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it out Monday, Wednesday, and Friday

nights on the Ringer Podcast Network. All right, we are back from New York.

Triumphantly, we returned to Nashville.

We'll be honest with you, nobody cared but our family. It was not like a welcome party. I was expecting more.

I think the fact that we were gone for 12 hours, well you were gone a little bit longer. I was gone for like 12 hours. I walked in. My daughter

usually is very excited to see me. I walked in. She leaned her head up, laid it back

down and started watching her show. That was about the welcome home I got.

Sounds like the Jesse I know in life.

My family is very excited for me to be gone for 12 to 24 hours so that was fine. How about as soon as we got there you had issues with

tornadoes at your house again are you another tornado survivor? The trees were salvaged.

Our two new trees got bent all the way to the ground.

Wait, these were new trees.

I thought when you were saying... Well, they were also limbs down in the back, yeah.

But like when you said trees, I thought you were talking about...

Hey, have you ever been, I thought you were talking.

Hey, have you ever been through a tornado?

Oh, my shouldn't talk about it.

So that was how Trade Night began for me.

My wife calling me crying from the basement with the dogs

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