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We Let the Conversation Win · Tigs Bits Podcast

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Similar. You mean you can't can't hold
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the throttle down for so long? That's exactly right.
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That's exactly right. Especially Bubba.
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Especially Bubba. And Speaking of Bubba, welcome
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to Tiggy and the Handler. We're just rolling and it's the
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holiday season. It's late in the year, early
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next year, maybe whenever you're listening to this, who freaking
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knows? But but so happy that you're
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with us. You listen to us, as we
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sometimes say a little too much, but it is the absolute truth.
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It's tough for Jr. Jr. and I to get together.
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It's been our busy season. He's been busy.
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We're just going to recap a little bit about what the hell
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has been going on. Y'all with what's been going on
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in our worlds have some random randomness I am sure from good
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old Jr. and we're just going to shoot the bull and enjoy hanging
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out with y'all Jr. It's so good to see you my
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brother. What's been?
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Man, you 2, Tig nasty, Sir, it's been way too long.
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Yes, we both, everybody, we were talking about it all before we
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started rolling. You know, this time of the year
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is just kind of you in most industries, it's either you're
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busy, busy time because you're hustling for the holidays, or
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it's your time. You're trying to get everything
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done at home because you've hustled, hustled all year and
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it's your one Dang break to try to get stuff done.
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And you know, you and I, it's a combination of all of those and
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it's been, it's been way too long.
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I haven't done Jr. the handler show in a month and a half, two
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months either. I mean, so and I, anybody
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listening that watches or listens to that show as well, It
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ain't nothing going away. No worries.
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I had a few emails and texts about that.
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No, no stress there. Got some guests lined up, talked
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to a few people recently about it and it just I haven't had
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time to really get it nailed down.
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And, and like I said, everybody I talked to and here's a little
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insider to know if you listen to this show 'cause I tell you on
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the J Rother Handler show, you should check out when Tigs and I
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do shows as well and Tigs solo shows is, is is worth watching
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like I do. But if, if you know that I've
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talked to somebody and you'll know you watch this show.
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I talked to Jerry Sloan, who is a good friend of mine, and he is
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currently Luke Combs production manager, but he's been in the
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business longer than I have. He's got stories with some of
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the best in Nashville ever had to offer from his time moving
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there until where he's at now. I met him.
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He was on tour with Brantley Gilbert probably 10 years ago,
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as well as his then intern, RJ Estrella, who is now assistant
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Production manager for Luke Combs.
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And I'm double dipping because I'm going to have Jerry Sloan
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and RJ Estrella on the show at one time.
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And so last week Jerry hits me up.
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He's all gung ho. And I'm calling you out, Jerry,
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because that makes 1 of told you said you've been watching the
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show and check on this or somebody tell you he hustled me
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up for hey, we got you got to have me on the show.
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I'm like, dude, open invitation. You're one of the first people I
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thought of when I thought about this.
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You're one of my top 20. You know, if I listed them out,
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he'd probably even higher in the list than that.
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But of people that would be perfect for this show.
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And he was all about it. I said, well, let's shoot for
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next week. It's kind of tight this week,
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you know, and then perfect next week's better for us, too.
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I'll get RJ together. I texted him yesterday.
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Crickets. Ain't heard from him since.
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So. He's in the same line.
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Maybe you'll see this. That blows my mind on that
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someone even associated with Luke Combs even knows who the
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hell I am. I know they know you, but that
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just shows you The internet's a wild place, man.
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It's really cool the relationships that that I know
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that you built from your shows and being in the touring
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industry and doing all that that I've I've accumulated from doing
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stuff too that it's. Just, well, just a gum.
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Really amazing what we're doing right now, having a podcast and
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putting it out there for the public to to consume.
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You know, I mean, that's, that's, that's a bold step that
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it's hard. You know, I would have never
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thought if you'd asked me 10 years ago if I'd be doing
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something like this. No way.
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I couldn't even talk in front of random people, you know, crowds.
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I can talk in the locker room, But so we put ourselves in a
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position to to do that and meet all these, you know, just a
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broad spectrum. And we knew that coming out the
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whole when I first met you, when you were doing your show before
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you even brought Blasey and I on the randomness of the people you
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were having in the wide and you know, and then the people I
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meet. So it just makes sense that we
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would have this big pallet of wide pallet of different.
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Varieties and. Friends yeah, absolutely.
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You know, and that's why I kind of honed down the the Jr. the
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handler show so I can learn more into just the music and the
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behind the scenes type stuff on that same as you, you want to
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learn more into the the food and the LSU stuff and the you know
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the culture and and it's worked great.
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I mean it's just I think it's just that like we said when we
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everything's just getting better and better.
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We've Blasey's come out from from the abyss and he's been
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poking around a little bit so he's he's been active on our our
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guys text as well so I'm excited about that.
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So we're going to get a little work out of him soon.
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But but. I got a feeling he we will.
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I got a feeling we will have a blasey.
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Appearance. This time last year.
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This time last year, we were having to do like 12 podcasts a
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week to fill all our obligations.
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And it's true. It killed us.
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It killed us all, man. I was just thinking, this time
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last year we'd have had to have, yeah, we'd have to have two
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shows this week, 1 on Christmas music, one on Christmas movies,
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1 on favorite foods for Christmas, and we'd do it.
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Then we're going to follow up with the top ten.
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I was like, we, we almost created, like I say this because
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my wife, when I walked out of the house, she's watching one of
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the Housewives show and there's so many of them.
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There's a million places, a million different crews, casts,
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all kind of the same thing, you know, but but they just but
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they're just on all the time. They're putting out so many
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things. I'm like, that's a reunion for
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what the show was. That was the vacation from the
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real show. And I'm like, that's kind of
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like what we were doing. We were doing a show about the
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show, about a topic that somebody thought was a good
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idea. We and you know, I mean, we up
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here talking about ghosts and aliens.
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They were on they were on television for a minute.
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Hey I. Just did that too.
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But what's amazing, and I'm proud of this, I am proud of it.
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It was, and I've said it on other things too, unsustainable.
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We all really knew that that rocket ride was unsustainable.
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We just all bullheaded soldiers and we're like, oh, I ain't
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going to be the one that says we can't do it.
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They say we go, oh, I go. I ain't scared of it.
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Yeah, we can get her done. We can get.
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But what I'm proud of the fact that we did not, we didn't
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repeat, there were no and now we may have reset some stuff.
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I'm sure we've retold some stories in here, you know, but
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for the most part that was all brand new content, and I'm
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doubling down on that this year, by the way, I'm going back into
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our archives because we were moving so fast last year.
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In 2024, we did so many shows that I never really had a chance
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to comb back through them. I would take a clip or two that
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I knew was going to be the good clip or two from that.
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But there's so many things that we did that were so good.
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I mean a lot, and I'm not Tooting our own horn, but we
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made some damn good shows. Some of that stuff is never seen
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the light of day since it aired on whatever it aired on.
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That's changing this year. I'm not going to re air
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everything, but there's segments and stuff that we did that I can
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reshape around that's coming. That's going to be some of the
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stuff that I do more of. In 2026, we got a whole catalog
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here at Tigs, Bits over 215 shows.
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It may be something like 226, something like.
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That's crazy. It's a lot of shows.
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Well, it's it's been it's been great.
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And that was fun, like you said. And then it's been fun up, up.
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Still now we having a good time. I was excited about doing this
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today. Made me start thinking about,
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yeah, it's the holiday season I've been listening to.
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I've, I've already kicked in and watched some of the movies,
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listening some of the music. Right when we got on, I had a
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Alabama Christmas album just playing in the background and,
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and random randomness. That'll be my random randomness
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for this week. Growing up, you know, you knew
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some people did covers and there's a people did Christmas
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albums. But as a middle-aged man now
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that really is in the music and it's kind of my bag and I, I, I
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consume it a lot and kind of historian on some levels.
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You have no idea how many Christmas albums and Christmas
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music has been made until you do a deep dive.
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It is endless on. You would never think there was
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as much Christmas music because you hear the same 2530 songs on
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the radio. You know, you get the Dean
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Martin, the Mariah Carey, obviously, you know, Michael
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Jackson, you get the you get the stand, the Wham, the you know,
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you get all the standard. I'm trying to think what's it
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Burl Ives? You know, you get the old school
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guys, you get you know, you get the you get the traditionals and
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that stuff. But then there's so much more
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than that. Just about everybody you can
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think of or in every genre has done some form of Christmas
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album. I mean the Alabama Christmas
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right there. I mean that's I know that, but
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like a lot of people wouldn't think.
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And then then country in general, a lot do and I and I
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want to mention that that's my random randomness.
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You have no idea how many Christmas albums and Christmas
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songs there are out there. Go Google it.
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Has has Justin Moore ever released a country A Christmas
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album? He.
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Would make he would make a great Christmas.
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I've tried to talk him into it. He's kind of, I mean, he sent a
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picture a couple days ago. He's in the woods with his kids.
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His oldest daughter shot her first deer this weekend.
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I mean, that's. He's just like.
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He just forces himself to some things like.
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He's done. This is his offseason.
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Because he's like, if I do, then I got to go play it.
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And. And he's not, I mean, he's not a
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big, I don't know what his favorite holiday is.
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He's not a big holiday rah rah kind of guy, birthdays, anything
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like that. He's not really, you know,
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pretty sports and this and that, the family, the church, you
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know, the normal stuff. But he's not really a rah rah
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kind of stuff. But John Pardee did, He's out
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playing shows on it, you know. And I heard, I talked to
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somebody the other day, I can't remember who it was, and they
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were saying that that was some advice they had gotten, I
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believe, from Larry Gatlin. Every young, every artist, when
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they start doing pretty good, ought to put a Christmas album
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out. And he said, why is that?
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He said y'all always get a little extra work at the end of
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year and it pays better normally.
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And it made total sense. Yeah.
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Because in all, there's not many places to go play in the winter.
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That's why you tour a lot in the summer, because there's more
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places to play, gather more people in big outside venues,
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amphitheaters, things like that. In the winter, it's kind of not
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you can do, especially like John's doing a Christmas show
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and you play some of your normal stuff, but you throw the
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Christmas theme in there. I'm assuming you can upsell it
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because it's an experience. It's it's not as much.
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The markets aren't as saturated and if you want to work less in
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the summer, there's you an option.
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Work you a couple of high, high paying shows during the
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Christmas season and they spent. That's more spins, you know.
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Yeah, I saw Ronnie Milsap at the La Burge Casino here in Baton
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Rouge. It was a Christmas show.
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He, he played four or five, you know, I mean, Smoky Mountain
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Rain was in there at some point in time, but it was generally
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mainly Christmas songs. It was fabulous, man.
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It was, It was fabulous. Yeah.
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I listened to, I didn't know Scott Weiland from Stone Temple
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Pilots. He has a Christmas album.
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I mean, like, like you're saying.
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And it's great, by the way. It's awesome.
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They're everywhere, Everywhere I was.
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Listening to I was listening to something, Oh, it's Booker T and
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the MGS Christmas. I think it got played because I
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was listening to something probably like, oh gosh, I can't
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think of his name now it. May have gotten passed down if
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you were listening to drive by truckers at some point.
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I saw that you. Definitely been listening to
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that. I ended up on A Soul for
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Christmas by James Brown which is awesome.
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Another one, James Brown's Christmas record.
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I mean, you know, A Soulful Christmas by James Brown Santa
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Claus Go straight to the ghetto. Santa Claus.
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Santa Claus believers shall enjoy, non believers shall
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suffer Soulful Christmas. It's a just a great record all
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the way around. I've never listened to it.
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I'm there it is. There's AJR recommendation, you
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better listen to it. Get you a couple good ones here.
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Well, when it quit playing well, I'll go back to the Booker T and
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the MGS. That would be my first.
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That was my one I shared the other day.
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The Booker T and the MGS in the Christmas spirit must Christmas
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listen this year and we'll tie into why here in a SEC.
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But listening to James Brown soulful Christmas, it goes into
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the next song is when it end of the album plays.
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It just starts playing other similar songs.
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It goes down this rabbit hole of just great soul and R&B
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Christmas songs because then it's not playing full albums.
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It's just bounced around different artists.
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One song and dude, I'm people every everybody you could think
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every great vocalist band in R&B and soul music has a Christmas I
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heard and I'm like, I've never heard this my whole life.
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This is fantastic. And I didn't even download them
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all because I'm just going to do the same thing and then try to
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get start download as I was driving.
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But it was just amazing. And that's where I got to
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thinking I was like, man, they're so.
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And then I noticed something on TV.
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It was a country artist. So another Christmas thing, I
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think. Yeah, a lot of country people do
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it too. And then they said the
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rock'n'roll thing. It was some rock band.
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I'm like another huge 1, Bruce Springsteen's Santa Claus song,
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you know, you better watch out. I mean, it's huge, It's great,
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it's great. We listen to it every year.
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It's awesome. But there's so many and and, and
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the Booker T and the MGS is the one that kicked it off for me.
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It's so good. It's just music, no words, you
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know? I love the instrumental stuff
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for the most part, but on a sad note on that Steve Cropper, the
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great guitar player, producer from Booker T and the MGS, that
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was the Blues Brothers. I mean, he was so one of the one
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of the greatest of all time Memphis.
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I mean, part of Memphis history and music in general.
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He passed away, you know, a couple weeks ago and I thought,
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man, I'm going to listen to some Booker T and the MGS Christmas
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in honor of Steve Cropper passing.
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And that's what sent me down that road of just like how much
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Christmas music there is. But you know, that's been a
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thing. And we we'll go, we'll go, we'll
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touch on that and then we can bounce off of it.
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And I'm done with my random randomness.
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But, and you can probably add a few to this because it seems
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crazy. Maybe I don't know if it's the
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relevance of media now that we get to see it faster, or it's
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just we're at that age that we notice things like this, or it's
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just the way it is and we just didn't notice before, or it's
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actually just more happening, more frequent.
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But Steve Cropper passing away, Todd Schneider, legendary
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Americana country troubadour, passed away, you know, just a
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few weeks ago at fairly young. Joe Ely passed Texas legend
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passed away yesterday or the day before, a couple days a week or
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so prior to this. Now that you're listening and
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then the tragedy that happened this past weekend with Rob
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Reiner and his wife Meathead from Archie Bunker apparently
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getting killed by their by his son, which is insane.
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Another shooting at a school at this as we're recording.
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I don't think they've even captured anybody on that.
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I just don't get why is people such cowards to shoot up
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schools. I'm like, if you're mad at the
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police or the government, go shoot at them, you know what I
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mean? Yeah, do something where
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something's going to do something.
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About it makes no sense to I. Don't get it.
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I don't know what that would win.
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But anyway, it's just been and I don't want to stay on dark,
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gloomy stuff, but it's just been one of those last couple weeks.
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It's just like 1 every other day.
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It kind of reminds me of during COVID and it's like it always
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happened this way, but it it, well, it always.
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Does seem to happen right before Christmas.
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You know, you lose people it it's just kind of odd.
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I I don't know if maybe it's because of the season where it's
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magnified a little bit more. You know that it's as we were
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talking, it's your dead season in the touring industry.
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There's not unless they they have a Christmas gig or
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something like that. This is the offseason concert
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start ramping back up in January.
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You know what it'll that once the new year passes, I don't
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know if it's because it's the news cycle is generally slower.
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The news folks are taking off time kind of like we were
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talking to when we came onto the air with Bubba Bubba's shows
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currently, or he's this week. Anyhow, They're during the day,
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They're coming on at like 10 or 11 in the morning and they're
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they're midday shows, which is a little bit different, but he's
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wanting to sleep in. You know, you just kind of
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people dial it back. Best of episodes are coming out.
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One thing we're doing this year on Tigs Bits and Tiggy and the
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Handler, we're giving you fresh content here at the end of the
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year instead of best dubs and all of that.
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But we've also been off for a month, so.
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Well, it's not like we've been. We can't do our own too much.
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Yeah, no, we have not. We have not been on vacation.
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Couple days before Thanksgiving, Cherise comes around the corner
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and it's 9:00 at night and she said there's water in the floor,
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in the hallway coming between the floor boards, the plank.
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And I realize, yeah, I have got water leaking from somewhere.
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I realize it's coming out of the wall.
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It's from the hot water heater. Shut it off to cut up my floor.
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You know, this is like 2 days for Thanksgiving too.
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I got family coming in. They're not staying with us, but
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still. Anyway, deal with that, go to
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Louisiana. Probably something else happened
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here. I just can't think of it now.
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Went to Louisiana, get there. The heater won't work at our
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house there. On the way there, my wife's car
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won't blow out air, the heat won't blow out of the top.
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So I got to go replace the cabin air filter.
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When we get there, and you know, it's just then we get back home.
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Can't remember what this time was, probably something else.
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But yesterday I realized there's water on top of the hot water
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heater here in the studio and that's why I was late jumping on
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today because I had the plumber come meet me.
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It's just been one thing after not.
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Dude, I get it. I get it.
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We had plumbing issues. So mom and dad have their house
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in Florine and we went up there. I stayed up there some during my
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run in November, hence no Internet.
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I was up there a little bit and and had no issues or anything.
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Then last weekend or a couple weekends ago, dad, they were
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presenting dad with a, they were presenting a scholarship in
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dad's honor at Northwestern State University in, in
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Natchitoches, LA. And $100,000 scholarship has
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been put in. The $100,000 has been put in for
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this to be a scholarship. And he and my mom's name, Joe
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and Betty Memorial Scholar, Joe and Betty Salter Memorial
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Scholarship, which is just awesome.
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I got put on. I got put on the spot to, to
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give the speech. You know, I just was like, OK,
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Mom, do you know what was happening?
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I mean, I knew that they were speaking.
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No, I did not. Mom had told me.
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And I here's the thing. I made the mistake of telling
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mom what I would say. And.
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And it was pretty decent tip, not going to lie.
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I had a good little story to tell.
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I'll put it on the channel sometime.
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I have it. I recorded it.
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I wasn't recording me. I was just recording some of the
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stuff. But once they handed the
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microphone, Mom, mom had flash cards.
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She was ready to make a little do a little speech and she just
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said here you go. You just do it.
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But I knew, I knew on the ride over there she was going to once
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I told her what I was going to say, I knew that I had no
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choice. She was going to make me do.
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I don't care, dude, whatever. I I did fine.
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It was, it was fine. But I'm not, I'm not going to
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lie, I don't get nervous very often.
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I speak in front of public, I speak in front of crowds all the
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time, do group presentations for insurance, all that, that Don't
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really get very nervous, but I got a little nervous in there.
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There's a lot of money in that room.
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I ain't going to lie to you. There's a lot of important
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people in that room. And it was a you know, it was it
21:14
was the first time that I've said anything publicly talking
21:18
about my dad like that. And I just once I just didn't
21:22
want to lose it at the end, whenever I was kind of closing
21:26
the deal, I did not. So I was happy about it, but but
21:29
I think it was fine. And we got to go.
21:31
They had this gala after the Northwestern State University
21:35
has this Christmas gala. Phenomenal, dude.
21:38
It was like something that you would see in a Broadway show.
21:41
But anyhow, that that's why we were in fluorine while we're
21:45
there same thing there's water that has somehow come under the
21:50
sink and come into and we just thought maybe it was from this
21:53
stand up shower in there and we're like, oh Lord, everything
21:57
starts breaking. Mama had something right after
22:00
dad died at her condo. We had to get a dressed and
22:03
fixed and then go to Florine or toilet had messed up not long
22:08
after he died. We had to get that, you know,
22:10
just stuff like, come on, man, just quit it Universe.
22:14
We we've had enough. We don't need any more.
22:17
Quit adding shit to this table of stuff we've got to do.
22:20
But there is a leak and you could go out, walk around the
22:23
house and you could see where it was coming out of the concrete
22:27
seams like it had gotten there was mold mildew on the outside
22:32
of the house. This has been happening for a
22:34
little bit, but they, I think they got it fixed somehow or
22:37
another. The guy, we have a good plumber
22:39
up there. Anyhow, just it's like you said,
22:43
one thing after the other. Hot water heater outside.
22:47
They have a hot water heater that sits outside of the house,
22:50
but it's closed. There's a wooden door, it's
22:51
enclosed, but I don't know how long it is, how long that hot
22:56
water heaters been in there. But you open the door, the
22:59
bottom is just pure rust. There's a little bit of water
23:02
down there. It's done everything but
23:04
completely collapsed. But it's, it's leaking.
23:08
It's falling, yes, but it's still going.
23:11
Well, it it was, but they, we, we put a new one in now.
23:15
But it's, yeah, dude, just shit falls apart if you don't get to
23:20
take care of it. With Dad going through cancer
23:23
and battling all that the last three years, the general
23:26
maintenance at that house in fluorine hasn't been what it was
23:31
for the previous sixty years or however old it is.
23:34
You know, anything and everything.
23:36
Needs constant maintenance. It just does.
23:38
It's unbelievable. You don't realize that when
23:40
you're young, but when you get when it's yours and you have to
23:43
deal with it, you realize man every you have to.
23:45
There is no and but you know, some people do.
23:48
I wonder how they do it. It just doesn't happen that way
23:50
for me. If I just try to let something
23:52
go, it tears up. And you know, there's some
23:55
people who never change their oil in their car, and it runs
23:57
just as long as mine does. Yeah, it's.
23:59
You know what I mean? It's like, and I'm not knocking
24:02
anybody who smokes or anything like that, but it's like
24:04
somebody who smokes a carton of cigarettes a day, constantly
24:08
chain smokes, they die at age 97.
24:11
They had no other health issues. Like it don't make any sense.
24:14
You know, it really, it just doesn't.
24:17
But that was what mine was. Yeah.
24:19
Vehicle. I took mine and left at the
24:21
dealership to get the plugs changed and oil changed.
24:25
A couple of put some new brakes on it while I was gone to
24:27
Louisiana after Thanksgiving. And when I get back, I realize
24:32
that it's very humid in my truck.
24:33
And I get home and take my floor mats out and realize my
24:36
floorboard on the pass or the driver's side, front and back is
24:40
soaking wet. My sunroof had leaked and the
24:45
drain, because they all leak a little, but the drain plugs, the
24:49
drain tubes were clogged, so it just filled up and then found a
24:53
way out and it was all down anyway.
24:55
So I spent days just now until this.
24:58
This morning was probably the end of it.
25:00
I still have to vacuum it out. I've got scented baking soda on
25:04
my carpet now. How did you get that smell out?
25:07
Shop vac some commercial mold cleaner spray fans, a lot of
25:15
these blower fans. That was the problem.
25:18
It was so cold. Nothing dries out when it's
25:21
cold. So I'm trying to do it outside.
25:25
Put a space heater in there run extension cord to space heater.
25:27
After I tried fans that wasn't shot, I've shot back the
25:30
majority of it up the towels. I mean everything you think of
25:33
ChatGPT, giving me some ChatGPT is great for that kind of stuff.
25:37
By the way, everybody, if you got a question, you need to
25:39
figure something out, go to ChatGPT.
25:42
Be as specific as you can. The more specific you can, the
25:44
better answer you get. And don't think it's the gospel,
25:47
but it's a Dang good way to start.
25:49
It's a, it's a, it's like take it saves you an hour.
25:51
Would you come up with a Google search?
25:53
It'll do it in like 3 seconds. So for sure tip of the day I've
25:56
showed my mom and I was like, I took a picture of something at
25:59
work the other day. I had to replace a a handrail
26:01
and a nice beach house. And I didn't know it wasn't a
26:05
standard handrail. It wasn't just a round handrail.
26:07
It was an ornate type handrail. I took a picture of it, sent it
26:10
to ChatGPT, said what kind is this and where can I find it?
26:13
That's a 6061 red oak, blah, blah, blah.
26:15
You can find them here or there. You can order from.
26:17
I mean that, yeah. Things like that.
26:19
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So.
26:24
That's insane though. But those things, those tubes,
26:27
like I have a, a bed, the enclosed bed on my truck
26:33
sliding, whatever you call that thing.
26:35
Well, there's two tubes that go through.
26:37
If it rains, you know, it has a way to, to go through and it
26:41
comes out the bottom of the truck.
26:42
But those pipes, same thing. They'll get clogged up.
26:46
You got to clean them out with bleach or whatever once a year
26:49
at least. They'll start weed eater string
26:53
because I watched another another useful thing you you you
26:55
can ChatGPT it then go find a video on YouTube and I'm sure
26:59
somebody else got the same problem.
27:00
I have million people then, but it makes you feel a little
27:02
better. You're like OK, it was not I
27:04
don't have a lemon here. Everybody has deal a few
27:05
different millions of people have the same vehicle.
27:08
If you have a standard vehicle and a lot of people have the
27:12
same issues you're going to have.
27:13
So I realized, OK, then it takes you down the OL and he'd
27:15
probably need to replace these VCT solenoids because that
27:19
mileage that's probably it seems like that could be part of this
27:21
other thing that's going on, you know, and then you learn how to
27:24
clean that. Nobody tells you anybody here's
27:26
your nice truck. Hey, don't forget clean your
27:28
drain tubes on your sunroof because it could ruin your
27:30
truck. Nobody tells you anything like
27:32
that. Even the dealership didn't even
27:33
know. I went back and asked them.
27:35
Well, they weren't. Yeah, we noticed it.
27:37
Was a car. They were.
27:38
Like, yeah, we noticed it was a condensation.
27:39
We didn't really know what that was.
27:40
I'm like, what did you It's just changed a lot on that.
27:44
You know, it's not the service you get with stuff used to, you
27:46
know, people would go in depth on things.
27:48
But so anyway, I dealt with that during the freezing cold and
27:51
the, you know, out. So last night though, I
27:54
yesterday afternoon I get home, I take everything out of the
27:56
from one end of the studio because I have a big roll up
28:00
door down there. But it took me getting a lot of
28:02
stuff out, lawnmower, golf cart, all these, all my tools, work
28:06
equipment, saws, all that stuff. And I got it all out and brought
28:10
the truck in last night and so and crank the heat up in here.
28:14
So one night of in here with fans blowing and after the mold
28:18
spray and letting it in here all night, it was much better.
28:21
Today it was finally dry and it don't really have that smell
28:24
that I can tell. I think it's got a faint bit of
28:26
it, but I put the baking soda on it and letting it sit for 24
28:29
hours. We'll vacuum it off in the
28:30
morning and hopefully that's as good.
28:35
As much as I can do except for replace the carpet in the pad.
28:37
No telling what someone would charge me to take the seats out,
28:40
do all that crap, you know, so, but it, it forces you to learn a
28:44
lot. And I think that's a key.
28:45
That's a, that's a key thing in life that, you know, some young
28:48
people do it. I was that's a that's a
28:50
misconception. I think I had that.
28:52
Oh, I'll be doing fine one day some I'll just pay somebody to
28:54
do all that stuff. No, no, no, no, no.
28:56
Even if you got the money, it's hard to find people to do stuff.
28:59
You better learn it. If you got something, you better
29:00
learn how to do a lot of stuff on your own.
29:02
It will save you in the long run.
29:03
Not just money, but frustration and somebody trying to swindle
29:07
you because you, if you don't know what they're talking about,
29:10
you're like, yeah, that sounds good.
29:11
Do that. No, no, even if you don't do the
29:13
work, know about it. So you're not getting, you're
29:15
not getting swindled, you know, but so I, yeah, you don't want
29:19
to get gypped. So I so that was part of that
29:21
was another one on my list was my, my, my vehicle, which was A
29:26
and got the plugs changed because I was having this weird
29:29
idle thing where it was shut off sometimes when I had idle in
29:32
traffic and I got the plugs didn't help nothing.
29:35
And they were like, well, we talked.
29:38
I had to spend about $4500 on my truck since we spoke last with
29:45
yeah, water pump went out. Had to get new brakes on the
29:50
front. Brakes were about.
29:51
I knew they were getting bad. Just general maintenance stuff
29:55
that you have to do. Had to do it on myself today.
29:58
Spent $2200 on a crown. Not fun things that you want to
30:03
do. It's just general maintenance
30:06
though. I'm tired of food getting stuck
30:08
in that one tooth and I know that eventually I'm going to
30:11
have problem with it. Might as well get it fixed.
30:14
Take care of it. So stupid, dude.
30:17
Some things it's just like, and you don't think about that when
30:21
you're young. I certainly didn't.
30:23
And then these big expenses come up and you're like, Oh my God,
30:26
what? How am I going to do this?
30:28
What am I going to do? What does your hat say?
30:31
This is the good fortune. That's what you had to.
30:35
Blew it up so I could see it. OK.
30:37
I like that it's a good looking hat.
30:39
Good looking hat. Kick ass Band.
30:42
I think they're from Waco. They're out out West TX
30:45
somewhere. I think they're out on Waco.
30:48
Met them on the road this past year.
30:49
Cool dude. Big Adam Hood fan just like me
30:52
and I love their swag. I told him if you gave me one
30:55
I'd make sure to RIP it. Hey and you know I got my tip of
30:57
Tinas legendary New Orleans music venue.
31:01
I love the fact that you if anybody who has nugs out there,
31:05
you can download nugsnugs.com. You can watch live concerts.
31:11
They stream live concerts every night.
31:13
Just about Tipatina's is on the live stream.
31:17
There's a lot of nights that I just when we finish this show, I
31:21
may slip in there and see who's playing at Tipatina's.
31:24
It's fun. You can see what what's
31:26
happening at Tips. I love it.
31:29
Check this hat out, dude. So you know we're going to
31:33
embrace the heel here at LSU. This is as wild of a hat as I
31:40
could think of to get made. Shout out to my friend Joe
31:45
Kersey at the LP Hat Company for making this hoe hat for me.
31:51
HEAUX, since we last did a show, LSU did go and hire Lane Kiffin.
31:58
They called him a hoe. We will embrace our hoe and love
32:02
our hoe until she hoes us up. Y'all hated y'all hated said hoe
32:09
up until 3 seconds before he hired him, correct?
32:12
I never hated Lane given. I've never hated Lane given I
32:15
wanted, I knew I wanted LSU to hire him when they hired Coach
32:20
O, even though the, well, he was part of the Coach O package.
32:25
Coach O and his binder, Lane Kiffin was going to come from
32:28
Alabama and be the offensive coordinator.
32:31
He ended up going to FIU or whatever, wherever he went.
32:34
So he was your number 1. He would have been your number
32:36
one pick. He wasn't my number one pick
32:38
with the year of coach OI wanted Coach O, but the neck would for
32:42
Brian Kelly when we hired Brian Kelly, yes.
32:45
Lane I knew Brian Kelly wasn't my number. 1.
32:47
Yeah, I knew Brian. I just didn't know.
32:49
I've never been I. Wanted to think he was.
32:52
You've never been a big Kiffin guy.
32:54
No, because he bounced around and screwed some teams over.
32:56
I just never liked his mojo. I just, I just never, he
32:59
bounced, you know, them years and he bounced around after Bama
33:01
and he seemed like he left some play.
33:02
I don't remember what all it was because I just, I don't dive too
33:05
far, but I just remember thinking he's not my guy.
33:07
I don't know. He's not my guy.
33:09
I just think he's going to fit into the culture down here
33:13
perfectly. He talks.
33:14
About to find out he. Thinks he's bigger than he is.
33:17
It's either he's it's either going to be a beautiful marriage
33:20
or it's going to be a very ugly divorce.
33:24
There, there. I don't think there will be any
33:26
in between. All I could say is his ass
33:29
better win. It don't matter who you are.
33:31
It don't matter if you're the Pope, if you ain't winning here,
33:34
you gots to go. So I mean, and he put a lot of
33:38
pressure on himself to do what he did.
33:41
I mean to leave an SEC rival to go to another rival.
33:45
That's wild. I don't know if we'll see that
33:47
while they've got a bowl game. No, And that's what kills me,
33:50
too. I'm like, I don't.
33:52
Like that part? You know, that's like, you know,
33:58
your girlfriend leaving you, but she had a boyfriend when you met
34:03
her. You know what I mean?
34:04
You're like. Yeah, it's.
34:06
You know, I'm like and for me, I'm I just I just thought there
34:11
should have been a way. You know, you stayed with team.
34:12
I just think that's just like, whoa, but I didn't know.
34:15
See, I'm not up on level of coaches.
34:17
I mean, you know, I know there's not as many.
34:19
You know, it's just a change. I don't keep up like I used to.
34:22
I guess I would say I would have.
34:24
I was in the impression, though, that John Summerall from Tulane,
34:30
which stand up guy and we we we got can't give him enough love
34:33
because he's a friend of the show and I sent you that thing.
34:36
He and his wife donating 100 grand to Tulane to help with the
34:40
search for the new coach and with with NIL for them.
34:42
What a class move there. I thought he was the guy
34:47
everybody was going for. But I guess that's kind of what
34:51
you got to do, though. You either get somebody that's
34:53
good and you think it's going to work where you're at, or you get
34:55
you get you gamble on somebody that's good at a small school
34:57
and hope they end up being the next big guy, you know?
35:00
Right. Really, it's all a gamble.
35:03
Well, I think Florida got him a good one with John Summer.
35:06
He I would have, I would have been a static for obvious
35:10
reasons. If he would have ended up at LSU
35:14
#1 credentials, I would have had them immediately.
35:19
Access to everything, yes. So very selfishly, I wanted John
35:24
Sumrall to come here because he was going to help the show if he
35:28
did. For sure.
35:30
I got a feeling we'll never have Lane Kiffin on this show.
35:33
That will probably never happen. Never say never.
35:35
He might just like the name of the podcast and want to come on.
35:39
Very true. He might be confused that I'm an
35:42
officially a hoe. He might not can see that well
35:45
from a distance and see the the the logo and think it says
35:48
something else. And then he's like, Hey, I got
35:50
to be a part of that guy. You never know.
35:52
I but I'm but he did a great job.
35:55
I just didn't know. I didn't know he was up to that
35:57
level. I know he's done good there, but
35:59
I'm like, well, he's done good there for a minute.
36:00
I mean, you know. Anyway, I'm glad it worked out
36:03
for all of them. Yeah, well, he was the domino
36:06
that had to fall for everybody else to see what he was going to
36:10
do but it. And we don't even know for
36:14
several other big school. I mean, didn't they're like
36:17
Michigan? I know their coach just got
36:18
outed because he was messing around with a with a staffer.
36:21
What a. Pulling up Petrino, I saw a
36:24
thing somebody sent me. Petrino walks, so what's his
36:28
name? Could run, yeah.
36:32
And then and then Penn State's out of coach.
36:35
Another big school, Arkansas. They hired somebody, Yeah.
36:39
They Arkansas, everybody, every, everybody's hired.
36:41
Michigan was the only outlier as of now.
36:45
I mean, they they may have hired somebody by the time that y'all
36:48
hear this, but that was an insane way to go down the way
36:53
that that dude went down. He was damn near went in a blaze
36:57
of glory. It was threatening to kill him.
37:00
So it was like a whole OJ deal. It was crazy, man.
37:03
Yeah. Who saw that coming?
37:04
That's wild. Yeah, I didn't as you were
37:07
saying that I. Thought it was bullshit,
37:09
whatever. I brought it.
37:10
Up. No, that's why I was just about
37:12
to say I brought it up and then as you were saying that part, I
37:14
remembered I said, Oh yeah, there was more to the story than
37:16
just because I. He went to the girl's house and.
37:21
I remember now, yeah. Kill her and then himself.
37:23
And then I don't know, I don't. And it's all and what a rough 24
37:29
hours for that dude. I mean, one day he's the head
37:32
coach of Michigan, and then the next he's he's in jail and no
37:36
longer the head coach. Crazy, crazy.
37:40
And what will that do for them and the NIL and all that stuff.
37:44
But yeah dude this has been the craziest coaching series session
37:49
season that I've ever seen honestly.
37:53
It has to be. Yeah, it has to be.
37:54
I mean, there's never been big this many big programs needing a
37:59
coach at the same time. Usually you know it's one or
38:01
two, but it's 6, probably 6-7 big programs. 16 teams or
38:05
something I mean in the grand total, but six or seven top 25
38:09
teams that you know consistent top 25 teams wild stuff.
38:14
We'll see how it all works out well, let's end the show with
38:17
this let's end the show with this.
38:18
I know that you have seen on some of the Tigs Bits channels
38:22
this controversial food takes of north versus South Louisiana.
38:29
I'm going to take this a little step further, Jr.
38:33
We'll call this the Tigs Blitz of the week, Southern food
38:38
versus northern food. And I'm talking about the whole
38:42
southern United States. That includes Louisiana Cajun
38:45
cooking, South Louisiana Cajun cooking.
38:48
It also includes grits, greens, all the good soul food that you
38:54
could get everywhere else in the South.
38:57
That includes all of that versus the North, I guess, Minnesota,
39:04
New York, whatever. You've toured the whole United
39:07
States. Is there anything?
39:10
Is there a single dish in the northern half of the United
39:15
States that can compete with any dish in the South?
39:24
That's tough. That's tough there.
39:27
I'm going to tell you this. There's a lot of places that
39:30
they think their food's good and it's just to us, it's just not.
39:33
A lot of people don't and they they get fed and everybody eats
39:37
plenty, but we're just used to a different level down here.
39:41
Now take away New York City. I mean, I've had some of the
39:44
best meals ever in New York City.
39:46
That's there. That's like LA that's like even
39:48
like Atlanta, big, big, big, big cities.
39:51
You got the best of the best Vegas place.
39:54
They import the best you can. You can get whatever you want
39:56
kind of deal. So that's not really fair.
39:58
But you know, one of my favorite Mexican restaurants, Dos Caminos
40:02
in in Times Square, you know, they have a molay enchilada.
40:04
That's just, that's my favorite and.
40:07
You know, but that's a that's, that's something I could get.
40:09
So, you know, but as far as just regional dishes and things, I'm
40:12
not really that I can think of, you know, Chicago deep dish
40:15
pizzas, Illuminati's pizza. That's pretty good.
40:18
That's pretty good, you know. If you like deep dish.
40:21
For sure, yeah, yeah. It's more you eat it with AI
40:24
think you know. I think maybe.
40:26
They're pizza. But as far as like down here, I
40:28
can name you 35 things that are better than anything you could
40:31
take up there. It's better like chicken and
40:32
dumplings, chicken pot pie. Hell, I had a meatloaf today.
40:37
I mean, I've had meatloaf up there.
40:38
It's not the same. They try to put some weird herbs
40:40
and stuff in it. It's just not the same.
40:42
It's just not the same. Not the same.
40:44
The fish. I'm not a salmon guy.
40:46
So, you know, a lot of people love that kind of fish over
40:48
there. Not really.
40:49
I like their trout and stuff. You get on like I've caught
40:51
fresh brown trout and stuff on Lake MI before and cooked them
40:55
in on fire outside the bus. That's awesome.
40:57
That's just white meat fish, you know.
40:59
So if you're getting the good stuff in the right place and the
41:01
right people, you know, I've had a lobster up there and Hampton
41:07
Beach, NH, right down from the Hampton Ballroom, you get a
41:11
whole lobster for like 12 bucks with the sides and everything
41:14
because it's, it's, that's where they come in.
41:16
It's where the boats are, you know, So that's pretty special,
41:19
you know, but but man, like I said, we've got a million of
41:24
them. I mean, shrimp and grits.
41:25
I mean, I can just go off New Orleans dishes alone.
41:27
I mean, you know, gumbo is that seafood is that chicken and
41:30
sausage is, I mean, you know, jambalaya.
41:33
I mean, then go down to the keys, you know, give me a fresh
41:35
fish tacos with some, with some fresh citrus on it and stuff,
41:39
you know, or like I said, go back to my grandma's in
41:42
Mississippi and get some get some homemade hand wrung out
41:44
chicken and dumplings, you know, some some crackling cornbread,
41:49
collard greens, turnip greens, you know, fresh corn on the no
41:55
fresh corn on the well, they and they got this, but I just don't
41:57
think, I don't know. And they probably do this right.
41:59
You know, I've had like you get a corn at a fair somewhere out
42:02
in the Midwest in Iowa where the corn's grown.
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That's some good corn. You get one of the fresh roasted
42:07
corns there and they dip it in the butter thing.
42:09
Now that's special. But I've also had a good one of
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those when you get them, when they do the Mexican St. style,
42:14
when they put the stuff on it, the cheese and that sprinkle
42:17
that, the paprika, whatever. Yeah, you know.
42:22
And then you go, you go, you go out to Texas or to Memphis or
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North Carolina or Alabama or Louisiana and you get just good
42:30
BBQ. You know I've tried some off
42:32
there like those the Macklemore boys I talked about.
42:35
Their BBQ is good and they cook on.
42:36
The New York City. Yeah, New York City, you.
42:39
Know and there's probably some other good ones jumps here in
42:41
Chicago. I mean most towns, I'm sure
42:42
there's one in Milwaukee, but it's just different, man.
42:48
It's just different. It's.
42:49
Just different. It's just different.
42:51
I love it. I think it's just, you know, it
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all goes back to a lot of the roots of, you know, we have a
42:56
lot of diversity down here from all lots of other continents and
43:00
places and 100% and you know, it's just.
43:04
All the influences. It's a different influence and
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theirs are more from what where that comes from up here and all
43:09
this and it's a lot of European stuff and you know, I mean they
43:16
I like I said, I go back to the dish Italian like I've the.
43:19
That's what I would say. I was going to say, they
43:21
probably have us beat in Italian food.
43:24
Well and Germ, Well and Texas got great German food too.
43:27
Texas has really good German food.
43:29
For sure there's good. Sausages, spots in Louisiana
43:32
that have good German, that where there's some German
43:35
settlements like really good sausage makers.
43:39
That's how all those BBQ houses in the pizza.
43:41
Though the pizza, like in New York, it's on a on another
43:46
level. You know, see, they got good St.
43:48
vendor hot dogs. We got lucky dog.
43:50
I mean, you know, it's like, it's kind of like.
43:54
Both both are amazing at 2:00 AM.
43:57
And, you know, I get a, you get a, you get a sandwich up there,
43:59
you get a special sandwich. You're like, man, that was a
44:01
good sandwich. You get a po boy down here.
44:03
So that's a good sandwich too. Yeah.
44:05
So there are a lot of. Pastrami sandwiches from that
44:08
place. I can't think of the name of it
44:10
right now. That's in New York City.
44:11
You probably had one. Yeah, Yeah.
44:14
That's it. That's it.
44:15
I mean stacked up that damn. And having, you know, and having
44:19
real Chinese food at 3:00 in the morning in Chinatown in San
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Francisco, I mean, that's cool. That was good.
44:25
That was delicious. But you know.
44:29
Pound for pound, oz for oz, you can't beat the South.
44:33
No, no, no, go get some fried catfish up in Mississippi.
44:37
You know, go to Georgia and eat a fresh Peach cobbler, you know,
44:41
with some homemade vanilla ice cream, You know, I mean, you
44:44
kidding me? Peanuts, man, I love peanuts.
44:48
And we, you know, historically down here, we've got the best
44:52
peanuts, but they don't even know what boiled peanuts are.
44:54
And I I could live on boiled peanuts is another one, but they
44:58
have their own, you know, like. Foodie loves them to boil peanut
45:01
soup, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
45:02
Cheese curds. I mean, that kind of stuff's
45:04
good. Cheese curds kick ass, Yeah.
45:07
You know, but, but overall, I can say this from travelling.
45:09
No, nowhere else. There's special places, you
45:12
know, certain places that have stuff.
45:15
But pound for pound, yeah, you take me to any random fare in
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the South versus any random fare in the North or West or Midwest.
45:23
I'm going South all day. I'll roll my I'll roll my dice
45:27
for what we got around here. Hell yeah.
45:29
Because I mean, I've had, I've been places and it'll be this
45:32
was, you know, they've cooked this every year and someone, you
45:34
know, they always love it and this and that.
45:36
It's so and so's world famous, this or that.
45:38
And then you're like, these people would never they, their
45:42
head would explode if I took them to New Orleans and got them
45:45
something good, right? You know what I mean?
45:47
They would, their head would explode.
45:48
They wouldn't even know what to do or took them to a good BBQ
45:50
place and and you know, in, in Dallas or something, you know,
45:54
so, but it's a no there, there is no, there is no comparison.
45:57
We've got 2. We've got more influence.
46:00
We've got more ingredients too. You think about that.
46:04
We grow the stuff better down here.
46:06
Now out West, there's certain things you grain and then you
46:08
get out to California. They got their that's the thing.
46:10
They got their options. But that, that's its own world
46:13
out there. You know, it's got good stuff
46:14
too, but different flavors, different seasons.
46:17
Same in Colorado, Arizona, all through there.
46:19
They love the green chilies they like, they like different type
46:21
stuff. It's just who, you know what you
46:23
like. But ours down here, man, we got
46:25
all the good vegetables. We were talking earlier all the
46:28
squash, okra, I mean, you know, it just any kind of pee you can
46:34
imagine, beans, any kind of citrus, any kind of, I mean,
46:38
they out there though, they got grapes, they got almonds.
46:41
We don't really grow a lot of that down, you know, But down in
46:43
South Florida, my brother's at, he's got plantain and banana
46:46
trees in his yard. I love them both.
46:48
That's good. I love, I love that Jamaican
46:50
food you get down there in Florida, man.
46:51
It's chicken with rice and like some fries, some plantains,
46:54
jerk, little jerk thing with just it's just chicken and rice
46:58
and plantains. I'm like, this is a perfect
46:59
meal. They should have this everywhere
47:00
in the world, but they don't. You know, we don't have that
47:03
around here, but I would love it.
47:04
Same with like go to Hawaii. You get a loco Moco, which is
47:07
one of my favorites. Hawaii is great food.
47:09
Obviously it's an island. You get all the fish it better.
47:11
It should be good. But a loco Moco is a a land
47:15
thing. It's basically a couple of
47:16
hamburger patties, some gravy over rice with a, an egg on top,
47:22
like a medium or over easy egg over medium egg and some
47:27
seasoning. It's called a loco Moco.
47:29
It's, it's fantastic. It's, it's, that's what they go
47:32
to make. You said it's next to the
47:33
McDonald's is the local Moco place.
47:34
And you get that it's just like their Chick-fil-A or whatever.
47:36
And it's, it's fantastic. We should have that everywhere.
47:40
That should be an option around here if people would love it.
47:42
And California, they have the Tri tip.
47:45
We don't. Nobody eats Tri tip anywhere
47:47
else. I still think back to the
47:49
episode 1 of the episodes that we had whenever we revealed your
47:54
amazing idea that you shared with John Pardee of a restaurant
47:59
that he should name in Nashville and call it just the tip.
48:04
Yeah, the Canes of the Canes of Tri tip.
48:10
Tri tip sliders, I mean junior if you're listening to this.
48:13
That meat's already getting expensive.
48:15
It would you start doing that, they'll get beef.
48:19
Now probably ain't the time to get into a all beef.
48:22
Kind of. Well, and speak and going on
48:24
that too, we've got we've got beef around here.
48:26
We've got pigs around here, we've got turkeys in around
48:31
here, all that's in the Carolina livestock.
48:33
We've got all all the kind of any kind of thatching chicken.
48:36
Alabama full of chicken houses all the way.
48:38
You know, Arkansas, Arkansas, Tyson Foods, more chicken than
48:41
anybody. And then you come down here,
48:44
oysters, shrimp, all the good fish.
48:47
I mean, we're right here. You know, the town I live in
48:50
started out as a fishing village here in Orange Beach, Orange
48:53
20-30 years ago. Orange Beach didn't have nothing
48:55
but like 3 marinas that wasn't even no a couple of houses, you
48:58
know, was no condos. But we got, we just have the
49:02
resources down here. We've got the good water, you
49:05
know, we've got the good climate.
49:09
You know, we've got mountains, lakes, hills, we've got all the
49:12
stuff. And that goes back like
49:13
California's got everything, too.
49:15
Right, the whole Yeah, well that opened up a can of worms.
49:19
I had a feeling that it might that was a fun little just a one
49:23
one question that just. There you go.
49:26
That's a hell of a way to end I. Get excited when I talk about
49:29
food. And now I'm hungry.
49:31
It is dinner time as we're recording this.
49:33
I haven't eaten yet, so now I'm starving.
49:35
Me too. I think we should.
49:37
We should probably call it a wrap.
49:39
This would be it for the year 2025 with Tiggy and the handler.
49:43
Final episode of the year with Tiggy and the handler.
49:46
We will be. We will have new ones, of
49:50
course, starting early in January.
49:53
So I'm looking forward to those. There will be a Tigsbits.
49:56
The final Tigsbits episode will be next week.
50:00
If you're listening to this later, go back and check it out.
50:02
It's a recap of Tales from the Tailgate, the second-half of the
50:07
season. I interviewed people from
50:09
London, Scotland, Denmark, Greenland, Australia, Chicago,
50:18
Montana just in this last episode.
50:22
Crazy, the stuff that the people that I've met doing those little
50:27
tailgate interviews and all that, these are the full length
50:31
videos, the full length interviews and stuff that's
50:34
never aired that I haven't put out on any of the channels yet.
50:37
So y'all go and check that out and until next time, hey?
50:42
I got 1. Merry Christmas and a Happy New
50:44
Year. I got 1 real quick.
50:46
I want to say everybody throw a quick prayer if you're that type
50:49
out for our buddy Larry Strickland, AK Strychnine, the
50:51
longtime sound man, engineer, piano player, just a legendary
50:57
figure at the floor Bama. If you've seen him, if you've
50:59
seen Larry Strickland at the floor Bama, if you've been there
51:01
and listening to music the past 30 years, he's had some health
51:05
stuff going on. He's in the hospital.
51:07
Y'all throw a prayer out for him.
51:08
He if it wasn't for Larry, his porch is what now is the floor
51:12
Bama Yacht Club. After the hurricane, he had a he
51:15
had a FEMA trailer there, a camper there where he lived.
51:18
That used to be a place called Boys Town.
51:20
Ivan comes through just just there's nothing left except for
51:23
the one for post with the port. That was Larry's porch off of
51:27
his camper. That's the bar area.
51:30
Now when you go in the floor by the Yacht Club, that's they used
51:32
it as an existing structure and built off of it.
51:35
That's the only way they could get a permit to build.
51:36
So that's how they have that there.
51:38
They built Larry a house in the back.
51:41
He's going through some health stuff.
51:42
So y'all throw a prayer up for Mr. Larry.
51:44
Uncle, Uncle Larry Strickland Strick 9.
51:46
He sells books. You can go to the Floor Bama.
51:47
He's got five. He just finished his fifth book.
51:50
They're all for sale there at the Bama.
51:51
You can buy them at the Floor Bama website.
51:53
Y'all check him out, give him some love.
51:54
But just wanted to make sure I slipped that in there during his
51:56
holiday season. But yeah, to concur with my
51:58
brother Tiggy, we appreciate y'all sticking in there with us
52:01
this year. It's been a whole lot of fun for
52:03
us. Next year's going to be a blast.
52:06
Merry Christmas, happy Holidays, you'll be safe, stay warm and
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we'll see y'all soon.