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Tales from the Tailgate Ep. 1: UCLA · Tigs Bits Podcast

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  What did you do with that microphone, Tiger?
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  What do you do with it? I'm not going to go there.
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  Tigers go. Hopefully we can win already by
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  hat times. I can go home.
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  That's fair, that's fair. It's the first ever edition of
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  Tales from the Tailgate. Tell us a little bit about
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  what's happening today. Well, we have a a wonderful day
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  game that we have. It's not a night game, but we
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  have a wonderful day game. We got a lot of food and a lot
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  of fun amongst families and friends and stuff.
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  So we're excited to be out here. This place turned up all of a
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  sudden. I mean, it went from dead to
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  here we go. It's always going to happen.
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  It don't matter if it's an early morning game at 11 or 88 o'clock
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  game at night. We still bringing it.
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  We still cooking it. We might have to spend the night
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  on campus to do it, but we cooking every single time.
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  What do we got on the menu today, Chef James?
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  We got ribs, we got duck breast, we got pasta, we got jambalaya
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  and of course our famous sausage that we always have.
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  So did you say duck breast? Duck breast.
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  That's my favorite thing that we have on the menu.
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  Yes, we cook the ribs for like 6 hours, so they're just falling
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  off the bone. We season them up with the
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  McCormick seasoning and then when we sauce them up, we cook
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  them with the the Baby Rays and the red hot.
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  So you can't forget in the South we use Tony Satteries.
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  Yeah, we have the duck press, which we also put season with
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  the Tony Satteries and everything.
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  So it's going to turn out great. Sir, where are you from?
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  Why are you here? I'm from York in England that
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  I'm here to see the Tigers win, baby.
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  That is what I'm talking about. Tell us more about yourself.
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  I mean, we're, we're not used to this.
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  It's if you, if you go to England and you got to watch our
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  football, it's kind of like a couple of pints in the pub,
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  maybe a pie or a bag of a packet of crisps if you're lucky.
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  This is a different world. It's like if you bring someone
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  from England that you can't describe it to them, you have to
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  bring them and I think people are kind of in a state of shock
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  but really enjoying themselves. I'm assuming you're a soccer
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  fan. Yeah, I mean, who's your who's
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  your team? Who do you support?
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  My. Team is Newcastle United, so
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  we're not. We're not the best, but we have
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  a rich history and dedicated fans.
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  I have a lot of respect for that.
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  I get it, I get it. So where you at in the process?
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  We're saying this is a normal game day.
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  Yeah, I mean, normally it's it's not the the pregame is you kind
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  of meet around midday. If it's a 3 o'clock kick off,
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  you'll maybe go to the pub and have a few pints with your
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  friends. But there's firstly, the police
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  in the UK wouldn't really allow open, open flames in any parking
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  lots across the country. But I think no one would dare
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  shut that down now. It's such a rich tradition here.
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  But and then you, you go to the game, you kind of squeeze in,
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  you buy an overpriced pint at half time.
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  You can't even drink in the stands, you know, at an English
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  Premier League game. So this is, we've been here
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  since 7:30 this morning. Let's go, Tigers.
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  Where are you from mate? I'm from.
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  England. I don't know why I said it.
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  Everyone might say right. You're about to see a show, are
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  we? You're about to see a show, Sir.
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  You see like a great man, and I hate to disappoint you.
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  You're about to see a show. I like this.
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  So tell me more about the show we're about to see. 21 1/2 point
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  100 Cocho was unjustly fired, okay, and Elsio forever be
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  scarred and so he's hired back. Hot tank.
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  I love it. I love it any hour too.
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  Many Sherberts. You think Sherberts?
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  I think he said one too many something.
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  But I'm happy he's here. So where are you from, Sir?
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  So I'm from. The South of England, so right
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  down on the coast in a little a little village called Turners
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  Hill, West Sussex, down South, South of London.
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  That's amazing, man. I'm so glad you're here.
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  What brought you here? Why did you come to Baton Rouge,
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  LA on this random September day? Well, I, I get the lucky job, so
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  I promote tourism to the, to Louisiana back in the UK, I'll
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  get more Brits to come over. And so these guys are all we're
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  here with me basically bringing them here.
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  We've got like NFL growing massively.
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  But then what we're trying to do is get onto the college football
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  scene and kind of help Baton Roustein and sell those
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  packages, get more Brits coming over again, more Brits to come
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  and experience a game day here at LSU because there's no bad
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  place. There is no better place.
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  I love that. I think the game, the NFL game
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  is starting to take off a little bit more in England now.
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  And I, I think that the NFL doing that is, is, is helping
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  the brand. It's helping to expand the game
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  of football. Do you agree?
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  100%, I mean, the International Series games have grown and
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  grown and grown. Started off with one game a
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  season. They're now up to 3-4 games a
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  season. The Saints come over.
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  Whenever the Saints come over, they bring the party to town and
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  that's it. That spreads the word, spreads
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  the name, and the NFL has just grown and grown and grown.
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  The crazy thing though, in England, so if you go, and it
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  might be, I don't know, Saints versus Vikings, but you're going
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  to see every jersey, You're going to see LSU jerseys, you're
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  going to see every other team's jersey.
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  Everyone just kind of comes together.
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  Everyone's there together because they love football and
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  that's what's growing and that's why it's becoming such a big
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  thing. International game, baby.
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  Grow the game, and the game is growing.
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  There's no doubt about it. Here we have some Minnesota go
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  for fans ruin the boat in the Tiger Stadium.
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  Why are you here? We are here because we're
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  geographically challenged and we don't so the the Mississippi
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  starts in Minnesota. You know, and we thought the
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  game was here Louisiana. You guys have our river.
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  We do we share a river that has a fact.
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  So we got very confused. So we are, we're taking a
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  Greyhound back in a few hours. So let's talk about your season.
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  Let's talk about your coach. We row the boat.
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  That's what we do. So this is we don't like the
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  Golden Gophers. We actually wear Minnesota stuff
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  because it's a great way to meet people to get free beer.
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  What a what a brilliant ploy. I couldn't tell you the name of
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  the I couldn't tell you the name of the coach.
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  Couldn't tell you a single player.
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  It's the most brilliant thing I think I've ever seen at a
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  tailgate in my entire life. Folks, if y'all are listed out
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  there, I think it's time to go Incognito at tailgates.
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  That's what I'm learning. Bring some of your other friends
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  in here. Who?
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  Who's the craziest guy we should talk to here?
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  Greg. He'll drink anything.
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  Greg. Yes.
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  How are you doing? I'm Tiggs.
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  This is Tiggs Bits. We have a international podcast.
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  So good to meet you. What brings you here?
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  I mean, we heard you guys know how to party.
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  That's number one. And two, you guys know football
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  and three, Southern hospitality. It's real, it is real.
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  So I'm I'm understanding that you guys, you're not really
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  Gopher vans. You're crashing.
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  You're like the wave crashers of Bill Gates Roll Tide rushing.
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  Oh my God, uncovered us. Your international podcast
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  uncovered this criminal mastermind.
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  I mean, there's a part of me that doesn't ever want to
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  release this just to see it continue.
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  But I have to follow y'all if I go.
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  So where you go next? That's a good question.
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  We should tell us. Usually when we go here, we find
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  the next one. So I think we want to go to
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  Tennessee Falls. We heard that's a fun party.
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  So who are you actually fans of the Gophers?
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  I'm so confused. I'll tell you we've been to a
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  lot of tailgates. We travel the one away game
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  every year with about 30 fraternity brothers and this was
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  top of the list for a few years. It got cancelled or COVID.
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  And so we're really excited to be here and just you just don't
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  see this. You don't see this in California
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  for sure. You do not see this out West.
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  And this is amazing. Look, we got Bruins fans.
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  They're just showing up out of nowhere where there's a few of
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  us. I like it.
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  I like it even I expected to be honest with you.
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  Where are you from? I'm from Lai love this.
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  So he's from LA. What brought you here, buddy, to
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  see the Bruins? Unfortunately, get smoked is my
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  hottest is my most honest. But you knew this would be a
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  road trip. I came was to be with you, with
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  my family here. He's just eager to get.
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  He's eager to get on the camera to it is he is eager to get.
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  Let's let him in. What is your name?
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  Where are you from, Henry? Los Angeles.
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  So what brings you to the historic Death Valley?
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  See the history. That's it.
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  That's it. You got to see the history.
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  So we play at night, but we're not good enough for a night
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  game. That isn't our problem.
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  So what do you think about the game today?
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  Let's talk about that. If I had to bet, I would bet on
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  LSU. I'm not going to do it, but I
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  would bet on him. Unfortunately, that's the right
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  thing. That's LA for you.
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  Darren told me earlier that you guys were visiting on a stadium
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  tour around the nation. So first of all, what's your
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  name? So my name is Aaron.
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  What's your name? Lady Karina, Welcome to Death
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  Valley. Absolutely.
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  That's why you were number one on our list.
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  Thrilled to be here. Where else are y'all going?
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  We're going to go out West. We're going to go see the Rose
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  Bowl. We're going to go see Austin.
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  We're going to make it to, unfortunately, Knoxville.
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  We're going to see a Penn State wide out, Virginia Tech,
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  Virginia Tech. We want to do A&M.
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  We want to be that 12th man. We want to do Ole Miss has been
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  a big one that has been recommended to us today as well.
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  That's the biggest thing. We take your suggestions.
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  We want your traditions, we want your.
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  We want the loudest stadiums and the craziest tailgates and we
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  want to go and we want to immerse ourselves in that
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  culture for those Saturdays. Well, you're not starting at a
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  better place. As, you know, yelling.
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  Oh, did we? Oh yeah, y'all drink, Do we?
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  Yes, we did. We dabbled.
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  You dabbled. She dabbled.
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  So what's the lesson we taught y'all before you started
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  drinking? It's a marathon, not a Sprint.
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  Some people Sprint marathons. Reason why I was so fascinated
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  to do this interview is that we had a guy a couple of years ago
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  from Florida State, his name's Brandon Tritt, and he was doing
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  the same thing. He was on a stadium tour.
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  He went to Penn State, he went to Michigan, he went to Ohio
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  State, he went to Oregon. I think you're on the right path
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  is what I'm getting at. I think y'all have figured this
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  out. We wanted to go outside of our
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  teams. So, you know, I'm Michigan.
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  She's Kentucky. OK.
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  Yeah. So I hadn't.
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  We hadn't got to that part yet. So you're a Michigan supporter.
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  Yeah. So we've been.
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  We've been Big House. We've been to Lexington, Kroger
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  Field. I want to go to the Big House.
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  For the record, I've never. Darren, you've been to the Big
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  House to the Big House yet? Yeah.
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  I mean, it's a bucket list. I wish one day Michigan,
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  Michigan and LSU would do like a home and home and that would be
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  fun. I would love that.
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  You give us a call. As long as you set up back to
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  the tailgate. You slightly different colors.
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  It's fine. Look, we love it when the
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  opposing team comes and bring tailgating is bringing in
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  everybody coming by. You bring them in, you can razz
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  them all you want if they're the opposing team, but you bring
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  them in, razz them, then feed them and drink them, feed them
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  and drink them. That's been the best this part.
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  We were just at a hotel bar and we told them yeah, we're just
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  going to go to a bar before the game and hang out and they said
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  no, you're not Yeah, no, you're not.
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  Brought us along for the ride, Bill.
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  And you know they said meet us down here, hotel lobby, You got
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  to go get these people. So I understand you brought our
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  friends here that they met y'all?
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  I don't at a bar last night. Last night, yes.
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  My understanding is they were just going to hang out at the
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  bar and then work their way to the game here and y'all said
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  that ain't the way it's supposed to be.
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  No, absolutely not got a tailgate right.
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  So they they were going to Uber on here and we're like no, y'all
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  just y'all, y'all ride with us. Y'all can come tailgate with us.
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  We have a huge tailgating crew that will open their arms to
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  anybody and everybody. It doesn't matter if you're fan
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  of LSU or not, we're happy to be brought along for the ride.
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  So thank you all for welcoming us to this tailgate.
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  This is an incredible first stop on our tour.
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  We wanted to get this interview done before things got a little
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  out of control, so let's get in it.
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  How do you feel about the Tigers today?
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  Strong win for the Tigers today. I like that.
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  Dominating, dominating Bruins. Where y'all from?
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  Los Angeles, The other LA. That's true.
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  That's true. Jeez, I had to think about it.
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  It's terrible. Quick question, Tigers by how
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  many? 22?
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  All right, ladies. So where are you from?
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  Baton Rouge. Baton Rouge.
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  Baton Rouge. Baton Rouge.
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  Baton Rouge. Baton Rouge.
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  My Baton Rouge girl. Let's go.
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  Tigers today. What do we think?
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  We're gonna win, Obviously. Win.
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  It's a W Come on, Tigers. We're gonna win W Tigers.
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  And then? But the tigers today, baby.