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2,700 Miles, One Viral Troll, and a Trip I’ll Never Forget · Tigs Bits Podcast

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  Yes yes, yes. What is up everybody?
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  Hey y'all welcome to Tigs Bits man.
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  Feels like it's been a minute since since I've done one of
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  these things. I hopefully I'm not too rusty
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  tonight. I'm going to have to shake the
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  cobwebs off and all of that. It has been a couple of weeks.
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  I think it's maybe the longest that I have gone without doing a
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  show or recording a show or anything in a couple of years
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  probably. So it's been nice.
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  Appreciate y'all hanging with us, hanging with me.
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  Let me get a little bit of a break in.
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  Lots of good stuff coming. We're going to get to that later
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  on tonight. So this is just going to be kind
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  of tonight. It's a hangout.
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  That's all that we're going to do.
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  I want y'all to be active in the chat tonight and and we're we're
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  going to kind of talk about some of the stuff I'm going to talk
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  about this. The trip that I just got back
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  from going to that was a nice little 2700 plus mile little
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  family road trip thanks to LSU winning the College World Series
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  and going to Omaha. I won't dive too deep in the
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  Tigers. I'm not going to dive into XS
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  and OS, but I will talk about some of the fun stuff that we
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  did and all of that. Of course, I've had a video that
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  went viral. It blew up as we went through
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  Arkansas or Arkansas, as Les Miles used to call it, went
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  hiking in the Devil's Den. We went to Astros games in
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  Houston and and then we're going to talk about what all's coming
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  up with the channel in the month of July.
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  So let me see, who do we have in the chat tonight?
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  Oh, yeah. What is up, Fat Pig?
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  Good to see you, Sir. Good to see you.
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  Brian Gilson. What's going on, brother?
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  Brian, good to see you, man. Good to see.
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  You wouldn't be a show without my main man, Mr. Paul Rogers.
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  I'm trying something new here, Paul.
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  Just bear with me. I don't.
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  I don't know if that worked, but we're just going.
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  Like I said, we're going to have fun tonight.
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  It's just going to be loose. You're going to get a full on,
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  possibly a little weird Tiggy tonight I might get weird in
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  here tonight I might get weird. I'm by myself.
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  I don't even have earphones. I can't hear anything.
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  So yes, yes, yes. Ladies and gentlemen, without
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  any further ado, Mr. John Co Stucco.
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  Yeah. Good to see you, Mr. Johnny.
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  I've seen you've been on the road too, my man.
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  Doing some good stuff, eating some good food, seeing some ball
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  games, all of that. I love that.
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  I love that. What is up, Dusty?
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  What is going on, brother? My man.
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  My man, he says Congrats to the Tigers.
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  Go dogs. Tennessee is a shit hole.
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  Don't want to don't want to offend any Tennessee people at
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  all, but yeah, OK. Yeah.
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  I mean, I ain't. I ain't going to disagree
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  totally. Baseball fans are terrible.
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  They're for sure Mr. Carl Dunn. What is up?
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  Carl the cat. Appreciate you joining.
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  He's still mad that I didn't save him some steak.
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  I understand, dude. I understand.
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  It did not last. It did not last long at all.
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  Look, I'm going to try a little something new tonight as y'all
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  comment. I think it'll show over there or
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  show on the screen. It says some new feature because
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  I get I get to talking and sometimes I miss some chats.
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  But I do want y'all to chime it up tonight.
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  Let's have some fun and, and let's get in it.
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  So tonight, kind of like I said, I told everything.
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  Y'all voted, y'all voted. I put the poll up and I said
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  look what night do we want to do this show?
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  When should we do it? Do you want to do it on a
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  Tuesday? You want to do it tonight?
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  Do you want to do it tomorrow night, Wednesday or do you want
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  to go at our regular time on Thursday at 7:30?
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  Well, you know, everybody voted here we are obviously and that's
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  great. I kind of like it.
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  Hopefully my Internet stays relatively OK.
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  It seems to be struggling a little bit tonight, so we'll
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  we'll see. Y'all let me know if it starts
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  acting up. I don't know what else I can do.
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  We're just going to rock'n'roll. That's all that we're going to
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  do. T Wayne Foster, what is up, Sir?
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  What is up? Good to see you, brother.
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  Good to see you. Yeah, Carl the Katz, glad we got
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  to Omaha. It is beautiful for sure, for
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  sure. And we're going to get all into
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  that. But happy 4th of July.
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  If you listen to this after the fact, before I forget, it is the
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  4th of July this weekend. And that is really and truly why
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  we're doing this tonight on a Tuesday.
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  And then, man, it's got me to start thinking so many of y'all
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  all popped off and said let's do this on Tuesday.
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  I was like, crap, when should we move this show to Tuesday
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  nights? I'm cool with that.
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  But then I looked and and and we just got Riley's football
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  schedule and yeah, that's not going to happen.
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  In fact, there'll probably be some Thursdays.
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  There's probably going to be, it'll look like there may be 3,
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  maybe 3 weeks out of starting in September, really starting in
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  August until October three, maybe 4 weeks where it may be a
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  struggle to go live that week. But you know, I know y'all
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  understand that and we'll get to it.
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  But it looks like at least through the fall, let's keep it
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  on Thursday, on Thursday night. And plus it kind of works out.
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  This is this July 3rd. This is my mom and dad's 60th
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  wedding anniversary. Isn't that amazing?
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  60 years. So we may be doing something on
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  that night with them. We talked about maybe cooking
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  steaks, something like that. I don't know.
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  We'll, we'll see. We'll see what's been going on.
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  But tell you what, I'm I'm wiped out.
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  I'm still wiped out from all of the travel that we've been
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  doing. But hey, you know, I'm feeling
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  starting to feel a little recharged after the break.
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  We'll we'll see. We'll see.
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  Look, shout out in case I forget at any point.
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  Shout out to everyone new that may be watching this show that
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  that found found the show through this run with LSU going
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  to the College World Series. The the tiger ragtime band
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  brought in a lot of new followers.
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  Then my crazy Arkansas video that brought in some new
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  followers, probably lost a lot of followers during that one
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  too. I don't know.
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  It's hard to. It's kind of hard to keep up and
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  really tell. But overall gaining followers,
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  which is what we're trying to do over here at Tigs Bits.
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  Look who made it into the chat, Mr. Jason Hilton.
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  What is up? What is up?
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  Hilty, Good to see you, man. Good to see you.
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  Yeah, Brian says the 60th. That is great.
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  Isn't that crazy? It's just so crazy. 6060 years,
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  man, 60 years. I've had a lot of people ask
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  about my dad, you know, and, and we, we know you guys that are,
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  are with, with me every week know that dad is, has stage 4
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  cancer. He's he's gone, he's had a peaks
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  and valleys throughout the last little while, the last three
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  years or so that he's, that he's been fighting it and he's been,
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  he's had a he's been fighting the heck out of it.
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  There's no, no doubt about it, but the truth is he's not doing
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  great right now. So we're just kind of taking
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  things day-to-day. It's been a pretty tough stretch
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  the last couple 3 weeks and, and honestly, I don't want to get
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  down at all because y'all, I think y'all know me well enough
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  to, to know that I like to stay up, stay positive and, and, and
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  be happy, be as happy as I can. But you know, it, that's really
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  what kind of led me to pulling the trigger on going on this
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  amazing Omaha run, this amazing Omaha trip that we just really,
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  really and truly had no plans on going on.
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  But then, but then, but then we did.
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  So I really appreciate all the thoughts, all the prayers,
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  Everybody out there, you'll keep them coming.
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  We're going to need them. You know, even though he wasn't
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  with us on this trip, he's on my mind.
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  I talked to him as LSU won the championship.
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  That's something I'll never forget.
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  Getting to call him from there in the in the Schwab, in the
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  Chuck as LSU celebrated on the field in front of me.
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  That was a special moment for me and to have my son there as well
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  with me. So look, I just appreciate all
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  the kind words, all the prayers, everything.
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  So let's talk about how this whole trip came together.
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  OK. So right after LSU punched their
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  ticket, they beat Arkansas in a thriller of a game where, bless
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  his heart, they had a drop ball in the in the 9th inning that
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  would have closed. That sealed the deal.
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  They missed on a turn double play.
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  They, I don't know if they would have got it.
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  It would have been tight. He missed one earlier in the
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  game. A lot of people forget that he
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  he tried to turn same routine, kind of double play and they did
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  not get it. So I think that was in his mind
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  a little bit. But Arkansas blew it.
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  What else is there to say? They blew it.
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  And, and yes, riding on the emotion of that win, and yes,
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  knowing that LSU had gone through, they had their full
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  rotation going into the championship series.
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  They hadn't lost in the College World Series.
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  It's like, and nothing's ever a given, you know, nothing is ever
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  a given that you're going to win the national championship.
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  You make it to the championship game, everybody's good.
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  And a tip of the cap to Coastal, Coastal Carolina, the great
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  team. They had won 26 in a row before
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  they ran into the buzz saw that were your national champion LSU
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  Tigers. But after that game, after that
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  drop ball, it's like I got to go.
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  I got to go and it really it worked.
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  It's like Dad was doing good enough that I felt comfortable
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  enough to leave for a few days, and my sister's still close
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  enough if she needed to come down.
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  So I'm like, you know what, Riley has football camps
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  starting middle of where he's going on a church camp the
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  middle of July and then football camp start and it pretty much
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  goes till October. So the month of July we had this
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  week, we could go on a vacation next or next week and then that
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  was it really. That was really going to be it.
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  So, so it's like, let's go do this.
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  Let's go do this. And if you remember in 2023,
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  Riley and I went on an epic trip with my buddy Bob and we all
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  went and it was a good Lord. We left at 8:00 that night.
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  Riley had a soccer game on and LSU had just won game one of
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  that series. We got there 10:30 the next
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  morning, LSU played at 1:30. We pretty much went straight in,
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  no rest and went to that game. LSU lost like 23 to something.
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  I don't. It was terrible as the most wind
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  I've ever seen in a in a game and it was windy at both of
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  these, but nothing like nothing like that.
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  But LSU lost that. Then they won the championship
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  on that Monday. Epic trip, epic journey.
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  Totally different vibes from this one.
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  This one, this one was a little bit different because my wife
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  got to go. So that's what made it so much
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  fun is we just were able to somehow or another manage on
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  extremely short notice to make this happen.
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  So like the very next morning I decided this is happening.
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  I started looking, I started looking at stuff that night and
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  looking at hotels and and tickets and all of that.
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  Well, I rented a car #1 so I got a shout out to Enterprise.
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  They were really nice. This time around I learned from
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  my BARP experience, which I was supposed to rent a car on that
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  deal as well, but things didn't work out.
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  Is also with Enterprise, they didn't have a car whenever I got
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  there, which sucked. So I ended up going in my truck
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  wrecking it and all that stuff. As you know that story.
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  So this time taking no chances, I'm renting a car.
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  I'm not going to. I just spent spent money on
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  struts and stuff like that on my truck.
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  I'm like, I'm not, I'm not putting any more wear and tear
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  on this thing. And if something happens, it's
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  on them. So, so Reddit, the little Jeep
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  Compass, look, it ends up costing me by the time I would
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  have, if I would have gone in my truck, the money I would have
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  spent on gas and everything, it cost me $200 to have a rental
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  car for a week. That's kind of a no brainer in
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  my book. So we, we loaded up the old Jeep
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  Compass and and we rolled. So I got that on that.
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  The game happened. I think LSU won on Wednesday.
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  Yeah. Then I booked, I booked a room
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  in Omaha Thursday because I said I better hurry up, I better get
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  that and then got the Jeep. And then beyond that we had no
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  other plans. We didn't have tickets to the
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  game, none of that stuff. So the goal was to leave on
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  Friday morning at like 9:00. We pretty much nailed it.
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  I think we left at 9:17 that Friday morning.
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  And then we began, I wanted to go at least as far as Kansas
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  City, if not further. And we did.
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  We went past Kansas City about another 30 or 40 minutes to St.
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  Joseph, MO. And that's where we that's where
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  we that's where we decided to stop for the night.
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  And I'll talk about the accommodations.
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  I mean, this place where I looked it up, it looked good.
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  The fine folks at booking.com always with some good rates.
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  Shout out to booking.com if you want to promo me.
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  We'll we'll work a deal. But saw this pretty cool place
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  and I've had a lot of good luck on road trips of finding little
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  unique places to stay that aren't necessarily chains and
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  like more like a local kind of deal.
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  I've had really good luck, but I can't even remember the name of
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  the place in Saint Joseph. It looked cool.
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  My wife called it the wagon wheel.
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  It it was very rustic lot of wood.
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  It looked like a like a log cabin in a sense, but a very
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  just very Midwestern and it but the main reason I got it indoor
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  pool, indoor hot tub and I'm thinking, hey, we get we go make
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  this push to Omaha. We're two hours away at that
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  point on that's on a we get there on a Friday.
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  That would be Saturday. LSU doesn't play until 6:00
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  Saturday night. So what better way than to have
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  a little breakfast swim, let Riley do all of that, go hit and
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  get in the hot tub. Well, none of that really
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  worked. The room was OK, the hotel was
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  decent, the swimming pool, terrible.
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  Just terrible, terrible. And Riley said that it had
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  spiders in it. I didn't see that.
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  But then the hot tub had sand and it was not even warm water.
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  Just, you know, it. Shit happens, you know what I
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  mean? That's like, that's the risk you
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  take. But for what you paid for that
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  room, it should have everything should have worked.
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  But whatever, the room was OK. It was fine.
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  The breakfast was OK. I'm not not going to complain
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  too much. Of course, on the way up there
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  that night, made a little stop in Fayetteville to to troll the
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  hogs. Of course, a little more on
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  little more on that in a in a minute.
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  I'll, I'll get to that. But but yeah, we had a good, we
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  had a good time pretty much staying there.
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  And then we get up and we go to Omaha and we go to that hotel
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  and I look, I know that y'all probably don't really care about
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  hearing all of this, but I'm just going to tell you stay in a
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  chain hotel in St. Joseph, MO.
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  And if you go to Omaha, do not stay in the Wyndham, Omaha,
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  Wyndham W don't stay there. Terrible experience for what you
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  were paying for the hotel room. It's like 1510 or 15 minutes
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  from the from downtown where the where the baseball games were
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  and all, all of that stuff. Easy Uber ride.
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  Shout out to Uber in Omaha this every time we go just they have
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  so many Ubers, it's never an issue.
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  It's fantastic. Got to love that.
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  But yeah, don't stay at the Omaha West.
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  We did go and check in. We got in there.
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  They didn't have my room right. Of course, you know how that
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  goes, but they got it right. I will give them that.
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  But man, that place was stingy with towels.
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  I mean, I don't know how you can have a hotel and just be so
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  stingy with towels, but they they really weren't.
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  I mean, it was an act of Congress to get towels.
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  It's just crazy. They had a nice pool though,
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  Nice indoor pool. Riley liked that.
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  So that was that was fun. So anyhow, we get to Omaha, we
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  meet up with friends and and then just let the shenanigans
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  begin. And I posted like, I have so
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  many videos and stuff from Omaha.
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  Naturally, I haven't posted a lot of them.
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  I've posted pretty much the best things.
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  I wanted to kind of keep, keep, keep people going with what was
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  happening, something that I could just put out short and
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  quick. So I was able to do that.
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  And I'm not going to bore y'all with all of that tonight, but
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  but yeah, just a blast. Once again, went to the Mattress
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  Factory. I love the mat.
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  That's so fun. It's right by the right by the
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  stadium. They have they have just about
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  any kind of food you would want. They have they they had brisket.
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  It was good. I had somebody I had a bite of
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  somebody's brisket, great wings, beers, huge bar and just the
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  whole town of Omaha. I don't think you can even begin
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  to understand like when when we say LSU takes over Omaha and you
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  hear that and I've been enough that I knew what to expect.
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  But I think there were even more people this time than there were
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  in 2023. It's crazy.
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  It is absolute insanity. It's like Baton Rouge.
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  I mean, they're everywhere you go and especially play in
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  Coastal Carolina. There was not really not really
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  anybody else. They are but LSU fans, of
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  course, locals with locals up there really support the Tigers
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  because we bring a lot of lot of money to the economy.
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  So yeah, just just a lot of fun. LSU wins in a thriller in Game
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  11 to nothing. One of the fastest games of
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  baseball that I've ever watched, collegiate baseball especially
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  Great pitch in on both ends and on both sides in that game.
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  And and LSU comes out with that one nothing victory.
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  And then I felt good like, you know, it's going to be tough to
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  beat the Tigers now twice. And what is essentially a home
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  game. Does that really make a big
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  difference in baseball? Well it sure sure as hell look
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  like it did in Game 2 very early when the coach got ejected.
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  In the first base coach and and there's no doubt the crowd, the
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  crowd amplified that and got it a lot rougher.
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  And then it was just like, that was the worst thing you could do
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  coach because now the crowds in it, we smelled blood and and
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  they win it and they win it all 5 to 3.
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  And that was all fun and fine and dandy, but that night was
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  probably one of the funnest nights I've personally ever had
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  in in Omaha. We all went back to the Mattress
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  Factory after the game. My friend meant friends Mindy
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  and David. They went with us.
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  We we ate, had a good little meal and and just visited cooled
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  off. Lord, it was hot the both days
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  it was hot. Lot of wind and it's a lot drier
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  than it is down here. Even 99.
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  I think it was one O 1 maybe one day, but that one O 1 felt like
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  89° in Baton Rouge. I mean it really did.
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  It's just not as humid up there or it wasn't during then anyhow.
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  I know, I know it can get humid, but it doesn't get as bad as it
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  does here. No way.
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  There's just no way. But had a blast at the mat and
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  then Riley wanted to go swim. So Tammy and Riley went back to
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  the hotel and I met my buddy Bob who shout out to Bob and thank
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  you Bob. He stood in line like I said, we
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  had no tickets going up there and he stood in line for us and
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  got standing room only tickets. So we had tickets for game one.
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  I was able to buy some tickets in the outfield for Game 2
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  because people were selling them because it was freaking hot.
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  And at 1:30. So you were able to pick up a
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  ticket in the outfield. We did not sit out there.
• 22:04
  We stood where we stood. I'm a little superstitious.
• 22:07
  Stood where we stood on Game 1. You know, we've got to do that.
• 22:10
  So just that post celebration was fun.
• 22:13
  They go back to the hotel and I go meet Bob at Barrett's, the
• 22:17
  famous Barrett's bar that I've wanted to go to a pub for a long
• 22:22
  time. That's been LS us pub since the
• 22:27
  90s, just through their entire championship run and and man, I
• 22:33
  get it now. I had a blast just go in there
• 22:36
  visiting, visiting with my buddy Bob, his brother and then all
• 22:40
  the Tiger fans. It was like literally like being
• 22:43
  celebrating here at home. So it was so much fun.
• 22:48
  It was just cranked up and I rolled out about 10:30 or so
• 22:52
  that night and I was exhausted. Been it's back-to-back, the
• 22:56
  heat, all that your boy was tired.
• 22:59
  But what was fun is the next morning we had zero plans, but
• 23:05
  we still ended up having a blast.
• 23:08
  So I don't know if you guys know this, but Omaha has the nation's
• 23:16
  number one zoo. The the best it's voted been
• 23:19
  voted the number one zoo many times.
• 23:22
  Them and the San Diego Zoo, probably the two and I've been
• 23:25
  to both the two best zoos in in in America for sure, if not the
• 23:32
  world. And in Riley.
• 23:34
  We went in 2023. We had a great time, but the
• 23:38
  weather was iffy on that Monday. So I'm like, and you know, dude,
• 23:42
  we may get out there and just get trapped and you've been
• 23:46
  there. Do you want to do something
• 23:48
  different? It's fine if you want to go
• 23:50
  there, but if you want to do something different, we can.
• 23:52
  I gave him some suggestions and we went to the coolest freaking
• 23:57
  freaking place, man. It was called the Luminarium and
• 24:01
  it was right there on the Missouri River.
• 24:04
  They had all these like stem things like how a pendulum works
• 24:09
  and how how steam is formed. They even had different plants
• 24:15
  and you could program in what it is that you would like to grow
• 24:18
  at your house, how how often you need to water it, stuff like
• 24:23
  that. And and it gave you a seed.
• 24:25
  Riley still has some seeds in the house.
• 24:27
  I saw him while ago. That's what made me think about
• 24:30
  it. But just a really cool museum or
• 24:34
  whatever you want to call it. And, and it's good for kids and
• 24:38
  adults. I love those kind of things.
• 24:40
  Just all the little, just all the little gadgets you can just,
• 24:44
  you can just mess with stuff and punch buttons and do all of
• 24:49
  that. That's fun.
• 24:50
  I freaking love doing that. So we had a blast doing that.
• 24:53
  I think we, I think we spent like 4, 3 1/2, four hours in
• 24:58
  that thing. So I mean, it's two stories.
• 25:01
  It would really be cool. I don't, I think it closes at
• 25:04
  5:00, but occasionally it is open at night.
• 25:07
  Man, it would be cool to see at night just the different lights
• 25:10
  and stuff that's in there. Omaha's entire downtown scene.
• 25:15
  I'll say this, if I was a big business, a big corporation that
• 25:20
  was going to a city to bring, you know, bring people in and,
• 25:24
  and do it like a convent to have a convention of, for lack of a
• 25:28
  better term, like I sell Aflac. We we have go to different
• 25:33
  places, different venues, like they should go to Omaha.
• 25:37
  It would be Omaha's super clean city.
• 25:40
  It's a pretty city and their downtown is just so very well
• 25:45
  developed and there's just a lot to do.
• 25:47
  There's millions of restaurants. Food is good up there.
• 25:51
  I still haven't gone and eaten the steak at I think it's called
• 25:55
  the 801 chop house. Still haven't managed to do
• 25:58
  that. But I ain't done going to Omaha.
• 26:00
  That's on the list for next time.
• 26:02
  But, but I did get some really, really good pizza at this place
• 26:07
  called Nollie's Pizza. And it's famous for, it's famous
• 26:13
  for trying to replica, at least trying to replicate that New
• 26:16
  York City pizza dough. So much so that that they have
• 26:22
  this filtration deal set up so that they can get the pH balance
• 26:28
  like it is in New York and all that.
• 26:31
  Allegedly the owner brought back some of that water.
• 26:34
  And I've heard these stories of places that want to have that
• 26:38
  New York style pizza before they brought back some of that water
• 26:42
  and, and, and tried to tried to make it happen.
• 26:46
  I'm going to tell you it was fantastic.
• 26:48
  I mean, I'm not a huge like wood oven kind of pizza guy.
• 26:56
  Like the char, you know, you get that char on the on that pizza.
• 27:00
  I'm not, I'm not against it. I like it.
• 27:03
  I'll eat them. I'll eat a whole pizza of it.
• 27:06
  But if I had to pick, I mean, I'm, I'm not going to lie,
• 27:08
  y'all, this just sounds terrible.
• 27:10
  Sounds like I'm definitely not a pizza connoisseur and I'm not, I
• 27:14
  am not. But I like Pizza Hut's thin and
• 27:16
  crispy plain cheese pizza just fine, just fine.
• 27:23
  So I mean, but this, the dough had a, the dough had a really,
• 27:27
  really great taste. The pizza was fantastic.
• 27:32
  But the, the, the best thing that we had there.
• 27:36
  And I love this dish. I've got to figure out how to
• 27:39
  make one, and I think I'm going to adopt it like this.
• 27:43
  But I love baked Brie and they used to have across the street
• 27:49
  back behind me was a place called the Wine Loft here in
• 27:52
  Baton Rouge. It's kind of a chain.
• 27:55
  They close down. I don't know if they close down
• 27:57
  nationwide, but they used to have this deal.
• 28:00
  I used to have this baked Brie and it was Brie baked in
• 28:03
  drizzled with honey. Oh my God, it was so freaking
• 28:07
  good. And I've been on a quest to find
• 28:10
  bake Brie. Like if I see bake Brie as an
• 28:12
  appetizer, we're about to try it.
• 28:14
  We're going to find out what's up with your bake Brie.
• 28:17
  And this one may have been one of the best that I've had in my
• 28:21
  quest. It was nothing like nothing like
• 28:24
  theirs, nothing like the wine lofts.
• 28:26
  But it was on this little toast, this little cracker deal that
• 28:31
  was about that big, you know, like a like a little little
• 28:34
  piece of of toast, but crunchy, just ripe, not too heavy with
• 28:39
  bread, almost like a piece of French toast in a sense.
• 28:41
  I don't know what what it was Tammy would know, but then it
• 28:45
  had the debris, some other type of cheese melted with it,
• 28:50
  walnuts. And that was all on this kind of
• 28:54
  like almost like a pepper Jelly kind of jam, strawberries, kind
• 28:59
  of a Raspberry ish. I don't know what the berries
• 29:02
  were. It was a Berry.
• 29:03
  It was, it was very good is what it was.
• 29:06
  Yes, it was. But oh man, that was the
• 29:10
  highlight definitely there. And, and at this point in time
• 29:14
  when we're in Omaha, it's freaking 4:00 on Monday.
• 29:19
  We plan on getting home Tuesday. So that's whenever, you know,
• 29:25
  it's like, well, what's time to go, Let's get it, Let's get out
• 29:28
  of here, let's get out of here. So we do, we head back and on
• 29:32
  the way back, we actually stopped in Fayetteville.
• 29:35
  Again, the scene of my crime, but this time I wasn't trolling,
• 29:41
  I was just chilling. We stayed at this Hilton Garden
• 29:43
  Inn. We went, we were done with the
• 29:46
  that Jack Leg hotel in Saint Joseph's, done with that, with
• 29:51
  that Jack leg hotel in Omaha. Let's just stay at a Hilton
• 29:54
  Garden Inn. They have an indoor pool.
• 29:56
  We know what to expect. I think we'd stayed there
• 29:58
  before. We'll have a great night.
• 30:01
  And we did, we did. We had a, we had a fantastic
• 30:05
  time. But as y'all know, I think most
• 30:10
  of y'all probably have have seen it.
• 30:12
  I had a little viral moment in Fayetteville, and that was on
• 30:16
  the way up. That was on the way up.
• 30:19
  And I'm going to get into that here in a second.
• 30:20
  Let me catch up here on the chat.
• 30:22
  Sorry I get to talking. I don't even have a guest in
• 30:25
  here tonight, and I still can't. I still can't keep up.
• 30:29
  Brock, what is up? What is up?
• 30:31
  Boomer says. Hey now.
• 30:34
  Big titties. What's up?
• 30:37
  I love it. The trolls, Hilton.
• 30:39
  The trolls. Yeah.
• 30:41
  How do you swim without towels? Yeah, that's a great.
• 30:44
  Well, here's what. Here's a trick little little
• 30:48
  thing to do if you're at a hotel that has an indoor pool, they
• 30:52
  generally usually have towels. So if they're being stingy with
• 30:55
  towels, just go get them. And which is what what we ended
• 31:00
  up doing. That's what we did.
• 31:03
  Let's see, there you go. There you go.
• 31:09
  Thank you. And look, I've got news at the
• 31:12
  end of the show from travel to boot and y'all are going to be
• 31:15
  seeing them soon. There's a little bit, a little
• 31:18
  bit from there. Coastal Carolina.
• 31:21
  Yeah, they are small school. Biggie, Biggie, what's up,
• 31:25
  Biggie? I think I saw you said somewhere
• 31:27
  that, yeah, West Virginia actually swept coastal this
• 31:31
  year. I knew that too.
• 31:33
  And that made me feel that made me feel good going into that
• 31:36
  game. But yeah, wait, that is the same
• 31:42
  Angel, isn't it? Holy cow.
• 31:44
  That I, they kept saying Angel. And look, when you're there and
• 31:49
  you're in the moment, it's hard to to know what's happening.
• 31:52
  But that is the same Angel that yeah, that dude is salty.
• 31:56
  That is that dude is salty. Yes, Sir.
• 31:59
  Carl the cat. I'm so glad I got to go to
• 32:01
  Barrett's too. I will, man.
• 32:05
  I'll go there every single time that I'm up there.
• 32:09
  No doubt. Omaha is a hot city.
• 32:12
  It is in more ways than one. It is a cool, cool place.
• 32:17
  Brock, he just got back from Tennessee and had the best steak
• 32:21
  ever. Love steaks.
• 32:23
  I cooked a killer steak the other night.
• 32:26
  I got, once again, trolls in hate and I knew it would come
• 32:29
  out. Your fire wasn't hot enough.
• 32:33
  Like I know what I'm doing people like I know how to sear a
• 32:36
  steak. I know how to sear one quick,
• 32:38
  fast and I I got it. My little family doesn't like it
• 32:42
  seared. They don't like the crunch.
• 32:45
  Blasphemy. I know that, but I do.
• 32:48
  But that's OK. So I fully know what I'm doing.
• 32:53
  That's the thing that just drives me crazy.
• 32:55
  And I see all my friends that are cooking, content creators
• 32:59
  and the the trolls and all that. It's like, and we're going to
• 33:04
  get into that here in a minute. I just don't get why people
• 33:06
  can't just keep their damn mouths shut.
• 33:08
  Like, if you don't have anything good to say, why say it at all?
• 33:13
  Anyhow, Anyhow, let's see, OK, we go.
• 33:17
  Travis, next time we're cooking together, let's make that baked
• 33:21
  breed dessert that I make, bud. It's awesome.
• 33:24
  I forgot you told me about this. Yeah, and we'll make a video
• 33:29
  with it too. That is Travis Baker with T
• 33:32
  Birds sauce. I saw Iron and Smoke.
• 33:36
  We'll be having having it look like a little sale coming up,
• 33:40
  maybe a little 4th of July sale, some announcements coming from
• 33:43
  that. Y'all go check them out.
• 33:45
  You can check them out on the spotlight at tigsbits.com.
• 33:49
  Support all these folks that we talk about on the show.
• 33:52
  But I like that. I like it.
• 33:54
  Boomer, What is up Boomer What is up Boomer?
• 33:58
  Ladies and gentlemen, Plossy, the one man, Plossy, yes, what
• 34:04
  is up? Tigs, Wigs, what's up?
• 34:06
  Blossy, Blasey and I got to, we talked the other night.
• 34:12
  Widespread Panic just went on their amazing three day run at
• 34:15
  Red Rocks and we got to listen to that show together, which was
• 34:19
  a lot of fun. Which was a lot of fun.
• 34:22
  Yes. Tigs, you have to have
• 34:25
  Pittsburgh. You have to have to Pittsburgh.
• 34:27
  Yes, yes, yes. Yeah.
• 34:29
  I get what you're saying. Totally.
• 34:31
  I see her. What I've been doing, what I do
• 34:33
  a lot with steaks these days, and even though they they don't
• 34:38
  have to have it, I can, I can sear it on the black.
• 34:42
  So I'll sous video them and then I'll finish them on the
• 34:44
  Blackstone. And I just don't sear theirs
• 34:47
  quite as hard. I kind of put theirs off to the
• 34:49
  side so it just gets a little a good little loving, but not the
• 34:54
  full on Sears. So that's one way I do it.
• 34:59
  You know, there's so many ways you can do steaks.
• 35:03
  And I can tell you I ain't found a bad a bad way yet, Especially
• 35:08
  with a rib eye. Especially with a rib eye.
• 35:12
  So anyhow, back to the scene of the crime.
• 35:15
  Let's talk about that for a minute.
• 35:17
  So on the way up to Omaha, I decided to stop at Baum Walker
• 35:23
  Stadium and just film a quick little troll video.
• 35:27
  Truth of the matter is the whole way up there.
• 35:31
  So we we go through and we took the scenic route through through
• 35:36
  Arkansas and I, and I've gone that way before and it is so
• 35:39
  beautiful. If you're going to Kansas City
• 35:42
  or anywhere and you have an opportunity to go up the West
• 35:46
  side of Arkansas, it's really it's fun to do.
• 35:50
  It's just gorgeous. So about halfway up the state is
• 35:54
  really where the, the Ozarks start and, and I've had the, the
• 36:00
  map tell me I should take a left and go through, I can't remember
• 36:04
  the name of the town in Oklahoma and go up that way.
• 36:07
  And then eventually you come into Fort Smith and then it's
• 36:10
  back to the Interstate and all that.
• 36:13
  Well, I've never done it. And I was like, you know what?
• 36:17
  Riley's never stepped foot in the state of Oklahoma.
• 36:21
  Why not? Why not?
• 36:22
  Why not see what's up? So we, we stopped this little
• 36:25
  gas station. I was like, we better stop here.
• 36:27
  I don't know if we'll have another place to stop.
• 36:29
  There wasn't. Now, if you've got a car that's
• 36:32
  not running well, do not go on this route because there's
• 36:35
  nothing like 7080 miles. There's nothing but mountains.
• 36:41
  And I had no idea that mountains existed in eastern Oklahoma.
• 36:46
  And my God, they were beautiful. And you can see this stuff.
• 36:49
  I've got it on our socials on Facebook.
• 36:52
  So go go check out some of those pictures.
• 36:55
  Wow, just blown away. They had this nice little place
• 36:58
  where you could pull off, you know, and and just looking down
• 37:01
  in this valley. Surprise Valley panic fans.
• 37:04
  Yes, that's what I called it it. It'll look like surprise valley.
• 37:08
  It was beautiful. And you can see the road at the
• 37:10
  bottom, which is where we eventually got to and man, just
• 37:16
  just so pretty winding through there.
• 37:18
  And I'm thinking we're going to RIP through Fayetteville.
• 37:22
  Tammy, just film me, feel me driving.
• 37:26
  I'm going to say something about being in Fayetteville.
• 37:28
  And that was really, that was the plan.
• 37:32
  And man, I wasn't I, we were less than 5 minutes from the
• 37:35
  stadium. I didn't even know where we were
• 37:37
  at. And I knew we were close to
• 37:41
  Fayetteville, but I didn't know exactly where we were, how close
• 37:44
  we were to the stadium. And it hit me, I was like, you
• 37:46
  know what? I think I, I got, I got an idea.
• 37:49
  I got an idea. Let's go to be not classy and
• 37:53
  let's just go have a little bit of fun and I'm going to make a
• 37:55
  video and Riley, I'm going to have you toss me a bottle and
• 37:59
  I'm going to drop the bottle or not catch the bottle and say
• 38:03
  something like, I guess I'm in Fayetteville or I forgot that I
• 38:06
  was in Fayetteville, just something stupid.
• 38:09
  So we laughed. I pull up the stadium on the GPS
• 38:15
  real quick. We're .8 miles from the exit
• 38:19
  whenever I pull this up. So like this all just came
• 38:22
  really quick. Just let me backpedal for a
• 38:26
  second about why I have this in my heart.
• 38:30
  That was the video. I mean I get how I I got trolls,
• 38:35
  we'll get to them, but I get how it was not classy.
• 38:39
  I agree. It was not at all disrespectful,
• 38:42
  for sure. One thing I do want to note, I
• 38:45
  was never making fun of the kid who dropped the ball.
• 38:48
  I was making fun of Arkansas. That wasn't the first time
• 38:50
  they've dropped the ball to lose a game in a very important game
• 38:54
  in Omaha. But I loathe the Arkansas
• 38:58
  Razorbacks and that goes back all the way to the mid 90s when
• 39:04
  they joined the SEC and they came in and I used to live in
• 39:08
  Minden, LA, I used to live up in North Louisiana.
• 39:12
  So I interacted with a a few more Hog fans than you do down
• 39:17
  here in Baton Rouge by far. And like there's a lot of good
• 39:21
  Hog fans there really are, but not in South Arkansas for the
• 39:25
  most part. I haven't found very many.
• 39:28
  And LSU would play every other year the day after Thanksgiving.
• 39:32
  They would play in Little Rock. They would play play the
• 39:36
  University of Arkansas in War Memorial Stadium.
• 39:39
  What a dump. What a dump of a stadium.
• 39:43
  And you had to park on a golf course.
• 39:45
  It was always cold. Sometimes it was raining.
• 39:48
  It was just always something is always something and never
• 39:55
  treated nicely. Not a single time that I go to
• 40:00
  Little Rock where it wasn't rough, where didn't have
• 40:03
  something thrown at us or somebody get in your face.
• 40:06
  Course, saw some wild games, The Miracle, Oh Markham, all that
• 40:10
  kind of stuff, you know, Saw it rough, whatever.
• 40:15
  But that's life on the road. I get it.
• 40:17
  But all that hatred is built up in my sweet little heart.
• 40:21
  All of these years, and I think in those seven seconds of that
• 40:26
  video, just about everything came out of me.
• 40:30
  And I mean, I'm in it. And I'm going to tell you right
• 40:33
  now, I do that video 1,000,000 times out of 1,000,000 times.
• 40:37
  I will never take it down and I'll never apologize.
• 40:41
  Only thing I'm not was not making fun of that kid.
• 40:45
  I understand what happened with that kid.
• 40:48
  I saw him. It was terrible.
• 40:51
  I hate that. I would, I would hate that if it
• 40:53
  were my son. But it was never about the kid.
• 40:56
  It was just about the University of Arkansas.
• 41:01
  And honestly, I have nothing but a ton of respect for their
• 41:05
  baseball program and Dave Van Horn and all of that.
• 41:08
  It was just some classic trolling.
• 41:12
  That's it. That is all it was.
• 41:15
  It was just, it was just trolling.
• 41:17
  So it's do we do that? We stop, we literally went
• 41:21
  across the street and I immediately posted the video.
• 41:25
  No edits, nothing, just let her go, let her eat and Tammy went
• 41:29
  into this bar and used the bathrooms like let's roll.
• 41:33
  So we posted it. We roll on to Saint Joseph's.
• 41:37
  It was about four, which was about four hours away And, and,
• 41:43
  and by the time I got there, good Lord, it was blowing up
• 41:47
  that video. Now it had 20 or 30,000 views on
• 41:50
  a couple of platforms. It was just starting to roll.
• 41:54
  And I started seeing the comments.
• 41:57
  I started to catch on where these comments were going pretty
• 42:01
  quick and look, I laughed at them.
• 42:02
  I was laughing, I was laughing and I'm still laughing.
• 42:06
  But you're fooling yourself if you ever have a video like that
• 42:10
  and you start to just get lamb blasted like that.
• 42:13
  Like what's up with your little dinosaur arms?
• 42:16
  And maybe you should catch Ozempic and maybe you should
• 42:20
  look into Rogaine for your bald spot.
• 42:22
  And maybe you need to worry about this a lot of maybe you
• 42:25
  need to's, which all I hope is that, look, I'm only assuming a
• 42:31
  majority of those fans were Hog fans.
• 42:34
  They were Arkansas fans. They were butt hurt.
• 42:36
  I get it. I was just pouring that salt
• 42:39
  into the womb and I love doing that and it was fun and I can't
• 42:43
  wait to do something like that again.
• 42:46
  But I get it. So I was expecting it.
• 42:49
  I was expecting the hate and I knew there would be some LSU
• 42:53
  fans that were like, Oh my God, you're jinxing US.
• 42:57
  Number one, I don't play. I do not play for the LSU
• 43:00
  Tigers. I had no bearing on the games in
• 43:03
  Omaha. And even if they would have
• 43:05
  lost, I still would have kept it up and I would have just tipped.
• 43:08
  I would have just kept on taking the comments because I shut them
• 43:11
  off. I quit reading them.
• 43:12
  I haven't read a comment on those videos since since about
• 43:17
  midnight of the first night when it came out.
• 43:20
  And occasionally I can see one that'll pop through an
• 43:24
  Instagram. And look, I could probably do a
• 43:26
  whole damn show on that. But all I got to say is that on
• 43:30
  that first night, I definitely looked at some people's profile
• 43:34
  pics that were saying some of the absurd and mean.
• 43:38
  Let's just say what it is, fellas, you guys who called me
• 43:42
  out and you'll never see this. I would not, I would not cast a
• 43:46
  stone at a glass house if I were you.
• 43:49
  You need to go look in the damn mirror, period.
• 43:52
  Like, I just like whatever. It's so easy to troll somebody
• 43:57
  and you know it's always going to come down to looks and all
• 43:59
  that. It still can hurt.
• 44:01
  I ain't going to lie. I'm not going to sit here and
• 44:03
  say that I don't like seeing it 'cause it is all the things that
• 44:07
  you think about yourself when you look in the mirror.
• 44:10
  It's the only, it's the only way to do it, so who cares?
• 44:13
  Who gives a shit? So it was fun and you just never
• 44:18
  know what's going to happen if one eats.
• 44:20
  So like I said, I'd do it a million out of a million times.
• 44:26
  So no regrets. I'm just going to let it eat.
• 44:29
  It's crazy. It's had, I don't know, like 7
• 44:32
  or 800,000 views all combined and that's great Thing is not
• 44:37
  really a video I can do to follow up with that to let it
• 44:40
  eat. So we're back to normal.
• 44:42
  We're back to our normal broadcasting, our normal
• 44:46
  schedule, which is good, which is good.
• 44:49
  Let me see what the chat has to say.
• 44:52
  You know, Dusty says like Internet people that bitch
• 44:56
  because his ribs fall off the bone.
• 44:58
  That is. I mean, sometimes I'll I don't I
• 45:03
  competition bites. Let's talk about that, Dusty.
• 45:05
  That's what people won't. No, they don't.
• 45:07
  They want it to fall off the damn bone.
• 45:11
  Competition bites, competition bites in any of the barbecue and
• 45:14
  all that. Totally different than what you
• 45:17
  cook at home. For sure, For sure.
• 45:21
  Let's Brantley's like let's go be Bama for a minute.
• 45:26
  Pretty much pretty much place he he was coming out of retirement
• 45:35
  to do the Justin Moore interview scratch back to retirement.
• 45:41
  I hope Justin didn't see it, but let's see.
• 45:45
  I he may never come on the show because of that video, but you
• 45:48
  know what it's a risk I'm willing to take.
• 45:51
  I think he can take that. You know, we'll we'll let it
• 45:54
  we'll see. We'll see.
• 45:58
  Oh Biggie, is the hogs the mascot or the women?
• 46:03
  Were they there? That's a good point.
• 46:05
  I did forget this. So as we go up, we walk up to
• 46:08
  the stadium and I'm standing in front.
• 46:11
  Tammy pulls out the phone. Riley's there with my my Pepsi 0
• 46:16
  is what it was. And I hear, hey, and I'm with
• 46:22
  what? What is that?
• 46:24
  And I see this lady with her dog sitting like kind of across the
• 46:28
  street. Nothing else is around.
• 46:30
  No other cars are around. I don't know what she was doing.
• 46:33
  And I just threw up the L And I said, what's up Go Tigers?
• 46:38
  And we did our little deal. And then and start to walk off.
• 46:42
  Well, she had come up across the street at this point just
• 46:45
  filming me filming the whole time.
• 46:48
  I thanked her. I thank the University of
• 46:50
  Arkansas. I looked at the stadium.
• 46:52
  I thanked them for once again handing us another potential
• 46:55
  natty. And and and she was not she was
• 47:01
  not happy. She was not happy.
• 47:03
  Jason Hilton, the Van Horn coached at NSU when I was there.
• 47:08
  He sure did. Dave Van Horn coached at
• 47:11
  Northwestern. I think I went to a ADVH
• 47:13
  baseball camp. I can't remember if it was him.
• 47:16
  Remind me who the coach was before him that went to Alabama.
• 47:23
  He was a great coach too. Northwestern had some great ball
• 47:26
  coaches. It was Shane and Renee or Shane
• 47:30
  or Renee, who knows. It's a hybrid account.
• 47:32
  Hey B, it's the only way we get to see you.
• 47:35
  That is true. This is the only way you can see
• 47:37
  me right now. Anyhow, I'll see y'all soon.
• 47:42
  Let's see how. How were the West Virginia fans?
• 47:46
  Honestly, man, they were great. Big E, they really were.
• 47:49
  I got to meet y'all, your friend and and hang out with them.
• 47:53
  It was a small group of folks that were here, but they were
• 47:57
  super nice. They really were and had zero
• 48:01
  issues with them. Of course, LSU took care of
• 48:03
  business too. That that always helps, but
• 48:07
  nothing but nothing but niceness.
• 48:09
  I did not get to try any of the what do you call the things that
• 48:16
  they I didn't get to try any of those that they take into the
• 48:19
  coal mines and all of that. The pepperoni deals, I wasn't
• 48:23
  able to do to have any of those, but but still fun.
• 48:27
  It was still fun. They can get a little rowdy.
• 48:30
  Yes, they can. And I like that.
• 48:31
  I like that about them. Fontaine, what is up?
• 48:35
  What is up? Fontaine, good to see you.
• 48:38
  Good to see you. Yep, pepperoni rolls.
• 48:40
  That's right. That's right.
• 48:41
  They West Virginia fans were great.
• 48:44
  Just a lot of fun. So anyhow, back to Fayetteville.
• 48:49
  We'd stayed that night. We're coming home the next day
• 48:51
  and I started looking. It hit me like we passed several
• 48:55
  places that have caves and different things and all that
• 49:00
  stuff. So I started thinking, I'm like,
• 49:03
  I don't think Riley's ever seen a cave.
• 49:05
  I don't know if he's ever seen a cave or any of that.
• 49:07
  And so started looking stuff up. Some of them were an hour, hour
• 49:13
  and a half back N so it's like, yeah, we're not going to do
• 49:17
  that. But then Devil's Den State Park
• 49:21
  was only was only 30 minutes away from Fayetteville.
• 49:24
  So we start to, we start to go drive down and, and like, let's
• 49:30
  go hit that. I could tell Riley wasn't just
• 49:32
  like crazy excited about it. But you know, it's like, I trust
• 49:37
  me. I think this could be really
• 49:39
  cool. I looked at pictures and stuff.
• 49:42
  So the the cool thing with it is it was formed in the 1930s and
• 49:49
  by the CCC, and I didn't know anything about what the CCC was
• 49:55
  or anything until this. I'd never heard of it actually,
• 50:00
  but it was launched by Franklin D Roosevelt in 1933 as a part of
• 50:06
  the New Deal to combat unemployment during the Great
• 50:10
  Depression. So one of the things that I read
• 50:13
  it was to kind of bring the spirits up of of men to get them
• 50:17
  working again. It was part of the New Deal,
• 50:20
  which was some of the first things that he did whenever he
• 50:23
  came in, came into office. It employed over 3,000,000 young
• 50:28
  men between 1933 and 1942. Workers were paid $30.00 a
• 50:35
  month, but 25 of that was sent directly back home to their
• 50:40
  families. So that was that was
• 50:42
  interesting. Of course, 3030 dollars a month
• 50:47
  would probably be like the equivalent of maybe 3000 today.
• 50:52
  The CCC workers, they live basically in military style
• 50:56
  camps and they worked on projects like planting trees,
• 51:00
  building parks, trails, bridges, dams.
• 51:04
  They fought wildfires. So it just got it got everybody
• 51:09
  back involved. They called it Roosevelt's Tree
• 51:11
  Army, in fact, because they planted over 3 billion trees
• 51:15
  everywhere and it it laid the foundation for many state and
• 51:21
  national parks that that we still enjoy today, including the
• 51:25
  development of Devil's Devil's Den.
• 51:29
  So they started forming Devil's Den back in the 1930s and they
• 51:34
  used native stone and wood and they're in a, in a very classic
• 51:39
  rustic style like there it just all goes into the State Park.
• 51:45
  It's just all very seamless. They obviously blew up rocks and
• 51:49
  they made steps and made, they made all of that, all of that
• 51:54
  stuff. The place is known for its
• 51:57
  crevices, its caves, its waterfalls and it's scenic
• 52:01
  trails. And it's just part of the Ozark
• 52:04
  Mountains, part of the Boston Mountains in the Ozarks.
• 52:07
  Again, you can go to our Facebook page.
• 52:09
  I have pictures and some video from some of the the waterfalls
• 52:13
  and stuff. It was hot.
• 52:15
  Now we're getting a little back further South.
• 52:18
  We're still not in all the humidity, but it was not cool
• 52:22
  that day. But at least you know the the
• 52:24
  trail that we went on, they have a lot of trails there.
• 52:27
  They have multiple trails. You can horseback ride, you can
• 52:31
  mountain bike on these trails. They have all kinds of stuff.
• 52:34
  But you can see some of the main things #1 if you do this mile
• 52:38
  and a half little run where you're going to go up, up
• 52:43
  basically up the mountain and you'll see the caves.
• 52:46
  Then you come to the waterfalls and then you, you come back
• 52:49
  down. It was a moderate hike.
• 52:51
  And it was a little bit more. It was a little more to that
• 52:54
  mile and a half. And I was, I was expecting by
• 52:58
  the time we got to the waterfalls shirt just completely
• 53:01
  drenched, just totally soaked. But what was nice is walking
• 53:07
  along, part of one of the things that you that you pass is the
• 53:11
  which is crazy. It's just a cool, cool deal.
• 53:14
  Literally cool. So you could feel it as you were
• 53:16
  walking to it. You know, it's 95 outside 9395,
• 53:21
  something like that. You get there to the Devil's air
• 53:24
  conditioner. The Devil's ice box is 25°
• 53:27
  cooler. Like it was cool, like you were
• 53:30
  in air conditioning. Of course, that was the coolness
• 53:32
  coming out from The Cave. You can't explore the caves
• 53:36
  unfortunately anymore. They're they're barred up so you
• 53:39
  can't get in there, but they protect the bats or something.
• 53:43
  But I've, I talked to people, in fact, there was a, a family in
• 53:47
  front of us that, that were walking and they, they, they
• 53:52
  admit the guy went to the University of Arkansas and he's
• 53:56
  been in the caves. And I've talked to some people
• 53:58
  that have that have commented on the Facebook post that they've
• 54:02
  been in those caves too, and they go back pretty far.
• 54:04
  But bats were always an issue. Yeah, I'm good with that.
• 54:08
  I would like to take Riley 11 where you can go in and like
• 54:13
  Carl's Bag Caverns and you can see stalagtites and stalagmites
• 54:18
  and all that stuff. I'm sure that they're in there,
• 54:21
  but you'd, you know, it's not lit.
• 54:23
  It's not really made made the tour, but still really, really
• 54:28
  cool. And I wondered like, where did
• 54:31
  the where did this devil's name Devil's Den?
• 54:34
  Where did that name come from? And it was likely from settlers
• 54:39
  who, who were hiding in the the caves and the crevices and, and
• 54:45
  a lot of in the old days, they said it was, you know, outlaws
• 54:48
  and stuff like that. So they could, they could, they
• 54:51
  could hide, they could hide. So it was, it was really cool.
• 54:55
  You can, you can actually explore those cabins that are
• 55:01
  there. They built this dam and you can
• 55:03
  see this huge waterfall. They dammed up this Creek, built
• 55:07
  it up to build this little lake so that they could do whatever,
• 55:12
  you know, just have a little lake and all that.
• 55:14
  You can't fish in it, but but just have a lake to to swim in
• 55:19
  and stuff like that. They don't advise you swim in it
• 55:21
  now, but you know, back then you could and but it's a cool, it's
• 55:26
  a really cool dam. So we did that.
• 55:28
  And then as we, as we're getting kind of to the end of the trail,
• 55:33
  we look down and you, there's this rocky Creek running along
• 55:38
  and see a tent, you know, like a, like a tailgating tent that's
• 55:41
  down on the edge of the, of the Creek and, and there's two or
• 55:47
  three dudes and it looked like some kids.
• 55:49
  And I just was like, y'all got it right?
• 55:51
  Y'all got the right idea. And they're like, come on down,
• 55:53
  man. I was like, how do we get there?
• 55:55
  You couldn't get there from where we were at because it was
• 55:58
  up the mountain. It was going to be too tough.
• 56:00
  You could drive around. So we did.
• 56:02
  So we, we finished up our little hike and then we drove over
• 56:06
  there to go see what was up because Riley really wanted to
• 56:09
  get, we didn't get to go swimming that morning.
• 56:12
  And well, no, we did go swimming that morning.
• 56:14
  He just wanted to keep swimming. He was wanted to be in the
• 56:16
  water. But that yeah, I did too,
• 56:18
  because it was hot and you knew that water was going to be cold
• 56:21
  and it was. So we we went down and ended up
• 56:25
  visiting with these guys. It's three dudes brought their
• 56:28
  sons from Texas and they do it every year.
• 56:33
  They go to a State Park, stay for four or five days.
• 56:36
  They had their one of the guys had his dad with him and it's
• 56:39
  something that they've been doing for years.
• 56:41
  So I think that's cool. They had been, you know, just
• 56:45
  exploring the park. There's apparently there's
• 56:48
  there's fossils and things like that on some of the trails that
• 56:51
  you can go on that you can find. They've been doing all of that
• 56:55
  stuff. So we just sat there, sat in the
• 56:57
  Creek, visited with them for about 45 minutes or so, cooled
• 57:02
  off. They had a watermelon they, they
• 57:04
  sliced open a cut open a watermelon.
• 57:07
  We all sat there. And that was probably the most
• 57:09
  refreshing watermelon I've ever eaten in my life.
• 57:12
  It was great. And man, just had a lot of fun.
• 57:16
  Really did. And then, and then it's like
• 57:21
  it's 3:30. We got to, we got to get back to
• 57:24
  Baton Rouge, man, because at 11:30 tomorrow morning, we're
• 57:30
  rolling to Houston. So we, we hauled ass basically
• 57:34
  from Devil's Den back to Baton Rouge.
• 57:37
  Got home about midnight and then and then we got, then we got in
• 57:43
  it. Riley and I went on.
• 57:44
  It was a lot of fun. Went on a church trip, went with
• 57:47
  our church. We were all supposed to go in a
• 57:49
  van down by the river. No, we were all supposed to go
• 57:53
  in a van. And then we ended up just going
• 57:55
  in three vehicles. So it was nice got to visit
• 57:58
  fellowship with some of our our guys who go to our church and
• 58:02
  that was just a lot of fun. And then I mean, it was a blast.
• 58:05
  We we got there, got shout out Pastor Mike, he had this thing
• 58:10
  hooked up. Now, you know, usually you go on
• 58:13
  a church trip, something like that, You get group tickets to a
• 58:18
  baseball game, you're way up in the upper deck somewhere or
• 58:22
  whatever. Not us.
• 58:25
  No, Sir, was we were. We were just behind the third
• 58:29
  baseline on the lower level on the first night, which is
• 58:33
  awesome. And then on the second night we
• 58:35
  were in the club or the second day we were in the club, which
• 58:38
  was just freaking great. Very convenient.
• 58:41
  We the seats not quite as good. We're in the outfield, but
• 58:44
  there's no bad seat at a baseball game.
• 58:46
  I could watch a baseball game anywhere.
• 58:48
  It doesn't matter. I don't have to be right behind
• 58:50
  home plate or anything. I I just love baseball.
• 58:54
  So super cool. We stayed at the Hyatt Place,
• 58:58
  which was neat because it used to be an old Southwestern bell
• 59:01
  that was like the, the, the switchboard and all was in
• 59:05
  there. And so it was themed that way.
• 59:08
  They had an old switchboard right there when you check in
• 59:11
  and, and stuff. The room was just Immaculate.
• 59:14
  It was a super nice room. Like a lot of the hotels are in
• 59:18
  in downtown Houston. I always loved going to Houston.
• 59:21
  You can pay. I can tell you this is half the
• 59:24
  price of what we paid in Omaha at that damn Wyndham that it
• 59:29
  really was and just so much better.
• 59:31
  It was full on suite. And so we we weren't in the room
• 59:35
  that long because we got there like 4-30 or five.
• 59:41
  Then we ate pretty quick and then the game started at 7:00.
• 59:45
  So I mean, we just went bam, bam hotels five blocks from from the
• 59:49
  stadium, which was nice. So we we got there and then and
• 59:53
  then the Astros won both games, beat the Phillies.
• 59:55
  That was fun. They won two to nothing I think
• 59:57
  on the first night and talk about fast that I tell you what,
• 1:00:01
  Major League Baseball is flat out speed that game up, man.
• 1:00:05
  I think that game was 2 hours and 34 minutes or something like
• 1:00:09
  that. And then again the next day they
• 1:00:12
  won. What was it 3 to 2 or something
• 1:00:15
  like that? And and, and that game was like
• 1:00:19
  2 hours and 40 minutes. Those they have a pitch clock of
• 1:00:22
  15 seconds. You can only have 4 mound
• 1:00:25
  visits. You know, you're limited on, on
• 1:00:28
  how often you can stop, how often you can stop the game,
• 1:00:31
  which in a way I like, but in a way, especially on Thursday, it
• 1:00:37
  would have been nice if they would have played a little
• 1:00:39
  played a little longer when we left to say to you could say,
• 1:00:42
  man, it was storming outside and you could see lightning and all
• 1:00:46
  that towards the end of the game.
• 1:00:47
  I'm like, man, I really hope this hurries up.
• 1:00:50
  I don't want to have to walk 5 blocks in this.
• 1:00:52
  And and it did. And we started walking back and
• 1:00:57
  we're about halfway back and I mean, the bottom fell out just
• 1:01:03
  soaked head to toe. But whatever, at least we had
• 1:01:08
  our bags. We'd checked them, we kept them
• 1:01:11
  at the hotel. They were, they checked them for
• 1:01:13
  us. So I was able to change and into
• 1:01:16
  some dry clothes and and whatnot.
• 1:01:18
  But man, it really wrapped up just what was an epic, epic week
• 1:01:23
  of just having some good, good old family fun.
• 1:01:27
  A lot of baseball, a lot of traveling.
• 1:01:29
  It's probably going to take me 3 weeks to recover from from all
• 1:01:34
  of this. You know, ain't no doubt I'm
• 1:01:37
  back in it now that I'm home and all of you know, home is still
• 1:01:43
  home is still here and there's still plenty to do as I kind of
• 1:01:48
  elaborated earlier in the show. But but yeah, man, that was, it
• 1:01:54
  was so much fun. I'm glad that I'm back and I'm
• 1:01:56
  recovered. But look, I'm going.
• 1:01:58
  I've said I would tell a little bit about what's what.
• 1:02:01
  All is coming up here in the month of July.
• 1:02:04
  This is going to be a good one. This is going to be a great
• 1:02:06
  month. I think I've announced this.
• 1:02:09
  I can't remember probably. I knew I've said he was coming
• 1:02:12
  home. But Mr. Weatherall, I had Mr.
• 1:02:15
  Weatherall on and that episode will be dropping here in the
• 1:02:19
  next couple of weeks. Freaking fantastic.
• 1:02:22
  Just very insightful. Just a really, really, really
• 1:02:26
  good show. Of course, the stir in the pot
• 1:02:28
  that they were on the, the last time that I was live.
• 1:02:32
  I I think they were the guest a couple weeks ago remastering
• 1:02:37
  that, if you will, making it podcast worthy and cleaning it
• 1:02:42
  up a little bit, taking some of the stuff out, just making it
• 1:02:45
  better, editing it. So that'll be coming out on
• 1:02:47
  Spotify and all of that. Tiggy and the handler will be
• 1:02:51
  returning. We may get a show in recorded
• 1:02:55
  this week. We're no, it won't be on Bubba
• 1:02:56
  Army this week. Probably won't.
• 1:02:59
  We'll probably get it recorded next week.
• 1:03:01
  So we're going to get back Jr. and I back in the saddle on
• 1:03:06
  that. I've locked down some guests
• 1:03:10
  today. I've got next week, I don't have
• 1:03:13
  a guest as of now, but hold on. I may on the 17th, my friends
• 1:03:18
  that travel to boot, they will be joining us on that Thursday
• 1:03:21
  night. And then on the 24th, my friend
• 1:03:25
  Rachel Berthelot from Rachel and Cajun Cooking in Louisiana Girls
• 1:03:31
  will be on the podcast too, to talk about all of her social
• 1:03:35
  media and all of that cooking and videos and contests and
• 1:03:39
  competitions, all of that. So a lot of good stuff coming
• 1:03:44
  up, a lot of great guests coming up.
• 1:03:47
  It's just going to be a lot of fun.
• 1:03:49
  Got a lot of stuff. I've been testing some new
• 1:03:51
  recipes that aren't quite camera ready yet.
• 1:03:54
  You may have seen we made this chicken euro or whatever chicken
• 1:03:58
  wrap, whatever you want to call it.
• 1:03:59
  It was inspired by our friends at Farm to Fire last night.
• 1:04:04
  Totally not the exact same thing they did, but man, that was
• 1:04:08
  good. Especially if you're doing a
• 1:04:11
  Mediterranean lifestyle. It's just fantastic.
• 1:04:15
  The tzatziki sauce, I can get into that.
• 1:04:18
  We need to make more. And shout out to my daughter.
• 1:04:21
  She is the one who she's the one who put it all together.
• 1:04:24
  It's so nice having my daughter back home this summer and she's
• 1:04:29
  going to be moving back in with us and Daddy's very happy about
• 1:04:32
  that. It really is.
• 1:04:34
  It's been really, it's been good.
• 1:04:36
  You know your family, your family's everything, and
• 1:04:39
  especially when you're going through stuff, you know, you
• 1:04:43
  never get any tighter than you do with your family.
• 1:04:46
  So that there's a lot of good stuff coming up.
• 1:04:50
  The macaroni and cheese that I made, I haven't finished editing
• 1:04:54
  that. I've got a ribs video that I
• 1:04:55
  haven't put out. There's just a lot of stuff.
• 1:04:58
  Other podcasts, short clips from all these shows that we've done.
• 1:05:02
  Your boy just got behind and that's OK.
• 1:05:06
  It's a good thing. We have an archive of stuff and
• 1:05:09
  we have a lot of stuff coming up too, you know.
• 1:05:13
  But I do want to say I don't want y'all to think that I'm
• 1:05:16
  going to just start chasing the algorithm because that ain't
• 1:05:20
  going to happen. I just, you don't.
• 1:05:22
  When you go viral, you go viral. That's great.
• 1:05:25
  But I'm not going to continue to just try to chase it.
• 1:05:29
  We're going to stick with what we're doing.
• 1:05:31
  Of course, I think that some of the videos later on this year
• 1:05:34
  will probably do well once we go to Tales from the Tailgate and
• 1:05:37
  that kind of stuff. So it's going to be a lot of
• 1:05:40
  fun. I'm very thankful for that viral
• 1:05:43
  growth. I'm very thankful that some of
• 1:05:45
  this stuff is getting monetized. To the trolls, to the haters out
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  there, thank you for all of the comments because you paid for
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  the gas on my trip up and back to Omaha.
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  That is a fact. So I appreciate that.
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  Thank you, trolls appreciate it. Look, if you hadn't go to the
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  YouTube, go to our YouTube homepage or tigsbits.com.
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  You can see some of the best of stuff, some of the shorts that
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  we've done, some of the full pods that you may have missed.
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  Got AI got a little note from somebody today that that saw the
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  Jeff Petrowski video whenever severe storms start to happen,
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  that video always seems to come up and they're like how not more
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  people not seen this video. I don't know that's a great
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  question. I don't know how I can promote
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  it any better than we've done, but that's just the way it is
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  that's just the way it is. Fontaine says go trolls.
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  That is a fact. That is a fact.
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  And yes, thank you FDR for building all of these parks.
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  It's an amazing thing that we still get to use today.
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  We do and so that I love it. I love it.
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  Well, look, that's going to do it for tonight's show.
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