Introducing The Newest Bussin' With The Boys Member, Derrik Whitten | Inside The Bus

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Speaker 1: Welcome to our Kobe Bryant Jeff Gordon episode episode twenty four of the Inside the Bus podcast. In this one, you're probably wondering why didn't this episode happen sooner? Because you've probably heard this guy's name before, whether it's in the Busting world, whether it's in the bust scenes world, or whether it's in the for the Dad's world. We have our newest employee on this episode with us, Derek from the chat.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, solid intro.

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Speaker 3: Thanks this newest employee of two months already.

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Speaker 4: Thirty nine days was Friday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that blog was incredible.

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Speaker 4: I was super nervous. Obviously we can talk about what actually happened, but sending it out there was like a two hour gap before g hit the group chat of that blog, and you know, you go through when you do any type of content, like does everyone hate it or whatever? And then I was like fuck, I kind of fucked with Coop a little bit on it, and like shit, I kind of fucked with Will. I'm like, damn everybody to be on Monday, man. But no, it was good.

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Speaker 5: That was incredible.

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Speaker 2: This office needs a blogger too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we need more writing. And for those that don't understand what we're talking about. Every Sunday night, we have a weekly schedule that gets sent out to us and normally Ryan puts it together shout out Ryan, but has everything that's going on. This past week, Derek added a blog to it where he was basically diving into the levels of fandom because that's been a big argument at the bus. We have some sickos, we have some diehards, we have some Will Compton's.

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Speaker 4: Some casuals.

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Speaker 1: Some casuals. Me and he dove into it and it was beautiful.

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Speaker 4: I did take your name out of the casual thing. I didn't want it to be a shot, but I was like, you do love the Chiefs, but you don't do it enough for Clump to fuck with you.

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Speaker 3: I know. I just I'm not one. I mean we've said it before, but I'm not one. Like it's not going to ruin my week. I just like watching football. I'll be back.

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Speaker 1: I have something I need to grab pertaining to this.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, you definitely need.

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Speaker 2: We need to figure out a name to differentiate between the casuals of the WARLD like Matt Malone and then you, because there's I don't know, there seems like there's a little bit of a gap in which which which which swings better.

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Speaker 3: For your Yeah, I would agree, yeah, because I.

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Speaker 6: Think fandom casual fandom with incredible ball knowledge, and then just.

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Speaker 3: I think I think my fandom is the the NFL hat that Coop has, Like that is me for the NFL football correct, But I and like, I know we got a face swamp. I know the like I do obviously playing college football and like growing up and playing football, like I know the ins and outs of football, and like when like sometimes you asked me a football question, I'm like, fuck, yeah, I can flex my ball dolarg ball knowledge like muscle. It's like I am a I.

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Speaker 2: Think you're a gamer.

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Speaker 4: I think that gamer is a good one.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: If he loses Mitch More, if he loses flag, which is gamer.

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Speaker 3: Yeah gamer, I can get down with gamer.

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Speaker 5: Yeahah, it fits you.

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Speaker 2: I've always appreciated too that you you kind of take the first step and being like I'm a casual Yeah, And in back of my head, I'm like, you know, like in a way you are, but like I feel like you're not giving yourself enough credit. So yeah, I think gamers a good place to hang the hat for now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because I would get frustrated and annoyed because you guys were like you guys, you It was more so of a like Taylor said it best on the bus, He's like, Mitch just likes football. Like we get we get mad at him because we think he doesn't like ball, but like, no, it's just like I'm not gonna I just like football. I like all ball.

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Speaker 1: It's probably the.

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Speaker 4: Level you played at, like you played you played in college, right, yeah, so you just like it. You went to South Carolina, Oklahom's like, there's that's the thing. That's what I tried to hit in the blog because there's a difference between you guys when I came South with college football fandom and being a pro like being a Steelers fan at Ruins my day. But we play and I'm like, cool, we can go give another. If there's a third fucking Hayward brother, let's toss him a bag. Like, but you guys have a year in, year out call Colledge fandom that like watching you with the vault. It's different. It's just flat different.

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Speaker 2: It's tough in a state Tennessee specifically, where you have to live and die by football. You can you can rep the Grizzlies, but obviously that's Memphis. But like we don't have obviously an MLB team, no NBA team, So like like as a Steelers fan, like you can rep the Sixers, you can rep the Phillies, like you you can kind of if you're having a bad year, you can run what pirates.

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Speaker 4: We do have the Pirate and the Sixers of Philly, but we, in your defense, we don't have a basketball team. So people picked Cleveland in Sixers until Lebron came a long than those.

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Speaker 2: Just in markets where you have a fall.

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Speaker 5: Back, we'll get there.

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Speaker 4: Well yeah, but yeah, it's a great point though.

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Speaker 5: I like, so it goes bottom casual mad gamer.

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Speaker 3: I think it's Matt Malone. I think below below Matt is Jared because he just doesn't really care, like he's like, Sundays are free days to me, like I don't have to I don't watch football. So it's Jared. And then I would say a week out here, I think I, and then I think Matt Malone, and then I would almost say me and Cooper kind of in the same realm hm.

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's fair.

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Speaker 3: Because you know, but but you're like on that football.

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Speaker 5: Coop was on Suey after the Titans snook his Cardinals.

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Speaker 3: He's that way with the Cardinals.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I am like.

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Speaker 5: Maybe like a little bit above Mitch on like I do care, it really doesn't really Like I almost like him just used to watching the Cardinals sucks, so like that's just part of my football watching experience.

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Speaker 7: It's not like it actually doesn't ruin my mood as much as I.

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Speaker 3: But you'll get frustrated.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll get frustrated, like when I do just like watching football, Like I don't care if it's my team.

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Speaker 6: But if the Cords were nice, you're gonna be like bought in all the way.

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Speaker 7: And I hope, So I hope, I hope.

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Speaker 4: What a couple of hundred thousand mil was it mill for it?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the Cardinals. I can post memes on Twitter and get two point four million views on them even though it's about the Cardinals sucking ass category.

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Speaker 7: I think he I'm in a similar category to Mitch.

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Speaker 3: Gamer plus because he does get frustrated if the Chiefs lose and like fuck, But if like the Cardinals lose, like he'll put out a tweet he'll like dog the Cardinals where I like, I'm not going to tweet.

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Speaker 5: As I'm that kind of fan where like I kind of am sick of in terms of like when my team's doing bad, it's kind of enjoyable to kind of tease.

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Speaker 3: Them and make fun of them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like tough love.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, every year with Cardinals, everyone curious.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, finish.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, trying to submit to the highest level.

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Speaker 3: Matt Me or Jared Matt Me coop.

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Speaker 5: So it goes, does not care, casual gamer gamer.

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Speaker 1: Plus what would be next level come in?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm trying to think, I genuinely, I know it's only been a week. It's been like three because the top one.

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Speaker 5: I know what it is.

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Speaker 3: In the Matt Malone category because he's got seventeen different teams.

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Speaker 4: Let me swap it up. Because the thing was I I did not I named what Jack is in it like Valls fans were basically their own countrue. But I would like to identify it a little bit more here because I have what does it mean to be a fan of the name of it? And we look at casuals, diehards, Valls fans, and then Will Compton's of the world, and that is how I categorize basically the whobice. I like diving it out a little bit more and just I mean I won't go to and definitely a casuals. Some of them kind of get away from the office troll uh diehards. They seem to teeter between serial killer and stalker. My favorite line there would just be as abated the sexual orientation of other homo sapiens who request the sacred scribbling of names from sweaty men with athletic accomplishments valls fans. I would like to say, I'm coining it. I don't know if you want it or not, but Mac or Jack mixed straight man, just so you know it's I.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I thought it was good there man, so uh and then yeah, you guys keep coming back no matter how bad it is, like a student loan reminder. And then the the Will Compton shout out, Sally May the sickest, most diehard steelersan I can find the Steel City. He wouldn't hold a single match to the love that the will Comptons have for their team. And then we dove into the fact that he uh berated Coop for not.

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Speaker 1: I can't win.

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Speaker 3: I think I think.

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Speaker 5: You were prepared for glory if Nebraska lost that game. Yeah, part of me wants to be like, let's keep that in a rise, but we can leave it there.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, just just no, I would say, like, well, not going to watch this, but you're in.

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Speaker 3: The realm of Like I don't know if like Valls fan is strictly Walls fans can be in that category, because I would say you're I think almost.

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Speaker 2: I think it might be in a level of his own life will content players he's friends with on Facebook from his sold days. DP knows everything there is to know about South Carolina football and just this like he truly embodies what it is to be a South Carolina.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, South Carolina.

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Speaker 2: I would play JP above the sick o psycho.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, future, it's interesting with the head coach.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah yeah Nick, Like Nick Harbor asked for him as to meet up with him rather than like.

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Speaker 2: He's deming with Ty Simpson after the game, Like answer.

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Speaker 1: M think that means a lot, But it means a lot.

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Speaker 3: Where does Taylor fall into this?

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Speaker 2: Who maybe just fight in the middle of the road because he's had experience playing comes to the program but never was a true fan until until they won the Nation National and to his credit, he started being a fan that year. But even then it felt a little so, I don't know, maybe just kind of like it is.

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Speaker 6: Funny to me when Coop knows more of Taylor's Michigan roster than Taylor.

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Speaker 5: Knew his own teammates. Yeah, because his team's had me fighting for my life at middle school lunch every day. I know everything I was talking about.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, so all of this to get to JP and his little share in tell or Show and Tell.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, when I was home with Garrett, Garrett got to see my childhood house, which is an underrated moment because you're those awesome very rarely get to see your childhood.

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Speaker 6: It felt, I'll quickly say it was very homey.

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Speaker 5: It was almost exactly what.

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Speaker 6: You would expect the house to be like it was all time.

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Speaker 5: So thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 4: And so our neighborhood is elite.

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Speaker 3: By the way, did you see the tree he hit in for twelve hours?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 2: When he ran away?

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Speaker 5: Oh oh yeah that's cool.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good. Right there, I'll see you guys a photos.

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Speaker 4: Never made it to the edge of the driveway and never got past.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I went to this tree climbed up. I was like, they're going to miss me, and I'm going to watch them come out and look for me. And they never came out.

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Speaker 3: And looked for me.

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Speaker 1: I was just hitting, Yeah, that's what it's horrible. That's probably when I made this.

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Speaker 4: I'll go to college.

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Speaker 1: I'll create my own college.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 1: So this was on my little like dresser thing. And this was the first brochure I ever made in a web design class. So I had to be like fifth or sixth grade, and I guess the assignment was just like create either a city or a town school something. Naturally, I pick something about South Carolina. I picked Cocky Land, and I don't know if y'all remember that, like when you made brochures in school learning that was the sickest thing ever. And we'll have to put a photo up because I have this random like textbox.

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Speaker 2: Incredibly well maintained, still long ago.

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Speaker 1: So here now on cockeye Land time. How do you feel you open it up to find out. I won't read the full thing, but I'll give you guys.

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Speaker 4: I would listen to a podcast if you just reading this whole thing just for the record.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, we have dining parks and facilities, entertainment, clothes, and calendar of events, plus education. And this is not fully homer everything you like, I'm including another school in here. The food consists of mostly tailgating food, hot dogs, hamburgers, brought wear, subs, fruit wings. And then the water fountains are filled with gatorade, and in every refrigerator of the rooms is gatorade, water juice, soda, powerade, and propels. And the last thing people would eat is shrimp. Now that's some good food. Parks and facilities. All Gamecock facilities are open to the public from seven to twelve and then four to eight due to sports team practices. All of the facilities have pools, concessions, basketball court, soccer fields, and the city Dump is where the Clemson fans live entertainment. For entertainment, everybody goes to all of the games football, basketball, soccer, swim meets, other sports and recreational sports. And yes there are still movie theaters. Clothes you could guess what they are. Everybody has a year supply of Gamecock t shirt, long sleeve shirt, pants, hoodies, and anyone who is found with the Clemson sweatshirt will be kicked out of the Community calendar of events football season, and then two times a year we go to Clemson Community to trash talk them, and then throughout the rest of the year we watch everything else. Education, since when you're a little boy, you will attend some kind of school that has a connection to the University of South Carolina or another Gamecock school. When you're three years old, you go to preschool called for the Young Gamecock and so on. By the time you are a senior in high school, you will have a choice to go to USC or Jacksonville State, who are also the game Cocks, each of which are free. So I made this when I was about ten or eleven.

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Speaker 5: You were ahead of the.

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Speaker 1: And hopefully you know maybe.

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Speaker 4: This is a different it's like a different layer of everything, is right, brochure fan and that I don't love the.

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Speaker 3: Name of that, yeah, but if you understand something.

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Speaker 2: Context of it, since again we need to work on it. But that's what separates GP is like I don't know if I've ever witnessed a fandom quite like JP's with South Carolina, because it, like I said earlier, just it fully embodies the whole state. It's not just you know, South Carolina football or like what it's it's everything, and I can really appreciate that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 5: My favorite part in the whole thing is the year one year supply of game cock.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, after that, that's all we got.

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Speaker 1: You know, I thought I was cooking when I was on Clint since head to they're in the city, dump go talk trash to him.

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Speaker 5: Now that's some good food. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: When you are three years old, you go to preschool, it's called for the young game cock and so on. This is like really impressive, just so you know, like on a kid level, like this is well done. You are definitely getting something in there. I'll give your own ring because to your point, like you are, if the Balls lose, if bamlous, if these teams lose, you guys are sick and annoyed and like want blood and want people fired. JP's trying to build a better world. There's something there. He's genuinely like it's bigger than he's like, look, I understand, but like, okay, guys, we still got to go to clumbson this weekend and make fun of their fans. So like, let's rally on the bus.

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Speaker 1: We have a schedule. Yeah, absolutely, with about your years so yeah, that's my submission, so.

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Speaker 3: I love to do with that as you will.

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Speaker 2: I will.

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Speaker 6: We were walking around Columbia. We got out of the car for two minutes. JP, this is a ten am like.

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Speaker 5: Here we go.

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Speaker 3: That's got to be so sick.

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Speaker 4: It was cool.

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Speaker 2: It was a great time running for mayor or or some kind of city councilmen. Dude, later on life, I feel like you're already campaigning.

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Speaker 4: I mean cocky land strong bro.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean ad there. I go through waves of being interested in politics, but I do. I love like the community building aspect. So I'm hoping that. I think there's going to be massive shifts in the political landscape over the next twenty years. And I'm hoping that when I am forty forty five, there's a different type of role out there that would fit more in to the things I'm into, because I'd love to stand on the table for South Carolina as a state, and I just it needs to be the right opening. It's funny because I actually I do DM with a couple of representatives. I DM with a couple of representatives from the upstate just to get their their pulse on things.

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Speaker 2: They're probably freaking out thinking man, he's only got so many more years.

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Speaker 3: So he's on you.

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Speaker 4: Guys are making Joey Aglar edits. He's residential campaigns.

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Speaker 3: I love that for you.

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Speaker 4: But I mean I've so funny, like way long ago, I had to buddy he worked on Capitol holl for a while. I ran his small town campaign. So he ran for a very small portion of our local government for it, and I helped run his campaign for him. And I will say, without a sliver of understanding who you are outside of this office, other than just becoming friends with you, you would do absolute numbers would be fun, yeah, because you could like playground.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like there could be a great campaign manager he would and it might be forming in front of our eyes.

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Speaker 5: Yeah we're real.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, some sick posters come out. I mean, right, we got the seat.

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Speaker 6: There, man, we're just gonna get I feel likes like Pittsburgh is a place where people.

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Speaker 4: Have a lot of pride into Pittsburgh is it's it's crazy too because you get down here and the first thing, like when I got with people, they'd be like, oh, like you're in Nashville, and I'm like, yeah, let's go to like Franklin and they'll be like, yeah, Okay, that's Franklin. That's not Nashville. And like I realized, like it's very that way Pittsburgh. You're fifteen minutes outside the city. You're from Pittsburgh. Like that's that's just it's this identity type thing. And like even Pa, it's just I mean, I don't know if it's I'm assuming it's.

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Speaker 5: That way over there.

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Speaker 3: No, I say, I'm from Philly, and the guys give me shit for it.

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Speaker 4: Okay, see that's exactly.

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Speaker 3: I got forty minutes outside of Philly, and I'm like, in my.

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Speaker 4: World, you're from Philly. Now I get it. I get it because that's why.

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Speaker 5: When you came here, they were in Franklin, not Nashville.

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Speaker 4: Facts, Bro, you gotta learn about shit. You guys do shit different down here. I like it, but it's different.

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Speaker 5: For how long have you been in Nashville.

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Speaker 4: I've been in Nashville. This was the start of year five for me. At the beginning of this year, like March, so four, you move in the middle of COVID. Yeah, I moved at the tail end of it. So Pittsburgh was still I mean, we would. I got a bike in Pittsburgh. My Buddy does a bunch of like bars, and we had all these restaurants you go to, so we got bikes to just come into the city and sit it outside patios and drink beer.

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Speaker 3: Basically sick.

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Speaker 2: It was.

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Speaker 4: It was dope. But Pittsburgh was shut down way before. So Pittsburgh was the city where you wear your mask, go to your table, take your mouth off, and that was a common thing. I come down here and I'm like, oh, yeah, it's opening up. The world's opening up, and I'm like, oh cool, Like broadways like a zombie fucking apocalypse, Like there are just people. And it was a weird transition of it through it, but it was really cool because I felt like I got past that point, Like I got past the COVID shit. I got past that part of my life, and like, as soon as I moved somewhere I've never been before the world just opened up. It was really really cool how Kobe moved. I moved here for uh So. I was in advertising before this. I was a director of social media for an advertising firm in town called the Bunting Group. So I god, dude, I used to sell like lamin It's kitchen countertops, sinks, hinges and shit. Took a huge paic cut to go into advertising, stuck around there, got headhunted for just a social job with them, and came down and was like I'm basically burned the boats, like not going back home. We're doing this shit. Luckily obviously fast forward a bit, but we got here, thank god. There were some times where I was like, fuck, I gotta go back home, and like fuck I gotta pack it up and shit. But I moved down for the job and I loved it, and it was it was really kind of that moment of like this is the life now, Like this is what we're doing. It's crazy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I saw I was I'll forget what it was. But I was scrolling through your Instagram. Yeah, in your period when you were like me trying to explain to my girlfriend what I'm doing unemployed.

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Speaker 5: Those were great day whatever.

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Speaker 4: So appeal like to like go back a bit. When I was getting into advertising. The first time, I was an account coordinator, so social was my way to get in. The second time, I basically sat at the bar with a buddy who was a video editor, and we sat there and he's like, I want to start my own agency and I was like, that sounds lame. I was like, let's start a sports thing and he was like, what is that. I was like, so we're gonna call it Thoughts from the Bench. It's a blog and we make content. So we did that for god seven years, blog, twitch streaming, our own podcasting, everything you could think of. We did shotgun races at tailgates against the barstool guys like Big Katwaite sucks Dave. We fucking grind that shit and it was completely free, all the twitch streams. That's how we got into November. That's why I'm so heavy into that. And so all that shit was where I would experiment for my advertising job. And so dude, the clients they have the red tape. Everything in the advertising world is so asked to be honest with you, Like I I like it. It got me here, but it's terrible. So I would take everything and come working on my own podcast and it would work there and I'd bring it back, Well, what's the KPIs, what's the delivery? Like da da da da da. I'm like, no, it fucking worked, dude, It worked. So everything up to there, Like That's why I liked sending the blog and all that stuff. But those videos that you speak of, I was at that job. Left that job for a video shop in town. I was their director of social great guys just didn't work out. It was startup, went back to the agency and then they had their third round of layoffs ever, which happened in the same year Shocker and got laid off. And I was like, fuck, dude, I just bought my ring, so we're engaged now. I just bought my ring. We just moved into a new house. All this shit. So I was driving Lyft as much as a human could drive a car. I was picking up this freelance work, trying my ass off, and I was like, fuck, did I gotta get back into it cause I had taken a huge gap off of making content for the blog stuff. Like before bro we were making videos, Like I would blog three times a day. I would We did our Thursday show, which was two hours, which I stopped doing just for busting. I want to pick it back up, but stop doing that. So three clips a day, two blogs a week. We did a live stream. Monday Night was a gaming show, so we did twitch stream gaming. Tuesday Night was a ranking show. We just ranked it Wednesday night was movie reviews, Thursday was my show, Friday was off. Saturday we did a trivia show that I recorded the whole day. Sunday morning was gambling, and then after football we did a recap show all for free in the back of a gym. The back of a gym, this utility closet where the only thing that's still there is my two thousand and four Golden t Arcade game that just stopped the work. And when I moved here, I was fucking pissed. Bro full carcass arcade everything. I know this is super long. I'm so sorry to do this, but back into it. Yeah, I made these videos where I was basically I have this salt of the earth beautiful woman who is my fiance named Kat, and she was like, hey, like you're good. She does she's a nurse practitioner. She's like, we're okay, just like promise me you're gonna keep going, like figure it out. Like I was like, I will watch this, yeah, yeah, and then I got clump making me fucking work on vacation. But no, it was that intro was super funny. My interview with you guys was the funniest day of my life. Jeremy's a crack. But I get through those videos where I was like, well, fuck, how do I explain to her what I do all day? So I made I got up to like edition nineteen before I got this job, where every day I was making another piece of video and making another piece of video just about my day. And it ended up that got me a job offer at Meta, which I turned down for this that got me a job offer with an agency in Kentucky cause they were like, hey, we see your portfolios tight, we see the you have a good attitude about this, and we see that like the place that laid you off clearly like had issues. It wasn't a you thing. And so making those videos like I have a cousin who's the professor of marketing at Duqune University in Pittsburgh, and he's the one who helped me get a lot of my freelance clients that I still have today. But he was like, bro, just He's like keep making. He's like, just keep making something. So I just make these stupid fucking here I am taking the trash out videos. Here's I made burgers for three weeks straight, different burgers. I got a Blackstone.

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Speaker 3: Then my dad drove down.

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Speaker 4: I made three straight weeks of different types of burgers, and I was like, fuck it, here's the jalapeno cheese curd peanut butter burger I made today. It's fucking ass eighteen eighteen. But no man content. That's why. Like when this happened and Clump replied back, first time of your play back, I thought he was fucking with me. I didn't know. I was like, this guy's not the director at Digital. Yeah, this in the picture. I was like, is that plank.

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Speaker 3: He's like, yeah, that's how I was. When we'll reach out to me too, Yeah.

00:23:37
Speaker 5: Dude, it's you know, being it.

00:23:40
Speaker 4: You guys have been great. Thirty nine days have been so fucking sick. So it's been It's been a way.

00:23:44
Speaker 5: Longer than thirty nine days for sure. Yeah, because what when when would you first walk who?

00:23:52
Speaker 4: So it would have been so July.

00:23:54
Speaker 3: Are you here with the interns?

00:23:56
Speaker 8: No?

00:23:56
Speaker 4: No, No, the interns had been hired, and so I went to the beach in July, which is why I said to Clump, because they had me editing clips for my audition for my contract. Try into it, and so did that, and then it was like I started my what was supposed to be a six or five week trial contract made it to week three, which is when I stopped bringing in shit to my desk so I can have a desk. That was day I'd said it to you because it was like, I think it was like the start of week three.

00:24:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I remember bringing it up and you're like, yeah, well it's actually over. I got offered a full time job, and.

00:24:31
Speaker 5: That's how we found it.

00:24:32
Speaker 4: That's one of my favorite moments.

00:24:34
Speaker 2: You explain that for anyone who doesn't understand what we're talking about as well.

00:24:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would bring in so i'd like go through X and I was like, all right, I gotta start, like I gotta do something, because you guys were awesome, but I was like I need to start showing what I can do. And I was like, first thing I can do is just be like get your gimmicks going, like I love bits like I handed out the cards today, a fun fact trivia like that. Shit just makes me happy. So every day I would bring in a new item for my desk when I got a desk, and so this would pop up, a Condoma TJY bobblehead, the Kobe Bryant Magazine, and so I remember one day I looked at g and I said, gee, could I interest you in being interested in my desk Guide? And it was just like yeah, sure, And from there it started slowly becoming a thing to then I think it was it was one of our first companies. You were like, hey, dude, what'd you bring in today? And I was like, you know, man, and I did it, said, bro, I did not bring something in. And I could feel genuine disappointment from you, which is.

00:25:23
Speaker 2: Just like, man, like I feel like this was like where me and you were really about to just connect. And really, in about five seconds you figure out you got hired full time for truly, Like I don't know why I think today I haven't feel a little emotional. I'm not feeling I'm like, dude, I'm so stokey. You gotta hired. Yeah, even such an amazing addition, thank you. Your personality is super bright and like it just brings just a new good vibe and energy and yeah with the cards today, like you wore in Arkansas pull over the day before Tennessee plays and like you immediately put on like you know, some to see logan you print off from the printer, take the ship out of it, and then he put something on my desk where it was like an apology and it was like one free volunteer moment. It was like, does not include like moving or something else, which is great.

00:26:13
Speaker 4: It had the dog over top of an Arkansas pagan and said free for one volunteer moment does not include moving into or out too of houses, apartments or living complex, which was just great.

00:26:22
Speaker 2: I mean it just it was a very well done card too. You just like wrote with sharpie on like this piece of paper, but like obviously you and JP have an actist brochure thing.

00:26:32
Speaker 5: He was ahead of me when JP is ready.

00:26:35
Speaker 4: No, it was funny. Yet Jack's like, well, what did you bring in? And I was like in my brain, I was like I could be like, oh dude, you could and I could be well, I could be hype and I could be like no, no, no, here's why I didn't. But I was like, nah, dude, keep it. And I was like, you know what, I didn't bring something in today, man, And he was just like, oh dude, like what the fuck? And I was like, well, that was for my contract that got hired full time and he's like what the fuck. He was like, that's how we're gonna find that way. And Jack like he's like, g did you know he got full you know he got full time and just like this whole like, eh, dude. It was a great moment. And there's so many of those little moments, like it's so funny because you guys are from the outside perspective, like not to blow your top stuff, you're very cool, Like you're very cool people. You are on busting you running for president? No, but like you have this presence about you guys that is like we are this is the group. Like I can't explain to you how cool it is to tell people I'm I literally said to my mom, was like, no, I'm one of the boys that's busting like and she was like, what the fuck does that mean. I was like no, like, I'm I'm like one of this thing that is this and it's super cool because you know, I've done mine the words and my buddy Josh one hundred thousand hours of podcasting, one hundred thousand hours of graphics, like I've done all the little shit that the second this opportunity came up, I was like, oh no, I know I'm gonna do the job. Well, it's about getting you guys to like buy into me as a person too. That's an important part of what you el built here.

00:27:50
Speaker 3: Definitely sure what was so?

00:27:52
Speaker 1: You said the interview process was hilarious and stuff, Well what stood out? Yeah?

00:27:57
Speaker 4: So really genuinely what stood out was me kind of fumble it in myself not a bad way. But I you know, got the call or the email from Clump and I remember it because I had like the meta thing was a contracted to run there rolling out on meta So twenty twenty six, all ads creative will be made by AI. So it's this well known thing. They had contacted me to lead a team of creatives to run AI generated ads through our own eyes to say if it's gonna be good or not. And I was like, all right, cool, that's meta. And then there was another gig at an agency that I was getting through the final what would have been a remote with one week in Kentucky, Like it was cool, and then I get the email from Jermy Clump. It's just like hey, like want to talk to you had the first call and I'm just like this dude is so like it's not a disrespectful he's goofy, like Clumb's a goofy. He's a dude, right, and so he's like, yeah, did that, And then next interview, I like didn't hear from him for like two days, and I'm like, all right, this could be a bit like anybody can make a bus in Gmail whatever, and he's like, yeah, I'm gonna bring well. He was like, I'm gonna bring Chef on. And so the next interview, Chef comes on and I'm asking a couple questions and Chef's answering them are like really well in a good setting, and Clumps get it. And then Clump's like, yeah, man, your homework really is to watch the latest episode, which I had already gotten like halfway through, like huge fan, and so I was like yeah, and he's like, cut some clips of it. So I'm cutting, and I cut about three clips and I'm talking like he said, if you can send them tomorrow, that'd be sick, and I'm like, fuck, dude, I don't even got Adobe Premiere right now. So I signed up for a free week of Adobe Premiere and I was like, let's do this shit. Cut the clips, sent them in. There was like one issue with a jump cut him and I talked through. Then he goes, awesome, man, I'll reach out soon. Another three fucking days goes by, and I'm like, now I'm getting my own head because I don't know who. Luckily, my buddy Josh got me his. I was like, thank God, but no, because I didn't know Chef. I didn't know Sherm. I knew who Will was because of Barstool and Will. I didn't know Will, and I didn't know this Jeremy guy. And I'm just like, fuck, dude, like i don't know if they liked it. I'm sitting there like twitching, like they fucking hate this shit. And so Clump comes back. It's like, yo, that's sick. We want you to cut three more clips, and he goes, I know yours is Thursday. He goes, dude, so we had a conversation about it, but he's like, I need you to cut these clips. I know you're leaving for the beach Saturday morning at eight am. I was going to Myrtle Beach out out of South Carolina, and he goes, I want you to the world. I have the worst record of mini golf there, but I've played all the courses. It's great. I was like, yo, Bro, like uh yeah. He's like, I want you to cut a clip for Will's Instagram, cut a clip for Sirm's Instagram, and cut a clip for before the Dad's Instagram. He's like, you'll be running or cutting clips for all of them. Haven't fucking done it yet, Shit.

00:30:40
Speaker 3: Don't even do it.

00:30:41
Speaker 8: I still remember Clump telling me that. I was like, Clump, we put every like, we don't specify for people's accounts. I was like, We're just gonna make him do it.

00:30:48
Speaker 4: I was like, all right, shit, well I did I like longest like to get in it. So stayed up till about two in the morning cutting them because there was a glitch era because I downloaded the YouTube video and kept fucking up. Did that.

00:30:59
Speaker 1: Senate's just saying, anyways, like I just downloaded from you to Bro.

00:31:03
Speaker 5: I'm like, that's crazy.

00:31:05
Speaker 4: Yeah, he I mean get there. I'm at the beach. My families, yeah, if you're Clump phone and my whole family's like, all right, so you're like auditioning for a podcast and they knew I did my whole thing, but it was never serious up until now, Like it was never a job. So Clump calls me. He's like, hey, bro, can you cut clips today or no? Can you put together a social strategy? And I was like, yeah, I do that in my sleep. Cranked it out in like two hours on the beach with my fiance with Margarita's which was great. Day goes by, send it next morning, eight thirty five of them on the golf course. Hey man, can you talk soon from Clump?

00:31:41
Speaker 5: Yeah?

00:31:41
Speaker 4: Bro, Like just let me know. I'm golfing. But I got you this motherfucker. Don't text me back till the next day at like ten, Bro, I'm like, I'm sitting I'm like, hey, guys, can you make sure, Yeah, my phone's plugged in, thank you. I'm supposed to get a call that I was on like the hey dad, don't use the phone. My friends are gonna call and I'm Ethernet like that's literally where we were. And so then the next day he's like, yeah, dude, we want you to do to come in Like, yeah, you're You're getting it. And I talked to Clump eventually about it because my first day was Breca. So my interview day was when Brecca was and there's just moving parts and I'm like dodging balls getting thrown and like shit fuck. And so I get in there and Clump comes in. The strategy went well, I walked Will through it like same as if I was doing it for one of the bank clients we had back in the day. And I find out later that week that Clump's like, oh no, that was like an insane ask. He's like, you hit every check mark. He's like, I, You'll never have a day hard as that interview process at Bustin.

00:32:39
Speaker 8: Yes please missing a big point. He came in at like one o'clock in the Afternoonca Breca went for some reason we had like, oh, it was a big recording day. So he gets there. We asked him to get there at one. We sit down, me sure and Clump. We're having a great time talking to him. We're like, well, we'll should be done, We'll should be done really really quick, like in it now. Two and a half hours go by and they just finish up that, which is like unforeseen circumstance and Willson like you could tell Will's just had a long day.

00:33:10
Speaker 3: When they do these big recording days for.

00:33:12
Speaker 8: People that don't know, it's like you just go and go and go, yeah, so will sit down and I can see the look on his face where he's like in that mode where it's like, don't talk to me, no, yeah, kind of like a no bullshit mode. Derek handled himself really fucking well because I know in that spot. I remember my first days an intern. I was very fucking nervous, and I think that would have definitely thrown me for a loop. But like insane circumstances that he went through, very impressive.

00:33:38
Speaker 1: This might have been another time. But did you have to be somewhere, like get on the road that day?

00:33:43
Speaker 4: Not that day? There was the other day. So we had that day where I told them I had nothing that day. Yeah, So me, Chef and Sherm literally sat there and we watched all of my old ads on my portfolio, like there's a brewery and talk called Black Abbey, and I did this ad H called the Patron Saints. It's my favorite thing I've ever done. But it's all like when you go to the bar, like the girls are best friends in the bathroom, there's a patron saying to the bathroom bestie like this. So we watched all that, We watched old serf pro ad shit like that. And so then Will comes in and I did ask I had chef and scharman like Yo's Will because I have this persona of will of his barstool days, booze ponies like all that shit. I'm like, he always a little cold. They like it's a little bit of a test. But it was a long day and so cool. The next time I came in was for a recording and I brought my buddy RJ. So that was when I was like, oh, we kind of gotta go, and RJ just sat got you in the room the whole day and I was like, how was your day, RJ? And He's like, they're all really cool guys. I just watched TV and smoked and I was like, oh cool man. Like, so if you just if you noticed him going outside and coming back in, shout out my boy RJ. But no, it was just it was funny for that and then coming in and just like yeah, I mean everyone's obviously been been great for but it's so funny and you're right, it does feel like it's been a year already, which is great.

00:34:50
Speaker 3: I love it. Just did you talking through your hiring process reminded me of mine and like how.

00:34:56
Speaker 5: I truly thought you were getting punked?

00:34:58
Speaker 3: Yes, I know, you know, like I yeah, Like I got a text from Will. I'm like it's like is this match cars? And I'm like yeah, He's like it's Will Compton and I'm like bullshit. Well, I'm just sitting next to Will.

00:35:14
Speaker 1: Thinking the photo like say this.

00:35:17
Speaker 3: And I like looked up the area code. I'm like, it's from Missouri. I know Will's from Missouri and he said it's Will. It's Will Compton picture for reference, and it's like it's his LinkedIn photo from his coll like his senior year of college and like one of the Yeah, it was like like this is like I literally went home like yeah, I think Will Compton texted me but I don't know. But then, so, like how you said you were waiting for a couple of days, I was waiting for like two or three weeks, I mean, and I was bombarding JT with emails.

00:35:49
Speaker 5: Versus Clumb texting. Yeah, there was at least day with club.

00:35:53
Speaker 4: Intentional. Do you think Will's was intentional? Like what when he made you wait that long?

00:35:59
Speaker 3: No, it was from it was more so from you and Will, but you guys were also just at Green Bay right, and like, I think you may have gone somewhere else.

00:36:07
Speaker 1: I think so. Yeah, And there was like another person in the interview process too, and essentially it was just Will and I kind of trying to do it while also doing.

00:36:15
Speaker 3: The other stuff, like also having a ship ton of stuff to painting. But yeah, I was like, I I think I've sent JP like ten email.

00:36:25
Speaker 2: I was like, hey, yeah, that time was about the size of how many people we have in this room.

00:36:32
Speaker 3: It was us three and Bloss and Boss.

00:36:34
Speaker 1: But like even Boss was kind of like there are sometimes literally just a three of you.

00:36:39
Speaker 3: Blas crazy it's part time. And then Will and Taylor, I mean when.

00:36:43
Speaker 6: You walked in and just saw us, well, I know we've talked about many times. Was sitting at the desk the same table I was working.

00:36:50
Speaker 3: Do we have this No, no, this is still still He.

00:36:55
Speaker 5: Actually sat at the desk in the back of the bus.

00:36:57
Speaker 4: To work and we shared this damn yeah it come ups, crazy dude.

00:37:03
Speaker 3: It was I literally walked Yeah, it was. It was too. It was two tables like that back to back, and then like it was like a t yeah, yeah, I had the TA and like we worked by that bathroom in the back on the other side, and if one of you, one of us had a bad poop, everybody was smelling it like it was we were in the change. No for real, but yeah, when I walked back, there was like, oh.

00:37:27
Speaker 5: This basically sounds like everyone's hiring process was interesting.

00:37:31
Speaker 4: Convention was the job.

00:37:33
Speaker 1: I was long as crap. I had to make a make a log out of some clips they sent me while I was like also trying to legitmate rent and I was in Florida. My first day, I had to upload a full episode from my laptop in Florida. The episode was late. Will blast me on Twitter. It was crazy, damn.

00:37:51
Speaker 2: JP's first eight in office was Dave episode.

00:37:54
Speaker 5: Yeah our first time.

00:37:56
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the kid the at South can of When I was talking to one of the classes, they asked like, how to like face failure and I told them I was like, well, kind of at my job, when you mess up, it gets blasted out to everybody, so you have to do it head on. And I use that example of them of Will being like, we just hired somebody, but apparently he can't get the episode out on time, so like everybody let at j Hovey thirty four. No, I was like, so basically, I guess the best way to face it is to bring back bullying.

00:38:25
Speaker 5: And that got a few laughs.

00:38:28
Speaker 1: But you know college is different now.

00:38:33
Speaker 4: And we can change that with this campaign, Okay, and that's why we're here coming down to cocky.

00:38:37
Speaker 1: Speaking of campaigns, you and Coop have been on a camp started a little bit of a seed.

00:38:44
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I don't I don't even remember how they noticed that. Do we want to say the name? What about when we start? Well the journey? Yeah, from the beginning, I feel like so, I guess midway through this year, I just started cracking seeds at were like every day, just doing it, and I posted a tweet about it, like whatever, David's the standard some flowersy brand, and I like tweeted like I found my people because someone else tweeted about it. And that was like midyear. And then you get here. You like seeds and we're just like cracking them. And then we clump wanted to order smack in a some flower seed brand that they do a lot of promotion on TikTok. Maybe you've seen them, but they have a lot of flavors. So we just ordered a ton, like a bucket full of them, and so me and Derek started ranking them on the wall and I posted the picture on Twitter, and then like a week or two later, of the posted rankings, they reached out, like to my tweet directly.

00:39:38
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, oh yeah, they commented right underneath it.

00:39:40
Speaker 5: They commented on our rankings, and then you know, back and forth and DM a little bit, and then they sent us a care package.

00:39:46
Speaker 8: Uh.

00:39:47
Speaker 7: And so we got that and we have a video that we will be releasing soon a reaction to them, which is.

00:39:53
Speaker 5: Fun it's in.

00:39:54
Speaker 3: It's in.

00:39:54
Speaker 4: It's in Coops computers, you'll get it out. And the balls you're skipping too, it's funny. We Uh so I started to take a little bit over the streams that we're sitting at that table and it's me Jared Chef and then Coop on the left side, and we are all like sharing two bags of David's, which or no of a bigs and.

00:40:15
Speaker 7: Might not have been enough for a stream full on dugout over there. We're sitting, we're sitting on the table like we're at the ball.

00:40:24
Speaker 4: And so we we started on David's and then I was like, yo, may I put you on and we switched the bigs which is Hidden Valley, and so we're ripping them and Jared is like at the computer coop chef me and he just goes, y'all know you can buy your own individual bags, right, Fuck this guy, he's not a seed boy. So we started doing that and then Chinook reached out and sent us little care package, reached out to It's become a And that's the one thing I'll say, like if I have a gift of like content shit, sniff out opportunity like that, like this is a thing that we're gonna we're gonna go with forever.

00:40:57
Speaker 7: It happened so fast too.

00:40:58
Speaker 5: And kick to a special shout out as well because their partner with We don't have a lot of baseball fans here, some of you all I know who is Bobby Wait Junior, one of the best players in in baseball, And they sent us signed baseball Bobby Wait Junior because he's he's partnered with them, which I thought was like a really cool I said, yeah, it's on my desk, Bobby Wit signed baseball. He plays for the Rangers, the Royal Royles. Was he the guy that made that diving catch when we were in Saint Louis game. Yeah, that's why I know that name. He's one of the best short shortstop.

00:41:33
Speaker 4: Fun fact.

00:41:33
Speaker 7: He also went to the same high school as Max Crosby.

00:41:36
Speaker 3: Oh so.

00:41:39
Speaker 4: Boys, I stole that from He didn't go to college player.

00:41:43
Speaker 7: He went to the same high school with Colleville and Dave w.

00:41:46
Speaker 4: So we had a car ride my buddy that does like events in Pittsburgh. We were going to Philly to do one of his. He did this hotel event for the Kifton Hotels and so it's called Clocked Out, and we took it to the Philly one and we had me his videographer, another guy that was just rolling with us, and then the dj A on a sprinter van. I bought six bags of seeds and me and the dj pound threw them on the way there. My one buddy was like just a couple of seed boys chipmunks in the back. And so seed boys has stuck with me for like I love them and just sit there and do it. In the tweet that Coops talk about it started, it said, don't let anyone tell you that you can't just rip a bag of sunflower seeds at work.

00:42:23
Speaker 7: It's like yeah, And I was ripping a bag of some flower seeds at work.

00:42:29
Speaker 5: Ripping through bag you know who.

00:42:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, been really ripping through them as of late. That's yeah, Ku be favorite.

00:42:40
Speaker 5: I thought you were about to say, because brought something like everyone is on he brought something to the zoo.

00:42:48
Speaker 4: Tigers last night.

00:42:49
Speaker 5: At the Zoo.

00:42:50
Speaker 6: I was cracking some. I love that work saying cracking too. I was cracking some on my drive to South Carolina on Friday.

00:42:58
Speaker 1: Yeah. He was like, I brought some seeds for you because they got the ones.

00:43:01
Speaker 4: Oh yeah. The first thing you said though, because I remember we went to it was Taylor was too, because we bought the bigs and Taylor ran through one of my bags and I was like, yeah, you know it is what it is?

00:43:12
Speaker 5: What's that you can't bring like just one portion of something, it'll be gone. Yeahs let's go.

00:43:19
Speaker 1: I didn't know they lived that long.

00:43:21
Speaker 3: That's yeah.

00:43:22
Speaker 4: That's a nice there's a hole up there. Uh he ripped through nothing Like what the hole? Could it come from the hole he ripped through a bag or whatever? And uh. I basically stopped at a BUCkies and I was like, let me see what flavors they have there and they had Chinook, and so I bought a couple of them and I just was like, I'm not bringing these in yet. I just I did. I bought like lemon Pepper didn't love it, and I we come in and we're like your bigs, and JP goes, if you guys ever heard of Chinook? And I'm like, fuck, that could have been such a bonding moment with JP. Fuck, but we got Chinook and you got your bag, Jlipino another flavor.

00:43:53
Speaker 5: Another funny story about the seeds is I went to the dentist a few weeks ago, yes, and she after she claimed teeth the High Genesis River, She's like, do you I thought this was a wild questions.

00:44:05
Speaker 7: She's like, do you like dip or do lose those zen pouches?

00:44:09
Speaker 4: And I'm like, no, I don't.

00:44:10
Speaker 7: She's like, well, the tissue like in your cheek on the left side of your mouth is like white and kind of like ruugh, like like it's been you know, like it's it's distressed. I'm like, oh, She's like like.

00:44:21
Speaker 4: So you don't.

00:44:22
Speaker 5: She's like you don't.

00:44:24
Speaker 4: She's like, you don't do what you talk about.

00:44:29
Speaker 5: But she's like she's like questioning me, and I'm like, could it be from sunflower seeds?

00:44:33
Speaker 7: And she's like, yeah, it could the salt in the sodium.

00:44:36
Speaker 5: I was like, I was like, yeah, well, I just basically riped seeds from nine am to I'm nine to five, so nine to five seed ripper every day.

00:44:46
Speaker 2: What did she say about that you have to change?

00:44:48
Speaker 5: She's like, she's like, I've never She's like I've seen She's like, I've never seen that before. Like that is so interesting. And then she's like, oh, I'm glad, Like I'm glad it seeds and not tobacco.

00:44:58
Speaker 7: I'm like, you're not my mom. Also, but then I followed up and I was like, also, is this gonna be like a problem though? And she's like maybe, like super long term, but like there's no gum damage. I'm like, all right, I'm gonna keep up.

00:45:12
Speaker 5: Problem. Maybe I'll switch. You guys put your seeds on the same side every time.

00:45:16
Speaker 4: Every time I got to mix it up, I've had to switch.

00:45:18
Speaker 5: I tried to switch while I was driving.

00:45:20
Speaker 8: Bro.

00:45:20
Speaker 3: It was a disaster.

00:45:21
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. That's why you probably have white.

00:45:24
Speaker 5: I'm not there yet.

00:45:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like you get there you get playing baseball and ripping seeds all the time. I mean, you just kind of get used to.

00:45:30
Speaker 6: The best sport baseball is. They'd have the bucket in the dugout. I would just get a handful put them in my back pocket.

00:45:36
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you got you guys would have like a full bucket of just one of the yeah, one.

00:45:40
Speaker 4: Of the dads or keep Yeah it's just the bucket that we have down there, but you empty. But they're just I mean those are just O g fla like seeds. Brother, we got fucking cheeseburger. Now we got loaded.

00:45:53
Speaker 7: Yeahs a ship a cheese.

00:45:57
Speaker 5: If you want to send Coop and Derek more seeds, be amazing.

00:46:01
Speaker 4: Because we've looked up some brands. Maybe is there anybody that you're you're I mean, Biggs is the one, but they don't got an next account. They got an Instagram David's. Like, my thing with David's is that's the one that will destroy everything in your mouth salt they can you know which we'll disrespect David's.

00:46:18
Speaker 7: Yeah, And that's what I was doing before we started.

00:46:21
Speaker 1: You're an animal for that, Yeah, That's what I was doing before the hardcore.

00:46:29
Speaker 4: S bro chinook and uh smacking. They are both low so they're low SODIUMIG. My big issue with David, they're a little tiny fucking seeds like they've they got comfortable at the top of a market that really has now started to catch up to them, and we you know, we're in the ground, Floyd, we're scratching the surface right because David, they got little tiny seeds. All the other ones I mean big specifically backyard barbecue. That thing is the garlic parm.

00:46:57
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I was sleeping on this.

00:46:59
Speaker 1: The in the.

00:47:03
Speaker 4: Sugar is a lead.

00:47:05
Speaker 3: I'm I'm I'm a sweet boys.

00:47:08
Speaker 7: I've been on the pepper literally like I'm shoving pepper into my mouth, like raw pepper.

00:47:13
Speaker 5: Salt pepper.

00:47:15
Speaker 3: Maybe I guess that, I mean, we all we all have that our side quest. I don't know if it's a joint side quest for the both of you, just more seeds.

00:47:24
Speaker 4: When I heard you guys talking about side quests, I do have question. Is it one that you're like promising you're doing or is more just kind of like a thing, because I think making that official sick.

00:47:34
Speaker 3: It's kind of like your side content, Like my side content is flag golf.

00:47:39
Speaker 2: Mind's painting. I have done about it, but I can feel my bones man.

00:47:47
Speaker 3: Sale for her tails, make it to midnight for him, and then we need to get cooped to start doing some streaming stuff.

00:47:54
Speaker 7: And I just have not been on the game as much. And I say that I've been saying that for.

00:47:58
Speaker 6: I would like to get back on the game, get my hand muscles worn back up before.

00:48:03
Speaker 7: It's almost gaming season.

00:48:05
Speaker 1: The winner like it's a little older.

00:48:07
Speaker 3: I feel like gaming. I feel like gaming seasons once football is over.

00:48:10
Speaker 5: I don't know if I downloaded Skate wrong.

00:48:12
Speaker 2: I saw on my marketplace or my friends list. It was like like Gary downloaded and I was like, dang, downloaded, But I never saw you actually in.

00:48:21
Speaker 5: I went in and it was like the trial or some ship.

00:48:24
Speaker 2: It's an early accident, that's what it is.

00:48:26
Speaker 5: Skate Skater literally made my guy and just rode for like five minutes.

00:48:34
Speaker 2: Island. Yeah, yeah, you have to take challenges.

00:48:38
Speaker 3: Takes you like fifteen to twenty minutes to get off.

00:48:41
Speaker 2: One of my gripes. Skate is the probably the best place to skate in that game is tutorial Island, and you cannot access it but go back. No, but there's a whole city with like four different sectors in it, and it's four different like cities within a major city. But anything that's a free game and you have that much to do in it, I'm all on it. And I think I mentioned this in a couple episodes ago, but just to feel something for video games at my old age of about to be thirty one, that is such a massive win. I just like crave that, Like, man, when I get home, I'm gonna make dinner and I'm gonna play that game until I go to sleep. And that they it does not happen a lot anymore so this week, so I'm nervous and we're like hitting.

00:49:24
Speaker 3: The Yeah, that's how That's how I am.

00:49:26
Speaker 4: Like that, Scar, what's the first game you felt that with?

00:49:29
Speaker 8: Four?

00:49:30
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, Callity four was seventh grade for me. Yeah, Modern Warfare. It just changed my life with video games, and it also was a really big moment in how to share things. I had two younger brothers, so at the top of the pecking order, it's like obviously I'm playing first, but then once the younger brothers start aging and they're like going to mom while I'm like, you know, on an epic kill Streak. Mom's coming in and she's like, after this game, James is up and I'm like fine, and then she's like and then Joey's up and I'm like, okay, this.

00:49:57
Speaker 4: Is too gonna get cold.

00:49:59
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna get cold.

00:50:00
Speaker 2: But yeah, call thorty four is a big one for me. I want to go back kind of into your life outside of seeds and working. Well, what is what is Derek like to do? Yeah, well, I'm very curious as myself, and I know the listener is too.

00:50:14
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:50:14
Speaker 4: I mean genuinely, it's funny because I feel a little bit lost from it. Like the things that I've done in my life, the number one thing is I have had which we did. I'm not ever going to say we stopped. We pause doing it. For the last seven six or seven years. Every Thursday from six to eight, I have done a live stream podcast called two Beers Deep, and I stopped it to emphasize on our streams, but also just like hold on, I need to focus on this to hit it. So love podcasting like that is my highlight, favorite thing ever I have. I believe it's at eighty five and eighty five ranking of a brewery system. So beer is always been a part of my life, like in terms of just being around the bar scene. I worked in a restaurant. I grew up with breweries. That's social for breweries. So I have a list in It's all across the country from Hawaii. I have some in Seattle, some in Philly, so obviously a ton in Pittsburgh, Nashville, Chicago, Detroit, like all these so ranking breweries, I have my own system. It's crazy.

00:51:10
Speaker 3: I have a.

00:51:10
Speaker 2: Spreadsheet can have a power ranking of just Nashville because I'd love to hear that that's breweries for me. I'm a chef's one because I love it, just like a domestic light beer. And obviously breweries you're not going to have just like you know, a course of bud light. Well yeah, I know you're listening to a bud light.

00:51:29
Speaker 3: I used to work at one. I used to work at a beer distributor, so like I've got it really big into I Pas and then two, I used to work on a TV show that would go to different breweries, so that guy main big into it. So I'm I'm a big I P a guy.

00:51:42
Speaker 4: It's funny almost bud like bud like PA and it is this big like Christ. But so to that point, you're like, Okay, I like light beer. I don't really know if a brewery I would hundred percent, but I would say you have to and obviously you're gonna know about it, have to go to Smith and Lentz. So Pilsner's one of the reasons. So for example, like you can see the best in Nashville, but you can see like how crazy and the scoring systems, and it's all filtered, and I'll share it out. I give the link to everybody. It's beer space, food scene people. Is the model beer is pretty standard. It's it's do you hit all the flas Like for example, Beard or Black Abbey in Nashville just does their beers. They don't really do specials. They do some collabse here and there. They did one called Dancing Mannequin. Those good, But like, how good is the beer that you do? Do you have all the flavors as your red el or red Al? Do you experiment? Do you try some shit? Space is the place that you're in. Do you just do it well? There's some breweries that this would be the whole area. Okay, cool? Is it set up well? Do I feel comfortable in it. Is it a sick venue food scene? Can I bring food? Or their food trucks? Do you serve food? Because not all breweries need to have it. Smith and Lentz Pizza puts them right now. Smith and Lentz is my third top brewery on this entire list. And then people. People is the people that work there, the people that are there, the people that sit at the bar, the community around it. How close are you to it? If there's somebody at the bar that's just being a jerk to people, your people score goes down, which I know is not the breweri's fault, but like that's that's what you're dragged in and shit. So the top ones I have from Tennessee Smith and Lentz right now is third. They come in at a total score of sixteen point five out of twenty, which the highest is seventeen point six.

00:53:23
Speaker 3: Rate.

00:53:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, because each one, five, ten, fifteen, twenty on it. Fate la force. Have you heard of that Fate of force?

00:53:30
Speaker 8: Is?

00:53:30
Speaker 4: It's fucking gas first and foremost it's in Wedgwood, Houston, So bro So do you know when you come to those train tracks and you make it right and there's never never make a left. You go past that apartment building, go up the hill way.

00:53:44
Speaker 2: Is it the place that sandwich spot is.

00:53:45
Speaker 5: It's at the top of the hill by ol Fourno.

00:53:47
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is the brewery next thing.

00:53:49
Speaker 3: I have been there. That place is a vibe.

00:53:52
Speaker 4: Iron No Fate La Force, but there is probably an Iron. There's a something there. Fala Force opened about two years ago.

00:54:00
Speaker 5: Gonna pause. When I went to grab Jack, I just got skin, heard a noise and I wasn't fail for us to sick.

00:54:07
Speaker 4: They do a cold Ship by Pa, which is one of the fewst places I found here. Really good. They do Star Wars Day every year. Just a total vibe. The people are awesome. Love going there. When they had the craft brew Convention in town. I bummed tickets off my buddy who makes a can drink in PA and they had a bunch of parties and that was at one of them, which was unbelievable. I'm trying to get in this dude. It's my favorite's bearded Iris is sitting here at eleven. Homestyle is the greatest beer I think that I've had. It is Yeah, Ipa and it's it's so crazy because it is an ipa, but it's an ale, but it's not quite an ale. It's juicy, but it's hazy. Every time someone comes in, I hand them one of those. And right now, Bearded Iris they're at a fifteen point eight, which is great.

00:54:46
Speaker 7: Do you have a Southern Grists on there that one hits close at home?

00:54:49
Speaker 4: Southern Grist the reason they are not higher. So they're eighteenth right now. And chef and I talked about this. I have not accounted the ranking for the restaurant in east in that restaurant s I know it does. I just have not updated. But they're My issue with them is and it's not an issue with them, but they just they knock hazes out of the bark. Hazes are a fad and if that's all you're doing, I just want to see. But they do have some sick ass.

00:55:13
Speaker 3: Beer over there.

00:55:14
Speaker 4: And then another one tenfold. If you guys have ever heard of tenfold, It is out I forget the name of the area, just a little bit outside of town. There's like a party foul out there. They do gluten free pizza, so my fiance is gluten free. Amazing. They just hit all of their beers to a beautiful point. They have a stage outside. Every time you go there's dogs running around Donaldson Yes, yeah, thank you, yeah yeah yeah. So that one rips and it just dude, I mean Barik Brewing if you've ever heard of that. Barique Brewing is next to so Titan Stadium and all that industrial park before you get to the nights in. It's in one of those loading docks and I literally, dude, So I pulled up and it's just loading dock ship everywhere, and then a wooden door that looks like I'm going to fucking Narnia and you go in, it's hole in the wall. They're the only place here that does cast brew it. So they brew the beer, they put it into an oak cast or a whiskey cask.

00:56:13
Speaker 2: Into it.

00:56:14
Speaker 4: They if you go in, they just have barrel like oak cask barrels everywhere. And what happens is Black Abbey had this for a little bit. Jamison will note their barrels, how many rotations they do, and then they ship those barrels to specific number of breweries. So Black Abby for a while was a Jamison partner. And you make the beer and then age it in that they age their beers and they do a good job with like cherry tart, sours and things. But they do cask beers, and so they'll let it age in the cask and sit there. It just deepens the flavor. It's just sick like it just it makes it different.

00:56:44
Speaker 3: This is so sick.

00:56:44
Speaker 5: What about thinking the jackalope is near us?

00:56:48
Speaker 1: Yeah?

00:56:49
Speaker 5: Monday night.

00:56:52
Speaker 4: I want to remember.

00:56:56
Speaker 3: There's one in Oh I'm thinking of fat Bottom, which.

00:57:00
Speaker 1: I'm getting so to go through?

00:57:02
Speaker 5: What's the one under the bridge h.

00:57:07
Speaker 4: Tennessee Brewers? So to go through? Which I can't. I don't know, I can't filing. Number one in Tennessee is Lens. I'll talk about one and two because they're they're there. Number one in Tennessee, I'm so sorry. Number one in Tennessee. One and two are from Pennsylvania. I'm so sorry.

00:57:23
Speaker 2: Number three in the country.

00:57:25
Speaker 4: In the country.

00:57:27
Speaker 3: Are you is this? Are these two? How many have you been in Pennsylvania?

00:57:32
Speaker 8: Oh?

00:57:32
Speaker 4: Gosh, we all Pittsburgh. There's uh so, I have Socony brewing out towards you a little bit, but that's more Pocono's. There's Pocono brewing in here. I have there's a couple in Philly and I'll tell you flat out, dude, it's not their fault. Forest and Maine is one on here. I went during COVID, So it doesn't there have a low score due to space and food because we just got to go talk about some of the other Tennessee ones in here. Marble Fox if you guys have ever heard of Marble Boxes, They took over for jackal Ope in the Gulch. So they're across from finn Googles.

00:58:06
Speaker 3: Yeah, McDougall's and like that two hands. Yeah, they they do a really good IPA. Never see anybody in there.

00:58:13
Speaker 4: I used to go in because I go to that Scouts. Paying for parking sucks, so i'd park the brewery. You get free parking for a beer, walk over to my haircut and go home.

00:58:20
Speaker 5: Do you have what's it called chef the one the zool Do you have on there? And I know Soul just bought Yeah, they bought Southern Gris. Yeah I have not because Southern Griss hasn't changed technically to what they are. But like East Nashville brew, Crazy Gnome is a sick one in East they just got a brand new spot.

00:58:36
Speaker 4: Have you been no, Okay, I.

00:58:38
Speaker 6: Was worried that they went out of business because it's not there anymore. A barbecue place moved in. Yep, that smells incredible.

00:58:46
Speaker 4: Do you know Sinkers the distributor Overn East. So there's a covered bridge and if you go through it you get the Sinkers. You make a left before it crazy Noome bought a large space out there. So I used to know one of the bartenders who was a Gaton. Yeah, Gallaton, super sick the old El Fuego. Yeah, like right that it's so tapped. So I would say, hold on, I do have I do Southern Hop inrls Inlet, South Carolina is thirty eighth on the list right now.

00:59:17
Speaker 5: Have you been to any in Birmingham, Alabama?

00:59:19
Speaker 4: I have not been to.

00:59:21
Speaker 5: They've got a couple. They've got a couple down there, like Avondale. Good people, I.

00:59:26
Speaker 4: Got yeah, good people. Good People is a good brewery I've never been.

00:59:31
Speaker 8: No.

00:59:31
Speaker 4: I have Seattle, Oklahoma City, I have Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philly, Savannah, Georgia was a good little spot which one Okay, see, I have Prairie or Tesi Nails, I have Lively Brewing, and then one of my favorite ones is stone Cloud Okay, stone Cloud's Big stone Cloud is six on my overall list.

00:59:50
Speaker 7: They put a stone Cloud in Stillwater. They put one in Stillwater right after I graduated.

00:59:56
Speaker 4: Bro that rips Angry Scotsman, rips Ola brew and who Yi and rips so no so Coonah.

01:00:07
Speaker 3: Is it?

01:00:08
Speaker 4: Yeah, Cona's Pizza rips a bi Yeah maybe. Beer Wave also went to one in Texas and wax A Hatch. I will say the two that are at the top of this list are if anybody knows me, not a shock. They're both in Pittsburgh, so extremely biased. But here's kind of what I've been forcing Clump to do. When we go for the draft. I'm forcing him to let everyone go. I have no idea if we can make that happen, and I'm forcing him to let us all stay there for a week for me to show you guys around. Probably not gonna happen, but Pittsburgh for the d O.

01:00:41
Speaker 5: Hell yeah, it'd be amazing.

01:00:43
Speaker 4: Number two on the list in the country is a brewery called Trace Brewing. Trace Brewing is done by a gentleman he used to His name is Adam Soorma is their head of like their marketing. He drove a mini bus around forever and just gave people tokens and like two different breweries. It's awesome. And then Cinderland's Ring in Pittsburgh is my number one in the country. They have a crunch trap Supreme, two story. They used to be called a spaghetti factory. They gutted it. Yard games downstairs, balcony upstairs.

01:01:09
Speaker 3: It rips.

01:01:10
Speaker 5: Have you have you ever made your own beer?

01:01:14
Speaker 4: Yeah? Man, I have the kid at home. I bought it for uh my agency. We had this thing called Conviction Days, which is if you're convicted for something, you get PTO to go do it. I went and bought it. All I miss timed is this past Christmas. I missed time when I was leaving to go home.

01:01:28
Speaker 1: On convicted Days.

01:01:32
Speaker 4: Convicted conviction you're convicted about something. Conviction to tell us you.

01:01:40
Speaker 7: Feel real strongly about it.

01:01:41
Speaker 1: Right, What would be an example for me?

01:01:43
Speaker 4: I thought I was like line of cockylat you didn't go to Now the conviction is like you're doing. Conviction is a strong feeling about something. So I'm convicted to come in here and do the best work I can do. It's a driving force. I'm gonna do everything I can not convict and young Jeezy, I'm learning. Yeah I have beer though, yes I brewed it fucked up. My whole apartment smelled like malt for like six months. It was this past Christmas messed up when I was driving home by a week, so it wouldn't have been ready and if I would have left it it would have gone bad. Poured it out. It was the best smelling beer I've ever poured out.

01:02:20
Speaker 3: But I have the kid.

01:02:21
Speaker 5: I tried to make one in college, and uh, what is it like before the last two weeks? You put yeaston didn't do that.

01:02:30
Speaker 6: Uh went to go check on it after the two weeks and there was like this layer of shit at the bottom. I was like, okay, maybe that just like happens or whatever. Drank it, drink and so so sick and like insanely buzzed.

01:02:48
Speaker 2: It was.

01:02:50
Speaker 5: It was insane.

01:02:52
Speaker 6: I remember being like, oh my god, I'm gonna pass out. And I woke up and was like that couldn't have been good for me at all, And then looked at up up and you.

01:03:00
Speaker 5: I was like, oh, missed probably.

01:03:03
Speaker 1: The most important.

01:03:03
Speaker 3: So were you just like throwing up stuff?

01:03:06
Speaker 5: I mean, I like felt sick it was more of just like a hot like flash and like a hard buzz, like just in my head and truly just laid down and then woke up like a couple hours later.

01:03:17
Speaker 1: Damn.

01:03:18
Speaker 2: Did you meet Shannon yesterday.

01:03:20
Speaker 5: Or at the girl that?

01:03:22
Speaker 2: I don't know? No?

01:03:22
Speaker 4: No, I only got to say Hidi for a second because I was with the nephew and they pulled us in.

01:03:27
Speaker 2: She's she's originally from pa and they live in Philly, but her brother is a brewmaster a small place.

01:03:34
Speaker 3: Uh where pa is she's from Bethlehem.

01:03:39
Speaker 2: It's in fish Town where Yeah, it's like the whole parlor, but I don't know. It's a small one.

01:03:45
Speaker 3: Nice that's in Philly, right, fish fish It's kind of like in a it's like northern it's kind of near like the drug area.

01:03:56
Speaker 2: Also some breaking, so to say, first time I asked Shane to be my girlfriend at the zoo Saturday.

01:04:04
Speaker 5: No, let's go it's quest.

01:04:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, that honestly kind of is my side quest. I did say the end of the year getting married. I don't know if that's gonna happen before December, but you felt very confident about it. I took Shannon down to Huntsville for a Billy Strings concert. It was her first time she's been enjoying the music. She knows how much I love it, and she was like, jokingly in the first few weeks that we had kind of been seeing each other, she was like, I'm not saying, like you're going to ask me to be your girlfriend, but if the time of her comes, She's like, I don't want it to be some grand gesture. And so we're sitting there, Billy is playing like a very beautiful love ballad, and like I have my arm around her, and it's like the whole place is lit up red. I'm like, this would be an ideal moment to whisper be like do you want to be my girlfriend? But I'm remembering she didn't want that, even though in my head, like I feel like she still would have, so I don't. But we're sitting outside the show afterwards. The O'Ryan Amphitheater is an amazing venue. If you ever have the opportunity to go, I would highly encourage it. After the show's done, outside of the venue, they have like essentially like a small space where a band plays, and they have like they're serving beer and stuff for like a few hours, We're kind of sitting on this staircase behind it and I they're playing Quartz the Killer, an awesome Neil Young song that's one of my favorites ever, and I'm just like feeling this moment. I'm like, I'm so much fun, Like she's just never been an issue with me. And I go, man, like we're sitting on ten stairs. I go, this would be she watched me play skate a lot ago. This would be an awesome ten set to hit on skate and she laughs, and I just go, do you want to be my girlfriend? And she literally is like, no fucking way, you just said that, and then like she's like, well yeah, but like and then so I you know, it was fun.

01:05:53
Speaker 1: But that's awesome yea, because because if she didn't laugh with the ten step or didn't understand.

01:06:01
Speaker 2: Let's get out of here.

01:06:02
Speaker 4: I'm glad you asked, though, because when I met my fiance, we had that thing of like I did ask her, and I have other friends who the guy was like, dude, you asked her, and the girl was like, yeah, you haven't fucking asked me and what are we doing? So I'm glad that you asked because I feel like that's always a conversation with people was like, does it just happen or do you I like the moment, Yeah, I'm with you, and I.

01:06:21
Speaker 2: Guess we are doing relationship advice. I'm not want to be giving it, but very grateful to to have met shann And she's awesome.

01:06:27
Speaker 4: She's she's done, she's just you guys know me and have known me.

01:06:33
Speaker 2: For a while, and like I can fluctuate with my moods. She keeps me very in the middle, which is great, and like on her worst days is like how I could operate on like my just like normal days. So it's it's nice to have like a good, just like person around. So yeah, I don't know why I kind of dove down the trouble, but the next time y'all meet, I'm excited. She loves beer.

01:06:55
Speaker 4: Yeah, like her brother's sick.

01:06:56
Speaker 2: She did graphic design, and so before she was really working, she was designing beer labels for her brothers like three, which is super cool.

01:07:04
Speaker 3: That's the dream.

01:07:04
Speaker 2: And so I know that he's got that and you know, kind of the same general location. I know the pirates are. You know, it's not.

01:07:13
Speaker 4: That I give no dicks to anybody that's like, oh, you're from Pa, you must love Jowell and beid On like the other side, it's like six hours that way. But no, that's sick.

01:07:21
Speaker 3: That a question. Yeah, are you going up there for Christmas?

01:07:27
Speaker 2: Probably not because Jimmy is coming from Hawaii and coming back here, so that's like a tough one. Her parents don't live there anymore. Her parents are retired now and live uh forget some retirement kind of comedy in Florida somewhere. Yeah, let's it.

01:07:44
Speaker 3: Because the reason I asked is like, one, we could up.

01:07:47
Speaker 2: If we do two ca Yeah, if we do, possibly, I would like to go up and check out her brothers like brewery and stuff at some point. That's so we'll see how it goes. But yeah, next time we're all hanging around, she would love to hear and see we're scale because that's not what I expected you to say, was your hobby? Right, Yeah, dude, I feel like I'm just learning today.

01:08:08
Speaker 4: Yeah, there are other hobbies, but that's the one that like I made a fucking spreadsheet for you.

01:08:15
Speaker 2: Wait, so if you had to go one v one Yeah, seeds versus beer.

01:08:19
Speaker 4: Oh, it's not close. It's beer and the reason it's not like I love here's how a word. If I could sit on my desk and drink as many beers as I have seeds instead at my job, that would be the dream too. Uh No beers. It's funny as like when I was doing thoughtching the bench stuff. Me and my co host on our podcast two Beers Deep, we say it because you're at your best when you're two beers deep. You can stop drinking and still get home and be fine, have a good night, or that's the peak when you have the third one in the night keeps going like two is the perfect number. And so we started doing that because during our pre pro we'd have two beers out of the six pack and then have some more there.

01:08:53
Speaker 3: But we do.

01:08:54
Speaker 4: We did vlogs of it going to breweries, and it's just it's a different thing because it's all encompassing, Like if we get to go a seedery that would be sick, but just torn the breweries and meeting the people in the stories and like her brother, like I have. One of my best friends went to college with a guy who got kicked out of his fraternity, who moved to Denver and opened up a brewery and he's just sent me merch just because we've DMed and been like, hey, this is sick. He's had a new one now and I can't remember the name of it. But it's just like a weird, thickest thieves community that I feel like I'm just like a reporter on the outside of it.

01:09:26
Speaker 5: Yeah, dude, just a beat writer for beer.

01:09:28
Speaker 3: I remember when we need a beer boys.

01:09:30
Speaker 5: Like craft beer popped off and the labels are what drew me in first.

01:09:35
Speaker 4: The labels are sick and I'm not on my phone. I have a blog that I would love from back in the day to show you guys, do you have off the top of your head, like your top three beer canned design.

01:09:49
Speaker 1: While you think we're also out of hour ten minutes on the podcast, So just keep.

01:09:53
Speaker 3: That in mind. Yeah, how are we at a battery with those?

01:09:56
Speaker 5: I well, that's looking too. The reason I asked because I've always thought like the Voodoo Ranger ones are sick.

01:10:03
Speaker 2: Coming out with a new I P a really or like a tropical I POS.

01:10:08
Speaker 3: The logos or the way the can looked is how I would pick. I would just like that one looks cool. I'm gonna try it.

01:10:15
Speaker 2: For sure, this is awesome, Like it does taste like ship.

01:10:20
Speaker 5: What's the monkey one? The milky one monkey magic? Is it magic?

01:10:23
Speaker 2: Oh?

01:10:24
Speaker 4: There's they have Golden Monkey and Sour Monkey. Yeah, those are great. I am a sucker that one.

01:10:30
Speaker 1: That one's monkey got me to.

01:10:33
Speaker 4: Golden Monkey's crazy.

01:10:33
Speaker 1: That one's Downtownes the key of can that I actually kept and I'm not even a big beer drinker, but the can looks so sick.

01:10:40
Speaker 2: It is.

01:10:40
Speaker 4: There's one called Lacto Cooler. There's a brewery called Voodoo, not Voodoo Ranger, but Voodoo that I interviewed their graphic designer just one day for our pod and it is the I can't remember it, the slimer from Goose Bump and they have it on the can and it's holographic on the can. I'll get them to The sentiment was cool.

01:10:58
Speaker 5: Because obviously it I feel like within the craft beer community is a bunch of people that have like artistic ability, crazy dude, and so for them to get to show it on they're tattoo artists without a needle at this point, like most beer guys want to be tattoo artists.

01:11:13
Speaker 4: Is how I've always met And the other thing about it. We used to go for Black Abbey and when we did their marketing and just look at Turnip Truck and look at the cans and just see shit, And I'm like, welliars aren't selling because they're sticker and you can see the sticker and it looks weird compared to these cans that are all madded. Then you got like, when you're looking at there's just so much intricacies to it, and it all comes down to the weight of it, the amount of money are you gonna store it? All, like all these logistical things that Luckily, that's why I'm a fan of it, not a part of it because it's crazy, but it's sick. Yeah, a lot of cans, dude.

01:11:40
Speaker 5: I know.

01:11:40
Speaker 2: We've talked about doing an inside the bus vlog for Golf. Whether it's kind of turn a little bit. Who knows. Potentially we could do a little brewery crawl, bring the fucking leader of the pack with us, take us top.

01:11:52
Speaker 4: In Nashville and go We'll rent one of those brew hop the green trolley buses and just go around and I'll dial the way home and still be a happy man like that.

01:12:03
Speaker 3: That'd be dope, love it.

01:12:04
Speaker 4: I have a blog here that I read for clump one day that is titled top ten beers to have that I would love to get your guys opinion on. This is from I Believe twenty twenty, so I'll go fast on it. I wrote a scenario where I was just like, these are my top ten favorite beers. Ten the first family member beer. Nothing quite hits like the first time your cousin or family member offers you a beer for the first time legally of course. Nine the oh my god, there's one beer left?

01:12:31
Speaker 3: Beer?

01:12:31
Speaker 4: Have you ever thought damn amount of beer? And magically one appears in the bottom of the fridge. Somewhat up above is looking out for you. Wow, there's a beer. Eight The Pto beer, whether you have PTO or not. Cracking a cold one while sending out the last email before a long vacation really starts the VAKA off on the right foot. This one is it's climbed up the rankings. Now. The hotel balcony beer, whether it's a new city or just celebrating the one that you love, something about pretending to be rich and famous, That just hits home. Six, and this is controversial, The airport beer at six easily the most underappreciated beer, but everyone has it is in internet mogul. Where's she off to Hawaiian shirts in October? He must be going to Sweden drinking beers at six am. Mitch five, the first one at the reception bar beer. Every single wedding reception has ended in a hangover, but nothing is more refreshing than the first beer after you watch your loved ones say I do big points if you're the one that says this rounds on me at the open bar.

01:13:25
Speaker 2: Yeah.

01:13:27
Speaker 4: Number four the before going out shower beer. Yeah, music is a must, but I didn't want to just add shower beer. It has to be about a build up. Top three the new city beer. New breweries and establishments are half the fun of traveling, but cracking the beer in a new city feels adventurous. Number two The weird day drinking beer, starting off or staring at a thirty rack out of Saturday morning. Nothing compares to it. Not birds or alarm clops can wake you up, faster coffee can't compete. The world is your oyster, and the number one beer of all time is the next beer. I'm a sucker for a good cliche, but nothing is as good as your next beer.

01:14:06
Speaker 2: That's awesome. I wasn't aware of how good of a rider you are, man.

01:14:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you.

01:14:11
Speaker 2: Really bring this in Like we're there, I can taste that.

01:14:14
Speaker 4: I have three hundred pages on my blog website of just shipped. My first one is called f James Harrison, and I didn't put it out for a week because I was like, what if he reads it and kills me? But I put it out because he had gone to the Patriots that.

01:14:26
Speaker 3: Day, so I don't think there's barely that. That may have been the best way to end off the pod.

01:14:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, because what's the best pod?

01:14:35
Speaker 3: The next one? Oh my god, campaign and we'll see you next and we'll see you next week.