Latest / Tigs Bits Podcast / LIVE from Props Brewery in Freeport, FL
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- 0:00That's tomorrow, and that is it for us today.
- 0:02And we will leave you with AI Can't do it.
- 0:07We'll do it live. We'll do it live.
- 0:12Do it live. I can go write it and we'll do
- 0:15it live. And Things Sucks 543.
- 0:24That's tomorrow and that is it for us today.
- 0:26I'm Bill O'Reilly. Thanks again for watching.
- 0:28We'll leave you with Sting and a cut off his new album, Take It
- 0:31Away. Thank you for that introduction
- 0:39Bill. And you were right.
- 0:40We're going to do it live. We're doing it live.
- 0:44So welcome to the first ever Tigs Bits live stream.
- 0:49And man are we pumped to be doing this.
- 0:52You guys are going to get a first hand look into the window
- 0:56and kind of see how the sausage is made.
- 0:58We have Jr. the Handler with us. We have Chad Blasi, the one Man
- 1:03posse coming to us from Brewery in Hammock Bay in Freeport, FL.
- 1:09And since this is our first live stream of the show, we're not
- 1:13expecting a a huge crowd. But as we can see there's
- 1:17already several people in here. So welcome everybody.
- 1:21Crazy, didn't didn't expect to see this many people in here
- 1:24this time of day. But look, we're going to be
- 1:25watching the chat. If you guys want to comment
- 1:28about anything that we're talking about, we'll chime in.
- 1:31We want to make this an interactive place and start
- 1:34doing this a lot more often in 2024 or so.
- 1:37Today is our soft open, if you will, but just like everything
- 1:42else we do with the show, we decided to push it.
- 1:44Push this bad boy to the limits a little bit and put one of us
- 1:48in a remotion. So boys, welcome.
- 1:51This is going to be a lot of fun.
- 1:53Fucking jacked, Blasey. Tell us more about where you're
- 1:57at today at Props. Oh dude, this is awesome.
- 1:59So yeah, I'm actually here not too far from the house at Props
- 2:03Brewery in Hammock Bay, Florida, which is in Freeport.
- 2:06And so they've got a brewery that they opened up less than a
- 2:09year ago. I want to, first of all, just
- 2:11thank the GM Joe, for letting me come up here.
- 2:12The owner, Nate, who's here today as well, they were super
- 2:15excited to have us here to come out, to do this remote, to do
- 2:18this live podcast. And we're going to be doing this
- 2:21again, you know, in the future. This is kind of just getting
- 2:23things set up. But this place, phenomenal.
- 2:25Dude. They've got a great selection of
- 2:27beer here. They've got, dude, they've got
- 2:29dedicated food trucks out here that they have like you can get,
- 2:31you know, burgers and sandwiches and they have another food
- 2:34truck, which is a Taco truck. Then they rotate other food
- 2:37trucks throughout the week. Always entertainment here,
- 2:39bands, music. Tonight's trivia night, I'll be
- 2:42parlaying this show, I think right into trivia night.
- 2:44Yeah, you will. This place is awesome.
- 2:47We'll we'll get back into some of the beer stuff later on in
- 2:49this show. But man, first of all, just,
- 2:51yeah, just just thanks to these guys here for letting me come
- 2:53here to this beautiful, beautiful location here.
- 2:56Oh yeah, man. Looks.
- 2:57Killer Handler, Welcome back, brother.
- 3:00You've been It's been hard to hard to catch you here lately.
- 3:04How you been doing, man? I'm good, man.
- 3:06Yeah. Had a few shows lately on the
- 3:07road. I had to be gone.
- 3:09Hate. I miss any time when you guys
- 3:11are doing stuff. And then was a little under the
- 3:13weather last week but definitely glad to be back.
- 3:16Wish I was in a cooler setting as Blasi's in today.
- 3:19Normally my studio's pretty pimp but he's got the sweet spot day.
- 3:23I got to go all the way around to the the garage fridge for a
- 3:26beer. He's got a waitress.
- 3:27Come on. That's exactly right.
- 3:29A waiter. Yes, I do.
- 3:31Yes, I do. Oh man, and he got an ice cold
- 3:34one in his hand. I mean this thing.
- 3:35Things are looking up for Blasey today.
- 3:37There's got his doubt about that.
- 3:39Got his AM 50 push ups in, so he look, good toy in his tigs bit
- 3:42shirt, he's rocking it, he's rocking he is.
- 3:46I love it, absolutely. Brought his A game today and
- 3:49that's that's what we expect to happen with Blossy, the one man
- 3:53posse when we go live. I figured he would show up and
- 3:56he would show out and you know, so far so good.
- 4:00Oh yeah, Oh yeah, I know, I know.
- 4:03All of y'all out there listening and watching this right now is
- 4:07have come to learn about the nervous tick of Blasey.
- 4:11And this is as good of a time as any.
- 4:14We've we've talked about it in the past that that Jr. had known
- 4:20known Blasey. They go back, they're frat
- 4:22buddies, all that good stuff. This didn't just start whenever
- 4:26I first met Blasey in like 2007 or 8:00.
- 4:29Somewhere at 6:00. Somewhere in there.
- 4:31No. Apparently this has been going
- 4:33on for a while. Huh.
- 4:34Handler. Yeah, as long as I've known him.
- 4:36When it's getting time to do something, especially, you know,
- 4:39get to talking about something he's interested in and gets
- 4:41excited about it. And it just gets he always.
- 4:44Comes from a positive place you know, right?
- 4:46Positive energy. That's yeah, right.
- 4:48And if you if you go back and listen to earlier episodes of
- 4:51the TIGS Bits podcast, we actually went into it for a
- 4:53minute and I always thought he was conjuring up one of those
- 4:56Big Blue energy balls like that Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter
- 5:01two used to shoot as a up down BA, you know, fool.
- 5:05So I'm just glad I ever got hit by one, because usually he would
- 5:08do that though, and he would grab the Golf Club and he's
- 5:10working on working on his drive or his or his chips or.
- 5:13Whatever. He would do a G1, yeah, yeah,
- 5:15yeah. Oh man, oh man.
- 5:18Well look, I've got got to acknowledge we have we have some
- 5:21folks in the chat. I want to acknowledge those guys
- 5:24before we kind of start to to dive into the show.
- 5:27So happy to have all of y'all in here.
- 5:29John. John Melvin Miller.
- 5:32I know who that is. It's my best friend from
- 5:34Fluorine. He is present and accounted for.
- 5:37So thanks for being in here, Johnny.
- 5:39We have Mr. Paul Rogers, one of our favorite dudes that we
- 5:43interact with all the time on X. What a dude.
- 5:48Absolutely. Thanks for coming, Paul.
- 5:50I mean, I knew we I knew of anybody.
- 5:52If I had a feeling that we would not go alone today, you know
- 5:58that we would at least have an audience of somebody in here and
- 6:03I do that we could count on Paul.
- 6:05I think Paul would be the one person at least for us.
- 6:07So thanks for coming Paul. We have our boy Jason Hilton,
- 6:13another dude from Fluorine, where I'm from.
- 6:16We play baseball together, man. Huge fan of the show.
- 6:19He shares our stuff all the time.
- 6:22Thanks for coming Jason. And look all y'all there
- 6:25listening. Share this on Twitter, Facebook,
- 6:28YouTube, wherever it is that that you're that you're watching
- 6:31this stream. It helps us.
- 6:33We're trying to grow this channel.
- 6:35We want to keep doing this more and more and we want to start
- 6:38doing this more and more. You know where we where we come
- 6:41in, we record a show, record our normal podcast, but make it a
- 6:44little more interactive and start to talk to you guys.
- 6:47So, so just so pumped to have have all of y'all here.
- 6:51Hilton loves your shirt and you guys would love if you would
- 6:57like to get one of those shirts. We have multiple colors all
- 7:01across, mainly at this point the SEC, but we will work into more
- 7:05colors. Something will probably fit for
- 7:08you. You can go over to tigsbits.com
- 7:10over to. Me, I'm not sure.
- 7:12Like, yeah, that looks more like a Trojan color.
- 7:13So I. Think that is absolutely
- 7:15designed with the Trojan colors in mind by yours truly and we're
- 7:20going to have some new designs and new things coming out in
- 7:232024. Stuff you are hearing
- 7:25exclusively here today in our live stream.
- 7:29We'll go over some more of those things as we get, as we get
- 7:33going. My buddy Shane Wallace, dude
- 7:37sales if y'all. I think we may be talked a
- 7:40little bit at one time at some point in this podcast about
- 7:44sailing briefly. He has a has a boat and in
- 7:48Pensacola sales he's my neighbor.
- 7:51So very I saw him earlier today, reminded him I needed him in
- 7:55here. And you know, I don't know what
- 7:57the Sting music is, but but I love it.
- 8:00So whatever. Just a typical shamed reference
- 8:03there. Well, my ex brother-in-law was a
- 8:06sailor. He had a boat in Pensacola and
- 8:08that's actually the only time I've really been on a really
- 8:10nice sailboat was in Pensacola out of Sabine right there going.
- 8:13Yeah, so cool. And we did it at night, dude, It
- 8:15was that's a pretty cool feeling.
- 8:16I I get it, you know? So anyway.
- 8:19It is. I don't think I've ever been on
- 8:21a nice sailboat. I took sailing in college as an
- 8:24elective class. True story.
- 8:26Me, me and AJ Bartol and I remember because one year it was
- 8:30the IT was a we were on. We were on social probation or
- 8:34something and we use the excuse. Didn't want to tell everybody
- 8:37why we couldn't come to the party.
- 8:38We used the excuse we had to go to our sailing final down at
- 8:40Lake Eufaula, which was interesting.
- 8:43You can imagine a sailboat final on Lake Eufallo with 10 people
- 8:47from Troy State in 1999. Sounds like a blast.
- 8:52We made the best of it you can imagine.
- 8:54That existed I've never. Heard of that in my life?
- 8:57If there was an elective at Troy when I was between 98 and O2, I
- 9:00took it, I promise you. We've got we've got the Bubba
- 9:06Army. Bubbba Army is checking in.
- 9:09Not a shocker there, Blasi at all.
- 9:13Man, we love the Bubba Army. And speaking Speaking of Bubba
- 9:16Army, Blasey, what's what's some of the latest news and
- 9:21happenings going around? Bubba that I mean Bubba.
- 9:25Got some, You know, so recently Buba hit 100,000 subscribers on
- 9:29YouTube. And then just I think it was on
- 9:32Monday he unveiled what he got from YouTube, which is that
- 9:36silver play button, you know, signifying and recognizing the
- 9:41fact that you have 100,000 subscribers on YouTube.
- 9:43Dude, he was so happy that made. Him So.
- 9:45Proud man, you know, I know that's a big accomplishment for
- 9:47him. Trying to get there was just
- 9:49like such a grind, especially at the end trying to get those last
- 9:51few numbers. So congratulations to Bubba,
- 9:54absolutely congratulate him on that.
- 9:56So that that's super cool. Hopefully one day we'll be
- 9:59having that same conversation very soon talking about our
- 10:03silver, yeah. That's right.
- 10:05Yeah, we've got a little ways to go, but we need y'all out there
- 10:09to help us we can get. Absolutely.
- 10:11Absolutely. In my mind that we can get
- 10:13there. We've got a good, a good
- 10:15nucleus. Man, for sure.
- 10:17And I know exactly what you're talking about because I actually
- 10:20have seen one and was actually given one.
- 10:23But I don't have it because Justin's kids end up with it.
- 10:28They're playing with it. It's a funny story, but of all
- 10:30the stuff he's ever gotten, the kids love the YouTube thing.
- 10:34That's the only thing. All the crap he brings off the
- 10:36bus. So one day the bus drivers are
- 10:38trying to get stuff off the bus and the two older girls see the
- 10:42two YouTube, silver, big. I mean, they're cool.
- 10:45It's all framed and all that and see those.
- 10:47So they both want those. So Justin's like, sure,
- 10:49whatever. They've never wanted anything,
- 10:51so they take those. But one of Cody, our manager,
- 10:53had already gave it to me. So one of my goddaughters has
- 10:55mine. But one day I'll get it back and
- 10:57we'll have one in here too. But hopefully we'll get ours for
- 10:59this show before then. That's right.
- 11:02That's right. Well, look, I mean, that makes
- 11:04that makes Daddy cool. You know he ain't Justin Moore.
- 11:07That's what he said. That's the only thing.
- 11:09I mean, all the plaques and awards, that's the only one that
- 11:12they've ever like, even paid any attention to.
- 11:15And they want to put them in their room or in the living
- 11:17room. It was was unique, but one of
- 11:19them was mine. I'll get it back at some point.
- 11:21Hey, I see we're talking about boats.
- 11:23The Coastie Mater Roll Tide Mater that that's one of, that's
- 11:27one of our U.S. Coast Guard's finest.
- 11:30He's been Coast Guard, lifelong Coast Guard guy.
- 11:32I saw Mater last time. He's a friend of mine from high
- 11:35school, was a few years younger than me.
- 11:37We played football together. He knows all the shenanigans I
- 11:40grew up doing and all the people I talk about from back home.
- 11:43And last time I saw Mater and got to hang out extensively, I
- 11:47believe when he was stationed in Juneau, AK and we played a show
- 11:51in Anchorage. He and his wife came up and to
- 11:53the show and spent a few days we got to hang out and catch up and
- 11:56then oh actually then he was stationed in Virginia.
- 11:59I saw him in a show there and I believe he's in Northern
- 12:01California again now he's he's life Coast Guard guy.
- 12:04He's he's ranked and all that good stuff.
- 12:06Very proud of my brother Tim Daltrey was was Mama called him,
- 12:09but we all call him Matorhead. You got to have a nickname as
- 12:14you're from Eclectic. That's just how it is.
- 12:17That's right, You really do. You really do.
- 12:21Look, we have JD Marsh joining us, our good buddy JD Marsh with
- 12:26Braggy Bomb and holy cow yeah, we're we're definitely going to
- 12:30have you on here. Seeing JD we we're just actually
- 12:33was thinking about that today. He wants to know if we have that
- 12:37shirt and Aggie. Yes we do.
- 12:39Yeah, we do. If I have it absolutely.
- 12:42And if there's anything I've mentioned on here that I can
- 12:45stand but behind 1000% is that the brush dust from Greggy Baum
- 12:52I use that Charisse did a whole chicken with nothing but that on
- 12:56it and a Dutch oven in the in the oven during Thanksgiving.
- 12:59The That was the That was the most like thing in our
- 13:02Thanksgiving week we had here. Dude, it's so amazing.
- 13:06It really is. Y'all need to to check it out,
- 13:08get some brush dust. That alone, they're all good.
- 13:12Every season that they have, they have a new one that's just
- 13:15come out. It's called Brisky Business.
- 13:18Nice. Great name for a brisket rub.
- 13:20Brisky Business. Love it.
- 13:22Love it. I need some of that too, JD.
- 13:25You know, we could all probably use some of that over here at
- 13:27Tigs Bits, but while we're doing it, why not?
- 13:30And I'm rubbing. I'm I'm actually running low on
- 13:31brush dust. Just.
- 13:32Yeah, Swap Sauce it's. It's Swap Sauce too, while.
- 13:36We're at, you can use. It on everything.
- 13:38It's the most unique seasoning out there that I've it, is it?
- 13:41Is man. I put it on fish.
- 13:43It is amazing on fish. It's amazing.
- 13:46On chicken, there's it's. I mean, it's amazing on
- 13:49everything. It gets a little thrown off by
- 13:51some folks or a little. What is it the determic?
- 13:55What is what? It's called the yellow.
- 13:59So you see that you're like, that's not going to, you know,
- 14:01that's not going to work. Oh no.
- 14:02Yes it does. Yeah, it's not Curry.
- 14:04It's not Curry. Yeah, that's right.
- 14:07So yeah, man, I'm so, so happy. I tell people it reminds me
- 14:11almost of like the best bowl of ramen noodle you ever had
- 14:14growing up. It's like that flavor almost.
- 14:15It's got that kind of chicken ramen something, I don't know,
- 14:18just the right amount of salt and sweet and not sweet.
- 14:22But I don't know. It's perfect.
- 14:23Love it. Love it.
- 14:23Love it. Yeah dude, it's just absolutely
- 14:27perfect. Absolutely perfect.
- 14:28Well look y'all keep on commenting we'll keep reading
- 14:31those as we go but just had to had to jump in, welcome
- 14:35everybody. So glad that y'all are y'all are
- 14:38joining us talking, having fun in the chat.
- 14:40That's what we want to see. It's absolutely that that's that
- 14:44is exactly what what we want to see.
- 14:46So let let's kind of jump into some of the show that we were
- 14:49going to talk about today and we'll we'll start with with Jr.
- 14:53and some tales from the Road. You know that's just a he's been
- 14:58traveling. We haven't really had a chance
- 15:00to check in on that in a little bit.
- 15:03So we've got a fancy graphic now, so we might as well use it.
- 15:08Give us some tales from the Road Jr., what's been happening over
- 15:10the last couple of months. Oh man, you know, we wrapped up
- 15:14the year we did a tour with Priscilla Block.
- 15:17She was on tour with us most of the year.
- 15:18Her and Justin had a big song last year, You, Me and Whiskey,
- 15:21which went #1. So we did a lot of shows
- 15:24supporting that and on the tour. But we've been kind of winding
- 15:27down. Usually by this time of the year
- 15:28we only do a handful of shows and then take a breakthrough the
- 15:31holidays. So we had a one off this past
- 15:34weekend in Las Vegas for the NFR Rodeo finals, National finals,
- 15:41Rodeo was in town that's a two week long, everybody's there.
- 15:45It's a huge deal. Every night, every venue there's
- 15:49somebody playing from the biggest acts to new artists to
- 15:53legends to. I mean it was just incredible.
- 15:55And Vegas is Vegas is is expanded even in the last few
- 15:59years since I've been there. It's just insane.
- 16:03So it it was really neat. We got to go.
- 16:05We stayed at the newest resort hotel on the strip, Hilton's
- 16:09resort, Resorts World, which was built in 2021 and it was really
- 16:15nice, super cool, little chilly while we were out there, but had
- 16:19a great show. Just did a one off.
- 16:20Charisse went with me, we went a few days early, stayed a few
- 16:23days after, went to the sphere while we were there.
- 16:25Incredible. Man, tell us about that.
- 16:28That is, I've got to see a concert in there.
- 16:31I don't know if y'all saw. Of course you two has been
- 16:34laying there. They they scheduled a fish four
- 16:37night. Run.
- 16:38Fish. Not a huge fish guy.
- 16:40But don't you know? Oh.
- 16:42My God, oh man, what a venue to see.
- 16:44Oh man, I could be a fish guy for four days straight.
- 16:49Guarantee. It let me tell you all that that
- 16:51screen that thing is, is as incredible as anything you've
- 16:55ever seen. You just you can't conceive it.
- 16:57You know like a big IMAX the first time you went to the nice
- 16:59IMAX in New Orleans or somewhere you know back in the day when
- 17:02that was such a big game changer.
- 17:04This is that the two point O this is even more so.
- 17:08It's like the closest thing I can equate it to was when like
- 17:11when you walk up to the Grand Canyon.
- 17:13If you've been to the Grand Canyon.
- 17:14If you walk up to the edge of the Grand Canyon, you just you
- 17:16can't see it all. You're just overwhelmed.
- 17:19You're like, Oh my yeah, you can't look at it all.
- 17:23You're like you can't expand your eyes out to get it all
- 17:25because it's too much and there's not many things that are
- 17:27that so, so hard to take in. You know it's like a sunset.
- 17:32You can catch the good part of the sunset.
- 17:34But anyway, so this is like that.
- 17:37So you're, I mean it's probably 12,000 seat venue.
- 17:40I think it is. They had some of the seats on
- 17:42the sides empty, probably 8 or 10,000 people when we were
- 17:45there. Felt like a concert atmosphere
- 17:48in the lobby waiting to go in. They've got robots out there
- 17:51talking to people and stuff that are just interact AI robots,
- 17:54yeah, interacting with people. Non prompted, talking back and
- 17:57forth to. You.
- 17:58Oh yeah. Having a conversation.
- 17:59Oh yeah, Meeting robots, Robots. Meeting people.
- 18:03I mean, yeah, How much you called?
- 18:04I cost $550,000. How much does your watch cost?
- 18:10You know, I mean it, but. But it's not that grainy either.
- 18:13It was really impressive like this.
- 18:15Like, I mean it didn't, it was wild like a robot or did it have
- 18:18a like a now it was AI kind of. Barely.
- 18:22It was. It was.
- 18:22It was. It was right there with Ex
- 18:24Machia. It was almost there.
- 18:25OK. Oh yeah, it.
- 18:27I stepped back and I didn't want to look in the eyes.
- 18:29I wouldn't catch an eyes with it, you know what I mean?
- 18:32So I'd say that person, no, it was the IT was the IT was the
- 18:36exoskeleton, but it was not a it was not a Terminator, you know
- 18:41metal rods. It was more contoured like a a
- 18:44female figure, like the ex Machia basically and but in the
- 18:47face, not completely like a human but not not as robotic as
- 18:52you would think. Kind of a hybrid thing.
- 18:55I think I saw something very similar like that at like a
- 19:00Padres game or something during the baseball season.
- 19:03I saw some tick tock or something, you know where they
- 19:06they had video as like people were a little freaked out.
- 19:09They were like sitting in the stands and they stood up or
- 19:12something. I don't know.
- 19:13And they. This thing was.
- 19:14Human like, but you could tell they weren't a human.
- 19:18Right. This thing was getting people
- 19:19you want to take a selfie, Take a selfie.
- 19:21Oh, how are you with him? I mean, just having a
- 19:23conversation with whoever it picked up and it wasn't being
- 19:25prompted. There was was nobody controlling
- 19:27and it was a little while and they had about six of them
- 19:30through there, but it was busy. And then you go up and the
- 19:33inside the outside the place is crazy enough looking.
- 19:36You know it's this huge ball that is ATV screen.
- 19:39It can do whatever it wants on the outside and then you go in
- 19:42and you got to go. We had to go way up to the 4th
- 19:44floor. It's it's pricey.
- 19:47I mean I'd be all transparency. I played around 400 bucks for a
- 19:50pair of tickets to this thing and I didn't.
- 19:51I had, I had teared down seats, you know, but there's not a bad
- 19:56seat in the house, so it didn't matter.
- 19:58They got to pay for all those boards somehow.
- 20:00Oh my gosh. Yeah you get in and this show
- 20:03starts and it's it's we went and saw the show Postcard Earth or
- 20:07Postcard from Earth which is like an hour long video and it
- 20:13starts off it looks like a movie screen, looks like a movie
- 20:15screen and then then it's expands out of that out of that.
- 20:18Next thing you know you're like oh I'll send you all the videos
- 20:21but the video still don't do it justice.
- 20:23You can't catch it. You can't.
- 20:24You can't see it all, but but you're going through different
- 20:27all the terrains and textures of the earth, all throughout
- 20:30history, seas, all that. And I'm talking about on a
- 20:32scale. It's just it's too hard to
- 20:34imagine. And I was wondering about the
- 20:36concert thing because I thought it was almost too much like you
- 20:40could get sensory overload for sure, because at certain points
- 20:42it's almost, it felt more like VR because you almost felt like
- 20:45no one was around. You felt like you were by
- 20:47yourself. Did you get motion sickness?
- 20:50No, because they had wind blowing at you.
- 20:52And like if you were going over a mountain, the wind would pick
- 20:54up and get cooler. And if you're going through the
- 20:56desert, it'd get warmer and and then like, your seat rumbles and
- 21:00like when the Rockets take off, Yeah, it was full.
- 21:02It's like a. 12,000 seat Disney ride.
- 21:04Basically, yeah, that's what they were.
- 21:06That's what everybody compared it to.
- 21:08That's what the few people there had started comparing it to
- 21:10that, but they said even more, more.
- 21:13Intense and soaring there. Newer.
- 21:14Yeah, and I'm getting it. A little bit now, OK.
- 21:18Because the screen is so big, like you're and everything's so
- 21:21clear. Because it's not flat, it's
- 21:22round. So like you're going through the
- 21:24mountains and you're looking to the side, you're like, oh, look
- 21:26at that little goat or you know that and you can see it so
- 21:29clear. But again, you're in like a
- 21:32basketball arena. You're at the mayor of it.
- 21:34You're at the P Mac or you're at you're, you know, you're at a
- 21:36big basketball arena and it's but everything around you is a
- 21:39strange. So I would suggest do that if
- 21:41you're there. But then we had a show the next
- 21:43night. Cherise and I went and caught
- 21:45old Vegas. She'd never been, so we did a
- 21:48sightseeing tour of all that. Very cool town, very expensive
- 21:52town, but glad to go for work. And now we've got a few more
- 21:56weeks off and I've got a show New Year's Eve in Durango,
- 22:00Oklahoma at at the casino there for New Year's Eve and then back
- 22:05off for a few weeks and on the road with Justin.
- 22:08We're going to go do some shows with Cody Johnson next year to
- 22:11start the year off middle of January.
- 22:12So busy, busy. Not a lot of break this year for
- 22:16me, but glad to have work and. Jr.
- 22:20What about that you you mentioned the other day
- 22:22something about the story from, you know, let's go all the way
- 22:26back to Wayne Mills. There's something to happen
- 22:28while you're out in Vegas. So I'm.
- 22:29Going to Oh yeah. Hit on that, yeah.
- 22:31Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 22:35Right before the show happens in Vegas, I'm standing side stage
- 22:40and I so I taps me on my shoulder and I turn around and
- 22:42this guy says, hey Jr. it's me from I I I hit you up on
- 22:46Instagram or Twitter, whatever it was.
- 22:48He said I was want to ask you, did you know Wayne Mills,
- 22:52cousins from Texas? And I was like, yeah, he pointed
- 22:54to him next to him. And there's Ronnie Mills,
- 22:57Wayne's cousin from Texas, who I haven't seen in at least 15
- 23:01years or more. He he's a twin.
- 23:04Ronnie and Donnie, some of Wayne's favorite cousins from
- 23:06Texas. We'd go visit, we're out there
- 23:08on his mom's side, and then they would come to Alabama for stuff
- 23:11and and hang with us. So got to catch up with him.
- 23:14And it all happened because his friend was listening to the
- 23:19podcast we did with Taylor Hicks.
- 23:21And when Taylor mentioned that all musical roads in Alabama
- 23:24somehow lead back to Wayne Mills, always this guy.
- 23:28I asked his friend, He said, hey, isn't that your cousin?
- 23:29This guy's talking about your cousin on here.
- 23:31Do you know a guy named Jr. And he's like, yeah, I remember
- 23:33Jr. So one thing led to another.
- 23:35Cowboys. Anyway, so they came to Vegas to
- 23:37surprise me and there they were and we got to reunite and I got
- 23:40a picture with Ronnie and he texted me yesterday and it was
- 23:42just, it was magical. It really was.
- 23:44It was so cool to make the connection and so cool of his
- 23:47buddy to, you know, listen to the show and then make the
- 23:50connection and make sure make it happen.
- 23:53Let's say thank thanks to him for going the mile to make it
- 23:55happen, you know. Yeah, it's it's mind blowing
- 23:59that this little show that how we've evolved from, you know,
- 24:04just Chad and I starting this out just doing audio only and
- 24:10learning the ropes turning it into more video all this year
- 24:15doing video. Of course the audio's there too.
- 24:17For those people that want to just listen to the audio, you're
- 24:19in the car, you don't have to watch us, you can just listen as
- 24:23well. And then now we're evolving into
- 24:25doing doing live streams. But to have that kind of a reach
- 24:29that this over the course of time, I never really thought
- 24:34this would go anywhere except for Chad and I would just be
- 24:38entertained by ourselves and and and start to tell some of our
- 24:43idiotic stories that that we had together whenever we we both
- 24:47were living basically neighbors and just the fun that we've had
- 24:51over the years. And then you know it just kept,
- 24:54keeps, keeps evolving and that's fun.
- 24:56That's what we what we want to do.
- 24:58We want to keep growing and keep going.
- 25:00So if Y'all are listening, you hadn't hit the like button.
- 25:02Wherever you're watching this, do that, share it.
- 25:05Got to remember that we have to do these kind of reminders.
- 25:09I've been watching a lot of Wake Up Mitzi here late lately on
- 25:13Barstool and you know, so wake up, it's time to shake up.
- 25:22I don't even know what that is, but it sounds it's something.
- 25:26That's for sure. But look, man, I mean that's
- 25:28awesome. JRA Night in Durango for New
- 25:33Year's Eve that. Yeah, Cherise and I'll get
- 25:36interesting. Yeah, Cherise and I are going to
- 25:38fly to Dallas. They'll send somebody, get us
- 25:40Brent, drive us UPS about an hour and a half.
- 25:43We'll go in the night before next day, do the show back to
- 25:46Dallas, fly home New Year's Day. Then I got about two weeks off.
- 25:50So might go down to Clearwater visit my brother, might I don't
- 25:54know might might go over there to the props with Blasi and have
- 25:57a beer and do a do a double remote from over there.
- 26:00Let's do that. I think we're going to do a
- 26:02show, a live show, all three of us in props from props.
- 26:07That'll do. We need to do one at the brewery
- 26:09here, too. We need to make a find a brewery
- 26:11near you at TIGS and we'll do the brewery.
- 26:13Tour I have one in mind. And we'll give give everybody a
- 26:17heads up if anybody wants to make the trip and visit us come
- 26:20to the show live can do that you know there we.
- 26:22Go Absolutely, absolutely. We've talked a little bit about
- 26:26doing a a crawfish boil kind of thing.
- 26:28We're going to have to see. We may have put the cart before
- 26:31the horse. That was before the drought.
- 26:33Yeah, I've been getting some text on that.
- 26:36Everybody's like, well, guess we're not eating crawfish this
- 26:38year. They're $35 a pound.
- 26:42Yeah, basically or whatever. I know, man.
- 26:44I know. I mean, hopefully we we should
- 26:47in this winter we finally started to get some rain.
- 26:50So that would be man, that would be amazing.
- 26:54If we could, you know, if we could, we could if they would
- 26:57just come back to normal pricing and I know could we do it at the
- 27:00floor Bama like we talked about, right.
- 27:03Blasey and I can have us a little crawfish off and
- 27:05everybody wins, but we'll we'll see.
- 27:07We'll see if that happens. Get a little.
- 27:09We'll just have to get a little pot from the stove and do a
- 27:11little crawfish boil. You know, like a yeah.
- 27:14Well, well, you know, if we have.
- 27:16To find our fine sponsor boil balls we have to make sure that
- 27:20we we show that all show how it works and they championship and
- 27:25competition level crawfish so. Absolutely.
- 27:28But, you know, if we have to pivot, if the crawfish prices
- 27:30don't come down to reasonable prices, we may just have to
- 27:36pivot into a shrimp bowl or something, because we can still
- 27:38get shrimp from our local fisheries a lot, you know,
- 27:42reasonable, yeah, a lot better deal.
- 27:45Yeah, man. Yeah, for sure.
- 27:47For sure. Well, yeah.
- 27:49That's Tales from the Road. Yeah, I'll have something better
- 27:52next time. I'm kind of.
- 27:53I'm kind of. I guess it's.
- 27:55Just it was great. He has good information, you
- 27:58know. I know I didn't know I was
- 27:59playing in Durango and it sounds like a good time.
- 28:02So if anybody's listening, you don't have ticket, go see Justin
- 28:06Moore and Durango. Sounds like a fun night.
- 28:09I do have another Tales from the Road, but I'm going to tie it
- 28:13into something else. We're going to bring up at
- 28:15another point in the show if if we still talk about it.
- 28:17Because I thought it was cool and it's a reference to your
- 28:19home state. And I I think, I think you'll
- 28:21like it and I like it, but if it comes up, I'll bring it up.
- 28:24If not, I won't. Yeah, yeah, so well, look, I've
- 28:29I've got a little bit of, I've got a little bit of music news
- 28:31while we're still talking about music.
- 28:33I don't know if y'all have if y'all have ever heard of the
- 28:37band Goose, or you may have heard of them, but don't know
- 28:41much about them maybe. Yeah, that's about.
- 28:44Where I'm at, yeah, yeah, well, that's probably most of the
- 28:47people that are watching this are at too, but I encourage you
- 28:51to check them out. Go.
- 28:52To their. Website go to their Go to yeah.
- 28:54Go to YouTube wherever they have they they have great music.
- 28:58They're a jam band but they're they're kind of a little more
- 29:01funky. They play long.
- 29:04They they have some of those songs of that are jam bandy
- 29:07where they go on a little bit too long in my opinion.
- 29:11You know, I know that the jam band purist out there are, but I
- 29:15don't need a 58 minute version of a damn song.
- 29:18OK I. I just, I don't need it.
- 29:21But I appreciate, you know, like, hey, you may go.
- 29:24There may be something at the sphere, let's say.
- 29:27Let's say that we go to the sphere and we see fish.
- 29:31There's somebody in that crowd that would be more than content
- 29:34to hear a three hour long fish song.
- 29:37Like they we're coming out, we're going to play one song.
- 29:39Tonight, it's just going. To be a three hour jam.
- 29:41Somebody love it. Yeah, Fire would not exactly
- 29:46mountain jam. You know, Mountain jam was a
- 29:49mountain jam that kind of started all that.
- 29:51Yeah. I mean and look, I it has its
- 29:53place for sure. And but I the Goose does every
- 29:57year they have a it's kind of like 311 has a 311 day.
- 30:02Goose has their deal and it's called Goose mess.
- 30:05They do it in December and it they they do a couple nights
- 30:09show and they go all in. This year was definitely their
- 30:12biggest they played in Hampton Arena played in front of about
- 30:1510,010 or 12,000 people full on arena concert.
- 30:20The lighting was incredible. The the set list were
- 30:25incredible. They had Pyro.
- 30:26Like it was a rock show, man. It was a rock show.
- 30:29Here's some of the covers that they did, just kind of like
- 30:32Widespread Panic does on New Year's Eve and on and on
- 30:36Halloween play a lot of covers. Which Panic plays a lot of
- 30:40covers anyhow, but they play a lot more covers, more well known
- 30:44covers. Right.
- 30:46Goose Covered Mirrors by Justin Timberlake, which I hadn't heard
- 30:49that song in a long time, let alone to hear Goose rock it out.
- 30:53It was awesome. They did a Jimi Hendrix fire
- 30:57full of of course Pyro with that kicked ass.
- 31:03They did sex on fire with by Kings Of Leon.
- 31:06Unbelievable. One of my favorites that Panic
- 31:09does and pretty much it any band will do, is burning down the
- 31:13house. Of course they they rocked that
- 31:15one out. I saw Panic do that in 2016 in
- 31:19Nashville, man. It was.
- 31:22It was the last song. It's what they closed with.
- 31:24That's their influence, that that was what they were all.
- 31:26Into you know, that's right. And I see a lot of panic in the
- 31:30in the set list. I'm listening to both nights
- 31:33too. But it's like okay, they took a
- 31:35little bit of, took a little bit from Widespread Panic, which is
- 31:38perfect. It's what you should do.
- 31:40Well, Panic Panic's first album, People Don't Realize was an 88.
- 31:44In fact, I have an album since 88 that people, a lot of people
- 31:47think, you know, later on. But like they've been around for
- 31:49a long time. They were an influence on
- 31:51influence on a lot of people. Whether it's a direct influence
- 31:54or whether it was a passive influence, they've influenced a
- 31:56lot of bands. My sister handed.
- 31:58Me, a tape in 1989 of Widespread Panic, because she used to go
- 32:01hang out with those guys when they were playing in tiny bars.
- 32:04I'm talking that'd be 50-60, a hundred people in their top.
- 32:07She got to know JB. She she got to know them all.
- 32:09And she was like, you got to listen to these guys.
- 32:10This was 1989. She was handing me Widespread
- 32:12Panic tapes. Wow.
- 32:15So yeah, I got introduced to that early.
- 32:16I was still in Alabama, hadn't made it to college yet.
- 32:19And I was like, oh. So cool.
- 32:20You know, yeah. So super cool, yeah.
- 32:22But they've been, they've been around a minute.
- 32:25They they have, they have it. Goose is carrying on the torch.
- 32:28There's a lot of. Look who chows in and.
- 32:31Mr. Paul out there, he knows. He knows.
- 32:35I love it, dude. I love it.
- 32:37Paul Hellinga, my buddy John My buddy John.
- 32:43I've shared some goose with him. He likes it.
- 32:45John's a drummer. John's a John's an amazing
- 32:49drummer and and so yeah, we always have fun and cut up and
- 32:53and I'm a little musical but I can't do anything.
- 32:56I could never perform in front of anybody.
- 32:58Couldn't jam on here. I can jam with Johnny when
- 33:01nobody else is really watching and we're just having fun but
- 33:06but yeah dude. Goose unbelievable.
- 33:09Their lead guitarist Rick I don't know his last.
- 33:11I can't remember his last name but the dude is just a killer.
- 33:14You are a. Killer Guitar Hero.
- 33:16You're as good as they get though.
- 33:18Dude, I've. I've seen you in.
- 33:20Unbelievable. UN Unreal.
- 33:22I've never seen anything like it.
- 33:24I've retired. Yeah, unfortunately my son
- 33:28Riley, he has no idea what his dad is capable of in a rock star
- 33:33environment. At one point in time Jr. when we
- 33:37when when I lived in Florida, my house would turn into a concert
- 33:40stage. We have also had live music in
- 33:43that house, but predominantly it turned into a rock band night
- 33:49and I had the same speakers that I have out here in the studio
- 33:52will absolutely knock your socks off.
- 33:55You can get them to about 108 decibels.
- 33:57I've tried, yeah. So I you know, I I crank it up
- 34:01in that house it would be it would be at about 108 decibels.
- 34:05That's, that's everybody listening, that's that's like
- 34:07really above concert level. That's like what our concerts
- 34:10usually. Try to Where do y'all hone in
- 34:12for sound like it in a set? What is it?
- 34:14That's. 100 does you not want it to go over 100 or you kind of
- 34:18lock it in at 100 or 100 and 500?
- 34:22Depends on the room. A lot of times depends on what
- 34:24room you're in. That's all production team Jeff
- 34:27could. I'll get Jeff on some time to.
- 34:29Explain all that. I would love to know, but there
- 34:32are like a limiter or something that keeps it at a threshold so
- 34:35it won't go above that and stuff.
- 34:37Yeah, there are, yeah. There are certain situations
- 34:41when they do want us to keep it under 100 or 95 or 98, whatever
- 34:44the DB is. But I've been out there with
- 34:46Jeff and normally it's normally it's pinging up there above 100
- 34:51somewhere, 105108 somewhere. I want my concert loud.
- 34:54Yeah. I mean, that's what the hell
- 34:56I'm. I don't.
- 34:57For I don't want it. I don't want to be in a certain
- 34:59spot where it's like unbearable, where you can't, where it's like
- 35:02hurting your head. You can't even enjoy it.
- 35:04Speakers right here next to. You yeah, you got to have it
- 35:06balanced and that's the thing at a real nice concert compared to
- 35:09like a club. You can only do so much and
- 35:10change some of the concert. You can have flown and now with
- 35:13the technology and the way they, you know, layer things.
- 35:15That's why you can hear something when you have 100,000
- 35:18people and the guy in the backs here in the vocals, the same as
- 35:21the guy on the 3rd row, it's staged and tiered and networked
- 35:24together where you know you can really dial that in.
- 35:27But one O 8 your house is rocking Tigs, no doubt.
- 35:31Yeah, it is. I know my neighbors love me when
- 35:33that happens, but. I just I just downloaded I saw
- 35:37Paul put up that he Paul Hellinga just and that's one of
- 35:41blasi nice fraternity brothers who's from Tauga county.
- 35:44I saw he I know he's a big jam band guy so I'm he just posted
- 35:48I'm all over goose. I just downloaded the Autumns
- 35:51Crossing single, The three songs on there and was looking
- 35:56through. Yeah, they're from Connecticut.
- 35:57Started in 14. I can't wait.
- 35:58I'm going to jam this tonight. Oh yeah.
- 36:00Thanks for the heads up. You're welcome.
- 36:02You're welcome. You're going to love it, dude.
- 36:03You're going to love it. They're they're great, man.
- 36:06They they closed out that night, though their second night was
- 36:10one of the best sets of any jam band that I've listened to this
- 36:15year. Panic has had a couple of over
- 36:17the top shows that were just ridiculous especially if you're
- 36:20a Panic fan. But Goose if you're a Goose fan
- 36:23they went over the top too on this one they they started out
- 36:26the second set. I won't go into all of their
- 36:29craziness leading up to this but they came like basically they
- 36:33arrived at the jungle from outer space in their in their deal and
- 36:40and they jumped into like a jungle song that they do and
- 36:43then and then let on into run through the jungle by CCR which
- 36:49was fantastic to hear a jam bam version.
- 36:51I've never I've never really heard a version of that.
- 36:54I'm sure Panic has done it. I've never heard them do it not
- 36:57since I've been jamming them. They then they rolled into
- 37:00jungle Boogie with Kool and the gang and then I mean just
- 37:05they're rocking the house and then boom.
- 37:08Here the the highlight of the whole deal for me.
- 37:12Bruce Hornsby walks on stage and sits down at the keys and for
- 37:17about 3 minutes it seemed it may not have been that long.
- 37:20He's sitting there and he's just playing the intro to.
- 37:24That's just the way it is. Plays the whole.
- 37:27I mean dude, it gives me chill box just thinking about it.
- 37:29It was amazing. And then they covered it.
- 37:32They went back and forth on the vocals and all it was all is on
- 37:37YouTube. Everybody if you want to check
- 37:39it out, go to Goose. Goose band I think is their
- 37:42YouTube page after we're done with this of course.
- 37:44And then and check it out, they have the fire one.
- 37:48They have, they have, they have that up as well.
- 37:51They may even have mirrors now, but incredible music, incredible
- 37:55jam band. They do an amazing job with
- 37:57their social media and and all of that.
- 38:00So yeah, I mean they're they're as good as it gets right now.
- 38:03I've never seen them live though they're on my list.
- 38:06I will see them 2024. I will see them live.
- 38:09That's a fact. Yeah, that sounds like a plan.
- 38:13I'm. I'm all about it.
- 38:15Yes, dive into that a little bit, I'm sure.
- 38:17I'm sure it's going to be good. Oh, it is.
- 38:19It absolutely is pretty. Dang.
- 38:21Amazing. So I'm I'm sure they they rock
- 38:23it. Well, I'll take your word for
- 38:25it, Brantley. I appreciate it.
- 38:27I appreciate it. Well, look we're going to kind
- 38:30of we're going to segue over this part of the show.
- 38:32We're going to move over to sports a little bit, kind of
- 38:35talk about some things and and and you know, over the weekend,
- 38:40late late last week we had just cut a show that we put out
- 38:43talking about football and and everything like that.
- 38:47And then BAM, Troy Troy's head coach John Sumrall leaves to go
- 38:53to Tulane. So Jr. wasn't able to join us on
- 38:57that football show or on our emergency podcast, 'cause it
- 39:00literally happened. We didn't even have enough time
- 39:01to text you Jr. It was just bam, we're doing it
- 39:05and we're going live. We're going to do this right now
- 39:07and and knock it out, but y'all's thoughts on it.
- 39:11I know, I know. I have a little video to show,
- 39:14I'll tell you. I'll tell you real, real quick,
- 39:17Jr. and I definitely want to get your thoughts on this.
- 39:19But, you know, so it was a big shocker last week and it's one
- 39:22of those things. It's like, man, I can't believe
- 39:24this is happening. You know, this is our coach.
- 39:26It came, kind of came out of nowhere a little bit.
- 39:29But then, you know, you kind of, there's this acceptance stage,
- 39:31there's stages of grief. You kind of go through a little
- 39:34bit of anger, you know? But at the end of the day, I
- 39:37really am happy for John Sumrall.
- 39:39Like, he, the guy deserves nothing but the best.
- 39:42And like if that's what he thinks is best for him and his
- 39:44family and his pocketbook, he just, it's a $18 million deal he
- 39:48just signed. So he just tripled his income
- 39:51overnight. So I don't hate him for that at
- 39:53all. But I tell you what, So as a
- 39:55fan, though, I had to watch. I watched the Tulane press
- 39:58conference on Monday. I was like, OK, it's almost like
- 40:00going to a funeral, right? Somebody.
- 40:02You got to go see it just to believe it.
- 40:04Like I got to see this dude wearing some green and blue
- 40:06before. I really think this is real.
- 40:08And sure enough, dude, I watched his press conference, but I'm
- 40:11not going to lie to you, it was a little goofy, man.
- 40:12Like, not him, not him. He brought some relevance to
- 40:15this thing. But first of all, you know, and
- 40:17we'll show you the video here in a second.
- 40:18But here they come here, you know the second line coming.
- 40:22And that was a very, that was a very white second line coming
- 40:26in. I thought that was a little, not
- 40:28very authentic. I'm like, well, that's not very
- 40:29representative of New Orleans in the city and like that, you
- 40:32know, like, OK, that's a little little weird, A lot of.
- 40:35Different lot of different people in New Orleans.
- 40:37New Orleans is a big melting pot, and that's what makes it so
- 40:40special, no doubt. Well, as you're about to see
- 40:43here in a second, that second line.
- 40:44And then they had him with some goofy umbrella, You know, like
- 40:47doing. I get it.
- 40:48It's like, dude, it's. Your hair all I got to see this.
- 40:52You kidding me when you? Get to the stage then it's like
- 40:55Pappy from Brother where art Thou up there introducing the
- 40:59Soggy Bottom boys. You know he's up there screaming
- 41:02a little bit. I thought, man this is a clown
- 41:04show. Like, I'm really kind of like
- 41:05going. I can't believe this is my coach
- 41:07is involved in this right now. And to his credit though, he got
- 41:11up here and kind of took command of the stage and in the moment
- 41:15had some cool things to say. Talking about his staff at Troy.
- 41:17Talking about how the fact that, hey, I'm not going to go pillage
- 41:20from that staff at all until after the bowl game.
- 41:23But, you know, but no, he's going to keep everything in
- 41:25place. He's not.
- 41:26He wouldn't, he wouldn't do that to those young men.
- 41:28They need to lead them through there.
- 41:29And then at the end, you know, he declares that they're going
- 41:32to make the College Football Playoff and they're going to win
- 41:34the national championship. You know what?
- 41:35In the last part of that, I actually kind of believe the
- 41:37guy. You know what I mean?
- 41:38Because it sounds like Tulane's investing and doing what it
- 41:40takes. And he's, he's that good of a
- 41:43coach. But just play this thing though.
- 41:45But the first part of it is so. Goofy I'll I'll save my I'll
- 41:48save your comments. Right, here we go.
- 42:00This is New Orleans. You have a.
- 42:02Have to have a hug and a fist pump.
- 42:04OK, so welcome, welcome everybody.
- 42:07It is wonderful to see everyone here.
- 42:09Here's how this transition will happen for me.
- 42:12I I'm here, my staff that's been at Troy, they will not leave
- 42:17until the bowl game is completed.
- 42:19No one there will accept a job here until the bowl game is
- 42:22over. It's their job to finish the
- 42:24mission with those young men there, and I'm not going to
- 42:27extend an offer to a new coach there.
- 42:29While that may hurt me in the short term here, I'll win out in
- 42:33the long term by doing it the right way.
- 42:36Our vision here is we're going to win conference championships,
- 42:38We're going to win bowl games. I'm telling you right now, I'm
- 42:41Speaking of existence. We're going to make the College
- 42:42Football Playoffs and we're going to win it.
- 42:47There it is. There it is, yeah.
- 42:50The the. I wish I'd have got to see the
- 42:52whole thing drawn out. But yeah, kind of a cheesy walk
- 42:56through like a little hallway for the second line.
- 43:00Didn't look like that big of a crowd.
- 43:03And then, yeah, the guy before him, the speaker guy.
- 43:06Come on, calm down, buddy. I tell you what it is.
- 43:09Are they? They're so excited.
- 43:10But I thought they had a good coach.
- 43:12They've had good seasons. Have what?
- 43:13What? What?
- 43:14Their guy left. Yeah, Willie Fritz, he he left.
- 43:18He went to Houston. There you go.
- 43:20Yeah, I didn't think. I didn't think.
- 43:24I'm thinking Troy and Tulane are on pretty level playing field
- 43:27nowadays. Now Tulane was in the SEC was a
- 43:30founding member of the SE Southeastern Conference.
- 43:33So historically 2 lanes got us by a mile.
- 43:36But in in the modern world of football and college athletics
- 43:41and even I mean I would dare say even numbers.
- 43:43I I doubt two lanes a much bigger school than Troy.
- 43:48You know there's probably a lot of old New Orleans money and and
- 43:51money invested in Tulane because of their alumni.
- 43:54But Troy's, I mean we we ain't broke either Yeah so I don't.
- 43:59I I didn't. I don't I saw it more as a
- 44:01lateral move than a step up. But obviously I don't if we
- 44:05didn't match what they were offering or he accepted over
- 44:07what if we tried to match and those.
- 44:09Kind of. He got a he got a 300% raise
- 44:11overnight. He went from he.
- 44:13Went from a million a year to 3 million a year.
- 44:15And so you know, it is what it is, dude, they they definitely
- 44:18can outspend us. And they did And we, I think we
- 44:20counted. What I heard was like 1.4, but
- 44:22that's still half that money. And it's not just about money.
- 44:25It's like hey that's eight, that's still and they gave him
- 44:28six year contract that's 18,000,000 all guaranteed,
- 44:31right? So or and and if you do like and
- 44:34if you in there well or you could get fired like Orgeron or
- 44:39what's it Jimbo and because I see your boy Jason saying
- 44:42Jimbo's got his plaque great because Jimbo also said he was
- 44:45going with they said he was going with a national chip and.
- 44:47Made him the. Plaque.
- 44:49Unbelievable. He got the.
- 44:50No, no offense, JDJD Marsh and Amber says to tell us hello.
- 44:55She's she's going want to see Cody Canada tonight and yes and
- 45:00they're both they're both Aggies.
- 45:01We we're we're all, we're very inclusive here on 10 bits.
- 45:06Big fan of Cody. Y'all who personally know me
- 45:09away from here and what I say about all these other teams,
- 45:12but. If you don't, if you don't, if
- 45:15you don't recognize the name Cody Canada, you might remember
- 45:19the band Cross Canadian Ragweed. That was his band back in the
- 45:22day. And I remember we used to run
- 45:23with those guys with Wayne Mills.
- 45:24How? The three degree separation from
- 45:27Wayne Mills? Always, but that'd be a good
- 45:29show a bit. Yeah, hell yeah it would be.
- 45:32Well look, we've had we've got Maddie Hudak that follows us now
- 45:37on on on Twitter. She is.
- 45:40She's does a podcast with Tulane.
- 45:43She's a reporter down there. She's she's awesome.
- 45:46She's really good. I don't did you also see that
- 45:49Carissa Thompson stuff with that podcast?
- 45:53She was on a podcast. I think she was on on a Barstool
- 45:551 where she basically admitted to sometimes at halftime just
- 46:00making up the report that was the yes.
- 46:05She just she wasn't always being, just being true to the.
- 46:07Halftime report, Yeah, I'll just.
- 46:08Say, yeah, not a good look headline reporters whatsoever.
- 46:13Just terrible that she would even admit that.
- 46:16Coach at halftime and he said he's going to continue to.
- 46:18He's got to get the, you know, all this.
- 46:19It's like what? You didn't even speak to him
- 46:21because she couldn't get the interview so she would just make
- 46:23stuff up. Yeah, so she.
- 46:25It up. I mean, look, I get that.
- 46:27I'm sure that that's happened. Whatever.
- 46:30You just don't say it. You just don't say that.
- 46:33That's what you do. Exactly.
- 46:34You just don't advertise it. Like, no one would have ever
- 46:36known if you would have just kept your mouth shut.
- 46:38But anyhow, Maddie had a response to that.
- 46:42And I just remember seeing that a few weeks ago when all of that
- 46:45came out. That was extremely strong
- 46:47because she hustles. She's on top of it every day.
- 46:50And I I started following her back then because I'm like, wow,
- 46:55she's getting it. You know, she is hustling.
- 46:57And then she came out with that. She was dead on.
- 46:59She, I think one of her videos went viral.
- 47:01But yeah, just you know hope hopefully we can get her on at
- 47:08some point and I would love that.
- 47:09You know, we of course we had Coach Sumrall on our show.
- 47:13It would be awesome to to have him on at some point.
- 47:16Maybe we can get him back on and and and her and all that stuff.
- 47:20I'd love to be able to continue that relationship because it
- 47:23was, it was cool and he's here in.
- 47:25Louisiana. He's close.
- 47:26No. If you listen and if you listen
- 47:27to his words, his words, he'll tell you like his relationships
- 47:30with his players. You know, it's not transactional
- 47:33relationship, right? This is something that's going
- 47:35to last a lifetime. I'm going to have to hold Coach
- 47:38accountable. I mean our relationship too
- 47:40with, you know, with our, with our interview and the times we
- 47:43spent with him, you know, in the in the locker room.
- 47:46I think that that has to continue as well, right, So.
- 47:48Yeah, his OPS guy was his. His OPS guy was his very short
- 47:52text. Oh yeah, same.
- 47:55Yeah, with his very short replies there.
- 47:58Well, you know, but I will say I'm.
- 48:01I'm happy for coach as well. Coach looked like 1,000,000
- 48:03bucks and we'll say that he looked sharp.
- 48:04He must went by plenty ends. Let Michelle give him a high and
- 48:07a pie cap. High and tight for you.
- 48:09Went to go, went to go eat that some food.
- 48:13He better he he figured he better look sharp now because
- 48:15he's about to get red beans and rice treadmill too wise down
- 48:19there. But no.
- 48:20I'm happy for it. But I think Blasey for us, we're
- 48:23a program now that's established enough and recognized enough and
- 48:26we know the game now. We sure have the games played.
- 48:29I'm sure our donors and alumni are going to step up.
- 48:32Our next coach is going to take the torch and keep running with
- 48:35it. We going to be just.
- 48:36Fine. We going to be just fine.
- 48:37We got a great AD there too, man.
- 48:38Probably the best AD we've ever had at Troy.
- 48:41Full faith in that guy. He's going to get this
- 48:43wrestling. It's going to happen quick.
- 48:45So hey, everybody just relax and Trojan Nation things will be
- 48:50just fine. I.
- 48:51Promise a lot. A lot of respect for John
- 48:54Sumrall for coming out and look I'm not tampering if you want to
- 48:58use that word. He's not going to tamper with
- 49:01the with the coaches that are there.
- 49:03Troy doubt do do some of them end up at Tulane.
- 49:05I highly expect some of them do. They're going to you know.
- 49:10But for him to not tamper that, that and knowing this time of
- 49:15year what's going on with recruiting and things like that,
- 49:18some of those would be helpful answers.
- 49:21You know, for for some of these, absolutely that are at home but
- 49:25respectful for what he's doing to to the Troy community.
- 49:28He's not leaving, burning down the house, you know setting it
- 49:32on fire and getting out of town. I think he I think he left it
- 49:35better than it was when he got there which it was good when he
- 49:40got there you know he left it even better and whoever the next
- 49:44guy is next man up they're they're going to inherit a good
- 49:49squad and be able to to to work from that So I I you know we we
- 49:54alluded that he would ask me I've actually.
- 49:55Got a full plan where we could stabilize everything we could.
- 49:58We could actually defend off. Some are all coming after
- 50:00poaching. I got a full plan that wouldn't
- 50:02cost really any more money. You know you just make the
- 50:05offensive coordinator, Craddock head coach.
- 50:07You make our defensive coordinator.
- 50:10Gasparado. Let's make coach gas.
- 50:12Let's make he's the defensive coordinator still make him
- 50:14assistant head coach. Bump up his pay.
- 50:17Right, because she'll would. Who was with Troy with summer
- 50:19all at Troy before. Is it already at two lanes So he
- 50:22didn't need a coordinator over there unless he's going to run
- 50:24off SHIELD. So we keep our offensive
- 50:25coordinator and our defensive coordinator and you double rusty
- 50:27with our strength and conditioning coaches pay.
- 50:30Do you do that And you're golden and you keep everything the same
- 50:33and the ship keeps rolling. That's my opinion.
- 50:35Now. Hush.
- 50:36So that that's a Trojan fan talking.
- 50:37Yeah, yeah, it's. A.
- 50:38It's a somebody. Yeah.
- 50:39Somebody clipped that off and sent it to the coaching staff
- 50:41and they did, Troy. I mean, that's legit.
- 50:43I mean, it's worth a shot. I'm sure they're having
- 50:45conversations similar. I mean, I'm sure everything's on
- 50:47the table right now, you know, But sometimes thinking outside
- 50:50the box like that, you know, might be the the correct way,
- 50:54you know? I like it.
- 50:56Joel. Did y'all see that offsides
- 50:59drama with Yes? Man, I've never seen Patrick
- 51:03Mahomes that mad in my life. I've never seen him that mad
- 51:05either. It wasn't a good look for him, I
- 51:07can tell you that. Well and they do that a lot.
- 51:09I've seen that a several times with the new way they play ball
- 51:12and the way they blasey for ADI. Love it.
- 51:15Yeah, got my vote too. The way they put, the way they
- 51:18run these sets now and the way they do the pre snap changes on
- 51:22offense and defense to ride the line on the legal legalities of
- 51:28the rules to where if you jump here this guy jumps.
- 51:31Now I can flinch this far but I can't flinch that far.
- 51:33I can move, I can oh he's not offsides because they were both
- 51:37in motion or the line. All those things is so
- 51:40complicated to me. I understand what it is, but
- 51:43it's a lot going on. But lining up over top of the
- 51:47ball, you just can't line up over top of the ball.
- 51:49I don't know how. And then I've seen that.
- 51:51That's not the first time. I've seen that in the past month
- 51:54or so even I've seen other pro teams do similar lining up cost
- 51:58and college cost them a third and short now a third long
- 52:02things like that. And I'm like, you're like, how
- 52:03look, you know, I plain his day now.
- 52:07I don't know what he's mad about.
- 52:09He's mad at his guy. Yeah, you can get me.
- 52:12You can get mad at him. He was definitely offsides.
- 52:15There's no doubt season. That's season frustration that
- 52:17has a lot of drop passes this year.
- 52:19That is just like it all like just happened to him.
- 52:22They haven't struggled this this much in a long time, you know
- 52:26what I mean? So I just think it just all came
- 52:29to a head for him, you know? Like missing tyree kill.
- 52:32Yes, My God. One thing.
- 52:33Anybody. That's.
- 52:34The dumbest thing ever? Well, you heard Tyree, Kill
- 52:36said. Taylor Swift may have something
- 52:38to do with this. Absolutely not, because.
- 52:43I love Taylor Swift at Tigs Bits, for the record.
- 52:46Yeah. Swifties.
- 52:47Swifties. No, no.
- 52:48Weird. Yeah.
- 52:49Go go, Taylor. No.
- 52:52Yeah, but she don't help with football.
- 52:53She's great entertainer, sells a lot of T-shirts and albums.
- 52:58But no, the Tyreke Hill said that he, you know, he didn't
- 53:01want to be the 2nd, the 2nd girl, you know.
- 53:04He said he got there and my homes already had buddied up
- 53:06with Kelsey. And he said, you know, when he,
- 53:09he would take Tyreek Hill out to dinner, they go to like the
- 53:12barbecue joint and he's like, man, I want to go to the nice
- 53:14place you took Travis. You, Travis, are playing video
- 53:16games, hanging out, he said. I was never nobody's second gal,
- 53:19you know, so. That was kind of he was out.
- 53:22So I guess it's ride or die with him.
- 53:24But yeah, I agree with you Blasi.
- 53:25I think that's just overall frustration.
- 53:27I also double down to what you said to you.
- 53:29It's a terrible look for a classy guy like Kim.
- 53:32Yeah, it is not near and out of character, Out of character and
- 53:36and back to coach, how classy he looked.
- 53:39You know, the two spectrums. There's two ways to do it, you
- 53:42know, But it's frustration. A bad look for Kansas City.
- 53:46You know, in a game Buffalo had to win that one and and they
- 53:50did. You know they're going to play,
- 53:53play again. They may, they may play again
- 53:55anyhow on the regular season. I don't know.
- 53:56I don't think they do, but they they haven't looked at the
- 53:59schedules, but they will most likely play in the playoffs at
- 54:03some point and so they they'll, you know who's going to win that
- 54:07one. Most likely, but pass off his
- 54:10butt. Yeah, yeah, but man, that was
- 54:14crazy. Last night's games were nuts.
- 54:17The the both of them were good. I didn't see.
- 54:20I didn't see them. I just saw some highlights.
- 54:22Miami, apparently. Just.
- 54:27Yeah, well, I know, I know. I lost.
- 54:30I lost by 20 points in my keeper league because Tua turned in
- 54:33nine points yesterday and I've got Lamar Jackson with 63 points
- 54:37on my bench. That would have more than have
- 54:39been enough to win me the game. But I I haven't watched any
- 54:43sports all weekend since last Monday or Tuesday.
- 54:46I was even in. I was even in Vegas while the
- 54:50Pelicans drop the ball against LeBron James and the Lakers in
- 54:55the semi finals of the in tournament tournament in season
- 54:59tournament. I mean they got beat by the most
- 55:00points we I've ever. I don't know if they've ever
- 55:02been beat by 60 points or whatever it was just got
- 55:06annihilated. Yeah and then but but LeBron was
- 55:09on a mission because after that Tyrese Halliburton and the
- 55:13Indiana Pacers. He's done things, some things
- 55:16that no one has ever done. He's had three or four games
- 55:19this season where he's had 25 points, 15 assists and 0
- 55:23turnovers combined. Four players have ever done that
- 55:26total and he's done it three times this year.
- 55:28But LeBron? LeBron was on a mission and his
- 55:31Lakers are the first time ever. And it makes sense.
- 55:34The Lakers have to be the first champion of the new thing we
- 55:36have. Sure, Bravo to LeBron.
- 55:40A 40 year old, 20 year veteran MVP of the N season tournament.
- 55:47I mean you can hate on LeBron and I have and I've he's never
- 55:51been my guy. But you cannot deny the talent
- 55:55and perseverance of somebody like that because most, most
- 55:59guys, you can't make it in your early 30s, much less to your 40.
- 56:03Right. Even competing well enough to
- 56:06stay in the game, much less being the MVP.
- 56:09He's the MVP and he's the oldest guy in the league right now,
- 56:11right? He's close to it.
- 56:13He's, he's top five. Yeah, he's top couple.
- 56:15He's right. There, and he's still playing at
- 56:17that level. At that level.
- 56:18And his minutes levels have been have been crazy because this
- 56:21term was really important to him.
- 56:22He wanted to win this thing. He wanted to 100% and that's
- 56:24why. And that's why he spanked him.
- 56:26And I watched and I didn't get to watch the game, but I watched
- 56:28the highlights. Herb Jones from Alabama.
- 56:33Fantastic ball player. Played at Alabama.
- 56:35All American or all SEC. Defensive player all SEC guy.
- 56:42A lot of playing time for the Pelicans starting playing he's
- 56:44their D and you know stretch D guy he can play any he can D
- 56:48anybody up. LeBron abused him I mean and he
- 56:50wasn't he can do. Lebron's got the size on him.
- 56:52Herb usually can play up or play down.
- 56:55LeBron just took it to him. I mean the full, but I mean he's
- 56:59he's always been bigger, stronger and faster than
- 57:01everyone he's. An animal man, I finally got to
- 57:04watch him live last year. I took, took my son, took Riley,
- 57:08we went and we we were in the upper deck.
- 57:10We we didn't even have a good seat.
- 57:12But he's just an he's huge man. He had a good game.
- 57:15He didn't have a great game. It was the night before he broke
- 57:19the record. I think he broke broke the all
- 57:21time scoring record. Maybe not.
- 57:23Maybe two games later, but he needed something like 68 points
- 57:28or something that night. And I'm like, hey, you never
- 57:30know, Jordan. You never know.
- 57:33The the only time I ever saw LeBron play, I went to another
- 57:36game. He was with the Cavs, but it was
- 57:38later in the season and he didn't play.
- 57:39It was because the playoffs, whatever.
- 57:42But his second or third year in the league, I was in Utah and
- 57:47Gryce and Brad Matthews, my friend who lived out there at
- 57:50the time. We went and saw him play the
- 57:52Utah Jazz. Yeah, second or third year in
- 57:55the league. And yeah, he had like 58 points
- 57:58that night and I thought there's nobody and he's almost a rookie,
- 58:01Might even been his rookie year. But they couldn't do anything
- 58:03with him. And the Jazz still had like
- 58:05Malone in Stockton and he dropped 58.
- 58:08He could shoot from anywhere. He would take one or two
- 58:10dribbles in the three in the three-point line and make a move
- 58:13to the rim and no one could do anything.
- 58:16I thought, we're going to be all over TV.
- 58:18This guy just scored 5860 whatever points it was.
- 58:22Same night Kobe scored like 72 or something, so they never even
- 58:25showed LeBron 60 something. But I I knew then I was like
- 58:29this guy's special. You know, if.
- 58:31But again, like I said most their Grant Hill was that good.
- 58:34But then you, you get your knee hurt or your hip hurt or your
- 58:36elbow or your back. You're never the same player
- 58:38sometimes LeBron to be able to stay away from injury and in the
- 58:42modern times stay out of controversy.
- 58:44You never hear about LeBron at a club with a pistol, smoking dope
- 58:47in his car, fighting with his wife, you know, anything with
- 58:50his illegitimate kids. He don't have none of that.
- 58:52He's a straight up guy, an entrepreneur and a good, good
- 58:56community guy. What it sounds like.
- 58:58And so I'm I'm, I'm Team LeBron now.
- 59:00I'm, I'm happy for him. I still think Jordan's the best
- 59:02ball player of all time and and Hakeem's the best big, but you
- 59:08know, it's impressive that he did that and he destroyed our
- 59:11Pelicans, unfortunately. But we're we're doing pretty
- 59:13good. We're going to be OK if if, if,
- 59:16if Zion stays healthy and we keep our core together healthy,
- 59:20we're going to go deep into the season.
- 59:22I think so too. The one thing though, that I
- 59:25hope next year I kind of like the end season tournaments.
- 59:27A little hard to understand. Yeah.
- 59:30They need to simplify it a little bit.
- 59:32I don't either, but they need to.
- 59:34That's that's why I think they need to simplify it.
- 59:36Yeah, I could understand if I looked at it big time.
- 59:40But one thing I do understand those the courts are terrible.
- 59:45They're hard to terrible. I mean, they're hard to look.
- 59:46The jerseys are cool, terrible, but the courts are are hard.
- 59:50They're hard to. I can't watch the game, man.
- 59:53Too much. Exactly.
- 59:54Too old? No.
- 59:56Same here. It's harsh.
- 59:57It. You can't.
- 59:58It's no definition It it doesn't like a basketball court.
- 1:00:01It looks like a video game and that's what they're going for,
- 1:00:04but it's too much. Yeah, I mean you add that with
- 1:00:07the with the sneaker sounds. That's, that's what I was going
- 1:00:09to say, yeah. Way way, way too much.
- 1:00:11You like Which one's worse? Which one's worse?
- 1:00:13I watch very little of it. Hockey's in like, dude, I'm a
- 1:00:16big NHL guy now, so the Lightning are playing dude.
- 1:00:18When, when, when, when that kicks in.
- 1:00:20I just, I really go to that. Basketball now has become such a
- 1:00:23secondary thing. I I, it's cool.
- 1:00:24I'll still watch the highlights, you know what I mean?
- 1:00:26But, like, I'd much rather watch the Lightning play then, you
- 1:00:31know, then then watch a basketball game and listen to
- 1:00:33that. Yeah, we go, you know the
- 1:00:37Speaking of airplanes, we go to the Ice Flyers games from times
- 1:00:40to time in Pensacola. Those are fun.
- 1:00:42Yeah, I need to come meet you all over there.
- 1:00:43I'd love to do that. Dude, my neighbors down here so.
- 1:00:47We have one in Baton Rouge now, the Zydeco's.
- 1:00:50Nice. I haven't gone yet.
- 1:00:53We're but we're going within the next two weeks.
- 1:00:56You know Christmas break coming up and well I actually know
- 1:00:59they're out of town until after the the new year because they
- 1:01:03they use the ice rink for Christmas skating and all of
- 1:01:06right, all that stuff. Yeah, they're making like a
- 1:01:08two-month tour to the Northeast or something.
- 1:01:11Oh yeah. Doesn't sound like a lot of fun.
- 1:01:14There's somebody else that who else is.
- 1:01:16There's somebody else that does that, that leaves for two weeks
- 1:01:18because sometimes at the Knicks. Or somebody that has to leave
- 1:01:21for two weeks and does a road trip every year because.
- 1:01:23They had to use Madison Square Garden or.
- 1:01:26Something, some. There's some team somewhere.
- 1:01:27I just remember thinking about that because they have to get
- 1:01:30for the The Rock, the Rockettes or something like that.
- 1:01:34I don't remember. But yeah, I tell you, hockey
- 1:01:37games, I've never been to hockey games until Nashville when the
- 1:01:41Predators first got there and it turned me around because we
- 1:01:44don't have hockey here. I've never been ice skating.
- 1:01:46We don't just I don't have no ice.
- 1:01:48But. And I went to a school, you
- 1:01:53know, and I went to when my high school.
- 1:01:55When I went to high school, Y'all.
- 1:01:56We didn't even have soccer, you know what I'm saying?
- 1:01:58Our girls were still slow pitch, underhand softball.
- 1:02:00I mean, I went to a tiny high school with none of these sports
- 1:02:02and no swim team. No, none of that.
- 1:02:04So I never even knew anybody played hockey until then.
- 1:02:07But when I first started going to those Predators games, man,
- 1:02:09that was so much fun. That's an electric atmosphere.
- 1:02:12It's a party. And since then I've been to
- 1:02:14several different towns and seen hockey.
- 1:02:16I've been to the the Tampa games down there once or twice.
- 1:02:20Man, that hockey is fun games to go to, though.
- 1:02:24They're really fun and I feel like I can learn enough of the
- 1:02:27rules fast enough to be into the game to where it's like soccer.
- 1:02:31I'm still having a hard time knowing the rules.
- 1:02:33Yeah, no, I I I totally agree. And, and and I got into it.
- 1:02:37Same thing, dude. I grew up in Alabama and we had
- 1:02:39basketball, baseball, football, like and I I challenge to get a
- 1:02:44golf team and a tennis team and it's.
- 1:02:46But other than that we didn't have anything.
- 1:02:47And so dude, going I moved down to Tampa, started going to those
- 1:02:50Lightning games and that's when I fell in love with hockey
- 1:02:53because I've seen it. I've been watching ESPN before
- 1:02:55like I'd kind of get bored with those highlights.
- 1:02:56Like whatever, you know, show me a one time or it was kind of
- 1:02:59cool like you know, or a fight, you know.
- 1:03:01But when you start to understand that game and you go see it live
- 1:03:04and dude, it's it's the best live sporting event period.
- 1:03:08And that includes football and I'm passionate about football.
- 1:03:10Love football. Yeah.
- 1:03:12And dude, I think it's the it's the there's nothing better.
- 1:03:15Especially playoff hockey dude. I mean that that'll almost kill.
- 1:03:18You have to walk outside of that arena to get your breath because
- 1:03:21it's like 4th and goal the entire.
- 1:03:23All the time, yeah. Game.
- 1:03:25Yes, man, it's wild. Yeah.
- 1:03:27Next level. I love it anyway.
- 1:03:29We'll have to do that. Yeah, Tigs Bits Rd.
- 1:03:32Road trip to a hockey game. I've never been to a pro hockey
- 1:03:35game. Oh God.
- 1:03:36So I would love. I would love to go.
- 1:03:38I mean, I've watched them and the music and the crowds.
- 1:03:40Nuts. And they have.
- 1:03:41It's a party atmosphere, everybody's drinking,
- 1:03:44everybody's partying. It's a rowdy thing, but it's not
- 1:03:46like, it's not like football where everybody's fighting and
- 1:03:49stuff, right? You know, it's more just
- 1:03:51rowdiness. I mean, I'm sure they do.
- 1:03:53And entertainment, Yeah, in between the periods.
- 1:03:56And I remember even one time I booked Southern Hauler, we
- 1:03:58played in between periods at a Predators game up on the balcony
- 1:04:01thing there. Like that's where I first.
- 1:04:04That's actually one of the first times I ran into Sparky, I think
- 1:04:07when we reconnected with Bonner and Sparky was when I booked
- 1:04:10Southern Hauler to play Sparky's there with some people, some
- 1:04:13clients or something. He was working with some friends
- 1:04:15or something. He comes down, we reconnect.
- 1:04:17He had just moved back from Kentucky this and that.
- 1:04:19But yeah, we they, I think they paid us 6 or 800 bucks to play
- 1:04:23for like 3 songs at the end of. The thing.
- 1:04:26Between periods. You know me, I'll book us
- 1:04:28anywhere. Was it paid?
- 1:04:29Yeah dude, I got to go to a pro hockey game.
- 1:04:34I've got to go to 1. Paul's a Maples fan.
- 1:04:37He says out there and and John Melvin Miller says that.
- 1:04:41The penalty. And he said he's What does he
- 1:04:44say here? Oh yeah, yeah.
- 1:04:46The the penalty and the power play aspect makes hockey very
- 1:04:49interesting, and it does. It's it.
- 1:04:51It's like that. Two when when those power plays
- 1:04:53happen, either you know, if it's your team on the power play,
- 1:04:55let's score. If it's your team on the
- 1:04:57defense, let's get a, Let's get a Let's get a kill.
- 1:04:59Because you're down one man, right?
- 1:05:01Yes. And it's, it's, it's super
- 1:05:03intense. So it's five on four or it could
- 1:05:05be four on three or five on three.
- 1:05:06I mean it could be a variation of that.
- 1:05:08Usually it's five on four. And so, yeah, you're trying to
- 1:05:10get the penalty kill or you're trying to get the goal right.
- 1:05:13So it's like, man, it's it's so cool when those power plays
- 1:05:15happen. He's right.
- 1:05:16And I figured that's why Paul posts those awful pictures of
- 1:05:19me. Because I was a Lightning fan
- 1:05:20and he's a Maple lease. Fan Oh, there it is.
- 1:05:25There it is. It's probably, that's probably.
- 1:05:26Hey, you had a better picture of you this week.
- 1:05:28I saw it, Yeah. Where is where is Maple Lee Is
- 1:05:32that Toronto? Yeah yeah I've I've well, I've
- 1:05:35been to Toronto and I've been to Tampa.
- 1:05:37I I I'll take Tampa all day it. Gets cold and it gets cold in
- 1:05:43Toronto. Toronto is like a little New
- 1:05:45York, just up north or farther and colder.
- 1:05:47Yeah, I'm good. For sure.
- 1:05:50Well, look, we didn't touch on this.
- 1:05:52We're going to talk on it briefly just cause Jr. is in
- 1:05:55here. So we we have a room full of
- 1:05:57champions and and winners in some form or fashion, of course.
- 1:06:01Blasi and the Troy Trojans winning the Sunbelt Conference,
- 1:06:07the Crimson Tide winning the SEC Championship, and what does that
- 1:06:13say? Love that.
- 1:06:14Is that 1987? Oh yeah, that's that bottle you
- 1:06:17showed us. Yeah, that 80. 484. 84 That's
- 1:06:21amazing. Guess who our first victim that
- 1:06:24year was? Nickel state.
- 1:06:25Nickel State Love it. And and then and then me over
- 1:06:32here, you know, Didn't have a lot to cheer about a whole lot
- 1:06:34during the regular season except for one of the best offenses
- 1:06:37I've ever seen. But as predicted on the show,
- 1:06:42boldly and at the time didn't realize how much I was
- 1:06:45completely setting myself up for a blasi like situation with his
- 1:06:50coach. But, but, but we did.
- 1:06:54My boy Jayden Daniels did win the Heisman, so at least we got
- 1:06:58that. So we all, everybody on the show
- 1:07:00won something this year. We all got it.
- 1:07:02Absolutely. Yeah.
- 1:07:04Positive, positive year for all of us.
- 1:07:07It was. It was.
- 1:07:09It was did y'all see? And we'll we'll end kind of
- 1:07:12talking about sports here, but did y'all have a chance to see
- 1:07:17Shohei Atani's deal with the Dodgers?
- 1:07:21On. Oh my God, $700 million.
- 1:07:26But what I find interesting about it is that 680 million of
- 1:07:29it's deferred. Yes, he going to get 2 million a
- 1:07:32year until 2034 and then at 2034 he gets the 68,000,000 a year
- 1:07:38for 10 years. Yeah.
- 1:07:40So that. I mean, he's expecting to live
- 1:07:4420 years, which he should, but I don't know if he understands how
- 1:07:48things work. Well, you know, I'm a little.
- 1:07:52Concerned for him, to be honest. He's going to make $45,000,000 a
- 1:07:55year in endorsements. He's going to be fine.
- 1:07:57He's. Going to be fine, no?
- 1:07:59Matter of retirement package. Yeah, he.
- 1:08:01Does you know what I mean? I mean, he makes.
- 1:08:03Benolia look like nothing, even though that's an.
- 1:08:06Awesome. Yeah.
- 1:08:07Well, yeah. I was going to say Bob, I
- 1:08:09thought it was Frank Thomas. Does he have?
- 1:08:10Was Bobby Benilla that? Has been.
- 1:08:13Yeah. He gets a million a year
- 1:08:15forever, huh? He.
- 1:08:17For a long time. For a very long time.
- 1:08:19He got it again this year. I know that.
- 1:08:21I remember. That's insane.
- 1:08:23It is. Well then.
- 1:08:23He had played 30 years. Joey's just going to get him a
- 1:08:2768,000,001 starting in 2034. I mean, it's just wow, it's.
- 1:08:34Well, what does that do to that team?
- 1:08:36What if that team falters? They can't pay.
- 1:08:39Jack to them for a decade. They don't care about that.
- 1:08:42They're only there's only 2 million coming out of there
- 1:08:45right now. But they that's what I'm saying.
- 1:08:47What happens to him in 10 years? I'd be a little worried if I
- 1:08:50were him and. What does Money has to go into
- 1:08:53an account and it has to be into a.
- 1:08:56What do you call that in a in a? Trust, or something like a
- 1:08:58trust. Yeah, you know, anyway, like
- 1:09:01like when you buy a house it goes into.
- 1:09:03Escrow type thing. Yes.
- 1:09:04It's like it's always going into an escrow account, so they're
- 1:09:06going to have to protect that money.
- 1:09:07I think they had to put like at least 45,000,000 a year in like
- 1:09:10to guarantee a certain percentage of that.
- 1:09:12Even if they just went bankrupt or something, his money will be
- 1:09:15there you know, each year. So oh.
- 1:09:18Man, yeah, that's like, that's it really is.
- 1:09:20And what in the team was it due then?
- 1:09:21So you then you need to go get a star 1520 years from now and
- 1:09:26you're over the cap because you're paying dude from 20 years
- 1:09:28ago. And I don't understand that how?
- 1:09:31That you know what? I mean that's where my knowledge
- 1:09:33is gone like so. Yeah, Jason Hilton says that the
- 1:09:36Mets agreed to pay Benolia back 29.8 million / 35 years.
- 1:09:44It's crazy. Unbelievable.
- 1:09:46Especially at the time in baseball, so I.
- 1:09:48Know. Unbelievable.
- 1:09:49Well, look, we're kind of we, yeah, we've been going for a
- 1:09:52little while. We're kind of, we're at a point
- 1:09:55of the show where it will just kind of open it up to the phone
- 1:09:58lines. We don't have any phone lines,
- 1:09:59but if we did, this is where we would do it.
- 1:10:02But look, if any of you guys that are still hanging out with
- 1:10:05us, if you have any questions or anything that you want to want
- 1:10:08to ask us, now's a now's a good time.
- 1:10:11Hey, I got to give props real quick to my old neighbor real
- 1:10:14fast. Brantley Steven.
- 1:10:16Oh. Yes.
- 1:10:17Yes, my next door neighbor. We talk about cooking all the
- 1:10:19time. He's a big grilling guy.
- 1:10:21He went to New York, took his wife up there for the 40 for her
- 1:10:2440th birthday. And he asked me like, what
- 1:10:26should I do? And I'm like, man, I've been
- 1:10:28there to the city. I'll be honest with you, I love
- 1:10:29the hot dog vendor. So that's probably not what, you
- 1:10:31know, most people want to hear, But that's kind of what I did,
- 1:10:34You know, you do the, you know, Statue of Liberty, do all that
- 1:10:36other stuff. But his wife really wanted to go
- 1:10:38to the Today show. So yesterday morning, they get
- 1:10:41up 430, they're out there, it's raining, it's cold.
- 1:10:45They get selected to go inside and they do some kind of a show
- 1:10:49in their little game. They play dude, They win a trip
- 1:10:51to Australia for six. Awesome.
- 1:10:53Yeah. Congratulations to his wife
- 1:10:56Sarah. So that's so cool, dude.
- 1:10:58Yeah, we've got a video of this. Check this out.
- 1:11:02Yeah, yeah, let's check this out, everybody.
- 1:11:04We won't watch the whole thing, but just watch him win and it's
- 1:11:06good. Come over here, please.
- 1:11:10Good job. Yeah.
- 1:11:14Sorry guys, we gave our. Glenn.
- 1:11:16And and Sydney, do you guys have something that you want to tell
- 1:11:20them? Oh, yes.
- 1:11:21We shot this movie entirely in Australia.
- 1:11:24It's one of the most beautiful places we've ever been.
- 1:11:27So guess what? You guys are going to Australia,
- 1:11:37Wanda Airways and Destination Wales, along with Sony Pictures,
- 1:11:40the studio behind anyone but you.
- 1:11:43Awesome. Congratulations Green Bay fans
- 1:11:47too. So they had their Green Bay gear
- 1:11:49on. But yeah, they got selected to
- 1:11:50go in there randomly and so he was and whoever those that actor
- 1:11:53and actress is, I don't know them but they're like they said
- 1:11:56they all like they they they got along great and.
- 1:11:59Yeah, that was going to be my question.
- 1:12:00Who were those? People, it's it's some movie.
- 1:12:03It's some movie coming out and it's and they shot it in
- 1:12:05Australia and I can't, I don't know the name of the movie so I
- 1:12:08wish I had that info. This.
- 1:12:09I'm sure we found this out this afternoon, so.
- 1:12:11Yeah, I'm sure it'll pop up. We'll be able to figure out what
- 1:12:14movie that is. Maybe we can pinpoint it.
- 1:12:16It might. It's a cool movie.
- 1:12:18Well, yeah, that's awesome. Congrats.
- 1:12:20You never know, you know that that was.
- 1:12:21I'm glad you brought that up too, because that was my other
- 1:12:23tales from the Road I wanted to bring up.
- 1:12:25Since you prepped that on the text earlier.
- 1:12:28You know, I've been to the Day Show a few times with Justin.
- 1:12:30We've played it several times over the years and I remember
- 1:12:33the last time we were there I had my Saints hat on and the
- 1:12:37first time I barely remember being there the first time or
- 1:12:41two to be honest with you because it's at 5:30 in the
- 1:12:43morning and we you know we fly in you know.
- 1:12:46So the last time I remember more than the previous ones but I had
- 1:12:49my Saints hat on and I'm standing there, we're getting
- 1:12:51in. I hadn't seen any of the the
- 1:12:53people yet hold or Gen. or any of them yet but hope.
- 1:12:56But as I'm getting Justin ready, I stand back and they come up
- 1:12:59and saying hello to everybody meeting everybody.
- 1:13:01Hoda runs right up to me pouring in my hat.
- 1:13:02Who dat? Who dat?
- 1:13:05You know, 'cause she was New Orleans television anchor and
- 1:13:08and from down there and stuff. So for I was there for a long
- 1:13:12time and and so she and I caught up for a while.
- 1:13:16Jenna's super cool. One of my favorites.
- 1:13:18You know I'm such a big fan of their family and they're always
- 1:13:22been super cool. But on that show that day with
- 1:13:25us was an icon. And you know, I've gotten to
- 1:13:28meet a lot of people and sometimes it's like this.
- 1:13:30It's just a quick little thing. But it was Tony Bennett that
- 1:13:33day. He was there.
- 1:13:34Yeah, Tony Bennett was there. So we got to sit and talk with
- 1:13:37him backstage for a few minutes and he, he was just smiling and
- 1:13:40happy. And you know, this was only
- 1:13:42maybe a year or so before he passed, but super cool to hang
- 1:13:45out with Tony Bennett that day. And yeah, love Hoda and Jenna.
- 1:13:49Watch them every morning and they in real life, they are as
- 1:13:51cool, like when the cameras are off as they act on TV.
- 1:13:55So yeah, that's awesome. Your friends to do that and
- 1:13:57that, that those people out there, there's always a ton of
- 1:14:00people out there. It just always is.
- 1:14:02And for them to get selected, that's very cool because I mean,
- 1:14:04there's always a ton of people out there.
- 1:14:07Yes, it is. It is.
- 1:14:08And then when that Dang trip, man, you know, it's like, hey.
- 1:14:11Yeah, thousands of dollars. Down under, you know, I hope
- 1:14:15Sarah is OK with you. Like taking me down there, you
- 1:14:18know so. Yeah, I think she would be.
- 1:14:20She sure didn't seem like she was very excited.
- 1:14:22Yeah, she didn't want to. Go, he responded.
- 1:14:25Said. I just hope she takes me with.
- 1:14:27Her. Yeah, right.
- 1:14:30And you know, fun fact, that studio, man, it looked huge
- 1:14:33where they were standing. That place is as big as my
- 1:14:35studio. They it's all a play on.
- 1:14:37Camera or. The whole room.
- 1:14:42I mean the whole. Big the whole place.
- 1:14:43Is yeah. They have one section over here
- 1:14:45where the band plays a lot smaller than you think.
- 1:14:47Then I mean, the camera pans just a little.
- 1:14:49That's their sit down place, pan just a little.
- 1:14:51That's that place where your friends were.
- 1:14:53There's one little section over here where they do the setups
- 1:14:55for the food and thing, but it's all just bare, barely apart from
- 1:15:00each other. It's not like Props Brewery
- 1:15:03here. No, it's not near that
- 1:15:04expansive. No, no, no, no, no.
- 1:15:06It's in a huge, it's at Rockefeller centers, it's in the
- 1:15:09huge thing. You have to go up and get your
- 1:15:10security clearance and blah blah blah blah.
- 1:15:14I I took a tour of of Rockefeller Center and got to
- 1:15:17see kind of walk where the audience sits at Saturday Night
- 1:15:21Live looking. At 8:00.
- 1:15:23H or whatever it is very small. Everything in the exactly like
- 1:15:28it's so much smaller than you would you would think.
- 1:15:30I went to the Conan O'Brien show.
- 1:15:32This was in I think 97 or 98 somewhere in there and it was it
- 1:15:39was hilarious, but a little bigger of a room there.
- 1:15:44It was a little actually was a little bigger than I thought it
- 1:15:46would be because my parents, they went to, they saw Johnny
- 1:15:50Carson, if I remember this right back in the 80s, they got to go
- 1:15:54to the studio. Maybe they didn't see the show,
- 1:15:56but they got to tour the go on to Burbank and see the studio
- 1:16:00and that was their take away is just how small of an area that
- 1:16:04really it it is, you know it's it's it's magic.
- 1:16:08It's magic. Yeah, camera magic for.
- 1:16:11Sure, Yeah, that's it. Speaking of camera magic this
- 1:16:14would probably be a good time in the in the show while there's
- 1:16:17still a little bit of light outside and and kind of start to
- 1:16:20wind this down. I think we need to give props,
- 1:16:24some props, props, brewery, a little bit of props and and and
- 1:16:29let's, I'll tell you. What we could do to close the
- 1:16:32show? And I'm not sure how this is
- 1:16:33going to go when I unplug from this headphones.
- 1:16:36But everybody, we went a long time blasey today with going
- 1:16:40good. It's fine, right?
- 1:16:42It's fine, I think. I'm going to do a little walking
- 1:16:44tour, if that's good with y'all. I'm going to unplug.
- 1:16:46We're going to do a walking tour and I'm going to check this
- 1:16:47place out, yeah. Let's do that.
- 1:16:49Let's do that. Yeah, man, I I'm going.
- 1:16:53I'll mute him while he's while he's doing all of that.
- 1:16:56But I. This is great.
- 1:16:59Oh yeah, I love. I love this new format.
- 1:17:01And I want to say first thing, and I meant to mention, I wanted
- 1:17:04to mention this during the show. I'm glad we got a second, and I
- 1:17:06know I ramble random things, but that's my bag when we had when
- 1:17:11we did that, when I asked, were you in the Christmas season yet?
- 1:17:14During our Thanksgiving episode on our old format in Riverside,
- 1:17:17I only got this slender view of all of us.
- 1:17:18Right? You can.
- 1:17:20See. I I didn't see your no.
- 1:17:22So when you said that I'm like well I don't.
- 1:17:24I really it looks like the normal well when I went back and
- 1:17:27watched the show went because if if I don't hopefully everybody
- 1:17:30watches our show on YouTube. I take those shows and put them
- 1:17:33on my Jr., the handler page as well on my playlist so you can
- 1:17:36find them on mine or the Tigs bits.
- 1:17:38So I watched a little of the show and I said, oh hell, I
- 1:17:40didn't see his Santa Claus Tigs bits thing.
- 1:17:43No wonder he's like, yeah, I'm in the spirit.
- 1:17:44I got the thing right here, so it makes I like the new format
- 1:17:48because we can see everything and like this, we're seeing a
- 1:17:50wide shot of props now. Yes, we are, we are.
- 1:17:54And right now we got. For a second.
- 1:17:56The General Manager, right here. There's Joe.
- 1:17:58The everybody saying hello, hello.
- 1:18:02What's up? Welcome to the show, I
- 1:18:05centrally. Located local guy I got Nate.
- 1:18:09Here. What's up, Nate?
- 1:18:09Hey, man, how's it going? Good brother.
- 1:18:12Fellas. Yeah, so, yeah, Beautiful
- 1:18:14brewery, beautiful place. It's gorgeous in here, dude.
- 1:18:17Absolutely gorgeous in this place and.
- 1:18:19Three times bigger than my. Brewery And this is.
- 1:18:22I don't know if you can see this.
- 1:18:23Hold on, I'm going to walk out. Here real quick I can.
- 1:18:27Can you see me? Yeah.
- 1:18:28Oh, yeah. Yeah, we can.
- 1:18:29I'm trying to do it. Get you a.
- 1:18:31Little bit bigger. I'm gonna try to show you
- 1:18:33there's there's AP 51 Mustang fighter play.
- 1:18:38Oh yeah. We're out of his range now.
- 1:18:42He got too far from the. Here and there's their Keg
- 1:18:44Christmas tree. Yeah, we did this yesterday.
- 1:18:48I'm losing a little. Test run.
- 1:18:50Yeah, a little bit. But you're fine, You're.
- 1:18:51Fine. OK, Yeah.
- 1:18:53Anyway, just thought I'd show you.
- 1:18:54And then there's the and then you go out there.
- 1:18:56Then there's all the food trucks we got.
- 1:18:58Just a multitude of food trucks. OK.
- 1:18:59Tonight. Tonight's the Taco truck that's
- 1:19:02running. They got something else down
- 1:19:03there. I think that's a Curry in a
- 1:19:05hurry truck that's down there tonight.
- 1:19:08Yeah, there's. A.
- 1:19:10Food truck options, dude. See.
- 1:19:13Nope. Well, he'll pop back in that.
- 1:19:17That is the that is the range at Hammock Bay and on the Wi-Fi.
- 1:19:23I mean you've it's a tight perimeter.
- 1:19:25There's zero sale service out there.
- 1:19:27Oh, I bet none. But man, what a what a beautiful
- 1:19:30brewery. I can't wait to go check that
- 1:19:31place out. I wish we had the food truck
- 1:19:34selections. Like, he has two, we have one,
- 1:19:36and our brewery actually just sold there, so we don't even
- 1:19:39have we don't have any food trucks at our brewery anymore,
- 1:19:41right? There he is.
- 1:19:43Yeah, I'm back. I'm back.
- 1:19:43See, I I knew that was going to happen.
- 1:19:45That's all. I want to save it till the very
- 1:19:46end and but yeah man. That's fine.
- 1:19:51What else you guys got? Man, I just wanted to give you a
- 1:19:53quick little tour there and. Oh, look, great.
- 1:19:56Yeah, you can see it. John John M says that Blasey was
- 1:19:59just abducted by an alien. It's exactly what happened.
- 1:20:03He's back. Hopefully he wasn't probed.
- 1:20:06Too much because I probably. See that for next week's show, I
- 1:20:09guess. It it wasn't too bad.
- 1:20:11Hey, hey, Speaking of that, y'all got to watch that show.
- 1:20:13Encounters the four episode thing on Netflix I was talking
- 1:20:16about. I just finished.
- 1:20:17I've watched it. I just finished.
- 1:20:20The next time. Fukushima Lights and the Now We
- 1:20:24Know why they never discussed nuclear or they don't discuss
- 1:20:26aliens prior to 1930 because that's when we started nuclear
- 1:20:29stuff, correct? Ain't that wild?
- 1:20:32That is. Very wild.
- 1:20:34That's very wild. It's crazy stuff.
- 1:20:36Yeah, but I want to. I was going to say deeper into.
- 1:20:40That we yeah, we definitely need to.
- 1:20:41And thanks to everybody who came on and listened and participated
- 1:20:45in the show today. It's going to be more more like
- 1:20:47we've done today, but even better because this was a test
- 1:20:50run and we're just going to get better with this thing and get
- 1:20:53on some wild topics and some wild adventures here.
- 1:20:56But thanks to props for letting Blasey come sit in there today
- 1:20:59with a beautiful brewery. If you're down and and that part
- 1:21:02of the country, make a stop by there and get a beer.
- 1:21:04I know I'm going too soon. For sure for.
- 1:21:07Sure, yeah. We're going to dive in next
- 1:21:08time. A little breaking news here at
- 1:21:11the end of the show. Blasey did secure a conversation
- 1:21:14with that owner Joe, who says we should be doing this more often.
- 1:21:18So we will definitely, definitely be coming back live
- 1:21:23from props, some former fashion and and hopefully get that
- 1:21:27little beer with. You set up in this little room
- 1:21:29here. Look.
- 1:21:29At this yeah, you do. Look at that.
- 1:21:31Perfect. Uh huh, You were saying?
- 1:21:34You know you're going to be back in that little room brewing us
- 1:21:36up a little Tigs Bits Brew. Absolutely I am.
- 1:21:39From our fine folks there, Yeah, you just put it out in the
- 1:21:43universe. I like hazy.
- 1:21:44Double hazy, but the what? I understand beer makers, brew
- 1:21:48masters, they do not like that term.
- 1:21:52Double IPA. It's an offensive term.
- 1:21:57That's a whole nother show. I have some guests that I want
- 1:22:00to have. Come on if we're going to get in
- 1:22:02and start talking about beer. Tell us about this regulars club
- 1:22:06here. Oh, I'll tell you about that
- 1:22:08regulars club. I'm #24 cash money on the board
- 1:22:11too and that is you know those that are regulars and and once
- 1:22:15you once you achieve that status, the good news is you get
- 1:22:18a little bit larger glass. When you come.
- 1:22:21Awesome. That's a big.
- 1:22:22Deal. They do.
- 1:22:22They do appreciate your patronage here.
- 1:22:25That's very good. Kind of like the the, the, the
- 1:22:27saucers at the Flying Saucer. You know, if you drink all the
- 1:22:29beers, you get a saucer on the wall at the Flying Saucer.
- 1:22:31That's pretty cool. That's it.
- 1:22:34Yeah, Well, great. Well, look, we're going to call
- 1:22:36it a show. Everybody appreciate everybody
- 1:22:38tuning in. We've had several people in here
- 1:22:41the whole show. Thank you all so much, way more
- 1:22:44than we were expecting for sure. So this I'm calling this a
- 1:22:47success. We definitely will be doing this
- 1:22:49again like we've said and and going live a little bit more
- 1:22:53often whenever there's something you know something that that's
- 1:22:57happening out there that we see that we have something that we
- 1:23:00want to talk about. We're just going to hop into the
- 1:23:02live and and go for it and whoever can join us can join us
- 1:23:06and and we're going to, we're going to start cranking this
- 1:23:08thing up a little bit more. So gentlemen thank you all thank
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- 1:23:41Drink one for me blasey. See you buddy all.
- 1:23:43Right, bro. I got you see y'all all.
- 1:23:46Right, boy. See y'all soon roll down Tide,
- 1:23:47go Tide.