1 00:00:00,390 --> 00:00:02,820 Unknown: I wrote a law saying all cab drivers must speak 2 00:00:02,910 --> 00:00:05,640 English. It was basically the taxi passenger bill of rights. 3 00:00:05,730 --> 00:00:05,790 Yeah. 4 00:00:06,210 --> 00:00:08,370 And the reason I did that was when I had a stroke, I couldn't 5 00:00:08,370 --> 00:00:11,880 drive for six months, so I was forced to take taxis. I didn't 6 00:00:11,910 --> 00:00:16,620 realize 70% of the cab drivers were Somali, and the reason is 7 00:00:16,770 --> 00:00:19,980 they got here as refugees. They didn't need citizenship. They 8 00:00:20,370 --> 00:00:24,110 all speak perfect English, but they're rude and they don't like 9 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:27,290 Americans. And they pretended they didn't speak English to 10 00:00:27,350 --> 00:00:33,170 take people on longer routes. So I passed that law, and then also 11 00:00:33,260 --> 00:00:37,130 that the passenger controls the music or no music, heat and air, 12 00:00:37,610 --> 00:00:40,250 and also the route. And it's posted. It was posted in 13 00:00:40,310 --> 00:00:43,240 everyone. So when they see my number, when I call Yellow Cap, 14 00:00:43,540 --> 00:00:44,500 they won't even answer. 15 00:00:44,770 --> 00:00:46,300 Wow! I wonder why. Yeah. 16 00:00:49,330 --> 00:00:54,820 Welcome to a podcast about music and entertainment before it all 17 00:00:54,970 --> 00:00:59,770 goes down the disposal. This is circling the drain. 18 00:01:03,210 --> 00:01:05,970 Hey, welcome back to Circling the Drain. You know me, Johnny 19 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:09,780 Bozeman, Johnny B, along with mr. J. Harper. Hey 20 00:01:10,140 --> 00:01:13,830 there, Johnny B. Suber. Hey, good to see you. And of course, 21 00:01:14,130 --> 00:01:19,170 as always, running the show is mr. McCarthy, Jimmy Mac. 22 00:01:20,460 --> 00:01:23,720 And guys, we've got a treat for you. I don't know how to 23 00:01:23,780 --> 00:01:26,270 introduce this guy because he's done everything. He's been on 24 00:01:26,300 --> 00:01:32,420 the radio. He he he has been a comedian. He has done so much in 25 00:01:32,450 --> 00:01:33,770 his life. He's even a lawyer. 26 00:01:34,100 --> 00:01:35,780 Yeah, he's been in government. I mean, 27 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:39,710 yeah, and he's tried to stop scooters in Nashville. What? But 28 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:43,810 I've got to introduce, and he's been a great friend of of ours 29 00:01:43,900 --> 00:01:47,260 for a long time. He's not in Nashville usually; he is, but 30 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:50,440 right now he's in beautiful Nantucket. Please welcome to 31 00:01:50,530 --> 00:01:52,540 Circling the Drain, Adam Dred. 32 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:56,680 Always circling the drain, longtime watcher, first time 33 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:59,110 guest. This is awesome. 34 00:01:59,530 --> 00:01:59,950 Well, I wish 35 00:02:00,070 --> 00:02:00,570 I didn't. I missed 36 00:02:00,629 --> 00:02:02,459 you on the radio, brother, too. 37 00:02:02,910 --> 00:02:05,790 Oh, I appreciate that. I appreciate that. I wish I'd 38 00:02:05,910 --> 00:02:09,270 asked you to be here with us when you were in town. That's on 39 00:02:09,390 --> 00:02:12,270 me. But it's kind of cool to see you up in Nantucket. 40 00:02:13,500 --> 00:02:15,960 It's good to be here with the gray shingles behind me. And 41 00:02:16,650 --> 00:02:19,830 these are, by the way, all the houses are gray shingle by law 42 00:02:20,730 --> 00:02:21,450 in Nantucket. Are 43 00:02:21,510 --> 00:02:22,010 they really? 44 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,970 They're all Grace Cedar shingle. Every single house. So there was 45 00:02:26,030 --> 00:02:31,130 a man in Nantucket. Well, that's the. I was just reading more 46 00:02:31,310 --> 00:02:35,450 shingles. The funny story about man from Nantucket is I years 47 00:02:35,510 --> 00:02:39,560 ago wanted to buy the domain manfromantucket.com and it was 48 00:02:39,620 --> 00:02:43,030 already owned. And about 10 years ago, I got a call from 49 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:47,410 some Russians saying, "You own man from Nantucket.org. We own 50 00:02:47,530 --> 00:02:52,450 that.com. We sell to you for 80,000 US. And I said, "I'll 51 00:02:52,510 --> 00:02:57,070 give you 70 bucks. And they go, "Okay. I bought the once was 52 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,370 made from Nantucket is the most famous limerick in the world. 53 00:03:00,910 --> 00:03:05,010 Yes, it literally is yes, best known, and so I now own it, and 54 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:11,010 I have manfromantucket.com hats. These are make Nantucket 55 00:03:11,070 --> 00:03:18,120 Nantucket again, and from my merch site, all the proceeds go 56 00:03:18,210 --> 00:03:22,070 to my animal charities. I don't keep a penny. Oh wow! Just for 57 00:03:22,910 --> 00:03:26,540 yeah. So a Nashville cat rescue and Nantucket Island safe harbor 58 00:03:26,630 --> 00:03:27,530 for animals. Yeah, 59 00:03:27,950 --> 00:03:29,960 yeah. You're a cat owner, aren't you? Or a cat? 60 00:03:30,500 --> 00:03:36,920 I'm a crazy cat lady. Yeah. Yes, I am. Hey, if I can train it, if 61 00:03:36,950 --> 00:03:38,840 I can train a cat, I can train a jury. 62 00:03:41,330 --> 00:03:45,550 Like a true attorney. So, so you, 63 00:03:46,150 --> 00:03:46,570 my cat. 64 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:48,400 Go ahead. 65 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:53,230 My cat Bonnie Dred actually has a Facebook page, but she was on 66 00:03:53,380 --> 00:03:57,400 Fox News locally and nationally because Bonnie is toilet 67 00:03:57,460 --> 00:04:01,470 trained. He is a human toilet. So, if you go to the YouTubes, 68 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:04,980 you can look up Bonnie Dred the toilet trained cat, and here she 69 00:04:04,980 --> 00:04:08,340 is in all her porn, doing what you think she's going 70 00:04:09,060 --> 00:04:09,120 to 71 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:12,030 do. So if you ever want to waste three minutes of your life and 72 00:04:12,030 --> 00:04:13,800 never get it back, have at 73 00:04:14,610 --> 00:04:17,460 it. So how how many times a year do you go to Nantucket? 74 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:22,100 Well, I live here almost five months a year. I actually 75 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:24,920 practice law up here as well as in Tennessee. 76 00:04:26,030 --> 00:04:26,450 Oh, okay. So 77 00:04:26,750 --> 00:04:27,800 I commute basically. 78 00:04:28,250 --> 00:04:28,310 Yeah, 79 00:04:28,790 --> 00:04:32,630 but I do avoid the you know the the they're called hate months. 80 00:04:32,900 --> 00:04:35,810 They're called January, February, March are literally 81 00:04:35,870 --> 00:04:39,050 called hate months because that's when the worst gossip is 82 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:40,960 spread on the island because everyone hates each other 83 00:04:41,140 --> 00:04:45,400 because no one's here. So yeah, but I avoid I avoid the I avoid 84 00:04:45,490 --> 00:04:49,060 the most clustery nor'easter time of year. But otherwise, I'm 85 00:04:49,150 --> 00:04:51,070 probably here every month, couple days. 86 00:04:51,610 --> 00:04:54,280 And you and you avoid the hate months in Nashville too. 87 00:04:55,810 --> 00:05:00,750 Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, which is now. Down there today, guys. 88 00:05:01,140 --> 00:05:04,410 Oh man, it's been brutal. We hit 100 yesterday. 89 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:07,260 I believe it's 96 at the moment. 90 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:08,850 Wow. Yeah. 91 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:12,030 Wait. Hey, since this is a podcast, am I allowed to swear 92 00:05:12,420 --> 00:05:15,240 or use kind of politically incorrect terms, or should I 93 00:05:15,300 --> 00:05:15,870 stay away from that? 94 00:05:16,890 --> 00:05:19,770 Well, I'll leave that up to my cohorts. What do you think? I 95 00:05:19,860 --> 00:05:24,320 just saw the answer in your eyes, buddy. But I 96 00:05:24,380 --> 00:05:28,490 am very offended by such things. Well, no, 97 00:05:28,580 --> 00:05:31,700 we we invite our guests to speak freely. Yeah, go ahead, Adam. 98 00:05:32,090 --> 00:05:32,240 Yep. 99 00:05:32,630 --> 00:05:36,740 No, no, no. In hindsight, this will be recorded. Invite me in 100 00:05:36,770 --> 00:05:39,740 the ass later. Some bulldog from the scene, or write some hate 101 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,460 piece about me. So anyway, I'll leave that alone. Oh, did I say 102 00:05:42,580 --> 00:05:48,910 bold light? Anyway, we're not even. We can't even say lesbian 103 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,460 anymore. That's politically incorrect. I know. We have to 104 00:05:51,520 --> 00:06:01,020 say vegetarian. Hey, speaking of that, so we have our Nantucket 105 00:06:01,020 --> 00:06:02,970 is the best place for Fourth of July, and we used to have a 106 00:06:03,330 --> 00:06:06,450 water fight on Main Street. The firefighters in the ladders 107 00:06:06,540 --> 00:06:09,180 shooting hoses, and kids with squirt guns shooting each other. 108 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:13,350 This year, it's called it's called the water game. They're 109 00:06:13,380 --> 00:06:14,910 not allowed to use fight. 110 00:06:15,420 --> 00:06:16,350 Oh no! Not 111 00:06:16,380 --> 00:06:16,980 making this up. 112 00:06:17,850 --> 00:06:19,680 Oh, we have wimpified this country. 113 00:06:21,330 --> 00:06:24,500 You know, it breaks my heart. I really think these kids today 114 00:06:24,620 --> 00:06:27,860 would not be sickly if they drank water from a hose in the 115 00:06:27,980 --> 00:06:30,650 summer and had hose water in their systems and played 116 00:06:30,890 --> 00:06:33,170 dodgeball. They wouldn't keep all these little pussy, wimpy, 117 00:06:33,470 --> 00:06:37,370 allergic, peanut scared kids around this country. Enough 118 00:06:37,430 --> 00:06:41,260 preaching. All right. Seriously, rolling in the dirt and hose 119 00:06:41,380 --> 00:06:43,510 water. Oh, I agree. Toughing up a kid. I 120 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:46,780 well, in fact, we we we didn't even have seat belts back in the 121 00:06:46,900 --> 00:06:48,790 day. You know, we we and we 122 00:06:49,090 --> 00:06:50,440 sat backwards in the way way back. 123 00:06:50,710 --> 00:06:53,440 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. And the cars didn't have jumping 124 00:06:53,650 --> 00:06:56,260 big wheels. How many helmets did you have when you were jumping 125 00:06:56,290 --> 00:06:56,890 your big wheel? 126 00:06:57,310 --> 00:07:01,650 None. Yeah, I didn't even have one when I was riding a 127 00:07:01,770 --> 00:07:02,490 motorcycle. 128 00:07:03,660 --> 00:07:05,370 God, I only wear them at my weddings. 129 00:07:07,350 --> 00:07:10,710 I wear them in my divorce divorce court. 130 00:07:11,310 --> 00:07:15,180 Oh yeah, you know I got in trouble in law school. I wrote a 131 00:07:15,300 --> 00:07:18,780 paper once called a prenuptial weight agreement, and if your 132 00:07:18,870 --> 00:07:21,260 wife gains more than 10 pounds and it's not due to being 133 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:25,610 impregnated by you. She's out with nothing. But to make it 134 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:29,420 fair, if the husband gains more than 50 pounds and it's not due 135 00:07:29,450 --> 00:07:31,820 to being impregnated, same deal. Yeah, you walk with nothing. 136 00:07:32,030 --> 00:07:33,980 Yeah. So I made it fair. You did. 137 00:07:34,250 --> 00:07:34,850 Sounds fair to me. 138 00:07:37,190 --> 00:07:40,100 Absolutely. So man, I got. So I'm really honored because I 139 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:42,490 don't know. Do these run in order? Because the last one I 140 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:46,120 saw had a friend of mine on on the show, Trace Adkins. 141 00:07:46,390 --> 00:07:46,900 Oh yes. 142 00:07:47,020 --> 00:07:50,680 And I've got I've got a long history with Trace, and I warn I 143 00:07:50,770 --> 00:07:52,870 warn you there may be a little bit of an inappropriate phrase 144 00:07:52,990 --> 00:07:55,930 here, but it is kind of funny. Well, so Trace and I met years 145 00:07:56,080 --> 00:08:00,040 ago when he was still Tracy Adkins, and he was dating Rhonda 146 00:08:00,130 --> 00:08:04,230 Forlaw, who worked at Arista, and he was playing bars out by 147 00:08:04,470 --> 00:08:07,380 the airport and stuff, and he told us about getting shot in 148 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:11,190 the heart by his first wife and stuff like that. And anyway, I 149 00:08:11,310 --> 00:08:13,980 had just gotten back from L.A. I left during the riots. That's a 150 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:17,250 whole other story. And another buddy of mine, Dave Daniel, who 151 00:08:17,310 --> 00:08:20,910 was in the movie Starman, and I was doing stand-up comedy, and 152 00:08:20,910 --> 00:08:23,210 Dave was painting houses, so I started painting houses with 153 00:08:23,210 --> 00:08:26,150 him. And he said, "Trace was looking for something to do. And 154 00:08:26,150 --> 00:08:29,270 I said, "Trace, why don't you paint houses with us? I said, 155 00:08:29,270 --> 00:08:32,870 "The wildest part is we were all over six foot four. And I said, 156 00:08:33,140 --> 00:08:35,390 "This is going to be the best advertising ever. The company's 157 00:08:35,450 --> 00:08:39,710 called Giant Painters, and our slogan is 'Ladders are for fags. 158 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:40,180 Anyway, I 159 00:08:40,450 --> 00:08:41,140 thought it 160 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:51,580 was funny. Anyway, he then signed a deal quickly. Lucky for 161 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:56,320 him. But I used to have business cards that had the F word on it. 162 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:59,530 They said Adam F and Dread on my card, and then whatever was my 163 00:08:59,680 --> 00:09:03,540 title. And anyway, Trace came on Prime Time Country when I was 164 00:09:04,020 --> 00:09:07,680 feature producer and warm up, and when you when you're doing 165 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:11,730 the rehearsal for the TV show out at TNN, they would broadcast 166 00:09:11,790 --> 00:09:15,000 the rehearsal through the entire hotel on all the TVs in every 167 00:09:15,030 --> 00:09:18,540 hotel room. So I walk out there. Trace is on stage, and sure as 168 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:23,300 heck, turning that microphone, Adam Effendre in every hotel 169 00:09:23,450 --> 00:09:29,300 room in Alberta, but neither of us got fired for that. Got the 170 00:09:29,420 --> 00:09:32,270 only time I wait. Oh, the only time I was really got fired, I 171 00:09:32,330 --> 00:09:35,300 guess, was from WTN. Do you remember? Oh, you probably 172 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:37,760 don't. When when Phil went to Philadelphia, 173 00:09:38,090 --> 00:09:38,870 yes, they brought me 174 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:43,360 into to fill in for Phil until they hired a permanent host. So 175 00:09:43,900 --> 00:09:47,050 for some reason, I decided to be fun to do breakfast on the air 176 00:09:47,230 --> 00:09:50,530 with Chef Freddy Brooker from the Trace and Absolute Vodka 177 00:09:50,650 --> 00:09:53,710 coming in to do the Bloody Marys. Apparently, it wasn't 178 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:57,220 legal to make and drink alcohol on the radio back then. Oh, 179 00:09:57,310 --> 00:09:57,910 that's right. 180 00:09:58,930 --> 00:10:04,260 I I found that out. Well, you took one for the team. 181 00:10:04,530 --> 00:10:08,910 Well, you've been on the radio quite a bit, actually. You, you 182 00:10:08,940 --> 00:10:10,860 were on Lightning 100 at one time. 183 00:10:11,850 --> 00:10:14,700 Oh, I got myself, I got myself kicked off of there on purpose. 184 00:10:14,820 --> 00:10:17,880 The way that started was I was at Thunder 94 which was like 185 00:10:18,300 --> 00:10:21,410 hard rockin' morning show with like the Ramones, and they let 186 00:10:21,410 --> 00:10:24,980 me do my playlist, and it was a low wadded station, so there was 187 00:10:25,100 --> 00:10:28,610 lightning and thunder, and thunder was more like Tori Amos, 188 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:33,710 and you know that just crap. And anyway, I took their mail demo 189 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:37,160 over to '94, and the ads were like eight bucks a pop, as 190 00:10:37,250 --> 00:10:41,180 opposed to you know 35 at lightning back in the 90s. So 191 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:45,130 they told me they were gonna simulcast us together because I 192 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:49,750 didn't want to lose my show, A Man of Leisure Mornings. They 193 00:10:49,990 --> 00:10:54,220 moved me to 100 and took away 94. Oh no, you're just doing 194 00:10:54,220 --> 00:10:57,250 this one now, and they'd hand me this playlist, and it was like 195 00:10:57,370 --> 00:11:00,100 Sarah McLachlan, you know, the stuff with dogs dying and stuff, 196 00:11:00,580 --> 00:11:03,030 and I was just so I would just get on there and go, Adam Dred, 197 00:11:03,210 --> 00:11:06,780 Lightning 100, Lightning 100, music for angry lesbians. They 198 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:09,270 go, you can't say that. I'm like, fire me, and they did. 199 00:11:09,990 --> 00:11:13,080 They just didn't renew my contract. I actually had, I was 200 00:11:13,260 --> 00:11:16,380 pretty smart back then. I actually owned 55 ad units a 201 00:11:16,500 --> 00:11:17,580 week as part of my deal. 202 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:18,750 Wow, that I 203 00:11:18,839 --> 00:11:22,489 could sell and keep 100% of, which I think they start didn't 204 00:11:22,519 --> 00:11:24,649 like that either when they realized I was making more money 205 00:11:24,799 --> 00:11:27,349 than the general manager. That does 206 00:11:27,530 --> 00:11:29,990 tend to make them mad. But I did 207 00:11:30,140 --> 00:11:33,140 the same thing over TNN. Part of my deal as warm up was I owned 208 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,900 the billboard ads, so the catering provided by and you'd 209 00:11:36,050 --> 00:11:39,050 have you know Wild Horse. But what I did is part of it. Not 210 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:42,040 only would the caterers have to pay me to be the caterer and 211 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:45,730 cater. They had to feed the crew as well as just the guests. Now 212 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:49,120 in TV shows, most most times they only feed the guests, not 213 00:11:49,330 --> 00:11:50,380 not the people that work on the show. 214 00:11:50,680 --> 00:11:51,070 Right. So 215 00:11:51,190 --> 00:11:55,210 I fed 100% of the crew every day for the three years I was there, 216 00:11:55,990 --> 00:11:58,720 and no one had ever done that before. And I was like, guys, 217 00:11:59,050 --> 00:12:01,260 this makes no sense. That you know they're union guys. They 218 00:12:01,350 --> 00:12:04,620 get off work for an hour to go drive somewhere to buy a meal to 219 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:07,380 come back and shoot. It's between the rehearsal and the 220 00:12:07,500 --> 00:12:10,980 taping, and I was like, guys, it's three bucks, and the 221 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:14,040 loyalty is amazing. I still get clients from that, and I wasn't 222 00:12:14,070 --> 00:12:16,470 even a lawyer then. But people go, you know, we remember what 223 00:12:16,500 --> 00:12:19,440 you did for us, and it's those, you know, it's those little 224 00:12:19,560 --> 00:12:23,570 gestures that that come back, it's a lovely. That's my lesson 225 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:23,900 for today. 226 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:29,600 Well, you've always been real. Speaking of, you've always been 227 00:12:29,690 --> 00:12:32,090 real good to me, man. You've always been real good to me. 228 00:12:32,210 --> 00:12:35,600 Ever since, well, ever since I met you, I mean, you were you 229 00:12:35,660 --> 00:12:39,230 were at the I think the city paper when I when I got to meet 230 00:12:39,350 --> 00:12:43,900 you, and man, you were so kind to me, and I've never forgotten 231 00:12:43,930 --> 00:12:44,020 that. 232 00:12:45,220 --> 00:12:47,830 You guys, let's see. That's what it's really all about, though. 233 00:12:48,250 --> 00:12:53,650 Everybody's got to. We got to take care of each other. So I 234 00:12:53,710 --> 00:12:56,620 have a radio. I had a radio show up here. I haven't rebooted it 235 00:12:56,620 --> 00:13:00,280 for this summer. Called Cohog Wild. We have a country station 236 00:13:00,340 --> 00:13:03,780 called Cohog Country, and the Cohog is a Nantucket clam. It's 237 00:13:03,810 --> 00:13:05,220 a very large clam. Yeah. 238 00:13:06,030 --> 00:13:10,920 So, and Country Music's big up here. Really, that is an amazing 239 00:13:11,070 --> 00:13:15,240 thing. Yeah, yeah. But hey, speaking back to the doing good 240 00:13:15,270 --> 00:13:18,930 deeds and karma stuff, we're very excited about you know the 241 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:22,700 Unitarian Church here has hosted the the reading of the 242 00:13:22,790 --> 00:13:25,940 Declaration of Independence for the last 27 years at 9 a.m. 243 00:13:26,420 --> 00:13:29,660 Everybody goes to the UU Church, gets in the pews, and they read 244 00:13:29,750 --> 00:13:32,330 the Declaration, which folks actually only takes like 11 245 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:35,030 minutes, honest, from start to finish. So if you're thinking of 246 00:13:35,450 --> 00:13:38,630 avoiding it, don't, because it's only 11 minutes. Anyway, the UU 247 00:13:39,260 --> 00:13:42,280 decided not to do it this year because the country's too 248 00:13:42,430 --> 00:13:46,900 divisive. I'm like that is the most retarded statement I've 249 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:51,820 ever heard, honestly. Because talk about being divisive, not 250 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:54,370 reading the Declaration of Independence on the 250th 251 00:13:54,820 --> 00:13:58,540 anniversary of our birth. I mean, so my church, St. Paul's 252 00:13:58,630 --> 00:14:02,250 Episcopal, said we'll take it. So we'll be there tomorrow at 253 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:05,940 nine a.m. If anyone's around Nantucket and listening to the 254 00:14:06,030 --> 00:14:08,910 show or watching the show, come on out. They may miss. We may 255 00:14:08,970 --> 00:14:13,170 not be up by then, but anyway, it's it's a great thing. We're 256 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:16,110 going to do it every year. But the neat thing about St. Paul's, 257 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:20,450 I met Father Max Wolf, who's the pastor there. And by the way, 258 00:14:20,570 --> 00:14:24,230 Episcopals have priests and nuns. The difference is with the 259 00:14:24,290 --> 00:14:27,050 Catholic Church, Episcopal priests and nuns can get married 260 00:14:27,050 --> 00:14:30,200 and have kids. It's uh, it's kind of like Catholic light. 261 00:14:30,530 --> 00:14:30,590 Wow! 262 00:14:31,340 --> 00:14:36,110 So Father Max is one of my best friends, and I noticed. So we do 263 00:14:36,170 --> 00:14:40,630 an 8:00 a.m. outdoor service and then a 9:30 indoors. I love the 264 00:14:40,660 --> 00:14:43,300 outdoor service. It's in a memorial garden. It's gorgeous, 265 00:14:43,810 --> 00:14:47,620 and I go at 6:30 every morning on Sundays, and I set it up. I 266 00:14:47,710 --> 00:14:51,520 bring 75 chairs from out inside out, and set it up in this 267 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:55,330 beautiful pastoral setting. But what I noticed was a couple 268 00:14:55,390 --> 00:14:59,200 years ago that the kids, if if kids come to church, they've got 269 00:14:59,230 --> 00:15:03,810 a. Headsets for tablets-they're not paying attention at all. So 270 00:15:04,380 --> 00:15:07,470 I notice the kids come to church and are somewhat paying 271 00:15:07,530 --> 00:15:09,960 attention on St. Francis Day when the blessing of the 272 00:15:10,110 --> 00:15:14,130 animals. So I talked Father Max into making the early service 273 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:18,810 outdoors pet friendly, and the nice article in the paper: we 274 00:15:19,170 --> 00:15:23,000 double the attendance at church on Sundays at eight a.m. because 275 00:15:23,210 --> 00:15:26,360 people are bringing dogs and cats, and a little kid can pet a 276 00:15:26,420 --> 00:15:29,090 dog or a cat. You know what? Probably won't hear the whole 277 00:15:29,180 --> 00:15:33,080 sermon, but maybe he'll hear 20% of it, which is more more than 278 00:15:33,140 --> 00:15:37,040 having on headsets and stuff. So that's my youth outreach I'm 279 00:15:37,100 --> 00:15:39,170 doing up here, basically. Adam's 280 00:15:39,230 --> 00:15:41,470 still doing great work, no matter where he's at. 281 00:15:42,610 --> 00:15:43,930 We're trying. We're trying, 282 00:15:44,020 --> 00:15:48,760 but we couldn't stop the scooters. Man, you 283 00:15:48,820 --> 00:15:52,420 know, and and the worst part. Well, the worst part is they're 284 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:55,660 dangerous. But the worst part for Nashville is these companies 285 00:15:55,720 --> 00:15:58,390 aren't even from Nashville that own them and rent them out. They 286 00:15:58,540 --> 00:16:02,700 pay $30 a year fee to Metro to have a scooter here per scooter 287 00:16:02,820 --> 00:16:07,380 license. Every time somebody falls and gets hurt on one, 288 00:16:07,530 --> 00:16:11,550 they're they're taken ER'd to our hospital ER triage there, 289 00:16:12,150 --> 00:16:14,400 and then they fly back home to whatever town they're from to 290 00:16:14,790 --> 00:16:18,000 have their surgery. So it's probably cost us as taxpayers 291 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:22,400 1000s of dollars per triage run, and then no money stays in 292 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:26,030 Nashville or or gets spent in Nashville at all. So from a 293 00:16:26,150 --> 00:16:29,180 business standpoint alone, that's a bad idea. 294 00:16:29,450 --> 00:16:30,140 Insanity. I 295 00:16:30,170 --> 00:16:32,840 mean, that's like putting a data center next to a zoo. It's just 296 00:16:33,110 --> 00:16:33,200 dumb. 297 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:38,390 Yeah. What do you think of Freddie O'Connell and and his? 298 00:16:39,230 --> 00:16:42,190 So I used to be a guest on his show, and he and Mary Mancini 299 00:16:42,220 --> 00:16:45,790 had something called Liber Radio, liberal radio show, and I 300 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,930 was the token conservative right wing guest that would come on 301 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:52,990 there and fight with him, and so we developed a friendship 302 00:16:53,020 --> 00:16:57,280 through that. I don't care for his politics at all. Yeah, he's 303 00:16:57,340 --> 00:17:01,230 a nice enough guy, you know, but but he's just he's wrong, and 304 00:17:01,290 --> 00:17:05,400 he's not a businessman. And I honestly think you have to be a 305 00:17:05,430 --> 00:17:08,280 business leader to be a mayor or a governor. I think to be 306 00:17:08,430 --> 00:17:10,650 president, you have to have served in the military and/or be 307 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:13,890 a grandfather personally. That's me. You know, I 308 00:17:14,010 --> 00:17:16,740 actually have an opportunity to interview him on my podcast. 309 00:17:17,429 --> 00:17:17,699 Really? 310 00:17:17,849 --> 00:17:19,619 Yeah. You think I should? 311 00:17:19,740 --> 00:17:20,190 What happened? 312 00:17:20,969 --> 00:17:24,169 I'm just. Oh no, he's he might be coming on. I mean, we're 313 00:17:24,229 --> 00:17:25,189 still kind of working it out. 314 00:17:25,849 --> 00:17:26,929 Oh, that would happen. Give him a kiss 315 00:17:27,019 --> 00:17:28,819 for me. I'll 316 00:17:28,910 --> 00:17:31,340 let him know. But you're right. He's not a businessman, 317 00:17:31,790 --> 00:17:34,730 especially with all the. You know, it's like 350 percent 318 00:17:34,790 --> 00:17:38,330 increases in property taxes on these businesses. It's like 319 00:17:38,450 --> 00:17:41,680 either you're that dumb, yeah, or it's you're you're just 320 00:17:42,670 --> 00:17:45,160 trying to drive these businesses out. I mean that's the only 321 00:17:45,340 --> 00:17:46,360 other reason I can think that. 322 00:17:47,739 --> 00:17:49,719 Johnny B is probably aware of this, but when I was a city 323 00:17:49,809 --> 00:17:52,629 councilman, I built the first music stage in the airport to 324 00:17:52,809 --> 00:17:56,349 immerse people in music when they got here, and that was 2003 325 00:17:56,379 --> 00:17:59,229 when I had my stroke, and they waited for me to get out of the 326 00:17:59,229 --> 00:18:02,429 hospital. And big and rich and Mayor Purcell, we christened it 327 00:18:02,519 --> 00:18:05,909 in the bag claim, and now we have over 30 stages. People are 328 00:18:06,089 --> 00:18:10,079 coming to Nashville to spend money because of music and 329 00:18:10,079 --> 00:18:12,959 because of Lower Broadway, to be honest with you, and putting 330 00:18:13,019 --> 00:18:16,169 these people out of business. Case in point, Layla's. I don't 331 00:18:16,169 --> 00:18:19,319 know if you know Layla's Honky Tonk. It's the only woman-owned 332 00:18:19,589 --> 00:18:21,589 honky tonk next to Jack's Barbecue, 333 00:18:21,979 --> 00:18:22,039 yeah, 334 00:18:22,399 --> 00:18:25,579 it's one story. They have a little balcony, you know, up 335 00:18:25,819 --> 00:18:29,539 there, but they have no roof bar, no nothing. Her taxes went 336 00:18:29,569 --> 00:18:30,649 from 30,000 to $117,000 337 00:18:32,780 --> 00:18:33,620 Good in one year. 338 00:18:34,069 --> 00:18:35,059 Good, yeah, and 339 00:18:35,180 --> 00:18:38,960 and again, she's a single woman owned business. She can't afford 340 00:18:39,230 --> 00:18:42,550 it. They're driving her out. The problem is they're basing this 341 00:18:43,090 --> 00:18:47,320 on on real estate comps on prices. Jack Coffin sold Jack's 342 00:18:47,380 --> 00:18:52,630 Barbecue, the the budding bling, for $15 million So everybody in 343 00:18:52,630 --> 00:18:55,840 the neighborhood's taxes went up. Anytime something sells 344 00:18:55,900 --> 00:18:58,690 there for millions and millions, everybody else takes the hit. 345 00:18:58,959 --> 00:19:01,179 Oh yeah. Well, it's happening in our neighborhoods. I think 346 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:05,880 the, but I think the answer is is to do some sort of a special 347 00:19:05,970 --> 00:19:09,540 zoning, an entertainment, historic quasi entertainment 348 00:19:09,570 --> 00:19:12,660 historical zoning. For example, that's going to hurt Zany's in 349 00:19:12,900 --> 00:19:15,270 the eighth room in that whole area on Eighth Avenue South as 350 00:19:15,390 --> 00:19:19,230 well. Zanies, we've been there for over 40 years. I'm I'm their 351 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:22,010 general counsel since I got out of law school and started there 352 00:19:22,070 --> 00:19:25,580 as a comic, believe it or not, but I mean their taxes through 353 00:19:25,670 --> 00:19:29,900 the roof. The eighth room, we lost we lost Douglas Corner 354 00:19:30,410 --> 00:19:33,170 because of COVID and the taxes. They couldn't afford to stay 355 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:36,770 open, so we're driving away the things that are bringing people 356 00:19:36,770 --> 00:19:37,820 to Nashville to spend money. 357 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:42,100 Yeah, and you're giving the 12th Avenue businesses are also 358 00:19:42,250 --> 00:19:43,480 taking it in the teeth. 359 00:19:44,710 --> 00:19:48,790 Oh yeah, oh yeah, and gosh, and I, you know, so speaking of 360 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:53,440 Eighth Avenue, Mayor, was it was it Megan that wanted to put bike 361 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:56,620 lanes on Eighth Avenue? Yes, take out a lane of traffic, and 362 00:19:56,680 --> 00:20:00,420 and so they hired me to stop that, and it was grown. Guitars 363 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:03,840 and stuff, and think about this: bike lanes, bike lanes. First of 364 00:20:03,870 --> 00:20:07,050 all, you're going to inconvenience 10s of 1000s of 365 00:20:07,140 --> 00:20:13,020 cars for 10s of bicycles. Literally, 10s of bicycles. 200 366 00:20:13,170 --> 00:20:17,220 days a year in Nashville, the temperature is over 83 degrees 367 00:20:17,460 --> 00:20:21,110 or under 35 degrees, which means those are days you're not going 368 00:20:21,110 --> 00:20:25,190 to be on a bicycle, but let me riddle me this. Let's say you 369 00:20:25,340 --> 00:20:29,000 have a bank, and one of your tellers wants to ride a bike to 370 00:20:29,150 --> 00:20:32,780 work and be nice and green and everything. Okay, they come in 371 00:20:32,900 --> 00:20:35,960 and they're going to be with people. So on an 85 degree day, 372 00:20:36,110 --> 00:20:39,290 when they come in, do you now have to provide a shower for 373 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:42,490 those employees? And while they're showering, is that on 374 00:20:42,550 --> 00:20:43,780 your time or their time? 375 00:20:44,860 --> 00:20:47,050 Good point. Yeah, no 376 00:20:47,170 --> 00:20:50,950 bikes. Period. Yeah. Get on a bus, Nantucket. What we do now 377 00:20:51,130 --> 00:20:56,290 is our busses are free. They're just free, and we we get grants 378 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:59,560 from the state, and it's called the Wave, and they go 379 00:20:59,740 --> 00:21:02,550 everywhere, and you can call one if you can't get to one, or 380 00:21:02,580 --> 00:21:06,300 you're handicapped, and that's free. And it's make all the 381 00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:10,110 busses free. Yeah, it's it's it's the feds will pay for it. 382 00:21:10,590 --> 00:21:14,520 Well, see that see that's why we need you. We need dread more 383 00:21:14,580 --> 00:21:16,110 than more than ever, man. 384 00:21:16,770 --> 00:21:21,110 Well, I I appreciate that, and I did my time. And again, I I 385 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:23,450 really think one of our big problems is no term limits in 386 00:21:23,540 --> 00:21:27,230 Congress or government period. I call it community tithing when I 387 00:21:27,290 --> 00:21:31,490 did my two terms. I did my ideas. I you know I made all cab 388 00:21:31,550 --> 00:21:33,950 drivers speak English. I still can't get a cab by the way, 389 00:21:34,070 --> 00:21:38,750 Nashville, as you guys know. But I wrote a law saying all cab 390 00:21:38,780 --> 00:21:41,680 drivers must speak English. It was basically the taxi passenger 391 00:21:41,770 --> 00:21:44,380 bill of rights. Yeah, and the reason I did that was when I had 392 00:21:44,410 --> 00:21:46,720 a stroke, I couldn't drive for six months, so I was forced to 393 00:21:46,780 --> 00:21:52,060 take taxis. I didn't realize 70% of the cab drivers were Somali, 394 00:21:52,570 --> 00:21:55,240 and the reason is they got here as refugees. They didn't need 395 00:21:55,330 --> 00:21:59,140 citizenship. They all speak perfect English, but they're 396 00:21:59,380 --> 00:22:02,760 rude and they don't like Americans, and they pretended 397 00:22:02,820 --> 00:22:06,990 they didn't speak English to take people on longer routes. So 398 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:11,310 I passed that law, and then also that the passenger controls the 399 00:22:11,430 --> 00:22:15,720 music or no music, heat and air, and also the route. And it's 400 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:19,110 posted was posted in everyone. So when they see my number when 401 00:22:19,140 --> 00:22:21,230 I call yellow cab, they won't even answer. 402 00:22:21,469 --> 00:22:26,359 Wow! I wonder why. Yeah. You talked about God 403 00:22:26,450 --> 00:22:26,780 for Uber. 404 00:22:27,110 --> 00:22:29,810 Well, you talked about your stroke, and I would love for 405 00:22:30,230 --> 00:22:34,370 because you know I I remember when that happened. Can you kind 406 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:38,750 of tell folks what like what happened that day and how it all 407 00:22:38,810 --> 00:22:39,530 transpired? 408 00:22:40,550 --> 00:22:46,210 You got it. So on it happened on May 30th, 2003. May 29th, I had 409 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:48,670 a headache, and I'm not the kind of guy that gets headaches. I 410 00:22:48,730 --> 00:22:51,580 just never really did. But I had it was in the back of my neck, 411 00:22:51,820 --> 00:22:54,610 and it felt like it was like going up my neck. So I went to 412 00:22:54,700 --> 00:22:58,300 CVS, bought aspirin, went home, went to bed. Didn't really hurt 413 00:22:58,390 --> 00:23:01,860 that much. The next day, I go to Green Hills Post Office, pick up 414 00:23:01,890 --> 00:23:05,160 my mail. It's and I feel kind of hot, so I get my Jeep Cherokee, 415 00:23:05,670 --> 00:23:08,700 crank up the AC, and I'm sitting there on Hillsboro Road. 416 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:12,720 Basically, next thing you know, I'm out cold, and I drove four 417 00:23:12,810 --> 00:23:17,340 miles Franklin Road, drove no recollection, four miles off a 418 00:23:17,460 --> 00:23:21,320 cliff through a slave-built wall into a tree, tearing down the 419 00:23:21,380 --> 00:23:25,730 walls of slavery, but and was found non-responsive. I coded. 420 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:30,170 They brought me back. I coded again in the ambulance, and woke 421 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:33,470 up 12 hours later with Reverend Enoch Fuzz laying hands on me. 422 00:23:33,650 --> 00:23:36,020 Actually, when I popped out of my coma, wow! And he said my 423 00:23:36,110 --> 00:23:38,090 first words were, "Please tell me I didn't hurt anybody, 424 00:23:38,180 --> 00:23:39,710 because I knew it. I'd been driving. 425 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:40,100 Yeah. 426 00:23:40,250 --> 00:23:44,200 But I won't say the name of the news channels. Channel Four. Oh, 427 00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:48,370 drinking or alcohol involved? Nancy Amos? No, Nancy Amos. This 428 00:23:48,430 --> 00:23:51,610 happened at noon on a Friday. You know I don't start drinking 429 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:52,030 till two. 430 00:23:54,190 --> 00:23:54,670 So anyway, 431 00:23:54,790 --> 00:23:57,700 but I mean they did. There's a full blood and alcohol. My 432 00:23:57,820 --> 00:24:00,100 firefighter buddy's like, we have to do this. And by the way, 433 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,490 there's nothing in your system, but we just want to verify it 434 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:06,750 for all of them. I mean, the attack piece is on me. I was 435 00:24:06,810 --> 00:24:10,350 running for office at the time. Bread crash hoax, bread 436 00:24:10,470 --> 00:24:13,830 publicity stunt to get elected. Oh, I mean, the vicious fancy 437 00:24:13,980 --> 00:24:17,820 came out. Meanwhile, you guys have a prayer circle on 997 WTN. 438 00:24:18,330 --> 00:24:21,140 We do seriously. You guys had prayer groups going out and it 439 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:21,470 worked. 440 00:24:21,649 --> 00:24:25,129 Well, in fact, we we were on WLAC at that time. Actually, 441 00:24:25,759 --> 00:24:29,209 that's right. Yeah, Phil Phil and I had got because I'd gotten 442 00:24:29,419 --> 00:24:34,129 the word from I think yeah it was it was my wife at the time. 443 00:24:34,189 --> 00:24:38,299 She was a nurse at Vanderbilt, and we got she called me and let 444 00:24:38,329 --> 00:24:43,029 me know, and so Phil and I went on the air and asked for a 445 00:24:43,179 --> 00:24:46,779 citywide prayer, and that was my first work, 446 00:24:46,869 --> 00:24:48,309 brother. Oh, it did work 447 00:24:48,339 --> 00:24:51,759 because my when I went home that night, she goes, "It doesn't 448 00:24:51,819 --> 00:24:56,169 look good, and I'm I'm beside myself. And the next day, she 449 00:24:56,349 --> 00:24:59,589 went into work and she called me and she said, "You're not going 450 00:24:59,589 --> 00:25:03,359 to believe." But Adam is sitting up and he's talking to people. I 451 00:25:03,479 --> 00:25:06,809 said, "Can he take a call? And she said, "Oh yeah, I called you 452 00:25:06,959 --> 00:25:09,869 up, and man, you're telling me jokes. And I said, "I can't 453 00:25:09,929 --> 00:25:11,759 believe this, man. Only Adam. 454 00:25:13,260 --> 00:25:15,900 You know, my my line about that, since I had another one last, 455 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:19,410 you know, last July, a brain bleed, but I'll tell you about 456 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:22,220 that. Was you know God still has more work for me to do, and the 457 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:25,760 devil still scared of me, and because it breaks my seriously, 458 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,550 it breaks my heart. All these really good people die all the 459 00:25:28,580 --> 00:25:31,370 time. It's like wait, I'm still here, and it's like I'm here for 460 00:25:31,490 --> 00:25:34,160 tribulation, aren't I? I'm going to be here for the tribulation. 461 00:25:35,270 --> 00:25:38,150 So I think that's that's probably the plan. Yeah. But so 462 00:25:38,360 --> 00:25:41,590 you know they said I had the lupus coagulant gene, which 463 00:25:41,770 --> 00:25:45,100 meant my blood. If you have lupus, it causes your blood to 464 00:25:45,250 --> 00:25:48,310 thicken. I don't have lupus, but they said I had the marker for 465 00:25:48,370 --> 00:25:53,710 the gene, so I went on coumadin for 22 years of coumadin, rat 466 00:25:53,830 --> 00:25:56,770 poison. Every month, I'd go into Vanderbilt Hospital, get a blood 467 00:25:56,830 --> 00:26:01,710 draw, see what my level was, my INR, and so I couldn't have 468 00:26:01,860 --> 00:26:05,100 lettuce or broccoli or spinach. All I could have was pizza and 469 00:26:05,130 --> 00:26:12,060 beer. You know, no. But but fast forward, I felt going to court 470 00:26:12,150 --> 00:26:15,270 last May. I was walking across the street, James Robertson 471 00:26:15,330 --> 00:26:18,960 Parkway, and a heel fell off my loafer, and I did a banana peel 472 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:21,530 split. I didn't know my heel was. I got up and I did it 473 00:26:21,530 --> 00:26:25,220 again. I ripped my my hamstrings really badly, so went to 474 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:29,090 Vanderbilt Hospital and was there for five days. It hurt so 475 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:33,620 bad I had no idea I'd hit my head. So fast forward July 22nd, 476 00:26:34,190 --> 00:26:38,270 I had a little teeny crack there that I didn't know about. We 477 00:26:38,330 --> 00:26:41,440 never checked for because I said I didn't hit my head, and I've 478 00:26:41,500 --> 00:26:44,230 got a brain bleed, and they found me non-responsive and 479 00:26:44,290 --> 00:26:48,370 life-flighted me to Brigham and Women's in Boston. When I got 480 00:26:48,490 --> 00:26:51,790 there, they said, "Why are you taking cuminin? You don't have 481 00:26:51,940 --> 00:26:56,440 the lupus coagulant gene. I'm like, "Wait, wait, what? I've 482 00:26:56,500 --> 00:27:00,900 been taking this for 22 years. I've gone to the hospital every 483 00:27:01,020 --> 00:27:05,280 month for 22 years to get checked, and they're like, "Oh, 484 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,230 you got to sue, blah blah blah. And I said, "You know what? 485 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:10,500 First of all, doctors are humans and they make mistakes. I'm 486 00:27:10,530 --> 00:27:14,460 alive. That's all I care about. But I did further research, and 487 00:27:14,490 --> 00:27:17,820 genetic markers can change. So I believe at the time I did have 488 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,710 that marker. I tested positive for it, and now it's it's gone, 489 00:27:22,220 --> 00:27:25,430 and I could say that personally because if I go get a blood draw 490 00:27:25,580 --> 00:27:29,420 right now, I will test positive for Lyme's disease. I don't have 491 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,840 it right now active, but I've had it in the past, and it's 492 00:27:33,050 --> 00:27:38,030 always going to be in my system, in some level, and then but it 493 00:27:38,270 --> 00:27:41,560 could go away eventually. It's very strange because I went in 494 00:27:41,620 --> 00:27:43,900 for something else years ago, and they said you got Lyme 495 00:27:44,020 --> 00:27:48,610 disease as well as what you know dehydration, sunstroke, and and 496 00:27:48,610 --> 00:27:51,400 that wild how those things can markers can change and go on 497 00:27:51,790 --> 00:27:51,910 you. Yeah. 498 00:27:52,450 --> 00:27:55,270 Well, your aller your allergies change every seven years. Oh 499 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:58,990 yeah. Allergies change, and I used to be immune to bee stings. 500 00:27:59,350 --> 00:28:03,150 Not anymore. Not anymore. I used to pick them up, and I was stung 501 00:28:03,270 --> 00:28:06,990 all the time and build up an immunity. Now my arm swells up 502 00:28:07,050 --> 00:28:07,800 like a deer tick. 503 00:28:08,699 --> 00:28:13,319 So yeah, well that happened to me too. Yellow jacket stung me a 504 00:28:13,439 --> 00:28:16,769 couple years ago, man. And I used to I would get stung by 505 00:28:16,889 --> 00:28:21,859 them and nothing. Boy, my hand got as big as a catcher's mitt. 506 00:28:22,639 --> 00:28:23,449 I mean, same thing, 507 00:28:23,510 --> 00:28:26,900 man. Those are, man. If one animal, if you can just kill, 508 00:28:27,350 --> 00:28:30,080 rid the world of one animal, that would be it. Not sharks, 509 00:28:30,530 --> 00:28:35,450 yellow jackets, yellow jackets and mice. Oh yeah. Hey, by the 510 00:28:35,510 --> 00:28:38,150 way, couple a couple things on the deer tick thing. We now have 511 00:28:38,210 --> 00:28:41,800 this new longhorn tick, a lone star tick. I'm not sure if 512 00:28:41,830 --> 00:28:44,110 you've heard about it. I have one that makes you allergic to 513 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:47,410 meat. Yeah, there's a new one out there, guys. Watch out for 514 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,930 it. It's a fast little tick. It's not in Tennessee yet, but 515 00:28:49,930 --> 00:28:52,780 it's on the way. Google that when you get a few minutes. 516 00:28:53,590 --> 00:28:57,460 They're brutal out here. Speaking of, so it is shark 517 00:28:57,580 --> 00:29:02,370 season, and my beach up here. I have two summers ago. I had 16 518 00:29:02,700 --> 00:29:06,180 white sharks that lived off that beach that we we would ping, you 519 00:29:06,180 --> 00:29:06,840 know, with a tracker. 520 00:29:07,169 --> 00:29:07,229 Yeah. 521 00:29:07,769 --> 00:29:10,709 And you know what? Peter Benchley said once. I thought 522 00:29:10,769 --> 00:29:13,829 that he wished he never wrote Jaws because more sharks were 523 00:29:13,949 --> 00:29:18,539 killed because of that book, Jaws. And a great white has it's 524 00:29:18,719 --> 00:29:22,009 almost has never eaten a human unless they found a dead 525 00:29:22,099 --> 00:29:25,969 decomposing human. Great white sharks eat seals. That's all 526 00:29:26,029 --> 00:29:29,299 they want. Big blubbery seals. The only time a human gets hit, 527 00:29:30,049 --> 00:29:33,499 great whites hunt up. So they're looking up. If they see a guy in 528 00:29:33,529 --> 00:29:38,089 a wetsuit on a boogie board with flippers, and they see a seal, 529 00:29:38,629 --> 00:29:41,229 and they go and they hit it and they bite you, and then they let 530 00:29:41,289 --> 00:29:43,839 you go because you're not a seal. Now you're still gonna die 531 00:29:44,289 --> 00:29:48,189 because that bite, but they're not gonna eat you. Yeah, has 532 00:29:48,399 --> 00:29:49,239 nothing to do. Is that only 533 00:29:49,450 --> 00:29:51,880 the great white species? 534 00:29:53,409 --> 00:29:56,139 That the great what the great the only shark to really be 535 00:29:56,349 --> 00:30:00,179 scared of. Well, two really, and and I I work with O search. C E 536 00:30:00,449 --> 00:30:03,659 A R C H. If you want to look them up, we tag great whites and 537 00:30:03,749 --> 00:30:08,339 stuff, and they're amazing people. The the bull shark is is 538 00:30:08,489 --> 00:30:11,399 the one to really be scared of because it's territorial. So if 539 00:30:11,429 --> 00:30:14,609 you go into its territory, it's going to hit you. Tiger sharks, 540 00:30:14,849 --> 00:30:16,799 they're just kind of strange. You just don't know what they're 541 00:30:16,859 --> 00:30:19,259 going to do. They're not going to stop and keep eating you. 542 00:30:19,319 --> 00:30:24,349 None of them are. But hammerheads are bad too. So I 543 00:30:24,589 --> 00:30:27,889 had a hammerhead two summers ago. A hammerhead hit a striped 544 00:30:28,009 --> 00:30:31,519 bass right right off of Fat Lady's Beach. I swear to God, 545 00:30:31,579 --> 00:30:34,549 that's its name, Fat Lady. Fat Lady's, and people are screaming 546 00:30:34,609 --> 00:30:37,579 and stuff, and it bit it in half. So I just walked out in 547 00:30:37,579 --> 00:30:39,589 the water and I grabbed the other half of the striper and 548 00:30:39,619 --> 00:30:41,919 pulled it out because, like, you don't want blood in the water, 549 00:30:41,979 --> 00:30:45,609 you can attract more sharks. Hammerheads rarely, rarely 550 00:30:46,089 --> 00:30:50,229 attack anything except crustaceans. Their their heads 551 00:30:50,259 --> 00:30:53,469 are actually shaped so they can look for crabs and stuff down on 552 00:30:53,529 --> 00:30:55,239 the bottom, kind of like a nurse shark, 553 00:30:55,300 --> 00:30:55,810 scavengers. 554 00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:58,120 I'm an amateur ichthyologist, if you can't tell. 555 00:30:59,050 --> 00:31:01,050 Because I mean, the reason why I ask is that there? There was 556 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:06,030 like an attack maybe a week ago off Florida. No, I can't 557 00:31:06,030 --> 00:31:08,010 remember what kind of shark it was. But the guy, you know, the 558 00:31:08,010 --> 00:31:10,860 the shark went after him and and pulled him down. And it would 559 00:31:10,860 --> 00:31:11,040 have been 560 00:31:11,070 --> 00:31:13,740 a tug, probably a tug or a bull. Yeah. Now you do hear about a 561 00:31:13,740 --> 00:31:17,190 lot about like New Smyrna Beach and all people getting bit. And 562 00:31:17,250 --> 00:31:20,130 what's happened there is tourists have fished the waters 563 00:31:20,310 --> 00:31:23,660 out. There is nothing for baby sharks to eat, so they see an 564 00:31:23,660 --> 00:31:26,450 ankle or something. They they hit anything moving. They don't 565 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,240 care. They're not trying to eat you. They're just hungry for 566 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,000 Christ's sakes, and and that's the salt. That's the fault of 567 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,300 the commercial sport fishing industry down there. They've 568 00:31:35,570 --> 00:31:36,440 fished out the water. 569 00:31:36,740 --> 00:31:38,840 Yeah. Well, you know, Adam 570 00:31:38,930 --> 00:31:39,290 coming for me. 571 00:31:40,190 --> 00:31:43,420 Adam, you you mentioned you know Jaws, you know, and of course 572 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:47,020 the story of that movie, you know they, you know, closing 573 00:31:47,110 --> 00:31:50,890 down the beach on the Fourth of July, you know, and they're 574 00:31:51,940 --> 00:31:57,340 yeah, there's Freddie O'Connell that did that, but you know, but 575 00:31:57,340 --> 00:32:00,900 he taxed the he double taxed the shark, you know, 576 00:32:01,949 --> 00:32:06,209 as we record this, I mean, it's july 3. As we record this, and 577 00:32:06,689 --> 00:32:10,229 there is an air, there's a beach up in the northeast that is 578 00:32:10,289 --> 00:32:14,429 going to be closed for july 4 because of bull sharks. And 579 00:32:14,490 --> 00:32:14,550 yeah, 580 00:32:15,329 --> 00:32:15,479 that's 581 00:32:15,539 --> 00:32:16,319 not us, but yeah, 582 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:16,980 yeah, we we 583 00:32:16,980 --> 00:32:20,510 we yeah we shut down for a finn sighting. The lifeguards will 584 00:32:20,510 --> 00:32:23,390 blow the whistle, and you've got a two-hour shutdown just to make 585 00:32:23,510 --> 00:32:27,590 sure you know it's not a bull shark, or you know. But normally 586 00:32:27,710 --> 00:32:30,170 they're not, and normally when people think they see sharks are 587 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,470 actually sunfish. They have these big dorsal fins that come 588 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:36,080 out of the water. They're big, giant, fat fish, but it's not 589 00:32:36,140 --> 00:32:38,600 even a shark. I got to say, I was actually 590 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:41,950 on Martha's Vineyard during Fourth of July one year. Oh wow! 591 00:32:42,220 --> 00:32:43,660 That's where they film jaws. Yes. 592 00:32:44,649 --> 00:32:47,589 Wow. That is where they filmed jaws. Were there at the Obamas' 593 00:32:47,679 --> 00:32:51,639 house or the Clintons? Neither. Yeah, I wasn't. I wasn't that 594 00:32:51,730 --> 00:32:54,490 famous at that point. Some things never change. 595 00:32:56,139 --> 00:32:59,379 So we call Martha's Vineyard the other island. So you got you got 596 00:32:59,439 --> 00:33:02,279 Massachusetts, Cape Cod, then you have okay, but is the 597 00:33:03,060 --> 00:33:05,850 other island? Do you look down on Martha's Vineyard, or do they 598 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,760 look up to you? Yeah, we do. We 599 00:33:08,969 --> 00:33:11,669 look at it. We look at it like Nashville looks on Memphica. It 600 00:33:12,449 --> 00:33:20,539 is. It's day trippers. There's no zoning laws. It's very very 601 00:33:21,049 --> 00:33:26,209 rich Hamptons kind of people. So and it's only five five miles 602 00:33:26,389 --> 00:33:29,419 off offshore. We're 30 miles out at sea. It's a commitment to 603 00:33:29,449 --> 00:33:29,809 come out here. 604 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:30,110 The 605 00:33:30,379 --> 00:33:32,689 people that come out and stay on Nantucket are the Friss, the 606 00:33:33,439 --> 00:33:38,209 Alexanders, Fred Thompson, the Corkers. It's this is Republican 607 00:33:38,329 --> 00:33:42,459 country, Vineyards Democrats, James Taylor. That crowd. So it 608 00:33:42,519 --> 00:33:45,639 really is. They're not. It's almost like Memphis and 609 00:33:45,699 --> 00:33:48,069 Knoxville. The difference between Martha's Vineyard and 610 00:33:48,099 --> 00:33:50,229 Nantucket. So you guys are more kid 611 00:33:50,380 --> 00:33:51,370 rock, Ted Nugent. 612 00:33:52,629 --> 00:33:55,629 Oh yeah, we're we're more kid rock. But you know, Kenny 613 00:33:55,779 --> 00:33:59,799 Chesney's been up here a couple times actually. But yeah, but 614 00:33:59,949 --> 00:34:02,519 the thing is here. It's like Nashville, like old Nashville, 615 00:34:02,789 --> 00:34:06,629 where where people don't bother celebrities and paparazzi, and 616 00:34:06,719 --> 00:34:09,149 and they just kind of fit into the thing. I mean, just into the 617 00:34:09,269 --> 00:34:11,549 whole groove of it. I mean, I was out, you know, with Ben 618 00:34:11,879 --> 00:34:13,859 Stiller. You know, but I don't know if you saw that picture. I 619 00:34:13,949 --> 00:34:17,249 did. His parents lived here. Jerry Stiller lived lived here. 620 00:34:17,549 --> 00:34:20,929 mr. Rogers lived here. Oh, mr. Rogers is a member of my church 621 00:34:21,049 --> 00:34:24,049 of St. Paul's. It was his summer church, but what people don't 622 00:34:24,079 --> 00:34:26,599 realize is mr. Rogers was a Methodist minister. 623 00:34:26,990 --> 00:34:27,800 Yeah, yeah. 624 00:34:28,310 --> 00:34:31,220 And we do the Fred Rogers Award every year for the best citizen 625 00:34:31,310 --> 00:34:35,090 for the kindest citizen. Haven't gotten that yet. I got Volunteer 626 00:34:35,150 --> 00:34:39,290 of the Year 2022 by the chamber, but which ties into something 627 00:34:39,350 --> 00:34:42,730 else. If people are around, we do something I'd love to see in 628 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,280 Nashville. We do something called the Nantucket Clean Team, 629 00:34:45,370 --> 00:34:49,480 where myself and a group, armed with grabbers and bags, and we 630 00:34:49,780 --> 00:34:52,780 hit a different beach or roadway every Saturday from eight to 631 00:34:52,810 --> 00:34:57,370 nine and just clean it up. And it's amazing the amount of trash 632 00:34:57,850 --> 00:35:00,720 that's not really intentionally tossed. It's stuff. Blows out of 633 00:35:00,870 --> 00:35:03,930 people's trucks and cars, yeah, and that's something I, you 634 00:35:03,930 --> 00:35:06,750 know, landscaping trucks especially, just kind of people 635 00:35:06,810 --> 00:35:09,720 be on the alert about that because you know it's neat 636 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,900 seeing little kids do it because people honk and say thank you 637 00:35:12,900 --> 00:35:16,260 when they're driving by on the roads and seeing the little kids 638 00:35:16,380 --> 00:35:19,590 just light up when that happens may leave may leave the world a 639 00:35:19,650 --> 00:35:20,700 little better for everybody. 640 00:35:21,240 --> 00:35:23,570 Well, see the whole difference between Nantucket and Nashville 641 00:35:23,630 --> 00:35:27,200 is that up there you're getting you know paper bags flying out 642 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,650 and everything. Here it's ladders, things like that you 643 00:35:30,740 --> 00:35:33,230 find in the interstate. Yeah, aliens. Yeah, I'm saying 644 00:35:33,530 --> 00:35:34,040 undocumented. 645 00:35:36,230 --> 00:35:40,280 And well, we do have we do have a park here where we actually 646 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:43,840 won't clean the state park, and it is state property because 647 00:35:43,930 --> 00:35:46,750 there's a group of homeless junkies that live out there, and 648 00:35:46,780 --> 00:35:49,750 there's needles thrown on the ground. And I won't let any of 649 00:35:49,780 --> 00:35:53,170 my team out there. I'll blame it. What I did clean up was 650 00:35:53,590 --> 00:35:57,100 these damn vineyard winds. You know these wind farms, this 651 00:35:57,130 --> 00:36:00,220 whole green wind farm. Oh yeah, don't restart. I'm sorry, BS. 652 00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:04,650 Those things. All right. First of all, the amount of energy 653 00:36:04,740 --> 00:36:09,900 they take to construct a one of those big wind blade wind farm 654 00:36:10,470 --> 00:36:14,160 pieces-they only last for 20 years. Yeah. And when they die, 655 00:36:14,730 --> 00:36:17,460 they die. They break off and fall in the water. And it's not 656 00:36:17,490 --> 00:36:19,920 the responsibility of the company that owns it to clean it 657 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:24,740 up. It's ours, and we had one break, and start, and the and 658 00:36:24,740 --> 00:36:27,440 they didn't let us know either. I could have had boats out there 659 00:36:27,500 --> 00:36:30,110 with nets. We could have cleaned it up fast. It was about 15 660 00:36:30,260 --> 00:36:34,190 miles out, and again, I got an army ready to go on boats to 661 00:36:34,250 --> 00:36:37,460 clean up any mess that happens up here. They didn't tell us 662 00:36:37,700 --> 00:36:40,210 until it started washing up on the beaches, and these are 663 00:36:40,300 --> 00:36:44,260 broken pieces of fiberglass, naugahyde, whatever. I stepped 664 00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:47,650 on one man, cut me bad. It's sharper than glass. It's 665 00:36:47,740 --> 00:36:50,950 breaking up and getting into fish and and other crustaceans 666 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:54,940 and mollusks. We shut down our beaches. We shut down our 667 00:36:55,030 --> 00:36:58,060 beaches not because of sharks, but because of a broken wind 668 00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:02,580 farm blade. And my buddies have a surf shop out on the beach and 669 00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:06,450 surf lessons. Couldn't do it. Beaches were all shut down. It 670 00:37:06,570 --> 00:37:09,000 cost us millions of dollars on this island. 671 00:37:09,060 --> 00:37:10,140 Oh my God! Have you 672 00:37:10,230 --> 00:37:13,710 seen that scene from Landman? Yes, Billy Bob. Yeah, he 673 00:37:13,980 --> 00:37:17,190 educates that lawyer. Yeah, like a seven-minute you know monolog 674 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,300 about you know how bad wind the the actual wind. It's 675 00:37:20,300 --> 00:37:20,840 ridiculous. It's 676 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,510 it's it's almost like battery powered cars. Well, they kill 677 00:37:23,660 --> 00:37:24,170 birds. 678 00:37:24,260 --> 00:37:26,600 I mean, the number of birds it kills. 679 00:37:27,500 --> 00:37:31,070 Oh, birds, fish, whales. Those things vibrate, and they've got 680 00:37:31,190 --> 00:37:33,740 huge engines underneath filled with oil. By the way, they don't 681 00:37:33,740 --> 00:37:34,490 tell you that word. No, 682 00:37:34,610 --> 00:37:35,630 they don't. That leaks 683 00:37:35,870 --> 00:37:39,560 out. Yeah. Speaking of that, but in Nashville, the whole thing 684 00:37:39,590 --> 00:37:44,170 with data centers ties into this, you know. And again, I 685 00:37:44,260 --> 00:37:46,330 wouldn't call myself a huge environmentalist, but I do my 686 00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:52,000 part. You know, I'm I'm a gas car guy. You know, I'm I'm you 687 00:37:52,030 --> 00:37:57,220 know. Anyway, my problem with data data centers is the amount 688 00:37:57,220 --> 00:38:01,890 of water they take to cool them. Not only does it the amount it's 689 00:38:01,950 --> 00:38:06,840 like 5 million gallons a day for a data center. Not only does it 690 00:38:06,870 --> 00:38:10,470 take that much water, it burns up about half of it. It's 691 00:38:10,620 --> 00:38:15,150 literally evaporated, but a good chunk of it is contaminated, and 692 00:38:15,240 --> 00:38:19,560 just rolls under into the water table underneath. So if you use 693 00:38:19,740 --> 00:38:23,240 well water or you have an aquifer. That water is coming 694 00:38:23,300 --> 00:38:26,660 back up, contaminated. Putting one of those next to the zoo 695 00:38:26,930 --> 00:38:30,530 might be the dumbest idea I've ever heard. Well, that's 696 00:38:30,650 --> 00:38:33,830 the thing: is that even Pamela Fur, our friend, she pointed out 697 00:38:34,370 --> 00:38:41,500 the the rub is the fact that the the the people who own the data 698 00:38:41,620 --> 00:38:44,110 center are saying, well, hey, we've got all the permits and 699 00:38:44,230 --> 00:38:47,020 basically flipping everybody off. And now Freddie's coming in 700 00:38:47,050 --> 00:38:50,110 and saying, well, that's okay. I'm just going to claim eminent 701 00:38:50,140 --> 00:38:53,530 domain. And you know, it's like, well, okay, now this is a head 702 00:38:53,620 --> 00:38:55,210 scratcher. Yeah, you know what I mean. Yeah, 703 00:38:55,300 --> 00:38:57,940 who do you back on this 704 00:38:57,940 --> 00:39:01,560 one? Well, actually, here's the problem. There, definition of 705 00:39:01,620 --> 00:39:04,440 eminent domain is the government seizing of private property for 706 00:39:04,590 --> 00:39:05,340 public use. 707 00:39:05,610 --> 00:39:05,760 Right, 708 00:39:06,630 --> 00:39:10,620 unless it's turned into a park or given to the zoo that all the 709 00:39:10,650 --> 00:39:14,130 public has free access to, you can't just take something like 710 00:39:14,190 --> 00:39:18,120 that. The permit side too is kind of interesting in in that 711 00:39:18,540 --> 00:39:21,320 how was that pre permitted before the owners could apply 712 00:39:21,470 --> 00:39:25,580 for it because it's still owned by that property has not sold 713 00:39:25,670 --> 00:39:28,880 yet. The original owners still own it. The data center people 714 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,690 people do not own the property yet. So in eminent domain 715 00:39:32,810 --> 00:39:36,740 eminent eminent domain, he would have to pay the people that 716 00:39:36,860 --> 00:39:39,980 currently own it. I don't know what their side deal is with 717 00:39:40,190 --> 00:39:43,690 Blocks BLOXX, the company building the data centers, but 718 00:39:43,720 --> 00:39:47,440 my suggestion would be this: Freddy, find a big piece of land 719 00:39:47,620 --> 00:39:50,560 way the hell away from everybody, and we've got plenty 720 00:39:50,590 --> 00:39:51,790 of land in Davidson County. 721 00:39:52,030 --> 00:39:52,330 Oh yeah, 722 00:39:53,020 --> 00:39:58,030 and trade swap it. Just do a straight land swap, and pay them 723 00:39:58,090 --> 00:40:01,560 for that land. But you know. The the other problem is going to be 724 00:40:01,620 --> 00:40:06,180 not just the lawsuit for the price of the land, but the 725 00:40:06,420 --> 00:40:10,110 detrimental reliance. That's a little legal term of the blocks 726 00:40:10,230 --> 00:40:13,920 company put all this money into surveying and whatever else they 727 00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:17,340 did to get ready to build the data center. They're going to 728 00:40:17,460 --> 00:40:19,830 sue for that money back from Nashville, and that's going to 729 00:40:19,830 --> 00:40:20,450 be a big penny. 730 00:40:20,930 --> 00:40:21,200 Oh yeah, 731 00:40:21,650 --> 00:40:24,290 because they were given some permits, so they did rely 732 00:40:24,530 --> 00:40:27,620 detrimentally to them on the fact that they were going to be 733 00:40:27,650 --> 00:40:30,200 able to build there. So this is this whole thing was just 734 00:40:30,230 --> 00:40:32,690 screwed up by Nashville, just beyond belief. 735 00:40:33,770 --> 00:40:34,220 Why is? And I'm 736 00:40:34,250 --> 00:40:35,150 glad I'm not in government. 737 00:40:37,190 --> 00:40:40,510 Well, Nashville has always been really. I don't know what's 738 00:40:40,660 --> 00:40:43,810 wrong with Nashville government, but it it just seems like it is 739 00:40:44,290 --> 00:40:46,930 poorly run, right? And has been for a long time. 740 00:40:48,130 --> 00:40:50,410 I'll tell you what. In in my my years there, and I was a 741 00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:54,970 councilman 2002 through 2007 because of a split term with uh 742 00:40:55,510 --> 00:40:58,360 with uh the Ronnie Stein debacle and Howard I filled Howard 743 00:40:58,420 --> 00:41:02,160 Gentry's seat on the council. What I have found is the person 744 00:41:02,190 --> 00:41:04,680 who took the best care of Metro employees out of all the mayors 745 00:41:04,770 --> 00:41:08,010 we've had was Megan Barry. No, don't do the joke. I know what 746 00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:11,160 you're thinking, but honestly, the police, the fire department, 747 00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:14,610 the police, any any you know codes, especially the police, 748 00:41:14,700 --> 00:41:18,180 care the the workers prepare the workers. Yeah. Now the guy 749 00:41:18,330 --> 00:41:20,720 involved in that was a friend is is a friend of mine, and so is 750 00:41:20,780 --> 00:41:24,410 Megan. I talked Megan out of running against me when I won in 751 00:41:24,470 --> 00:41:26,900 2002 because she would have beaten me, and I said I'll back 752 00:41:26,930 --> 00:41:30,170 it later on down the line. Yo, what is what she did is nothing 753 00:41:30,380 --> 00:41:33,320 no other mayor has not done. Every single mayor has had a 754 00:41:33,500 --> 00:41:36,080 concert tube bond in the history of Nashville. She happened to be 755 00:41:36,170 --> 00:41:39,530 a female. She happened to miss spend some funds on this guy 756 00:41:39,740 --> 00:41:41,620 that the other guys didn't get caught spending on their 757 00:41:41,710 --> 00:41:44,560 mistresses, right? And she paid her. She did her. You know, she 758 00:41:44,620 --> 00:41:45,130 did her time. 759 00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:45,460 Yeah. 760 00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:48,880 You know, I don't agree with her politically, but she is a dear, 761 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,880 dear friend of mine, and I'd do anything for her except probably 762 00:41:51,940 --> 00:41:57,280 vote for. But, but you know, and honestly, here's another reason 763 00:41:57,310 --> 00:41:59,860 she gets a pass. I actually hope she's not watching this. But 764 00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:03,570 anybody in this life, if you're if you lose a kid, if you're a 765 00:42:03,660 --> 00:42:07,140 parent and you lose a kid, you get a hall pass from me for life 766 00:42:07,620 --> 00:42:12,210 because there's nothing that changes, and I can't can't even 767 00:42:12,210 --> 00:42:17,640 imagine the heartbreak that woman has every day. So, you 768 00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:20,750 know, people want to. I've I've made jokes about her, but she's 769 00:42:20,780 --> 00:42:23,840 a good woman, and you know she she does what she thinks is 770 00:42:23,990 --> 00:42:26,930 right, and she did take care of the metro employees, and I'll 771 00:42:26,990 --> 00:42:27,920 always applaud her for that. 772 00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:30,920 Oh, you're not kidding! And I also, when when she lost her 773 00:42:31,100 --> 00:42:34,520 son, I I even sent her, which I I don't even know if she read it 774 00:42:34,550 --> 00:42:39,890 or not, but I sent her a note of condolence, and yeah, I felt for 775 00:42:40,010 --> 00:42:44,290 on that one. If you lose a child, man, it's that's you know 776 00:42:44,470 --> 00:42:45,850 it happens to everybody. Kids 777 00:42:45,910 --> 00:42:47,110 aren't supposed to go. They're 778 00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:51,220 not, but it does happen, and it happens more than it should. But 779 00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:52,570 yeah, that was awful. 780 00:42:54,310 --> 00:42:59,770 Yeah, yeah. So, gosh, but it it is yeah, it is wild. It's just 781 00:42:59,860 --> 00:43:01,620 wild, wild world we're in, guys. 782 00:43:01,830 --> 00:43:02,580 Yes, it is. So 783 00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:04,170 that's why you're wilder. 784 00:43:05,970 --> 00:43:08,190 I wrote some notes down actually for you guys. 785 00:43:08,399 --> 00:43:10,739 Well, go ahead. What do you think I want 786 00:43:10,740 --> 00:43:13,980 to tell you guys about? I had something kind of important. No, 787 00:43:14,100 --> 00:43:17,790 I guess it wasn't that important, mr. Rogers. Oh, 788 00:43:18,210 --> 00:43:21,620 here's the problems. Here's Nashville, and again, I hate to 789 00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:26,510 sound so old. I'm only 743, but man, don't you miss Phasins and 790 00:43:26,660 --> 00:43:30,410 the Trace, oh yeah, places like that. Hillsboro Pancake Pantry 791 00:43:30,710 --> 00:43:34,760 is everything's changed hands. It's it's just Hillsboro Village 792 00:43:34,940 --> 00:43:38,120 is now. I'm having trouble because it's gotten dangerous at 793 00:43:38,180 --> 00:43:41,320 night. We have a new element there that are not the people 794 00:43:41,650 --> 00:43:43,990 going to the bars, but people hanging out in the streets that 795 00:43:44,050 --> 00:43:47,620 can't get into these new bars, drinking in their cars, smoking, 796 00:43:49,210 --> 00:43:52,480 just being on people's buildings. Hillsboro Village, 797 00:43:52,660 --> 00:43:53,350 ladies and gentlemen, 798 00:43:53,350 --> 00:43:54,070 unbelievable. Who 799 00:43:54,130 --> 00:43:56,320 would have thought it? Because that, if Randy Rayburn were 800 00:43:56,410 --> 00:43:58,750 still here, that would not be going. That would not happen. 801 00:43:59,230 --> 00:44:03,060 And I miss Maud's courtyard. What stuff like that? yeah. 802 00:44:03,990 --> 00:44:07,380 Hey, you can still get Mods. You can still get Mods Chicken at 803 00:44:07,470 --> 00:44:07,920 Sperry's. 804 00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:08,820 Oh, really? 805 00:44:08,939 --> 00:44:11,639 They do Mods Chicken at Sperry's, Bellmead, and Cool 806 00:44:11,729 --> 00:44:14,909 Springs. Oh, by the way, so Sperry's, Sperry's was the 807 00:44:15,149 --> 00:44:18,599 original salad bar of Nashville, and they still have a salad bar. 808 00:44:19,049 --> 00:44:22,549 They were the first ones, 1974, to have Green Goddess dressing. 809 00:44:22,729 --> 00:44:25,549 You know what that means? They are now on their second bottle 810 00:44:25,669 --> 00:44:32,029 of Green Goddess. No, it's made fresh daily. And what brought 811 00:44:32,119 --> 00:44:34,429 Sam's family? They're all they're all related. What 812 00:44:34,489 --> 00:44:34,999 brought you to 813 00:44:35,090 --> 00:44:37,250 Nashville? Because I know you you were originally from 814 00:44:37,580 --> 00:44:40,730 Pennsylvania. Did you? Was it Vanderbilt going to Vanderbilt? 815 00:44:40,820 --> 00:44:42,970 Vanderbilt brought me to Nashville, and I'm I'm a damn 816 00:44:43,060 --> 00:44:43,870 Yankee. I stayed. 817 00:44:44,470 --> 00:44:45,160 Yeah, you did. I 818 00:44:45,250 --> 00:44:46,600 just loved it. Well, I'm glad you 819 00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:50,890 did, because yeah, I mean, yeah, that that's the thing I love 820 00:44:50,950 --> 00:44:54,730 about Nashville, and I think we're losing it, is that we we 821 00:44:55,060 --> 00:44:58,180 have we've had so many great, colorful characters like you, 822 00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:03,000 you know, John. Hooker. I mean, you name off all kinds of people 823 00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:06,810 that that you wouldn't find them in any other town. This town's 824 00:45:06,900 --> 00:45:07,380 unique. We 825 00:45:07,530 --> 00:45:10,170 did we did take care of our own crazies. We definitely did. 826 00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:13,290 Yeah, we did. But now we've got. I I loved your thing on bad 827 00:45:13,410 --> 00:45:15,240 Californians. Have I got a story for you? 828 00:45:15,630 --> 00:45:15,870 All right. 829 00:45:16,290 --> 00:45:19,710 A woman from California brought her what she told the hostess 830 00:45:20,190 --> 00:45:23,630 service dog with her into a restaurant, and a waitress walks 831 00:45:23,780 --> 00:45:26,300 up. She goes, "Oh, he's sweet. You can pet him. The waitress 832 00:45:26,390 --> 00:45:28,070 reached down, dog bit her in the face. 833 00:45:28,940 --> 00:45:30,020 Oh my gosh! First, 834 00:45:30,740 --> 00:45:34,490 first of all, she's she's Californian. Second of all, you 835 00:45:34,580 --> 00:45:38,600 can't pet a service dog by law, by definition of service dog. 836 00:45:39,050 --> 00:45:42,310 Strangers are not too pet. A service dog is there for sight 837 00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:47,110 or hearing or you know PTSD, but they are not to be pet. Now an 838 00:45:47,170 --> 00:45:51,340 emotional support dog that is not a service dog. So this 839 00:45:51,460 --> 00:45:55,690 woman, we got her name and address and stuff, and the the 840 00:45:58,030 --> 00:46:01,350 young waitress went and she had she had stitches and she went to 841 00:46:01,380 --> 00:46:05,940 the hospital, and she missed work. So I, I called her, and I, 842 00:46:05,970 --> 00:46:09,150 I, I reached first. I sent her demand letter, basically, it's a 843 00:46:09,390 --> 00:46:12,780 legal thing, saying, "Here's the bills. We're not trying to break 844 00:46:12,810 --> 00:46:15,210 you over the coals, but this girl lost some money. She's 845 00:46:15,270 --> 00:46:19,080 paying student loans, you know, and this is what it costs. So 846 00:46:20,670 --> 00:46:24,080 they didn't respond, so I called her, and and she's like, "Well, 847 00:46:24,890 --> 00:46:27,080 our house is being renovated right now, so I didn't get the 848 00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:29,150 letter. I said, "Well, ma'am, here's what happened. She goes, 849 00:46:29,300 --> 00:46:31,790 "Oh yeah, well, she shouldn't have pet the dog. And I said, 850 00:46:32,570 --> 00:46:34,190 "Well, ma'am, you should have brought that dog into a 851 00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:37,370 restaurant. So she goes, "Well, in California, oh, 852 00:46:37,820 --> 00:46:38,390 I could bring my 853 00:46:38,510 --> 00:46:42,520 dog in. She actually said that, "Well, in California, it was 854 00:46:42,580 --> 00:46:46,150 almost like you're not my real father. No, it was like a step 855 00:46:46,300 --> 00:46:50,500 kid thing. I was like, well, ma'am, you're not in California, 856 00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:54,550 and can you? And she goes, well, my lawyer said just sue us. I 857 00:46:54,640 --> 00:47:00,520 go, okay. So I served her. I went and filed in court, served 858 00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:03,990 her certified mail. They didn't pick it up. I called her. I 859 00:47:04,110 --> 00:47:06,930 said, "Ma'am, well, we're not. Our house is being renovated in 860 00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:10,230 Belmead. We're not staying there. Okay. Well, where can I 861 00:47:10,350 --> 00:47:13,350 serve you? So she knew she was being sued. She hung up on me. 862 00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:17,040 So I go, "Okay. Now, if you can't serve somebody by 863 00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:20,420 publication or personal service in Tennessee, you can serve 864 00:47:20,510 --> 00:47:23,360 somebody what's called publication, meaning I can put 865 00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:27,650 it in the Tennessee Inn or the Ledger for three days, and the 866 00:47:27,650 --> 00:47:29,780 the thought is you have served them if they're not going to be 867 00:47:29,930 --> 00:47:33,020 served, and they have public notice that they are being sued. 868 00:47:33,350 --> 00:47:33,410 Yeah. 869 00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:38,000 So anyway, yeah. So of course she didn't show up to court, and 870 00:47:38,780 --> 00:47:41,680 then meet and I got my judgment for a lot more money than I 871 00:47:41,770 --> 00:47:45,040 would have charged her just to pay the hospital bills, because 872 00:47:45,550 --> 00:47:49,360 of her attitude and and it cost you know an attorney, doctors 873 00:47:49,810 --> 00:47:55,030 missed work even more, so she literally that day goes and 874 00:47:55,090 --> 00:47:59,320 files a set aside. So she knew about it clearly. She no, I 875 00:47:59,410 --> 00:48:02,220 wasn't notified. We went to court, and the judge just 876 00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:04,950 literally did one of these. Like, ma'am, you knew you were 877 00:48:04,980 --> 00:48:07,200 going to be you're being sued, right? Oh yeah, I knew, but they 878 00:48:07,260 --> 00:48:10,620 didn't serve me properly. Goes, well, you know, you should have 879 00:48:10,650 --> 00:48:13,980 appealed it, and oh look, you missed the 10 days. She follows 880 00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:16,380 me. She follows me out of the courtroom, going, we're on 881 00:48:16,530 --> 00:48:20,510 social security. Can we set up a payment plan? You just sold your 882 00:48:20,630 --> 00:48:25,280 billion-dollar house in San Diego to move to a ranch in 883 00:48:25,340 --> 00:48:28,490 Belmead for probably a 10th of the cost of your house, and you 884 00:48:28,610 --> 00:48:32,210 now want a payment plan. You want a favor for me because you 885 00:48:32,240 --> 00:48:34,730 brought your dog in and bit this poor girl, and then you wouldn't 886 00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:37,850 come to court. That's California in Nashville right now. 887 00:48:38,060 --> 00:48:38,900 Boy, you're not kidding. 888 00:48:39,140 --> 00:48:42,280 They should not be allowed to. I really I hate it violates the 889 00:48:42,310 --> 00:48:46,030 Constitution, but I really think you should not be allowed to 890 00:48:46,060 --> 00:48:48,310 vote in a new city until you've lived there for five years. 891 00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:49,060 I agree. If 892 00:48:49,119 --> 00:48:49,419 you move, 893 00:48:49,810 --> 00:48:50,140 I agree. 894 00:48:50,590 --> 00:48:50,650 Yeah, 895 00:48:50,950 --> 00:48:51,730 I would agree with that. 896 00:48:51,789 --> 00:48:51,939 But 897 00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:55,840 I also have to thank you too because you you came to my 898 00:48:55,990 --> 00:49:00,690 rescue when I I won't I won't say what where I was working, 899 00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:08,400 but I have a horrible allergy to animal dander, and this place of 900 00:49:08,460 --> 00:49:12,930 employment was letting people bring their pets in, especially 901 00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:13,860 on bring weasels, 902 00:49:15,390 --> 00:49:17,550 raccoons, weasel, all kinds of crap. Everything 903 00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:21,680 was like bring your dog to work day, and it put me basically put 904 00:49:21,710 --> 00:49:23,600 me in the hospital. You were, 905 00:49:23,990 --> 00:49:25,340 yeah, man. You got really sick. I 906 00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:28,310 got really sick, and they wouldn't take it seriously, so I 907 00:49:28,370 --> 00:49:31,970 had to get you involved. And I appreciate that because you you 908 00:49:32,090 --> 00:49:33,980 really helped me out because I thought 909 00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:34,910 the Hebrew hammer. 910 00:49:39,860 --> 00:49:42,550 And I love animals, but I think people are getting a little 911 00:49:42,700 --> 00:49:47,980 crazy with, you know, like like the emotionally support animal. 912 00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:49,180 I mean, come on. Yeah, 913 00:49:49,540 --> 00:49:53,830 no, no, and you know, and those certificates you can buy online, 914 00:49:53,950 --> 00:49:55,720 or they don't work, and they don't have to honor them 915 00:49:55,780 --> 00:49:58,120 anymore. So be forewarned if you're going to the airport. 916 00:49:58,540 --> 00:50:01,020 Just be prepared to pay for it. They'll let you bring a dog or 917 00:50:01,260 --> 00:50:05,430 cat on, but not a python or chicken, and you know it's it's 918 00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:06,330 just ridiculous. Oh, 919 00:50:06,510 --> 00:50:07,020 it is. 920 00:50:07,020 --> 00:50:09,900 And honestly, a lot of people do have, and it's really funny when 921 00:50:09,930 --> 00:50:13,380 people say they're allergic to cats. I always say, get a cat 922 00:50:13,710 --> 00:50:16,740 because you actually will build up an immunity to the cat. 923 00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:17,100 Yeah. 924 00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:20,690 Now dander's different. All animals dander. That's from 925 00:50:20,750 --> 00:50:23,270 somebody who's just not cleaned, and the dander's coming off. It 926 00:50:23,270 --> 00:50:27,170 could be from a human too, man. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, 927 00:50:27,530 --> 00:50:29,540 that's me. I'm allergic to the dander. 928 00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:36,380 That's it, dander. Hell, I married her. Tanya Tucker, no, 929 00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:42,490 but you can tis her anyway. So speaking of that, you know, I 930 00:50:42,550 --> 00:50:45,340 was the lawyer on that poison pet food case from China. That's 931 00:50:45,430 --> 00:50:46,990 kind of carbon bread. 932 00:50:47,260 --> 00:50:51,790 Well, in fact, Phil Valentine's six. Yeah, Phil Valentine 933 00:50:51,850 --> 00:50:57,070 claimed that that China cat food killed his cat. It it 934 00:50:57,820 --> 00:51:01,500 did. Yeah. What they did was they put plastic to save money. 935 00:51:01,620 --> 00:51:06,450 Menu foods in China use plastic instead of food, and it would 936 00:51:06,540 --> 00:51:10,440 not. It wouldn't. It killed smaller animals, and bigger, 937 00:51:10,470 --> 00:51:14,130 bigger animals could digest it. And and that is now why I have 938 00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:17,760 two cats because I met more people. Honestly, a lot of them 939 00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:21,290 widows or widowers, and that cat, they have a six cents. They 940 00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:24,890 were almost like they were, you know, spouse at that point, and 941 00:51:24,890 --> 00:51:28,130 that was a human to them. And when that greedy company saving 942 00:51:28,220 --> 00:51:32,120 four cents a pound on food killed all these, I was I went 943 00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:34,970 for blood. We had over 100 plaintiffs. Blair and I didn't 944 00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:37,820 keep a penny of that, by the way. We it actually cost us 945 00:51:37,940 --> 00:51:40,310 money to sue those folks. We're like, no, all the money is going 946 00:51:40,310 --> 00:51:43,090 to these people, we can make money other ways. And by the 947 00:51:43,150 --> 00:51:45,760 way, Blair Durham. Hey, Bart Durham, by the way, who we lost 948 00:51:45,790 --> 00:51:48,280 last year. Oh yeah. People don't realize this about Bart, and 949 00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:51,640 they kid about his commercials. Bart Durham won the Supreme 950 00:51:51,730 --> 00:51:54,370 Court case that first allowed lawyers to advertise on 951 00:51:54,460 --> 00:51:58,180 television. Bart Durham is the reason lawyers advertise on 952 00:51:58,240 --> 00:52:02,010 television. And you know what? Great damn lawyer, I'm not 953 00:52:02,100 --> 00:52:05,640 kidding. Yeah, you know, you if you went if you still if you go 954 00:52:05,670 --> 00:52:08,130 to his son Blair, you're gonna get more money than you'd get 955 00:52:08,220 --> 00:52:11,250 probably with any other lawyer or by yourself. So there's a 956 00:52:11,340 --> 00:52:15,300 method to the madness there. But again, people talk about them 957 00:52:15,300 --> 00:52:17,490 because of something kind of goofy. The commercials were kind 958 00:52:17,490 --> 00:52:21,800 of funny. Oh yeah, and and but good lawyers, and we miss you, 959 00:52:21,860 --> 00:52:23,390 Bart. That's another great one we lost. 960 00:52:23,660 --> 00:52:24,290 Oh, you're not kidding. 961 00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:24,890 Just 962 00:52:25,190 --> 00:52:29,090 in fact, my dad, when my dad first moved to town, and you 963 00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:32,450 know his radio station. I think Bart Durham was one of the first 964 00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:36,080 clients that he had as far as a sponsor. Yeah. 965 00:52:37,370 --> 00:52:41,860 Oh yeah, man. It's he's they're good at what they do, and you 966 00:52:41,890 --> 00:52:43,960 know there's now. Let me tell you this though: when you see 967 00:52:44,470 --> 00:52:47,830 all these advertisers for law firms saying we don't get paid 968 00:52:47,860 --> 00:52:51,340 unless you get paid, that's true. But they're not going to 969 00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:55,660 take your case unless both sides have insurance. Number one, and 970 00:52:55,750 --> 00:52:59,800 they feel they have a 90% chance of winning. So, yeah, you're 971 00:52:59,830 --> 00:53:02,100 going to get paid because they are going to get paid. But if 972 00:53:02,130 --> 00:53:04,140 they don't think they're going to, you're going to get paid. 973 00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:06,210 They're not taking your case, and they don't have to. 974 00:53:06,570 --> 00:53:06,630 Yeah, 975 00:53:07,860 --> 00:53:10,410 you know the same thing with Med Mau. I get I've never taken a 976 00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:13,140 Med Mau case, but people will call all the time, and I'll 977 00:53:13,140 --> 00:53:15,780 listen to them. But when you break it down, it's not about 978 00:53:15,810 --> 00:53:19,200 the medicine. It's it's it's you know, when you break it down, 979 00:53:19,290 --> 00:53:21,680 they'll go. He was rude to my grandmother. That's why they 980 00:53:21,770 --> 00:53:23,720 want to sue in a bedside manner. 981 00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:24,140 Yeah, 982 00:53:24,530 --> 00:53:27,110 that's like with my with my law practice. I return every call 983 00:53:27,140 --> 00:53:30,650 within four to eight hours max. People that you know, doctors 984 00:53:30,710 --> 00:53:34,430 that don't respond, lawyers don't return calls in 24 hours. 985 00:53:34,910 --> 00:53:36,860 They're they're the ones getting sued for malpractice. 986 00:53:37,130 --> 00:53:37,190 Yeah, 987 00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:40,460 nothing to do with the medicine. Medicine is not an exact 988 00:53:40,490 --> 00:53:40,820 science. 989 00:53:41,420 --> 00:53:43,750 No. There's 990 00:53:43,810 --> 00:53:44,830 my other tip for teams today. 991 00:53:46,630 --> 00:53:49,900 Adam Dred's tips. Hey, I stole 992 00:53:50,050 --> 00:53:53,650 tip for teams from. I stole that from Web Wilder. You know, my 993 00:53:53,830 --> 00:53:56,830 favorite Web Wilder and the Beatniks. Oh, I remember that 994 00:53:57,220 --> 00:53:57,370 Wilder 995 00:53:58,630 --> 00:54:01,620 bucket list. Track 17. Web Wilder came from Nashville, 996 00:54:01,620 --> 00:54:05,490 1985. His Adam Dred intro on iTunes. It's just me at the exit 997 00:54:05,730 --> 00:54:08,100 in introduce him. They put me on their record, and I was like, 998 00:54:08,460 --> 00:54:11,070 now I can die. But always liked his line. 999 00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:15,360 Always liked his line on stage too. When he would he would say, 1000 00:54:15,540 --> 00:54:18,210 "Here's a song we wrote. He said, "But the good lyric fairy 1001 00:54:18,330 --> 00:54:22,980 didn't visit me and Bobby on this one. 1002 00:54:22,980 --> 00:54:27,620 Bobby, heck yeah! I I always thought if God was really a rock 1003 00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:30,470 and roll God, the biggest rock stars in the world, top three, 1004 00:54:31,220 --> 00:54:35,720 would be wet would be Warren Zevon, John Hyatt, and Webb 1005 00:54:35,810 --> 00:54:36,110 Wilder. 1006 00:54:36,229 --> 00:54:38,239 Oh yeah, definitely. 1007 00:54:38,330 --> 00:54:41,110 I was called I called Warren Zevon the dark Jimmy Buffett. 1008 00:54:42,460 --> 00:54:46,060 He was. You're right. That's. I've never heard that before. I 1009 00:54:46,090 --> 00:54:46,210 mean, 1010 00:54:46,510 --> 00:54:49,570 cheeseburger in paradise is basically rolling the headless 1011 00:54:49,690 --> 00:54:52,180 Thompson gunner. But yeah, the dark side. 1012 00:54:54,220 --> 00:54:57,220 Hey, did you ever? Did you ever have any dealings with Steve 1013 00:54:57,430 --> 00:54:57,490 Earle? 1014 00:54:59,170 --> 00:55:04,620 I did. He's. Not a fan. Oh, is he not a fan of Adam Brad? So my 1015 00:55:04,710 --> 00:55:07,830 buddy John Dotson managed them years ago. Oh, he went to L.A. 1016 00:55:07,950 --> 00:55:12,000 to do some stuff, and Steve disappeared on a little binge 1017 00:55:12,150 --> 00:55:13,890 for a few days. Oh, that's what he was doing, honey. 1018 00:55:14,100 --> 00:55:17,130 Don't for the Beverly Hillbillies soundtrack with Joe 1019 00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:17,400 Walsh. 1020 00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:19,860 I don't, I don't, I don't know what he was doing, but I know 1021 00:55:19,950 --> 00:55:24,920 he's doing a lot of smack, and he would. So anyway, I was on 1022 00:55:25,250 --> 00:55:27,440 the radio then, and John was bummed. I mean, he's a friend of 1023 00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:29,480 mine. He's working hard. He can't find his act. He's 1024 00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:30,080 managing. 1025 00:55:30,380 --> 00:55:30,440 Yeah. 1026 00:55:30,740 --> 00:55:34,820 And so I said something on the air about. I said, I said, oh, I 1027 00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:37,550 does going, hey, pretty baby, ready for me? It's a smooth 1028 00:55:37,580 --> 00:55:42,640 talking junkie back from cell block B. They go, hey, Steve. I 1029 00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:45,430 go, Steve Earle's back shooting up the charts. Oh 1030 00:55:47,860 --> 00:55:47,950 man! 1031 00:55:48,430 --> 00:55:51,250 But then he was this big anti-death penalty guy, and I 1032 00:55:51,340 --> 00:55:54,850 forget I was at some event, and he's you know, you know, and I'm 1033 00:55:54,940 --> 00:55:58,330 pro-death penalty. I mean, I'm pro death penalty pretty much 1034 00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:05,100 for everyone. But so he. He was not. Oh, that reminds me. This 1035 00:56:05,250 --> 00:56:08,340 is a great true story, guys. Running for office, when you run 1036 00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:11,460 for council at large, there's five spots, and there's there 1037 00:56:11,460 --> 00:56:14,910 were 20 of us running, and we go to all these forums, all of us, 1038 00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:16,560 and the audience could ask any question. 1039 00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:16,860 Yeah, 1040 00:56:17,250 --> 00:56:20,780 and sure enough, somebody stands up and says, "What is your 1041 00:56:20,930 --> 00:56:24,170 stance on abortion? And all these guys-it's me, Tandy Rice, 1042 00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:28,550 Howard Gentry, David Briley-all looking around like like this 1043 00:56:28,640 --> 00:56:31,850 and that. And I go, I got this one. And I stood up and I go, 1044 00:56:32,390 --> 00:56:35,480 ma'am, first of all, that's not a city council issue. But since 1045 00:56:35,570 --> 00:56:38,720 you asked, I believe every parent has the right to abort 1046 00:56:38,810 --> 00:56:43,270 any child till that child's 16 years old, because you because 1047 00:56:43,390 --> 00:56:45,610 you really don't know if you got a dud till they're a teenager. 1048 00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:52,060 Here you go, son. Drink this warm milk, Daddy. It smells like 1049 00:56:52,240 --> 00:56:59,080 almonds. Oh, another great council story. So I was on the 1050 00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:03,210 city council, and they put up that musica statue of naked men 1051 00:57:03,270 --> 00:57:07,410 and women. Yeah, which first of all, it's it's private money. I 1052 00:57:07,470 --> 00:57:09,690 don't think it's appropriate for that spot, but I had nothing. I 1053 00:57:09,690 --> 00:57:13,890 had no saying it. 7 a.m. Saturday morning. I'm maybe a 1054 00:57:13,950 --> 00:57:16,020 little. I might have had a little bit of the cocktail flu 1055 00:57:16,110 --> 00:57:20,250 that morning. This woman wakes me up from from Donald's castman 1056 00:57:20,310 --> 00:57:23,840 dread. Castleman Dred, you gotta take down that statue, them 1057 00:57:24,020 --> 00:57:27,350 naked people. I'm like, ma'am, I got a conflict of interest. It's 1058 00:57:27,590 --> 00:57:32,690 a conflict of interest. I go, yeah, I posed for it, and it was 1059 00:57:33,050 --> 00:57:43,810 and it was cold out. Might have lost the vote. Don't care. Yeah, 1060 00:57:43,900 --> 00:57:46,180 that. So I had some fun on the council too. I know. I passed 1061 00:57:46,330 --> 00:57:49,840 the law that I got the I got the holiday tree renamed the 1062 00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:50,680 Christmas tree. 1063 00:57:51,130 --> 00:57:51,820 Thank you. Because 1064 00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:54,700 I go, guys, it's a Christmas tree. It was me and Eric 1065 00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:58,150 Crafton. I go, we have a hot. We have a menorah. You know, why 1066 00:57:58,300 --> 00:58:01,170 can't we have a Christmas tree? Yeah. Oh, you know that's and 1067 00:58:01,230 --> 00:58:03,720 all of a sudden and I'm born Jewish and I'm the bad guy here. 1068 00:58:04,230 --> 00:58:04,950 Yeah, guys, 1069 00:58:05,130 --> 00:58:05,670 go figure. 1070 00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:09,870 You know, yeah, yeah. That's just kind of story of my life. 1071 00:58:11,820 --> 00:58:12,960 You know, stirring the pot. 1072 00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:22,560 Yeah, I'm circling the drain and stirring. We may have. We may. 1073 00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:25,970 may, we already have a spinoff, guys. Yes, we do. Jeffersons 1074 00:58:26,180 --> 00:58:27,080 from all of the family. 1075 00:58:27,290 --> 00:58:31,400 There you go, man. So when when do you head back to Nashville? 1076 00:58:33,020 --> 00:58:36,230 So I'll be in and out, but I'll I'll come back for football 1077 00:58:36,350 --> 00:58:38,960 season to Vanderbilt. Oh, we have, you know, I'm in 1078 00:58:39,110 --> 00:58:42,760 Vandyville. If you guys remember coming through those tailgate 1079 00:58:42,850 --> 00:58:43,090 tents? 1080 00:58:43,330 --> 00:58:43,390 Yeah, 1081 00:58:43,630 --> 00:58:47,080 there's 150 tents starting at Wedgewood, coming up to the 1082 00:58:47,170 --> 00:58:49,960 stadium. I'm tents number one and two. You'll see a sign 1083 00:58:50,050 --> 00:58:53,500 saying the Nantucket Nashville Law Office of Adam Dred. Come by 1084 00:58:53,650 --> 00:58:57,970 any time. Be my guest. Open bar. Some of your fans could come 1085 00:58:58,060 --> 00:59:01,530 too, because you're gonna have to clear it with Johnny B. But 1086 00:59:02,010 --> 00:59:03,630 I'd be down for that. They they would too. 1087 00:59:04,380 --> 00:59:08,340 They they they doubled the rates to rent the tents because of 1088 00:59:08,490 --> 00:59:08,700 Pavia. 1089 00:59:09,270 --> 00:59:09,450 Yeah. Oh 1090 00:59:10,170 --> 00:59:13,740 man. I got that. Yeah, they got a lot of woes in them now. Yeah. 1091 00:59:13,890 --> 00:59:13,980 And 1092 00:59:14,130 --> 00:59:16,740 Pavia's mom used Pavia's mom used to come to ours. That was 1093 00:59:16,830 --> 00:59:19,650 fun. I got the call. I'm in Nantucket when his brother got 1094 00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:23,240 arrested last year at the Vandy game, do you remember that? And 1095 00:59:23,240 --> 00:59:25,220 they're like, "Can you come? You know, take care of the kid. He's 1096 00:59:25,250 --> 00:59:27,710 public drunk and stuff. I go, "Probably not, because he was he 1097 00:59:27,710 --> 00:59:33,710 was at my tailgate tent. A little bit of a conflict of 1098 00:59:33,770 --> 00:59:36,830 interest, I think. But but no, we weren't. We've been going. 1099 00:59:37,250 --> 00:59:40,250 It's me and all my class in 1985. We've all been tailgating 1100 00:59:40,250 --> 00:59:44,140 together since then, and we've moved up from like 10 150 Now 1101 00:59:44,260 --> 00:59:46,990 we're tent number one and two. Oh wow! Chronologically, it's 1102 00:59:47,140 --> 00:59:49,840 pretty big honor to be up there. So come by and say hi, please. 1103 00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:50,320 Definitely. 1104 00:59:50,500 --> 00:59:54,670 Well, the Vanderbilt football team now is something to be 1105 00:59:54,850 --> 00:59:55,870 fearful of. Heck yeah! 1106 00:59:56,770 --> 00:59:58,000 Who knew? Yeah. Who knew? 1107 00:59:58,690 --> 01:00:01,710 Well, and what really helped, I. Think was the Nick Saban video. 1108 01:00:01,950 --> 01:00:05,370 I think that's what. I think that's what. What. Oh yeah. It 1109 01:00:05,970 --> 01:00:08,730 gave him a little fire right there. Put a little gasoline on 1110 01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:09,210 the fire. You 1111 01:00:09,300 --> 01:00:12,090 gotta love it. My only problem with Vanderbilt on that, and I 1112 01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:14,550 don't know who to yell at, but but Pavia should have had a 1113 01:00:14,670 --> 01:00:17,550 handler at the Heisman. Somebody should have kept him from doing 1114 01:00:17,610 --> 01:00:18,030 what he did. 1115 01:00:18,210 --> 01:00:18,270 Yeah, 1116 01:00:18,840 --> 01:00:21,200 because that that killed his career, in my opinion. 1117 01:00:21,380 --> 01:00:24,440 Yeah, I would agree. That's how we learned the hard work. 1118 01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:26,390 Nobody. Yeah, that's right. Nobody wants 1119 01:00:26,450 --> 01:00:28,430 a Pac-Man Jones on their roster. Oh boy, 1120 01:00:28,730 --> 01:00:29,270 don't kill that. 1121 01:00:30,980 --> 01:00:33,890 Pac-Man Jones. I forgot about Pac-Man. Me too. 1122 01:00:34,340 --> 01:00:34,370 Oh 1123 01:00:34,820 --> 01:00:35,030 God. 1124 01:00:35,570 --> 01:00:38,300 But you know, I mean, once he left the Titans, other teams, 1125 01:00:38,330 --> 01:00:40,370 you know, the everybody kept signing this guy. 1126 01:00:41,930 --> 01:00:42,160 Who knew? 1127 01:00:42,550 --> 01:00:42,610 Yeah, 1128 01:00:43,630 --> 01:00:52,690 it's it's a DEI hire, and the I stands for idiocy. Oh man, he 1129 01:00:52,870 --> 01:00:56,440 was there. There was not a there was not a there was not a strip 1130 01:00:56,530 --> 01:00:57,760 club that didn't know his name. 1131 01:00:59,110 --> 01:01:04,110 Oh my goodness! Do you know that was the best gig I ever had in 1132 01:01:04,110 --> 01:01:07,020 my life? When I was doing stand-up, I played. I got. I was 1133 01:01:07,140 --> 01:01:10,620 Father Guido Sarducci's opening act, Don Novello. Yeah, remember 1134 01:01:10,650 --> 01:01:14,310 him from Saturday Night Live? Yes, I am. The punch punchline 1135 01:01:14,370 --> 01:01:17,880 in Atlanta, and I was making as an opener. I was making $150 a 1136 01:01:17,940 --> 01:01:22,850 day. Now this is 1988 89 That was not bad money then, but not 1137 01:01:22,970 --> 01:01:26,270 great money. And these guys came up to me after the show and 1138 01:01:26,270 --> 01:01:29,090 said, "Hey, would you like to do a show at our club? They what 1139 01:01:29,180 --> 01:01:32,300 club? They said, "Well, it's called the Cheetah Three in 1140 01:01:32,390 --> 01:01:36,050 Atlanta, and it's the top strip club in the South. I go, "What 1141 01:01:36,080 --> 01:01:38,900 kind of show? And they said, "We want you to host the Battle of 1142 01:01:38,990 --> 01:01:42,220 the Cheetah Girls, which is the competition for the top stripper 1143 01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:48,640 in the South, 20-$5,000 prize, and I did, and I tuxedo ran it 1144 01:01:48,730 --> 01:01:53,050 like Burt Parks. I mean, a regular pageant with swimsuit 1145 01:01:53,620 --> 01:02:00,070 talent, everything, and and the funniest part is so the five 1146 01:02:00,160 --> 01:02:02,220 finalists are up there. By that point, they're all completely 1147 01:02:02,280 --> 01:02:05,100 naked, and I'm about to announce the first runner-up. And I say, 1148 01:02:05,160 --> 01:02:07,740 before I announce first runner-up, let me just say how 1149 01:02:07,890 --> 01:02:10,920 important this this position is. Because let's say the winner's 1150 01:02:11,010 --> 01:02:14,910 in some sort of scandal, then you'll be Miss Cheetah. And they 1151 01:02:15,060 --> 01:02:18,390 all looked they all looked at me like manga lords in a magic 1152 01:02:18,480 --> 01:02:20,340 show. No idea what I should say. 1153 01:02:23,270 --> 01:02:26,660 Hey man, you were real good friends with Ralphie May. What 1154 01:02:26,720 --> 01:02:28,430 can you tell us about Ralph? That 1155 01:02:28,850 --> 01:02:32,810 bitch of a wife of his. That movie is crap. It's a lot of 1156 01:02:33,410 --> 01:02:36,860 lies. Lana Turner's killed him. His wife killed him literally 1157 01:02:37,520 --> 01:02:38,990 from the stress of that divorce. 1158 01:02:39,140 --> 01:02:39,440 Wow, the 1159 01:02:39,710 --> 01:02:43,600 stuff she did to that guy. I've I have I've seen the texts. I I 1160 01:02:44,500 --> 01:02:48,460 know way too much about it. She went to TMZ and literally said 1161 01:02:48,610 --> 01:02:53,710 that he he had sex with her in a very inappropriate way, and 1162 01:02:54,340 --> 01:02:58,270 basically had taken advantage of her. Okay, not only did that not 1163 01:02:58,330 --> 01:03:02,250 happen, I have the text from her to him, telling him how much she 1164 01:03:02,550 --> 01:03:07,350 likes that position. Position, yeah. And I mean, and he was six 1165 01:03:07,380 --> 01:03:09,240 states away at the time. She said that happened. 1166 01:03:09,720 --> 01:03:09,780 Wow. 1167 01:03:10,560 --> 01:03:14,250 And and she put it on TMZ. The stress that, of course, he was 1168 01:03:14,340 --> 01:03:17,070 way overweight. But the added stress to that guy's heart with 1169 01:03:17,100 --> 01:03:20,600 that kind of stuff during a money divorce thing, he was so 1170 01:03:20,780 --> 01:03:24,440 broke. He, somebody had to lend him money to pay his taxes the 1171 01:03:24,590 --> 01:03:28,850 year he died because she had spent all his money, and now her 1172 01:03:29,120 --> 01:03:33,230 spitting on his grave with this BS movie. Don't see it because 1173 01:03:33,320 --> 01:03:36,260 it's all lies. Yeah, all lies. And there will there will be a 1174 01:03:36,290 --> 01:03:38,660 lawsuit. Unfortunately, there's nothing to get from her, and I 1175 01:03:38,690 --> 01:03:42,070 don't want to hurt her kids. Frankly, those poor kids having 1176 01:03:42,070 --> 01:03:45,310 that gold digging witch. Really, she married him because she 1177 01:03:45,640 --> 01:03:47,950 thought he was cute because she loved him. No, it was about 1178 01:03:48,130 --> 01:03:50,560 money. Yeah, and wanting to be a comedian. By the way, she's 1179 01:03:50,890 --> 01:03:52,990 banded almost every comedy club in the country. 1180 01:03:53,260 --> 01:03:53,530 Really, 1181 01:03:54,340 --> 01:03:56,080 for performing. Yeah, Lana Turner. 1182 01:03:56,740 --> 01:03:57,130 What? That's an 1183 01:03:57,190 --> 01:03:57,790 original name. 1184 01:03:58,030 --> 01:04:00,720 He seemed. He seemed. He seemed like a good guy to me, 1185 01:04:02,100 --> 01:04:05,940 nicest nicest guy in the world. He took care of everybody, and 1186 01:04:06,780 --> 01:04:10,680 gosh, and and again, I was so I got a call from a reporter 1187 01:04:11,250 --> 01:04:15,030 during the the shoot, the sniper shooting in Vegas. Yeah, and I 1188 01:04:15,090 --> 01:04:17,190 was actually about to head out there to go stay with Ralphie 1189 01:04:17,280 --> 01:04:19,530 for a week the next week, and he's like, Adam, do you have 1190 01:04:19,530 --> 01:04:21,500 anybody out there we can interview it for a Nashville 1191 01:04:21,650 --> 01:04:24,530 perspective on the shooting at the country show. I go, yeah, 1192 01:04:24,590 --> 01:04:26,330 let me call Ralphie, and I called Ralphie, and I said, Hey, 1193 01:04:26,420 --> 01:04:29,660 Ralphie, he goes, Adam, I just don't really feel good. I go, 1194 01:04:29,720 --> 01:04:32,150 man, what's what's going on? Anything I can do? No, man. I 1195 01:04:32,270 --> 01:04:34,430 go, no, man, I'll be out there tomorrow. Can I? What can we do? 1196 01:04:34,640 --> 01:04:37,640 What can we do to help you? He goes, No, I just don't feel 1197 01:04:37,760 --> 01:04:38,840 right. And then next day, 1198 01:04:39,830 --> 01:04:42,130 wow, gosh, man, that's sad. And 1199 01:04:42,130 --> 01:04:44,710 that was when she opened fire on him, and all the papers she 1200 01:04:44,890 --> 01:04:48,610 served him with. She went through more money, I mean, and 1201 01:04:48,670 --> 01:04:53,050 just embarrassed him publicly, privately, screaming at him. I 1202 01:04:53,140 --> 01:04:55,840 mean, she there's a special place in hell for that woman. 1203 01:04:56,110 --> 01:04:56,170 Yeah, 1204 01:04:56,440 --> 01:04:56,710 honestly, 1205 01:04:57,670 --> 01:05:01,290 we've been hearing a lot of stories about women like. Yeah, 1206 01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:01,980 I was 1207 01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:02,940 married to most of them. 1208 01:05:04,020 --> 01:05:14,340 You too, eh? Every boy needs a hobby. Well, what what got you 1209 01:05:14,400 --> 01:05:17,280 into comedy? Doing comedy, how did how did you break through 1210 01:05:17,430 --> 01:05:17,910 doing that? 1211 01:05:18,450 --> 01:05:20,810 So I was at Vanderbilt, and we had something called Rights of 1212 01:05:20,930 --> 01:05:25,400 Spring, and I used to I just started emceeing that, and 1213 01:05:25,520 --> 01:05:29,150 somebody said to enter this comedy contest. I was doing a 91 1214 01:05:29,210 --> 01:05:31,820 rock as well. I had a one-hour show called Adam Dred's Happy 1215 01:05:31,910 --> 01:05:36,770 Camper Show, but anyway, so I I sent in this tape to WLAC 1216 01:05:36,980 --> 01:05:40,340 actually and made the top 10, and then I got beat by some 1217 01:05:40,520 --> 01:05:43,810 no-name name Henry Cho beat me on that one. Oh wow! And then, 1218 01:05:44,830 --> 01:05:47,260 but on my first five minutes, and I kind of got the bug and 1219 01:05:47,260 --> 01:05:50,140 started doing open mic nights. But I had some fun times on the 1220 01:05:50,260 --> 01:05:54,760 road. My first time on the road was Creative Entertainment out 1221 01:05:54,790 --> 01:05:57,610 of Charlotte, and I had a Florida tour, and it was three 1222 01:05:57,790 --> 01:06:01,740 one nighters, and then the weekend in Tallahassee was that 1223 01:06:01,920 --> 01:06:06,780 yeah? And I was I was opening for this guy from Ohio, and 1224 01:06:06,810 --> 01:06:10,080 we're driving you know our separate cars, and I'm in a '72 1225 01:06:10,440 --> 01:06:14,520 BMW 2002 beater that I bought for 700 bucks from Jimmy Lester 1226 01:06:14,940 --> 01:06:18,090 from Web Wilder's band late one night, and he's in some big 1227 01:06:18,180 --> 01:06:23,330 Cadillac, and I'm in front, and and all of a sudden my radiator 1228 01:06:23,420 --> 01:06:26,510 just blew, and he and I and he comes up behind me and I'm 1229 01:06:26,600 --> 01:06:28,580 reaching to grab the thing and grabs my hand like I would have 1230 01:06:28,610 --> 01:06:31,070 burned my hand off, and anyway we're having dinner later that 1231 01:06:31,130 --> 01:06:33,050 night. He goes, you know I'm gonna be famous someday, man. I 1232 01:06:33,110 --> 01:06:37,370 go, I bet you are, and I go, yeah now now he is Steve Harvey. 1233 01:06:37,880 --> 01:06:41,590 That was Steve Harvey with my first guy towards it. Yeah, but 1234 01:06:41,620 --> 01:06:44,710 he he saved me from burning my hand off a radiator. Our first 1235 01:06:44,980 --> 01:06:49,300 experience. I'll tell you the one of the dirtiest guys I ever 1236 01:06:49,420 --> 01:06:53,290 worked with. They I got booked at Nick's Comedy Stop in Boston. 1237 01:06:53,350 --> 01:06:56,470 My first time ever being booked as a headliner, and I was 1238 01:06:56,560 --> 01:06:59,980 co-headlining with this guy named Dennis Leary. Oh, from 1239 01:07:00,070 --> 01:07:04,500 there. All right, I'm a pretty new comic, but just comedy's 1240 01:07:04,590 --> 01:07:06,570 political as well. That's why I got the gig. Yeah, 1241 01:07:06,900 --> 01:07:10,890 and I had to follow Dennis Leary in Boston. Uh-uh. They threw me 1242 01:07:11,010 --> 01:07:15,180 up there as this Southern guy just to crucify. So we switched 1243 01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:17,970 the orders the next night. But there's another kid there who's 1244 01:07:18,060 --> 01:07:20,900 kind of open micing and doing some stuff. And there's a lot of 1245 01:07:21,080 --> 01:07:24,200 one-nighter rooms around Boston and Cape Cod that these agents 1246 01:07:24,260 --> 01:07:26,870 will book out. So they'll book you for three nights for a long 1247 01:07:27,020 --> 01:07:30,470 weekend, but then they'll book you in Salem or Norwich or 1248 01:07:31,010 --> 01:07:34,010 little towns around Massachusetts. So this guy was 1249 01:07:34,100 --> 01:07:36,890 coming, driving with me, and we're talking. I go, buddy, I 1250 01:07:37,010 --> 01:07:40,570 do. I did kind of like a Seinfeld TV clean Martin Mall 1251 01:07:40,690 --> 01:07:43,960 kind of show back then. I said, "Man, just just don't take me. 1252 01:07:44,080 --> 01:07:47,170 Just don't be really dirty at the end. There's no problem, and 1253 01:07:47,200 --> 01:07:51,190 he's doing his show, and he is dirty. And at the end of it, 1254 01:07:51,460 --> 01:07:54,820 he's talking about being in bed with a girl, and just just the 1255 01:07:54,940 --> 01:07:57,850 foulest stuff ever came out of this guy's mouth. He goes, "So 1256 01:07:57,970 --> 01:08:00,720 you ready for your headliner? Here's Adam Dred, and like 1257 01:08:02,400 --> 01:08:05,400 following following following dirty comedy. Clean comedy is 1258 01:08:05,490 --> 01:08:09,570 tough. That guy's doing okay now, Joe Rogan. Oh, what? Nobody 1259 01:08:09,630 --> 01:08:14,340 would work with Joe. Joe was my opener, and we're still friends. 1260 01:08:14,820 --> 01:08:17,490 It was funny, man, but it made me work. You know, as a clean 1261 01:08:17,610 --> 01:08:21,440 comic, following a dirty comic is not easy to do. No, it really 1262 01:08:21,500 --> 01:08:24,560 makes you learn. No, the dirtiest guy ever was Bob Saget 1263 01:08:24,590 --> 01:08:26,360 was just oh yeah filthy. Yeah, 1264 01:08:26,479 --> 01:08:27,919 he was notorious for filthy. 1265 01:08:28,129 --> 01:08:30,829 Yeah, and that kind of surprised people. Definitely. 1266 01:08:31,309 --> 01:08:31,429 Yep. 1267 01:08:32,179 --> 01:08:36,289 Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. But gosh. So we have 1268 01:08:36,349 --> 01:08:39,529 comedy festivals coming up here next week. I'm a little bit 1269 01:08:39,559 --> 01:08:42,279 involved with that. I have five books about Nantucket, and the 1270 01:08:42,279 --> 01:08:44,859 fifth one's coming out this year. That are kind of you might 1271 01:08:44,889 --> 01:08:48,579 be a redneck gift, but the Nantucket version. Yeah. So it 1272 01:08:48,579 --> 01:08:51,939 would mean nothing to 99.5% of your audience, probably in 1273 01:08:51,939 --> 01:08:54,549 Nashville. But okay, we talked 1274 01:08:54,580 --> 01:08:57,910 about Nantucket and the hierarchy of Martha's Vineyard. 1275 01:08:58,720 --> 01:09:01,800 Where does Block Island fall in that hierarchy, 1276 01:09:02,309 --> 01:09:04,829 so that that's New York. That's near the Hampsteins. Yeah, 1277 01:09:06,149 --> 01:09:06,929 Montauk as well. 1278 01:09:07,259 --> 01:09:11,039 Yep. Well, I mean, it's it's a different world. It's it's 1279 01:09:11,099 --> 01:09:15,149 almost comparing California. I mean, California, you know, San 1280 01:09:15,179 --> 01:09:18,659 Diego to you know you know San Francisco. We really there's 1281 01:09:18,809 --> 01:09:21,619 there's no crossover with Block Island. I mean, so we have 1282 01:09:21,679 --> 01:09:24,319 something called the Island Cup, which is Nantucket versus 1283 01:09:24,409 --> 01:09:25,999 Martha's Vineyard in football every year. 1284 01:09:26,389 --> 01:09:26,569 Right, 1285 01:09:26,750 --> 01:09:29,840 and we always win because most of the kids here, the locals, 1286 01:09:29,930 --> 01:09:33,200 they're descendants of whalers. They're Portuguese and keep 1287 01:09:33,290 --> 01:09:35,960 they're Cape Verdean and Portuguese, so these are big 1288 01:09:36,020 --> 01:09:40,100 boys, and you know, and the and the guys on the vineyard are you 1289 01:09:40,100 --> 01:09:44,350 know, they think they're past. You know, Peter Pan people. Have 1290 01:09:44,380 --> 01:09:46,480 you guys? Have you guys ever been up there? Never, Neverland. 1291 01:09:46,870 --> 01:09:49,510 Martz has been here. No, I am not. Have you? No, 1292 01:09:49,720 --> 01:09:51,940 not not no. Technically, so 1293 01:09:52,240 --> 01:09:55,360 Nantucket, Nantucket is where Moby Dick took place. 1294 01:09:55,630 --> 01:09:56,050 Yeah, yeah. 1295 01:09:56,379 --> 01:09:59,739 This was the largest. It was. We say the dictionary definitely. 1296 01:10:00,509 --> 01:10:03,719 Dictionary definition number one: Nantucket, formerly largest 1297 01:10:03,779 --> 01:10:06,359 whaling port in the world. Definition number two: 1298 01:10:06,899 --> 01:10:11,789 traditional mating ground for upper class white children. We 1299 01:10:11,909 --> 01:10:12,959 used to-that's where 1300 01:10:13,020 --> 01:10:15,480 a lot of where we used to do a lot of fishing was Block Island 1301 01:10:15,570 --> 01:10:18,540 area. Yeah, that whole area. Oh yeah. So I grew up all around 1302 01:10:18,870 --> 01:10:21,230 tuna. I mean, we caught whatever. I mean, a lot of 1303 01:10:21,260 --> 01:10:24,980 bluefish, tuna. We came out of Charlestown Breachway and Point 1304 01:10:25,040 --> 01:10:26,540 Judith most of the time. 1305 01:10:26,930 --> 01:10:27,170 Nice. 1306 01:10:27,740 --> 01:10:27,800 Yeah. 1307 01:10:28,010 --> 01:10:31,040 I had I was tuna fishing last year, and this blue shark would 1308 01:10:31,130 --> 01:10:34,490 not leave about a 10 footer would not leave us alone because 1309 01:10:34,490 --> 01:10:36,980 we're using live bait. And as soon as you threw something in, 1310 01:10:37,070 --> 01:10:39,530 it would just pull it. So we finally caught the shark. 1311 01:10:40,250 --> 01:10:42,790 I would love. I mean, everything you're talking about brings back 1312 01:10:42,910 --> 01:10:45,340 so much nostalgia. I mean, if you guys ever get a chance to go 1313 01:10:45,430 --> 01:10:48,460 up there, go probably towards the end of the summer, going 1314 01:10:48,460 --> 01:10:52,180 into the fall. Beautiful. It is the weather is like that's 1315 01:10:52,300 --> 01:10:54,670 actually the best time, right? We call that the shoulder. 1316 01:10:54,820 --> 01:10:57,790 That's the shoulder season. Yeah, shoulder season. You want 1317 01:10:57,790 --> 01:11:00,330 to come up in the fall? The water's still warm. The kids are 1318 01:11:00,390 --> 01:11:04,290 back in school. The day trippers are gone, and if I could just be 1319 01:11:04,380 --> 01:11:06,870 here two months a year, it would be September and October. 1320 01:11:07,170 --> 01:11:07,770 Yeah, and I 1321 01:11:07,830 --> 01:11:10,890 actually I host. I'm the I chair Restaurant Week up here the 1322 01:11:10,980 --> 01:11:13,770 second week, the week after Columbus Day. I'm sorry, the 1323 01:11:13,830 --> 01:11:15,600 week before Columbus Day in October every year. 1324 01:11:16,950 --> 01:11:17,490 Wow, as part 1325 01:11:17,490 --> 01:11:19,620 of my chamber of commerce duties. Yeah, the 1326 01:11:19,950 --> 01:11:20,930 many things you do. I 1327 01:11:20,990 --> 01:11:21,740 keep busy up there. 1328 01:11:22,100 --> 01:11:25,730 What you do, don't you? You're a busy guy. You're you call 1329 01:11:25,820 --> 01:11:28,790 yourself a man of leisure, but I see you more. I mean, you're 1330 01:11:28,850 --> 01:11:29,720 doing so much. 1331 01:11:31,010 --> 01:11:33,560 I spend more time trying to look like I'm not working than 1332 01:11:33,620 --> 01:11:39,350 anyone. Adam Adam Dread Adam Dread is a brand. You know, not 1333 01:11:39,380 --> 01:11:42,820 a human, but but I really enjoy it, and and I honestly think I 1334 01:11:42,910 --> 01:11:45,370 think it's a God thing. If you know you have the power to give 1335 01:11:45,400 --> 01:11:45,640 back, 1336 01:11:45,970 --> 01:11:46,030 yeah, 1337 01:11:46,329 --> 01:11:49,719 you have to. Yeah, don't sit there. Yeah, and so while I'm 1338 01:11:49,779 --> 01:11:53,169 still healthy this month, I'll I'll keep doing what I can. 1339 01:11:53,799 --> 01:11:55,749 Well, leave the world a little better for everybody. 1340 01:11:55,990 --> 01:11:58,900 Well, you do, man. A lot of people don't realize that, but 1341 01:11:58,990 --> 01:12:03,330 you do a lot of great work, and I've and I've always looked up 1342 01:12:03,450 --> 01:12:06,120 to you. You know, you're you're you're you're one of my heroes, 1343 01:12:06,300 --> 01:12:07,830 and I hope you know that. Thank you, 1344 01:12:07,890 --> 01:12:10,710 brother. Reciprocal. Well, I appreciate fun. Thanks for 1345 01:12:10,800 --> 01:12:11,370 having me, guys. 1346 01:12:11,550 --> 01:12:15,330 Oh, it's been our pleasure, man. And anytime you want to invite. 1347 01:12:15,390 --> 01:12:19,080 In fact, if you ever want us to do a live, we we could do a live 1348 01:12:19,440 --> 01:12:22,340 show. Yeah, we could do a live show at the Vandy 10. Yeah, 1349 01:12:22,640 --> 01:12:23,600 we'll do a live stream. 1350 01:12:24,319 --> 01:12:24,379 Yeah, 1351 01:12:24,469 --> 01:12:26,629 we can, or we can do it at my Vandy tent, or we can do it on 1352 01:12:26,659 --> 01:12:27,379 my boat up here. 1353 01:12:28,010 --> 01:12:29,690 Hell to hell! Let's do a boat. 1354 01:12:29,989 --> 01:12:34,549 Yeah, let's do both. Let's do both. Yeah, let's get a sponsor 1355 01:12:34,969 --> 01:12:35,089 doing. 1356 01:12:36,620 --> 01:12:39,410 Here's my shameless self promotion. If anybody does need 1357 01:12:39,500 --> 01:12:43,360 any, I don't charge to consult somebody legally. I'm easy to 1358 01:12:43,450 --> 01:12:47,710 find. If you can remember this, my number is triple 8d U I Adam. 1359 01:12:48,130 --> 01:12:50,050 If you can spell my number, you're not drunk, 1360 01:12:56,020 --> 01:12:58,480 dude. Great way to end it. Pleasure meeting you. Well, 1361 01:12:58,630 --> 01:13:01,980 dude, it's been have fun having you on. And we're gonna have you 1362 01:13:02,040 --> 01:13:04,230 back on when you're in town, man. Definitely, 1363 01:13:05,009 --> 01:13:07,469 I'm I'm on it. This has been my pleasure, guys. Thank you. God 1364 01:13:07,650 --> 01:13:10,500 bless you, brother, and thanks for joining us on Circling the 1365 01:13:10,620 --> 01:13:12,600 Drain. Where can people check us out, brother Jay? 1366 01:13:12,900 --> 01:13:14,850 Well, of course, there's always the website 1367 01:13:14,940 --> 01:13:19,560 circlingthedrain.net, and if you also want to keep looking at us, 1368 01:13:19,680 --> 01:13:24,710 you can go to our Facebook page, as well as our YouTube channel, 1369 01:13:24,770 --> 01:13:28,550 and of course the audios on all of the podcast platforms: Apple 1370 01:13:28,670 --> 01:13:33,560 Podcast and Spotify. Everybody knows where they can go. Yeah, 1371 01:13:33,860 --> 01:13:37,940 there too. So, and of course, get that merchandise at 1372 01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:38,780 CirclingTheDrain.net, 1373 01:13:39,890 --> 01:13:42,820 and be sure and join us next time right here on Circling the 1374 01:13:42,850 --> 01:13:43,690 Drain. Thank you.