In our final installment of Virtual Camp Nutbutter, Brad, Barry, and Russ are joined by some of our long-time campmates: Hillary, Nicky T, Bryan Stone, Dinson, and Chrissy! We reminisce about Bonnaroos past and imagine what this past weekend would have been like, had we all been together for this year's festival.
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A podcast for Bonnarooians by Bonnarooians on the greatest Bonnarooo weekend of all time.
So beautiful. The picturesque scenery. The wonderful weather. The amazing shows.
Let's go around the horn. Larry, Larry Corder. Lord Taco. Barry Courter.
Your favorite show of the weekend. Let's hear it.
Mine was Seeds because it's the only band that played.
I don't know where you guys were but I was basically at Bonnarooo this weekend.
Yeah, we'll get to that in a second. Barry Courter, your favorite band of the weekend.
My Morning Jacket. We were grilling last night.
I turned the open the windows, turned it up. Me and Kelly were into it.
And for her to be into it, it was a good day.
She is not into my Morning Jacket either.
I've told that story, man. I told it again today.
Yeah, with a first note. And how long is this show going to last?
All damn day it's going to last. It'll last until it's over.
So we've compiled a few shows over the weekend to wet your Bonnarooo palette
in honor of Bonnarooo Weekend just doing some shotgun virtual Camp Nut Butter shows.
And we thought that we would join this episode with a fresh Bloody Mary
because at Camp Nut Butter we start the day every day with Bloody Marys made by our own Nick Turner.
There you go. There's the cups that I made everybody.
And then on the front is your cartoon head, right? Show the cartoon head. There you go.
And so everybody at camp has a giant cartoon head on a stick that is also a sticker that's on our Camp Nut Butter cups,
which is normally filled with Bloody Marys in the morning and then by mid-afternoon it's what, Barry Courter?
What's your drink as you turn this into a drink?
I'm a different guy. I'm a George Depple guy.
Even in the heat?
You know what I drink. I wake up and I have a Bush, can of Bush beer.
Kind of get the throat cleared. Then we have the Bloody.
I have a can of Bush Beans.
Bush beer has never won a Blue Ribbon.
That's right. There's only one that won a Blue Ribbon and it is the Paps Blue Ribbon.
Let me guess what Taco drinks when he wakes up. You doing a Bloody Mary?
No, I had a Mimosa.
Really? Wow, you're such a cultured man.
Yeah, I made Mimosa's. Drank the whole bottle.
Alright, so we're going to hopefully be joined by today some surprised guests who may or may not know that they're on a show.
Some of our camp mates. They pop in, they pop in. If they don't, they don't.
Either way, we're going to do some Bloody Marying and chat about a lovely Bonnarooo weekend,
which of course the only person who really got to do anything for Bonnarooo was Lord Taco.
What did you do this weekend? Let's hear the whole story.
So it wasn't Bonnarooo, but I was in a field in Tennessee with live music, beer, food, people.
Human experience. I can't believe it.
I had a human experience. I guess it's public now, but there was kind of a low key weekend plan
and it was put on by the Roo Bus people, the Roo Fitness people, because Lindsay owns the property out there.
And so it was maybe 50 people.
Well, why was it low key? Why didn't they, why didn't they publish it?
Well, you know, it's Lindsay's private land. I don't think he wants it trashed.
No, come on. Bonnarooo lets it happen. That's true.
I would trash it. Yeah, I have a feeling this will continue.
There'll be other, you know, if September doesn't happen, probably this will happen.
You're telling me the Clean Vibes people were not on site to pick up every piece of trash that you threw on the ground?
We were all Clean Vibes people this weekend. We all respected the farm.
We kept everything clean and we stayed true to our room.
So how many actual shows did they put on? Where did these bands come from? Who were they?
So Seeds is a band from Huntsville that Roo Bus has known for a little while.
So they were happy to come out and perform live because they've been sitting at home just like everyone else.
And then after that, they had a DJ that come up and did some stuff.
So we had kind of an EDM show afterwards. Weird. It was weird.
And, you know, after dark, you look around and people are, you know, high fiving and saying happy Roo.
You know, in my mind, I went to Bonnarooo. Yeah, that's that's the you.
Hang on a second. Did you get lost? Did you get lost? I might have gotten lost.
I definitely lost some time Friday night. There's a there's a section where I don't remember much of what was going on.
What were these things that you were doing called high fives?
Does that require touching another human being? Touching or something.
We did some touching. Oh, that's talk.
But there was lots of hand washing. There was hand sanitizer.
You know, it when you when you say, let me ask you this, when you went to camp and then you woke up in the morning,
did you have a hotel to go back to to freshen up? No.
No, but this is how your camping is much different than mine.
Yeah, there was there was no couch. There was no carpet.
What? What about a bag? Yeah, no carpet vacuum. Yeah.
How did you even function without carpeting in the can?
How do you walk around with bare feet if you don't have carpet?
I still made it through. I didn't bring the marquee or anything.
I don't know how you survived this.
You took your life in your own hands, really, Russ, when you think about it.
You took your life in your own hands. So that was really good.
So I'm glad people were out there with the robust folk.
Probably about 50 total. Let's see. There was and you know, there was a lot of people that we know, the robust people, the room fitness people.
Lindsay, Celia, she's I think she's also with routine clan.
David, David Bruce, the I am Bonnarooo photographer.
He drove nine hundred and ninety six miles from New York to come down to this. Oh, my God.
Yeah, I think what I think really what we want to do, Brad, is have him.
We probably ought to do a separate show because he's got pictures and some video and all this.
But we did a mini show there.
Even before you got on, he was telling me that he had that he drove from New York for this thing.
Yeah. And that's pretty cool.
And he took a bunch of pictures and so he'll be posting those.
That's really impressive. I can't get anybody that I know to drive from Chattanooga to New Orleans.
I'm working on it. I wasn't going to drive from here to there.
That's what I told him. I've been working on the bus to for some long trips.
So that's in the works. But that's that's really impressive that they pulled all that together.
Yeah. Our buddy, our buddy Kyle, the Bonnaroovian was there.
Yeah, he lives in Murfreesboro. So that wasn't too far for him.
So, you know, I got to hang out with the same people that we would have hung out with.
Yeah. Well, good. That's a that's a lot of fun.
I didn't do any of those things, but I did try to eat pizza. Nailed it.
I had I had crawfish. Nailed it.
That's about it. That's as close to my what are you possibly you're invisible.
Sometimes your hand just disappears. Barry Courter. What are you trying to open right now?
If you're about to open some pimento cheese, you son of a bitch, you son of a bitch.
I there's nothing that I love more than than Mama quarter's.
This was this was her idea to I told her what we were doing and she's like, I need to make some pimento cheese.
Yeah. Yeah. So the reason why I wake up every morning and eat that pimento cheese sandwich.
And here's the thing about the pimento cheese. It lasts only about till Friday morning and then it's done.
You're not getting very long.
Oh, I joined by a new participant. Who is this? Hello. Oh, hello.
We don't know you. Who are you? I love it.
Have we met before? Sitting on our back porch, too.
Look at that sunning as if you're actually at Bonnarooo.
My bloody. Oh, look at weird how our bloody Marys look very similar to each other.
So so Hillary, part of our campsite, we actually go way back in marriage.
What was your favorite Bonnarooo memory this weekend?
How was your Bonnarooo experience?
I mean, I guess it was just sitting on the porch. Yeah. Yeah.
Did a lot of porching. So last night, last night we hung out with the neighbor and the neighbor and her friends were going around the table and they were going doing their hall pass conversation.
So it was, hey, who's your hall pass?
You know who the celebrity that you get a free pass to and half the table literally said just random people they follow on Instagram.
You know, it's like a celebrity. It's just I follow this guy named Greg.
He's really hot. It's like that's not supposed to work like a non celebrity real human being screw up your life.
It's like a random, random thing. Oh, there's Nikki. My heart. My heart. My heart just stopped.
Hello, Nick. We have a Bloody Mary not made by Nick Turner. What are you drinking?
He's got his cup. Just straight tequila. OK.
Are you making right there on the porch? You know how I do it. I don't know how you do it.
I don't know how I got to be on the ready in case I run out. Oh, good.
See, this is what Nick's Nick is the best Bloody Mary person on the planet.
And the reason why I love his Bloody Mary is the secret ingredient. What's the secret ingredient, Nick?
Zing Zang. No, no, no. Zing Zang.
Very secret. Horse radish. Horse radish.
I think that's a secret. I'm pretty sure that's like. Well, it's not anymore.
Yeah, you just get away with the secret. I think the secret is attitude because we have to wake him up and get him out of his damn bed to fix the Bloody Marys is what it is.
How burnout do you think you would have been Saturday morning, man?
I think the secret ingredient is, you know, a hatred for all the bullshit praise you all give me for these Bloody Marys.
So when I make them, they're full of hate. And that's why it tastes so delicious.
It was your idea. Your the whole reason we have a Bloody Mary bar is because of you.
Yeah, it's a great idea. I didn't want to be the maker of Bloody Mary.
They're so good. You bring all the equipment. We don't want to dig through your equipment.
Was it last year we had to roust him out? We had to wake him up. He's like, they're just Bloody Marys.
That's it. Back to bed.
Pepper. Cheese are not equipment. They're peppers.
Pepper cheese are not equipment, but it's your gear. We can't start playing your gear.
You know, you know, the magical concoction to make your song sing into our glass.
It's literally the same shit you all would put in a very if you made it yourself.
Who if you if you would have yesterday, if you would have how burnout you think you would have been on Saturday after Friday?
What was Friday night? What would have been Friday night? Are you kidding?
It's only it's only the greatest festival day of all time.
I just I know that I probably would have gotten up there Friday.
I wouldn't have made it very late Friday night. I would have been.
Wow, that is so sad. That's the saddest thing you've ever seen.
There you go. Yeah, can you read that? That's that's just Friday. Miley Tool glass animals run the jewels.
Nineteen seventy five Megan the stallion Primus, Brittany Howard.
What do you what do you miss in here?
I mean, I guess I would have gone to a few of those.
OK. The one that I missed the most. I tell you one that I would have skipped.
I would have gotten out of that. Don't you don't even say it.
I swear to God, I hope you're I hope your swing breaks.
I hope it tumbles onto the ground. I know you're going to don't even do it, dude.
I can't I just don't understand how you could be so hyped about that show.
Don't don't say it. I know you're trying to ignore it.
You're doing your Stevie Wonder routine right now where you put the sunglasses on and you act like nobody's listening.
You're just saying this to get a reaction out of me. You're just trying to fire me up.
That's all you're doing to fire you up.
I mean, I would have been I would have been a low point of the weekend.
OK, cut him off. How is it?
How is it Nick can both swing and sway at the same time?
Yeah, it's it's a look.
It sure is a look. Now, the one that I'm most sad about for Saturday is.
Chrissy. Hi, Chrissy.
Hello, everyone. Hello.
Nice to see you.
This is accurate. It's about the time Chrissy would have actually showed up at camp.
So yeah, that's right. Yeah.
She'd have been there all weekend, but she showed up at camp just now.
And yes. All right.
And by the way, she had not gone to bed yet.
There is no thank you. Thank you. That was my question for Nick to talk about last year.
Nick, do you remember Saturday with Chrissy?
What was it, Nick?
Yeah, we walked to where in the woods it was miserable.
I was miserable to walk to where in the woods.
It was so far, man. It was so far. We we really fucked up.
That was bad. This is this is the charmed life. Don't start doing the charmed life thing
because you had to walk to where in the woods.
It was honestly a far walk. It was much further than I anticipated.
On the map, it looked like it was right there.
Yeah, because you didn't get carted there.
The one time you left your backstage haven, you didn't get a cart and you got upset.
I didn't get upset. It was just a long walk.
We were tired, man. It definitely blew us both out.
Yeah, you say that. And then Chrissy came home, got a bite to eat and went out like what, three more times?
Yeah. Yeah. Well, I don't know.
Chrissy, Brad had a good question for everybody. What was last year like? What's your favorite memory?
Oh, of last year. Gosh, they all run together sometimes, don't they?
My question was actually what was your favorite memory of this year?
Because this weekend has been so action packed and so exciting.
Last year was definitely the chickpea puffs that were literally like eating cardboard.
It was garbage. It was just garbage.
Nick, you loved my chickpea puffs.
Those are terrible, man.
You loved them.
It was like hydrated cardboard. It was super hydrated cardboard.
It was definitely not hydrated. It was like someone had pumped it.
Dehydrated cardboard. My apologies. Dehydrated cardboard.
Chrissy, what have you been doing all year? How's your year been?
It's been interesting. It's been interesting.
This pandemic has really made it into, how do you do all year with this pandemic?
I feel like it's before Corona and after Corona.
Yeah. So the thing that I love about you is that you come to Bonnarooo every year and then you really experience Bonnarooo
and then you go and be a professional, which none of us can figure out how to do.
I mean, last year you left camp with dreadlocks.
Yeah, I did.
And you had to do what the next day?
Go to court.
Brad, those were blue cornrows.
Yeah, dye colored cornrows.
Dye colored dreadlocks.
With eyelash glue and rhinestones and the works. Yeah.
And then the next day was the suit and he had to pre-entry.
What were you being arraigned on? In court?
Oh, yeah, not me.
Oh, she's on the good side of the bench.
Oh, I get it. I get it.
You know I've done a hearing from Bonnarooo, right? Do you remember that?
Did you really? No.
Yep. Yep. Walking into Centeroo with Mike and Jensen doing a telephone hearing.
What did you do? I don't understand. How does that work?
I understand how a phone works. Don't even start, Nick. I knew that was going.
Don't even say it. I know how a phone works.
Is this like a conference call? Do they even wonder where you are?
They didn't ask. No, I said I was out of the office.
Do you remember what you were walking to see?
Centeroo. Just Friday. Just got there.
One last thing before full Bonnarooo.
Hey, Nick, do you have anything that actually has Bonnarooo on it?
Do you own any piece of shirt, poster, hat?
I think I have a bandana.
Yeah, that's it. I have nothing that has Bonnarooo's name on it.
Hilary, do you have anything? Do we even have anything that has Bonnarooo on it?
How have we gone for 15 years and we don't have anything that has their brand on it?
I think we have some swag. We've got a lot of chest irons.
That's it. Yeah, we've got the skillets.
This one? Yeah.
We put that thing to good use. We use it often.
I used it this weekend.
Yeah. Lord Taku went to his own Bonnarooo.
Christy, who were you most excited to see this year?
I've blocked out who was playing this year.
That's actually the best move, honestly. That really was a smart move.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
Nick, you don't even care, do you? You didn't even care about the lineup.
No. I called Nick the day after. I was like, dude, this lineup is incredible.
He's like, I don't care. This is not true.
He goes, I don't care. This is not true.
I mean, Tame Impala was really...
Today would have been my day. It would have been a hard one because Sunday is like when the guilt sets in.
So it's hard to have the greatest time on Sunday, but I think I could have cut loose today for some Tame.
What is guilt?
Yeah, what are you feeling guilty about, Nick? What have you done that we don't know about? Are there bodies somewhere?
Yeah, there's a couple murders over the weekend.
That's why he doesn't want to go to Weir in the Woods because that's where he buried them all.
What are you...
Guilt?
Yeah, it's just like I'm out here having a good time and carefree.
And then there's all the stuff happening at home every year. It's always...
So right after Nick... I don't know if I ever told you guys the story, but right after Nick had the baby,
he came to Bonnarooo and he woke up Friday morning or maybe a Saturday morning and he looked at me and he said...
No, no, no, no. I took a nap in the hammock for like six hours.
It was like a five-hour nap and he wakes up and he walks over. He's like, don't tell anyone I ever did that.
Don't tell my wife.
If she finds out that I took a five-hour nap, I'm done.
That's what I'm saying.
I didn't know you were Catholic, Nick. I mean, when did this guilt thing...
It's not Catholic guilt. It's Bonnarooo guilt, man.
Did you say Nick had the baby?
Yeah.
The baby.
The baby.
Do you have to call home and just act like how hot it is and how miserable it is and just...
Oh, no. I'm like, I'm having the greatest time. Sorry about that, but...
Yeah, but that still doesn't answer the guilt. Why in the world do you feel guilt about that?
I don't see why this is... I mean, for you, Brad, I get it why it's hard concept to grasp, but...
For everyone else, why is this so difficult? I'm out there having a great time all weekend.
My wife's at home with the kid trying to be entertaining with the four or five-year-old.
All right. I'll give you this, and I was thinking about this earlier.
For the first 10 years of the 15, I used to leave on Sunday morning, and it was to come home and to be with my wife.
That's what I'm saying.
It finally occurred to me this morning. I'm like, my wife's smoking hot.
I get to go home and sit in a pool all day long. Yeah, look, shake your head.
Here it goes. That's why.
Here it goes. That's why.
I know. And through Sunday, Barry's like, I'm out. I'm going to go get in the pool.
I'm going home and spend the rest of the day in the pool with my wife, and for the last three or four years, I've stayed till Monday.
Yes. You know why? Because you finally realized that hanging out at Bonnevue was more fun than going back to the pool.
And she's still going to be smoking hot on Monday.
Yeah. And by the way, you get to do this with me. You get to break down camp with me. That's so exciting.
Brad's a bad influence. That's why. Brad's an instigator.
No, it's because there are so many great shows on Sunday night. I miss that Tom Petty thing.
Yep. Look, I see Chrissy shaking her head. And he's like, you know, yep, yep.
Sunday's the day where you're like, I'm going to take it so easy today. And then by Sunday night, you're like, I'm just as, you know, lit as I would have been any other night of the festival.
Yeah. Yeah. So that would have been yesterday for me. And Chrissy, you don't you didn't follow the lineup.
But Friday was was damn near the greatest festival lineup in the history of mankind.
And then Saturday was pretty light. And so I thought that yesterday, literally Saturday, with 75 degrees, the high was 10 mile an hour winds.
It would have been the greatest Chrissy day of all time. Being able to float around, go wherever with whoever to see whatever I would just who cares at the end of night.
As long as I get to Lizzo by the end of the night, I'm done. I'll be fine.
But boy, what a perfect, perfect day that would have been. And it would have been that perfect Nick thing, too.
We're like, I want to take it easy. But turns out I'm totally shit hammered and I feel terrible Sunday morning.
How did this happen?
That weather was so cool, wasn't it?
I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to talk about it.
I do.
Do you?
Yeah, because I camped in and it was fantastic.
Yeah, last year was amazing.
I'm talking about this weekend was amazing. The weather was perfect. Right now is perfect. Right now it's perfect.
Yeah, I will say. So that's the thing about the about the weather is like you don't.
I can I can remember years where I didn't really care about it being so hot until literally right now.
Sunday midday is when I start saying like, I don't I don't care anymore.
I want to go home. It's too hot.
I don't know if I can make five more hours before the sun sets.
We've missed it. Like you said, Barry, so many shows on Sunday night because we just bailed.
The last one that we stayed for that we suffered through was Snoop.
And we're like, we've got to do it.
And then we just kept going home until you guys forced me to start saying on Sunday nights.
And I'm so glad we did because Monday morning is such an easier pack up than a Sunday.
Last year, we're looking at this group and part of what I love, especially Chrissy, is all of us.
It's like the but doesn't matter if it's one in the afternoon or one in the morning.
I could pick either one of you and say, you want to go see the show?
You're like, yeah, let's go. OK, let's go.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, but that's important.
It's not a don't dismiss it. You know, it's like, yeah, if I want to go, I'll go.
If I don't want to go, I'll go. It's a simple pack.
It's just kind of wander around and catch a snippet of things that you would never see.
Chrissy's also Chrissy. They're not on here.
We hope they would be Mike and Denson.
But Chrissy is one of those that are like, yeah, let's go.
Let's see where we can get any time anywhere.
Anytime. Yeah, let's do it.
That's that's the best. I just love that.
I think that's so important to this whole experience.
Where did Hillary go? Where did Hillary go?
Did she jump off the back porch?
Did she is she gone?
She must have went to the porta potty.
Yeah, I realized we were on Skype.
I'm sorry, Microsoft Teams.
I'm sorry that you wanted to.
Hillary's back.
It's because Brad relegated me to the back porch.
I didn't relegate to the back porch. You could be sitting in the next room.
It would just been weird if we were sitting here on this microphone.
Yeah, it's so strange.
He doesn't like to share the mic. It's OK.
It's fine. He likes that big black thing all to himself.
Yeah, I'm happy back here anyway.
Nick, what did you do this weekend in honor of Bonnarooo?
Did you do any Bonnarooo-ish things this weekend?
I made electronic music in my garage last night with my neighbors.
We don't do that at Bonnarooo. That's not what we do.
We don't do that.
That's cool, though.
Yeah, it was good.
Did it make you feel guilty?
No, I was at home.
Wait a second. So you find guilt with that, but you don't find guilt when you go and have fun without us.
That's not fair. That's not fair at all.
What are you talking about?
You had an experience making music without us and you didn't feel guilt.
But when you're at Bonnarooo, you feel guilt.
What instrument do you play?
All of them.
What do you pick up and play? Nothing.
All of them.
He plays the skin flute.
Every one of them.
Every one of them.
Did you do anything special? You didn't watch any shows or you didn't get into anything for Bonnarooo weekend?
Did you have any reminiscing, any remorse, anything?
Yeah, man. I mean, I felt sad most of the weekend, but I think I just feel sad all the time, so it's fine.
Everything sucks. What do you want me to say? No, I didn't do anything.
All right. I want to ask, because Brad and Taco and I have talked about it, and Chrissy and Hillary especially, when the weather hit Thursday, right?
I mean, when we woke up, it hit Taco and Brad and I hard.
I mean, we weren't considering Bonnarooo at all.
And then all of a sudden we woke up and it was like, oh my God, this is amazing.
Did y'all have the same?
Yeah, it was like the universe just wanted to twist the knife a little bit more.
Like it was we're already so sad about not being there, but then the weather was just like, man, just twist the knife.
It was unbelievably perfect. Even in Louisiana.
It would have been one of those weekends and we don't have many of these where like camp is the most fun place, right?
Where camp is our favorite place. I don't know if we would have spent a lot of time at camp this year,
because normally we hunkered down in camp because it's hot and we're tired.
I don't know if we would have done that this year. I think we would have been going anywhere, any place, any time.
We would have been out in GA if we could have just to be out amongst it because it was so pretty.
I don't know.
I don't make a swatting way.
Chrissy just did a.
We would have been in GA only if you got carted there. That's the only way we would have been.
You know, who I didn't know that somebody could come into my world and be a bigger diva than me.
No, that was the avenue.
I just I love camp so much and I feel like camp is like the reason why we always keep coming back.
But I don't know if we would have really seen each other as much as we normally do.
I hadn't thought about it that way.
Now, we would have seen Bryan Stone plenty because he never leaves.
Denson would have been sitting there the whole time.
Where is Bryan Stone?
I'm texting Denson now, hoping to hear. I don't know where Bryan Stone is.
I mean, you can't have a proper camp nut butter experience without everyone knocking on Bryan Stone.
It's like the it's like a sport.
It's our national pastime.
It is a national pastime.
Guys got the biggest kind of human being I've ever known.
It's what I what I love about it is it's unlike all the other sports where it takes skill and ability.
Literally anyone can do it.
Absolutely anyone can rip apart Bryan Stone.
It's good fun.
But that man, that's a great point.
Between the weather and the lineup, we might not have actually seen each other.
Right.
Hey, by the way, I had we had pizza.
We had the pizza.
It was very spicy pie ish.
Nick, you don't like spicy pie.
It was.
You're not even you're not even missing spicy pie right now.
You didn't think about spicy pie at all.
No, I'll be honest, man.
You know, things suck so bad right now.
Like even watching a live show from years ago, just it just bums me like seeing a bunch of people all having a great time together.
You know, like it's like, you know, again, just the thought of being there, like that experience of being around everybody,
taking in, you know, a thing that everybody's just really cool.
You really do personify radiating positivity.
You didn't even did you even make a Cray Musty?
You make a great I did do hot dogs.
I guess that counts.
Did you really?
Yeah. Yeah.
Man, I'd love a Cray Musty man.
A Cray Musty would just blow up the spot.
But seeing Hillary's Bloody Mary right now is really.
I wish I could make one and share one with you, Chrissy.
The Central Sunday Bonnarooo.
So perfect.
Just another one.
Was it last year that the rain that we got hit with the lightning?
Yeah, we're about to get hit with lightning too.
But I think that was the first time we've had a rain shower in a rain shower in 2018 in Manchester.
Was it two years ago?
Yeah.
But I think there was there was a rain shower coming today.
Yeah, there is.
Oh, wow.
Wow.
Oh, he's rolled out of bed and.
On brand two.
I got to get the grass cut before it rains.
I did half of it.
What kind of life decisions are we disrupting right now, Brian?
It's actually pretty bad, but it's all going to be OK.
Brian's literally wearing every beer brand.
Oh, the only thing that's consistent is he's drinking Miller Lite and pissing it.
It's the only thing that's consistent.
What about what about the who's tent did you crawl out of this morning?
Who did you stay with last night?
I was all by myself last.
Well, that's a first for Bonnarooo weekend.
That's the first.
What is the welcome the whipping boy?
I have said 15 years.
I don't see some music today.
Yeah, Brian, who are you going to see today?
I don't have the line up.
OK, let me pull it up.
You can get.
Yeah, my my my my first guess for Brian is hell, hell, hell, hell, far, hell, far, hell, far, hell, far.
So I can't wait.
Yeah.
Well, Lana del Rey's canceled, so we could have missed that one.
Oh, I'm going to.
I say Brian and I were going to go to flogging Molly's together and get in a fight.
That was going to be a good day.
By the way, hey, Chloe, thank you for reaching out and trying to defend me.
I don't know if you guys saw that she was she was pissed off that she didn't get to watch my back in a fight and flogging Molly today.
Nobody's going to take a swing at dad.
Nobody's doing that right.
I'm going to walk in and he's like.
Most people think you're a cop.
They're not going to you're not going to get in a fight with you.
A bond or if you if you go to a flogging Molly show and don't get punched, I don't think you were really there.
That's my point.
That was my point.
You got to go and get in a fight.
Otherwise, you didn't go to the show.
Yeah.
Kind of in the name.
Brian, Brian, who are you seeing to?
By the way, who is the band you're most excited about this whole weekend?
I honestly haven't looked at this lineup in quite some time because I've been just trying to out of sight out of mind on it.
I'm forgetting how incredible it is as I look at it right now.
I'll just go with the first question today.
I guess it wouldn't surprise you to say I'd probably swing in for green sky bluegrass sometime.
Maybe Grace Potter if I'm nearby Leon Vampire Weekend tame Lana Del Rey if I could fit it in all the vampire weekend.
I do now.
Are there new album?
Have you heard it?
Yes, Brian, you don't like that.
Yes, I do.
I understand them now.
Get out of here.
He likes it like he likes the shins, Brad.
Exactly.
He just likes the shins.
He wants to sway.
If they played a whole new album, that would be a perfect show.
And then you'd walk back and say, hated it, never seeing that again.
Who else?
Who else are you going to see this weekend?
Geez, I forgot Ismael was there.
I forgot about him.
Boy, is there anybody that was forgotten about more in this lineup than Jason Ismael?
I've heard zero people talk about him.
He's made quite a few rounds over the years, I guess.
Yeah, no kidding.
All of these shows Nick would be at, by the way.
You're going to see Nick at all of these Green Sky Bluegrass,
Vlogging Molly.
All right.
So of all of us that are on, Miley Cyrus, were we all going?
Nick wasn't.
Absolutely, yes.
Not you, Nick.
We did not miss it.
Maybe it was the guilty plug.
Nick, when did you become so grumpy?
I'm not grumpy.
I wasn't going to go to that show.
He's too cool for the room.
I'll tell you this, the only reason why I'd go to that show is the potential for Dolly Parton.
And that is the one reason why I would go to that show.
That's a good one.
You know what else show he was going to go to?
Not for a single Miley Cyrus song.
Oh, I mean, I know.
That's separate to the question.
None of us like Party in the USA, Nick.
None of us.
None of us are like, shit, this song is such a classic.
I can't wait till they get to that second guitar solo.
Nobody's ever said the songs are good.
It's just a fun experience.
And it's Miley.
What do you like?
What does that mean?
That's the only song I know.
So you don't like her music, you're just going because it's Miley?
That's what we did with Cardi B last year.
Yeah.
Yes.
I can actually say I like some of Cardi B's music.
I can't say that about Miley Cyrus.
Oh, come on, wrecking ball.
That's good.
Right now you're swinging in on a wrecking ball.
You are Miley Cyrus.
I like that as a rock and roll team, man.
It's like, you know, a good time, like wrecking ball.
If you want to have a good time, go to Miley Cyrus.
You know, it gets me hype every time I wake up in the morning.
Wrecking ball, Miley Cyrus.
What a song I know.
Can't wait till they get to the second guitar solo in that one.
I just said that.
Okay, so the other thing that's going to shock you, and Nick has been
dying to say this, but the other show that he was not going to go was Lizzo.
I didn't say that.
He had to scratch it off.
I'm not as excited as everybody else in terms of that.
I never said that, man.
I would definitely be at Lizzo.
No, you did not.
You said, you said, I have no interest in seeing that garbage.
I did not say that.
Direct quote.
Why not a direct quote at all?
Misquoted.
Here's a direct quote.
I made her.
I broke her.
That's a direct quote.
I never said that.
Okay.
I broke her.
I'm so happy I broke her.
Look at this Instagram post.
Well, mark the time.
It only took 32 minutes to get the first insult of an artist that Brad is best
friends with out.
Finally.
32 minutes.
I knew it was going to come eventually.
Oh man.
Could you just see if she can join the call?
Why don't you, why don't you reach out real quick and see if she can hop on the call?
Hit number one or two on that speed dial.
Yeah.
She's number one, two, and three.
Speaking of Brad's girls, I forgot Brittany was here too.
Yeah.
Brittany's two, three.
There's.
Yeah.
Here it comes, Nick.
Here's it.
Here it comes.
What is that?
Brittany's a definite like, yeah, you got to be there for that.
Okay.
All right.
I just want to hear you try to lie your way out of that one too.
Okay.
But the solo show is great.
And I really am bummed out about her specifically because I think that solo show would have
like exploded this year.
It was so good when we saw it.
And then, you know, you could see that they were ready to sort of like take the next step.
And man, she talk about an artist that got really totally screwed out of it.
And the other one's Ed O'Brien.
You know, Ed O'Brien had that, what I think is a really great album.
And this was going to be his only chance to be a solo artist.
And nope, that's not happening anymore.
Radio's got a new album coming out next year and they're going to do a tour.
There was another show today.
Wasn't there a couple of people from Talking Heads?
Yeah, that's the Turquoise.
Yeah.
That was Friday.
Would have been at that.
Yeah, for sure.
Me too.
I don't think that you would have been, man.
Like, I don't think you have taken into account how stacked Friday was.
Turquoise was Friday.
I would have gone to all the shows you would have gone to Friday.
But didn't we see them at Songbirds?
We did.
We did.
That was the last concert that I saw live before it shut down.
Same, same.
That's weird.
Who would have thought?
Because we went to that show on a whim.
We did.
It was like a Wednesday night.
Yeah.
And it was also not with the Talking Heads people either.
Yeah, it was just Turquoise.
Yeah, just Turquoise.
But there's no way that schedule comes out and you see all the conflicts and you choose Turquoise over, I don't know, Brittany Howard.
There's no way.
Huh?
Yeah.
I mean, not that, Brad.
But we don't know what would have conflicted.
But it's my life.
That's an easy one.
That was an easy one.
So Stone, what were you going to hype up and then not see this weekend?
Pearl Jam.
There's always one.
Oyster Head.
I pretended to be a big fan and wouldn't have ended up going.
That's a great answer.
That's a beautiful answer.
I wanted to see that.
There's so much stuff I legitimately like that I don't pretend to like except for Oyster Head.
They're really not that good.
I mean, they are, but they're.
What about Primus?
Primus is perfect for you to pretend to like and absolutely never listen to.
And Primus is also on the lineup.
I would have seen Primus.
I would have seen Primus too because I listened to them a lot when I was a kid.
I know all their old stuff.
They weren't playing any of those.
They weren't playing any of those.
They were playing all of them, right?
Well, they were covering A Farewell to Kings by Rush.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah.
Yeah, that would annoy me.
I don't like that.
Yeah, this is not a band I hate more than Rush.
So, Chrissy, same question because Chrissy's just cool.
I mean, I'm just going to go ahead and say it.
What was the one you were going to go?
What was the one that you had sort of tucked away, no way you were going to miss?
Oh, okay.
See, I blocked out the lineup just for my own mental health.
Let me see.
Yeah, same thing.
The one that strikes me as I wouldn't miss it that I actually can still recall right now is Nellie doing country grammar.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I wanted to say that earlier.
Yes, Chrissy.
That's perfect.
I would have been there with you.
I think Nellie was going to be one of those.
Did we do that late night big boy show?
You and I.
We did Gucci Mane last year.
Yeah.
Yeah, we talked about that with Jim.
Gucci Mane last year.
Yeah.
But you guys, so Nellie was going to be one of those shows that we all said, oh my God, I can't wait to go late night to Nellie.
We would show up late night to Nellie and it would be so unbelievably packed.
We would stay for two days.
I can't wait to go late night to Nellie. We would show up late night to Nellie and it would be so unbelievably packed.
We would stay for 10 minutes and say, let's go back to camp.
Exactly.
What would have happened?
Yeah.
There's just no way that that was not going to be an absolute shit show of a thing.
Where are we going, Nick?
Where are you taking us?
It's raining, man.
I got to go in.
Yeah, I had a feeling it was going to rain today.
What about that fresh fade on?
What do you got?
You got a new haircut?
I got a quarantine cut a couple of weeks ago.
You're not happy with it?
No, I'm perfectly happy with it.
Is that where you got a hat on?
Just haven't brushed my hair today, man.
What a clown.
Are you staying on?
Where did you go?
He's done.
I guess he's done.
All right, well, thanks for joining us.
All right, so Chrissy, Nellie, what was the other one?
Was there another one?
Oh, welcome back.
Friday looked so insanely good.
I'll have to look back at the lineup.
That's the only one that hasn't been talked about yet that I can remember.
Yeah.
Bryan Stone's doing Microsoft Excel work for some reason.
What spreadsheet do you need to get out right now?
Are you doing data entry?
No, I'm responding to some messages here.
As if you don't have human beings talking to you right now.
You're talking on your D, you're sliding into people's DNs.
Corey said you got to hold on, and he's asking me some stuff,
and I'm telling him to get back to you just real quick.
That's all.
Yes, thank you.
Why don't you do that?
That's work right there.
Thank you.
Okay, cool.
Sounds awesome.
You guys are so cool.
It's very important to me, actually.
This is what we do.
This is Bonnarooo.
There's actual work for a minute.
Some of us are doing depositions in the middle of Centeroo.
What did you think of wearing the woods last year?
What did you think about it?
Did you like it?
Or are you too blasted?
No, I liked it.
I like a good journey just to see something different.
I liked it.
Yeah, there was the dancing T-Rex, which is always a good fun.
And the space back there is incredible.
All the hammocks and, you know, like, yeah.
Look at that.
Wake up, Stone.
Come on.
I saw it.
You were totally snoozing.
This is his fresh out of some randos campus site look that he's pulling off this morning.
Fresh out of a...
That's all from last night.
There's some glitter.
I'm so excited.
This is amazing.
Mayor, how are you?
Mr. Mayor, nice to see you.
Good to see everybody.
How's Noah treating you guys?
Amazing.
Very, very good.
Good.
Today was the first day of swamp.
Just a minute.
A little bit of swamp.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
What is that, Brian?
I've got to bail out for a few...
I'll be here for a minute.
I'll be back shortly.
Why?
Just...
Trust me.
Why?
Just got here.
Just take it back.
Where are you going?
I don't have time to explain, all right?
I'll be back shortly.
Oh my God.
He's so frisky.
What is wrong with you?
You're not a human being.
You know that?
You don't act like a human being.
You don't interact like a human being.
Let me go.
I want to talk to Denson.
I want to hear from Denson about...
Brian's head is still there, though.
Brian's head is still present.
That's a good...
Before we talk to Denson...
I think it's a chick.
Before we talk to Denson, one of our favorite campsite stories ever is when some rando girl
walked into camp, saw all of our giant cartoon heads on a stick, and looked at Brian's and
said, who's she?
That's a chick.
And then Brian is sitting literally right in front of him.
He said, that's me.
But really, look at that face.
He says, nope.
So serious.
No, it's not.
He's like, I'm right here.
It's me.
Denson, what are you up to, buddy?
You sad about this week?
Of course.
Yeah.
Yeah.
As well.
It's just the course of general life.
Yeah.
We're trying to not pay attention to that right now.
No doubt about it.
I ran out, went to the market, tried to find some fresh tomatoes, got caught in the storm,
just trying to keep it normal.
We told the story yesterday.
I told the story to Barry as to how we found our campsite, the one that we come back to
every year.
And it's because you traveled that one year, you walked across the land, round and round
and round.
You're like, this is the highest spot.
We're taking this one.
And I said to you, it's next to the Port of John.
This is where you want to be.
If you didn't leave on so many Mondays and you had woken up with 18 inches of water around
your vehicle and tried to strike camp on an occasion or two, you go to the high ground.
Go over the high ground.
So I thought about and I totally threw you under the bus, Denson, yesterday or the other
day.
I apologize because that was the worst campsite ever chosen.
Barry was upset.
But Denson is the guy.
Denson is the guy.
And everybody, if you're lucky, you camp next to somebody like this at Bonnarooo.
That's a great point.
When you pull up, you're like, you know, if I only had a thing that would do this.
And Denson's like, well, I've got that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You need a carabiner.
You need a sharp knife.
You need a long, sticky thing.
You need whatever Denson's got.
That's his dick.
A long, sticky thing.
We'll keep it with that.
That's safe.
And safer than a lot of the chats that have gone across this poor business culture.
I mean, Denson's got it in the truck and, you know, it doesn't matter.
I mean, sorry, there goes the motorcycle.
What's the strangest thing that's actually in your truck right now?
Probably like a pizza bag warmer.
From like community to pie.
From like feeling like a rider like six months ago.
I'll bring that back.
When did you become a Uber Eats driver?
This is great.
I have no intention of delivering anybody a pie.
I cleaned my entire truck out the other day and like folded it back up and was like, I
really need to take it to those guys.
They're carrying it probably pretty easy.
Yeah.
All right.
So mine has always been, mine has always been a Mike stand that Mike Dewar gave me three
years ago.
It's been sitting in the back of my car for no apparent reason.
You keep moving it to get access to everything.
I keep taking it with me everywhere I go.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's see if we all have a favorite Denson story.
Mine clearly is the morning, the Saturday morning we were walking to go get poutine
and I remember it and we walked by the this tent, whichever, right?
And they were doing soundcheck and they were running bird noises through the speakers.
Do y'all remember?
It was Brad and Nick.
I know.
And we stopped and Denson was like, I don't think that the North American warbler was
native to Tennessee.
We all stopped and went, what the fuck?
Can't this be like slipping in non-indigenous bird sounds?
Like that will fuck up somebody's whole room.
Like it's a good thing I did not, they didn't like set me into a tailspin.
Like we were, it was an anomaly.
It was like, what?
Really ruins a day.
These fucking carpet baggers.
Get them out of here.
Not even that.
Who's running some non-indigenous bird sounds too?
Or non-native.
It's just like they don't live here.
It's just like that poor bird.
Exactly.
You needed to tell you.
Denson was there, was there actually somebody that you wanted to see this weekend or are
you just going to stay at camp all weekend?
What were you going to do?
There's a pretty solid lineup.
Yeah.
There's a lot of stuff I was going to get out for.
Of course your girl Lizzo.
Tones and I, you big Tones and I fan?
You going to dance monkey it?
Probably not so much.
I'd pass by to watch of interest.
I like to be a fly on the wall.
There's probably nothing I wouldn't have passed through.
You would have gone to Lizzo, huh?
You're into the Lizzo?
It'd be fun.
Yeah.
I think it would have definitely had the energy that would be unique to her experience.
Given what she's done this calendar year, that would have probably been her biggest.
You know, I don't know what the pandemic would have done though.
If pandemic didn't exist, I don't know what the year would look like, but Lizzo has not
been on the radar of anybody in six months, five months.
I wonder if we even care about that show now.
I'm almost on a 180 on this show thinking that it was going to be the show to see a
boteroo in February, but now in June, I'm looking around like Lizzo's been nowhere to
be found.
She's carrying a lot of, she catches a lot of heat and flack for kind of the stance that
she takes.
You know, I don't blame her for kind of bowing out, backing off a little bit, but I still
think her show would have been a crazy set.
And yeah, it would have been unique in the respect.
It's been so fun.
And I'm just going to remind you, I'm going to make sure Denson knows this too, but Nick
did not want to go to that show.
I'm making this clear, he did not want to go to that show.
You're making this up.
You're making this up.
I'm not.
You're not making it clear.
You're making it up.
You said specifically, I'm not going to see Lizzo.
No, I said I'm not going to see Myla Tyra.
You said, I hate all of those songs.
And I said, good as hell is the number one song in the country.
Like I hate it.
I didn't say that.
I don't like good as hell though.
No, I do like good as hell.
I don't like, what's the other one?
Juice.
No, juice is great.
No.
No, it's great.
Okay.
I got you the phone.
Oh, hi Brian.
Brian, get out of here, man.
Can we help you?
Look, Brian's, Brian's, his background looks like mine.
Yeah, no kidding.
What are you doing?
Is that a cat?
I can't figure out how to exit out of this.
That's not a cat.
That's the only being in his life that loves him.
Did he drop?
Brian, what are you doing?
I'm trying to use my phone.
I'm trying to use my phone.
Brian, what are you doing?
I'm trying to use my phone.
Brian, what are you doing?
I'm trying to use my phone.
Brian, what are you doing?
I'm trying to use my phone.
I missed this so much.
Poor Brian.
Man.
Is there a reason why you decided to walk away?
Wait, wait, are those the socks?
Can we see the socks?
Those are the socks.
Those are the socks.
Millie?
Oh, there they are.
Oh, my dude.
There they are.
Yes.
I'm missing the traditional Bonnarooo burn though.
Seriously, how do I exit out of this stupid fucking app?
Why are you trying to leave?
We're still on the call.
This is still a good show right here, Brian.
Is something on fire, Brian?
Is there an emergency?
This is entertainment.
Then what do you need the phone for?
Where is he?
I'm trying to send the telecommunications here.
What is this view to?
I can't even see everybody.
It's just like-
Was that a non-Indigenous cat, by the way?
Yeah.
All right.
Sparrow for damn sure.
It was an outing cat.
Are you in a murder cellar, Brian?
That's what it looks like.
I don't know why I can see.
I closed everything out, but I still got all the money.
I don't know what to do.
Don't do anything that we don't want you to see, kids.
We can still see it all.
Like all angles.
Yeah, don't say anything.
Brian, don't go to the porta potty right now.
Yeah, don't take a shower or anything.
Gross.
You think that Bryan Stone's option right now would be taking a shower?
He's at home.
Why not?
I have no idea.
Take a shower.
So, Jensen, you've been to every one, correct?
No.
First two I missed.
You missed first two?
Yeah.
18, I guess.
17?
Stone's been to all of them, right?
Yep.
I was there for one day and two oh two.
I went up on a Saturday and jumped the fence.
I wasn't there the whole weekend, but I do get credit for showing up at least for a minute.
I went to the first one.
First day, missed the next three, and then I've been every year.
So this is just a way for Barry to humble brag around the room.
This is just a way for him to go around the room and so look at me, guys.
Look at me.
Yeah.
So what's your point?
Okay.
Chrissy, you went early.
I did.
You did, right, because you had kids, right?
Just the one, but extended absence.
A child.
Yeah.
The coolest kid.
The coolest kid.
And then the rest, Rush, you're probably two years, last two years?
Yeah, I've gone the last two years.
This would have been my third.
Nick, you've been to a bunch early and then same.
You had family?
I missed one year when we were moving.
16.
Yeah.
Maybe 17.
I can't remember.
I think-
That was the-
I think-
Nick wasn't there.
I think-
We can't understand you, Brian.
We don't know what to say.
Well, the 11th was my first year.
I can't remember.
It was the year after LCD you took a year off.
We took a year off after LCD.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Which, by the way, back to Tame Impala for a second.
He said that was the show you wanted to see.
But we didn't- we were the two people- Hilary was there too.
Hilary liked a lot more than we did because we had just came off of the LCD show.
But I don't remember us loving the Tame Impala show.
Stop putting words into my mouth.
I loved it.
I loved it.
God damn, dude.
You're so inaccurate with everything you said on this podcast.
I'm going to say to fact checkers, please go back to all the work podcasts and fact
check Brad because he's full of it, man.
He deals in his own reality.
I mean, it's not even close.
That year was amazing because I'll tell you what happened.
Right at LCD Sound System, I know what you, myself, and Hilary did.
We left LCD and we were smiles and grins ear to ear.
And then I walked up to the witch stage, which they never let you in the backup.
And there were people there.
We walked around to the side and they're like, it was the strangest thing.
I was with my friend John and the people were just like, hey, we were waiting on you.
Come on in.
And they just let us come all the way up to the stage and creep around the front.
And then, yeah, I love that set.
I always love that set.
They were there, I feel like the first year I went to our second year, but they were on
the tent that year.
Yeah, it was this tent.
Yeah, I remember that show.
But look, I just remember us saying that was good, but it was hard because it was after
LCD.
I think you said that, Brad.
I think that's what you said.
No one else said that.
I'm pretty sure that was a we.
I'm pretty sure that's not a we.
I think it was Brad three years later, you probably said that in your head.
Yeah, he was like, those Tamapala kids are okay.
I like to introduce them.
I can't give them any credentials.
Okay, there it is again.
Look, I get it.
It's fine.
I feel like this one would have been better.
Oh, dear God.
Yeah, that was the best show I've seen this year at Ascend, like in the last calendar
year.
Oh, good.
Unbelievable.
Oh, man.
Their production value, like over the top.
Yeah, totally was looking forward to that set very much.
Yeah.
I mean, them being on the what stage was going to be epic.
Let's be real.
Yeah.
It was like, the, with that energy, that kind of crowd based stateside, like it's just
unique.
It's like pond last year.
Yeah.
You know, like those Aussies just go off when they get in.
You know, they've been covering that Lady Gaga song he wrote and like they've just been
doing really cool stuff with like this.
Which one?
Wrecking Ball?
Yeah, that one.
That one, Brad.
Also, also, it would have been one of those moments to see a band that you got to watch
them on it in a tent and then you watch them on the witch and then you watch them on the
what and that is always special.
You get in a way they've kind of evolved.
Yeah, like that would have been incredible.
And then too, I just I just love their sound.
Like I love that.
It's just this what they do with their.
Oh my God.
Hang on a second.
I'm sorry to interrupt.
But Brian's cat is so much more interesting than he is.
The cat is walking around the camera.
I'd so much rather talk to the cat than him.
Come on, Kitty, make this happen.
Sorry, Nick.
Go ahead.
I saw a kitty.
I'm very excited.
I lost my thought.
You remember how good the sound was.
What were we talking about?
I don't know.
Same.
Dick.
Dick.
No wonder you lost your train of thought.
I was talking about Dick, right?
This this thing this thing that Nick does when he talks, do you ever notice like he's he's
like looking to the heavens for some sort of a.
Who are you looking at when you're talking?
Where are you?
It's a social media filter.
This juncture, some people use them to kind of keep them out of trouble.
Yeah, man.
You're going to post this on some junk website, I'm sure.
I support your propaganda.
My junk website, I mean, the what?
The one that you designed.
Hey, and walk away.
I don't know if I've ever told you the story, but he goes he comes over one night and he's
like, hey, so we got to I got to I got to make a I got to make a podcast website.
He's like, all right, I got an idea.
And so he starts to draw what the website's going to look like.
And then he just does like this.
Right.
And and like an hour and a half goes by and he's still walking around the pen and paper
and I say, Nick, are you going to finish drawing whatever you're drawing?
He's like, oh, yeah.
So I'm thinking of like something that's post responsive.
And I swear to God, he's like, I finished it.
That's what it looks like.
Drew a square.
Drew a square.
And then he handed it to me.
I was like, looks good, Nick.
Good work.
Get around that.
Good work.
You made it happen.
And you know what?
I think it's a pretty good website.
Did pretty well.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Turned out pretty nice.
It's worth.
Yeah.
You made it happen.
The square is the cornerstone to websites.
I love the guy.
Just make a square.
Make a square.
Now, if it was going to happen in September, you're going to go, Denson?
I guess I would give it a whirl.
Nick's not going.
He told me the other day, quote, I hate Bonnarum not going ever again.
This quote.
Is that a we?
That was a quote from Nick.
Nick literally said those words.
Nick's not going to go in September.
Chris, are you going to go in September if it happens?
I would like to.
I don't know.
It'd be so different.
It's hard.
Part of what I love about Bonnarum is the camp and the same and everybody kind of coming
through.
It's hard to tell if I would be comfortable with that many people in September, even if
it is.
Really?
Even in September?
Well, in February, I was fine.
And then March happened.
So it's hard to say.
I had this nightmare that we were walking from this to camp and a wall of shirtless men
were walking towards us and we had to figure out a way to walk through them.
I don't know where this dream goes.
I know.
You're really excited.
I told this story earlier.
It wasn't a nightmare.
It was a dream.
I had this image.
I had this nocturnal emission.
I love how Nick loved that joke so much.
He finished it and then as soon as he was done, he went to this.
He knew it was coming.
Get out of your zone.
The telling of this story changes from the crowd.
A row of shirtless men and we had to walk through them and they wouldn't separate.
So we had to wedge ourselves in between these sweaty men and I just remember their sweat
then covering me and totally panicking.
I don't like being touched at Bonnarooo.
I don't like anything about the germ part of it.
So I'm with you.
I don't know how in the world I would do this.
What, Hillary?
That's a nightmare.
Yeah, it's a nightmare.
Brad's like, don't touch me.
Don't shake my hand.
He hates Hi-Fi Friday.
He won't high five anyone.
It's tough.
He's got the spirit.
It's tough.
We told the story the other day, Hillary.
I don't know if you listened.
I remember last year when Doyle came out of the porta-potties and touched him on the cheeks,
which is still one of my favorite laugh out loud moments.
It's a very, very good story.
We're going to bring in a baseball bat next year.
Somebody does that to me again.
No clubs allowed.
It was so funny.
You wouldn't have brought the pizza bag to camp.
That's the weirdest thing in my truck at this moment because there's no Bonnarooo.
I would have read that.
But you wouldn't have brought it with you.
No.
Although.
No.
I mean, you know, spicy pie, I could have brought like full spicy pies.
Oh my God, that is such a good idea.
Yeah, really great idea.
Buy 10 pies to go home with and put them in your pizza oven.
Exactly.
Which would be a totally dense and thing to do.
Show up with a pizza bag full of spicy pies.
Back in Chad.
Of course that just happened.
This is a really great idea.
Spicy pie and chat for the struck.
You could just bring.
I'm talking about spicy pie to camp.
Yeah, I mean, take the hot microwave bag that you have and take it to buy the pie and then
bring it back to camp for us.
Doable.
Oh my God.
Wear a Domino shirt.
And I think that we've got this.
That'd be kind of a slight spicy crew.
Don't you think?
Man, I don't know.
Dom, he's got that crust.
How long do you think a pie can stay hot in one of those bags?
Like 30 minutes?
It would be no different than like a delivery guy.
I mean, it's a 10 minute, five minute walk.
Could you could you keep that pie like for a couple hours back at camp?
Nice and hot.
Oh yeah.
I'd say hour and a half.
What do you what do you what do you have in mind?
I'm just thinking about like an hour and a half.
I'm thinking about how you can get it back to camp.
Eat dinner, you know, blaze a couple and then we've got to have hot pie.
Yeah.
What is the problem here?
We can just bring a microwave.
Yeah, microwave your pizza.
You know what?
You know what?
I'm so disappointed in.
You know, I really was going to have chickens at camp this year.
I'm so disappointed.
I'm not going to have live chickens.
That would have been good.
That was legit.
Very big idea.
Barry was so excited.
He wanted to have like a little like a farmstead.
If you don't want to be like in a little like out by the street, out by the mailbox.
Yeah, by the mailbox.
We had the mailbox.
Yeah, I was going to have chickens.
Look, if you don't want to have a microwave, why don't we have a toaster like one of those
conventional toaster ovens like eat medium.
Who the hell microwaves anything?
Why can't we just build a pizza oven?
Okay.
A clay one.
Yeah, clay and brick.
Yeah.
All right.
Now you're talking Lord Taco.
Yeah.
A wood burning stove.
We can make this happen, guys.
Wood burning stove next year.
Yeah, I'm the idea guy.
And now you guys go go make it.
You're going to have to pack it in your bus though.
We need one of those quick.
Yeah, it's not going to fit.
It's not going to fit in the Volkswagen.
It's not going to fit with the couch and the 600 square feet of carpet and the generator
and the marquee.
Now, Denson, have I ever brought a bad idea to camp?
No, because you don't bring shit to camp except for the grill.
So yes, so maybe every time, but lots of other bad ideas to other people's vehicles relegated
to like actual real cars.
When you like little like shuttles.
When we found you in your dilapidated camp, which was just a tent and a seat, there's
the hobble was there.
I was about that.
I brought the camp that you don't like.
Tell me, tell me an idea that I've brought.
We can agree that you used to camp in a Volkswagen under an umbrella.
Yes, that's true.
Behind the tent.
It's true.
OK, just checking.
It's true.
It's really been the collective that is elevated camp nut butter.
But is there but but anything that has been added, do you dislike any of them?
All of the the accessories?
I mean, I can roll my eyes at you.
I think the mirror, the full length mirror, I think you took it too far.
Well, we should probably probably throw in for anybody that's joining now.
Hillary gets credit.
I mean, camp nut butter is camp nut butter because at one point she made nut butter,
which is a legitimate thing.
And I just thought it was funny as hell.
It's a funny word.
So they tried to take my nut butter.
They tried to during the search when we came in, they tried to confiscate my nut butter
and I was so upset.
Yeah.
And we were like, that is like cashew organic honey maple nut butter.
And they were like, what was it two years ago?
Two years ago, we had we had the couple from England walk in and want to buy actually ask
us if they could buy a jar of nut butter.
Yeah.
Apparently I'm missing out on a business opportunity.
Yeah.
There's there's an opportunity.
So well, I come down to execution, you know, ideas are cheap.
So you're welcome.
Oh, is that right?
Yeah.
Nick's back outside.
Must not be raining anymore.
Hang on a second, guys.
Beautiful.
Hang on a second.
Bonnarooo, NVA Camp MVP of 2018 just came back.
Bryan Stone.
Welcome back.
Brian's back.
I was MVP 2016.
Doesn't make it better.
That's so long ago.
It was so long ago.
I did a lot of papers for a lot of people that year and still miss Pearl Jam in the
pit.
God damn it.
Yeah.
You went and left.
Yeah.
We had a way and you were like, we literally were walking you to the pit.
You said, no, I want to meet up with this girl.
But what happened with said girl that you met up with?
Well we met up where she said she didn't stand me up.
But then after about one song in, she was gone.
Quite literally, it might've been two.
Do you think that she was offended by Pearl Jam or you?
I don't know.
What's the difference?
We found, Brad and I were leaving the pit and we found Brian sitting in the grass by
himself with the confetti and all the things strewn about.
He had the status collection of empty Miller light can just surrounding him in a circle
watching fireworks with this tear coming down his face because he had been abandoned by
the love of his life in the pits because he loved Eddie Vedder more than he loved the
girl that he was with.
You spent more time paying attention to Eddie Vedder and saying how wonderful he was.
She said, screw it, I'm out of here.
Well once the show began, I forgot about it and didn't care and just enjoyed the show.
But about an hour afterwards and for the next four or five days, I was just irate.
I was so mad because I saw all your posts, all your pictures, everybody down in the pit
and I just started getting sadder and sadder and so mad.
It was a bad decision.
You know that year though, that was like, you could have just walked down there because
there was like literally a hundred people out in the field that year.
Yeah, because it turns out that nobody really wanted to see Pearl Jam.
It was like, man, it was like you could walk right down to the pit that year.
I love the idea of Bryan Stone standing in the back of the field and I just understand
that nobody's here.
But I don't want to work with the crowd.
I'll stand back here.
As great as they are, whatever their legacy, they are like the most underappreciated act
ever of like race, boteries, main stage.
Oh man, it was so sad.
There's such a powerful rock band.
Yeah.
Like I love them.
Wasn't a big part of the conversation.
Eddie Vedder went political.
He went political.
Yeah.
And I'll be honest with you, he was surprised.
What?
What?
Who saw that coming?
That was a perfect combination, mixture of just, I don't know, bad scheduling, too much
emphasis on hoping that the dead and Pearl Jam's loyal fans would come.
The dead and Pearl Jam can go anywhere.
They don't have to go to Bonnarooo and see them.
And both of those two were bad headliners.
What was it?
Tame on Friday?
No, it was LCD.
LCD and then Tame.
LCD was probably the most, I guess, I mean, I never was an LCD guy.
So I don't know how exciting that was.
But it was good.
I'm not turning to you to figure out levels of excitement about anything.
Depends on what the subject matter is.
It was good.
Whose dog is that?
That's mine.
Capita dog.
Capita dog.
Capita dog.
The crazy thing about that Pearl Jam show is I don't even remember the show and I was
there.
The only thing I remember is seeing Brian afterwards.
I don't know anything.
It was nothing.
It was that pop shit that Hillary made us eat last year.
It literally was just eating it and disappeared.
Well, Brad, it was probably that surely.
But it also was probably my least favorite Pearl Jam show I've ever seen because it was
the most boring, simplified, here you go for a general audience show.
It was just what the average kind of Pearl Jam fan.
It was really lame show.
I mean, it was good.
They played the fucking songs right.
But it just wasn't a good mix.
You weren't impressed with that either.
Bryan Stone, musical critic.
They played the fucking songs right.
Thank you for clarifying that they played their own songs correctly.
I gotta head out.
Chrissy, love you.
I'm so good to see you.
Break it down.
Always the first one to leave camp.
Yeah, she's gonna go out and be out till tomorrow.
We miss you already.
We'll see you next year.
We do miss you already.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Are we bored with this chat or what?
I don't know.
I'm three PBRs in.
How about you?
It's a fair question.
All right.
Brian, Brian, I don't know.
What's up?
I'm still, I'm still marveling at Nick who can swing and sway at the same time.
I just love it.
I love it.
Brian, what are your, what are your plans?
What are your plans this weekend?
Did you do anything to celebrate Bonnarooo?
Did you do anything or did you just sit at the house and cry?
It wasn't very good.
Okay.
But it's fine.
This is the most fun I've had all weekend if that tells you.
But you didn't do anything to like celebrate Bonnarooo though.
Did you do anything Bonnarooo-ish?
Like we had pizza that was sort of spicy pie.
We ate crawfish like a crawfish.
We had the crawfish boil on Thursdays.
What else did we do that sort of Bonnarooo-ish Hillary?
Oh, we went to Snake and Jake's.
I forgot to tell you guys about that.
We actually went to the actual real Snake and Jake's.
They weren't open.
Well they weren't open.
But it's the tiniest little shack of a bar that you've ever seen in your life.
And apparently it's only a place that you go to at four o'clock in the morning.
Just like the actual Snake and Jake's in Bonnarooo.
Exactly.
They're open from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.
You go there to find hops when like everything else is closed?
When everything's closed.
When everything's closed that's where you go.
Is that the inspiration for the Snake and Jake thing at Bonnarooo?
They own it.
Same people.
Yeah, it's the same people.
So if you remember-
This is the first time I've been to this lounge.
Yeah, if you remember the Superfly and the connections to New Orleans that Superfly NAC
had when they first started Bonnarooo.
They wanted to bring a bunch of New Orleans stuff to Bonnarooo.
That's why they used to have that parade.
That's why they used to always have Trombone Shorty and New Orleans based musicians early
on in the year, early on in the run.
And then, you know, at some point when Superfly disconnected and the New Orleans, you know,
parts of it sort of just went away.
But Snake and Jake's is still there.
Snake and Jake's still there.
I've been there one time and I just watched.
It's an institution.
I wish you could see it though.
The real Snake and Jake's is like a fraction of the size of the Bonnarooo Snake and Jake's.
Like it is a tiny little shack in a neighborhood.
It's a 10 by 20 room.
It's tiny.
It's absolutely tiny.
It's not what I expected at all.
Brad and I are both like, what?
I couldn't believe it.
Yeah.
So what else?
What else did we do for Bonnarooo Weekend to celebrate?
I mean, we sat outside with friends and drank until after midnight, which is weird for us.
Yeah, that was new.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
You guys have friends down there?
Our neighbors.
Yeah.
The other side of our Trombone bubble.
Yeah, I heard it.
I got it.
I got it.
Look, it's hard.
It's hard to deny my charm.
Yes, it is.
All right, so I'm starting to, I think Brian's question is pretty good.
Are we bored yet?
I'm about ready to go.
Probably the podcast listeners are bored with us.
How did you do that?
I'll tell you that my battery's at 11.
That's magic.
That's some good stuff.
You've upped your game, unlike Brad.
I don't pretend to have a game.
Brad, I know your answer, but I mean, we're feeling pretty confident that this isn't happening
in September, right?
No, not happening.
No way.
It shouldn't.
Yeah, but go, maybe, but is it going to happen?
Probably not.
Yeah.
And as you mentioned, post somewhere, the weather would probably be worse in September.
The weather will absolutely be worse in September.
Yeah.
And it couldn't be better than what we just had.
I was going to say, in case you guys didn't get expressed, since you're at NOLA, Tennessee
saw the best Bonnaroo weekend we probably could have had.
Yeah.
Making it even worse.
It's been the most depressing part of all of this.
Even here at Denson, it's really nice, even in Louisiana.
Nice.
Man, it was a perfect weekend.
We had showers here this afternoon, who's to say if it would have hit Manchester, but
the rest of it, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, would have been as good as it got.
I don't know what you're talking about because I was at Bonnarooo.
Yeah.
Taco had a mini-roo over the weekend.
He went to Manchester and parked at Wendy's.
I was in Winchester, which is like 40 minutes away from Manchester.
Right on the side of the mountain, right?
Yeah.
And there was like 50 people there.
And it was a roo bus, it was Roo Fitness, Roo Tang Clan.
It was a small gathering.
Okay.
I hear a good thing about Winchester.
We were in a field in Tennessee and there was live music and there was beer and there
was food.
There was live music.
Yes.
There was a band.
Yeah.
Winchester's good as long as you don't go swimming in a creek with cops chasing you.
I'm sure you guys just spread around to bed anyway, so great job.
Yeah.
He might as well have been Ozark Pool.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We were less than 50 people.
It was, you know, the government said it's okay.
Yeah.
The government said it is okay.
We got a hall pass from the government.
It's no worse than going to Applebee's.
Recommended guidelines.
Yeah.
They followed the recommended guidelines.
It can't be worse than going to Applebee's.
No worse than going to Applebee's.
It's no worse than going to Applebee's.
All right.
All right, Nick, you're getting summoned?
Yeah, I'm out.
I'm out.
I love y'all.
Peace and chicken.
Love y'all.
Love you.
Love you all.
Denson, miss you.
Love you.
Give our best to Mikey D.
So glad to see Denson on the group.
We need to go Denson on and just tell stories.
Indeed.
That's an effort right there.
That's good.
It's assholes, assholes in here.
Yeah.
Elbows to assholes.
All right.
Love you guys.
Miss you a lot.
We'll see you in a year.
Flip side.
Peace.
Bye.
See you.
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