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Rusty Noel: Football, Food, and Fighting for Others · Tigs Bits Podcast

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  What's up y'all? Tonight we've got one of the
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  most competitive, creative and flat out fun dudes in the game,
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  Mr. Rusty Noel. You may know him from winning
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  championships on the football field, and you might know him
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  from racking up titles in these cooking competitions all around
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  the country. Or maybe you've even seen his
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  spices and his sauces on the shelves at grocery stores and
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  local stores. Rusty's story starts in a really
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  rough place, but it's built grit, it's built hustle.
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  It's built his heart for helping others.
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  And we're going to talk about all of that and how he went from
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  coaching kids to creating products people can't get enough
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  of, dominating the food circuit, and still somehow or another,
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  finding time to lift up the people around him.
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  Don't forget, hit that like button.
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  Subscribe. Let's get into it.
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  Rusty, it is good to see you, my brother.
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  Thanks for joining us. Man, I'm a huge fan and watch
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  the show each and every week and and and I follow most of all
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  your guests that you have. So it's it's definitely a
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  pleasure for me to be actually be on your show.
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  Yes, man, yes, really pumped to have you.
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  We've been talking about doing this for a while and it's just
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  been you're, you're on the run. You don't know.
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  I don't know how you, if I don't think slowdowns in your
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  vocabulary. You're coming to us tonight from
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  a hotel somewhere doing God knows what.
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  What's happening tonight? What are you up to?
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  My full time job I work in the oil and gas industry for an
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  amazing company. Amazing family eating oil tools
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  In my area is Covington, LA. So I'll leave Lafayette on
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  Monday and I work the week in Covington New Orleans.
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  I cross the Causeway to New Orleans, make sales calls and
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  and and work here during the week and then go back home on
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  Friday. Start getting ready for
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  competitions on Saturday and Sunday.
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  Saturday I compete and Sunday we clean up, put everything up, get
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  ready to start the week all over again.
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  Pretty much the story of my life, the.
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  Life of the life of a salesman, brother, I understand.
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  I understand totally well before you got to this point in doing
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  these competitions and working in the oil and gas industry.
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  Let's back up for a second. You were and you and I mentioned
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  this just before, kind of before we we started to record your
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  grit really came from surviving your childhood and all of that.
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  So let's rewind it a little bit. When you think back to your
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  childhood, what are the moments that shaped you the most to be
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  where you're at today? I I think some of the hardest
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  is, you know, we run and run and run to try to make memories,
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  good memories. You know, when I hear people say
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  stuff like, hey, man, when we were a kid, we did this or we
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  were a kid, I can remember my mom and dad doing this something
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  simple as a family meal. You know, I didn't have it.
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  Mom and dad were both Alcoholics.
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  The abuse in our house was horrible with each other.
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  You know, it wasn't just one way.
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  You know, mom would beat on dad, Dad would beat on mom.
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  They would get drunk and, and, and leave me with an older
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  brother who absolutely for some reason hated me.
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  He was nine years older than me. And then, you know, as a kid,
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  you know, he's nine years older than me.
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  He would just bully, horrorize and just just beat me.
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  I, I, I took that on from my brother for years.
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  As we got older, you know, I just hit it, didn't tell nobody,
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  didn't say nothing. When I was younger, I didn't do
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  it because I was scared of him. You know, if you told, you would
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  just get another beating. And, and I, I just held that in
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  for years until the passing of my mother.
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  Actually, I, I made a promise to her that I would not do him
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  anything or not harm him or leave him alone until after she
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  died. Crazy part is, you know, God has
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  his way of putting his hands in things.
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  We live about, I don't know, probably 5 miles from each
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  other. My mom's been deceased for years
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  now and I have not seen him once since my mom passed away.
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  I've seen his wife, I've seen his kids.
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  I have not seen him once. So somebody got a hand and
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  that's not crossing paths and it's a good thing.
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  You know, it just it, it, it builds you.
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  And, you know, that's why I'm, I'm really an advocate against,
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  you know, bullying or even cyber bullying or just people being
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  ugly and being mean. There's just no need for it.
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  It, it shaped me, you know. Then Fast forward getting in,
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  once I was in high school, you know, my mom and dad got
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  divorced. It just seemed like I was at a
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  place where neither one wanted to deal with me.
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  I was the baby of seven years behind my sister.
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  They both wanted to get on with their lives and do their things.
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  And, you know, I found myself just bouncing around and kind of
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  raising myself, you know, through high school, which was,
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  was, was difficult because, you know, you just, I, I, I think
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  about my own children. I think about my grandchildren,
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  but I think of my kids, you know, little things like
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  healthcare. I have a good friend that's a
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  dentist. And we were all at a party one
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  night and I told him we were talking about wisdom teeth.
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  My daughter needed her wish. He was like, yeah, you know,
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  Hannah, she's at that age. She needs her wisdom teeth
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  pulled out. And I'm like, well, maybe I can
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  just do it myself and save the money.
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  I said it as a joke and he said boy you crazy.
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  I said well I pulled mine out and technically he said the hell
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  you mean? I said well I technically didn't
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  pull my wisdom teeth out but they were hurting.
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  Everything was hurting so bad. I was I was 16 when it happened.
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  I used vice grips and pulled my back 2 molars out to make room
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  for my wisdom teeth to come out. And he said there's no way.
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  I said I did. I said I did it in a Toyota
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  starlet with some black velvet whiskey and vice grips.
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  And, and when I showed him, he says, well, your wisdom teeth
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  are still there. I said, yeah, since I was 16,
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  I've used my wisdom teeth as my back molars.
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  They're they're, they're at an angle because that's how your
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  wisdom teeth are, are are in, you know, they're not straight
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  out like a regular tooth. But I pulled my 2 molars out,
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  which wouldn't loose because I didn't know what was going on.
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  I didn't have healthcare, I didn't have nowhere to go, no
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  money just to make room for my 2 back molars to come out.
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  So yeah, things like that, man. You want to talk about Bill
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  character Quick. He built a pain tolerance, if
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  nothing else but good. Lord bro, humble you man.
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  You know, just as a kid, you just, you know, you have to.
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  I had to grow up faster than most, obviously I can remember,
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  just like I'm fighting for money to be able to purchase gas,
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  food, whatever we needed, you know, I got to be pretty good at
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  it. Which, you know, ultimately, I
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  think you and I had talked about later on in life, you know, 2019
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  to be exact, saved my life in New Orleans.
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  You know, that was, that was probably, believe it or not, as
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  dark as my childhood and, and, and teenage and as rough as all
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  that was. You know, I hear people talk
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  about 2020 and the COVID year being, you know, the worst year
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  of their life. And I was thinking to myself,
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  man, nothing was like 2019 for me.
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  That was absolutely probably the the the worst experience I've
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  ever been through in my life. That's yeah.
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  I mean, and it kept building you.
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  I don't know, you know, you got to think maybe back if you were
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  if you didn't have those experiences as a child, you may
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  not have been prepared to be able to handle that and to to
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  get on the other side of it, you know, that that character that
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  it built you. And and and what I find so
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  amazing, Rusty is anybody who meets you, you know, wouldn't
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  know this story until they talk till you get to know you a
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  little bit because you're outward character is just you
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  know, you're just a nice, nice guy, loud and fun, which is what
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  I. Tell me all the time, you know,
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  I I did some comedy stuff with stale cracker.
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  We do like the cooking demos, me and Cajun and stale cracker and
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  wave fishes and they'll people will come tell me said man, you
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  were just funny. And the more you drink, the
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  funnier you get and you're just a funny guy.
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  The crazy part that people don't know, whenever people ask me,
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  what do people don't know about you?
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  And I tell them I'm actually shy and they just look at me like
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  I'm lost my mind. I'm in outside sales.
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  I sell seasoning. I have to go in these stores and
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  get my seasoning in. And like you said, people meet
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  me. They have no, they, there's no
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  way I can convince somebody that I'm actually shy.
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  But I am horrifically shy. I guess part of that was being
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  bullied as a kid, being teased a lot.
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  You know, I didn't had no money. So the clothes I wore were, you
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  know, bad. I would borrow clothes from
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  friends a lot of times just so I could kind of fit in when it
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  would come to dances and things like that.
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  But just the, the, the, the picking and the, you know,
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  people say it all the time and it's true.
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  Kids are cruel. Kids are the cruelest man.
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  And growing up that way, I would tell jokes about me being fat or
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  me maybe not smelling quite right because I didn't have
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  Cologne or deodorant or, or the newest clothes.
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  I would tell jokes on myself and have people laughing at my jokes
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  because I figured that would be, they were going to laugh at me
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  anyway and they were going to laugh, you know, at me.
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  So I figured if they laughed because I was making them laugh,
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  it was a way to hide. But.
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  At least you were doing it on your own terms, doing self
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  deprecating humor. I told you that you were You
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  could control all about you know what what they would do.
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  I totally can relate to that because of being it was not in a
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  sense of of a terrible bully, but I think at some point
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  everybody's bullied a little bit in high school and there were a
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  couple of them and I remember it's insane.
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  But my my coping mechanism was to just be out crazy.
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  These bullies like that dude's crazy.
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  I don't want to mess with him. And I'm not advocating this, but
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  like, you know, you get your locker in high school, your lock
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  for your locker. I'd take that thing and I'd just
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  bam, bam and hit. And they're like, I don't want
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  anything to do with this idiot, you know?
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  So I, I totally get where you're coming from with that.
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  And, and still to this day, you know, I, I, I include people
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  that I know who are not, not sensitive in jokes.
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  But you know, still to this day, I, I, I pick on myself more than
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  anybody else because I just, I mean, I can't get mad at myself.
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  I can't hurt my feelings. And if I make somebody laugh,
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  let's all laugh. But, but it's funny because I,
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  I, I just like to make people laugh that come.
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  My, my, my grandmother used to tell me if you make people leave
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  you, She tell me the whole success of life is to make
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  anybody you come in contact leave you full and happy.
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  That's it, full and happy. And I used to think, well, I
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  used to think that made no sense whatsoever, right?
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  And the older I get, I'm like, man, if everybody lived by that,
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  what a cool place this would be, right?
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  That's part of the whole cook off world, you know.
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  If you leave there not full and not happy, you have a problem,
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  you know. That's a fact, you know, Yes.
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  But yeah, I, I try to, if I come in contact with somebody, I want
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  them to like me. I don't, I hear people say all
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  the time, I don't care what they think.
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  Well, I do. I, I got some of my harshest
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  critics that, you know, I should not care about.
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  And I try to extend myself out the way to make them like me.
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  Like I just, I want it to be known that you have no reason
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  whatsoever. I just want to be, I want
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  everybody to be happy around me, you know, no matter what it is.
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  I just want, I want everybody to be happy.
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  I love that. And I mean, I think that's
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  probably why I hit it off with you immediately.
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  I have a very similar personality.
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  I think I portray myself maybe as a little bit bigger in life
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  than I am. I don't mean like stature wise,
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  just like I'm I'm a little more shy and reserved than people
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  want to think too. So I I totally get it.
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  Different for much different reasons of it just you know, but
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  I think and I think that you can commend just about everybody
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  that we are friends with that run in our little circle, if you
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  would call it that, that are on social media especially.
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  I mean you got to have some thick skin to jump in this game
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  period, because I think it's worse online.
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  People won't say half of the crap that they would say to.
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  They wouldn't say it to your face in.
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  Public. And that's a fact, you know?
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  And look, I, I get screenshots from, from the, the, the true
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  ones, the real ones that I, I, I like to call them, I get
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  screenshots all the time. Like man, this person was
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  talking about you the other day. I thought y'all were friends.
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  And then I read the screenshot and I'm like, well, hell, I
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  thought we were friends too, but I guess not.
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  I guess he's got a problem with me for some reason.
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  I don't know. Maybe.
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  Maybe I only paid for five of his hotel rooms and not 6 when
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  we would travel. I don't.
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  I don't know who you know Me. I I look, I I try to help
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  everybody and do everything, you know?
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  Can I be an ass? Yeah.
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  Ask Nicole. Ask Nicole.
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  She'll tell you. I mean, can't we all know it's?
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  Right. I mean, people tell me I'm a
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  different person on competition day about that last 15 minutes
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  before judge turn in. They tell me I have a tendency
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  to be a different rusty those 15 minutes.
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  I've seen that. I've seen that rusty transform.
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  You do. Got to turn into a a different
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  character you know but I mean you put all of your heart and
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  your soul into it and we'll get to the we'll get to the food
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  here in a little bit and and how all competition is.
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  But there's 00 doubt about that. Well with your childhood and
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  kind of the way that you came up.
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  How did that lead you into football and coaching and give
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  give everybody out there the the 30,000 foot overview of your you
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  have an extensive and amazing coaching career in football, so
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  tell everybody about it that doesn't we were.
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  Discussing this the other day and I said it's crazy that I'm
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  pretty big known in two separate worlds and those two separate
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  worlds don't know about the other side.
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  Like all these people in the cooking world know me from
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  competition cooking, the seasoning, the cookbooks, they
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  know all that and they don't even know that I've won 27
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  national championships. I got over 100 kids playing
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  college football from my 1 little program and we have 9
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  drafted into the NFL off my little program.
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  They don't know that part. And then people on the football
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  side, I can't understand why I'm messing with food at all.
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  Like, what are you even doing? You cook for us when we're in
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  the parking lot at games, but what are you even doing messing
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  around with a seasoning or food? You got no business doing that.
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  You need to be coaching and it and it's funny, but, but backing
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  it up. When I was in middle school, I,
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  I, I got on the football field for the first time and it was
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  only because friends, I'd moved to a new school.
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  Our parents had lost the house, You know, they, they, we were
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  pretty much bouncing around renting.
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  We stayed with an aunt and uncle, but we found an old beat
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  up trailer in this neighborhood and we ended up in Moss Bluff,
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  which Moss Bluff is an absolute great place and, and, and great
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  people. But if you don't have money and
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  you go living in that place, it's kind of like a Covington,
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  Madisonville, you know, they, they got money and, and so I
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  didn't fit in, but I was blessed to have some of the best friends
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  that man, I, I was on the phone with 1 today for almost an hour
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  from that far. I mean, some of the oldest
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  friends I got took care of me when I was there and on that
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  football field, it seemed like I was just getting the family that
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  I didn't have at home. You know, coach was the dad,
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  right? So he was the the, you know, the
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  disciplinary guy and giving you the structure and the rules and
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  your team mates were the siblings that were just trying
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  to get you ass in trouble like, you know, everything else.
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  So and that aggression, I would get so mad at home.
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  It just the way everything was. But I was also smart enough to
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  know I couldn't just take that out at school or, or what not.
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  But man, when I put that football helmet on, I could do
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  all I wanted. And that I, I was, I was just a
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  different kid with the helmet on.
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  I was able to be mean, aggressive, I, I had size.
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  I worked out a lot. I I just everything just come
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  out when that helmet was strapped on.
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  And I never would. I never forget when I got into
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  high school, the Viator brothers, Coach Mike Viator,
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  Coach Matt Viator and then Coach Brandon.
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  Those guys, those coaches without them knowing, saved my
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  life. Coach Brando was a huge part of
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  it. He's passed away, but one of the
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  coolest things is about a year before he passed away, I found
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  him, caught up with him. He was playing the guitar in a
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  bar. I found him on social media, you
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  know, and I drove an hour and a half, went to his show and was
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  able to let him know in person what he did and the impact he
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  had on me and what I am was doing, you know, as far as all
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  of youth football stuff, because of him, Coach Mike and Coach
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  Matt Viator, Coach Mike's not coaching anymore.
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  We stay on Facebook. Matter of fact, he's tagging me
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  because he buys my seasoning everywhere and pushes it and we
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  talk all the time because Matt Viator was that McNeese went to
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  ULM, was that UL? The craziest part was my son was
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  coaching at UL at the same time and they were sharing an office.
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  So yeah, I used to tell him, Coach, don't you tell my son he
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  thinks his daddy's a good, good guy.
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  Don't you tell my son what kind of kid I was.
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  But he's now the head coach at McNeese.
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  He he full circle, he's back at McNeese and and we still talk.
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  But coaches truly molded me and we're the family that I didn't
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  have, the good family I didn't have.
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  So when I was right out of high school, I took off to Florida,
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  ended up coming back home to Broussard, wasn't my home, but
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  my mom got sick, moved back to take care of her.
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  Everything happens for a reason. I, I, I'm a firm believer in God
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  has a hand in everything big or small.
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  And moving back to Lafayette, I ended up going to UL where I met
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  Nicole 30 something years ago. I mean, we, we, we had three
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  classes together. We started dating, got married,
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  been been together ever since. So there, there was a reason I
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  was led back here and I started right out of high school.
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  I started coaching youth football and I was in Broussard
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  and their team. The kids I had were just rough.
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  I had one kid that I would have to go get out of juvenile
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  because he was fighting Roosters.
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  I mean, this is 11 and 12 year olds fighting Roosters.
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  And, you know, I'd have to pay kids like, and they're, they're
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  they're out there shooting dice and they're like, coach, I can
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  make 20 bucks tonight. And I'm like, well, if I give
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  you 20 and I don't have, I didn't have money.
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  Hell, I was, you know, right out of high school.
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  I'm like, if I give you 20, will you put the dice down and come
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  to practice? Yeah.
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  So I'd give him $20. He would jump in my Jeep, man.
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  I was having to buy and sell and trade.
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  I remember selling our TV, we didn't have much of ATV, but I,
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  you know, there's TV with a box on the back, but the pawn shop
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  took it so I could go buy cleats for a kid to be able to play on
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  game day. You know, we made sure the kids
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  around us had it even if we didn't.
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  And and still to this day, one of the reasons we're successful
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  at giving so much to so many is I'm going to throw that right
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  back at Nicole. I had a wife that was just all
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  in whatever my shenanigans was or whatever we've had to give up
• 24:15
  for that. She was all in like, well, they
• 24:20
  need it more than us. Let's let's let's figure it out
• 24:22
  and make it make it do. And that's what we did.
• 24:26
  And directly you start seeing these kids, lives change, they
• 24:33
  grow. And then you see them with their
• 24:36
  kids at the park and you see them working and being a good
• 24:39
  dad and a good husband. And you're like, you know, if I
• 24:44
  wouldn't have pulled this kid out from where he was, he
• 24:48
  wouldn't have had a shot in hell and look at him.
• 24:50
  And that was, you know, selfish or not, that was my reward.
• 24:53
  Like I wasn't getting money with that feeling.
• 24:57
  I got inside just burned and like, OK, well let's find the
• 25:01
  next kids we can help. Then more kids, then more kids.
• 25:04
  And look, it's no secret. Soccer kids, select baseball
• 25:11
  kids, tennis kids, they don't quite need the help.
• 25:17
  Football kids, lower income single family homes, no family
• 25:24
  homes at that point in time. Those were the kids that needed
• 25:30
  us bad. And I can remember Nicole and I
• 25:37
  get married. We have, you know, Todd and
• 25:40
  Hannah and Hayden and Todd was 1313 playing football and we had
• 25:50
  a couple kids on the team that I would always, always, every
• 25:53
  year, you know, you got to go pick kids up.
• 25:54
  You got to drop them off, you know, you drop them off for
• 25:57
  practice and there's seven cars in the driveway.
• 26:00
  You know, like nobody could take this kid to practice, but we
• 26:04
  did. We would go get them, we'd pick
• 26:05
  them up and then we would travel to play ball on tournaments.
• 26:09
  And sometimes we stay out of town, sometimes it wouldn't.
• 26:11
  But we would take care of these kids.
• 26:14
  And one weekend in specific, we were we were in the Baker area
• 26:20
  right outside of Baton Rouge playing in the tournament and we
• 26:24
  had two age groups playing and our team finished that I was
• 26:28
  coaching. And Nicole's like, well, I'm
• 26:30
  going home. I said, well, I'm going to stay
• 26:32
  and watch the other age group. Everybody leaves.
• 26:35
  One of the kids that was always by my hip.
• 26:40
  We crossing the Basin Bridge going home and we still got to
• 26:43
  go back and play Sunday. And he says, Coach, can I stay
• 26:45
  at y'all's house? I said, well, yeah, you don't
• 26:47
  want me to drop you off at your house.
• 26:49
  Does your mom know? He's like, oh, yeah, Coach, I
• 26:52
  let her know and she knows that I'm staying with a friend.
• 26:56
  And. All right, so he stays at our
• 26:57
  house. And then Sunday, we repeat the
• 26:59
  process. Well, my son had a bad game, and
• 27:02
  he knew that if he had a bad game, he better ride home with
• 27:05
  his Mama and not with daddy because it was always a long
• 27:10
  ride home if he had a bad game, Right.
• 27:12
  So it's me and Trey again by herself and we're get on that
• 27:19
  basin bridge and he said, hey coach, can I spend the night
• 27:22
  with you all again tonight? I said, well you got school
• 27:24
  tomorrow. He said I know, could you bring
• 27:27
  me to school? He said.
• 27:30
  And I realized he when he was talking, it was kind of cracking
• 27:33
  up. Now I turn and look and the kids
• 27:35
  crying, he's like, coach, I got nowhere to go.
• 27:38
  What the hell you mean I pick you up?
• 27:40
  He said, Coach, you pick me up at the convenience store.
• 27:43
  He said sometimes I sleep in the washateria.
• 27:46
  Sometimes friends let me sleep on their couch.
• 27:49
  But he said, I don't have nowhere to go.
• 27:52
  My mom's in jail, you know, I just don't know what to do.
• 27:56
  And I was like, oh, I know what to do.
• 28:01
  Pull up at the house. He comes in.
• 28:02
  I tell him, go upstairs, you know, take a shower, bring your
• 28:06
  dirty clothes. And he had a bag full of
• 28:08
  clothes. I didn't know because it was a
• 28:10
  big football bag. So it was all that.
• 28:12
  Everything he owns stayed in his football bag.
• 28:14
  So bring all your stuff down so I can wash, dry your clothes.
• 28:18
  And Nicole, first thing she said, she says, you know, what's
• 28:22
  he doing here? He's got school tomorrow.
• 28:23
  I said, well, we got to talk and she's like, OK, I said, I think
• 28:30
  he's going to be living with us a while.
• 28:31
  And she says, what do you mean he goes to school across town?
• 28:34
  I said, well, we'll get to that bridge when we, you know, we'll
• 28:37
  cross that bridge when we get there.
• 28:38
  But we'll bring him to school in the morning.
• 28:40
  We'll figure this out. And sure enough, man, he we
• 28:47
  ended up I had to go meet with his mom.
• 28:52
  She was reluctant to sign paperwork.
• 28:54
  I had a an attorney friend of mine drop all of the custody
• 28:57
  paperwork, everything. She was reluctant to sign it at
• 29:01
  first. You know, obviously you got this
• 29:04
  white dude got your kid and he's got papers and says here, sign
• 29:08
  it over, right? There's a lot more to that part
• 29:12
  of the story that only a select few people know that part of the
• 29:18
  story that'll never be told. But I convinced her to sign that
• 29:22
  paperwork to me and she signed it and we took custody of him.
• 29:31
  And it's hard that it's the hardest thing.
• 29:33
  You know, you get your kids in a routine and then you have a
• 29:37
  young man just move in that has no structure.
• 29:40
  He didn't have rules. He didn't have times.
• 29:42
  He didn't, you know, he can walk out the house and just go run
• 29:45
  down the street and do whatever at any time.
• 29:47
  And you know, your kids are like, why can't I do this?
• 29:51
  And we didn't allow him to, but sometimes he would just do it.
• 29:55
  And Trey came a long ways and ended up with great grades, very
• 30:03
  successful in life, just a a great young man.
• 30:09
  His mom got out and till this day I run into her everywhere
• 30:14
  and she calls me her brother and tells me how I saved her kids
• 30:17
  life and you know, helped her. You know, they get their family,
• 30:22
  their extended family and and Trey will if you watch my
• 30:28
  documentary, that part. And the thing about my
• 30:33
  documentary is probably the coolest thing for me is I was
• 30:40
  not allowed to sit on any interview.
• 30:43
  I was not able to be in the studio.
• 30:45
  I was not allowed to know who they were interviewing, what was
• 30:49
  said on camera or nothing until this thing broke.
• 30:54
  Needless to say, when I got the the the first copy to look at
• 30:59
  it, I was on the Interstate driving back from Houston.
• 31:02
  I made it about 5 minutes into this thing and I'm on the side
• 31:06
  of the road just bawling my eyes out.
• 31:08
  I guess you would be especially I've watched it and if y'all
• 31:12
  haven't watched it, go look it up.
• 31:13
  Rusty Noel. It's it'll pop first thing that
• 31:16
  will pop up. And and it's a documentary that
• 31:19
  was done three or four years ago, all about his coaching.
• 31:23
  And if you want to know the XS and OS and all of the details,
• 31:26
  go watch this. But yeah, watching it, that
• 31:30
  would be hard to watch from. I mean, it would be very
• 31:33
  gratifying to watch, but there's no way I would need a whole box
• 31:37
  of Kleenex to get. Through it, I can only imagine.
• 31:41
  And that part where they interviewed Trey and he said
• 31:47
  Nicole and Rusty will forever be my mother and father and.
• 31:55
  Yeah. Things like that get me, you
• 31:57
  know, like, I think people kind of understand the weight that
• 32:02
  has and sometimes I don't know if they do, you know, Nathan and
• 32:07
  Amanda would travel the boot. Absolutely love them.
• 32:11
  Haven't known them long, but feel like we're family already.
• 32:15
  And after the cook off last Saturday, Amanda made a comment
• 32:19
  on a post. Somebody said, you know, I like
• 32:22
  Rusty, he's a nice guy. Amanda made this comment about
• 32:28
  next to my father, he's one of the best man I've ever met in my
• 32:33
  life. And I've read this sitting next
• 32:37
  to my wife. We're in the hotel room that
• 32:38
  night and she don't she didn't know.
• 32:42
  I mean, I haven't told him it, but I just bawled my eyes out
• 32:44
  and people don't understand the weight of some of their
• 32:49
  comments, you know, and it just it, it, it, it, it hits, you
• 32:54
  know, it hits when people, you hear people say that stuff that
• 32:58
  you didn't, you know, you wouldn't expect.
• 33:01
  Yeah, I, I, I, you, you give me a lot of vibes of my own father
• 33:08
  in that kind heart and that helping heart, that servant
• 33:11
  leadership. You have that in droves.
• 33:14
  He has that in droves. So I, I mean, I agree with
• 33:19
  Amanda 100%. You are.
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  And I'm, I'm not saying that just because you're on here or
• 33:24
  anything. It's.
• 33:25
  Just. It's very true, you know, I
• 33:28
  mean, you're, you're the magnet. Whenever I'm at these events, I
• 33:31
  I ain't leaving or anything until I come and see you.
• 33:36
  I got to come and hug your neck and just visit with you for a
• 33:39
  minute because you make my day. You cheer me up even if I'm not
• 33:42
  down. But even this past weekend I've
• 33:45
  been going through stuff with my dad and it hasn't been a very
• 33:48
  easy road. And I know I wasn't my dynamic
• 33:51
  normal out there self but just stop it in business with you
• 33:56
  made it made my day it really. Did.
• 33:59
  It perked me up. But yeah, it's your heart,
• 34:04
  that's the thing. And all these stories of of just
• 34:07
  things that you've done that that servant leadership, I don't
• 34:12
  think it ever was about winning championships.
• 34:15
  That just ended up being the byproduct of all of that,
• 34:19
  wouldn't you say? So that that's what I tell
• 34:23
  people right on the back of every football uniform, on our
• 34:30
  championship rings, on their bags, on their compression
• 34:33
  shirts, everywhere. You see, I have a phrase that
• 34:38
  says it's bigger than football. I won't allow them to put their
• 34:41
  name on their jersey. Some don't understand it at
• 34:44
  first, especially when they're new and they come in our program
• 34:47
  and they want their name on their jersey.
• 34:49
  And I'm like, well, it's not an individual sport.
• 34:51
  And if you're looking for that, you need to go down the road to
• 34:53
  a different program. We're not the program for you
• 34:58
  and they don't ever understand it at first.
• 35:01
  Doesn't take them long for them to understand what I mean by
• 35:06
  that. And we're 100% family first.
• 35:10
  I tell all our coaches because I'm not coaching in my swap cap
• 35:13
  program, Hannah and Nicole are running it.
• 35:17
  We were going to get out of it, I don't know, 10 years ago.
• 35:23
  And every year that's going to be our last year National
• 35:29
  signing day comes and we're going to, you know, we sign 7-8
• 35:34
  plus kids to play college football and I get called to go
• 35:38
  to every single signing. They remember old Little League
• 35:41
  coach and like coach, please be at my signing.
• 35:44
  And I'm like, well, hell yeah. And I run, man, and I'll run
• 35:48
  from I'll take the day off of work and I'll run from one
• 35:51
  signing to another. If I miss one, it's because I'm
• 35:55
  at another one and you know, and I got to flip a coin or, or it's
• 35:59
  just too far. And I try to make everyone.
• 36:02
  And then Nicole will text me, Hey, did you see such and such
• 36:06
  sign today? I'm like, well, I'm here with
• 36:08
  him. You know, it proves you left a
• 36:12
  stain on there. You know, you, you left the
• 36:14
  mark. And you feel responsible to to
• 36:18
  to show up and, and because you know it's going to make them
• 36:22
  happy. But I think part for me, the
• 36:25
  fact that they called to invite me was more that I coached the
• 36:29
  good person and I'm more than the athlete that got that
• 36:32
  scholarship right. Like you remembered your old
• 36:35
  coach. And that's a really humble good
• 36:38
  thing. I I would rather take credit for
• 36:42
  that part of being invited because they're just a good kid
• 36:45
  and remembered me. Hopefully I was part of molding
• 36:48
  that good kid than I was being, you know, molding Jack Besh,
• 36:54
  who's who, who's in the NFL. You know, Jack Jack's definitely
• 37:00
  one of the different, one of the most wildest kids I've ever
• 37:03
  coached. Really.
• 37:05
  You know, you've been an LSU guy.
• 37:07
  I mean, I know you know, Besh, but Jawan Johnson is 1 but
• 37:12
  Fitzgerald West. But you know, it's that little
• 37:17
  thing. It's those it's those little
• 37:22
  comments. But you know, when I go to a
• 37:25
  college game and they're walking to the stadium, whether it be at
• 37:28
  at, you know, Tiger Stadium or Cajun Field or TCU, any of these
• 37:39
  games, and I holler at these kids and they come to me and
• 37:44
  grab my neck and tell me they love me before anything else.
• 37:49
  That's that's everything. That's that's all that matters.
• 37:53
  I was so excited several years back, Hunter Register, which
• 37:58
  hell of an athlete. He was playing at Southern his
• 38:03
  last year about to get drafted and we were at ATCU game.
• 38:09
  I was good friends with the coach at TCU.
• 38:11
  He was recruiting my son, so we knew each other and cooking.
• 38:16
  He always wanted me to come cook.
• 38:18
  I bought him a cast iron pot. I mean, we did a bunch of stuff.
• 38:20
  So I we were at the TCU game on the TCU side, but the visiting
• 38:25
  tunnel comes out and I told my wife, I said, you know, Hunter
• 38:31
  registers place for Southern. I said, let's go walk down to
• 38:35
  the tunnel, the visitor tunnel and see if we can see him.
• 38:39
  And so her and I get through the TCU crowd and we're kind of
• 38:43
  hanging over the rail and you know, Hunter's like 6 foot 6 rot
• 38:47
  wide receiver and Hunter spots us and just he was at the back
• 38:53
  of the pack. He bee lines all the way
• 38:55
  through, damn near climbs on a teammate to get up the wall to
• 38:59
  hug and kiss Nicole. She ball crying the whole first
• 39:05
  quarter of the game. And I'm like, you know, you see
• 39:09
  what I mean? You, you made that impact on
• 39:11
  this kid that you know, and that's the first thing he did
• 39:15
  was, you know, he gave me a hug, but you know, he gave her a hug
• 39:17
  and a kiss and told her, you know, that he loved her.
• 39:20
  And, you know, those are the those are the marks you want to
• 39:24
  leave on on these kids. And, and football is definitely
• 39:29
  let me reach out to a lot of people now.
• 39:33
  I'm not quite coaching like I used to be.
• 39:36
  I coach in all American games. I get I get chosen to coach an
• 39:41
  all American games around the country, Pennsylvania, Texas,
• 39:44
  Florida, California. I coach Team USA.
• 39:48
  We travel to Monterrey, Mexico and different places.
• 39:52
  I love that part. It still allows me to to coach
• 39:58
  because although. It seems like I'm, I'm, I'm not
• 40:03
  worried about winning and I'm just worried, you know, about
• 40:06
  building good kids. I'm, I'm very competitive.
• 40:08
  So that kind of gives me that, that competitive side It it lets
• 40:13
  me still coach. But we own, we started a brand
• 40:17
  and a event called true talent sports.
• 40:21
  It's an all American game for youth football players.
• 40:25
  It's modeled directly after like the high school Under Armour
• 40:28
  game where the invites are sent in, highlights videos are all
• 40:33
  sent in and we select the best of the best by position, by age
• 40:39
  and create these teams from kids from all over the country and
• 40:44
  they fly in. We, we have, we have an Orlando
• 40:47
  game, we have a Nashville game, we have a Lafayette game.
• 40:52
  And we just recently for January, we're adding a San
• 40:55
  Antonio football game. And man, we get 5 to 600 kids
• 41:00
  show up from 50 different states.
• 41:03
  You get to meet all these families, you track them down.
• 41:08
  Matter of fact, when we just went, a group of us just went to
• 41:11
  cook for the flood victims in Texas, right?
• 41:16
  We had a family that had played in my game from the San Antonio
• 41:21
  area, seen that on our social media page.
• 41:24
  So they drove over there to meet us.
• 41:27
  The great part about this event is we generate money, but we are
• 41:33
  a 100% five O 1C3 nonprofit. Every bit of money that we make
• 41:39
  on the plus side is spent on benefits, whether it be kids,
• 41:45
  cancer patients, Saint Jude, probably 80% of that, that
• 41:52
  profit or that green money in the green, it goes directly to
• 41:56
  storm victims, hurricane relief. When people donate to our
• 42:02
  nonprofit, that goes straight to mainly hurricane relief.
• 42:08
  That's right. Well, that that's I wanted to
• 42:10
  kind of kind of jump to that. Obviously all these coaching
• 42:13
  years and and we're going to get to the competitive cooking part
• 42:17
  of it. But those of you that are out
• 42:19
  there that you don't know, Rusty, I know a lot of folks
• 42:21
  watching this, listen to this do and they know his story.
• 42:24
  There's no, I mean, if you can't tell by now how big this man's
• 42:29
  heart is and I ain't got nothing else for you.
• 42:32
  I can't help you. But his heart is so big.
• 42:35
  And one of the biggest things that he does as when they have
• 42:40
  the flooding like they've had in North Carolina or the the
• 42:45
  flooding that's been in Texas most recently or any hurricanes,
• 42:49
  any of these type of major catastrophic events that have
• 42:54
  been happening all over the country.
• 42:56
  This man goes, takes his trailer, cooks for the masses,
• 43:01
  passing out food and all of that.
• 43:04
  And it's just one of the most selfless things that anybody,
• 43:09
  any human could do. How did you get to that point of
• 43:15
  where you started doing those things?
• 43:18
  We started way back during Katrina.
• 43:23
  After Katrina, we started feeding people around the New
• 43:27
  Orleans area and it just mainly hurricanes.
• 43:33
  It came from, I guess, a spot that I know what it's like to
• 43:41
  need helping receive it, and I know how good that feels.
• 43:45
  And I also know what it's like to need help and not receive it.
• 43:49
  And I also know that feeling. I would rather try to do
• 43:55
  whatever I could to make the better feeling happen for
• 43:57
  somebody. You know, I don't have a ton of
• 44:02
  money, so I can't just throw a lot of money at an issue.
• 44:05
  But I have the ability to cook for large amounts.
• 44:10
  These disasters come in stages, right?
• 44:13
  You, we were part of the Cajun Navy back in the day.
• 44:16
  And we would go do boat rescue. Yeah, we would.
• 44:18
  We'd go do boat rescues. So at the beginning it's, it's
• 44:22
  rescue work. We would go in and just just
• 44:25
  help and help and help. And I, I got, I got pictures on
• 44:29
  my phone and screenshots. Me and a buddy got caught up in
• 44:32
  Hurricane Harvey. We got caught in the eye in a 16
• 44:36
  foot aluminum boat. We rode through it.
• 44:40
  It was hitting us and we didn't realize, we thought it was just
• 44:43
  another storm. We didn't realize that Harvey
• 44:44
  had just kept circling right. And we got in an RV shed, but
• 44:50
  the water was so the RV was out of it.
• 44:52
  But we pulled up into this RV shed with our boat.
• 44:56
  And I remember holding on to the pipe rafters at the top.
• 44:59
  That's how high the water was. It was so high that an RV can
• 45:03
  park under it. But the water was so high, we
• 45:05
  were right there. And I unbuckled my life jacket
• 45:09
  and I ran that strap around that pipe.
• 45:11
  And he says, what are you doing? I said, I just want Nicole to be
• 45:15
  able to find my body if we don't make this out of here.
• 45:20
  And fortunately we made it out. Scariest I've ever been.
• 45:26
  We got out of there for Harvey. We rescued close to 400 people
• 45:34
  total. Just my little crew with a few
• 45:36
  boats. It was it was brutal.
• 45:42
  People don't understand when you're when you're out there,
• 45:45
  like I get people all the time that'll say, oh, I want to come
• 45:48
  help. I want to come help.
• 45:49
  And then they jump in the truck and they're like, well, what
• 45:52
  hotel are we staying at or where are we going to eat?
• 45:54
  Well, we don't have anywhere to stay.
• 45:58
  We don't have nowhere to use the bathroom.
• 46:00
  You don't have anywhere to take a shower.
• 46:02
  And I got protein bars and bottle of water in my bag that
• 46:07
  can, I can last a week. And then they're like, uh oh,
• 46:10
  what are we getting into? I, we stopped to this Hispanic
• 46:16
  family off the Beltway in Houston.
• 46:19
  We launched off the Beltway. That's how high the water was
• 46:21
  for Harvey. We, we, we pulled up and backed
• 46:25
  the boat on an off ramp and use it as a boat ramp off the
• 46:28
  Beltway as high as it is and took off into these
• 46:32
  neighborhoods. And I'll never forget there was
• 46:36
  this Hispanic family we pulled up, we're getting them in the
• 46:39
  boat and they hand me their little girl 1st and I grabbed
• 46:43
  her, got her in the boat, help the Mama in the boat.
• 46:46
  Then we help the daddy in the boat and the little girl spoke
• 46:49
  something in Spanish and the Mama slapped her and told her to
• 46:54
  be nice in English. I caught that part and I
• 46:58
  couldn't understand and I kept saying what is she saying?
• 47:00
  What is she saying? She would didn't want to tell
• 47:02
  me. And then finally the dad said,
• 47:04
  she said you stink. Yeah, she said.
• 47:10
  You stink. You know, I saved her life.
• 47:13
  But yeah, she still had the, you know, kids are cruel.
• 47:16
  Back to that kids thing. Too.
• 47:18
  That's right, that's right. And they'll just tell you that
• 47:20
  they'll they'll tell you that God honest truth.
• 47:23
  At that point, man, we were jumping in out the boat.
• 47:26
  It was mud, water, sewage. We were a couple days in with no
• 47:32
  shower. She was 100% correct.
• 47:35
  I, I, we wouldn't even go sleep inside the truck because we were
• 47:39
  scared our smell would just stay inside the truck.
• 47:41
  We would just kind of lay on the, the front of the boat or
• 47:43
  the tailgate just getting a break when you could.
• 47:48
  But you know, when we went in the mountains, me and Shannon,
• 47:51
  man. And everybody knows Shannon.
• 47:52
  Shannon's with me at, you know, he's my best friend.
• 47:54
  He's with me at every cook off, works his tail off.
• 47:58
  But at that point he was living in North Carolina, away from
• 48:01
  where the disaster happened. But when he found out I was
• 48:04
  coming, he said, man, I'm going to meet you over there.
• 48:08
  It was he and I, we slept on the floor of the cooking trailer for
• 48:13
  9 days straight. We did 1500 meals a day for 9
• 48:17
  days. No shower, no bathroom.
• 48:20
  We would get out the trailer in the morning and we'd take turns,
• 48:23
  one of us in the trailer with Dude Wipes and then I'd get out.
• 48:25
  He would come in, use Dude Wipes.
• 48:27
  We would pack our air mattresses up and we'd start cooking.
• 48:31
  Yeah, we had some amazing young ladies from different colleges
• 48:38
  that came to help us and volunteer, and they were total
• 48:43
  angels. Like this story just come up and
• 48:49
  I'm going to try to get through this without choking up too
• 48:55
  much. But this one little girl, she
• 49:01
  was kind of on the back of the trailer helping me in.
• 49:04
  So I guess she felt close enough to start telling me her story.
• 49:09
  And her mother and father had died of an overdose.
• 49:13
  They, they were from that little town.
• 49:15
  Her brother had just died of an overdose.
• 49:18
  She's helping me serve. We'd already cooked and helping
• 49:20
  me serve and told me the story about, you know, how she got out
• 49:25
  to make something of herself. You know, the, the with to get
• 49:28
  away from the drugs and, and the overdose that her parents and
• 49:32
  little brother and man, I told her how proud I was of her.
• 49:36
  And man, she told me that nobody ever told her that they were
• 49:42
  proud of her growing up. I never heard that ever, ever
• 49:48
  heard somebody tell me they were proud of me.
• 49:50
  And I knew how hard that was coming off a football game.
• 49:55
  Nobody can watch me play football.
• 49:56
  I come off the football field and all these parents are there
• 49:59
  and grandparents are want to take pictures with their, the
• 50:02
  kids coming off the field. And I just have to go get my
• 50:05
  hamburger in my water and, you know, go to my car, 'cause I, I
• 50:10
  know that feeling. So I never let it.
• 50:15
  I, I, I've told her probably 100 times that week, 'cause she
• 50:18
  would come every day and she would help deliver food.
• 50:21
  And I kept telling her how proud I was of her man.
• 50:28
  She called me two weeks ago to tell me she's getting married
• 50:35
  and wants me to come and be a part of the wedding.
• 50:37
  Oh, yeah. And I'm like, I absolutely, you
• 50:44
  know, when is this? Yeah, you just give me the date
• 50:47
  and it's done. Whatever I have to get out of
• 50:50
  whatever scheduled will be canceled.
• 50:52
  Me and Mr. Cole will be there. You know that that kind of
• 50:57
  stuff. You know, you don't think of
• 50:58
  that when you're doing, you know, disaster relief or
• 51:02
  nothing. You're, you're talking to people
• 51:03
  and you're just trying to make a a difference right then.
• 51:06
  And you don't realize that it, it, it stays, you know, we were
• 51:12
  in North Carolina. So I got all these Stanley
• 51:16
  Rusty's cuffs done, Carolina Blue.
• 51:18
  And I, I, I handwrote a note to each volunteer.
• 51:23
  There was like 8 of them that had come throughout the event
• 51:26
  and, and sent them to them. We just rolled up a handwritten
• 51:29
  note inside. I've got a thank you note and
• 51:35
  just little things, man. You know, it goes a long ways,
• 51:38
  but but you just want, you just want to be that bright spot, you
• 51:41
  know, in a dark time. I remember them dark times when
• 51:46
  I was younger and even older, you know, as recent as 2019.
• 51:53
  You just, you just know. You just know and you can relate
• 51:57
  and and and I think that all of that just gets you said it.
• 52:02
  It's God. God's put you in these places
• 52:05
  for people who need who need you and you can be that bright
• 52:08
  light, even if it's just a dull light that just something that
• 52:13
  could give them hope. Just a spot, Just a spot.
• 52:15
  Just. Just a little bit of hope, man.
• 52:19
  Just an amazing story, obviously, and Rusty can talk
• 52:22
  about. There's so many different
• 52:24
  stories that I know that he can he can tell, but I know that
• 52:28
  folks want to hear. We're almost an hour into this
• 52:31
  and I know folks are going to want to hear a little bit about
• 52:34
  cooking. The beauty of this is before we
• 52:37
  ever even started, Rusty's already agreed to come back on.
• 52:40
  So I said great, this is perfect.
• 52:43
  So we're not going to hit everything in here tonight, but
• 52:45
  we're going to hit a few more things and then Rusty comes
• 52:49
  back. We got Part 2 of this whole deal
• 52:53
  and there'll be a lot to talk about too.
• 52:55
  So look, I know that winning is great and but you are now, I
• 53:01
  don't know if it goes, if we're going back, we're going now to
• 53:04
  competition cooking, right? And you do win a lot.
• 53:09
  How did this all start? How did competition cooking
• 53:13
  start? How did you go?
• 53:14
  It sounds like, and I don't know if this is totally true, but it
• 53:17
  sounds like you started cooking for the masses during Katrina
• 53:20
  and all of that. Is that it?
• 53:22
  Then lead from, hey, let's do some contests.
• 53:25
  Let's go get in some competitions here.
• 53:27
  Is that when it started, or had that started even before all of
• 53:31
  that? I mean that was way right back.
• 53:34
  Probably the fire of a Volunteer Fire Department.
• 53:37
  Jambalaya cook off. There was four teams.
• 53:41
  I think I come out fifth place. It was horrible.
• 53:46
  It was horrible. That's kind of hard to believe
• 53:49
  knowing what we know now about is he those of you who do not
• 53:55
  know Rusty does very well in these competitions and and very
• 54:01
  well wins a lot, wins a lot of paddles and grills and all kinds
• 54:06
  of other, other fun things, man. How would you say, What would
• 54:13
  you say is the is the difference in the pressure that you feel in
• 54:19
  these cooking competitions compared to coaching in football
• 54:23
  games? Definitely more pressure in
• 54:29
  football and the reason is you, you, you feel if you coaching it
• 54:36
  for the right reasons. You know that if, if you lose
• 54:41
  that losing feeling, that that gut feeling, you got to
• 54:46
  duplicate that through 30 or 40 kids, right?
• 54:51
  You're giving all these kids that feeling versus if I lose in
• 54:56
  a cooking competition, I, I beat myself up.
• 55:01
  I'm always the first to I for one, I never blame judges or get
• 55:05
  mad at judges. I, I that's just, every judge
• 55:08
  has a different taste, different opinion, and that's on them.
• 55:14
  I don't start criticizing judges and all of that.
• 55:18
  I get very down on myself and, and instantly second guess
• 55:23
  myself. Should I done this?
• 55:24
  Should I done that? You know, some cook offs mean
• 55:30
  more than others. Some are a lot larger than
• 55:32
  others and are just, you know, there's levels to the cooking
• 55:35
  cooking world, right? People don't understand that
• 55:39
  part. I invited some that went a lot
• 55:42
  at these local cook offs to come to an F5 event and watch and
• 55:47
  come see what I do at the big event.
• 55:50
  And they did. And they're like, holy shit, I
• 55:53
  didn't know cook offs were like this.
• 55:55
  And I'm like, yeah, I mean, there'll be a couple hundred
• 55:58
  teams, you know, judges with chef coats that walk into your
• 56:02
  booth. You got to have a table for
• 56:04
  them. You got to see them, play them,
• 56:06
  tell them what you cooked and they hurt your feelings or make
• 56:09
  your day right there in front of your face.
• 56:10
  They don't care and move on to the next booth.
• 56:15
  It's, it's a little more intense, you know, also when you
• 56:18
  got a $2000 entry fee on the line, you, you, you, you have to
• 56:25
  perform. And if you don't, your sponsors,
• 56:30
  your company, that you work for, the people on your team, you let
• 56:34
  everybody down this past weekend pit versus pot was fun.
• 56:42
  I, I did work on it. Hell, we practice.
• 56:46
  People think that I just got this easy and we're going to
• 56:49
  just run through this, but you know, we spend money to
• 56:53
  practice. We may practice 3 or 4 different
• 56:56
  things and XA couple of them out.
• 57:00
  My neighbors love when I practice because they get to eat
• 57:02
  all they want, come and get it. You know?
• 57:06
  I'd use them as judges team. You got to surround yourself
• 57:13
  with a great group like this weekend man, Shannon, Tony,
• 57:17
  Rachel, Hannah and Nicole. I, I, I could not have done it
• 57:26
  on the, on, on our side without that group.
• 57:32
  F5. You know, when you go to an F5
• 57:34
  event, you know, if you don't have a 10/15 person team, you
• 57:41
  know, you got to have a couple just for judges.
• 57:43
  And you know, I told people the other day, we hire three people,
• 57:50
  two bartenders and another person just to serve our food
• 57:55
  because there's we have a huge bar because we can't even get
• 57:58
  over there. There's no way possible we would
• 58:00
  even be able to serve our food. We start serving at 3:00 for an
• 58:05
  F5 event. The line IS100150 deep until
• 58:10
  10:30 that night. Jeez.
• 58:14
  And meanwhile, judges are coming in your booth and you got to
• 58:17
  present your A1 best out the box, fin, feather, fur and or
• 58:24
  dessert. You have to do all that while
• 58:27
  the line of people just never stop at your booth.
• 58:30
  It. Seems impossible.
• 58:34
  It's it's, you know, we, we, we do it.
• 58:39
  It's, it's that's the football side of me that comes out to
• 58:44
  make it competitive. Look, I found out that I was 6
• 58:51
  1/2 points away in the pot category this weekend.
• 58:55
  When I looked at the score sheets, I got third in pot.
• 58:59
  We're the only team to place in both divisions.
• 59:02
  I won PIT third place in pot and normally people would be
• 59:07
  ecstatic, and I'm kicking myself in the ass trying to figure out
• 59:11
  where I could have got another 6 1/2 points. 6 1/2 points is less
• 59:15
  than one point per judge. Like literally splitting hairs.
• 59:19
  It's less than a point per judge.
• 59:21
  It's splitting hairs. Everybody in that top that's
• 59:24
  within 10 eight points is one point per judge.
• 59:27
  Basically are right there together.
• 59:30
  So did, did, did I fail? No, but in my mind I'm like,
• 59:36
  man, I'm thinking of a whole different dish I should have
• 59:38
  done that I thought about doing a month ago.
• 59:42
  It's just me. That's the competitive side of
• 59:44
  me. And that's why we went a lot is
• 59:46
  because I never stopped. Right, I didn't get.
• 59:51
  I got to have one of them. I got to have the winning dish
• 59:54
  and it was fantastic. It was excellent.
• 59:57
  The fin feather and fur. I enjoyed it immensely.
• 1:00:03
  I didn't know it was, it took me by surprise, honestly.
• 1:00:06
  It was like, well, whoa. And you'll see.
• 1:00:09
  I've got it. I'm, I'm coming out with my
• 1:00:10
  little videos. I'm, I'm looking at it and I'm
• 1:00:13
  bringing the paddle board across, just showing it.
• 1:00:16
  And I'm like, whoa, OK. It was fantastic.
• 1:00:19
  I think I, I think I judged it pretty well.
• 1:00:22
  I gave it A7 or an 8, which, you know, I mean that that's that
• 1:00:27
  I'm I, I'm not going to lie, I was highly critical on the pit
• 1:00:32
  side because that is what I know.
• 1:00:34
  That is what I do, right? So it had to freaking absolutely
• 1:00:39
  blow my skirt up for me to do it.
• 1:00:43
  And I'm going. To tell you.
• 1:00:44
  Right now yours, yours did, yours was, yours was the highest
• 1:00:48
  and the the chicken lollipop that was.
• 1:00:51
  Yeah, that was it, man. Look, that's, that's that's
• 1:00:53
  Brandon Hunt. That that's, that's the pit
• 1:00:55
  master from stirring the pot, man.
• 1:00:57
  Brandon Hunt's the real deal when it comes to barbecue.
• 1:01:01
  I knew Brandon was going to be out the box.
• 1:01:07
  I truly think if Brandon would have cooked a straight up
• 1:01:09
  brisket, he could have won the whole thing because his brisket
• 1:01:12
  is absolutely phenomenal. I'm not a pit guy and that's
• 1:01:16
  part of part of what I'm beating my cell phone is I think because
• 1:01:20
  I was. I'm not a pit guy and I worked
• 1:01:23
  so hard on the pit that I failed on the pot side.
• 1:01:28
  I should have gave with the same attention I usually do on the
• 1:01:30
  pot. But again, 6 1/2 points, right?
• 1:01:34
  And the two people that beat me second place was Chance Rheon.
• 1:01:41
  I mean, he's my teammate. He's my teammate and I'll do
• 1:01:44
  anything in the world to help him push his seasoning, push his
• 1:01:48
  catering company, push his brand.
• 1:01:50
  And I said this 100 times, and I'm going to say it live on your
• 1:01:56
  show. Chance Rheon is the best chef in
• 1:01:59
  the state of Louisiana hands down hands.
• 1:02:02
  Down it's what I've heard multiple people what did, what
• 1:02:06
  did chance, what did. He now, with that being said, I
• 1:02:09
  have whooped his ass a bunch so I don't don't forget that
• 1:02:14
  chance. You know for the A2 Fey World
• 1:02:18
  Championship I got him. I come out first he come out
• 1:02:21
  second, so it's probably was a little bit of his revenge this
• 1:02:24
  weekend. But but man, he's just a great
• 1:02:27
  guy, pays attention to detail. He works his tail off and
• 1:02:31
  deserves everything he gets. There's nothing given to him.
• 1:02:34
  He works and works and works and I knew he was going to be
• 1:02:37
  practicing. I knew he was coming to bring
• 1:02:39
  it, but to lose first place to my boy Heath, man, Heath is.
• 1:02:48
  And I look, I didn't even try that pineapple cherry dunk cake
• 1:02:52
  and I wish I would have. I didn't even know about it till
• 1:02:55
  it was over with and they were out.
• 1:02:57
  But Heath and his family are probably one of the best
• 1:03:01
  families you'll ever meet in your life.
• 1:03:03
  Heath is just the sweetest man. He's humble.
• 1:03:07
  He didn't even want to compete. He comes to these events, he
• 1:03:10
  sets up, he sells his incredible seasonings and don't want to
• 1:03:14
  compete. And I finally told him, hell
• 1:03:16
  with this man, you have to cook. You know what you're doing, you
• 1:03:19
  can cook. And he's like, no, there's
• 1:03:21
  levels to this and we're not there.
• 1:03:23
  And I think about 3 weeks ago, I said you can't get to level 2 if
• 1:03:28
  you don't start on level 1. You got to throw it out there.
• 1:03:32
  And I never forget, man, he called me.
• 1:03:34
  He was so excited because he just registered for pit versus
• 1:03:38
  pot and I was so tickled. And when they called his name
• 1:03:44
  for first place, I, I, I had tears in my eyes.
• 1:03:49
  I was crying because I was so happy for that man.
• 1:03:53
  He, he's just so deserved his whole family.
• 1:03:55
  They just work hard and they're so deserving.
• 1:03:57
  And man, it meant more than me than my pot win.
• 1:04:01
  You know, I mean pit win it, it just meant more to me.
• 1:04:06
  It, it is what it is. You know, I, I, you know, did,
• 1:04:10
  did I go there to win both of them and the grand championship?
• 1:04:13
  Hell yeah. Or else I wouldn't have win.
• 1:04:15
  But when you lose to people that are deserving and, you know,
• 1:04:19
  they worked hard, man, I, I, I can't, I can't fault nobody.
• 1:04:24
  I can't fault nothing. I just got to give props, you
• 1:04:26
  know, right. And and and be proud of them.
• 1:04:31
  No doubt, no doubt. I got to, I got to meet them.
• 1:04:35
  I didn't know. I didn't know who made any
• 1:04:37
  anything, you know, being a judge.
• 1:04:39
  And I was right purposely walking around to find who the
• 1:04:43
  hell made that because that was I got to judge that and I gave
• 1:04:48
  it a perfect score. I don't know what else to give
• 1:04:51
  it. I could not.
• 1:04:53
  In my mind, I was just going whole numbers and I could not
• 1:04:56
  give it a 9.5 on any. That wouldn't, it wouldn't be
• 1:04:59
  fair. It just wasn't right.
• 1:05:01
  It was absolutely perfectly perfect.
• 1:05:03
  Like like Nathan and and Amanda. I heard them talking about it on
• 1:05:07
  their podcast and they said it had some kind of Graham cracker
• 1:05:10
  thing on the top. No, it did not.
• 1:05:13
  It didn't. It was just that was the crunch
• 1:05:16
  from how perfectly cooked it was.
• 1:05:18
  It was just. So let me tell you how crazy
• 1:05:20
  this is, right? He signs up for the pot of the
• 1:05:23
  pig category because he makes a cherry rub that's absolutely
• 1:05:26
  incredible. So he did a tenderloin with this
• 1:05:29
  cherry rub which I told him I said you better use that cherry
• 1:05:31
  rub on something. Well with that being said, he
• 1:05:36
  called Brooks like 2 days before and said hey next year you
• 1:05:41
  really ought to think about a dessert category because my wife
• 1:05:44
  makes this crazy pineapple, a cherry dump cake in a cast iron
• 1:05:50
  pot. And Brooke says did you hear
• 1:05:54
  what you just said? She makes it in a cast iron pot.
• 1:05:58
  And he says we can cook a dessert and he said anything in
• 1:06:01
  a pot. So they weren't even going to
• 1:06:03
  enter that till a couple days before when Brooks was like, you
• 1:06:07
  can enter that. And oh, I called Brooks.
• 1:06:11
  I, I called Brooks 100 times trying to get make sure all
• 1:06:14
  these rules were clarified because I take a rule sheet and
• 1:06:17
  I don't break them. But man, I, I try to figure out
• 1:06:20
  that Gray area and, and get out for.
• 1:06:23
  Sure, yeah. You know, on the pit category, I
• 1:06:26
  was worried about it being three different meats on a turn in and
• 1:06:33
  I made him clarify and he said it could be any dish cooked on a
• 1:06:37
  pit. Well, that's my dish.
• 1:06:38
  Fan feather fur was the dish and all three of those parts were
• 1:06:42
  part of the dish. I was worried about the soft
• 1:06:46
  shell crab, so I called him and said can it be cooked in a
• 1:06:49
  square pot? And he said it doesn't matter
• 1:06:51
  the shape of the pot. Well, good.
• 1:06:52
  I filled a square pot full of grease and I fried my soft shell
• 1:06:55
  crab and my soft shell shrimp. There you go.
• 1:06:59
  You know, you figure this out pretty quick.
• 1:07:02
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:07:04
  One I've never figured out. I got beat with it a few times
• 1:07:07
  before I've ever cooked it myself.
• 1:07:10
  Is where exactly does an alligator fit in?
• 1:07:14
  In the fin. Feather fur.
• 1:07:17
  Well, we know feather. You know They know, Feather.
• 1:07:20
  Yeah. But the fur sold at the fur
• 1:07:23
  festival, the hide and an alligator doesn't have a fin on
• 1:07:26
  it at all. Very true, very true.
• 1:07:31
  Yeah, so I, I, I, I've lost an alligator in the fin category a
• 1:07:37
  couple times and then also lost to it in the fur category so
• 1:07:40
  that I never could figure that out, but, but anyway, so.
• 1:07:44
  You threw it in there. You didn't lose this time.
• 1:07:47
  Right, right. Man, those BlackBerry glazed
• 1:07:50
  alligator legs. And then I hit it with a little
• 1:07:52
  bit of the little bit of that sweet heat BBQ sauce right after
• 1:07:56
  it's done. It's it's different, it's
• 1:07:59
  different. You could pull the bones right
• 1:08:01
  off their legs. You could.
• 1:08:03
  It was fantastic. It really was.
• 1:08:05
  I've never had that before. Either As good as that is, the
• 1:08:08
  quail's still my favorite. That quail with the strawberry
• 1:08:11
  glaze is is. Crazy.
• 1:08:14
  It's just silly. And then the pork loins.
• 1:08:17
  So the the the the the reason behind that fin feather fur
• 1:08:22
  dish. Those are my three top F5 wins
• 1:08:29
  and F5's the Holy Gorilla cooking series.
• 1:08:31
  They're they're the largest cooking competitions out there.
• 1:08:35
  Those are my three highest score F5 turn insurance.
• 1:08:39
  So I thought, why can't I figure out a way to turn off 3 in
• 1:08:42
  together on a board, make it look good, make it look like one
• 1:08:46
  dish, but turn them in. Now, on the flip side of that,
• 1:08:50
  it's also a gamble. If somebody really liked two of
• 1:08:53
  them and couldn't stand one, then you got to look at that
• 1:08:58
  side of it. I might have got Ding because
• 1:09:00
  somebody didn't like the quail or somebody didn't like the
• 1:09:03
  alligator, but they love the other two.
• 1:09:07
  So it it could have went, it could have went S it didn't,
• 1:09:10
  thank God, but it could have. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:09:16
  You did fine. I think you you should pat
• 1:09:18
  yourself on the back. You did just fine.
• 1:09:20
  I know you wanted to win, though.
• 1:09:22
  I get that. I get the competitive nature and
• 1:09:24
  that's what's that, that that's that's the beauty of all of this
• 1:09:29
  and the beauty of going to these things.
• 1:09:30
  It's fun. I enjoy being a judge.
• 1:09:32
  I hope I get to do it again. I know I will at some point in
• 1:09:35
  time. And it was, it was a different
• 1:09:39
  experience, but it was a hard experience.
• 1:09:42
  I took it extremely seriously. You'll see a video that I have
• 1:09:45
  coming out. I'm going to post my me, my
• 1:09:51
  candid takes of trying everything for the first time.
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  And I was not wanting to talk. I wasn't wanting to say
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  anything. I didn't want to influence
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  anybody else. But I can't hide my face no
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  matter what. I just can't hide my face.
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  I. I've judged a bunch and man,
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  look, I went with me, Gabby, Brittany, Camille Chassidy, the
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  the lady in the bathroom. We we all judged a king cake,
• 1:10:20
  bread pudding competition and we're all at the table And there
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  was just one that and we had our cameras rolling to be able to go
• 1:10:31
  back and edit and and I still have not went through that
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  video, but I spent 1 all the way across damn near on Brittany on
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  the other side of me. Like I literally took a bite and
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  it come flying out. I couldn't even hold it in it
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  was so bad. It was so.
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  Bad. Really.
• 1:10:47
  It was horrible. You got a really?
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  How the hell do you make that sweet stuff?
• 1:10:52
  How does that get bad? They screwed that up big Time.
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  Lord. I found out after the fact.
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  I found out after the fact it was a friend of mine and he
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  tried to do too much. He just tried to do too much.
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  He wanted to be out the box. He was way out the king cake
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  box. He should have had that.
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  That shit in a bag, that trash bag.
• 1:11:14
  It was, it was rough. It was.
• 1:11:16
  It was rough. Well, I mean, but it but just
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  like you said, he went, he overcomplicated things and then
• 1:11:22
  Heath and Heath and his family with the winning, winning dish
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  is as simple as it gets. I they walked me through it.
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  I got to film them behind the scenes making the thing because
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  they were, they were making it, you know, for the descent, for
• 1:11:37
  the for the public. And and she's like, you want to
• 1:11:40
  watch me put this together? And I'm like, yes, absolutely I
• 1:11:42
  do. I totally do because I want to
• 1:11:45
  make this for myself. I don't, I doubt I will ever
• 1:11:48
  achieve what just what I just had, but I'm probably going to
• 1:11:52
  try. I'm going to try.
• 1:11:54
  But I don't. Have the Dutch of it.
• 1:11:56
  I got to use coals and do all that.
• 1:11:58
  Hey, if I got to go buy that just to be able to make that one
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  dessert, I'm willing to do that, dude.
• 1:12:04
  Man, and again, them just taking you and showing you all that
• 1:12:08
  just shows them he's just, yeah, they're so awesome.
• 1:12:14
  And look, somebody said, I figured, well, Brooks's brother
• 1:12:19
  told Brooks, he said, man, I think Rusty was more excited
• 1:12:22
  about them winning than him. And Brooks said he probably was.
• 1:12:25
  And and man, I was if if you knew the back story of him not
• 1:12:28
  wanting to compete, him not believing in himself, man,
• 1:12:33
  that's just that, that that's it, man.
• 1:12:36
  That's why we do this stuff is to get get them in there fun to
• 1:12:42
  fireman you. You better believe you got to
• 1:12:44
  know those guys are going to bring it.
• 1:12:46
  Absolutely, absolutely. I didn't get to judge either one
• 1:12:50
  of their dishes. Which was good.
• 1:12:56
  They didn't place in the top three.
• 1:12:58
  It did win People's Choice and then their pork belly burn
• 1:13:02
  insurance. I got a Taco, but I didn't get a
• 1:13:04
  burn in. But I mean, I can't.
• 1:13:09
  I can't even imagine. How I got AI got a post.
• 1:13:12
  I got a post judging burn in because I told them that I
• 1:13:16
  didn't get to. I said, what did y'all?
• 1:13:18
  What'd y'all turn in? I know I knew they turned in the
• 1:13:21
  tacos. There were two tacos.
• 1:13:23
  I knew one of them had to be theirs because that would be,
• 1:13:26
  that would just be dumb not to, frankly.
• 1:13:28
  Like you got to do that, you know, because that's that is
• 1:13:31
  they're just so good. I ran across and got one of
• 1:13:34
  chances tacos. It was a a tasso Taco.
• 1:13:39
  Yes I heard I got rave saw saw a lot of very positive vibes in.
• 1:13:45
  There. He woke up at.
• 1:13:47
  Midnight with raw pork and made that tasso himself.
• 1:13:52
  He rendered that tasso out at mid for starting at midnight on
• 1:13:56
  the smoker and stayed up all night.
• 1:13:58
  Damn. That's him, man.
• 1:14:00
  That that's why I was telling you that's what it takes.
• 1:14:04
  That is definitely, yeah, yeah. Dude it.
• 1:14:07
  Was it was coming up? Yeah, what what is coming up?
• 1:14:11
  What are the, what's that was kind of we're going to kind of
• 1:14:13
  start to to wrap things up. Like I said, we're going to do
• 1:14:17
  this in two parts. We've gone long enough.
• 1:14:19
  So we got the 1st and you, you said before we ever even pressed
• 1:14:23
  record that that you've been on was stirring the pot when you
• 1:14:27
  did the podcast with them. Y'all went for like 3 hours.
• 1:14:30
  And yeah, I was like, now we're going to, we got this in an
• 1:14:33
  hour. No, you were right.
• 1:14:35
  You were right. No, we, we don't have it in an
• 1:14:37
  hour. So there will be a Part 2 on.
• 1:14:40
  Oh yeah, we're going to do the next one will be the next one
• 1:14:43
  will be all cooking from his amazing desserts and things that
• 1:14:47
  he's done at these F5 in the Jack Daniels stuff to all the
• 1:14:52
  things you've won. Maybe we'll do this later on in
• 1:14:55
  the fall so we can recap Rusty's 2025 trophy year.
• 1:15:00
  You can do it from home and you can have the trophies behind you
• 1:15:03
  and we can talk about them. That won't happen.
• 1:15:05
  That won't happen. I wish I could.
• 1:15:10
  Yeah. We we have an issue right now at
• 1:15:14
  our house. I have three stacks of plaques
• 1:15:19
  from the last two years, not counting paddles.
• 1:15:21
  Paddles are easy because they when we get home, the beams
• 1:15:27
  under my outdoor kitchen, just the beams, we just stick them up
• 1:15:31
  in the beams. So everywhere you look around,
• 1:15:33
  the beams are just full of paddles, 30 foot by 20 foot.
• 1:15:37
  Every beam just got paddles on it.
• 1:15:40
  But plaques, we have no room and I just stacked them up by the
• 1:15:43
  door and we have 4 stacks now that are about four foot tall
• 1:15:49
  per stack. And my wife's like, look, we
• 1:15:52
  just got to use them for firewood or whatever, cut them
• 1:15:56
  in half and reuse them for another event.
• 1:15:59
  But yeah, we just, I'm out of room and that's not counting
• 1:16:04
  man, my, my football, the. Man on Rusty for you're going to
• 1:16:09
  have to build a trophy room. I have over 200 jambalaya wins
• 1:16:14
  and over 300 gumbo wins, and still my football trophy room is
• 1:16:21
  bigger than my cooking trophy room.
• 1:16:24
  My football trophy room is crazy.
• 1:16:27
  I'm probably right at 200 rings that we've won over the years,
• 1:16:30
  whether it be Team USA, All American Games or national
• 1:16:34
  championships with our Swamp Cap program.
• 1:16:38
  Yeah, our football trophy room is pretty expensive.
• 1:16:42
  There's not a bunch come that get to see it.
• 1:16:44
  I have it to where you have to actually have to take you in
• 1:16:47
  there to go see it. Amanda and those those guys
• 1:16:51
  would travel the boot. They got to see it a while back.
• 1:16:56
  Yeah, it's it's it's fun. Everybody in there.
• 1:17:00
  Yeah, I'll take you in there. I'd love that.
• 1:17:03
  I'd love that. Well, Rusty, where can tell
• 1:17:06
  everyone where they can find you online, where they can get your
• 1:17:09
  products? Traytraymorefoods.com, TREMAR
• 1:17:16
  traymorefoods.com handles all our online stuff.
• 1:17:20
  They also manufacture my stuff. They manufacture it, they sell
• 1:17:23
  it online for me. They ship it out.
• 1:17:26
  That's where you can find it. You can find us at Rusty
• 1:17:28
  Seasoning For every stuff on TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, you
• 1:17:35
  have to send me a private message from my only fans link.
• 1:17:37
  We'll, we can, we can set that up.
• 1:17:40
  That's before I make my money so I can go cook.
• 1:17:41
  That's why you're in the hotel, isn't it, Rusty?
• 1:17:44
  Tell the truth. That's why my phone keeps going.
• 1:17:48
  That's exactly right. It's you keep having issues at
• 1:17:51
  things running high because a God knows what you were doing
• 1:17:54
  before we started this and and we better let you get back at
• 1:17:58
  it. Subscriptions.
• 1:18:00
  That's it. That's.
• 1:18:02
  It. You got to pay him, baby, got to
• 1:18:05
  pay him. Well, if y'all enjoyed this one,
• 1:18:07
  make sure that you hit that like button.
• 1:18:09
  Subscribe to the channel, go support Rusty, go get his stuff.
• 1:18:13
  Like we said, we're going to dive into the full on food
• 1:18:17
  episode the next time that we meet here later this year and
• 1:18:21
  break all of that down. But don't forget to do that, and
• 1:18:25
  until then, we'll see y'all next time.
• 1:18:28
  Appreciate it. Thank you.