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Butch Spyridon · Bussin' With The Boys

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  Speaker 1: boy get on the bus, so we did get the
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  Speaker 1: lace cross and everything. So got a very cool podcast
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  Speaker 1: for you guys today. A guy named Butch Spiriton. You
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  Speaker 1: might have heard that name. You mighty think of yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really know what are they talking about. Just
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  Speaker 1: think of everything in Nashville it's ever happened since nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety one. This man is the reason why it's happened.
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  Speaker 1: Very responsible for the Tennessee Titans coming to Nashville, responsible
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  Speaker 1: for the for the Predators coming, hard Rock Cafe, the
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  Speaker 1: Fourth of July parties, the New Year's Eve parties, and
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  Speaker 1: most City, Yeah Music City, and most recently the NFL Draft.
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  Speaker 1: He was a major part of putting the draft into Nashville.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a very cool, very informative podcast, and to
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  Speaker 1: be honest with you, I've known Butcher for about five
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  Speaker 1: years going into our six year of knowing each other,
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  Speaker 1: and he's an unbelievable person who works with honesty and
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  Speaker 1: integrity and has definitely turned the city into city to
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  Speaker 1: a city. These guys made it special.
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  Speaker 2: And it's trajectory is only going up.
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  Speaker 3: Dude, I was I was skeptical at first, not skeptical
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  Speaker 3: like I knew we'd get all some insight.
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  Speaker 2: But the dude is a freaking boy.
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  Speaker 3: Man. Like he's he's cursing, he's raising some hell, like
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  Speaker 3: he's he's being himself.
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  Speaker 1: Dude, He's just he's just handing out T shirts and
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  Speaker 1: Butcher slapping some food.
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  Speaker 2: That was hilarious when he brought that up, but man,
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  Speaker 2: it really is.
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  Speaker 3: It was an insightful podcast, man, like a lot of
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  Speaker 3: cool shit you learned.
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  Speaker 2: About, and he kept it.
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  Speaker 3: He kept going with some enthusiasm, had some fun with us,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, I sat here and got a history
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  Speaker 3: lesson in Nashville and some hilarious stories about him Butcher
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  Speaker 3: slapping everybody around and make shit happen.
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  Speaker 1: Dude. He Butcher let me once. Not proud of it,
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  Speaker 1: but I became a better man. For it's without further ado.
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  Speaker 4: You made up for it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, I can just just a big dude. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know I figured it out.
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  Speaker 4: I think it was last weekend. I kind of went.
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  Speaker 4: I was just thinking about the draft, Titan draft. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: and you're still struggling with all right. I love the
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  Speaker 4: Simmons pick, but first round pick, they can't play. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's like scratch your head and thene Just the other
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  Speaker 4: day I went, did they think they could do that?
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  Speaker 4: Because they had picked up Cam and can He's only
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  Speaker 4: got one or two years left, so you got a
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  Speaker 4: placeholder to grab what should have been a top ten pick,
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  Speaker 4: top five. Yeah, if he's not going to play, why
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  Speaker 4: would you waste that? Except I don't know if that
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  Speaker 4: makes sense. That's a question.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 1: I definitely get. I definitely get what you're saying. Were
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  Speaker 1: rolling right now? Are we just chilling? All right? So
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  Speaker 1: this can maybe make it in the podcast? Who knows?
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  Speaker 1: I don't so. First off, I'm not a GM by
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  Speaker 1: any means, but I do and I do think John
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  Speaker 1: Robinson there's a method to everything that he does totally agree.
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  Speaker 1: But I think that when you have a guy like
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Simmons, who what I've been told by experts just
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  Speaker 1: from reading, like everybody else, the guy was a surefire
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  Speaker 1: top five pick and gets hurt. And I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if it was an ACL. I don't even know what
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  Speaker 1: he had a TOURNEYCL. So if he had a torny
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  Speaker 1: a CL that ain't like the nineties or even the
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  Speaker 1: early two thousands anymore. That's a you'd come back in
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  Speaker 1: nine to ten months and you're solid. And I think
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  Speaker 1: I think the first thing that our team does is
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  Speaker 1: base guys off character, and I think the issues he
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  Speaker 1: had or whatever, and I don't know a lot about it.
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  Speaker 1: I know that he's overcome a quite a bit of things,
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  Speaker 1: and people do make mistakes, and I think that John
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  Speaker 1: saw those things and saw this guy's a kind of
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  Speaker 1: a rare talent probably and could be special. And in
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  Speaker 1: our defensive line, I mean, you brought Cam Wake in,
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  Speaker 1: you got Harold Landry, who's get a second year and
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  Speaker 1: that jump from one to two is huge and three
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  Speaker 1: two to three is usually better. And then you got
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  Speaker 1: Joe Casey Da Kwan Jones signed a new contract to
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  Speaker 1: Austin Johnson, Like, there's a lot of guys that are
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  Speaker 1: very good on that defensive line, and so when you
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of just like I feel like it's just
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  Speaker 1: kind of padding the stats, you know. And then to
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  Speaker 1: have a guy like a J. Brown, who was, I
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  Speaker 1: believe everybody was the first wide receiver off the board
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  Speaker 1: kind of guy for him to fall in the second,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think I think that the Titans had
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  Speaker 1: a great had a great start.
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  Speaker 2: You were asking about Cam, Yeah, just him.
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  Speaker 4: He's a little bit of tread left. So it buys
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  Speaker 4: you the year while you're getting Simmons. Ye, that's kind
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  Speaker 4: of my.
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  Speaker 3: And leader ship qualities, Like the dynamic of a locker
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  Speaker 3: room matters tremendously, and the Titans have a great locker room.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: That was last year with the titles, was probably my
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  Speaker 3: favorite locker room I've been in. When you lose guys
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  Speaker 3: like Brian A. Rackpo and Derek Morgan like veterans, vets
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  Speaker 3: in the locker room and at outside back a pass rushers,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Cam comes in and can he has those
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  Speaker 3: leadership qualities, has those intangibles.
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  Speaker 2: He's been around the block.
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  Speaker 3: They definitely do their homework on guys like Rabel is
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  Speaker 3: just not going to bring in any any sleptic.
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  Speaker 2: That's it's this is.
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  Speaker 1: The most this is the most organization I've seen since
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  Speaker 1: I've since I've been there.
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  Speaker 3: They do a good job communicating from the top down,
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  Speaker 3: John Robinson, He's in every meeting, every squad meeting. Rabel
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  Speaker 3: is always communicating vision. He's always preaching the vision, whether
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  Speaker 3: it's the three keys of the game, the three things
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna get done during ot as, three things in
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  Speaker 3: the off season that we need to improve on, three
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  Speaker 3: things in training camp, three change. He's constantly changing things,
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  Speaker 3: but at the same time he's painting at clear vision,
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  Speaker 3: clear expectations of what's going to happen, which that is.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's huge for a team, for any organization.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sure you know, dealing with big time
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  Speaker 3: rooms that you've been everybody done by in Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: over and you have to be clear in your expectations
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  Speaker 3: because even when shit hits the fan, you've got to
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  Speaker 3: follow in those fundamental values, those fundamental things that you're
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  Speaker 3: talking that you talk about and preaching.
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  Speaker 2: The Titans do a really good job of that. They
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  Speaker 2: do a really good job.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, those guys, the consistency of leadership from the top
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  Speaker 1: bottom is really good. Like he said, great, Rabel comes
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  Speaker 1: in and our ota is we have three or four
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  Speaker 1: words that are consistent day in and day out, and
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  Speaker 1: he quizzes guys day in and day out on everything.
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  Speaker 1: And so people, when you're in those meeting rooms, you're
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  Speaker 1: in those team and he's, man, that's like, that's the
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  Speaker 1: most stressful part of our day.
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  Speaker 2: Your asshole is tight, like.
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  Speaker 1: You're waiting for you're waiting for able to say something
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  Speaker 1: like dude, just don't call him, and you lock eyes
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  Speaker 1: with him and you're like, fuck, it's on Dan. He's like,
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  Speaker 1: tylor what uh what do you think He'll go into
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  Speaker 1: whatever the question is. And you've got to be on man,
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  Speaker 1: because if he's got a time clock and if you
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  Speaker 1: don't get that answer in four five seconds, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Like, yeah, let me go answer. Yeah, uh Jayon, help
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  Speaker 2: him out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And then's over there picking his nose.
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  Speaker 2: Or you know the answer, and you just like you're
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  Speaker 2: just frozen.
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  Speaker 5: Just.
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  Speaker 4: Intimidating us. Hell, he's just so intense.
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  Speaker 1: He's he's I think, okay, okay, yeah, like you got
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  Speaker 1: a ball, you know, I think the thing about Rabel,
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  Speaker 1: that's that plays off. That is one. He played in
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  Speaker 1: the league for so long, so he's done it. But
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  Speaker 1: his confidence he's got, he's got a lot of confidence.
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  Speaker 1: The way he talks. The wait, he's he's sure when
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  Speaker 1: he speaks, he's sure. There's there's no there's no wavering
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  Speaker 1: or doubt. And then the message he's trying to get across,
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  Speaker 1: whether that's a basic conversation or that's you're talking about
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is you and him would him would talk
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  Speaker 1: about were they involved at all with the draft stuff?
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  Speaker 4: Uh? That helped us when we were raising money. Both
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  Speaker 4: Robinson and Rabel showed up, came out. Steve Underwood broken
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  Speaker 4: on the administrators side, invaluable. Even Amy Amy Adam's trunk.
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  Speaker 1: How was Amy the best dude?
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  Speaker 2: She said, she'd come on the bus.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, your and your wife's a cool got hey, you
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  Speaker 6: get the hat right here?
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  Speaker 2: Boys, ain't nobody that's the move.
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Tayling's car we got. Uh she had that Tesla
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  Speaker 1: and that thing. I didn't like them, but damn that
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  Speaker 1: car is something else?
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  Speaker 4: Have you before? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: That's one right now, it's the best vehicle. You go home,
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  Speaker 1: you plug it in, you go to bed, you wake up.
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  Speaker 1: You never have touch a gas station ever again.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. We had a little scare though
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  Speaker 2: that one night. Yeah, like what was it? How many
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  Speaker 2: miles left?
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  Speaker 1: I had like two percent battery or something like that,
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  Speaker 1: and driving from here home. I was coming from here
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  Speaker 1: home and I started cruising over and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to make it. And we barely made
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  Speaker 1: it to the house. You little like kicked out on
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  Speaker 1: me as soon as I got in the garage.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he calls me, He's like, hey, man, do you
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  Speaker 3: mind following me home? I don't know if I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: make it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go. And we're on the highway.
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  Speaker 3: What going like twenty miles an hour on the highway.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody's on their horns.
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: Nashville traffic anyway, man, Nashville traffic anyway. So what is
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: your Chamber of Commerce? Like is that?
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  Speaker 4: What is your the presidency of the Nashville Convention and
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  Speaker 4: Visitors Corporation. So we have a contract with the city
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  Speaker 4: to do the sales and marketing to bring events, conventions, leisure, visitors,
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  Speaker 4: anything the Chamber doesn't do really. Uh so we trace
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  Speaker 4: the draft For example, we traced British air flying here
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  Speaker 4: started last year.
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  Speaker 3: You're talking about that. We're going to get into that too.
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  Speaker 3: When it comes to the draft, what is that process? Like, so,
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  Speaker 3: does the NFL contact Nashville or now you just said
• 11:40
  Speaker 3: we chase stuff like you guys go out on your
• 11:43
  Speaker 3: side and try to get the draft to Nashville. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: that's how it happens. And is that is that stated
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  Speaker 3: with past events that have happened or how do you push?
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  Speaker 4: Like, let me, I'll back up. So kind of we
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  Speaker 4: used events to think that's how we can He's Nashville up.
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  Speaker 4: So we were doing that pretty well, but on a
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  Speaker 4: medium scale and literally started looking around with draft makes
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  Speaker 4: sense for this time?
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  Speaker 1: Let me let me sever there what we're qualified as
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  Speaker 1: a medium scale?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what's a medium scale?
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  Speaker 3: Because you've talked about the five year what was it
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  Speaker 3: the five year surge kind of Nashal when you're building
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  Speaker 3: the music city and then in sixteen you're like quoted saying,
• 12:25
  Speaker 3: you know, we're kind of at the you know, we're
• 12:27
  Speaker 3: kind of on the back end of that five year plan.
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  Speaker 3: But then twenty seventeen happens, and then that's when was
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  Speaker 3: that five year thing kind of a medium scale or
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  Speaker 3: like yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, NHL All Star Game would really be medium Women's
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  Speaker 4: Final four. Medium didn't have the huge viewership or the
• 12:45
  Speaker 4: huge payoff. But you build your track record, you build
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  Speaker 4: your experience. We produced all the pred parties watch parties
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  Speaker 4: for the Preds during the Stanley Cup.
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  Speaker 2: Run unblievable, the downtown stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, NFL or NHL, the irony. I get a call
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  Speaker 4: from the Prince Fire Marshall says, our plaz is to crowded.
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  Speaker 4: The league won't let us have a quote watch party.
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  Speaker 4: Would you help? I go, well, I don't work for
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  Speaker 4: the damn NHL. Call it whatever the hell we want. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we'll do it. We'll go across the street. So we
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  Speaker 4: threw a party and we go all right, this work
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  Speaker 4: at a screen so we would describe it as we
• 13:26
  Speaker 4: fed the beast. Wasn't our idea, but we have enough
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  Speaker 4: sense to know what people like beer, music, sports, So
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  Speaker 4: we always had music. We always had beer, and that's
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  Speaker 4: the crowd crew. We kept throwing up a screen. Then
• 13:40
  Speaker 4: all soo, we go, oh shit, this big. So we
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  Speaker 4: moved into Broadway. Then we collided with CMA Music Fest
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  Speaker 4: and now it's a police Public Works Mayor's office. Preds CMA.
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  Speaker 4: We're all around the table going this is about to
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  Speaker 4: blow up. And HL is going, we don't do watch parties.
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  Speaker 4: It hurts our viewership. That's at the beginning. At the end,
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  Speaker 4: they're going, we do it again a concert? Could we
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  Speaker 4: televise this? And then now they love watch parties. They
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  Speaker 4: call them watch parties and Edmundton, uh, Calgary like city's
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  Speaker 4: call and think about Canadian city calling redneck Nashville. I'm
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: calling myself a redneck? Are not Nashville? And what'd you do?
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  Speaker 4: How'd you do that? I go, we fed the beast.
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  Speaker 4: We didn't do anything. We put it out there and
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  Speaker 4: let the public make it happen. And but round about story.
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  Speaker 4: On Game six of the Stanley Cup the next morning,
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  Speaker 4: I sent a picture to the NFL and said, we're
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  Speaker 4: just practicing for you. We're waiting on you. And all that.
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  Speaker 1: You said. When you say you said the NFL, that's
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  Speaker 1: a you said, it said Roger Goodell? That or who
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  Speaker 1: I said?
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  Speaker 4: Peter O'Reilly, who is the was the senior v now
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: his executive vice president over club business and all events.
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  Speaker 4: So Super Bowl, combine Pro Bowl, right anything off the field.
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  Speaker 4: This guy's in charge so email him. I same a
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  Speaker 4: picture and he goes, we're watching.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Back in the twenty eleven, I called the Titans and said,
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: let's go to New York. Huh, let's go see the NFL.
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  Speaker 4: I think we should ask them to move the draft.
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  Speaker 4: So think about I'm talking about eight years ago and
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: they want we don't move the draft. You should it'd
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  Speaker 4: be big. And of course they patted me on the head.
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  Speaker 4: My way, right, Yeah, you were that.
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  Speaker 1: You were one of the first people to say had
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  Speaker 1: this innings this Indians take a tour.
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  Speaker 4: Could argue that we might have been the first to
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  Speaker 4: knock on their door and say we wanted And then
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: I laugh. I go when they decided they took well,
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: when they took it to Chicago, we were I want
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: to bid. So Peter O'Reilly actually goes, we're going to Chicago, La,
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: we're not bidding. I go, oh, I know, I want
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: a bid, but I go, can I send you a proposal?
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: He goes, we're gonna go to Chicago, LA, I use
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: it against them. I don't give a shit. Yeah, let
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: me put Nashville in front of you. I said, Okay,
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: it wasn't I didn't put a lot of work into it,
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: but I send him my proposal.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Little blueprint is something. It is a quick little deal.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: Think about us, and then we wanted to get it
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: before they formalized the process. I missed that. Yeah, and
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: that the RFP was a bitch as you can in
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: the NFL. I mean they're serious. Yeah, it was hard.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: It was really hard.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: So coming out of the draft. Okay, so you got
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: the draft in Nashville, and I've seen comparisons on the
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: service level of like you know, in social media and
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: news about how well Nashville did compare to like Arlington,
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: and the likes of oh we smacked him up, and
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: Nashville has been the best. It was the best one.
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: So they got Butcher lap. I'm sorry, they got.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: A shirt sped up that water the confidence.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Sorry they got Butcher slapped baby.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: I don't normally do that, but I couldn't tell you
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: that you love it.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: You just you just swinging big right now. You got
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: that biggest balls in this bus.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Manes slapped him up.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Man, So you did you expect it to be five
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: hundred thousand plus people?
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: No, I would tell you incorrect. We told the NFL
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: and with police and said, we do one hundred thousand
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: a day. Easy. Yeah, so we thought three hundred thousand,
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: and we were prepared for one hundred and fifty thousand
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: a day, so we off the record with cops. We
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: would go, we'll have one hundred and fifty. I said,
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: at least Thursday night, probably with Tim McGraw on Friday night,
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: but let's use one hundred. Manage expectations exceed and then yeah,
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: you know I've already said ship Ibout shipped myself firstday night, dude,
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: how good. It was a good chip.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: The smoothie didn't have to go back for second Friday morning.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: He's taking that morning. Should like you.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Gotta be sitting there like I'm just a fucking stud.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: Really lucky. Great. You know Citi's Police, Cities, public works,
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: the stuff we did, the city did for the NFL.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: They go, we've never had a partner like this. And
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: of course we brought well, Tim brought himself to the takeable,
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: but we said we want music.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: So when you so Fireworks two years ago or whatever,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: a year before the draft start, you called me and
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: you wanted me to do THEO the video with Kings
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: of Leon for the draft and I saw Tim McGraw
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: and Eddie George do do a similar video. Did Tim
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: put himself on the table around that time or was
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: he like because you're your buddies with Tim right, I
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: wasn't feel like I am.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: Yeah, the media got when that we were bidding, we
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: were gonna put we've been shortlisted, and all of a sudden,
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: Tim's manager emails me out of the blun goes.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: Said hey, if you get this, Tim wants in. So
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: I'm like, wait a minute, Tim wants in. So first
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: I asked could I use him to Could I say?
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: He's on our host committee. So when we went into pitch,
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: I went in and said, yeah, we got the mayor
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: and the governor, and we've got Amy and Steve Underwood,
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: but I have Kirk Hirstreet, Eddie George and Tim mccrath
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: and the NFLF Taylor. There's a room of twenty staffers
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: and they're gone. I said, we don't have a host committee,
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: but if we did, here's who would be on it.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: And they're looking at really, yeah, I'm not making this up. Uh. Then,
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: when we knew we were going to get it, when
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: I called you and the Kings and I called Eddie
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: and Tim and said, would you do to the video
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: because part of our stick was we're gonna have big
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: names announcing this with you. We're gonna have more people
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: know about it in the NFL. I got a good
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: follow up story on that.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I didn't get the call.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: So Tim, after he does the video, goes, I want
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: to play.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, that's it, that's okay. Anything else, Tim, do
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: you wanna do you want to play?
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: You want to Okay?
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: So then I had to you know, in my head,
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: I go, I don't have a ton of money. So
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: the next day is agent calls me and says, Tim said,
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: he talked to you. He's serious. He wants to play. Fine, okay,
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: does he want a big play or a big pay
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: If he needs a big payday, I'm probably not the guy. Yeah,
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: but if he wants a big play, I'm all in.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: I'll take care of it. We'll cover expenses. And he
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: wanted to play. He played for free. He deserves all.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: He played for free.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: And no other city's gonna get an a list act
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: to come out.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: No doubt. You know. Do you think La or something
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: like that would get would be able to get an
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: a list guy, because I think everyone lives there. But
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: the thing is the thing that's interesting between there's New York, right,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: and there's La, and then people in New York and La.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: That's it. Everything else is just there's the plane you
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: have to take to get to the next spot. But Nashville.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: The thing about Nashville that I think this city has
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: that other cities don't have is a feeling of pride
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: and family. I listen to podcasts all the time. I
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: listen to people talking They're like, man, get me the
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: hell out of La, or I wish I didn't have
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: to be here, but I have to be here for
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: my job. Like people come to come to Nashville and
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: it's like you want to be here, and it's and
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: it's like I just think.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: We help each other. Yeah, and it really it's a
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: foreign concept, even to the NFL staffers. They were going,
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: y'all are just different. I said, look, you know, we're
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: not pushovers, we're not stupid, but we're gonna partner with
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: you. You're not just coming in and doing your event and
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: leave him. We're gonna be part of the event. And
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: you start going, we'll a fireworks. You know, you need
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: a house band. You need uh the part where I
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: was going to say, you need to hyke this thing up.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: So I said, we'll have thirteen fourteen artists post on
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: social media. If you picked Nashville and you announced that,
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: we'll get in they late one day, they go, we
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: want this in writing. I went, what we want you
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: to We want a letter and I'm just business. Yeah,
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: I'm going I told you it's in our bit. What
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: do you no? We'd like for you to spell it out.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: So I go, what damn, that's a different animal. If
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: you're going to make me name everybody in a letter
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: and put my signature on it, that means I have
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: to ask. And I so I woke up at five
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: am one morning. I mean it woke me up. I'm going, shit,
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: I don't have much time.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: I got it right, make a decisions.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: I'm going back to that conversation about a good ship code,
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: and I'm texting managers and agents, gone, will you do
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: this well? Keith, Urban do well, Kingsleigon, Dude, We're gonna
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: have a message. Would you post this? Would you announce it?
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: And I got fifteen yeses. That's awesome morning, And I
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: put it in the letter. I told the NFL. You're
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: talking me off.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: How many people did you text?
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: Oh, by fifteen and then I got eighteen. When we
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: did it, we had eighteen artists post. That's what ninety
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: million impressions right, and the NFL is going. We never
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: had anything like this. Yeah, you've never been to Nashville.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Nashal is always like the people here, they can't wait
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: to have.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Something to root for, it get behind. It's like when
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: the president's dying. Yeah, they're like they're flooding the streets
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: of Broadway to watch do these watch parties like the musician,
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: like the music industry, Like you just said, you come
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: in here and you're getting, You're getting everybody.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Everybody's on board, dude.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, to your point about New York, everybody loves
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: the town. Everybody's pulling for the town. I'm not asking
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: for me. There's no nothing in it for me. Hey,
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: would you help us announce? Hell? Yeah, they jump all in.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: Same thing happened with British Air. Yeah, you know British Air.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: Never they said one of the great comments, they go,
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: we're not a very cool airline. We think maybe Nashville
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: could help us with that.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: They really said that said well, I remember the.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: Head sales guy from North America said that.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I remember we were and it was like March, and
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: it might have been either a few months or a
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: year before, I don't know, but it was when it
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: was when Megan Barry was the mayor and it was
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: the three of us at that King of the Kings
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: of liand concert, and you guys were talking about.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, they're coming.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he was there. Yeah, that's I mean, you
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: just you're making the city run. Well how did how
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: did it all? So you got here a name in
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: anyone and you you graduated from Vanderbilt, but I left, you.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: Left, and then the job brought me back.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: So how did you get the job?
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: I think because Vanderbilt was on my resume. Really, you know,
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: we weren't much of a destination. It was all controlled
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: by Opera land. That's not a bad thing, but so
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: they wanted.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: And that's was a music park.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: Well there was a theme park, it was a TV network,
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: a hotel, uh, the opry. So they just had That's kind.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Of what their economy was.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: And then and then back in the nineties and even
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: like the two thousands, Broadway was like a scummy kind of.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: Area started turning.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was, it was, it was wasn't great the
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: boot Barns. It was a lot of No, there was
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff going on there.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, when you came, there was no There's no Nissan Stadium,
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: there's no Bridge Stone Arena, there was none of that stuff.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: There was the Renaissance Hotel and the old Convention Center
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: about it. I've been recruited and I'm embarrassed today, no offense.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: Like I recruited hard rock, but they were like less
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: than ten in the world, and I wrote the CEO
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: of letter. I'm like, I'm that guy that goes, why
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: not we need something non country? So I wrote the
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: CEO of hard rock a letter and said you should
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: put one in Nashville. Yeah, everybody laughed. He wrote me back,
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: he goes, I want to come, I want to come look,
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: And we became great friends. And when he figured out
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: what Nashville had, he goes, yeah, we should do that.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: How did you sell? How do you sell place like
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Nashville to him when it wasn't what Nashville is now?
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Because anybody I could sell Nashville that day right now?
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like, how do you actually get into the nuts
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: and bolts of your hustle as far as making this
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: city happen, because you're known as like the guy to create.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: The city, the music city.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of people involved, but you're one of
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: the You're obviously one of the headliners.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: Like what is I'm aw crazy person that'll go where
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: nobody else is want. Nobody likes to fail. I don't
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: like to fail, so they don't want to take chances.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: My boss, we were part of the Chamber of Commerce
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: back then, and my boss goes, why are you going
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: to write hard rock? I said, because all we got
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: is country. We need something that we're going to promote music,
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: and uh, just chase it and stay after it. Tell
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: the truth, you know, be honest with and honest. It
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: is different than tell the truth. I think maybe from
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: your soul. Just hammered away. This guy, Art Lovett was
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: his name, and he said, I want to come out
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: on the middle of the week when nothing's going on.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: I was easy because nothing was ever going on, and
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: we ran around. He didn't drink. I took in the
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: tutsis because he started talking about, Yeah, we think we
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: can do this and we'll put you know, Dolly partner
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: here or we'll put Charlie Danns what I got Dolly
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: and Charlie. I don't have Jimmy Hendrix, and you know
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: with the Nashville side of rock. So we went to
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: Tutsis and we're sitting down and I literally come with me.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: It's three o'clock in the afternoon. I get a beer,
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: he gets a diet code and all of a sudden
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: he's looking around and Tutsi's was just one level back then, yeah,
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: and he goes, we can't do this, this is real.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: Thank you. Don't do what we do. Do what you do.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: Give me a stage book, live music that did in
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: the country and you'll do well. It's still one of
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: the top performing hard rocks in their system. And when
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: they opened, if you've ever been in one, and like
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: I said, there weren't very many on the back of
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: the menu New York, London. They put Nashville on the
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: back of every menu nationwide, and of course now there's
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: too many of them now it's not cool, and yeah,
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: it's just a less than ten in the world. It
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: was a stamp that's a Nashville does music.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Would you say? Would you say that was like the
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: start of how National started to progress into what it is.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: You know, I never thought about it, but yeah.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: When when did they? When did they come?
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: In ninety four, I was three.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: I remember going to the Memphis one because Memphis has
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: a hard rocks all the Elvis Presley theme stuff.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: That was really cool.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: I was like nine years old too, so that was
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: probably back when the hard rock was a little cooler
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: than what it is now.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: But it had an edge to it. The grand opening
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: Vince Gill, Melissa Ethridge, Don Henley, Timothy B. Schmidt Man.
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: It was the most fun party I've ever been to
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: in this time. Really to this day, to this day,
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: no Way rocked. Of course, maybe I overserved myself. Maybe
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: they weren't cell phone to the cameras.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Nashville man over serving as a Saturday man. Well works
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: around here. This town. This town runs on alcohol and
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: live music.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: It's but somehow like as crazy as it is on Broadway,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: It's it's like it's hell together. It's like it's like
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: an understanding, like you can come and get crazy, have fun,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: walk through the streets. All you want to go to
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Broadway have a blast. But it's like there's not like
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: if you go to New Orleans go to you go
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: to Bourbon Street, like when someone says, hey, you go
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: to Gotta what, don't go past Dolphin Street, chaos, don't
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: go don't go two blocks this way to it. You
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: go to Broadway. It's like you don't have fun because
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: he's one of the most fun parts about Broadway is
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: when you go down Broadway, take a left on Second
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: and then you got that Johnny Cash Museum where you
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: go to a right, there's like a little like a
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: little jazz bar hanging out or stuff like that. There's
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: so much more to do then that was on Broadway.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: I was at a laser tag place, like, how the
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: hell do you a laser tag? That place is pretty
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: coola fitted in there, man, it's crazy.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: And the other spots are far off, like Midtown.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Midtown's right right down.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: I mean everything is like they called the twenty minute
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: City fifteen minutes city.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: You can get everywhere and.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: Do let's think about I don't. I may be off one,
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: but during the three days of the drive, fifteen arrests,
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: and one was that's impressive on my mouse Houston, Texan?
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: Who was I would say, out of our footprint, right,
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: And so I don't count him. Yeah, and another arrest
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: happened side. None of them are major.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think I got arrested three times since
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: I think I've arrested three Dosin's I've been here, I
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: mean fifteen in the draft. It's pretty that damn thing,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: So all right, lock it up, jus, what about the
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: what about the two thousands?
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Hold hold on, let's let's name what he Doess we're
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: in ninety four right now, so we're just you get
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: the hard rock, You get the hard rock to come
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: in and playing in Hollywood? What so plain?
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: In Hollywood? We did not chase They chased us. Yeah,
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: And we told them unless you do something authentic, it's
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: not gonna work. Right, And they got mad at me,
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: came and had a giant corporate meeting to chew me
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: out because their business was dying. Yeah, I can remember
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: y'all like this. I looked at him and said, your
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: food sucks, your service sucks, and all your memorabilia is
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: the photographs. We called them, son of dupe. They were
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: the same pictures in every zero originality. Yeah, so I go,
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: what do you expect change that? And you got a shot. Well,
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: they didn't like my answer.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: But those as Butcher slapped, put that on and I
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: get the hell out of my so so play in Hollywood.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: We're done with that. You so, what was next in
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: ninety four? You're getting close to that ninety nine, two thousand.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: And ninety seven, ninety nine started the conversation. In ninety six,
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: I guess. So. I got a random call from my
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: buddy in Houston. This is one of those This is
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: part of the story I normally leave out. They said,
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: would Nashville be interested in talking to it? An NFL
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: team wouldn't tell me who? Okay, sure, he says, well,
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: these this team tried to reach out and they talked
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: to some people in Nashville and they were told no.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: I go, well, that's bullshit. I don't know who they
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: talked to, but bullshit. So for three or four months,
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: back and forth, one day they call and go, I'm
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: sure you figured out who we're talking to, and I laughed,
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: I no, I don't believe you. So I haven't given
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: it one thought. So literally, well once every couple of
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: weeks on the phone for two three months, and then
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: they go, well it's the oilers, And I go, well,
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: now I really don't believe it. So what do you want? Well,
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: they want to meet, and this is that where I'll
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: say my radar is decent. They go, we want to meet.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: We don't want any politicians, we don't want any media,
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: we don't want to meet in Nashville, and we don't
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: want to meet in Houston. All those things that you're serious.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: So I putter get the right people together. So I
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: got mayor of Reticon at the time, his personal attorney.
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: I knew I could count on him and quiet confidence
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: in the head of the chamber. And I didn't even
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: tell the guy Reticent's attorney. I said, I need you
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: to go with me tomorrow. Tomorrow.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Think about what I'm saying, really Southwest American America, American hair.
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and met in the Admiral's Club and it was,
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: you know, analog phones. So I called him and I'm like,
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: should I don't know who's listening to this, So I'm
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: not telling you what we're doing. I need you to
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: come with me.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Is it that close to the vest? All this stuff
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: nobody knew really.
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: Like literally, I was the only person that know what
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: year is this? I think it was ninety had be
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: ninety three years ninety six.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: So ninety six, you're flying to Chicago hair with the
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: mayor's attorney to go meet with unidentified people about the
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: possibility of the Houston Oilers who go and the nineties
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: were a damn good football team. I don't remember, honestly,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: I didn't watch the level.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: Wall they hit a little slump of the astrodome was
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: a dog. Yeah, So the mayors are trying to Byron Trowker,
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: good guy, he I said, I can't tell you, just
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: gotta trust me. Think about that. Yeah, delay your trip.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: He was leaving town for us. I'll have you back.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: So we get on him thinking maybe you won't have
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: him back. Yeah, Well that goes back to trust and honesty.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I gotta getta get him back, and I did.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: Did you? But we get on the plane and he goes,
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: where are we going? I go, we're going to oh here,
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: we're going to meet with the os And he almost
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: got off the plane. He was like, what you're wasting
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: my damn time. He was pissed at me in a
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: good way, but I'm going, no, no.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: We got a hold on one second. We got this
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: is it. But experience when you're when you're on busting
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: with the boys. You get at least one of these
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: every single time you're on the cast.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: Baby, that's the offensive line of the thing.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: That's just moving down the tracks. Baby, that that four,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: that fourth quarter Johnny Cash in that place. Yeah that
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: I hear that training coming, it's rolling round. That gets
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: me so fired up. Half my teammates like this is stupid.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: They don't like country music, but they don't know about
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: the man in black.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: Baby, So I would prefer God's gonna cut you down
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: with Johnny Cash.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: Did you hear me? Yeah, we'll talk about I gotta
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: get to that a little bit.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: It was a pretty cool moment. I bet I owe
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: Marty Stewart for that.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: That is pretty damn alright. So so you fly to
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: a hair and so he and your boy here is like,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I'm not I'm not doing this. Yeah.
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: Uh And we left and they went they're playing us, No,
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: they're not. So I had to come back.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: And why did he think that they were playing.
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: You to get a better deal out of Houston? They said,
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: they're not serious. Yeah, we should talk, and it was
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: you know, at that point, my career was way bigger
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: than any influence I had, So I had to keep
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: it alive. My main role was don't walk away from this.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: What do you lose?
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: What? Yeah, so you go meet with Bud Adams. What
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: as long as you're not spending any money? What what
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: difference does it make? So I convinced them to me.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: Then it took a life of it.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: And that's all your concept of not fearing failure, that's
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: what you're talking about, And.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: That's the worst case. I'm going to make a friend
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: and I'm gonna learn something. Yeah, that's kind of if
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: you're not getting in my wallet.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk, no doubt. But I think I think
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: that's one thing that's important for anybody who's listening to
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: and they want to be successful is everybody has ideas,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: everything has things they want to do, but everyone's afraid
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: to fail. There's always that fear of well, what if
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: it doesn't work out, no question, But if if it
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: doesn't work out, then you lose nothing. And it doesn't
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: matter what age you're at. If you if you decide
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: to go do something, go do it and you do.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Everyone like I've failed a hundred times, I've given up sacks,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: I've had shitty games, I've they're there I've got hurt,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: I've done all those things.
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: You're holding penalties alone, perfect, It wasn't as much holding
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: as it worst personal fouls.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: But I killed some games. You killed some games. And
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: this day and age journalism all that everyone's list, everyone's
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: got Twitter, and that you're gonna get put to the cross. Dude,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: You're gonna get destroyed with those types of things. And
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: that's that's in a smaller scale than the things that
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: you're even doing. You're trying to take it, franchise people
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: families and move them not across the country but states away,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: and and and turn a city into something that was
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: really I don't know, and ruins like it really wasn't
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: it very much with the Nashville. Nashville was you know,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: you know Cooksville, you know Cookville. It was Cave Creek, Arizona.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Cave Creeks where I'm from.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: But that they there's one strip that goes down it.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Everyone's pretty happy with what's going on. We're not building
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: any any things. There ain't no large attractions coming to
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: camp Hollywood. Got none of that about table. We do
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: have a lot of heart baby there.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: And yeah, you're you're talking about the scale he's on.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: But it's still the fundamental, the fundamental thoughts of just
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: what's the worst.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: They can have?
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Failures inevitable, no question.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: Hm. Visual we use at my office, and it's ten
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: years now. Hotels came to us and said, do for
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: and we'll get to do for New Year's Eve what
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: you did for July fourth. And I'm like, what, God,
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: now we're dead on New Year's Eve? Why you create
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: something I don't know anything about New Year's Eve? July
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: fourth already existed when we took it over. We just
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: put it on steroids. So today, if I showed you
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: the picture of the stage from the first New Year's
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: Eve event, you would die laughing. I would fire myself.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: See if you can find that picture.
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: I may have it on my phone.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: I will look if you had this little monitor up here,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: it might be on the.
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: Thrown up But it's this little dinky stage. I couldn't
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: get anybody to play. I couldn't get the media to
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: buy it. It's cold, nobody will come. What what are
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: we doing? I go, what's cold in New York? But
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: to your point about both your points about failure or
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: t we went back then New York's the gold standard.
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: We're not. I don't want to know what Atlanta does.
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: I don't want to know what New Orleans does. New
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: York is what we're going to chase. Last year, two
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: hundred thousand people watching New Year's Eve NBC and C
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: and in here. It took ten years, but we have
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: a pretty credible event. We could have quit after year one,
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: fifteen thousand people.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: You're pribacing there looking at like, oh man, this is embarrassing.
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: Oh my god. Definitely you're looking back on the first
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: year we dropped the guitar and I got blanked, got stuck.
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: It didn't really get stuck. The operator was drunk, mister
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: Q and it was midnight and we told him just stop.
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: But and it got stuck the second year, so I
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: ate crow. I had to do them May of Copa
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: and you're standing up in front of five TV cameras
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: and people are just grilling you. Finally went, look, anybody
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: wants their money back, I'll rEFInd freedom.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got nobody.
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: I have embarrassed myself, my family, our city. I get it. Okay,
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: didn't do it on purpose, but we also didn't quit.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that the music no pun intended, went back
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: to the board, went back to the meeting, and you're
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: still preaching the same gold standard regardless of what.
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: It was, and you know it works. Yeah, stick with
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: it and learn from your mistakes.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: When was that New Year's event? When was that New
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: Year's Eve?
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: The first one? What I did?
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: Fifteen It would have been oh way, oh wait baby,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: what that's that early? Huh? I thought i'd have been
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: sooner than that.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I would have thought too. By that time,
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: July fourth.
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: We've been doing for fifteen years. But it was, like
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: I said, it was going right.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: It was just made it a better and it.
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: Was small, be called ampees quilting bee. It was a
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: very home spun cute.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: Fifteen minute fireworks show, one shell every twenty seconds. Oh
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: there's nothing now, it's sixty five thousand shells.
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: Over thirty that's amazing. That's awesome. Yeah. What does that cost?
• 42:18
  Speaker 8: He said, Oh, can't talk about the event itself.
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: Concert screens, fireworks two million to put it on. But
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: we can sell twenty thousand hotel rooms. Yeah, twenty million
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: is spent. Uh, and we get international pr out of it.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: Solid return on investment there.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, talk about the adversity.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, we got we had it. We were selling
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: getting the to the Titans here.
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going to a second episode.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, We'll keep you here all night. This I mean,
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: this is this is stuff that you don't want to
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: get that you don't want get to hear this that
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: people just say, hey, oh that's cool. Yeah, the drafts
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: coming or fourth of July is pretty cool there, you know,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: but they don't get to see like how this whole
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: thing gets done.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: No, and the behind the scenes.
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: The sausage.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the meat, baby.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: The meat. That's one way to say that.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Our boys, our boys here always send us notes. They
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: said something about downtown tornadoes in the late nineties. What's
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: that about?
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: So I can tell you it was ninety eight, the
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: stadium was under construction. Yeah, the tornado blew through downtown.
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: It was the same year the theme park closed, and
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: uh the seventeen year cicadas came out. So we got
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: our asses kicked business wise, mainly because of the theme park.
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: But our slogan was cicadas, tornadoes and theme parks. Oh my,
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: and uh it it did some serious damage.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, across the board, no doubt.
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: Somebody died at Centennia Park a tree, I got a person.
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: It was a pretty devastating outing, and but it gave
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: us a chance to rebuild. Knocked over a crane in
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: those where the stadium was being what's.
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: The process of coming back from something like that, Like
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: when you go into those next days, those next meetings,
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: those next like ideas that you.
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: Have to controlling the pr spent and the media runs wild,
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: like one of one of our employees family was in Europe,
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: and in Europe the arena had collapsed and so they
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: were panting. Family was worried with staff over there. So
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: was that you just get they run rampant with misinformation
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: right now you're trying to undo it. The flood would
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: probably get to that in twenty ten. Yeah, was way
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: worse than the tornado. But you just have to say
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: we're okay, you know this and this is all. Yeah,
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: we have some damage, but we're gonna build our way
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: out of it, build your way out of it.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome, and that's len nineties.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: I'm going to get opportunity build out of it.
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but there's that part, like the two thousands, is
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: when some stuff's coming together, like you have the late naties.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: You bring the team in, you're doing all these things.
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: The tornado hits, you're kind of rebuilding. Was that two
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: thousand stretch kind of.
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: Like, yeah, ninety we got our asses kicked. We were
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: coming out of it in one and nine to.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: Eleven hit right.
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: Yes, my friends all said you should go ahead and leave.
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: Change jobs. No theme park, oppery Land was building hotels
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: around the country, so yeah, more competition, and the word
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: was nobody will travel for music, So why the hell
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: are you going to stay?
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: Go?
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: I like a good fight. I want to stay butcher slat. Yeah.
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: It was a gamble, no question. Then the recession hit
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: this town like everybody, but on top of them, Yeah,
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: we got the flood. So you're trying to weather significant
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: recession and you get hit with a thousand year of flood.
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: So you're just getting everything like bring it. Yeah, but
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: you know it's that don't back down, stick to your guns.
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: You gotta work a little harder. You know, we're there,
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: and there were like five hundred of my peers around
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: the world. I don't know of any that didn't lay
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: people off during the recession. We didn't lay anybody off.
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: We broke ground on the convention center, and we actually
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: added people, really tightened our belts. We spent less, but
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: we built up. When the recession ended, we were stronger
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: than Ball.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: I've got a I've got a question, so Zach, for
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: when when the floods hit in twenty ten, like and
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: when the when it Nashville had flooded. I guess what
• 46:47
  Speaker 5: was kind of your thought press process of when the
• 46:49
  Speaker 5: floodwaters receded, like how you were going to go about things?
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: Great question. Let me back up, but I'm a buffet fan,
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: buff of both the arena that Saturday.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: Oh wait, wait, we're not talking warm buffets, sorry, Jimmy,
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: We're talk about Jimmy buffeting, Warren Buffett. I thought we were.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: I have a Warren Buffet, the whole buffet, Chinese buffets,
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Warren buff Jimmy buffetsfet.
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: It's raining like hell on Saturday, and the mayor calls
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: and he goes, are we okay for the concert? Should
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: we cancel? I go? Let me call you back. So
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: I checked around. People were downtown arena with staff, hotels
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: were full. Mayor, I think you create a bigger problem
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: if you cancel, because people are just gonna be angry.
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: They're already drinking. That's control.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: I'd be a riot.
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: So he said, can the police chief and I address
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: the crowd. You're the mayor, you do whatever you want.
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: But I got it set up for him. They did that.
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: Nobody was paying attention but the mayor. It was the
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: right thing to do. So they warned everybody, when you
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: go home tonight, it's likely to be different. Well it was.
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: The people got home the next day, all all help
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: pro clues. So to the point of that question, first thing,
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: you go literally, you your stomach's in your throat, and
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: you're looking at these pictures and you're seeing trucks flip
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: down the interstate or I watched a portable school building
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: slide off an embankment onto the interstate, and it's like,
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: we're in trouble, Like this is this is not a drill.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: Yes, I don't know if we're going to be all right.
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: Boys, So you start assessing. Going back to that media thing,
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: you make sure you know everything accurately. You know what's damaged,
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: what's closed, what's okay, you know what resources do we have. Well,
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: our office was without power for about a week. I
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: got I got ill make y'all laugh with that. So
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: first thing in our office, we rallied the troops, brought
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: in a generator, and we're like, we're not gonna be
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: judged by what we do. We're gonna be judged by
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: what we don't do. So we flipped the script on
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: that doesn't matter what we do. People gonna be why
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: didn't you do that? So it's like we can't leave
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: anything to chance. But we, Uh, everybody worked remote. Our
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: PR person was stuck at her house. She had power,
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: which good to leave. She was flooded, so she was
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: locked down. Uh, so she's working remote. We borrowed on
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: office from GAC Great American Country at the time. We
• 49:47
  Speaker 4: put some people there. We borrowed an office from the
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: convention center. But I first thing we do. Our computers
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: are running, but the rooms getting really hot because we're
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: got no power. So I'm like, we got fixes. So
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: I sent one guy out to buy dry ice and
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: fans and said, I we're going to get a generator.
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: So I called Ferguson Kitchen bath lighting think that they
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: sell plumbing fisure, and I said, I need a GD
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: extension cord, like I need a hundred and they maybe
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: one hundred and eighty feet, so our parking garage had
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: power and there was an underground way to get to
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: and I finally had to put two electricians on the
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: phone because I don't know what that I'm talking about,
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: but I need power. So I ran this one hundred
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: and sixty foot extension cord from our parking garage to
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: our computer server room and we're able to power fans.
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: And then we put coolers of dry ice and opened
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: up those bags so it brought the temperature down to
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: write below the computers, but shut off so we could function.
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: So the first thing was how do we communicate? Because
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: if that goes really screwed.
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: Holy shit.
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: So yeah, my pride and joy was thinking of dry
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: ice and a homemade extension course.
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: Up there.
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: You know, when you run something over one hundred feet,
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: you know, power just diminishes. So the cable's got to
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: be massive. But that's over my head. I don't speak
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: electricity or engineering. I could just think of ideas and
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: find the people to uh to do it, and then
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: I'll leave up finished with this story. I get a
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: call from the Hilton and he goes, can you come
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: down here? And they're flooded and the arena's flooded, and
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: the symphonies flooded, and the Country Music Hall of Famous flooded,
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: and there's a giant hole where the new Convention Center
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: is and it's flooded. Every single one of those are
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: pumping water. And the guy from the Hilton his credit, goes,
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: come here and take a look, and so I go
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: down there with him. I think we went up on
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: the roof and you watch everybody pump water into each other,
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: and he goes, can you help? And I quickly realized
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: what he was saying. Nobody's doing. They'll be doing this
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: for the next six years. So we call the convention
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: Center and said, I need you to turn off your pumps.
• 52:19
  Speaker 4: You have a three story hole in the ground, and
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: if we can send the water there, we got a shot.
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: Of course, first thing there, a contractor goes, we're on
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: a deadline. If we don't finish in three years, we
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: got penalties. So I'll take care of that. I'll figure
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: that out for you. I'm making that up. No, and
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: then they agreed and they turned their pumps off, so
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: now we have place to send water. I think it
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: was down to that kind of it looked like the
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: Keystone cops out there. We're all pumping water each other
• 52:54
  Speaker 4: and panicing.
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: It's nuts.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: Never even this is the actual first time I've ever
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: heard of this this. Yeah, it's two and ten, right, Yeah,
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: guy was here until fourteen.
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: It was bad.
• 53:08
  Speaker 9: It rained for what three days straight?
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we got and you got to be sitting there
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: on the third day, like, fuck, man, is this thing
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: ever gonna stop? Flooded?
• 53:17
  Speaker 9: The flooded Opry Mills, Opera Mills was completely underwater.
• 53:21
  Speaker 4: Opera Land Hotel had four feet of water in it.
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: The Grand o Opery House had more.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: Than historical because of this of significant historical.
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: Some photographs and stuff like that. No buildings or anything
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: like that.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: Nothing was unsalvageable.
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: But that was crazy and everybody was panicking. But we
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: went to work. Yeah, Carl Dene was mayor. To his credit,
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: he goes. I get a text from him two days in.
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: He goes, what do we need to do to help
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: your industry? And our industry was dead? And I set
• 53:56
  Speaker 4: him my list of about ten things. I know he
• 53:58
  Speaker 4: didn't think. I'm literally we're texting, Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll
• 54:03
  Speaker 4: do all of it.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: He was all over It sounds like it sounds like
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: National has had a good string.
• 54:09
  Speaker 4: Of mayors and everybody came together. Everybody worked together. Natural
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: strength is in that. Yeah, political leadership, good business leadership.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: And then we need we need business leadership. On traffic.
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: Now, we got to fix traffic to hide those highways
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: and stuff. But the next year, so after the flood happens,
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: you know, you we start to recover from that. That's
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: when you build what is it, the Music City Center.
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: It was under construction. It opened in thirteen.
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: And that was under scrutiny. Correct.
• 54:39
  Speaker 4: Oh, I got my ass kicked all into this county. Yeah,
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: you want to do what It's a disaster. Nobody open Nashville.
• 54:47
  Speaker 4: National is not a destination. Nobody will come. Conventions are dying,
• 54:52
  Speaker 4: and the city will have to bail this thing out.
• 54:54
  Speaker 4: Let me describe, let me answer those National is not
• 54:59
  Speaker 4: a destination. We've been named the top destination in the
• 55:02
  Speaker 4: world for six years in a row by Lonely Planet,
• 55:06
  Speaker 4: Traveling Leisure Conde ass.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, Nashville's a spot now mixed uff.
• 55:10
  Speaker 4: We're the seventh busiest convention destination in the US. There's
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: over one hundred million dollars in reserve for the convention
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: Center's funding and all that development around. So you can't
• 55:24
  Speaker 4: find the critics today, but they kicked my ass for
• 55:28
  Speaker 4: two solid years.
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: You had like a five year vision and people will
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: talk about from like what from twenty eleven to fifteen
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: or sixteen.
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, here's what we're going to do. It's another great story.
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: I took Carl Dean so it wasn't really wasn't approved yet,
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: and I said, look, we can sell it ahead of time.
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: We can sell it before it opened. We can get business.
• 55:50
  Speaker 4: So we flew down to Orlando and pitched the Academy
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: of General Dentistry. It was Nashville or Toronto, think about
• 55:59
  Speaker 4: in two thousand and two. Didn't tell the mayor who
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: we were bidden against, because I knew he wouldn't understand Toronto.
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: It might scare him. So we went and Steve Turner,
• 56:14
  Speaker 4: one of the best Nashvilleians, philanthropist, just great guy, developed
• 56:20
  Speaker 4: the Gulch, led that he wanted to come see. He's
• 56:24
  Speaker 4: with us.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: The Gulch was nothing before that.
• 56:26
  Speaker 4: You bought the land and turned that.
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: Into that place is a destination.
• 56:30
  Speaker 4: Though, he says, we get on a plane to come back,
• 56:33
  Speaker 4: he goes, thanks for letting me come. It was really
• 56:35
  Speaker 4: and we booked this piece of business. Remember what I'm saying.
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: I showed a picture of an aerial footprint with a
• 56:44
  Speaker 4: white square where this building would be if it was approved,
• 56:49
  Speaker 4: and he goes, it was pretty cool watching y'all sell
• 56:53
  Speaker 4: a building that doesn't exist on land you don't own
• 56:56
  Speaker 4: without a design. I mean, we didn't have a picture
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: of what it might look like. We're down there selling.
• 57:02
  Speaker 4: So the Dennis booked us, and then I said, mare,
• 57:07
  Speaker 4: give me the key used to the car. Let me
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: go sell this thing. Let me wheel and deal a
• 57:11
  Speaker 4: little bit. I'll have to kill.
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: Let me butch slap these focus man.
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: We put a billion on this tea real quick, give
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: me the keys pace. Butcher slapped tea.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: Butch slapped they put this t on.
• 57:26
  Speaker 4: If y'all weren't crazy, I wouldn't talk about some of
• 57:28
  Speaker 4: this stuff.
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: But y'all are crazy.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, man, no one's gonna believe it. But it's your words, dude.
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: But the yeah, the five year thing that's kind of
• 57:38
  Speaker 3: I'm thinking, is that your medium scale stuff that you
• 57:41
  Speaker 3: refer to, because obviously seventeen has been the biggest because
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: you were bringing.
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: Some events and certain things here.
• 57:46
  Speaker 4: Seventeen took it to another level and because of the
• 57:50
  Speaker 4: watch parties, right, we entered a consciousness globally goes Hockey
• 57:56
  Speaker 4: in the South fifty thousand people in the street watching TV.
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, hockey in the South, that whole concept in general,
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: you're just like, yo, I'm like, like the Minnesota north
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: Stars or whatever they are, that's a hockey stage. They're trash,
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: they're bad and then the Predators they're bad ass. I
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: wish I could say we'd they're badass many Hey. I
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: talked to Amy a little bit about I was like,
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: I told we heard and I were talking a little bit.
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: We're talking about the Predators do and She's like, we
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: need to get some of that stuff going like that.
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: The interaction all like all that. It's hockey culture in
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: generals is awesome. It's like way more close and you're
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: in an arena. Everyone's packed in together and there's smaller crowds,
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: but it's way it's.
• 58:41
  Speaker 4: Amplified seventeen thousand capacity. Yeah, it'd be a pretty rapid crowd.
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt.
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true too. How much of it depends on
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: the performance of these.
• 58:53
  Speaker 4: I think I was at that first season in nineteen
• 58:57
  Speaker 4: ninety nine.
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was nuts.
• 59:01
  Speaker 4: It was more fun. I went to every playoff game.
• 59:04
  Speaker 4: I consume more jack and coke than I knew. It
• 59:06
  Speaker 4: was human, like, let's go. Yeah, I had two cheers
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: joined the game. I guess I could do it. I
• 59:16
  Speaker 4: yelled at so you couldn't understand it. But when we
• 59:19
  Speaker 4: had the ball, it was gold. Motherfucker can say that
• 59:21
  Speaker 4: on this Yeah, I.
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: Would say, like, and when we were when we were
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: on defense, that's how I am when they're on defense.
• 59:32
  Speaker 4: Get that motherfucker.
• 59:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: Hey, if there's two things you didn't know about football,
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: it's get that motherfucker.
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: And mother Yeah, don't get tackled.
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but flapped that motherfuckers man.
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: So but he was wide open.
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: And I also thought I was invisible and so kind
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: of a couple of years into that because it was
• 59:53
  Speaker 4: a great run, I would be out, might come and go.
• 59:56
  Speaker 4: You sit in section one thirty nine, don't you?
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: Oh my a little bit?
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, y'all have fun. Okay, I gotta I gotta clean this.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: No more chance.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 4: But I made sure I didn't cuss them front little kids,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 4: and I yelled at where like my group, we all
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 4: knew what our cheer was. But I wouldn't offense the
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 4: clown believe in that. You know, if kids are around,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 4: be respectful, be respectful. Visiting fans, we want to kick
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 4: your butt. We want to send you home loving us. So,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 4: you know, broke and reasonably.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: Happy and a little bit hungover. But yeah, I'm not.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of not like that at all. But I'll
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: be honest. I like, I like my fans out out
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: of hand. If I can get a streaker at every game,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: i'd be happy. You know, there goes another one that
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: there he goes and I just think, like, like, Ohio State,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: we're school in America. They're fans are psychopaths, I would think.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: Any I think it was. I never played at Wisconsin ever,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: even played Wisconsin, never played them. Oh yeah, weird. I
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: missed one game in my career and it was against
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: Wisconsin at home the.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: Jj W.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: So so what's up. No, I don't like jj W.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: He's a phenomenal football player. I don't like him. But yeah,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: the fans, Dude, if you have like a Michigan license plate,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: I don't Ohio State game, they'll tip your car over.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: It's that. It's like, it's crazy.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: All the time.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: It's like they call it the game for a reason.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: But I kind of like, as much as I hated
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: it because I played for Michigan, I kind of dig
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: that like that around. You gotta watch you gotta watch out.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: You're gona play the Titans now, Yeah, like, hey, it's
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: a great city to go to, but don't be wearing
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: different jerseys.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: And the ship in that when you play there, like
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: on the Skins playing the Eagles, like the Eagles are in.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, intimidated to go to Philly or Oakland.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Philly's awesome to play it, but it's because they hate.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: You so much. Oakland gets serious now too. There's there's
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: a there's a video last year I think it was
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: or two years ago, Donald Penn some guys him on
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: them on to get him to hit him so that
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: he would be able to assume or whatever. And literally
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: guy had a video on Instagram saying, now I'm gonna
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: get Donald Penn to hit me and sue me. And
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: then there's a video of him him filming Donald Penn
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: tell me he's trash blah blah blah, and Donald Bank
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: gets out of his rolls Royce. Yeah, he start like
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: getting after him. Dude, he won't walked away. Luckily, of
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: course he did. I would want you to, Yeah, for sure.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: That stuff.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: People people talk all the time.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 3: People want fan base, butcher once. It's like Nebraska. They're
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: like guys who play there, they say it's weird. I mean,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: you played there. People say it's weird. You're staying in
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: the in the tunnel and fans like are trying to say, hey,
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: good luck out there, had a good game, guys.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: The thing is, but that's kind of like a mental thing,
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: like you shart walking through. I'm gonna have to fucking
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: kill these guys. And there's like this little kid like
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: go get him seventy seven.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: I hope you safe.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: I guess, okay, maybe I won't kill him, but I'm
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: gonna try to hurt him.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 4: I get. I don't know, you're like trying to jogging
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 4: out there. But I spent six years in Broode Yeah,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 4: bat a lot of night games and Tiger Tiger.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: I dated a girl, A dated girl from Baton Rouge.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: She went to l s U and I saw I
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: was down there whole bunch. That stadium is awesome. It's loud,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: it's I've never been to a game. But like what
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: I've heard, it's incredible they have they have open container
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: law there too. Like in Louisiana, you can go through
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: a drive through and get you can get decorators. Be open. No,
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: as long as the uh, that little paper of the
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: straw is on it. If you get pulled over, baby
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: and the cops like, hey, what's in that? Oh there's
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: a there's a piece of a straw. It didn't hit it, okay,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: it's it did did you open it? You promise? Okay,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: I get it because the pieces of the straws there,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: and that's I think you.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: Can pour a little out right here, so you can
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: make one.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 4: Before they tightened up and they renovated obviously with security.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 4: But pre I'll say not eleven. I had a buddy
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 4: that would like grill out. Let's say they're grilling stakes
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 4: for a game at Tiger Stadium. Well then he he
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 4: had ten tickets, thirteen people, so he would bring three
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 4: extra stakes, hand them to the ticket usher. Huh, and
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 4: all thirteen would go in. So no, tell him what
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 4: the real attendance number.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, mars pissed.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, but they just snuck people in all day
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 4: long and there were benches, bleachers, so you could cram in.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 4: Now it's more seating and tighter control. But they're crazy good,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 4: crazy good crazy.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: I kind of dig that. I dig I dig lsu.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: I think that's a I never offered by any SEC schools,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: but if I could. Oh yeah, here's the video of
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: Donald Penn. See this guy's filming them from behind and
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: Donald's he's in the car. And I don't know if
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: he had a good gamer bag game. I'm assuming if
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: you have a good game and the guy's coming at you,
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: you're probably like that. Yeah, so he might. He might
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: have gave here.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: Look, he's the fan is giving putting his hat down,
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 3: like here we go about to get snatched.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: You know, Donald Penn's a stud dude. He's been playing
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: the league for a long time. He was undrafted.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 4: Guy, I don't want you to hit me.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 8: I don't want either of you to hit He's doing
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 8: it for that, he's doing it for her.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: He's trying to get some he's that that paper enough money.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: He's I'll tell you what. Yeah, Hey, you like you
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: like the way your face looks?
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: You want to do some of these dudes out here
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: because pens. I mean, if this thing loads well enough,
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: we have good wife. He comes out. Man, he's a
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: big dude. He's way he's way bigger than me. Man,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: and he's got some power behind him too.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: He would have killed this guy for sure.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: I got a lot of respect for this guy.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: He's he was in Tampa forever, right, it was like
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: Tampa for ten years and then he was at the Raiders.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 4: Spectree or yeah, I have no idea.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah he's he played Tampa for a little bit. But
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: I will say, well, got to get back to that
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: bringing the Titans over here. You you tried to whirl
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: when you're trying to take us not down the road.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: But I'll be hold on, I gotta be right back.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: I gotta pee real back.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, But you know I'll talk.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 4: You don't have a bathroom on this point.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 9: Hey, But I think I think our listeners would probably
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 9: be really mad if we didn't ask you the status
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 9: on MLB and World Cup stuff too, the inside track.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 3: Well we can it's I we I would think I
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 3: would be disappointed. I mean, you got such a good
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: following for the sounds. It's like the city of Nashville
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: would absolutely be obsessed with an MLB team, Like, is
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: that even is that conversation even happening.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 4: The conversation is happening. So there's a local group. This
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 4: guy's been very public. John Lower, I think he's done
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 4: a great job. He has Dave Stewart and Tony Larus
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 4: and some other involved and the commissioner two years ago
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 4: throughout Nashville as a past possible expansion city. I think
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 4: it's not think it's a bit premature.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we have to take care of in my last first.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 4: The the league is not ready to talk expansion and
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 4: they don't want to talk about moving until they deal
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 4: with Oakland and Tampa Bay. Yeah, they have two weak franchise.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 3: But it kind of goes back to your your process
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 3: of everything you've kind of done. You put the bug
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: in people's ears and not you specific obviously your team
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: or the city of Nashville.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 4: The thing I think and John, Laura and I talked about.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: It, Taylor's come back in the old bus Boys My Puppies.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 4: That was quick too. Does that mean something?
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: I had a I had a not the biggest piece butch,
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: but the hole is huge too. It's just it's like
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: not the most small bucket, and I just you know, Okay,
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: not the most.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: Impressive piece, but it performs.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, Zach's doing the notes over here.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: Hey Taylor, we're actually he's catching us up on the
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 3: whispers of mlbts possibly expanding here in the like you
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 3: know future.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: It's kind of premature right now.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: So what it would happen to the sounds though without
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: sounds would go away if that happened, right well, so
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: would you use a sound stadium?
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 4: And I'll never understand when we built it. We didn't
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 4: build it to expand it. It's capped out. The thing
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 4: that's key and airs and John Lord and I talked
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 4: about it, so he not speaking out of school. But
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 4: I'm also not up to speed as much as as
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 4: he is. I think these kinds of things you got
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 4: to keep quiet. You got to work it and work
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 4: it and work it before you talk about it, to
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 4: maintain some credibility, to get your ducks in a row,
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 4: to not let anybody. There's gonna be other cities that
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 4: want a team. You won't give anybody any advantage. So
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 4: I think we would be a legitimate contender. Expansions, according
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 4: to the league, is at least five years away, but
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 4: we should ready.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: I think I think the National's proven that you're in
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: contention for whatever you want right now. I think truly
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: Nationals truly put themselves in a position where whatever we
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: want we could probably get first divest because Nashville does
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: it well. I mean they're starting to the leader in
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: arms and you're no. I think they've proved with the draft.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: I think it's like, oh, they can handle themselves taken
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: at five hundred thousand and have no problem. You said, you, well,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: we're capable. We can do one hundred thousand and maybe
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: one fifty a day.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: And it's like he was talking, it'll be important to
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 3: take care of the MLS team that comes in because
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 3: that will also be a decent measuring stick.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's gonna dictate World Cup to a degree. Yeah,
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 4: it's gonna do about that.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 6: Not even soccer World Cup either, I knowing, like, yeah's
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 6: the World Cup and you know everybody, you know, all
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 6: the soccer fans, they just go nuts over.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: That kind of.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 4: It would be draft like because they care as much
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 4: about outside the state, you must they do that. They
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 4: want to know that the city can put on an
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 4: event because there will be people from all over the
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 4: world whether they go to that game or whether they're
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 4: teams in it, or they just want to be part
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 4: of it and party in the street. To your point
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 4: about describing Broadway, Yeah, we can party in the street.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: You can party in the street. Baby is there here?
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: There's not open?
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 4: You can if we permit. You can't carry out of
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 4: a building, but I can sell it in the street.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 4: Or whoever gets to permit?
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: How many? How many get out of your free Monopoly
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: cards do you have in your pocket that maybe.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: You know, this guy could could kill people, he'd be
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: all right.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: You know the body for the boys, get a couple
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: of you know, hey, if.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: I've ever my main, we gotta because it's terrible man.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 4: Nathan. Nathan's a mutual friend from Kings of Lea and
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 4: we're just gonna need to know each other at food
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 4: and wine festival. Maybe you're one event. So it's five
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 4: years old and we're drinking rose out of a bottle.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 4: It's at the end of three you and Nathan. Yeah,
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 4: we're at the event, swinding down DJ spinning, people are dancing,
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 4: We're chugging wine out of the bottle. And he looks
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 4: at me and he goes, if I ever get caught
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 4: with a dead hooker in the truck of my car.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: You're my first call.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 4: I'm just like, I don't know what to do with that. Yeah,
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 4: I mean thanks, Yeah, don't call me.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: You know what you said, you know what you said. Naything,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: call me because they're about to get Butcher slapped.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 8: Shirt here.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 4: So we started then and then he goes and then
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 4: when you run for office, I'm I'm gonna run your campaign.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 4: I won't be involved, of course, done. You have others,
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 4: but insanity to that point. So when you talk about, uh,
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 4: I'm calling you if I'm in trouble. So I mentioned
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 4: July fourth, when July fourth was starting to get big.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 4: He's a rookie. I look over and I see this
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 4: and I recognize him. I see this giant human being
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 4: talking to the security guard and just kind of pointing
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 4: a little bit.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: And you know the worst part about this is is
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: like two years later, Butch came and spoke to the
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: team and told them the story. And I actually never
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: told you they did that. But Jack Coughlin was like, yeah,
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: I heard a story about you the other day.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 4: I did.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: I spoke to the rookie, and he spoke to the rookie,
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: don't be that guyous.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 4: It was sad like wearing this guy out and he's saying,
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 4: I'm supposed to be on I'm on the list. I'm
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 4: supposed to be back to stage and I'm watching and
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 4: I go around and listen. Finally go help me out here.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 4: So he's saying, I'm supposed to be on the list.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 4: I go, well, it's only one list, it's mine, sir, shirt.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: Hey, Taylor, Hey, take this T shirt.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 4: Short security guards, this small guy. Were you rude to him?
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 4: Of course hindsight, I'm going you're a dumb ass. Don't
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 4: go what a cost him? He's been drinking. Maybe, I
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 4: don't know, definitely, yeah, he's like so I put his
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 4: his his future at that point, for the future of
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 4: the night, in the hands of security guard because no, no,
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 4: I was polite. So I called the guy over because
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 4: I'm a big sticker. You rude to security, rude to
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 4: the people making hourly wage, I'm a dick.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: Oh so you're you're a first And Menia thought, is
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: this asshole?
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what are you doing to the guy? And the
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 4: guy said no, he was really polite, and I was like, okay,
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 4: So then we actually walked backstage. There wasn't anything going on,
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 4: and then I tried to hook him up at Sports
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 4: Illustrated Swimsuit. We had all the models in town for
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 4: an event, and that's when we started getting to know
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 4: each other better. And he was like, I'm with the Titans,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 4: Like I know who you are.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: Quit doing this.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 4: Your ass is gonna be in more trouble telling people
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 4: who you are. Dude.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: Since that day, since that, I don't I want to
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: tell people I do not just and everyone it's clear
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: do that anymore?
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: I just got to Nashville. I thought I was a
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: big swinging dick and I realized my peeper just rested
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: gener my sack.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: Dude, I was not.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: I am not that guy anymore. I guesse it was
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: back but I really don't remember that night fully so,
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: but I remember it was I was on like it
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: was it old Hickory and I was walking into Zoe's kitchen.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: Do you remember this walking to Zoe's kitchen like a
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: month like a month, Yeah, I just got out of camp.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: It was like September and Brentwood and You're like, hey,
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: I'm like.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 4: The fuck is this guy do?
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: What what's up dude, because you don't remember me, do
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: I was like, no, I don't with your wife. No, No,
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: I wasn't my now wife.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 5: It was.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was my rookie year, so I didn't even
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: know tailor. Then I was thinking somebody else, but it's okay.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, no different girlfriend model.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: And so I was sitting with a lady and You're like,
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: you don't remember me, and I was like, no, I don't.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: Oh god, what's gonna and you like, I'm butcher and
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: you you storm my party on fourth of July and
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: I was just like, oh my god, these three swimsuit
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: models I'm with are going to be so embarrassed for me.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: And that's my T shirt. Dude, I was That was
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: probably one of the most embarrassed I've ever been. You're
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: with your wife? Yeah, And we sat down and talked
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: and since then things have been good.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 4: Things have been good, dude, all in all.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: The security to say it was your being an asshole,
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: And if you did, you did, would you?
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 10: And I thought here in this town too, I threw
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 10: I didn't throw a pups this up, but I watched
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 10: one the guy that had to melt down on a
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 10: r Kelly no local pulsul.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 4: He just got accused of all kinds of stuff. Well,
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 4: he was berating a cop. Actually the year of the
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 4: King's Lean played New Year's Eve and I no grabbing him.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 4: And I'm the only person you can talk to like
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 4: that have had it. I don't give a ship to me,
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 4: cust me, yell at me, don't hit me, but don't
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 4: hit me.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: Got this pretty face.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but you're not going to talk to the police
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 4: that are working their ass off for you know, security,
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 4: or just anybody that's yeah, you know, literally helping make
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 4: the event happen.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: That's yeah.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: Respect is definitely I.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 4: Follow on my sword for the people that are working their.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: Butts off, that's awesome. Respect is definitely a thing that
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: I've had to learn over time.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: And that was thirteen or fourteen.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's July fourteen, fourteen.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're come to July fourth this year.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: I you know, I don't know if I should even come. Man,
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: I want to.
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: I just want a Butcher Slap T shirt. Man, I
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: want to but Butcher slap. I want to pass tense
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: one like it's already happened. I mean, I mean, yeah,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: I looked like an asshole that night, but it definitely
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: got us.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 4: Here, got us here, got us here. I'm a fan.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: I'm a fan as well, dude. I appreciate I appreciate
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: you helping me out with a whole bunch of stuff too.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: But is the man, dude.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: But I'm learning a lot about you, and I love it.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: I love this. This is the first time meeting. I'm
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: buzzing with the boys.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 5: Man.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: This is an honor for you. Of all the things
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: you've ever done, this has got to be like the
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: top five.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 4: This is up there. Yeah, I don't get to get
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 4: on a school bus with on inside there you go. Yeah,
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 4: you know when my name had a beer sponsor.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: We had we had a beer sponsor.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I I do want Yeah, matter of fact, we had.
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 2: We have Budweiser sitting on our thing. But they're not
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: a sponsor.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: Bud wise Are offered when.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 9: It was the local distributor, Yeah, Ajax Ajax Turner offered.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: And then they the man sitting on the couch right now.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they said, any any live events.
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 3: I told him, yeah, right, we're all we got to
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 3: buy a tow truck and so we can't keep it
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 3: in like Butch taught us keep things tightening our circle.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, don't.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 4: This thing.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: No get it can get towed like no one's business.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: I bet though.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 3: Our goal is to get it moving because we think
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 3: it would be awesome, like we think of going because
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 3: Dale Earn hearts the theme on here. So say we
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 3: road tripped to North Carolina where he lives and do
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 3: a bust with the boys there. You know, road tripped
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 3: all these different events. And then also you can think
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 3: of stuff. We can think of constant things. Dude, if
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 3: this thing gets mobile.
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: Bring you down for July fourth, if we if we
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: get July fourth, if we get the bus, if we
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: get towed over there, you let us hang out.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 2: We figured something out. I cancel my Yeah.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: I don't want to spot. I want to be on
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: Broadway first. I want to be in front of the stage.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 3: I just hanging Butcher slap ts across the That's definitely
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 3: a good thing.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: That's the coolest thing anyone's ever said on this earth.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: Jesus didn't say anything as cool as that. That was
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: wicked man, That was right.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 5: Quick question for me.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, since we're on podcast, Go ahead, we're on.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 5: Since we're on a NASCAR bus there we're on kind
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 5: of a Nascar.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: Zach is a big Nascar.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 5: If he didn't listen episode zero zero zero, big NASCAR fan.
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 5: But what there's been some talk about NASCAR coming to Nashville.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 5: There's been some pros and cons to it. I know
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 5: Nashville speed there, there's some rough spots with that. But
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 5: but this might not even make the podcast, but kind
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 5: of for what I want to know, what do you
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 5: think of that?
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 4: I think NASCAR would be stupid not to bring a
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 4: race back to this market. I think they abandon their
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 4: core audience in the South as they started doing Vegas,
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 4: in Dallas and wherever. To their credit, I think they
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 4: recognize that. So first thing they're gonna do is bring
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 4: their awards. We here in December. We have it for
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 4: two years. Going back to that chasing events, They're gonna
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 4: bring cars. They're going to create a fan facing event
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 4: which will help us build the momentum. But at the
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 4: end of the day, there's an issue over how close
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 4: one of the buildings being developed at the fairgrounds is
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 4: to the speedway. If they can get it moved a
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 4: little bit, then I think a race is eminent. If
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 4: they can't get it. Then there's concern that the buildings
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 4: too close to the track, And I don't understand how
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 4: if the building's not on the track, not going to
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 4: be too close to the track. So I'm stupid in
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 4: that regard, but I do understand that that is the
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 4: biggest issue right now.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, that would be crazy.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 3: And Bristol Nascart when you bring the red nextport to
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 3: the red neck city, which is where it's not ours.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: Myself red neck man? Look at you just at first off,
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: it's hot on this bus. How are you not sweating?
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 4: He might be thinking about it.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: Man, that'd be awesome. And you said December, so that
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: like first week.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 4: In December, you're actually I don't know when this will air.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 4: So I could say they're coming tomorrow to work on
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 4: planning their awards week, huh. But when this airs, I
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 4: might have said they were just here.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so they're either here or they're coming tomorrow.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah they were there, just here or they're coming tomorrow.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 2: That brings an event in December too. Like you just
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: think in Nashville.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 3: You think of all these things that going throughout the
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 3: year in Nashville and it kind of gives you know,
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 3: insight on what the next what the future looks like
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 3: for the city, because it's like, take, for instance, I'm
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 3: in an uber right and you're sitting here talking, yeah,
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 3: you know, people to kind of fill me in on
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 3: the market, the industries and things, because it was my
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 3: first year here and guys like, yeah, the city's just
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 3: exploded the last five years, and we don't know if
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 3: we're in the we don't know we're in the seventh inning,
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 3: the third inning, the ninth inning, if we're on the
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 3: back end like that. You bringing up NASCAR in a
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 3: December thing just makes me think, like, you know, the
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 3: future is bright for the city of Nashville.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 4: You know, I think we're in charge of that week
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 4: in Nashville. Yeah, I predicted a slow down or a
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 4: flat name for the last three years.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: That in that year you're saying like like, Okay, we
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 2: need to be prepared.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 4: We're gonna left off.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 2: Right, We're not gonna do But but then twenty seventeen happens.
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 4: My industry, So the hospitality industry, we are one hundred
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 4: out of one hundred and three months have been the
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 4: best respective month in the history of the city. So
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 4: best January ever, best February ever, we've done that one
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 4: hundred out of one hundred and three times.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: Wow, that's.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 4: That's half years.
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: That's the years.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, take off, yeah and a half.
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 4: It's insane. So we're the and we're the top performing
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 4: hotel market in the country over the last ten years.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 4: So we keep raising the bar. And my board, I
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 4: answered to a board of directors, they just called me
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 4: a sandbager. I said, can I just be wrong, you know,
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 4: quit sandbager? Yeah, I'm wrong. It's okay.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 3: Well, you drive into the city and all you see
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 3: is cranes in the city, like, oh you crazy stuff
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 3: getting built out. But people like Taylor was talking about earlier,
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 3: the track, like the traffic, the highway systems, and.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: That's definitely gonna that's gonna slow the growth of the
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: city down.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 4: For pains or but they're better than the other pains.
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, yeah, you would rather have I wish somebody
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: would use the damn highway to get here, you know. Yeah,
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: there's that for sure. That yeah, that definitely that pains me. Man.
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: I hate driving this damn traffic. I can't stand it.
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 4: You that's the luxury of being able to at least
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 4: time your travel.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. I mean I'm up early and the
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: drive home is a little tough because I get done
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: on like five thirty.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: Taylor is moving a little south though, so that you're
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 2: gonna be on that highway.
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: We're building in Forest Hills, and it's a pain in
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: the ass.
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: It's I mean, they they're they're being okay, like we're
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: kind of we're moving forward, but it's I've heard a
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: lot of nightmares for hill you're talking about in Forest Hills,
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: you're talking about comptent of state. Yeah, I'm coming about
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: comptent of state. You got to cut that. Yeah, we
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: got to cut all that. Fuck, we're not going I
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: got people showed up in my plot of dirt, dude,
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: So all right, put a gate up. I'm putting gates up, man,
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: I'm putting gates up. I have a security post, but
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: I don't even want to security guard because I feel
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: like in my head, every security guard's fat. And I'm like,
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: you know, if I just have a camera, if I
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: just have a camera that gives me at least one
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: hundred yards from that gate to my house, or you
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: can I can quit myself enough. Just throw some bows
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: out there.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 3: You should bring one in every October for like spook season.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 3: Just have somebody dressed in like a Michael Myers outfit.
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: That watches Dude, I'm gonna have some Halloween parties at
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: that house. I love. I love Halloween. It's my favorite
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: hall spooktober Dude. I think we had to work on
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: events for Halloween. Man, let's do it.
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: Come on new.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: That's terrible too.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: That's the.
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: Sound of something or Jason worries one of those. I
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: don't know, but I love, uh, I do. Halloween's my favorite.
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: I love just getting if you go into the King's
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: uh Halloween parties.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 4: Three or four. I never would wear a costume, and
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 4: I got shamed, as you should, Yeah, I say you should,
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 4: And so I've gone all in that.
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: You got What were you last year?
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 4: Last year? I was Gorsic?
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: What's Gorsage?
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 4: The Supreme Court? Just oh yeah, so I had buttons
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 4: made with the scale of justice. Said I like beer.
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 4: I had a beer hat. Sonny was dressed like a
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 4: Heineken beer.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 4: Uh so I had my my beer with me, beer
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 4: with me?
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 8: What else?
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 4: I did two or three things the year before, watched
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 4: David Pumpkin on Saturday. Yes, I was a skeleton from
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 4: David Pumpkin, that hair, standing up and dancing all the time. Yeah,
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 4: and I stayed in character all night and people were
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 4: just like, you're out of your mind.
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: I love what it's your Halloween costume, but you decided
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: to be the side skeleton character. The best part was
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: there a David Pumpkin, so people would.
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 4: There were other skeleton, but there was no other David
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 4: pump that's right. And it's such a tightened flamehead wig
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 4: that I got it one game. Huh, braided white, but
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 4: the blue showed through, so it made it even funnier.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 4: I didn't get all the way white, but my suit
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 4: glowed in the dark, and it was skin tight, yes,
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 4: body suit. So you had to work out a little
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 4: bit before you had gym a little bit, but.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 2: Then was natural.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: I go, how do I pee? You just gotta take it.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 4: I go, that's bullshit, Yeah, I'm operating. So I went
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 4: and got stick on vel crow and then I got
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 4: scissors and I cut a fly and I put.
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 2: On the feet black.
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 4: Its black underwear. But I made myself a peehole.
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: Because I ah, you that thing on and off. No
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: absolutely happened.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 4: So I been a new costume. I love David Pumpk.
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: I would have I would have gone buttons like you
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: know how that those those long John's. Yeah, but I
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: was got a front patch man with little buttons on there.
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 2: You had to make he had the improvise.
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 4: It was Halloween Day and I went.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: Thing. I'm like, like I said, Halloween is my favorite holiday,
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: but I Halloween. I always like the Holy Ship. I
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: gotta dress up. So I was a penalty flag last year.
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because I don't remember us doing anything.
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I was at the with but me and
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: were at the at the party at the Kings of Leo.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 4: The year before.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't remember.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is it was like a kind of an
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: exclusive like just like like a close friends and my
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: best friends kind of thing.
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 2: I appreciate.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: Clown up the joint there.
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 4: So two years ago, maybe Taylor had a few epic
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 4: penalty games.
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: So I thought this was another gonna be another beer story.
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm looking like an a a candidate, right.
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 4: Jared and Nathan and I were together and what was
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 4: working on by a shipload of a little flax And
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 4: when he comes in, Oh, I bought the case. I
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 4: left him at home. We were already. I mean, I
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 4: still have them in my garage.
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, we'll get him on that. We'll get him on
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 2: that much of my new best friend.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: We'll get him on that. That's hilarious. Man, Oh my god.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah that that hallowing part is awesome, so much fun.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 4: It's pretty epic.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, I'm fired up. You came on.
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 4: I'm honored.
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 2: This was awesome.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 4: Like I'm first season.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, first season.
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 2: I knew you'd be awesome.
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 3: I read some of your stuff, like you know, how
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 3: you've built this thing, how you built the city. Yeah, okay, true,
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 3: fair enough, and Taylor says a lot of good things obviously,
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 3: but like I'm pleasantly surprised how much of a boy
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 3: you are.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 2: I say that in a way of like the boys,
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 2: Like you're a boy, like one of the boys. Dude.
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 3: Well, and I've enjoyed it, like I knew it be insightful,
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 3: but you brought some enthusiasm, some you raise some hell.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 2: Like you said, we got a shirt coming now, but slab.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 4: But I'm working on. I'll come back with the shirt,
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 4: but you need to have me back on. I'm gonna
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 4: bring a bottle of commemorative Jack Daniels with the draft
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 4: loggoing graved on it, I'm in it and a T shirt.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: You need to come on. We need to kind on
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: like a Friday or a Saturday, pop in a couple
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: of these.
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 2: D that's we can do that.
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: Do you ever? Is it a regular night that you
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: take this or we try to do usually Tuesday or
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: Wednesday has been making a consistent thing for us, but
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: it's kind of all over the place right now. We're
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: just trying to stack pods. Man.
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of a lot of his based around
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 2: the old boy he U.
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 3: His family's in Canada, so he'll come through the week
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 3: you know, play ball, do the pod, go home on weekends.
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 2: Some weekends he'll be here.
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 3: Though, So you know, we're gonna try to figure stuff
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 3: out and kind of yes, stack the library with pods.
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 4: Season you a brainstorm, either some locations or some ideas
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 4: or people sponsorship.
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: I think it'd be awesome to get this bus mobile.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 2: See, that's what we need to brink truck noise in
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 2: the chit chain.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh nothing, pink, what are you chewing? Juice? Please?
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 2: Okay, stop juice. That's why this board the entire time.
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: That's you know, we're still we're we're in the we're
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: in like a thinking process of changing our production company
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: right now. But it's it's it all.
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 4: I'm impressed with the air conditioning and the gear.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: Oh that's Jeff, thatst This has nothing to do with them,
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: that Jeff, that's our guy.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 2: Not hey, hey, hey hey he said the gear though?
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 2: Was that?
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: Oh you like this?
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 4: How did you get those chairs in the door?
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: Side door, got the emergency door, You got.
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 2: Some sound panels up on the side, like we did this.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: You should have seen you should have seen this place
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: before when we got it. Man, it was a it
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: was a rat's nest. There is literally rats nests.
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 4: I might have a Nashville neon time.
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: Let's go, we'll put it right there. Yeah yeah, actually
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: that'd be a better spot anyway. I gotta I gotta
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: no bad days sign.
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 2: I got a in here somewhere, and that was like
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 2: a mini one that hangs.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she's just gotta get that family photo.
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 4: No comment about pole dancing at all. We're not going.
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's one thing I did about Nasville, not all
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: the strip clubs. I'm not a ship club guy.
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 2: Do not like it?
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 4: You'll laugh at this. We had a fair number and
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 4: we took them out. Then it was the wildest thing. Really,
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 4: you would think the convention Center would have added more. Yeah,
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 4: we probably wiped out five or six and maybe one
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 4: or two came back.
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 2: That's good and it's weird.
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: It's the whole, the whole process, the whole courting process.
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: When you walk in there is uncomfortable to me.
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 3: You sit there and the crowd that brings in, the
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 3: crowd that's sitting into like it just brings in, and.
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: All of them there's like that they're just throwing one.
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: I just don't like it.
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 2: Is there a good cigar bar? There's one?
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 4: I don't go to a lot. There's one on Church
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 4: Street by five o five across the street five oh
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 4: five like that, and Mans the liquor store by Zoe's
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 4: and Brentwood. They used to have a smoking room. I
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 4: don't know if they still do.
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: Not a big I'm not a big cigar.
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 2: I like cigars. I like the vibe. But it doesn't
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 2: sound like there's one. It sounds like there's for a
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 2: little and there's a bus.
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 4: Stop doing it. A buddy of mine had a rolling
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 4: like a mobile scar bar.
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: That's a nice little move trailer. Definitely. Ben Jones had
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: a clich shoot thing and you got to a certain
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: like station and he had they had cigars that you
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: can go and they divvied up give you some free ones,
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: and there's like a Nava nas navash Nashville Cigar Club
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: or whatever. But man, they I appreciate your time on
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: your busy schedule. It sounds like you're just moving and
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: grooving out there, and we'll definitely have to have you
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: on again because I feel like I'll come.
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 4: Back in East Drop.
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: There's so much.
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there we go.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: He said that exact. He'll just be bugging you up
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: with NASCAR questions the whole time.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 4: We should we should figure out a way in December
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 4: when that car comes in this bus all to come
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 4: downtown a minute.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 8: I'm in it tomorrow because the fact as long as.
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: You don't change it, oh, we're not changing anything exterior.
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 4: At least until after December.
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: It yeah, oh yeah, totally. It will make it. We
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: felt about just taking it in the was it the
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: end ground?
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 2: What's it called infield?
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: Infield? Excuse me, Zach, I am so sorry, I'm so sorry.
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, somebody from NASCAR reached out and wanted to have
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 3: us on the infield, but they thought it was mobile.
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 2: They're like, you know, brain to the infield. We'll get
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 2: you guys. Guess like we'll We're at the red carpet
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 2: and we need to get this thing rolling. I love it.
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 4: We can get it.
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: Let's go. I'm gonna buy a tow truck. I'm gonna
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: slap on the top of it's gonna say Dad, and
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: then we're gonna call the bus Will because I carry Will.
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 2: And got in every episode with you know people.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: Get this damn thing off. I'm out of here.
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 2: Hey Will throwing this T shirt butchered.
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Thank you.
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 8: Fun