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All right. Hello. And we're back to another episode of the Chase Thomas podcast from Still, the A for mention Chase Thomas come to you live from Knoxville, Tennessee, Everything School, HQ.

Joining me from Saturdaydownsouth.com. It's Ethan Stone. Ethan, good evening, sir. How are you? I am doing very well. I mowed the lawn today. I went outside and actually, like, all my grass is dying right now because it's 10 trillion degrees outside. So I needed one more big moan and I think I'm going to be done for a pretty decent while because there's just no more grass left at this point because as I've said we're going on what week two

three now of straight feels like 100 degrees so I don't know about you guys I'm sick of it but I'm

definitely ready to talk some some Tennessee football Tennessee athletics with you guys

Cleesey dog is sick of it because I can't it's I'm hard It's hard to find the time to walk her because it's just like 90 degrees early and then it's 90 degrees late and you're like, man, I just, I don't know, it's been tough. She's been a huge winners and losers column. Clacy the dog, summer loser here in Knoxville, Tennessee because of the seat because it's just she she thinks she wants to go out and then we'll go and she's like oh yeah though still bad

never mind back Summer loser here in Knoxville, Tennessee because of the seat. Because it's just she thinks she wants to go out and then we'll go out and she's like, oh, yeah, though, still bad. Never mind. Back in the house. Full on, what's his name, Howie from the Benchwormers. Sunbat, not my friend, not my friend. But yeah, speaking of Sunbad, not his friend, but yet he still ventures out on the golf course every day. I know he was in the golf course today because Caleb Jeroe of the Daily Times informed me before we went on the air that he's tracking Ryan Chumperd's golf app and when he's going golfing. So he was like, yeah, no, Ryan I think he's golfing today. And I was like, how do you know that? And he's like, yeah, he updates his app. So he's got like a, Shump's got a letterbox tracker or Goodreads tracker for the golf courses,

which is right on brand.

Rocket Up Insatter.

Brian Chumper is here, obviously.

How are you?

Good.

Yeah, no, I have two of those three things.

I have the golf version.

I do use Goodreads, not a letterbox guy. But I hate to inform you to Caleb Chorale is fake news media. Was not on the golf course today. It was driving back from Nashville. One of a track that I've made. Did you log it today, though? Log what? That you were on the golf course. Oh, you didn't log like a previous day or something. Okay.? Log what? No.

Oh,

you didn't log like a previous day or something.

Okay. Uh, no. I did play yesterday evening, so I mean, maybe he would have, he just checked on, clicked on the app. I probably would have been the last of his friends playing yesterday. Uh, so maybe that confused him. You know, I've made the trek from Nashville to Knoxville on 40.

I don't know. It would be a good thought exercise, probably around 100 times now driving myself. I think today was the slowest ever. Absolutely brutal trek. So I'm glad to be out of the car and talking a little ball. Man, yeah, I don't, I don't do the, I think if I had to do the Atlanta drive a lot, they would me now because i feel like a lot people complain about chattanooga traffic like when she gets there and things like that i would imagine it would drive me nuts but i just don't do it that often so i just don't really sit in any kind of any kind of traffic but um if y'all want to break down here over the next 40 minutes like how we can fix traffic and if we should expand the lanes. Do we need more lanes on the highways? Do we need less? What's the fix here as the gridlock guys is what they call us all across East Tennessee? Uh-oh, Ethan's got to take here. Less human beings. That'll help it. Get out of here. I don't think that's going happen. I think we're going going more. I think we're growing. No, we're going down. Oh, it's just going to get worse. I'm talking about Knoxville, Tennessee. Well, maybe Knoxville, Tennessee. I know. I'm not a right here. I know to birth rate in the United States as a hole is going down. Yeah. So, Oh, but Knoxville, Tennessee, I think it's going up.

And part of it is the Schumpert family and their park. Getting rated number two park nationally only heard things because people Google, they're like, oh, Tommy Shumber Park got to go here. They're building a new neighborhood across the street. Maybe we need to jump in here. and I don't want to say it's directly correlated to the Shumpert family name,

but I'm also not saying it.

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