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Across The Pond and Down The Bayou! · Tigs Bits Podcast

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All right folks, welcome to Tigs Bits live #67 on the season 6-7.
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As the kids say, tonight we have a packed show.
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We're going to dive into some fresh tales from the tailgate
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that haven't aired anywhere yet. We're talking about a couple of
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interviews that I snagged with some fans that literally crossed
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the ocean just to experience Death Valley.
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I mean, why not? And of course, we'll settle in
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and have a little fun with a new segment later on that I think
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you are all really going to enjoy.
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But before we dive in, do me a favor if you haven't already,
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And Speaking of the growing, let's see who we've gotten in
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the chat. It's been a minute since we've
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gone live, people. Well, it's fun.
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It has been a minute. So it's good to be in here.
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No doubt about it. No doubt about it.
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Mr. Paul freaking Rogers. What's going on, brother Paul.
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Good to see you, dude. Good to see you, our friend.
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Song staying out of trouble, hopefully on social media.
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Good to see you Song AKA Terry Wayne Foster.
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Mr. Terry Wayne, good to see you brother Jacob Trahan.
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Trahan. It's like I can't do it.
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I just can't do it. That is what she said.
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That is what she said. I love seeing our good not good
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amazing DJ from Cajun Tiger Tailgate in here cutting it up
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with us having fun dude. An amazing job as always this
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past weekend and the vibes were elegant.
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I'll say it, they were elegant at Death Valley this past
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weekend. Product on the field maybe has
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not quite been, maybe not. It definitely hasn't been.
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We'll see what happens this weekend.
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But look, appreciate everybody tuning in, everybody coming in
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shouting out, y'all keep the chat going.
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This is going to be a fun one watching some of these
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interviews back running the Wheel of flavor later.
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That's right, that's right. I'll explain a little bit more.
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I'll explain a little bit more before we start to dive into
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everything though. I wanted to see, I wanted to say
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happy, happy birthday, happy 22nd birthday to my sweet
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daughter Haley. She turns 22 tomorrow.
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So shout out to sweet Haley. It's hard to believe.
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I don't think I look old enough to have a 22 year old.
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I mean, what do y'all think? You know, maybe don't, don't
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answer that, don't answer that, do not answer that.
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Well, look, I thought we would start tonight off because if
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anything, we always know Tiggy can get a little bit random from
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time to time. And we love the segment.
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We absolutely love doing the segment on on our on our Bubba
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exclusive show random randomness.
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So I thought, hey, I had a couple of things.
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You know, you y'all know me. I always have to prepare a
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little bit for this show. I like to prepare.
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I mean I want it to to come across.
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I don't want to just be dead air.
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So in preparation for this show, I came across a couple of things
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that I thought were about as random as possible, but thought
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that maybe we should talk about it.
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So have a couple of thoughts tonight.
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Naturally, no Jr., but let's do it.
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First of all, I want to talk about this six seven thing.
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Now I'm going to date myself and now I will look old.
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Now I'm going to look like gramps.
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By the way, someone in one of the the messages on something,
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you know whatever on social media, somebody said OK, gramps.
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They called me gramps like damn, I'm it's kind of a badge of
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honor now. Honestly, it doesn't bother me
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at all, but I'm like wow, I'm gramps now.
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I mean, I guess I am old enough to be a granddaddy.
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That's just weird. Even that even rolling off of my
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tongue. But 6-7, this is the 67th show
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of the year. When I told that to my son, he
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went 06767. Dad, you know, if you've been
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anywhere on this earth, especially around middle school
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kids, then you have heard this phrase.
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You're probably wondering what the hell does this mean?
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What? What is 6-7?
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What is this? Well, first of all, we're not
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going to spend too long of a time on this because there
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really is no answer. There is no definitive answer of
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what it is, but it comes from a song.
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I need you to play this DJDJ. What did we decide your name was
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going to be anyhow? Who need you that we have not
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stuck to it. You should play it.
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Duke. Duke 6-7 by Skrilla he's who
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made this song and I think really kind of where it all came
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from or where what made it go viral.
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It's a meme. This is it's meme culture.
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We live in meme culture you know So what happened is a video
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surfaced of a kid at A at a basketball event.
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You can look all this stuff up, just type it in into Google or
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whatever and you can see it. But this kid went viral just
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saying 6-7. I think they had scored 67
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points in the game or whatever, whatever.
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And they go to the kid, he's kind of nonchalant.
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And then it just took off. Kids thought it was funny and it
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rolls. It's just how how memes are.
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So ultimately it was, it's just a meme.
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It's a song from a dude from Chicago.
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And then it just became a hit, like the things do these days.
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And then so kids started, kids started talking about it,
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started doing it. But here's the kicker, and I'll
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throw this out into the chat, see if anybody see if anybody
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knows or can remember what y'all used to do.
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But meme culture didn't just pop up out of nowhere.
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I mean, memes have been around for decades.
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They weren't necessarily called memes at the time, but really
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the essence of a meme is what it was.
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You know, when I was a kid, we didn't have the Internet.
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And, and most of us when we were that age, I mean, it didn't
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exist. There was no Internet.
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But what did exist for TV commercials and slogans,
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branding, branding, branding, movies, stuff like that.
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And that's really that, that's the initial memes.
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I would think this has been going on for as long as humans
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have been on earth because we just can't help ourselves.
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Something silly, something stupid, we're going to do it.
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I mean, think about, think about the the idiots that were eating
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tide pods a few years ago, you know, because of Internet stuff.
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So stupid. But that's meme culture.
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So I started thinking like, what's something that we used to
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say a lot back when I was in high school or, or early in
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college or, or even my son's age.
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And I didn't wrap my head too hard, but I came up with the
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best example that I could think of.
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They didn't just start saying Deez Nuts these days.
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No, hell no. We were saying Deez Nuts thanks
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to Doctor Dre in the chronic back in 92.
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I mean, that's when it all started for us.
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And if you don't think we didn't say Deez Nuts a lot, then you,
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you are absolutely out of your mind.
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But there's your little brief education on what 6-7 means.
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They're not really shouting out somebody's height.
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It's not about that. It's just meme culture being
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meme culture. So it it it's, it's really, it's
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just a shared reference in a, a bit of absurdity.
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It's just stuff that's going viral.
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So there's one little random randomness nugget for the night,
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and then another one is, well, I was looking up Google Trends.
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I was just, I like to look at Google Trends, see what the
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heck's going on out there in the world every now and then.
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And here we go. I just come across and talk
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about random. Did you know that Burt Reynolds,
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yes, Burt Reynolds is trending or he was trending because of
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all the huge movie roles that he turned down.
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I had no idea about this. Of course, iconic actor in so
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many great things. Smokey and the Bandit, just the
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name, just the name one the longest yard.
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Just I mean dude, had he he owned the late 70s and the 80s.
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I mean owned it. I'm going to tell you the movies
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he turned down. I had no freaking idea that he
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did it. I mean #1 he turned down Han
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Solo in Star Wars. He turned down being Al Pacino's
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character in The Godfather. You name it and I'm going to,
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but it's just crazy that he passed on all of these extremely
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iconic films. MASH, he passed on MASH man in
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1970 and that that movie, that movie was produced for like
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$3,000,000, but it made $82,000,000.
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So he missed out on a good payday there.
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Of course, in The Godfather, he was going to be Michael Corleone
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and he had to step away because Marlon Brando threatened to quit
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or kind of demanded that he that he leave.
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He didn't want to work with him. I haven't uncovered that story.
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That's an onion to peel back there.
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Like wonder why Marlon Brando and and Burt Reynolds had beef.
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We're going to find out sometime down the road.
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I have a feeling it probably was due to some chick, probably a
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girl was involved for sure. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
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That's hard to believe. In 1975, he declined the chance
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to play, what was his name? Randall Randall Randall
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Mcmurphy. He he had a chance to play
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Randall Mcmurphy. And of course that role went to
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Jack Nicholson. And I can't, I can't really
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imagine, I can't imagine Burt Reynolds playing any of these
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characters honestly. Like think about it, start
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thinking about replacing Burt. And I don't know if it's because
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of Saturday Night Live and the, the Burt, the Burt Reynolds that
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was portrayed was portrayed on there, but I mean by the by Norm
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MacDonald, I was thinking of his name.
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Norm MacDonald did the best, the absolute best.
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Burt Reynolds, you know, we just chewing gum, being on Jeopardy,
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wearing the big hats, all that stuff.
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But I, I just can't, I can't imagine him playing any of these
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terms of endearment. He turned that down once again,
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got beat by Jack Nicholson or he took that role just because he
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turned it down. I don't know if it'd have been
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the same role, but he he would have been in that project.
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That was a smash hit. One of the biggest surprises
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James Bond in 1982, they offered, they offered him to be
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James Bond whenever Rodger Moore exited, whenever, whenever
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Rodger Moore left and and Burt declined it.
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He said that he thought that no American could possibly play
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James Bond. And you know what I do, I've got
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to give him credit on that because he he later on, he said
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that was a mistake. I don't think that was a
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mistake. I can't really see you.
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You have to have some type of a, of a British or European kind of
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accent in my opinion, to play James Bond.
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That's just how it all started. So you've got to keep going with
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that. And then and then the last one,
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which was blew my mind. And I 100% cannot even remotely
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vision this happening. Pretty Woman, he turned down
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freaking Pretty Woman. Of course, Richard Gere goes on
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and that elevated his career to A to a whole new height.
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And Julia Roberts. But yeah, he could have been the
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lead in Pretty Woman, but he wasn't.
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So that that's wild, isn't it? That is absolutely wild.
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What are some, what are some of y'all's favorite Burt Reynolds
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movies? While we're out here and and
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before we we dive into the next one, I'd love to check back in
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with the chat. Jacob says he guesses that he
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lives under a rock. No, it's a good thing, dude.
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That just means you're not around a lot of 6-7 stuff and
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you're not hearing it. Paul Rogers doesn't know what it
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is. This is good.
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This makes me feel good. I think this is just part of
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living with a living with a teenager, living with a middle
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school kid. I hear it all day long and I
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know teachers hear it all day long.
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I sell insurance for a living and and I enroll occasionally.
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I'm enrolling teachers and that is definitely a hot topic.
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I mean, we've got emails about it that if kid says it again,
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he's out, he's out of there. Chance Alexander Chance chef
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chance chef Chance says psych, which is in a sense kind of what
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it what it means. It can also mean so, so, you
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know, bizarre, bizarre. Paul Rogers, Smokey and the
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Bandit. Yes, Sir.
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What a movie, dude. What a movie.
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Hilton, What is going on, brother?
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Jason Hilton. He says he's watching, eating a
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Belinda's burger. Oh, that's what I'm talking
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about. That's what I am talking about.
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Unlimited Stop. Belinda's in Florine, Louisiana.
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Unbelievable. I got a call from her yesterday
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and and that's so nice. I'm so glad that some little old
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videos that we make over here and just have fun going to the
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places that I like to go to, patronizing the places that I
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like to be a patron at and giving them a little bit of
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spotlight. I love that, man.
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I love that dude. And and what a great burger.
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Belinda has no doubt about it, man, no doubt about it.
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Well, look, let's get into the meat and potatoes of tonight's
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show. We've got some great interviews
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from over the weekend, starting with a guy from Ireland who is
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on a 14 week college football journey.
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I mean, I, I don't know if you all remember some of you that
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have been with us for a long time may remember Brandon Tritt,
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Florida State guy a couple years ago.
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Actually, Brandon Tritt was the very first fun Tigs bits fact.
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Brandon Tritt was the very first video podcast that we ever did.
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That was whenever we we finally, we switched over to video.
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I had the first one that we did somewhat recorded and then the
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second one was full video and, and all that and we haven't
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looked back. It's been all video ever since,
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but he went to some some clutch games throughout that journey.
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If you all remember that season which came to LSU, he saw LSU
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twice. I think he went to the SEC
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championship as well. But he went all over the country
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to some of the biggest freaking games.
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It was amazing. What a story Will this gentleman
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from Ireland is doing something very, very similar.
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And then after him, we've got a couple of English fans who came
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all of the all this way just to come to Death Valley, man.
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I mean, if that doesn't tell you how damn magical of a place it
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is over here. And that has nothing to do with
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the football team. I mean, it has a lot to do with
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the football team, but the tailgating, it's like it's its
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own separate entity, you know what I mean?
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We'll talk more about it in a second, but let's watch Dave
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from Ireland, man. Ladies and gentlemen, as you
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know on Tigs Bits, we like to bring the international flair to
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the Channel and we do that every single time because that's what
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this gorgeous thing behind us does.
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Death Valley, baby, Death Valley.
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I understand, Sir, you are from Ireland, not England.
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Not England all the way from Ireland to Death Valley.
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Wow. So how did you get here?
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What brought you here today? The simple answer are playing,
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but I I feel like you want more than that, don't you?
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I want so you didn't. This doesn't happen on a whim.
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You don't end up here on a whim. Somehow you've heard about this.
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Of course. So obviously a big college
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football fan into a lot of different environments around
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the country and everyone has said to me the best environment
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in college football is a Saturday night in Death Valley,
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and that's exactly why we're here.
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That is right so far as it lived up to your expectations.
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I think that's a fair. Question Great Southern
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hospitality, everyone's been so welcoming, great weather.
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We don't get this in early and then.
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It's hot, but it's not as hot as it.
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Can and we haven't. Looked great.
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It feels great in the shade. Lovely shade, but no, it's been
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great. Everyone's been so welcoming.
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LSU might be my family right now.
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Oh, of course. I think everybody can agree.
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LSU, a global Ireland and LSU, what Can you imagine?
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I just want to throw this out there because you know it's
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coming. Yes, you've had Notre Dame go to
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Ireland. We've had other.
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What did Florida State play there?
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They did, yeah. Florida State played there.
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Iowa State, Would you like this? Iowa State Would you like to see
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the LSU Tigers? In Dublin, Ireland of.
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Course it would. Notre Dame, K State, Iowa State,
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all great brands, I get it, all great universities.
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But the SEC is different. The SEC is different.
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We need an SEC game in Dublin, Ireland and no one better than
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the LSU. Tigers no one better.
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No one better. Has anyone ever drank the town
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dry? Where Irish?
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I know that, that's why it's a big question.
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We drink the town dry every weekend.
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I know you do. I think if this LSU matchup
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happens. I think if you and your LSU
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family, my LSU family came to Dublin.
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Yes. That have to be empty.
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There you have it. I think the Tigers can drink the
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town dry. We do everywhere else.
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I think we can do it in Ireland. Of course you could.
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Make it happen in CAA Go. Tigers.
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Boom. It is.
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That's awesome. I love it too.
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All right, so more layers of our conversation were undone as they
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think, as things usually happen when we get off air.
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Not only are the boys here for a trip to the historic and great
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Death Valley, but you're on a mission, you're on a run.
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Tell us all about it. Where all are you going?
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So this has been, this is week seven of a 14 week journey where
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we're doing 14 games and 14 weeks.
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Oh my God. We have been to Cuscaloosa,
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Knoxville. We went to the White Art a
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couple of weeks ago. Week 7 was Death Valley.
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Looking ahead, we're in the Big House next week, Michigan, Big
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10. I know the SEC and the Big 10
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have a bit of a rivalry. We're going to the Big House to
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see the the biggest stadium in America, see what that's like.
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We went to Auburn, back down to the SEC.
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We're going to go to the Swamp. I know you're not the biggest
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fan of Florida. Not at all, but that's OK.
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A great venue and a place you should.
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Go. But, But as someone who doesn't
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have an allegiance to any team and who is just a fan of the
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league, yeah, I just want to get all these atmospheres in.
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So I'm coming to Death Valley. I'm going to Jordan here,
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hopefully at night to see them take Kentucky.
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We're going to the Swamp to see him take Tennessee and Week 14,
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we're leaving it open. We're going to see how the
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schedule works out. Maybe go to a playoff game or
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something. Playoff eliminator.
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We're going to see what's on the table, but 14 games, 14 weeks is
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how we're laying out this journey.
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Oh my God, I won't lie, it's tiring.
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That's amazing. I think that's the best journey
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that I've heard. We've had a guy on the show
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before who was doing a tour and he was going that year.
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He went to all of some of the three or four years ago.
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He went to some of the biggest games that there were in the
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country. He was a Florida State guy.
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He came here. Got to meet him.
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Shout out. And I thought that was the most
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incredible story that I've ever heard.
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But not only now you've come to the States to go to 14 weeks in
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a row to college football to see what it is that we have.
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I only have one question for will you come on our podcast at
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the end of this journey to talk about all of this and it does
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not have to be favorable of LSU. I understand you're going to
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have a good time today. There is no doubt about that.
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I know we will be at the top of the list.
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But at the end of this journey, I want to know like who makes
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the top? Why?
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What did you experience? And dude, this is an incredible.
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I would definitely come on to discuss that when I go to these
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places, I look at tailgate environment, the scale of it,
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and I'll be honest, Penn State coming into this weekend and say
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Hailgate, incredible Penn State. Yeah, wow.
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Stadium environment, The best game, the best game as well.
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Like I was at Georgia, Tennessee a week. 385 points of that game
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overtime. Luckily in my journey I got 3
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overtimes in three weeks. That's incredible.
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So not only another one, you're going to the biggest games and
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you're getting great games at that, which means, sorry Tiger
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fans, but this is going to be a close one.
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Going to be a close one. This is going to be one of those
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games. No, it's been an incredible
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journey. I went up the West Point and
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Army to go to a game, a game on a military site that I had to do
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a background check to go into a football stadium.
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Really. So as the accent might give
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away, I'm not a U.S. citizen. Not at all.
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Not so. I took a boat up to the stadium,
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got off the boat, had to go into my separate line, do a
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background check into a football game.
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I hope I don't have to do it here.
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I think you will. It was certainly an interesting
24:23
turn to go into a football game where I didn't think my my
24:26
criminal history tank feeders none there, but it was just an
24:30
interesting, interesting run in all of this.
24:32
But yes, once we're. New America.
24:34
Once we come to the end of it, I'll jump on your podcast.
24:36
I'll discuss everything. The best, the worst, the best
24:38
games, the worst tail games, yes, and we'll talk about it
24:41
all. There you have it.
24:43
There's more to this story. There'll be more coming.
24:45
I cannot wait to hear the end of this whole journey, man.
24:49
Wow. Thank you buddy.
24:50
Go daggers, go daggers, my man, my man.
24:57
He has it down, doesn't he? He has the go tigers down.
25:00
I love that. I love that.
25:01
How cool. How freaking cool is that?
25:05
In the games that he's been to, he's he's been to some serious,
25:09
serious good games. There is 0 doubt about that.
25:12
But you know what, preparing for this, all of this, it blows my
25:17
mind. It blows my mind that people are
25:20
literally flying from all over the world just to come here to
25:26
Baton Rouge, LA and experience Tiger Stadium.
25:31
I mean, I've met folks from Ireland.
25:34
I've met the, we're going to see some folks from England coming
25:37
up next. I've seen some folks from Italy,
25:40
Canada, all over the United States.
25:43
They've been watching LSU online or on TV or whatever for years
25:48
and it has become a bucket list place.
25:52
And I, I didn't really, I didn't really realize just how many
25:57
outsiders came here until we started doing this.
26:01
I mean, yes, I would see people at the tailgate or we would talk
26:05
to somebody and they would be like, you know, I'm coming down
26:07
from Boston or whatever. And I would just be like, wow,
26:10
that's amazing. And then once we really started
26:13
to dive in and do these interviews, it's just like it's
26:17
opened up a whole new world and I start seeing it everywhere and
26:21
hearing from other people and it's just really cool.
26:24
I mean, we truly have the cathedral of college football
26:28
here and it is just like going to the Coliseum in Rome.
26:32
It is that for some people, outsiders, outsiders that are
26:37
not just LSU fans, they're coming here for the experience.
26:42
It's like someone wanting to go to Las Vegas and go to the Spear
26:46
or the sphere, The sphere, the sphere, the spear would be in
26:50
Florida State, but the sphere and go see and have that kind of
26:53
an experience. So people are coming here to get
26:56
an experience. That is the one buzzword that
26:59
all of these people say in these interviews.
27:02
And here's something that we've got to do and I'm talking to not
27:06
to everybody. I'm talking to the Tiger fans
27:08
that are out there listening to them.
27:10
We got to give them a real Tiger Stadium experience.
27:14
Don't leave early. Don't sit quiet.
27:17
The traffic. Yeah, it's bad.
27:19
It's always been bad. You knew that whenever you
27:22
showed up. That's part of it.
27:25
It's just part of it. They're looking for a memory.
27:29
They're coming here to make a memory.
27:32
It's just the tailgates and just all that does not need to be the
27:37
memory. The in house experience needs to
27:40
be it too. I'm saying this because it's a
27:44
little bit of a problem. You're in a 7 point ball game
27:46
and shout out to Dave. He did bring it.
27:49
He made it. He made the game tighter than it
27:52
should have been. But you know, the atmosphere in
27:56
Death Valley this past weekend, I'm just going to say it, it
27:59
sucked, it was terrible. And it's just a 7 point ball
28:03
game. In the fourth quarter, 35 or 40%
28:07
of the stadium is left and traffic is an issue and all of
28:12
that. But dude, you leave in the
28:14
second quarter, you're done. I mean, you're still going to be
28:18
in traffic. You're going to be in traffic no
28:20
matter what. That's part of the commitment.
28:23
And these folks are coming from halfway across the planet to
28:27
come to our house, our house. We got to make sure that they
28:32
walk out saying, my God, that was everything that I hoped it
28:36
would be. It was loud, it was crazy.
28:39
They were the tailgate, the people.
28:41
I can't wait to tell everybody. I can't wait to come back.
28:45
It doesn't need to just be for the big games.
28:48
It needs to be every damn game. Fans are watching and they're
28:54
falling in love with LSU all over the country just the same
28:57
way that you and I did the exact same thing and we got to act
29:04
that way. We got to act that way.
29:06
OK, I'm going to get off my little high horse here, but it's
29:10
just really, really cool that all of these folks come across
29:14
the world just to come and experience the culture, the food
29:21
and the people. It's what makes Louisiana so
29:24
special. We need to remember that.
29:27
There's just a little reminder. You know, you kind of, you clean
29:30
up whenever you go over to your grandma's house or if you have
29:34
guests coming over to your house, you clean up a little
29:37
bit. You make sure everything's
29:38
right. Remember that we have a lot of
29:41
guests here and not from the opposing team, actual guests
29:46
that come from all over the world.
29:49
The world. I mean, look, there you go, Paul
29:53
Rodgers, not an LSU fan at all. The stadium leaving wasn't a
29:58
good look. No, it wasn't.
30:00
And it happens a lot. It's a pandemic in Baton Rouge
30:04
or an epidemic. I think it's a pandemic here
30:07
locally. I mean, it's been happening for
30:10
years. If it's not Alabama, Florida,
30:13
Texas A&M, you know, a Georgia or Tennessee or one of those
30:18
big, a big SEC game, people are leaving in the first quarter.
30:23
People don't even go. I mean, it's just that doesn't
30:25
happen at other places in the SEC.
30:27
It is starting to, I have started to notice that's even
30:31
happening. I mean, even Ole Miss last
30:33
weekend, people were leaving early, that kind of deal.
30:37
They didn't show, just not in it.
30:39
But you know, anyhow, I just had to get my $0.02 in because it
30:44
pisses me off, Jacob says. It was sad.
30:48
It was embarrassing as a visitor seeing that.
30:50
Yeah, I mean, it is like I didn't talk to the boys after
30:56
this trip, but there's no way that they went.
30:59
Dude, Death Valley is as loud as they say it is.
31:02
That place is nuts. No, what?
31:05
Flat. Flat.
31:08
Anyhow, Anyhow, next weekend, Jacob says fire fact, FACT,
31:17
under score fact. It's going to be wild next
31:21
weekend. It'll be the game of the year as
31:23
far as the tailgate of the year, game of the year, crowd of the
31:27
year. Guarantee it, guarantee it.
31:29
Let's just cross our fingers the weather is good and the Tigers
31:33
can get the victory this weekend.
31:37
We'll we're not talking about that tonight.
31:39
We are not going to talk about that.
31:41
Now, look, I wasn't expecting to hear the Queen's English in the
31:47
middle of the tailgate, but I did.
31:49
Once again, here we are. There's two blokes.
31:52
I can say that word. They say it a lot.
31:55
They're two blokes from England who somehow ended up in Baton
31:59
Rouge. Talk a little bit about that and
32:02
let's watch this. You ain't from here, Sir.
32:06
Where are you from? From London in the United
32:09
Kingdom. Yes, he is.
32:11
He is what made you want to be here.
32:15
The food in the United Kingdom is extremely bland and I love
32:20
how much culture you have in your dishes.
32:23
And you can't eat Louisiana dishes on their own.
32:26
They're they're built to share. And I love all the flavours and
32:30
I love everything that's brought to the table.
32:31
And it's that beautiful storytelling that you guys do so
32:35
well with your food. It's spot on.
32:37
Just please do not come to the UK for food.
32:40
We're not very good at that. I always travel with a little
32:42
bottle of Tabasco for emergency purposes, but Tabasco just fixes
32:48
everything. It does.
32:49
It does. It's a fixer of all.
32:52
Ailments. Our good friends in Damasco love
32:55
that. Avery Island.
32:57
Avery Island. Is this the first time you've
32:59
been to Louisiana? 4th time I absolutely love
33:03
coming to Louisiana so much to see here.
33:06
Like I love the good Cypress tree and a swamp, you know?
33:10
There you go, that now we're talking.
33:11
That's right, you can't build that.
33:14
That's nature. That's beautiful.
33:16
That's right. So watch out for the, the, the,
33:20
the Gators. You call them.
33:21
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, they're good.
33:23
No doubt, No doubt. But what a beautiful backdrop
33:26
you guys have out here. Absolutely stunning.
33:28
What else are you going to do while you're here in in, in
33:30
Louisiana or in the United States?
33:32
Well I've never done a tailgate so this is my first ever
33:35
tailgate and wow. What do you think?
33:38
I am so impressed. Like the the everyone's just
33:41
sharing everything, everyone's having a great time, everyone's
33:44
laughing, everyone's just having AI.
33:46
Love it. What a great concept.
33:48
We should have those before our soccer games.
33:50
Absolutely. I can't believe that you do not.
33:52
Oh, I. Know right probably because of
33:54
the congestion charge just to drive into London alone so we
33:58
normally take the bus or the tube into the game so we haven't
34:01
got these massive Ford pickup trucks to like cook a BBQ off
34:05
the. Pedal, that's true.
34:07
And. Logistics definitely make a
34:10
factor. I love seeing your stadium and
34:12
then seeing the parking bays around the stadium on Google
34:15
Maps. You you guys love parking
34:17
facilities. You never get out of here, and
34:20
that's a fact. Like you will not leave this
34:22
place tonight. It will take forever, but it's
34:26
worth it. I mean, look at it.
34:28
Yeah. Unbelievable.
34:29
I hop on a bus, there you go. And can you drink in your seat
34:34
here when you're watching a football game?
34:35
100. Percent.
34:36
Wow, that's a luxury. We're not even allowed to drink
34:39
alcohol in the seat while watching the game.
34:42
Sir, you are going to have a good time.
34:44
Premier League Valley tonight, baby.
34:46
Can't wait. Thank you for having me.
34:48
Everyone in Louisiana has just been fantastic.
34:50
Well, wonderful hospitality, you guys.
34:52
That real Southern charm, that Southern hospitality.
34:54
Everyone's looked after me here. Where can they find you on your
34:57
socials? My name's Travel Dave UK, you
34:59
can follow me on Instagram, YouTube, I've got my own travel
35:03
blog at traveldave.co.uk as well.
35:05
And also I'm looking forward to the World Cup next year in the
35:07
United States of America. Wow, Canada and Mexico as well,
35:12
but also in the US is going to be exciting.
35:14
I love it. Well, thank you.
35:15
Appreciate you. Very nice.
35:16
Thank you for meeting you. Pleasure.
35:18
Thanks for having. Me.
35:19
There we go. What's your name, Sir?
35:21
Scott, how you doing? Very well, very well.
35:24
So nice to meet you. Where are you from?
35:26
So I'm from Portsmouth in the UK on the South Coast.
35:29
Is this your first time in the United States?
35:31
No, I've been to the United States a lot.
35:32
A fair, fair few times into Louisiana four times.
35:35
We were in Baton Rouge a few months ago and we were being
35:39
told about a lady, but about this by a lady called Marie who
35:42
was selling us this whole culture behind LSU and how huge
35:47
the college. Is This the lady behind the
35:49
camera? Lady behind the camera, Marie,
35:51
Yeah. And we more or less agreed we
35:54
had to come and experience this for ourselves.
35:56
It just was like nothing we've known about or could even fathom
36:00
in the UK. So here we are, We've made it
36:02
happen. It was tight.
36:03
We just made it happen last minute, but we're here.
36:05
I heard that a little. Birdie told me, as I like like
36:08
to say a little. Birdie told me that you didn't
36:10
get here easily. Where were you prior to this?
36:13
How'd you get here? Give us the rundown.
36:15
Well, I actually came from Dow in Qatar, was the last place I
36:18
was. Flew into London, quick quick
36:21
stopover, changed, changed my clothes, washed some stuff and
36:25
hopped on a flight. And I arrived last night late,
36:28
and here we are. Literally across the world to
36:33
come to this place, yeah. But why?
36:37
Why here? From a dry country to a not so
36:40
dry country. It ain't dry here, Not at all, I
36:44
think. I think it's a wet country.
36:46
I've never heard it described that way, but it's wet here.
36:50
Thankfully not too wet and humid today, but it's yeah, it's a wet
36:54
country. For sure.
36:54
It's definitely wet. So why LSU?
36:58
Why Death Valley? I guess we've heard a lot about
37:01
college football. LSU seemed to be one of the ones
37:04
that had the biggest following, the biggest culture.
37:07
Everywhere we've been in Louisiana has had some kind of
37:10
support for the Tigers. And you see it, you see it kind
37:13
of mix and match around the state and it just felt, it just
37:16
felt right. It just felt the place that we
37:18
had to come. I've done a lot of different
37:20
content and videos in Louisiana, OK?
37:23
So yeah, I feel much more connected to the state than
37:26
anywhere else. And here we are.
37:28
Yeah, it's a great place. Where else have you been in
37:30
America? I mean, a lot of the Deep South,
37:33
so Alabama and Mississippi, I've done a lot in Florida, been to a
37:36
lot of different places there. We're in Chicago just a few
37:38
months ago the the East Coast, California.
37:42
So yeah, a few, a fair few places, a lot of states yet to
37:44
see, but. There's a few, OK, yeah, but
37:47
something keeps bringing you back here.
37:49
Something's bringing me back. Something's bringing back to
37:51
Louisiana. We even joked actually.
37:53
A few months ago. I mean, Maria's lovely, but it
37:57
isn't just Marie. So it brings you back to your.
38:00
It's that charm, isn't it? It's that charm.
38:02
It's that Southern hospitality. Yeah, for sure. 100% We got it
38:05
in droves, ladies and gentlemen, you know that y'all come, come
38:09
down, come see us. Visit Baton Rouge.
38:13
Visit Louisiana, Come on down right.
38:17
Absolutely. Thoughts on the game?
38:19
Thoughts on the game? It's just going to be great to
38:21
soak up the atmosphere. I have no idea what's going to
38:23
happen. I like that, but but my thoughts
38:25
mainly is about the tailgating and just how many people there
38:28
are. There's the atmosphere and the
38:30
vibe. I feel like you could come to 10
38:31
different games and have 10 different experiences.
38:34
Go 10 different. Tailgates.
38:36
There's different types of people.
38:38
Everyone's getting together for LSU.
38:40
Every different age, every different race, background,
38:43
religion just seems to come together for an LSU game.
38:46
That's kind of beautiful. It's awesome and I have to say
38:50
you nailed it and it's fun to hear an outsider's perspective
38:53
of that. All cultures, all blends, all
38:57
walks of life and none or ever the freaking same man.
39:02
There's never a tailgate that is the same.
39:04
That's what keeps me coming back.
39:06
I think that's what keeps all these folks coming back is it's,
39:10
it's never the same. It doesn't matter who it is, who
39:12
we're playing. It's always fun.
39:15
It's always lit. It's always wet.
39:18
Yeah. It's got that walk.
39:20
Yeah, it does. I said it.
39:23
I said it. He said it.
39:25
I did. You know what I'm talking about.
39:28
Thank you for coming. Great.
39:29
Thank you. Very nice to meet you.
39:30
You too go Tigers. Go Tigers, let's go.
39:36
You got to love it, man. You got to love it.
39:38
Those those guys were great. It's just, it's still, I just
39:43
can't. I know I keep saying it, but it
39:44
just blows my mind that these folks are coming.
39:47
And I've got to give a shout out to Marie behind the camera.
39:52
She works with Visit Baton Rouge and and and as y'all have heard
39:56
on the show, they have a partnership with with these
40:00
folks over in the UK. Travel agency travel kind of
40:05
stuff in this, this, they, they, they do trips and things not
40:09
just to Baton Rouge, but to other places around the country.
40:13
And just how cool, man, how cool is travel agency booking all
40:17
this stuff, these folks coming over and like I like to say a
40:21
little birdie told me. Well, a little birdie did tell
40:24
me that there are you're going to like this, Jacob.
40:29
There are 16 folks coming from the UK coming to Death Valley,
40:34
coming to our tailgate, coming to Tiger Stadium.
40:37
They're going to get the experience and they're going to
40:40
they're going to get a wild one. I mean, we don't know what the
40:43
weather is going to do yet, all of that.
40:45
But but I can't wait to meet it, meet them.
40:48
And you know, we are going to have we're going to have some
40:54
good content coming from from that, no doubt about it.
40:57
It's going to be setting up to potentially be the the tailgate
41:02
of the year. I can't wait, man, I can't wait.
41:04
So a lot more to come, a lot more to come from that.
41:08
Now, while we're on the topic of out of towners, we got to bring
41:12
it back local for a second. And and I've brought I'm I'm I'm
41:18
about to interview. They're coming to the Texas A&M
41:21
Jacob next week. I'm about to interview a lady
41:25
named Kayla Kayla Dunn. And there has been a debate on
41:31
on on our socials with some of the videos that that that the
41:37
food in north Louisiana is bland and the food in South Louisiana
41:41
is better and Mason Dixon lines in Louisiana and all of this fun
41:47
stuff. So I thought that I would get
41:52
the opinion of someone else who's lived on both sides of the
41:56
state. She's lived in South Louisiana,
41:58
where she grew up. She lives in north Louisiana.
42:01
Now let's just say, let's just say that Miss Kayla, she has a
42:09
couple of opinions we have. Had this discussion and it's
42:13
been going around the tailgate about North Louisiana cooking
42:17
versus South Louisiana cooking, and I thought, let's get a nice
42:23
lady's perspective from this who's lived in both South
42:26
Louisiana and N Louisiana. Is there a difference?
42:31
There is definitely a difference, most definitely.
42:34
What is the difference? Flavor.
42:39
The tailgate king himself up there says that people in north
42:43
Louisiana boil their food. I don't think that's necessarily
42:48
true. That's true.
42:49
What do you think it is? Do you think it's just a lack of
42:51
other seasoning? It's just too salt heavy.
42:55
No pepper, nothing else. It's just what do you think?
42:58
How can we fix this? I do think it's seasoning, but I
43:02
also think there's like, they just don't know what to do to
43:06
make it better. Like you got to sear the stuff
43:11
before you cooked it and you know, you got to flavor it and
43:14
season it. Make sure you can know how to
43:16
make your gravy from scratch and know all the things.
43:21
Would you eat? A gumbo cooked.
43:24
You don't know the person. It's cooked in north Louisiana.
43:30
I'll call it a Yankee gumbo. Are you eating that gumbo?
43:33
Are you passing sight unseen? To be nice, I would try it and
43:40
then I would politely pass my bowl to my husband.
43:45
That is the way, because you already know that Roux is not
43:48
going to be dark enough. No, no.
43:50
And and as you've said, no flavor, no flavor, OK.
43:54
That Roux better be about the color of brownie batter, at
43:57
least at. Least I agree N Louisiana get it
44:01
together. Reporting live from Death Valley
44:05
Kayla I'm not Kayla Kayla Jigs. Woo, I can't wait to put that
44:15
out on social media here in the next few days.
44:18
We'll I'm going to chop that one up a little bit.
44:20
I think that's going to that's going to have some fun.
44:24
Kayla threw down, Kayla threw the gauntlet down a little bit
44:27
on that. And so I mean, that's going to
44:31
ruffle some feathers. Ain't no doubt about it.
44:33
But look, it, this is all disclaimer right now.
44:38
Anybody watching this is just fun.
44:39
Number one, everybody in the state of Louisiana, well, almost
44:42
everybody. There's great cooks in north
44:45
Louisiana. There are great cooks in South
44:48
Louisiana. Make no bones about it.
44:52
People in north Louisiana can cook.
44:54
It's just more southern dishes like you would get in Georgia,
44:57
Mississippi, Alabama. That's N Louisiana, the cut off
45:02
the line, I-10, that's what a lot of folks say, but it is
45:06
seasoning. There is, there is not as much
45:09
Creole seasoning, Cajun seasoning, all of that in North
45:12
Louisiana. It's more salt and pepper, heavy
45:16
gravies, things like that. I get it, they're all excellent.
45:19
There is no wrong way to eat amazing food in this great
45:23
state. But she wasn't too wrong and too
45:26
far off, and nor are my friends at the Cajun Tiger tailgate with
45:30
the seasoning. It's just not the seasoning they
45:34
are used to and what I've gotten used to for living down here all
45:38
of these years. No doubt about it.
45:41
And look, I want to give a big thank you to everyone at the
45:46
tailgate, everybody that is out there.
45:50
Thank you, thank you, thank you. It's unbelievable the people
45:54
that will come up to me that are part of a tailgate and they're
45:57
like, Hey, you need to go interview this person or this
45:59
dude came, he's from wherever he's from LA, he came here first
46:04
time, you know, whatever they come up and, and it's just, it's
46:08
kept this going for all of us. So we can have these shows talk
46:12
about this stuff and have a little, have a little
46:14
interaction. It's it's a lot of fun.
46:16
I love doing it. And and I want to thank all of
46:19
y'all. Y'all been my cameraman or
46:21
camera lady this year. And it we're just a big family
46:25
at the Cajun Tiger tailgates. I was talking about with, with
46:28
Ashley the other day while we were just hanging out a little
46:33
bit. I was like, but you know, this
46:35
is just a big family and we we all are, we're one big family
46:39
and and it's a it's a lot of fun to share the culture and all
46:43
with the rest of the world. It seems the rest of the world.
46:49
I look who showed up, my girl Allie, what's up Allie?
46:52
That's so fun. She says it is, it is.
46:55
It's all so much fun. I I just love it.
46:58
It's just so much fun doing these tailgates.
47:00
I know that the second-half of the year that are the the the
47:04
last quarter of the year, this show turns into the tailgate
47:08
show, but that's OK. That's just the way this thing,
47:11
that's just the way this thing goes and it's the way it's going
47:14
to go. So it's that time of year and
47:17
we're going to keep going. Win or lose with the Tigers,
47:20
there's still going to be some great stories to be told.
47:22
That's what makes it fun and makes me keep coming back.
47:26
All right, y'all, I said we're going to do it.
47:29
We're going to do something new and this is going to be fun.
47:33
I I, I, I'm not going to lie, I'm a little I'm kind of proud
47:36
of myself. I thought of this and it's
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nothing that magical at all, but I'm going to spin a wheel.
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We're calling this the Wheel of Flavor.
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Cue the music. I don't have music for it yet.
47:53
We'll see how far this goes, but I think it I think this is going
47:56
to this is going to run for a little bit.
47:58
I do believe so I'm going to spin the wheel and I'm going to
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let it pick which seasoning I'm going to use for my next cooking
48:07
video. We've got 25 plus seasonings
48:13
just that I've found so far and I'm probably missing some.
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I'll add them to it if if need be.
48:19
If I get more, they will go on the wheel.
48:21
They will go on the wheel. So here is how this is going to
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work. I'm going to spin the wheel and
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whatever it lands on, that becomes my homework assignment
48:31
for the next time before we go live.
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Hopefully it may, maybe a show or two, but somewhere in there,
48:39
OK, I've got to cook with that, seasoning with it before that
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next show or or the next show pretty soon before we spin the
48:48
wheel again. I've got to film it, see how it
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turned out, talk about it. No do overs, no excuses, just
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pure flavor fate. We're going to see how it all
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turns out. So let me pull up the little
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wheel here and see Rusty what is up.
49:08
He says go Vols beat the tide. Please do we we we're still
49:12
wanting to win an SEC championship and it'd be nice to
49:17
give Bama a loss. So it would be great if you
49:20
could handle that for us. We would appreciate it, but we
49:24
all are going to need it, honestly.
49:27
All right, let's see there we go there we go.
49:30
We can see the wheel, the wheel of flavor.
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So I'm not going to name everybody that's on here.
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Of course, there are a ton, as you can see, and let's just spin
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it. Let's see what happens.
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All right, there we go. Ritz cooking, Ritz cooking,
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Cajun seasoning. That is the winner.
50:03
So excellent. I didn't know how this would
50:06
turn out. And then just truth be known as
50:10
some of you know and don't care. I'm on keto and I was in about
50:15
half of these have sugar in them.
50:16
But I was I was going to sacrifice doing all of that for
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you, the people, so you would know my thoughts on all of
50:26
these. But but I still and I still
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will. It's all fine.
50:30
It's all good. I can have a couple bites and
50:32
see how it turns out. But, but I think I've been
50:35
sitting around thinking like, Lord, I have all of these
50:37
seasons. 26 is what's on that wheel as of right now, 26
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freaking seasonings. And I, I, I'm not giving justice
50:48
to my friends out there that have provided me with this
50:52
seasoning. I'm not promoting it.
50:53
I just feel like how can I, how can I get this out there?
50:56
So I think this will be a fun little segment.
50:58
Y'all let me know what you think and, and we'll keep it going.
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Of course, I'm going to take Britt's Cajun cooking or Britt's
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cooking off of off of the list after this one.
51:10
We're going to run through them until I until I use them all.
51:13
So I think it'll just be a lot of fun to do all of that.
51:17
But look, that's going to be it for tonight.
51:21
I'm going to I'm going to wrap it up as a just a little
51:24
reminder. Next Thursday I'm going to be on
51:28
Adam Contraire's podcast. It's called End Zone Eats.
51:33
I'm going to be on there along with Chris Phillips from SEC
51:38
Unfiltered who laid a quite the bombshell.
51:42
He said that the van the the Vanderbilt Commodores will beat
51:45
the Tigers by two touchdowns or more this weekend.
51:49
Strong statements. I've written that down.
51:52
I will not forget that. I hope that I get to rub that in
51:55
his face next week and in Gordy Rush, the legend Gordy Rush, LSU
52:02
sideline reporter involved in so much in this city.
52:07
Great dude, great guy. That's going to be a lot of fun.
52:10
So y'all tune into that. I'll have links all that stuff
52:14
as they're put up. So we'll I'll be on I'll be live
52:19
next Thursday on Adam's show End zone eats.
52:23
It's cool. So it talks about different
52:26
tailgates around the country and some of the dishes and food that
52:31
you can expect at these tailgates.
52:33
It's a unique show, a unique perspective on things.
52:37
So it's going to be a lot of fun.
52:38
It's an in studio show too. So oh uh oh, Tiggy could go
52:44
crazy in a studio. Nah, I won't.
52:46
It's just going to be a lot of fun man.
52:48
So y'all make sure to tune in for that and as always, thank
52:52
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53:18
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