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Episode 41-Memphis Memphis Memphis · Johnny's World

• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: Coming to you live from the Johnny Packer Eyewear Studios in fabulous Dark Vegas, Mississippi, please welcome our co-host, the best iDoc this side of the Mississippi, BW.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: And now welcome a true hero, a CF Warrior, whose favorite motto in life is just keep living.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: Here's Johnny.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to a brand new edition of the Johnny's World Podcast.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_01: Here's Johnny here, along with BW.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_02: Hey Johnny, how you doing?
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_01: I'm doing great.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_01: Doing great.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_01: You know why I'm great?
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_01: Because tomorrow, well, we're cording this on Thursday.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_01: Saturday is the first official Saturday of the college football season.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_01: I guess it's the second one, but the last one was kind of like a like what they call a soft opening, you know, and no one really cared about the team that we're playing.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_01: The big boys play this weekend, and that's when everybody gets all excited about it.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_01: And college football season is here.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_01: So uh yeah, I can be couldn't be happier right now.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to the uh quarterback club tonight and hearing Mike Leach speak.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_01: So that should be uh entertaining and can't wait to see uh all the teams how they how they fare in the in the football season.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_01: So uh yeah, you know, if you listen to the podcast, we did the uh one before this one, we talked about what we're gonna be doing on the upcoming season.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna try to put one of these out each week.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, since me and Brandon are both Mississippi State alumni, we're gonna do it for the Mississippi State football schedule and kind of go over the opponent that we're playing, predictions on the game, but also what's gonna be cool about it is talk about um, like for instance, Memphis is this weekend.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna talk about Memphis.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna talk about things to do in Memphis, eat eats in Memphis, uh, and then memories from games in Memphis, which is great.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_01: Uh starting this one off because BW lives in Memphis.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_01: So he's he'd be the perfect perfect perfect person to talk about this.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_01: So uh so Brandon, Memphis, it's all you, man.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_01: What do you want to talk about?
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_02: Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, most beautiful land in the world.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_02: Memphis.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_01: Who was that, man?
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_01: Who was that said there?
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_03: Um so it was like a at first I thought it was a basketball player, but no, it's uh it's like a boxer.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_03: And um the guy that was saying it was like his trainer, and the guy had just finished like his boxing match and he won the match, but he couldn't like talk because he was like got hit in the head so many times, probably.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_03: And that guy just starts going, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_01: So if you've never seen you out there and want to hear, want to know what we're talking about, either like Google, YouTube, or Twitter somewhere, put in Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, and it'll pop up.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_01: It's hilarious.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: And it's awesome too.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, there's like some some people have made some shirts around town, like the most beautiful land in the world, and like it's it's become like a thing around here.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_03: It's pretty funny.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_03: But uh, but yeah, so I mean, I I'm obviously Johnny and I grew up together down in uh Madison, Mississippi, and but I've been in Memphis, I guess, pretty much most of my adult life because I graduated Mississippi State and um came up here for optometry school.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_03: So lived here for four years doing that, and then went back to Mississippi for a little while.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_03: Um, short detour in Nashville before that.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_03: And then I've been back here in Carterville, which is right outside Memphis, um, since 2015.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_03: So I guess I've got some authority on Memphis.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_03: I didn't necessarily grow up here, but I'm pretty uh I I'm able to talk about it.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_03: You know, I can't can't say some of the old school stuff, but um you know, the first thing I would say about Memphis is I've I've been to when when Mississippi State played Memphis like in 2012, what year would that have been?
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_01: Um Jackson up there.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, because we played played them up here that that year.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_03: And then so I remember coming up here for that, and it seems like there was like a a tour bus um that was like coming in.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_03: Some people from Jackson had had like uh rode the tour bus and were coming up here.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_03: Did you come up here for that game?
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I was on that tour bus.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yep, yeah.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_01: Renaissance and and uh and drove on up.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yep, I was there.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so that that game ended up being uh a pretty pretty good game.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_03: I think that was a blowout for us, yeah.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_03: Really, really hot.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_01: Real hot at the beginning of the game.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_03: And I know we played we played in the Liberty Bowl before that.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_03: That would have been um oh nine.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_01: Uh oh seven, yeah, with Central Florida.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that was Kroom's first game, right?
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_01: Huh?
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  SPEAKER_01: Kroom's first bowl game?
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, yeah.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_01: It was cold.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my gosh, it was cold.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I think Booby scored, and I think that was an only score, it was a low scoring game.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_03: Like 10 to 3 or something like that.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_03: So cold.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_01: It was Central Florida.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_01: Central Florida became really good.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, that man, I if I had to rate coldest games, that would probably be one of the coldest.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_01: Now, there was a Memphis game, the Liberty Bowl in 1991.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_01: I did not go.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_01: That was uh Jackie Cheryl's first year.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_01: We played Air Force in that game, and I remember watching on TV.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_01: And the people who are listening to this podcast who went to that game, they say that's the coldest game they've ever been to in their life.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_01: Like really, and I I can't imagine how how cold that was because that that 07 Liberty Bowl game was just absolutely freezing, painfully cold.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_01: It was imagine, yeah.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_01: It's so weird, you know.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_01: Like we just talked about that first game in the 11th season opening up against Memphis there and and beating them pretty heavily, um, how hot it was.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_01: And then you're talking about the other spectrum of it, how cold it is at the Liberty Bowl.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_01: It's crazy one stadium and go from hot to cold like that.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_03: Well, and that's what I was gonna say too.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_03: So, I mean, I've been to several games there, and I feel like the weather's never good when I go to a game when we play them.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_03: And because last year when we played, it was one of those days, you know, it's like September, so the weather can change quick, but it had been cloudy all day and it had been raining the whole day, kind of off and on.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and it looked like maybe the rain, it wasn't gonna be a rain out, but it was gonna like rain during the game.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_03: But then the clouds kind of went away after that and the sun started coming out, but I'd already, you know, started driving and thought it was gonna rain.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_03: So I wore like jeans and boots, and I brought like a like a rain jacket with me.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_03: And then as soon as I got there, the sun came out and it was like you know 90 degrees, but it was like a hundred percent humidity, and I was wearing jeans and a jacket, and I just remember I was like, man, this is gonna be miserable.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna just be sweating while I'm here, and so that's kind of how the game started.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_03: And I was there with my daughter um because we had just gone to the game last.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_03: We went to the first game in uh Starkville, Louisiana Tech.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_03: And so my uh we didn't take anybody else with us.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_03: My daughter wanted to go back to the to the one here, and we sat next to some like Memphis fans, and they like got into it with some Mississippi State fans, and it was the trashiest Mississippi State fans they've ever seen.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_03: It was these women, and they were like standing in front of the tunnel, and they were blocking people's views, and you couldn't see.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_03: And the Memphis people were yelling at them to move out of the way, and they just were like turning around, flipping everybody off and like cussing.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_03: And these two like women got into like almost a physical fight with these other Memphis women.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_03: It was like right in front of where my daughter and I were sitting, and I said, Ben, I'm I'm about to have to like leave the stands here because my daughter at the time was eight years old, and so I don't want her seeing some kind of fist fight in the stands.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and so it was it's definitely an interesting vibe at the Liberty Bowl Stadium.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_03: It's um, you know, you kind of walk through some pretty sketch areas, you park kind of in this Coca-Cola manufacturing plant, and you have to walk past some kind of sketchy houses, and um, it's not the best neighborhood.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but also those houses you walk by, they they've got these huge barbecue grills out there, and they're like selling place of barbecue, and um, there's loud music coming from them, and you know, you can pay them 30 bucks to park in their in their yard if you want to.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_03: Um, it's a totally different vibe than any like you know, SEC like stadium campus game that you would go to there.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_03: And there's like the train tracks down there, and I think the train was coming by when we were walking in the stadium, and so you had to wait on the train to get by, which is typical Memphis.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, there's a big train line that runs all the way down Poplar, east and west of town, and pretty much every major intersection, there's a train crossing, which is the dumbest thing ever.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_03: But um, so that's kind of how how it is down there.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_03: And um, the Liberty Bowl has just got that weird kind of shape to it.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_03: It looks like a wave.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_03: I don't even know how to describe it.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_03: It's it's like a or like a like a taco shell or something.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know the way it's the way it's shaped.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but supposedly they're gonna redo that stadium at some point.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_03: But uh, you know, that was a horrible game to go to last year.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, the the weather was it was hot, and I mean, we just played horrible, and then we just got those horrible calls.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_03: And I just I don't care if I ever go back into that stadium for a while.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, that game.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_01: I'm I'm hoping we get we just whooped Memphis just unmercifully uh this weekend, just to just as a revenge for that game last year.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_01: Because I mean, you know, I think our record uh we won seven games last year, but yeah, the Arkansas game should have been a win.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_01: And but the Memphis game is there's no excuse.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_01: I should we should have nine wins last year, no doubt about it.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_01: And uh I I feel like we're gonna get get some revenge on that this year.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, it seems like we've always started uh seasons.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I've got some memories about Memphis.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we always seem to start the season against Memphis in the past.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_01: Uh uh one of them, my memories have, I had to look it up just then.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_01: And I always say the uh October 1st, 1992, that Thursday night when Mississippi State beat Florida 30 to 6, um, was my first Mississippi State game to go to as season ticket holder at Scotfield.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but my very, very, very first game at Scotfield to go to, just went to the game was the year before in 1991.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_01: I had to look up the data.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_01: It was October uh 19th, 1991, Memphis State, as that's what they were called back in the day.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_01: It was Memphis State, uh, Scotfield, and it was homecoming.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_01: And we dropped a 28-23 ball game to them on homecoming, and it was Memphis State.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_01: And and uh I got some memories of that because uh I would always go with my grandparents to the games, and and one of my granddad's uh good friend who lived down the street uh graduated from or was Memphis State alumni.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_01: So whenever they play Memphis State, they would always go.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_01: So I went with them for that game.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_01: And I remember them like I was what 10 years old, maybe.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_01: And they had this, he had this old long station wagon, like SUV, like suburban, I guess.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_01: It was old suburban.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_01: And I was sitting in the back by myself and I looked and there was a it said MSU.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_01: I can still see it playing as day sticker on there.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_01: And I always thought he was a Mississippi State fan.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't know he was a Memphis State University fan until later on I found that out.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_01: But uh see, that was my very first game to go to Homecoming 1991, and then uh and then through the years, uh we always played them.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_01: Like I said, uh in 1995, so a few years later, I had to have uh uh uh gallbladder surgery in in um in August.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_01: And uh this is uh pretty memorable.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I had the surgery and um Coach Cheryl, if you listened to this podcast uh last year, you know my relationship with Coach Cheryl.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_01: Uh he had called me and uh he always always invited me to go to a game on the road with him uh every year, and and uh he invited me to come to Memphis, but of course I couldn't because I was in the hospital.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_01: And uh so um so I I could not I could not go with the team for to that, but I got out of the hospital and turned out uh my mom and grandparents uh somehow got Jack Crystal to uh say my name on the radio.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_01: So I couldn't go to that game because I just got out of the hospital, but it's uh he said Jack said something.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_01: I still have a recording of it somewhere.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: It said something like, Welcome to and I want to give a young Bulldog fan, uh John Clark Packer, uh speedy recovery as he recuperates gallbladder surgery and having to miss uh because at that point I was a season ticket holder, I didn't miss any games at home, had to miss his first uh bulldog uh game as a season ticket holder.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_01: So I always remember that.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_01: And then and then throughout college, we we played there a few times.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_01: There seems like that's just been a uh a rivalry game, not really a rivalry game, but just a a game that you know, because it's not that far between the two schools, and um, so it's always uh always one that I guess you could get the the fan base to travel to, whether it's at Memphis or or at Mississippi State.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_01: And um, so yeah, it's uh um it's always it's always a fun, fun matchup.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_01: And usually we're on the winning side of it, except for yeah last year.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_01: So hopefully this year will be a little bit different.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_01: But uh but like things to do, you know.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_01: Memphis is uh known for barbecue, uh rendezvous and all that.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_01: What what about if you're out there, Brandon?
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_01: What what do you recommend for people who aren't from around here that go to Memphis where they need to go eat at or what to do?
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, man.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_03: So I mean, we really have a lot of good food around here.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_03: It's uh the only thing about it is it's really spread out.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_03: Um, you know, you have to drive a lot to get to some of the places.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_03: Now, if you're staying downtown, there's a lot of good places downtown, but everything else is kind of kind of spread throughout the town.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but as far as barbecue goes, so it's hard to beat the rendezvous ribs if you like like dry ribs.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_03: Um because they're just they're really good.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, it's just like that classic dry flavor.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_03: You don't need any sauce or anything like that on them.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_03: Now it's definitely like a touristy place, but the ribs are good.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_03: I like them.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_03: Um and I like I kind of prefer dry ribs over the wet ribs, and so um they're good.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_03: They're we don't go there very often, but they uh and they also have the good sausage and cheese plate, and they put that like their rendezvous seasoning over the top of it, and it's really good.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_03: And so um it is cool to, you know, you go downtown if you've never been, it's like in an alleyway.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_03: Um, so it's just kind of a cool location.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_03: Um a few years ago, the uh the royal family, the Prince William and Harry had a friend or somebody that got married in Memphis and they had the rehearsal dinner, I think, at the rendezvous.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_03: And so the the Prince William and Harry have eaten at the rendezvous.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_03: And when they were here, it was like a big deal because uh all these people found out they were there, and so they went like out there and like waited uh in the little alleyway to see if they could spot them.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_03: And I want to say that like somebody got the plates they ate off of, like signed or something by them, or something like that.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_03: So uh, you know, all kinds of famous people are running through there, but um there's a good place that's um in kind of the Horn Lake South Haven area.
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_03: There's a lady named uh Melissa Cookston, and she's like a big barbecue person.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and she has a place called um Memphis Barbecue Company, and it's really good.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_03: Um, pretty much everything you get there is is good.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and it's just kind of its own place.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_03: Um, it's not like a chain restaurant.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_03: Kind of what's happened in Memphis is a lot of the places that turn out being good will open like two or three locations, and then they kind of like they lose some of their appeal.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_03: I guess like Corky's, it's got two or three locations, and it's really not that good anymore.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_03: Um, Central Barbecue used to be really good.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_03: And there's a central barbecue right there close to the Liberty Bowl.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_03: I think that was one of the original ones, and it was always really good.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and then they opened a big location like on Poplar at East Memphis, and and it's okay, but it's never been as good as like the original Central Barbecue.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and then you've got the Germantown Commissary in Germantown, and it used to be just in this little kind of shack building.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and it's still the one in Germantown is still kind of next to this little shack building, but then they opened a really big one in Carterville, close to where I live, and it's like a bigger location, and it's the same way.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, it's pretty good, but it's not near as good as like the original location was.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_03: So um, and then you've got kind of like the uh the Paynes barbecue, which is kind of a little hole-in-the-wall place.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_03: You got interstate barbecue.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and then my favorite like hole in the wall barbecue is called the barbecue shop.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_03: It's on Madison Avenue, kind of in midtown.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_03: And you don't really like if you're not looking for it, it's easy to miss because it's like on just this main road, and the sign is just like like right on the front of the building.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_03: So you kind of have to like look when you pass it and see it.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_03: And the parking lot is behind the building, so you wouldn't even know that it was there.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but their pulled pork is really good, and they serve it on like a sandwich, they serve it on Texas toast, and their sauce is really good.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and it's they have really good fries, and it's a good spot to go.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_03: And it's a little closer to downtown.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_03: So I think you owe it to yourself to really kind of try all the different spots around town and and see.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_03: And I've really gotten into um like smoking my own barbecue.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_03: And there's a guy that's uh named Malcolm Reed, he's got a YouTube channel called How to Barbecue Right, and he actually lives in like the Hernando area, and he has a uh like big barbecue shop that's in Hernando where you can get like grills and like barbecue spices and supplies and stuff like that.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_03: So if you're if you're into cooking and you know about Malcolm Reed, um he's got a store that you should check out in the Hernando area.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_03: So I would recommend if you don't if you don't have a lot of time, go to the restaurant there in the South Haven, the um Memphis Barbecue Company, and then go check out Malcolm's barbecue shop.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_03: And those are kind of like a unique barbecue experience for around here.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_01: Now uh I've been up to Memphis quite a few times.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_01: We do go into uh Grizzlies games, watch LeBron and stuff when they're when the their team are playing, and we always uh eat before the game on Mill Street or around uh FedEx Forum.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_01: What was that burger place that we always went to?
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_01: It had was it Sasquatch or something?
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_03: Is that still there?
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_03: It used to be called Bigfoot Lodge, yes.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_03: And then somebody like in Canada sued them because they had the same name and they made them change the name to the Kookie Canuck.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_03: And so it's like a um, but they have this big burger you can get there that used to call like the Sasquatch burger, and I don't know how big it is, I mean it was massive.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_03: And if you could eat the whole thing, you know, you got it for free, and you it's called like the Bigfoot Challenge or something like that.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_03: And there was a couple times that we would go there and like four of us would split that burger because it was only like 25 bucks, and so you know, in college didn't have any money and you could split it four ways, it was cheap.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_03: But I mean, I couldn't even finish like my quarter of it when I would get it.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_01: And then across the street, is that is it Texas Day Brazil?
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_01: Is that still there?
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's still there.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, oh man, I remember one of those you know, meat places you go in there and you got the little thing and and you put it on green, and the guys they just they just show up at the table and they start slicing the meat.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_01: And I had a field day in that one, man.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_01: That was that was yeah, that was awesome.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and then of course the peabodies right there is always a pretty cool place to check out.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_01: But uh, so yeah, that's uh if you're if you're well, I would obviously we're not playing at Memphis this year, but if you are in Memphis area, hopefully this will lead people to uh check out some stuff to do.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_01: And a Memphis Zoo, I think don't you all go go there all?
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, the zoo's really good.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_03: If you got kids, it's it's a really good zoo.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_03: It's we have um a lot of neat exhibits.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_03: They got the pandas and they have polar bears, and um, they just actually opened a new splash park in there, and uh they've got grizzly bears.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_03: Last time we went, the grizzlies were like wrestling each other in the river.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_03: Um, they have like a little water thing they stay in, and um it's a really good zoo.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_03: It's it's really like well maintained and it has a good reputation um around here, and it's it's closer to the downtown area.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_03: And if you got kids, there's the children's museum, the um it's it's really fun.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_03: There's the Pink Palace, uh, there's the Bass Pro Pyramid.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_03: Can't forget about that one.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, have you ever been in there?
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_01: I've never been in there.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_01: Never been.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_03: It's it's pretty cool.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, it's a big Bass Pro shop, but it has this uh elevator that you can ride to the top of the pyramid, and there's a restaurant up there, and then there's like an observation deck, and you can go out on top of it.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_03: I don't really like height, so it kind of freaks me out because at the bottom is like glass, so you can see through uh the bottom of it, like when you're standing up there, and that makes me feel kind of kind of weird.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_03: I don't like that.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_03: So, but uh, and then I mean Grizzlies games are are really fun to go to.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_03: Um, you know, you and I have been to a bunch of them back back in the day when we had Zach Randolph and um I think the when it was the grind house, and and you know, it was it was really fun, but now we've got Ja.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_03: And uh it's a totally different like style of basketball, just like fast-paced and just like exciting to watch.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_03: And I mean, people go crazy in there.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_03: Like, there's always good music.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, we went to one of the playoff games last year.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, friend of the program, Chris King and Kyle McCoy, we went to that game and uh 3-6 mafia um played at halftime.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_03: And uh and Duke Deuce was there, and uh so it's it's just got that Memphis feel.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_03: They after the after the game, if they win, they play whoop that trick.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_03: And um, I mean you can tell, like, because we went the Warriors playoff game, and like Draymond Green was there, and he got he got ejected during that game, and he was just hyping up the crowd, and everybody was yelling at him, going crazy.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, it's it's fun when when the the grizzlies are good.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_03: If you can get a ticket to a big game, it's really fun to go to the game there.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_01: And uh not this is not in Memphis, but if you're if you're going up 555 to Memphis, uh probably one of my favorite all-time uh steakhouses around is is uh is there in a minute.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_01: It's Como Steakhouse.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_01: Definitely want to stop off in Como, Mississippi, and check that place out.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_01: It's so awesome.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_01: Um, it's not like a uh white tablecloth place, it's like the type of steak that you you'd cook on your on your um at your house on your grill because like right when you walk in, there's the grill, they're cooking it.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_01: And man, I'll tell you what, I've all the steaks I've had, that's probably one of my all-time favorite steaks.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_01: So good.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_01: So uh every time I try to come up Memphis, uh, if I'm up that way on 55, I'll I'll definitely take a little detour there to the Como Steakhouse because it's so good.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_03: But uh that place is so good.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_03: Like you said, when you walk in, they're cooking it right there, and you can just smell like the whole restaurant smells like it.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_03: And uh in fact, that guy I was talking about, Malcolm Reed, the big YouTube barbecue guy, uh, he always talks about he has a podcast, and he like if he's gonna go get a steak that he's not gonna cook, that's where he goes.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_03: Um that's that's pretty high praise coming from a guy like him.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_03: He can cook about anything and he chooses to go there.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_03: Um, definitely worth it.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_03: We could the problem is like in Como, it's like you know, an hour or so from here.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_03: And so it's a little too far to drive to go eat, like for me, at least with the kids, and then timing it, like when you're driving up, you know, it's usually like earlier or just during the day.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_03: And so I can't ever figure out a good way to get down there.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_03: But we definitely gotta do that again.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_01: Well, uh, well, let's talk a little bit about the game.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, since we talked a little bit about Memphis.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, what about what what's your predictions on the on the game?
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_01: You got a score prediction, or you are you got a standout player, or where what do you think is gonna happen?
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_03: You know, I just I feel like we're just gonna blow them out.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_03: I mean I'm thinking we win by 28 or 35 points.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_03: Um I think maybe we let them score 10 points, 17 points, something like that, maybe.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_03: Um I just don't see how they can hang with us in Davis Wade after everything that went down last year.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_03: Leech has got to have him ready.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_03: So I'm gonna say 45 and 17.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_03: I think Will Rogers is gonna have four touchdowns and 350, 400 yards.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_03: I think we're just gonna throw it all over the place.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm I'm with you on that.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_01: I think three or four touchdowns, and uh say something similar, a 42, 42, 10 is what I'll say.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_01: But uh but I think I think uh I think Wally World, man.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_01: I think J Jalen Wally, I think you'll have a big game.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_01: And and uh Tulu.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, uh I man, I can't tell you how you know that we've talked about this before that the excuses are over with Mississippi State's a young team.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_01: The young team, no, we got veterans coming back and and the awesome quarterback, great receivers, running backs are good, lines good.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, this is the year to do some do some surprising folks.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_01: So uh I I uh I wouldn't be surprised if Memphis scores first, and then everyone's like, dang it, here we come again.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_01: There, we gave up all, and then all of a sudden we just turn on the gas and run away from them.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, I can see that happening.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but yeah, it's gonna be a night game, they're gonna have uh atmosphere.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I think the weather's gonna be out.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_01: I've been looking at the weather forecast.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_01: I think it was gonna be raining earlier, but now it doesn't look like it's going to be.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_01: So hopefully it won't rain and uh be a great atmosphere.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_01: Check out that new thing, uh, balconies in the on the west side of the stadium, how that turns out.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so it'll be good just to get back in Davis Wade and hopefully for uh a big year.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_01: Like I said, I think Will's gonna show out and put up a lot of passing yards this year and and climb up the ladder on the uh college football uh list as far as uh passing yards for a quarterback.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_01: So uh that's gonna be exciting to see.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_01: And um I think we're in for a for a good season.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_01: But he hey, you can't win uh can't win them all if you don't win the first one, right?
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_01: So that's right.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_02: That's right.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_01: You gotta start off with a win.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_01: You're gonna be there, right?
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_01: I'll be there.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_01: I'll be there with bells on it.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_01: After missing the past two years, uh finally uh well, I mean, I went to some games last year, but but uh I didn't make the opener last year, and uh obviously I didn't go in 2020, so uh it'll it'll be nice to get to a uh um opening football game at Davis Way, just like all time.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_01: So looking forward to it.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna sit this one out.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_03: We're uh we're taking a little trip to Hot Springs, Arkansas this weekend.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_01: And nice.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_03: I just uh last time we played Memphis, the the last two the two games I went to last year didn't turn out so well.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_03: So uh I don't want to put any bad luck on them.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_03: Let's let them get off to a good start before I show up to one.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_01: What was the other one you went to last year?
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_01: You stopped by my house, I remember.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, hey, we won, but that was uh yeah, we won.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_01: Uh we can we can seal it right away and I have to go to the end.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_01: But uh but also a reminder out there for everybody who's listening, we got uh you probably heard us talk about it on our previous one.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_01: We had a little uh we're trying to think of a way to get uh involvement with our listeners out there and also help us uh with our uh spreading the cause, what we got going on for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_01: And and a good way to do it was we thought would be uh a college football pick em league.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_01: And so we we created one on Yahoo and uh and everyone can join in.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_01: I think Friday is the deadline.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_01: So tomorrow, if you're I mean, I think you can join later, but you're gonna be behind um because they it's a season accumulating point deal.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_01: And uh we're gonna have uh we're gonna have weekly winners and uh and then a season ending grand prize.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_01: So we've got a got a good amount of people already in there, and um it'll like I said, it'll start this weekend.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_01: It's not I put a little message on the message board asking people if they'd rather prefer doing spreads or just picking winners, and I don't think anyone replied, but as of right now, we're just doing picking winners.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_01: I think it'll just be easier, you don't have to worry about uh looking at points and all that sort of stuff.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_01: It's just who's gonna win, who's gonna lose.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_01: That's all it is.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_01: And I think we have SEC games and top 25 games to choose from.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_01: So uh it'll be fun.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_01: Uh looking forward to to doing that, get some involvement.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_01: And and um so the cool thing about doing it on the Yahoo.
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_01: I noticed on the other ones, uh CBS and ESPN, they don't have a message board.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_01: So um we're gonna use utilize that message board this year.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_01: Hopefully, now it's not on the app, you'll have to go log into uh yahoo.com, college pick them, and then log in that way, and you'll see the message board.
• 29:19
  SPEAKER_01: And that's where we're gonna do our communication as far as you know uh winners and all that sort of stuff.
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_01: So if you're in the league, uh be sure you tune into that message board so you'll be able to see who wins for the week and all that sort of stuff.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_01: You want to talk about what you were talking about uh as far as like how to promote it and all that stuff.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, well, you so I was just looking.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_03: There's so there's 30 of us in there right now, so it's a pretty good group.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and and if you just if you decide to join, I mean, look at some of the names in there.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_03: There, there are some some famous bulldog personalities in there.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not gonna give anything away, but if you join the group, there's you're gonna be an elite company with some uh we had on the on the podcast last year.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna tell it either.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_01: They'll have to go find him ourselves.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_01: He's probably listening.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_01: I know he's a listener to the podcast.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_01: And his podcast, he's uh former, uh, I'll just go ahead and say he has he's the whole uh all-time SEC record leading for a quarterback in rushing yards, if that tells you anything.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, his podcast was the most downloaded podcast we've we've had since we started doing these.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_01: And uh he he shot me a message the other day and wanted in, so he's in.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, so it'll be it'll be a lot of fun.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_01: Um looking forward to it.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_03: And we got, I mean, we've got some people in there.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_03: Uh the corn dog is in there, and uh Merman is in there.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_03: So uh Shat Dog is in there.
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_03: So there's there's lots uh lots of people in there that uh could make some noise.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_03: So I'm excited to see see what happens.
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_03: But yeah, we're gonna uh I sent a message to see what people want to do, whether we want to do kind of a a pool with money, or if we're gonna just give away some prizes and stuff like that weekly.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_03: So the the caveat is if we give away the weekly prizes like coffee, um, you have to shout out to uh johnnypacker.com.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_03: Just get on Facebook or Instagram and say where you won the prize and let everybody know you were in our group and you won this from us and where other people can get it.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_01: And you know what you think about it.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_01: And those out there who say, Oh, we don't do social media, you know someone that does social media, in their inner family or a friend of yours, get them to take a picture and get them to share it.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_01: So so uh no, that might be a thing that you don't do so well.
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_01: Someone you know does and they can share it for you.
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_03: Um, why don't we do this?
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_03: So just instead of like hang on, I was gonna say where the I can't find it now.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_03: If you want in the group, Johnnypackercorp at gmail.com, shoot us an email.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_03: Um probably really by tomorrow night to make sure we can get you in there.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_01: By midnight tomorrow is cutoff.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_01: So midnight tomorrow night is a cutoff.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_01: Then after that, uh we're gonna close it up and and just go with whoever whoever joined in.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_01: So if you're one of those people that wait to the last second, 11 59 p.m.
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_01: tomorrow night is your last chance to log into or sign up for it.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_01: So um it'll be fun.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_01: It's uh hey look, there the best part about it is there's no entry fee, so you're not losing anything by joining it.
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_01: All you gotta do is just pick some games, and heck, you might you might win a prize, you might win some coffee or something.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_02: So yes, sir.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_01: And you're you'll be helping us by sharing what you won on social media and telling people where you got it for how you won and all that sort of stuff, and then people will know about it, and hopefully we'll buy buy some coffee like that and give some donations to CF Foundation.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_01: So uh win-win deal all around.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_01: So and it'll be a lot of fun with uh picking college football games because who doesn't like to pick college football games always fun.
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_03: That's right.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_03: All right, Johnny.
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I think that's all I got.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_03: You got anything else?
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_01: Nope.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_01: So I guess next week we will be talking about uh we'll we'll do a little recap of what we thought of the weekend game, weekend games, and then uh obviously our game, and then we'll talk about Arizona.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_01: Have you ever been to Arizona?
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_01: I've never been.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_01: So no, no, okay, okay, I don't know what we're gonna talk about.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_01: We'll talk about the West.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_01: How about that?
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, we'll figure something out.
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_01: If you've been out west, we'll talk about the West.
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but uh yeah, Arizona's coming up next week, so that should be an interesting one.
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_01: So uh, so yeah, be sure to uh to to tune in and listen and share this with people, um friends, family, co workers, herever, and um and get into our Pick'em league and have some fun and win some prizes.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_02: Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, the most beautiful land in the world.