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Is Bubba Going To Retire?! · Tigs Bits Podcast

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  What's up y'all? Welcome to another episode of
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  Tiggy and the Handler. Of course I'm Tiggs, that's Jr.
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  the handler sitting right there with me and it's been a minute
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  since we got to sit down together, kind of do a show.
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  We say that a lot, but it is the truth.
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  We got a lot to catch up on tonight.
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  We've we've been running around life's been life in, but here we
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  are now and we're going to get into it.
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  What is up Brother Jr. Tiggy, Tiggy, my brother Tiggy
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  man, it's good to be doing a podcast with you again.
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  I feel like of all the podcast I do, this one is definitely in
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  the top three of all the podcast I do.
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  As far as me being able to enjoy doing the podcast, multiple
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  reasons. One, it's one of the first ones
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  we we've done together. So I always love doing that,
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  even though we did a little name change, same vibe.
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  But it's, it's awesome having a Co host like you that knows a
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  lot of the same things, but a whole lot of different things.
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  And I feel like it, it, it makes it, I enjoy doing the podcast
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  solo. I enjoy having my, when I do it
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  with other people, but with, with you and I, with your
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  background and my background. I just love being able to bounce
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  back and forth and have not necessarily agree on everything
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  or know exactly, but somehow figure it out and learn a new
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  perspective sometime and then a lot of times reaffirmation on
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  what I already thought. So I enjoy, I enjoy doing a
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  podcast. A long way of saying yes, glad
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  to be back. I love doing podcasting with my
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  brother Tiggy and I'm glad it gets to glad we get to do this.
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  I like our rotation. We talked about on the phone
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  earlier. We're both doing our own podcast
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  and we're doing this as well, plus other content outside of
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  that. Me still tour managing you still
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  slinging insurance. So that's right.
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  It's and dealing with being, you know, being adults, you know, I
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  mean, you got to get your daughter's car fixed.
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  My air conditioning and toilet went out yesterday at the same
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  time. And we were going to record this
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  a few hours ago, but I had emergency go pick up a friend's
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  dog and they're running car because they had to go to
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  emergency room. I mean, this is 40.
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  This is 40. That's exactly what it is.
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  It's exactly what it is. I spent more money today than
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  I've wanted to spend in a long time to come away with nothing
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  that I didn't already have. You know what I mean?
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  Got to love that got. To love it, got to love it.
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  My truck rides good though. Bubba.
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  Related to this. First time since the Bart party
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  that I don't have some kind of a a warning that's on my dashboard
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  from either the gas cap it right doesn't work right because of
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  the wreck or the tire. I had another flat tire like
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  probably just it's just one of them things.
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  But she's smooth sailing now. It can go back to Tampa if it
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  wanted. To it's ready for BARP 2026.
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  It's ready. It's ready.
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  I might have. I might be out there with my
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  thumb this year, you know, if it depends on what weekend it rolls
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  on, I'm right. I'm really going to try to make
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  it. Hopefully you know, last year
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  was just a fluke that we booked a show that the only show we had
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  the whole month was the same Saturday of Barb.
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  So hopefully this year that's not the case.
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  And actually I did see we have a show around that time but it's
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  actually near Tampa area and I don't know if I'm supposed to
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  say that so y'all don't go dig around.
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  But I talked to a promoter then I actually just saw something
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  come up and I think we got the thumbs up.
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  There may be like a rodeo type thing down South, South Central
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  Florida down near Tampa area around that same time.
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  So buddy, if I could get a ride on the bus down there and stay
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  and fly home or ride home with you?
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  Yes, I think that this could work.
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  I hope this all works. Out and if it works out and
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  that's around Tammy's birthday again, and if y'all both go,
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  then Cherise might could fly down, meet up with you guys.
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  We could all party together for a few days and then come back.
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  And my brother lives there. So I really hope that can
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  happen. But it's funny you say that,
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  that talking about spending money and having what you
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  already have. Well, that was me yesterday with
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  getting the AC fixed. I mean, the air conditioner's
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  working fine until it didn't. I give my AC HVAC guy, which
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  look, I have a have a guy for that.
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  He's my friend. I give him several $100 and I've
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  got exactly what I had six hours before I did.
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  That's right. But hey, look, right now, the
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  way the weather's been and you're not that far from me.
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  I know it's the same over there. You ain't got that air
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  conditioner. We we're about to get in a bind.
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  It is getting hot, humid, just. As much for the humidity as
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  anything else. I mean, you can get some wind
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  going and get it comfortable, but man, you can't have that
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  humidity up in your house and on your stuff.
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  It's too thick. You just got to have a you know,
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  you got to get it off some. But hey, real before we get
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  started, I was just thinking of something.
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  This was so random. It's just a random thought.
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  I had interviewed this next whenever the I don't know when
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  these are going to come out, but I the guy I interviewed on the
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  Jr. the handler show, Chris Lee AKA Chris Gaines comedy.
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  He's a tour manager, but he's done a comedy page on the side
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  for years and it's hilarious. He's just got some really funny
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  too. He would do like these parody
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  things of a country fan watching the ACM awards and stuff and it
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  it's. I think I, I think I, I think I
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  know exactly who you're talking about and.
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  They're it got passed around and he had a lot of love on those
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  because he was nailing them. But anyway, that's who I had on
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  and I was thinking about the comedy thing and he was just
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  saying he was always a comedy fan.
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  And I had S&L on before I walked out here and I was just
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  thinking, you know, humor is great.
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  I mean, and it helps in all situations.
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  Sad times, bad times, whatever. It's just good to laugh.
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  And that's just the purest enjoyment is when you're just
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  uncontrollably belly laughing and you can't help it.
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  It's a weird reaction that us humans have because I don't
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  think most animals laugh like we do, you know?
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  But no. It's such a.
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  Joyous thing as a human being able to find something funny,
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  whether it's something you're the only one that caught it and
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  thought it was funny or as a group setting of stories being
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  told and everyone is just trying to catch their breath, but they
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  can't because whatever is so watching these memes we talk
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  about, sometimes I'll watch those and I'm just dying because
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  I'm like, Oh my gosh, they nailed it.
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  But but humor and laughter and and funny things are, are just
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  great. And I was thinking, you know, it
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  doesn't take much to be funny really.
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  Even little things can make things funny.
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  I was thinking about multiple couple things intertwining here.
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  But I'm always trying to look for a way to cut out the verbal
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  graffiti that I use, the umms and ands and buts and things
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  when I'm talking. I'm always trying to be
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  cognizant of that while also knowing my limitations as a
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  linguist, you know what I mean? I'm trying half the words I use.
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  I've heard them in a movie or a song, and I'm just trying to
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  hope they work for what I think they mean and things like that.
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  To try to sound more educated than I am.
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  And not that I couldn't have been educated.
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  I just choose to chose to goof off my entire life instead of
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  pay attention in any type of schooling I've ever done.
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  I can I, I understand that. I think that's why we're both
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  here. But I was thinking, you know,
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  something as funny as pausing because I've tried to learn to
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  do that instead of just thinking I've got to say something, just
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  pause and wait. And a pause could also be very
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  fun because you could turn a story from one thing to another
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  with just the pause. We did it in an episode with
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  Blasey. I don't a year ago.
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  I don't remember what it was, but I remember it was something
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  it started getting told and then we finished it and there's like,
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  oh, we almost thought, well, I thought it was something else
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  for a minute there. It was just like this.
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  I was thinking of. I was thinking, man, yesterday
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  y'all, I was so high up on the escalator at the mall that when
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  I was looking down I could barely see the shoe department
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  where I just left you. Know that pause?
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  The pause is so high, Yeah. And that's your imagination
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  wondering a lot of times it's like dirty stuff.
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  You're like, hey, get your mind out of the gutter.
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  You know, if you say something about, you know, whatever
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  something some meat or something, you know what I mean
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  or whatever your. Tigs bits the way you just read
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  this. Yeah, exactly.
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  Well. That's a prime example there.
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  You know, the things like that, you know, you'll see, you know,
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  on something or the you know anyway, but the pause makes it
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  funny and it can narrate the story with the pause because
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  it's almost like in between round you you're going this
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  route, you get in between round. Now you get to come back out.
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  Where you going with that? If you just keep, and I'm not
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  saying I'm good at it, but I'm known to just blah blah blah
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  blah blah blah. And it's my.
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  Normal go to, but I'm trying to embrace the pause, be a little
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  more steady, a little more composed, and really concentrate
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  on not talking 100 miles an hour because I know I do it.
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  Everyone's told me that most people where I'm from do the
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  same thing. I get it, honest.
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  But I also understand to a lot of people it's hard to keep up
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  with the red, with the southern accent and the speed and
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  delivery. Same way, you know, I'm trying
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  to learn Spanish from some of my friends, but they've got to
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  really go slow because naturally it's just too fast.
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  Yeah. Yeah, you just, yeah, you've I
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  think that's a good point. I've, I've been a little more
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  cognizant of, of slowing down and, and shutting up to let
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  whenever I'm having a guest on and I'm interviewing them and I
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  asked them a question instead of interjecting what I think.
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  And I still am guilty of it instead of interjecting.
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  Yeah, but I this is the way. And then let them answer.
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  It's like you ask the damn question.
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  Just let them give you the damn answer.
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  Just shut up. So I listen to myself back in my
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  own podcast like I know you're doing too.
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  And and it's like, God, don't do that again.
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  I already know all of the words and all of the lists of all the
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  things I say all the time. I get it.
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  I can't change it though. I mean, I try to think of a try
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  to keep it mixed up, but I'm always going to go back to the
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  all rights and the and the I love it.
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  I say that a lot. You know, I know I can't help
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  it. And I do, I try to always tell
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  a, an anecdotal something from my personal life and I'm like,
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  it's not that I'm, it's, I'm not.
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  And I swear I'm not trying to one up.
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  I'm really just trying to associate that, the similarities
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  that and things like that. But it always like, I've got to
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  tell something else. But it's like, well, I'm just
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  trying to associate so we can have a common thing there.
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  I'm not trying to say mine was more or worse.
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  It was just like, I don't know. I don't know how to explain it,
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  but I'm not, it's not from a bad place.
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  It's not from a misguided place or a, you know, a take away.
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  I'm trying. It's actually me at my best
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  attempt to embrace and, you know, Yeah, well.
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  I mean, comedians like killed, like on Kill Tony and they have
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  60 seconds to get to get their deal out and to make people
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  laugh. A lot of times it falls flat,
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  sometime it doesn't. But what I've noticed that a lot
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  of the best ones and the best comedians too, if you think
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  about it, everything in comedy is timing.
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  So you're going and then you pause and it's always that's how
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  you deliver. You're exactly right.
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  That pause is is can be as significant of anything just by
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  how you can play a crowd and what you can do with them.
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  And think about some of the greats, like if we're going to,
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  we can just go to Southern greats.
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  Jeff Foxworthy. He was the king of doing the
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  pause. You know that all those comedy,
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  the the the tater salad and all of it you know and the best.
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  Even going Richard Pryor when he would say something crazy and
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  then just pause and look, I mean, yeah, Kinison.
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  Wow. And then the Paul.
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  Chappelle does Chappelle. One of the yes, yes, I love I'm
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  going to call that random randomness and I'm I'm going to
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  try to have one of those to kick off the show every week.
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  Just random randomness, just something random that could be
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  relatable. Hopefully with a lot of people
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  that something noticeable because I wanted to do grind my
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  gears but I thought no I'll do random randomness and if I grind
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  my gear ends up on the random randomness 1 then.
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  There it is. Yeah.
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  See, we're I love this. We're locking in a format.
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  Y'all stick around because at the end of this show we're going
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  to do what's called Tigs Blitz and we're going to just have
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  some rapid fire quick questions six or seven of them we'll both
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  have a couple three questions for each other and that'll be
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  fun so that's yes I love it I love it we're starting to put a
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  little format together so y'all know when you're listening to
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  this you start to know what to expect a little bit from us.
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  I think that's a big thing it. Is we have to step it up.
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  There's so many good podcast on the bubble Army network.
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  There's a bubble and those guys are killing it.
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  Seth has done an amazing job. Like I said, let me kill Meister
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  for president and we the the, the the the spot we have to the
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  let me say, let me word this properly, the responsibility
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  because of the opportunity and the Bubba army just makes us
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  want to up our game even more. It's like we're we're really,
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  you know, it's like you could be the best player in your town,
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  but you want to go represent your state and right, you know,
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  you got to bring it up a level because everybody there's a
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  little better than just your hometown.
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  We're in the Bubba Army. These guys do pro work.
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  We've always had fun with it, but it's we're locking in that
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  pro level fun with that pro level work.
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  And that's where they're going to mash and live together in
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  harmony, Tiggy in the handler style.
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  That's how we roll the handler. That's exactly right.
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  And it it's starting to come together.
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  I think it's just big for everybody to kind of be able to
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  understand. This is what this show is.
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  You get interviews out of me with some of these food people.
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  Something may be random. When you get a Tigs bits, you
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  get that amazing show that you get with Jr. the handler with
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  his music stuff and all of that and these these amazing
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  interviews and guests that he has on.
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  And then you get this wallopper of an amazing show that has a
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  format now. So it's like thank you all for
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  being patient. It only took us a year, but here
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  we are. We got it.
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  We got it. And but I tell you what, Jr.
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  Speaking of that, I got I've got to read this because it was it
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  was fantastic and I love love it whenever we get some kind of
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  feedback and we we get it a lot. But this one's hilarious.
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  Speaking of funny. So dusty sent me a message on
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  TikTok and shout out Dusty because I know you're going to
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  list be listening to this whenever whenever it comes out.
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  Here's what he said. Love the show.
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  I'm a long time Bubba listener and have listened to every
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  episode since you got on BRN. I'm a hedge UGA fan but somehow
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  I've gotten some Tyga blood in me and enjoy watching LSU.
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  Also. Still not a fan.
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  Keep up the good work and go dogs.
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  And of course I responded to him.
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  Thank you. You know, just thank you so much
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  for Kate. Well it's that blows my mind.
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  Even if you are a Georgia fan, we still love you.
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  You know, just having fun like we do.
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  And then he offered to give us some stories and he went ahead
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  and gave us one. This is great, he said.
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  I think I said something I, I said I love one of my favorite
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  schools to tailgate with is our our Georgia fans.
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  I've always had a great experience with them.
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  They get in it, they bring it. I mean, they bring a crowd when
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  they come to Baton Rouge and they rock'n'roll.
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  It's fun, hey? And for the record, I've had
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  some of the wildest stories and memories in my entire career
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  early on and later on in Georgia.
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  Georgia gets passed over. Just got the big pretty city of
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  Atlanta and all their pro sports.
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  But Georgia is buck wild. It's right N it's Florida's
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  northern neighborhood. Georgia is.
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  Buck wild. So Georgia is buck wild.
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  There's some. Hollers, there's lots of places
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  to hide. They got they got all kinds of
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  stuff. I mean a lot of dirt roads.
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  A lot of dirt roads, a lot of good country music and musicians
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  have come from there, but I always well, yeah, that's right.
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  But I've had whenever they, whenever they tailgate with us,
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  I, I can always look at Georgia fans, tailgating fans in
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  particular as, as like the redneck.
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  And I mean this in a great way, the redneck version of the
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  Cajuns. They're, they bring it the
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  hardest of any of the school's redneck style.
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  And I mean that in a good way. Oh yeah.
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  They're I think, I think Georgia is probably underrated for how
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  hard they party and how, just how damn loyal they are.
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  I mean, everybody's school is loyal, but oh.
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  Those, but those guys are super loyal.
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  They, they Georgia fans, unless you were around in 1980 to enjoy
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  it, you waited a long time. I remember Red Akins told me one
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  time that he said when he when he died, he wanted Atlanta
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  Falcons, some Atlanta Braves and some Georgia Bulldogs all to
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  carry him to his grave so they can let him down one last time.
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  And but he's but he said he would never not be a fan of any
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  of those. So that, you know, they hang in
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  there through the good and the bad.
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  And they've had a real nice upswing lately.
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  Had that little had that huge fumble in the Super Bowl while
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  back. Boy, that one stings.
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  I bet the Braves are back, have been back and we got a
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  championship in in the modern era, you know, since the 90s.
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  And the Bulldogs, obviously, they rose to power right there
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  at the end of Bama's run and are in contention still.
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  Yeah, they can go away, but their fans are great.
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  Yep. Absolutely.
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  I agree with all the above. I had a great time and I used
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  to, we used to play frat parties there.
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  I've told those stories on there.
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  We used to play at this house. I remember one time we got
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  double booked with Zac Brown, you know, when he was on his way
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  up. And yeah, and across the way
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  would be Jason Williams, which is Jason Aldean now, and Luke
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  Bryan and Corey Smith. I mean, all everybody was
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  playing fraternity parties. You know, colleges were always a
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  good, good place to get a check and on big game weekends every
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  fraternity had a big band and then there was stuff on campus
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  and off campus and the bars all had it.
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  So had some great times up there.
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  And it's a beautiful campus up there in the mountains.
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  I mean, played the Georgia Theatre a few times over the
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  years. I remember Wayne Mills Band, we
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  actually sold it out right after John Mayer recorded that video
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  there. He shot up really one of his,
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  one of his early big music videos was at shot at the
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  Georgia Theatre. And then we played it not long
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  after. This would have been, you know,
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  2003 4 maybe. And yeah, great times.
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  Anyway, Athens, GA Good times. Oh, yeah.
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  Oh, yeah. Well, here.
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  Here's what here's what he said. And it's just, yeah, here's what
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  Dusty said. We used to be a fun.
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  We used to be fun. But the school decided they
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  wanted the Atlanta people to drive over and drive home after
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  the game. The Coliseum parking lot used to
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  be nuts, About 200 campers for every home game.
• 18:47
  We had a camper we called 10 Cup.
• 18:50
  I woke up 1 morning and there was 12 people in it.
• 18:53
  It was only 20 feet. One guy.
• 18:57
  One guy used the brake pedal for a pillow and ran the brake
• 19:01
  lights all night and that killed the battery.
• 19:04
  That parking lot is now a parking deck.
• 19:06
  And he said if y'all need a good Georgia story, I have a million
• 19:10
  including getting beat with a Billy club by a cop and shithole
• 19:15
  Knoxville and thrown in jail. So like, yeah, I'm keep them
• 19:21
  coming, Dusty. I'm interested.
• 19:24
  Dusty, Why don't we get Dusty to do a selfie video and tell the
• 19:28
  video and show us your face and send that to Tiggy and we'll put
• 19:33
  that on there and watch it and comment afterwards and talk to
• 19:36
  us, pause it and talk through it.
• 19:37
  Just give us a story. Sit.
• 19:39
  That's a great idea. Send us the video, tell us a
• 19:42
  story, and we'll we'll. Yeah, we got to get your We need
• 19:44
  your face applications though to know the effect it gives, the
• 19:47
  full effect of what's really going on is better than reading
• 19:50
  it, going back to the pauses and the stops and the the brakes.
• 19:54
  That's right now exactly. Hell yeah.
• 19:56
  Let's have some fun with it. I think it's a great idea, that
• 19:59
  is. That is hilarious.
• 20:00
  And I could only imagine. Yeah, right.
• 20:02
  Being up the road from Atlanta. And you know another thing,
• 20:04
  Georgia has the big golf culture because of Augusta, and that's
• 20:07
  right in between Atlanta and. Athens so you know, everybody
• 20:12
  drinks and golfs and I mean it's and then, like I said, you got
• 20:14
  the water, you got all their blakes.
• 20:15
  What do people do at lakes party.
• 20:17
  You got the coast, you got a coastline over there.
• 20:19
  Everybody parties got ATL whoop, whoop.
• 20:22
  You know Atlanta gets gets crazy in all the college towns out of
• 20:27
  part Statesboro, GA, Tifton, GA. I mean, just good times good.
• 20:33
  Times good times. Played a frat.
• 20:36
  Party one time at Georgia Tech and that's where I realized one
• 20:38
  of those guys was telling me it was like 7 to one guys to girls
• 20:41
  and I'm like boys, tough, tough, tough call there.
• 20:44
  Boys, I don't know, they were all engineers.
• 20:46
  They're probably all super loaded on their nice boats over
• 20:48
  here right now. But but I remember thinking I
• 20:51
  was like, oh, that's tough, boys.
• 20:53
  That's a tough market. That is a tough market.
• 20:55
  Good luck. They won that.
• 20:57
  They won that day though. And I remember they, I think it
• 20:59
  was a big game. They had to.
• 21:00
  Everybody went down the street with the goal posts and stuff
• 21:02
  down Fraternity Row on campus. This campus is basically in
• 21:05
  downtown Atlanta. Right.
• 21:07
  Exactly. Yeah.
• 21:08
  And they're little stadiums right there and in the downtown
• 21:11
  for sure. I've seen it for for sure.
• 21:14
  And I had. People that went to Georgia Tech
• 21:15
  back in the gosh, I guess that would have been the 6th 70s
• 21:20
  early 70s. Good memories.
• 21:24
  What are your memories for? Sure.
• 21:25
  Well, Speaking of something, I don't know if you know this
• 21:28
  because you've been running around all days of this gives
• 21:30
  away the day that we're recording this, but did you know
• 21:33
  that Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys passed today?
• 21:38
  I heard that, man, that's tough. It's like it seems like every
• 21:44
  time you turn around something like that.
• 21:47
  Another legend's gone because. Who was it?
• 21:49
  Yes. Was it someone yesterday?
• 21:51
  Oh, man, this kills me not to have this written down or
• 21:53
  remember someone else. Someone else yesterday.
• 21:58
  Oh, Sly. Sly Stone.
• 22:00
  It's a family. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 22:02
  Sly Stone. Same age, I think, too.
• 22:04
  I think they're both like 82. Yep, 82.
• 22:08
  You talking about contributions to music?
• 22:10
  And I always use the Louis. I always say Louis Armstrong to
• 22:13
  me as the biggest, best contribution we've ever had to
• 22:16
  music and change music more than anything.
• 22:19
  But man, Sly Stone and Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys, they
• 22:24
  both have an argument for that spot because Sly absolutely.
• 22:29
  As a producer and an ear and an artist.
• 22:32
  I mean, second to none, buddy. I'm telling you, if y'all
• 22:35
  anybody that's not familiar with that outfit or his career or
• 22:38
  what they did, it sounds crazy. But if you know or want to do
• 22:42
  some digging around, I promise you, you will be mesmerized by
• 22:45
  how influential Sly Stone was in changing music during that era.
• 22:51
  And on stage and off stage in the studio, all that.
• 22:55
  And then go back 20 something years before that.
• 22:58
  You talking about going back to the reason The Beatles call
• 23:00
  themselves The Beatles? You know what I mean?
• 23:03
  Yeah, go back to The Beach Boys. They started that was.
• 23:09
  Yeah. As revolutionary as Elvis, you
• 23:11
  know what I mean? It was absolutely huge.
• 23:14
  That was a whole new sound, a whole new way of recording, just
• 23:18
  a whole integral part of a change in music that if they not
• 23:23
  their music as we know today, would not exist.
• 23:26
  And both of those artists were those type people.
• 23:29
  Well, Paul McCartney has long credited The Beach Boys and, and
• 23:34
  Pet Sounds for being kind of what what got The Beatles to
• 23:38
  where they're at for sure. That's a huge loss.
• 23:41
  I mean, he was definitely an interesting person.
• 23:43
  They've had movies, documentaries, all that stuff.
• 23:46
  Kind of a a recluse, you know, but had a lot of issues and
• 23:50
  mental issues and mental struggles and all that.
• 23:53
  But just a shame to, to keep seeing these legends of, of
• 23:58
  music go down. But, you know, such is life.
• 24:01
  It's inevitable. But this is the first wave of
• 24:06
  truly pop stars put people, you know, that were of that first
• 24:11
  generation of Rock'n'roll. A lot of people have died, but
• 24:14
  some of the legends have been holding on in their face, yeah.
• 24:17
  Fast. It's to the point now where it's
• 24:20
  not freak losses when they were way too young.
• 24:23
  I mean these not that they were, they were old.
• 24:26
  You know, we're not young and we're not and we're considered
• 24:28
  old, whatever you want to call that number.
• 24:31
  But they were they had been around it and makes more sense
• 24:35
  for them to pass more closer to the average age that people pass
• 24:42
  then then forever 27 club and things like that.
• 24:46
  When when, you know, even the Toby Keith thing was way too
• 24:49
  soon, you know, and and different and you know, those
• 24:53
  type things. But now we're getting to the
• 24:54
  point where it's just kind of inevitable and natural whether
• 24:57
  even if they made it and pulled out, it's coming at some point,
• 25:00
  you know, I mean, you know, I mean with that, with that error
• 25:03
  of people from the 50s, sixties, you know, that were the pivotal
• 25:10
  moment of making what it is, what it is today.
• 25:13
  The. Pioneers.
• 25:14
  Yeah, The Pioneers, right, Because you lost some that came
• 25:17
  along afterwards, like Michael Jackson, right.
• 25:19
  And then he, he wasn't a young man, but he's definitely was way
• 25:22
  too, too young. You know Elvis.
• 25:25
  I mean, you know, yeah. I mean, it goes on and on, but
• 25:30
  yeah, no, no doubt. But.
• 25:32
  Yes, and. Then now, I mean all of our
• 25:35
  legs, like Willy, those guys, I mean, they're 90, you know, I
• 25:37
  saw. Justin Moore playing on some
• 25:39
  look like he was on a podcast or something.
• 25:41
  I'm over you. Oh.
• 25:43
  Keith Whitley. Yeah, yeah.
• 25:45
  He was playing it acoustically, just slamming.
• 25:48
  God I, does he ever play that in concert?
• 25:52
  No, I saw that. I saw a piece of that video,
• 25:55
  too, and I thought, yeah, it did good.
• 25:58
  Yeah, we've done some Whitley, but I don't think I've ever seen
• 26:00
  him do that one. Yeah.
• 26:02
  Oh, you can do. That one, yeah, for sure.
• 26:04
  He nailed it. I saw.
• 26:05
  Him one time do when Merle Haggard passed we were playing
• 26:08
  in Louisiana, actually a Coushatta I think, and he said,
• 26:13
  you know we're going to play if anybody wants to go the shows
• 26:15
  over, you'll go ahead and go. But I'm an honor Merle Haggard.
• 26:18
  I'm gonna stay and play some songs.
• 26:19
  I think he played like another hour and a half of Duffy, but
• 26:21
  Merle Haggard songs. What Yeah, he probably played
• 26:24
  like 12/12/13 Merle Haggard songs in a row.
• 26:27
  It was, yeah. That was, that was a, that was a
• 26:29
  treat there. Yeah, that's exactly what you
• 26:32
  should describe it as a treat like, though you know, those
• 26:34
  nights are rare. And whenever you have an artist
• 26:37
  and they're just feeling it and they're and.
• 26:39
  When and I was in hope, we were in Hawaii when Prince passed.
• 26:42
  So you know, both of the two shows we there, we play there,
• 26:45
  the Waukee Shell and the Maui Performing Arts Center.
• 26:49
  We close the show with Purple Rain and I mean it gives me
• 26:52
  chills and there's video of that there too.
• 26:54
  That that was a that was a Rockstar version of purple rain
• 26:59
  and getting did justice to another one that is just
• 27:03
  underappreciated now. People will never understand how
• 27:05
  important Prince was, but Rodger just went on AI mean it was just
• 27:10
  a great get. I mean it was just all around
• 27:12
  great. But those are treats.
• 27:14
  Those are treats. Treats, that is right.
• 27:16
  That is right. Well, look, I want to throw this
• 27:19
  out. We're a long ways into the show,
• 27:21
  but if you're new to this, hit the subscribe button.
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• 27:26
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• 27:35
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• 27:39
  love. Jr.
• 27:40
  I want to kind of get into it a little Bubba news.
• 27:43
  I've got a couple of clips here for us to show breakdown a
• 27:47
  little bit. This is some big news, I'm not
• 27:50
  going to lie. Kind of, kind of stop me in my
• 27:53
  tracks. Bubba talking about retirement.
• 28:02
  You ready for this? Really, I did.
• 28:04
  I did catch a little whiff on a on a a post last night that had
• 28:09
  me questioning something along those lines.
• 28:12
  Yeah. So let's I want you to hear
• 28:14
  this. If you were up for it, I would
• 28:17
  be interested in doing like two or three shows a week and you
• 28:22
  doing the rest, calling it to Bubba the Love Sponge Show, but
• 28:25
  you know, hosted by Seth Kushner and I take Fridays and Mondays
• 28:29
  off and I work Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursdays.
• 28:31
  Of course, you got to work them all.
• 28:32
  But I pay you, you know, I would get with you and compensate you
• 28:35
  if we were to, like, listen. Well, I mean, I think more than
• 28:38
  ever, I don't mean to interrupt you, but more than ever, I think
• 28:40
  with me. And I'm not trying to.
• 28:42
  Maybe I've have misread you. I think think that you and I
• 28:46
  have gotten closer than ever. Like I think I could actually
• 28:48
  have a long term you being with me conversation more so now than
• 28:53
  I ever could have. Oh man, we're together forever
• 28:55
  like Diddy and the Punisher. Who's who's?
• 28:58
  Who am I? I gotta be Diddy, of course.
• 29:01
  Why you roll out here and be the punisher you have.
• 29:02
  To do a Monday, Wednesday, Friday deal on that.
• 29:04
  One so like what I'm saying is like, you know, I don't Yeah, I
• 29:07
  feel. I feel good here I.
• 29:08
  Mean, I think yeah, and I think, I think sucks.
• 29:10
  Sometimes, but that's not it's not your fault I.
• 29:12
  Think it would get better if you made like another 10 grand, you
• 29:15
  know, I'm saying. And and with maybe some more
• 29:16
  bronies, yeah. 20 for sure I think already.
• 29:20
  I don't think you would really do that anytime would.
• 29:22
  No, I would. You think less of you is more?
• 29:24
  You think if you had to do 2 fewer shows that you would do
• 29:27
  better shows of the week? You wouldn't feel as rundown?
• 29:29
  Do you not feel like there's 20 hours worth of content you know
• 29:32
  to produce a week? Anymore no nothing nothing on a
• 29:35
  negative side like listen when you do mornings for 30 some plus
• 29:40
  years it just wears you out for. Sure, Yeah.
• 29:45
  I mean, what do you, what do you think about that?
• 29:47
  Do you think that Bubba could actually hand the show off or is
• 29:52
  he one of those that he's just so wired to, he's going to do
• 29:56
  this till he dies in the chair kind of deal?
• 29:59
  I think he's, I think he's, I see what he's saying.
• 30:03
  I think he wants the best of both worlds.
• 30:04
  I think he just wants to dial back his workload a little bit
• 30:07
  and come a little fresher, get a little more off time, have a
• 30:10
  little more life and come in and rock star the shows because he
• 30:14
  really feels comfortable with the with Seth and Lummy and
• 30:17
  those guys and the way they handle the show.
• 30:21
  And to his point, he and Seth have they've been together on
• 30:25
  this on this run. Now.
• 30:26
  It seems like to me, if I didn't know any better, this was a well
• 30:30
  oiled machine that's been running for years and now no,
• 30:33
  being inside the army. I know there's been ups and
• 30:35
  downs and, you know, trivial things throughout the years and
• 30:39
  Seth hasn't been there forever and back and the whole story,
• 30:42
  but looking at it, if you didn't know all that, yeah, this looks
• 30:46
  like a well old machine. And that makes total sense for
• 30:49
  the long time host to step back and let his Co host start taking
• 30:53
  the load over until it's full, you know, then the the split
• 30:58
  gets more and more, you know, and then he's just to get.
• 31:00
  But I also think Bubba's sitting at home and he hears the shows
• 31:03
  he's going to be calling in from home or the OR the massage chair
• 31:05
  or something right? Have to get it.
• 31:07
  Wait a minute, y'all are talking, especially in the
• 31:09
  mornings, you know if he's listening, but I don't see any
• 31:12
  harm in it. I think it even if Bubba wanted
• 31:14
  to do it, if he can work something out and you know,
• 31:16
  that's the thing he's got to dig in that pocket.
• 31:18
  I don't know if he's got the PayPal account from honesteel.
• 31:21
  So he's got to face it boy baby, because Sethi baby's and we know
• 31:25
  we work with Seth a lot. We talked to him a lot on our
• 31:27
  for the podcast part. Seth is great man.
• 31:29
  I mean Seth is just a like person and he's very
• 31:33
  knowledgeable and he's he's driven.
• 31:34
  He's a no BS type guy too. He can do it all and I can see
• 31:38
  it. I love Lummy also.
• 31:39
  I think between the two of them they could totally steer the
• 31:42
  ship. 100% and I don't. Think Bubba wants to get
• 31:46
  accomplished? Yeah, and I.
• 31:49
  Think he kind of like the whole Bubba gets to sit back and
• 31:51
  listen for two days, so when he's on the other three days he
• 31:53
  has something. Something bam bam bam to come in
• 31:56
  about it gives him, gives him some more ammunition to really
• 31:59
  kind of dig in. I think it's a great idea for
• 32:02
  Bubba. I hope that the Bubba Army would
• 32:06
  embrace that kind of a change. That's the only concern that I
• 32:09
  have. They and y'all listen to this,
• 32:13
  have no problem. I love it.
• 32:15
  But loyal, Some may even say loyal to a fault.
• 32:19
  I think it's great. I love the loyalty that's in the
• 32:22
  Bubba army. But they won't Bubba shows.
• 32:26
  They won't Bubba on every show. That's just that's just a fact.
• 32:32
  And I mean, you've heard them say that on on shows, but you
• 32:36
  can look, I mean, we look at some of our numbers and stuff.
• 32:38
  Like that? Think about this though.
• 32:40
  Bubba's doing that. What if now Bubba has this free
• 32:43
  time? He jumps on all the podcast?
• 32:45
  Every couple, there you go. Or he opens up a he's going to,
• 32:50
  since he's at home now, he's going to do a midday live 30
• 32:53
  minute. For the Bubba exclusive members
• 32:56
  or what? Monday Monday recap thing on
• 32:58
  YouTube just to do it yeah he's got more energy he's.
• 33:01
  Go back to his food reviews, people love those things.
• 33:04
  He'd have more time to do those. You might not lose Bubba, you
• 33:08
  might just get more. I mean how could this be?
• 33:11
  Instead of Bubba in the studio every time which is great.
• 33:14
  Bubba on location More. Oh God, yes.
• 33:17
  You don't want to see that. Hey, who does it, you know?
• 33:19
  What I mean instead, so Seth and them call Bubba on his phone.
• 33:21
  Well, there's a you know, they got a guy following him with a
• 33:24
  camera and there's Bubba at a restaurant trying to order lunch
• 33:27
  or something. That would be great.
• 33:29
  That would be gold or breakfast or something.
• 33:31
  We're going to check in bubbles at Brett.
• 33:32
  He's his first day. He doesn't come to the show.
• 33:34
  All right, we're going to call Bubba.
• 33:35
  It's breakfast time. Let's see what he calls.
• 33:37
  Like you ain't getting out that easy, you know, and have fun
• 33:39
  with it. And and like I said, and if you
• 33:40
  go for a little while, I mean, obviously if the crowd boos too
• 33:44
  hard, he'll just have to come back, right.
• 33:46
  But if he gets a little break for a second and they have A and
• 33:50
  they and I'm sad. This is where Seth comes in and
• 33:52
  love me so smart on these type things.
• 33:54
  They have a plan in place when the transition happens that some
• 33:58
  of these things are happening. Like he's not on the show that
• 34:01
  week, but he's on Operation Pigmentation for the first time
• 34:04
  or he's on the the line of the of the line show or on this show
• 34:08
  or one of the shows as a whole guest for the whole segment or
• 34:12
  something. Right.
• 34:14
  I think it could completely expand everything if they they
• 34:18
  go down, go down there that route.
• 34:20
  I think it I think it gives space for Bubba to explore the
• 34:24
  space and to really kind of dial it in.
• 34:28
  Exactly. I I dude, he's been doing this
• 34:31
  shit a long time. Not just here.
• 34:33
  He's been doing it on Howard and all of that stuff on on all of
• 34:37
  that. Dude, he's been doing this for a
• 34:39
  long time. That shit would get old after a
• 34:42
  while. I mean, I know he loves doing
• 34:43
  it, but it would I mean it's a job and every day it's the same
• 34:47
  grind and you know, especially their morning show, it's
• 34:51
  basically topical what's trending and what's going on.
• 34:55
  That's and he's. Passionate about it, but at some
• 34:58
  point your body, I mean, it's the same like me with touring.
• 35:00
  I mean, I'm still passionate about it, but boy, the travel
• 35:02
  and the stuff is just tough. And I know, and I've only got 20
• 35:05
  years in. If I get once 30 hits all feel
• 35:08
  you know at some point you. Don't.
• 35:10
  Want to be gone all the time. You just don't, you want to be
• 35:13
  home more. And I think that's what he's
• 35:14
  saying, why he's doing the Monday, Friday off, so he could
• 35:17
  be home more because it may work better if he did Monday,
• 35:20
  Wednesday, Friday on and just took two days off that way, you
• 35:23
  know? I think Bubba also wants to get
• 35:26
  laid more and I think go. Out and party more on the
• 35:29
  weekends and I have to get up on Monday.
• 35:30
  Yeah, I get. Yeah, I support it.
• 35:32
  I support whatever they want to do and.
• 35:34
  For sure. Obviously, you know, well, I
• 35:37
  guess if there was something I did think was silly, I would
• 35:39
  say. But I really don't say it but.
• 35:42
  Yeah, that's honest. I really feel like that's
• 35:45
  they're talking about it ain't happening this week, but get a
• 35:48
  plan together, make sure to do some, you know, find out, get
• 35:54
  up, get some polling on this thing, make sure things will be
• 35:56
  good. Shit, sponsors aren't going to
• 35:58
  bail crowds not going to leave all that, but I don't think they
• 36:01
  will. And it it gives more and then
• 36:03
  bring on more guests. Handpicked Bubba's still going
• 36:06
  to handpick and Bubba still going to have his finger on
• 36:08
  everything. You know for sure.
• 36:09
  I said, and then if it expands out, he takes two or three weeks
• 36:11
  off to rest up. Then he comes back and he's
• 36:13
  doing this this segment or they're following with a camera
• 36:16
  crew doing some different kind of stuff.
• 36:18
  I think it's great. I'm I'm all about it.
• 36:20
  And like I said, if he gets bored at home, he can always
• 36:22
  come back and do it like he was before.
• 36:24
  Exactly, exactly. It's.
• 36:27
  Better that than him just deciding he wants to take three
• 36:30
  months off or time off indefinitely because he just
• 36:33
  wore out, right? No, that good?
• 36:35
  That's a damn good point load. Management.
• 36:38
  Load management load. NDA reference load management.
• 36:43
  See Load Management. Load management, Load
• 36:47
  management. All right, before we before we
• 36:51
  get completely off the rails, I would have and you're not
• 36:56
  expecting this one, I want to talk a little bit about this new
• 37:00
  Carter six album. Look, Weezy's been untouchable
• 37:05
  for a stretch. His mixtape run those classic
• 37:10
  ass versus the Carter series. The Carter 3 is my favorite, by
• 37:14
  the way, but this one, I don't know, man.
• 37:18
  I'm going to let our friends at Operation Pigmentation tell a
• 37:23
  little bit about their thoughts, and then I want to get your
• 37:26
  thoughts as well. Jr. listen to this.
• 37:30
  What? Black Twitter was saying about
• 37:31
  the Wayne album. Best part about finishing this
• 37:33
  Lil Wayne album is that I won't ever have to hear this shit
• 37:35
  played. Again.
• 37:37
  This says man Lil Wayne needs this says Lil Wayne needs better
• 37:40
  friends because this album should have never seen the light
• 37:42
  of day. Also, the production is
• 37:44
  atrocious. What was that?
• 37:46
  Wow. Lil.
• 37:47
  Wayne and his team have been on a mission to ruin his legacy.
• 37:49
  They finally succeeded with the Carter 6.
• 37:51
  This is not Carter level, the worst Carter album.
• 37:53
  I'm so disappointed. Yeah, I agree.
• 37:56
  So I, and the reason I bring it up is not necessarily for Lil
• 37:58
  Wayne and people that like rap and all that.
• 38:00
  It's about artists, like you said, that you've grown with
• 38:03
  that were there for your childhood.
• 38:04
  And now Lil Wayne's 42, and he's putting out music and there's
• 38:06
  still guys, there's guys this. Older than him.
• 38:09
  Jay-Z. Quality music, Jay.
• 38:11
  Z is in his 50s and, you know, just to bring a push of T like
• 38:14
  he's in his, he's in his late 40s and.
• 38:17
  You got E40, you got Kanye. 'S in his late 40s.
• 38:20
  Scarface. Yeah, I'm talking to my name 50.
• 38:22
  50s, yeah, 50s. You got Busta Rhymes 50s.
• 38:27
  I'm not taking my complete albums that I work for.
• 38:30
  Damn Don Trip, there's a lot of rap currency.
• 38:36
  Do you? Think age has anything to note?
• 38:39
  It only does. The age only has something to do
• 38:42
  with the consumer. I totally agree.
• 38:52
  I don't. I haven't heard the record, but
• 38:53
  I agree on that last comment 100%.
• 38:55
  I agree on most of those albums. I hadn't heard some of them, but
• 38:58
  I mean, yeah, I agree. I don't think it's an age thing.
• 39:02
  I'm going to have to listen to this record because I too am a
• 39:05
  huge Lil Wayne fan. My wife, bigger than me, she
• 39:07
  loves Lil Wayne and we haven't listened to this record yet, but
• 39:11
  man, wait, excuse me? The way they come across, it's,
• 39:14
  it's it's bad. I got to hear this.
• 39:17
  Well, and I mean, I did you listen to it?
• 39:19
  I have, I listened to it when it dropped at 11:00 of that night.
• 39:24
  I, I listened to it in its entirety, all 19 songs.
• 39:28
  And I mean, maybe it's a little harsh.
• 39:31
  I don't think they're totally, completely off base.
• 39:35
  I thought there's some good songs on there.
• 39:37
  There's 3 or 4 good songs. The island, they do a cover.
• 39:41
  He does a cover kind of a Weezer's Island in the Sun.
• 39:46
  Whatever that island vibe, whatever that song is, I love
• 39:49
  that you will hear that. That song will be a hit from the
• 39:53
  album. But the rest of it, I don't
• 39:55
  know. I.
• 39:56
  Is the production bad? Does it not sound good?
• 39:59
  Is it I? Didn't I thought the production
• 40:00
  was fine? He does say the Carter 6 a lot
• 40:03
  in every song. Just not every song but a lot of
• 40:06
  them. I think what people are more
• 40:08
  upset about the stuff I've read, they don't really like the
• 40:11
  rhymes. They think it was kind of lazy.
• 40:13
  He can't remember the words like he used to just see all of that
• 40:18
  kind of stuff. Hot take though man.
• 40:20
  This is kind of a hot take, even though he's older.
• 40:24
  I don't know if he's necessarily wiser.
• 40:27
  He sounds kind of tired a little bit, but any, I mean, I'm a
• 40:31
  Louisiana boy, you know this. And I was legit pissed that he
• 40:36
  didn't get the Super Bowl halftime because how are you in
• 40:39
  New Orleans? How is he not going to be like,
• 40:42
  yeah, all the people he could bring out just a celebration of
• 40:46
  New Orleans? And I've seen a few clips of him
• 40:48
  performing lately and I'm going to say I think they made the
• 40:53
  right call. I don't think I know they made
• 40:56
  the right call. I think they knew what what they
• 40:58
  were dealing with. And I don't think it was a Jay-Z
• 41:02
  and Rockefeller all them. They didn't want to have Weezy
• 41:06
  on there. I think that that could have
• 41:07
  totally could have happened. But I think they couldn't trust
• 41:10
  him to show up and do the performance the way you think
• 41:13
  he's so does. And I haven't kept up on the
• 41:16
  tabloids, which I just try not to do in general unless it yeah.
• 41:19
  Correct. But do you think he's sipping on
• 41:22
  scissor herb a little too strong these days?
• 41:24
  I. Think so the boys on on OPI
• 41:28
  encourage everybody to go check that podcast out.
• 41:31
  The latest, the latest one. I think he's on all of all of
• 41:34
  the above. I mean, I they talk in that show
• 41:39
  too about how he has a 42 inch monitor for words.
• 41:42
  Look, I don't, I don't think I could.
• 41:44
  I can't hate on anybody that has that, especially as many lines
• 41:50
  as he has dude. I saw bars as he.
• 41:52
  Has to remember I saw. George, I saw George Jones the
• 41:56
  first time I ever saw George Jones play.
• 41:58
  I've noticed on stage he had a teleprompter and he was and he
• 42:01
  was had the words to. He stopped loving her today, and
• 42:05
  I'm thinking he don't know the worst.
• 42:07
  He stopped love. You heard it today.
• 42:08
  But he sang 5000 songs in his career.
• 42:11
  You know what I mean? He's an older gentleman.
• 42:14
  Yeah. Why would you not have one up
• 42:16
  there? I always thought, well.
• 42:17
  If if, just in case, I think it's a great idea, It's.
• 42:19
  Expensive though, it's a, it's a whole cost and you got to have
• 42:22
  somebody to run it, to program it, change it because if songs
• 42:25
  change or wait and stop, you got to have a programmer and then
• 42:28
  the cost for the equipment and it's, it is a little bit bit of
• 42:30
  an expense. Well, Justin Moore doesn't seem
• 42:34
  to need a teleprompter. I haven't.
• 42:35
  No, but there's times when we could for sure because he misses
• 42:38
  a word here and there. I mean, it just happened.
• 42:40
  I mean it happens to everybody. Jamie Johnson.
• 42:41
  Jamie Johnson does have a teleprompter and Jamie is a a
• 42:45
  wordsmith and he has a teleprompter because he changes
• 42:47
  his set a lot. You just it's a backup.
• 42:50
  He said he says. That he doesn't have a big light
• 42:52
  package because he likes his lights just to be on and normal.
• 42:55
  So he's got, he uses that budget to make sure he has a
• 42:58
  teleprompter and a guy to run it.
• 43:00
  I think that's a damn good idea. I mean, I know that 311 and Nick
• 43:03
  Hexham uses it. You, why wouldn't you?
• 43:07
  Why wouldn't a large catalog of music?
• 43:10
  Yes, you know the words, but just in case you're playing and
• 43:13
  you're like, oh shit. And there it is.
• 43:16
  And, you know, you don't. It just makes the quality for
• 43:19
  everybody in the audience that much better because you ain't
• 43:22
  gonna mess up lyrics. Yeah.
• 43:23
  You sneeze, you forget your place, your stomach's hurting
• 43:25
  you, you somebody's waving something, right?
• 43:27
  You're trying to read a little sign.
• 43:28
  My first concert, something like, Oh yeah, where was I on
• 43:30
  that exactly? And, and so I get that on Weezy.
• 43:34
  I, you know, I hope he's OK. That would be my first thing is,
• 43:37
  I mean, is, is everybody checked in?
• 43:38
  Is he good? And, you know, sometimes you
• 43:41
  just, it's his album, it's his creative.
• 43:43
  Maybe that's just what he maybe that's exactly how he wanted it
• 43:46
  to come out. And it's art.
• 43:48
  You just don't like this picture as much as the last picture he
• 43:50
  painted. And the next painting might be
• 43:53
  the your favorite. You just don't know it yet.
• 43:55
  That's right, that's right. Continuing on with that, with
• 44:00
  that same that same show they they talked a little bit about
• 44:06
  and I don't know, I don't know if you've seen this.
• 44:08
  I don't know if you've seen this viral goodnight bro thing that's
• 44:13
  going on out there, if you if you even know what I'm talking
• 44:16
  about. Alright, good, perfect.
• 44:19
  I didn't figure you did. So this is listen to this Seth
• 44:23
  will explain. Guys will call up other guys,
• 44:26
  their friends and say goodnight to them just to get the
• 44:28
  reaction. No, you guys, you guys haven't.
• 44:31
  No, I, I haven't. And if you call me with that, I
• 44:35
  don't. Want to see that?
• 44:36
  Yeah, I plan on doing that with you guys.
• 44:38
  No. Don't do, don't do it.
• 44:40
  Don't do it. You're gonna change the the
• 44:42
  dynamic of our relationship. No.
• 44:44
  But you'd become very confused, wouldn't you?
• 44:46
  No. I'm a customer.
• 44:47
  Yeah. That's what's going on.
• 44:48
  You call me late night talking about something.
• 44:50
  I just you're. The person that's.
• 44:52
  Confused I'm gonna be like what kind of shit you owe self money?
• 44:55
  I ain't own that shit now. No I.
• 44:57
  Just say hey, it's like, you know, I go to bed early like 8
• 44:59
  now. I'll call you and be like hey
• 45:00
  man, I just was just wanted to say goodnight dude.
• 45:02
  Great show today. No, no, no, no, no, no.
• 45:07
  If you call me with that, you might get punched in the
• 45:10
  stomach. You.
• 45:11
  Might get punched in the stomach.
• 45:13
  You know, I would be confused as well.
• 45:17
  I've heard them say that about other stuff when they were
• 45:19
  talking about somebody wanting to go taking them shopping.
• 45:21
  Like, no, he didn't take me shopping.
• 45:23
  We just happened to go shopping together at the same time.
• 45:27
  So I get it. I'm not quite as hardcore on
• 45:30
  some, but I totally understand where they're at.
• 45:32
  But I would also be like what what you mean goodnight, what
• 45:36
  something you are. I would think, are you OK?
• 45:38
  What's wrong? What I need, I need an
• 45:40
  explanation for sure. I don't know if I just jumped to
• 45:43
  that I would need an explanation or like are you hammered or
• 45:45
  something wrong or you? Calling if you need somebody to.
• 45:48
  Talk to you know, that's just where my heart goes, but I
• 45:50
  totally suicidal yes, exactly. Do you want to talk?
• 45:54
  Yeah, call me. You know, I feel bad if people
• 45:56
  text or call me at night and I miss it or I have to call them
• 45:58
  back and I don't or something. I'm like, man, I hope they're
• 46:00
  OK. You know, I'm praying man.
• 46:01
  So you know, I just you know, you want to, but it's tough
• 46:04
  sometimes, but still, if anybody needs me, call me, please call
• 46:07
  me. I'll talk whatever and I would
• 46:09
  and but I also understand what they're Craig and Rio are saying
• 46:12
  it. It would be totally like and you
• 46:14
  ain't got to say Hey, love you, buddy.
• 46:16
  I would rather I'm a love you, buddy.
• 46:18
  Love you, brother, more than all right.
• 46:20
  Good night, man, Like good night, bro.
• 46:22
  It's I ain't going to bed right now.
• 46:24
  I know why you telling me? Good.
• 46:26
  What you telling me? Good night.
• 46:27
  I ain't quite according. I don't need nobody tucking me
• 46:29
  in but my wife. I think this is just Gen.
• 46:33
  Z trying to mess with us, dude. I think that I think are either
• 46:37
  that or there's some it's some new form of male bonding that
• 46:40
  we've been missing out on. I ain't been missing out on
• 46:43
  shit. I can tell you that I'm not into
• 46:45
  it, but it's hilarious. I've seen a lot of people and
• 46:48
  it's mainly these girls that get that are in there.
• 46:51
  They're in their early 30s, late 20s and they get their
• 46:55
  significant other, their husband, whatever.
• 46:58
  And they they they record them call like they had a video and
• 47:03
  I'm ashamed of this, but it'll probably happen at some of y'all
• 47:07
  schools too. Y'all go look it up.
• 47:09
  I don't care. Garrett Nussmeyer, LSU
• 47:11
  quarterback, loving he's gunslinger all that.
• 47:14
  Well, he got baited into this deal and his girlfriend did it.
• 47:17
  And I'm like, Oh my God, this is not what I want my QB one doing.
• 47:22
  You know, like, of all the things I'm also concentrating
• 47:25
  on. Yeah, but I'm also 20 years
• 47:28
  older than him at the 3rd. I'm sorry, almost 30 years older
• 47:33
  than him. So I maybe I just don't
• 47:36
  understand, but I think it's just the generation below us and
• 47:41
  below below the people below us are just getting soft as hell is
• 47:45
  what's happening. Think it you think is any of
• 47:46
  those residuals often people eating washing powders or tide
• 47:51
  to tide pods. I think this is just some of
• 47:54
  this is finally affecting the the the brain path.
• 47:57
  These are kids that did that. Now they're doing silly stuff.
• 48:00
  I. Think that's it?
• 48:04
  Yeah, that was good stuff. I always love their take because
• 48:07
  like I said, they, they just shoot straight.
• 48:08
  I mean they, they, I detect no lies in Craig and Rio.
• 48:12
  No, I don't either. I don't either, but you're no
• 48:16
  problem. With anybody's sexual
• 48:18
  orientation or any of that. But it's it's his goofy.
• 48:21
  It's like, what do you mean goodbye?
• 48:23
  Goodbye bro. What?
• 48:26
  What's the wildest text that you could that you've ever gotten
• 48:29
  from like a band member or an artist that you could say on on
• 48:34
  here that something like what? You don't even have to name the
• 48:37
  name, just the text. God, that's a tough one.
• 48:41
  I don't know about anything along those same lines, but
• 48:43
  it's. Nothing.
• 48:44
  That's exactly my point. None of this never happened.
• 48:48
  I've got people. I've got hey.
• 48:50
  Man I know I should have rode back with y'all but I ended up
• 48:53
  going with these people to party and now I'm walking down a dirt
• 48:56
  Rd. in Georgia. Can you come get me?
• 48:58
  And I'm like, are you kidding me?
• 49:02
  No. Why can't you?
• 49:03
  Yeah. I will because I need you to
• 49:06
  tomorrow. But buddy, this was not good.
• 49:11
  Me and John party in the van, going to pick up the steel
• 49:14
  player. Walking down a dirt Rd. in
• 49:15
  Georgia after playing a club gig.
• 49:17
  Like from the hotel. Like you got to ride with me
• 49:19
  Junior. Hell, I'm hammered.
• 49:20
  Somebody got to ride with me. Go get somebody'd.
• 49:22
  Got to ride for sure. For sure man, we'll look that
• 49:26
  guy. Hey, that guy quit drinking so
• 49:29
  he got married and life is done and not right then I don't
• 49:32
  think. But he's he is he is do he is
• 49:34
  rocking now. So shout out to Kyle the steel
• 49:36
  player. Nashville, TN.
• 49:38
  Kyle the steel player. Good job, dude, good job.
• 49:41
  Well, well, let's let's jump into the the little segment that
• 49:47
  we're going to start doing. Anytime that we do one of these
• 49:49
  shows, the Tigs Blitz, we do it over on the Tigs Bits podcast as
• 49:55
  well. So go check that out.
• 49:56
  Always get some interesting answers and opens up a can of
• 50:00
  worms that we never expect. That's why I think it's fun.
• 50:03
  Just some quick hit questions, totally off the cuff.
• 50:07
  I'll start it with you Jr. and we'll go with a little music
• 50:11
  question first. If you could collaborate with
• 50:15
  any classic country artist, living or not, who would it be
• 50:22
  and why? Oh, that's a tough one.
• 50:27
  Collaborate, make a put up, put a song or an album out.
• 50:31
  I. Mean maybe.
• 50:31
  Let's look at it in your role. Be their damn tour manager.
• 50:35
  Oh man, and it can't be Justin obvious because I already worked
• 50:38
  for him, no. You can't, can't be Justin.
• 50:40
  Wow man, first thought is Morgan Wallin just because he's only
• 50:46
  doing 22 shows this year and I know he pays good.
• 50:49
  Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that that yeah, he's got a
• 50:53
  good gig for. What's going on right now?
• 50:57
  Modern day or all time? All time would be that would be
• 51:02
  tough buddy, because you think about my favorites, but as from
• 51:05
  a work standpoint, boy that would be a headache.
• 51:08
  Well, and then some of the people that you know are, you
• 51:11
  know, their history like hell. That would be cool as shit.
• 51:13
  But I don't really want to be George Jones tour manager.
• 51:17
  Right. Or Wayland, you know, I don't
• 51:19
  want to I would Wayland in the 70s.
• 51:20
  I wouldn't be here probably. I mean, you know, but I would
• 51:23
  say of that, you know, as far as good things and likability and
• 51:28
  Willie Nelson wouldn't have been a bad run.
• 51:30
  That's what I was thinking. That's what that's but I was
• 51:32
  thinking too. He liked to stay healthy with
• 51:35
  the herbs and everything, and he liked to exercise and do karate
• 51:38
  and all that stuff. So that would have been fun with
• 51:40
  Willie, Charlie Daniels. I mean, how fun would have been
• 51:43
  to work with Charlie. I did a lot of shows, but man,
• 51:45
  with Charlie Daniels, the cool stuff he's got to do and just
• 51:48
  being around Charlie Daniels, that would have been a good one.
• 51:51
  Modern day, you know, if I had to, if I couldn't work for
• 51:56
  Justin or or party, I would man Charlie Crockett, just because I
• 52:01
  love his music and his vibe. And I think that'd be cool to go
• 52:03
  do that a round of that stuff out.
• 52:07
  But it then I'd also think it'd be cool to go run with like
• 52:10
  somebody from back home, like Muscadine Bloodline or the Red
• 52:13
  Clay Strays or or somebody from that still really getting after
• 52:17
  it on the, you know, and doing cool stuff.
• 52:20
  That's AI don't know. That's AI know that's 12
• 52:22
  answers, but any of those? Well, I think we're going to.
• 52:25
  We're we'll just officially say Willie.
• 52:28
  Yeah. Willie, Willie, Willie.
• 52:29
  Willie's the official answer, Yeah.
• 52:31
  Willie's Reserve. Willie's Reserve Willie's
• 52:35
  reserve is good. If you know, you know.
• 52:39
  I've got another one for you. Let's see.
• 52:44
  Yeah, this is a good one way. This is a food 1.
• 52:46
  You know, do. I have to come.
• 52:47
  Do I have to throw a couple blitzes at you or they all
• 52:50
  coming at me? Yeah.
• 52:50
  You'd throw me one next after this one that'll be fun.
• 52:54
  What's the most unique or unexpected dish that you've ever
• 52:59
  had while on tour and did it become a favorite or was it just
• 53:04
  like a one time adventure? I'd say fuh noodle soup.
• 53:10
  Yeah. OK.
• 53:12
  Is that how you pronounce that? I've never I didn't know if it's
• 53:14
  pho or pho or what I. Used to say pho and then I heard
• 53:18
  it was pho so but I've seen it pho shizzle and stuff like that.
• 53:23
  So it depends on what you want it to be.
• 53:26
  I think I say pho trying to be proper.
• 53:29
  I'm sure I'm saying it wrong, but experience after the first
• 53:32
  time over. I think in Virginia somewhere,
• 53:34
  maybe with my buddy Chris Fortune, a son of Jimmy Fortune,
• 53:38
  legendary singer from The Statler Brothers, and Chris
• 53:43
  wanted some. We were hungover and we went and
• 53:46
  got, he's talking about these noodles and how doing at this
• 53:48
  Vietnamese place I think it was, and a strip mall.
• 53:52
  And buddy, it was so good and I'm hooked.
• 53:54
  I love some fun. I'll seek it out now.
• 53:58
  There you go. There you go.
• 53:59
  See, that's what's so fun about this.
• 54:01
  Had no idea what your answer would be.
• 54:03
  I've had it a time or two. I think I could get more into
• 54:06
  it. Our friend Gabby.
• 54:09
  Gabby Wilson that on social media, what you cooking?
• 54:13
  What you cooking? Gabby go follow her everybody.
• 54:15
  She's she's incredible makes amazing food.
• 54:19
  She makes it and she had a video walking through and it's not
• 54:23
  really as difficult as a thought.
• 54:27
  You know, I don't know if I can make it, but I'm.
• 54:30
  Sure, it's it's probably one of those things.
• 54:32
  If you wanted to get super integral and take two days to
• 54:35
  make it, you could. Or there's the abbreviated
• 54:37
  version that Gabby makes that is just fine.
• 54:40
  Correct. Exactly.
• 54:41
  Yeah. I get it.
• 54:43
  All right, I got one for you here and it's same and this is
• 54:45
  before I even got that question. This is the one that I had on my
• 54:48
  mind. So it's funny that it's food
• 54:49
  related, but you being a food connoisseur and I guess the
• 54:54
  voice for for food influencers as far as covering what they do.
• 54:59
  You've eaten a lot of food, a lot of good food.
• 55:01
  And if you had to pick your favorite restaurant and favorite
• 55:05
  dish of anywhere you've ever had childhood to now?
• 55:10
  Jeez, you know what I mean? That is tough.
• 55:14
  That is tough. I think that man, I I can't
• 55:20
  remember and. We can't go grandmother's
• 55:22
  chicken and dumplings because that'll be.
• 55:23
  Nice. I'm going to give you.
• 55:24
  A restaurant and a no. We'll give you a restaurant.
• 55:27
  It's no longer open and I can't just cannot remember the name of
• 55:32
  it. It's, it's a, if it was, I could
• 55:36
  look it up if it wasn't closed, but it's in Lafayette, LA.
• 55:39
  I do know that. And it was, it was like a veal
• 55:45
  Parmesan chop kind of deal with like a risotto and stuff like
• 55:52
  that. I would say in a restaurant that
• 55:55
  would be the top meal that I've ever had.
• 55:58
  Again, it's closed now just, you know, a white cloth kind of
• 56:02
  restaurant in Lafayette, LA, by the way.
• 56:06
  And, and this will be coming out on a future episode.
• 56:08
  Y'all will hear the best food in Louisiana is in the 337.
• 56:14
  It's in that Lafayette area. I know that everybody loves New
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  Orleans, and when you think of Louisiana, you think of New
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  Orleans and you think of food in New Orleans, and New Orleans
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  food is amazing. There's zero doubt about that.
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  If you want to go to New Orleans, you can get the fine
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  dining aspect of Louisiana food, that French kind of influence.
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  If you go to Lafayette, LA, there's so many unbelievable
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  restaurants. More country cooking in a city.
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  The country Cajun, it's Acadian. I mean, it's still a major,
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  major amount of French influence and all of that, but they just
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  do it in a little bit. Of not as fancy, more homes, not
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  as. Fancy, That's right, that's
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  right. But that meal at that place and
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  damn it, I wish I could remember the name.
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  However, the best meal I've ever had period was and kind of this
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  is a fortunate deal. I was at a dinner, a private
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  dinner where we had Chef John Besh was the chef that night.
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  He prepared the dinner for us. There was, I think about 10 of
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  us that were there. And it, it started off with like
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  this salad. It was a wedge salad with quail
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  eggs and this bacon that came from this place somewhere in
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  Tennessee. And they were perfectly cubed,
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  fried. Just dude, it was just another
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  level. I've never had a wedge salad any
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  better ever. And those little quail eggs,
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  just just, this was just stupid. And that was just to get it
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  started. They had, I think some kind of a
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  fancy like French onion soup kind of situation next.
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  And then it was a several course meal.
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  I believe you could have steak or chicken or whatever.
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  Of course, I went with a steak and it was just perfectly
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  phenomenal. But it's that wedge salad that
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  is stuck with me. And that's an odd thing.
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  I didn't think I would say that, but that wedge salad, like if I
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  go somewhere and I see they have a wedge salad on that menu, I'm
• 58:15
  like, all right, this better be good.
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  And I've been to some places that had it slamming just
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  perfect. But I ain't never had one better
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  than that ever. And I doubt.
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  I doubt I ever will. I too and never eat ate wedge
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  salads growing up till somewhere and it was good.
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  And then I'm the same. I hung out a wedge these days
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  myself. Yeah, there you go.
• 58:35
  Well, that's very interesting. Yes, coming from someone who
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  primarily is meat oriented with, with the, you know, with seafood
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  and, and, and meat barbecuing and things, it'd be funny to
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  have a salad as yours. But hey, that's what it that's
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  what it is. And for the rest, I didn't think
• 58:50
  about it. Yeah.
• 58:51
  And for and, and going on that and talking about New Orleans,
• 58:54
  my favorite restaurant, if I had to go one place and just eat
• 58:56
  there would be Arno's in, in New Orleans in the French Quarter.
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  I know there's but people say there's better restaurants and
• 59:02
  this and that. But to me, Arno's just give me
• 59:06
  some escargot and then just start bringing every whatever
• 59:09
  you want to bring to the table after that.
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  And I'm sure it's going to be so good.
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  But you're right, I've had some great meals in Lafayette.
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  Up that way, man. Oh yeah.
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  It's the Vermilion Cafe. That was the name of it.
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  Not just Vermilion Cafe, but it wasn't a cafe.
• 59:23
  It was in this fancy, you know, like it looked like it was
• 59:27
  almost in an antebellum home kind of situation.
• 59:31
  Yeah, it was I. Went to one of those.
• 59:33
  Good question. I think it was one of the
• 59:34
  Emerald restaurants recently over there in like the Garden
• 59:37
  District, and it was an old house turned into a restaurant
• 59:40
  and man, it was frigging good. Can't.
• 59:43
  Remember the name, It was a friend of ours birthday a couple
• 59:45
  years ago. We all went, but golly, it was
• 59:47
  good. I've been fortunate.
• 59:48
  That's the thing. I have been really fortunate to
• 59:49
  have a lot of great meals in my life.
• 59:52
  And you were talking about that. I was just thinking, man, I'm
• 59:54
  Uber lucky on that because I my mom, my parents were great
• 59:58
  cooks, my grandparents. And then as an, you know,
• 1:00:01
  college was kind of bland, but started experimenting with
• 1:00:04
  different things and then as an adult.
• 1:00:07
  You know, through the travels and connections and stuff and
• 1:00:10
  you know, restaurants or hunting camps or different things, just
• 1:00:14
  exposed to all these different things.
• 1:00:16
  And I've always said this too, doesn't matter what the the
• 1:00:20
  ingredients are, it's who's cooking it because there's
• 1:00:23
  things that I got. I always use this.
• 1:00:27
  I remember the first time going to Tunica Mississippi, playing a
• 1:00:30
  casino show and I'm going through the buffet and they have
• 1:00:33
  Brussels sprouts. I'm assuming they're going to
• 1:00:35
  taste like my grandmother's Brussels sprouts.
• 1:00:37
  Well, I throw one in my mouth and chomp down and realize real
• 1:00:39
  quick, everybody don't cook like grandma.
• 1:00:42
  So I was like, Brussels sprouts are gross.
• 1:00:44
  And then I realized, no, it's who cooks.
• 1:00:45
  It's the same with food from other countries.
• 1:00:47
  It sounds crazy to us, but if you know the right person
• 1:00:50
  cooking and I bet it's delish. Oh yeah.
• 1:00:53
  Oh yeah. But you got another one for me
• 1:00:56
  and we'll, we'll wrap this puppy up, Yeah.
• 1:00:59
  This goes to this goes to music. You've seen a lot of concerts,
• 1:01:03
  you've been, you know, you've probably been to clubs, big
• 1:01:08
  venues, festivals, all that stuff.
• 1:01:10
  What's your favorite place to go watch a concert?
• 1:01:12
  And who was your favorite act or favorite single?
• 1:01:16
  Not your favorite band of any all time but your single best
• 1:01:18
  concert you ever went to and venue That's a two-part
• 1:01:21
  question. The a venue don't have to be the
• 1:01:23
  same and the best concert you ever went to all.
• 1:01:26
  Right, perfect, easy answers for me, the my favorite venue is
• 1:01:30
  right here in Baton Rouge, LA, the Varsity Theater.
• 1:01:34
  It's a it's an old theater that they gutted out, you know, and
• 1:01:38
  and turned into it's small. I think it's seats or stands.
• 1:01:43
  Ain't no seats. Stands about 1500, maybe, maybe
• 1:01:46
  2000, maybe 2000. So it's tight.
• 1:01:50
  They used to have this huge analog like in the Dave Grohl
• 1:01:54
  sound board, whatever that show was documentary.
• 1:01:59
  They had one of them and one of the last ones.
• 1:02:02
  Console. Yeah.
• 1:02:03
  And it sounded so good. They change it out.
• 1:02:07
  It's not. They do.
• 1:02:08
  And it it still sounds good in there because of the way the
• 1:02:11
  room is, it's probably it's probably better, but you could
• 1:02:15
  get that real rough analog kind of, you know, fuzzy warmth
• 1:02:20
  feeling. And it's set up like a club.
• 1:02:22
  Not, not tip, not really a theater.
• 1:02:24
  Yeah, we've played that. I we've played there back in the
• 1:02:26
  day with Wayne Mills. OK, yeah, I figured you probably
• 1:02:29
  played there. I just love that I love that
• 1:02:30
  place and still do. They don't have as many concerts
• 1:02:34
  there anymore. They're starting to try to, you
• 1:02:38
  know, you know how those places go.
• 1:02:39
  They yeah, they probably don't make that much money at the end
• 1:02:42
  of the day. And and and tough.
• 1:02:45
  Now with Live Nation stomping everybody out and right and
• 1:02:48
  independent venue's super tough these days, the.
• 1:02:51
  Big bigger acts are not are the even a mid tier act that used to
• 1:02:55
  would come through there. They don't, they don't do that
• 1:02:59
  anymore because they can't afford it.
• 1:03:00
  They just go to somewhere in New Orleans or whatever and they,
• 1:03:02
  they skip or they play in the River Center a lot now in Baton
• 1:03:06
  Rouge if they're big enough. So the Texas club here in Baton
• 1:03:11
  Rouge has had a huge resurgence because of that.
• 1:03:13
  And I know you played there. Oh, yeah.
• 1:03:15
  But as far as venue, the Varsity theater #1 concert of all time,
• 1:03:20
  without hesitation, not even close, was in the Cajun Dome in
• 1:03:25
  Lafayette, which I know you played there too.
• 1:03:28
  I saw Metallica in 1997. It was just ridiculous.
• 1:03:34
  It was the tour it was called. And you have to be careful with
• 1:03:37
  the way you say this. Cunning Stunts was there's a DVD
• 1:03:41
  you can, you can watch it or you can rent it on Amazon or
• 1:03:44
  whatever. Now it Cunning Stunts and and
• 1:03:47
  they always do something crazy. But on this tour and there was
• 1:03:51
  no Internet. There was there was Internet,
• 1:03:54
  but it wasn't enough. It was getting passed around and
• 1:03:57
  like it was no social media, no social media.
• 1:04:00
  But at the end of their show, the like, like when they started
• 1:04:04
  to play inner Sandman, they had these lights and throughout the
• 1:04:08
  night they're going up and down and all these awesome things and
• 1:04:11
  pyro and just two stages. Lars is over here, he's over
• 1:04:15
  there, they're running it's huge center deal.
• 1:04:18
  And then bam, Inner Sandman, you see a guy run out, you see a
• 1:04:24
  speaker drop. First the speaker kind of moves.
• 1:04:27
  And it was right like we're on the front row on the seats, not
• 1:04:31
  on the floor on the front row of the seats.
• 1:04:33
  And that speaker moved and I saw it and I looked at my buddy and
• 1:04:37
  I was like, dude, that that speaker just kind of moved.
• 1:04:40
  And then you see this roadie come out and run up, start
• 1:04:43
  climbing up the ladder. That's a string ladder.
• 1:04:47
  And he falls off of the ladder a little bit, catches, and then
• 1:04:53
  gets down. Meanwhile, another person starts
• 1:04:56
  to run across the stage. A tower collapses, the pyro goes
• 1:05:02
  off. That dude's on fire, running
• 1:05:05
  across the stage on fire. People are over there tackling
• 1:05:09
  him, spraying him off with the deal.
• 1:05:12
  You just hear just the end note, a high squeal of a guitar, like
• 1:05:16
  they stopped playing and it was just, it was at the end of Inner
• 1:05:21
  Sandman and they just stopped playing and then like the whole
• 1:05:25
  audience like it. It didn't.
• 1:05:27
  Nowadays, if you did that, everybody would know about it
• 1:05:30
  and people would go crazy. It was dead silent for
• 1:05:34
  everybody. Freaking out seconds.
• 1:05:35
  Everybody was. Freaking out, I looked at my
• 1:05:37
  buddy. I was like, dude, we got to get
• 1:05:38
  the hell out of here. This stage is about to blow up.
• 1:05:42
  And I mean, thought it was real. And then you could tell after 10
• 1:05:47
  or 15 seconds that this is part of the show.
• 1:05:50
  A light came on, and they kind of made it to where you knew
• 1:05:54
  this was maybe, OK, that maybe this isn't all real.
• 1:05:57
  And then they come out and they each individually hit like one
• 1:06:01
  of those lights with a string, then played all right in one
• 1:06:05
  little part of the stage that happened to be right in front of
• 1:06:08
  me. Gives me chill bumps just
• 1:06:10
  thinking about it. I think they close that show
• 1:06:12
  with hit the lights. And it is just.
• 1:06:16
  Yeah, yeah. My ears rang for three days.
• 1:06:19
  It was the loudest, second loudest concert that I've ever
• 1:06:23
  been to. The loudest.
• 1:06:25
  The Beach Boys in 1988 in the Centroplex.
• 1:06:29
  Here are what now? The River Center in Baton Rouge.
• 1:06:32
  They were so damn loud, I couldn't take it.
• 1:06:35
  Now I was 10 years old, so that could have been a part part of
• 1:06:39
  it. But between that one and yeah,
• 1:06:42
  that's a good question. But that is easily I can, I can
• 1:06:45
  answer both of them easily. Yes, that's.
• 1:06:48
  Wild too. I can.
• 1:06:49
  I'm just picturing in my head this whole the stage thing yeah,
• 1:06:52
  it couldn't happen now because people freak out and you know,
• 1:06:55
  you know, but man, I bet that was a spectacle.
• 1:06:57
  That's awesome it. Was insane.
• 1:06:59
  Like nothing's ever going to top that for me, that there's just,
• 1:07:02
  there's no way anything ever tops that.
• 1:07:04
  That's and that and it hasn't and it won't because God knows
• 1:07:08
  I've been to enough. I've given it a a very fair
• 1:07:11
  shake to beat it. It hadn't happened yet.
• 1:07:14
  Yeah. Well, man, I think this was,
• 1:07:17
  this was a fun one. Yeah.
• 1:07:20
  That's the beauty of this is we don't really ever know what
• 1:07:23
  we're going to do. We do have a little bit of an
• 1:07:25
  agenda. We want to hit on some stuff.
• 1:07:27
  But then I think where we're at our best is when we just get
• 1:07:30
  going and we start free rapping like we did at night.
• 1:07:33
  And that was fun and. Have some things to comment on
• 1:07:36
  and talk about. It was fun here from the OP guys
• 1:07:40
  and Seth and getting getting to talk about them.
• 1:07:43
  And I'm interested to hear how this turns out with Bubba and
• 1:07:45
  his plans to ease back on his workload and give more
• 1:07:50
  responsibility to Seth and hopefully a raise, you know,
• 1:07:52
  Yeah. Hell yeah, pulling for that 20
• 1:07:54
  grand, Seth, you. Love you.
• 1:07:56
  Love how the Bubba threw out 10 and said that yeah 22.
• 1:07:59
  Get It Done 20. Sounds good.
• 1:08:02
  Yeah, Perfect, Perfect. So good.
• 1:08:04
  Yeah, I appreciate everybody. It was great to catch up with
• 1:08:06
  you today, Tiggy, and thanks for everybody for always tuning in
• 1:08:09
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• 1:08:12
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• 1:08:14
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• 1:08:16
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• 1:08:20
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• 1:08:23
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• 1:08:25
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