The What Podcast
Talking Bonnaroo 2023 with Bryan Stone and Evan Bonnaroo
Season 6, Episode 18
Published July 5, 2023
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It's actually close to somewhat professional for once yeah, I love you have a professional setup, but yet no profession

Well, that's true

I think we can all say that except for you, maybe

Shit oh and a special guest of first PBR 1001 Easter and someone

Have you checked that in yet? You should check that in. I'll check it in

Thank you. I appreciate that Barry Courter. Are we online yet is Barry is very good. I did I go away. Yeah, you're back

Oh, I'm sorry. That's all right all of a sudden my entire computer system went crazy. I'm sorry. That's okay

No need to apologize muffin. Everything's all right

How's Barry? I'm doing great. Thank you very much. I'm I this is I've been up since about five

I am

It's all energized. It's almost bedtime for you. I know this first lunch

I've cleaned I've got the setup going I'm ready. I'm excited about this

Brian I don't know if you know this because for a long time you were waking up at 11 12 o'clock during the day

But Barry and I still do that. Okay. Well Barry and I's go-to lunchtime was 1045

It was always that can we be the first one in an Indian restaurant at 1045?

That's insane. I know I know he's not lying either. I know he's not

Yeah, and then out of nowhere we're joined by Evan Bonnarooo who I just don't see enough of

Okay, good

Thank you for coming where is Evan Bonnarooo

Oh, okay, and he's on the floor what I'm glad you invited him somebody

This this is how you know kidding your camera just fell

It's right here. This is how every weekend goes with me and Evan at some point. We find ourselves on the floor. Hmm

Never fails. We're not at the beginning of the night. Yeah, right. Hey, hit that life alert button get some help

He's

Falling down

Someone come get their man. Somebody come get their man. This is me after 12 PBRs. Yeah, I was blurry

Evan is still in Bonnarooo Hayes. Yeah

The whole idea here was to recap your Bonnarooo. I think we did it. Yeah

Show over well played Evan. See ya. Yeah

Happy Canada Day Cheers Man, they can today

That's what Madison said

Really and all they got for us is this goddamn smoke

I think that when is that when Columbus found Canada? Is that what that is?

Oh, I have no idea. Yeah, it wasn't Columbus. It was Dan, Canada

He walked north and stepped over a line and said this is Canada

Hey Brian, do you feel better that for the first time ever you are not the one that's causing all the technical issues?

I was actually just thinking

For once not the problem

You've gotten bailed out. I can't believe it

Has there ever been a person that has ever bailed Brian out at camp Brian is our go-to

mascot of camp who we usually

Kick punch. Yeah, baby. That's got you mean punching bags

I mean, it's you know semantics and you and you mean by we you mean you usually punch

I don't know. I think Barry's gotten a few good ones in

I did early but then I felt so bad for him. I just stopped

I'm not trying to take away from anybody else's contributions around here

Even even even docile calm lovely taco gets a Brian shot in every now and then

It's just low-hanging fruit. I was easy the exact same thing. It's right there. It's on a tee. Yeah

Him him too is here

Nice. Oh him too

That's read that's read that's read. Yeah

Hi read so the thing about

Him too that I love so much is I've never seen I can't believe he's still in one piece

He's a he's a kid that could have gotten broken in half at the knock loose show, right?

Did you see the picture did we post the picture on the thing taco? It's on the video. You didn't watch the video. Okay? Yeah

Well, I know I haven't watched the video

But I was so proud of ham too just losing his mind

I mean you could have he could have put a tent on top of that crowd and felt just as comfortable laying in it

As he did crowd surfing. I that was a great shot

Yeah, the whole ice cream nailed it. Oh the happiest kid in the world

Bryan Stone, let's start with you while Evan sits here and still cannot be do you know Evan does this for a living?

How have you screwed this up, you know, that's my problem is I went to high

Tech yeah, this is very high tech. I mean that guy that guy knows what he's doing right there

Somebody hire him immediately

Why don't just mess up my lens by dropping it so that might have been okay. All right

Well, you sound great at least I'll give you that. Okay. All right

Well, let's start with with going around the room. We've heard it from Barry and taco

Oh, by the way, so thank you for joining our little live show. We try to do this once

maybe twice a year and

You know just it's it's as much as I can

do

to

Feel connected to Bonnarooo that I missed yet again. So let's start with the Bryan Stone Brian

What did you would you take away from 2023? I think that you of all of us you probably have been to the most right? I

Think you guys he's been to all of them. So yes, no one has been to more

Yeah, I've been to all of them

You went to all of them. Yeah, the very first year. I it's a little bit of an asterisked

I jumped the fence on a Saturday night for panic that night and then that was it

So I didn't really know what it was yet. I didn't understand it yet. But by oh three, I mean

Three so 365 days couldn't get there quick enough to get back there for road three. So yeah

Yeah

technically, I've got the

Okay

so when we talk about when we talk about like the past of Bonnarooo since you went to the you know, especially the first three

Your idea from you know year one year two to now

Well, I was big into jam band music when it first became a thing

I was actually brand new to jam music at that time. So I was in a different world as a lifetime ago 20 years ago

But it wasn't gonna be sustainable that way

I mean anybody you've talked to from kin to anybody else knew that that was talked about how that's that's not something that they were gonna

Be able to sustain and so I think it was around oh six

I was just looking at it yesterday or the other day actually that radio head was the the headliner and that was kind of the first

Kind of move away from a strictly

Jam band kind of thing and I and I remember at the time

I mean, I don't know that this is revisionist history or not

but I feel like I remember the time thinking this was a really cool move because how many times can Dave Matthews Trey and

Wiser panic play this thing before everybody says I'm tired of it. So yeah, but I

Can I we jump in as he I mean I want to hear this because this is great because Brian has a real perspective

Having been there for all of them. But if you remember, yeah, but he's only remembered half of them. Let's be honest

Well, we're gonna get into that too. And I think that's a huge part of it seriously

But we had a conversation you mentioned Ken you're talking about Ken Weinstein

We had a conversation

Saturday in the media area you were there and Russ was there and Kyle the Bonnarubian was there

he was asking me about who his Rushmore of

The Bonnarubian was and he had a real interesting take it wasn't just your four best acts. He had a specific

Qualification for each and

one of the questions was

Radiohead or McCartney and I of course said McCartney and Ken's take was

Radiohead because just like you said it was what oh six that shifted the whole Bonnarooo universe

It was Ken's argument and I think Kyle's too, right?

McCartney obviously is the high water mark for all of us, but that was 13 and

So the radiohead thing being so early

kind of

Legitimized if that's maybe two even a week a word

But right you remember what I'm talking about

Brian and I I do

But I legitimize might be the right word is in the sense of shift it create probably a shift of the shifting into

to an entire different orbit of fans to pull from and

Yeah, I would I would say both those two. I'm not a big Rushmore

topic

I appreciated Kyle's take on it. He framed it because

Mount Rushmore, you know, you've got people that represent the nation's birth

growth

Development and preservation. So those were his four

Right pick people that he picked as far as the bottom of Rushmore

birth growth

Development and preservation. I love this idea the bond Brian hates the Rushmore analogy

Do you hate five lists? Do you like it? Do you hate just top five lists? Yeah anti-anime?

Why do you hate our country Brian?

Brad

Brad as lifetime radio guys, you know the Mount Rushmore in the Sports Talk universe is the

Laziest topic in the history of sports radio, you know this I agree

But Kyle brought Kyle came strong with the whole I'm not trying to hate on Kyle. I love you Kyle

This isn't about he doesn't even know who Kyle is

But anyway, yeah, so anyway, I hijacked the conversation

I want to hear the rest of Brian's thoughts on the week. Yeah. Well, but before you get there is like I

To the radio head point, how have you seen it change from the first years to now?

Because we've talked about how the world was so different at Bonnaroo in the first like I've said a million times

Shakedown Street was a legitimate shakedown

There were people that were just off the street that could stand there without a ticket and sell you a dryer door

And I say that with all honesty because someone tried to sell me a dryer door

It was it was it was panic. It was constant panic all the time. It was it was chaos and

I don't even know if you could call it organized chaos

To assert a great. Oh, yeah. I mean I did it was I just it wasn't really jump the fence

There really wasn't one I just walked in there wasn't a fan

Yeah, and I didn't I didn't mean there was but it was already toppled down

It's just you know

How many people that we know that have told me the exact same story you live in Chattanooga you drive in 45 minutes and you

Could literally just walk in it's a walk right in yeah, and there was no I mean even on Bonnaroo's best organized years

the new volunteers the new

The newer workers they still don't know what's going on a thing that big

You'll never have everybody on the same page as far as where everybody needs to go all the answers you need

Or you need answered or care true. There's plenty of that too there. This wasn't a that this was a nobody has any idea

What's going on? It was it was mind-blowing that yeah here?

I didn't know what I was looking at and it was it

Fascinated me beyond belief and for the next couple of years same getting more acclimated to how the festival worked I?

I I was still I'm still equally fascinated 20 years later, but to answer the question. What is change?

How's it? You know? What's the evolution look like from my perspective?

Honestly, it's not that much different

Like feeling is that's for sure the feeling is the exact the essence the the soul of the festival

It's pretty damn similar to what it always was and that's why I think it's so unique and became so beloved

It's not just oh, I get to go see some great music today. Mm-hmm

Yeah, I don't mean we've all talked about me and talk of the most most recently who's playing Bonnaroo this year

I don't know. Yeah

Doesn't matter it literally doesn't matter. It's fun fun fun fun fun to talk about

But it literally doesn't matter well, and I think that was similar then as it is now

Well, I just do you remember like in it's 2005 right and we were getting excited as to where they were putting the big heads

You know like that was where like the the excitement now you have what is Plaza 7 look like

I mean the small things that they were doing and adding every year in the in the early years would get us so excited and

You know all we cared about when we got into center who is where are they putting the art installation?

Yeah, and where they put in the big heads the comedy tent. Did they change it a little bit?

It over by the over the corner. They get closer to the tent. Yeah, little stuff

I remember that do you remember the year it must have been like oh seven or eight

They finally figured out to take this tent and instead of doing it

What is like a turn it just a tiny bit and the fact that like we spent the entire weekend obsessing over that little detail

The tiny little things that we've watched

Get added to this farm to now. It is this big thriving entity that

It's almost like the changes are too many to even count every year, but I'm man those first years for like oh my god

They and there's there's there's AC in the comedy tent this year. I can't believe it at this

Oh, yeah, the silent this this the silent disco. Did they move it in proportion to somewhere else?

Yes, little things like that. Well talk about little things. We just didn't have very many and one of the things that

It's so weird to even say

The comedy tent was to me mind-blowing when I got there and realized they have a comedy tent

What the heck I mean, this is a serious event they have a comedy tent, you know, it's it this just isn't live music

They have a comedy tent. It's not more serious than the comedy tent

Well, it's just the fact that there was something else

What I'm saying, but if you if you talk to any of those comics they

Hated it the things that not everything worked but just the fact that they had something different

Like that was mind-blowing to me. Yeah. Yeah, and I'll never like that line for Conan

O'Brien that year was it was completely out of control. I

Think it was time to shut the tent down after they got Conan

Okay, so fast forward we'll get to Evan here in a second Evan. Thank you for you know, at least hang on

We're coming. We're coming

So Brian this year, what was your first response your first thoughts about this year?

After going every single year of your life. Have you just talking about the overall weekend? Yes another incredible weekend

I mean, it's is it on Mount Rushmore

It's on my Mount Rushmore

Rushmore this year exact if this happens to be if you chisel out three of those old men on there

It's still be on Mount Rushmore. Okay on the singular Mount Rushmore

wonderful is that founding

That's defacing I think facing is yeah. Well, I didn't I don't know when to say this but I go ahead do it now

I was thinking about it about an hour ago before we started this

Most of the people in my life other than family and work that I communicate with on a regular basis

Are because of Bonnarooo

Yeah, absolutely

Isn't that crazy?

Really? I mean, yes, there's a lot of truth to everybody on this podcast right now is because of honor

Oh, well, that's because I'm on a Roo podcast Barry

That's a really good point. I didn't

I mean if we were if we were talking about Wes Anderson movies, I can understand that you would be like

That's a solid point I'll give you that one no

I'm serious though

It occurred to me that most of the people that I communicate on a regular basis with other than family and work

Are because of Bonnarooo and that I don't know. I mean

Maybe you guys are different, but I don't know if that's good bad, you know sad I agree with whatever

I've made what I'll say are lifelong friends. Thanks to Bonnarooo. Yeah

Well, I'll tell you one person in particular is in my life because of Bonnarooo is Evan Bonnarooo

He was the first person. I did that first person. It's like I've been doing this for a while

The first person I met in New York was Evan Bonnarooo

In fact, he helped me choose not to ever live in Jersey. So I can't thank you enough Evan for

Evan how many times have I been to Jersey?

Five or six. Oh, come on. It's not been five or six. Yeah

so the first time I

It's in the realm of five. So at first time I went to Jersey because I had to go over for his birthday party

I texted was like am I gonna grow a tail?

What are the like the ramifications of crossing into Jersey? Oh, but you're gonna sing only Bon Jovi songs. That's that's

Which is even worse than the tail. So

Crawfish and you love that I did find crawfish in Jersey. At least there's that then we did find crawfish

What about you Evan? This is what like Bonnarooo six seven for you. Oh

double that

No, you're not gonna call Bonnarooo. It's no way

Yeah, yeah, is that right? I don't ever use it. Is that right?

His name is Evan Bonnarooo. You think he hasn't been to 12 Bonnarooo's? Well, that's because I couldn't remember his last name

Yeah, and that's my contact

That's how he's in the phone. Yeah

Yeah

So, okay, so I've been going every year since 2012. Okay, even when they didn't have it I drove to the farm

That's really why would you do that? You're in Jersey. Why would you drive all the way?

I was on a road trip and driving. I was on a road trip driving by. Oh, okay

All right. So after all of this year's take the Foo Fighters out of it. Where is this year ranked for you? I

Think it's number one. Wow, we were so I was camping with the robust people and

We had a group camp of 150. That was my first time ever doing group camping and

Every almost everything was seamless. Like everyone was awesome. We had the monkey bar there

Nothing wrong with that. Yeah, that's great. They were they were super accommodating

For us because they needed extra power and stuff

Yeah, so even like by Friday we were all kind of like looking at each other it was like is is this the best one?

I love the idea. I love the idea that this is the first year you did group. What did you do in the years past? Yeah

Just drive down with a caravan of two to four people

A caravan of two to four or five cars. Gotcha with my friends. Gotcha. And so and so you're all in on group now

I might be yeah, I I do like the idea of knowing where you're going to camp before you get there

Yeah, there's a lot of anxiety with planning

Like how what time to drive in and where you're going to be based on that and there's not a lot of that data points to

That's true

You see you've mentioned two words and I can see brian shaking his head and he's going to know probably what they are anxiety and seamless

Right. I mean brian and i've talked about we have anxiety for the two weeks leading up to it every year

And and seamless and this year I had no anxiety and everything was seamless

Um for people who don't always go what do you mean by that evan? I mean, I know what we mean, but what do you mean by both of those?

Well part of it is just am I going to be camped close? Am I going to be camped really far? Is is it going to take

Five minutes to drive in is it going to take six hours?

So are you going to be denied like there's something wrong with your application or your ticket or whatever?

Yeah, that's what always gets on there's so many variables that you don't know until you're in that position. Yep

Like where you are, so it's you can't get any information really until you're there

In what moment do you actually say? Okay, i'm here. I can let go now

Is it after you set up camp as soon as you go through secure as soon as you drive through security?

Yeah, brian is not like that wherever you're going

Brian brian still thinks something else the other shoe is going to drop at some point even when he's through

Yeah, well because normally you're running around like a madman with police tape trying like you're marking off a crime scene

And i'm like this is not okay brad we can't do this brian based on the women you bring back to camp yet as a crime scene

Sometimes they were already there. I didn't bring them

He's not picky he sees that yellow tape and he's thinking hey

Hey, oh that's wrong. Hey, he's not picky. He literally i've looked all around this camp

And you're the best i've found so come on in

Somebody's already marked this on

Just look for the crime scene tape

Yeah, boy opportunity some people see opportunity. He is

You've got a discernible palette. I will say brian a very very fine palette

Uh

When do you finally let go brian when do you say i'm here I can I can rest and relax

Uh, once we know for sure where our actual real estate

Is once I feel confident that our boundary whether it is an actual police line tape

That's not a joke you did that for years or the imaginary line that I can see

Which this year I was there late taco was there a month in advance so we were able to

Yeah

Seek it all out

So this year this year

Immediate anxiety relief because it was already there is ready to go and let's see

I think evan nailed it right it was seamless every we talked about that last week

This was the easiest one ever so easy evan you're the evan you're the closest thing we uh have to a ga camper so

Uh, did you hear anything out there about?

Um problems things that things that you would normally say like oh my god

Did you hear that there are lines for the ice that took two hours?

I haven't heard a single uh problem

As far as the infrastructure is concerned of the operation

Nothing in general there was I know one isolated incident in uh pod two

where there was

An explosion of the bathrooms and sorry i heard about that

Like yeah

Okay, so there was a fecal matter running through people's campsites. Oh my god

Excuse me. You didn't hear about this

Uh, no, I have not heard about this. Tell me all about it. That's all the video. That's about all I know but um

uh pod pod two had a had a

Yeah, had a port-a-potty incident and there was sewage flowing into people's number two had a number two

Do you have a lot of number twos?

So how big did this start like going like how wide did it go how many people was it affecting?

I don't know for sure. Um, man, you're a really terrible on-site reporter

If it affects more than one

I was thinking the same thing. Yeah one is enough. Yeah

That's a bad day if that's coming into your tent

Um, I wonder I wonder if like the people the Bonnarooo people the c3 of the live nation people hear about something like that

And they try to search that person out and and do anything they can to be like, uh

Here's some free tickets. They offered them a free shower and a free meal pass or something

Oh, come on

We can do better than that

To start. Oh, yeah

It is a start probably gonna need a free sleeping bag and a free tent and shoes

I mean, yeah, I would I would imagine ham too would say vibes are not high

Those are pretty low vibes. Yeah

Very mid vibes vibes are mid. Uh, all right. So let's uh, let's jump into uh favorite shows brian

Your immediate impressions when you came back now, maybe two weeks removed

Where did you uh find your love? What shows what uh experiences?

Uh, just quickly, um just to run through the the weekend of just favorites to throw them out out there real quick portugal

The man was fabulous. Um

uh tyler childers

I I had a lot of hopes for

and and I I really like the music i've listened to it a lot recently, but

I don't know because I haven't been in this exact position in a long time

The this tent is too damn close to the witch

And if you get in the wrong spot towards if you're facing a stage to the right

The bleed factor especially with a with a slower tempoed artists like tyler childers

That was pretty annoying and I I was in pretty good position and that that tent this tent was bleeding badly

So that kind of messed up that experience overall, but it was still fun

Uh, you guys talked about it last week

No reason to spend much more time on it the corn show was all the talk

But you guys spent a whole segment on that

Well, why did you like you said everything there is to say

Well, no, really I kind of I kind of keyed to you because

I heard your your take on it on your podcast. I mean

And I think you said it as well as anybody it was

It was a great set. It was a perfect set, right?

I mean, I don't want to put words in your mouth, but it was everything you wanted it to be and more

And I just thought that was interesting

Well, brad, you'll you'll probably like this a little bit on to a certain level is that yes

It was I believe the perfect set and i'm only a peripheral

Casual fan of this band never cared about him all that much, but i've been around him my whole life

Especially, you know 20 years ago when everybody I knew loved him so much and I was just shocked front to back. It was a

It was a banger from front to back. I I couldn't get it

I I couldn't get enough of it

But this kind of goes back to where I would be me a little bit and be a jerk about the mccartney show

And talk about oh my god. He opened with live and let live or live and die

Yeah, no shit guys. He does it every week. You know, I did it in memphis last week. Wow. I'm so excited

Well, the corn show is the same set on this tour every night

And how many by the way, how many of those sets have you seen on this tour?

Of corns. Yeah

Zero. Oh, okay. So it doesn't matter what they did last night

I told you you would appreciate this and yes, it doesn't you're right. You win damn it

It is an interesting question and we probably could spend a whole episode on it

Well, we're going to we're going to talk about this very problem with evan about fool fighters here in a bit

Yeah, I could chime in on that as well. Everyone has an opinion and none of them are right or wrong

I've been talking about this for 37 years. I might write

You know if there's a comedian tell his best joke or does he leave it out? I mean, it's the yeah

Yeah, I mean, what do you do? What do you do? So by the way, that's such a specific number 37 years

Yes, when you know exactly when you form that opinion and it was that's how long I worked at my former job at a newspaper

Okay, got it. That's what the mark professionally for 37 years

Okay, so then who else other than Childers would in corn show?

Other than Childers would in corn

Uh, so, um matt mason was fun on friday. I mean as always I don't see enough music for your taste brad

I didn't I didn't sit at camp all weekend. Like you think I do. Well, that's a stutter

a uh

A stumble on find was the band camino. Um, i'd never heard of them before but there was enough room to get up close

So I watched 30 minutes of that seemed pretty pretty fun. Of course, brad, you know, I had to go see sheryl crow

That's always a fun show

And sunday I was there all day and I had a nice day on sunday

Um that didn't have to do with music as much I have some regrets

I missed a lot on sunday because I was running out of gas

Um, I missed paramour and that was a bad move on my part

That was a bad move on my part, but I did see marcus mumford and that was a nice lullaby

That was fun to take a nap to

I was kind of surprised like I I didn't expect it to be just marcus

You know, I I don't know what I expected but it was just marcus and uh, I think it sounded great though

Just marcus, uh, it did sound fine and it was very sleepy

Well, I think I think you'll have the the sons, uh to join him next year at Bonnarooo. I think that they're going to be back

Which i'm a fan of

Yeah, i'm a fan of but I mean, um a couple others I stumbled around and watched for a few minutes early on on friday

Morgan wade who I thought was probably some country singer that you know threw racist racial slurs out regularly

No, she's not that at all

Did you did you like that show that morgan wade show I thought it was fine. Yeah, I thought it was fine

I know let dad go let dad go

It was on the taco it was on

Yeah

It was on the witch stage early

And I saw whether was the weather was cooperating so it felt great. So the circumstances were good

I'm not saying the show was great. I'm saying that time that's like confusing. Mr. T with mike tyson

And who would do that? Nobody's ever done that no one has ever confused it. Oh ever

And and then the one uh that I did want to speak to you brah because I text you at the time

Hey, should I go see noah con?

not

You know and you knew why I was asking do you think it's I will like it not do you want me to like it?

And you said yes, and I have um, I don't have the

Though being there my whole life

I don't have the experience at some of these stages that maybe you guys and many people listening and watching this do

Who are weekend warriors?

But that's the biggest overflow crowd I have ever seen at a tent for noah con in the evening on friday night

I have never seen a

that much I mean it was

For the this was at the that tent and so that that um road, which is now paved

That cuts through there the walkway

it was

20 30 40 deep past that road. Yeah, you're getting anywhere near what would be

What would be considered a spot to see the show?

I couldn't believe it. So I couldn't really tell if the show was good

I talked to a guy in a braids jersey about liquor and beer distribution during that show

You do what you do. Yeah

You are a one trick pony. Uh, you do do know one thing and one thing only

But I tried I tried

uh

so

I can't thank you. Uh check that in you should check that in

Uh, all right. So the thing about the noah con thing is I knew it was gonna be big

but I I think that the thing that's so surprising is is

Is where did this come from?

You know, I bet 80 of the the the people that were there only heard of him a month before

uh

Man, it just came completely out came out. I don't know

I mean you and I watched that one because I didn't get to go that was friday night

So I wasn't at the on the farm yet

So I was watching on hulu and uh looked like everybody there knew every word to every song. So

I and I'm sure you guys have talked about this at some point

I mean they took the screens away from the outside of the tents. That's what I heard

What the hell what the hell are they doing? Yeah, what's up with that?

Too bad. Yeah, that's a that's a big mess. That's a really big mess

All right. So evan thanks for joining us and yeah, well now

Well now I want to hear now I want to hear evan's highlights evan

Do you share some of the same sentiments? I'm sure you were a big tyler childers fan

Yeah, so um, i've made a just a quick list of the highlight shows

Uh wednesday we had a like a big secret set for chara bitware in the woods. That was a big party

um

Diarrhea plan on thursday was awesome. Yeah, but um, I caught I caught jp sax in the campground show

on friday a

morning afternoon then portugal the man

Uh noah conn we just talked about the midnight. They sounded awesome. They were probably my biggest find on the line the midnight

um, yeah

the um

What stage they're kind of a they

They were on this tent at like, okay

Around midnight or one o'clock in the morning on friday. All right. I have a lot of questions

I want to come back to you about but go ahead

sure, um

Yeah, so they're a band that you listen to them and you're like

This might not translate that well live because they have a very full sound

You imagine just one guy like a singer and a keyboard player and it's a very full sound so they really executed on that

um wolf pack after that and uh, then I checked out diesel for probably half the set which was you know, just

What was the diesel set like don't make me come down there, right? Yeah, don't make me come down there

I mean, I suspect he hits play and uh

yells funny things for

three hours

But uh, it's very dubstepy but and you know, he plays popular songs and

yells funny things so yeah, um

Um about halfway through it was about 2 30 in the morning and I turned to my friend skyler who I was with

It's like I think we caught everything

So can I can I ask a legitimate question about that?

Because I didn't realize that shack was going to be there till the last minute and I think

Did you just say blad brad hit play?

Is that is he really even doing anything up there or is he just a hype man?

Like is he actually doing anything? I was so far back. It's hard to tell

Um, I couldn't even see him to be honest with you. Um, I was the best hype man ever like he's the most perfect hype man

It's also hilarious. He's hilarious. He's like you want to come on stage with the diesel

That's what we heard

That's why I said that uh people in our camp said all he said was don't maybe come down there and where's my mosh pit

And i'm in that ginormous wingspan kind of thing. So

It was it was much talked about for sure. So

Uh, well, let's uh, let's just go ahead and rip the bandaid off of this. Uh, what do you think about the foo fighters show?

It's by the way

Oh, well, i'm not i'm not how many more days you got what day are you talking about now? Uh,

I just sat here on sunday. I'm just gonna run. All right. Yeah do that

Yeah, he's been very patient

Man me and me and evan love devin gafferly and i'm glad you like that show me and him saw him at the at the mercury lounge

Uh, which is a tiny tiny venue in the city. How was it different on the bigger stage evan?

He was just in a great mood. He looked happy to be there. He brought his brother on stage to sing a song

um

He was just having a great time. I think most of the set was like the set list was similar but

Um, you could tell he was in a great mood. Yeah

Cory wong after that

Grizz not a big grizz guy, but he put he filled in for rainbow kitten surprise

Um doing the sunset set and that was even covered a few rks songs

Oh, really? Oh, that's nice. There's a nice gesture. There's a nice gesture. That is a nice ode

tip of the cap

The super jam was pretty cool. Um, definitely one of the better ones i've seen

Did you see hansen because i've asked a couple people or did you see hansen because that's what I care about

I would have I technically did but I didn't realize that I was seeing them. They didn't do did they do them bop?

No, they didn't. Yeah

Come on

What other song is somebody going to see hansen for

They got one other one. What is it? I don't remember. Is it boppum?

Yeah, it's called not um bop

Well, i'm glad I didn't see it then oh that really bums me out

Oh, no kidding. I think they did some other smaller set somewhere. I I heard about that, but I don't know for sure

So i'm sure they played it at some point. Wait, wait, you're telling me that hansen did a smaller set somewhere

I think that's right

Well, I know one of the one of the three was part of the uh in the media area, right?

It was part of one of the panels, but I don't I mean that doesn't mean they performed

I thought they did a small set somewhere and there is actually an um bop like 2.0

They re-recorded that song in the last like five years. So there's there's there's that too

So that's a that's a criminal act if they didn't play that 100

You got one job. You nailed it. You got one job

Wow, okay. What else you got evan?

uh my morning jacket I was

Me I was front center in the pit for that one. Really a great show. Yeah

Uh, all right

Was it was it everything that you loved wanted it to be because someone on this, uh in this call

Did not think it lived up to their expectations

They probably could have done a little a little more to make it a little more special

Especially since they're on this whole hype cycle for for um

That that vinyl release sure. Um

But you know, it was a great solid set. Um, I like I know very much who's that someone?

Um, that would be Barry Courter Barry Courter said

Your words were I think their time is over

I may have passed for some is what I said. I like it was we I was I thought it was a little

I said I liked it, but I thought the the the crowd there

It it may have passed for a lot of the people there is what I said. I like it very much. Okay. Okay

It was a fine

It was a fine set, but I thought it was lacking a little oomph too. I saw 45 minutes of it

So I I can't speak to a three-hour show right before you know, we're only being there for they should have done umba 45 minutes

That would have been good and they didn't do i'm amazed which is what you wanted to hear right brian

My my favorite song but I mean who cares what I think well, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I know I thought it was a great set

Okay, but I for having talked to a lot of people, uh,

uh, and especially you mentioned grizz and diesel and

um, you know several of the others, uh odessa

It just i'm not sure it worked for that crowd

That's what there's a lot of energy going on and they didn't have as much energy as you expect and to evan I think great point

Especially on this hype this kind of hype of this record

You I just was hoping for a little bit more, but I didn't think it would was bad. I'm not trying to say

It was not bad. It was just i'm not sure it was what

Some people hoped or wanted but that's all I loved it. I liked it the people I was with loved it. So got it

Okay

It was it was great seeing them play past 230 their scheduled time and yes, they went another hour

three hours

To each other and look at each other like oh and they realized that they could play as long as they want and they just

I think we're gonna have that's cool. Yeah, I think we're gonna have a similar commerce conversation about

Foo fighters coming up. Maybe if i'm

Reading what you're going and so and then and then I watched you basically stand in line for the foo fighters all of sunday

Mostly yeah, I

Stepped in for the revivalist pit and then I looped the background and got right back in line for the food fighter. We uh had

Probably at least 12 of us from our group all we all established a camp in line. So uh,

At about three o'clock, I think

Wow, so I just rejoined them. Yeah, okay

Um, how was the now by the way guys, I don't know if you know this but there's not a bigger fan of the revivalist

Than mr. Evan Bonnarooo. Uh, how was the revivalist set?

They were good. You guys should see these pictures that evan took of the revivalist

I sent her to zach the other day. Oh, he was over the moon about him great work

Just like billy johan, I mean actual good work I had something to say about it

Great work

I can never say those words again. I think everybody no matter what I say, it's these words never will work ever again

Yeah, I think their um their new record is is really good

Oh, I think they it's so new that a lot of people didn't know the songs

So they probably played half the record. So um

but I I think they are missing a little bit from their original stuff where they would really really jam on stuff because a lot

Me and brad have had this conversation offline where it's a lot of it is just five minutes on five minutes on five

I would like to see them along

You know back to their roots and really

um

Jam out on a few of their songs and they probably do outside of festival sets

I mean if you if you see them in new orleans at home, they probably do that still to this day

Yeah, I mean i've seen them 20 times probably so

um

Yeah, definitely

They definitely keep their festival sets pretty tight. Yeah

And you did paramour did you pair what do you think about paramour? Yeah

I I mean I I listened to paramour I was

All the way on the side of the stage. Okay, so I couldn't see it. Okay, but it sounded good

Okay

um

the pit line for paramour this is one of my comments they

They need to fix the what stage pit line. There's no organization there. Uh last year

There was like a stampede situation for stevie nicks

There's they they need someone

to

Organize that and tell people where to stand and where to sit for for what band because it can get a little dangerous

Evan you're preaching to the choir. It's been like that for a decade

I'll never forget the first time in my life where I felt I was legitimately in danger was

Trying to get into the macklemore pit the first year that they play like right when thrift shop hit

I was literally people were jamming us so badly

that we were lifted off of the ground and

One girl fell and I just as the crowd moved like there's nothing you can do

She I was convinced she was gonna get trampled to death

It is a scary thing when they open that pit and the rush comes in it's it's

quite alarming

Yeah, and like, you know paramour fans are you know die hard?

So it depends on the band so but you know having a band like paramour play right before the foos

It was it was mayhem really

So they they could really do with a little better organization on that front. I agree. I don't I don't disagree

All right, can I jump?

The fighters. Yeah

What do you got barry?

I was I was I want to ask evan about the plazas because as you said that's sort of he's he's the you know

especially you were out there in group and uh

Russ and I talked earlier god bless, uh, uh, daniel and charlotte. I mean I can't imagine

Doing all the work they did and you were so much work my god work. I'm exhausted. I bitched about setting up camp

I I me too and I went half way through I just say barry just do the rest. I'm done. I'm done. I can't yeah and and

You know russ and and brian and I did two interviews and you know

it's so stressful making sure we're there on time and hooking up I can't imagine what all they did but uh

So what was that? I mean you you actually still evan saw a lot of shows in center room

So talk about the plazas a little bit. What was it like out there?

Yeah, so I I was so so damn busy I but um

So I the only campground show I saw was like kingfish because they were just walking by us

Or I was walking to the bathroom. So they were they had a stage at the cracker barrel there

um

And then I saw the jp sax show. Um, I also caught uh, iam Bonnarooo david bruce

I went to his portrait session over there. How was that? Um, love that guy

Yeah, I mean he's he's a great guy. Um, it was

You know, he takes three photos of you and sets you up all nice. So we'll see that's great. I got okay

I came by and camped out butter on sunday was saturday saturday evening, right?

Yeah, yeah, we're gonna have him on the show to talk about that. That's such a great story. Yeah, that's great

So wait before before you go any further, what was the cracker barrel thing like?

So they had a cracker boat they had like giant versions of

like their game like the peg game and uh, like uh cornhole and stuff and then they also had um

Every morning they gave out free tacos

Like pancake tacos. Wow. There's a massive there's a massive line every morning and not a biscuit

I was gonna I was convinced there's gonna be nothing biscuits

Yeah, that's what I would have guessed too that's great. Okay good for you. That's a great that's a great connection by the way

I didn't like years ago. They had the waffle house truck. I uh, I don't know

What I would I go for like what do you rank?

higher the waffle house truck or

Cracker barrel experience over over cracker barrel. Really?

I don't know if I agree with that

Depends on the time of day. It really does. It really does two different worlds really does

Any other plaza stuff

All right, any other plaza stuff? I just have to say they were super supportive because we had a a couple different

We have like a couple dj events. We did a trivia thing. I think there was a speed dating thing as well

So they've been so those were on our schedule and they were super accommodating

Um, I think Bonnaroos become a lot more supportive of having the community make its own events

So gotta give it seems that way. Yeah, it seems that way

Question. Yeah, especially since we got there now on Tuesday morning. So

Otherwise, we got nothing to do for anything to do and have to yeah

Yeah, hey, what about what about getting in? Did anybody have any complaints or uh,

Comments about the the tiered system getting in different days different times, etc

Did anybody have any major you were there a month ago, I mean, uh, you know

Well, of course, I don't go in the normal ga entrances, but no I had no trouble at all getting in

Um, yeah, yeah, it just goes back. I think the worst I heard was

Everything this year was seamless. It was perfect. We you know, no, no, how long did you wait evan?

Getting in on Tuesday zero zero minutes zero minutes

Jesus, okay

Well, you have to think about it

There used to be six like a six hour time period that everyone would get there on wednesday and now they've expanded it for

Yeah, 12 hours tuesday 12 hours wednesday and then beyond that so it's got they've quadrupled the the entering amount of time

So that's spreading out and you could go online and they kind of predicted

You know, these are what we predict to be the peak hours and so you could kind of adjust, you know, so yeah

um

I mean

The good news is it seems to have worked and it doesn't seem to have mattered to people. I I didn't

I mean, I wondered about people showing up on Tuesday. Like you said, well, what are you gonna do?

But then you've got people like you and rus who this is great. You know, I mean that would have been a nightmare for me

uh, but obviously you guys, you know made it work and and uh others did too, so

Cool. Yeah

I like the tuesday entry because you actually get to hang out with all the people that you've been talking about this for a year

Because otherwise if you get there wednesday night then this music starts immediately and then you're you're trying to see all disney world

And so and one day we kind of hit on that a little bit last week and and again it goes back to the whole community thing

um

Russ and I I never had any trouble hooking up with people. I mean I saw everybody I wanted to see

Yeah, um, but that was just so interesting that you know, you get to see the people you want to see in the whole community thing

um

and I and I want to bring this up before we

With brian because and and brad I kind of hinted at it before but it was such a weird year

That's not the right word. Um

Brian this was a year first year for you and you've been very public talking about it

I know you don't mind talking about it, but this

You're sober

Right. This was a really sober

Bonnarooo and not just for you but

People in our camp and I had two or three people come up to me at various times and say

Man, I've never been here when there are so many people

not just

Whatever blottoed. I don't know. I don't want to understate it overstate it. Whatever, but it was just a different vibe

Right. And so I kind of wanted to let you talk about

attending for the first time in 20 years

Uh with literally a different head right a different

Right a different. Yeah. No, yeah. No, absolutely. I won't uh spend too too much time on it

but I mean it it was different to a certain degree but

really

Take a take out 2002

Three four five. I'm very young at that time and do you know and have no

filter whatsoever

Um, but really, you know late into the 2000s and on

Yeah, I drink a lot at night once the evening was winding down, but I really didn't during the day

So like the daytime was not really different at all for me

But I've been a regular drinker my entire life and I put an end to that

With medical help earlier this year

And I was concerned about it

Just like I've been concerned about a lot of things that I used to do and and pleasantly surprisingly finding out that

That life goes on and it goes on pretty well and pretty damn good without it

And we did have another campmate terra who's now a couple years sober

Um, and it it really is almost a trend

I don't know if sweeping the nation but of of you know, na beers are more prevalent where you go

Mocktails are all the rage

Um, that's just all coincidental and circumstantial that this has happened at the time that I'm deciding to do it

I really really embraced it and and and I've embraced the whole thing and

Uh, the sober people shout out to them camp show sober who they do

Shows all across the country, right? I don't know if this is their biggest gathering or not, but I spent some time with them

It's um

I

Something I never thought was possible

Not only is it possible. It's actually it's pretty easy

It's actually really easy and that makes it that much more enjoyable and fun to talk about sometimes

I know I can you know, choose somebody's ears off if if you if you let me

Um, but I it was a it was a very much different experience macro overall

But from a day to day at four o'clock on a saturday

Yeah, yeah, really wasn't that much different

But um, it made the night time certainly a different dynamic

But uh, I wouldn't change it for anything and I remember every day

Yeah, there you go weekend every bit of it and that is so great

That is so great because so many of those other shows

Brad you mentioned something or you're on your way to taking a dig or I don't remember what you were saying earlier this hour

Yeah, so many was the show good the hell do I know if the show is anything?

Did I have fun yes, I had fun was the show good

I don't know brian i've seen some of the things you've done at Bonnarooo. It's it's okay that you've forgotten them

It's okay. You don't remember most of them. I will not disagree with that. I will not disagree with that

I brought it up because obviously it's a big it's a big uh part of brian's life now

But I I brought it up because it was a big part of Bonnarooo

uh

Brad I mean it wasn't just

Brian and I talking about it. It came up many many times with a lot of different people

It's a it's a different that's not to say there weren't people there. You know doing what we're accustomed to

Bombed out of their head everywhere and god bless them and good for you

That's the right place as i've always said I I wish I did drugs because that's the right place to do them

Is it I just don't you think it has something to do that the weather was better?

Because most of the time when you hear some of this this crashing and burning is is because it's gotten so hot

and

One year is not enough to to say

Uh, but I mean like I said it wasn't just in our camp it came up several times

Uh, our friend nate came by and he's like i've never seen so many sober people and

Here and and we had a conversation about that

So I don't know, you know next year could be completely different

But uh, I just thought it was worth mentioning and I don't know evan if you saw that out in the in the plazas or not

I can promise you evan did not see that. It was a little different. I bet it was a little different

right

Well, just to say what you're saying brian, uh, I think on a

Nationwide scale. I think i've definitely seen more

um, you know mocktails and non-alcoholic stuff so

um definitely on that front

I think there is definitely a trend going around

Yeah

And the other thing to add to that is that mental health is such a convert part of the conversation these days and they and they kind

Of go hand in hand and they go together very much

they go together so it was it was really interesting to see it be part of the festival and and

And I just wanted to mention it and uh, I know and brian i'm i'm very proud of you

You've been very public about all of this and uh, so I wanted to bring it up

Let's not forget. I mean it is something to applaud brian for but let's also remember brian loves attention

So whatever but this is good attention. He's gonna love it. This is good attention and good for you. So all right

Yeah, yeah, that's rich brad

Especially coming from brad pot con metal black that one. Yeah. Okay. Don't know what you're talking about. Mr. Humble over here

And one other thing I know we've been live on this and and I know russ is monitoring it

We do we have comments anything worth reading we got questions

I sent you the comments. Yeah, you've not been reading. I know and I told you I looked I looked at him in my

Don't don't ask don't ask dad to do anything. I'm not clicking over because last time I did all I could hear was youtube

Cat videos so you guys don't need to hear that. So i'm asking you do we do we have any or no?

Well, why you look at that?

What i'm asking you

Oh my god, one job one job. I sent you one job. You have one job

We've got 22 people watching don't make me come down there

All right, this is quite literally you're basically reading our text thread right now. Yeah, uh, it's going back and forth

I'm just sitting here like I don't know

I have no idea killing me

All right, taco you want to go ahead with these so we can get these out of the way. Let's hear some comments

Yeah, okay. Can't wait. Yeah, can't wait

So excited never mind, all right

I'm telling you is kis. Eric taker. You're gonna read him read what?

I just said let's hear some comments. Let's hear them read them

So, uh evan, uh, tell me about the foo fighters, uh, let's say anything right now

And you're the you're the biggest foo fighter fan on the planet. I want your unadulterated review of foos at roux for the first time ever

Yeah, um

Um, I so I was in the pit for I was dead center about eight people back. Um, we had a big bunch of us

um

the show energy wise was

The the show energy was on first is incredible

um

Is this is taco locked? I know I know that we're

You think time is locked up?

Kendrick for me was very mad. I'm reading comments. That's what you asked me to do

Oh, well, we're talking about evan about foo fighters now. We'll hang on to the comments. We'll get to the comments

When did this thing go off the rails so bad? Well, you read the comments

Okay. All right evan to continue

You're sure you're the two fights

Yeah all the way through. Um, it was a great show. I know

Kind of a similar thing to my morning jacket. I would have liked to see

Them do something a little special for boner. Brad. We've had this conversation three or four times offline already

Um, but i've heard like I had other friends in other areas

They were like i've never seen so much energy all the way through the back of the crowd

It probably helps that everyone in that crowd knows every single song that they play

So they only played two hours and we were probably expecting a little more from that

Um

So

There's probably a number of reasons for that

They they're getting back on their feet with the new drummer

So they don't have I think they have a pretty limited scope of what they can fool around with

Um

Let's see

Um, I think they're also going to try to keep their their tour their tour schedule is brutal

Tour there's tour schedule is brutal and they're getting up there

so I think you know playing two and a half hours every night instead of three and a half is

Probably a better decision. Um, especially since they caught a little bit of uh,

Uh caught a little bit of shit. Well, I mean they they did I mean they did have hailey come out

I mean that is something special for you know, four lines of the course. So that was something

Um, but it is if you look at and I know we talked about this earlier brian about uh,

You didn't go to the show last night. So what is you know tonight's set list matter?

It is the exact same set list every night and and to the point that the foo fighters show of Bonnarooo

Was the shortest set that they've played this entire run. Uh, that's the most startling part

Coming down they had to quit

there was that is the notable thing that that we knew all day that there was going to be a storm and as soon as they

They turned off

There was an exodus of Bonnarooo and there was massive lightning almost immediately. It was that quickly it was it really it was that

On top of the media. Okay. All right. Okay

Okay, then i'll go to my second piece my second nit to pick

Um, there wasn't one time where and I don't know why I expected this, uh, but I sort of did for some reason

um

In not one mention of it being their first time ever playing Bonnarooo

And saying wow, I can't believe we haven't done this yet. Nothing like that. That was really surprising to me

The whole set's rehearsed from what I can tell though. I'm a huge and evan i'm a huge

Even the jokes are i'm a huge foo fighters, uh fan. The whole set was rehearsed and that was a little disappointing to me as well

um

But i'll just you know that I wasn't there

I've only watched it since I left right as it started and I thought i'd regret that

I don't regret missing that show i've seen them seven eight times. So it's not that big a deal to me

Um, I think what are some of our expectations would have fit the 2021 show a lot. Yes. Yes. I agree

It's a great point. I mean, I I don't know if I heard this right

But um, I think dave at some point during the show this year was like

We'll come back next year and play the what he didn't say it right, but he was like we'll play where in the woods next year

So I think that was a little nod to you know him hinting that they had something special planned in 21

um

Yeah, I don't know man. I mean he also he also says that every show we got a lot of songs

We're gonna be here all night and they're not uh, so how would he know about how would he know about the the wood stage though?

Well, I was I was totally convinced uh based on a few comments here and there from people that I trust that

there was going to be something happening in 2021 that he uh

That they were going to do and I think that your point is exactly right about our expectations for this year

Really are the expectations that met 2021 that we never actually got to fulfill

So you're probably right about that. I'm probably holding over all of those things that I thought about then

Um and using them for a day in time that is completely different

Um, not only do they have you know, it's basically a different band

But uh, you're right

They are getting older and they're packing on these shows that are they doing what are they doing 60 dates?

Uh, they've got a lot of a lot of tour dates that and they can't just keep going in three hours deep every night

There's and and it's

sustainability there

In 21 they were scheduled on a friday night, too

That's that is a different than the sunday night there bonnar is kind of get they're done on sunday night

Once that final sets get the hell out. Yeah, we kind of talked about that

You got staff and all that that we don't consider unions and all that they got to move on to

who knows and

Also, the routing of their schedule is insane. Right? They've been to europe twice in the past month

Oh my god

Yeah, wasn't he?

He was uh with the pretenders right?

Like four days later or something with mccartney girl, they played the atlantis then went to germany

Then got him back for bonnar and they went then a week later. They went to glassenbury. So they're they're routing of these

schedules growing jesus that's unbelievable and the the fact that they would do that atlantis show that we went to

Uh is so incredible because they basically did it for free. So they did all of this jumping

Oceans only for a free show for 400 of us. Um, it's totally crazy

Uh, all right. Do we want to settle so?

So you you still loved it though. You still loved it as a foo fighters

It was yeah for me personally it it kind of sealed the deal on probably the top artists that I want to see up on

Roo

Um, so it was kind of like the last real checkbox for me. There's really nobody else. Huh? There's nobody else that's on the wish list

Um

Probably mayor on a solo show, but uh, there's probably a long shot on that. Okay. Yeah. All right

Uh brian is there anybody on your wish list that you've never seen?

I was exactly I know a very good thing that as you see. Yeah, I was just thinking that as you said it and

I mean other than I I immediately flashback to the 2020 lineup, which is the greatest festival lineup in the history of all festivals

Um

Miley Cyrus is never going to be on a wish list of mine that I just make out real quick

But boy, I was looking forward to that, you know three years ago

But for me personally just for music that i've i've listened to my whole life

They've damn near all been there

I mean, it's pretty damn close to literal that they've all already been there. Is there somebody sure i'm not going to think of it quickly

Well, I mean for me and barry it's dolly, but um, you know, that's a pretty easy easy putt, uh, and even even if she

Uh

Taylor i'd like i'd like to see that work swift. I really would like to see that. She won't make any money at Bonnarooo

I know well, that's the thing is that the people on my list is Bonnarooo

Where I want to see him van morrison

You know, I don't I don't want to see van morrison Bonnarooo. He's gonna be pissed off. He'd be miserable. He'd be so miserable

I hate it. I know it'd be awful. Uh, yeah, I don't that's a good question. I don't know

Yeah in 20 years, they've covered it for me almost and again, i'm sure there's somebody i'm not thinking of yeah

um

Let me add so I mentioned I gotta read uh, dan park commented and uh, thanks for commenting

He said the says the podcast where half of them I assume he means half

Weren't there and one left for a kitty cat geez

Yeah

So he's talking about you not being there and me leaving because I had to go home and put my cat down because it was 18 years old

And dying so you're not wrong. You know, I I we weren't there. I agree but whatever that's what happened

Well, there was there was 16 years before that that uh,

Spent plenty of time and paid the dues still think I know what i'm talking about. Yeah, and I was there for a month, you know

Yeah, and i was there for the entire time. Yeah, so he just got home yesterday. Yeah

He mowed the grass on his way out

I feel okay. I feel okay about it for his force gump there

Yeah locked up the gate so

Whatever

Both the grass on the way out. Yeah, um

That's so good. Uh, anything else you want to uh poke out there barry any other comments before we go?

Oh

No, I think we covered everything. Okay. We still have a lot to talk about

We want to have david bruce on we want and he's got another to go

No, no, we have more to talk about and he had another uh

Uh person he shared with us that we want to have on and uh, so we have a lot of shows

So we have a lot of shows so

One one other real quick experience, uh from this weekend that i've never done and never thought after this year

I would have done. Uh, I think it's at the art of living. I did a uh, guided meditation while I was there

which

Brad seriously, I know I know i'm stunned. I'm stunned then when I see you on a yoga mat

That's when i'm gonna be i'm telling you it's over. It was a different briar for me. It was a different brine stone

I mean i'm i'm the same old

Jerk dumb weird guy you've ever met but i'm also not as bad

Yeah, you actually are kind of interesting to speak with every now and then so that that's different

I wouldn't go that far. Yeah

I said every now and then I don't know about all this has gotten a little crazy. No, we had a great

It was a great great weekend

Yeah, I loved it. I absolutely loved it. Good. Well, i'm so happy to see you brian evan. I'll see you in an hour

Uh barry taco for all that uh joined us on the uh live show leaving are you leaving?

Yeah, it's time to go. It's time to wrap up

We're not gonna do a bus update

Nothing like that. Oh, that's right. I wanted to ask

I wanted to ask that evan did you get all your did you say everything you wanted to say?

Yeah, we're not done

We kind of talked over and I said feel like you okay good

We're done good because I I heard all I wanted to hear I was done

But I do want to hear about the bus. Yeah taco real quick get up in the guts. Tell me about the uh, but

What's going on? We just got back from st. Louis late last night with an engine in tow

We trailered it all the way back from st. Louis

Okay, so um, so now you put the you put the engine back in the bus and then you head back to manchester

That's right. Yeah, we're gonna have it done just for Bonnarooo. Yeah

Okay, uh

No, he literally called

I was hoping to have it ready for Bonnarooo this year and he literally called me monday morning as I was like packing up

And said, uh, it's pretty much done. So come get it

So great in time. Yeah

You're happy with it

Everything looks okay. I don't know what i'm talking about when I talk about this

So i'm just gonna say something generic everything good. I sent a picture of it to you. What do you think?

I know but I don't know what i'm looking at

Is literally a engine on a on the floor, that's right. I guess you'll know once you once you get it in

Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna slap it in here real soon. I i'm gonna say next next week or so

My man. All right, look for some updates there

I can't wait. Are you wearing a pringles t-shirt? This is this is the this is my Bonnarooo t-shirt that I bought from uh, jello man

Oh

I'm telling you is it was it not a free shirt? This one was not

It was 20 bucks guys and it came with the jello shot

I'm telling you this is the big news of the day taco's wearing a shirt that was not given to him for free

I bought two shirts. What do you mean? Did you really what's the other shirt that you bought the Bonnarooo shirt?

You saw it last week. Oh, that's the last week shirt

Okay

All right

Because every other shirt that you've ever had is a promo shirt that somebody gives you and it's now part of your immediate wardrobe forever

uh

Speaking of this other this uh Bonnarooo shirt look at uh evans. I'm a gene and willy

Uh, 80 shirts

Yeah, that's a good one. Uh

All right. I gotta go. I spent 20 on a jello shot and got the shirt for free

My man. Yeah

Yeah, inexpensive jelly shot

I've lost you really? Yeah. Well

Welcome to welcome about 10.08 for me, uh

You guys are done

Taco it is time to go. Why we never got to we never got to the riveting comment section. What about the comments?

Barry read the one great comment. Yeah, and he was right. He's I mean the one that trashes you too

Uh, what else is there? I was kidding. I don't care about the comments. I don't know anybody's sitting around waiting for them to read comments

I don't know. I'm not either. Well, what are you in such a hurry to go do? What do you gotta do?

It is 11 11. It is time to go taco. We've been here for 70 minutes 71 minutes plenty of content

I got a lot. What's the rest of your day plan?

Evan we do this every week if you're interested. Yeah, I can't imagine why you would be

Right and brad brad, this is a taste of your own medicine from taco here every time back in the day

I gotta go. What do you got? What are you gonna do?

Yeah, what do you what is so important? You gotta be at

I don't know something not with you brad

Well, it's something not silly

Evan and I Evan I go dive bar hopping every day every saturday around about now

So we gotta go go love you guys standings go to standings and hate on the meds for me. I will absolutely every day

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