In the aftermath of Election Day 2024, Us & Them host Trey Kay reflects on the increasingly divided American landscape and how the tone of political campaigns has changed since 2016. In this special episode, he recounts the heightened polarization marked by unprecedented events like two assassination attempts and a last-minute nominee switch. Kay c…

On this episode of Low Budget Live (Not So Live), Luke runs his mouth about his thoughts on Bassmaster going "entry fee free" for the 2025 Bassmaster Elite Series' season! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesPor Luke Dunkin

On this episode of Low Budget Live (Not So Live), Luke runs his mouth about health scares, the Lake of the Ozarks NPFL, and talks big wins for the "working man", getting rowdy with a buzzbait, local tourney anglers get too close for comfort, and winning $100k with NPFL Champ, Nick Brown! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice…

The 2024 Presidential election season continues to be a rollercoaster of unpredictable actions, reactions and events. It seems each week brings big political headlines. Political campaigns have always had some rough edges, but now, candidates routinely call each other names and some frequently perpetuate outright lies in their speeches and at their…

On this episode of Low Budget Live (Not So Live), Luke runs his mouth about the third Saturday in October, being in "frenemy" territory, the 2024 Alabama Bass Trail Championship on Lay Lake, this week's NPFL event on Lake of the Ozarks, more anglers leaving BPT, and talks with 2024 WON BASS US Open Champ, Bryant Smith, on winning one of the most pr…

On this episode of Low Budget Live ACTUALLY LIVE, Luke runs his mouth about Pickleball injuries, the upcoming ABT championship, and is joined by newly qualified Bassmaster Elite angler, Beau Browning, about his road to the Elites, growing up on the tourney trail, advice from Dad, crackhouses in college and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Vi…

On this episode of Low Budget Live (Not So Live), Luke runs his mouth about kids growing up too fast, folks in our nation hurting, and talks with the Queen of Alabama Bass fishing, Kay Donaldson, about the origins of the Alabama Bass Trail, why team tournaments are so important in the fishing landscape, scheduling tourneys on top of football games …

We love our sports in America. From little league to professional competition, athletic teams can bring us together. However sports can also spotlight some of our most pointed social, culture and racial debates. Mascot names drive a wedge between fans. Some athletes choose to display their opinions about political candidates or police violence. In …

On this episode of Low Budget Live (Actually Live), Luke runs his mouth with Trey Swindle about the Bassmaster Opens changes, hurricane heartbreaks, college football, quarter showers and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesPor Luke Dunkin

Us & Them host Trey Kay invites us all back for a new dinner party episode bringing together a wide-ranging group of people for food and conversation. Kay has used this gathering as a forum to break bread with folks who hold vastly different beliefs. The topics are varied… trust in elections - campus carry and gun rights - party conventions and can…

On this episode of Low Budget Live (Not So Live), Luke runs his mouth about the joys of college football season, the craziness of the fair coming to town, the upcoming NPFL event on the St. John's River, MLF hitting a homerun with the Team Series, and talks rule changes, sponsor changes, the MLF team event, and competing with your pro Dad with BPT …

On this episode of Low Budget Live (Not So Live), Luke runs his mouth about the importance of family time, no more West Coast Toyotas, the Bassmaster EQ race, picking a lane on polygraphs, and is joined by 2 time Bassmaster Elite AOY, Gerald Swindle, to talk G's plans to write a book(or two), getting "here" quick, give a damn switches being flipped…

In Charleston, West Virginia, there’s a monthly live storytelling event called “Three Things” that invites three highly-visible members of the community to talk about their careers. The guests are asked to follow a simple prompt: tell the audience about their First, their Favorite and their Future. Jeff Shirley, the producer and host of “Three Thin…

On this episode of Low Budget Live ACTUALLY LIVE (Dunkin Butts 3), Luke and Josh Butts run their mouths about the show Chimp Crazy, James Niggemeyer's interesting social media following, give the Dunkin Butts Rules and Regulations Round Up for NPFL, Bassmaster, and Major League Fishing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

On this episode of Low Budget Live ACTUALLY LIVE, Luke talks with NPFL President, Brad Fuller, regarding today's announcement on the League banning forward facing sonar for the 2025 season! This makes the NPFL the first fishing organization to make this move! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

On this episode of Low Budget Live (Actually Live), Luke runs his mouth about Mark Zona walking away from live coverage and his impact on the industry, Easton Fothergill seeing double, Carl Jocumsen getting off the Classic Bubble, and talks with 2024 Bassmaster Elite Series' AOY, Chris Johnston, about winning the title, the St. Lawrence River "Spot…

Many people expected the 2024 presidential election would be unpredictable. But no one anticipated the recent sequence of events - Joe Biden’s debate performance, the assassination attempt on Donald Trump and Kamala Harris’s move to the top of the Democratic ticket. On this Us & Them episode, host Trey Kay looks at where all this is leading to… the…

On this episode of Low Budget Live (Not So Live), Luke runs his mouth about the LEGEND that is Rick Clunn, the tricky part about passing and failing polygraphs, all the drama at the final Bassmaster Elite Series event on the St. Lawrence River, and is joined by Tennessee Vol Offensive Lineman, Dayne Davis, to talk going from walk-on to receiving a …

On this episode of Low Budget Live (Not So Live), Luke runs his mouth about the 7 year anniversary of LBL, BPT anglers getting cut, Elite rookies and polygraphs, 8 pound smallmouth, and is joined in the Bar and Grill by the Triple Threat (Marissa Dunkin) to talk 10 years of marriage, life before and after LBL, Mexico craziness, the origin of the na…

There’s a serious labor shortage in the U.S. right now with millions of jobs going unfilled. Each year, West Virginia releases 50,000 people from state prisons and local jails and all those people need jobs. On this episode of Us & Them, host Trey Kay spotlights a recent event in Charleston, West Virginia called “Second Chances for a Stronger Workf…

On this episode of Low Budget Live (Not So Live), Luke runs his mouth about needing an Ozempics sponsorship, a big anniversary coming up, the Unified Pros/MLF connections, the results in the FFS Low Lifer poll, and talks to his ole buddy, and recent Tackle Warehouse Invitational Champ, Keith Carson, on "beating the scopers", adapting to the "dark s…

On this episode of Low Budget Live (Not So Live), Luke runs his mouth about a crazy fish story, asks Low Lifers to take part in a FFS poll, and talks with Bassmaster Elite Series Rookie, Logan Parks, about his quick trip to the Elites, giving away his boat, what he thinks the pro organizations should do regarding FFS and more! Learn more about your…

America’s prisons incarcerate people who’ve violated the law, but at some point, at least 95% of all state prisoners will be released back into the free world. Some struggle to navigate that transition successfully. On this encore Us & Them episode, host Trey Kay hears about the challenges of reentry. Some of those challenges are essential but basi…

On this episode of Low Budget Live (Not So Live), Luke runs his mouth about the craziness in our world these days, the good, the bad, and the ugly from ICAST, and is joined for the first time, via the Eagle Claw hotline, by Mark Daniels Jr.! Luke and MDJ discuss Mark's hard fought journey to becoming a very successful pro, leaving the West Coast be…

On this episode of Low Budget Live (Not So Live), Luke runs his mouth about the upcoming ICAST show in Orlando, The NPFL's amazing Pickwick event, and is joined in the Bar and Grill by NPFL Pro, and owner of Sonar Pros, Trent Palmer, for a great discussion on where we are headed in the electronics world, Patrick Walters being a dream crusher, surro…

Overcrowding and understaffing have pushed West Virginia’s prisons and jails to what many believe is a crisis point. On this Us & Them, we hear what incarceration is like for someone in a mental health crisis. Hundreds of thousands of people with mental illnesses are caught up in a criminal justice system that was never intended to treat them. In a…

On this episode of Low Budget Live (Not So Live), Luke returns to the Bar and Grill after a week off to talk about his crazy vacation kickoff, American joy, pure fishing joy, talks the legend that was Bob Sealy, Taku time, Elite Mama Drama, and fading integrity! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

We are releasing this bonus podcast because this month marks a significant milestone for Us & Them, West Virginia and actually American history. Fifty years ago today, on June 27th, the Board of Education in Kanawha County, West Virginia set off a chapter of the nation’s culture wars as it debated whether to purchase a controversial series of new t…

On this episode of Low Budget Live ACTUALLY LIVE, it’s the return of Dunkin Butts, as Josh Butts joins Luke for round two and the duo welcomes in Jonathan Collins (GOOB), Trey Swindle, and Kyle Patrick for a random, wild, a “boardroom” conversation about everything from honesty in fishing, the pressures of success, Carjitsu, Indian scammers, and mo…

Fifty years ago this month, a fierce controversy erupted over newly adopted school textbooks in Kanawha County, West Virginia. The fight led to violent protests in West Virginia. Dynamite hit school buildings. Bullets hit buses. And protesting miners forced some coal mines to shut down - because of the new multicultural textbooks. The classroom mat…

On this episode of Low Budget Live ACTUALLY LIVE, Luke runs his mouth about the MLF/Birge debacle, The Champlain Invitational, Barstool Sports talking Bassmaster, and talks big wins, dragging worms, being a part of the most successful rookie class in pro fishing history, and more with Bassmaster Elite Champ, John Garrett! Learn more about your ad c…

Forty-two million Americans or about 12 percent of the the population need help feeding their families. That help often comes from a federal program called SNAP - which stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly called food stamps. The Mountain State is one of the top recipients of SNAP benefits. Nearly 45 percent of recipients …

On this episode of Low Budget Live (Not So Live), Luke runs his mouth about Father's Day, proud Dad moments, the SBS online launch, women in fishing making history, the Elite Alabama swing, and talks with retiring Elite Series' pro, Derek Hudnall, about integrity, doing things your own way, emotional decisions, avoiding "flipchickens", and more! Le…

On this episode of Low Budget Live (Not So Live), Luke runs his mouth about being the "old man in the room", constantly being blown away by the youth movement in fishing, the recent BFL All American, and talks all things college fishing, NIL deals, pool sharking, being an Elite rookie, being a Tennessee Volunteer and more with Bassmaster Elite Seri…

On this episode of Low Budget Live (Not So Live), Luke runs his mouth about visiting some companies doing things the right way, a Memorial Day weekend well spent on Lake Guntersville, fisherman that have lost all sense of boundaries and personal space, Jordan Lee wins all the MLF cash again, and talks with hourly big bass tourney guru, Bob Sealy, a…

We continue to learn more about the way childhood trauma can affect our physical and psychological health and the result is creating a social movement. More than two decades ago, researchers first came up with a way to assess the impact of childhood neglect, abuse and family dysfunction. Nearly half the kids under 18 in the U.S. have had an adverse…

On this episode of Low Budget Live ACTUALLY LIVE Luke is joined in the LBL Bar and Grill by the one and only Josh Butts, winner of the most recent Alabama Bass Trail, for a great conversation about everything from Elite Series Pro Wes Logan scarring Josh for life, Elite Series' rookie drama, and the duo talk with Mike Corbishley about his recent $1…

On this episode of Low Budget Live (Not So Live), Luke runs his mouth about Mother's Day, gambling "addictions", commenters choosing sides with Trey McKinney and Gerald Swindle, NPFL firing back up, and talks with BPT/NPFL Pro, Zack Birge, about "finally" winning, winning in front of friends and family, staying positive through MLF drama, winning a…

Homelessness has been on the rise since 2016 and the pandemic only exacerbated an acute shortage of resources to help people living on the streets. Now, many communities are struggling to provide support as some homeless people turn away from emergency shelters and remain in outdoor encampments. In Charleston, West Virginia, the city’s opioid respo…

On this episode of Low Budget Live (Actually Live), Luke runs his mouth about the Bassmaster Open on Logan Martin, the Gerald Swindle/Trey McKinney “situation”, and talks to BTL Host, and Bassmaster Opens’ Pro, Matt Pangrac, on his way home from the amazing St. Jude’s event he not only raised tons of money for, but WON! The two also talk about the …

On this episode of Low Budget Live (Not So Live), Luke runs his mouth about the anniversary of his FLW Tour win at Beaver Lake, going back to the place that started LBL, integrity within the ABT anglers, Texas cracking down on fishing thieves, and talks with Elite Series' pro, Cory Johnston, on getting the win on the St. Johns, fighting in fishing,…

There’s a foster care crisis in America. Nationally, more than 390,000 children are in foster care, in West Virginia that’s just over 6,000 children who need a safe place to call home. Last year, more than half of all states saw their number of licensed homes drop, some as high as 60 percent. That challenge comes because new foster parents don’t st…

On this episode of Low Budget Live (Not So Live), Luke runs his mouth about a very special kids fishing with local law enforcement called "Cops and Bobbers", Rick Clunn competing in 500 events, the Rick Clunn mindset more people need to adopt, and talks the reality for up and coming pros, crazy viral videos, pioneers of college fishing, and pro fis…

On this episode of Low Budget Live ACTUALLY LIVE, Luke is joined in the Bar and Grill by Todd Hammond from Southern Boating Supply to talk live with Fish Tips' own, Austin Neary about the creation of the "controversial" platform, and then Elite Series/NPFL pro, John Cox joins the show to talk the challenges of ignoring FFS, fishing ALL the events, …

More than 4.5 million Americans cannot vote because of a felony conviction but only about a quarter are currently in prison. On the newest episode of Us & Them, host Trey Kay talks with people who support expanded voting rights for felons, and those who say people who’ve committed crimes should forfeit their rights until they serve their entire sen…

On this episode of Low Budget Live (Not So Live), Luke runs his mouth about the inaugural TAA event on Lake Lanier, the Bryan New/Andrew Upshaw DQ, and talks with James "Worldwide" Watson on his recent suspension/ban from all Major League Fishing events! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

On this episode of Low Budget Live (Not So Live), Luke runs his mouth about the launch of Southern Boating Supply, this year's Bassmaster Classic awesomeness, hands out "April Fools" awards, discusses why BPT anglers should be concerned with the James Watson suspension, and talks to Elite Series' Rookie, Kyle Patrick, on his recent top 10 in the Cl…

On this episode of Low Budget Live (Not So Live), Luke runs his mouth from the Xpress Boats' booth at the 2024 Bassmaster Classic with special guests Xpress Boats' President Rory Herndon, Elite Series' Champ Bill Lowen, Grosse Savanne's Doug Miller, PRADCO's Chad Warner, The One and Only STICK From Baitwrx, Lowrance Guru and NPFL Pro Mike Corbishle…

On this episode of Low Budget Live (Actually LIVE LIVE LIVE) from the Bassmaster Classic, Luke runs his mouth from The Hunt Club in Tulsa, OK in front of a ROWDY bunch of Low Lifers with special guests James Watson and Trey Swindle! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesPor Luke Dunkin

Our country’s divides often reveal themselves in our choices and habits, including how and where we get our information. As the economics of the media landscape have imploded, the economics of the industry have forced changes. In the past two decades, online sites have taken over much of the income stream from classified ads and general advertising…