This is the FCB podcast network. Great than this when the trunk job boot change at tond We don't listen to y'all this d out. We don't listen to y'all, this d hotel. Make them scream out down that go sound don cause the rockets in the Crown like a tune in the charge for the Outdoor. Tune in the Charge for. The Outlaw, Mary Chris mess Welcome to the Outlaws. This is Dov king Pay alongside Robin O'Malley and Dante bry Don't forget too Like us on Facebook at Facebook dot com, slash the Outlaws Radio, follow us on x and Instagram at the Outlaws or Radio. Make sure you go into our brand new website, The Outlaws Radio dot com. Mittle Balley, how are you. At the current moment? I'm cool. I actually took me a little cat map so I had a mean headache. Yeah, so I had to take me a nap because I would have been mean, you know. So I hate I hate when my head hurts. Man like that sucks. Like I absolutely hate. When my hair hurt. Yeah, I was at work. I was sitting at work and I ain't have nothing to take and so I was sitting there for like an hour, and it just was like slowly progressively like getting worse, and I'm like, I just know this this headache about. To be horrible. Yeah, it definitely was. I'm like, I need to lay down. I feel like I'm about to throw up. Yeah. Well, and it's it's crazy too, because you know sometimes I do, like I get I get tension headaches. Quite a bit sometimes. And for somebody who gets tension headaches, I'm always hitting my head and it drives me crazy. Like there'll be times where like I get in the car and accidentally. Hit my head. I'm like like I'm just hitting my head, like and it's been like this forever, like I was in the fourth grade. I think I'll never forget this. This is how long ago this was. I was in K Mart. I was in the super k Mart and you've been Ohio, and I was running down the aisle and slipped and hit my head. Man, that was the. Most painful thing in the world. And I don't think there was a I don't think it was a. Slippery sign on there either. My mama should have sued. Dang opportunity. Man, God there already, sir. I am good. We getting closer to Christmas. Cold, it was snowing by me feel like Christmas outside. So I'm I'm happy. I'm uh. It's time for time. Off work sports and everybody will leave everybody else alone now. And I'll say this, I ain't gonna put your business out there, so I ain't gonna say what areas living? But the area that you live in is a that is a beautiful place. I see all the time. I say it all the time, that's a beautiful place. But the reason why I can't the number one and really probably the only reason why I would never live there is because y'all get too much damn snow. To snow, way too much snow. And it hadn't even been that bad the last few years, but man we can. It's making up for it, like we're making up for it right now. Uh these last two weeks for what we haven't gotten I guess in the last like three years. Yeah, man, they'll be getting whack. And it's so crazy because like the Cleveland area is so it's so interesting because people will think about like Cleveland or the Cleveland area as. Snow, but it's not always like that. It's not even like there are times on the east side where the east side folks get hammered, yeah, and then folks on the west side get nothing. Right. I just said last time, I said, well, if the grass greener over here, I don't know, yeah. And then it then sometimes y'all said, y'all get snow, and I'd be like, I ain't got nothing. So I don't really know how this worked. All I know is when they say lake effect, I'm in the house. Yeah, man, that's everybody's like. It's so funny too, because like when I was a kid, the one thing you was waiting to hear was lake effect, right, because if you heard lake effect, that means no school today exactly. Now the tables have turned. Oh my god. Now as an adults, soon as you hear lake effect, you're like, damn it. Yeah, because we don't get days on right right, listen, listen, shoot, or we don't get holidays or any of that. We don't get that off. Like, for example, my kids they just went on break as of today, and I'm like, will y'all get to sleep in Monday morning? It must be nice? Who is? Who is? We don't I ain't going to work on the holidays. Well, I don't work on holidays, but as far as like like throughout the week, like leading up to because you ain't gonna have Monday off? Who not? You go. Speak for yourself. You're gonna have Monday off and Tuesday and weekday. That's crazy man, paying around right now, That's what I said. Who you guys speak for yourself? Besting around? Man? I got work Monday, but. It is it's crazy man. It's just like the stuff that you have to do as an adult in the snow is just obviously completely different than the kid. I remember. I think it was like two weeks ago, two or three weeks ago. My mother and I were coming back from Columbus and. Everything was cool. We don't you know that that drive Dante seventy one seventy one straight shot everything cool hit Madna. Couldn't see nothing. It was a white out. I had never driven anything like that before. I was this is insane, like, how do you And there's people like it. It was eighteen Willers that. Was driving like it was nothing like that. You. I'm like, man, how do you drive in this? Yeah? You gotta pull over? Man. And my mama, My mama's so crazy she it didn't bother her nothing. She like, get over, get in the lines. I'm like, I can't see the line. I don't know where the lines are. Right. Once you once you can't see, that's when it's time to pull over. I can drive it almost anything, but once I once that it's a white out and it's almost like, oh, I can't see nothing. Oh absolutely wait for this to slack up, because I ain't. I'm not rushing nowhere and no weather like that, so. Nah, no chance, no, no chance. Once you can't see even in the even when it starts raining real bad, like when you know when it's raining and you in the highway and then you getting a big heavy rain drops, you can't really see nothing. Nah, I'm not I ain't bashful about no. We're just gonna just wait this this little thing out in fifteen, fifteen, twenty minutes. I'm cool because I'm not now and I can. I'm like I said, you know, I drove Cleveland, a Columbus in back thousand times times. But I'm not once it starts snowing like that on the freeway. Because that's the other thing when you whether you in a car or a truck and semis. They don't slow down like you at all. They be like, oh yeah, it's time to go now. So I'm not taking no chances with one of them. And I think I told y'all, man, I got off the highway. I was like, you know what, even though I know this is going to add to my travel time, I'm like, I got gassed. I'm taking the street back I got in. I was in Madonna County. I got off the highway and I took the street all the way back to Cleveland. I'm like, I'm not playing with y'all. I'm not doing it because that's the one like you said, down take when. You can't see what else are you. Supposed to do? And I told my mother, I said, I ain't never drove nothing like this before. And of course, you you know how these old school went You're. Like, I have, I've done that a bunch of times. I'm like, well, I ain't, y'all. I'm like, man, but you know, you know what it is. You know how these mothers, especially these old school mothers out They're like, oh, that. Ain't nothing, oh yeah about back in my day. I'm like, absolutely not. I'm like, I am getting off this way, this is not happening. But when you was a kid, man, you wouldn't even think like did you see the snow? You just think about snow day and you get to go play. And then when I got when I became a teenager, it was like, all right, I got a show. That was it. Mm hmm. But now we gotta work and drive and oh so I'll be like man Dante. And as much as you don't like the snow, I don't. I don't know how you mean. It's brutal, But like you said, for eight months out the year, is wonderful here. Oh beautiful, Like it's absolutely like it's a I was over there a few months ago and just looking around, like it's a really beautiful area. Oh yeah, you. Got a bunch of wineries a little bit farther north. Yeah, especially in the summertime. Yeah yeah, but that I'll make up for it, though, man, because I there was one area and this, uh, this is further out in Ohio. I forget what county it is. I think it was Astributa where they had so much snow they shut the highway down. They got over fifty inches. Oh my god, is that where the roof caved in. Yes, in that high school. Yeah, it was a high school. I think, Man, that's what I heard. Yeah, they uh yeah, they got well over fifty inches. Fifty inches, that's like that's like Buffalo. Yeah, it's you right there. I mean you astabauty. You might as well be eerie. Yeah. My oldest sister, she lives out that way, and she was like, we are completely snow don. Yeah, like what do you even do? Like how do you need to dig yourself out? Now? You might as well wait, like the city have to do that at that point, because. Might as well wait. But they, I mean, they prepare for it, like you live on them if you you know, live in Erie, pa Or Buffalo or you. Know, you get three or four of those a year. So they you know, they got the snowblowers, they got all that. They ready for it. I think, Oh, I think I've asked you this before. Do you have any family in Buffalo? Is all your folks from the city? Oh? No, my family was from the city. So what is what's New York City weather? Like? It changes a lot because you know, you got the river and in the in the water. But it's so weird in the summertime. Like the last time I was there was in the summer. This was maybe about a year ago, no, the time before that, and it's like it was warm all day but then at night it was Man, it's called the hell out here because the weather, like they said you need to bring. My cousin was like, make sure you bring your jacket, your sunglasses, Uh, your jacket, your sunglasses, and an umbrella. Just to be said. It's like it could change at any time. But it snows, but I don't think it's snow like it's snow here. Yeah, I don't believe it snows like it snows here, but. I I've never been up. I've never been caught in like any snow in New York, So I don't know, but I'm guessing that it's probably like about downtown, but probably on a wider scale where it's like, yeah, he may get some blurs or it may come down, but it don't really it doesn't really snow like that, but it you know, they get snow for sure. Yeah, yeah, I remember that was one of the things when Donovan Mitchell came to the calves and everybody was talking about, oh, he's not gonna want to here, he's not gonna want to be in the cold weather like from New York. Like, it's not like he's not used he's never had cold weather before. Yeah, they definitely see snow, like he and nobody that grew up in New York. I would venture to say, probably if you grew up in New York State anywhere, you wouldn't be able to say, like, oh, I've never seen snow, because I mean, what part of New York State doesn't it snow? Like you know, you go up north or upstate as. They call it, and you're talking about like Syracuse, Buffalo, Rochester like out up there, and then like if you in the city like Okay, or like maybe the middle part of the state, we know, I'm sure it's snows. Maybe not a lot because there's no water, but I'm sure it snows. But then you know, if you in the city or in one of the boroughs, like of course it's snow, seen snow before. So yeah, I never understood that when people would saying that about Donovan Mitchell, it's like, man from New York State, like, of course he's seen snow before. That's not a big deal. And he remember before that he played in Utah, right where you know it's. Snow right and like I remember he did his interview and he was like, because of course it was you know what I'm saying, Well, he wants to be closer to home. He was like, well, I'm closer to home anyway in. Cleveland, because Cleveland and New York is a lot closer than you taught in New. York, right right, Depending on how you drive, you know, some people say, oh, it's an eight hour drive. Some people say it's a six hour drive. I guess it depends on how you drive, right, an eight. Hour drive for me. Some people say it's a six hour drive. I haven't driven in a long time. Yeah, you get there in six hour. I can't imagine how fast you're going if you get there. I'm not I'm not driving it. Let's just get on a plane. It's two hours. I've driven to New York. I've driven through New York. I've never driven to New York. Yeah, and I've flown. When I went to the East Coast, it wasn't I wasn't going to New York. I went to New Jersey because I had a connecting flight to DC. And I think I've said this on the show before. New York Airport is the worst airport I've ever been in. I last time I went to New York, I almost died. Really, yes, I drove. It was me and the designer that from the billboard. Oh yeah, you were in Times Square, that's right. Yeah, And I was driving, and I think so the semi obviously where it. It's just a parent, so I'm pretty sure it was a woman. But she did not use her turn turn signal, and I was all all. I was all the way in the far left lane, so there was nowhere to go. I couldn't go anywhere, and she decided she was gonna switch over. I had no time to like back up, there was nowhere to back up to, nowhere to speed up to nowhere, Like I couldn't move in time like she just did. She just immediately, just like came over into my lane and I had I went into the ditch. I ended up in the ditch off the freeway. The man I know about the back to day. I'm so glad that I have good reaction, good reflex, because otherwise. Yeah, girl, oh my god, Danza, have you been in Newark, New Jersey's airport? It's a third world country. I flew in there once, but I don't fly into Newark anymore. I'm just flumming to JFK. Or really, Laguardi after they redid LaGuardia is so much better. But yeah, I don't. Newark is terrible. I would prefer never to step foot in New Jersey ever, or never to step foot in there like ever. No. I got family in New Jersey, so we normally, and we used to go to New Jersey quite a bit. We would we would normally. Drive because it ain't that it ain't that bad of a drive, so we would normally drive or whatever. But man, when I had to catch that connecting flight to DC and it was through. Newark, Newark is literally the hood. It's a it's a big ass hood like of hood. I like Jersey. I was in the nice area of Jersey. Of course I had another time more almost died, but that wasn't my fault. I wasn't even driving yet. I don't know, just taking a dump on new is it dumb? Jersey was pretty nice. The people were not, not all of them. New Jersey is the classic little brother city or a little brother state. I'm sorry, you can tell. You can tell the people from New York because way the New York people talk about New Jersey as wild. To me, I. Remember when I stayed there, moved there. I think people a lot of New Yorkers will move to Jersey, especially, you. Know, because you get, like, I guess it's cheaper to live, taxes, all that type of stuff. But like, you know, I think people do that out of necessity. I don't think people do that because like, oh, Jersey is so nice. I've never been to Jersey and been like, wow, this is this is really nice. Jersey Shores pretty nice. No, it was nice. Last that was like hold on, hold on, Robert, hold on a minute. D'say, you're a gambler. You don't like Atlantic City. No, Atlantic City is a dunk. It might have been nice now. Maybe Atlantic City was nice back in the day. But you know, but I think they said once Atlantic said, you know, a lot of stuff is boarded up now, and I guess they're trying to, you know, bring it back, but it's harder. It's so much harder to bring back a place like Atlantic City when gambling is legal everywhere now, so like it used to. I guess when Atlantic City because my grandmother would tell me stuff about Atlantic City, and I guess Ac was cool back in the day for them, because you know, it was the only spot where you could go to a casino. But now. You know, you can go to a casino anywhere, So like, is Atlantic City really that nice? And then I heard Atlantic City started to go downhill when they took away smoking. You couldn't smoke in there anything, because it was supposed to be like East Coast Vegas. But if you can't smoke in there, you know, a lot of people aren't aren't going to go. Right right, Yeah, you know, And that's a that's a very good point too. You've seen this even to some extent. It had a little bit of an impact on Vegas, but just a smaller impact because Vegas is such a destination city. But when you have casinos everywhere, like it's different. Like I remember there were when we were trying to pass it here in Ohio. One of the groups that were lobbying the most against it were groups connected to casino interests in Michigan. Yeah, because they knew, right like there was a lot of Cleveland. People who would go to the MGM in Detroit right all the time. Well if you have, because if you have casinos here, you know what I mean, It's it's different. Right, And that's you know, the craziest thing about Vegas, Like you said, it's such a destination, and they were trying to do that with it with Atlantic City, but it's a little harder when. Like Vegas is Vegas. So like. You can go to more shows in Vegas, there's more properties, the weather is always nice, right, that's a big thing for Vegas, right, Like even in the winter time, it's a destination. You really want to go to Atlantic City right now, you know what I'm saying, Like it's cold. In Vegas. You know, it probably doesn't go below fifty five degrees unless it's at night, right, you know what I mean. So it's just one of those things, plug. I really think, like being able to smoke cigars or smoke cigarettes in a casino while you gamble is a big thing too, And so I you know, I know there have been and push back from a lot of people in Vegas and some groups that wanted to get rid of that, but like that's part of the reason why I think Vegas still has an edge over everybody's because like they still have that. Well, and it's funny too, and then we'll take a break. I want to talk some Christmas stuff in a minute. But it's funny too because like even some of our casinos here have been building smoking patios and stuff like, Like, I didn't realize that that was that big of a deal, but to a lot. Of gamblers it is. Oh yeah, because you know a lot of people get stressed when they gamble, so they want a cigarette. That's the other thing too, man, you know you need it. You need free drinks. People like to drink and smoke when they gamble, whether it's a stress thing, whether it's just you know, not the edge off. People like to do that. At the casino in Cleveland, you have to pay for your drinks, which is like not great. But that's another reason why I don't like it. But I won't trash. Anything in Cleveland's part of the reason why I don't like the casino and cliff In it not because I don't drink when I cam but I like to be around people who are not up tight. Yeah, because it makes the energy feel better. Yeh. You know, that's part of the reason why I like Vegas still is because you know, everybody is loose. Some guys are drunken. Here in Cleveland. People are like, I want to get you know, I want to get a drink? Do I want to pay? You know, fifteen dollars for Voka soda? Shit? Because not only because not only are they charging, they charging full pride? Are are they really charging? Is it really that expensive? It's like a regular because you got to pay for drinks. And Columbus I think. Too, Yeah, you have to pay for drinks in Ohio period. The state like made sure that the casinos and the racinos weren't allowed to get free. Drinks, which I agree with you. I think that should be changed. Right now. I'm like you, I normally don't drink when I gamble, if anything, I might have one drink to just sip one other than that, like I'm not I'm not drinking heavily while I'm gambling for obvious reasons. Right. But but it doesn't adds to it adds to the. Abbiance, you know what I mean? So yeah, well we might have to talk to somebody about that. Seeh we can get that law change. I have to call a couple of folks. I stay tuned. We're gonna do some Christmas talk when we come back here the Outlaws, real talk, real conversations. We got the heat. This is the Outlaws Radio show. Welcome back, walking back and listening to the Outlaws. And I have one question that I want to ask both of my co hosts here. Robin, I'm gonna start with you, what is your. Best memory? Your best Christmas memory as a child, as an adult, any period of time you life. What's your best Christmas memory? Oh, I think as a child, there's one in particular one where my mom and my dad. Actually it's like this really big present, like you know, back in the nineties, and the underneath the tree was more filled, right, But so there was a particular gift that my mom and my dad had gotten, like they really they did everything they could to get this present. So it was for me and my sister, and it was like one of those pools tables that she had they had got for us that where you can like reverse it from like a pool table to like an air hockey to ping pong. It was like super super cool. But I think that is probably the best Christmas that I remember. Yeah, that's probably the best best one because everybody was there and we all like sat there, the whole entire family, like everybody was there and we all sat there and played pool in different games together. I would say that one Dante, What about me? Two Christmas memories? One when my grandmother got me this football. It was like NFL regulation football. She got it for me. I had that football, I mean probably from the time I was eight until I went to college. And then the other one was one. Time we was just down that like my mom wasn't working at the post office anymore, so she she was trying to go back to school and figure some stuff out, and we h it was like just not gonna be a you know, not gonna be a Christmas this year really, and a friend of hers had came over and brought a whole bunch of gifts and stuff like that. And now, you know, I was still pretty young, so I was like I was under ten for sure, so you don't you understand, like, you know, I understand what being for is, but it still sucks. Right, Yeah, that was one time. Where her friend came over and uh, I was just like like they just really blessed us. And I don't remember like what the gifts were and stuff, but it was still just nice to be able to open up stuff, and I just thought that was so dope, and I'll, like, I'll never forget it, but it was a but I won't. I don't remember any of like any of the gifts or if I even kept them or played with the toys or anything like that. But it was just like one of those things where I. Knew we were, you know, we were struggling right because my mom wasn't working at the post office no more. She had picked up a part time job somewhere while she was in school trying to trying to, you know, like I said, figure things out, and she ultimately did. But it was just like that year was gonna be tough, and it wasn't, you know, like it was. I don't know, it just felt like, man, it just got blessed. And I'll never ever forget that one out. Like I said, I was younger than ten, that was before ten, So yeah, that was a special Christmas moment. So it's funny mine is actually a little similar in this regard, like, and it was I don't even remember what year it was. It was a while back, or I don't remember how old I was or anything, but it was one of them years. It was one of them hard years when we were broke, Yeah, like really really broke, and I wasn't expecting anything from my mother, you know what I'm saying, because I know we broke, and you know this, you get to a certain point in time in your life where you understand the situation right right, like you get it it, like you said, it may still suck, but you get it. You understand. So I wasn't expecting anything from my mother. And my mother it was Christmas time and my mother found a way to get me like this nice scarf because as y'all know, you know, I'm bougetto so I kind of liked that kind of bougie type of stuff sometimes. And it was like it was such a. It was a small gift, but the but the sentiment meant more than anything because I knew she didn't I'm like, I was. Like, how did you even get the money to buy this, you know what I mean? Because I knew we were broke, and I was not. Expecting anything from her, you know what I mean. And the fact that my mother did that because she was and she told me, she was like I wanted to give you something you know, you don't forget stuff like that, right, definitely, you know what I mean? And it's. This Christmas is interesting. Obviously it's the first one without my dad, and you know a lot of people have been telling me. You know, I know this is going to be hard for you, but but you know what's interesting is like my dad was never really a big holiday person. You know what I mean, there was like you know how. That's why I just said, of course not. Real quick before I continue or to explain to people who may not know, why did you say of course not? I mean he. I don't want to do that. I mean he was an older black man like he just like, you know, Christmas is and nothing. You know, Christmas is cool. You know that's the kids, right, ain't for no probably like when he is in this fit, I'm fifty five years old. Christmas, you know what I'm saying, Like Christmas is for you know, they had a you know, Christmas is for kids, like, yeah, you may get your lady something. You better get your lady. Something right, right if you want to keep her here. Right, you better get your lady some uh, you know. But mainly, you know, Christmas and you're supposed to spoil them. Christmas ain't for like, no, you know, thirty five, forty five fifty five year old man getting spoiled on christ You know, it's like that we I expect like you take care of me on my birthday, right, you know what I'm saying. Or you know, Christmas, Valentine's Day, you know the holiday that ain't for us, right, right, that's how I'm sure if I look at it like that, I'm sure you know, older gentleman, you know, forty fifty sixty years my senior, would would think that have even more a staunch tape, you know, absolutely. You know you know how older black man Aard So he wasn't really a big a holiday person like he was. His thing was more like Memorial Day or fourth of July because he was grilling. Because something with some food where we cook it. Like you know how I realized my favorite, like I love Christmas. Christmas is wonderful. I mean as a Christian, as a Christian, it's you know, it's the birth of our Lord and Savior, right, that's what's greting. So for those of you that really want to get technical, you don't. I'm not saying that's when Christ was actually born. But that's when we celebrating. We celebrated, right, But like you know. My favorite holidays Thanksgiving. If you listen to the show, you understand why football and great food done and surrounded by family done. Then the other one is fourth and fourth of July Memorial Day because we kicking it off, it's the summertime. Everybody having a good time. Oh yeah, and put them. Ribs on that grid and the grill all rights on that grill. And now that I'm older and like the grill myself, like, let me get on that grill, man, exactly. So yeah, it's funny too. Side note, it's funny too, Like we all, like most of us men, get to a certain age where we're like if we if we weren't grilling from the beginning, we get to a certain age where we're like, you know what, I want to start grilling. Oh yeah, hey, you better get on you better learn how to get on that grill. You know what. And it's it's again one of the many unfortunate things about my father's pass And I've been asking him to teach me, but you know, my father, he ain't got the time or the patience to teach nobody nothing right, But I was asking about the time, like, man, because I'm because I'm at that age right where I'm like, you know, I'm about to be forty in a couple of years. Grilling is kind of like the right of passage for a forty. Yeah, for sure, man, you better hop on YouTube, right, Yeah, but that's exactly what's going to happen. Now. We gonna have us a little cookout in the summer, and y'all gonna go ahead and do that together, and. We're gonna and then we're gonna give Robin another cigar and try this again. Better nasty. But I just want to throw out the real Quick definitely has that unk status. You know. You know how he said he reached that age right, so he he just like he's just confirmed it. Oh with the grilling, Well look, you know, well I love getting on that. You're gonna have those those brown strappy sandals. No, no, I'm the you know, but I'm still gonna get on that grill. I'm gonna have my shirt open like we Oh yeah, I'm not smoking. I'm not I'm not drinking for the most part, but I'm most probably not drinking. But I've definitely got a cigar in my mouth and we oh yeah, oh yeah, and then we're gonna pull out the cars later on that, you know. Man. So nothing like the fourth of July Memorial. Day, right, So that was like my das thing. Like other than that, like he wasn't really a big holiday person. So it so the holiday doesn't really hit me as hard. Like obviously it hits me because he's not here, right, But what really hits me harder with him is like I would talk to my and y'all know this, y'all know my relationship with my father. I would talk to him like almost every day, you know what I mean. If I didn't see him, if I wasn't with him, I was on the phone with him, you know what I mean, Like especially like during Like the hardest thing for me wasn't even Christmas. And I love Christmas. Christmas is my favorite. I just I love not only as a Christian but also just the I just love. I just love Christmas. I'm a Christmas guy. But my hardest thing, like with my dad, has been football season because when the Browns started losing, we would pick we would pick up the phone and call each other and cut the browns out together, you know what I mean. That was our That was our favorite pastime. My father would call and be like, look at these sorry m mephis like. You know what I'm saying. So that like so that was the thing for me. It's like the like the everyday interaction, you know what I mean, not necessarily the because he wasn't a big He wasn't a big Christmas person, even though like he was one of those guys and y'all know him. He was one of those guys where he was. He had that tough exterior, but he but you go to his house. He had this big ass Christmas tree in his house right with all the lights. In the whole the whole nine, you know what I mean. Not see me, I ain't because I don't want to take it down. So Christmas tree probably won't be in my house until I have kids because then they can take it down. My father stopped taking it down like he would leave the last like before you got sick. Man, he left this Christmas tree up all year. He was like, I ain't taking this s down. And I'll see That's the thing about like decorations. I love Christmas decorations, but I'm like you, Dante, I don't want to take them down, like the effort to have to take them down. It's a lot of work. You got you got decorations up rather huh, you got decorations up? Oh I definitely do. Oh yeah, oh yeah. I done did my hallway ceiling. I done did the living room wall, all over the wall, the whole tree. Listen. I went to my brother's house. I went and bought some lights, and I went to. My brother's house. We all did Christmas cookies together, you know, And I went over there. I said, Jay, I'm about to put some lights. Up on your ceiling. Okay, y'all just got to hang ornaments up there. Then I riggid his tree. But the other things though, like Dante said, you got kids, so you can put them to work. No, no, no, no, no, no, I don't want them in my way. Oh you wanted them moms? You one of them, moms, Get out the way. No. Hey, the kids got to do a gingerbread house, and you doing the work for it because they ain't. Doing No, no, I will not. Gingerbread houses are not allowed in my house. Really, yes, because they're stupid. Every time the battle against the gingerbread house and I loose No. Oh Dante, she must mean she's not good at. Right, So we don't know. I've never done a gingerbread house. Have you ever done a ginger bread house? Does it? No that I remember? And y'all clown to me. Oh, y'all doing one? Mm hmm, that's gonna be terrible. So why was it so bad? Like? What what was so bad about it? Because when you put the icing on the edges. Maybe it's just me and I ain't got patience. I don't know, but like when you put the icing on and you try to get the roof to stick together, the two little roof pieces, and you you stick it onto the wall and you try to get to all stay and the next thing, you know, it just falls apart, like five thousand times, so just it's pointless. So next and the next thing, you know, the whole thing ends up drying out, because like it's a gingerbread house. So you're buying it and you're literally just making it well, attempting to make it for it to dry out. It's stupid. So my next question, and Robin, I'll just I'll stay with you first. So like we know for Thanksgiving, like you know what the what the dinner situation is. We all kind of know, like the typical Thanksgiving food is there typical Christmas food, like food that you normally eat on Christmas? On Christmas, oh usually because it really varies, like because I actually end up going to different to like two different households, but at my families, with my family, it's usually kind of similar, like Thanksgiving and Christmas. I think, so, like it's turkey or if they want to eat ham, they'll eat ham. I don't do ham. But there's the the sweet potatoes, there's the greens. You know, the the mac and cheese, et cetera, et cetera. You know, it's all I think, probably the same things. Yeah, so I'm just I'm just curious who making y'all greens. Actually, my sister she always makes them really and sad for me. I don't eat them because it's made with pork. So yeah, I don't get to eat her greens. But I love greens. I know it breaks my heart every time. I love every time, absolutely love greens. Man, Like. If it wasn't gonna keep you in the bathroom, I'd. Eat greens every day, Like I love I. Absolutely love greens. Dat say, is there a Christmas. Food or like different than Thanksgiving or is it kind of like the same thing. I think it's pretty much like the same. I'm not really a big turkey person, so I don't really eat that for Thanksgiving either, unless it's uh, unless it's. Like fried turk, like the fried turkey. I haven't. I don't really think there's like a we eat this on Christmas. I don't really. The only thing that I can associate with it Robin mentioned it, and I do eat it as like pam, like glazedam, like that's that's something that normally gets done on Christmas, and sometimes you Thanksgiving and sometimes you don't. It depends on where you at. Well, you know what the kid's grandmother made, so they're not. She actually has been more so actually making homemade like homemade chicken, noodle, soup, chili, things like that. Like she likes to switch it up instead of it just being the basic, you know, the basic foods that everybody ends up making. And honestly, it's it's it's nice to have a little switch up in between. Like I said, I go to different households. For so if they didn't switch up you'd be eating the same thing. Yeah, yeah, so a little switch up, you know. Okay, cool this this balance, Well. That brings me another question down there. Are you a traditionalist like the Thanksgiving and Christmas or would you like a switch up like robbing. With Oh no, we me and my mom do what we want to do on Thanksgiving. We uh, we like we we eat what we want. So like she do macaroni and cheese for sure, because because it's good, right, she'll make greens. But like, we don't do turkey. Like I said, I've only eaten turkey like four times on Thanksgiving. That's because it was. And that's because it was the you know, like the deep fried turkey for Thanksgiving. Y'all gonna laugh at this. We do we do ribs. Oh really, I've known some people to do rising. We do ribs because it's like that's what I mean, that's what we like. It wouldn't make no sense to get no eighteen pound turkey when don't nobody you know, nobody that's gonna come over eat turkey, right, you know what I'm saying, Like we we buy that to wasted. Everybody will get these slaps ribs. You know, that's the second time he done said this. To get any time out to get some ribs. So no, I'm definite. I'm not a traditionalist when it comes to any of that. Any Like, I'll eat I'll eat turkey, but it got to be made right because you know, sometimes turkey is dry. That's why the only time I've ever had a good turkey was when it was deeper. I've never had a turkey that was in the oven that was good. I actually just had some like that and it was actually really good. Really, I don't even eat it anymore. Somebody. If I find out you put the turkey in the oven, I'm cool. I take everything else because it'll be like sometimes like it's just it's so dry, not really super it's not Take. Some brisket, yeah, yeah, I eat brisket. You eat brisket. Yeah, but that's I mean, what is brisket? That's beef? Right? Yeah. They don't have brisket for Thanksgiving? Yeah, I did it. I mean that this year, last year, last year. Yeah, brisket. Yeah. I'm not outside of like turkey. If it's if it's me, I'm generally not gonna say no. Pause. But like I you know, for the most part. It ain't no type of like, no type of meat that I'm gonna be like. Nah, I'm good. I'll at least try it. Of course, if I could be man, I have you know, I'm a carnival. It wouldn't give me. I wouldn't even eat no vegetables. Man, all right, stay tuned when we come back. We're going to wrap up twenty twenty four. You're listening to the albums. True Sir, pray up, Welcome back, Welcome back. Make sure that you subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart, or wherever you get your podcasts. And if you listen to the show on Apple, please make sure you leave us a five star review and a comment. Is very important for the algorithm and for those of you that have already done so, thank you, oh so very much. So. As we get ready to close twenty twenty four, this is the last new episode of the year. We will have some couple other episodes that are already in the can that drop, closing out twenty twenty four and going into twenty twenty five, but this is the last new episode with the three of us for twenty twenty four. There's two questions and I'm going to ask to close it out and ask my compadres here. First of all, Dante, what do you think the biggest story. Of twenty twenty four was? Oh? Boy, Well, we had an election. We had a presidential election in twenty twenty four and that guy won. Me. That to me, that is the biggest story. You know he won. That. To me, that's the biggest story. If I had this. That's probably the biggest national story. Does anything come close to a presidential election? I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I wanna say that. I actually think I think there is something, maybe not as big, but probably has been big, probably the p Diddy story. Yeah, yeah, I. Can see that, because it's still ongoing. I can see that. And by the way, we're not gonna we're not going to turn this segment into a talk into a conversation about that. But I just want to add this to. Those of you who are listening as you see some of the new developments, not regarding Diddy specifically, but regarding allegations that we're dragging other people in it. This is why I say keep your mouth shut and let the facts play out. Because that most recent lawsuit is completely and totally falling apart. But yes, that is a I do agree with you, Robin, that is a a good candidate for a top story of twenty twenty four. But I have to. Agree with Dante. I think Trump's comeback is first of all, it was. If you really look at worth what. He had to do to get back in office and all the things that has happened, I don't think that you can ever I don't think you'll ever see a run like this ever again. When are you ever going to see a candidate who was president, lost the office under controversial circumstances, then was involved in a speech that turned into a riot with his supporters, then was indicted on a bunch of charges, then ran for president, then. Was shot, then someone tried to kill him. Again, and then he becomes president. Like there were so many things that would be like back in the day, would dominate news cycles for months, that would just that was just like two day things and went away like I don't think I don't know if we'll ever see anything like that again, Like data, do you think that we will ever see anything like what we just saw? No, The campaign leading into the election was, I mean historic for all the reasons your name. Yeah, this was to me that I was trying to think as it was like, yeah, no, I don't even really think we got anything close like he you know, first of all, I mean on both sides too, Like Biden has to drop out, right, Biden does those for three years. I'm a transitional candidate. I'm not running again. Come on, look, man, I'm an old man. I just ran to save the soul of America. I'm not. And then as we get closer, it's like, nah, I'm actually I actually like being president. My wife likes being first Lady. So I'm gonna I'm gonna. Run again, even though every single data point in every single poll shows that he would have lost way worse than she lost. So he decides he's not like, he's not stepping down. They basically rig their primary so that nobody can beat him or really run against him. But then his numbers are so bad that they have to knife him. They gotta knife him, don't forget. And insert is vice president, who he seems. To actively sabotage as she's running her campaign. On the other side, Trump cruises to. Win their primary and gets shot in the process. There was another assassination attempt in Florida that doesn't really get a lot of hype, but that one was actually pretty close to it just be on TV, but that guy actually got like kind of close with a rifle. Fortunately they found him. But yeah, I mean the first one was just on TV, and that could have been really bad because like we're maybe like less than six inches away from Trump getting his head blown off on national TV, which, like, no. Matter where you stand, that would have been really bad, traumatic, absolutely bad for the country. If like someone who got eighty one million who was president then got eighty one million votes, then got what seventy five million votes? If that, I mean, if he gets his head blown as like. And disarrange the country has been, that would al lunged it into madness, and then he goes on to win. They have a debate. I mean, I don't think anything was bigger man that the whole lead up to the election, that that whole cycle was kind of wild. Yeah, yeah, no, I have to agree with you. I don't think we've ever seen anything like that, and I don't know we'll see anything. Like that again. So last question, Trump can't run again. That's why you know, whether people like him. And you know what, I think that the cable low networks, even though they bash him, they love him because when Trump is in office or when Trump is relevant, the circus is in town. Some people like the circus and some people don't like the circus. But you know, everybody is still gonna watch. That's I think. You know, he's if you are in the TV business, he's great for your business, right. He's gonna bring your ratings, no doubt, no doubt about it. Robin, what are you looking forward to the most. In twenty twenty five. On my comeback? Oh? Yeah, definitely, I think that. I think, no, No, I know. So for me personally, over the course of the last few years, I have taken the time to work out myself and then this year I actually more so educated myself on things more and taking the steps to get to where I know, like things that I need to know that I did not know. So twenty twenty five it's gonna be a big one. It's gonna be a big one for sure. For all of us. Dante, that's a good question. What am I looking forward to the most in twenty twenty five? Huh, I don't know. Continued growth though, Man, my favorite thing that I did this year was I learned how to swim. So I'm looking forward to like trying to figure out a new challenge to tackle it. But that was my favorite thing about twenty twenty four. Well, yeah, looking forward. To You gonna be one of those breaking stereotypes negros. Oh yeah, oh yeah. You got to get over that fear of the water. And once you do, I'm mad. Dante tell us that you waited to the. End of the year. I didn't finish to the end of the year. Crazy, You ain't tell us at the end. Of the year, only like a few people knew. But yeah, I mean I decided. I was like, man, I'm about to take a turn of that because I've never I've never been comfortable about bodies of water. You're really comfortable in near swimming pools, like I've never. I never knew how to swim. So I was like, man, I gotta feel first. You got to conquer that fear of water. Then too, it's like, man, why don't I know how to swim? Like I want to know how to swim. So I figured it out, like figuring it out. But do you think, uh, like is that was that just like a conquering thing or do you are you going to be like a water baby now? Uh? Well, primarily just to conquer stuff and uh, to accomplish stuff. I think people feel better about themselves when they accomplished when they accomplished goals. Especially for things that were hard. Like in the beginning, it was hard, man, because I you know, I was scared to try and lay back on my back and float. I was scared to push through that because, like, you know, I don't want to drown my swimming and strugg is like, buddy, I've been teaching swimming for forty years. I'm not going to let you drown. I'm like, I don't know. So, like you got to initially conquer your fear of water, and then you got to learn how to swim, right, it's kind of two fold if you ain't never really been in the water, which again I can tell you before this, like before this, I had maybe been in a swimming pool maybe like three times. My whole life. I turned thirty this year, so like you know, I was not and that three times is like being generous. One time I got baptized when I was a little kid. Other than that, I think I maybe got in a swimming pool, like on a vacation or something like. I've never really been in a swimming pool before, so you. Got a first concrete of fear of water, and then you got to learn how to swim. So I don't think I'll be a water baby, but I will hit the swimming pool for like exercise and stuff like that for sure. Yeah. Yeah, like I've been well. First of all, did you learn in a pool or did you learn in the lake? No? I learned in a pool. Ain't in that lake. I don't get bro, I'm not getting no body of water that has animals. That are bigger than me swim better than me. No, no chance. When I go on vacation, I'm not getting in the ocean. I'm not getting in that lake. No. If it's an animal in that water that's bigger than me and can swim better than me, I'm not getting in. Guess what, I can't see him coming right, darks man eaters in the lake. But no, I don't know what's out. There right, something out there right, something bigger than me out there? I mean nah right, So for me, I think pretty much like everybody was saying, man growth I'm really excited and really looking forward to. What twenty twenty five holes. I kind of need a reset because twenty twenty four, twenty twenty four was such a weird mix for me, because it's like there were professional highs and personal lows all mixed in at the same time. Where you know, the beginning. Of the year, it was the first time I was published in Newsweek, the physical magazine, and also at the beginning of the year, Cleveland Magazine named me one of Cleveland's most interesting people, and all those sorts of things, things. That were really really good. And then you know, I think by like March, March or April, my mother had got sick and she was sick for a month, basically off and on for a month, and then by the time she got better, my father got sick. And you know, we all know what eventually happened there. So you know, twenty twenty. Four was was a mixed bag for me. So I'm looking forward to the reset. I'm looking forward to what's next for our show. We've been and seeing by the way, we appreciate everybody who's been subscribing to our YouTube channel. By the way, the numbers are really growing significantly, very quickly, and that's going to be a place that hosts, you know, a lot of our biggest interviews. And that's another thing too, like when and I've told you guys just off the air, when you know, I was working on our YouTube channel and just going through our archives and you know, looking at all of the people that we've been able to talk to, all of the big important voices that have you know, taken the time to be on this platform. As we saw also on our new website, there's a section says in the News, and it categorizes all of the different times that this show has been mentioned in the news. Another professional high this year was Robin went viral from this show from some something that was said on this show. So those things are obviously very encouraging. I'm looking forward to seeing what's next and just moving forward and continued growth. So that is what I am looking forward to. And as we close this out, miss O'Malley let him know how to follow you. You can follow me on Instagram at Real Robin O'Malley, and you can follow me on Facebook at Robin O'Malley. Gote follow me on Instagram and Twitter at Tate Brian t A E b R y E. And you can follow me at D D Kingpinn everywhere that's D T h E k I N G p I N. Just to remind you one more time, there will be some new episodes coming out after this. We have a couple of interviews in the can that you're that you're definitely gonna be checking out. But as far as this year goes, this. Is the last episode of twenty twenty four from the Three of Us. So for. My esteemed co hosts Dante Briant, Robin O'Malley, Darrie Kikin, Marl saying we will see you in twenty twenty five. Peace. This has been a presentation of the FCB podcast Network where Real Talk lives. Visit us online at fcbpodcasts dot com.
