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Get away from me.
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I didn't hear nothing, and you go there. You're stupid.
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I don't even love this, but I ain't eating no damn tuna fish.
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Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Bloodline Banter. I'm Landon.
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And I'm Riley.
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And here we are, back in better
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than ever, ladies and gentlemen.
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I figured we'd go ahead and start it out and ask how you slept last night.
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Well, I slept decent. It wasn't the best sleep I've ever had in my life, but it wasn't bad.
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What was your sleep score?
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I think, like, at 78.
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Okay. Mine was. Mine was an 85. I slept pretty good last night.
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Seeds get degrees.
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They do, but they don't sometimes get good moods.
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No, they don't.
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No. But you're in a good mood today.
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I. You are, too. I know you were a good mood yesterday.
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I'm. I'm always in a good mood.
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No, you. The hell you aren't.
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Anyways, we experienced a. Well, not a tornado.
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Hell, I mean, it went from. I was wearing shorts yesterday morning, and I went outside to walk my dog, and the wind came straight out of that episode of spongebob where they're like, the Krusty Krab pizza is a pizza for you and me. It was like straight line winds, like,
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I'm telling you, it took your hat and blew it from here to the Grand Ole Opry.
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My freaking aloe hat that I paid an ungodly amount of money for $80. There's a backstory behind that. I didn't know it's $80. And I took it to the counter, and I didn't want to look poor, so I had to buy it.
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So that is insane, though, for a house.
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It flew off my head, and it's probably in, like, Florida, South Carolina right now because it took the curve and it. I'm. It's probably.
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Why didn't you chase it?
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Because I didn't have a helicopter, and it was 20ft in the air. Please excuse me. I forgot my jetpack in my apartment this morning. I wasn't expecting to have to take
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a. I figured it just in my mind, this is how I imagine you. The hat flies off. It, like, tumbles on the ground a little bit.
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It did tumble on the ground, and I went to it, and I like.
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I. I ain't trust.
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I wear that hat every day. You know how much I like it.
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I know, but I. You don't like it enough to run after it.
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I do, but I also had a dog, and my Dog doesn't weigh much more than my hat, so I didn't really want to have to have to
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anyways keep my dog. The wind was insane yesterday and then there they. I didn't even know tornadoes were coming
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until they called for a twister and it started raining at like 10 o' clock. And I'll be honest with you, I stayed up until probably like 12. I seen the lightning and then I went to sleep.
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You know what? I get so disappointed in the weatherman all the time. They over exaggerate everything every time. The weather apps are like take shelter immediately. Take shelter immediately and do a 1-2-2 drop of rain and that's it.
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A meteorologist is the only person that gets paid to lie. And a politician, but that's besides the point.
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You're right. You're right. They called for tornadoes.
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Yeah, it's like literally you're just a professional guesser. How the hell can you predict what mother nature is going to do? She has a mind.
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Clearly they can't because they said that a tornado was going to blow through downtown last night on the weather thing that I was watching. And let me tell you what it was. One drizzle of rain and maybe two little lightning strikes and that was about it.
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Well, the Lord had other plans.
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And now we've woken up and it's a blizzard outside. We woke up what it freezing this morning.
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Yeah, woke up this morning, went outside and your damn nipples are hard. I mean it's 36 with a wind chill factor of an was damn negative 12. The wind literally is 40 miles an hour. And listen, I've been losing all this weight and I, I got some loose skin. I'm be like a parachute if it doesn't calm down.
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I'm look like a Walmart bag tumbling through the wind.
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And you will if you keep losing. Say it again. Anyways, kind of want to change the topic.
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We were on the way here this morning.
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Okay.
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And I don't know where we're talking. 400 people don't know how to drive.
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I've cussed four people out, yelled out my window, hit a pothole coming into this road out here. That pothole has its own zip code. Aaron, we're going to have to.
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Yeah, that's like a small puddle, like a small pond.
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T if you hear this, first of all, hire me because I want to. If I had a genie in a bottle, I would literally work at the dmv.
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Really?
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Because I want to be in charge of who gets their license and who doesn't because let me tell you something. Not a damn person in this city would pass. And, you know, I'd be revoking license left.
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I think that would be the most wonderful idea you've ever had.
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I think I need to do it
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anyways on the way here. Psychotic. But that's not what I was gonna change the topic to. I was gonna change the topic and talk about what we talked about the other day. And I. Marriage.
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When did we talk about marriage?
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How I said I would never get married.
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Okay.
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Because that's like a. That's like. Marion, Marriage to me is signing a contract to be irritated, the pissed out of for the rest of your life by the same person.
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That's valid. But, I mean, you might.
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You want to get married, don't you? Yeah. You do? I don't. I think I. I think I would get too bored with the Same person for 50. Could you imagine marrying somebody? And I know the whole point is to find somebody that you wouldn't get bored with for 50 years, but.
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Well, I mean, I feel like if you find the right person, it won't be boring.
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No. I don't know. What if, like, year 17, they start smacking their food or something?
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Then that's when you go to marriage counseling. But you need to know their habits before you. I mean, this isn't 90 day land, and this isn't 90 day fiance.
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You're gonna have to get her 21. And all of a sudden, they start doing something that you don't like. They've adapted a thing, and then you gotta.
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Well, hopefully in 21 years, you could look at them and say, hey, quit
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your shit out with the old and with the new.
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Well, if you just want to be a horn. That's not what I'm saying.
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I'm just saying I don't think I.
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So Landon wants to be Hugh Hefner?
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No, I'm just saying I don't think I could live with the same person for 50 years. And that. That's like a prison sentence.
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Well, the good news is, is that there's only one person in your family that you get to choose, and that's your spouse. So you get to pick them. And, hell, I mean, let's be honest, everybody in our town's had a divorce. So if you need to get one, I mean, I'm sure it won't be the end of the world.
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I just ain't going full with it. And then that leads me to the next topic. Kids.
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Okay. Did you just go on a family planning spree? Or.
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Yeah, there was no family planning. There's just.
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Oh, I have a story about family planning, but keep going.
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No, I was just saying, kids, I went to the Walmart yesterday. Twice.
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Okay?
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Both times before 12pm because the first time I went, I had to get something, and the second time I went, I forgot.
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Damn bananas, Landon. I did not even get out of bed yesterday, and I needed bananas. At least two.
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Anyways, I'm on, like, aisle nine or whatever, and there's a whole freaking family arguing over, like, what cereal they're going to get. And the kids were psychotic. And I just want you to know, gentle parenting, everybody out there, gentle parenting does not work.
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Gentle parenting is for gentle children, okay? My mama raised savages, and I got beat the out of it.
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My mom killed me one time. Beat the hell out of your kids if they're acting up. And that's just bottom line.
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And it's always like, you're in the grocery store and you see them, like, a little.
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My mom jerked a KN in my ass. Sorry, go ahead.
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You're in the grocery store and you see a little toddler, and she's like, zachariah quit.
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Yeah.
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Why are you naming the child after somebody in the Bible if they act like somebody in hell? Okay, I mean, I'm just being honest. You need to get.
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Tell me something. If your mom looked at you when you were, like, five and said, riley, quit or you're gonna go to timeout when we get home, would you have quit? Hell, no.
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I ain't afraid of time out. I've been wanting people to leave me alone since I came out the damn womb wom.
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But if your mom took off her belt or your dad took off her. His belt.
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My dad's belt had a name growing up.
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What was it?
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Mr. Leather.
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Really?
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Yeah. And when you heard, you knew you were about to get that ass towed the hell up.
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But if they would have acted like they were taking their belt off, you'd have straightened the hell up.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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My dad beat my ass so bad one time. One time I told my mom to shut the hell up. I know. Probably 10. And she didn't say nothing to me. She said, okay, wait till your dad gets home. And I was like, okay. I could hear my. My dad drove a Diesel, Okay? I could hear that diesel from the end of the damn road. I heard it. And I got butterflies in my stomach. My butthole got real tight. And I was like, ugh. And I was like, oh, shit. So I thought it was a good idea. My dad smokes I was like, he smokes. He can't catch me. So I took off running down the hill because we lived on a big hill. Took off running down the hill. He beat me down the hill, like, running. Then he beat me back up the hill, like, beat my ass. And then I went in the door, went in my bedroom, and I shut my door and I locked it. And I didn't have a bedroom door for about five months.
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Really?
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Because he broke it. And then he beat my ass again. And then he's like, move your hands, move your hands.
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And I'm like, no.
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Got my ass beat.
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And you've turned out pretty normal. Okay, thank you.
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I appreciate it.
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You know, we're pretty.
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Like, we're not normal.
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No. But, you know, ass whoopings work. I'm a true believer in an ass whooping.
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I am, too.
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And my mom, if she couldn't whoop your ass, she would throw something at you. She would. I'm telling you. Phone.
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You know, that's when America started going downhill, is whenever ass whoopings turned into abuse.
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Yeah. And it also went downhill when. What'd you say this morning? You told me that this morning went
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downhill when ass whoopings. You couldn't give your child an ass whooping anymore. I remember there were times where, like,
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my papa would go down a list.
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Let me finish. My papa would go to the store and pull my dad out of class and whoop his ass in the hallway. Yeah. Nowadays if you do that, you're getting Child Protective Services called on you. But anyways, America started going downhill when we stopped giving ass whoopings.
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Okay.
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When they took away the ipod.
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Okay.
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Because now, you know, used to kids could just listen.
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The list.
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Let me finish.
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You don't have to give a backstory.
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Yeah, you do. Kids could, you know, listen to music and they could listen to their kids bop, whatever, God bless the broken road, or, you know, whatever. And then when they did. Now they have unlimited.
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You forgot one.
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Now they have unlimited access to Safari. And that's why kids are hellions. And when Nancy Grace lost her TV show, I miss hearing what she has to say.
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Okay, stop what you're doing. We need to talk about something important.
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Like drop your phone important.
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Riley, have you ever been. Put your phone down, Landon.
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I'm so damn sick of you.
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Rock the country is coming to Belleville, Texas, May 1st and 2nd, 2026, and the lineup is genuinely insane.
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We're talking Jason Aldean, Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Ella Langley, Aaron Lewis and the Stateliners.
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Diamond Rio, Shenandoah, and Chase Matthew.
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Like that's not even all of it either. Riley, tell them where it is. Since you're so good at geography, you
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didn't even know that Abraham Lincol got assassinated.
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Oh, my gosh, stop bringing that up.
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Anyways, it's at the Austin County Fairgrounds.
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They've got the brand new Raise, rowdy stage, daily throwback happy hour, DJ sets,
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cold drinks, good people, and two full days of the loudest rowdiest crowds and country music you've ever heard of in your life.
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Oh, yeah, and we'll be there, which
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in my humble opinion, is iconic in itself.
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Come find us. Come hang with us. Come scream every word to every song with us.
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Tickets are at rockthecountry.com get them now before they're gone and you're stuck watching
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our stories, wishing you came.
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Let's get it. So now let's go down the list.
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Normally, America went downhill whenever Nancy Grace lost her TV show. Kids stopped getting their ass whooped, and they stopped producing an ipod.
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And we will die on that.
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You know what else I miss speaking of childhood? I miss the damn Scholastic Book fair, the chocolate calculator. Landon. The things I would do to go into a book fair with a $20bill and buy a Lamborghini poster, knowing damn good well, I don't fucking like cars. A incognito pen.
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Yeah, the.
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That you would write on all over your body and then show your friends
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and tell them, yeah, the invisible ink
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and the damn pointer finger and the
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smelly markers and the chocolate chip calculator.
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Yeah, smelled like chocolate when you smell it.
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And you went in. You went in with a full arm of celibands.
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Oh, I remember. I used to go to Little Caesars just because they gave out silly bands.
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I remember I was the coolest kid in elementary school because I had the most silly bands. And I've always been a businessman because you know what? I used to sell them bitches for a dollar on the playground. I'll be like, you know what?
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Me and my friends used to make duct tape wallets.
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We were entrepreneurs.
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They were the jankiest little shits you've ever. You could buy a better wallet at the dollar dollar and a quarter tray. That's also when America started going downhill, when we jacked the damn dollar tree up to a dollar and 25 cents.
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What the.
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It's a quarter. Okay, I get it. You can find a quarter on the sidewalk. But if you're gonna call it the dollar tree, everything in there needs to Be a damn dollar. Because now they have a $5 aisle and a $7 aisle. This is not the five below. This is the damn dollar tree.
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Dollar tree one.
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The trunk on the tree in the logo is literally a damn one for $1.
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Who's on the dollar?
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Abraham Lincoln. Right. No, he's on the five dollar bill and the penny. No, he's not on the five dollar.
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George Washington's on the dollar.
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We don't know a damn thing about anything. We're here to be.
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We do know that the dollar tree shouldn't be a dollar and 25 cents. And we also know that gas prices are too high right now. But you know what I was thinking of we about gas prices. As if we even look at the price.
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You drive a damn Tesla.
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I know, but listen, before I drive a Tesla, people, about gas prices.
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What are they gonna do? Walk?
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Yeah, like shut the hell up.
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You can all you want to, but unless you're gonna.
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But you're still going to that gas station and you're still driving.
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Unless you're gonna make your house, it's not gonna make a difference.
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No, because what are you gonna do? Walk.
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Sorry. It's a double Diet Coke kind of day.
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Yeah. I woke up this morning, Riley come to my apartment to eat a muffin that I made last night and he's got two Diet Cokes in his hand. That's cancer waiting to happen.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again. If I die from a Diet Coke, put on my tombstone that I died a happy man.
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What I say my video yesterday, I said, if I die, please die. Please know that I died doing exactly what I love to do. And it would be and complain.
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Me too.
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God don't give you serotonin. Anyways, you told me something yesterday and you said we were going to talk about it today, but I forgot what it was and maybe. Was it about the target?
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Oh, it's about the Target. So the other day I decide that I'm gonna go to the Target. I don't even remember what I was going there for. And I got my stuff and I went back. Oh, it was before we left for the cruise. I was getting travel toiletries. And the other day I walked in to Target, did my shopping, whatever. Got to the self checkout. There was a long line. I am standing in the self checkout and there is a woman standing so close to me that if I would have farted, she would have done a dumb somersault. Okay. I mean, literally, if I had farted she'd have gotten pink eye. And Lane comes open, and I walk up to it, and she goes around me and nudges me out of the way. And I'm like, who does this bitch think she is? Like, I waited here just like you did. Let me tell you why she was trying to get out of there fast. Would you like to guess what she was buying? A purple dildo. A purple dildo. I get that maybe you don't want the Target to know what you're buying in the Target, but I'm pretty sure there's websites for that that will ship discreetly to your door.
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Okay.
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Don't come and try to knock stuff out of my hand going around me because you got horny and decided to go to the Target, of all places.
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Okay.
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She probably thought she wasn't going to get caught, but she bumped into the only bitch in there with a podcast. And so if you were at the Target last week and you were buying a purple, uh, then. Busted bitch. Pissed me off so bad, I looked over and I did a double take. I was like, shit, did you just have Target? Well, couldn't have went to damn Walmart or Amazon. We live in Nashville. Amazon delivers same day here. I mean, I'm sure you could have ordered something from there. God, she had a. She had a hankering.
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Oh. Anyways, anyways, we went and watched Danae Hayes at the.
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At the Rhyming. She made her rhyming debut. She did great. It was so funny.
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Yeah. The guy in front of us, though, can we talk about him?
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Oh, he was in a wing of shit.
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And the lady beside me, funniest person I think I've ever seen in my life. She's like 70, probably ex Marines or something. And the guy in front, did you see him? He got up out of his chair at least 4,000, 444 times.
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Every time he'd walk by. Yes, yes. Every time he'd walk by, he'd fist bump us.
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Yeah. Finally, I sit the down. This is not your show. And the lady sitting beside me said, if this motherfucker gets up one more time, I'm going to show his ass that I'm an ex marine. And I went, okay. Tony. Her name was Tony, by the way.
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It was. It was legit. But Danae did really good. Her show is great. So if Danae comes to your area, then go see her.
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Yes. Wonderful.
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So the other day, I am sitting there and I go up to Landon's apartment because I could have ate every. I could have ate out of house and home. Like, I had a damn. I felt like I had a tapeworm. I was starving. Landon was like, do you want a healthy snack? I can make you one. I was like, sure. So I went up there and he made me a tostada. And he ate mussels and cottage cheese on a hard, flat taco shell. And it made me want to take a jump off of the 20th floor. So I brought that ass. No, thank you. I brought my own chicken and I had a chicken tostada because I don't believe in eating anything that swims on a taco with cottage cheese, so. Or they don't even swim. They lay on the bottom of the ocean and suck up shit Anyways.
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So,
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you know, I ate my toast, Todd. It was good. You did good. I'm proud of you. Thank you. Then Landon says, do you want a piece of grapefruit? If you've never had a grapefruit, it tastes like an exclamation point. That's the only way I know how to describe it to you. They're good, Landon. Of course. You think they're good because they make you feel something.
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No, they're good because they taste good, Riley.
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No, they're good because whenever you're done, you're going, landon's.
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Don't do that. I put sugar on mine and it's all as well.
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The one gave me didn't have no damn sugar on it. Well, you said, riley, try this. They're in like, a syrup.
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They are the hell?
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What kind of syrup? I needed some maple syrup to eat that. It was disgusting. Plum awful.
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Riley, it's a damn grapefruit. Maturing is liking grapefruit.
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No, maturing is like in cottage cheese. I. Yeah, it is not a damn grapefruit.
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Same.
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No. You know what?
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Be good. That just popped in my mind, putting cottage cheese on a grapefruit because cottage cheese goes well with fruit.
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It's like the bitchy cousin of an orange that nobody likes.
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I don't even like an orange.
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You don't like an orange, but you like a grapefruit. Landon, that's a mental disorder.
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A mental disorder is bruising your hand and asking Chatgpt if it's a blood clot.
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Look at the damn thing.
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That is a mental disorder.
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It probably is. Look, you can't hardly see it.
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He tried a lot of me this morning. I was like, I know you've looked up on Chat GPT. Like, what's wrong with my hand? It's been bruised for more than a week and I Was like, you know, maybe you just knock the out of it. No, he's asked if it's a blood clot. He knows that it's gonna make you have. What'd you say when you get older?
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I said, I'm gonna have a damn age spot like King Charles one day. I mean, that's what happens when old people, they get feeble and their hands bruise.
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That is a mental disorder.
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I don't want to have an age spot. If I wanted to age, I wouldn't get Botox. But I do, and I'm doing it.
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You've got a blood clot in the hand.
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I will.
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Hey. I will say this, though. You need a smaller O ring because yours is falling off.
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I'm having to put it on my middle finger because it. Look,
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come on, Riley.
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It just goes right on and off.
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What are we going to talk about
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before the tostada, you mentioned that people overshare shit on social media, especially from our hometown.
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Damn it. If I had a million dollars, I would pay everybody. I would pay everybody over the age of 35 to get the hell off Facebook.
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These stories that I have seen on Facebook in the last two weeks that have happened in people's homes, that have happened with people's loved ones. Not everything belongs on Facebook, okay? No.
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And don't post something on Facebook. And then all of a sudden, because some of you pissed off when we comment and say, well, what the hell happened? Or we ask questions about it and they're like, this is my business to know.
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Then don't put it on the damn Internet. And if you're going to, you might as well just capitalize off of it and post about it on Tik Tok Hell.
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And my poor little grandmother, God love her, if you tell her something and say, nanny, this is a secret. The next morning, she's on News Channel 3 telling the world our family had,
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like, got the name Mouth of the South. We are. I can keep a secret. Landon can keep a secret.
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I can keep a secret.
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As long as you tell both of us. Yeah, don't tell Landon something and expect him not to tell me. And don't tell me something and tell me. Expect me not to tell Landon. I'm sorry. That's just how it goes, okay? That's why I could never be the president. Because if I was a CIA director and we were about to bomb another country, I'd call land and be like, hey, bitch, hit the bunker. I said about five minutes. Shit's about to hit the fan.
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And that's that's good, friend.
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Yeah.
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If any of y' all have seen
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the video of Punch the Monkey getting abused in the damn Japanese jail, first of all, I'd like to have a talk with the prime minister because that's some bullshit.
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I don't even know what happened or
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Landon won't watch the video. And honestly, I don't blame him. But moral of the story is there was, like, a monkey and, like, the mom rejected it or something.
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What did it do?
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Nothing. It was just chilling. And the mom, like, would beat the shit out of it and it had a little stuffed monkey, and it would grab its stuffed monkey and run away in the the corner and hug the stuffed monkey.
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So he was just getting bullied?
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Yeah.
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What did they do to solve the situation?
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I don't know. I think they took it out of the jail or took it out of the zoo. How do you feel about a zoo?
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I don't give a damn.
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I kind of feel like if it's, like, a situation where, like, the animal can't live in the wild by itself, whatever. But it's kind of inhumane that people just, like, stick animals behind glass and walk around and paid to look at them.
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Oh, I don't really care about a zoo.
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Like, if you want to go to the zoo, go on African safari and quit being a cheap ass.
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No, that don't bother me because usually zoos are pretty good about that because it's like rehab. But, like, I don't agree with, like, Sea World and stuff.
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Like, see, like, aquariums, A damn fish knows four walls its entire life, and it probably runs into them because they're clear. Could you imagine if we had, like, severe weather around a damn. What if the glass broke and we had a sharknado?
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I don't have an opinion on this because, really, I don't go to aquariums or zoos.
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I don't either. But I do like. I do like to go to the Chattanooga Aquarium because you get to pet the start stingray.
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Which aquarium has this conveyor belt?
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The Ripley's Aquarium, Pigeon Forge in Gatlinburg. That damn thing is huge. I'll tell you one thing, though. I do want to go to the Georgia Aquarium because they have, like, a huge ass whale shark. Or did it die?
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I don't know. I don't go to this for fun. $20 a damn fish.
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It's more than $20.
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Hey, I'm going to Dollywood soon, actually. Like, and you're not going. My other friends.
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He has to.
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Oh, more than that. But anyways, Great. Next weekend.
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Well, I hope you have a great time. I don't ride roller coasters anyways.
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Yeah.
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The only reason I'd even go is to hold the.
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Or eat the food.
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Eat the food.
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And I don't even think that the food hits better. He wants to go to Disney.
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Yeah, I like Disney.
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I don't.
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I like the food at Disney. And there's a lot more.
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When I went.
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What?
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I got kidnapped.
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Why? Oh.
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Am I allowed to talk about this?
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That's your decision? That's your story?
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Yeah, I got kidnapped. I. Oh, co worker that I used to work with at a company. I. He picked me up and we were doing like this group ride along thing with all the co workers and he was like, let's go to Disney. I was like, no, I don't want to go. Like, take me back to the hotel. And he held me against my wishes and took me through Disney. And that's literally kidnapping.
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They went to Disney Springs.
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Same damn difference. I wanted to go the home and I got.
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Landon doesn't like Disney because Landon doesn't like animation.
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I don't. I think it's.
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Landon was born and at two years old he was watching Damn Fast and Furious and like.
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And then nothing was accurate. Like I was. Yes. When I was like three or four, I was watching like people chop each other's head off. And that, you know, in hindsight, might have not been the best thing.
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But he explained a lot, though.
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But I just don't like animation.
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I'll tell you one at all.
B
I've never even watched the Grinch. Swear.
A
You've never seen the Grinch. You know the Grinch isn't even animated.
B
I thought it was like the original one is.
A
No, it's not. It has Jim Carrey in it.
B
The original.
A
That's not the original.
B
That's not the original. That's like the live action film.
A
Oh, well, it's better.
B
I don't know.
A
I love an animated movie. Now, I'm not gonna sit there and watch like Pocahontas or like Beauty and the Beast, but let me tell you something. My comfort movie, and it always has been, always will be. I've seen it a hundred times and I could watch it each time and I will laugh every time and I. I even cry. What Cars?
B
I've never watched it.
A
That is the saddest thing you've ever told me in your life.
B
Really? Yes. I just don't like that kind of stuff.
A
It's just. What. What is not to like about a talking Race car that wins the Piston Cup. Not to mention it has one of my favorite bands in it. Rascal Flats. Okay, I love Rascal Flats. And they're in cars, they sing the movie. And then. Look, let me just lay it out for you. Lightning McQueen wins a pissing cup. He comes. It was a three way tie. Him, Chick, Hicks and another guy. And you must not like it too
B
damn much if you can't name the thing.
A
I'm about to walk you through the whole damn movie.
B
I don't want to know the whole damn movie.
A
Okay. Well, I'm gonna tell you anyways. So they come in a three way Piston cup. And then they have a week to prepare for the tiebreaking race. Well, on the way to California, where it happens, Mac, his truck, his big truck, falls asleep on the road. And he gets lost in a little town called Radiator Springs. So then, Landon, I could. Well, I'm about to go home and watch it when we get home. You're so excited about this? Yes. He meets a tow truck called Tow Mater, Larry the Cable Guy. And then he has to fix the road because he messed it up. So then he. He, like, becomes best friends with everybody.
B
He gets a girlfriend.
A
Her name's Sally. She's the town lawyer. She's a Porsche, blue Porsche. And then they all go. He. He comes across the fabulous Hudson Hornet, which is. Doc. He's the sheriff of the town.
B
How many times have you watched it?
A
No, he's the judge. I'm embarrassed for you, Landon. I've watched it at least 30 times.
B
That's insane.
A
I watched it two days ago. And. Moral of the story is, he wins the Piston Cup. And then there's a second one where the piston, like P, I, s S I, n G. No, piston like P I, S. T, O, N. Oh, but see, he's in a. This makes me giggle every time. He's in a little town called Radiator Springs, but it's in Carburetor County. Do you know what a carburetor is?
B
Yes.
A
It's like a car part, I think. Anyway.
B
You don't even know what it is, you dumbass.
A
The extent of my cars, bitches.
C
Buying the.
A
Buying the Ferrari poster at the Scholastic Book Fair. But. And then you don't even know how to change the tire the second. Yeah, I do.
B
You're lying.
A
You jack it up. Take the lug nuts off, you scoot the tire back on like Beato on cars. And then you pull the jack back out.
B
Yeah, but I just. You got to Know where to put the jack under?
A
Yeah, the frame. Okay, put it under.
B
Do you think you could do it?
A
If I had to, but that's why
B
I pay for OnStar anyways.
A
Okay, so press the button and wait for you.
B
So you watch cars in your free time?
A
Yeah, the second one, they go to Tokyo and race.
B
There's another.
A
There's three. And then the third one, they have another race. Yeah, Cars is the Landon. Sorry, I'm not watching. Damn.
B
That I like to. What? I couldn't even name a movie that
A
I like to watch. But if Landon watches, like, White House down, like.
B
Yeah, White House down. Like that. That's like. Keep you on the edge of your toes.
A
See, that gives me anxiety and stresses me out.
B
If it don't get me. If I have not had three heart attacks and a stroke, the time my movie gets to the 20 minute mark, I don't want to watch it.
A
See, if I watch stuff like that, it gives me anxiety. And then I start thinking, what would I do if I was in that really good movie?
B
It's called Lou, and she's like an older woman and she has like. Well, it's. It's like, you're gonna tell me how crazy make you yourself.
A
This is. This is medical. The other day I was watching tiktoks about people cooking, and they were chopping really, really fast, and I thought, I wish I could do that, but I'd probably cut myself. And then I was laying there and I thought, if I cut myself, I don't know what I would do because Landon would probably just tell me to go back to my apartment, and then I would be freaking out because I cut myself, and I'd panic, and depending on how bad it was, I would bleed out and die. And so then I thought to myself, I don't want to cook the rest of the day because what if I cut myself? Riley, that's a disorder.
B
I think that's Marcus and Ben.
A
Yeah, Moccasin Ben is a mental institution. Back where we live. I've never been, but it's time to go.
B
It's time to go. And that's probably why you have anxiety attacks sometimes. Probably because you make up fake scenarios in your head and then you're like, oh, but I cut the piss out of myself one time when I lived in Florida. You remember that?
A
I did, too. I have a scar on my finger,
B
on my knuckle right here.
A
You know?
B
What happened?
A
What happened?
B
Nothing. It just bled a little. And I. I think I super glued it.
A
I did.
B
Super glued It.
A
My family is notorious. My family's notorious for super gluing cuts.
B
Really? Yeah.
A
Like at the kitchen table, like, before they wash their hands.
B
Yeah, our.
A
Like, that's blue collar.
B
Our parents grew up, like, my parents on a meat processing company and like meat cutters, you know, butchers and stuff. Every week, somebody either stabbed their self, cut their finger.
A
It's probably my dad.
B
Yeah, absolutely.
A
My dad cut himself so many times at work.
B
Like, he stabbed himself in the belly the other day on accident.
A
That was about a year ago.
B
Oh. But anyways, it was.
A
He did in there.
B
Yeah. And we just super glue it and move on with our life.
A
My dad cut himself one time. We were doing a high school homecoming parade float, and he cut himself trying to cut a zip tie and had to go to the hospital, get stitches.
B
Okay, well, that's.
A
It's been a hell.
B
Podcast is. Took in a turn.
A
We did go to Broadway the other day. We went to Broadway whenever we went and saw Danae. And we got all the way to our restaurant that we had reservations at. And Landon realized that he left his ID at the apartment.
B
No, I left it in my car, which is parked a mile away from the apartment because I valet and they park it in some random ass parking lot. And I had to Uber from.
A
Let me just tell you. Before you finish, let me just tell you what all was going on on Broadway that day. The SEC championship basketball game. It's St. Patrick's Day, which in Nashville is just an excuse to get drunk. And there were shows at the Ramen. There was. There was more people there. You stood up on the roof, it looked like ants crawling around. Like, literally, there's two things in my life. There's two things I hate in this world. Tourists and drunk people. And I picked the wrong damn city to move to. But continue.
B
I was just saying, I Ubered. I had to Uber from downtown all the way back to where my car was. And I tapped in the address that my car was at, which was one. Now why did I say that? And. And the Uber dropped me off in the damn gulch at the crossroads. Crossroads at the gulch. Or whatever the hell. So then I was trying to explain to him, like, this is not where my car's at. Like, you can obviously see we're not going the right way. Take me. And he. Oh. I was like, well, it. I'm getting out of the car. So I just got out of the car in the middle of the road, walked all the way to where my car was, which is about a mile and that might not sound like a long time or a far distance, but that's long.
A
Yeah.
B
So I walked to my car and then I had to Uber all the way back to Downtown and Uber 15 minutes. They couldn't drop me off where I needed to be dropped off. So then I had to get out and walk seven more minutes to the damn restaurant.
A
And you got stopped like five times. And then I got stopped.
B
And I'm not bitching about this, cuz I love it. And I got stopped by like three or five people that wanted pictures cuz
A
well, that's what happens when it's busy on Broadway. I love taking pictures of people. I'm not bitching.
B
He lied.
A
No, I do. But some people are just overly excited to see me sometimes.
B
And Riley, you. They.
A
I love these people. They pay my bills. I'm forever grateful. But sometimes people look at me like they just seen JLo and I'm like, I laugh and I sit in the back bathtub with a pot on my head. I'm not special. Yes.
C
Get over here.
A
Let's take a picture to you.
B
To them, that's like meeting children. Okay, well, that's.
A
I'm so honored. And I really do have impostor syndrome. But sometimes, like whenever people over. Like, I had a girl one time come up to me and she said, I just want to let you know that you were my hero. And she was crying.
B
I was like, that didn't make you feel good?
A
It made me feel great. But then again I'm like, if I'm your hero, you need. You need to go on a vacation because you need to find a new hero. Yes. Because hell, I ain't special. I just grew up in a little small town where everybody talks about everybody special.
B
See, this is where I defer. Tell me I'm your hero.
A
See, I'm humble in the heart.
B
I'm humble in the heart.
A
Yeah. But I just. I mean, we work in show business Raleigh.
B
We signed up for this.
A
I'm not complaining about it. I love meeting people. It's just like sometimes I'm like, oh my God. Like, damn, these people really love me.
B
That makes you. That should make you feel good.
A
Oh, it does.
B
Give me millions of people.
A
Give me a kiss.
B
But like, you know, my favorite thing is it's kind of off the same. I'll talk about the same. Topic is when we get a hate comment. I ain't even got a. I even got to say nothing to the hate because all of my followers are in the comments attacking them. I've got like my own little personal army. They're like, what the did you say?
A
Talk in my comment sections and we will mobilize the troops, baby. Amen. The Bloodline Army. We need a. We need a fan club name.
B
We do have one.
A
What is it?
B
The honorary.
A
What do we.
B
What do we call it?
A
Oh, the Honorary Cousin Club.
B
That's good.
A
It is good.
B
Yeah.
A
Maybe one day we can slap it on a T shirt.
B
This is Cousin Council. Why do you have me doing this submission? It's dumb.
A
It ain't my fault someone lives a stupid life. This is severely up.
B
Okay, let the Cousin Council begin. Raleigh, you ready for this?
A
I'm ready, Judge Mark.
B
Okay, you can take it away.
A
Okay.
C
Some of y' all like to send in the Marion Webster dictionary. This is the most I've read since second grade. My husband bought a truck and his parents us co signers. The first week we met, I had zero say and nor should I had Fast forward. My car breaks down. We live together. I drove his truck. His mom would randomly facetime me, wanting to know my every move because I was driving the truck. Would call me at my boyfriend's and tell him that I'm running the roads when I was just taking my kids to sports, causing him to question me. Then the air went out in my vehicle while I was pregnant and our child with our child, I wasn't allowed to drive the truck again. I drove around with no air in my vehicle, being nine months back pregnant in August while the truck sat in my driveway because he worked out of town and had a company truck. Fast forward, he loses his job and we're now married. He makes more money on the side, but not enough for the truck payment. His mom comes to me expecting me to pay it. I want to say hell no, because I'm not allowed to drive it. So I'm not paying for it out of my pocket with the money that I worked for. Am I taking this too far? My husband doesn't expect me to, but his mom calls me constantly reminding me it's coming due.
B
Sounds like you've got an evil bastard ass mother in law.
C
I think you should remind the mother in law that you're not married to her.
A
And I also think that if your husband can't get a hold of his mother, you should have a talk with him too, because you know that's just ruthless.
B
She drove around nine months pregnant with no air conditioning.
A
I would say I'm carrying your grandchild.
B
And if you want to see this grandchild, I'll Drive this damn truck.
A
And then I would go to the husband. Husband and say, you need to get your mother under control before I'm finding a damn divorce attorney.
B
Case adjourned. O. I may be admitting to illegal activity. Okay, here we go. But I must ask y' all if I made the right decision. I have an abnormally crazy ex wife. She released two full grown copperheads in my house.
A
What the hell?
B
In my house. Drained the oil out of my car, vandalized the inside of my house and stomped on my tomato plants. I also own a couple of mini pigs. I'm on my third one now. One of them she abducted and dropped off in the middle of the national forest to get dead and the other to get dead and the other got killed. My. The copperheads that she released in my house. Okay, grammar is going to be.
A
Grammar is your worst.
B
Anyways, a copperhead killed the other one. I got a call one day from one of her friends asking if I can pick her up, pick her car from a nearby field because she got hawk eyed at a party and they all thought I'm a pushover because I'm too nice. I said absolutely and borrowed a backhoe and dug a 10t wide, 6 foot deep trench around her car and pushed the dirt 50 yards perpendicular away from her car.
A
How the hell can you not spell. But you're using words like perpendicular.
B
I feel like I should feel bad, but this girl pissed off a farmer boy who can run heavy equipment and she found out. Do you think I did myself justice? Didn't do or did too much?
A
Well, I'm going to be completely honest with you, and this is not me trying to be an. But I don't understand.
B
You don't understand what?
A
Because they, they said they dug a
C
hole and then pushed the dirt 50 yards perpendicular away from her car.
B
So I borrowed a backhoe and dug
A
a tin deep trench around her car
B
and pushed the dirt 50 yards.
A
So there's no way to get to her car, right?
B
Yeah. Yeah. I feel like I should feel bad, but this girl pissed me off. Well, I guess you're warranted because if she, you know, stole your damn pigs and really, if anybody released a copperhead in my house, they're.
A
I don't care if it's a copperhead or a damn rat snake or a
C
black snake or a king cobra. You release a damn snake in my
A
house and you are going to feel my wrath. I fear I would have probably dug the hole and. And put the car in it and filled it back up.
B
Yeah.
A
Bye. Bye.
C
Mitsubishi.
B
Yeah. A copperhead released in my house. That would have been a no. And she stepped on your tomato plants.
A
Yeah. Now you're gonna be hungry without a
B
damn pig and not even be able to have a house because there's a damn copperhead in. I'd have burned that damn house down and caught insurance.
A
The arsonists would have come to town.
B
Case adjourned. I think you've done enough. But I would have probably done a
A
little more if somebody craziest in R.
B
I can't believe this happens.
A
Hope you never get sued, cuz now
C
they're going to look through your Gmail. Okay, so my mother and father in law have been married 32 years. Last June, one random Tuesday, my mother in law calls him and says she's not coming home until Sunday. And she filed for divorce. We talked to people from her workplace and apparently it went on a long time with another man. We hired a private investigator and sure enough, she goes to his house morning, noon and night. We live on a family compound like y'. All. A 200 acre farm. So my mother in law kept the house because even with evidence, Tennessee is a 5050 state. My father in law is building a house about a half a mile away from my mother in law. And our house is smack dab in the middle. Now she's moving in the boyfriend.
A
Is she moving in the boyfriend on the family compound?
B
Could you imagine that? They had to be voted off.
A
Damn.
B
Y' all might need to.
A
She is messy.
B
Y' all might need.
A
Doug, Y' all need to hold a family meeting and immediately. Is this going to turn into the hatfields and the McCoys?
B
Okay, yeah. Jerry Springer ain't got nothing on this. When you move a boyfriend into the family compound.
A
I think right now Jerry Springer is digging his way out of his.
B
You know what, yo, Your whole family needs to come here. And me and Riley will mediate the. The. What's it called?
A
Don't bring any weapons.
B
Damn.
A
We'll supply those.
B
That's kind of crazy. I feel like I have a booger. Please hold.
A
Your family. I don't know if I had one or not. Could probably benefit from going to Church or Dr. Phil.
B
You know, Dr. Phil might do some wonders.
C
And you're smack dab in the middle.
A
So if things start getting rowdy and bullets start flying, you better hit the deck.
B
Okay, what advice do we have for this? I guess just have it. You need to have a family meeting immediately.
C
Damn.
B
Damn, Daniel. Anyways, that was Cousin Council. If you have any submission stories or Wikipedia. Send it in to Bloodline Banter atthecast collective.com.
A
and let me just say that y' all crazier than for putting some of this in writing. And I absolutely love it. So keep doing it.
B
Okay, love you.
A
Bye. Once again, y' all never cease to amaze me with the That y' all send in.
B
Y' all are bad bananas. I keep sending in. I want some more serious stuff.
A
And also, I need details. Like, we've said this over and over again.
B
I don't care if your boyfriend cheated on you.
A
I want to know, who did he cheat with.
B
No, I don't need to even know that. I need more serious to talk about. Like, has your mom ever been to prison for something crazy? I need. Okay. I mean serious stuff.
A
Well, welcome to confessionals.
B
Yeah.
A
But we hope you guys have a good day. We will catch you next time. Make sure you're following us on all of our social pages and.
B
And you can find us anywhere you get your podcast. Love you.
A
Bye. Oh, and subscribe on YouTube.
B
That too.
Bloodline Banter — Episode Summary
Episode Title: It Tastes Like An Exclamation Point
Date: April 9, 2026
Hosts: Landon, Riley (with interjections from a third participant, likely Aaron)
This episode of Bloodline Banter is a raucous, fast-paced conversation covering everything from wild weather and lost hats to family dysfunction, childhood memories, divisive food opinions, and the chaos of their listeners’ lives. The hosts riff on their days, recount absurd run-ins at Target and on Broadway, reminisce about the Scholastic Book Fair, debate marriage and parenting styles, and tackle listener drama in the "Cousin Council" confessional. True to form, it’s candid, chaotic, and peppered with the signature southern humor and banter the show’s known for.
"I took it to the counter, and I didn't want to look poor, so I had to buy it." — Riley ([01:21])
"A meteorologist is the only person that gets paid to lie. And a politician, but that's besides the point." — Riley ([02:48])
"That pothole has its own zip code." — Landon ([03:58])
"Gentle parenting is for gentle children, okay? My mama raised savages, and I got beat the out of it." — Riley ([06:58])
"The things I would do to go into a book fair with a $20 bill and buy a Lamborghini poster, knowing damn good well, I don't fucking like cars." — Riley ([12:04])
"If you've never had a grapefruit, it tastes like an exclamation point. That's the only way I know how to describe it to you." — Riley ([18:34])
On marriage:
“That’s like a prison sentence.” — Landon ([05:54])
On Nashville’s potholes:
“That pothole has its own zip code.” — Landon ([03:58])
On Facebook oversharing:
“Not everything belongs on Facebook, okay? No.” — Riley ([21:02])
On old-school discipline:
“Ass whoopings work. I’m a true believer in an ass whooping.” — Landon ([09:20])
On childhood:
“The trunk on the tree in the logo is literally a damn one for $1.” — Riley ([13:18])
On silly bands:
“I used to sell them bitches for a dollar on the playground.” — Landon ([12:32])
On that grapefruit:
“If you’ve never had a grapefruit, it tastes like an exclamation point.” — Riley ([18:34])
On southern discipline:
"My dad's belt had a name growing up… Mr. Leather.” — Riley ([07:55])
“It Tastes Like An Exclamation Point” captures the unrestrained and relatable humor that defines Bloodline Banter. Unpacking the absurdities of daily life, the trauma and pride of southern childhood, small-town social media drama, and listener-submitted confessions, Landon and Riley keep it vulnerable and hilarious. This is a podcast where no topic is taboo and everything is up for irreverent debate—highlighted by the hosts’ sharp wit and the wild tales their community brings to the “Cousin Council.”