Lucy is headed to Roo!
Drumroll, please! The winner of The What Podcast's ticket giveaway has officially been announced - congratulations to Lucy Young!
Throughout their exploration of the Bonnaroo 2024 lineup, Barry, Bryan, and Lord Taco asked listeners which artists they should check out prior to heading to the farm. Over 100 of you called in to make recommendations, and the gang wants to thank all of you for doing so! Of course, only one caller can take home the tickets, and this year it's San Antonio Roovian Lucy Young.
Young joins the podcast to chat about why Bonnaroo is so special, telling stories of past years and a certain marriage proposal. Elsewhere, the crew also finds time to run through the latest music festival news, including the new Huntsville festival South Star.
And now that our ticket giveaway is concluded, we want to introduce a new contest! This time, we want you to call our voicemail line at (423) 667-7877 and give is your best Bonnaroo tips, a favorite Bonnaroo memory, or ask us anything! We'll select one winner to receive a prize package of Bonnaroo memorabilia from Barry's basement!
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Bonnarooo is a place to go with your old friends.
It's a place to meet new friends.
It's a place to find out who you are.
It's a find out it's a place to do something you never thought you would do.
It also apparently is a place to maybe get engaged.
We're going to talk about that and a whole lot more this week on the what podcast right
now.
It's going to be an interesting project that brings us into the mood of presentations.
All right.
Hey guys, welcome back to the what podcast I'm Barry.
That's Brian.
That's Lord taco.
We know him also as Russ with the bus.
I want to do a quick sort of, uh, bring everybody up to speed.
It occurs to me every week that we not only have new listeners, but that
Bonnarooo has new people coming.
I think half the people are first timers.
So I wanted to do sort of, um, here's why we're doing this and here's who we are.
I'm Barry.
Like I said, I used to work at the Chattanooga times, free press,
did entertainment reporting.
Part of that was covering Bonnarooo.
I attended the first one in 02 and then I've been going every year since.
Oh seven Brian, you've attended every single one of them, Russ.
Your first one was in 19.
We are 18.
That's what I thought.
You said 19 earlier and you confused me.
I thought it was 19 was my first year.
That was my first year at camp nut butter.
But that's right.
That's right.
Yeah.
He had to, he had to slum with the savages.
Yeah.
Former terminology.
I'm glad you mentioned camp nut butter.
Uh, you, if people who have listened to this show will have probably heard that
reference, um, my co-founder of the podcast, if you will, that sounds kind of high
falutin Brad Steiner and I used to have, it's true, had lunch every day.
And, uh, we realized we were talking about Bonnarooo all the time and realized
probably other people were as well.
His wife, Hillary, uh, made nut butter that first year.
And it's just a funny word.
And so when we left there, uh, I said, I'll see you guys next year at camp nut butter.
And that stuck.
And there you go.
If you look right up here, these were sort of the original members, some of the
originals, yep.
You got, uh, these are all, I was thinking about this, Brian, it's a lot of industry
people, right?
I mean, uh, top over here, Chris Cobb, it's all industry people to a certain
degree, if you, if you include, um, like, well, Joe was, is a beer guy.
Hillary is, uh, in what was and is in a different capacity now, uh, herbal teas.
Um, and then, and then some works at the Tivoli theater, the guy next to him,
lower middle, Mike Dewar runs, uh, he's run every club in town.
That's worth noting.
Like I said, Chris Cobb is the, this, this guy on the anybody in Nashville knows
who Chris Cobb is.
Everybody knows who Chris is.
Uh, Nick in the middle top did all the design work, Sean Stewart.
So, and that's Brad.
So it did start off as just a core bunch of us who were in a lot of cases working.
Um, I was Brad, you, I mean, Brad, sorry, my God, Barry, you were working
constantly.
I was, it's, I'm jumping ahead of myself here.
I was working regularly and Brad was never, never working.
He'd get on his phone and do a 15 second.
Hey, I'm at Bonnarooo.
Bye.
Never.
And he was the biggest, he had the most influence within the organization.
Then, and that's just how Brad rolls and good for him.
And I would so often get so mad at him because he would throw something at me
that might be a little work because we had like some things, cause I worked with
him at a station for a short period of time, about two years, but we've known
each other in the industry for closer to 20 now.
And he would throw something, Hey, I need you to, or how about you go over here
and meet them for this at four.
I'm like, you know, I'm in the middle of something.
I'm tired.
I'm like, no, how about you do it?
You're not doing anything.
And I love to work at Bonnarooo.
Barry, I know you do too.
I love to do it.
And love to have something to do.
And so it started off as a bunch of people who really were, well, just, and this
and this guy's high sounds high fluent with the fluent in sorry, into the industry.
High fluid is, um, we were on assignment if you will.
Well, those days mostly are mo and we still do a little bit of here and there.
And we try our best to keep, keep some, some things put together for this show
later on and on all those things, but it's mostly just about having fun now.
And then the group would just create, it would just, it would just start
spreading the tentacles.
We would bring in people from a hundred miles each way.
And it just turned into, we're going to camp nut butter and you don't have people
there don't know half the people there, but it didn't matter.
You know, it didn't matter.
And the reason I bring it up is multiple, just sort of a, uh, to let people know why
we're doing this and who we are and why we think we have an opinion and why we
can have an opinion, why there's a little bit of credibility.
Yeah.
I'm glad you, I'm glad you brought up the history because, uh, uh, by the way, happy
200th show, by the way, this is the 200th show of the what?
Podcasts.
Yeah.
We're, uh, that's a good run.
That's a good run.
And we're, we're, I'm half joking.
We're, we're getting pretty close to a million downloads.
Uh, maybe that over that's stretching too much.
Half a million.
Uh, we're over a half a million.
Yeah.
Maybe if you combine with YouTube and all the other,
yeah, no, I'm combining them all.
And everything we can count, I'm counting this list I made the other day of the
people who told me they listened to it.
I'm good for a hundred thousand of them anyway.
But anyway, so yeah, the point is, uh, we have a little bit, you know, I'd like to
think we have a little bit of credibility for somebody who's just joining and saying,
who are these, who are these guys?
Which is a fair, fair question in the world of, of video cast.
Who the hell are these guys?
Yeah.
Who is this?
Yeah.
And so, um, Brad is, uh, taking some time off.
He's up in New York where he's running a cluster of radio stations, working for
Howard Stern's old station.
He's doing big time stuff up there.
Big time stuff.
You can find him search Brad Steiner.
He's interviewing, uh, lots of, doing some great interviews.
He'll have to throw away with class animals last week.
I mean, like, it's like, he was just, this was one of the, one of the
most, uh, God, I got glass animals here in a little bit.
Yeah.
All right.
So I just wanted to, uh, sort of recap that.
Am I leaving anything out as far as that goes, but that's who we are.
And that's why we're doing this.
Uh, we love this festival to your point, Brian, it is a
little bit of industry inside stuff.
That's what we've always, that was the premise.
That's where it's mainly started and came from, but it's, it's still fan.
We're just fans, you know, fans, but where we, where we try to take it a
little different is if we have a question, uh, we try to pick up the phone
and get that person on the show, uh, you know, to, to answer it, uh, whether
it's founders of the festival who we've had or artists or, you know, the
guy, the, we've had the spicy pie guy on.
That was a good one.
That was fun.
You know, we just, we're fans and we like to approach it that way.
So, um, wanted to start there.
We are guests today is the winner of our ticket giveaway.
We have given away a pair of tickets every year since we've done this.
And, um, Lucy young is our winner.
She'll join us here in a little bit.
Typical.
She's a fan, right?
She's just like us.
She's been there for what she says.
17, 17 and now 17 on.
Yeah.
Come 13 hour drive and completely hooked.
I was going to say where she is different.
You and I roll down the hill.
She takes a 13 hour drive.
Um, she's also, I don't know if I'm driving 13 hours for anything.
Not, not twice.
No, that's tough, man.
I would have done it at, you know, 23, 24, 25 years old, maybe, but not, not
any, well, yeah, she's, she's, yeah, she's in that, in that range, but, um,
out of college and has, has good news.
Um, bullet, we'll talk about that.
I don't give that away.
Um, so that's fun.
Uh, we are coming up guys.
We're about to hit.
I think we're under 60 days.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
We've got one more April show, right?
No, actually be May.
No, this would be the final April Wednesday.
Well, it'll be a Wednesday is the first, uh, May 1st is on a Wednesday, but
so then that leaves one month and then basically one week, right?
Like, I mean, I don't know how many recordings we'll do as we're
trying to get packed and gone.
It'll be here.
Boom.
Yep.
Instantly.
Yeah.
I can't wait.
And in classic Tennessee fashion, uh, we have a fire in the fireplace upstairs.
Yeah.
We won't have one in six weeks.
I was gonna say, I hope you can't feel here, my space heater behind me.
Cause I haven't turned the air or heat on in this house in, uh, probably a month
and a half, cause I'm just going to ride the highs and lows and it's cold in here
today, man, cold.
And I don't know how it knows, but hit June one and all of a sudden it ain't cold
anymore, ever, ever again, every night.
Actually though, that's not true.
We, and you know, Barry, cause we've been, I've been with you one or when we got
there very early, I think it was about 17 that she was talking about her first year.
And it was bitter, like teeth chattering cold at night.
Flipped.
Very rare though.
Very rare.
Very rare.
Uh, good episode last week I was off, but, uh, uh, it was a good episode.
Oh yeah.
That's right.
We haven't, we haven't talked to Russ in a couple of weeks.
I'm glad you mentioned that, uh, Tara and Joe and Kai were on last week.
They are part of Camp Nut Butter and have been for many, many years.
They're a huge part of Camp Nut Butter.
Well, Tara and Kai were on and Cassie.
Joe was not on with us and Cassie.
Um, but again, that just sort of that history and Tara has been, she's run
many local venues and again, you can imagine the conversations that we've had
around, around Camp Nut Butter about Bonnarooo and the industry in general.
We've gotten some local guys who we all know here.
I won't, there's no reason to go into it because nobody knows who they are in
this capacity, but who I over like slightly intoxicated, like late night.
And you're kind of, we're kind of toning it down and be like, you guys in the
media need to start giving more credit.
And this is small town politics stuff, right?
Like this is not big time stuff, but like.
When I, when the mayor does this or when outdoor Chattanooga is doing this,
y'all are kind of crapping on it.
And like, well, I guess if we're going to have this conversation anywhere,
it might as well be late night at Bonnarooo so we can all forget by tomorrow.
Pretty much similar to what we do here.
So a little bit, a little bit.
Yeah, that was a, but they, they, uh, not to belittle again, but thanks to Brian,
especially you kind of took it, took charge.
We had, uh, uh, Patrick Wayland, Wayland, right from a sober.
Wayland yet it's spelled wheeling like wheeling foundries here locally.
So we're used to as locals saying, we land it's it's Wayland like Wayland
Jennings, but he was on two weeks ago.
And then we had, uh, uh, Tara and Cassie and you again, to sort of, and Kai to
talk about the sort of practicalities of how to do a festival sober among other
things. So yeah, that was a, sorry you weren't there, but I know you were, uh,
in your VW of us with bugga Palooza having a good time.
So yeah, quick synopsis.
It's just a Volkswagen show here in the Southeast.
One of the biggest ones, uh, as a matter of fact, biggest ones.
Yeah. This was actually our 25th year doing this show and, uh, it's all down at
camp Jordan, which is close to Chattanooga and we got good, got good weather for it.
Got great weather.
Finally. Yeah.
Perfect.
Kind of have the same problem.
You never know April in Tennessee, you're either going to get a snow storm or a
heat wave or a monster or a wash out.
Yeah.
Wash out.
We've had all of that in the last 25 years, but it was, it was good.
I mean, it's a sold out show and we have about 350 cars and you know, full,
full camping, full of buses and Beatles and campers and all that.
And it all, we all, uh, donate to the Ronald McDonald house.
We usually raise between, uh, 12 and $20,000 for the Ronald McDonald house every year.
Yeah.
It's a real, it's a real fun event here locally that, um, that I've been to many
years, not every year, partially because April is for my likings and my world.
Soloed it.
It never stops.
That's why it's one of my favorite or my favorite month.
Yeah.
And, uh, and then weather F's it up sometimes and this time it didn't.
So this time we had perfect weather.
Yeah.
So that's where I was, uh, Sunday decided to have a late lunch over at, uh,
low main down on main street.
And, uh, I look out the window and here comes Bryan Stone walking down the street.
I'm like, cool.
All right.
Uh, never see him, never see him make it into low main though.
Uh, it turns out you went to the record store next door for the, uh, Pearl jam
album release party and, and I even said something like, oh man, you should have
come in and said hi and, uh, what, what was your response?
Uh, did I, I don't remember, but it was, did I say I was too stone on Delta nine
legal hemp derivatives here in Tennessee?
I can't, I can't remember.
I thought we'd text cause I saw the bus pull in it's almost impossible not to see.
And this was the week before record store day.
So this was a blast since we talked, this was a Wednesday, excuse me, Sunday the
14th and I will make this super fast.
This is not that great of a story, but a couple of years ago, I was at a Pearl jam
concert and it's the first time I ever stumbled into these, these legal products,
which, you know, get back with me at the end of the year and we can talk about
whether they're legal anymore, but it's a derivative of the hemp plant and it's,
it's basically, um, it's, it's marijuana that's just designed
differently in many States and it's legal.
And I, and I had a terrible experience at the, uh, the Pearl jam
concert a couple of years ago.
Well, this was a Pearl jam listening party that the show was, the album
was released over this past week.
So it was your, your only chance in our city to listen to the
record start to finish pretty cool ideas.
Five minutes from my house.
Why the hell wouldn't I do it?
It was the end of my week of a vacation, a staycation.
And I was like, I'm just gonna, you know, kind of like I would do when I was
drinking like, Hey man, we're about done here.
Let's have some fun.
And I hit that a little too hard.
And, and at that, and at that terrible experience, and that was with a, me
not knowing what I was doing and being a foolish drunk and everything else.
Just like, yeah, I'll take some of those.
That'll be great.
It was horrible.
Yeah.
If one is good, two is better.
Exactly.
Not true at all.
And so I've learned a lot since then.
And on this day at my better judgment just got ahead of me and it does
mean you haven't learned that much.
No.
Yeah.
That's what you said.
You said, I'm not going to do that.
Yeah, that's what you said.
You said, Oh, I saw the bus and I was going to come in and say, hi.
I was too stoned.
I forgot.
Well, I started to have like these flashbacks.
I'm listening to the head on loud.
I was wonderful here at our local record store and it blasted in a store.
You can get a beer there.
My brother was there having some beers and I just, I.
You can get a beer and a tattoo and new vinyl.
That's a cool place.
It started to hit me and I didn't want to talk to anybody.
And I know I looked a little weird and I was like, Oh my God, I hope this
doesn't get like that last time.
A couple of years, I was overthinking it, freaking out just a touch.
And I was like, I'm going to just have to ghost taco on this one.
I'm just, I got to go now.
I got ghosted.
This is at like four o'clock on a Sunday.
So we were going to my brother and I had a back just to watch golf and
baseball and just cook at the house.
So that was kind of why I don't care as if he'd get a little too much,
except for when you go out in public and stand around a record store and look
like, you know, I think everybody's looking at you.
Oh no.
It was a bad, it was, it was, it wasn't bad.
It just was uncomfortable and it was time to go.
That's all.
That's all it was.
So the other news, big news again, we're kind of, kind of keeping it local, but
it's the national, uh, big news for us here in Chattanooga.
Usher was in town yesterday, getting the key to the city, I think again,
quite understand because he got one before.
So I don't know.
I guess he has now the back door.
We can save this for the local podcasts that we do around here, but, but Barry,
you and me have never really discussed it.
I can remember this usher feeling you have, but I can tell I can feel what it is
and I'm here for it.
I love it and the doubling down and never stopping.
I love it.
But he was here as it, it was a big honor.
You know, uh, celebration kind of thing.
Yeah, I, I, I'm over it.
I know what you're talking about.
Cause I have been a whiny bitch about it for years and years.
I have my reasons.
I think it's funny, but apparently he gave some props to some people and that's
all I wanted him to hear was to acknowledge his past.
And, uh, for those who don't know, I sure was not born here, but he was raised
here and he moved when he was 12.
Um, and hasn't given Chattanooga much props until recently.
And basically, no, pretending like it didn't exist, pretended like it didn't exist.
And there's a whole thing behind it.
And, and I have a really deep connection.
That's more than just, you know, um, me being a whiny bitch, like I said, but he
was here, uh, and they celebrated him and I'm glad, uh, we'll see what happens
with the trial, diddy and puffy and all that, but Usher, I, let me just say he,
there's no question the man's talent.
And he's absolutely, it feels like there's no question.
He's a quality person.
I think he's getting there.
He's getting there.
That's my point.
I think that he's there.
I think that's what, of course, as much as he can, I can know about somebody
who played the halftime show.
The super bowl, but right.
He's a superstar and deservedly.
So, well, so your superstar continued comment means you don't, you mean it, but
it's, I want to be over it.
I love it.
I love it.
I'm happy for him.
It's subtle to those that don't know where you're coming from and not subtle at all
to us that know where you are.
I think it's funny.
I had no interest in going, they called that thing sold out.
You notice the whole Raptors were empty.
It wasn't really sold out.
Yeah, it was 3,500 people.
It was in the arena here.
But it's worth mentioning because, you know, he's got roots here and so good for him.
What was the other news?
You know, the couple of things that happened, we saw headlines.
The Department of Justice is going after Live Nation.
Oh yeah.
That's going to be an interesting thing.
I guess it'll be in the courts for five years and there'll be a buyout.
There'll be a check written somewhere and it'll all go away.
It's a headline I'm happy to see.
Does it mean anything?
No.
Anti-trust laws are not a thing in America.
The funny thing to me is the only reason it came up is because apparently some people
in Congress, their kids tried to get Taylor Swift tickets and couldn't.
And so now there's a law.
I mean, yeah, am I wrong?
Yeah, they're also selling apples.
So we'll see how that goes too.
Yeah.
No, I think it's every bit Taylor Swift.
I don't want to talk about Congress.
Yeah, I mean, but that's what happened.
You know, Mike, I know it is.
I know it's exactly what happened.
I think it's hilarious.
But, you know, Pearl Jam's been trying to tell you for 30 years and speaking of 30 years,
it's 30 years since their vitalogy record was released and limited to release.
It was the first time they put out vinyl.
That was their third album in the 90s.
And vinyl was dead.
Dead is a door now.
Vinyl was dead unless you just want to go get a Carole King tapetries from, you know,
Chad's Records down the street.
You weren't going to get any new habits from my dad's collection.
So that's a good pull.
That's a great pull.
You're not going to get anything that's really that special except for some really
super special releases and with Record Store Day.
It's actually a good album.
And it's great.
It's a great album.
And it's 17 years now of Record Store Day.
It's been it's been really cool where it's gotten.
And I'm not a big record collector outside of special limited releases.
And of course, you know, I have to show off my beautiful.
If you're watching on YouTube, Pearl Jam Dark Matter Record Store Day release,
gold and black ghost vinyl.
They're calling it.
It's just the album.
The packaging is the same as a regular album.
It's just the color vinyl you're paying for.
And that's what I like.
As you can see over my shoulder, my red Nick, Nick, let's go local guy.
I love colored vinyls.
If you'll do this, I will buy it.
The My Morning Jacket Bonnarooo vinyl double that I was listening to yesterday is that green.
It's gorgeous.
When you sit, when you posted that on social, because these things are expensive.
I saw I didn't want to buy too many.
I was kind of zeroing in on the one thing.
I've gone in there and spent four hundred dollars on a record store day.
Because like, oh, my God, look at that one.
Look at that one.
I got away today.
There were like they were even joking as they're waiting to let me or today.
The other day, yesterday, waiting to let me in.
It was when there was a lot of small talk.
We're like, what are you looking forward to?
I was like Pearl Jam out of here.
It's like, no, no, no, you got to check out.
OK, man, just for the sake of conversation, I'll tell you, you're right, dude.
But this year was like not happening because there's so many so many cool releases,
especially on the colored vinyls.
And I'm all about the color, all about the colored vinyls.
I love it. And they sound great.
So record store day was a ton of.
Yeah, I'm listening to this today in the garage.
And then it goes in a frame like that one back there by the end of the day.
This week, I got to see one to play at Cherry Street Tavern and here in Chattanooga.
Nice. Nice.
Yeah, I saw you posting from that.
Yeah, one of our hunts, very, very cool, new places in town, newest, newer places in town.
Right. And Wanda from Huntsville area.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, she's from Huntsville. Yeah, she's played she's played Bonnarooo.
She played the the canceled Speakeasy Mini-Roo that we had, you know, back in 2020.
Yeah, friends of Roobus, Daniel and Sharla.
I know they friends of Roobus.
I seem to run into her every year either at Bonnarooo.
I ran into her at the Waffle House one year and then she actually ended up camping out
near us in her Wanda van, I think last year.
So it was cool.
It was she's never played Chattanooga before.
So her and Russ are almost friends.
Nice.
Almost. Yeah.
She lists you for the Cherry Street Tavern show.
You're this close.
No, I'm this close.
No, yeah, I paid the cover, which, you know, wasn't much, but it was it was fun.
You didn't tell her who you were?
It was a good time.
Man. All right.
Best opportunity I am.
Let's go to, yeah, Huntsville.
Nice segue.
Big news we've been hinting at.
We knew it was coming.
We didn't know details and we still don't know a lot of details, but Huntsville will
have a festival sooner than people thought, right?
Most people thought it would be a year.
It's going to be in September and it's South Star, which I don't know.
They had to get Star or something in there because of the NASA connections.
You knew it was going to be space themed.
Yeah.
I mean, I guess if you want North Star, South Star, I don't know.
I don't hate it.
I don't love it, but I'm the same.
I'm the same.
And then all the worst kept secret is Blink 182, right?
As the headliner.
I mean, they haven't announced.
They have not announced, there's no official announcement of the lineup, but Festival has
it and others.
So count me not impressed with that, but it's got, it's supposedly going to have a 90s, 2000s
focus.
Do count me interested in where that goes.
Do count me interested in where that goes.
Blink 182 ain't going to ever do anything for me, but that's a good start if that's
the area you're looking for.
What is that?
70 minutes from here.
It's not quite an hour and a half, right?
I haven't made the drive in a while.
So we're going is what I'm getting at.
Probably.
Probably going to be in a...
I've already gotten hit up by Lindsay.
He's in the camping space out there.
Yeah.
Either Daniel's backyard or somewhere.
Exactly.
There's too many connections.
This isn't like us saying we're going to Louisville Bourbon and beyond.
Let's go.
This is a little more like, yeah, why not?
I mean, unless, unless your daughter gets married on this day or your dad's mom or your
mom's birthday is that weekend.
Why not?
Yeah.
The only, the only question is I'm guessing, I'm not sure Daniel's yard is big enough for
everybody that's going to be going, but we're going.
So he'll figure it out.
No, like I said, I already got hit up by Lindsay.
He's rented a campsite and he said there's room for me to pull in as well.
So that's, that's where I'll be.
There you go.
All right.
So that's cool.
And then one more thing here too on the list that you sent, Russ, before we get too far away here.
And I looked it up and I felt it was worth mentioning this Grimes DJ set at Coachella.
This was fast last night.
And then most things I was finding were people who were doing additional commentary on it.
And that was annoying me.
So I just kind of wanted to, I, I wanted a, you know, too long, didn't read version.
And, uh, boy was that embarrassing, right?
We're Barry.
Did you see this?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Just the way she reacted.
Um, I'm not going to pretend at all to understand how that spin and records and DJ sets go, but in the, in the
mute and traditional music world, when, and, and reset this a little bit more in just two seconds, but in a traditional, uh, music world, when you're playing and something doesn't go right.
You don't talk to the audience about it.
You work feverishly to fix it.
And if it can't be fixed immediately, then maybe an announcement needs to be made, but that's often not going to be by you.
It's going to be by somebody of a stage manager or somebody else within that infrastructure.
You, because it's just like on, on, if you're doing a show, like you don't dwell on your mistakes, just get by and then move along and power your way through it.
And she did the opposite of all those things and was getting frustrated and yelling and hooting.
And maybe if you can throw a link or just something to show her on the stage, uh, taco and post or whatever.
This is very hard to explain because it's a complex technology, but everything has been put to a double tempo.
So I'm doing a lot of internal math in my mind to make the tracks go together and having to.
It's hard to explain.
It was the example of how you do not handle when everything is haywire malfunctioning.
And so, yeah, to try to, it's, it's fascinating.
Cause I remember seeing it earlier in the week.
So you're right, Brian.
I mean, things happen.
A PA goes out, the electricity goes out.
Uh, somebody kicks a cord and suddenly you can't hear.
I remember Adele a couple of years ago, the sound went out.
But, and she had her inner ears and didn't know.
And she's singing, you know, I remember that things happens all the time, actually.
Exactly.
And in this case, what happened and she had the poor guy who, who she threw under the bus.
I can't imagine if he even has a, he or she has a job.
What happened was she's a DJ and she, as she said, she typically does everything herself.
She puts the files.
That's what she said.
Put the files together herself.
She relied on somebody else and they got out of order.
And double sped, right?
Yeah.
Like that, that, that it was up, it was up double speed on the playback.
Right.
So it was basically, we've all done that with computers, you know, where you've written
something and you can't find it, but that just is so weird to me to think of as a musical artist
being flummoxed by computer files, number one.
And then she, like you said, just melted.
She looked, looked and sounded ridiculous.
And, and I fit into a certain degree.
I feel a feel for her and then clearly she's young.
She's young.
She's young and her maturity level isn't, isn't, if it was 10, 15 years later, she might handle
it differently, but this is, you could use the old sports cliche, you know, sports talk
conversation or golfers, uh, athletes are bowlers athletes.
That's our DJs musicians.
I mean, I mean, call now, you know, what do you think?
I had all those thoughts too.
Yeah.
Your files got out of order, but I mean, you know, uh, cause the guitar, the guitar player
who does have a guitar tech, right?
The drummer does have a drummer tech.
Everybody's got somebody on the bigger state levels that, that can help you in the moment,
before the moment, after the moment, just like a pit car and an ad, you know, pit,
crew in a NASCAR race.
So you do get help, but a guitar player doesn't stop and say, I don't know why my amps not
working.
Yeah.
I'm strumming the guitar.
Put these strings out of order.
I mean, I, I, yeah, I wrote this song and it's not working the way that I wrote it.
Like, and so I don't, I, I flippantly ask that it does bring a little bit of a question.
How much of this is pushing a button and then maybe a little bit of something you,
you can do that I can't.
Yeah.
I agree.
It looked interesting story.
Bad.
It looked really bad.
Yeah.
All right.
So, uh, what else?
Any other news?
It's kind of a, I think that covers most of it.
Uh, the sphere, uh, run with the fish started, um, that just got run.
And I, I think they might go for a couple of weeks.
I know the dead's about to do it for damn near a month.
Um, I, the place fat doing four shows, right?
I read a really lengthy story actually about that.
Okay.
Maybe I'm thinking of a different one of these runs.
Um, I thought it was longer.
Well, that was the point of the story was when you two opened, they were only supposed
to do, I don't remember 13 shows and ended up doing 35.
Say they never stopped.
Right.
And then, so they asked, uh, fish if they wanted to do multiples.
And, uh, the point of the story was they kind of asked, uh, Trey Anastasia.
I think he said, what would be different because we don't do the same set ever.
He said, what would be the benefit of doing, you know, 10 more?
And they said, nothing really.
He said, no, we're just going to do the four that we originally scheduled.
And they're going to be like 90 songs, no two repeats.
So, well, that sounds about like how they would do it.
I mean, they've done Madison square run as Madison square garden runs
for upwards of 10 days.
So they have sat in one spot and done, but that was less about.
An experience different than a regular show and more about New York has so many
damn people we can fill this place up this many days.
The sphere is more of an, uh, of a, an experience.
I guess, I think I'm fascinated by this place.
I'm, I'm, I can listen to fish, but I would love to see them in the sphere.
I think that would be a cool experience.
I think my head would explode.
Yeah.
Yes.
I would want it to, I would expect it to.
I love the jam band stuff.
Even when I was really, really into jam band music, fish was always,
I kept it quiet because nobody wanted to hear this, but they were always
low or on my list of what I cared about.
Great music for sure.
But the, my very first Bonnarooo Sunday morning, I woke up
like I always do way before everybody else, probably five o'clock.
And some guys walking down the road.
And again, I'm just completely new and some girl was sitting across the way.
And I think he had a joint and she had some acid and they were like, Hey, you know,
hi, you want to share?
And so they sat down and they, he started saying, I guess it was, uh,
was it Trey was there that year or?
Fish.
It would have been, it was, it was, it was, uh, what year?
Seven.
I think it was just him.
It was just Trey.
I don't think fish.
Yeah.
Was there until Oh nine.
So I'm sitting there at six in the morning, listening to these two people out of their
minds.
And he started saying, I just have this connection with Trey.
It's like, I'm sitting there out in the audience and I look at him and I start
thinking of a song and then he plays it.
And I was, I mean, I'm dying laughing in my tent.
Thinking this is so great.
I don't condone violence, but I want to just smack that guy in the face.
Me and Trey, we have this mind meld thing.
I wish I could have recorded it.
Sure you do, bro.
Sure you do.
Let's go ask Trey anyway, but we'd like to talk to somebody who's got a little bit,
uh, closer to that, to that, uh, uh, venue and maybe people who were in conversations
of booking it just because it's such a unique place.
And, um, I just, it was, I thought worth mentioning at least mentioning for right
now.
Let's go ahead and our contest winner, Lucy young.
Um, we asked people to use that phone number and call and recommend, uh, people
on the lower card, uh, that we should listen to.
And we got almost a hundred or more.
And, uh, Lucy was the one that we chose the three of us.
Yeah.
Para GA plus as well.
She's going to be making the trip from San Antonio to Manchester.
So here is our interview with Lucy.
And then when we come back, we'll talk a little bit more about the next sort of
contest we want to run.
And here she is.
Our ticket winner.
Congratulations.
How are you?
Thank you.
I'm doing great.
How are you guys?
Shoot.
We're doing great.
Getting ready.
We're, we're coming up on it.
It's going to be here before we know it.
And, uh, you're going to be there and I assume a couple of friends of yours.
Is that how this is going to work?
Um, yeah.
So I think I'm going to give the tickets that I bought to some of my friends and
that we're going to take the GA plus.
We've never done that before.
So I'm excited.
I've never done GA plus either.
So I don't really know the, how great those little plus perks are, but they've,
they've got to be better than non plus perks.
I would guess.
Yeah.
Air conditioned bathroom and free soda.
I'm fine with that.
You had me at AC facilities, right?
AC, uh, uh, restroom facilities.
That's, that's it.
That's all I need to know.
Yeah. Going to be living in luxury this year.
So Lucy is our winner.
Um, we all agreed.
We loved your phone call.
Thank you.
I love the fact that you listened to this stupid show that we do and, uh,
and that you love Bonnarooo as much as we do.
And, uh, yeah, this is so the person you're going to give the tickets to,
have they been before?
Um, yeah.
So, um, we're bringing our two friends.
They're a couple. They went with us for the first time last year.
All right. Well, tell us a little bit about yourself, where you live,
how many years have you been?
What is Bonnarooo?
You know, we got a hundred questions.
We're going to hit you with all of them.
All right.
So I'm living in San Antonio right now.
Um, I started in 2017, which was my freshman year of college.
I was, um, I had heard about it when I was in high school from some of my colleagues
and I was really into concerts and I grew up camping.
So when the idea was pitched to me, I was like immediately sold.
So as soon as I was like kind of an adult, I decided it was time to go.
And, um, ironically, like right before we left, like two weeks before I got a call
in the middle of the night from a blocked number, and it turns out I had won two GA tickets.
Um, I had already bought it for me and my dad and two of my friends.
Um, but I decided to bring my, um, a guy I was crushing on.
I was working with at the time and we went.
It's a good start to get that to work.
I've done that before.
It doesn't always work, but it's a good start.
It worked for me, um, because last year he proposed to me.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
Well, what a, what a year and a half, right?
Oh, well that was 2017.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Okay.
What a, what a, how long ago was that?
Seven years.
It feels like a year and a half.
Yeah, that sounds like my romance.
It took four years anyway.
So we're, um, getting married this year.
So it's kind of sweet that we're, we're winning tickets again, kind of like a full circle moment.
Um, I'm really excited.
So do you enter contests a lot?
Do you win things from Coca-Cola?
Do you win things from like local radio stations?
Is this just something you do?
Um, I used to do it a lot more, but yeah.
Um, I am pretty lucky.
Well, I'll tell you too, Lucy, real quick, just slightly off subject, but in the same vein
is I know a few people that they're just, I almost call them professional contest, uh, entry types.
I'm not saying that's what you are, but you, it's the old lottery thing, right?
Yeah.
It's a hundred billion trillion dollars.
You can't win if you don't play.
Right.
And, and so here's a perfect example.
I like to think about them logically.
Like if I see that there's already a million entries, I'm not going to do it.
But if I think my odds are in my favor, I'll usually put it in an entry.
This, that's it.
I can hear people asking, so why did you win?
So what we liked and we all liked your, your response.
We asked people to give us a call, uh, and tell us who the, who on the undercard we should check
out. And your answer was almost, I kind of not argued.
It almost sounded like you were, you were his PR agent.
I mean, it was so detailed and everything, but, uh, Brian and Russ were like, no, she put in a lot of work.
She did, she did a lot of research and, and had a good answer.
So, um, go over that just a little bit.
Why this particular artist and, uh, and did you do a lot of research and where did it all come from?
Um, so my friend that, um, has been going through some 2018 recommended them to me.
And I really liked the sound and I thought it was something that maybe y'all would enjoy as well.
Um, honestly, we're talking about who, who was it that you were suggesting?
I'm sorry.
Uh, Josiah and the Bonnevilles.
Got you, got you, got you.
Indy.
Yeah, I'm sure that myself.
Thank you.
Honestly, I just had some free time at work.
So scouring the Wikipedia and crafting a submission.
Um, I know that if I put some work into it, then maybe I would be playing on the show.
So I was, um, happy to do it.
Uh, not a PR agent, just a nonprofit worker.
That's, that's actually brilliant thinking going into a situation like this.
First of all, you did what I do all the time, Wikipedia and simple sources to quickly come
up with a generalized, Hey, I know what this is all about thing, which I'm not saying that's
bad because I, again, I do it all the time, but also anytime I've come from the radio world,
the radio world and Barry comes from the Prince of kind of traditional old style media all the
way from the, the op-eds, right?
That would come into the paper.
Uh, that was the, the, the letters to the editor, I guess I should say, sorry, Barry,
or the calls that come into stations or things we used to do.
I mean, if you didn't put any work into it, you weren't going to get, you weren't going
to get on and the people who realize who consume any of these kinds of media is in this being
one of a newer media.
Hey, uh, you should check out Jim Bob and the, uh, fish bones.
Okay.
Well, I mean, I'm not saying you're not going to win and this is not an FCC controlled
situation so we can do the contest however we feel like, and we try to feel like we do
it as fair as possible.
But a good call is going to go a long way.
It's going to good calls, going to go a long way to get you on the show.
If that's what you want to do.
Some people don't care about that.
Some people just want to be involved any way they can.
So you used all the formulas that I have been slowly learning for 20 years and you did that
in a very condensed small period of time.
So congrats to you to understand how to play this game.
Cause it kind of is, it kind of is everyone, everyone take note.
This is how you do it.
And you followed instructions because you actually recommended an artist to you.
You actually recommended an artist that's on the Bonnarooo lineup.
We got a lot of calls that were just like, I think you should check out the Rolling Stones.
We're like, what?
Yeah.
So, you know, following instructions will take you forward.
Yeah.
Let me talk about this man, Mastodon.
I just heard of the other day.
He's pretty good.
Like, yeah, we know.
Yeah.
Last year I submitted an entry.
We're talking about Bonnarooo stories about my dad with the bringing an orange safety
vest to Bonnarooo and directing traffic.
So when I, when I got played on the podcast.
That was my, my jumping point for this year.
I do remember that.
That was you.
That was hilarious.
Yeah.
And kudos to your dad.
I don't know what possessed him to bring it, but it was a smart decision.
Yeah.
I wasn't around for that story, but I can already tell that, that you, that, that went a long
way.
We've always, we've always talked about the lanyards, you know, put her, put as many lanyards
around your neck as you can and just act like you belong.
But the orange vest, that's next level.
That is next level. Like our guy, Brad, you know, long time co-founder and host of this
show, that bully poll did this every year with all his old classy, cool looking lanyards.
And he would wear them just as, as aesthetics more than anything.
And they got him places that he never would have dreamed.
And I've, I've learned from him to do that in a certain way.
I'm just not as brash as he is about it.
Taco, I forgot the first year we were all going together.
Remember we asked you to buy the walkie talkie things with the earpiece.
Cause we were going to that figure.
We figured that would get us anywhere.
Just have the, you know, the, but then it was, that didn't work out as well as we were
expecting.
Yeah.
No, it was right after what was it something.
There was some major events security and we were worried that we would be thought of
as security and people would ask us for help or something.
So we're definitely not security.
No, we thought better of it, but we thought that would be the way to,
well, every year we try to, especially about a decade ago in the lesson that where what
can we do to outdo ourselves this year?
Walkie talkies, mailbox, mailbox.
I'm actually working on that.
I've got an idea for this year.
All right.
So Lucy, yeah, we kind of hijacked your answer a little bit.
So you started in 17.
You've been every year, obviously other than the COVID years, like everybody.
Yeah.
I drove all the way to Tennessee that year just for it to get canceled.
But let's back up real quick.
How about that?
Let's do the story on to, was that the 2021?
So that was that, was that the year we're talking about the flooded year, the hurricane.
How far did you get to Tennessee from San Antonio or where wherever you were coming
from in Texas?
How far to Tennessee did you get?
We're like outside of Memphis.
So I still had maybe two or three hours left.
Still a little ways, but that's a long way to go.
Yeah.
So we.
Do you drive to get here?
Yeah.
And how long a drive is it?
It's 13 and a half hours if I were to just go straight there.
That hurts every bit of my soul.
Oh my God.
God bless you.
That is so cool though.
That is such determination and really shows how excited people like you.
When I say people like you, I mean people who don't live nearby.
That's.
We get in the car and roll down the hill and we're there.
Oh my God.
I can't even fall asleep at night as quickly as it takes me to get to Bonnarooo.
The drive there.
This year I think we're going to have about five or six.
Last year is our biggest year.
How many vehicles?
Two, three.
Okay.
Caravan.
All right.
Yeah.
Last year our biggest group was 10.
So we have some people flying in and we had to like go even farther to Nashville and they go down.
But it's it's all in the game.
I love it.
So did you get to Memphis and stop or did you come on?
Well we had camping reservations Tuesday night at Monte Sano Park.
So in where is that?
Oh it's Huntsville Alabama.
Sorry.
I've been there.
Yeah it's really nice.
So we decided that we were just going to go ahead and stay in those accommodations
and we booked some extra nights and had a little camp time but it wasn't the same.
Did you do a little mini-roo?
I guess you could say.
I mean we're in a national park so a little bit different.
Any version that year of a roo.
A mini-roo could have been this small because we all did something because we were all packed.
Right.
Yeah.
You were packed and drove 10 hours or whatever it was.
I was packed and waited 10 minutes until they told me I couldn't go.
But yeah.
And the last thing we wanted to do was drive back.
Yeah.
Of that core group you said sometimes four, sometimes five, sometimes 10.
Everybody else like you been multiple times or is it always new people?
This year it should be all veterans sorry.
But I usually like to bring a rookie with us so that I can show them everything and kind
of like live through their eyes because your first year is better than every year no matter what.
It depends.
I guess it depends on who you ask.
The problem with the festival like well like any of them that are on that scale is that
when you're new now you're talking about bringing somebody with you.
So that changes the dynamics a little bit but you spend over half the time there trying to
figure out where the hell you're at.
By the time you figure it out it's time to go.
So I've heard that story a thousand times but when you got somebody there to guide you through it
then that changes everything.
So that's really cool and it's just like that phenomenon of want the people and I'm one of
them a little bit too.
We all are to a certain degree as music fans.
I want to introduce you to this music like this song.
Listen to this song.
It's so great.
It's like I'll get to it someday dude.
But in this setting I want to show you you know the fountain.
Let's just put for something we all are familiar with something that they're like I got to take
you now.
The indoor plumbing.
Let me show you this.
This is great.
Imagine when this wasn't here.
That's got to be pretty cool bathrooms.
Yeah it's got to be pretty cool to be able to be kind of the the person who is is guiding
that that tour if you will and then the person who gets to like you know really get that
information really fast to make a great weekend out of it.
Yeah the walk through the circle through center on Thursday is like my favorite part almost always.
Reacquainting.
Yeah.
Yeah things are just it's a different feel that day.
It's just a different.
Brian likes to go a couple of weeks early when there's nobody there and then he likes
to go that Wednesday night when there's nobody in there and sort of check out that he does
that walk about.
Yeah one of my favorite days of the year just making a list of calendar days was the Wednesday.
Now the festivals shifted some and they don't let us do things that they let us do.
But yeah that day Wednesday before anything settled and everything but everything's popping
off all the lights the Ferris wheel if it was there the the the disco ball ball in the sky
is is all flowing.
It looks like there's a party going on but there's not.
Yeah and it's just us and we're just like oh my god look at this place.
But they don't do it like that like they used to.
All right Lucy so I want to there's a lot to unpack but
how does a girl from San Antonio get engaged in Manchester Tennessee at a sweaty stinky
music festival.
Tell me what that was like.
Well it was during our Thursday lap so we were we were fresh.
Well played well played.
What is his name by the way.
His name is Cameron.
Played Cameron.
We went as friends but we left as partners.
So it was really sweet and.
Bonnaboo sometimes we turn into bonham hubbies.
Yeah sometimes it works guys.
You hear that.
We can still make this happen.
So and and and I'm it's going to sound flip but what took so long.
Was it you was it him.
Well we're just weren't ready.
I mean we met when I was like a freshman in college so we were pretty young.
Okay fair fair.
Yeah and then we moved to San Antonio and then I don't know I thought he was going to do it last year
because we went for flu my first year.
Oh so you were waiting on this.
That's right.
You're going to get out here.
But last year he was like oh it's not the right time and place and for the same reason
you're saying like you know we're having a little alcohol or sweaty like I could understand if you
wanted to do it in a more professional setting.
But I think he just said that to throw me off.
So I wasn't expecting it the next year.
Another well played.
Yeah okay.
You guys know what you're doing.
He's clever.
So you were in Centauru where exactly.
I'm curious about all this.
In front of the witch stage.
I have a cute little video some strangers started clapping for us so sweet.
And it was front of which.
What stage.
Which stage.
Yeah.
All right.
So you know you guys remember Brad.
Former co-host famously tells the story of watching the guy drop to a knee during live
and let die I think during McCartney.
Right.
Drop to a knee and propose just as the fireworks were going off.
That's pretty solid right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's pretty strong.
That's some planning.
Yeah that's it's hard to get that one.
So what is it takes you guys back.
I mean that's a 13 hour drive.
I mean we know what we love about it.
But what is it that brings brings you back every year.
Of course the music.
There's always something that gets me there.
I've always been a concert kid like I grew up working at the Cynthia Mitchell's Wood
Pavilion in Houston.
So I've always been a concert enthusiast.
But really it's just like the camping and getting a hang out with your friends and just
be like removed from society for a little bit.
There's nothing like it.
Well to the same question kind of sort of coming from Texas there's a lot of events.
Some good some not so good.
And they're they're having some more music festivals over the years.
And of course Austin City Limits I mean that's not nowhere near where you're at in San Antonio.
But still within the state.
Do you look around since then.
Have you thought from year to year.
Bonnarooo is great.
Like I've established that everybody knows that.
But there's I mean even now we've got a few we might talk about before this shows over
in a different capacity.
There's so many I mean there's so many and Texas is no exception to adding these kinds
of festivals on a smaller scale bigger scale too.
Plus you've got Midwest area to choose from.
Have you thought maybe I should do a different one or maybe we as our group should try something
else or is it is is Bonnarooo that alluring that it doesn't matter what goes on anywhere
else.
I think we're always going to do Bonnarooo.
It's a good way for our friends that live all over to kind of like meet and just have
some like good friend time.
But I've done ACL.
Freaky Diki is like a EDM festival that we have here.
I've done that a couple of times.
I went to Buku Festival in New Orleans when that was still a thing.
So I definitely still engage in the festival sphere outside of Bonnarooo.
But I think we'll always go back at least for now.
I was just curious if there was anything that would potentially make you say or in your
mind you think that it could be possible that something could pop up and be like well at
some point you got to make it you got to start scratching stuff off on a to do list.
And does does Bonnarooo get on that doesn't sound like that's the case with with probably
not unless there's another like large scale camping event.
And I think the only other event like that is Electric Forest which is way farther away
from me.
And it's a different it's a different world.
Right.
And prices are kind of crazy for a young person to be able to go to that as well.
Well if you don't win tickets yet.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Keep trying.
You never know.
Yeah.
So share some wisdom.
Tell people who are first time first timers.
We always I always remind myself that you know half the audience that goes to Bonnarooo is
a first timer.
So what are your tips especially for someone who's traveling as far as your your your travel.
Yeah.
And definitely that too because that that is poor.
That is just a different dynamic to the whole thing.
Break up the drive.
Like don't be afraid to stop as far as driving.
I try to make sure there's at least two three people in every car so we can take shifts.
No one needs to drive that long by themselves.
Because as far as tips like out Bonnarooo I told people not to make their meetup spot
like the fountain because there's going to be a million people there.
Make it like a little vendor.
Last year we saw there's a clothing vendor called Worm Town and we just thought that
was really silly.
So that was our meetup spot.
We were like always the only people in there.
It was great.
So that was a good idea.
Like if you said if you said a lemonade stand that wouldn't work because there's so many.
It's delicious lemonade by the way.
But there's so many of those lemonade stands.
That's probably not going to work.
Not for somebody who's not really familiar with the footprint of the festival.
I think you'll said it last episode actually but time stamp your text.
If you don't get it.
That was a Tara thing.
Yeah.
It's great.
I've never thought of something like that.
What the hell.
Why would I.
So simple.
So simple.
You know it's not going to go through for a couple hours sometimes.
Right.
Yeah.
I say service has gotten better over the years but I think it's worth doing because you don't
want to just be waiting for someone to show up for a super long time.
Oh hey she finally text.
She's at the fountain.
That was five hours ago.
She's gone.
It was already a bad idea to begin with and now it's five hours off.
I tell everyone to bring a hammock.
So if you wake up and you're sweltering in your tent you can go to the grove or like
the rest stop.
I think is what they called it last year and take a nap.
It's like the best way to recharge.
That seems simple.
But boy that hammock thing is a lifesaver and I've said you know I would say early on
like why are we throwing up all these hammocks.
We had a lot of trees in our old camp spot like a embarrassing amount of awesome trees.
What do we really need a hammock for and then like two days later I'm like don't touch me
I'm in the hammock.
It's peaceful.
Go through the tower entrance line.
Do the high five line once you know but go ahead and check the extra five minutes down
to the tower line so you don't have to stand in line for an hour.
Except for that year they didn't give us a tower entrance line if you remember that year.
Well that was a disaster.
I think we'll have I think we have it this year.
Brad says it's back.
It better be.
My last tip is to invest in a waterproof like picnic blanket for Santa Roo because if you
put a tapestry down like it's going to get wet when the dew starts.
So keep your clothes dry keep you warm get a waterproof blanket.
Do you do the locker?
No.
Well the old fit the old fish line to be whatever you do take care of your shoes.
That's a big one.
Shoes are huge.
That was from the very start.
From the very first year that was a big one.
Don't get especially if it rains don't wear something that's going to get stuck in a mud
sink hole and then you're barefoot for the rest of the day.
It's so easy to think man these are the most comfortable flip flops I've ever had.
Yeah double or triple check your shoes.
One time I actually forgot tennis shoes I trusted a group mate to grab them but he only
grabbed my bag and so I had to borrow French shoes for the weekend that were two sizes
too big.
You will never make that mistake again will you?
Nope nope.
Put an extra pair of tennis shoes in your bag.
Here's my tip especially it's what is it it's April 21st start now put your stuff in the
middle of a room.
Just start all out.
Start doing inventory.
Inventory touch it feel it know it's there wake up tomorrow and do it again because you
will forget something.
Like I said we can drive back home or I mean you can go to a Walmart but if you've driven
13 hours and you forgot tennis shoes you know or a tent or shade.
Yeah all right hey just drove 13 hours let's go to Walmart now down the street which you
can do you certainly can.
Or tent poles who was it told us they got all the way there and thought the other guy
had the poles.
Oh my god.
That is rookie rookie.
The tent but no poles.
That is rookie rookie.
All right Lucy who you looking forward to seeing?
I mean we know Josiah but who?
Chappell Grown, Kidd to the Elephant, Megan the Stallion some in line.
I think I'm pretty excited about this year.
The overall lineup when you first heard it was it underwhelming to you like it's been
to many of us we've grown on a lot of it and as we always talk about we don't care who's
there but when you first heard it to now has it grown on you more or you just you good
with it from the jump?
I like Fred again enough so I'm pretty excited about that show.
I do enjoy EDM.
Red Hot Chili Peppers played my first year so I kind of wish there was a little bit.
You and they both.
Yeah different.
But I missed half of that set like going to the bathroom so I'm excited to see the whole
thing.
You had more fun potentially.
I double down on this because of this dumb joke within the show sorry go ahead.
I was there Brian I saw it dude.
The Pretty Lights like what stage Thursday will be excited.
Alright well congratulations on the tickets and I hope you're have you told the other
couple yet?
Well I was going to kind of send them this link maybe.
Look at that always thinking.
Alright you got a future in PR if you want to get into it.
Well thank you.
You've got the basics down now it's a difficult business industry but you got the basics down
and excellent call for real no joking around about it.
I mean we were always looking for good content anyway and we enjoy listening to people just
calling for whatever we're looking for.
It was immediately jumped off to all of us that this is a very well put together and
thought thoroughly thought out call.
That was really cool.
That's not the exact reason you won I don't guess.
I don't know but that worked.
We narrowed it down.
What did we get a hundred plus calls?
Wow.
Again thanks to everybody out there for participating.
It makes this show more fun for us and hopefully more fun for everybody else as well.
For sure.
We probably may drop some more in later just because we got that many and they're good
calls and you know the content is right.
Go check out this band.
And if any year which there's been plenty of them but if any year for sure this is one
we needed some help and you just mentioned Chapel Rhone.
I was just reading about her Coachella set just an hour ago and more and more read into
her and she's got a couple of songs that you can't not like.
They're so catchy and so they're pop they're out of my normal wavelength but they're great.
I mean it's good stuff.
Nobody would have heard of that if we weren't doing these kinds of segments and it's very
cool for me and I know for I think I speak for all of us when I say us.
All right I have to put you on the spot Lucy.
He proposed last year.
They have a stage called Matra Moony or something.
Me and Taco messed around and almost got married ourselves.
My dad's a Bonnarooian but I don't think I want to bring all the grandparents along.
We're getting married in December.
Hey come on 13 hours Auntie Mae come on.
Yeah we're putting up in a tent.
It'll be great.
The designer tent.
All right well I had to ask.
Congratulations to you both.
Thank you.
December in San Antonio I assume right.
Yeah and Bernie which is a little bit outside of San Antonio but really excited.
All right well congratulations.
We look forward to seeing you on the farm.
Thank you.
I hope to hug and howdy and all that stuff.
So all right we'll talk to you soon.
Thank you again and tell everybody in San Antonio you know Goober says hey I guess.
All right Ken do thank you guys.
All right so there you go.
That was fun.
Another we say it every every time there's so many people that have great Bonaru stories.
I mean I can't imagine getting engaged.
I mean she went she went through her first one in 17 with a guy she as she said was crushing
on crushing on.
Yeah hey I think that is wonderful.
You know how many times I thought I could pull that off.
That was never never works.
Never works.
So good for her for seeing them and that's that's some looking into the you know past
right now and even tomorrow.
So beautiful stuff man.
Always fun stories.
And then they got engaged.
Even the bad stories of Bonaru or can be fun.
Good tell told stories.
That's certainly one of the highly successful ones.
That was a lot of fun listening to her and she just like I said another you know just
like us just love it.
Just I don't I can't imagine making that 13 hour drive but she'll get tired of it eventually.
She's still very nice.
She's young and vibrant and healthy.
Well the goal there is to make enough money you can get an airplane ticket.
That's the tough part.
Find out where all that money is.
Anyway that was a lot of fun.
So back to the our next contest and like I said we're still figuring out the details.
I know this I've got a basement full of stuff I want to get rid of.
I've got what podcast t-shirts koozies that kind of stuff.
Brian and Russ and I were kind of talking about things we've collected over the years.
Maybe we can put into a prize pack.
Don't know what it's going to look like entirely.
Yeah I mean it's not it's not going to knock your your socks off.
Like we're not talking about anything with any high high dollar value.
Maybe a couple of could have a little depending on how you want to work eBay but just of all
I mean if we assume I assume if you listen to this show regularly then this festival
means a lot to you.
So the history of this festival means a lot to you.
The reminiscing of years before you came the years after you you didn't make it during
the middle when you came back.
Newspaper articles the Bonnarooo Beacon from the Relics magazine that was a huge thing
forever.
I think it's done and long gone now that an actual small printing press where they do
daily paper where they would do daily papers that did write-ups on the shows from the night
before.
Nobody was doing that except until Relics took it to other places around the country.
And this is 15 years ago.
Bandanas programs like when you used to pull in and they'd have you a nice thick.
They used to be bigger but then they get down about this size programs.
I got several of those.
You're not getting this but it's my 2005.
Coozie fourth annual there figured I'd put that one I don't even like using it because
I don't want to stretch it too much.
But I feel like we could throw together a lot of fun stuff that I think I think people
would like and as a way as a carrot to get you know give us a ring and give us give us
some insights into any it could be anything festival related and like it to be closer
to Bonnarooo maybe this fear if you had it out that way.
But yeah just good bad good bad ugly you know whatever you got.
Yeah.
You got a question for us or somebody else maybe.
Yeah we just want to hear from people.
It's been fun to do that.
We do but it's we could narrow it down to a little scope just to get people focused
on what we're asking for.
We were looking for if you got Bonnarooo tips like if you got a killer hack that you do
every year for camping that could work too.
We want to hear that because we're going to do a whole show on tips and tricks and how
to use and.
And want to and want to include as many of you as possible.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Get as many hints as we can.
I mean we we want to answer questions if you've got a question that hasn't been addressed
then give us a call and ask your question we can get that answered as well.
Yeah I mean Brian you've been every year I've been since seven like to think we know what
we're doing but that tip from Tara last week time stamping your text.
Never thought of it.
Great.
There's always a little this one's kind of old now but like putting the schedule on as
your screen saver on your phone or or or the screen saver on your phone is all your contact
information like that was something that came up many years ago.
That was a way to protect your phone and I thought yeah what a what insane idea and I
never thought of it.
Lucy's tip today about don't pick them you know the water fountain the mushroom pick
a pick an empty you know a relatively empty vending store to do your meetup.
Yeah there's all kinds of tips like that.
So yeah I'd love to hear that.
Anyway and we'll you know we'll play some of them.
That's the beauty of these phone calls as we get to play them so you we can hear it
from you guys and not just read it.
So all right.
What else guys anything else.
I think that about it covers it.
As far as also the phone calls they don't need to be too overly the top theatrical or
anything but if you got some good information come come at it and then I I feel confident
we'll put together something that a prize and we'll do this probably all the way up
until until the first week of June and then as soon as the festival is over probably.
Yeah keep it succinct.
This is a voicemail line so like yeah you know voicemails what max two minutes two and
a half I don't know what the limit is but if you keep going and going it is going to
cut you off so keep it to the point and keep it short.
If you send a two minute voicemail it better be the best story ever or I'm going to cut
it to at least a minute.
So but but yeah I look forward to it.
All right the the the last calls we got we got so many good ones.
It was great.
So many good ones and looking forward to do it again.
It's a lot of fun for us and I think for everybody else just to have more perspective from people
who have camped in different spots all over.
What if you're the guy who got stuck I don't know if that little bridge is still all the
way out there in the back where they added that additional plot of land like in 2005
or six and they built this like bridge and it was like over this creek or something.
I don't know if anything that lives but he used to have a nickname and if you got stuck
out there it was like oh no.
But people made the best of it and some of the best stories come out of those.
We're not even in Coffey County anymore.
It doesn't feel like over here.
I don't think that's really a thing anymore.
Just anything like that and and you know do's and don'ts and survival tips.
Yeah Russ it may be opposite of what you're.
Yeah so 423-667-7877 is the phone number.
Just as a reminder we're keeping the same phone number but yeah we'll have a new contest
to go.
Yeah and I know Russ you're trying to fine tune the question but I'm just sitting here
thinking maybe even if you have questions for somebody else maybe people that run the
festival that we could be the intermediary if you have a question you'd like to ask them.
Like Rick Farman damn it what are you doing over there?
Live Nation C3.
Yeah maybe ask we'll see we'll try.
I'm game maybe we can get an answer for you.
Yeah shoot your shot.
I mean try it yeah anything you got to you want to bring up with us.
You know you want to talk about us.
Yeah that's fine too.
Yeah I like that too.
All right thanks guys good show.
It was fun.
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