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What Makes LSU Tailgating So Different · Tigs Bits Podcast

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I don't want to get too emotional about it, but it feels
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like a church, yeah. 100%. You know when you go to a church
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and everybody knows the hymn? Yeah, exactly.
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Everyone knows the hymn. Everyone knows what the next
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word is going to be. Everyone feels the same
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sensation. That's what I'm expecting
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tonight. I'm expecting to.
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I'm expecting to feel God. Welcome into Tales from the
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Tailgate. If you've been keeping up with
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the series, you already know we worked our way halfway through
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the season with the first three home games already.
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Now we're going to wrap things up with the final three home
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games of the year. These are not a best of.
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These are not the greatest hits. This is just simply everything
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that happened at the Western Kentucky game, the Arkansas game
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and the Texas A&M game. Yes, I'm going to actually talk
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about it. There's some good stuff that we
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got that day. And look, let me tell you right
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now, those three weeks, those three ball games turned into
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pretty much maybe some of the most fun and unexpected
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stretches of the entire season. It kicked off with Texas A&M
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that demolishing that we got. But hey, it ended up here.
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We are. We're on the lane train.
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We all we all this now down here in South Louisiana.
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Look, we embrace it. Y'all want to y'all think that
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it offends us. You call us corn dogs, you call
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us hoes. It doesn't offend us.
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We embrace it. We embrace the hill roll.
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We were built for this. So it's going to be a lot of
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fun. There's a lot of hope going into
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next season already. I can already tell you next
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year's tailgates are going to be out of this world.
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They're going to be crazy. The the schedules come out.
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It's insane. It's going to be tough.
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It's going to be tough for everybody.
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It's going to be really tough at LSU.
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But anyhow, these past three weeks are the past three weeks
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that you guys haven't seen. They they were, they were fun.
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We had people from all over the world.
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We had food that probably should come with a warning label
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because of how damn good it was. We've got stories that I'm still
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thinking about, some of which you will see in tonight's
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episode. If you enjoy this series, if you
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Keep it up, keep it up. We're so I'm so grateful and so
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appreciative of it. I promise you.
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Look, let's kick this thing off exactly the way that we kicked
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off the last home game of the year, the Western Kentucky game,
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with my buddy Mr. Travis T Bird himself breaking down some beef
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ribs. We cook brisket.
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We were out there all night. We cooked well.
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We, we, we got to leave about midnight.
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I'll give you guys a walkthrough of Travis's rig at some other
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point. I'm definitely going to be
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making another video on that. It was really just amazing the
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way that this whole rig was. I'm not even going to spoil it,
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but bottom line, we cooked 150 lbs of brisket.
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We trimmed them on that Friday night before the game, put them
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on the smoker. But the fun thing, the little
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the chef's kiss, if you will, that was for us in the trailer,
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us that were working the tailgate group.
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Everybody had an opportunity. We had beef ribs and you're
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going to be able to see us slicing this again, stuff that's
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not been seen. I'm just now getting to the
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point of where I can edit some of this stuff.
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So look, without any further ado, here's Travis, here's me,
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here's Travis's friend John. And I get a little unhinged here
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at the end. Now that.
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That's some beef ribs right there, son.
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Travis, tell us a little bit about this.
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How'd you cook them? How'd you prepare them?
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44 Farms beef ribs. They're out of Cameron, Texas.
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Just salt and pepper. Good quality beef, man.
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We smoked them for probably 12 hours and then we wrap them in
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butcher paper and let them let them rest in there for a while.
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Look at the hell we got. Wow, Holy moly.
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That's like it's like pure sex in your hand.
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That's that's meat. That's meat Candy, is it not?
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I stole it. I had.
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I've been waiting for this all day.
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I didn't mean to every word I had out of my mouth.
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So, no, I have nothing to say. I don't believe that.
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I think we got plenty to say. We'll see.
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We'll see what happens once we tasty's ribs.
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They look amazing. That's right.
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Where are you from? John is his name.
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Ladies and gentlemen, where are you from?
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I'm out of Boulder, city of Louisiana.
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OK, God's country. God's country #1 all right.
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I'm so glad that we're doing this.
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Here we are inside a food truck trailer, slicing beef ribs and
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slicing brisket. And there has been what's
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happening. Let's see what we got here.
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We'll get, we'll get back to the question.
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I want the corner piece. I would like to lie because I'm
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on video, but that's one of the most amazing ribs I've ever
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tasted. And.
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That's a gauge. Honestly, those are they
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basically melt in your mouth. Wow.
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Oh gosh, I'm going back. I mean, you can even talk while
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they're in your mouth. Yes, look at it.
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Look how juicy it almost wants to mush apart.
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Simply amazing. It's a fuck that.
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That is a 10 out of 10100. Absolutely out of 100 times.
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Best beef roots I've had in a long, long time.
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Thanks to T birds. Seasoning for that as well.
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I taste a little hint of that. And there's a there's a smidge.
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There's T birds. Yeah.
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So just a kiss of T birds. You can get T birds.
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Travis, where can everybody get T birds?
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Check us out Iron Smoke craftbbq.com we'll ship it
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straight to your door. You want the best enough man?
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I don't have any. It's all out, it's all outside.
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If you want the y'all have seen it on the channel.
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You want the best barbecue sauce in America in the.
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World for real. And I recommend the hot, 100%.
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The hot. You've got a hot where it's at.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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The honey cayenne. That's the ticket.
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If the Texas boys can handle the heat, Louisiana loves the hot.
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That's right. Right.
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So that brings me back to my question.
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So this year at the this year at the tailgate, it's been quite
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controversial and we've I've been told that I am a N
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Louisiana hater. I'm from Florine, Louisiana, by
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the way. OK, so you're from the Piney
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woods, Louisiana. Piney woods, not necessarily N
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Louisiana, but West central Louisiana.
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Yeah. I mean, Toledo Van, not many
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people know about it, but yeah, right.
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But it's still to everybody out here, most of these folks are
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from Eunice. It's north Louisiana.
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OK? So it's been very controversial
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this year, N versus South Louisiana cooking and things
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that have popped off have been seasoning Things have been all
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they do up there is is boil their meat, which is what Darren
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said, which makes 00 sense in the world about why would he?
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Why would he even say that? And then here we are.
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So my question, close the door, coach.
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My question here, what makes N Louisiana food better than South
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Louisiana food? Because I'll tell you what, if I
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want y'all to know this out there, there are things in North
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Louisiana that will absolutely dog walk South Louisiana.
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I mean dog walk them. This is one of them.
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This is one of the things that it's done that will absolutely
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do it. I'm sorry I asked you the
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question, but I'm just, I'm getting on my soapbox.
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So I'll say one thing. We as in North Louisiana folks,
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we don't kill coops to eat them. So if that gives you any
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inclination of the difference in food types from North Louisiana
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and South Louisiana, not dogging the South Louisiana people
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because they do know how to cook, but we don't have to
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resort to cooking cooks coots to make a meal.
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We love BBQ, we love seafood, but we're going to give it up to
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North Louisiana just because of the beef ribs today.
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There it is ladies and gentlemen.
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Y'all want to say I don't have any N Louisiana love?
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I got 2 words for you. Suck it there.
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I just felt right. It did feel right.
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I can't help myself. I mean, there you go again.
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Those beef ribs, I mean, crazy, crazy good.
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Real simple. The way that he did them.
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Very important. If you ever cook beef ribs,
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here's a little pro tip. Make sure that you do keep the
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skin, the silver skin on the back of beef ribs.
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Otherwise they'll just literally, they'll just fall
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apart. They're so fatty.
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They're just so amazing. I mean, they, they really
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they're, they taste a lot like the point of brisket.
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It's brisket on a stick. I've heard people say they're
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not cheap at all, but man, just slow smoked.
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Just slow smoked with the ribs. Put them on a little bit after
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like that night. We cooked till about midnight.
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I think those briskets went on about 7:00 or 8:00 and I think
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it was more like a 8. And then and then about
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midnight, we put the beef ribs on before Travis got back very
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early the next morning. Your boy.
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Not as early as Travis, but with some of the things like his
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grill can do. Hey, I'll just tell you real
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quick, there's a huge pot dumper whatever that that you your
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firebox on this grill. And I don't know, we put at
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least 8 or 10 bags it full bags of charcoal in there.
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But he started the fire, layered the charcoal with wood chunks,
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post oak wood chunks, another layer bag of charcoal some more.
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So it's layered through there. So you're getting that good
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consistent heat and it's all ran by fans with fireboard.
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Fireboard. If you ever deem to sponsor
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anybody T bird getting our tigs bits, we would love it.
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But the the whole thing runs the fan so he can regulate the
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temperature. It works like a lot like a
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pellet grill, but using charcoal and real wood.
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Just unbelievable that we're in 20252026.
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Maybe whenever you're seeing this and you can basically have
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a pellet grill with charcoal, it's insane that you can do
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that. So every time and I should have
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eaten before I I just started to even record this show, but every
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time I watch that back, I get hungry.
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I mean that that rib that those ribs set the tone for the whole
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day. We chopped up the beef brisket.
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We chopped that up. May have seen a video of us
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doing that. That was amazing as well.
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The brisket was just phenomenal. We just chose it was just easier
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to chop it, make chopped beef sandwiches.
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God, I love a good chopped beef sandwich.
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Somebody else, I don't have a video of it.
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Somebody else brought some amazing deviled eggs.
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I love deviled eggs. Love them.
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And we put them on the pit too and smoked them for, I don't
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know, 2530 minutes. Give them a little kiss.
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Unbelievable. Western Kentucky day was it was
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something else. It was absolutely something
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else. And speaking about setting the
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tone and the heartbeat of the whole tailgate, look, the Cajun
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Tiger tailgate, there's a lot of people involved that make this
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whole operation work. I hope some of you guys are
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seeing this out there. Support us.
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Go to the Cajun Tiger Tailgate page on Facebook.
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We have a page. On Facebook, we have a page on
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Instagram as well. You can follow our shenanigans,
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Darren. There's several of us that, that
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post in there, but I, I don't post that much in there.
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It's mainly mainly all those guys.
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But go support us. Go check that Channel out.
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Follow us if you aren't already as well.
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But Speaking of the glue of the tailgate and maybe the glue of
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the Tigs Bits podcast, frankly, Amanda, ladies and gentlemen,
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I've been wanting to get her on camera.
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You've seen her in some videos, you've seen her in the
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background. Amanda is the reason that half
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of these amazing interviews that you guys see that she's the
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reason they even happen. She spots these folks.
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She's always on the lookout. She's always looking out for me.
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I love her for that. Thank you, Amanda, really,
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really, truly mean it. Thank you from the bottom of my
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heart. You've made my channel grow.
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She is very responsible for the growth that has happened to the
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Tigs Bits brand over the last couple of years, the last couple
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of seasons. And it's all because of these
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folks that she she's always networking, she's always talking
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to people. And look, if somebody from
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another country shows up, 9 times out of 10, she is going to
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be the one who brought them over.
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Without any further ado, Miss Amanda.
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I mean, I don't know if it's the right term, the moniker that
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you. Want I said it, coined it
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earlier today. I think there's a better term,
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but for lack of 1, the Cajun Tiger tailgate team.
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Mom, Miss Amanda, ladies and gentlemen.
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All of these. Amazing interviews that you've
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seen all year long for people from Australia, England, Russia.
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I don't know if we've done one of those yet, but Buffalo, NY,
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shout out to Anna. Happy three month anniversary.
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I mean, just unbelievable. She's the reason that's what I'm
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getting at. She is the reason that you see
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all of these interviews that have been happening.
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She recruits them. Amanda, I can first of all,
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public, thank you. Thank you.
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You're welcome, Tiggs, you're welcome.
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Hey, look, she, she is amazing, just always here.
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So what's been your thoughts on 2026 tailgating season as we
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wrap it up? Hey, we have done a great job.
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And guess what, next year I think it's going to be even
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better. More food options to come, more
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people. And we've even gotten a little
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bit of people coming in to join us hopefully.
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And that's going to make the cooking even much better.
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That's what's going to be so much fun.
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I mean, we've got all kinds of stuff.
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Last night we did some long range reconnaissance on the
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Tiger campus, a lookout for upgrades if you will.
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Absolutely. And it was an expensive trip
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around the campus. Would you not say?
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Oh absolutely. But whatever we do, it doesn't
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matter the cost. We're here to help everybody
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have a good time and to experience what we have
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experienced. And that's just what it is.
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What's been your favorite moment of this?
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I call it the tailgating season, not the football season.
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Hanging out with you Tigs, and getting people to come here and
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get interviewed and just to see the people around the world that
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think our tailgate's the best, right?
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I'll give you your $100 when we're done with.
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This I don't need no money, but I'm just telling you right now
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that there is no experience that.
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You can experience unless you come here.
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That's what it's all about. It's friends, family, fun, good
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food, good times, good music, good times.
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That's what the whole deal is all about.
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That's what brings me back every week.
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And I tell you what you know and I've lacked this year, but going
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to see the Tiger Band play at the amphitheater that that's
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better than this right here. I'm going to tell you right now,
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but I have lacked on that this year, taking people there.
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But going to watch them for 20 or 30 minutes play before the
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game and then coming back here is the best experience you'll
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ever have. I mean, she's right, she nailed
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it and it is true. Friends, family, fun, food,
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music, I mean that's what makes these videos do so well every
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week. Let's just be honest, that's
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that's it. People are interested to see
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what the heck goes on here. It's always something different.
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It is never the same and like I, I said a lot during the year
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talking to folks, different interviews and all of look, we
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never lost a tailgate, unfreaking, defeated tailgating
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and that will remain no matter what.
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That isn't ever going to change. And again, thank you so much,
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Amanda. We couldn't have done it without
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you. Thank you for everything that
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that you do to help us and that long range reconnaissance that
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we did on that Friday night after we got the briskets on
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Whoo. I cannot wait to see and hear
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the music that we have next year.
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We got these speakers. They're these JBL speakers.
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Holy moly, not cheap whatsoever, but these people had the best
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sound I've ever heard at a tailgate.
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They had like three of these speakers.
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We've just got a couple. The threes overkill and even I'm
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saying that so I cannot wait. I know we will test them out
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sometime during baseball season and God help everybody when that
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happens. But Speaking of bringing the
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international flair to the channel, bringing all of those
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folks over, let's talk a little bit about Mike, who is with the
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sports travel. He's from Chicago.
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And I mean, people ask all the time how fans from Scotland,
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Australia, Denmark, London, how they end up here.
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Well, guys like him, guys like Mike play a big, big role and
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how that's happening. Mike is responsible for bringing
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down a. Plethora of the Brits, the
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British Invasion as I call it. But let's hear from MM here is,
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is bringing in international fans from all across the world
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to come experience the great, great Death Valley.
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Mike, tell us a little bit about how does this happen?
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I think there's like how many 16 or 15 or so of you guys today,
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something like that. I don't know.
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Yeah, we have we have a lot of people here today.
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We, we bring guests from all over the country, United States
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and internationally to come here.
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We, we, we help them assemble the whole trip.
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We give them the hotels, the tickets, tailgate experience,
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give them the whole trip. And it's just we want them to
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experience everything that Baton Rouge has to offer and
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including. The big Mecca right behind me
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here over at the LSU Tiger football game.
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That's amazing, man. I love the fact that they come
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here to Tiger Stadium. I mean, I know the reasons, but
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tell everybody out there, why here?
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Why do you bring them specifically to Baton Rouge, LA,
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on a Saturday afternoon or evening in the fall?
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I mean, is there a better stadium in the country than
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here? No, there is none.
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Yeah. I mean, I've been to Stan's all
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around the country. I'm based in Chicago.
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We have great venues out there, but nothing, nothing compares to
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what's here. I mean, this is I mean, it's
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it's an easy sell. Like, do you want to see the
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greatest stadium in the world? Yes.
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OK. Come to Baton Rouge.
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That's a bag. Yeah.
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That is 100% fact. That's an absolute fact.
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How can everybody get a hold of you?
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Tell everybody a little bit more because I know this channel, it
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takes bits is now we've become internationally known thanks to
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thanks to what I call the British invasion of coming over
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here, these interviews that we've done.
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But it's obviously a bucket list destination to come here to
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Tiger Stadium. How can people book this that
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are over in the UK watching this or wherever they are anywhere
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across the world? Yeah, they can come to our
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website, sportstraveller.net. We do trips for all major
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sporting events. So we will happy to accommodate
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them with the whole trip. We'll plan everything for them.
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We'll be on site here, here in Baton Rouge and we'll get them
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to exactly what they want to do. They want to see more than just
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the game. Anyone, anyone can go come to
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Baton Rouge just to go to the game.
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But we'll help them do the whole experience and see more than
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just what's behind me. Exactly.
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That's amazing. Thank you so much for joining
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us, Go Tiger Tigers. Bring them on.
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Keep them coming. The British invasion, I don't
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know if they really. I don't know if the British
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folks. I hope that doesn't offend
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anybody. I hope that doesn't offend
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anybody in America. It happened a long time ago.
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Get over yourselves. If it does anyhow, look, he it,
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it just goes to prove he's been to stadiums all over the country
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and he still says that nothing compares to Baton Rouge and he
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proves it by showing up with international fans every time
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that he comes. And and this is the number one
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destination. So it makes it makes sense.
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And Speaking of more international folks, it's
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insane. The people that that we ran into
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in this family, they came in for the Arkansas game.
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Their son had everything that he wanted for his birthday except
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for one thing. And they asked him what is what
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is it? And he said he wanted to go to
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an LSU football game. I'll let you, I'll let them
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explain. Where are you from, Sir?
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So I'm from Scotland. Scotland.
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Holy cow. Wow.
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It's not as far as Australia, but it's not, it's not not far.
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Well, I, I, is he the first Scott that we've had?
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Yeah, I think so. I think you are the first
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Scottish person that we have had, that we've interviewed.
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And have you had any, have you had anybody from the UK as well?
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We've had a few, we've had a, we've had a several folks from
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the UK, but from England proper, you know, so, yeah.
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Well, what, what brought you here?
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When did you start to plan this trip?
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How did this whole thing happen? So I'll have to, I might have to
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bring my wife in here. Absolutely.
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For some of the detail. So, so it was a son's birthday
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and he's got, he's got kind of everything he wanted.
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So we basically said, well, what could we possibly get him?
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There's something about unusual and about the ordinary.
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So my wife came up with the idea of why don't we, why don't we go
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to a college football game? So we asked Ben.
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Which one would you like to go to?
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And of course, and this isn't just because we're here, he said
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we have to go to LSU because of the whole experience of the game
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day. So, so we just said, OK, so we
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didn't start the researcher. Bought the tickets etcetera.
24:02
So it was probably about. 8 weeks, probably 8 to 10 weeks
24:05
now. OK, planning, if that.
24:07
Yeah. So I got to ask you what brought
24:10
Why LSU? How'd this happen?
24:12
Well, I started to enjoy American sports probably five
24:16
years ago. Playing basketball.
24:17
Big as hell, yeah. And then I got into American
24:20
football a while ago. Started with the Dolphins in
24:26
Miami, because we went to Miami once.
24:27
I was almost for the Dolphins now.
24:29
And I was like, this is the best game ever.
24:31
So I was like, OK. I'll have a look at college
24:34
football. And I was like, why was I go to
24:36
Death Valley? If anything, because 100,000
24:38
people, it's the biggest stadium.
24:40
We've. Ever been to It's bigger than
24:41
any stadium. In in England, Yeah, by far.
24:45
Well, I'm glad you're here. I'm glad y'all found this.
24:47
And what a great trip You have great parents, first of all.
24:51
Great parents to bring their kid all the way over here to come to
24:55
this. Were you disappointed at all to
24:58
see that it was going to be a day game as opposed to the to
25:02
the night game? Well, we didn't make a
25:03
difference. We didn't really have any
25:04
expectations about whether it was day or night.
25:06
It was a bit disappointing, but actually in fairness.
25:08
But if it was kick off at 6:00, we we'd be ready for bed at
25:12
6:00. So.
25:13
So it's about we only came in. Yes, they were going out
25:15
tomorrow. So it's OK.
25:17
It's about. Yeah, it's about 8:00 PM already
25:19
in our time. So wow.
25:20
So if it was 6:00 PM, we would be we would be a little bit
25:23
tired by the end. Yeah.
25:24
I don't know what to expect. I don't know what.
25:26
To expect from the whole day. So it's just great.
25:29
Neither do we this week. No idea.
25:32
That's kind of that's the fun of it though.
25:34
That's balling, folks. That is balling.
25:37
Look, I mean, thank you guys for coming and visiting.
25:41
I hope that you all come back again, come to a night game.
25:44
So it's two different experiences.
25:46
This is great. This is it's always great.
25:49
It's never bad. But at night it it's cranked up
25:53
a little. It might get a little crazy.
25:56
It may get a little crazy. Today, though.
25:58
Today is young. It's great to be here.
26:00
But I mean, we may well pop back to the Cajun Tiger tailgate once
26:04
the game's finished. I love it.
26:06
I love it. Look forward to it.
26:07
Thanks. Thanks for inviting us on your
26:08
pod. Absolutely.
26:10
Tigers go Tigers go tigers. How amazing is that?
26:16
So awesome, man, all the way from Scotland.
26:19
Definitely the first Scottish folks that that I remember that
26:23
that that that I know that we've seen.
26:26
They were so tall. The son, the mom, all of them,
26:29
all three of them was were tall. It makes sense that that that
26:33
young man would play basketball. You get a.
26:35
Shout out to the kid, man, when your kid picks LSULSU over
26:41
anything else for a birthday gift.
26:43
I mean, you got to say that kids elite, maybe coach Matt McMahon,
26:48
maybe we need to start recruiting this family and
26:51
they're going to 100% be back for a night game.
26:54
I did speak to them again, I saw them later and, and they, they
26:59
had a blast. I think that's something that we
27:01
take for granted. LSU fans, those of you who are
27:04
watching this and, and, and SEC fans, this is really a message
27:08
to anybody anywhere, doesn't it? Not even SEC, Big 10, any, any
27:12
of these big schools, Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame, LSU,
27:16
Miami, FL, Alabama, all Georgia, all of these Texas, all of them.
27:21
The big boys, people come from all around the world to come and
27:26
experience college football. And I think on a day when LSU
27:31
season wasn't going too, too hot, that was the Arkansas game
27:35
is whenever they were there cuz it was a 11:45 AM kick off a
27:39
year when the it's not going great, everything is looks like
27:44
it's falling apart. There's still people are wanting
27:46
to come from all over the world. I know that I sat on my soapbox
27:50
and preach this, I think in the very first episode of the year
27:53
that we did the first tales from the tailgate.
27:55
But it still blows my mind that people come from everywhere to
28:01
see this place. I mean, I get it, but I think we
28:04
take it a little bit for granted sometimes everybody.
28:08
So I don't know, there I am, there I am.
28:11
How cool was that? How cool was that?
28:14
Next up, we're going to stick with keep sticking with the
28:17
accents here. I know that you've seen a couple
28:21
of the videos or one of the videos at least I have put out
28:24
of the Australian couple. These folks are amazing.
28:29
So this is a great, great little clip here.
28:31
They built their entire three month North America trip around
28:36
LSU. Their stories are incredible.
28:40
We had a lot of fun talking and I mean, they, they're what an
28:46
amazing couple. I loved them.
28:48
Here they go. We never know.
28:50
Where people are coming from or what the heck is going to happen
28:53
on this channel? And I found a couple of Aussies,
28:56
That's right, Australians. And I think you're going to be
29:01
able to tell from the accent right here, right now, what are
29:06
your first, what's your first thoughts?
29:08
And it's terrible, terrible impersonation.
29:10
What's your first thoughts on being here in Louisiana?
29:15
It's incredible, like nothing I've ever seen before.
29:19
I'm just mind blown and I want it every weekend.
29:23
That's exactly right. That's exactly.
29:25
Right. We'll be back.
29:26
We'll be back. That's definitely a necessary.
29:28
We have to do, yeah. So what brought you here?
29:31
How did you end up getting here to this game to even begin with?
29:36
I don't know the story. I've not been told.
29:39
I've not been prepped. I did not want to be.
29:42
You leave it on the couch, as Ed McMahon says.
29:44
So tell the story. How's this happening?
29:48
Well, we're on a big three month road trip, Okay, We've been
29:51
living in Canada, so we've driven down the West Coast and
29:55
made it here. But when we were first
29:57
researching what are the key things we wanna do in America,
30:01
tailgating was like it was up there.
30:04
I mean, national parks are high. LSU top of the list?
30:08
That one, everyone said, like if you go into one tailgate, where
30:11
do you go, LSU? Yeah.
30:13
Here we are. Yeah, We made it work with our
30:15
itinerary. We had to delay things and move
30:18
things. We're like, we're going to be
30:20
here. So this.
30:21
Is where the party's at, yeah. 100% and like I told you all
30:25
before we went on, this is a early kick off for us.
30:29
We we prefer night games, but it's still, there's a lot of
30:34
energy here for the daytime, huh?
30:36
Yeah. Yeah, everyone's happy,
30:38
everyone's kind and welcoming. And we're looking forward to
30:41
after we win. Yeah.
30:43
Boom. I.
30:43
Have so much emotional like need for these guys to win.
30:48
It's yeah. So do we?
30:50
Yeah. Imagine, God help us.
30:53
We need a we need a victory. We really do.
30:55
We need something. It's going to happen right now.
30:57
It's going to happen today. Like can you cross your fingers?
31:00
Or something. So what took you to Canada?
31:03
How did let's let's go back OK, a little bit further.
31:06
What made you decide to come to Canada and then start even begin
31:09
this? Why did you exile from
31:11
Australia? Well, it's, it's something that
31:14
many Australians do, but we happen to be moving for a job
31:18
with myself, I didn't know falling through.
31:21
We sold everything and it didn't work out and we thought why not,
31:26
we'll just go anyway so. We had the flights, we had the
31:30
visas. Everything was organized.
31:32
We got rid of our home like our rental.
31:35
We sold our car. The day we sold the car, you got
31:40
laid off. Yeah, wow.
31:42
Because we were moving to Canada with this job, it was like a
31:44
global yeah. And so we're like, well, we're
31:47
going to pretend we're 19 again and go and work in Banff,
31:50
Alberta. And yeah, we we're just living
31:54
it up. I love that you're you're making
31:56
it happen. You're making it happen.
31:59
Give us some of the obstacles to get here to today, especially
32:04
with knowing it was an 11:45 AM kickoff because that throws a
32:09
browser king and everything for us to everybody.
32:12
Well, we needed to be here last night, right?
32:14
Right. We wanted to start early.
32:16
Yeah, so. But.
32:17
That's how we make connections with you guys.
32:19
And, you know, it's been the best part.
32:21
And I think the biggest obstacle was getting past border control.
32:28
That makes sense. You know what I had in the van?
32:30
We have a camper van, like a Ford Econ Alliance, just decked
32:34
out with a bed and everything. We had about four different
32:37
plants, like, you know, nice indoor plants.
32:41
Indoor. They were not allowed.
32:44
You found out the hard way, right?
32:46
At least you're still here. Yeah.
32:49
At least they didn't completely detain you.
32:51
Did they take the plants? They.
32:52
Detain the plants. That's sad they still.
32:54
Have like 5 limes because we've just thrown a party like the
32:58
night before. So you can't bring fruits into.
33:00
Limes, yeah. Yeah, that's.
33:02
So we're happy with no. What the hell does shrimp on a
33:06
Barbie mean? Christmas Day.
33:10
Really. Always.
33:11
There's prawns. They're prawns, not shrimp.
33:13
Right. Prawns.
33:14
And they're bigger prawns. They're bigger, yeah.
33:17
What's the difference in a prawn and a shrimp?
33:19
The shrimp and the little ones you find in like the fried rice
33:22
that you get from a Chinese take away.
33:24
Store OK, at least in Australia, they're a bit bigger here from
33:28
what we can tell, but yeah, shrimp, shrimp are not they're
33:32
not a thing you go for the. Brown get it right.
33:35
We have pet shrimp, well we did when we were in Australia.
33:38
Pet shrimp, Yeah. Really.
33:40
Yeah. OK, Yeah, I've never heard of
33:42
pet shrimp. Continue.
33:44
You can't really pat them or anything.
33:46
You put them in like an aquarium.
33:47
Yeah, OK, Fish and snails. And yeah, no barbecues for them.
33:52
Though that seems Australian. Yeah, for sure.
33:55
It would be awesome if we could make like popcorn shrimp popcorn
33:58
with them, but he wouldn't let. But because you had feelings.
34:02
For them, yeah, it's kind of attached.
34:04
To them, you know, I get it, I get it.
34:06
They were pets. They were pets.
34:07
Cook the cat. Are there any Australian
34:14
stereotypes that drive you guys crazy that come here in the
34:18
States? No stereotypes on my head but
34:24
even yourself at the start, it's not Aussies.
34:28
It's not. There you go.
34:29
See. It's Aussies.
34:32
Like, like Ozzy Osbourne with an act, like pronounce it with an O
34:36
Yeah, See, it's like pronouncing boudin or boudin.
34:40
Yeah, same thing. OK, It's Aussies, not awesome.
34:44
The Zen, the zen's important. It is important we've learned
34:47
something today. We've learned things on Tigs
34:49
Bits, ladies and gentlemen. And then we don't do shrimp.
34:53
You don't do shrimp, we've learned that.
34:54
So there is no shrimp on the Barbie, just prawns.
34:56
That was just a bunch of bullshit.
34:58
Yeah, that was just a yeah. Conspiracy.
35:01
This crocodile doesn't be real. Yeah, yeah.
35:06
If you ever visit, you have to watch out for the drop bears.
35:08
It's very important. Very important.
35:10
Yeah, you have. To watch out for everything
35:12
else. No, but that's a stereotype we
35:14
hear all the time. Like people come to us and be
35:16
like, but how do you live there? Like everything's so dangerous.
35:20
And it's not until like, being here and being around
35:23
alligators, I mean, like, oh, they're kind of not that.
35:26
They're not that dangerous. If you walked past a crocodile,
35:29
you're done for. Them.
35:30
Oh yeah. So yeah, they're way more
35:32
aggressive. Standing the stereotype, it
35:34
makes sense, but. It does.
35:36
Have y'all ever done a journey and the Outback like was done in
35:39
Crocodile Crocodile and Dundee? Can you really do those things?
35:43
Is that real? Yeah, definitely possible.
35:45
We slept in. Was it basically they're called
35:48
a swag but it's basically a sleeping bag with a flap you put
35:52
over your head. OK, that's your.
35:54
Tense, that is. That is all.
35:55
You're sleeping on the ground. That doesn't sound fun.
35:58
And then at times you look into the distance.
36:02
It's darkness, except for two little shiny eyes that can only
36:07
be a dingo. And did it eat your baby?
36:10
It didn't eat her. Baby.
36:12
Because we didn't even have had to do it.
36:14
Yeah, had to do it. I love it.
36:17
But it does. It does happen I.
36:19
Guess guys, I'm so happy that y'all are here here in Baton
36:22
Rouge, LA. I can't wait for you to come
36:25
back and experience this whole deal at night.
36:28
Yeah. It has to happen.
36:30
Oh, it has to. We could even fly from Alberta,
36:33
from Calgary here. That might happen.
36:36
We'll see. We're going to make it happen.
36:38
Be a time and a place. Maybe I love it.
36:40
Give me a go, Tigers. Go Tigers.
36:43
Let's go Perfect. It's up there for interview of
36:50
the year. I mean I got every question out
36:54
that 8 year old Tiggy and 47 year old Tiggy would want to
36:59
ask. I mean, they probably think I am
37:01
the biggest dumb ass on earth for some of that.
37:06
Is Crocodile Dundee real? Oh my God, I love it.
37:11
I I mean, it just goes to show you that I do not run this whole
37:14
deal scripted. I mean, I have a few questions
37:17
in my head, but as the day goes on, I just think that I'm better
37:21
off just being myself and just letting dumb things come to me.
37:26
So I wanted to show that there's definitely a couple of clips
37:30
that you'll be seeing on social media from that one.
37:33
Pet shrimp. I've never heard of pet shrimp
37:36
before. And look, I can't believe all
37:40
these years and I don't think I've said it too much.
37:42
I'm not embarrassed about it. I always thought it was Aussies
37:45
because it's a USS i.e. S Aussies.
37:48
Well, I mean it that makes sense.
37:50
It makes a lot of sense. So I'm glad I learned that.
37:53
You know, they debunked shrimp on a Barbie.
37:56
That doesn't really it's not a big thing.
37:58
They have pet shrimp. They basically called our shrimp
38:01
baby shrimp, which is interesting.
38:04
There's gulf shrimp that are big, but whatever I wasn't going
38:07
to get into that with them. He was just that was the day
38:10
game at Arkansas. I mean back-to-back.
38:14
I mean, it was a good freaking. It was a good freaking time.
38:18
And then Speaking of Amanda and bringing in awesome guests, she
38:23
brought, she brought in all of these, by the way, all of them
38:26
that you've seen so far today, this next, this next couple,
38:32
they were adorable. I don't use that word very often
38:36
on the channel. I don't really ever use that to
38:39
describe any couple. But you're about to see they
38:42
absolutely are adorable. What was fun about this?
38:46
This is a couple from Denmark. And what's so fun about this is
38:51
it happened so quickly. Whenever I interviewed them just
38:54
a little behind the scenes, I was not 100% sure they even
38:59
spoke English. The way it was presented to me
39:02
was they may not understand everything you're saying.
39:05
I'm like, OK, that's nothing new there, let's just see.
39:09
So 100% definitely another one that was unscripted but got some
39:14
amazing and interesting answers from them.
39:18
Check them out. Where are you guys from?
39:21
Well, we're from Denmark, and I'm actually from Greenland, and
39:25
wow, yes, wow. Very nice.
39:27
Yeah. I've never met anyone from
39:29
Greenland in my entire life. That's a fact.
39:31
You're not very, very nice to meet you, man, too.
39:35
I love that. I love that.
39:38
And where are you from? I'm just from Denmark.
39:40
He's just from Denmark, OK. Not quite as exotic I'm.
39:44
Sorry, I think it's pretty exciting.
39:45
It is. It is.
39:46
I don't know if we've had anybody from Denmark or
39:49
Greenland here ever for a fact, so here we are.
39:52
Well, what what brought y'all here tonight?
39:55
Well, he's a a huge NFL fan, so. OK.
40:00
So he just saw that LSU were playing tonight and he was just
40:04
we need to go there. Very nice to watch the times.
40:07
Very nice, very nice. Well, what do you think about
40:09
all this? It's.
40:12
Like it's quite amazing. One can't even believe.
40:15
It I was like, you know. I'm I'm a lot into American
40:19
football. You're not that much, but I told
40:22
you you're going to want to be here way before the game because
40:26
just the atmosphere here, the whole experience is just nothing
40:30
you you've ever experienced home in.
40:32
Denmark, No. Or Greenland, Yeah.
40:35
Yeah. Like this is very.
40:36
This is so wild to me. It's very wild.
40:39
It's loud. It's got a lot of.
40:41
It's loud, yeah, but a lot of energy, yeah.
40:45
Truly like definitely like also just you have families in some
40:49
places and then you have the. Student thing over there with
40:52
the parade, it's just all all people from all age groups.
40:57
It's Yeah. Are y'all going to the Saints
40:59
game tomorrow? Yeah.
41:01
All right. Who?
41:02
Dad? Who Dad, baby.
41:04
I love it. So y'all staying in New Orleans?
41:06
Yeah, not tonight, but. OK, yeah.
41:09
How long are y'all going to be here in Louisiana?
41:15
Until Thursday or in America I guess would be a better way. 10
41:19
days more or less OK, but we've already been here, I think 3 or
41:23
4 days. Or so.
41:24
OK, Yeah, we're having fun. Yeah, we are.
41:27
We're really enjoying. What's the best thing you've
41:30
eaten? That's a good question.
41:32
We actually haven't tried that much, but tried a gumbo.
41:36
I really love gumbo. Right, they tried gumbo.
41:39
That's what I'm talking about. You were pretty.
41:42
You were pretty hyped about the poboy you got last.
41:44
That's true. Yeah.
41:45
With the shrimps. OK, yeah.
41:47
Shrimp poboy. Yeah.
41:49
I mean, shrimp poboy, gumbo. Denmark, Greenland, Louisiana,
41:56
baby. And it's best.
41:58
No tigers. Go Tigers.
42:00
Tigers. And shrimp po boys converted
42:04
them pretty freaking fast. And they they're right.
42:08
You're not going to get that anything else like that back at
42:11
home. I know that they were impressed.
42:13
I'm so glad that they came. How cool is that?
42:17
Just coming to get the experience, that experience of
42:21
Louisiana, that experience of Tiger Stadium and you don't get
42:26
this anywhere else. And like I said, I'm not, I'm
42:28
not going to say I'm a high horse.
42:30
You know, you just don't get it anywhere else.
42:33
You got to come. You got to come and experience
42:35
it for yourself. And then here we go.
42:39
We've got a couple more first timers in Death Valley.
42:43
These guys were here for the Arkansas game as well.
42:47
They came down from Chicago. Let's hear from them.
42:51
You guys have landed here from. The great state of Illinois.
42:56
That's correct. Is that correct?
42:58
Well, what brings you down here for the experience?
43:01
Definitely, Yeah. First timers, First timers.
43:03
First timers. First timers.
43:05
First time at Death Valley. OK All right.
43:07
So earlier this season, whenever you pick this game, what made
43:11
you circle Arkansas? I was in New Orleans for a
43:15
meeting, so it's down here, so it's convenient.
43:18
Scott, what do you do for a living?
43:19
So I'm in education. Very nice.
43:23
Excellent, excellent. What do you do for a living?
43:25
I'm a dentist. A dentist.
43:27
We need you guys. We need you.
43:29
It is a great profession. So down here for a conference
43:33
now we're playing Arkansas. Thoughts on the early kickoff
43:37
when you realize we're playing at 11:45 AM?
43:40
We'd hope for a night game, but you know, it's the first timer
43:43
down here. It's probably good to have an
43:44
early game. It won't be your first time is
43:47
what you're telling us exactly. OK, good.
43:49
You're coming back. This is one of the top three
43:52
places in the country to watch college football.
43:56
Fantastic experience. We got to come back for a night
43:58
game. Good.
43:59
Perfect. Absolutely you do, because this
44:02
is just like a little peek into the window of what can happen
44:06
and it can get a lot, lot crazier and a lot more fun.
44:09
But we're still having a good time out here today for sure.
44:12
Who who do y'all? Who's y'all's team in the pro
44:15
and in college? So Chicago Bears pros,
44:18
University of Michigan for college.
44:20
There you go. There you go.
44:21
I'm going to go Bears, pros, I'm going to go big. 10.
44:26
Anybody in the Big 10? There you go.
44:27
That there other than Ohio State?
44:30
Yeah, I think we can agree. All agree on that.
44:33
I love it, man. But look, you're repping the
44:35
repping the right colors. You stayed neutral.
44:40
No, no, we got to reveal. Hell, yeah.
44:45
All right. Well, good deal.
44:47
Well, very nice to meet y'all. Please come back and see us
44:50
Gracious, gracious people here. Thank you.
44:53
Absolutely super welcome. Thank you.
44:56
Good. I'm glad y'all have had a blast.
44:58
Thanks. For coming I left him.
45:00
Hang in there for a second. Sorry dude, did not see your
45:03
hand. How cool is that?
45:05
Don't let the other guy fool you in his neutral shirt that he
45:08
pulled up. He he is in education as in he
45:13
teaches dentistry. He he's a dentist too.
45:17
You could say he's, he teaches these guys so unbelievable in
45:22
for a conference. Really cool folks to meet.
45:24
You know, I just super, super fun.
45:28
Like you just don't know these people.
45:30
They come. There was a guy that came down
45:32
from Oregon. It didn't make it didn't make
45:34
the show. It didn't make a lot of sense.
45:36
But we spoke to the guy with Oregon.
45:38
He had a Grateful Dead shirt on. Just just good, good stuff.
45:43
People just come from everywhere.
45:45
Speaking of, we're now back in the United States.
45:49
Let's jump over. Let's Fast forward to that Texas
45:52
A&M game, and this was a wholesome moment.
45:56
I would say it would rank up there with meeting Bo at Omaha,
46:00
Bo Curiel in Omaha and getting to have a moment with Mr. Bo.
46:06
We get to meet RG4 and a student from Montana and and this is his
46:14
service dog. Check this out from.
46:16
Montana Lewistown, Mt Lewistown, Mt yes, wow.
46:21
What brings you to Tiger Stadium today?
46:25
Well, I came down originally for construction interview day, and
46:29
now I was invited to the game and so here I am.
46:32
I'm going to be in front row, in student section, in the front
46:36
row of the student section, front row of the student
46:38
section. I am a student.
46:40
I'm an online student. There it is.
46:43
There it is. And, and who do we have with you
46:45
today? This is Archie, Archie Ford.
46:49
He's with K9 Companions for Independence.
46:51
He's my service dog. He's professionally trained.
46:54
He's an absolute amazing companion service dog that helps
46:59
me every day and everything I do.
47:01
I wanted to interview him. I think he could talk, Archie.
47:05
You want to talk? Yeah, there he is.
47:11
Don't worry about it. We're not filming anything.
47:19
I make myself laugh sometimes. I thought RG4 could talk.
47:23
I talked for my dog here. We're, we're deep into this
47:26
podcast. Who cares?
47:28
My little dog Coco, I talk for her everyday.
47:31
You know, we have our little voices of this is, this is what
47:35
Coco thinks and what she's thinking whenever she looks at
47:39
you. We talk for her.
47:40
And I don't know, one of these days I just want the damn dog to
47:43
talk back just in plain English, just, you know, like you're an
47:47
idiot or something like that. I probably shouldn't have shared
47:51
that. I don't really care.
47:53
I don't really care. I think RG4 needs his own jersey
47:57
though. He stole the interview.
47:59
It just looked like he had something to say.
48:01
It really did. Probably was like, there's a lot
48:04
of people here, man, there's too many people here.
48:06
This is insane. What are we doing?
48:08
What did Dad bring me to anyhow? Anyhow, I thought this would be
48:14
fun, so I handed the mic over to Darren.
48:17
If you remember earlier, the British Invasion will, this is
48:21
one of the guys from that day. And I said, you know what,
48:26
Darren? You're the tailgate king.
48:29
You're the king of the Cajun Tiger Tailgate.
48:31
It's always fun to see, to be on the other side of things and see
48:36
what the hell Darren comes up with.
48:38
And he didn't disappoint one bit.
48:42
Within about 12-13 days, we're going to Miami as well and
48:45
Buffalo. So in Miami, you're going to
48:48
watch. The Dolphins against the Ravens.
48:50
Sorry, so the highlight of the trip must be.
48:55
The LSU game for me. For me.
48:57
I mean, because the Saints suck even worse than LSU right now.
49:01
So tell me what I mean. How long did you plan for a trip
49:05
like this? For me, I put this trip in May
49:09
or June of. This year.
49:11
OK, so that's before we lost that, lost that first game.
49:15
So if you plan that for an advance, you're just praying
49:20
that the teams you're coming to watch are going to be good.
49:23
Yeah, and I I got into college football watching LSU in 2019,
49:28
so for. That was a good year to watch.
49:30
Yeah. And that might be why I then
49:31
when I saw that there was the opportunity to do this, that's
49:34
why probably the this is going to be the highlight of my trip.
49:38
So since you've been here, how has the hospitality?
49:41
Been everyone said and in the UK it's known to be good and the
49:46
South is meant to be the place to be hospitality but still
49:50
coming in here doesn't compare like to what you think.
49:53
It's past what you thought it. Was yeah, yeah, yeah, 100%.
49:56
We don't get this in England. OK, so.
50:00
How how much food have you experienced since you've been
50:03
here? It's like, and how big of a
50:06
change is this food from fish and chips?
50:08
Yeah, I, I, I they're gonna have to roll me on the plane back
50:11
home, I think. So the seasoning is good.
50:16
You you don't. You're not opposed to the
50:18
flavor. No, it's my first time trying
50:21
any type of this food from the South, so yeah, I love it.
50:25
Glad to hear that. So we're we're very proud from
50:29
the South to have, you know, a lot of flavor and stuff in our
50:31
seasoning and all that. So if we're looking it's
50:35
probably not London, though I'm looking at next year we're going
50:38
to Ireland. OK, so food wise, what can we
50:41
expect when we get there A. Lot of potatoes.
50:44
A lot of potatoes. I hope you like potatoes.
50:47
I like. French fries.
50:49
More, more, more in a Stew, I think.
50:53
Well, I do like a Stew, and I do like potatoes in a Stew.
50:55
But you'll be fine and you like Guinness.
50:58
Inner like we in fruit the. Guinness.
51:01
Well, we drink Guinness. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
51:05
But if it has to do with drinking, I like it.
51:10
So drinks. OK, let's talk about the drinks
51:15
over there then. So the drinks in England, we're
51:19
used to a 12 ounce beer. OK, y'all are used to a pint.
51:24
Yes, we're used to a very cold beer.
51:27
You're used to a tap. I I don't like the warm stuff.
51:32
You don't like the warm beer? OK, someone asked me.
51:35
Someone got me a beer and said do you want it cold?
51:36
I said that. Definitely, absolutely.
51:39
So that's just kind of like a luxury that we are used to that
51:43
y'all may have to ask for. A little more, OK.
51:46
That's good to know. I mean, that's a little
51:48
different. Yeah.
51:50
So darkness of beer y'all are in favor of a darker or lighter
51:55
beer? I think a lot of people like a
51:58
dark beer or a stout. I personally don't mind.
52:00
I like a lager. OK.
52:03
And what she raised is not even a beer.
52:04
That's a seltzer with grapefruit in it, which is pretty nasty on
52:08
its own. Nobody likes to eat a
52:11
grapefruit, so they just squeeze it into a bottle and hope
52:13
someone will put some vodka in with it and drink it.
52:16
Classic Darren having a good time as always man, and big
52:22
shout out. Big thanks to Darren as always
52:25
for having us, being a founding member, doing all of the stuff
52:29
that we've done for all these years.
52:31
We have a blast and like I said earlier, cannot wait to 20 26.
52:38
You know, that dude was rolling onto the plane that Louisiana
52:42
cooking baby. He had a good time, man.
52:45
He had a good time. So I had look, shout out to the
52:48
Saints who have improved every week as you were watching this.
52:53
I may have lost by the time that you seeing this again, but shout
52:58
out to them. They're having fun.
53:00
But look, OK, let's get here. This is the final clip of the
53:06
season until I find some B roll and some other footage and
53:10
things that didn't make the show and I'd do a best of or
53:13
something like that later on this spring or summer.
53:18
But this is the big final interview of the season.
53:21
A guy from London who had waited 50 years to get to a college
53:27
football game, and he had one of the most powerful descriptions
53:32
of Tiger Stadium that that I've I've ever heard.
53:36
Honestly, this one's fun. So where are you from exactly?
53:40
I'm from London, England. Very nice, very nice.
53:43
Who do you support over there in the EPL?
53:47
Well, for a start, we don't call it the EPL, we just score at the
53:49
Premier League. But it's fine.
53:50
You can call it the EPL because that's what they show on your
53:52
TV's. Yeah, I'm I'm an Arsenal fan.
53:54
I've been an Arsenal fan since I was young enough to know what
53:58
speaking was, and it was. I guess it's like most
54:00
traditional fans, it's who your father tells you you're going to
54:03
support. Understood.
54:05
And when your father said you're going to be this fan, you're
54:07
going to be this fan. But I don't have regrets.
54:09
So we were talking all fair. This is not your first time to
54:13
Tiger Stadium, let alone the United States, but it's some of
54:17
the others first trips here. What did you tell them coming in
54:23
here? What did you tell them to
54:24
expect? I mean, this is my third trip to
54:28
the US just to come and watch American football.
54:31
I, I might have misled you a little bit earlier.
54:32
This is my first trip to a college football game.
54:35
OK, so this, this is 50 years in the making, right?
54:39
I've seen a lot of football. I've seen a lot of American
54:41
football. I am an adrenalin in junkie.
54:43
Yeah, you've got to be baby. That's what you're looking for.
54:46
And about four years ago, I was on a cruise and I was sitting
54:50
next to an American gentleman who was on a similar cruise with
54:53
me. And I said, I'm desperate for
54:55
college football. Please can you give me something
54:57
to attach myself to? I think that's the problem for
55:00
this type of experiences. People don't have a team to
55:04
cheer for. They can't naturally, they
55:06
haven't studied here. They haven't got parents that
55:08
have that have been here. So I said, can you give me a
55:12
team? I don't even need a reason.
55:13
So he gave me his team. By the time I got home, he'd
55:17
sent me a package full of gear. It was a hoodie.
55:21
It was a scarf, everything out of his own pocket.
55:24
He found out my address from the ship's captain and sent it home
55:28
to me. So I was then hooked.
55:30
Then I started watching every college football game because
55:33
I'd wanted it for so long. And what we want is this.
55:37
And I don't think I was discussing with one of your one
55:39
of your colleagues earlier. I understand they're trying to
55:42
bring it to the UK thing, but you can't bring these 100,000
55:46
people with you. That's true.
55:48
It'll be nice having 80,000 people that don't understand.
55:51
They do understand the game, right?
55:52
And everyone that goes to a game for.
55:54
Sure in the. UK, they understand it, but they
55:57
don't understand this this. The atmosphere.
56:00
Exactly. They don't understand Tigers and
56:02
they just don't know how to attack and they want to, they
56:05
really want to attach themselves.
56:07
So maybe the first team that comes gets that, as in I'm
56:11
going, I'm going to attach myself.
56:12
And maybe it's why other other teams will think about coming,
56:15
but for us, I never want to watch it in the UK that.
56:19
Makes sense? I mean, firstly, I love coming
56:21
to America. Anyway, you can tell I was born
56:23
with a phrase large art. So from that perspective I
56:27
understand I. Get that?
56:29
What a what a holiday in in the US means it's not food.
56:32
Food First, it's people first, followed by food and basically
56:36
just sport. We love every sport that.
56:38
That you do. Like I say, I've been going to
56:41
soccer since I was, so we, we, we and I still need more.
56:46
And to me, 100,000 people going nuts is what I'm doing here.
56:50
And that's going to happen tonight.
56:51
And that that's what's so fun. You're not the first to talk
56:55
about this with the British Invasion, as I like to call it,
56:59
that is happening over here and we're all about it.
57:01
For the record. It's amazing.
57:04
But that I I just. It's as passionate as soccer is.
57:10
We call it soccer here. I know it's football there, but
57:13
let. Me explain to you what it is so
57:15
that how we can relate to it, right.
57:17
People rightly associate UK soccer about the fact we sing
57:22
Yeah, we've got inventive songs. We get into it.
57:25
And we? And we sing in rhythm and stuff
57:27
like that. Yeah, the NFL has none of that.
57:29
No. OK, you get the odd chiefs doing
57:32
some of that and things like that, but it's very limited.
57:35
Much so. This is so, so close to the UK.
57:38
Yeah, 70,000 people doing the same thing at the same time.
57:43
Loud rabbit. Exactly.
57:45
And it's that you feel like you belong.
57:47
I don't want to get too emotional about it, but it feels
57:50
like a church. Yeah. 100%.
57:53
You know when you go to a church and everybody knows the hymn?
57:55
Yeah, exactly. Everyone knows the hymn.
57:57
Everyone knows what the next word is going to be.
57:59
Everyone feels the same sensation.
58:01
That's what I'm expecting tonight.
58:03
I'm expecting to. I'm expecting to feel God
58:09
through the vision. There's the Tigers.
58:11
You're going to feel it tonight. There's zero doubt this place
58:14
will be electric. Everybody that's here today
58:17
wants to be here. You don't weather this weather
58:21
unless you want to be here. So I'm glad that you're here
58:24
because you're going to get to see a rabid fan base.
58:26
That's what you came for. That's why you're here in the
58:29
United States. Now, not only are you here to
58:33
see the Tigers play, tell us a little bit more about what else
58:37
is going on with you guys. They're on a They are on a
58:39
mission from God. After this tomorrow to go to the
58:44
Saints. So we see the Saints versus
58:46
Tampa Bay on Monday. We fly down to Miami land just
58:50
in time for Monday Night Football.
58:52
So we're going to rush to a bar and then we're going to be
58:54
hosted by none of the Neil Reynolds.
58:57
Now you won't know Neil Reynolds.
58:58
Or do you know him? I do not know.
59:00
I know Neil Jones. I do not know Neil Reynolds.
59:03
Neil Reynolds is the host of Sky TV.
59:06
OK. That does all of our sports
59:08
coverage, all of our NFL OK. OK.
59:10
And he joins this tour and he comes out and on Monday Night
59:13
Football, he's he's like the UK Idol.
59:17
People will get to spend an evening with him and the next
59:19
four days in Miami. That experience itself is
59:22
amazing for sure. Then we do the Thursday night
59:25
game, Miami against Baltimore Ravens.
59:30
Then then I personally now you're going.
59:32
You might need to cut this bit. No, I won't cut it.
59:36
Then I then I personally fly to Texas to see the team, the blow
59:41
the ball, me to Jersey and everything.
59:43
He's invited me to his home. I've not seen him for four years
59:47
since that cruise. I've been speaking to him on
59:49
WhatsApp and we have been talking and I'm going to see for
59:52
the first time in four years and he's taking me to the long
59:55
hauls. Amazing.
59:56
And then after that, I go to the Dallas Cowboys.
1:00:00
That's a freaking trip, everybody.
1:00:02
You can tell I'm drenched. Drenched having fun.
1:00:06
The UK invading Louisiana once again.
1:00:11
That's a bit too much. We don't do invading recently.
1:00:18
He gets it, man, he gets it. He's right though.
1:00:20
He is right that that passion that they have in Europe with
1:00:25
soccer and, and the songs and all of that stuff.
1:00:29
I love all of that. I'm so glad that that my son
1:00:32
started playing soccer and then my buddy Isaac turned me on to
1:00:36
it to, to the Premier League, not the EPL, the Premier League
1:00:42
and started watching all of that with with him.
1:00:45
He brought me into that and he's a he's a lunatic with it and as
1:00:49
he should be. He's been a huge fan for years.
1:00:52
But I get it. I did not understand soccer and
1:00:55
all that until I had a son and he started playing.
1:00:57
I mean, it's just the, the simple, simple truth of it.
1:01:01
But what, what a fun stretch those last three games.
1:01:06
I mean, how amazing was that? We covered Western Kentucky,
1:01:11
Texas A&M and Arkansas, and we met people from Montana,
1:01:17
Chicago, Scotland, the the Aussies almost mess up again,
1:01:24
the Aussies from Australia, Denmark.
1:01:28
The lady was also from Greenland too, which I don't think I'd
1:01:31
ever met anybody from Greenland and even London, even London.
1:01:36
This series has been a blast. Tales from the tailgate.
1:01:39
Of course, we do some other tales from throughout the year.
1:01:44
So always be be on the lookout for that.
1:01:47
And if you have not watched the first one from earlier this
1:01:50
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1:02:16
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1:02:20
played on the show this year was.
1:02:23
And, and I do want to say, since this this show is dropping
1:02:28
tonight on Christmas night, let me just say Merry Christmas to
1:02:33
all of you. Merry, Merry Christmas to all of
1:02:36
you. Thank you all for having me in
1:02:38
your home, your phone, your ears, wherever it is that you're
1:02:43
seeing, listening or watching this.
1:02:46
Remember the reason for the season.
1:02:48
I hope that you enjoy your family.
1:02:51
You have a happy, happy, happy New Year and I'm going to see
1:02:56
you guys again in 2026. See ya.