit.
My heart's on fire.
L-O-R-O.
L-O-R-O.
We're not getting very far with this.
All right.

(01:40:38):
I know this song.
I'm going to see that mountain over there.
Stop giving away the stories.
Come on.
But it's already given away because you're going to hear it.
I'm just trying to show you that I know the way.
One of these years I'm going to climb that mountain.
Mountain, mountain, mountain, mountain.
It's probably best if you sing along with it.
That way you can just keep rolling.

(01:41:00):
I know.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, play me some mountain music
Like grandma and grandpa used to play
Then I'll float on down the river

(01:41:23):
Kirby.
To a Cajun Hideaway.
Outta here, girl.
To a Cajun Hideaway.
Rip away.
We'll go a little bit more with this song.
But I'm going to pause it again, so be ready.
I'm going to fly off with old huck Finn
Take a nap like Rip and Winkle

(01:41:45):
They're streaming again
Caleb.
Play me some mountain music
There you go.
Oh, play me some mountain music
All right, let's see what's next.
Ready? Here we go.

(01:42:13):
Down on the corner by the traffic light
Everybody's looking as she goes by
They turn their heads and they watch her till she's gone
Travis.
Lord have mercy, baby's got her blue jeans on

(01:42:39):
I still hear his paper.
That's like the easiest one ever.
We're going to do it again.
He was in the right tone and everything.
I know.
He knew.
He was like, this is a gimmie era.
That was great.
Ready?
To take a peek as she goes walking
Caleb.
I have no clue.
I know the song.
Walking like a rolling stone

(01:43:01):
Rocking like a rolling stone
Seeing the same key in everything, you sweet germs.
I didn't know you had that low of a register.
Just call me Michael Dean.
All right, here's the next one.
Who knows who sings it?

(01:43:22):
Redneck girl likes to cruise in nasty clubs
No.
Bellamy Brothers.
Bellamy Brothers.
Bellamy Brothers.
Any redneck girl plays her heart when she's down on her love
Living for Friday afternoon

(01:43:43):
She's going to show one old boy that a weekend moon
Kirby.
Give me a, give me a.
No.
Caleb, you with me?
No.
I'll find me a day when I can call her my redneck girl.
That was pretty close.

(01:44:04):
Let's try it.
Redneck girl likes to stay out all night long
She makes sweet rock and roll while she listens to the country songs
We're going to pause one more time on the song.

(01:44:27):
You ready?
Kirby.
I can't, I can't.
If you can play it, I can sing it.
I'm in the same boat.
I hope and pray I find me a redneck girl.
No.
All right, here comes the next one.
You ready?
Oh, okay.
All right.

(01:44:48):
Are you ready for some food?
It's a long intro.
Give it a little bit.

(01:45:22):
I'm ready.
You thought I was going to pause it right there, huh?
Now I'm screwed.

(01:45:43):
I'm screwed.
I don't, I was ready for like five words ago.
All right.
Travis, what do you think?
Do you want to try?
Oh yeah.
You got me on that one.
All right, I'm going to do one more pause on this song.

(01:46:06):
We got, oh, who is it?
Sorry.
We got the pig in the ground.
We got the beer on ice.
All my rowdy friends are coming over tonight.
Technically you're wrong.
She's right.
What?
Pause it.
Pause it.
You said we've got the pig in the ground.
It says we've cooked a pig in the ground.
Come on.
I guess it's close enough.
Whatever.
Sweet curves.

(01:46:27):
You win.
Do you want to sleep on the couch tonight or?
All right.
Here comes the next one.
I grew up dreaming of being a cowboy and loving the cowboy ways.
What a great song.

(01:46:50):
Yeah, I love Willie Nelson.
I was pursuing the life of my high riding heboes.
I burned up my childhood days.
I learned all the rules of a modern day drifter.
Don't you hold on to nothing.

(01:47:12):
I don't hear anybody singing along with it.
So when I pause this, you're all fucked.
Just take what you need.
From the ladies that lead them were the words of a sad country song.
Kirby.
I have no idea.
Travis.
My heroes have always been cowboys.

(01:47:33):
That was good.
We'll do one more on this song.

(01:48:02):
Caleb.
Oh, no.
Travis.
You know, what was he going to say next?
I know that's all right.
With their own brand.
That's right.
All right, here's the next one.
You guys do know these songs, right?
Caleb, are you with us or what?

(01:48:24):
I'm singing along.
You're free to play if you like.
I got a funny story about songs.
I'll tell you after this.
I'm a real by morning.
Up from the San Antonio.
Everything that I got.

(01:48:47):
Caleb.
Is what I've got on.
I'll give you that pretty close.
Is what I've got on.
Close enough.
All right, we'll do one more pause on here.
When that sun is high in that Texas sky.
Travis.
I'll be bucking up the county fair.
I'll be bucking up the county fair.
I'm a real by morning.

(01:49:10):
I'll do one more.
Kirby, I'm going to call you.
Ready?
I'll be there.
They took my saddle and here's to.
Go.
Broke my leg in Santa Fe.
Atta girl.
Lost my wife and a girlfriend somewhere along the way.
You're not getting extra points for saying the next verse.

(01:49:34):
Sweet curves.
All right, here we go.
Out in the country.
Pass the city limits.
And what is a honky tonk near the counter?
The joint starts jumping every night when the sun goes down.
Caleb.

(01:50:03):
I got a good job.
I work hard for my money.

(01:50:38):
Kirby.
Running down that highway to that hideaway tucked out in the woods.
Close enough.
Close enough.
A little, a little good.
It was go flying down the highway.
To that hideaway.
Stuck out in the woods.
To the boat, scoots will go.
All right, here it comes.
Oh, I got this.

(01:51:00):
I don't.
I know this song.
This is fancy.
This is Rebuff.
Yeah.
I remember it all very well.
Looking back at what summer I turned 18.
Kirby.
I lived in a one room run down shack on the outskirts of New Orleans.
I didn't have money for food or rent to say the least.
We were hard-pressed.
Travis.
Something about a dress.
Mama spent every last penny we had to buy me a dance and dress.

(01:51:22):
Do I get a half point for that?
Yeah.
Something about a dress.
You get, you get.
Point two.
Here comes Caleb.
This is your one shot fancy.
Don't let me down.
That had a straight in the side clean up to my head.
moon.

(01:51:44):
But I have to say, do you know what's crazy?
Until you hear something, when you hear a song and you think you know the words,
and I'll use this, we saw to the moon the other day.
And I was like, I'm going to go to the moon.
And they sang.
Nitty gritty dirt band.
Fishing in the dark.
I always thought the lyrics were Louisiana moon.

(01:52:05):
It's not, it is lazy yellow moon.
And I never heard it until I heard Sam and I could actually hear what he was
saying.
And I was like, Oh,
It's not Louisiana.
It's lazy yellow moon coming up tonight.
Okay.
You want to hear a quick, funny story?
Yeah.
So in Afghanistan, the patrol base that we were on,
it was this tiny little patrol base.
We had 44 Marines.
We had 14 Marines.
We had 14 Marines.

(01:52:26):
We had 44 Marines.
We had 40 British Royal Marines and we had 30 Afghan national army with us.
And it was barely big enough to house 50 people, much less 120.
Sure.
And so we would, the 44 Marines, we would alternate between patrols,
QRF, which is quick reaction force in case those guys who were on patrols got

(01:52:48):
hit.
And then we'd have a team sleeping and then we'd have a team on towers.
We had four towers.
So my team was on towers.
And then we had a team that would do.
And I was a SOG or sergeant of the guard.
So we had four towers with four machine guns or a Mark 19,
which is a grenade launcher belt fed.
It's amazing.
Anyway,
I would get in there and I would start singing a song and each tower would

(01:53:10):
sing a portion of it.
Oh, that's so.
All my guys only knew two songs though.
So we knew,
don't take the girl.
So I would start it and it would go around.
And then we would go to Johnny's daddy, John Michael Montgomery's.
Oh, the song.
Auctioneer.

(01:53:31):
Yeah.
So those are the only two songs that all my guys knew.
So we would go through,
don't take the girl and then Grunty County auction.
Repeat it for 12 hours.
That's hysterical.
But it'd be like, we would, I would change up who was singing what,
but I was in the main hub there and I would just sing a little part.
And then it would go and it would get background to me and I'd sing something
that I didn't know.

(01:53:53):
And then we would go around and we would do that for 12 hours.
I mean, that seems pretty entertaining.
For 12 hours.
But when you're doing it every eight days, it gets a little.
Something else.
But to this day we can call each other and be like, Hey,
everybody knows it.
All right. We got time for one more.
Then we have to do a couple of housekeeping and then we're going to say

(01:54:14):
goodnight. It's been two hours already.
Holy cow.
I'm not going to do the whole thing.
Okay.
Here comes the last one.
All right.
I got nothing.

(01:54:53):
I got nothing.
No.
I know the song, but I, I only know like really the chorus.
That's not your green.
Here we go.
I got nothing.

(01:55:24):
I got nothing.
We've got one more pause coming up here.

(01:55:50):
I got nothing.
We might need one more song.
One more.
I think we should do one of the ones.
I know.
Okay.
You got to be careful.
A lot of people say, I know that if you play that.
Okay.
Let's go.
I know that part.

(01:56:26):
All right. Here comes the next one. You ready?
All right.
Oh God.
I told you.
My daughter is going to love this.
I'm going to do it.
Five days a week.

(01:56:49):
But I saw something I just had to have.
I'm going to do it.
I'm going to do it.

(01:57:24):
I'm going to do it.
Travis.
It was taken bids and calling them out loud.

(01:57:46):
Caleb.
I'm going to do it.
I said, Hey, pretty lady.
Why don't you give me a sign?

(01:58:08):
All right. Last one.
And then we got to wrap it up.
All right.
I'm going to do it.
Travis.
I bet you never heard that.

(01:58:33):
I'm going to do it.
Caleb.
Yes.

(01:58:54):
I'm going to do it.
Oh, we have to do a tiebreaker. Oh, wait a minute.
So who's out on the tiebreaker? Let's see.
So we got Caleb and Travis both with six Kirby.
You're short by one.
Okay.
All right.
Here comes the tiebreaker.
All right.

(01:59:15):
All right.
We're going to do a tiebreaker.
It's just you gentlemen. Okay.
All right.
I'm going to find something here.
I wasn't expecting you guys to get that.
I'm not going to be able to find one.
We're going to do one either.
Okay. We're going to go here.
I mean, Kirby's got her own song.
How do we do this?

(01:59:38):
That's going to be the,
that's going to be the typewriter song.
Sweet curves with the twin.
I get to go first.
All right. Here it is.
Travis, I'm doing all right.
Fair enough, we're going to keep going until one of you guys fumble it.

(02:00:09):
Caleb.
I'm just a doing all right.
All right. Good.
All right. And it's a great day to be alive.
I know the sun still shining when I close my eyes.
There's hard times in the neighborhood, but why can't every day be just this?

(02:00:36):
Oh, it's Travis 15 years since I left home.
To every seat. I saw Caleb neither drink nor drug induced.

(02:00:58):
Oh, you're looking at it.
I'm not the best and then I left it alone. I hope you do it all right.
All right. There you go.
Travis, you got your eight.
Caleb was seven and Kirby with five.
Nice.
Man.
Good job.
Caleb, good job, dude.
Thanks.
All right.

(02:01:19):
Let's wrap it up.
How do we get a hold of you?
Where do we go?
Websites, contacts, socials, fill us in on everything we need to know.
Please, if you guys want to check out our website, it's www.backcountryheroes.org.
My name is Caleb weekly.
You can call me at 760-717-8319.
Get in touch with Dean, get in touch with any of these guys from the radio show.

(02:01:41):
They'll give you my number.
They'll give you our website.
Look us up if you want to come out, check out the Archery Club.
Please look us up.
We're on Facebook.
Also, my property is at the intersection of Warnock and San Vicente.
I'm pretty open.
Just don't show up after midnight.
All right.
With that said, I got to be honest with you.
I've been so touched by what you're trying to do and the whole mission and the whole

(02:02:05):
everything you're trying to do.
Ramona Radio wants to donate $1,000 to your program.
That would be amazing.
Thank you so much.
We're going to get that to you here in the next day or two.
OK, awesome.
Thank you so much.
Hell yeah, man.
And Travis?
Ramona Radio, always doing their best, man.
Always doing what you guys do.
We love you guys.
I'm Travis Billy Ross.
Sweet Curbs hanging out.
Eric Goforth.

(02:02:25):
See you, buddy.
And Mr. Caleb.
Thank you so much, man, for hanging out with us.
Thank you for your stories, dude.
That was so awesome.
Anytime.
Thank you guys for having me.
Hell yeah.
You guys have a good night.
Have a good rest of your week.
And God bless you.

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