HHH Show 080326 - Hour 4

But I ask the question, what does that have to do with being governor of the state of Tennessee? Let's talk about the job description. The governor of the state of Tennessee is the state's CEO. So the governor runs the executive branch of state government. And the governor is charged with enforcing state law. And that's a big job, just running the executive branch, making sure laws enforced in the state of Tennessee. Probably the biggest thing the governor will do is propose the vision for the allocation of funds. So the governor and his team, they write the budget every year and submit the state budget to Congress or to the House of Representatives and the Senate for their approval. So the governor proposes and then the House and the Senate disposed. But that's a huge thing because they're going to put a pen to every department of government. And they're going to decide on what the budget is. They're going to present that budget in a state of the state address every year and ask the state legislature to support the direction that that governor wants to go in and what they're elected to do. Another big part of being governor of the state of Tennessee is appointments.

This is one of the biggies. The governor of the state of Tennessee actually names most department heads and fills most of the post in the state. So the people leading all the different departments of government get picked by the governor and his or her team. And that has a big impact on how the state runs or doesn't run. So your governor has to pick people. Your governor has to surround themselves with people who are really good finding the right people. Not just, you know, there's a huge difference between liking somebody or being politically aligned with somebody and then whether or not a person can manage and execute. and lead people well. Those are different things. The governor in the state of Tennessee grants partons and commutations and is the commander-in-chief of the State National Guard. It's governor of the state of Tennessee. Governor can serve two consecutive terms. limited to two consecutive terms, but a governor, I did not know this. Like, for instance, Bill Haslam could run for governor again. If you sit out a term, you can run again. Phil Bredesen could run again. Just sit out one term, you can run again. You can only hold office two consecutive terms. I don't know of anybody that's tried to come back and do it again, though. I have to look back in Tennessee history. You have to be at least 30 years of age, a U.S. citizen. And you have to live or have lived in Tennessee for seven years prior to running for governor of the state of Tennessee. So you don't have to be born and raised in Tennessee, but you have to have been here for seven years. So given that, I am qualified to run for governor of the state of Tennessee.

I love this state. I do. I could not. First of all, you have to, if you want to do something, you have to believe. I don't believe I could come within a sniff. But that conversation with Monty Fritz was challenging to me. Because when I look at this job description, and when I think about Marsha Blackburn and John Rose, And then when I think about what I want in a governor of the state of Tennessee, I want the state's number one cheerleader. But here's where I may be radically different. I start my show with this every day. Now, I love you, and I want the very best for you. I mean that... down to the last atom cork or string in my pinky toe. I want this to be the best place in the world for you to live your best life and make your best contribution. I want you to be safe in your person and your property. I want you to have an on-ramp to a better life. Whatever better is for you, I want your kids to get a great education. I want our state to run hyper efficiently. I don't want to waste a dollar. I want to make sure we have plenty of money laid up for a rainy day. I want to make sure strategically we're planning for the future that we as Tennesseans want. Smart growth. But at the end of the day, I want you to be free. I want you to be free. And... More and more. You can't get elected now in America without running red or blue, right? Tomorrow we're going to look through. It's bonkers, too, the platform of the Democratic Socialist of America. This lady won out in Colorado, won her primary in Colorado, and she was interviewed on Frontline, and I was listening to her, and I'm like, I've never explored the platform of the Democratic Socialist of America. And the interviewer on Frontline went. point by point through the platform and asked her, you know, is this what you really mean? We're going to take a look at that tomorrow. When I think about being the governor of a state and when I think about my state,

I believe that conservative operating principles create a situation where people can flourish. And what do I mean by that? If you consider these conservative principles, might not. Number one, if the state is fiscally conservative, don't waste any of your tax dollars. Don't overtax you. Let you keep more of your own money. Put something aside for a rainy day and grow the economy forward instead of tax the economy. I want you to keep more of your own money and I want the government to be very careful with the money that you give them to run the state. Like I said, I want you to have opportunity. You know, when Monty Fritz was talking about the tax on groceries and holding the line of property tax, that really addresses an issue that has, now that we've politicized everything, you can't even have the conversation. But the whole conversation around affordability, people being able to afford their lives so that they have breathing room so they can build a life and move forward.

So conservative operating principles means we run lean. You keep more money in your pocket. When it comes to social issues, I want you to figure that out in your local community. I don't want to try to do that by edict from the governor's mansion. I don't want to do that. I believe that if you have hope and economic opportunity, you'll sort that out. When people have the things they need, part of what I believe sets people up for left or right is some unmet need. They feel like they're being taken advantage of or ignored or whatever. Their government is not functioning in their favor. In my mind, that doesn't have to mean that the government is giving you everything. In fact, in my mind, it means the government is out of your way and you have the space to flourish. That if you plant a seed in this soil and you water and fertilize it, it will grow because the soil is good. We just make good topsoil. We make sure that there's sunlight and rain. You've got to plant, cultivate, harvest the seed. But if you do, you will harvest. You do the work. State gets out of your way. That's the stuff I believe in. So I would be deeply challenged. I'd be deeply challenged. You know, I would be deeply challenged. You know, I would be deeply challenged trying to make a state that is red or blue. I just want you to live in a state of happiness. I want you to live in a state of opportunity. I want you to live in a state of safety. I want you to live in a state of freedom. That's the state I want you to live in. Then you, within that state where you have liberty and freedom, you get to decide. I'm conservative. Yay. Be all you can be. You get to decide. You know what, I'm progressive. I'm liberal. Yeah, be all you can be. The fundamentals are these, ladies and gentlemen, you over here, you over there. The fundamentals are these. The state's not going to waste your money. We're not going to overtax you. You're going to be safe in your person and your property. You're going to have an on-ramp to the middle class or a better life. You guys sort out all that other stuff. Start your day with the morning jolt of Drake C. Toll. See, now it's on demand. My podcast is kind of a radio thing, I think, but also it's a bit of a TV show, and it's about whatever I want it to be. It's listening live as it happened, when it happened, with the instant reaction. You're home for talking sports. We go back, the Great Toll Show, Westwood One Sports Network, and there will be on demand on your radio. Anywhere in the country, I'll see you there. Westwood One Sports Talk, your home for Drake C. Toll. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. All right, phone lines open 656-8255-1-8255-1-8256-5-6 talk, 1-800-9-51 talk. Yeah, I am, but I'll tell you what I am aware of, ladies and gentlemen, and that is this. I don't, I'm not sure that you win.

You don't win elections on plans, strategies. I don't think that's how it works. I've not witnessed that. I have not witnessed that. Now, you can govern based on principle and strategy. Definitely. You can govern on it. I don't think you can win on it. I don't believe you can win on it. I believe that you have limited time. You present an issue. And if that issue is resonant, you hammer down, it breaks through the clutter. And by and large, fear, fear is the driver. And, yeah. So when I sit here and tell you what I believe and, you know, I say something that seems as weird as, I love you and I want the best life for you, and I don't care whether you like me or not or you agree with me or not, for me, that's not a necessarily political thing, structure may be the way to deliver on that for me that's all it is and but that's ladies and gentlemen that won't get you elected that and that's what i want But if you're out there and you're listening to people and you're listening to what people are telling you they're concerned about. If people are telling you how, no, no, no, no. What I'm concerned about is I'm concerned about a woke agenda overtaking our state. But our state is ruby red. There's no, first of all, we have a Republican ruby red supermajority. That can't. That's not Tennessee. It may be New York City. It's not Tennessee. But if that's what the constituents tell you, you represent me, I'm electing you as governor to execute on these priorities. I might go, no, that's not my job as governor. I'm CEO of the state. Here's what I'm supposed to do. I'm supposed to make sure that you're free and safe. that your state is well run. You might have to sort that part out over there. But you don't blow a tire driving down the interstate. You don't have... a data center two miles from your house and your power bills going through the roof and your water supplies being challenged and you got environmental stuff related to that. Your kid when they go to school in the state of Tennessee doesn't have to deal with a lot of stuff cluttering up the ability for them to learn and love learning. There are jobs so that there are pathways when that kid graduates from high school, they can take a technical.

route they can go to college there's there's opportunity to grow and to that's yeah we're going to bring businesses in we're going to grow the existing businesses that are here the rest of it but that's what makes sense to me but but if you're really listening to the people and maybe these candidates are as they're campaigning and as they're testing their messaging and they're looking at what happens, maybe that's what's resonating. That's what's resonating, right? Because people don't live in a local political context. Explain more, Hallor, and what, sorry, I hit my microphone. Explain more, what do you mean by that? What I mean by that is if you're on Facebook and Instagram and you're watching the national news all the time and you are in more of a national news and social media flow, then those issues dominate. Thinking about infrastructure. You're not going to see anything. For instance, you're not going to see anything on social media tonight. You're not going to see like a big hullabaloo tonight about Tennessee's roads and bridges. It's not going to be in the feed. I'm just not going to be there. You're not going to see anything about property tags or, you know. This is not going to be there. But you might hear something about the WNBA. And you might hear something about, I don't know. I have to say this, I haven't heard anybody really talk about the job description of governor of the state of Tennessee being a CEO. And all of the things that come with that, appointing the people who lead the state, preparing and focusing on the budget of the state of Tennessee. And that budget. what it produces in terms of opportunity for people in the state of Tennessee and the fiscal responsibility to the people of the state of Tennessee that work hard to earn that money, turn it over to the state for the state to do what it's supposed to do. I haven't heard anybody talk about that. Not a single candidate have I heard say, in my first budget, I am going to propose X, Y, or Z. The U.S. soccer podcast. I'm your host, Megan Klingeberg. And after interviewing so many dudes during this men's World Cup, I'm so happy to be back with my U.S. women's national team players. I know the U.S. men's national team has changed how I think about myself, how I think about being an American, how I think about being on a team. It's one year out from that World Cup, and we're going to talk about the brightest prospects in U.S. soccer. You ready? I'm ready. Let's do it. The U.S. soccer podcast. Presented by Henko. Follow and listen on your favorite. No, I don't. I'm struggling right now, boss. With temptation. Man, get the pizza. I can't do it, bro. You want me to go get it and eat it for you? Just sit there with you on the deck. Man, this piece right here, bro. Let me watch you eat it. We. You will love. Don't do that. Oh, my God.

bruh no i wouldn't do that to you i had pizza i haven't had pizza in a long time you know something i hadn't had in a long time and i had it over the weekend what's that i hadn't had and you're probably going to say come on are you serious i hadn't had cereal in years ooh what'd you have raisin brand Raisin brand crushes. I had some raisin brand over the weekend, dude. And I was like, ooh. Raisin brand is good. And it'll run you through. I got that because I needed a little running. Yeah. But it wasn't what I was. remembering it to be because I used almond milk and that's what I was using when I, you know, last ate cereal. Yeah. And it, it, it, it, it, it tasted a little light. Ah. So I was looking for some, uh, condensed milk. I was going to drop some condensed milk up up in there, picking it up just a little bit. And, uh, uh, didn't have any. You know what I like, but I worked it. But I worked it. What's that? Cream of wheat. Okay. You ever had cream of wheat? Not with condensed milk, though. Ooh, we. I can see that. Ooh, we. I can see that, actually. My, my, my. I can see that. Boy, I'm so tempted right now, Chris. Don't do it. I'm not going to do it. Yeah, don't do it. I don't think I'm going to do it. I'm not going to do it. A little lighter. I don't think I'm going to do it. Even lighter, I might not do it. I like deep dish pizza. And there's nothing on planet Earth. Pizza Hut used to have it on lock. They may let you go in and just sniff. They used to have it on lock. But when it comes to deep dish pizza, that daggum jets. My, my, my, my, my, my. When you get the Jets home, you take it out, you put it back in the toaster oven. You understand what I'm saying? No, but go ahead. Put it in the toaster oven to resume the crisp. Pull it out. Put it on a plate. You snow all over it with parmesan cheese. Let it snow, let it snow. You snow all over it. Hit it with some red pepper flakes. Just some little spots of hot sauce. Get a fork and a very sharp knife. My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my. It's a bit much. No, it's not. You said snow, it's not. Okay. Snow is not. No, it's not. Boy. Okay. And the craving is so deep inside of me. Sometimes you've got to give into it, man. I'm not going to encourage you to do that. Brother. I feel you, though. Don't do it. You ever have cravings like that? Yeah, yeah, from time to time. A few weeks, maybe a month or so back, I had a crystal craving. Satisfied it, too, when it got me three cheese.

What you laughing at? Mike Drop, hosted by former Navy CEO, Mike Ridland. What is your take? Was it what you expected? Oh, it was the best thing ever. It was something I always wanted to do. If you show me a clear goal, I'm like, okay, I can do that. Master Chief. He's like, you realize there's about 1% chance that you're making a 3%. That's all I need Master Chief. My platoon went home early, and I just went up to my chief, and I was like, I'm not going home. Turns out I'm staying. That's when we go to war. Yeah, I was like, okay, I could get used to this. Mike Drop, follow and listen on your favorite platform. I'm not going to do that, though. I'm not going to do it. Don't do it. I'm not. I'm not. I am. I'm going to have some grilled chicken and. I'm going to get me a jet's deep dish pizza and go sit just outside of their diversified enclosures deck on the stoop and let that. Now, if you come on my property and you're sitting just outside the screened in porch, you got a little chair out there and a little table, and you're eating it and mocking me, and I know you got bad knees, and I've got those blickety blickety blicketys in there. I promise you, I'm going to get that pizza. My man, okay. I'm going to get that pizza. I got. I have tools. Okay. Got you. Keep a baseball bat. I wouldn't hit you with the blickety, blickety, but I would. I'd bust that one knee. See you drop down in the yard. Sol it would take. Hit that one kickstand. Bop! That's it. Ball game. Pizza goes up in the air. I dive and catch the pizza. I'd lay right on the grass next to you while you sitting there. Give me one, Neil. I rub your forehead while I'm eating that pizza and go, you still want to do this? Yep. Ron, welcome to the AAA Tradio Experience. Hello, are you there? I am here. Well, usually you say here's Ron, but you didn't say it this time. Ron, welcome. Here's Ron. Well, I'm, no, it's okay. I'm kind of hurt. I've been hurt before. It is okay. Hey, listen, I called about cereal, but I'm going to tell you something. Today was my last day on cardiac rehab. You know, I told you three months ago I had bypass service. Yes, sir. So anyway, you guys are talking about pizza and whatever, you know. Do you realize how that hurts people? And I'm saying this is kind of a tongue-in-cheek, okay? But you cannot believe if it tastes good, it's bad. Yeah, you can't have it. You can't have it. You can't have it. Don't touch it because you're going to die. Really, what I was going to say, I told Chris when I heard him something about the raisin brand.

When I came home, you know, you kind of want to eat well and all the kind of stuff. And now I'm almost 80s. So back in my day, we all lived on cereal when I, you know, 50s and 60s. And so I thought, well, let me get me some good cereal. And believe it or not, I got a box of raisin brand. And I took that raisin brand, and there's some raisins in there, but I mean, hey, come on there. They're on a budget, too, right? So I got me some of, you know, a little six-pack of the little sun-made raisins, you know? Yeah. And I put one of those boxes of that in there. Plus, I took a banana-na-na-nan-a-nan-nan-a-nan-na, and I sliced it up, then some cold milk. You talk about something good. Twice a week. Now, I eat that, and let me tell you something, it's got to be good. It's got to be good because you know later it has been good because it is brand. Work with me on this. Work with me on this. That's how you know things are good because it slid right on too. Rod, thanks for the call. I appreciate it. I'll be it. I'll be later. Bye. He said, you know it was good because it has been good. That is funny. That is hilarious. That is funny. And accurate. I'm going to have a grilled chicken breast and some broccoli and a simple salad and just let it go. There you go. Yeah. Proud of you. I'm proud of me. Yeah. I had a nice broccoli salad that Robin made last night. It was fantastic. And neck bones. What? Neck bones. What are neck bones? Exactly what I said. Neck bones. The bones of whose neck? I don't know if it came from a cow or a pig or a donkey or goat. I didn't even care. What does the meat taste like from a neck bone? Chicken. Ribs. It tastes like ribs. You, I think the technical phrase for what you are. Cheeky. Unruly.

You are so unruly. You are so... What does it taste like? Cheek. Everything tastes like chicken. It was good, though. Sure was. And she made a pound cake. Stop. Dang it. Stop it. That's what I said. Don't do that, bro. I said, why did you do that? Was it moist? Oh, my Lord. The pound cake. The best pound cake maker in my house. Ammani. Is Amani Karis Marion. Did she make this pound cake? She did not. Man, that lady right there, that young lady right there. Ask her how much aunt could buy one of her pound cakes for. Okay. See what the going rate is. I'll do it. When I saw her at the remote we did, she walked up and I'm like, who is this? Who is that grown lady? She was like fly, too. She was like. She was my baby. She was fly. She got a little flavor. I said, Chris is going to jail. She got a little flavor. That man is going to be down there at Knox County Jail talking about. You know he used to be on the radio. What's it saying? That's funny. I could sing, too. That's funny. Why are you in here? See, no, I'm not going to do that one. Yeah, don't. Don't. What had happened was. Then I said, what did you say? He said, Unk, sit down.

man you're a funny dog you're my dude 100% all mine I mean that man with everything you know I just told the truth you're my dude if you mess with any of Chris's the people that he loved he will sit down gladly I promise you, he'll be leading the choir out at Knox County before they send him to the federal penitentiary. He's going to be a good inmate. Come to Bible study all the time, happy. He's going to stay happy to keep him up off of him. Trying to get that early release. Oh. I love you, want the best for you. I know you've got dreams. My question is, what are you going to do about them? We'll see you on the radio. Bye-bye. Mike Drop, hosted by former Navy CEO, Mike Ridland. How would you characterize your prowess? I'd say my style is that I just kind of outwork everybody until I get there because I'm not a quitter. It's just you. It's yourself. Everything else is team-oriented. The motivation, it was a sort of anger at myself for being weak. That ends up being the driving factor. That anger, that pride, that ego, I think it's a muscle. It gets stronger. When you take that voice seriously, you start to change your life. Mike Drop, follow and listen on your favorite platform.