Latest / Tigs Bits Podcast / Rattlesnakes, Rockets, and Big Bass
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- 0:00It swung open about two feet, and he was going to start to
- 0:03push it, and he started running back to the truck.
- 0:06And I went, dude, what's up? Did you see a snake?
- 0:08He's like, yeah, yeah. And I went, no, dude, I don't
- 0:11believe him, You know, I'm like, he didn't see a snake.
- 0:13Yeah, I lookout there. Dude.
- 0:14That rattlesnake was coiled up. It feels like it's been an
- 0:27eternity since I've recorded a pod over.
- 0:29Here. Because it has, it's been like
- 0:3211 days since I recorded one and.
- 0:35When you're used to doing them every day or a couple of days.
- 0:38Yeah, I love it. I feel a little rusty, but not
- 0:42really. Not really a much needed little
- 0:45spring break, if you will, to cleanse everything, you know.
- 0:52Had a good time with my main man Riley last week going back to my
- 0:59God's country, Toledo Ben. All those pictures, it looked
- 1:04amazing. He smoked them, dude.
- 1:07He smoked some bass. Not on Toledo, Ben.
- 1:09Not on Toledo, Ben. But we only got to do the wind
- 1:14so bad. It's been windy all over the
- 1:16South, everywhere. Yeah, it's the spring.
- 1:18I mean, that's what happens this time of year.
- 1:20Just until just a few days ago. Right.
- 1:24And of course, weather looked decent last week.
- 1:27So I'm like, let's let's trek up there on Wednesday.
- 1:31We'll fish Wednesday, Thursday, Friday being Good Friday, all
- 1:34the good, all the all the good folks are coming into the lake
- 1:38and all that. So probably going to skip the
- 1:41lake on Friday. We got to go out on Wednesday
- 1:44evening. My dad has a pontoon boat, so we
- 1:46got to ride around on the lake a little bit and I let him drive,
- 1:50Daddy let him drive and that was that was fun.
- 1:54He's driven before, but not just like I'm over here in the
- 1:57sitting over here in the seat and he's steering it.
- 1:59He, he loved it. He loved it, did a great job.
- 2:01And he caught a caught a bass, caught a little bass that
- 2:04evening. You're kind of, it's tough to
- 2:07fish out of a pontoon boat when you don't have a trolling motor
- 2:10to keep your position. And the wind, the wind was
- 2:13still, wind was still blowing 20 miles an hour when we went out
- 2:16that day. But dude, it just picked up as
- 2:19it went on and then it blew us off the lake.
- 2:21We couldn't go on the lake, but we went pond hopping.
- 2:24Oh, there ain't nothing better than going pond hop.
- 2:26And I know you've done it growing up in Alabama.
- 2:29Just, you know, you got to go to Memo Millie's Pond and Aunt
- 2:33Carolyn's place and you go make the runs and.
- 2:37You got to ask Mr. Thompson and there's a secret pond.
- 2:39You got to go get so and so to go with you because they're the
- 2:42only one that they'll let go and take people.
- 2:45Oh, that was the best pond. Oh, yeah, wearing them out.
- 2:48Oh yeah. Just wear them out, man.
- 2:50And, and my, my brother-in-law took us to, to a pond not far
- 2:54from where he lives, not far from the pond that was, I call
- 2:57it my, my papaw's pond. It's on our land.
- 3:00It's a little small. I'd say it's probably like 1/4
- 3:04acre, if that, maybe an eighth of an acre pond.
- 3:08It's small, but you can always catch some big bass out of it.
- 3:11You can catch some fish out of it.
- 3:13It's always just productive because it's fed by a natural
- 3:16spring. So I told my brother-in-law was
- 3:19like I'm going to hit, we're going to hit Papaw's pond
- 3:21tomorrow and I'm trying to think of somewhere else we can go.
- 3:24And he said, well, we always go over to this pond and it's not
- 3:27far. And I was like I don't know
- 3:28exactly where that is but if you willing to take us we will go.
- 3:32So we went. That's when Riley caught that 5
- 3:351/2 LB bass that was my brother-in-law that pulled it
- 3:38out. You can go to Tigs Bits podcast
- 3:40on socials and see all that. I had to brag and post his own.
- 3:44Having to, yeah, that's a, that's a big fish.
- 3:47I mean a lot of fish their whole life and never catch a pound
- 3:50bass. Exactly, exactly.
- 3:52I just, I couldn't believe it. And we didn't.
- 3:54We caught probably in that pond over the course of two days, we
- 3:57caught about 20 bass and the the second biggest bass to that was
- 4:02maybe a pound and a half maybe. So just a total freak, freak big
- 4:07bass. But there there's so many.
- 4:09You couldn't fish around that pond.
- 4:11You could only fish from the dam.
- 4:13We could fish maybe 10% of the water.
- 4:17It was there. This pond's probably an acre,
- 4:19acre and a half. It's pretty just.
- 4:21Too grown up, too sneaky. Very snaky.
- 4:24Saw some water moccasins on top of the water.
- 4:27You know, you're, you're looking down everywhere you're going.
- 4:31Riley got an introduction to the good old rattlesnake.
- 4:34Oh, did he this deal? Yes, he did.
- 4:36So we go back and I I said, you saw Uncle Billy open that gate
- 4:43and I said it looks easy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 4:45It was just so easy. Real easy.
- 4:46Gate just held by a little chain and a little nothing to it.
- 4:50He opened it and opened it, swung open about two feet, and
- 4:53he was going to start to push it and he started running back to
- 4:56the truck. And I went, dude, what's up?
- 4:59Did you see a snake? He's like, yeah, yeah.
- 5:01And I went, no, dude, I don't believe him, you know, I'm like,
- 5:04he didn't see a snake. You know, I look out there,
- 5:05dude, that rattlesnake was coiled up.
- 5:09It was obvious from the road where I was at that was a
- 5:12rattlesnake. And I said, dude, get in the
- 5:15truck, get in the truck. But at this point, we got to
- 5:18close the damn gate. Because there's.
- 5:20So where was it in relation, right?
- 5:23Where was it in relation to the gate?
- 5:24Was it in the line where the gate?
- 5:25Right, right in the middle under the gate, like he didn't see it
- 5:30maybe a foot back from the gate. So it was going to be when it
- 5:33swung open, it would have been dead in the middle, exactly
- 5:37where he would have stepped, you know, to push the gate to kind
- 5:40of just swing it on open, right. He almost.
- 5:42The gate. So the gate didn't go over the
- 5:44snake, yet the snake was still on the other side of the gate.
- 5:47The the snake or the gate actually barely went over the
- 5:50snake so in so. Then the gate's over and he's on
- 5:53your side of the gate. Correct.
- 5:56Wow. Yeah.
- 5:57And Riley was about to take a step to open the gate and going
- 6:01to step right on that snake. Yeah, dude, very, very close
- 6:05call that he didn't. That one, I well, I didn't have
- 6:08the window down. I didn't.
- 6:10He just saw it and then I went, well, crap, we got to close this
- 6:14gate because there's cattle. They I get what they weren't out
- 6:17there right then, but I don't know when they're going to come
- 6:20on that side. We got to close the gate and
- 6:22we're not going to let a damn rattlesnake ruin our fishing
- 6:25trip or make us not go. I didn't have a gun on me.
- 6:28I could have gone to my brother in law's, you know?
- 6:30You just got to go primal at that point.
- 6:32It's literally like old school. Throw sticks and rocks at it,
- 6:34get away. You know what I threw at it?
- 6:37What? My damn truck.
- 6:41I just backed up because I'm on a road Yeah, I had to watch for
- 6:44cars, but it's a country Rd. They ain't nobody coming hardly.
- 6:46So I had to back up and then I charged the gate and went up to
- 6:50it. Riley could look out and I said
- 6:52have I? Have I run over it yet?
- 6:54I didn't want to hit the gate. I think I could have just opened
- 6:57the gate, but I didn't want to damage the gate or put scratch
- 7:00my truck honestly again. But I was just going to run, run
- 7:02over it. He said Nah, Dad, he's just
- 7:04still standing there. Just just head raise rate of
- 7:08strike. All right, well, I'm going to
- 7:10have to hit the damn gate. So I backed up and and when I
- 7:13did he put his head down and slithered off into the into the
- 7:17Mulberry bushes or whatever the hell your.
- 7:20Truck was a big aggressive bear. Yeah, yeah.
- 7:23But we opened and closed that gate about 6 more times over the
- 7:28course of the next couple of days.
- 7:32Alert, high alert, high alert. Yeah, yeah.
- 7:38Everything looking down, everything.
- 7:41Serpentar was tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.
- 7:43Yeah, everything is a snake. Every stick, every movement.
- 7:46Oh yeah. Dude just unreal.
- 7:48Anyhow, doesn't mean to go on that long about.
- 7:50Oh, I get it. And you know, that's a that's
- 7:52and if we were doing a a weird out there episode today, you
- 7:56know, that's a thing. You know, it's like the
- 7:59boogeyman. Snakes have obviously been an
- 8:02issue with us for a long time. They're on all the hieroglyphs.
- 8:05They're in everything, the serpent this, the this, the that
- 8:08they're on everything. We are still jumpy as shit over
- 8:11states, you know, and you know, they like they like nobody likes
- 8:15rats and roaches, but buddy, them snakes get you.
- 8:18It's a it's a thing in the way they so it's just wild how you
- 8:23know, to the end of time. And then obviously since the
- 8:26beginning of time we have had this wild relationships with
- 8:31with snakes. Snakes.
- 8:32Yeah. I mean, well, it all started in
- 8:33the Bible. Whenever.
- 8:35That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying since day
- 8:37one. And then from then on out it is
- 8:39never, it has always been a constant was the snake thing
- 8:42like and still now you could, I mean, I, I, I bet if someone had
- 8:46never seen one, never heard about, never didn't even know
- 8:49what it was and saw one, they would jump because it's a
- 8:53natural instinct. For sure.
- 8:55I think it's just ingrained in everyone's DNA.
- 8:58It's almost kind of like, look, you never want to question God,
- 9:01and I never would. But one of the things one of my
- 9:04questions is going to be like, what's up with snakes though,
- 9:06man? Like why?
- 9:08Well, and I know the explanation's going to be the
- 9:10eating of rats and it's pest control.
- 9:13It's a lot more than you think, but Dang, they're just, they
- 9:16will make them make them very afraid of us and maybe not
- 9:19poisonous to humans. Exactly, exactly.
- 9:23That's my wife and I were talking about that the other
- 9:25day. It's like if there's some things
- 9:27we just don't need. I was like, she was like
- 9:28mosquitoes. I'm like, yeah, but a lot of
- 9:30birds eat mosquitoes. I know they're but they Dang
- 9:32sure do give a lot of diseases and they are just a Hindra.
- 9:36They are a pest. Is is full blown.
- 9:37And she said, well, what about like wasp man, that that needs
- 9:40wasp. Wasp for me.
- 9:41Nobody needs Wasps. Yeah, I was like, well, maybe
- 9:44so. And then I.
- 9:45But you think about certain things.
- 9:46Everything has its relation full circle to make everything work
- 9:50properly, you know, So it's just a cog in the wheel and it's it
- 9:56the type of predator it is. We've we're evolved to do a lot
- 9:59of things, but we quick strike and snakes are still we're still
- 10:03not very good at that yet. You know what I mean?
- 10:04We can hide, jump, run and throw.
- 10:07You don't even, you know, even trying to shoot one of those
- 10:09with a gun if you don't have a something with some spread
- 10:11spread on it. I've tried to shoot one with a
- 10:13pistol before. They are tough, even it yeah.
- 10:15No, I'm yeah, my my brother in It's coming.
- 10:27At you exactly. Yeah, I shot it some a water
- 10:30moccasin on on a levee like that at my pond in Mississippi and
- 10:35same thing. I didn't.
- 10:37I wasn't definitely afraid, but they were a great he was
- 10:39aggressive and it was not a great spot.
- 10:40It was somewhere, you know, it was rough terrain.
- 10:42I could have slipped fail, you know, but I was like, I'm just
- 10:45going to get a couple feet back and I had several shells for I
- 10:49got him, you know. So you need something with some
- 10:52spray, a 410 something, you know.
- 10:54But anyway, yeah, it's just wild to think that snakes always and
- 10:57then you and Riley have to have that ordeal and then probably
- 11:00not another snake in the area after all that commotion, but
- 11:03you're still on high alert the. Entire alert, high alert, but
- 11:07I'll tell you what catching fish sure is the best medicine for a
- 11:10kid that just saw a snake because that's his first like oh
- 11:13crap, I almost got bit by a rattlesnake kind of deal, which
- 11:17you know, I mean, I ain't had but a handful of those and then
- 11:20they're they're reminders. But after that he caught some
- 11:23fish. We go back and we're eating
- 11:25dinner with my mom and dad and just hanging out and he's
- 11:29telling them about the fish and all the the three in a row he
- 11:32caught that evening and just the all that.
- 11:35And then and I said, well, what else happened out there?
- 11:38And he's like, what do you what do you mean now?
- 11:39I went yeah, nothing. Ohh, yeah, yeah.
- 11:41That rattlesnake. What's crazy is my mom had just
- 11:45given me the the old lecture like I was 14 years old again.
- 11:49Yeah, like, you watch out for snakes and be careful out there.
- 11:53And I'm like, I know what I'm doing, Mama grown up in this, I
- 11:56know what I'm doing. And then, bam, that that
- 11:59happens. Almost.
- 12:00Riley almost gets bitten. Have to go to Manny, take him to
- 12:04the ER. And they would have been like we
- 12:06told you to watch out for, exactly like there was something
- 12:08you could have done differently. Correct.
- 12:11You know exactly not. No, that's all that I could have
- 12:14done, but. Yeah, right.
- 12:15Not live. Yeah.
- 12:16You can't be so scared of things that you can't live.
- 12:18That's the way I kind of look at it.
- 12:20That's funny. I have.
- 12:21I had a similar, similar, similar, similar incident.
- 12:26That's not like my dear. Hello.
- 12:28A similar incident when I was about Riley's age, maybe a hair
- 12:32younger, raking up leaves at A at a friend slash neighbor on
- 12:38the Lakes house. And I went to take a step and
- 12:41almost stepped in one and the dad, Mr. Burrell, grabbed my arm
- 12:45and I stepped back and looked and right where I was about to
- 12:48step, yeah, it was one inside some leaves piled up, coiled up,
- 12:51and then it rattled its tail. I was close though, and I
- 12:54remember that distinctly. Yeah.
- 12:57All of all the memories I've lost, I've retained.
- 13:00That was core memory there. I remember that.
- 13:03You don't lose it. You don't lose it.
- 13:04I had something similar at my grandparents house.
- 13:07They had a little flower bed, like around the tree, you know,
- 13:10the wood bricks around it raised up, you know what I'm talking
- 13:13about. And I had like this red colorful
- 13:17stuffed snake that I played with.
- 13:19I was probably four or five, something like that.
- 13:22And I just threw it over there, you know, and I went to go grab
- 13:25it. Same Dang thing.
- 13:29They all thought I was lying, and then they went out and they
- 13:32realized, no, he wasn't lying. Same thing.
- 13:35Like got to gives me, gives me. These aren't the kind of
- 13:39goosebumps that I like to get. I like to get these whenever I'm
- 13:42listening to a good song and good music.
- 13:44Not the heebie jeebie kind. Give me heebie jeebies.
- 13:47I don't like snakes either. No kidding.
- 13:49Yeah. No more snake talk.
- 13:52Bye. Bye, snakes.
- 13:52I'm glad Riley caught some good fish though.
- 13:56That's a great for your morale to want to go do those types
- 14:00things when you have some success.
- 14:02You know if you keep getting blanked a few times, you when
- 14:04you're young, you tend to lose interest, but you you could get
- 14:08to lip a few. It changes everything.
- 14:11Yeah, renews and restores that that drive to keep doing it.
- 14:15Well, that's awesome, man. I'm trying to put him in those
- 14:17situations. You can't ever guarantee
- 14:19fishing. That's why it's called fishing
- 14:21and not catching. But I want to try to put him in
- 14:24as many positive situations to have an opportunity to catch.
- 14:28Didn't even mention this. We went and got 50 crickets,
- 14:31which there's probably more like 7080 crickets in there.
- 14:34Use them all and caught about 65.
- 14:38We estimate 66 is what we're guessing, but we could have
- 14:41caught 75 or 80. Brim.
- 14:44Every single cast, cast brim, cast brim, cast brim.
- 14:49Just fun, you know? That's where you got it hooked.
- 14:51I got it hooked. On that, yeah, yeah, I got.
- 14:53Hooked on bass and then he got to experience the rapid catch.
- 14:57Oh yeah, and where you're just, you don't even get to fish.
- 15:00You're just changing bait. You're just changing hooks.
- 15:02Oh yeah, I just sat on a bucket and just told him to swing the
- 15:05fish to me and I'd take the fish off, throw it in, bait his hook,
- 15:08throw it back out. He could bait his hook and all,
- 15:10but I'm like. Yeah, let's fast it this way.
- 15:12Yeah, let's catch. Let's go.
- 15:14Let's go through these crickets. I want to see how fast can we
- 15:16catch them. And we caught 13 in 20 minutes
- 15:20when I was counting, and we had already caught God knows how
- 15:22many. That was the last of the
- 15:24crickets. So.
- 15:25Wow. Yeah.
- 15:26That's amazing. What's been going on with you,
- 15:31Jr. Enough about me and rattlesnakes
- 15:33and all that fun stuff. No, I just just enjoyed a nice
- 15:37Easter at home this year. Wasn't on the road for Easter
- 15:40weekend so my wife's family was in town so did some things
- 15:44around here. Had great weather like you were
- 15:45saying, had a lot of wind and wild weather.
- 15:48But down here that's finally subsided.
- 15:51Just here in the last few days and over the Easter weekend, and
- 15:55it was actually pretty nice when I on the boat one day just ate
- 15:58at home. Kind of just family stuff.
- 16:00Played a lot of games, played some Pedro, played some Trivial
- 16:02Pursuit, some card game, different stuff, and enjoyed
- 16:07some time with family, you know, that kind of stuff.
- 16:10Yeah, the week before, I'm trying to think where we're on
- 16:13the road. Yeah, we're somewhere.
- 16:17Yeah. Where were we the week before
- 16:19that? I meant to.
- 16:20I meant to. It's not that.
- 16:21It's. Well, I think that's where it
- 16:23got a little. JM got a little heat for good
- 16:28positive heat, but just some social media heat with his
- 16:32thoughts on on our president. Just saying thank God we got
- 16:35president. Trump.
- 16:36Oh, yeah, that's right. We went out.
- 16:37Yeah. We went out to Country Thunder
- 16:39in Arizona, and then we played a show in in California.
- 16:46The Arizona show was really cool.
- 16:47We opened for Keith Urban. Sarah Evans was on the bill.
- 16:51Dylan Carmichael. Oh wow.
- 16:54Big show, you know, probably 25,000 people there.
- 16:58It. Was it was real nice and cool
- 17:03big stage. You know the whole deal had a
- 17:05had a great turn out great show. The boys killed it.
- 17:09Big long catwalk was funny watching the boys what have try
- 17:13to get down this long catwalk, which is usually we have one but
- 17:16it's not 150 feet long all the way to front of house like this
- 17:19one was. And I watched him getting back
- 17:22up. I saw I was like, it's a little
- 17:23longer than normal, you know? What is that catwalk, that ramp
- 17:27that you're talking about? You know, they come like the
- 17:29thrust that comes out in the very middle of the stage where
- 17:32you can walk out through the crowd.
- 17:33OK. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 17:35yeah. Gotcha.
- 17:35So usually it's out, you know, it's a thrust which you know,
- 17:38normally a stage is just, you know, it ends.
- 17:40And then if a thrust is like if something comes out and jolts
- 17:43out and then a catwalk is a a more narrow.
- 17:46Narrow walk, Yeah. Gotcha.
- 17:47So this had a thrust and then a catwalk that went way down into
- 17:52the crowd, basically all my all the way to front of house.
- 17:55Oh, wow. Which so they won't, you know,
- 17:58you got to make a trip down there at least once or twice
- 18:00during the show. But you also got to remember,
- 18:02you know, our electronics and all you got to make.
- 18:05There a range. Yeah, sure.
- 18:07We got to make sure we got all that prepared for that distance,
- 18:10which we don't like I said, we normally don't.
- 18:12We we don't have a catwalk of of some source, but it's not that
- 18:16long. This is a huge festival.
- 18:18It's just, you know, exaggerated for our from our normal show.
- 18:21So that was I watched him getting back and it's all ready
- 18:24to keep going and they're still trying to get back.
- 18:26They're still working their way back like long walking the boys.
- 18:29But we had a great time and Keith Urban put on a great show.
- 18:32He's a rocker. They were all super nice.
- 18:35Then the next night went to California and did a show there
- 18:38with Locash and Dylan Carmichael at A and airplane hangar.
- 18:43It was like a it was like an airport and we did.
- 18:45I don't like the runway, but part of the was closed.
- 18:48The part was open for the radio station.
- 18:49It was a big deal. A couple 1000 people there for
- 18:51that too. Great day.
- 18:52Beautiful weather outside like Ventura, CA out north north of
- 18:58LA and then came home and and got the house in order for
- 19:03family and then Easter and then been here and then in between
- 19:06that obviously I did. I've been doing the Jr.
- 19:09The Handler Show podcast. Yeah, dude, let's talk a little
- 19:12bit about that Top 200 music podcast, baby.
- 19:15Yeah, I know. Isn't that a tree up?
- 19:17You hit the charts. It's so crazy, so fast.
- 19:21I looked just earlier 127 on the music charts and it's.
- 19:24Amazing. Congratulations.
- 19:26Like thank you brother, I only had like an episode and a half
- 19:29come out so far really because the intro episode was just me
- 19:32rambling. Testing your equipment and
- 19:34stuff. Yeah, just to make sure it was
- 19:36going to make it to the platforms and everything was
- 19:38synced up, which I, I, we knew it would be, but we just, you
- 19:40know, you always got to double check.
- 19:42Got a small team here, team of two as you know how that works.
- 19:46I did so, but got it, got it going.
- 19:51And it's just amazing that it that it jumped like that and
- 19:53it's been fun. But really, so only those
- 19:55episodes have come out, but this will come out.
- 19:57This show, the Tigs Bits podcast will come out before several
- 20:01episodes that I've already recorded in our lives.
- 20:03You're slated to to come out on Thursdays.
- 20:07OK. So that's going to be your
- 20:09that's going. To be your official.
- 20:11Hey, that's a good thing because usually that's whenever I drop a
- 20:14show, a Tigs bit show, so you can go back-to-back, you can hit
- 20:17Jr. then you can hit Tigs bits. You can get like.
- 20:20Is that what normal day our tigs bits comes out?
- 20:23Oh, OK, that's perfect. OK, well, good.
- 20:26There's no dude, there's no competition in podcast Lynn.
- 20:29If you ever thought you were in a podcast, in a podcast
- 20:32competition, there's a Kazillions, a podcast.
- 20:36I'm not in competition against you.
- 20:37You're in a different yet. It's in a whole different genre.
- 20:40We're in society, culture and comedy, which is which is just
- 20:46kind of where it's at. You know, unfortunately, there's
- 20:49a lot of big hitters in all three of those categories.
- 20:52So it's hard. We ain't broke the top 200 yet.
- 20:56No, that's why I pick music. That's why I pick music.
- 20:58I figured some of these slackers won't show up for a while.
- 21:01They'll bust an algorithm. I can pick up some slack.
- 21:04Brilliant. That's freaking brilliant.
- 21:07And I mean, plus, that's your wheelhouse.
- 21:10Yeah, you know. Mostly it and and that's the
- 21:12thing and you know, I don't that's why I don't want to get
- 21:14into too much on some of the episodes that hadn't come out
- 21:17yet. But I will say this, everybody
- 21:19hang in there. I appreciate the love and
- 21:20support so far. I hope everybody enjoys it.
- 21:22I thought it was a no brainer to just have to tell these random
- 21:26stories of these peoples from the road, you know.
- 21:29So I've got a couple of more tour managers and people like
- 21:31that in the can that'll come out.
- 21:34But I don't have a formula yet of a flow of a show.
- 21:40Like I don't have that dialed in yet.
- 21:42I'm trying some things out here and there.
- 21:45I'm doing some on some episodes. I'm not mentioning this.
- 21:47I I don't have the sponsor thing dialed in how I want to yet, So
- 21:51I don't have a flow on that, but I'm just not wanting to wait is
- 21:54the thing. I want to get these out there
- 21:57because you know, I it's not perfect at first.
- 22:01It's but, and I hate to say use the words it's good enough, but
- 22:05it's I don't, I'm not going to, if I, if I took a month to try
- 22:09to get ready for it, I'd do the same damn thing.
- 22:11I just got to work through it. I just got to kind of work
- 22:15through it as it goes to figure out what works and get a flow.
- 22:18And then I'll get a rhythm down. And I just want to get these
- 22:20stories in and these catalogued and get, get it, you know, on
- 22:27there and these stories told and a lot of these people I want to
- 22:29have repeat. I mean, they got so many
- 22:30stories. I mean, you know, two hours and
- 22:32I still not even scratched the surface.
- 22:35Exactly and then and. I wanted to and I want to be
- 22:37able to do, I want to be able to do more of them, but I just
- 22:41don't have time. I'd almost could do a Rogan
- 22:43thing and do one every day because that's the thing I some
- 22:45of this stuff I wish could be more time stamped and I could
- 22:47get it out earlier, but but for now it's just not going to be
- 22:51able to be that way. Yeah.
- 22:52Well, and I think, look, I think that's OK.
- 22:54That's what I've done with our show here is, you know, whenever
- 22:58you're hearing this, this is going to probably it's, it's
- 23:00going to be a few days obviously after we've recorded it.
- 23:04It'll be probably a week or so after we've recorded before I
- 23:07drop it on our channels because I kind of want to start giving
- 23:10myself a little bit of time, excuse me, a little bit of time
- 23:14to catch up and have some shows in the can myself.
- 23:18Like next week, plan on recording a couple of episodes
- 23:20with some food folks coming on. You know that I'm going to kick
- 23:24those in the can. So it's going to be good to kind
- 23:26of build that can back up. You got a can, I got a can.
- 23:30Then guess what? We can move cans if we need to,
- 23:34you know, some of these shows, dynamite.
- 23:36We're going to put that on Bubba too, you know, and we'll put
- 23:40that on this Bubba exclusive that we're doing.
- 23:43And of course, this is just our regular Tigs Bits podcast too,
- 23:47and we're going to figure out our own little format.
- 23:49You know, we'll figure out kind of how we want to dial this in a
- 23:53little bit, which we've talked about on some of those last
- 23:56couple of shows, but we've taken off and we needed to record a
- 23:59damn show today. So we're just going to do it the
- 24:00way we always do it today. But I did, I wanted to mention
- 24:05this, I wanted to read a couple of things, a couple of little
- 24:08things, a housekeeping. These are both very much so
- 24:11Bubba Army related and I'd be remiss if I didn't get these
- 24:15out. At the shop and end of the show
- 24:17Army in the house. I know.
- 24:19Yes, Sir, that's that's not to hold you up, but that's the
- 24:24other thing too. I want to find a better way to
- 24:26incorporate the army into the new podcast and get some kind of
- 24:30I've sent some stuff to Gary Cantrell.
- 24:32Lummies actually reached out to me about a a a band.
- 24:35They did a review on sending me some info on them.
- 24:38So I got to figure out a way to better incorporate the bubble
- 24:41army and I'm I need to I just I've had so much going on.
- 24:44I need to get with you and Seth and want to see about sending my
- 24:47show over there. If he thinks that the people
- 24:49would would want to have the music show on over there if so
- 24:53could get that going. But also I need to find a way to
- 24:57blend some of their stuff. I definitely want to get like
- 24:59Gary on for the shooting the shooting content for that
- 25:03anyway. I need to talk to some of them
- 25:04and so it, but I'm feel like since I've already got several
- 25:07episodes, it's gonna be another month before it'll rob.
- 25:10It's not any changes because I got so much stuff.
- 25:12You've already got them laid down.
- 25:13Yeah, but that's OK. I mean, with that's on the
- 25:15horizon, we can say and things that we're going to be talking
- 25:18about, which is exciting. I mean, we're in this for the
- 25:20long haul. So y'all bear with us out there
- 25:23and y'all let us know you want to hear that music episode.
- 25:26Do you want us to start sending that in to Bubba too?
- 25:29We can. We can alternate weeks.
- 25:31I'm fine with it. Sounds like J Rs got plenty in
- 25:34the can, you know. Or they can, you know, or it
- 25:36could be cool. They just drop them at the same
- 25:38time and we use this as a more current thing.
- 25:42And then and then we could do more current event type stuff
- 25:45because I do enjoy that. And I think the, I think the
- 25:47Army and our and our just our podcast listeners and viewers
- 25:51enjoy that when it's kind of social commentary, but kind of
- 25:55in the moment kind of thing. Yeah.
- 25:58Like, you know, we did things around the election that was fun
- 26:01with Tando and all the different things around Bubba's world too,
- 26:05and with different big sporting events or, you know, things like
- 26:09that. Because I think that would be
- 26:11fun to still do some lives. Oh, for sure.
- 26:15Yeah, we're doing that branded under this.
- 26:17Or if there's a way we could brand them as both, because I'd
- 26:19like to do some the Handler stuff live too and talk to you
- 26:22about that as we're doing some lives and we could field some
- 26:26questions for both maybe or some.
- 26:27There's all kinds of possible. Oh yeah, I love it there.
- 26:30The it's our Playhouse. It's our wheelhouse of having
- 26:33just having fun and love having everybody hang with us.
- 26:36We're not really changing. We've been doing it like this
- 26:39the whole time. But you're going to be happy to
- 26:41know, you know, your boy has some notes and I do have some
- 26:45current events stuff that we will talk about.
- 26:47So we because there's some stuff out there we definitely need to
- 26:50hit. I want to get your thoughts on
- 26:52them. But let me give a shout out to a
- 26:54couple folks. First, a big shout out to Jay,
- 26:58Jay Rochelle. Jay from NOLA, as he is known on
- 27:02Bubba Army, everybody knows Jay. Jay was my guide at Bart, which
- 27:10and and Jay used to be whenever I was had the radio show here
- 27:14with Matt English, he was the producer I guess would be his
- 27:17title, but he would be there on weekends producing the show.
- 27:20I've kind of talked a little bit about that over the time, but he
- 27:25did an amazing thing. He would not want all of this
- 27:28love, but he's getting it. I can't help it because the
- 27:31Baton Rouge Police Department posted something about him, so
- 27:34we got to give a big shout out to him.
- 27:37On April 16th while sitting at a red light he spotted flames
- 27:42under a medical transport van and he did not hesitate.
- 27:47He jumped into action with the driver and the bystander helping
- 27:523 impaired passengers get out of get out safely before the whole
- 27:56van went up in flames. So I mean he is a real deal
- 28:01hero. Saved some lives on that day so
- 28:04they gave him a a big shout out. Well deserved.
- 28:07Great job, Jay. I know you don't want it, but
- 28:10you did it. And he and what he has said and
- 28:13he would want me to say is that anybody else that was in that
- 28:16situation would have done the same thing.
- 28:19He's not anything special, but I know him and he is.
- 28:23So shout out to Jay from NOLA. Great freaking job, brother.
- 28:28Great job, man. Great, great job.
- 28:31He's also a drummer Jr. and with a guy, Kendall Shaffer here here
- 28:36locally. Yeah, we're going to.
- 28:39Y'all need to talk. We need to.
- 28:41Well, yeah, absolutely. Well, I'm glad all of that.
- 28:43I hope he didn't get hurt. And I hope the people that he
- 28:45saved got to get some medical attention quicker and safely
- 28:49since he did that act of heroism there.
- 28:51That's awesome, man. Kudos to him.
- 28:53Big shot right there. That's awesome.
- 28:55It was it was awesome. It was awesome.
- 28:57And and then I got, I mean, it's I don't, I don't have the whole
- 29:03e-mail. I'm not going to read read the
- 29:04whole e-mail. But there is a a gentleman, a
- 29:08gentleman named Bryce. Bryce with the Bubba Army sent
- 29:12us a just an amazingly nice e-mail about how much he loved
- 29:17the Hutt Strickland show and that that we did.
- 29:21And and I mean, it was that was a it was a great, great show.
- 29:25It really was it. Really.
- 29:27Really was. Who else has?
- 29:28Who else has talked to Hutt for that long about that besides
- 29:31Dale Earnhardt Junior? That's the only time.
- 29:33That's it exactly exactly. So he really enjoyed that he he
- 29:38did say that he wishes he could watch the video version that he
- 29:42doesn't have the the subscription service or whatever
- 29:45to Bubba. Just want to let everybody know
- 29:47right now, all of these shows that you are here and here.
- 29:50If you're listening to this on the bubble army, you can go to
- 29:53our YouTube Tigs bits podcast and watch the video versions of
- 29:57it. I know that they are dropping
- 29:59the video versions of these podcasts as well.
- 30:03From what I've seen, they're free.
- 30:05They're just on the on the free side.
- 30:07But I just wanted to mention that because he he said that and
- 30:11I'm like, maybe he doesn't realize that we have a YouTube
- 30:14channel and Facebook and all that stuff.
- 30:16And, you know, some folks just don't use YouTube too.
- 30:19You never know where people consume your content.
- 30:22And it's interesting whenever you start to say, like you see
- 30:25people, I call it in the wild. You talk to somebody in the wild
- 30:28dog. Yeah, man, I was listening to
- 30:29your podcast on Pandora or the other Spotify.
- 30:33I'm like, wait, I didn't even know it was on there.
- 30:37Yeah, right. I.
- 30:38Know yeah I forgot I set it up like that three years ago I
- 30:40never look at it it just when they drop they they drop you
- 30:44know but. Everybody presumes differently.
- 30:47It's it really is strange that way.
- 30:49Well, even me, I watch a ton of stuff on YouTube, but I rarely
- 30:52watch podcasts on YouTube. I usually listen to podcasts.
- 30:56Yeah, well, I'm kind of the same way.
- 30:58And I go back and forth like, I mean, I know you're listening to
- 31:01this, you don't care, but like how we are right now, we're
- 31:03live. We have to do it this way with
- 31:06the split screens. But I'm kind of going back to
- 31:09where it's just whoever's talking, the screen has just
- 31:13that. I kind of like that.
- 31:14I think it, I think it's presented better.
- 31:17I just think it looks better than than the way we look right
- 31:21now, right? It's more like it's honestly.
- 31:23It's easier to do, Yeah, it's easier to do it that way.
- 31:27And it gives it gives you a break, you know, like in between
- 31:30if you got to pick your nose or you know, smoke a cig, whatever
- 31:34you get or get a drag or whatever you do that while other
- 31:36if you know the other guys going on a good story there you.
- 31:38Know you can you you're able to tighten the edit a little bit
- 31:42better without it looking jumpy now.
- 31:44It's hard when you're 1 in person unless you have a picture
- 31:47or you're you know but. Still, whatever I love it so I
- 31:50can hit my my nicotine vape if I know somebody else is talking
- 31:55not getting busted because I hate holding it all the time,
- 31:57but I ain't no way I'm going two hours.
- 31:59I I can't quit everything man. I quit snap cigs a while back.
- 32:03I just quit drinking. I'm like man, I got I'll quit
- 32:06this too, but it you know we're working on one thing at a time
- 32:08here. That's.
- 32:09That's it. That's all we can do.
- 32:11Just get better. Nicotine's a killing and I don't
- 32:14want to go to the pouches, the zens or anything like that,
- 32:17because I know that'll just be another expensive habit, You
- 32:20know, exactly because I like cigars, but I don't I'll smoke,
- 32:25you know, $10 cigar or good cigar, whatever.
- 32:27And and then I'll still go back to smoking my crappy vape thing
- 32:31again, my, you know, menthol vape thing.
- 32:34So it's like, I really you wish I could just do 1, you know what
- 32:38I mean? But I can't do one because, you
- 32:40know, they're, I need. I just yeah.
- 32:42Or I could just go back to smoking cigs and I could do one.
- 32:44But. I don't think I should do that,
- 32:45no. No, I don't want to do.
- 32:47That no, you've made it made. You've come so far, you don't
- 32:50want to regress. I don't want to smell like it.
- 32:52I don't want to taste. It I.
- 32:54Know I used to love it, or I guess tolerate it.
- 32:57Thought I loved it. Now it's like, no way.
- 33:00Can't stand the smell of it now, can you?
- 33:02Just. Yeah, yeah.
- 33:05But I mean, I. But yeah, it's just one of those
- 33:07things. But I, I, I think there's going
- 33:10to be all kinds of cool stuff coming out of the retooling of
- 33:14this show and me adding a new show and all that stuff is just
- 33:17going to be fun. And I hope everybody listening
- 33:20and watching enjoys the ride as much as we do because we're
- 33:24going, you know, we're going to have guests for different shows
- 33:27and we, you know, we're still going to be involved with stuff,
- 33:30yes. We haven't even hit our stride
- 33:33yet. Honestly, this is the first time
- 33:34Jr. and I've got together since the last show y'all saw.
- 33:37So we haven't we haven't really got to, we haven't been in our
- 33:41groove yet of kind of, you know, getting there.
- 33:44I think it's going to take us a month or so of getting wound
- 33:46back up and then just like boom, boom boom here he comes.
- 33:50So and that's going to happen. Any word about that?
- 33:54But here's a little modern, here's a little something that's
- 33:57happened since we did our last show, man, which I think it was
- 34:01earlier this week, but something we definitely got to talk about
- 34:04because I have a thought. It's official.
- 34:07Lee Corso is hanging up the headgear man after nearly 40
- 34:11years on ESP NS game day, college game day, he is going to
- 34:17retire. And they say his his final
- 34:20episode will be on August 30th, which kicks off the 2025 season.
- 34:26So one last time we'll get to see him.
- 34:29Not so fast, my friend. I, I, I hope that he makes it.
- 34:33I'm not being rude or anything. Well, you know.
- 34:37He's 90 years old bro. I know that's the thing, you you
- 34:40won't even be able to just go relax and enjoy his time with
- 34:42his family and stuff, not to make those commitments and
- 34:45stuff. I know he probably, that's just,
- 34:47you know, you got to have purpose in life to want to keep
- 34:49going. But I'm sure his family's going
- 34:51to enjoy having him around and hope, yeah, hopefully he's in
- 34:54good health now and, and, and makes it and pick and hopefully
- 34:57he picks Alabama to win the game, whatever it is.
- 35:00Yeah. Do we know what game it'll be?
- 35:02Will be his final game? They don't know yet.
- 35:04Now I know LSU and Clemson play that day.
- 35:09I think Ohio State and maybe Texas.
- 35:12I'm dude. I haven't looked at a football
- 35:13schedule yet, but I saw I think I think Ohio State and somebody
- 35:17big were playing there, which is probably since Ohio State won
- 35:20the championship, most likely where game day is going to go.
- 35:25I would I would think, but I mean the LSU Clemson game is
- 35:28going to be a pretty that's a big game on August 30th too, but
- 35:32I don't think it's game day worthy.
- 35:33So I figured that he'll go to the horseshoe and and do it.
- 35:36But man, you know, there's going to be a lot of big tributes come
- 35:40from it. I love how Herb St. how Herbie's
- 35:43kind of taking him under his wing of kind of, for lack of a
- 35:47better term, take it, kind of taking care of him.
- 35:49You know, he just makes sure that he doesn't look bad.
- 35:53You know, kind of like a handler, kind of like what you
- 35:55do in a sense. You know, it's like a, it's like
- 35:57a young wrestler and an old, you know, an aging wrestler.
- 36:00You got to take care of each other and make make the show pop
- 36:03and look good and want to make everybody get get everybody
- 36:05over, you know? For sure, for sure.
- 36:08Well, Speaking of over, have you had a chance to to catch up on
- 36:13WrestleMania? Well, I'm going to, I'm going to
- 36:16need a deeper dive. I, I got a text from DDP last
- 36:19week reminding me to watch the Hall of Fame because he was
- 36:23going to go first with Lex Luger.
- 36:27So I didn't get to catch it. I was out for the family.
- 36:30But I did go back and watch that and I thought it was great.
- 36:33Dallas looks like 1,000,000 bucks.
- 36:35Luger Luger got to take a few steps to the podium and you
- 36:38know, this guy was in such a bad shape.
- 36:40So anybody who's not familiar with all that going down, go to
- 36:43DDPY or go DDP on YouTube or any of those Lex Luger DDP, just
- 36:49Google it. Dallas Diamond Dallas page is
- 36:52helping Lex Luger get his health back under control.
- 36:55He had some Was it a car accident?
- 36:58How he hurt himself. I don't remember exactly I I
- 37:01watched. I need to watch.
- 37:02The story, yeah, I watched it but I forgot.
- 37:05Yeah, same. But he had a but he's Lex Luger
- 37:08was, you know, the a super body guy and just was total package
- 37:13like his Monica suggested. And he's, you know, hard times
- 37:19in his body and he's had some bad injuries and but Dallas is
- 37:23helping him get back. And it was awesome to see him up
- 37:25there in his speech in Dallas. And then that's really all I've
- 37:28seen. I'm going to do some more.
- 37:31It won't be relevant anymore by the time we do another show.
- 37:33But I did watch a few of the highlights from the actual show.
- 37:37And the main one everybody's talking about is Stone Cold
- 37:40Steve Austin wrecking his four Wheeler and knocking a lady
- 37:43down. And everybody wondered if
- 37:44they're going to get sued or not.
- 37:47Dude, well, first of all, there's fan cameras.
- 37:49The glass breaks, the music hits and I'm like, oh shit, here we
- 37:53go with the main event hadn't even started and I'm like, well,
- 37:56this is ruling Stone cold out right now from the main event.
- 37:59Like being a sneak surprise. He's already there though in
- 38:03Vegas. Makes sense.
- 38:04So they work him in. He he comes out on the four
- 38:07Wheeler, but he missed the ramp. He just went straight into like
- 38:11a wall. It didn't go up there.
- 38:13I don't know what he was thinking.
- 38:15I don't, I don't know. I don't know if he thought maybe
- 38:17it curved around. I don't know.
- 38:18But he had to go up the ramp so they had to back him up.
- 38:22The music's playing And then finally he comes out late and he
- 38:25hauls ass down the long. That's a long catwalk.
- 38:28Yeah. Going down to the to the ring
- 38:31and then driving around and then bam runs into the damn LED board
- 38:37and. I wonder lady just flew.
- 38:39Yeah, knocked her back down. And then he's are you good?
- 38:42And he went and got in the ring and I'm just wondering like, was
- 38:44he trying to hook slide it or does he just, was he just
- 38:47anxious because he knew he was running late?
- 38:49I don't know. I don't know.
- 38:51I would love to know. I would absolutely love to know.
- 38:54I doubt I could get an answer on.
- 38:55That no, you're never going to get an answer, but you, you
- 38:58would be the only one on this show who would have a shot.
- 39:01But and I doubt he would ever tell the true answer.
- 39:03Maybe it had a couple of them beers back there.
- 39:05He had several in the ring after that which he didn't get back.
- 39:09I saw him look at the four Wheeler and he thought in his
- 39:12mind, I better not do that. I wasn't drinking or at least
- 39:15wasn't seen drinking. I doubt he was drinking before
- 39:18he hit the four Wheeler. He definitely was drinking in
- 39:21the ring and he looked at the four Wheeler and then he kind of
- 39:24and just walk. He he walked.
- 39:26Out like Attitude Era, he'd have drove the four Wheeler.
- 39:28Oh for sure he would have. But like now dude, you you after
- 39:32that incident, you, you better not get back on that four
- 39:34Wheeler bro. And he didn't.
- 39:38I think it's a big bunch of nothing honestly.
- 39:41Hopefully that Lady doesn't sue him.
- 39:43I mean, it's what a society that we live in.
- 39:46But those people paid like $5000 a piece for those tickets.
- 39:51That's what I find. I saw today, yesterday, how
- 39:54expensive WrestleMania was. I mean, I get it front row, but
- 39:59like you could go to the Superdome 4-5 years ago whenever
- 40:02they had that one, whenever it was in New Orleans and you could
- 40:06get upper deck tickets for like 25 bucks or whatever.
- 40:09Which I don't want to be in the upper deck at WrestleMania in
- 40:12the Superdome. I'd just rather watch it on TV
- 40:15at this point in time honestly, cuz you can see so much more.
- 40:19But. Yeah, You know, unless I'm in
- 40:21that club level, that club level is where it's at.
- 40:23Club level is where it's at. Oh yeah.
- 40:25Yeah, yeah, y'all want the the the life hack When you go into
- 40:29something just pay up and get the club level.
- 40:31You have a upgraded you at least in New Orleans, but most most
- 40:34places I've ever been for the money it upgrades you bathroom
- 40:38and concessions and is worth every penny.
- 40:41You get a little more space, a little more kush.
- 40:43If you can't afford it, I get it.
- 40:45I've done it. I've been to the Dome in the
- 40:47top. I was there actually for the
- 40:48Rams game when we everybody threw all the shit on the field.
- 40:51I was there for that where he and my buddy Hal layered me and
- 40:54Hal layered Murphy's dad were in the 300 and whatever is over in
- 41:00a corner watching that game yeah we saw grown men fighting.
- 41:03I saw two Saints and two Rams big 2/2 of each big guys
- 41:07fighting in the hallway there thing and I remember how was
- 41:10just like Mesmer. I was walking towards and I
- 41:12gradually like, no, that ain't our fight to get pulled him
- 41:14away. These two big grown and you
- 41:16know, because we're like. You know, barely you're talking
- 41:19about the are you talking about the NOLA No call game, the the
- 41:23pass, the Rams game, NFC Championship No.
- 41:26This wasn't NFC, this was way before this was 1999.
- 41:29Oh, OK, OK yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 41:31I. Remember, it just happened on a
- 41:33Sunday. The Greatest Show on turf?
- 41:35Yeah. Something on Sunday night
- 41:37happened and they threw stuff on the field.
- 41:39Well, this was a Monday night game and Saints, everybody had,
- 41:42they gave these things and everybody threw paper airplanes
- 41:44and threw stuff on the field and it was rowdy.
- 41:47But I remember that fight, those four guys fighting and how long,
- 41:50like just being like charmed into getting close to the brawl
- 41:54of all this chaos. Yeah.
- 41:56And I'm like, no, these guys were huge.
- 41:58We were, we were just young little skinny punks, you know,
- 42:01like not even out of college yet.
- 42:03Like barely still in college, kind of out of college deal.
- 42:07So I've been there too and it and it's so it's worth it to go
- 42:10at any capacity and I've had good seats and and give them up
- 42:13to take other ones and you know, got moved and just you just have
- 42:16to deal with it sometimes. But if you can, club level is
- 42:21usually where it's at. Even for me, it's even better
- 42:24than sideline, front row, any of that just because unless it's a
- 42:28suite now, a box or a suite, and even then you're you're you're a
- 42:32little. Disconnected in a suite.
- 42:34Yeah, and depends on who you're suite with.
- 42:36If you go as a guest to somebody you don't really know, you feel
- 42:38awkward, like you're in somebody's house and you don't
- 42:40know anybody. You got to behave.
- 42:42Yeah, or. Be yourself.
- 42:44Yeah, or you know, it, it just there's different situations.
- 42:48But if it's just you and your partner going or you know a
- 42:51small family or some shit, get them club level baby going to
- 42:55get that upgraded little experience, have that little
- 42:57little extra bathroom worth it. I agree 100%, and especially at
- 43:02concerts, like especially at concerts when you're in an arena
- 43:07and you get club like it's a complete game changer #1 you can
- 43:10see better. It's almost like the sound and
- 43:12everything's meant to be directed there.
- 43:16That's the center of the sound and the visuals and everything.
- 43:19So yeah, yeah, I mean, it's worth the upgrade, totally.
- 43:23Yeah, I remember you and O Lakefront watching Pearl Jam
- 43:26that about that same year about 99 and we were right off the
- 43:29floor, like first or second row off the floor in the back of the
- 43:32arena. So you're you're like level with
- 43:34the stage. It was so awesome.
- 43:37Well, the other one I saw other big event from WrestleMania I
- 43:40saw was John Cena and his hair plugs and his explanations with
- 43:44the fans and why he's got plugs and all this.
- 43:47I'm like, guys, this, this is something else if this is all
- 43:50we're talking about. So apparently he wrestled Cody
- 43:52Rhodes and went over he beat Cody.
- 43:54He beat Cody with a little help from, you know, OK, what's
- 43:59Travis Scott? Fiend, fiend, fiend.
- 44:02I've gotten tired of hearing that song.
- 44:04Whatever. I mean, I get it.
- 44:05That's that's what keeps the younger folks in there and all
- 44:08that. That that's.
- 44:09So you got to keep doing that. I have no problem with it.
- 44:13But what was the travesty to me and everybody else is that there
- 44:17was no final boss. There was no rock.
- 44:21The guy who was going to take Cody Rhodes soul.
- 44:24He wanted him to sell his soul. And then John Cena turns on him,
- 44:28kicks Cody in the nuts and does all that and he's one of the
- 44:34final bosses guy, one of the rocks puppets.
- 44:37And then no Rock, just Travis Scott to come out who would beat
- 44:41Cody Rhodes up and and post one of the one of the paper views.
- 44:45I think Elimination Chamber maybe in the ring afterwards
- 44:49accidentally I think actually. Hurt.
- 44:50His ear face, he hurt his ear. That was it hurt his ear.
- 44:53Didn't mean to, but whatever he was, you know, he's not a
- 44:56wrestler. And so why they only brought him
- 44:59into the storyline. He had a little minor.
- 45:02He just was a distraction. And then that's how Cody Rhodes,
- 45:06who had not lost anything, had the belt for a year.
- 45:10Untouchable. In in a long time.
- 45:13In a long time and then he loses because of that distraction.
- 45:18I just found it to be like, I mean, it wasn't even when he
- 45:21kicked it, I thought he was going to kick out at the very
- 45:25last second. Like this match ain't over,
- 45:27dude. And it was, it started like
- 45:289/05, 9:10 PM. It was over at like 936.
- 45:34It wasn't even that long of a match.
- 45:36And that match like the the the night one was Seth Rollins and
- 45:40CM Punk and and and Roman Reigns.
- 45:44Phenomenal match. It was the best match of the all
- 45:47of WrestleMania as far as I'm concerned.
- 45:49Phenomenal match. They put their bodies on the
- 45:52line. They've wrestled for Dang near
- 45:54an hour, if not a little over, and you just left.
- 45:57Like I can't wait to see what they do tomorrow night and then.
- 46:03I mean, the whole it doesn't, All you would have really needed
- 46:07was the rock to come out there at the end and either do the do
- 46:12the double turn or just come out there and just put the icing on
- 46:16the cake with him doing some kind of sly move to do a
- 46:19distraction or something. Exactly.
- 46:21Exactly. But with no with no rock, I bet
- 46:24it did feel unleft and I wonder what the why why he didn't,
- 46:27especially if he was in the promos leading up to it.
- 46:31No freaking idea, man, no idea. And well, he came on, he came
- 46:38on, he went on Pat McAfee earlier this week and said that
- 46:41that that that that final arc was was there at the Elimination
- 46:46chamber. It's like, what do you mean that
- 46:49isn't nobody else thought that was the final arc.
- 46:51Now he could be playing the long game.
- 46:54He could be setting it up like he's gone, you know, and then
- 46:58he's going to he's going to come back.
- 47:00It's all turned now. John Cena and versus yeah, Randy
- 47:07Orton and it's going to be Randy Orton and Cena are already that
- 47:10happened on Raw this this past Monday.
- 47:13That's going to be the next thing We didn't hear from Cody
- 47:16on Raw. Monday Raw was 50 times better
- 47:21than night 2 of WrestleMania to me because it set everything up
- 47:25for the and you know, Raw Monday, Raw after Mania is
- 47:28always kind of the setup for the next year with those, the
- 47:32stories they do more talking and stuff.
- 47:35Laid it out a lot, laid a lot out like it's going, it's going
- 47:38to be fun. Becky Lynch turned heel on after
- 47:42coming out on Sunday. That was a big surprise.
- 47:46Her toss, kind of, you know, she's back, but now she turned
- 47:49the last. Kicker I'm a big fan of hers,
- 47:50buddy. She's good.
- 47:51I. Love her.
- 47:51Oh yeah. The last kicker?
- 47:53She's Dang good, dude. Yeah, Dang good.
- 47:55But yeah, it's I and some folks disagree.
- 47:59I think biggie. I know when I was I was live
- 48:02tweeting, I was pissed. I don't know why I had my
- 48:04neighbors come over. We blew it up on a on a, on a
- 48:08big projector outside. We're all hanging out.
- 48:11They are not wrestling fans, but they came last year and they saw
- 48:1540 and knew how they all loved it.
- 48:18But this year, just all of them unanimous that was a dud.
- 48:23Had fun hanging out but that that was that sucked like.
- 48:27That did suck, and it was in Vegas.
- 48:29They broke attendance numbers. They broke box office records.
- 48:32They made more money than they ever have, and it sucked more
- 48:35than it ever has. Yeah, disappointed to say the.
- 48:39Sounds very sounds very gimmicky.
- 48:41And that's the thing too. I mean, them keep having to
- 48:43regurgitate these these older wrestlers.
- 48:45I just don't remember in the heyday, and maybe I'm wrong, in
- 48:48the heyday of say, the, you know, early teen Wrestlemanias,
- 48:53them having to bring back people.
- 48:57No, I guess. Well, I guess they're just not
- 48:58out of their prime. I guess people wrestled longer
- 49:01then because normally like a scene on a Rock wouldn't be out
- 49:03of the business completely and then have to come back, you
- 49:06know? Right.
- 49:07Yeah. You know.
- 49:09I guess I don't know what I don't know what they're going to
- 49:12do, where they're going to go, but the I'm looking forward to
- 49:14Randy Orton. I love Randy Orton.
- 49:16I love his finishing move. I love the RKO, which is just
- 49:20the diamond cutter and kind of part of the, the the the Stone
- 49:24cold stunner in a sense, except Stone Cold would kick you and
- 49:28then turn around. But you know, similar move.
- 49:31I just love that wrestling move when somebody goes behind their
- 49:34neck and slam somebody just think it looks.
- 49:36And you know, Dallas says it, and I don't know which one's
- 49:38which now, but on, on, there's a difference.
- 49:43And I think the RKO, he just grabs the neck, interlocks
- 49:46fingers top on top. But when Dallas does the cutter,
- 49:51he uses a cravat where he interlocks his hands, finger
- 49:54over finger, because that way. You control.
- 49:57Because that way you can control more.
- 49:59It's more of a shoot move and I think the RKO is just
- 50:02interlocking on top or a pull from top.
- 50:04There is a slight variation there.
- 50:05I think it's with the hands, I think.
- 50:08Next time we get DDP on, that's a question we need.
- 50:11I want to. I mean, I'm sure been asked, but
- 50:14I would. Like to know, yeah, any fans or
- 50:16listeners out there that that know, that may already know
- 50:19this? Because I'm sure someone's
- 50:20talked about it on a podcast or something.
- 50:22And I probably have seen it, but if anybody knows what the
- 50:26differences are in the Cutter, the Diamond Cutter, the Stone
- 50:32Cold Stunner and the RKOR, let us know.
- 50:35There's got to be a wrestling fan that knows a better
- 50:37breakdown than me, because I know generally they're
- 50:39different. But.
- 50:40Yes, for sure, but still in a similar, very similar, very
- 50:44similar but I love the flying RKO.
- 50:48But I also always loved it when DDP did the flying diamond
- 50:51cutter. He didn't do it as often.
- 50:53He's a little bit older and he was keeping his body in check,
- 50:57but it's just it's just a hell of a move and it comes out of
- 51:02nowhere. And that's how he got Cena the
- 51:03other night. He rolled out from under the
- 51:05ring, snuck in while Cena was talking trash to the crowd or
- 51:09whatever, and then the Viper struck.
- 51:12So. Yeah, he Randy's got a great
- 51:14look and a great gimmick and he's a legacy wrestler.
- 51:17I'm a big always been a big fan of his.
- 51:19Big fan, man, big fan. I'm not a big fan of this Jr.
- 51:23I know that you probably caught it and it's probably a little
- 51:26bit out of the cycle of things, but we hadn't had a take on it.
- 51:31That Blue Origin flight. What did you think about that
- 51:35with all Lauren Sanchez and Katy Perry and.
- 51:39I don't think they really win. King, you don't.
- 51:42OK. Do you do you think they went to
- 51:44space and back and just didn't know that?
- 51:45I didn't really hear a lot about it, just kind of came and went.
- 51:48And you think these celebrities are really just go off in space
- 51:50the first time? Man, it's, it's hard.
- 51:54It's hard to believe now I've I've done some research because
- 51:58I didn't. Do any research.
- 51:59This is just topical. I saw a little bit of it when it
- 52:01happened a little while back and I heard some commotion about it
- 52:05and I just thought, yeah, that seems weird.
- 52:07There was. There's a little build up and
- 52:09then these celebrities just go off as the Guinea pigs on this
- 52:12trip. That doesn't sound too safe.
- 52:15They just come back and everything's hunky Dory.
- 52:17There's no decompress. There's no big story about it,
- 52:19really. There's no, you know.
- 52:22Yeah, they just, they go up the odd thing to me, which, which,
- 52:27you know, I mean, there's no shot of them going up in the
- 52:31rocket, like in the cabin riding the rocket.
- 52:35Yeah, we have all kinds of footage of Katy Perry.
- 52:37They're paparazzi. Every time she goes to damn get
- 52:39a Taco. But we can't get a we don't
- 52:41have, we can't get a camera inside.
- 52:43Yes, and it was there. Picture from a bridge near there
- 52:46or somewhere of them taking off. I mean, and look, if you're
- 52:50afraid of if you, you don't want that image, you don't, you know,
- 52:55you're not going to look your best in that moment because you
- 52:58don't have a ton of makeup on, which they all did.
- 53:00But you don't have a ton of makeup on or your hair isn't
- 53:03done just right, which they're all looked like they had not
- 53:07flown up in a rocket. They still went up on a rocket
- 53:11allegedly. And I don't know how they faked
- 53:15the capsule landing if they did. And I don't consider that they
- 53:19actually went to space. They don't.
- 53:21They didn't. They didn't exit Earth's orbit.
- 53:24That's why the the thing allegedly wasn't all charred and
- 53:29everything is because it didn't actually go out of Earth's
- 53:32atmosphere and burn have a burn in coming.
- 53:35They just got, they just went way up.
- 53:37They just went way up in the sky.
- 53:38They didn't. Necessarily about as high as you
- 53:40can go. Allegedly about as high as you
- 53:42can go in the sky. And then they came back down.
- 53:45But the look on their face when they all got out and their
- 53:49interviews, like, you would think that somebody would be so
- 53:52Dang excited that, man, you're not going to believe this.
- 53:56I wrote a rocket. And they're all just like, you
- 53:58know, yeah, no, this was a great thing for little girls
- 54:02everywhere to see. And like, you just wrote a
- 54:05rocket. And for the first time ever, all
- 54:08of you in your life and all of you have the same reaction of
- 54:11just like, that was so awesome. And that was so great.
- 54:15And then the images of them floating around and whatnot that
- 54:18easily could be done in the vomit comet in the in that
- 54:22airplane that goes up to 60,000 feet or whatever and then falls
- 54:26down so that the the astronauts use actual astronauts, not
- 54:31astronauts. Those people are not an
- 54:34astronaut. What a disgrace to even think
- 54:37you should be considered are called an astronaut of all these
- 54:41people who've trained hundreds, 100 thousands and thousands of
- 54:45hours in the commitment and. People who've saw that and
- 54:49passed away, but trying to make sure this stuff was all working
- 54:52and, you know, reliable and stuff.
- 54:55And they're offended by that. You're a damn traveler.
- 54:58You just took a you mean that's your, your tourist, Whatever.
- 55:02I mean you paid for it allegedly.
- 55:05I mean, if they paid for that for publicity and they actually.
- 55:09Wonder if they gave them all. I wonder if that was part of it.
- 55:11It was just some weird cult thing and they all end up in
- 55:13there and then they took a bunch of Valium and stuff.
- 55:15And then when they got back, they were just all like, yeah,
- 55:18it was great. That was probably some kind of
- 55:20weird alien transaction. Dude, you just can't tell me
- 55:24that. No offense, ladies, listen to
- 55:27this, but you put five or six women, however many there were
- 55:30in one, in a cabin together, an 11 minute ride riding a rocket
- 55:35and their reaction is that ho hum, especially Katy Perry,
- 55:41Especially Katy Perry. I mean, she kissed the ground
- 55:44and all that. And just like you were gone.
- 55:46You weren't even gone. You were still on earth.
- 55:49You just went up in the sky and came back down in 11 minutes if
- 55:52you really did that, allegedly. Seems too fast to go to space
- 55:56anyway. Right.
- 55:59It's just like, but I mean William Shatner and and them did
- 56:03that, but there was a lot more camera footage of that one from
- 56:07inside the cabin. It's like why won't you show us
- 56:10all of this? It's cool if you're like y'all
- 56:12are dumb asses. We really did this, you morons.
- 56:15Why, Why are you let me show you here, here, here they are
- 56:19launching here they are and that that I'm not seeing any of that
- 56:24so. And you and you hope and you
- 56:25think they'd want that document that footage to use for some
- 56:28kind of PR or some kind of just, yeah.
- 56:32You just don't ride a rocket every day, man.
- 56:34You just don't ride a rocket every single day.
- 56:38And I know for a fact none of them ever have, so it doesn't
- 56:43make any sense. I know that I would be a hell of
- 56:45a lot different had I just come from a rocket ride, no doubt.
- 56:51Yeah, you someone, at least one person would be like 00 and
- 56:56like, I can't believe I did that.
- 56:57Not, you know something? Especially since they weren't
- 57:01they weren't trained prior to. There's no way.
- 57:03And I got one last little little thing we can hit on.
- 57:06This is current. This happened.
- 57:08It's it's trending as we're, as we speak.
- 57:11RFK Junior has a has a food dye ban.
- 57:15So red dye 40 and yellow 5. The the they're artificial
- 57:21colors, of course, that make your snacks look fun, make the
- 57:25colors pop and all of that. But some studies suggests that
- 57:29those may cause cancer or may cause issues, especially in
- 57:33kids. So RFK Junior wants them out of
- 57:37here in a couple of years, which could mean more natural colors
- 57:41in our food. So it's kind of a step towards
- 57:45healthier eating. I'm I think that's something
- 57:47that we can all get behind. I've.
- 57:49Been screaming. I've been saying that for years.
- 57:51I tell people when they're eating Doritos, I'm like, you
- 57:53know, and Cheetos and different things.
- 57:54I was like, you know, they have these or certain things.
- 57:57They just don't sell other places because it's got too much
- 57:59of that in there. And I've made those comments to
- 58:01people and people think I'm crazy for over a decade now.
- 58:05And a lot of people that I know have been in people and I'm, I'm
- 58:08telling you, it's not good. Why is it?
- 58:10Why are everybody but us banning it?
- 58:12It can't be that good. And if you think all the.
- 58:15People there on their up and up on on the up and up trying to
- 58:18look out for us. You're just being naive because
- 58:20that's not, it's just not reality.
- 58:23No, it's not. He's going to war on sugar too,
- 58:26which is another problem. I mean, these are our issues.
- 58:29I tell you, watching my son and my daughter, both of them, you
- 58:33know, you don't have a lot of choices when you have kids.
- 58:36You got a lot of choices. But things that the kids like,
- 58:39like goldfish, I think any parent that's out there
- 58:42listening to this can relate to that.
- 58:43Like you're going to tell your child no on goldfish.
- 58:46Well, you should. Honestly, you should.
- 58:48The baked ones, it doesn't matter at all.
- 58:50Has yellow #5 in it plain as day, and not good for you, you
- 58:54know. But.
- 58:55And then all the drinks, every drink you got's got 3040 grams
- 58:58of sugar and you know, a gram, every 4G is a teaspoon.
- 59:02So you think about you thinking about 15 teaspoons of sugar in
- 59:06a, in a thing of Gatorade or a coke and one can of Coke, you're
- 59:09like, that's just weights. That can't be right.
- 59:11We there's no way you need that much.
- 59:13And then random things that have sugar and you're like, why is
- 59:15there sugar in this? Why is there corn syrup in this?
- 59:20It's just so it. I'm glad I'm all for it.
- 59:24I've been. There's no reason we shouldn't.
- 59:26It's as simple to me, no matter what side of the aisle you're on
- 59:30or if you're just in the middle like me, that two things right
- 59:36off top of my head here. Finding bad mismanagement of our
- 59:40taxpayer, taxpayers money, the money that you, everybody out
- 59:44here listening and watching works hard and give our little
- 59:47share to the government to do the things that we as a society
- 59:50need to be moving forward in a civilized way.
- 59:56We don't have checks and balances on that.
- 59:58Who's against that? OK, who's against that?
- 1:00:01No one should be against that. Secondly.
- 1:00:04We spend more money than anybody and we are not healthy.
- 1:00:08We just continually getting worse.
- 1:00:09We all know that anybody with any age on, you know, since
- 1:00:12you've been around, it's gotten worse.
- 1:00:14So many chronic diseases and obesity and all these things and
- 1:00:18all these problems. We spend so much money and
- 1:00:20healthcare so expensive and insurance is so expensive.
- 1:00:24We know we need to do better. So who's fighting this that we
- 1:00:26ought not do something? If anybody thinks what we've
- 1:00:28been doing is working, we don't need your vote because you're
- 1:00:31obviously, you know what I'm saying, because it had it hasn't
- 1:00:35been working. We're going, we're going down
- 1:00:37and we spend a ton of money and you know, it's just impossible.
- 1:00:41It's all like you're saying, it's almost impossible to get
- 1:00:43away from it. You know it's.
- 1:00:46It's too many, too many bad options.
- 1:00:49Just too many bad options. You can't avoid it and if you
- 1:00:52do, you can't afford to live that way.
- 1:00:55Honestly, I mean most people, most Americans can't afford to
- 1:00:59to eat the healthier stuff. It costs twice as much, which is
- 1:01:03just ridiculous that it's just ridiculous that the good stuff
- 1:01:08costs twice. It shouldn't be.
- 1:01:09It shouldn't be that way. So I'm excited to see what
- 1:01:13happens you. Know bad and cheap.
- 1:01:15It's made with bad stuff, you know.
- 1:01:17That's right. That's right.
- 1:01:19Well, well, that's all I've got. Jr.
- 1:01:21You got anything to to wrap us up?
- 1:01:24No, that was that was a good one.
- 1:01:25Boy, I could get wound up on that.
- 1:01:27That's got a that's got a that's got a lot of bite to it there.
- 1:01:30And then we'll I'm sure we'll talk about more of that stuff
- 1:01:33as, as the next few months go along.
- 1:01:35We've got all this wild trade tariff stuff happening.
- 1:01:38And I've I've been a little slack on listening to any out
- 1:01:42exterior podcast. I list a little Bubba Uncensored
- 1:01:46from this past week and a few others, but I haven't really got
- 1:01:50to dive into a lot. I did see today that Joe Rogan
- 1:01:53had Joey Diaz on his guest today.
- 1:01:57I've listened to about 15 minutes of it whenever I was
- 1:02:00going to get Riley. I'll listen to more of it.
- 1:02:03I I'll listen to Joe Rogan over. It'll take me 4 or five days to
- 1:02:07finally. But I love Coco.
- 1:02:08I love. I love, I love because I listen
- 1:02:11to his normal podcast, you know, pretty regularly, at least, you
- 1:02:14know, because it's once a week. I try to get it in, but I'll
- 1:02:18listen to that rogue tomorrow. I've got to go to the airport
- 1:02:20and fly out. So I'll be listening to that
- 1:02:21tomorrow for sure. I'm I'm excited about that.
- 1:02:23It was good to chop it up for a little while.
- 1:02:25I'm glad everybody tuned in. I hope to hope to see and talk
- 1:02:28with everyone again here real soon.
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- 1:02:45If you think of somebody that you think would be fun for us to
- 1:02:47have on as a guest, we'll start working on some of that.
- 1:02:49But we're gonna keep chopping wood churning out these shows
- 1:02:52and umm, like we mentioned earlier, my new podcast, The
- 1:02:54Junior, The Handler Show, you check that out.
- 1:02:56It's out on all platforms. Give it a listen to.
- 1:02:59Of course, everybody, you can go in Thursday nights.
- 1:03:03I go live. That's kind of the plan.
- 1:03:05Tigs tonight on YouTube, Facebook, and it's on X or
- 1:03:10Twitter, so you can go watch that live, come and interact.
- 1:03:13We have a lot of folks with the Bubba Army that that stops by
- 1:03:17chats, blazes it up with us, has fun.
- 1:03:19And it's more of the mind of Tigs, which can be scary.
- 1:03:23And I don't know what I'm going to do on those nights.
- 1:03:25Like, I mean, I have an outline, but I don't know what I'm going
- 1:03:28to say. And then I don't have somebody
- 1:03:30to stop me like Jr. and I just, I can just kind of talk myself
- 1:03:34on down into a rabbit hole real quick.
- 1:03:36Yes, yes, thanks for supporting this show and all all the
- 1:03:39content we put out and supporting the Bubba Army.
- 1:03:41Man, give all those guys and gals over there some love.
- 1:03:44Seth Lummy, big Bubba himself too.
- 1:03:47They do a lot of stuff to keep all that going and rocking and
- 1:03:50we appreciate. I think today was his birthday
- 1:03:52I. Think it was I saw AI saw a
- 1:03:54picture of a cake or something. That somebody was his face on
- 1:03:58it. Happy birthday, Bubba.
- 1:04:00Happy. Yeah, we love you big fella.
- 1:04:02You're the champ in our world, Bubba.
- 1:04:03We love you. Crazy bastard.
- 1:04:07See y'all next week.