Unknown: I wrote a law saying all cab drivers must speak
English. It was basically the taxi passenger bill of rights.
Yeah.
And the reason I did that was when I had a stroke, I couldn't
drive for six months, so I was forced to take taxis. I didn't
realize 70% of the cab drivers were Somali, and the reason is
they got here as refugees. They didn't need citizenship. They
all speak perfect English, but they're rude and they don't like
Americans. And they pretended they didn't speak English to
take people on longer routes. So I passed that law, and then also
that the passenger controls the music or no music, heat and air,
and also the route. And it's posted. It was posted in
everyone. So when they see my number, when I call Yellow Cap,
they won't even answer.
Wow! I wonder why. Yeah.
Welcome to a podcast about music and entertainment before it all
goes down the disposal. This is circling the drain.
Hey, welcome back to Circling the Drain. You know me, Johnny
Bozeman, Johnny B, along with mr. J. Harper. Hey
there, Johnny B. Suber. Hey, good to see you. And of course,
as always, running the show is mr. McCarthy, Jimmy Mac.
And guys, we've got a treat for you. I don't know how to
introduce this guy because he's done everything. He's been on
the radio. He he he has been a comedian. He has done so much in
his life. He's even a lawyer.
Yeah, he's been in government. I mean,
yeah, and he's tried to stop scooters in Nashville. What? But
I've got to introduce, and he's been a great friend of of ours
for a long time. He's not in Nashville usually; he is, but
right now he's in beautiful Nantucket. Please welcome to
Circling the Drain, Adam Dred.
Always circling the drain, longtime watcher, first time
guest. This is awesome.
Well, I wish
I didn't. I missed
you on the radio, brother, too.
Oh, I appreciate that. I appreciate that. I wish I'd
asked you to be here with us when you were in town. That's on
me. But it's kind of cool to see you up in Nantucket.
It's good to be here with the gray shingles behind me. And
these are, by the way, all the houses are gray shingle by law
in Nantucket. Are
they really?
They're all Grace Cedar shingle. Every single house. So there was
a man in Nantucket. Well, that's the. I was just reading more
shingles. The funny story about man from Nantucket is I years
ago wanted to buy the domain manfromantucket.com and it was
already owned. And about 10 years ago, I got a call from
some Russians saying, "You own man from Nantucket.org. We own
that.com. We sell to you for 80,000 US. And I said, "I'll
give you 70 bucks. And they go, "Okay. I bought the once was
made from Nantucket is the most famous limerick in the world.
Yes, it literally is yes, best known, and so I now own it, and
I have manfromantucket.com hats. These are make Nantucket
Nantucket again, and from my merch site, all the proceeds go
to my animal charities. I don't keep a penny. Oh wow! Just for
yeah. So a Nashville cat rescue and Nantucket Island safe harbor
for animals. Yeah,
yeah. You're a cat owner, aren't you? Or a cat?
I'm a crazy cat lady. Yeah. Yes, I am. Hey, if I can train it, if
I can train a cat, I can train a jury.
Like a true attorney. So, so you,
my cat.
Go ahead.
My cat Bonnie Dred actually has a Facebook page, but she was on
Fox News locally and nationally because Bonnie is toilet
trained. He is a human toilet. So, if you go to the YouTubes,
you can look up Bonnie Dred the toilet trained cat, and here she
is in all her porn, doing what you think she's going
to
do. So if you ever want to waste three minutes of your life and
never get it back, have at
it. So how how many times a year do you go to Nantucket?
Well, I live here almost five months a year. I actually
practice law up here as well as in Tennessee.
Oh, okay. So
I commute basically.
Yeah,
but I do avoid the you know the the they're called hate months.
They're called January, February, March are literally
called hate months because that's when the worst gossip is
spread on the island because everyone hates each other
because no one's here. So yeah, but I avoid I avoid the I avoid
the most clustery nor'easter time of year. But otherwise, I'm
probably here every month, couple days.
And you and you avoid the hate months in Nashville too.
Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, which is now. Down there today, guys.
Oh man, it's been brutal. We hit 100 yesterday.
I believe it's 96 at the moment.
Wow. Yeah.
Wait. Hey, since this is a podcast, am I allowed to swear
or use kind of politically incorrect terms, or should I
stay away from that?
Well, I'll leave that up to my cohorts. What do you think? I
just saw the answer in your eyes, buddy. But I
am very offended by such things. Well, no,
we we invite our guests to speak freely. Yeah, go ahead, Adam.
Yep.
No, no, no. In hindsight, this will be recorded. Invite me in
the ass later. Some bulldog from the scene, or write some hate
piece about me. So anyway, I'll leave that alone. Oh, did I say
bold light? Anyway, we're not even. We can't even say lesbian
anymore. That's politically incorrect. I know. We have to
say vegetarian. Hey, speaking of that, so we have our Nantucket
is the best place for Fourth of July, and we used to have a
water fight on Main Street. The firefighters in the ladders
shooting hoses, and kids with squirt guns shooting each other.
This year, it's called it's called the water game. They're
not allowed to use fight.
Oh no! Not
making this up.
Oh, we have wimpified this country.
You know, it breaks my heart. I really think these kids today
would not be sickly if they drank water from a hose in the
summer and had hose water in their systems and played
dodgeball. They wouldn't keep all these little pussy, wimpy,
allergic, peanut scared kids around this country. Enough
preaching. All right. Seriously, rolling in the dirt and hose
water. Oh, I agree. Toughing up a kid. I
well, in fact, we we we didn't even have seat belts back in the
day. You know, we we and we
sat backwards in the way way back.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. And the cars didn't have jumping
big wheels. How many helmets did you have when you were jumping
your big wheel?
None. Yeah, I didn't even have one when I was riding a
motorcycle.
God, I only wear them at my weddings.
I wear them in my divorce divorce court.
Oh yeah, you know I got in trouble in law school. I wrote a
paper once called a prenuptial weight agreement, and if your
wife gains more than 10 pounds and it's not due to being
impregnated by you. She's out with nothing. But to make it
fair, if the husband gains more than 50 pounds and it's not due
to being impregnated, same deal. Yeah, you walk with nothing.
Yeah. So I made it fair. You did.
Sounds fair to me.
Absolutely. So man, I got. So I'm really honored because I
don't know. Do these run in order? Because the last one I
saw had a friend of mine on on the show, Trace Adkins.
Oh yes.
And I've got I've got a long history with Trace, and I warn I
warn you there may be a little bit of an inappropriate phrase
here, but it is kind of funny. Well, so Trace and I met years
ago when he was still Tracy Adkins, and he was dating Rhonda
Forlaw, who worked at Arista, and he was playing bars out by
the airport and stuff, and he told us about getting shot in
the heart by his first wife and stuff like that. And anyway, I
had just gotten back from L.A. I left during the riots. That's a
whole other story. And another buddy of mine, Dave Daniel, who
was in the movie Starman, and I was doing stand-up comedy, and
Dave was painting houses, so I started painting houses with
him. And he said, "Trace was looking for something to do. And
I said, "Trace, why don't you paint houses with us? I said,
"The wildest part is we were all over six foot four. And I said,
"This is going to be the best advertising ever. The company's
called Giant Painters, and our slogan is 'Ladders are for fags.
Anyway, I
thought it
was funny. Anyway, he then signed a deal quickly. Lucky for
him. But I used to have business cards that had the F word on it.
They said Adam F and Dread on my card, and then whatever was my
title. And anyway, Trace came on Prime Time Country when I was
feature producer and warm up, and when you when you're doing
the rehearsal for the TV show out at TNN, they would broadcast
the rehearsal through the entire hotel on all the TVs in every
hotel room. So I walk out there. Trace is on stage, and sure as
heck, turning that microphone, Adam Effendre in every hotel
room in Alberta, but neither of us got fired for that. Got the
only time I wait. Oh, the only time I was really got fired, I
guess, was from WTN. Do you remember? Oh, you probably
don't. When when Phil went to Philadelphia,
yes, they brought me
into to fill in for Phil until they hired a permanent host. So
for some reason, I decided to be fun to do breakfast on the air
with Chef Freddy Brooker from the Trace and Absolute Vodka
coming in to do the Bloody Marys. Apparently, it wasn't
legal to make and drink alcohol on the radio back then. Oh,
that's right.
I I found that out. Well, you took one for the team.
Well, you've been on the radio quite a bit, actually. You, you
were on Lightning 100 at one time.
Oh, I got myself, I got myself kicked off of there on purpose.
The way that started was I was at Thunder 94 which was like
hard rockin' morning show with like the Ramones, and they let
me do my playlist, and it was a low wadded station, so there was
lightning and thunder, and thunder was more like Tori Amos,
and you know that just crap. And anyway, I took their mail demo
over to '94, and the ads were like eight bucks a pop, as
opposed to you know 35 at lightning back in the 90s. So
they told me they were gonna simulcast us together because I
didn't want to lose my show, A Man of Leisure Mornings. They
moved me to 100 and took away 94. Oh no, you're just doing
this one now, and they'd hand me this playlist, and it was like
Sarah McLachlan, you know, the stuff with dogs dying and stuff,
and I was just so I would just get on there and go, Adam Dred,
Lightning 100, Lightning 100, music for angry lesbians. They
go, you can't say that. I'm like, fire me, and they did.
They just didn't renew my contract. I actually had, I was
pretty smart back then. I actually owned 55 ad units a
week as part of my deal.
Wow, that I
could sell and keep 100% of, which I think they start didn't
like that either when they realized I was making more money
than the general manager. That does
tend to make them mad. But I did
the same thing over TNN. Part of my deal as warm up was I owned
the billboard ads, so the catering provided by and you'd
have you know Wild Horse. But what I did is part of it. Not
only would the caterers have to pay me to be the caterer and
cater. They had to feed the crew as well as just the guests. Now
in TV shows, most most times they only feed the guests, not
not the people that work on the show.
Right. So
I fed 100% of the crew every day for the three years I was there,
and no one had ever done that before. And I was like, guys,
this makes no sense. That you know they're union guys. They
get off work for an hour to go drive somewhere to buy a meal to
come back and shoot. It's between the rehearsal and the
taping, and I was like, guys, it's three bucks, and the
loyalty is amazing. I still get clients from that, and I wasn't
even a lawyer then. But people go, you know, we remember what
you did for us, and it's those, you know, it's those little
gestures that that come back, it's a lovely. That's my lesson
for today.
Well, you've always been real. Speaking of, you've always been
real good to me, man. You've always been real good to me.
Ever since, well, ever since I met you, I mean, you were you
were at the I think the city paper when I when I got to meet
you, and man, you were so kind to me, and I've never forgotten
that.
You guys, let's see. That's what it's really all about, though.
Everybody's got to. We got to take care of each other. So I
have a radio. I had a radio show up here. I haven't rebooted it
for this summer. Called Cohog Wild. We have a country station
called Cohog Country, and the Cohog is a Nantucket clam. It's
a very large clam. Yeah.
So, and Country Music's big up here. Really, that is an amazing
thing. Yeah, yeah. But hey, speaking back to the doing good
deeds and karma stuff, we're very excited about you know the
Unitarian Church here has hosted the the reading of the
Declaration of Independence for the last 27 years at 9 a.m.
Everybody goes to the UU Church, gets in the pews, and they read
the Declaration, which folks actually only takes like 11
minutes, honest, from start to finish. So if you're thinking of
avoiding it, don't, because it's only 11 minutes. Anyway, the UU
decided not to do it this year because the country's too
divisive. I'm like that is the most retarded statement I've
ever heard, honestly. Because talk about being divisive, not
reading the Declaration of Independence on the 250th
anniversary of our birth. I mean, so my church, St. Paul's
Episcopal, said we'll take it. So we'll be there tomorrow at
nine a.m. If anyone's around Nantucket and listening to the
show or watching the show, come on out. They may miss. We may
not be up by then, but anyway, it's it's a great thing. We're
going to do it every year. But the neat thing about St. Paul's,
I met Father Max Wolf, who's the pastor there. And by the way,
Episcopals have priests and nuns. The difference is with the
Catholic Church, Episcopal priests and nuns can get married
and have kids. It's uh, it's kind of like Catholic light.
Wow!
So Father Max is one of my best friends, and I noticed. So we do
an 8:00 a.m. outdoor service and then a 9:30 indoors. I love the
outdoor service. It's in a memorial garden. It's gorgeous,
and I go at 6:30 every morning on Sundays, and I set it up. I
bring 75 chairs from out inside out, and set it up in this
beautiful pastoral setting. But what I noticed was a couple
years ago that the kids, if if kids come to church, they've got
a. Headsets for tablets-they're not paying attention at all. So
I notice the kids come to church and are somewhat paying
attention on St. Francis Day when the blessing of the
animals. So I talked Father Max into making the early service
outdoors pet friendly, and the nice article in the paper: we
double the attendance at church on Sundays at eight a.m. because
people are bringing dogs and cats, and a little kid can pet a
dog or a cat. You know what? Probably won't hear the whole
sermon, but maybe he'll hear 20% of it, which is more more than
having on headsets and stuff. So that's my youth outreach I'm
doing up here, basically. Adam's
still doing great work, no matter where he's at.
We're trying. We're trying,
but we couldn't stop the scooters. Man, you
know, and and the worst part. Well, the worst part is they're
dangerous. But the worst part for Nashville is these companies
aren't even from Nashville that own them and rent them out. They
pay $30 a year fee to Metro to have a scooter here per scooter
license. Every time somebody falls and gets hurt on one,
they're they're taken ER'd to our hospital ER triage there,
and then they fly back home to whatever town they're from to
have their surgery. So it's probably cost us as taxpayers
1000s of dollars per triage run, and then no money stays in
Nashville or or gets spent in Nashville at all. So from a
business standpoint alone, that's a bad idea.
Insanity. I
mean, that's like putting a data center next to a zoo. It's just
dumb.
Yeah. What do you think of Freddie O'Connell and and his?
So I used to be a guest on his show, and he and Mary Mancini
had something called Liber Radio, liberal radio show, and I
was the token conservative right wing guest that would come on
there and fight with him, and so we developed a friendship
through that. I don't care for his politics at all. Yeah, he's
a nice enough guy, you know, but but he's just he's wrong, and
he's not a businessman. And I honestly think you have to be a
business leader to be a mayor or a governor. I think to be
president, you have to have served in the military and/or be
a grandfather personally. That's me. You know, I
actually have an opportunity to interview him on my podcast.
Really?
Yeah. You think I should?
What happened?
I'm just. Oh no, he's he might be coming on. I mean, we're
still kind of working it out.
Oh, that would happen. Give him a kiss
for me. I'll
let him know. But you're right. He's not a businessman,
especially with all the. You know, it's like 350 percent
increases in property taxes on these businesses. It's like
either you're that dumb, yeah, or it's you're you're just
trying to drive these businesses out. I mean that's the only
other reason I can think that.
Johnny B is probably aware of this, but when I was a city
councilman, I built the first music stage in the airport to
immerse people in music when they got here, and that was 2003
when I had my stroke, and they waited for me to get out of the
hospital. And big and rich and Mayor Purcell, we christened it
in the bag claim, and now we have over 30 stages. People are
coming to Nashville to spend money because of music and
because of Lower Broadway, to be honest with you, and putting
these people out of business. Case in point, Layla's. I don't
know if you know Layla's Honky Tonk. It's the only woman-owned
honky tonk next to Jack's Barbecue,
yeah,
it's one story. They have a little balcony, you know, up
there, but they have no roof bar, no nothing. Her taxes went
from 30,000 to $117,000
Good in one year.
Good, yeah, and
and again, she's a single woman owned business. She can't afford
it. They're driving her out. The problem is they're basing this
on on real estate comps on prices. Jack Coffin sold Jack's
Barbecue, the the budding bling, for $15 million So everybody in
the neighborhood's taxes went up. Anytime something sells
there for millions and millions, everybody else takes the hit.
Oh yeah. Well, it's happening in our neighborhoods. I think
the, but I think the answer is is to do some sort of a special
zoning, an entertainment, historic quasi entertainment
historical zoning. For example, that's going to hurt Zany's in
the eighth room in that whole area on Eighth Avenue South as
well. Zanies, we've been there for over 40 years. I'm I'm their
general counsel since I got out of law school and started there
as a comic, believe it or not, but I mean their taxes through
the roof. The eighth room, we lost we lost Douglas Corner
because of COVID and the taxes. They couldn't afford to stay
open, so we're driving away the things that are bringing people
to Nashville to spend money.
Yeah, and you're giving the 12th Avenue businesses are also
taking it in the teeth.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, and gosh, and I, you know, so speaking of
Eighth Avenue, Mayor, was it was it Megan that wanted to put bike
lanes on Eighth Avenue? Yes, take out a lane of traffic, and
and so they hired me to stop that, and it was grown. Guitars
and stuff, and think about this: bike lanes, bike lanes. First of
all, you're going to inconvenience 10s of 1000s of
cars for 10s of bicycles. Literally, 10s of bicycles. 200
days a year in Nashville, the temperature is over 83 degrees
or under 35 degrees, which means those are days you're not going
to be on a bicycle, but let me riddle me this. Let's say you
have a bank, and one of your tellers wants to ride a bike to
work and be nice and green and everything. Okay, they come in
and they're going to be with people. So on an 85 degree day,
when they come in, do you now have to provide a shower for
those employees? And while they're showering, is that on
your time or their time?
Good point. Yeah, no
bikes. Period. Yeah. Get on a bus, Nantucket. What we do now
is our busses are free. They're just free, and we we get grants
from the state, and it's called the Wave, and they go
everywhere, and you can call one if you can't get to one, or
you're handicapped, and that's free. And it's make all the
busses free. Yeah, it's it's it's the feds will pay for it.
Well, see that see that's why we need you. We need dread more
than more than ever, man.
Well, I I appreciate that, and I did my time. And again, I I
really think one of our big problems is no term limits in
Congress or government period. I call it community tithing when I
did my two terms. I did my ideas. I you know I made all cab
drivers speak English. I still can't get a cab by the way,
Nashville, as you guys know. But I wrote a law saying all cab
drivers must speak English. It was basically the taxi passenger
bill of rights. Yeah, and the reason I did that was when I had
a stroke, I couldn't drive for six months, so I was forced to
take taxis. I didn't realize 70% of the cab drivers were Somali,
and the reason is they got here as refugees. They didn't need
citizenship. They all speak perfect English, but they're
rude and they don't like Americans, and they pretended
they didn't speak English to take people on longer routes. So
I passed that law, and then also that the passenger controls the
music or no music, heat and air, and also the route. And it's
posted was posted in everyone. So when they see my number when
I call yellow cab, they won't even answer.
Wow! I wonder why. Yeah. You talked about God
for Uber.
Well, you talked about your stroke, and I would love for
because you know I I remember when that happened. Can you kind
of tell folks what like what happened that day and how it all
transpired?
You got it. So on it happened on May 30th, 2003. May 29th, I had
a headache, and I'm not the kind of guy that gets headaches. I
just never really did. But I had it was in the back of my neck,
and it felt like it was like going up my neck. So I went to
CVS, bought aspirin, went home, went to bed. Didn't really hurt
that much. The next day, I go to Green Hills Post Office, pick up
my mail. It's and I feel kind of hot, so I get my Jeep Cherokee,
crank up the AC, and I'm sitting there on Hillsboro Road.
Basically, next thing you know, I'm out cold, and I drove four
miles Franklin Road, drove no recollection, four miles off a
cliff through a slave-built wall into a tree, tearing down the
walls of slavery, but and was found non-responsive. I coded.
They brought me back. I coded again in the ambulance, and woke
up 12 hours later with Reverend Enoch Fuzz laying hands on me.
Actually, when I popped out of my coma, wow! And he said my
first words were, "Please tell me I didn't hurt anybody,
because I knew it. I'd been driving.
Yeah.
But I won't say the name of the news channels. Channel Four. Oh,
drinking or alcohol involved? Nancy Amos? No, Nancy Amos. This
happened at noon on a Friday. You know I don't start drinking
till two.
So anyway,
but I mean they did. There's a full blood and alcohol. My
firefighter buddy's like, we have to do this. And by the way,
there's nothing in your system, but we just want to verify it
for all of them. I mean, the attack piece is on me. I was
running for office at the time. Bread crash hoax, bread
publicity stunt to get elected. Oh, I mean, the vicious fancy
came out. Meanwhile, you guys have a prayer circle on 997 WTN.
We do seriously. You guys had prayer groups going out and it
worked.
Well, in fact, we we were on WLAC at that time. Actually,
that's right. Yeah, Phil Phil and I had got because I'd gotten
the word from I think yeah it was it was my wife at the time.
She was a nurse at Vanderbilt, and we got she called me and let
me know, and so Phil and I went on the air and asked for a
citywide prayer, and that was my first work,
brother. Oh, it did work
because my when I went home that night, she goes, "It doesn't
look good, and I'm I'm beside myself. And the next day, she
went into work and she called me and she said, "You're not going
to believe." But Adam is sitting up and he's talking to people. I
said, "Can he take a call? And she said, "Oh yeah, I called you
up, and man, you're telling me jokes. And I said, "I can't
believe this, man. Only Adam.
You know, my my line about that, since I had another one last,
you know, last July, a brain bleed, but I'll tell you about
that. Was you know God still has more work for me to do, and the
devil still scared of me, and because it breaks my seriously,
it breaks my heart. All these really good people die all the
time. It's like wait, I'm still here, and it's like I'm here for
tribulation, aren't I? I'm going to be here for the tribulation.
So I think that's that's probably the plan. Yeah. But so
you know they said I had the lupus coagulant gene, which
meant my blood. If you have lupus, it causes your blood to
thicken. I don't have lupus, but they said I had the marker for
the gene, so I went on coumadin for 22 years of coumadin, rat
poison. Every month, I'd go into Vanderbilt Hospital, get a blood
draw, see what my level was, my INR, and so I couldn't have
lettuce or broccoli or spinach. All I could have was pizza and
beer. You know, no. But but fast forward, I felt going to court
last May. I was walking across the street, James Robertson
Parkway, and a heel fell off my loafer, and I did a banana peel
split. I didn't know my heel was. I got up and I did it
again. I ripped my my hamstrings really badly, so went to
Vanderbilt Hospital and was there for five days. It hurt so
bad I had no idea I'd hit my head. So fast forward July 22nd,
I had a little teeny crack there that I didn't know about. We
never checked for because I said I didn't hit my head, and I've
got a brain bleed, and they found me non-responsive and
life-flighted me to Brigham and Women's in Boston. When I got
there, they said, "Why are you taking cuminin? You don't have
the lupus coagulant gene. I'm like, "Wait, wait, what? I've
been taking this for 22 years. I've gone to the hospital every
month for 22 years to get checked, and they're like, "Oh,
you got to sue, blah blah blah. And I said, "You know what?
First of all, doctors are humans and they make mistakes. I'm
alive. That's all I care about. But I did further research, and
genetic markers can change. So I believe at the time I did have
that marker. I tested positive for it, and now it's it's gone,
and I could say that personally because if I go get a blood draw
right now, I will test positive for Lyme's disease. I don't have
it right now active, but I've had it in the past, and it's
always going to be in my system, in some level, and then but it
could go away eventually. It's very strange because I went in
for something else years ago, and they said you got Lyme
disease as well as what you know dehydration, sunstroke, and and
that wild how those things can markers can change and go on
you. Yeah.
Well, your aller your allergies change every seven years. Oh
yeah. Allergies change, and I used to be immune to bee stings.
Not anymore. Not anymore. I used to pick them up, and I was stung
all the time and build up an immunity. Now my arm swells up
like a deer tick.
So yeah, well that happened to me too. Yellow jacket stung me a
couple years ago, man. And I used to I would get stung by
them and nothing. Boy, my hand got as big as a catcher's mitt.
I mean, same thing,
man. Those are, man. If one animal, if you can just kill,
rid the world of one animal, that would be it. Not sharks,
yellow jackets, yellow jackets and mice. Oh yeah. Hey, by the
way, couple a couple things on the deer tick thing. We now have
this new longhorn tick, a lone star tick. I'm not sure if
you've heard about it. I have one that makes you allergic to
meat. Yeah, there's a new one out there, guys. Watch out for
it. It's a fast little tick. It's not in Tennessee yet, but
it's on the way. Google that when you get a few minutes.
They're brutal out here. Speaking of, so it is shark
season, and my beach up here. I have two summers ago. I had 16
white sharks that lived off that beach that we we would ping, you
know, with a tracker.
Yeah.
And you know what? Peter Benchley said once. I thought
that he wished he never wrote Jaws because more sharks were
killed because of that book, Jaws. And a great white has it's
almost has never eaten a human unless they found a dead
decomposing human. Great white sharks eat seals. That's all
they want. Big blubbery seals. The only time a human gets hit,
great whites hunt up. So they're looking up. If they see a guy in
a wetsuit on a boogie board with flippers, and they see a seal,
and they go and they hit it and they bite you, and then they let
you go because you're not a seal. Now you're still gonna die
because that bite, but they're not gonna eat you. Yeah, has
nothing to do. Is that only
the great white species?
That the great what the great the only shark to really be
scared of. Well, two really, and and I I work with O search. C E
A R C H. If you want to look them up, we tag great whites and
stuff, and they're amazing people. The the bull shark is is
the one to really be scared of because it's territorial. So if
you go into its territory, it's going to hit you. Tiger sharks,
they're just kind of strange. You just don't know what they're
going to do. They're not going to stop and keep eating you.
None of them are. But hammerheads are bad too. So I
had a hammerhead two summers ago. A hammerhead hit a striped
bass right right off of Fat Lady's Beach. I swear to God,
that's its name, Fat Lady. Fat Lady's, and people are screaming
and stuff, and it bit it in half. So I just walked out in
the water and I grabbed the other half of the striper and
pulled it out because, like, you don't want blood in the water,
you can attract more sharks. Hammerheads rarely, rarely
attack anything except crustaceans. Their their heads
are actually shaped so they can look for crabs and stuff down on
the bottom, kind of like a nurse shark,
scavengers.
I'm an amateur ichthyologist, if you can't tell.
Because I mean, the reason why I ask is that there? There was
like an attack maybe a week ago off Florida. No, I can't
remember what kind of shark it was. But the guy, you know, the
the shark went after him and and pulled him down. And it would
have been
a tug, probably a tug or a bull. Yeah. Now you do hear about a
lot about like New Smyrna Beach and all people getting bit. And
what's happened there is tourists have fished the waters
out. There is nothing for baby sharks to eat, so they see an
ankle or something. They they hit anything moving. They don't
care. They're not trying to eat you. They're just hungry for
Christ's sakes, and and that's the salt. That's the fault of
the commercial sport fishing industry down there. They've
fished out the water.
Yeah. Well, you know, Adam
coming for me.
Adam, you you mentioned you know Jaws, you know, and of course
the story of that movie, you know they, you know, closing
down the beach on the Fourth of July, you know, and they're
yeah, there's Freddie O'Connell that did that, but you know, but
he taxed the he double taxed the shark, you know,
as we record this, I mean, it's july 3. As we record this, and
there is an air, there's a beach up in the northeast that is
going to be closed for july 4 because of bull sharks. And
yeah,
that's
not us, but yeah,
yeah, we we
we yeah we shut down for a finn sighting. The lifeguards will
blow the whistle, and you've got a two-hour shutdown just to make
sure you know it's not a bull shark, or you know. But normally
they're not, and normally when people think they see sharks are
actually sunfish. They have these big dorsal fins that come
out of the water. They're big, giant, fat fish, but it's not
even a shark. I got to say, I was actually
on Martha's Vineyard during Fourth of July one year. Oh wow!
That's where they film jaws. Yes.
Wow. That is where they filmed jaws. Were there at the Obamas'
house or the Clintons? Neither. Yeah, I wasn't. I wasn't that
famous at that point. Some things never change.
So we call Martha's Vineyard the other island. So you got you got
Massachusetts, Cape Cod, then you have okay, but is the
other island? Do you look down on Martha's Vineyard, or do they
look up to you? Yeah, we do. We
look at it. We look at it like Nashville looks on Memphica. It
is. It's day trippers. There's no zoning laws. It's very very
rich Hamptons kind of people. So and it's only five five miles
off offshore. We're 30 miles out at sea. It's a commitment to
come out here.
The
people that come out and stay on Nantucket are the Friss, the
Alexanders, Fred Thompson, the Corkers. It's this is Republican
country, Vineyards Democrats, James Taylor. That crowd. So it
really is. They're not. It's almost like Memphis and
Knoxville. The difference between Martha's Vineyard and
Nantucket. So you guys are more kid
rock, Ted Nugent.
Oh yeah, we're we're more kid rock. But you know, Kenny
Chesney's been up here a couple times actually. But yeah, but
the thing is here. It's like Nashville, like old Nashville,
where where people don't bother celebrities and paparazzi, and
and they just kind of fit into the thing. I mean, just into the
whole groove of it. I mean, I was out, you know, with Ben
Stiller. You know, but I don't know if you saw that picture. I
did. His parents lived here. Jerry Stiller lived lived here.
mr. Rogers lived here. Oh, mr. Rogers is a member of my church
of St. Paul's. It was his summer church, but what people don't
realize is mr. Rogers was a Methodist minister.
Yeah, yeah.
And we do the Fred Rogers Award every year for the best citizen
for the kindest citizen. Haven't gotten that yet. I got Volunteer
of the Year 2022 by the chamber, but which ties into something
else. If people are around, we do something I'd love to see in
Nashville. We do something called the Nantucket Clean Team,
where myself and a group, armed with grabbers and bags, and we
hit a different beach or roadway every Saturday from eight to
nine and just clean it up. And it's amazing the amount of trash
that's not really intentionally tossed. It's stuff. Blows out of
people's trucks and cars, yeah, and that's something I, you
know, landscaping trucks especially, just kind of people
be on the alert about that because you know it's neat
seeing little kids do it because people honk and say thank you
when they're driving by on the roads and seeing the little kids
just light up when that happens may leave may leave the world a
little better for everybody.
Well, see the whole difference between Nantucket and Nashville
is that up there you're getting you know paper bags flying out
and everything. Here it's ladders, things like that you
find in the interstate. Yeah, aliens. Yeah, I'm saying
undocumented.
And well, we do have we do have a park here where we actually
won't clean the state park, and it is state property because
there's a group of homeless junkies that live out there, and
there's needles thrown on the ground. And I won't let any of
my team out there. I'll blame it. What I did clean up was
these damn vineyard winds. You know these wind farms, this
whole green wind farm. Oh yeah, don't restart. I'm sorry, BS.
Those things. All right. First of all, the amount of energy
they take to construct a one of those big wind blade wind farm
pieces-they only last for 20 years. Yeah. And when they die,
they die. They break off and fall in the water. And it's not
the responsibility of the company that owns it to clean it
up. It's ours, and we had one break, and start, and the and
they didn't let us know either. I could have had boats out there
with nets. We could have cleaned it up fast. It was about 15
miles out, and again, I got an army ready to go on boats to
clean up any mess that happens up here. They didn't tell us
until it started washing up on the beaches, and these are
broken pieces of fiberglass, naugahyde, whatever. I stepped
on one man, cut me bad. It's sharper than glass. It's
breaking up and getting into fish and and other crustaceans
and mollusks. We shut down our beaches. We shut down our
beaches not because of sharks, but because of a broken wind
farm blade. And my buddies have a surf shop out on the beach and
surf lessons. Couldn't do it. Beaches were all shut down. It
cost us millions of dollars on this island.
Oh my God! Have you
seen that scene from Landman? Yes, Billy Bob. Yeah, he
educates that lawyer. Yeah, like a seven-minute you know monolog
about you know how bad wind the the actual wind. It's
ridiculous. It's
it's it's almost like battery powered cars. Well, they kill
birds.
I mean, the number of birds it kills.
Oh, birds, fish, whales. Those things vibrate, and they've got
huge engines underneath filled with oil. By the way, they don't
tell you that word. No,
they don't. That leaks
out. Yeah. Speaking of that, but in Nashville, the whole thing
with data centers ties into this, you know. And again, I
wouldn't call myself a huge environmentalist, but I do my
part. You know, I'm I'm a gas car guy. You know, I'm I'm you
know. Anyway, my problem with data data centers is the amount
of water they take to cool them. Not only does it the amount it's
like 5 million gallons a day for a data center. Not only does it
take that much water, it burns up about half of it. It's
literally evaporated, but a good chunk of it is contaminated, and
just rolls under into the water table underneath. So if you use
well water or you have an aquifer. That water is coming
back up, contaminated. Putting one of those next to the zoo
might be the dumbest idea I've ever heard. Well, that's
the thing: is that even Pamela Fur, our friend, she pointed out
the the rub is the fact that the the the people who own the data
center are saying, well, hey, we've got all the permits and
basically flipping everybody off. And now Freddie's coming in
and saying, well, that's okay. I'm just going to claim eminent
domain. And you know, it's like, well, okay, now this is a head
scratcher. Yeah, you know what I mean. Yeah,
who do you back on this
one? Well, actually, here's the problem. There, definition of
eminent domain is the government seizing of private property for
public use.
Right,
unless it's turned into a park or given to the zoo that all the
public has free access to, you can't just take something like
that. The permit side too is kind of interesting in in that
how was that pre permitted before the owners could apply
for it because it's still owned by that property has not sold
yet. The original owners still own it. The data center people
people do not own the property yet. So in eminent domain
eminent eminent domain, he would have to pay the people that
currently own it. I don't know what their side deal is with
Blocks BLOXX, the company building the data centers, but
my suggestion would be this: Freddy, find a big piece of land
way the hell away from everybody, and we've got plenty
of land in Davidson County.
Oh yeah,
and trade swap it. Just do a straight land swap, and pay them
for that land. But you know. The the other problem is going to be
not just the lawsuit for the price of the land, but the
detrimental reliance. That's a little legal term of the blocks
company put all this money into surveying and whatever else they
did to get ready to build the data center. They're going to
sue for that money back from Nashville, and that's going to
be a big penny.
Oh yeah,
because they were given some permits, so they did rely
detrimentally to them on the fact that they were going to be
able to build there. So this is this whole thing was just
screwed up by Nashville, just beyond belief.
Why is? And I'm
glad I'm not in government.
Well, Nashville has always been really. I don't know what's
wrong with Nashville government, but it it just seems like it is
poorly run, right? And has been for a long time.
I'll tell you what. In in my my years there, and I was a
councilman 2002 through 2007 because of a split term with uh
with uh the Ronnie Stein debacle and Howard I filled Howard
Gentry's seat on the council. What I have found is the person
who took the best care of Metro employees out of all the mayors
we've had was Megan Barry. No, don't do the joke. I know what
you're thinking, but honestly, the police, the fire department,
the police, any any you know codes, especially the police,
care the the workers prepare the workers. Yeah. Now the guy
involved in that was a friend is is a friend of mine, and so is
Megan. I talked Megan out of running against me when I won in
2002 because she would have beaten me, and I said I'll back
it later on down the line. Yo, what is what she did is nothing
no other mayor has not done. Every single mayor has had a
concert tube bond in the history of Nashville. She happened to be
a female. She happened to miss spend some funds on this guy
that the other guys didn't get caught spending on their
mistresses, right? And she paid her. She did her. You know, she
did her time.
Yeah.
You know, I don't agree with her politically, but she is a dear,
dear friend of mine, and I'd do anything for her except probably
vote for. But, but you know, and honestly, here's another reason
she gets a pass. I actually hope she's not watching this. But
anybody in this life, if you're if you lose a kid, if you're a
parent and you lose a kid, you get a hall pass from me for life
because there's nothing that changes, and I can't can't even
imagine the heartbreak that woman has every day. So, you
know, people want to. I've I've made jokes about her, but she's
a good woman, and you know she she does what she thinks is
right, and she did take care of the metro employees, and I'll
always applaud her for that.
Oh, you're not kidding! And I also, when when she lost her
son, I I even sent her, which I I don't even know if she read it
or not, but I sent her a note of condolence, and yeah, I felt for
on that one. If you lose a child, man, it's that's you know
it happens to everybody. Kids
aren't supposed to go. They're
not, but it does happen, and it happens more than it should. But
yeah, that was awful.
Yeah, yeah. So, gosh, but it it is yeah, it is wild. It's just
wild, wild world we're in, guys.
Yes, it is. So
that's why you're wilder.
I wrote some notes down actually for you guys.
Well, go ahead. What do you think I want
to tell you guys about? I had something kind of important. No,
I guess it wasn't that important, mr. Rogers. Oh,
here's the problems. Here's Nashville, and again, I hate to
sound so old. I'm only 743, but man, don't you miss Phasins and
the Trace, oh yeah, places like that. Hillsboro Pancake Pantry
is everything's changed hands. It's it's just Hillsboro Village
is now. I'm having trouble because it's gotten dangerous at
night. We have a new element there that are not the people
going to the bars, but people hanging out in the streets that
can't get into these new bars, drinking in their cars, smoking,
just being on people's buildings. Hillsboro Village,
ladies and gentlemen,
unbelievable. Who
would have thought it? Because that, if Randy Rayburn were
still here, that would not be going. That would not happen.
And I miss Maud's courtyard. What stuff like that? yeah.
Hey, you can still get Mods. You can still get Mods Chicken at
Sperry's.
Oh, really?
They do Mods Chicken at Sperry's, Bellmead, and Cool
Springs. Oh, by the way, so Sperry's, Sperry's was the
original salad bar of Nashville, and they still have a salad bar.
They were the first ones, 1974, to have Green Goddess dressing.
You know what that means? They are now on their second bottle
of Green Goddess. No, it's made fresh daily. And what brought
Sam's family? They're all they're all related. What
brought you to
Nashville? Because I know you you were originally from
Pennsylvania. Did you? Was it Vanderbilt going to Vanderbilt?
Vanderbilt brought me to Nashville, and I'm I'm a damn
Yankee. I stayed.
Yeah, you did. I
just loved it. Well, I'm glad you
did, because yeah, I mean, yeah, that that's the thing I love
about Nashville, and I think we're losing it, is that we we
have we've had so many great, colorful characters like you,
you know, John. Hooker. I mean, you name off all kinds of people
that that you wouldn't find them in any other town. This town's
unique. We
did we did take care of our own crazies. We definitely did.
Yeah, we did. But now we've got. I I loved your thing on bad
Californians. Have I got a story for you?
All right.
A woman from California brought her what she told the hostess
service dog with her into a restaurant, and a waitress walks
up. She goes, "Oh, he's sweet. You can pet him. The waitress
reached down, dog bit her in the face.
Oh my gosh! First,
first of all, she's she's Californian. Second of all, you
can't pet a service dog by law, by definition of service dog.
Strangers are not too pet. A service dog is there for sight
or hearing or you know PTSD, but they are not to be pet. Now an
emotional support dog that is not a service dog. So this
woman, we got her name and address and stuff, and the the
young waitress went and she had she had stitches and she went to
the hospital, and she missed work. So I, I called her, and I,
I, I reached first. I sent her demand letter, basically, it's a
legal thing, saying, "Here's the bills. We're not trying to break
you over the coals, but this girl lost some money. She's
paying student loans, you know, and this is what it costs. So
they didn't respond, so I called her, and and she's like, "Well,
our house is being renovated right now, so I didn't get the
letter. I said, "Well, ma'am, here's what happened. She goes,
"Oh yeah, well, she shouldn't have pet the dog. And I said,
"Well, ma'am, you should have brought that dog into a
restaurant. So she goes, "Well, in California, oh,
I could bring my
dog in. She actually said that, "Well, in California, it was
almost like you're not my real father. No, it was like a step
kid thing. I was like, well, ma'am, you're not in California,
and can you? And she goes, well, my lawyer said just sue us. I
go, okay. So I served her. I went and filed in court, served
her certified mail. They didn't pick it up. I called her. I
said, "Ma'am, well, we're not. Our house is being renovated in
Belmead. We're not staying there. Okay. Well, where can I
serve you? So she knew she was being sued. She hung up on me.
So I go, "Okay. Now, if you can't serve somebody by
publication or personal service in Tennessee, you can serve
somebody what's called publication, meaning I can put
it in the Tennessee Inn or the Ledger for three days, and the
the thought is you have served them if they're not going to be
served, and they have public notice that they are being sued.
Yeah.
So anyway, yeah. So of course she didn't show up to court, and
then meet and I got my judgment for a lot more money than I
would have charged her just to pay the hospital bills, because
of her attitude and and it cost you know an attorney, doctors
missed work even more, so she literally that day goes and
files a set aside. So she knew about it clearly. She no, I
wasn't notified. We went to court, and the judge just
literally did one of these. Like, ma'am, you knew you were
going to be you're being sued, right? Oh yeah, I knew, but they
didn't serve me properly. Goes, well, you know, you should have
appealed it, and oh look, you missed the 10 days. She follows
me. She follows me out of the courtroom, going, we're on
social security. Can we set up a payment plan? You just sold your
billion-dollar house in San Diego to move to a ranch in
Belmead for probably a 10th of the cost of your house, and you
now want a payment plan. You want a favor for me because you
brought your dog in and bit this poor girl, and then you wouldn't
come to court. That's California in Nashville right now.
Boy, you're not kidding.
They should not be allowed to. I really I hate it violates the
Constitution, but I really think you should not be allowed to
vote in a new city until you've lived there for five years.
I agree. If
you move,
I agree.
Yeah,
I would agree with that.
But
I also have to thank you too because you you came to my
rescue when I I won't I won't say what where I was working,
but I have a horrible allergy to animal dander, and this place of
employment was letting people bring their pets in, especially
on bring weasels,
raccoons, weasel, all kinds of crap. Everything
was like bring your dog to work day, and it put me basically put
me in the hospital. You were,
yeah, man. You got really sick. I
got really sick, and they wouldn't take it seriously, so I
had to get you involved. And I appreciate that because you you
really helped me out because I thought
the Hebrew hammer.
And I love animals, but I think people are getting a little
crazy with, you know, like like the emotionally support animal.
I mean, come on. Yeah,
no, no, and you know, and those certificates you can buy online,
or they don't work, and they don't have to honor them
anymore. So be forewarned if you're going to the airport.
Just be prepared to pay for it. They'll let you bring a dog or
cat on, but not a python or chicken, and you know it's it's
just ridiculous. Oh,
it is.
And honestly, a lot of people do have, and it's really funny when
people say they're allergic to cats. I always say, get a cat
because you actually will build up an immunity to the cat.
Yeah.
Now dander's different. All animals dander. That's from
somebody who's just not cleaned, and the dander's coming off. It
could be from a human too, man. Yeah, that's true. Yeah,
that's me. I'm allergic to the dander.
That's it, dander. Hell, I married her. Tanya Tucker, no,
but you can tis her anyway. So speaking of that, you know, I
was the lawyer on that poison pet food case from China. That's
kind of carbon bread.
Well, in fact, Phil Valentine's six. Yeah, Phil Valentine
claimed that that China cat food killed his cat. It it
did. Yeah. What they did was they put plastic to save money.
Menu foods in China use plastic instead of food, and it would
not. It wouldn't. It killed smaller animals, and bigger,
bigger animals could digest it. And and that is now why I have
two cats because I met more people. Honestly, a lot of them
widows or widowers, and that cat, they have a six cents. They
were almost like they were, you know, spouse at that point, and
that was a human to them. And when that greedy company saving
four cents a pound on food killed all these, I was I went
for blood. We had over 100 plaintiffs. Blair and I didn't
keep a penny of that, by the way. We it actually cost us
money to sue those folks. We're like, no, all the money is going
to these people, we can make money other ways. And by the
way, Blair Durham. Hey, Bart Durham, by the way, who we lost
last year. Oh yeah. People don't realize this about Bart, and
they kid about his commercials. Bart Durham won the Supreme
Court case that first allowed lawyers to advertise on
television. Bart Durham is the reason lawyers advertise on
television. And you know what? Great damn lawyer, I'm not
kidding. Yeah, you know, you if you went if you still if you go
to his son Blair, you're gonna get more money than you'd get
probably with any other lawyer or by yourself. So there's a
method to the madness there. But again, people talk about them
because of something kind of goofy. The commercials were kind
of funny. Oh yeah, and and but good lawyers, and we miss you,
Bart. That's another great one we lost.
Oh, you're not kidding.
Just
in fact, my dad, when my dad first moved to town, and you
know his radio station. I think Bart Durham was one of the first
clients that he had as far as a sponsor. Yeah.
Oh yeah, man. It's he's they're good at what they do, and you
know there's now. Let me tell you this though: when you see
all these advertisers for law firms saying we don't get paid
unless you get paid, that's true. But they're not going to
take your case unless both sides have insurance. Number one, and
they feel they have a 90% chance of winning. So, yeah, you're
going to get paid because they are going to get paid. But if
they don't think they're going to, you're going to get paid.
They're not taking your case, and they don't have to.
Yeah,
you know the same thing with Med Mau. I get I've never taken a
Med Mau case, but people will call all the time, and I'll
listen to them. But when you break it down, it's not about
the medicine. It's it's it's you know, when you break it down,
they'll go. He was rude to my grandmother. That's why they
want to sue in a bedside manner.
Yeah,
that's like with my with my law practice. I return every call
within four to eight hours max. People that you know, doctors
that don't respond, lawyers don't return calls in 24 hours.
They're they're the ones getting sued for malpractice.
Yeah,
nothing to do with the medicine. Medicine is not an exact
science.
No. There's
my other tip for teams today.
Adam Dred's tips. Hey, I stole
tip for teams from. I stole that from Web Wilder. You know, my
favorite Web Wilder and the Beatniks. Oh, I remember that
Wilder
bucket list. Track 17. Web Wilder came from Nashville,
1985. His Adam Dred intro on iTunes. It's just me at the exit
in introduce him. They put me on their record, and I was like,
now I can die. But always liked his line.
Always liked his line on stage too. When he would he would say,
"Here's a song we wrote. He said, "But the good lyric fairy
didn't visit me and Bobby on this one.
Bobby, heck yeah! I I always thought if God was really a rock
and roll God, the biggest rock stars in the world, top three,
would be wet would be Warren Zevon, John Hyatt, and Webb
Wilder.
Oh yeah, definitely.
I was called I called Warren Zevon the dark Jimmy Buffett.
He was. You're right. That's. I've never heard that before. I
mean,
cheeseburger in paradise is basically rolling the headless
Thompson gunner. But yeah, the dark side.
Hey, did you ever? Did you ever have any dealings with Steve
Earle?
I did. He's. Not a fan. Oh, is he not a fan of Adam Brad? So my
buddy John Dotson managed them years ago. Oh, he went to L.A.
to do some stuff, and Steve disappeared on a little binge
for a few days. Oh, that's what he was doing, honey.
Don't for the Beverly Hillbillies soundtrack with Joe
Walsh.
I don't, I don't, I don't know what he was doing, but I know
he's doing a lot of smack, and he would. So anyway, I was on
the radio then, and John was bummed. I mean, he's a friend of
mine. He's working hard. He can't find his act. He's
managing.
Yeah.
And so I said something on the air about. I said, I said, oh, I
does going, hey, pretty baby, ready for me? It's a smooth
talking junkie back from cell block B. They go, hey, Steve. I
go, Steve Earle's back shooting up the charts. Oh
man!
But then he was this big anti-death penalty guy, and I
forget I was at some event, and he's you know, you know, and I'm
pro-death penalty. I mean, I'm pro death penalty pretty much
for everyone. But so he. He was not. Oh, that reminds me. This
is a great true story, guys. Running for office, when you run
for council at large, there's five spots, and there's there
were 20 of us running, and we go to all these forums, all of us,
and the audience could ask any question.
Yeah,
and sure enough, somebody stands up and says, "What is your
stance on abortion? And all these guys-it's me, Tandy Rice,
Howard Gentry, David Briley-all looking around like like this
and that. And I go, I got this one. And I stood up and I go,
ma'am, first of all, that's not a city council issue. But since
you asked, I believe every parent has the right to abort
any child till that child's 16 years old, because you because
you really don't know if you got a dud till they're a teenager.
Here you go, son. Drink this warm milk, Daddy. It smells like
almonds. Oh, another great council story. So I was on the
city council, and they put up that musica statue of naked men
and women. Yeah, which first of all, it's it's private money. I
don't think it's appropriate for that spot, but I had nothing. I
had no saying it. 7 a.m. Saturday morning. I'm maybe a
little. I might have had a little bit of the cocktail flu
that morning. This woman wakes me up from from Donald's castman
dread. Castleman Dred, you gotta take down that statue, them
naked people. I'm like, ma'am, I got a conflict of interest. It's
a conflict of interest. I go, yeah, I posed for it, and it was
and it was cold out. Might have lost the vote. Don't care. Yeah,
that. So I had some fun on the council too. I know. I passed
the law that I got the I got the holiday tree renamed the
Christmas tree.
Thank you. Because
I go, guys, it's a Christmas tree. It was me and Eric
Crafton. I go, we have a hot. We have a menorah. You know, why
can't we have a Christmas tree? Yeah. Oh, you know that's and
all of a sudden and I'm born Jewish and I'm the bad guy here.
Yeah, guys,
go figure.
You know, yeah, yeah. That's just kind of story of my life.
You know, stirring the pot.
Yeah, I'm circling the drain and stirring. We may have. We may.
may, we already have a spinoff, guys. Yes, we do. Jeffersons
from all of the family.
There you go, man. So when when do you head back to Nashville?
So I'll be in and out, but I'll I'll come back for football
season to Vanderbilt. Oh, we have, you know, I'm in
Vandyville. If you guys remember coming through those tailgate
tents?
Yeah,
there's 150 tents starting at Wedgewood, coming up to the
stadium. I'm tents number one and two. You'll see a sign
saying the Nantucket Nashville Law Office of Adam Dred. Come by
any time. Be my guest. Open bar. Some of your fans could come
too, because you're gonna have to clear it with Johnny B. But
I'd be down for that. They they would too.
They they they doubled the rates to rent the tents because of
Pavia.
Yeah. Oh
man. I got that. Yeah, they got a lot of woes in them now. Yeah.
And
Pavia's mom used Pavia's mom used to come to ours. That was
fun. I got the call. I'm in Nantucket when his brother got
arrested last year at the Vandy game, do you remember that? And
they're like, "Can you come? You know, take care of the kid. He's
public drunk and stuff. I go, "Probably not, because he was he
was at my tailgate tent. A little bit of a conflict of
interest, I think. But but no, we weren't. We've been going.
It's me and all my class in 1985. We've all been tailgating
together since then, and we've moved up from like 10 150 Now
we're tent number one and two. Oh wow! Chronologically, it's
pretty big honor to be up there. So come by and say hi, please.
Definitely.
Well, the Vanderbilt football team now is something to be
fearful of. Heck yeah!
Who knew? Yeah. Who knew?
Well, and what really helped, I. Think was the Nick Saban video.
I think that's what. I think that's what. What. Oh yeah. It
gave him a little fire right there. Put a little gasoline on
the fire. You
gotta love it. My only problem with Vanderbilt on that, and I
don't know who to yell at, but but Pavia should have had a
handler at the Heisman. Somebody should have kept him from doing
what he did.
Yeah,
because that that killed his career, in my opinion.
Yeah, I would agree. That's how we learned the hard work.
Nobody. Yeah, that's right. Nobody wants
a Pac-Man Jones on their roster. Oh boy,
don't kill that.
Pac-Man Jones. I forgot about Pac-Man. Me too.
Oh
God.
But you know, I mean, once he left the Titans, other teams,
you know, the everybody kept signing this guy.
Who knew?
Yeah,
it's it's a DEI hire, and the I stands for idiocy. Oh man, he
was there. There was not a there was not a there was not a strip
club that didn't know his name.
Oh my goodness! Do you know that was the best gig I ever had in
my life? When I was doing stand-up, I played. I got. I was
Father Guido Sarducci's opening act, Don Novello. Yeah, remember
him from Saturday Night Live? Yes, I am. The punch punchline
in Atlanta, and I was making as an opener. I was making $150 a
day. Now this is 1988 89 That was not bad money then, but not
great money. And these guys came up to me after the show and
said, "Hey, would you like to do a show at our club? They what
club? They said, "Well, it's called the Cheetah Three in
Atlanta, and it's the top strip club in the South. I go, "What
kind of show? And they said, "We want you to host the Battle of
the Cheetah Girls, which is the competition for the top stripper
in the South, 20-$5,000 prize, and I did, and I tuxedo ran it
like Burt Parks. I mean, a regular pageant with swimsuit
talent, everything, and and the funniest part is so the five
finalists are up there. By that point, they're all completely
naked, and I'm about to announce the first runner-up. And I say,
before I announce first runner-up, let me just say how
important this this position is. Because let's say the winner's
in some sort of scandal, then you'll be Miss Cheetah. And they
all looked they all looked at me like manga lords in a magic
show. No idea what I should say.
Hey man, you were real good friends with Ralphie May. What
can you tell us about Ralph? That
bitch of a wife of his. That movie is crap. It's a lot of
lies. Lana Turner's killed him. His wife killed him literally
from the stress of that divorce.
Wow, the
stuff she did to that guy. I've I have I've seen the texts. I I
know way too much about it. She went to TMZ and literally said
that he he had sex with her in a very inappropriate way, and
basically had taken advantage of her. Okay, not only did that not
happen, I have the text from her to him, telling him how much she
likes that position. Position, yeah. And I mean, and he was six
states away at the time. She said that happened.
Wow.
And and she put it on TMZ. The stress that, of course, he was
way overweight. But the added stress to that guy's heart with
that kind of stuff during a money divorce thing, he was so
broke. He, somebody had to lend him money to pay his taxes the
year he died because she had spent all his money, and now her
spitting on his grave with this BS movie. Don't see it because
it's all lies. Yeah, all lies. And there will there will be a
lawsuit. Unfortunately, there's nothing to get from her, and I
don't want to hurt her kids. Frankly, those poor kids having
that gold digging witch. Really, she married him because she
thought he was cute because she loved him. No, it was about
money. Yeah, and wanting to be a comedian. By the way, she's
banded almost every comedy club in the country.
Really,
for performing. Yeah, Lana Turner.
What? That's an
original name.
He seemed. He seemed. He seemed like a good guy to me,
nicest nicest guy in the world. He took care of everybody, and
gosh, and and again, I was so I got a call from a reporter
during the the shoot, the sniper shooting in Vegas. Yeah, and I
was actually about to head out there to go stay with Ralphie
for a week the next week, and he's like, Adam, do you have
anybody out there we can interview it for a Nashville
perspective on the shooting at the country show. I go, yeah,
let me call Ralphie, and I called Ralphie, and I said, Hey,
Ralphie, he goes, Adam, I just don't really feel good. I go,
man, what's what's going on? Anything I can do? No, man. I
go, no, man, I'll be out there tomorrow. Can I? What can we do?
What can we do to help you? He goes, No, I just don't feel
right. And then next day,
wow, gosh, man, that's sad. And
that was when she opened fire on him, and all the papers she
served him with. She went through more money, I mean, and
just embarrassed him publicly, privately, screaming at him. I
mean, she there's a special place in hell for that woman.
Yeah,
honestly,
we've been hearing a lot of stories about women like. Yeah,
I was
married to most of them.
You too, eh? Every boy needs a hobby. Well, what what got you
into comedy? Doing comedy, how did how did you break through
doing that?
So I was at Vanderbilt, and we had something called Rights of
Spring, and I used to I just started emceeing that, and
somebody said to enter this comedy contest. I was doing a 91
rock as well. I had a one-hour show called Adam Dred's Happy
Camper Show, but anyway, so I I sent in this tape to WLAC
actually and made the top 10, and then I got beat by some
no-name name Henry Cho beat me on that one. Oh wow! And then,
but on my first five minutes, and I kind of got the bug and
started doing open mic nights. But I had some fun times on the
road. My first time on the road was Creative Entertainment out
of Charlotte, and I had a Florida tour, and it was three
one nighters, and then the weekend in Tallahassee was that
yeah? And I was I was opening for this guy from Ohio, and
we're driving you know our separate cars, and I'm in a '72
BMW 2002 beater that I bought for 700 bucks from Jimmy Lester
from Web Wilder's band late one night, and he's in some big
Cadillac, and I'm in front, and and all of a sudden my radiator
just blew, and he and I and he comes up behind me and I'm
reaching to grab the thing and grabs my hand like I would have
burned my hand off, and anyway we're having dinner later that
night. He goes, you know I'm gonna be famous someday, man. I
go, I bet you are, and I go, yeah now now he is Steve Harvey.
That was Steve Harvey with my first guy towards it. Yeah, but
he he saved me from burning my hand off a radiator. Our first
experience. I'll tell you the one of the dirtiest guys I ever
worked with. They I got booked at Nick's Comedy Stop in Boston.
My first time ever being booked as a headliner, and I was
co-headlining with this guy named Dennis Leary. Oh, from
there. All right, I'm a pretty new comic, but just comedy's
political as well. That's why I got the gig. Yeah,
and I had to follow Dennis Leary in Boston. Uh-uh. They threw me
up there as this Southern guy just to crucify. So we switched
the orders the next night. But there's another kid there who's
kind of open micing and doing some stuff. And there's a lot of
one-nighter rooms around Boston and Cape Cod that these agents
will book out. So they'll book you for three nights for a long
weekend, but then they'll book you in Salem or Norwich or
little towns around Massachusetts. So this guy was
coming, driving with me, and we're talking. I go, buddy, I
do. I did kind of like a Seinfeld TV clean Martin Mall
kind of show back then. I said, "Man, just just don't take me.
Just don't be really dirty at the end. There's no problem, and
he's doing his show, and he is dirty. And at the end of it,
he's talking about being in bed with a girl, and just just the
foulest stuff ever came out of this guy's mouth. He goes, "So
you ready for your headliner? Here's Adam Dred, and like
following following following dirty comedy. Clean comedy is
tough. That guy's doing okay now, Joe Rogan. Oh, what? Nobody
would work with Joe. Joe was my opener, and we're still friends.
It was funny, man, but it made me work. You know, as a clean
comic, following a dirty comic is not easy to do. No, it really
makes you learn. No, the dirtiest guy ever was Bob Saget
was just oh yeah filthy. Yeah,
he was notorious for filthy.
Yeah, and that kind of surprised people. Definitely.
Yep.
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. But gosh. So we have
comedy festivals coming up here next week. I'm a little bit
involved with that. I have five books about Nantucket, and the
fifth one's coming out this year. That are kind of you might
be a redneck gift, but the Nantucket version. Yeah. So it
would mean nothing to 99.5% of your audience, probably in
Nashville. But okay, we talked
about Nantucket and the hierarchy of Martha's Vineyard.
Where does Block Island fall in that hierarchy,
so that that's New York. That's near the Hampsteins. Yeah,
Montauk as well.
Yep. Well, I mean, it's it's a different world. It's it's
almost comparing California. I mean, California, you know, San
Diego to you know you know San Francisco. We really there's
there's no crossover with Block Island. I mean, so we have
something called the Island Cup, which is Nantucket versus
Martha's Vineyard in football every year.
Right,
and we always win because most of the kids here, the locals,
they're descendants of whalers. They're Portuguese and keep
they're Cape Verdean and Portuguese, so these are big
boys, and you know, and the and the guys on the vineyard are you
know, they think they're past. You know, Peter Pan people. Have
you guys? Have you guys ever been up there? Never, Neverland.
Martz has been here. No, I am not. Have you? No,
not not no. Technically, so
Nantucket, Nantucket is where Moby Dick took place.
Yeah, yeah.
This was the largest. It was. We say the dictionary definitely.
Dictionary definition number one: Nantucket, formerly largest
whaling port in the world. Definition number two:
traditional mating ground for upper class white children. We
used to-that's where
a lot of where we used to do a lot of fishing was Block Island
area. Yeah, that whole area. Oh yeah. So I grew up all around
tuna. I mean, we caught whatever. I mean, a lot of
bluefish, tuna. We came out of Charlestown Breachway and Point
Judith most of the time.
Nice.
Yeah.
I had I was tuna fishing last year, and this blue shark would
not leave about a 10 footer would not leave us alone because
we're using live bait. And as soon as you threw something in,
it would just pull it. So we finally caught the shark.
I would love. I mean, everything you're talking about brings back
so much nostalgia. I mean, if you guys ever get a chance to go
up there, go probably towards the end of the summer, going
into the fall. Beautiful. It is the weather is like that's
actually the best time, right? We call that the shoulder.
That's the shoulder season. Yeah, shoulder season. You want
to come up in the fall? The water's still warm. The kids are
back in school. The day trippers are gone, and if I could just be
here two months a year, it would be September and October.
Yeah, and I
actually I host. I'm the I chair Restaurant Week up here the
second week, the week after Columbus Day. I'm sorry, the
week before Columbus Day in October every year.
Wow, as part
of my chamber of commerce duties. Yeah, the
many things you do. I
keep busy up there.
What you do, don't you? You're a busy guy. You're you call
yourself a man of leisure, but I see you more. I mean, you're
doing so much.
I spend more time trying to look like I'm not working than
anyone. Adam Adam Dread Adam Dread is a brand. You know, not
a human, but but I really enjoy it, and and I honestly think I
think it's a God thing. If you know you have the power to give
back,
yeah,
you have to. Yeah, don't sit there. Yeah, and so while I'm
still healthy this month, I'll I'll keep doing what I can.
Well, leave the world a little better for everybody.
Well, you do, man. A lot of people don't realize that, but
you do a lot of great work, and I've and I've always looked up
to you. You know, you're you're you're you're one of my heroes,
and I hope you know that. Thank you,
brother. Reciprocal. Well, I appreciate fun. Thanks for
having me, guys.
Oh, it's been our pleasure, man. And anytime you want to invite.
In fact, if you ever want us to do a live, we we could do a live
show. Yeah, we could do a live show at the Vandy 10. Yeah,
we'll do a live stream.
Yeah,
we can, or we can do it at my Vandy tent, or we can do it on
my boat up here.
Hell to hell! Let's do a boat.
Yeah, let's do both. Let's do both. Yeah, let's get a sponsor
doing.
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dude. Great way to end it. Pleasure meeting you. Well,
dude, it's been have fun having you on. And we're gonna have you
back on when you're in town, man. Definitely,
I'm I'm on it. This has been my pleasure, guys. Thank you. God
bless you, brother, and thanks for joining us on Circling the
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