Episode 232

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23rd Nov 2024

Politics Through a Teen's Eyes: Cole King's Perspective

This episode features a dynamic conversation with Cole and Lori King, who share their unique perspectives on politics, youth engagement, and the recent election outcomes. At just 14 years old, Cole has made waves on social media with his insightful political predictions, drawing attention for his ability to analyze data and trends effectively. Lori discusses the challenges and rewards of supporting her son’s political interests while navigating the often harsh landscape of online commentary. The episode also delves into the importance of informing younger generations about political processes, such as gerrymandering, and how these issues directly impact their lives. With a blend of humor and heartfelt anecdotes, the Kings emphasize the significance of civic engagement and the need for open dialogues across political divides.

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Zach King:

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Barrick Gruber:

Listener discretion is advised.

Barrick Gruber:

Welcome, nothingers, to another episode of the All About Nothing podcast.

Barrick Gruber:

This is episode number 232.

Barrick Gruber:

I am Barrick Gruber.

Zach King:

I'm Zach King.

Barrick Gruber:

Welcome, Zach.

Barrick Gruber:

Hope you're having a good week.

Barrick Gruber:

Real quick.

Barrick Gruber:

Want to thank Winnie Tata last week for being on the show with us.

Barrick Gruber:

I had a really good time, Zach.

Barrick Gruber:

I hope you did.

Zach King:

I did.

Zach King:

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Zach King:

We had a great time.

Barrick Gruber:

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All right, we're going to get to this episode.

Barrick Gruber:

You obviously see if you're watching us on YouTube, two very special guests.

Barrick Gruber:

We are introducing you and we are thrilled to introduce Cole and his mother, Lori King of Missouri near St.

Barrick Gruber:

Louis.

Barrick Gruber:

So we'll hold the.

Barrick Gruber:

We'll hold the applause on that because St.

Barrick Gruber:

Louis does house.

Barrick Gruber:

Well, I guess the Cardinals are still in St.

Barrick Gruber:

Louis, right?

Cole King:

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

Yes.

Barrick Gruber:

St.

Barrick Gruber:

Louis.

Barrick Gruber:

It's not the St.

Barrick Gruber:

Louis Rams anymore.

Lori King:

Nope, that's our subject.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah, I'm sure it is.

Cole King:

If you were to say you're a Rams fan around here, there'd probably be some pretty.

Cole King:

A lot of violence.

Barrick Gruber:

So I want to introduce you guys because I was introduced to Cole by having to scroll across TikTok and what I when I came across Cole, he was doing predictions for the election and really got my hopes up because a lot of what you were saying on TikTok, Cole was the same Things I was saying, I was telling Zach for months, I said the amount of support, even for Biden, the amount of support that Harris was getting financially, the fact that we were seeing these huge rallies, we had so many people out with signs.

Barrick Gruber:

Like, even here in South Carolina, we had a large increase in the number of participants that were doing canvassing for Harris, that were doing canvassing for down ballot candidates.

Barrick Gruber:

Like, it was exciting to see it.

Barrick Gruber:

ad not seen it since Obama in:

Barrick Gruber:

So Cole, in case you're wondering, because Cole is 13 years old.

Barrick Gruber:

Obama was a 14.

Barrick Gruber:

Oh, you're 14 now.

Barrick Gruber:

Well, congratulations.

Barrick Gruber:

president that was elected in:

Barrick Gruber:

And for a lot of people that are that much younger than me, I have to describe that there was a time when we had double zeros in the.

Barrick Gruber:

In the numbers as president who could speak.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Lori King:

And boy, could he speak.

Barrick Gruber:

That's right.

Zach King:

Oh, yeah, he.

Lori King:

I've told him lots of stories about those days.

Lori King:

And I said her campaign felt like Obama in 08.

Lori King:

I was so energized.

Lori King:

I still have my yard sign from Obama.

Lori King:

I gave it to Cole.

Zach King:

Oh, really?

Zach King:

No, that's awesome.

Lori King:

That you put down.

Cole King:

I think it's still down over here.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

I have the newspaper articles that were done when Obama won the presidency, so when he became president elect, and I have the news articles from his inauguration and, like, the pictures, which are obviously very easy to compare the inaugurations of Trump and Obama.

Barrick Gruber:

But, you know, like, it was.

Barrick Gruber:

It was just very exciting.

Barrick Gruber:

It was.

Zach King:

I have memories of getting yelled at when I told my family that I voted for Obama.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Lori King:

Oh, yeah.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Lori King:

I think there's a few people that have those memories, but.

Lori King:

Oh, gosh.

Lori King:

I just.

Lori King:

I really felt like this.

Lori King:

Felt.

Lori King:

The vibe felt very similar to that, and I had missed that because that was exciting.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah, we did.

Barrick Gruber:

We'll get this out of the way first because ultimately, this is probably the most sourced subject of what we'll get into.

Barrick Gruber:

You all did a shout out for us on TikTok because the Missouri Tigers lost to the Gamecocks this weekend.

Barrick Gruber:

Cole, do you have anything you want to say in.

Barrick Gruber:

In respect to what was.

Barrick Gruber:

And I said this.

Barrick Gruber:

I told Laurie earlier, this was one of the.

Barrick Gruber:

This was one of the best games I've watched in several years.

Zach King:

It was a very good game, to be honest.

Cole King:

I didn't watch.

Lori King:

He went downstairs.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Cole King:

Yeah.

Cole King:

But then I saw that they.

Cole King:

I heard.

Cole King:

I remember seeing the clip at the end of the second quarter where Brady Cook, like, bump bobbled the ball out.

Cole King:

And then they did very.

Cole King:

I believe they did very well in like the third, fourth quarter, obviously, kind of.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

I think, I think between the two teams, I think Lenore Sellers and Brady Cook both have futures in the NFL.

Barrick Gruber:

I think they're, they are both bound to be tall yet.

Zach King:

I remember Drew Lockett.

Zach King:

I just kept going, drew Locke should be in the NFL.

Zach King:

That dude was amazing, too.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Zach King:

It just ended up.

Zach King:

We, we had enough time on the clock because there were some things Eli Dorkowitz could have done, but he didn't.

Zach King:

And I'm very glad he didn't.

Zach King:

So it took a 15 yard run from a grown man to make it happen.

Zach King:

And I was very, very happy because it's been five years.

Zach King:

I don't like losing to any Tigers, much less for five years, which we had to do with Clemson as well.

Barrick Gruber:

So there's a lot of Tigers in the, in the Southeast.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Zach King:

And I don't like any of them.

Zach King:

Auburn, Clemson, Missouri.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Lori King:

He know.

Lori King:

He knew it went south when he heard his dad yelling.

Zach King:

Yeah.

Lori King:

And I knew that too.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Zach King:

I feel for him.

Zach King:

But it was, it was just we were due next year is going to be.

Zach King:

It's never a simple game between South Carolina, Missouri.

Zach King:

No,:

Zach King:

I think that game went till midnight.

Zach King:

It was three overtimes, four overtimes.

Zach King:

That was.

Zach King:

Yeah, it's never easy.

Zach King:

They came in here and they're like, let's battle over Columbia.

Zach King:

I'm like, let's not.

Zach King:

I don't.

Barrick Gruber:

Well, if you notice, Zach invited a friend over his shoulder to join us on the podcast.

Zach King:

Well, he's always here for one, but he's usually further back.

Lori King:

So you, you scooted him up.

Zach King:

And also I am blocking the armada of diapers that I've have for our twins.

Zach King:

My office is getting taken over, so I'll get closer and closer to the screen as these episodes progress.

Zach King:

Yeah, I'm running out of room.

Lori King:

You're going to need those soon, so.

Barrick Gruber:

Well, like I said, so, you know, finding, finding you publishing videos with Cole, doing the prognostication of the election, you know, it was, I was immediately drawn to it because my children at 10 aren't remotely interested in politics and they have to hear me bicker with my father in law over things.

Barrick Gruber:

But for, for you, Cole, what was the, what was the thing that actually like, what was it that sparked your interest in.

Barrick Gruber:

In the politics?

Cole King:

So like when I was like five, I learned all the presidents and then so she did like.

Cole King:

I was pretty invested in that and I knew like, the facts about them, like their birth dates and their death dates.

Cole King:

And then I kind of got invested kind of more into the election side when she kind of did volunteer work around in our community.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

What sort of volunteer work were you doing, Laurie?

Lori King:

So I sat on the Democratic Central Committee for my township in Arnold, and then I revived.

Lori King:

Like, we live in the northern part of our county, so I helped revive the club for up here.

Lori King:

And then I volunteered on several campaigns.

Lori King:

And in Missouri that ends very painfully usually.

Lori King:

And so I, before this election, I really, I had resigned from my seat.

Lori King:

My mom has Parkinson's, so I moved her up closer to me.

Lori King:

And so I had resigned from my seat and kind of backed off a little bit.

Lori King:

And I'm actually glad that I had backed off a little bit because what just happened was a lot for me emotionally.

Lori King:

And I'm like, I'm glad I wasn't dealing with that on a local level.

Lori King:

I mean, I was invested as much as I could be.

Lori King:

I was donating and supporting candidates here, but I wasn't actually out there volunteering, working events.

Lori King:

And I did that for after 16.

Lori King:

I did a lot and I enjoyed it, but it also was not always easy.

Lori King:

So.

Cole King:

Yeah, it's been, it's good too, because you meet a lot of new people too.

Lori King:

Yeah, he enjoyed it because he got to meet people and then, you know him, he's so data driven.

Lori King:

So he would start looking at things and then say things at meetings and they're like, wow, this information could be really valuable to campaigns, you know, so.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah, well, and I look at it this way, like, Cole is.

Barrick Gruber:

You're actively trying to be a part of something that you can't even really participate in yet because the voting age is 18.

Barrick Gruber:

But like, I have an.

Barrick Gruber:

I have a 19 year old stepson who has zero interest in it.

Barrick Gruber:

And I, you know, like, I even.

Barrick Gruber:

I wanted to force him.

Barrick Gruber:

I really wanted to force him to go vote.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

But, you know, it's one of those things.

Barrick Gruber:

It's like with the people that didn't turn out to vote in this election, it's.

Barrick Gruber:

How do you communicate the importance of it?

Cole King:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

From your perspective, Cole.

Barrick Gruber:

Like.

Barrick Gruber:

Like, what is something that you would try to tell someone who is recently come of age that may not have.

Barrick Gruber:

Like, what is it about it that inspires you to say, this is something that I want to be a part of?

Barrick Gruber:

This is why you should want to be a part of it.

Cole King:

I think more people should definitely be a part of it because this is what affects Your daily lives.

Cole King:

I mean, like what you were talking about with your mom with Social Security.

Cole King:

That's like a part of politics.

Cole King:

Like, it all comes to politics.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

No, you're not.

Barrick Gruber:

You're not.

Barrick Gruber:

You're not wrong at all.

Zach King:

But let me answer this real quick.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Lori King:

People just don't realize it.

Lori King:

People just don't realize it.

Lori King:

So we have to do a better job of getting people to actually think it's worth it to come out and vote.

Cole King:

Yeah.

Zach King:

You know, I think being data driven is very important.

Zach King:

And Barrett and I work in data driven.

Zach King:

You know, fields.

Zach King:

Data doesn't usually live.

Zach King:

It's true data.

Zach King:

a kind of election, just like:

Zach King:

Not adhering to the data.

Zach King:

What would you say to somebody who ignores data and chooses to go with gut feeling?

Cole King:

You can do that, but, I mean, you're more probably likely to be wrong.

Cole King:

I mean, for example, like, in some of the predictions, some people had Kansas, like, safe red.

Cole King:

I'd likely red because it had been trending towards the Democrats.

Cole King:

They've been closely shrinking the margin in that state because of kind of the Kansas City suburbs and like Wichita and that area.

Barrick Gruber:

That's.

Barrick Gruber:

And then a lot of that has to do with the fact that the populations in these.

Barrick Gruber:

In these cities are growing.

Barrick Gruber:

And typically when you have population growth, you generally.

Barrick Gruber:

That's people coming from outside.

Barrick Gruber:

And those populations tend to lean a little bit more progressive or liberal because we're smart enough to move into places, then take advantage of the new taxes and lower taxes and things like that.

Barrick Gruber:

I'm not saying smarter.

Barrick Gruber:

I am sorry.

Barrick Gruber:

That's not what I meant.

Barrick Gruber:

What I meant was smart enough recognizing the impact.

Barrick Gruber:

Look, in:

Lori King:

Right.

Barrick Gruber:

It's.

Barrick Gruber:

You know, it.

Barrick Gruber:

And, and, and I've tried to.

Barrick Gruber:

I've tried to build a little progressive network that, that expands out slowly.

Barrick Gruber:

But, you know, we're.

Barrick Gruber:

We're trying.

Zach King:

It expands out.

Zach King:

It just expands from like Rock Hill to Greenwood to like, it.

Lori King:

Is it a small.

Zach King:

It's like the seeds are planted in really far Lexington County.

Barrick Gruber:

We have a friend that hosts a podcast with.

Barrick Gruber:

So a friend of ours named Bill Kimler who hosts a podcast with another candidate named Dr.

Barrick Gruber:

Jamil Brooks.

Barrick Gruber:

They host a podcast called Black, White and Blue in the South.

Barrick Gruber:

And the way they open Their show is a little blue dot in a big red state, or I probably got that wrong.

Barrick Gruber:

But that's paraphrasing.

Barrick Gruber:

That's the idea.

Barrick Gruber:

And we do have.

Barrick Gruber:

We do have small areas that are usually centered closer to some of the towns and things like that.

Barrick Gruber:

You will find more people willing to be progressive.

Barrick Gruber:

You know, I want to go back real quick.

Barrick Gruber:

Cole, do you still know all of the presidents?

Cole King:

Oh, yeah, I do.

Lori King:

Just hit him with a random number.

Barrick Gruber:

Okay.

Barrick Gruber:

Number.

Barrick Gruber:

Number seven.

Cole King:

Andrew Jackson.

Barrick Gruber:

Holy cow.

Barrick Gruber:

Okay, number 32.

Zach King:

That's what I was gonna say.

Cole King:

FDR.

Barrick Gruber:

That is amazing.

Barrick Gruber:

We've had.

Barrick Gruber:

We've had what?

Zach King:

All right, hold on.

Zach King:

Let me get.

Zach King:

Let me get 1 in 11.

Cole King:

James K.

Cole King:

Polk.

Lori King:

Once he has the information, it doesn't go away.

Barrick Gruber:

All right, President.

Barrick Gruber:

The.

Barrick Gruber:

The.

Barrick Gruber:

I want to say the 23rd president's date of death.

Cole King:

I don't know the.

Barrick Gruber:

Okay, okay.

Lori King:

He doesn't know those anymore.

Lori King:

He did, he did.

Lori King:

He was about 5 or 6, and he came to me one day and he was drawing pieces of paper and I'm like, what's that?

Lori King:

He's like, birthday date.

Lori King:

I was like, oh, I think that's.

Barrick Gruber:

Amazing because, look, one of the things that I am beginning to recognize just in daily conversations with, not necessarily people I work with, because I don't want them to think I'm judging them, but silently, they can't identify some of the countries that are either in, you know, Central America versus South America or what.

Zach King:

A continent versus a country.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah, yeah.

Lori King:

And he can.

Lori King:

I mean, he, he's very much like that with geography.

Lori King:

Like, he can show you a map or a globe and tell you where, country, what he can tell me about countries I've never heard of, you know, and so, but that kind of goes back to the thing, you know, the suppression of teaching history that we're seeing.

Lori King:

So a lot of times when he's talking about present day politics and stuff that's going on, he can correlate it to stuff that happened in history because he has so much knowledge about previous administrations.

Lori King:

Yeah, you don't see that a lot either, but it is pertinent, like.

Lori King:

Yeah, you know, he can say, hey, this happened before.

Lori King:

Like, he told me the other day there was another president.

Cole King:

Yeah.

Cole King:

Trump is the second president to have served non consecutive terms.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah, yeah.

Zach King:

Right.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

Who, who, who was the first president?

Cole King:

Grover Cleveland.

Barrick Gruber:

Cleveland.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah, it was Cleveland.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

And I also, I think, was it last week, Zach, that I mentioned the fact that.

Barrick Gruber:

e this just happened to be in:

Barrick Gruber:

There was a huge drop off in the number of people that turned out to vote, and that is what eventually led to Hitler becoming chancellor.

Barrick Gruber:

So it's, you know, it's weird.

Barrick Gruber:

It's those sorts of things that in history tend to kind of repeat themselves.

Cole King:

Yeah.

Lori King:

And not.

Barrick Gruber:

You're good.

Lori King:

Well, not to get stuck on the data, but going back to the data, and we were talking about the importance of going off data and feelings.

Lori King:

That was the tough one about this particular election, because what we saw play out did not match the data.

Lori King:

Like, you know, obviously it was horrible because he thought she was going to win, I thought she was going to win.

Lori King:

But.

Lori King:

And we had so many, you know, we went viral.

Lori King:

We had so many people saying, oh, you know, he's, he's biased or he's brainwashed.

Lori King:

And I'm sure, no, he's using data.

Lori King:

But what happened, it didn't match the data.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah, a lot of those.

Zach King:

There's a lot of caveats and things like that that happened because people didn't turn out as we expected.

Lori King:

Yes.

Zach King:

Yeah.

Zach King:

And that skews data.

Zach King:

ers show up, like the day for:

Barrick Gruber:

We saw.

Barrick Gruber:

We saw a reduction of about 14 million people.

Barrick Gruber:

Not.

Barrick Gruber:

Not votes.

Zach King:

Crazy.

Zach King:

That's insane.

Lori King:

You've looked at the numbers.

Cole King:

I've looked at, like, out of some of the states, there's only been like 2.

Cole King:

Like, turnout was down in, like, Texas and stuff and other states like that, but turnout was actually up in Oklahoma and South Carolina.

Barrick Gruber:

Well, and, yeah, and like, I was, I was doing videos about the turnout in South Carolina.

Barrick Gruber:

I mean, when we hit a million and a half people that early voted in South Carolina, it was that.

Barrick Gruber:

We've never seen anything like that.

Barrick Gruber:

It was, it was.

Barrick Gruber:

I mean, it gave us.

Barrick Gruber:

So I was, I was a campaign manager for a gentleman named Matt Velardebo out of Rock Hill.

Barrick Gruber:

Well, Fort Mill.

Barrick Gruber:

And, you know, and I was, I was looking at the numbers for the pre.

Barrick Gruber:

The early precinct voting sites.

Barrick Gruber:

Like, every single day, every time a report came out, I'd go out there and look at it.

Barrick Gruber:

And then I.

Barrick Gruber:

And then I'd post on the campaign page saying, hey, look at this.

Barrick Gruber:

We're seeing the huge turnout.

Barrick Gruber:

this election than we did in:

Barrick Gruber:

And.

Barrick Gruber:

And South Carolina still hasn't released the actual numbers as far as who put.

Barrick Gruber:

Pushed, you know, the party line there versus actually voted for the candidates.

Barrick Gruber:

But I look at if.

Barrick Gruber:

If our opponent won the seat because everyone went in and voted the party line.

Barrick Gruber:

To me, that's not a vote for him.

Barrick Gruber:

That's just a vote.

Barrick Gruber:

That's just a vote of incompetence.

Barrick Gruber:

You just went in there and selected who you always select.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah, but from our perspective, we turn.

Barrick Gruber:

We.

Barrick Gruber:

I mean, we're still getting messages from people that said, I was a Republican all my life and I switched.

Barrick Gruber:

I crossed the line to vote for you.

Barrick Gruber:

And I think that had a lot to do with the impact of Matt himself and just his forward.

Barrick Gruber:

The forward motion, just the constant drone of being in places where they're visible, talking to community leaders, talking to the people in the community.

Barrick Gruber:

Door knock.

Barrick Gruber:

I mean, we.

Barrick Gruber:

We canvassed for two and a half, three months before the election.

Barrick Gruber:

I mean, there was a lot of work, and no one could look at our opponent's election.

Barrick Gruber:

And I will say this.

Barrick Gruber:

And Matt won't.

Barrick Gruber:

Matt that will.

Barrick Gruber:

Matt will probably not agree with me in public, but the amount of work that Matt did should have gotten him elected over his opponent who did no work.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah, Not a.

Barrick Gruber:

Not a.

Barrick Gruber:

Not a drop of sweat, you know.

Cole King:

Yes.

Cole King:

That happens here, too.

Cole King:

Like two years ago, we helped a campaign against this one lady, and once she won the Republican primary, she did absolutely nothing.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Cole King:

Didn't even deserve the seat.

Lori King:

Well, and they feel so confident here.

Lori King:

I don't know if it's like that for you guys in South Carolina, but in Missouri, it is a vote down the party line.

Lori King:

It's not become.

Lori King:

Because we continually pass progressive ballot initiatives every election, and then we vote in straight down the line all the people that are against those things and that work to dismantle them.

Lori King:

So, you know, it shouldn't make sense.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

You almost want to.

Barrick Gruber:

You almost want to slap people in the face with facts and say, hey, you realize the entire state just voted to legalize abortion and everyone you elected is going to go in and try and undermine that.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

So they're.

Barrick Gruber:

They're wasting their own.

Barrick Gruber:

They're wasting your time and money in trying to overdo something you've already said is a necessity.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

I don't understand that.

Barrick Gruber:

South Carolina has been in Republican control Since what, late 90s.

Barrick Gruber:

And our state in South Carolina has continued to go down to number four in education.

Barrick Gruber:

Now, our infrastructure is one of the worst in the southeast as far as just crumbling roads and bridges.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

Every, everybody sees the construction going on, they're like, oh, this is great.

Barrick Gruber:

We're doing construction to improve the roads.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

But everyone that bids on these construction and winds up getting the contracts for them, they're 17, 18 weeks over due on completion of the work and they're also 15 to 20 billion dollars over on budget.

Barrick Gruber:

So we're not improving anything.

Barrick Gruber:

We're just increasing the amount of debt that the state is having to operate.

Zach King:

In the Republican party, especially in southern states, it is the fat cat, good old boy system.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Zach King:

Right.

Lori King:

Oh, oh.

Zach King:

That's all it is.

Zach King:

And it's.

Zach King:

Everyone's scratching everyone's back and let's just keep, let's keep what was has been going.

Zach King:

Yeah.

Zach King:

And they don't think that's the most annoying part.

Lori King:

They don't need to get out there and do the work because they are confident and it's very much like that here.

Lori King:

They're confident we're going to retain our seat.

Lori King:

You know, they're going to vote straight down the party line.

Lori King:

So yeah.

Zach King:

That's why we need to take Russell Ott.

Zach King:

People like Russell Ott, put him in a jar, send them to a lab and figure out how do you, how are you changing people's minds?

Zach King:

What is it that Russ does that is.

Zach King:

Is speaking to both sides?

Zach King:

Because if we can bottle that and sell it, it'd be really nice.

Zach King:

Good ideas.

Zach King:

And you're speaking to both people.

Zach King:

And just to go back to the voting down party lines, that button, those two buttons need to be taken off all voting machines.

Zach King:

People use their brain.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Zach King:

Oh, you don't know who they are then you're an uneducated voter.

Zach King:

You're in.

Zach King:

You're ill informed.

Cole King:

I don't know if we have like an option where you can just vote straight party line.

Cole King:

Yeah, we do.

Zach King:

We do.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Cole King:

I think some, I know some states do.

Barrick Gruber:

In South Carolina, the Republicans are even trying to allow for positions like school board to be partisan so that the school boards will have only Republicans on them.

Barrick Gruber:

Like they're that desperate for the control.

Zach King:

Yeah, go ahead.

Lori King:

We've seen that here.

Lori King:

I mean I think that's just kind of been something that's across the board.

Lori King:

You know that we've seen that in education here.

Lori King:

The school board races have been.

Lori King:

I've volunteered on a few of those too.

Lori King:

And it's not like it used to be.

Barrick Gruber:

Zach, what were you gonna say, well.

Zach King:

Our friend of the podcast, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott, he's a Democratic sheriff and he, you vote down party lines.

Zach King:

And I know people who voted for Trump, but also were like, I will, I will cross the boundary to vote for Sheriff Leon Lotta because he's such a good guy.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Zach King:

So there are people who are Republican and who aren't voting down the party line enough to, that he won this election.

Cole King:

Yeah.

Zach King:

To become sheriff again.

Zach King:

But I'm just like, how, how many more could, could you get if you just remove that button?

Zach King:

And they would be like, oh, Leon, of course.

Zach King:

Like, why not?

Lori King:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

So, so this is, this is the hard question because I know how, how it impacted you, but a lot of the people that listen and watch our podcast, they, they probably don't.

Barrick Gruber:

How did the Cole for you?

Barrick Gruber:

What, what was, what was the outcome of the election like for you?

Cole King:

It was just terrible because, like, you are so confident that she's gonna win this thing and that we're gonna kick out this fascist piece of garbage.

Cole King:

But.

Cole King:

Yeah, I have to listen to him for four years and let him do stupid stuff.

Zach King:

Yeah, yeah, that sounded four letter, but it wasn't, it was four letter.

Lori King:

That was, that was, that was strong.

Lori King:

But he's not, you know, and it, not to interject or talked over him, but it's like, you get this, like, yeah, you're gonna have the values that your parents teach you, but I wouldn't allow him to say things like that if I didn't know he was so well versed.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Lori King:

And well, what he's talking about.

Lori King:

He knows what he's talking about.

Lori King:

You know, it's not just rhetoric because he hears me angry.

Zach King:

It's evident that he knows.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah, right, Absolutely.

Barrick Gruber:

enuine concerns about Project:

Barrick Gruber:

And I, and I'm looking at my 10 year old and saying, how did, how do you know about these things?

Barrick Gruber:

And she said, she said, well, they're some of the influencers on YouTube and such.

Barrick Gruber:

They're.

Barrick Gruber:

They're talking a lot about it.

Barrick Gruber:

And I said, well, what is it that they're saying that has you.

Barrick Gruber:

What, what is it they're saying that's, that's created an emotional response for you?

Barrick Gruber:

And she said, well, it sounds like they don't want women to have the ability to own property.

Barrick Gruber:

And I said, I said, yeah, that's a concern.

Barrick Gruber:

And she said, and something about, I don't know, what do they mean by credit?

Barrick Gruber:

And I said, well, essentially being able to be given a loan to potentially buy property or invest in a comp.

Barrick Gruber:

In a business.

Lori King:

Right.

Barrick Gruber:

And.

Barrick Gruber:

And so I, you know, I'm explaining these things to her.

Barrick Gruber:

And she goes, well, why would they want to take that away?

Barrick Gruber:

And I said, because it's.

Barrick Gruber:

It's all about control.

Barrick Gruber:

It has nothing to do with, you know, some of it's because they don't respect the fact that.

Barrick Gruber:

And I'll just say this because I have daughters, that women are generally more intelligent and more ethical in their decisions that impact themselves, their family and their community.

Barrick Gruber:

And men, typically, especially white Southern women.

Zach King:

Pay attention to detail.

Zach King:

That's why I like having a woman doctor.

Zach King:

I'm like, just pay attention.

Zach King:

Look at me.

Zach King:

Tell me.

Barrick Gruber:

I have.

Barrick Gruber:

I.

Barrick Gruber:

My.

Barrick Gruber:

My general practitioner.

Barrick Gruber:

And it's funny Zach mentioned that.

Barrick Gruber:

So I've always had men as my general practitioner up until about four years ago when mine retired and when he recommended who to go to, I.

Barrick Gruber:

And Dr.

Barrick Gruber:

Basket's here in Lexington.

Barrick Gruber:

And I have never felt more comfortable telling her what's going on with me that I.

Barrick Gruber:

Than I thought I would be.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Lori King:

You know, because you felt like she was listening.

Zach King:

Yeah, absolutely.

Lori King:

You know, I also think a lot of it's the power dynamic.

Lori King:

You know, it's really hard.

Lori King:

And, you know, some men aren't going to outright admit that, but I think we saw that in this election.

Lori King:

It's really hard to admit she might be smarter and more powerful.

Lori King:

And, you know, we heard these tropes about how she got that way, which were just ridiculous.

Lori King:

You know, you're insulting every woman that has ever worked hard at anything.

Lori King:

When you're talking about a woman in power like that, you just don't accomplish the things that she accomplished by being dumb.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Lori King:

Disagree on policy.

Lori King:

Not that someone, you know, slept their way to the top or, you know, it's just not.

Zach King:

And they.

Zach King:

Republicans carry the broadest brush there is in the whole basket.

Zach King:

Right.

Zach King:

So they're.

Zach King:

They're gonna paint anything they want, as much as they can as big and fat.

Zach King:

Whether it's true or not, they don't care.

Zach King:

I mean, the whole.

Zach King:

It.

Zach King:

It came to a head for me how bad this is going to be when Matt Gates was appointed.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Zach King:

You know, you're just like the most punchable face in all of America.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Cole King:

He might.

Cole King:

He might not make it through, though.

Lori King:

I don't think he's Kidding.

Zach King:

Yes.

Zach King:

That is the.

Zach King:

That is the silver lining in the whole thing.

Lori King:

The rest of them have not been any better.

Lori King:

And now we've got the wrestling lady for the Department of Education.

Zach King:

I saw that.

Cole King:

It's like, what do you have to do with education?

Zach King:

Before y'all got on that, Barrett was like, you saw that?

Zach King:

And I was like, the lady who was literally wrestling and she.

Zach King:

He was like, yeah.

Zach King:

And I was like, dude, I thought that was.

Zach King:

Somebody was just clipping stuff.

Barrick Gruber:

I want to.

Barrick Gruber:

I want to think that we're just being trolled.

Barrick Gruber:

Like, I want to think that these are all just sort of like Trump's just trying to see how far he can push the line, you know, like, you know, here's.

Barrick Gruber:

Here's.

Barrick Gruber:

Here's the corpse of Ronald Reagan.

Barrick Gruber:

He's going to be our Secretary of Commerce or something like that.

Barrick Gruber:

And it's like.

Barrick Gruber:

It's like, that's what I'm waiting for.

Barrick Gruber:

I'm waiting for him to announce that.

Zach King:

Vince McMahon is now speaker of the House.

Zach King:

Yeah, it's gonna be great.

Lori King:

I mean, we've got Dr.

Lori King:

Oz.

Lori King:

We might get Dr.

Lori King:

Phil next.

Lori King:

It's.

Barrick Gruber:

Well, I don't know if you saw.

Barrick Gruber:

Dr.

Barrick Gruber:

Phil has.

Barrick Gruber:

Has taken back his endorsement of Trump.

Lori King:

Oh, I did not know that this.

Barrick Gruber:

It happened about two days ago.

Barrick Gruber:

He.

Barrick Gruber:

He has.

Barrick Gruber:

He wrote a letter and apparently has said some things publicly that he has come to.

Barrick Gruber:

And I think it's mostly based on the endorsement or the.

Zach King:

I guess he would just say, well, you gotta go lick that calf again.

Zach King:

Okay, thank you.

Lori King:

That's perfect.

Lori King:

That is a perfect do.

Zach King:

Exactly.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Cole King:

A little too late to withdraw your endorsement, you know.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Zach King:

Damage is done, as they say.

Zach King:

Just go to Dr.

Zach King:

Phil.

Barrick Gruber:

That's where the FAFO comes in.

Barrick Gruber:

Because, you know, this is.

Barrick Gruber:

It's.

Barrick Gruber:

And one of the things that I keep telling people as far as.

Barrick Gruber:

That are gloating over the election is I say the same thing.

Barrick Gruber:

I'm glad you got what you wanted.

Barrick Gruber:

I hope you want what you get.

Barrick Gruber:

Yes.

Barrick Gruber:

When.

Barrick Gruber:

You know, because for the most part, I don't know anybody that's super rich.

Barrick Gruber:

I don't have friends that are.

Barrick Gruber:

That are driving Lamborghinis and things like that, that a bad coming economy would potentially affect them in a negative way.

Barrick Gruber:

But I do know plenty of people.

Zach King:

My Lamborghini is coming tomorrow.

Zach King:

Let me look.

Lori King:

Care or put the diapers in it.

Zach King:

Yeah.

Zach King:

The babies have to ride on the hood.

Zach King:

It's just what it is.

Barrick Gruber:

That's where you store the.

Barrick Gruber:

I'm not an Animal.

Zach King:

I put.

Zach King:

I got a plexiglass, like, windscreen, so it'll be great.

Barrick Gruber:

But, you know, for most of the people I know, they do their grocery shopping at Walmart, they buy their Christmas gifts from Target and Walmart and things like that.

Barrick Gruber:

ar, if things like, you know,:

Barrick Gruber:

And.

Barrick Gruber:

And I don't want that to happen, but if it does, then my only retort is to say, well, this is.

Barrick Gruber:

This is what you.

Barrick Gruber:

He said he was going to do these things, and this is what you wanted.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

You know, how about most of the.

Zach King:

Republican Party understanding how tariffs work, except for Donald Trump, but they still support his tariffs.

Lori King:

Support it.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Lori King:

It's just.

Lori King:

It's such a disconnect from.

Lori King:

But go ahead.

Cole King:

On tariffs.

Cole King:

They like all these Republicans, like Trump and Vance, like, oh, I'm populous on this populist.

Cole King:

It's like, okay, stop.

Cole King:

Like, some people can't see it, but it's like, for us, you're not a populist.

Barrick Gruber:

No.

Cole King:

You're, like, worth millions of dollars or billions of dollars.

Barrick Gruber:

You're not.

Barrick Gruber:

Exactly.

Barrick Gruber:

Exactly.

Barrick Gruber:

That does not make you a man of the people.

Barrick Gruber:

That makes you a man that oversees the people.

Lori King:

Right.

Barrick Gruber:

You're exactly correct.

Zach King:

And then he creates a department for Elon Musk, who is a complete dipshit villain.

Lori King:

Like, he's like a super villain.

Lori King:

Like, he's a villain.

Zach King:

We got the darkest timeline.

Zach King:

Tony Stark, like, he just sit like, we're like, you're not even Iron Man.

Zach King:

Cool.

Zach King:

You're just here jumping around, going like, I'm Dark Maga.

Lori King:

He's like a Scooby Doo.

Zach King:

Pull his mask off.

Zach King:

You're just Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Barrick Gruber:

And I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids.

Lori King:

Right.

Lori King:

Yes.

Barrick Gruber:

Yes.

Barrick Gruber:

I'm hoping that's the outcome.

Barrick Gruber:

I'm hoping it's the meddling kids that take Elon Musk.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

Obviously, predicting election outcomes can draw a lot of attention, both positive and negative.

Barrick Gruber:

Laurie, I will commend you on how you have protected Cole from a lot of that.

Barrick Gruber:

Because my immediate.

Barrick Gruber:

Just because I feel like.

Barrick Gruber:

And I hate this about me, but.

Barrick Gruber:

And Zach can tell you, but I feel like I'm the smartest person in the room, and when someone comes at me with something negative, I generally respond to them with a calm but subtle jab at the fact that their parents are probably related, closer than they should be.

Zach King:

I just take my shirt off and start yelling like a howler monkey.

Lori King:

I think that's the way to do it.

Barrick Gruber:

Just so everyone knows you made the decision that you all would go private, at least for a little while to protect.

Barrick Gruber:

And I see it not just protecting Coal, but you're also protecting yourself.

Lori King:

Yeah, yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

There are still some bugs in the, in the system though, aren't there?

Lori King:

Yeah, yeah.

Lori King:

So it's, you know, we didn't expect that video to go viral.

Lori King:

So the first video that we put up, well, we had put up, we had put up a couple.

Lori King:

But then one night, day like 30 days from the election, he did one and it went it like half a million views.

Lori King:

And so it just kind of took off from there.

Lori King:

And then they're asking questions and he loved it.

Lori King:

I mean he was enjoying it.

Lori King:

But then when the comments started coming in, it was hard.

Lori King:

It was hard for me to read.

Lori King:

It was hard for me to hear adults, you know, yeah, sure, some of its bots, but a lot of it was real.

Lori King:

People say, you know, insulting your child for doing something he's passionate about.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Lori King:

And I will say there were some Republicans that are like, hey, we're not on the same side, but I commend him.

Lori King:

Or you know, he's a smart kid or he's wrong, but he's a smart kid.

Lori King:

And, but that was few and far between.

Lori King:

You know, it was either that weirdo or you know, you know, insult some variation.

Lori King:

Or my favorite people who took the.

Zach King:

Door off the microwave and watched their food cook.

Lori King:

Right.

Lori King:

r a train or hearts and Trump:

Lori King:

And to me that is such an odd behavior.

Lori King:

Also like, and that's only happened since him because do you walk down the street screaming that.

Lori King:

I mean, why are.

Lori King:

What, what is the point?

Lori King:

It's like you want to make somebody feel bad?

Lori King:

Like, is that what you set out to do?

Lori King:

Like, do you want to make a 14 year old feel bad?

Lori King:

And how does that make them feel good?

Lori King:

I just, yeah, I'll never understand that.

Lori King:

And so when things went the way they did election night, he went live.

Lori King:

I could see on his face as soon as it started to go.

Lori King:

And I know the people watching could too.

Lori King:

I knew the next morning there would be comments, but there was people that had just followed to come back and say gloat.

Lori King:

And so I immediately, you know, started deleting the.

Lori King:

And then I'm like, I just gotta put this private.

Lori King:

We're a mess.

Cole King:

Kind of.

Cole King:

The only reason we put it private because, like, they just.

Cole King:

All they want to do is gloat.

Cole King:

It's like, get on with your life, loser.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Zach King:

And to them.

Zach King:

To them, they're disassociated.

Zach King:

You.

Zach King:

You aren't real people to them.

Zach King:

So they're gonna come back and just say to the Internet, and they don't have any kind of repercussion for what they're doing.

Barrick Gruber:

Oh, yeah.

Zach King:

And unintelligent.

Zach King:

That's all it is.

Zach King:

It's.

Zach King:

It's stupid.

Barrick Gruber:

People see, and I hate.

Zach King:

They had to deal with that.

Barrick Gruber:

And on some of the stuff that we posted, you know, I'd get like.

Barrick Gruber:

I'd get like.

Barrick Gruber:

I'd get comments like, you know, why is this fat?

Barrick Gruber:

Whatever?

Barrick Gruber:

And.

Barrick Gruber:

And I.

Barrick Gruber:

I'd respond back.

Barrick Gruber:

I was like, you can only see my head.

Barrick Gruber:

Is it.

Barrick Gruber:

Is it that big?

Barrick Gruber:

And then.

Barrick Gruber:

And somebody.

Barrick Gruber:

Somebody else would say something, and I'd be like.

Barrick Gruber:

I'd be like, oh, well, you nailed that.

Barrick Gruber:

You know, so I moved into the.

Barrick Gruber:

I'm just gonna see if I can use some of this as inspiration for comedy, because comedy is time plus tragedy, and obviously this is tragic.

Barrick Gruber:

But somebody would say something.

Barrick Gruber:

I'd be like, oh, well, you nailed that one.

Barrick Gruber:

Good job.

Barrick Gruber:

I'm sure your grandparents are proud of you.

Cole King:

One that was really funny.

Cole King:

It was like, how could such a smart kid vote blue?

Lori King:

Yeah.

Lori King:

And we were like, he can't vote.

Cole King:

There was, like, four that said, don't miss the day job.

Cole King:

I don't work a day job.

Zach King:

This is his day job.

Lori King:

Yeah, well, at first I was like, oh, let's delete these so Cole doesn't read them and get his feelings hurt.

Lori King:

And.

Lori King:

And then I started leaving him and letting him read them and delete them because he started getting a kick out of some of them because they were just silly stuff like that, you know?

Lori King:

But the.

Lori King:

Also the ones insulting is intelligent.

Lori King:

Like, you don't know what you're talking about.

Lori King:

I'm like, actually, he does.

Lori King:

Yeah, you don't want to believe that.

Barrick Gruber:

And that's the thing.

Barrick Gruber:

Like, you literally had the tablet showing the data and the information and why it was going the direction it was from what we perceive from the data.

Barrick Gruber:

And that's one of those things that, like, when I get a comment like that or they tell me they say something having to do with whatever emotion they're feeling with it, I'll ask them.

Barrick Gruber:

I Said just.

Barrick Gruber:

I am perfectly willing to acknowledge your answer or what it is that you're saying.

Barrick Gruber:

If you can cite me the sources and I will go look them up.

Zach King:

And I just hit his and run to the darkness.

Zach King:

Like information.

Zach King:

No.

Zach King:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

100% of the time I have.

Barrick Gruber:

I have 100% of the time.

Barrick Gruber:

I've never been cited any sources like they, that.

Barrick Gruber:

That is the point at which they abandon any attempt at having like a rational conversation.

Cole King:

Make it up as you go.

Cole King:

That's what they do.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah, I don't, I don't have a.

Zach King:

Very hard time in, you know, AP language and stuff like it's cite your sources when you write your paper.

Zach King:

Like what?

Lori King:

And honestly, he would be very capable of having a conversation with someone the other.

Lori King:

On the other side if it was a good faith argument.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah, right, Exactly.

Barrick Gruber:

That's.

Barrick Gruber:

That's one of the things.

Barrick Gruber:

Like on this podcast, I have invited Republicans to come onto this show to have a good faith conversation about why it is they believe what they believe.

Barrick Gruber:

But I think for the President, Barrett, we've had zero.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

And a lot of that's because I know that they know we are going to ask questions that they're going to have to supply us with actual answers.

Barrick Gruber:

I mean, even Republicans that I'm friendly with.

Barrick Gruber:

Senator, she just got voted out because she was one of the five sister senators that filibustered against the abortion ban here in South Carolina.

Barrick Gruber:

And she got primaried because people didn't like the fact that she was trying to stand against the idea of abortion and not enough people turned out to vote for her.

Barrick Gruber:

It's not that she, she didn't lose because the other guy won.

Barrick Gruber:

She lost because not enough people turned out.

Barrick Gruber:

And ultimately Katrina Shealy, my current senator to be previous senator, is an outstanding citizen.

Barrick Gruber:

And I still commend what she did, even though we don't agree on everything.

Lori King:

Right.

Barrick Gruber:

She was always available.

Barrick Gruber:

If you called her office, you would get a response.

Barrick Gruber:

And it wasn't canned.

Barrick Gruber:

It was a response to you about what you were calling about.

Barrick Gruber:

Those are the type.

Barrick Gruber:

And again, it was a woman.

Barrick Gruber:

It goes back to that idea that there is just a sense of devotion to the people in your community.

Barrick Gruber:

And our men don't seem to have that, at least on the other side.

Barrick Gruber:

How big of.

Barrick Gruber:

And Cole, this is for you.

Barrick Gruber:

How big of a role did your family play in encouraging you as far as, you know, investing your time and heart into.

Barrick Gruber:

Into the election?

Cole King:

She, like, she encouraged me very much.

Cole King:

I mean, like letting me film the video and put it on her.

Cole King:

Tick tock.

Cole King:

I mean, I.

Cole King:

That's very encouraging right there.

Cole King:

And I also think, like, instead of, like, those comments that.

Cole King:

Just saying, oh, he's dumb.

Cole King:

She told me I was smart and I knew this stuff.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Cole King:

Instead of those comments.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

Cole, I will.

Barrick Gruber:

I will speak for Zach and I.

Barrick Gruber:

If anybody.

Barrick Gruber:

If anybody comes after you, we'll fly to Missouri.

Barrick Gruber:

We'll probably go.

Barrick Gruber:

We'll probably go check out a Chiefs game first.

Barrick Gruber:

But.

Barrick Gruber:

But we will.

Barrick Gruber:

We will.

Barrick Gruber:

We've got your back.

Barrick Gruber:

Well, we'll stand in front.

Barrick Gruber:

We will.

Barrick Gruber:

We will.

Zach King:

Somebody.

Zach King:

I don't even care.

Cole King:

Casey's a little west, but okay.

Barrick Gruber:

All right.

Barrick Gruber:

We'll go to a Mizzou game.

Barrick Gruber:

South Carolina plays a Missoula.

Zach King:

We'll get lost, and then we'll have to take an Uber to where you guys are, and we'll figure it out.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah, we'll meet at the Waffle.

Barrick Gruber:

We'll meet at the Waffle House.

Barrick Gruber:

There's got to be a Waffle House there, right?

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah, there's Waffle Houses everywhere.

Lori King:

As long as you don't end up in Tijuana.

Zach King:

Yeah.

Zach King:

Or apparently the Ozarks, which is.

Lori King:

Right.

Zach King:

The Tijuana of Missouri and ar.

Zach King:

Did you.

Barrick Gruber:

Did you watch.

Barrick Gruber:

Did you watch Ozark on.

Barrick Gruber:

On Netflix?

Lori King:

I never finished it, but I watched the first two seasons.

Cole King:

We do, like, how.

Cole King:

We're talking about Waffle House.

Cole King:

We do have, like, a lot of really good local, like, restaurants here.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

What I was.

Zach King:

I'm not.

Zach King:

I.

Zach King:

I'm.

Zach King:

I'm not a heathen like the rest of.

Zach King:

Like, even my family in Barrett are.

Zach King:

I.

Zach King:

I don't go to Waffle Houses.

Zach King:

I've never been asking for trouble.

Lori King:

That's a good thing that you've never been to one, because when I've been to one, it's usually been three hours.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

He's been to one.

Zach King:

I've been to him.

Zach King:

I choose never to go again.

Zach King:

My wife will be like, they have the best waffles.

Zach King:

I was like, you can take our kid and go get him if you want, or pick them up.

Zach King:

Do whatever.

Zach King:

I won't be joining you because it is not a good time.

Barrick Gruber:

So one of the things I was hoping for was maybe a video from Cole on the statistics of the Jake Paul.

Barrick Gruber:

The Jake Paul Mike Tyson fight.

Barrick Gruber:

I was.

Barrick Gruber:

I was really hoping for something in line that would.

Barrick Gruber:

That would.

Barrick Gruber:

That would give me some hope that Tyson had a chance.

Barrick Gruber:

Did.

Barrick Gruber:

Did.

Barrick Gruber:

Do you watch any boxing or anything?

Barrick Gruber:

No.

Barrick Gruber:

Okay.

Zach King:

So I'm glad you didn't waste your Time.

Zach King:

Because they look like an old man getting punched by a younger man while he bit his glove.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Lori King:

At first I was like, oh, I want Tyson to knock him out because he's a Trump guy.

Lori King:

And then Cole's like, I'm pretty sure Tyson's a Trump guy, too.

Lori King:

I was like, well, yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Zach King:

I hope they both lose.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

In.

Barrick Gruber:

In Tyson's defense, a lot of blows to the head over a lot, you know, so there's a correlation there, I think, between his political leanings and the number of times he suffered from severe concussions.

Zach King:

If you ever listen to Tyson's podcast, I was kind of like, I don't think it's gonna.

Zach King:

This isn't gonna be fun for anybody.

Lori King:

I didn't know he had a podcast.

Zach King:

He does, and he's an insane person.

Cole King:

Everybody has a podcast today.

Lori King:

Oh, you might need one.

Lori King:

So our favorite podcast, y'all should.

Lori King:

I don't know if you guys are familiar with the Dollop.

Barrick Gruber:

Yes.

Zach King:

Oh, the Dollop is amazing.

Zach King:

Yes.

Barrick Gruber:

Zach introduced me to the Dollop, what, eight years ago when.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Lori King:

We're fanatics.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

Do you.

Barrick Gruber:

Do you listen to any of the citation.

Barrick Gruber:

What is it?

Barrick Gruber:

The puzzle.

Barrick Gruber:

Puzzle in a thunderstorm.

Barrick Gruber:

That's the citation needed.

Barrick Gruber:

The skepticrats.

Barrick Gruber:

They do.

Barrick Gruber:

Zach, help me out.

Zach King:

DD Minus.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Zach King:

Scathing atheists.

Zach King:

Yeah.

Zach King:

Those are all the.

Zach King:

Those are all the.

Zach King:

They're.

Zach King:

They're really good.

Zach King:

Yeah.

Zach King:

The Dollop is amazing.

Zach King:

And then the co host, he went off and did one with Jake from New Girl, where they have comedians on and they read the newspaper from the top.

Lori King:

I did listen to a few of those.

Zach King:

Oh, my gosh.

Lori King:

We just love the Dollop up.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Zach King:

Fantastic.

Zach King:

I want to go see them live, but it seems like they're always in Adelaide, Australia.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Zach King:

So I don't.

Zach King:

I don't know if we're ever gonna get to listen to.

Lori King:

They did a live here on Phyllis Schlafly.

Lori King:

I don't know if you know who.

Zach King:

Oh, really?

Lori King:

But, yeah, that was great.

Lori King:

We didn't go.

Lori King:

But I listened to.

Zach King:

They did one on John McCain.

Zach King:

Everyone always talks nice about John McCain and that.

Zach King:

They're like, here's the stuff John McCain did.

Zach King:

And they're just like, okay, yeah, that's like.

Barrick Gruber:

That's like.

Barrick Gruber:

I was.

Barrick Gruber:

I was.

Barrick Gruber:

I was trying to tell my father in law, who is very health conscious when it comes to judging what other people eat.

Barrick Gruber:

He.

Barrick Gruber:

He has a different opinion on RFK Jr.

Barrick Gruber:

Than I have.

Barrick Gruber:

And.

Barrick Gruber:

And.

Barrick Gruber:

And he.

Barrick Gruber:

He'd say things like, you know, he wants to, he wants to get rid of all the fast food and stuff like that and he wants to do this and he wants to do that.

Barrick Gruber:

And I said, I said, well, yeah, and I understand that, but, but you know, these are things that are illogical.

Barrick Gruber:

These are, you know, like this idea of doing away with vaccines.

Barrick Gruber:

I said, if it weren't for vaccines, you'd have had polio and probably measles and you'd be suffering from not being able to walk or being, not being able to walk well.

Barrick Gruber:

I said, these are, these are, these are all things that, if it weren't for, you know, the progression of science that, you know, and he'd, he'd say something about how, you know, RFK Jr.

Barrick Gruber:

You know, he's, he's, he's, he's done really well with his life.

Barrick Gruber:

I said, he's done well living off of the money that the Kennedys and the Carnegie's and whatnot have provided him for all of his life.

Barrick Gruber:

I said, he's never had a job.

Barrick Gruber:

He's never, he's never done anything to better anyone else's life.

Barrick Gruber:

Except maybe a few dementiated woman women who are watching his YouTube videos of him without a shirt on.

Lori King:

Right.

Barrick Gruber:

And they forget that.

Barrick Gruber:

Which one was rfk?

Zach King:

Yeah, so, so imagine if we had a system for testing hypothesis ideas like, I don't know, having clinical, clinical trials, moving ahead with good ones that pan out.

Cole King:

It's also so ironic.

Cole King:

Him too.

Cole King:

Like, he always was like, oh, fast food sucks.

Cole King:

And then he's on the plane with Trump eating fast food.

Zach King:

It's like, okay, he didn't look happy about it, but I love that he had to eat it.

Lori King:

That is the point at which my food.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah, that is the point at which.

Zach King:

Mac, it's really great.

Barrick Gruber:

Trump is legitimately even trolling the people that are like, in his inner circle.

Barrick Gruber:

Like, you know, Mike Johnson doesn't eat McDonald's.

Barrick Gruber:

This is a guy that, this is a caviar guy, you know, like, he doesn't live in New Orleans OR Meanwhile, Don Jr.

Zach King:

Grew up on it, so he's holding the thing up just the happiest dude.

Barrick Gruber:

We got McDonald's, Don Junior's just happy to be in the picture.

Barrick Gruber:

Poor Eric's the one taking the picture.

Zach King:

You know, oh my God, we're taking a picture.

Barrick Gruber:

So looking forward, Cole, do you plan on continuing work with the data and the statistics in the future with elections?

Cole King:

Absolutely, we're going to continue with that.

Cole King:

And we might also do some extra things like talking about some of These like.

Cole King:

Like the video we made about gerrymandering.

Cole King:

I don't know if you saw that one.

Barrick Gruber:

I did.

Cole King:

But, yeah, we'll do.

Cole King:

Maybe do some more stuff like that because, like, again, people.

Cole King:

Not everybody knows about gerrymandering, and it's a big problem.

Cole King:

And if we can tell more people about it, we can resist gerrymandering a lot easier.

Barrick Gruber:

And, Jerry, gerrymandering doesn't just.

Barrick Gruber:

It.

Barrick Gruber:

It's not that it doesn't just benefit like the.

Barrick Gruber:

I guess the party that does the gerrymandering.

Barrick Gruber:

It also disenfranchises their own party in other areas.

Barrick Gruber:

Like this is.

Barrick Gruber:

It's the most ridiculous, desperate move and they wind up hurting themselves or they wind up hurting members of their own party in very adjacent locations.

Barrick Gruber:

It's ridiculous.

Barrick Gruber:

Well, I'm glad you're going to continue doing it because, like I said.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah, good, That's.

Zach King:

And I know we're about to move on to seven questions, but I gotta tell you, we've talked the two.

Zach King:

One of the two things you don't talk about at work, politics.

Zach King:

The next time you come back, it's religion.

Zach King:

Just keep that in.

Lori King:

He is not an expert in that.

Lori King:

Sorry.

Barrick Gruber:

That's okay.

Barrick Gruber:

That's okay.

Barrick Gruber:

For some of us, we believe there's not a chance that there's any experts on it.

Lori King:

Right.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Lori King:

But, you know, I think there is a real.

Lori King:

Talking about how do we get younger people involved, you know, knowing that the.

Cole King:

What I said.

Cole King:

Oh, 100%.

Lori King:

Oh.

Lori King:

But I mean, knowing that the lack of information that people have.

Lori King:

Could someone doing just a series of educational stuff like this is how the electoral college works.

Lori King:

This is.

Zach King:

You should absolutely keep doing that.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Zach King:

100%.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Lori King:

Just put it out there.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

And.

Barrick Gruber:

And, and if.

Barrick Gruber:

If your account is still private, if.

Barrick Gruber:

Well, I.

Barrick Gruber:

I'm not going to put a link out there for it.

Barrick Gruber:

Okay.

Barrick Gruber:

But genuinely, if you happen to come across any of.

Barrick Gruber:

Any of our listeners that come across, or if any listeners want to reach out to me and.

Barrick Gruber:

And ask me, I am more than happy to supply a link to be able to see Cole's videos because it is inspiring.

Barrick Gruber:

I.

Zach King:

100%.

Barrick Gruber:

I will.

Barrick Gruber:

I will say, you know, Cole, you at 14 is how I hope that my daughters are at 14.

Barrick Gruber:

Thank you.

Barrick Gruber:

That you.

Barrick Gruber:

It's not just the talent, but it's also the confidence that you have in what it is you're doing and how you're expressing it.

Barrick Gruber:

And as a parent, Lori, between you and your husband, I am so impressed.

Barrick Gruber:

And for sure it is honestly it has been such a pleasure and I am so glad that you allowed me to connect with you all.

Lori King:

Yes, thank you.

Lori King:

We really enjoyed connecting.

Barrick Gruber:

I want to continue to see.

Barrick Gruber:

You know, I'm excited to see 18 year old Cole.

Cole King:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

And if the day comes that 37 year old Cole decides he wants to run for president, I will be right there on that trail with you.

Barrick Gruber:

I will campaign for.

Zach King:

Listen, when I was 14, I was wondering, what's the lethal dose of chicken nuggets?

Zach King:

So you guys are well above me.

Barrick Gruber:

For Zach, the bar was really, really set low.

Zach King:

22.

Zach King:

You could eat more than that.

Zach King:

We didn't have Google.

Zach King:

We had the guy down the street who saw someone eat 30.

Barrick Gruber:

One time we had door to door salesmen selling encyclopedias.

Zach King:

Encyclopedias.

Barrick Gruber:

That may have been when society took a.

Barrick Gruber:

Was when the encyclopedia was no longer being offered.

Barrick Gruber:

Like, you know, every household.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Zach King:

Why do we have so many of the same doorstops?

Lori King:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Lori King:

I'm not sure that our current means of information is working out, so.

Barrick Gruber:

No, the Internet's a pretty skeeting place.

Barrick Gruber:

That is for sure.

Cole King:

Like regulations on social media because it's just like, for X example, like a billionaire can just buy it and put whatever they want on it.

Barrick Gruber:

Cole, you read my mind.

Barrick Gruber:

What we need is.

Barrick Gruber:

I'm not.

Barrick Gruber:

I'm not in favor of regulating everything that doesn't need regulation, but there does need to be.

Barrick Gruber:

We need regulation.

Zach King:

Twitter.

Zach King:

Twitter has been the guinea pig on that one.

Zach King:

We're like, okay, this is okay.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Zach King:

Not everything should go for sure.

Barrick Gruber:

All right, well, we're going to jump into seven questions.

Barrick Gruber:

You guys ready?

Lori King:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

All right, so we'll ask both of you.

Barrick Gruber:

What was the last thing that you googled?

Lori King:

What was the last thing I googled?

Lori King:

You're always googling something.

Lori King:

What was the last thing I.

Cole King:

No idea what the last thing I googled.

Zach King:

Was it the All About Nothing podcast?

Barrick Gruber:

Did we at least come up first?

Lori King:

Did we what?

Barrick Gruber:

I said, did we at least come up first?

Cole King:

Oh, I was looking at the results in my count.

Barrick Gruber:

Oh, okay.

Lori King:

Shocking.

Barrick Gruber:

No, I.

Barrick Gruber:

Look, I.

Barrick Gruber:

I check ev.

Barrick Gruber:

Every single day I check to see what South Carolina has published as far as like the breakdown on the.

Barrick Gruber:

Literally on the votes.

Cole King:

And I've been trying to figure out how I can figure how a city voted.

Cole King:

Because it's like a precinct or like a county.

Cole King:

How do I find a city, how a city voted?

Barrick Gruber:

I think you'd probably wind up having to take the precincts in that city and then tabulate them together.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah, Yeah, I Could help you work out with spreadsheet on that if you want.

Zach King:

Barrett loves the spreadsheets.

Barrick Gruber:

I love spreadsheets.

Lori King:

Okay.

Lori King:

Yeah, he might need that.

Barrick Gruber:

All right, second question.

Barrick Gruber:

If you could have one superpower, what would it be?

Cole King:

It'd be time travel or teleportation.

Barrick Gruber:

Okay.

Zach King:

A very popular one.

Zach King:

Time travel is a newer one.

Zach King:

I like that.

Lori King:

I don't know if I can top that.

Lori King:

Time travel would be pretty awesome.

Barrick Gruber:

It's.

Barrick Gruber:

It's how you use the power.

Barrick Gruber:

It's not about having the power.

Zach King:

And as long as it's not quantum leap time travel, because then you're just stuck like Scott back.

Lori King:

I think at this point in history, I.

Lori King:

I would like my superpower to actually be brainwashing, for sure.

Zach King:

You try it on Donald Trump, and it didn't work because there's no brain to wash.

Barrick Gruber:

It's working really well for the Republicans.

Barrick Gruber:

I mean, you know.

Lori King:

Yeah, I think I could change some things also.

Cole King:

Like, another.

Cole King:

I just came up with this one, like, wish for anything.

Cole King:

So, like.

Lori King:

Yeah, you already had one.

Lori King:

You don't get another.

Zach King:

Oh, man, that feels like a cheat code, but I'll take it.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

All right, third question.

Barrick Gruber:

If your life were a movie, what would the title be?

Lori King:

If my life was a movie, what would the title be?

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah, it doesn't have to be a title of a movie that already exists.

Barrick Gruber:

It can just be a couple of words pieced together.

Zach King:

Yeah.

Zach King:

Barrett says the Exotic Marigold Hotel.

Lori King:

Oh, my God.

Barrick Gruber:

First of all.

Barrick Gruber:

First of all, I don't know if.

Lori King:

I want to know.

Barrick Gruber:

Fantastic movie, like.

Barrick Gruber:

Oh, yeah, Easily.

Barrick Gruber:

Easily One of.

Barrick Gruber:

or:

Barrick Gruber:

What,:

Lori King:

Yeah.

Zach King:

I don't know if I was going.

Lori King:

To say a movie that I wanted my life to be.

Lori King:

It would be under the Tuscan Sun.

Barrick Gruber:

Okay.

Cole King:

I have a good idea for mine.

Cole King:

A brain of ideas.

Lori King:

A brain of ideas.

Barrick Gruber:

That's a good title.

Lori King:

There you go.

Barrick Gruber:

That's a good title.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah, I like it.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah, I like it.

Barrick Gruber:

All right, fourth question.

Barrick Gruber:

This is more fun.

Barrick Gruber:

If you could eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Cole King:

Hmm.

Lori King:

Pasta.

Cole King:

That's tough.

Cole King:

There's so many good foods that I'm gonna have to give up here.

Lori King:

Pasta.

Lori King:

Pick one.

Cole King:

I feel like pizza might be the most consistent because, like, I can put really so much on pizza.

Barrick Gruber:

Pizza gives you variety.

Zach King:

It's the best answer.

Barrick Gruber:

Pizza gives you variety.

Barrick Gruber:

That's good.

Barrick Gruber:

All right, the fifth question.

Barrick Gruber:

What is your least favorite candy and why?

Lori King:

Least favorite candy and Why?

Cole King:

I think I had, like, Sour Patch Kids once, and I was like, ew.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Lori King:

I would say Skittles because they make my teeth hurt.

Barrick Gruber:

Okay.

Barrick Gruber:

I was gonna say you.

Barrick Gruber:

You mentioned Sour Patch Kids, and immediately, like, behind wisdom teeth used to be, like, it immediately starts to, like, cringe.

Barrick Gruber:

So.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah, I don't.

Barrick Gruber:

I don't blame you on that.

Barrick Gruber:

And Skittles.

Barrick Gruber:

Skittles get stuck in your teeth, and then, you know, you eat them.

Barrick Gruber:

You go to the dentist, and your dentist is like, what did you do?

Barrick Gruber:

I think one time.

Barrick Gruber:

I think one time I chewed a chewing gum that had, like, the little sparkles in it or whatever.

Barrick Gruber:

Like, before I went to the dentist, because I never want to go to the dentist.

Barrick Gruber:

You know, I suffer.

Barrick Gruber:

I suffer from a diagnosed case of halitophobia.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

It's a legitimate fear that my brain breath smells bad or someone else's does, and I'm gonna smell it or I'm gonna smell my own.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

And so, like, even going to the dentist, I brush before I get a teeth cleaning.

Zach King:

He'll never know.

Barrick Gruber:

And I didn't have time one time.

Barrick Gruber:

So I chewed some gum, and it.

Barrick Gruber:

And it left the little sparkles in there.

Barrick Gruber:

And my hygienist, she said.

Barrick Gruber:

She said, what did you eat before you got here?

Barrick Gruber:

And I was like, I haven't eaten anything.

Barrick Gruber:

Like, I brushed my teeth this morning, and I went back, and I was like, oh, I did chew that gum.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

All right, number six.

Barrick Gruber:

What is one strange or unusual talent that you have that potentially no one knows?

Lori King:

Strange or unusual talent.

Zach King:

Here's mine.

Lori King:

That is serious.

Barrick Gruber:

For those of you on the good one, for those of you that are listening at home, Zach removed his finger.

Zach King:

In front of a live audience.

Lori King:

You probably have some brain power that.

Cole King:

Yeah, maybe.

Lori King:

What do you call it?

Lori King:

Photographic memory.

Cole King:

Yeah.

Cole King:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

Really?

Lori King:

Memory.

Barrick Gruber:

So is it.

Barrick Gruber:

Is it photographic or is it.

Barrick Gruber:

I.

Barrick Gruber:

What are they?

Barrick Gruber:

Eidetic?

Barrick Gruber:

I don't know what's there.

Barrick Gruber:

So there's.

Barrick Gruber:

And it's interesting.

Zach King:

Is like, remembering the information.

Zach King:

Photographic is literally even images.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Zach King:

As well.

Cole King:

I feel like it's a mix of both.

Barrick Gruber:

Like, that's fair.

Barrick Gruber:

That's fair.

Lori King:

He told me one time when he was younger that he had files in his brain.

Lori King:

And I said, what do you mean?

Lori King:

And he's like, I have different files in my brain.

Cole King:

That was a joke.

Zach King:

She's like, I've been holding on to that.

Lori King:

I have been holding on to that.

Lori King:

Because he was explaining it, and I was like, that makes sense.

Lori King:

Because there's a lot that you throw away.

Lori King:

Maybe I've just.

Lori King:

The older I get, the less capacity I have for files in mine, but I feel that.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

All right, so last question.

Barrick Gruber:

If you could have dinner with any three people, dead or alive, who would that be?

Lori King:

Three people.

Cole King:

That's the one I saw.

Lori King:

I would have.

Lori King:

ed away from breast cancer in:

Barrick Gruber:

Absolutely.

Lori King:

Three people.

Lori King:

Prince.

Lori King:

Because I loved Prince, and I never got to go to a Prince concert.

Zach King:

Would be an interesting dinner.

Zach King:

You were sure you did.

Barrick Gruber:

You did see.

Barrick Gruber:

You did get to see Prince.

Lori King:

I never got to see him.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah, you never got to see him.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Lori King:

And I.

Lori King:

And we were always.

Lori King:

I've always been a big concert person, so he.

Lori King:

I just never made it to Prince, and he was my favorite, so I would say Prince, I think.

Lori King:

And again, in the current time, I would like to sit down with Barack Obama.

Barrick Gruber:

Okay, that's fair.

Barrick Gruber:

You're not the only one that's asked.

Barrick Gruber:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

Cole, you have.

Barrick Gruber:

You have three that you'd like to have dinner with.

Cole King:

I think I'd go Abraham Lincoln.

Cole King:

I'mma go all presidents here.

Barrick Gruber:

Okay.

Cole King:

I'mma go Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt.

Cole King:

And then the last one, I think I'd go George Washington.

Barrick Gruber:

Okay.

Zach King:

So I gotta add to that.

Zach King:

What would you serve them?

Zach King:

Because if you gave Abraham Lincoln and George Washington a slice of pizza, they would be like.

Zach King:

Like, what in the heavens?

Zach King:

What is this?

Lori King:

You would say, this is glorious.

Zach King:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

A lot.

Barrick Gruber:

A lot of people didn't know this true fact.

Barrick Gruber:

Theodore Roosevelt ate with his mouth open.

Barrick Gruber:

I'm kidding.

Barrick Gruber:

That's a joke.

Barrick Gruber:

I don't want anybody to go look that up.

Barrick Gruber:

Because.

Zach King:

He would have had some revisions for the Constitution.

Zach King:

He didn't write it, but he'd be like, let's head pizza in there.

Zach King:

At least somewhere.

Cole King:

That'd be also be interesting because they didn't have toothbrushes in that time.

Cole King:

So, like, images.

Cole King:

They're not smiling, so then you'd see their actual teeth, and you'd be like.

Zach King:

They'Re just chewing on sticks.

Zach King:

Before picture day, I'd give him a toothbrush.

Barrick Gruber:

It's like every.

Barrick Gruber:

Every B roll on Survivor.

Lori King:

Toothbrush.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

Every time.

Barrick Gruber:

Every time Survivor cuts to B roll of conversations, they got somebody picking stuff out.

Zach King:

Can you imagine?

Zach King:

They have something.

Zach King:

But there had to be, like, just furious mouthwashing going on.

Zach King:

Like, to the river.

Zach King:

Just like.

Zach King:

Just like in there.

Zach King:

I ate a steak.

Barrick Gruber:

And that's why we should keep fluoride in the in the water system, that's.

Barrick Gruber:

Ultimately, it's to prevent that.

Zach King:

Well, back then, they just hope they were upstream.

Lori King:

We're gonna take the fluoride out of the water.

Lori King:

That doesn't seem like a good idea.

Zach King:

Well, as your third eye, according to rfk.

Barrick Gruber:

It'S the craziest stuff.

Barrick Gruber:

It so is.

Barrick Gruber:

Well, Laurie and Cole, it has been an absolute pleasure.

Barrick Gruber:

We are really glad you joined us.

Barrick Gruber:

But before we let you go, I do have one gift to Cole, and I'm hoping you see it as a gift.

Barrick Gruber:

You're 14 years old.

Barrick Gruber:

You live with your parents.

Barrick Gruber:

Obviously.

Barrick Gruber:

I mean, you know, they're not going to kick you out this soon.

Barrick Gruber:

The emotions that you had after the election results, I wanted to give you the opportunity to swear.

Barrick Gruber:

And we'll put it on Timer.

Barrick Gruber:

So for 30 seconds, call as loud as you want to be in reflection of the election outcome, please, when you're ready.

Cole King:

You dumb.

Cole King:

You stupid pieces of.

Barrick Gruber:

Kicked him out.

Cole King:

Once, and you couldn't give it to us again?

Cole King:

I didn't ask for this dumb to be back again.

Zach King:

Cole, that last one was over 30 seconds.

Zach King:

That one counts, Mom.

Zach King:

You're allowed to grab one.

Barrick Gruber:

Thank you.

Zach King:

Well said.

Barrick Gruber:

That was.

Barrick Gruber:

That was cathartic for me as well.

Zach King:

Yeah, we're going to put it in stone.

Barrick Gruber:

I felt every.

Barrick Gruber:

Every single piece of it.

Barrick Gruber:

Thank you.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

Look, it is.

Barrick Gruber:

It has been an absolute pleasure, and I.

Barrick Gruber:

Cole, anytime you guys want to come on and say anything, if you've got anything to say, please, we will be the buffer to the stoop that's out there because we relate with a lot of them.

Lori King:

Yeah.

Barrick Gruber:

Anything else you guys want to say before we check out?

Lori King:

I just want to say we appreciate it, and we've gotten to connect with a lot of great people like you guys because of his video going viral.

Lori King:

So we talked a little bit about the negative, but overall, the response was.

Cole King:

So positive, like, way past the negative.

Lori King:

Yeah, he loved reading the comments.

Lori King:

He loved the support.

Lori King:

We loved that.

Lori King:

You know, you supported us, Barrett, and reached out and.

Lori King:

Yeah, we can't say thank you enough.

Barrick Gruber:

No, it's.

Barrick Gruber:

It's been our absolute pleasure.

Barrick Gruber:

And I will speak for Zach on that, because he doesn't.

Barrick Gruber:

I'm gonna.

Barrick Gruber:

I may cut him off, but.

Barrick Gruber:

No, it.

Barrick Gruber:

Absolutely, it's been our pleasure, because I.

Barrick Gruber:

You know, honestly, I think it's gonna take the youth, it's gonna take the generation that is coming of age, and that's really what it's gonna take to really right the ship on this one.

Cole King:

Yes.

Barrick Gruber:

Because, you know, I got too many dumb friends and we all have some of those.

Barrick Gruber:

They're dragging us down.

Barrick Gruber:

We're all drowning.

Barrick Gruber:

We're all drowning.

Barrick Gruber:

They're just trying to make us first is what's going on.

Barrick Gruber:

Yes.

Barrick Gruber:

All right, that is going to do it.

Barrick Gruber:

For episode number 232.

Barrick Gruber:

I want to thank you again, Cole, Laurie, for being on Zach.

Barrick Gruber:

These are clearly your cousins, so probably I'll take it.

Cole King:

I wouldn't be surprised.

Zach King:

I wouldn't either.

Barrick Gruber:

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Barrick Gruber:

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Barrick Gruber:

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Zach King:

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Barrick Gruber:

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Barrick Gruber:

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Barrick Gruber:

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Barrick Gruber:

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Barrick Gruber:

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Barrick Gruber:

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Barrick Gruber:

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In this world of 24-Cable-News, Editorializations of our World, Politics, Wars, Pandemics, Partisan-ism, Sports, Entertainment... The constant barrage of information, we like to take a few moments and discuss particulars and their effect. We seek to learn and find direction. We look for understanding and good conversation in a world of unease.
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Barrett Gruber

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Originally from Atlanta, Barrett has worked professionally in Radio and Television. By day, he works in Business Analytics and Quality Assurance, and by night he takes in news, politics and sports and some how makes light of nearly all of it. Rooted in Comedy and Satire, Barrett gives his honest and well informed opinion on the world we all must experience.

Zachary King

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Just a guy that wears free shirts. Seriously. You give him a shirt, he will absolutely wear it. Don't ask for it back. He's all about the freebies. Seriously, again, he begs for free stuff.