Live October 30

Whether we like it or not, he's the self-proclaimed governor of mid-Missouri, and he's the host of TTBS, the podcast. Since we can't shut him the hell up, here's Tom Bradley. Thank you, Nikki Garvin. Maybe a few minutes late this morning, but if you're catching this as a podcast, which when most people do it generally, it's already recorded. Am I right about that? Oh yeah, for sure. Okay, all right. And so I didn't give you the cue, but you got the cue already. You were there and you knew it. So I think most people catch it recorded, so you have no idea that we're late, so I should just shut my ass. Yeah, 100%. And not even say that. Yeah. Folks, we're right on time. You can say whatever you want. Yeah, I can say anything I want to. Listen, listen. We were talking about age earlier, which I don't know that we're going to get in too deep with my age this week, but one upcoming episode soon we will. At my age, I can say anything I want to. I've had to lie to protect my heart and my pride for years. I don't care about my pride anymore. I have no pride. I've let it all go. But there are things- That's one of the things that goes, right? There's like eyesight, hearing, and filter. Filter's right up there with it. It passes fast. I wish sexual function would- Wait, you wish it would pass? No, no, no. You wish it would go away? No, I wish more people understood that it might be in one of the top three. Oh, okay. I can still see and hear just fine, thank you. Thank you very much. No, there were a couple things that I did not have up and running yet this morning, so I'm going to work on those. So I'm operating always without a net and without any kind of script, but I do need notes in front of me. Let me mention to you, our guest this morning is going to be Heather Overstreet. And I'm just going to say, a concerned and engaged citizen of Mid-Mo. How's that sound? Very good. And honestly, this is one of my most excited guests. Like we've interviewed the Sheriff, the Chief of Police, you've talked to the Mayor, but I was like, I'm really excited to talk to her. She's a very engaging young lady. I'm glad you feel that way. I've got to tell you, there's another young lady that we're trying to get on the show, and she's not responding at all. Young? Again, I'm an old man. And she's not responding at all. And I believe that she is now out of our stratosphere. And I think we've got Heather Overstreet while she's still within, because there'll come a day. I'll be like, hey Heather, and she'll be like, who are you? Who are you? You're beneath me now. And I'll be like, man, there's a time. No, Craig Seaster, bless his heart, has been reaching out for four months going, when the WNBA season is over, you've got to get Sophie Cunningham on the show. He just told me two weeks ago, he's like, you've got to do it, he's like shaking me. So I'm not going to throw anybody under the bus, except maybe Sophie Cunningham. But I've tried to get in touch with her, and it's to no avail. And this Monday, I think it was Monday morning, she was on Good Morning Frickin' America, so I'm pretty sure she's out of our realm now. Sophie Cunningham, I knew you when. I knew when you were just a kicker for the Rockbridge Boys Bruins football team. Go Bruins. So, but she is, she's a dynamo, and I love her very, very much, and thank you for coming on the show in the years that you have, and I know we'll probably never get you again. Her and Kaitlin Clark are the only two female WNBA players' names I've ever known in my entire life. There's nobody else? No, not a single one. And that is that we're live from Truman's Bar and Grill, and they've got their big Halloween party going on tomorrow night. Live music 7 to 10 o'clock. We will not be going, and I'll tell you why in a moment. But it's a huge night. Halloween lands on Friday this year, as we had the Chief of Police, Jill Schlutian, on the show last week. I'm pretty sure she agreed with stuff that I said in this intro portion of TTBS the Podcast. It's going to be a bitch for the police this year, because Halloween lands on a weekend night, and I'm not talking Sunday, and it gets rowdy. And there are people that are going to party through Friday, and then come back around for Saturday night again. And people lose their minds when they're in a costume. Did you know that? It's not surprising. That's the idea, right? Hide your identity, and you can be a little crazier. Look at people online. I don't know that people knew that starting out, because when they were kids, they were crazy already. And they get candy, and they're like, it's out of their mind. But when people put on a costume, they do that. So it's a big party here tomorrow night, 50-50. I don't know if that's a 50-50 cash drawing giveaway, or if it's the band. But live music, 7-10, promo swag, ride vouchers as well, if you're partying it up. And so with Lyft, and with Uber, and so we thank you at Truman's for taking care of us with those things as well. Hey, this is not, I want to mention this, with the police we mentioned, and this is not the announcement of the week. Do you know the Columbia Police Department is going to be out, as I understand it, today at Trader Joe's? If I've got the day of the week and the date correct, because Trader Joe's has an opening going on, their grand opening today, and the police had to be brought out to Trader Joe's. I've never been to a Trader Joe's. Please tell me what I'm missing. Me neither. No, I've never been either. I've literally never been in one. No. You and your wonderful bride. No. I go to Aldi. I know there's actually some relation there, but we can talk about that later. With Trader Joe's? Yeah. I don't have any idea. Yeah, I just heard a rumor about this yesterday. I won't talk about it. We can Google it later. But, yeah, no, I've never been in one in my entire life. They're going to be, it's not far away from here. And Trader Joe's is open. Are they worried about a bunch of soccer moms storming the front door or something? Do we still call them soccer moms? Can we? I don't know. If you want to. Non-binary moms? I don't have… I don't have any idea. What are they worried about? Wait, wait, wait. You can't say non-binary and say moms. I mean, I don't know. Correct? I would think so. I'm sure somebody does. But I was just trying to use modern vernacular. But you can say a non-binary mother. If you say it with that mother. Mother, with the A at the end. And that is then acceptable. You help me take care of some technical stuff at the front of this. I'm going to make sure that that is working at this time. And let's see if it is. It is working. Big announcement of the week. And I want to get to that. Brought to you by our very good friends. Even if they do let their girls at home sample the salt licks before they put them out for the animals. And it might have been… Do you know what they put out for cattle? Is it like a protein block? Or is it… I know you were right about the salt lick for the horses. But I've never seen a block like that for cattle. Usually they just have feed troughs. Hell, I don't know what it was. But I think the girls were taking it. Creekside Pet Center in Columbia. And Creekside's Bed and Biscuit. And also Dirty Harry's in Boonville. Thank you guys for what you do. Which ties right in more than one way with the reason I was late this morning. And the big announcement. Our puppy Daisy Jane is getting spayed today. What are you laughing about? We've covered so much about your dog's cycle. Your dog's organs. I never thought that would be part of our conversation. And for some reason, maybe because it happens so fast. These dog years, they fly by very quickly. And I guess she's now like, I don't even know, 21? And she's only a year old. She celebrated her first birthday this week. And Heather Overstreet, who's going to be our guest here in a few moments, I think she knows dogs really, really well. And so, yeah, she's getting spayed today. And for some reason, I've been more worried and concerned about her reproductive life from a young girl pup through what she's gone through than I was with our daughters. Raising them. Human daughters. But the other thing that's really a big deal is because now that she's going to be spayed, she'll be able to go to doggy daycare at Creekside Pet Center. So she's never been able to do that. I'm glad that's not a human child requirement to go to daycare. I would agree with you. I will also tell you that things got really weird with that just now. That's what we're here for, Tom. Tech stuff and to make it weird. It's probably going to be the big announcement of the week when she makes her first visit out there to Creekside for the doggy daycare. Folks, I have the great pleasure of bringing on someone that I only met, I don't know, 15, 30 minutes ago? Something like that. And I really only became aware of her existence on this planet maybe a month ago or something. I think that's when I saw the first. Did somebody show up? I'll get back to that in a second. Ladies and gentlemen, I will say good morning to Heather Overstreet. I refer to you as a concerned citizen. Do you think that's right? Yeah, I mean, I call myself a community advocate. Just somebody that's outspoken for the area. Community advocate? That almost sounds like community organizer. Would you be that? I have held an event before. Like a protest? No, I held an event for Charlie Kirk and I organized the event in 48 hours and I got 90 people to show up. Wow. And I made the news, too. Where did you hold this? In Cooper County. You live in Cooper County? Yeah. In a moment. I had some friends reach out to me and send me either a link to your social media account or maybe to a video you had done in one place or another and they're like, yeah, check this out. And I'm like, I don't know who this is. Great name. Marketable name. I like the name. Heather Overstreet? Is it your real name? Yes. And you come up and me, technically, I'm like, where's the sound button on this thing? Click that and it comes up and I'm watching and I'm like, where are you out of? Are you a contributor to Fox News? Heather, I'm not kidding you. I had no idea what your age was. I still barely know. I'm listening to you. You're so driven and the camera loves you and you are so articulate and you really have a passion for what you're talking about. I'm like, okay, she must be a Fox News contributor because I can tell immediately you're extremely conservative. Is that correct? Yes, absolutely. Actually, I'm a liberal. You're a terrible liberal based on your videos. And I'm watching this thing and I'm like, wait a second. You're from mid-Missouri. Are you from mid-Missouri? You don't even live here. You live in Cooper County. People in St. Louis, Kansas City, much less New York or L.A., they don't know that there's a Cooper County, Missouri. Well, they're missing out. Yeah, they are missing out. Unless they've traveled across the United States, took I-70 and they stopped off in Boonville. And got pulled over, yeah. I've been pulled over twice. In Cooper County? In Boonville specifically. Inside the city limits and I don't get pulled over. Yeah, they're just making sure. It's like they smell when you're not from there. I think they can. Outside tax revenue, baby. If they pulled into Cooper County, went to Boonville and they stayed at Hotel Frederick, believe me, they knew about it because friends in New York or Atlanta, L.A., wherever told them about that hotel. That hotel is famous with people who travel across the United States. Oh, and you've got to check out this little place. And they go in there and they love that. But otherwise, they don't know that Boonville exists. And that's where you are. You're going to like Sophie Cunningham. You're going to make the big time. I don't know about that. And you're going to forget about us. Hey, Alice, am I ever wrong? This is recorded. Am I ever wrong? I haven't seen you be wrong yet. Thank you. Thank you very much. Is he always right? I said I have not seen him be wrong yet. So we can talk to Deb. I'll tell you this, Heather. I might be wrong about some things. I'm not wrong about stuff like this. So here's the thing. I don't agree with everything you say. I don't know if you were thinking you'd come in here and I'd be telling you that we're on full agreement. Do you know that we're going to disagree this morning? That's great. That's content. That's okay for you? Yeah. Alice, on the other hand, he's like a young schoolboy. There's only two. That got funny. I think you might have just dropped a notch. You were looking forward to this morning. Very much so, yeah. Young conservatives are really exciting because it seems like it's rare but it's getting much and much less rare which is very exciting. Let me ask you this question from your viewpoint because we're talking about your perspective and your beliefs and your passions and everything else this morning. We will not have enough time for your Fox News. Yes, thank you. We are here and I don't know where you'll be reporting from. Tell them what's going on. Currently, I report from my bedroom. Well, you're doing a hell of a job with those reports. I open up the curtains so I have natural light. It's technical. There's something weird that happened over the course of… If you go back 25 years ago, there were liberals and conservatives and I talked about them openly that way These are the things that you believe in generally speaking if you're a conservative. Something happened. Conservatives started using the word liberal and it became derogatory. It was the way they said it. It's the way that they said it. I believe. Correct me if I'm wrong. Of course, if I go back 25 years, I don't know that you can go that deep in your memory. How old are you? I'm 25. What did you guess? I don't do such things. There's my age and everybody else is younger than me. Let me tell you something real quick. I went to… I don't remember. It was earlier this year I went to the courthouse to pay my taxes and I'm in line. There's a huge line. Everything's normal. Everybody's moving along. It gets to me and this lady looks at me and she goes, oh my gosh, you're a baby. I'm like, this baby pays taxes. Wow. I was taken aback. It was sweet though. I bet you were. I don't hear people going, look, I'm a liberal. I never ever hear that because I think it became some sort of derogatory term because of a tone that people were using. But at the same time, this is only my perspective. This is a little anthropology. It's my looking at people and going, huh, what's going on there? Conservatives became very proud of the label conservative. How did those two things happen? Well, first off, the left doesn't have a backbone. They don't want to be disliked. Typically people that identify as liberals and stuff, I mean, that's why they change their gender. They just want to be liked. That's the bottom line of it. So when you're talking to somebody that just wants to be liked, it's like they might believe something over here but the second that gets challenged, they're going to crumble. So, the unfortunate thing with the… That's everyone that leans moderate or to the extreme left. I can't say it's everybody, but I will tell you that what you said about people, if all they want to do is be liked, they will not they lose their anchors. Yeah, we call it no backbone. I need to learn your terminology. You didn't send me a manual beforehand on this thing. Well, the unfortunate thing about Democrats in general is that they've adopted an ideology that is fundamentally Marxist, which is anti-Christian is what it is. The basic way to summarize Marxism is you have three roles if you're in this role. It's victim, warrior, enemy. So you're either the victim of whatever. You're either the warrior, the person that stands up for those victims. That's why the left is so into oppression and Kamala Harris' platform is what it is. Same with Joe Biden recognizing 30 genders under his administration. So you're either the victim or you're the warrior. And a lot of times that's, in my opinion, that's facilitated by money, because you want to say why. It's like, well, people just want money. So that's where that comes in. So the victims are usually, they don't have that backbone. They're like, woe is me, I need help, I need help. So they're falling to that ideology. That's why when you say it's not all of them, you're correct. It's not all of them, but it's because there's more than one role. So if you're not the warrior and you're not the victim, then you're the enemy and that's where we come in. There are warriors and there are victims around us every day. There are people that have tremendous strengths and tremendous issues going on and everything else. So I can sit here off the top of my head and name you a dozen warriors. I think, if I'm understanding this correctly. Well, I disagree because it's a free country. There's no need for a warrior. We have a Bill of Rights. Okay, all right. But let me go to victim. I know victims. Like, I'm not a victim. I know victims. Physical challenges, mental challenges, addictions that maybe they never asked for. Well, I disagree, I think. You could say I'm the victim of many things, too. I've been through it. If I sat here and told you everything I've been through, you'd be like, what? I refuse to identify with that. That's because I'm a Christian. That comes first. Jesus died for everything that happened to me and to everybody else. I refuse to accept that because, you know, my warrior's Jesus and that's it. And we have the Bill of Rights. There's no need for me to wallow in my sorrow. I mean, that's not fun. For some reason, your tone when you say, my warrior's Jesus, I'm like, okay, I'm backing off. I mean, the strength is amazing. There are people that don't believe in Jesus. They don't subscribe to what is otherwise known as Christianity. While they might be wonderful beings that only bring good around them, what do you say to them? Because you bring up Jesus now. That's great. I appreciate your faith. Ellis, we've talked. Your faith is a beautiful part of you. I love it. I love that. You're not going to find me subscribing to those things. What do you say to somebody like me? I would say that even God gives us free will and that Christianity isn't a religion. It's a relationship. And nobody can force you to have a relationship. But does someone wind up being across the line against you if they don't believe in the same faith that you have in religious ways? No. Christianity is a relationship between you and God. That's one. That doesn't mean that we can't uphold a standard as a society. Our country was founded on Christian fundamentals. The Ten Commandments, that reflects a lot of our legislation like thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not steal. We can agree as a society on a standard to be upheld but as far as am I a Christian or am I not, that's up to you only. It's important to me everything that I've learned to one, not judge people, even the LGBT, all those crazy people. Not to judge them and not to judge you. That's not my responsibility. It's LGBTQIA. Is there an X in there? QIA. Plus. You said, not to judge them, all those crazy people. That sounds like some judgment going on there. No, that's an observation. Okay, alright. When we talk about the groups of letters, that whole community out there, I have homosexual friends that are friends and I care about them and I hope they're happy. I also hope that everything they do is engaging, contributing members of society. I want everybody to do that so I hope for that. I have friends who have who are either transgender or they have kids who are transgender and when I talk about those things do you accept them as being a part of our society and what they're doing is okay or no? It depends. One of my favorite YouTubers is a transgender. Her name is Blair White. Born a male. In her videos, she's like, I'm not a real woman. I am a man. It's important to me that we protect what a woman is. We protect what a woman is because a man cannot be a woman. So there's that. As far as this acceptance thing, first off, leave me alone. If I let you have your free will and I'm not forcing you to be a Christian because I'm not, then you need to keep that at the door as well. You guys talk about equality, not like you. Treat me how you want to be treated. How about that? So as far as accept, I don't really know how to answer that because I don't subscribe to acceptance because people act like being accepted is a right. It is not. Well, I think the marriage controversy, which I guess I've been told by one of my homosexual friends who was married to another man that it's being discussed and they could see this maybe being overturned at the level of the Supreme Court. I don't like that. I did not like that the Supreme Court is revisiting gay marriage. I don't know why the government needs to be involved in your sex life to that degree. I think that the only time the government should step into your sex life is if it involves abuse for minors. I think other than that, like I said, even God gives us free will. I have no interest in policing people's sex life. Yeah, I don't want to get into that either. You know, the missionary position. There was a time when many, many societies were like this better be the only way you two are having relations. And then the tent curtain would close and then who knows what went on in there. But then they swore it was all going to be missionary style. That was what was being preached to them. Which is unbelievable. How would you like to be like 5,000 years ago and have somebody come up and go, no, no, no, like this. You're like, get off me. It's a true thing. And that was being discussed state by state by state. And Iowa had it way before we did. But if you go back to what I was saying at the time, I was like, it doesn't bother me. In fact, I don't believe that marriage is something that has to on its own be recognized by law. I believe that that is a civil union and should be signed as a contract with both or more than two people deciding that's what they're going to be. Which is something that I think the LGBTQ AI, it wasn't AI back then. No. It was shorter. It was something that they took issue with. And I said, if you believe in same-sex marriage, which is fine, I got that, polygamy is also something that I accept. And they were like, well, no, that's different. I go, are you kidding me? There have been more societies that accept polygamous marriages than there have been those accepting same-sex marriages throughout the course of human history. So to say that this is farther reaching is bullshit all the way through. Because if that's what you guys want, whether you can point to Utah and some factions out there, if that's what you guys want, I don't have a problem. But here's what you're getting into if it's a civil union. What do you think about that? Yeah, I mean, I don't know that I necessarily agree or disagree. I don't really have an opinion on it. I will address the elephant in the room, and that's that, you know, like the drag queens of Missouri, for example. Like, I didn't know there was that many, but they all came after me online. And, you know, my only, I guess, comment to this would be, I don't want a lot of that super sexual stuff just in normal places. Like, for example, when I am gonna go on a, like, business lunch with somebody, I don't want to see some dude pretending he's a woman in a thong. Like, I'm trying to have, like, you know what I mean? I think there's a time and a place. I'm just walking in through the park. I don't ever need to see a dude in a thong. A personal column. And it's not that I want to outlaw that or whatever. Like, you're talking about, there's a difference between social issues and then legal issues. I'm not trying to outlaw anything. And that's where they, like, you know, they get confused. But, yeah, if, you know, you're gonna go prancing around like that, I'm gonna tell you I don't like it. So, and I don't, yeah, I don't want to see it out in public. That's just a public decency law at that point. Nobody should be wearing that walking around. But they do, and they claim it's who they are and what they identify as. So, there does have to be standards somewhere when it comes to all these sexual things, you know, like, from anything to, like, gay marriage, all the way to something crazy, you know, like, there has to be standards somewhere. Yeah, there's always gonna be standards that we're gonna look for and want upheld in society. And that's one of the reasons we have rules, which eventually becomes, like, hard and fast laws. And then we attach things to it, like, fines or jail time or whatever it might be or losing some of the rights you think you have. Like, for instance, as a parent, you think you have rights to be the parent to your own biological children. You do. To a certain extent. And when you go past what we say is reasonable, we'll take your children away. Yeah. At gunpoint, if we have to. Yeah. And that's a reality, and unfortunately, we have to do that, because in a society, we have to step in. And as you said, take care of those that either can't protect themselves and especially that would mean our minors. Yeah, absolutely. You and I are always gonna agree on that. Yeah. Part of the problem, and this you might want to go deep on this someday. Part of the problem we have with drag queens and it's not my view, it is a real thing that nobody wants to talk about is that we include it in the LGBTQ community and then we say it's not sexual. Yeah, that's. And that's hold on. Yeah. Hold on. Like, if you want to look at it look at something at any kind of level of sexual assault. Anything that has to do where the SEX could be involved in that. If you are found guilty of this problem in our society, you are some level of a predator and you'll be listed as a sex offender forever and a day. Yep. It's like, I didn't have sex with anybody. It doesn't matter. You were peeing outside your front yard. They saw your genitalia. You are now a sexual offender. Yeah. You offended them sexually. So to say that the drag queen generally what's happening is not sexual that's fine. But why is it hanging out over here in this other community which is all based around sexuality? Yeah. Well, drag queens are sexual. I mean, they're I don't know why we have to even discuss that. You don't say that because it's turning your crank. I can tell that. It's not working for you. Yeah. But the and I don't have a problem with drag queens existing. Yeah, you can stay in the sex club though. But it gets wherever it's gonna go. I don't have a problem with strip clubs. You know, Missouri does. We don't allow full stripping, right? I don't know. There's one a block from my church, but I've genuinely never been in one of my entire lives. There's one a block from his church. There is. I'm dead serious. Come on, wait a second. My church is on 7th Street and Club Vogue is right down the road from us on Business Street. You're saying that like Sunday morning it's chicken fry and smelling. You guys gonna have a church picnic outside and you're like, I could just walk a block away. The sin is so close. I would take them a track or some ministry materials. There are a lot of people, Heather, that are listening that don't agree with you. They don't agree with me. I might cry. But I, for them, I will say this. I like the engagement, the discussion. Me too. It doesn't matter that I think highly of a lot of the stuff that you're talking about or the way that you're going through it at a lot of levels. If somebody that leans in the opposite direction of you, I hate to say what that is because I don't want to put labels on them and have them say something. If they would like to come in, they should reach out to me. You know my contact information is available all over the web, right? That's right. Tom at TomBradley.us if you can or Tom at the TomBradleyShow.com. Do I have any others? You're at the TomBradleyShow.com. Is that it now? I think so. Or you can message me on Facebook. I can make more. And you can message me on Facebook in several different ways and that's how I reached out to you. And you said yes to coming in. We didn't know each other at all. No. And I appreciate you doing that and saying yes to this. If we get away from some of these closer to social issues and move towards something that's conservative really meant to me in the beginning of my political life which was watching the Jimmy Carter administration as a laughing stock as a joke mill during the 1970s and watching a guy named Ronald Reagan start pitching and throwing in his hat to become President of the United States. Conservatism meaning fiscal conservatism. Tell me what that means to you. Conservatism when it comes to money. Oh yeah. I mean the formal definition of being conservative I think is slow to change. So when I think about being a conservative I think of just purely being fiscally responsible and not being so quick to just throw money as that being the solution. So a lot of times when we have these different issues a lot of times it's not adding more money it's moving money. So budgeting. That's kind of what I think about. I think when I look at what a lot of people say let's go ahead and spend the money over here let's get some more from wherever we think that our sales tax, our tax base let's get some more in here and spend some more over there I always look at it and think to myself you've never ran a business have you? Yeah I have. Not you. You are a business owner and so the deal with business is you've got to bring in more money than you're putting out and if you don't you're closing up shop. How long have you been running your own business? Nine years. Holy crap! I'm trying to do the math in my head. I started when I was 16. She took care of that for you. She runs a successful company that means she has to be able to do math. So she did that for you. You were working on your own started your own company when you were 16 years old. Yeah, in Columbia. Oh, I didn't realize it was in Columbia at that time. So did you graduate high school in Columbia? Kind of. I was homeschooled and there's a group here called CHE a lot of the homeschoolers all come together and I graduated with that group which is actually more than Harrisburg Public School I graduated with more kids homeschooled than Harrisburg Public School. Fun fact. And then what took you over to Cooper County? Columbia was a disaster. Still is a little bit. No offense. I've heard people say that if things go not in the direction they'd like to they'd leave the United States. I've heard anecdotally people have left places like California or places like Texas. I've had people in Columbia for the last 10 years saying that it's going a certain direction they're done and they're leaving. You really left Columbia because of the direction Columbia was moving in? Yeah, so did my family. Really? We did the same thing. I'm in Calloway County for that exact reason too. I wanted out. Both of you guys weren't just okay getting out of the city limits. You were terrified they were going to annex your neighborhood. Is that what it was? Their ordinances, their taxes they're not easy to work with. They showed their true colors in 2020 during COVID especially. It's just terrible. There's a reality for those who do either manage or own businesses in Columbia. They've learned that Columbia can be very difficult to work with. Even Boone County if you try to build any project in Boone County they have crazy stuff. For example, you have to have a permit to build a gate. I'm like, it does this. What do you mean? If you're ever in Cooper County and wind up before a commission of some kind a task force and they start bringing up gates do that hand thing. It just does this. I'm swinging at you right now. I'm swinging like a gate over here. It is true. You're in Calloway County, Ellis. That's different. I think they have a little less than probably what is needed in society to say what you can do and what you can't do with the land that you're sitting on. It's my land. It doesn't work that way. Your land is connected to his, to hers, to mine. All of our water resources are connected together. We've got to cross your land to bring electricity to the hospital to save infants in the NICU today. There's a lot of stuff that goes on there. We have to get real about that. I know some people that have been very freewheeling with what they want to give away to a property owner, to a business owner. Let them go ahead and make the decisions. If it doesn't work, their business will crash. That's not okay for me. Our lives are in all of our hands. We have to keep an eye on each other to some degree. Do you agree with that or no? Yeah, I do. I'm not a huge advocate for planning and donating, which I served on the zoning committee in Booneville for a year. I'm not a huge fan of planning and zoning per se, but I am a fan of building regulations. I don't understand why we have to have a planning and zoning committee, but I'm for building regulations. The reason why is because, for example, let's say one plot of land builds a large brick structure and the one next to it builds a cabin. I have no issue with that. What if the person's bricks fall onto the cabin? Your building doesn't meet code. I don't know why. P&Z, planning and zoning, primarily what they do is, I think, for one, they have too much power and that's an issue. Two, it turns out it always turns into, well, I don't like that color. I don't like how tall it is. It's just literally a matter of opinion. To be on planning and zoning, you don't need any qualifications at all. I joined it when I was 23 and I said yes to everybody. My guess is that a couple of things. Number one, that's probably the case in almost any kind of a voluntary committee that is put together. If you're going to be on planning and zoning, you don't have to have any requirements to be able to be on there. The other thing that I'm guessing is that you don't really believe in a lot of planning and zoning, but you went on and joined planning and zoning. Did they like you? I think so. I never asked. But you're only on it for a year. Yeah, that's because I ran for city council and then I got that. So wait a second, you were on city council? Yeah. In Booneville? Yeah. I didn't know. How did you know this? Because I watched social media. He's a fan. I'm a fan. That's right. He's a fanboy. Or fan girl, which is what you called him. Fan girl. That's a rough one. That's a rough one. How long were you on city council? One year because I actually ended up getting divorced and then I moved wards. You're not required technically, legally. They cannot force you to resign. But I did because I was like, it's not right to represent a ward you don't live in. She's 25 and I think she's lived more life than some people double her age. She's served in politics. You've already been divorced at 25. You started a business. I always tell people, it's funny you say that, on paper I sound 50. That's what I was thinking. The divorce thing comes in there too. It's like, what has she not done so far? I don't know. Did you ever see Second Hand Lions? The greatest movie ever. I freaking love that movie. You saw what those guys did when they were young? She's living that life. Did you fight in the sands of Saudi Arabia at any point in your life yet? Did you think about joining the military? Oh no. I don't think I would do well. I think I'd get kidnapped in Iran or something. It wasn't going to work for you. But you're an ass kicker. I know, but I'm still a girl. I might be 5'10", but I'm still only 1'40". Did you hear how she got in the mention that she's taller than both of us? Yeah, she really stuck that in there. Remember, as I told you guys earlier, I am a weak 5'10", but a very strong 5'10". That's right. And don't ever forget that. Tell me about the federal government. Because I'm going to get the state rights next. Tell me the first things that come to your head. I'm a hell of a non-sequitur. I'm 5'9". Tell me about the federal government. It's like, what about it? What comes to your mind when I say federal government? Love? Distrust? Hate? Broken? It's working? It's good? What do you think about it? I don't think it's as bad as most Republicans might think it is. I think Republicans have the tendency to be like, the world is ending. I'm like, okay, hold on. and don't ever forget that. Tell me about the federal government, because I'm going to get the state rights next. Tell me the first thing. The hell of a non sequitur. That's wall-eyed. I'm five foot nine. Tell me about the federal government. Yeah. What about it? What comes to your mind when I say federal government? Love, distrust, hate, broken, it's working, it's good. What are you thinking about? I don't think it's as bad as most Republicans might think it is. I think Republicans have the tendency to be like, the world is ending. I'm like, okay, hold on. And then they come up with conspiracy theories, and I'm just like, okay, I might be 25, but I can't keep up with that. And then, yeah, I don't know. The first thing that comes to my mind is, I do like how America is structured, how you have federal, state, county, city. I do like all that. I think it works well. My biggest critique for the federal government is probably how they spend their money, and I think that shows in the shutdown. I also am not a fan of the lying, and I think both sides do lie. And that comes back to just, again, money. People do crazy things for money. They're fueled by it. So those are the things that I don't really appreciate. As far as distrust goes, not to sound like one of those girls, but as a woman, I'm slow to trust anyway. I just always take my steps carefully, because you never know what's gonna happen. I think you have to. Your parents, growing up, did they help instill that part into you, that you're a young lady, you need to be on the lookout at all times? I would say yes. A lot of it was just finding out the hard way, because we were taught stranger danger as little kids, so I was terrified of strangers. We lived out in the country, so literally if a car pulled up, there's no reason for that, so we would literally run and hide, like as kids. I feel bad. That's exactly what I taught my kids to do. Yeah, yeah. If somebody pulls into our driveway, you're inside by dad immediately. Yeah, it's true though, because they'll just snatch you up. So I'm very thankful my mom taught me that. Even when we would go to Walmart, she'd be like, she would straight up be like, if you ever get lost, never go to a man. Like she'd tell us that. She's like, find a female cashier, and she would teach us what that is. Well, the chances are a lot better that a woman is not gonna be the serial rapist killer. It's just a reality. I know. Guys have a better chance of being that. Yeah, and then the trial part, I started my business as an in-home dog trainer, so I was driving around the great city of Columbia by myself as a 16-year-old, and I've got some stories for that, yeah. Never had an issue in somebody's home, because that's one of the reasons I believe in God, is because when I go back and I just look at certain things, I'm just like, I mean, there's no way that there wasn't somebody watching over me. During those times. Yeah. Well, even now. But you mentioned Republican, as it's a, you didn't say Republican, you're a conservative, and then you mentioned Republicans. Are you also a Republican? Yeah, and that's a good point, because some people think if you're a conservative, you have to be Republican, and it's like, no. Like, you could be a conservative Democrat. You could. But yeah, I would say I'm definitely more conservative, but if I had to pick, I would choose Republican. And when we look at those who are on the left, or what have you, Democrats out there, they are proud of calling themselves a Democrat. And the Republicans, they are proud of calling themselves Republicans. But when people say, like I do, look, I'm not a member of a political party. I don't agree with the platform they put out there, and I have a major issue with calling myself something if I don't agree with it. I am married to dynamite Deb, and that I agree with. And that, I'll stake everything I have on that. But I'm not gonna put that level of trust, and I'm not gonna put the family jewels in the hands of a political party. I can't, because I disagree with too many things. And then they start standing up there and voicing what the new policies are, on any issue out there. I'm like, bitches, if you paid any attention at all, we would not have the deficit we have today. I'm sorry, the debt that we have today. It's astronomical. What are we at, 34? 38 trillion. Look how foolish I was, I said 34, because I stopped following it, because nobody wants to hear me talk about it. And I stopped even mentioning it on my shows over the last two years. We're at $38 trillion now. If anybody in the Republican Party cared, they'd be working on that thing, and I don't see it. I love Warren Buffett. I think it was Warren Buffett that said, he said, I could fix the deficit spending and the debt issue immediately. He said, if we are operating at a deficit, and if we have a federal debt, every member of Congress is no longer eligible for re-election. Boom, it'd be solved real quick. Just like that. Real quick. But he approaches this with the real value of understanding money, and how money works, and business, and that you have to take care of things to keep it moving along. But I digress. States' rights. Do you talk about, do you think about states' rights at all? Because if the Supreme Court was gonna kick down same-sex marriage back to the states, what would happen with that? And so, how do you feel about states' rights? Do you mean like civil rights, or do you mean, like what do you mean, like what's your question? Well, the states' right to govern themselves as a sovereign state of the United States. Are we to the point now that, you know, look, you're just a separate area. We're gonna give you some own, your own jurisdictions to take care of, but you gotta do it under the watchful eye and the rulings of the federal government at all times. And when we're talking about things like immigration, and ICE, or allowing illegal aliens to cross into your state and exist as if they're ones unpaid, allowing them to vote in California, for instance, there's some disregard between each other. ICE comes in to swoop somebody up that California's been protecting under the law to continue to live there. That I see as not congruent. So how do you feel about that? Yeah, I mean, I think the best way I could answer it is the whole purpose of our country having federal and then state, like it's getting, the government's getting, you know, smaller as we get closer to home. The whole reason for that is to meet the specific needs of each area to the best of your ability. And that doesn't mean that the government is supposed to take care of us. We're not supposed to be reliant on a system, but it's just supposed to just meet our needs. And of course, there's some ambiguity to that. And I just think we all should be on the same team to the best of our ability. You know, I think it's important that no matter who your president is to respect their authority. You know, like I never wished Biden any ill will. And I think he, you know, doesn't know who he is, but it's super important to not disrespect your authority. So that's one. And then two, I really like how each state like has their own constitution too. I do like that. There are some things like about Missouri specifically that I'm not a fan of, like the initiative petition process. I think that actually takes away from Missourians, but I would say overall, like I am a fan of local politics for sure. The constitution, how often do you bring up the constitution in your, and by the way, I want to, let me ask, let me back, keep constitution in the back of your mind. Okay. Social media. You, I think since in like last two weeks, have you had another one or 2,000 followers on your Facebook account? Yeah. It's been crazy. I think I got monetized the very end of September and I had 2000 followers. Is that the blue check mark thing that I saw on there? I did that like two weeks ago because I got, like I started making more money on it. And so I monetized it. The check mark is different for monetization. Yeah. Correct. Those are two different things. The check mark just protects your account basically. So you pay for the check mark, but they're paying you. Yeah. Well, exchange there. Yeah. Was there like, do you remember, was there like a specific kind of breakout point where it went from you're making videos and you've got to, and then boom, like was there one video that really catapulted you or was it just kind of organic? It just happened. Well, I've been doing it for a year and I have not, just to be clear, I have not gotten into politics until last year. It was actually exactly this time last year when Trump was running for president. That's where I finally was like, I need to figure this out. Like I need to figure out like where I stand, what, like what I need to be fighting for. Cause otherwise- You mean on social media? At all. Cause it sounds to me like you've always been into politics. No, like I was on PNZ, but- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You went to, yeah, the planning and zoning and how- Municipalities are not affiliated with parties. No, they're not. But I mean, it's still politics. It's very little. Like you don't really have to like stand up for anything. You're just like, oh, here's the ordinance. And then just trying to spend your money responsibly. Then you ran for city council. Yeah, and yes, that's like the smallest- Did you have to select a party to be, okay. So you could just run- Yeah, yeah. The whole agenda with municipalities is that you're not supposed to affiliate with a party publicly. And that, you know, my goal was to just be fiscally responsible and advocate for that. So that was like my biggest goal. And then also I picked like another goal of like, I want the airport to be better. You know what I mean? So from my perspective, that's less political and more just like I'm helping my community on an, like from an economic standpoint. Yeah. So where I got like political, where I'm like, you know, trying to understand our constitution, trying to understand why we have a bill of rights and what they mean. You know, why are people only Democrat or Republican? Why can't I be independent? Because I was independent. And yeah, what really sparked me was when Trump was running for president and everyone was calling him evil. I'm like, he's just a 70 year old guy. Like why? Like, I get it, he looks funny, he talks funny, but it's just like, it's just ridiculous to see people that hateful, like right next door to me. It's like, what's to stop them from doing that to me? So that's- I think I've, I believe as I'm watching attitudes out there, I think we're getting farther away from the name Trump being such a trigger. Because my whole belief is that we need to talk about issues and how we interact with each other and what the rules can be and shouldn't be and how, and what we're going to do with the money or the lack of the money and make, put these things together. You may agree with someone like a Donald Trump or disagree, or you may have different things all the way through on what he's doing or not doing that you like this or don't like that. But to focus all on Donald Trump, that you're going to support anything that he does right now as president, or deny and damn everything he does right now as president, I think that's foolish. Because you're not talking about what really we need to get along as people. So that's where I am. And I think, I think we're getting closer to that, which is- Really? I do. I think some of the medias are slower. I think some of the medias, and I think there are some people that want to know. So like, if you run for office in Columbia, if you are not to the reasonable, to the far left, I believe you're going to be painted as a MAGA, which is a supporter of Donald Trump. And I don't wear MAGA hats. I support a lot of stuff that Donald Trump has done. And I condemn a lot of stuff that he's done as well. Especially his actions. Dude, come on, please stop doing the stuff that you're doing. But- I feel like if they just took away his Twitter account when he became president the first time, there'd be a lot less issues. I love his Twitter. It's funny. When boys were young, if they had just stopped us from Twittering, everything would have been just fine. Thank God most of our lives was not on social media. That all the way through. So on the social media, back to that for a moment, you're now being monetized, or it's been monetized. You're now being paid for what you're doing. It's exploding. You're getting more followers right now while they're watching this podcast. Like, I'm going to go check this out. I'm going to start following her. And it may be because they hate you or they love you. We're going to go a little bit long with this podcast. Is that okay? Yeah, that's good. You're not in a hurry. Let me check my phone real quick. Yeah, we should be good. Because you've got a business. And for a living, you take care of dogs. Yes, I do. Actually, my shop just sent me a photo of them. So cute. Of the pups. What's the name of your shop? Yeah, it's Top Dog USA. Top Dog USA. Same state, you see the aspirations. She didn't call it Top Dog Boonville. She didn't call it even Top Dog Missouri. That's good. Top Dog USA. We'll see what happens with that. Can you, Alice Bennis, can you go to your phone and look at my post earlier this week? Sure. On your personal page or on the podcast page? No, the podcast page. Go on there and look for the post where I said that Heather was going to be joining us. And if you would, try to pick out a couple that didn't get into any issues at all, but talked personally about Heather Overstreet. And yeah, I asked you personal questions today. I haven't gone into depth on the divorce thing, but something tells me- Yeah, go for it. No, no, no. Something tells me that you were outspoken in that marriage. Am I correct on that? What do you mean? You said what was on your mind to the person you were married to. Oh, are you trying to figure out why I got divorced? I didn't say that. Well, people get divorced because they're not getting along. I would argue that, you know, it's really important to me to not gossip about people, but I would argue that he was actually more outspoken than me and what I mean by that is he was talking to other women. Oh. Yeah. Nope. About their political views? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How did you know? I wasn't going to go down this. Would you pull up a couple of those? Yes. I mean, I'm not going to get the main announcement from her. Well, I mean, there's, on my post, there were people talking about who Heather Overstreet is. Oh, right. Like somebody said, she's not even, she doesn't even live in Columbia. I'm like, what in God's name? Do you know how long it took me to get here? Like 25 minutes. Ooh. I don't know why anybody would even consider that. At no point did I say we were only going to have guests on that live in Columbia. First of all, I'm the governor of Mid-Missouri. Mid-Missouri. And Booneville and Cooper County, Counter, Cooper County, they're, damn it, they're both part of Mid-Missouri. So I can invite anybody on here I want to, or not invite anyone. Like for instance, I told you last week that the mayor of Columbia will not be invited back on the show. That's not going to happen. Did you guys get into an argument? Yeah, it was me saying, you can come on the show, when would you like to? And she never responded back. And that is after she was on the show several months ago. I don't think she wants to be on here. I don't think she wants to go through the actual questions to Mayor Dancer. Questions are hard. Yeah, they are. Okay, do you see a couple of the ones I'm talking about? Like the comments? Yeah, the comments. Yeah, like where people are saying, not well-liked, or not even from Columbia. Read that, read that. Tell me who posted that and read it verbatim to me. You want me to say their name on the air and tell you exactly what they said? It's all over social media. We don't know if this person exists or it's make-believe. We don't have any idea. So yeah, Chris Stottle said she's from Booneville, she is not well-liked, and yes, generally for shock value. And I commented, and I asked, I said, not well-liked by who? Zero response. So this person who said this, they said you're not well-liked. How do you feel about that? I don't care. Yeah, I knew that was coming. Oh, I'm gonna cry. You're not the boss of me. People for years have asked me about things that I've done or might do being out there, right? And a little bit different than social media is that my words are articulated orally and it's done live for the entire planet to be able to hear or not listen to. It's up to them. I know what I mean. I know what I feel. I know what I believe. And I know what I don't know. And I speak according to those things. And if somebody goes, I don't care for them, it's like, that's okay. Do you know how much, what a percentage of the population I need to care about what I say to make a difference? And the people who go running away from me, I don't need, it's okay. I'm not saying to go after yourself. I don't care if you do or don't. I don't care about you. It's okay. And I mean this. If somebody comes up to me and says, I can't believe how good you are. I believe it. I trust everything you do, I trust everything. I go, okay, same pound and a half of salt I take them with that. That doesn't make me who I am. Who I am makes me who I am. And one person loving me and one person hating me, do not change that thing. Do you hold that as well right now? Yeah, I mean, we live in a free country. If you want to complain on Facebook because you have nothing better to do and you only have a part-time job or you're on disability or whatever your circumstances, I don't care. Like it's, that's totally up to you. You know, I'm not here to be liked. That's not my goal. You know, if I were to live this life every day, trying to get people to like me, I'd be exhausted. I'd probably be dead by now. That's not what that's about at all. And you know something else that's, you know, fortunate about social media is when they do that, like I get paid because you're engaging. Well, that's part of the thing is that we will have people that hate you, which will be following you and you'll continue to grow. And people love to hate. I do it a little bit myself. I do it and then I eventually click somebody like I can't take you anymore. You just drive me crazy. My own personal pet peeves have been things like a newscaster that I just don't care for. And it's almost never been about issues and how they handle it. It's almost always about some idiosyncrasy they have. I'm like, I swear to God, if you end that phrase again, on an up note, I'm going to come unglued. I'm going to crawl through the TV. I will beat your ass is what I'm going to do. But this is, you're getting, you're out there now. And it looks like you've got a really good grip on how this is feeling for you and how you should or should not take some of it seriously. But it's going to continue growing. Where do you think this is going to take you? I don't know. Why the hell did you say yes to coming on this podcast? I, you know, you say like, oh, Heather might get too big and run away. I really, really, really care about Missouri. And I really care about mid Missouri. I've worked all over Missouri, like all over. I've, I have a lot of friends here. It's just, Missouri is very important to me. And Columbia is too. Like I've told people, I've actually tried to get out of Columbia so many times and it just doesn't work out. And I just think there's a reason for that. And I don't know where I'm going. I just keep going. I think there's a lot to be said for that. Maybe we'll use that as a, as a parting comment or a parting shot from you as we wrap this up. What do we do? 904. We're, we're at about an hour, I think, since we started or ish coming on that. And we still have a couple of things to take care of, including keeping your eye on the crap with Family Focus Eye Care. So we'll get to that in a moment. Do you want, would you like to come back here again? Yeah, I'd love to. What do you think people are going to say about what you've had to say here today? None of this is new to anybody who's been following you. Is that right? Yeah. Yeah. A lot of times I, lately I've been trying to read my comments and respond just because I think it's, it's good to receive feedback into practice responding to it. But I usually don't try to anticipate what people are going to say. I just try to, like, if I see a couple of comments like I will try to respond. But other than that, I mean, I'm not really the type of person that's like, oh, I wonder what's going to happen. I'm probably, I'm just going to go, I'm going to go home. I'm going to get on my computer. I'm just going to work on all my whole list of everything that I have. Were you surprised that I reached out to you? I don't know. I wouldn't say surprised. Cause I've been, I've been getting asked a lot to go on the radios, like Osage Beach, St. Louis. You've already been on a local station here in Columbia. Yeah. I was on the Eagle. I actually, I was a co-host fill-in for Randy Tobler. Ellis, I got a potential co-host fill-in now. I wouldn't even judge you. Yeah. All right, you're on next week. Sorry, Ellis. No, is that what you were doing with Randy? Yeah. Yeah. And he's so great. After, after, you know, we were done with everything. I was like, okay, Randy, like, can you, can you give me like, what's your advice for the day? Cause you know, that was my first time doing it. And he's such a great guy. Like he, he said, you know, I only give advice to people who I think are going to make it. And I was like, so do I get advice? He's like, yes. And I've got nothing to say to you. He gave me really good advice. I felt like they were all very patient with me over there. And every time I walked out of the room, cause you know you get breaks and you're there from like 6am to 9am. Every time I walked out of the room, we were on break. The guys out in the, like, common area like they all told me good job. And it was really sweet. Yeah. They were so sweet to me. I'm not surprised that you were doing a great job. And I'm, I'm surprised he gave you any advice at all. Like, Randy, shut up. She's, she's doing great. We'll poison you. No, don't listen to him. We'll poison you. Ignore all of that. Did you hear how she threw in the ticket breaks and she's got no break? No breaks here. She's got about 39 and a half minutes. Well, I think there's a difference between like 8am and 6. I didn't even tell them. I'm like the last time I got up this early for something it was this time last year, but it was to deer hunt. And that was worth it. It was definitely worth it, right? So, so the long form of a podcast and for ours, very, very different from radio. And I know, cause I was in there for so many years. So, so many years. I told you next week, I'm probably going to talk about my age. You have no idea till I hit you next week with what this is going to be. Or should we guess how old he is? I know how old he is. He does. He knows very, very well. You finally reached manhood. You're over 40. Thanks, yeah. Congratulations. If my voice would finally go into manhood, that'd be great. By the way, that's only for dudes. Women reach womanhood at like 16 and a half. Yeah. You guys go through so much. Yeah. And what you have to pay attention to and what you have to learn. And then you got to take care of us for the rest of your lives. Thank God for that. I ain't taking care of no man. Just like that. What the hell was I even in the middle of talking about? I don't know. I completely lost track. You're supposed to keep your eye on the crowd at some point. Yeah. The long form is so much different and we get to just talk. And there's no, there's no break, not just breaks, but there's no clock. So we do whatever we want to do. You are, you speak so well on your own videos that you're putting out on social media. Do you have any notes in front of you? No. She's laughing. She's laughing. Yeah. Cause it's kind of ridiculous. Sometimes, this is what I do. So I, you know, the men in my life, like my family or like my boyfriend, they're very solid, successful men with a backbone and morals. And I take that very seriously. And when I'm hanging out with them and they say something, like they just have these beautiful phrases that to be honest, like I couldn't come up with because there's things that I believe in. I'm not naturally good at speaking at all. I'm really not. Respectfully disagree. Well, thank you. It's a learned skill. Like everybody thinks I'm extroverted and all this stuff. It's like, I'm introverted. I'm super shy. I'm like very, like a very nervous person. Your family would agree with that. They would tell me, yeah, that she's absolutely introverted. Yes. Like a family. You learned to take yourself out. Yeah. Cause it's a skill. So when I hear them say something, I'm just like, oh, that clicks like that. I'll make a good video. I just write down the little phrase that they said. And then I just, before I go on TikTok, I just go to my notes. I just see the phrase and I just exit out of it. And I just go with that phrase. Cause once I have something that's like my foundation, then I can just like articulate everything after that. But I actually do worse. This is true publicly speaking too. I do worse with a script than I do without. Agreed. And I also think it's cause I'm a little bit dyslexic too. I really am. So, so I get like- Is that a true diagnosis or you just feel that way? I will not get it true. Like I don't like diagnoses. Okay. All right. Yeah. I had a lot of trouble in school. Like it took me longer to read. Well, you were, you're like, I might be dyslexic. Shut up, girl. Read that page. See Jane run. I think she is dyslexic cause she always air quotes backwards. Did you notice that? Are you serious? Did you catch that? Do you really do that? I don't know. Do your air quotes. I'm nervous now. She did air quotes backwards. I was like, wait, she's doing them backwards. I don't know. I didn't know there was one way to do it. No, there's not. Yeah. Wait a second. Not only is that funny, but extra funny is that you noticed and were able to tie that in. Cause I'm a fan. You're good, man. Folks will be here every Thursday morning. So make it out here and enjoy that thing. God, this has been fun. I'm gonna throw this out there. Very important. And then back to you having a boyfriend right now. I feel like there might be some like pre courtship. I don't know, like a application that he had to fill out, but you would have been the one administering this thing. That's my guess. When our firstborn was about, she was less than a year old. All of my friends from high school, they weren't even married yet, much less had kids. So they were really freaked out. We were on a weekend getaway to Lake of the Ozarks. And they were freaked out as I was changing her diaper and watching me fathering. And they were like, what are you going to do when she starts dating someday? This was like the most important thing on their mind. Yeah. And I looked at them. I had never considered this. I looked them right out of my mouth. It came out. I think I'm going to leave it up to her. Yeah. She's going to, I'm going to make sure I empower her. Cause I'm not going to sit here and try and stop every penis that's out there from doing the wrong thing. I need her. That's right. To be taken care of. And Ashley, amazing Ashley, is a strong woman. You want proof? Go ask her husband. He'll admit it's the reality is she's a very strong woman. Yeah. And I hope that Jessie Marie is also strong and moving in the same direction that her older sister is. And I believe that you're the one, isn't it? You're the one that boyfriend has to win over. Not some father or uncle or anybody else. It's you, isn't it? Yeah. My, my boyfriend, you know, when we first started talking, I was like, you got to look me up. This isn't going to work if like, you're not into what I got going on. He didn't have any idea what he was getting into. No, he doesn't have social media or anything. Smart man. Bless his heart. Yeah. I wish I was him. Yeah. He's very strong. Like he's definitely like the leader of our household. And I like that. I, you know, I think every team needs a leader and I don't, you know, to be honest, like I don't want to worry about the bills. I don't want to worry about all this stuff. Like no one would believe that that's true. Yeah. No, I'm living good. He takes care of me, you know, and I respect him. You know, it's great. I like it. It's a symbiotic relationship. So let me throw this out there too. And then we're going to say goodbye. I think that you are and will catch more crap for a few reasons. For saying that? No, no. Being outspoken, you're going to, you're going to catch crap, but that's okay. I mean, like, like those of us who speak our mind, welcome to the boat. And you know what? It's a good ride. Yeah. There's nothing like saying what you truly believe and saying, look, I'm not telling you that you're a bad, bad person or that this is going on or anything else. This is me. This is me speaking. I'm not saying that. I care about you as a human. You have as much value on this planet as I do. We're all the same. I'm going to speak my mind. And whether you like it or not, I don't care whether you like that or not. And so it's a great place to be. And all I can know is that I spoke the truth and I go on from there. Yeah. And we all tell little tiny lies every single day. No, no, that's fine. You go ahead. I wasn't ready to step in line yet. That's crap. And you know, they're being an asshole. They just butted in front of you. That's a little tiny lie. As you get older, those little ones get less and less often. Eventually. I already know. Actually, I was sitting. That's what I'm saying. So you've got that. But here's the problem. Here's the problems you're going to face. You're well-spoken. You're young. You're female and you're rather attractive. You're going to bring on a lot of haters. Yeah. Probably mostly girls. Yeah. Look at my demographic. That's crazy. That may be the case. So with that, we will go ahead and bring up the exit music at this time. Heather over street. By the way, where else are you besides Facebook? Cause I don't get on any. Are you on everything? Yeah. Pretty much. Okay. Cause Ellen Bennett says I'm supposed to be on everything. I don't do it all the time. It's hard. There's like 20. Like why? I know. Is TikTok your primary? Is that your main thing? Where you, you start? That's where I started. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Thank you for being here. Yeah. Thanks for having me. What a great conversation. Back to it again. I want to tell you right now, you a hundred percent disagree with everything she said, and you can articulate why you believe, why you have the beliefs that you have. Hit me up, man. You can't be on next week or the following, or the one after that. But December, what is that? What is that December date? Did December the, December the fourth? I don't know. You're asking me difficult questions, Tom. December 6th. What is the Thursday? First Thursday of, Scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll. That's the sixth, right? No, fourth. You were right first time. Good guess, man. You're good with numbers. You could be here, but you got to reach out to me now, because otherwise it'll get booked up. Yeah. And that's the way that it'll go. So we can say that, right? Like I would really like to have some, like we've mostly interviewed people that agree with us. I would love to have a rational, intelligent conversation with somebody that disagrees with us that's not just going to, you know, scream and call us a hater and whatever. Well, I will, I will tell you that Mayor Barbara Buffalo was on the show. May? Yeah. It's been months. It's been that, I disagree with a lot of what she says, what her, what her views are on things. I don't think she's a bad person. Right. But I do think she's bad at responding back to my, my request to come back on the show because we're, we're into more, we're into more shit now. Okay. And so it's not as easy as it was when I brought her on the first time was the first time I've ever had her on any of my shows. And I was like, okay. And so I was extremely polite and I asked her a few on things. She tosses a lot of word salad. She cannot speak from the heart extemporaneously about how she truly believes and why she it's, it's difficult for her to do, which if you follow her on social media, you will see now that she's backing up on thoughts. She had about ordinances that would outlaw the ability to be a pan handler on our intersections. And she's backing up on that. And she's tossing word salad on that. What is the phrase I told you? She said, non-starter. Yeah. Non-starter. Follow her on Facebook. If you want to, you can't comment. She won't allow you to comment, but I want you to go follow that. And, you know, and so I said, we're into some deep shit now and we are, which means speaking of shit, are you ready? You got to keep your eyes on the crap. You can't handle the crap. Looky here. There's a big difference between shit and shinola. As my great grandfather always said Matumba, keep your eye on the crap. Absolutely. Keep your eye on the crap brought to you by family focus. I care at fam, focus, I.com. A couple of things I want to talk to you real quick about that. Number one, tomorrow is Halloween. Kids going to be on the streets. You can't see very well. What are you doing out there driving around on Halloween? You're going to hit a child. Please don't do that. Oh, speaking of Halloween, did you ever see the movie Hocus Pocus? Oh yeah. Both of them. Yeah. Did you, I actually even watched the second one when it came out in a, in a really weird way. Cause the first one was extra cheesy, but it really struck a place in my heart. I'm like, I liked that. Plus the kids were young enough to kind of get into it. Right. And I'm like, It's one of those Halloween movies. It's kind of fun for the kids. Like it's not terrifying. You know, we're not, you know, we're not scaring the bejesus out of you. It's kind of fun. And Bette Midler, she's done some great work in her life and some really crappy performances. And she was so good as the oldest of those three sister witches. Sister witches? And I can't believe I just did my impersonation of Bette Midler being a witch in Hocus Pocus. Hocus Pocus, I saw first and second one on that. Both of them. Did you know they got another one coming out? No, is it same cast? So, so what I want to tell you is I know one of the members of the cast, the spell book. Do you remember the spell book? Of course, yeah. Which is known as the Manual of Witchcraft and Alchemy. Yep. And how many eyes does it have? One. Uh huh. Did you know that in the third version of Hocus Pocus that they're going to be, that this is going to be an actual central character in a couple of the scenes. They're going to say that the spell book is not seeing the future properly. They're going to give the spell book a monocle. Because he's getting old. The name of the third movie is called Hocus Pocus. Are you making this up? Yeah, from Family Focus On Care. I was hook, line, and seeker right up to that point. You had me. I want you to keep your eye on the crab. Folks, we got to do something about enforcing law in the United States. If you just want to look closer in at Central Missouri, that's fine. When a child is harmed, we need to step in. There are measures that have to be taken when a child is harmed. What if it goes further than just harm? Little tiny, little tiny boy in Jeff City, four years old, Darnell Gray, died under the care of a woman, Quatavia Givens, in 2018. Oh my gosh, seven years ago? She will be going to trial for his death. She killed him. She killed him. Hit his body. Made up stories about what was going on. The poor kid never had a chance. His own father, I think, was in Chicago at the time. There's nobody else. She killed him. He was four. Her trial will begin next summer. Next summer. Eight years after the crime? And I think you need to understand that we are all entitled to a fair and speedy trial. And it's not just us, the accused, that have to go and defend ourselves, which includes her evil demon bitch that she might be. But the reality is he, he's no longer with us. He still deserves it. Don't think that this is some mother or half-sister somewhere. This is he. He's deceased. He still deserves a fair and speedy trial. He's been gone that long. 2018. Next year's 2026. Eight years. Twice the length of years he spent on this planet. That's ridiculous. Tell people my age, if that happened to me, if somebody killed me tomorrow, and it took that time, it would be 124 years before they would actually take the case to trial. Yeah, did you get that? So what I tell you to keep your eye on the crap, this is the kind of crap, don't let this go on. They're going to talk about this on the news this week. This particular story I got from KMIC, but they've all got it. And they're going to talk about that. And no one is going to go off like I am right now. Why children cannot protect themselves at the age of four, at the gargantuan size and hands of an adult like Octavia Givens. And I'll tell you more, to be on her defense, by the way, is the fact that they claimed at some point that she was not mentally fit to stand trial. And now, years later, they've said that she is. I don't have any idea what she's mentally fit for or not. She's not fit as a human being to be existing outside of a prison sentence, and possibly maybe even more than that in the state of Missouri. But unfortunately, when you're four years old and your life comes to an end, there's probably a good chance no one is going to be there for you to take care of it. And if somebody was speaking up right now for little Darnell Gray, the other thing that it tells me is that they weren't around enough when he was alive. And with that, we've got to step aside, man, and call it a day. And this is really important because I'll get into this hopefully next week, if not the week after. I'm not using my tagline as I exit this podcast at this time. Okay? Okay. That's going to throw me off for the whole rest of the day. For the week. Yeah. You're not going to find any more, or maybe a week after that. Yeah. Sorry. It's a reality. Folks, we'll see you next week. Thank you. Thank you.