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Busted Truck, No Quit: Tigs Makes It to BARP! · Tigs Bits Podcast

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Jr. is not able to join us tonight, but he he taught, he
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was on our live last night, on Tigs tonight and catch that
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every night sometime after seven.
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I think that needs to be the default.
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Seven or later, 7 or later, Tigs.
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Tonight, every day it's going to change, yeah.
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Sorry I've I've missed that here a little bit lately.
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I've just been I've had crazy schedules going on.
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Absolutely swamped. And I mean, it's no fault of
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your own. You're busy, you're starting a
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new gig. Everybody gets it.
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But I did have to answer for you way more than I needed to this
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past week at the Bart party. You were missed for sure.
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And I, I didn't send you, you can attest to this.
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I did not send much communication throughout the
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deal except for the journey which we're going to get into.
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You did not. I didn't, I didn't want them.
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I didn't. I knew, I knew it was hurting
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you. I didn't want to upset you as as
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we were going along because I knew that you would want to be
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there. So you know what?
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I had the exact same, like the exact opposite thought.
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Like I said, I want to be involved more vicariously.
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I want him to show me more. But I thought so selfishly
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that's what I wanted. But I thought you just want to
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take it all in and not have to be dealing with having to send
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me anything. So I didn't want to disrupt.
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You both are probably. In the moment, I think so too.
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I think so too, because I didn't get a lot big buck walking
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around. He had somebody on FaceTime the
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whole time and I was like, oh, is Brantley bring me on FaceTime
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and you should have texted. Me and told me.
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That fair in fairness, like that's all I had to have done,
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but I didn't want to put make you feel obligated because I
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knew you were taking it in. I did Hulk you down one time.
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You see that video I sent you of you?
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You, you saw you saw me meet Stacy G, but I haven't listened
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to it. I just saw it and laughed at it.
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I think I answered you from the from the deal and and I haven't
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listened to it yet. But I got on the the live feed
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and I was watching. I saw you.
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So I zoomed in to where you were and then I could hear the audio
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was actually picking up a little bit.
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So I was listening to you talking.
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I listen, I listen. I watched you for probably 20
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minutes. Yeah, I stood right there for
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like 20 minutes, so God bless it.
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There's so many people that I met.
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First of all, I had to make a list of everybody.
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So I first let me let me say shout out to Biggie.
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Awesome meeting Biggie. Of course John Costeco hung out
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with him at the bar and and Biggie and Big Country Rainy got
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to visit with Rainy Mike Rucker and his lovely wife Amber who
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they she wears the Tigs bits hat way way, way better than all of
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us. She was.
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I walk into the whole deal blasey and I see a Tigs Bits
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hat. Are you kidding me?
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No, she had a Tigs Bits hat on at bar.
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At bar, yes, so cool. I did not.
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She did. I had a boa hat on Stacey G, of
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course. And you saw you saw me meet
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Stacey G. What a lovely lady.
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I told, I told Jr. last night when we were doing our live, we
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talked a little bit about some of this stuff.
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But I was like, yeah, I'm keeping it on the surface.
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I'm keeping this for the Bubba show.
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But she did. We we talked about this during
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one of these shows, one of these lives that we did about making a
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Jewish brisket. And we would ever really
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continue that conversation. I was like, what is that?
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Never finished it. We talked, she's going to get
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the recipe, I believe, she said from her sister.
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And I'm going to make a video of it and I'm going to cook a
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Jewish brisket and see what that's all about.
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I don't know anything about a Jewish.
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Brisket me either. I have no idea and I told her
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don't even explain it. I don't even I don't want.
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I want no bias, nothing. I just want to enjoy it.
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I'm going to cook it right. I promise you I can do that.
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And and we're going to see. But yeah, so that's something to
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look forward to. It's so nice to meet her as
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well. Got to meet Fish on Jay at the
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he's in the chat a lot. Super nice dude.
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Yeah. He loves our show too.
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And that, that's what's crazy, Blasey.
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All the love that I got from everybody that I'm naming here
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and more people. I'm leaving people off.
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I'm so sorry for doing that. But met so many people.
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Absolutely nothing but love, dude.
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That's so cool. It really helped me.
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I needed that. I needed that little shot in the
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arm of like, I didn't know where we stood with.
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I didn't know where we were at here, you know, because if you
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read Reddit, we're about to be out.
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Of the door. I never been on Reddit so I'm
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glad I. Don't, don't, don't, don't do.
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It start tomorrow either but. It's not worth your time if you
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read some of the chat. Look, I know we're not for
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everybody. I know we're going to rub
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somebody the right way. You may not like our voice, our
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accent, or the way we talk, what we talk about, but one thing is
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for sure. I didn't get that impression
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whatsoever in Tampa, FL at the BRN headquarters at all.
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Nothing but love, no. That's that's amazing.
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And I've still got more questions for you, but.
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Oh, I know you do. We haven't even started with
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that. To your point though, like, all
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right, so when I went the first time, the 1st Bubba Army
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appreciation party thing at at the baseball game, not this past
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summer, but the summer before 2023, Dude, it sounds a little
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crazy, but I bet you had this the same experience.
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It's a little bit surreal too, because you get there and it's
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like especially all these people in these names you've heard from
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the show and all this. It's a little bit kind of like,
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I mean, I'm not trying to overplay this thing, but it
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really is. It was kind of like a Field of
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Dreams type thing, people walking up to you.
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It's like, oh, this. Oh my God, it's like this, these
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people really exist. You know what I mean?
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Like all these people coming up introducing themselves to you.
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It's like it's very surreal. Yeah, I can then.
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And I can't imagine, like those parties were awesome, right?
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But I can't imagine. Now let's add the BARP level.
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Just at BARP, you're getting the ring, you're doing, you're
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seeing the Hall of Fame stuff and all that like that.
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I bet it. I bet it was a crazy feeling a
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little bit. It was, it was.
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It was rushed. Not by them, by by me.
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So I didn't, I didn't have a chance.
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Like I'm taking it in now. That's what I told Jr. last
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night. I was.
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I've got a, I've got a still. I'm still processing this whole.
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Deal really and truly. And it may be a month before I
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can actually give tell you everything that happened because
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it's it's like it just happened so fast.
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It was all got there. Didn't get there till 3:00.
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We'll get into that. Didn't get to Tampa until
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Saturday at 3:00. The event started at 8:00.
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You know, my window of opportunity to do the things
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that I like to do didn't. It was a shorter window, but I
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got it done. I got things accomplished.
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But you're no quitter, that's for sure.
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You're I'm not a quitter. No, I'm not.
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I'm proud of you because I I thought it was over with when
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the journey began. Within a few hours, I thought
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the journey was over, like I really did.
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You and me both, brother, You and me both.
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Let's walk, walk us through that a little bit like, you know,
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like what your plan was. Just tell us what happened.
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I mean cause 'cause you went through some crap there I.
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I did. I did one more shout out,
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though. I got, of course I met.
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I got, I think I said Bob Cook got to talk to him a lot.
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Bob. It's cool.
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Craig and Rio, Gary Cantrell. Oh, yeah, I met.
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They they they were my very first impression of them was
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exactly the way it should be. I'm standing there at the side
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kind of where you come in the gate and that back door, that
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back where you type the keypad keypad in to go into the studio.
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All of a sudden that door open quickly, Cheech and Chong style.
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And here they both stumbled out like just it was awesome.
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And then late I I haven't and I had not been in there yet.
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So I had no idea the setup, what it was like.
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In fact, how I got in there was with Alex Stein.
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We went in together. He knew the keypad.
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So we went. Yeah, we'll we'll get to.
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Alex Yeah, forgot about that. Yeah, forgot about that.
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All the people, everybody that y'all know got to meet them all
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of course, but the make my MVP that night beyond Biggie Casteca
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and all them Jay from NOLA. See, Jay and I and I didn't know
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he was going to be there. Jay used to produce our Sunday
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night show whenever we were on ESPN Radio here in Baton Rouge.
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We guarantee media, Matt English and I, the bottom line.
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He was our producer on Sunday nights.
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He worked for the radio station. It was there.
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He's also a Baton Rouge cop. He's a drummer in a band. 2 here
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locally, which we're going to have them on the show at some
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point this year. We've been he and I've been
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talking about that for a while, but to have him there and then
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just get to catch up, it was like having somebody from home
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with me. And he introduced me to a lot of
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people too, which was great because I didn't, you know,
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it's, yeah, I don't know, faces and I don't know all these names
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quite as much as you guys do. I'm learning.
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But anyhow, So what was your question?
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How this whole thing began? Rewind it back to the beginning.
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Your journey leaving, yeah, just like, yeah, did the obstacles
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that you ran into, how you thought you overcame and how you
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thought you finally hit another just like absolutely
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debilitating obstacle and then suddenly I think you over came
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again and you ended up there. So.
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So how did that all happen? I think that we can say the name
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of this trip is overcoming adversity.
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And so, and we were it was full of it.
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So we it was a week ago as we're recording this a week ago today,
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I had a, a, a rental car rented lockdown whatever at Enterprise
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and I had to be there at 10:30 to to pick pick it up.
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Number one, I didn't make it at 10:30.
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I didn't realize I had to actually be there at that exact
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time, whatever, but still get there.
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They had she said it wouldn't have mattered.
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We don't have any cars and no one in this area has cars.
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What's what's going on? What's the run on cars?
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Doesn't matter. That ended that the truck.
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It is OK, I just got I got the oil change.
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I was prepared. I had the oil change, tires
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rotated, all that good stuff just in case this were to
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happen. And it did the thing that sucked
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40 minutes from my house to the other side of town where I was
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going to get this car 40 minutes back.
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Wasted an hour and a half of my day on that.
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So didn't leave Baton Rouge until 1:00 PM.
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We're already behind 4 hours on this whole deal just from wow,
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Everything all right then? But it worked out.
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I said, hey, our favorite little brewery, one of our favorites is
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in Hammond. Gnarly Barley is open.
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They have a double juice of her IPAI Haven't been able to find
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it here yet. It just came out.
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Let's stop there and buy some for the trip.
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And hopefully they have their little restaurant across the
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street open. We'll get a hamburger, whatever,
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which is what we did pick all that up.
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Had a good little hamburger. We're all now we're we're coming
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back into it. We're getting back.
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Everything's starting to work out a little bit better.
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And then about 50 miles down the road or so we get to Diamond
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Head, Mississippi coming under this overpass traffic.
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I can see them way up there. They're starting to stop.
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I stop behind this car and then this 18 Wheeler was at a dead
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stop. And then I look at my rearview
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mirror and I see this white van coming and I can tell it's
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slowing down though. And I'm like, all right, you
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know how it is. You're in traffic, you're
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looking, and you're like, God, I hope they see me.
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I hope they see me. They do.
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And then I'm still just kind of watching, but I'm not really
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looking in my rearview mirror. And then all of a sudden, Dukes
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of Hazzard style comes this silver Malibu, Chevy Malibu
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coming wide open. I mean, wide open.
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And he locked up, hit the van behind me and there's a
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barricade wall, you know, with the, the big plastic or not play
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the big concrete wall barriers. They're doing something in the
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median there. And so they had those up to
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protect the people in the middle.
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Thank God, 'cause this guy would have ran right over one of them.
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And so this dude's navigating, riding 1 tires on the damn wall.
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I and I could see him in my mirror.
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He's coming. I just went oh.
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So he was intentionally doing this.
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He wasn't like had to stop and. No, he wasn't he.
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He was just rocking. He never saw that.
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He never saw that car stopped is what happened, is he?
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God knows what he was doing or what he was on, but he drove the
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hell out of it. I'm not going to lie.
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He hit that car, hit the back, blew the tire out, hit the wall,
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drove on it trying to avoid me, hits me in the back, hits me at
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the bumper in the tail light and then slams into the gas tank
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kind of right where the gas. The whole side there, it's like
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you've gone down the side of an RV or something, Yeah.
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And then bam, right into the back of that 18 Wheeler dude, if
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he had been a foot over to the right, he's dead.
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That dude, that dude's probably decapitated.
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His half is. Engineer coming in that
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windshield passenger side. But he didn't, he hit there.
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And what do you think happened to this crackhead?
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The first thing that he does is he jumps out of the window.
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I guess that was open. Duke's a Hazzard style and just
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starts to run and takes like 3 or 4 steps, stops, turns back
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around 'cause I think it hit him.
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Oh God, I hope I didn't. You know, what have I done?
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I'm out of the truck at this point.
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Like what in the hell dude, what's wrong with you?
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You know like what what happened and he's blaming the guy behind?
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He checked up man. He checked up like nobody comes
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in that fast. If he was checked up, he was
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basically full damn throttle when he hit the one behind it.
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He probably hit me at 50. God, at least that may have
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been. I mean, it could be
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exaggerating, but it barely moved the truck, like no
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movement. So we're fine, but we got to
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wait on the police to get there and all that stuff.
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And like, I know this Jackass doesn't have insurance.
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He doesn't. And yeah, so he's there.
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And that's the one thing that I did say.
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The cop was there and I was, he's like, I got insurance, man.
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I swear. I do.
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I swear I do. No, I knew he didn't.
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Long story long on this part. The next thing we know he is
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getting carried away in handcuffs.
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He was arrested on the scene. Not only did he have insurance
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and invalid license, but he also had two warrants out for his
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arrest. Oh my God.
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Yeah. He was who you who you thought
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he was. He's exactly who I thought he
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was. I knew I knew who he was.
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So then we the, but the folks in Diamond Head, Mississippi could
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not have been any nicer. The cops, everybody super
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fantastic. Not an experience I want anybody
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to go through, but it couldn't have gone better and they were
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helpful. Got shout out to the 18 Wheeler
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driver. My tire on my on my driver's
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side, man, I didn't even have a pinky size.
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My pinky wouldn't fit in between the little slit where it had
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bent my mud flap. You needed a star wrench to be
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able to take that off. He had it and he was able to
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help me take that off. And then that opened that up.
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So I was no longer worried about rubbing that or because I think
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I would have it would have blown the tire out, which did happen
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on further down the road. So we get going.
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The cop was nice. He told me you got to fix the
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tail light. You need to fix that tail light
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if you're going to go on to Tampa.
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But I would, I would fix it. And I went, yeah, that's a good
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idea. So I go, we go on down the road
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about 20 minutes, 1520 minutes to an Advance Auto Parts.
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Pull in there, get the stuff like everything's just really is
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worked out though. Guy with the wrench, go to
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Advance Auto Parts. They have one little plastic
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shield, They have one more roll of duct.
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You actually were able to put a shield up there too.
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Shield ready? Oh yeah, it.
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Looks like a looks like a whole brand new.
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IT doesn't look brand new at all.
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But I mean, yes, street legal is what what it is and new bulb and
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we're on our way. We're going about 10 or 15
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minutes now. I had I was monitoring the tire
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pressure on my truck this whole time because I know that Jackass
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hit that tire. I can't prove it, but he didn't
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hit the rim or anything, but he had to where he hit.
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He had to have at least touched the tire.
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So I'm watching the air pressure on it just to see if anything
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weird happens with it and nothing is and then all of a
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sudden the passenger side rear tire starts.
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The gauge is going down. Yeah.
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I'm like, you think this is just a coincidence because we got in
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a little wreck and this thing's all monitors all wrong or
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whatever. I went, well, we're not going to
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take a chance. We're going to pull off here.
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I think it is. We're right at the Biloxi exit
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at this point. The last one, like there's
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nothing that, you know, we're talking about.
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There's nothing else. Pass it.
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Pull right into that Hampton Inn.
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I'm. Whenever I noticed it, it was at
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26 lbs. When I got in the parking lot of
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the Hampton Inn, it was at 22 lbs.
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I got out and I had a little manual deal.
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I mean, I didn't even have to check.
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I was like, yeah. Yeah, I can see.
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It it's yeah, there's a flat there.
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So I went and parked, moved over, parked in the flattest
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spot in the parking lot, told my wife Tammy, we're done.
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I ain't going anywhere else. I'm not changing that tire.
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We're staying here in this Hampton Inn tonight and we'll
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figure it out in the morning. Well, that's when I get the text
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though from you. That's.
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When you got the text. Says I'm out, we're done.
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I've cancelled the room in Tampa.
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This is over with the end trip ended here.
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I'm, you know, it's like, I can only imagine your frustration.
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I mean, you didn't. Yeah, I was beyond.
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Frustration. Then you get hit, then you have
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a few things lined up for you after getting hit, you know,
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going down the road now you got a flat tire on top of it.
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I get it. I get it.
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But you know, I was, I was still pumping.
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You know, I was, I was like, come on, man.
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You were definitely cheering me on.
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And I was, I was, it was a moment of weakness, you know
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what I mean? Like, it's what it was.
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It was it. Almost felt like you didn't need
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to go, you know what I mean? Like something's telling you
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well. That's what I well, that's what
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that's the conversations that we had.
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Like something's telling us that we're not supposed to go on this
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trip and I don't know if we're supposed to listen to this or
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what, but my God, we couldn't be off to a worse start here, you
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know? So but but I agreed and settled
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down. Couple hours later you can tell
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it was back in play after I just needed to you got that text
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immediate like got to the room just giving y'all updates.
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Wake up the next morning and I go to the truck.
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This is how it starts. The next day I'm like, OK, I'm
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going to put the spare on and I'm going to go find a tire
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shop. I couldn't get the lock to
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unlock to even get the spare out.
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It would not come out. I'm went hell.
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My God, now look on the thing again.
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They had told me at the front desk.
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Shout out to the girl at the front desk at the Hampton Inn.
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By the way, she, she's a sleuth and she we told her the whole
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story of everything. When we checked in, they gave us
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a great rate for the night. I think we only paid 93 bucks.
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Which, that's awesome. Shout out to them, but she wrote
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this. I don't know if you can see it
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or not, but she's ship. So Thomas Everett's the Jackass
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who hit me. He was arrested and booked at
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6:48 PM. He's 5 foot 4 and 36 years old.
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Looks exactly like you think he does.
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She was great. Jordan, at the Hampton Inn.
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She told me about this tire shop, and that's where I was
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going to go. I was going to get that, see if
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they come look at it. And that's why I was like, I
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ain't jacking this thing up. I'm not going to mess with it
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man. I didn't even look on the maps
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until the key situation wouldn't happen with with my truck.
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There's a tire shop right across the street like Jordan.
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Why don't you just tell me this. I walked to it.
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I get they opened at 7:30 as well.
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It was like 745. I went this is perfect, so I'll
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walk over there told them what was up.
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They could not have been any nicer world of tires.
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I do believe something like that.
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I can't remember the name of them, but they couldn't.
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They could not have been any nicer.
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Come over, grab the tire, take it off.
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Have to get a new tire. No big deal.
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Brings it back, puts it on and looked at the truck.
21:30
I was like, look, this thing over behind the very obvious
21:32
cosmic damage here, cosmetic damage, it's done.
21:36
What would you do? Would you keep going to Tampa or
21:39
Or should we stay local? I wasn't going home.
21:42
Yeah. It was just like, should we stay
21:44
in Biloxi and work our way back in this or should we let's go
21:49
put 1000 miles on this bitch. What do we do You?
21:51
Still got a ways to go? It ain't like you're halfway
21:53
there. No, we're two hours into the
21:55
trip. We're two 2 1/2 hours into the
21:57
trip. And you got what, still 8 hours
22:00
+8 and a? Half left a ways to go.
22:03
So we we got the tire on and I went and took it for a test run
22:09
and it's 8 miles to the next exit from where we were at and
22:13
that tire was going to go flat before we got to that 8 miles.
22:16
So you talk about a godsend that was couldn't that everything
22:19
worked out? Yeah, that's what we started
22:21
telling. Ourselves now.
22:22
We're there for a reason. You hit this exit, this happened
22:25
now instead of a little bit down the road bank cleaning or
22:27
something. That explained the worst
22:29
vibration I was feeling in the truck, too.
22:32
Once we've got the new tire on it, it felt fine.
22:35
Yeah. So I'm like, we rolling.
22:38
That's whatever. I sent you the the text that we
22:41
push east and push E We did. We went to Lake City and had a
22:47
great stayed there because it's like if we get to Tampa on
22:50
Friday night, it's going to be 10 O clock by the time we get
22:54
there and what good are we really going to go get in at at
22:57
10? So I was like, we'll just stop
22:59
at Lake City and we ate at this awesome little Mexican
23:02
restaurant. Had a great little experience
23:03
had a Margarita and you know went back to the room and on on
23:07
the trip goes but great little hotel there.
23:10
They had a good gym. I hit the gym that morning, a
23:13
great little continental breakfast and.
23:15
Just an ice cream, fresh. Printer.
23:17
You know those pancake printers, you ever say?
23:20
I call it a pancake printer. It'll drop the pancake out and
23:23
it's got this conveyor belt. It just makes pancakes like a
23:26
3D. Printer know exactly what you're
23:27
talking about. So I'm a big Hilton guy, like
23:30
Hilton stuff. I know you're a Marriott guy,
23:33
like them too, but it this was a Hilton place.
23:38
Excellent check out time noon we leave their check in time hotel
23:43
in Tampa 3:00 perfect time perfect absolutely perfect.
23:47
So when we got that's exactly how it happened too.
23:50
We got there right at 3 and everything was rocking and
23:54
rolling and then we go and meet Kasteka and all of them.
23:58
So that's the very long winded journey that I did not share the
24:03
whole thing last night on the the show.
24:05
I gave them an abbreviated. Version, man, that was I mean,
24:08
that's a heck of a journey. You went on like and like you
24:10
said, overcoming adversity is, is what you did there in that
24:14
trip and most people would have given up there and and you know
24:17
what kind of you know, right, rightfully so.
24:19
That's a lot of crap, you know. It's not a good start.
24:23
Yeah, Now I heard on Bubba, they thought that you came and they
24:25
thought that me or Jr. got in a wreck and I was like, no, the
24:28
one that got in a wreck, the one that made it, the two other ones
24:31
that didn't, did not get into a record, did not make it, you
24:33
know. So, yeah, I was.
24:35
Yeah, I was. I was in Hampton Inn as well
24:37
that weekend, but I was in Greenville, AL But I had a great
24:41
trip hunting with my son and I end up having to check down with
24:44
work. I had to be back here on Sunday.
24:46
I had couldn't leave till, I mean, it was like, I can't go,
24:48
you know what I mean? I'd have to get up at 4:00 AM,
24:51
you know, and I've got my son. So it just it just not work out.
24:53
Like it just told my square peg, round hole deal.
24:56
As much as I hated it, it was done.
24:59
So we did go hunting, which was fun, and we made waffles.
25:02
Really this whole trip was just going from hotel to hotel.
25:05
That's what we just went and did, but it it couldn't have
25:08
been more fun. Happy 50th birthday to my lovely
25:11
wife Tammy. Happy 50th.
25:14
It'll be this Sunday. This was part of our trip.
25:18
I knew when we were at that Hampton Inn, bro, she broke down
25:22
a little bit. That's why I was finished.
25:24
At that point. I'm like not finished.
25:27
Like we got to make. We got to figure something out.
25:30
I wasn't. So I wasn't 100% sure how much
25:33
she wanted to make it to Tampa as much as she just wanted to be
25:37
on the road. Let me tell you, she wanted to
25:40
make it to damn Tampa. She was bound and determined to
25:43
go to this bark party and I think everybody there that met
25:47
her would say well, they have said I out kicked my coverage.
25:51
They all loved her. We didn't come in as hot as
25:55
expected Blasey. That's why pretty much played
25:59
it. Going to be honest, that's
26:01
pretty straight for all things considered.
26:04
Like I would, I would liken my level to, I don't know, maybe
26:11
like a big game in in early September where it's just too
26:15
damn hot to get too damn lit. That's what I'd like.
26:19
To do I get it? No, I get it.
26:21
I get it. I mean, I I think that's the way
26:22
I rolled in, but I. Also want to remember
26:24
everything. Too, I, I get it, I get all the
26:27
above, you know, and, and there's a lot going on there.
26:30
There's plenty of, there's plenty of personalities in that
26:33
room. You didn't have to go be part,
26:34
You didn't have to create a show.
26:36
There's some, there's a lot of shows going on.
26:38
I just enjoyed visiting with everybody.
26:40
Captain Creamsicle, of course, got to meet him and visit with
26:43
him and miss. April, the captain and his wife.
26:46
The Cap and his wife, Macho man. I saw Macho man.
26:51
I was like, damn, that is macho man.
26:52
He looks that's macho man. And I was like, hey, Macho man,
26:55
I'm Tigs. And he's like hey, that was
26:58
that. That was great.
27:00
Lasker. Lasker almost ran over me in the
27:03
parking lot. There's that Bubba video of his
27:05
entrance. I'm at the very end whenever it
27:08
stopped and you can kind of, I zoomed in on me, you can kind of
27:12
see I went this way. I went this way.
27:14
One thing was for certain, he wasn't, we played chicken and he
27:18
was coming straight and it was we had to move.
27:22
He wasn't moving. And so I just didn't know which
27:25
way I should move. But I got out of the damn way of
27:27
Lasker. And wasn't just a few seconds
27:32
after that, Alex Stein and I, Cantrell's got it.
27:35
I don't know how the audio was. I don't know how it plays or
27:37
anything, but he recorded it. Me and Stein did a deal and I
27:41
was like, I don't know if we can say this in this time and era.
27:44
Well, actually, I think we can. We just got in a Mexican
27:47
standoff. I got in a Mexican standoff with
27:50
Lasker and I lost. I mean, it's just the bottom
27:54
line. I wasn't going to get ran over.
27:56
I mean, that guy's killed a guy. I'm not going to be the second
27:59
one that he kills, Something along those lines.
28:01
So yeah, I don't know if it'll ever see the little light of
28:04
day, but it was still. Hilarious.
28:06
I can't wait to see it. Alex.
28:07
That's a big dude, isn't it? He's a lot taller than I thought
28:10
for sure. He really is man.
28:12
And it was. Like 65 or something.
28:14
I mean, it's a big dude. Oh, I believe that totally, yes.
28:17
He's way taller than I thought he was.
28:20
It was, it was awesome. He was talking.
28:23
I saw him and then I kind of, I came up and he turned, turned
28:27
and looked at me and then we gave each other a hug and he was
28:29
like Tigs. And it was like, wait, you
28:32
really actually know who I am? That's crazy.
28:35
That's awesome. Of course he.
28:36
Does he? He's a supporter of our show,
28:38
but it's still just kind of mind blowing to me, you know?
28:42
Like, I get it, I get it. I still, I just, it's hard for
28:45
me to get out of this little bubble that we're in.
28:47
I still just think I'm here in this studio looking at this
28:50
computer monitor, looking at you and then get out of this room
28:53
and it's like, oh wait, real people actually watches.
28:57
These folks are real too. What the hell is going on?
29:01
Why do you like us? So I get it.
29:03
We're great. We're nice.
29:05
We're just some good old boys making some good old noise.
29:09
That's. It man, dude, that's so cool,
29:10
man. I'm, I'm yeah, I'm very jealous.
29:13
Very, very, very jealous. But you know, I'd let that when
29:17
I let it go. That's why I called this.
29:19
I just let it go, you know what I mean?
29:20
I was like, OK, you know what? You know, I just can't go.
29:23
Hope Brantley. I know Brantley's going to have
29:24
a good time. You know, I'm not going to sit
29:26
here and pout over it like a little kid.
29:29
You know, maybe I did pout for a little while, but after that.
29:31
I'm sure you did. I mean, I would too.
29:34
A little FOMO. Yeah, yeah.
29:37
But but yeah, yeah, that's that's awesome, dude.
29:41
I wish it. Was fun.
29:42
Now I'll tell you of everybody there who I mean and I I love
29:46
them all. I love them.
29:47
All of the people who work at the at the BRNI think the cat
29:51
that I would probably become like we we might be best
29:54
friends. Who Red?
29:57
Red, Red was so busy that I didn't get to visit with him
30:00
much. But I we did talk for a second
30:02
and yeah, I got very good vibes from him, yeah.
30:06
Close. He's a cool dude.
30:07
Colton Oh yeah. Oh yeah, we.
30:10
Get it, dude. He's great.
30:12
I knew that. I was like, yeah.
30:13
You knew that and Colton. Gets along with everybody.
30:15
He's really good. He's like the Jr. of their
30:17
group, too. You know, we talked about that
30:19
one time before. That's awesome, man.
30:20
Yeah. I love that dude, man.
30:22
We we had, we had a great time. He he he's super, super cool.
30:27
At the very end we were I was leaving.
30:30
Let's get not going to lie, I know everybody was going to the
30:33
dollhouse and all of that stuff after this trip Tiggy had had
30:38
Tiggy was plus I had brunch. So Sunday morning we had to be
30:42
out of the hotel by 10:15 or so, so we could go make brunch with
30:46
my brother-in-law and and sister-in-law.
30:49
Lord, it was that weather was was terrible Sunday morning that
30:54
you know, can't do anything about that.
30:56
It was at Lona or something like that that we went to.
31:00
Is it the Marriott downtown? So I got to go to downtown.
31:05
Is that where they did the Super Bowl deal?
31:08
Like where Tom Brady threw the Super Bowl trophy was down in
31:11
that. Area so the Hillsboro River is
31:14
right behind all that yeah it runs through there so yes all.
31:17
Through there, somewhere along there.
31:18
Yeah. That's what it looked like when
31:20
I was there. Man, that is so cool.
31:22
Like I want to go back to Tampa whenever I can actually, you
31:26
know, experience it for two or three days.
31:29
Yeah, that, that's for sure. I want to.
31:31
I want to do that. Anyhow, at the very end of the
31:33
deal, I wore my ring and I don't have my ring to show you.
31:37
I will show you later. Actually, Seth, Seth and I had
31:41
this conversation. He's like, what are you going to
31:42
do with their rings? Do you need to get the rings?
31:44
I went already got them. I don't know if they'll ever get
31:48
them as I'll be honest with you. It's like you'll get your ring,
31:52
but I don't know when. It may be.
31:56
It may be forever, but, but at the very end I was wearing it
32:01
upside down as I've now seen in pictures, but I wasn't paying
32:04
attention. And I go to give.
32:06
I go to give Colton a big old hug and blam, I just slung that
32:10
sucker. Did you really slung it?
32:12
Yeah, but it's fine. It didn't break or anything.
32:15
Wow. Did the ring, I mean, it's like
32:18
a Super Bowl ring. It is well made.
32:22
It's like you're Jostens senior ring on steroids.
32:26
It is totally. It's a Super Bowl ring.
32:29
That's all there is to it. Yeah.
32:31
Dang, that's awesome. Yeah, I saw the picture of it.
32:33
Dude, I think that thing's pimp. That thing's awesome.
32:36
It is, it totally is. Well dude, what else?
32:41
You got any other questions for me for this trip?
32:44
No, man, I mean, I think that's it.
32:45
You know, you sounds like you mean you overcame adversity.
32:49
You made it down there, you had a good time.
32:51
You didn't overdo it. You didn't ruin us down there.
32:53
That's what Jr. was a little worried about my overdo it kind
32:56
of just go down there, just it all implodes for us.
32:58
But you didn't do that and so that.
33:00
Could have happened too, yeah. You slow played it like you
33:02
should. That's yeah, that's yeah, I get
33:04
it. I get it kind.
33:05
Of proud of myself to be. As you should be.
33:07
As you should be. As you should be.
33:09
One last little shout out though, the ride home was so
33:12
much smoother. We left, we go.
33:16
We went to Tallahassee on Sunday and that was the original
33:21
destination on Thursday when we left, I found this little hotel,
33:26
it's called the Bob Hotel, Bob Boutique on budget.
33:31
I was like OK, but it had a cool looking lobby and all that.
33:35
While we were on our way to Tampa, I needed to get gas and I
33:39
said let's just stop. There's a Chevron right by that
33:42
hotel. Let's stop there, get gas and
33:44
look at it and see if we actually want to stay there.
33:47
On the way back when in the lobby, the dude remembered me
33:51
because I canceled the room and he helped me hook me up with a
33:54
credit on that. And he remembered the
33:56
conversation, was kind of shocked that we stopped by just
34:00
to look at the lobby. And so it's like, yeah, dude,
34:03
we're going to stop back here on Sunday night.
34:05
So we did great little place Bob boutique home budget.
34:10
Got to check out Bob. You got to check out.
34:12
Heard of it? Yeah.
34:13
You know how much? 100 bucks.
34:16
Dang, there you go, And. It's like 87 bucks during the
34:18
week. So I mean it's not not
34:20
expensive. They gutted this old sleep in
34:24
and just totally redid it. It's just really, really cool
34:27
all the little things they have in it.
34:29
They have great pizza, fantastic pizza.
34:32
They have a little pizza and they have a great little
34:34
breakfast in there and a little continental breakfast too.
34:37
So check them out if you're ever traveling through Tallahassee.
34:40
They're not. They didn't pay for anything.
34:42
They didn't give me a room or anything, just my wife loved it,
34:46
loved it. So if you're wanting to go
34:49
somewhere, you're wanting to go somewhere that's not that
34:51
expensive and you're traveling, great place to stop.
34:54
So I had to give those guys some love.
34:57
And then it worked out good because we're in Tallahassee and
35:00
I'm like, hey, this snow storm's coming.
35:02
We got to RIP ass to get back to Baton Rouge, but we're going to
35:06
get groceries here at Walmart in Tallahassee.
35:10
So we got some stuff and got the essentials.
35:13
I had my cooler in the truck loaded up.
35:16
Perfect deal. And shout out to Tallahassee.
35:20
Oh, that's awesome, man. For not people not going crazy
35:23
over the snow and ice in Tallahassee like they were
35:26
basically pretty much starting at the next exit from their own
35:31
home, it would have been terrible.
35:33
Yeah, that's, that's that's that's why I do.
35:37
I like Tallahassee. That's that's a good little town
35:38
over there. I used to go.
35:39
There's a cool pizza place over there.
35:40
What's it called? Memo's.
35:41
That's what I was trying to look up Memo's.
35:43
Pizza. Yeah, you sent me.
35:44
Not a bad little spot at all man.
35:45
They got this big giant pizzas too.
35:47
Like I've seen people walk out like couldn't even get it in a
35:49
car. I have to put it on top and
35:50
leave. But now that the pizza is good.
35:52
But yeah, well, dude, man, I'm glad you had a great trip there.
35:55
I'm glad it all worked out. You know, a little bit eventful,
35:58
which kind of kind of goes with the territory, right?
36:01
It led to a whole podcast, which is exactly what we were hoping
36:05
would happen, which is what the motivation was.
36:07
Blasey. Then what you told me, like this
36:10
is going to make a heck of a story if you actually make it
36:13
there. And I'm like, oh, trust me, I I
36:15
know. And that's the goal.
36:17
That's the goal. So after we talked, it was no
36:21
doubt that that we were going to make it come hell or high water
36:25
or I was just going to completely implode and RIP my
36:27
truck up, one of the two. But it was don't anybody ever
36:31
question if I'm bubble army or not ever, ever.
36:35
Yeah, that's all I got to say about that.