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Episode 4-SEC Superfan Stingray · Johnny's World

0:30
SPEAKER_03: Our special guest, uh Johnny and I will catch up for a minute here.
0:33
SPEAKER_03: I think we we had a little wager on the Super Bowl.
0:36
SPEAKER_03: We probably need to talk about that.
0:37
SPEAKER_03: And and uh somebody Johnny also had a pretty big little special day on Sunday, so we'll talk a little bit about that birthday too.
0:44
SPEAKER_01: So how you been doing, Johnny?
0:47
SPEAKER_01: Oh man, doing great, doing great.
0:49
SPEAKER_01: They say that uh 40, I must be the new 20, man, because I feel like I'm 20 years old.
0:54
SPEAKER_01: I just turned 40.
0:55
SPEAKER_01: Unbelievable.
0:56
SPEAKER_03: I knew you when you were 20, and you you still look about the same.
0:59
SPEAKER_03: Your hair's a little longer, but but otherwise you look about the same.
1:12
SPEAKER_01: He used to be my preacher in Madison for many years, uh, Tom Sykes and his wife.
1:17
SPEAKER_01: They uh they came up, drove up to Starble, and um I was in my room doing my breathing treatments actually, and uh looked up and here they come in here.
1:25
SPEAKER_01: They had both had on masks and everything.
1:26
SPEAKER_01: And and uh because I hadn't let anybody in my house since the pandemic, so I was shocked.
1:31
SPEAKER_01: I was like, can't believe someone's in here.
1:33
SPEAKER_01: And they walked in and they brought uh I've been playing a lot of board games since the pandemic, so uh they knew out knew about that.
1:39
SPEAKER_01: So they brought me lots of board games.
1:42
SPEAKER_01: Uh they brought me uh chess.
1:43
SPEAKER_01: I've I've always kind of wanted to learn how to play chess, and uh Tom's a good chess player, so we kind of played chess for a little bit.
1:50
SPEAKER_01: He taught me that, and then uh they brought some hats and they brought this really neat bulldog robe, it's like a bulldog head, and then it's like maroon robe that you wear like when you get out of the shower.
2:01
SPEAKER_01: It's pretty funny.
2:02
SPEAKER_01: So I had that on, and uh and uh so they got to my house.
2:08
SPEAKER_01: They haven't been up here since I moved up here, so that was pretty neat getting to get to show them that.
2:12
SPEAKER_01: And and they brought some champagne.
2:13
SPEAKER_01: We uh popped the top of the champagne like that, and and uh it was awesome.
2:19
SPEAKER_01: We had a great, great day.
2:20
SPEAKER_01: Big total surprise.
2:21
SPEAKER_01: So that was uh that was on Saturday the 6th.
2:25
SPEAKER_01: And then my birthday was uh Sunday, Super Bowl Sunday the 7th.
2:28
SPEAKER_01: So I woke up that morning on the 7th, I walked downstairs, I looked outside, and there was a uh I got yarded.
2:34
SPEAKER_01: There was a sign that said, Happy, happy 40th, JC.
2:37
SPEAKER_01: And I asked my mom, I was like, Did you do this?
2:39
SPEAKER_01: She was like, No, I did not do this.
2:41
SPEAKER_01: I was like, Who did it?
2:42
SPEAKER_01: And so she said, uh, you you might want to check with your co-workers, and sure enough, they they started texting me, like, did you see the sign outside?
2:50
SPEAKER_01: And of course I messed with them at first.
2:52
SPEAKER_01: I was like, What sign?
2:54
SPEAKER_01: They're like, You're messing with me, right?
2:55
SPEAKER_01: I was like, No, I really did.
2:56
SPEAKER_01: I saw a sign, so uh, yeah, they had got together and surprised me.
3:00
SPEAKER_01: The the guy that actually puts up the sign lives uh five doors down from me, so that was pretty neat.
3:05
SPEAKER_01: So when I talked to him, they're like, Yeah, it's small town, Mississippi, right there.
3:09
SPEAKER_01: Uh everybody knows everybody, and sure enough, they um they they put the sign up, and then uh and so yeah, that started off uh the birthday day, and then I had a lot of visitors uh come to the door and bring cards and gifts.
3:24
SPEAKER_01: Um, and then in the afternoon, and then I had uh had a good lunch.
3:27
SPEAKER_01: Uh we went to um this place to start, we'll call it uh Welcome Home Beef.
3:32
SPEAKER_01: It's a uh new uh beef market cut type place, they have steaks and meats and stuff.
3:37
SPEAKER_01: Just found out last week they were starting to carry uh fish.
3:39
SPEAKER_01: So um went over there, got some uh red snapper and cooked that up and uh we ate that.
3:45
SPEAKER_01: That was that was really good.
3:46
SPEAKER_01: And then uh and then we we drove to town and and at the roundabout between Octock and Blackjack, right there at that gas station, is a billboard where they put up uh birthday surprise, and sure enough, there's my picture, and it says, Lordy Lordy, John Clark is 40.
4:00
SPEAKER_01: And uh so that was a big surprise.
4:02
SPEAKER_01: And and uh went back and watched the Super Bowl, and of course I uh like uh I like Brady, so I was there.
4:11
SPEAKER_01: Had to wear my my Bucks gear and uh shirt that I have.
4:14
SPEAKER_01: And and uh Brady Brady won the game for me, even though uh it wasn't as close as I predicted in our podcast the other day.
4:20
SPEAKER_01: Uh he did get the win, and then and then yesterday I went back down to town because uh it was still up.
4:26
SPEAKER_01: The sign was up for two days, and uh and I got some good shots of it at night.
4:30
SPEAKER_01: Looks really good at night.
4:31
SPEAKER_01: And uh so yeah, it was a great day.
4:34
SPEAKER_01: Um, like I said, I wanted to have that big party for everybody to celebrate 40 years because I wasn't even supposed to be here for one year, and um, and every year is a milestone.
4:43
SPEAKER_01: So 40 years is really, really something special.
4:47
SPEAKER_01: And uh as I told all throughout the week on Facebook, sharing my story of litting up from day one to day 40.
4:53
SPEAKER_01: So it was a it was a great day, uh best day it could be without having a party.
4:58
SPEAKER_01: It was still still a good day.
5:00
SPEAKER_01: So happy to be here, happy to be alive and well, and feeling the best I felt in years thanks to this uh miracle drug that I got.
5:07
SPEAKER_01: And because I knew I wouldn't be here without it.
5:09
SPEAKER_01: Uh it really changed my life.
5:11
SPEAKER_01: I was heading downhill and it turned it around and I got slipped, reached my goal of seeing 40 years old.
5:17
SPEAKER_01: And like I told someone the other day, everything else passed this is just icing on the cake.
5:22
SPEAKER_01: So uh so happy to happy to see 40.
5:26
SPEAKER_03: Now we're you know, we're getting old.
5:28
SPEAKER_03: So uh as an eye doctor, people start coming to see me when they turn 40 because they start having problems, you know, seeing things up close.
5:35
SPEAKER_03: They can't see their phone and stuff like that.
5:37
SPEAKER_03: So you'll have to let me know when that happens and we'll see if we can help you out there.
5:42
SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
5:42
SPEAKER_01: I have to um speaking of that, I looked in the mirror today and I I hadn't shaved in a couple days.
5:46
SPEAKER_01: I looked down and there's a bunch of white hairs growing on my neck.
5:50
SPEAKER_01: I turned 40 and I get white gray hairs on my neck, on my beard.
5:53
SPEAKER_01: So uh that's been a mystibe State fan your whole life.
5:57
SPEAKER_01: I'm proud of them though.
5:58
SPEAKER_01: Do you want now?
5:59
SPEAKER_01: That's being a state fan your whole life.
6:01
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that adds to it for sure.
6:03
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
6:04
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
6:05
SPEAKER_01: But yeah, our bet.
6:06
SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, we'll we'll just have to um uh you picked uh you picked it by what was it seven or ten?
6:12
SPEAKER_01: I picked it by three and it was 31 to 9, so it was a blowout.
6:17
SPEAKER_01: But I did pick uh the Bucks to score 31.
6:20
SPEAKER_01: I said 31-28 and ended up being 31 to 9.
6:23
SPEAKER_01: So you're uh the you're the winner on it, but I don't have any pirate gear.
6:26
SPEAKER_01: You're the pirate expert.
6:28
SPEAKER_01: So I can say err, Brandon, err.
6:35
SPEAKER_01: Are you doing John Clark?
6:38
SPEAKER_01: I do have my uh my my my pirate shirt.
6:41
SPEAKER_01: That's the only pirate gear I have right there, the ready face.
6:44
SPEAKER_01: But uh yeah, who would have thought uh to Super Bowl, man?
6:48
SPEAKER_01: Nine points by the Chiefs?
6:49
SPEAKER_01: Who would have thought that?
6:52
SPEAKER_01: Like everybody else did.
6:55
SPEAKER_03: I saw that uh the the honey badger, he got he got pretty upset a couple times there, and I saw that Brady ended up having to to apologize to him over some of the stuff they said, so no telling what they were talking about down there.
7:07
SPEAKER_01: But wow.
7:10
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was uh yeah, I I thought um I thought I thought Fournette would have a big game.
7:16
SPEAKER_01: He did he did, and and Gronkowski, man, it's just like seems like they show up for big games in the Super Bowl, Brady and Gronk.
7:22
SPEAKER_01: It's just it's weird because Gronk Gronkowski has not really done that much throughout the regular season this year.
7:27
SPEAKER_01: I actually had him on one of my fantasy teams, and he really didn't do much at all.
7:32
SPEAKER_01: But man, it seems like when the two Super Bowl comes around, he shows up and did it again.
7:38
SPEAKER_03: Um we'll talk a little bit more about that debt when we get some pirate gear going.
7:43
SPEAKER_03: But yeah, let's get to our special guest today.
7:45
SPEAKER_03: We we have somebody with us today that that's pretty well known in the SEC community, and you know, we've talked about having uh a little theme to some of the episodes talking about different towns around SEC and different things like that.
7:59
SPEAKER_03: So we figured uh he he's already kind of a social media expert, has his own podcast and YouTube channel and everything, and so he can kind of show us how this is done a little bit and and maybe tell us a little bit about his hometown too.
8:12
SPEAKER_03: So um we like to welcome on uh Stingray here.
8:16
SPEAKER_03: So Stingray, how you doing?
8:18
SPEAKER_00: Good guys, and uh thank you all for having me.
8:22
SPEAKER_00: And real quick, uh just simply because it is John Packer's uh birthday, and uh you guys are Mississippi State fans.
8:33
SPEAKER_00: I would like to start off with a little bit of something for you.
8:43
SPEAKER_00: All right.
8:44
SPEAKER_03: That was awesome.
8:45
SPEAKER_03: It's been a while since we've heard one of those.
8:48
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it has, but uh, I wanted to I want to thank you guys for uh having me on.
8:54
SPEAKER_00: And uh, you know, I'm I've been a good friend of John Clark for a long time.
9:00
SPEAKER_00: Uh we, you know, we've we've been friends now since probably 2004.
9:06
SPEAKER_00: Uh so uh it's been a great friendship and so uh happy belated birthday, my friend.
9:12
SPEAKER_00: And thank you so much.
9:13
SPEAKER_00: I appreciate it, buddy.
9:15
SPEAKER_03: Y'all, y'all, y'all met each other at the quarterback club in Starfield, right?
9:19
SPEAKER_00: Yes, uh-huh.
9:20
SPEAKER_00: Uh John actually reached out because I had posted a picture uh on social media of the of me with someone at the quarterback club, and he DM'd me and said, uh, where'd you take that picture?
9:34
SPEAKER_00: Can you tell me a little bit about it?
9:35
SPEAKER_00: And then he came uh as a guest of mine, uh, and then he joined, I believe it was either later that year or the following year.
9:46
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
9:47
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we've had a lot of uh that was uh the quarterback club has been really, really cool because we got to um it was all it always met the Thursday before um a football game.
9:58
SPEAKER_01: So we always had lots of uh really cool guests come in, um, a lot of people from the SEC.
10:04
SPEAKER_01: Matter of fact, I was talking to uh Stingray the other day about it because Sarah was her name, Sarah Thomas.
10:10
SPEAKER_01: Sarah Thomas, yeah.
10:11
SPEAKER_01: Sarah Thomas was the first female ref to ref the Super Bowl Sunday.
10:16
SPEAKER_01: And she's as Mississippi ties and she spoke to the quarterback club uh two years ago or was it last year?
10:22
SPEAKER_00: Was uh 2009, November of 2019.
10:26
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, 19, yeah, because we didn't have it uh last.
10:28
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, last the last year we could actually go in person.
10:31
SPEAKER_01: Um she came and to the club and we got to hear her story and how she became a ref and everything, and then it was breaking news that she got to uh was first female ref at the Super Bowl.
10:42
SPEAKER_01: So that was really neat.
10:43
SPEAKER_00: And believe it or not, that was actually, if memory serves me correctly, uh the egg bowl meeting uh that she actually spoke at.
10:51
SPEAKER_00: So it was one of the last ones in the regular season.
10:54
SPEAKER_00: So uh that was pretty cool, uh, you know, to hear her story.
10:59
SPEAKER_00: And and she's actually from Brandon, Mississippi, uh, not too far from where you used to live, John.
11:06
SPEAKER_01: Right.
11:07
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, she had a she had a cool story.
11:09
SPEAKER_01: It's cool getting to see that and getting Mississippi uh national representative on the big stage.
11:14
SPEAKER_01: Like that was pretty cool.
11:18
SPEAKER_03: Uh well Stingray, um, you know, we we want to know a little bit more.
11:22
SPEAKER_03: So we know you you live in Tuscaloosa now, right?
11:25
SPEAKER_03: And and that's that's where you're from, also.
11:28
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, born and raised.
11:30
SPEAKER_03: Well, so a couple of podcasts back, we were talking about um the the Coliseum there, the the basketball coliseum.
11:38
SPEAKER_03: We have some some memories from from playing some basketball games there.
11:41
SPEAKER_03: And I mean what what's the deal?
11:44
SPEAKER_03: Why is that place they just never do anything to it?
11:47
SPEAKER_03: They never they never update it.
11:49
SPEAKER_03: It just looks like an old old high school gymnasium.
11:54
SPEAKER_00: Because uh Nick Saban is at the capstone at the University of Alabama, and he wants all the focus on football.
12:02
SPEAKER_00: And if you will remember, uh, you know, before Nick Saban was at LSU, uh the baseball team really took off uh with LSU.
12:13
SPEAKER_00: And then Nick Saban arrived, and the baseball team went to crap, and all the other sports did as well.
12:20
SPEAKER_00: And then after he left, baseball, basketball, and everything else kind of picked back up.
12:26
SPEAKER_00: It is simply because Nick Saban wants all the focus and all the money basically on football and nothing else.
12:33
SPEAKER_00: And and that's the reason uh that the other teams in in the state are at the University of Alabama are are struggling right now, and and none of the uh facilities can be updated is simply because they all want everything going to football.
12:50
SPEAKER_00: And why not?
12:51
SPEAKER_00: Because you know, they're they're winning national championships.
12:54
SPEAKER_00: Uh, but it would be pretty nice to see, you know, Alabama do at least decent in some other sports as well, uh, such as baseball.
13:03
SPEAKER_00: You know, baseball's coming up.
13:05
SPEAKER_00: Uh, and uh, you know, they're supposed to have a really good baseball team this year.
13:10
SPEAKER_00: Uh last year, before uh they were shut down due to COVID, I think Alabama was 12-0 or 13-1.
13:19
SPEAKER_00: Uh, it was one of those other, uh, but I think they were 13-1 before they actually uh you know ended everything.
13:27
SPEAKER_00: And all those players are coming back.
13:30
SPEAKER_00: Uh so it's gonna be real interesting to see how well baseball does this year.
13:34
SPEAKER_00: And uh actually uh today I just got confirmation uh that I did receive season baseball tickets.
13:42
SPEAKER_00: So, John, uh if things you know settle down with COVID, uh maybe you can come over here and and witness the Alabama Mississippi State series, which is the last home game series for Alabama uh before the SEC tournament up in Hoover this year.
14:00
SPEAKER_01: Nice.
14:01
SPEAKER_01: That's great.
14:01
SPEAKER_01: Um now they did redo the stadium an Alabama, baseball stadium worked last year.
14:06
SPEAKER_01: Was it last year or a year four?
14:07
SPEAKER_01: Because I've run by and it looks really, really nice.
14:09
SPEAKER_01: It was about three years ago.
14:11
SPEAKER_01: Three years ago, okay.
14:12
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but now Coleman, uh, you know, the the concession stands and everything uh on the outside of the arena, uh where you walk in, they've updated it.
14:24
SPEAKER_00: But as far as the playing and seating areas, uh they have not done any updates since at least the 80s.
14:32
SPEAKER_00: Uh, and that really needs a major update.
14:36
SPEAKER_00: Now they did update the scoreboard uh in the center of uh Coleman, but as far as everything else, no.
14:47
SPEAKER_03: We used to talk about Ole Miss.
14:49
SPEAKER_03: We'd call it the sad pad, and then they they updated that, so we can't we can't give them any any uh flack about that anymore.
14:57
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, their their basketball program seems to be taking off this year.
15:01
SPEAKER_01: Uh Nate Oates seems like a really good coach.
15:03
SPEAKER_01: You've met him before, haven't he?
15:05
SPEAKER_00: I have, yes.
15:06
SPEAKER_00: And uh, you know, I don't know what it is about Alabama.
15:10
SPEAKER_00: They either do one of two things.
15:12
SPEAKER_00: They start off slow and they finish really well, or they start off, but they really can't hold the momentum and then they fall off towards the end.
15:22
SPEAKER_00: And here recently, it looks like they are trying to fall off uh because recently they lost uh Saturday to Missouri and fell down by 22 points, battled all the way back, went on a 21-4 run.
15:39
SPEAKER_00: Uh, there was seven minutes left in the game, uh, but then ultimately lost 68-65.
15:46
SPEAKER_00: Uh, and that was their first loss in SEC play.
15:49
SPEAKER_00: Uh, but the weekend before in the Big Ten or the Big 12 SEC tournament, they went on the road and lost to Oklahoma.
15:58
SPEAKER_00: Uh so things are not looking good right now for this Alabama basketball team as they push towards the home stretch.
16:06
SPEAKER_00: You really want to be ascending, not descending when you go down towards the home stretch.
16:14
SPEAKER_03: Well, um, well, tell us a little bit about you know what it's like to live in Tuscaloosa and and some things that to do there, some good places to eat, um, you know, but besides just Alabama stuff, you know, what what is it like to be there?
16:28
SPEAKER_00: Uh it's it's amazing uh because you have you know a lot of Alabama stuff, winning national championships and and that kind of stuff.
16:39
SPEAKER_00: And I really feel like uh you know Obama fans ultimately take it for granted.
16:45
SPEAKER_00: They really do.
16:46
SPEAKER_00: Uh because obviously this generation of Alabama fans, they don't remember the Dubose, Shula, Franchoni, and Mike Price era.
16:58
SPEAKER_00: Uh that was just absolutely atrocious.
17:02
SPEAKER_00: I can remember uh back, let's see, mid-90s, Alabama lost to Northern Illinois at homecoming before Northern Illinois actually made the jump up to uh FBS.
17:19
SPEAKER_00: Uh Alabama has lost to East Carolina at home.
17:23
SPEAKER_00: Uh they've lost to Central Florida when Central Florida was a pushover.
17:28
SPEAKER_00: Uh so I mean they've had their struggles and especially uh with the sanctions that they went on due to Philip Fulmer.
17:37
SPEAKER_00: Uh so Alabama has definitely had some trying times, uh, but none of the Alabama fans now remember that.
17:45
SPEAKER_00: The ones that are going to school here, they don't remember that.
17:49
SPEAKER_00: Uh and and they kind of take this stuff for granted uh basically because they're not winning games as dominantly as they once were.
17:58
SPEAKER_00: Uh and a lot of games this year, when you after Bama won and you turned on or looked at social media, all the Bama fans that were chirping, going, all right, we need to fire Pete Golden, we need to fire Pete Golding, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
18:14
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter that you just won the game uh and and basically won the SEC Championship game, uh, the LSU game, uh, you know, the old Miss game.
18:25
SPEAKER_00: Everybody's like, fire Pete Golden, fire Pete Golding, and it's like, dude, you're not going to be able to shut down offenses this year and this day in college football like you were back in 2012, 13, and 14 because the uh offenses are you know up tempo, fast, fast, fast, let's go.
18:50
SPEAKER_03: What are some of your your favorite spots to hit there for as far as food?
18:54
SPEAKER_03: And um, yeah, I remember I've heard that Taco Casa is a pretty good, pretty good place.
18:59
SPEAKER_03: Um, but other than that, I I haven't spent much time eating there.
19:03
SPEAKER_03: So right.
19:04
SPEAKER_03: What's that?
19:05
SPEAKER_00: Uh well basically uh one of the uh famous places is right there by the stadium, uh, it is Rammerjammers.
19:15
SPEAKER_00: Uh they uh basically one what they're known for is their um cheeseburger.
19:23
SPEAKER_00: And uh for every national championship that Alabama wins, they actually add another piece of bacon to the cheeseburger.
19:34
SPEAKER_00: Uh so it is it is a really good place.
19:37
SPEAKER_00: Now I've actually never eaten there, uh, but uh I've heard really good things about it.
19:43
SPEAKER_00: Uh there are also a couple of other uh good places like Baumhauer's Wings.
19:50
SPEAKER_00: Uh, you know, Bob Baumhauer was a former Alabama player.
19:55
SPEAKER_00: Uh he's got two locations in Tuscaloosa, plus one down in uh Orange Beach at the wharf.
20:02
SPEAKER_00: Uh so that's a good place to come.
20:05
SPEAKER_00: Uh and then of course uh there is a famous a little bit further south uh from Tuscaloosa, probably about, I would say, a good six miles south of Tuscaloosa, uh going towards Foster's, uh, there is a wonderful steak place that is known uh throughout the Southeast called Nick's and the Sticks.
20:27
SPEAKER_01: Nick's in the Sticks.
20:28
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
20:29
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
20:29
SPEAKER_00: Uh so that that place is really good uh for uh basically uh you know steaks and potatoes, salads, and then of course catfish.
20:39
SPEAKER_00: You can't go wrong with any catfish down here.
20:43
SPEAKER_03: We like uh Rubens Catfish Palace over in Columbus, kind of on the way, on the way to Starkville.
20:48
SPEAKER_03: We used to used to go there a lot.
20:51
SPEAKER_00: Um dude, man, Rubens is fantastic.
20:54
SPEAKER_00: I've been there one time and it was outstanding.
20:57
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's really good.
21:00
SPEAKER_03: Well, well, I know that you're you're eating a lot healthier now.
21:03
SPEAKER_03: So are there any like healthy spots?
21:05
SPEAKER_03: I I tend to like some healthy food too.
21:07
SPEAKER_03: So is there anywhere good or are you mostly having to cook at the house now?
21:11
SPEAKER_00: Uh basically right now cooking at the house just simply because I I don't want that exposure uh you know to COVID and whatnot.
21:19
SPEAKER_00: So I've not actually eaten out in I think the last time I actually went out to a restaurant was December of 2019, believe it or not.
21:30
SPEAKER_03: Oh wow.
21:33
SPEAKER_00: So it's been a long time, man.
21:37
SPEAKER_03: It does make a difference.
21:38
SPEAKER_03: It's uh it makes it easier to eat healthy when you're eating at the house.
21:41
SPEAKER_03: So that's that's one thing that that Corona's done for me at least, is I've I've cooked a lot more.
21:46
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, it's funny funny uh you say that about eating out.
21:50
SPEAKER_01: Uh we were just talking about that today.
21:52
SPEAKER_01: I haven't I haven't eaten it out.
21:54
SPEAKER_01: Uh last time I ate out was uh March the 11th of last year.
21:59
SPEAKER_01: That was Actually, the night we remember, uh, there was a I think you text me that night, Stingray, there was a basketball game going on.
22:06
SPEAKER_01: I remember watching, I was eating at the grill and start one NBA game, and two players got pulled off because they they were the first ones to get coronavirus.
22:13
SPEAKER_01: We're like, what is this going on?
22:14
SPEAKER_01: And then it just snowballed from there.
22:16
SPEAKER_01: It was just like that.
22:17
SPEAKER_01: I think that was like the night it all happened.
22:19
SPEAKER_01: Tom Hanks came out and said that he had it.
22:21
SPEAKER_01: And and uh, so that was March the 11th.
22:23
SPEAKER_01: So I haven't eaten anywhere since then.
22:25
SPEAKER_01: And uh I've got the uh I've gotten the first shot.
22:28
SPEAKER_01: I'm getting the second one um uh actually this coming Friday.
22:32
SPEAKER_01: And I talked to my doctors at UAB uh last week, and they told me uh after if I wait a couple weeks after the second shot, then it would be okay for me to get back out in public with a mask on, a social distance.
22:43
SPEAKER_01: So uh so March the 11th will be a year.
22:46
SPEAKER_01: So I think uh planning on going March the 11th this year, God willing, to uh back to the grill.
22:51
SPEAKER_01: So it'll be exactly one year, one year to the date.
22:54
SPEAKER_01: And then the next night, I've been wanting to eat in the steak forever.
22:58
SPEAKER_01: I outside, I mean, like at a restaurant, and uh one of my favorite uh steak places, I think we might have talked about this brand.
23:04
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if you've seen it before.
23:05
SPEAKER_01: Uh Stingray is uh old hickory in Columbus.
23:08
SPEAKER_01: Yes, and uh if you heard of that, yeah, man, it's so good.
23:12
SPEAKER_01: So uh, so yeah, I think I'm gonna try that the next night.
23:14
SPEAKER_01: And uh I'm looking forward to that.
23:16
SPEAKER_01: It gives me something to look forward to.
23:18
SPEAKER_00: Can I make a suggestion?
23:20
SPEAKER_01: Sure.
23:21
SPEAKER_00: Old Hickory, you know, everybody says it's pretty good, but I would recommend Hux Downtown Columbus.
23:29
SPEAKER_01: I'm a hucks, yeah.
23:31
SPEAKER_01: Yes, it's it's one of my favorites as well.
23:34
SPEAKER_01: Have you ever been branded to any of these places?
23:37
SPEAKER_01: You never been to Hux Brandon?
23:39
SPEAKER_01: No.
23:39
SPEAKER_01: Uh it's it's good.
23:40
SPEAKER_01: It's uh it's got man, that the menu at Hux, they have just about everything you can possibly of it.
23:46
SPEAKER_00: And and the prime rib, the prime rib is amazing.
23:50
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's good.
23:51
SPEAKER_01: It's a good place.
23:58
SPEAKER_03: Um at the beach too, don't you?
24:00
SPEAKER_03: Spend some time in Orange Beach or I did, yes.
24:06
SPEAKER_00: Uh-huh.
24:07
SPEAKER_00: I I went I actually lived down there uh when I was growing up uh every summer from uh May to August.
24:15
SPEAKER_00: So uh yeah, I I know Orange Beach and Gulf Shores and all those places uh down there in lower Alabama, like the back of my hand.
24:24
SPEAKER_00: Uh now I have not been recently because of the pandemic and and my show and some other things.
24:30
SPEAKER_00: I've not actually been to Orange Beach since the summer of 2018 uh when I saw Imagine Dragons uh at the wharf.
24:40
SPEAKER_00: I went down there for four days and saw Imagined Dragons, and that was that was pretty awesome.
24:46
SPEAKER_00: Uh, but I've not been to the beach since then.
24:50
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I've heard they put on a pretty good show.
24:52
SPEAKER_03: Some of my family went and saw them when they were in in Jackson, I think.
24:55
SPEAKER_03: So well um well, we don't want to keep you too much longer.
24:58
SPEAKER_03: I know you're you're busy, but but tell us a little bit about your show and everything, and and kind of tell us where people can find you and and and what it's all about and everything with that.
25:08
SPEAKER_00: Uh okay, so I have my own show called The Stingray Show.
25:13
SPEAKER_00: Uh and it is on social media, on my social media platforms, uh Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and of course, Twitch.
25:22
SPEAKER_00: Uh, you know, with the new thing, you got to get on Twitch.
25:25
SPEAKER_00: So that's the new up-and-coming one.
25:27
SPEAKER_00: Uh, but we usually, my co-host and I, who is a uh friend of John Packer, and uh he is a uh Mississippi State grad uh and actually used to cover uh Mississippi State for the original SEC Network, which was CSS, uh on the uh on on cable.
25:48
SPEAKER_00: Uh and uh he covered Mississippi State.
25:51
SPEAKER_00: His name is Heath Hopkins.
25:53
SPEAKER_00: Uh so we do a show every Tuesday and Friday, uh basically from 1 until 2:30 or 3, interviewing big time guests uh on our show.
26:07
SPEAKER_00: Uh and we're not basically we're not about the X's and O's of, you know, who's gonna win here?
26:13
SPEAKER_00: You know, did the triple option.
26:15
SPEAKER_00: Ours is more based on what stories can the guest tell our viewers, you know, and and what I've learned is when you have guests on, you you kind of ask your questions more towards what sets this interview uh away from any other interview that somebody else may want to see.
26:40
SPEAKER_00: Uh, so that's the kind of way that we do our show.
26:44
SPEAKER_00: Uh and we talk about great stories.
26:47
SPEAKER_00: Like I'll give you an example.
26:49
SPEAKER_00: Uh we had Tim Brando on the show.
26:52
SPEAKER_00: Uh he's good friends, of course, with John Packer.
26:55
SPEAKER_00: And uh I want to thank John uh for actually putting me into contact with Timmy B.
27:01
SPEAKER_00: Uh but one of our you know uh questions for Timmy B uh was, you know, give us your favorite um uh Steve Spurrier or uh Steve Spurrier or Lou Holt story, you know, something like that, something that you know the viewers basically don't get that often.
27:25
SPEAKER_00: Uh and so uh Timmy B uh was a really good guest.
27:31
SPEAKER_00: And believe it or not, uh a funny thing about it, we told him before the uh show to get as long-winded as possible, and we were still interviewing him 90 minutes into him being on, so he stayed on our show for an hour and a half, so it was an amazing show.
27:52
SPEAKER_00: Uh, but that's just kind of the things that we do uh on our show.
27:58
SPEAKER_03: Man, well that sounds fun.
28:00
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I I like the idea of asking unique questions, everything like that.
28:03
SPEAKER_03: So um, so I have to ask you this.
28:07
SPEAKER_03: So I really loved all of your hype videos and everything.
28:10
SPEAKER_03: Um, I think my favorite one was where you you dump the water on yourself.
28:16
SPEAKER_03: Um I think that was my favorite one.
28:18
SPEAKER_03: So is there one that that was one of your favorite ones to do?
28:21
SPEAKER_03: You had the most fun doing.
28:22
SPEAKER_03: I mean, you always had all the props out.
28:24
SPEAKER_03: You I mean, you you went over the top with some of them.
28:26
SPEAKER_03: I loved it.
28:27
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, man.
28:28
SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, it's probably the one that got the most views was that one uh where I, you know, I stood there with the urn behind me and I said, We are Mississippi State, fear the bells.
28:43
SPEAKER_00: Uh that was one of my favorite ones because a lot of people still to this day uh still still say Stingray, fear the bells.
28:52
SPEAKER_00: So uh that was one of my favorite ones, definitely.
28:56
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
28:57
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I love the wrestling tie-ins too.
29:00
SPEAKER_03: So I was a I was a big wrestling fan growing up, and so I I always enjoyed all that as well.
29:06
SPEAKER_00: Well, uh, I was a wrestling fan too up until about 2012 or 13, and then the the storyline just got real repetitive, and some of my favorite wrestlers either retired or uh you know they were let go by the WWE.
29:26
SPEAKER_00: So I just said, I'm done with WWE, I'm done with wrestling, and so I basically let it go.
29:32
SPEAKER_00: Uh the basically uh when Brock Lesnar came back from the UFC, I said, I'm done.
29:39
SPEAKER_00: I said, This is getting too predictable.
29:42
SPEAKER_00: I can tell you what's gonna happen even before they do it.
29:45
SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm I'm out.
29:47
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
29:47
SPEAKER_01: So now you're uh we we also sometimes we talk about we'll be talking about movies and TV shows and stuff like that.
29:54
SPEAKER_01: You're a big uh Godzilla fan.
29:56
SPEAKER_01: I know uh you sent me a link about the trailer coming up.
29:59
SPEAKER_01: You uh I'll stoke to you about this upcoming movie coming out.
30:02
SPEAKER_00: Dude, man, I cannot wait.
30:05
SPEAKER_00: Uh, you know, if if you haven't seen the trailer, it it's pretty awesome.
30:09
SPEAKER_00: And and basically they are transporting Kong uh to uh the mainland uh because of what's coming.
30:18
SPEAKER_00: Uh they don't know if you don't know really know if they're talking about Godzilla or if they're talking about another monster.
30:26
SPEAKER_00: Uh, but Godzilla actually goes on on a rampage, and you don't know if it's because he's being uh you know interpreted as the villain in this movie or if he's being mind-controlled uh by the people uh and he actually turns into Mecha Godzilla.
30:46
SPEAKER_00: Uh so you really don't know uh which way this movie is going to turn, uh, but it's gonna be awesome.
30:53
SPEAKER_00: And you know, originally in the first uh ever movie that they did of Godzilla versus Kong, uh it was actually released by Toho, uh the original Godzilla company.
31:06
SPEAKER_00: And at the time, Godzilla was the villain, and so King Kong being the hero actually knocked off Godzilla.
31:14
SPEAKER_00: And that pissed off a lot of the Alabama, uh they pissed off a lot of the Godzilla fans.
31:20
SPEAKER_00: Uh so um hopefully this time around uh Godzilla can can prevail in uh this movie.
31:31
SPEAKER_02: I think he will.
31:33
SPEAKER_02: I think so too.
31:35
SPEAKER_00: So I mean, but I mean in the title, in the title it says Godzilla versus Kong, one will fall.
31:44
SPEAKER_00: So it's like which one is it gonna be?
31:47
SPEAKER_00: Is it gonna be the king of the monsters or or or King Kong?
31:51
SPEAKER_00: So uh, you know, um, you know, they they say that King bow uh Kong bows to no one in the movie, uh, but you know, God live the King Godzilla.
32:03
SPEAKER_00: So we'll see.
32:04
SPEAKER_01: That's right.
32:05
SPEAKER_01: That's coming out soon, isn't it?
32:07
SPEAKER_00: Uh well actually after they released a trailer, they actually pushed it back to May.
32:13
SPEAKER_00: Uh so we're now it's May 30th.
32:16
SPEAKER_00: May 30th, okay.
32:17
SPEAKER_00: So they keep toying with us on the release date before the trailer.
32:23
SPEAKER_00: It was supposed to be March the 28th, and now it's May 30th.
32:30
SPEAKER_01: Give us something to look forward to.
32:32
SPEAKER_01: That's right.
32:34
SPEAKER_03: So definitely well, we we really appreciate having you on, and um we'll have to do this again sometime and and maybe talk about once it's come out, you know, or in football season or something like that.
32:45
SPEAKER_03: So um we appreciate it.
32:48
SPEAKER_03: And we will put some uh the link to your show down in the show notes if anybody's interested and and uh check it out, Singro's show.
32:55
SPEAKER_03: You can check the show notes, we'll have that that link down in there.
32:58
SPEAKER_03: And um anything else you got, Johnny?
33:01
SPEAKER_03: We got about cut off on the recording here.
33:04
SPEAKER_03: I think.
33:05
SPEAKER_01: Uh once all this madness gets done, maybe we can all hit up uh hit up a game together and meet up in person.
33:10
SPEAKER_01: That'd be cool.
33:12
SPEAKER_03: That'd be great.
33:14
SPEAKER_00: So uh I would I would love to come over there and see the new dude.
33:18
SPEAKER_00: I have not seen it.
33:20
SPEAKER_00: Um, so I'm I'm looking forward to that.
33:23
SPEAKER_01: Have you have you seen it, Brandon?
33:24
SPEAKER_01: I don't remember if you've seen it.
33:25
SPEAKER_01: No, I haven't seen it.
33:27
SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be uh it's gonna be different this baseball season.
33:30
SPEAKER_01: Uh I talked to some folks uh with uh with obviously with the left field lounge and the COVID restrictions and all that.
33:36
SPEAKER_01: So it's gonna be interesting how they're gonna manage that because they they switched it when they did the new dude.
33:42
SPEAKER_01: It used to be, you know, the left field lounge area was just completely open.
33:46
SPEAKER_01: Everybody could grill out and have their, but when they redid the dude, they made it separate sections.
33:51
SPEAKER_01: Um, so there's only a few people can fit in each one.
33:55
SPEAKER_01: So now I've heard some people say that they're going only what like three or four people per section.
34:02
SPEAKER_01: So I don't know, and and I heard there's not general admission, so I don't know what it's gonna be like this season.
34:07
SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be interesting, but hopefully we can get a get a baseball season in without without like last year with an interruption.
34:17
SPEAKER_00: You know, real quick, Mississippi starts off with a bang, uh, because they're actually in a classic uh with I believe Texas, Texas Tech and Baylor.
34:26
SPEAKER_00: Uh so that's really gonna be, huh?
34:29
SPEAKER_00: That's gonna be tough.
34:30
SPEAKER_00: Yes, that's gonna be insane.
34:33
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
34:35
SPEAKER_03: Well, we're looking forward to it either way.
34:38
SPEAKER_03: It means warmer weather's coming and and uh hopefully the end of this thing one of these days.
34:44
SPEAKER_01: And the warmer weather will bring out the uh the sun, which means we need to wear some shades, which brings us to go to Johnny Packer Iwear and get you some shades at Brandon Drop.
34:54
SPEAKER_03: That's right.
34:55
SPEAKER_03: Well Johnny Packer Iwear, Johnnypacker.com.
34:58
SPEAKER_03: Check them out.
34:59
SPEAKER_03: So well, all right, guys.
35:00
SPEAKER_03: We we uh this is probably a good time to cut it off.
35:03
SPEAKER_03: And uh, like I said, appreciate it staying, Ray.
35:06
SPEAKER_03: We will talk to y'all soon.
35:07
SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much, and uh, we will see y'all later.
35:10
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for having me on the show.
35:13
SPEAKER_02: All right.