Route 91 Reflections and Glaring Alabama-Georgia Rivalries w/ Jason Aldean :: Ep 24 Try That in a Small Town Podcast
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Well, I wore the closest thing I had to Alabama, which is this hat. Oh, you're right. That's not even. Yeah, it's a little Alabama-ish. It's not crimson. Well, that's all I got. You had a Florida tag on the front. That's right. Yeah, but he wasn't here for the actual bet. He wasn't. I wasn't. I saw it via Instagram. I know. But I did text and say, hell, I'm in. Tom Petty died on the plane ride home when we were coming home the next day. And so I'm like, let me go do it my way. Let us play what we want to play. Let me say the things I want to say. I don't want anybody writing this stuff for me.

Tully was the first phone call I made as he was eating ice cream. I mean, I was shoveling it in. You know, we have a way in this country of coming together when we need to and acting like we're supposed to. And then when we want to act like a bunch of idiots, we can kind of do that too. But I feel like in times like this, people come together and do it right. The Try That in a Small Town podcast begins now. Come back in the small town.

All right, y'all. Welcome back to another episode of Try That in a Small Town Podcast. Let's go. We got some usual suspects. We got TK.

K-Lo, you like to be called Thrash. Why not? Thrash Money. We have a new suspect at the table, but an old suspect. Definitely an old suspect. Chase it out, dude. Let's go. It must have been a slow week. You guys want to be back on? I'm kidding. We need viewers. Thanks so much for coming. Yeah, of course, man. Always fun to catch up with you guys. It's great. We can't even let a minute go by. Not a minute. Not a minute. Not a minute.

We have to talk about something. Yes. The Alabama-Georgia game. Yeah. Neil, do you want to start this off? That's good.

Well, I wore the closest thing I had to Alabama, which is this hat. Oh, you're right. That's like Maroon. Yeah, it's a little Alabama-ish. It's not crimson. Well, that's all I got. You had a Florida tag on the front. That's right. Yeah, but he wasn't here for the actual bet. He wasn't. I wasn't. I saw it via Instagram. I know. But I did text and say, hell, I'm in. But you didn't really commit to it?

It's okay. It's okay. Neil had like a onesie, like a crimson onesie picked out. It was more like a thinking emoji, like, let me think about this, so I didn't commit you to it. Well, they'll meet again. That was a tough loss. Listen, I was just glad we ended up making a game out of it. I thought we were going to get embarrassed in the first half, and then I actually came back to the lead for about 20 seconds. You did get embarrassed in the first half.

And you guys got the kid that's still in elementary school to catch a pass for you. But what was that? I continually texted to everybody. It's not over. You can't say it's not early. It's early. He always texts that when he knows he's going to win. No, no, no. I know who we were playing. We weren't playing Mississippi State. We were playing Georgia State.

And I knew. It didn't matter if it was 30-7. Those games always are like that, man. And it is... I mean, you guys are our nemesis. I think we beat you once out of seven times or whatever the hell it's been we've played. It's one of six. Yeah. Who's keeping track, really? Who's counting? There was...

A couple things to learn from that game. One, that's the best game I've seen Alabama play, period. And that was the only full game I've watched. They came out hot, and Georgia came out really flat. So, I mean, it was just they got behind early, and they just played catch-up the whole game. But I knew it wasn't over at halftime. I didn't care what the scoreboard said. I knew it wasn't over. So we have to set up the story a little bit because we actually had a show that night.

We're here in town. It was a private thing. For the first half, we hadn't gone on yet. That's when it's going 7-0, 14-0, 21-0. We're getting stoned. We go on at about halftime. Is that right? It was at halftime. The third quarter hadn't started yet. We went on at halftime. Luckily for us, there were two TVs set up in the back of the room.

So I could still kind of – I was playing. I could still kind of see the TV. And so I kept seeing, you know, oh, Georgia scored. Well, they scored, I think, before the half, right? Yeah. I mean, we were doing a little private show. So it was a small room. So you could see the TVs. Oh, I could see every play. It was amazing. And so then it's like 7, 14, 21. Here they come. And I'm like, oh, my God. So all of a sudden it's like, you know, we're right there about to take the lead.

I think there's five minutes left in the game, so we end. I go running back to the dressing room to catch the last five minutes, and then we take the lead, and like 20 seconds later, the 17-year-old kid, you guys got caught the long one, and that was kind of the dagger, and then it looked like we might have a chance. Beck almost threw an interception on the play before and then ran what looked like the same play and actually completed the interception the second time. But –

That was a rough one to come all the way back that far. But at least we made a game out of it. I'm telling you. It looked better in the newspaper. And I guarantee you, it made both of those teams got better that night, win or lose. They both got better. Okay, I've got to ask this. So who feels better? Do you feel better –

that your team came back and made it a game? And do you feel kind of bad that your team gave up the big lead? Who's feeling better about their team? I'll speak first because it was after the second series in the second half for Alabama offense.

we all got mad we could tell they took their foot off the gas and they started calling these real conservative plays and like let's just sit on this lead for a while and we were we were like let the kids play i mean that's what they were doing they were running and playing and having a ball and and we took our foot off the gas a little bit but it's georgia and that's why they did it because and it almost bit them on the on my ass well and i said even before it was played no

No matter who won or lost, it's not going to affect the end of the year for those two teams. You know, they're either going to play again. They're going to be in the playoffs. No two ways about it. Kirby Smart is a winner. Beck is a winner. You know, that's –

And like you said, they did learn a lot in that game. And again, I think that was the best, most solid game that Alabama had played. Before you got here, Jason, Tully was like, I'm on board with Beck. I'm like, this dude came back in the second half and let him –

just almost led him to a victory until he doesn't buy into that. Well, I don't. You know, I don't want to speak for the Georgia fans. It was me. I mean, people do get y'all confused. So was you. Well, all I saw was the first half. Which he came out flat. He looked scared. He looked rattled. Well, he got rattled. And then all I saw was the end when he threw the really bad pick at the end. So I'm like...

I don't know. Well, he made some really bad throws in the first half. Yeah. Like, he looked, to me, he looked really tight. Well, he threw some interceptions where there was nobody, I mean, like, nobody even around the ball. Like, no Georgia player was even around the ball. So, you know, he's one of those guys. We're talking, like, Will Levis type stuff. Well, he's one of those guys. He shows, like, I mean, he can show what he can do. Like, he shows flashes of being great. The kids are gone. It looks like he has an NFL arm.

Yeah. I just think, you know, obviously some of his decisions and reads were off or whatever. It's safe to say we're going to meet again. I think so. But I will say this. I like it for the fact Georgia at least made a game out of it. They know they can play with Alabama and whoever else.

And I almost like it when they get a loss because it kind of fires them up a little bit, you know, more and, you know, makes them think. Because I feel like a lot of those kids buy into the hype. Oh, you're the number one team in the country. You're going to beat everybody. You're going to do all this. And then when they get – they take a whooping, you know, it kind of lights a fire under their ass. Because they came out flat against Kentucky the week – two weeks before that, too, and almost got beat by Kentucky, which Kentucky ended up beating Ole Miss. So I don't think they're –

Kentucky's got it. Their defense is legit. And their QB was playing good. He was throwing. When does Tennessee play? They got him from Georgia. They play in, I think, two weeks. We all have Tennessee. We all have an asterisk. Tennessee has Arkansas next week, then Alabama, and then Kentucky. Those three in a row. SEC's a rough – It's tough. It's always been a rough schedule. Now you throw in Oklahoma and Texas, and then Kentucky's getting better. Yeah. Kentucky's getting better, and it's –

Hell, even Vandy's playing pretty good this year. It's a tough conference, man. So do you think the moment...

Beck looked rattled in the first half. Was it the moment you think and being on the road? It's a big game. It's a big game. It's a big game. They're playing in Tuscaloosa, you know, so I'm sure there's a lot of nerves. And then Alabama comes out, strikes quick. You know, they're up. We punt. They score again. And then interception, they score. I mean, it just started going downhill. And when that happens, man, it's just like, you know, I think halftime you get in there and kind of reassess and,

Georgia always kind of is a second-half team anyway. They did it against Kentucky, and it just seems like they come out sometimes flat, and that's one of my biggest –

you know, Knox watching them so far as, you know, they just come out like that. And then the second half they turn it on and they look like, Oh, well there they are. That's Georgia. Well, yeah. And I feel like, you know, just as a college football fan and watching, there is so much pressure on Beck. And I think there's a lot of self-imposed pressure on him that maybe that's why he's playing a little tight. Cause he, from game one, he needs to win the national championship.

Well, it's expected anymore. That's hard to play with sometimes. But like you said, this may be a good learning to take that loss and have a little bit more freedom and just play like he knows how to play. One of the years we won it, we lost to Alabama, then went back and the second time we played them, that's when we won a national championship. You think it doesn't wind up for the second round? No, you have to play a team twice. Typically, it's going to be a split. So I like my chances on that.

How do you like UT against these guys? Well, I'll tell you what, watching that game, I was glad to be watching those two teams compete and my team resting. Because there was a lot of moments and a lot of great athletes competing.

I do feel more encouraged about Tennessee. I think Hoppel's a great coach. I think he's got a good coaching staff in place and good players. And they're going to come up. But when we play Georgia, it's in Athens. So that's going to be acceptable. That's the 12th deal.

but we play Alabama. Otherwise known as God's country. Yeah. Now, and then we did, it was years ago, but it was that Hail Mary at that, I know you remember that game. It was the last game. Jawan Jennings. Yeah. I remember who caught it. It was so good. We were on our way to a VIP show before the show. He's one of those guys. Nope, I know. Watching it on my phone, I'm like, you've got to be shitting me. Yeah.

But it was back and forth. Didn't Jacob Easton throw like a 60-yard bomb right before that? I think he was in, and he threw something, and they're trading touchdowns back and forth. And we're like, yeah. And they're like, oh, yeah. And then my dad, who wasn't doing well at the time,

He was sitting over in the corner, and we thought we'd already lost and everything. And he had his camouflage gloves on. His circulation wasn't good at the time. And they threw that last minute, and Dwayne Jennings jumped up and grabbed that. And I'm sure the defensive players, they're saying, don't interfere. No interference. They didn't. They didn't touch him. And he jumps up and gets it. And we're all going berserk in the living room, just yelling as loud as we can. And then I thought,

oh shit, we've killed daddy. You know, because, because, and we, we looked over because he wasn't yelling or saying, he wouldn't say anything and he had his camo gloves up and he's like this. He was like, he was like that. You know, so we're like, yes, you know. His camo gloves. But anyway, that was a freak of a game. Gotta love college football, man. It's so much fun. So much fun. Never know. Well, we had the argument about which is better, college or NFL and these,

He knows I'm an NFL guy. But he also grew up in a place that college football wasn't big. I totally get it. When I moved here, I moved here in like 95, 96, and the Vols were huge. And I moved down here, and everything was orange. Which is a horrible color. Sorry, Kalo. It's beautiful. The only time you should wear that color is if you're in the woods hunting in the trifle season. Or directing traffic. That's true.

It became very clear to me that college football was massive. But I enjoy watching the Bulldogs, so it's fun. His wife's a big Bulldogs fan. She went there, and her family graduated from there. She did, so it's fun. It's fun. Athens is a cool place. It's fun. My nephew and my niece went to Athens. I spent a little bit of time there. It's a beautiful campus and field and everything. It's a cool place. Yeah.

All the SEC schools, you know, old, you know, south, you know, southern towns and stuff, and they all kind of have their own little unique charm about them. Auburn and Tuscaloosa, Athens, Oxford, all those places, man. So it's always cool. We used to play a lot of those bars in the college towns back in the day, and

None of us ever went to college, so it was cool to actually go and see what a college campus looked like. You know what I mean? Oh, this is what people do, our age do normally. Cool. What was cool, too, though, we shot a DVD. Oh, in Athens? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Which for you was a great moment. My favorite show I've ever done. I obviously played the only concert to ever be held in Sanford Stadium. We did it in Sanford.

66,000 people there. Wow. And I mean, to me, definitely one of the highlights of our career. Who was on that show? Because it was Luke. Was it TR? Was Thomas Redd on that show? I think TR was on it. Maybe Jake Owen was on it. And then we brought in Luke for it. We had Ludacris pop in. That's right. Do some stuff out that day. Sounds like all Georgia fans opened the show.

Well, it's all Georgia boys, except for Jake. He was the only Florida guy. Oh, he's the Florida State guy. Yeah, but he was on the tour with us all year, and so...

I think Thomas Rhett's always one of the guys. I was actually the first person to ever play in Sanford Stadium, which is true because he was like the first act that played and then Jake and Luke and then us. But it was that that's just that was a special one for sure. Well, talking about shows in Georgia, we're actually going back to Georgia this week by the time. Oh, watch Duper. By the time this episode airs, we're ending the tour this weekend.

So it'll just have happened and we're going to the hometown. Yeah. And it's been a minute, right? It's been a minute. It's been, I can't remember if it was 21 maybe or 19. I can't remember. It's been a minute. Luke Combs was opening for us. I remember that. So, and he's been headlining now for a minute. So he was our opening act. And, you know, usually I go and,

want to you know do a hometown show i'd love to go every year but we end up going usually every three or four years and doing a show there and uh i've been kind of working with the children's hospital and stuff there so we're doing a couple shows one to benefit that and and then they just built a brand new amphitheater in macon so we've never played that before so we're going to to do that for the first time and uh yeah cool looking forward to it or is it going to be like mayhem or both

Both. I mean, I think it's a little crazier than our normal shows, you know, and I mean, we're like creatures of habit, Groundhog Day, you know, it's like this time we go eat, this time we start playing, this time we tie our shoes and get dressed. You know, it really is. It's so important to like anything that disrupts that track of time is really weird.

It's always weird if something doesn't go, on this hour we do this, this hour we do this. Crown and seven's here. Five hour energy here. Tequila shot here. Tequila shot here. It's very structured mentally with...

Which I like. When we take the stage, it feels like it's time to take the stage. And that's why we've had some 830 shows lately. Yeah, it throws us all off our game, man. It's like, what are we doing? Yeah, I go home and there's a lot of, obviously got a lot of family that is going to come out and friends and all that kind of stuff. And there's a lot more that's kind of involved with that show a little bit. But I did kind of build in a day off there to go and hang out with the family and

my cousin who actually worked for us forever. Cousin Dale. Cousin Dale. He's got golf set up, so I'm going to go play golf with him one morning and just kind of hang out. I love going home. It seems like the last few times I've been back, it's been for –

you know, not good reasons. I've had to go home for a funeral or something, you know, and that kind of thing. And so it's like, man, I'm excited to be able to go home. One of my cousins is having a baby while I'm there. So I get to hopefully see, see her baby and, you know, kind of get to spend some time with them. So looking forward to it.

That's cool. And then we're off for a couple months. Tully and I have talked. Well, not really. We're going in the studio to cut it out. We're just not touring. That's true. We're not touring. But funny, Tully and I talk a little bit about our off season and how we just eat and eat and eat and get gross. And then Thanksgiving hits and you really eat. It's hard. It's hard. So what's your off season look like usually? I know you're probably hunting, right? Yeah. So we wrap up in Macon and I think...

A week later, I'm headed to Texas for a few days to go hunt in South Texas. And then I think November 1st, I'm going to Roche's Place, the E3 in Kansas. And so I'll be there for a few days hunting. Really, I was trying to pick some spots to go hunt a little bit. We'll be in the studio making some— Let me know if somebody falls out in Kansas. Oh, I got you, buddy. You were supposed to be hunting, right? I was. I canceled for you guys. Today? Today.

What's today's date? Just say yes. First. Say yes. Yeah, I'm supposed to be in Illinois right now. And I canceled for all you guys. I hear it's not good right now anyway. You're fine. No, it's good. No, it's good. Trust me. I got pictures. It's too hot right now. Any daytime pictures? Oh, yeah. Okay, well. No, I want to shift gears. I want to touch on something before I forget. We lost Pete Rose. Oh, yeah. And I find myself very angry at the Hall of Fame.

you know i just want to air it out we lost pete rose hit king charlie hustle um i was talking to kurt earlier today and i said you know they could have proved their point and let him in 10 years ago and said you know what you've you've had the lifetime ban you know do you remember what year they banned him jim you know 90 yeah it was early 90s wasn't it if i i'm guessing so

That's a long time ago. Yeah. Well, they proved that. I get it. And like I told you today, I understand how baseball is about that. He bet on his team. It's tricky. It's tricky. But I do feel like the punishment maybe outweighed the crime slightly when you're talking about what he did for the game and how he played it. Just my opinion. Well, actually, I don't disagree. Nope. And...

He bet on his team when he was a manager, correct? Yes. Allegedly. Allegedly. But that was what they punished him for, and that isn't his playing time. Right. That was always my thing. It's like, if you're going to not want the guy to be in baseball, ban him from baseball, fine. Ban him from being a manager. Ban him from having anything to do with baseball. But what he did as a player, he did better than...

basically anybody that did it at the time he was playing, and how you can keep a guy out of the Hall of Fame. I mean, because this stuff happened after his playing career. I mean, to me, that was always a little strong. Like, yeah, sure, don't let him manage. Don't let him back in the game that way. That's fine. To keep him out of the Hall of Fame as long as he's been and just –

not knowing if he'll ever get in. And obviously he didn't get a chance to see that day happen for him. I always felt bad for the guy. We used to see him out in Vegas, man. He would be out there signing autographs at that sporting good or that sports store out there in Vegas. And I went in there and met him a couple times and saw him. And it's just like, man, one of the greatest players ever to do it is sitting here doing this and should be immortalized with all the grades, man. Yeah, and the way he played the game. He played the game so hard.

The guy didn't take steroids. He didn't, you know, he just played the game as hard as he could. And I get it. Jason, you said it is tricky, but I feel like they could have still proven that point. But, you know, say 10 years ago, maybe they changed their mind and they let him in. Well, Giamatti kind of, you know, it was his decision to not, you know, to do the lifetime ban, never let him in.

Well, then Haley died right after that or something. And it just like, since that's what he implemented, nobody else ever went back and changed it. I feel like at some point somebody's...

You know, times change, man. It's like the guy, like you said, the guy served his sentence. He's not here anymore. You know, you got your wish. He'll never be part of MLB baseball again. Put the guy in the Hall of Fame where he deserves to be alongside all the other greatest players who've ever done it and give the guys due, man. That's how I feel about it. They know he should be in. Yeah, and he inspired so many thousands of kids, including myself, you know, and the sliding head first. Everybody wanted to be a Pete Rose. Even now, I mean, I guarantee you, you go to a Reds game now and I –

bet you see, especially now, but even before this, I mean, you see Rose jerseys everywhere. I mean, the guy's a legend and obviously in Cincinnati, I mean, the best player that franchise has ever had. The Hall of Fame is weird anyway, though, because how do you handle the steroid era? Is it the player's fault or is it baseball's fault? You know, to me, it's a moment in time. You know, you...

Everybody was doing it. I mean, or a lot of people were doing it. They worked on me. Not everybody. I missed that train. But it is interesting, though. Do you keep these guys out that broke all these records? I don't. Well, it's like Bonds. I mean, I think he's the one that really kind of took him and McGuire. Sosa, probably the biggest from the steroid stuff. And say what you want, man. McGuire was a rookie.

And 87. And, you know, the guy came up, hit 49 bombs his first year in the league. Almost 50 home runs, which at the time, not a lot of people were doing that. I mean, 40 was a lot. And baseball wants that. Yeah. But you know what? I don't care how strong you are. You still have to hit a moving ball. Yeah.

And Bonds was one of the best. Like, yeah. Do I, do I think he would have hit 70 something home runs in a season? No, probably not. No, but he was an amazing hitter. It was a great player without that. I would have liked to have seen what he did, you know, right on the up and up, you know, I feel like guys like junior King Griffey jr. And those guys, they played it, you know, I mean, you, when he was playing, you saw naturally what he did. I mean, no help. Just, that's what he did. Chipper was like that, you know, and yeah. Um,

you know, and that's the thing. It's like, I think people go, man, I wish we could have seen what this guy would have been like without all that. Like how many home runs would he have hit? 50 would he have hit, you know, whatever it was. But I mean, when home runs, you could, you know, guys were being lucky to get 40. All of a sudden they're getting 60 and 70. Like it's nothing, you know, everybody's flag had to have gone up at the time. Well, and they all look like, you know, wrestlers out there. So, but yeah,

They're a great player. And Bonds, with the Pirates, he was a great player before all that stuff. I mean, I think his home run numbers would have been down. Batting average probably would have been up. Steals would have been up. He would have been slimmer. So I don't know. If his music career dies...

He can do a baseball podcast. Oh, I'm all about it, dude. You're talking about language now. But remember what those home run races did for baseball? Yeah, it was huge. But they were coming off the strike. Yeah, and baseball didn't mind that. I forgot about that. I remember watching the McGuire run and the Sosa run and Bonds, and it was blowing up for baseball. Well, the strike happened in 94. I think it was 94. And then the home run race, I think, was 98, 99.

97 or 98. 97, 98, yeah. And, you know, baseball was coming off of, you know, all the players, players union looking like a bunch of spoiled brats. Like they always do, you know, the owners and the players and everybody's, you know, just looks like a bunch of rich people bitching at each other and,

And so a lot of the fans were like kind of over baseball. And then all of a sudden here comes McGuire, Sosa, and that whole thing happened. And then all of a sudden it gave people a reason to watch baseball again. And so I don't think baseball really cared. They were just like, Hey, everybody's watching again. This was great. And then it was like years down the line, they got on the steroid stuff. And that's my point. Like it's, what do you do with that era? Because it, for me personally, I think, look,

I'm not sure what the testing was then. I'm not sure how... I can't remember exactly what was in place, so I don't want to speak out of turn, but I do remember that. Look, these guys, if they're using steroids, obviously they weren't being tested. I don't think it was illegal when they... Because I remember that... Because McGuire was saying he was using the cream, whatever he was using. They didn't put an actual testing policy in place until like...

Like after all that stuff. So it wasn't technically illegal. To me, it's an era. Like you can't – a moment in time that time doesn't always age well. But it is a moment. These guys are hitting 70 home runs. It was a big, big moment. So I don't know how you – Well, it's kind of like if you're a pitcher and there's like no rule against you doctoring the baseball to throw it, make it move more.

And you do it. And then they're like, somebody finds out you're doing that. Oh, you can't do that. And you're like, well, nobody said I couldn't. So that's what I mean. That was kind of like the steroid thing. I can't wait to hear the opinions from our listeners on this. Right? I mean, I'm saying like, obviously they know it's, you know, hey, this is kind of crazy. But as far as rules that were written for MLB, I don't know that there was a steroid ban or whatever. So how do you keep those guys out? Because it's...

Neil, you said it. Hitting a baseball is hard. It's a moving ball, especially coming 100 miles an hour. It ain't going straight. 70 home runs, no. I wish I would have taken some in high school. I probably would have hit a few more. I needed them more than anybody. I needed them. I think my arms could get smaller. Well, but, you know, I guess a lot of the older players would argue the fairness of statistics and the records and things like that. Like, man, if I could have took –

I could have been so much better. So you get these people that weren't, they were just on Wheaties. That's all they had. But it's still a moment in time, though. It's an era for me. No, I know. I don't know how you do it, but there's a lot of complaints from older players. And I would, too. Also, the people at the time that weren't taking it...

That, you know, that's their argument. It's like, well, shoot, I was hitting 40 home runs with no steroids. Yeah, this guy was getting paid all this money because he was hitting 70 bombs. I'm hitting, I'm doing it legit. I'm hitting 35. And, you know, so it's like, I get. So do you wipe that era? I don't know that you wipe. I think it's an asterisk or something. Guys like Clemens, who one of my favorite. Was a stud before the steroid stuff happened. I think that helped him to like.

To, like, I don't know, extend his career a little bit, you know? I don't think Hank Aaron shot up. I can't see Hank Aaron shooting up. Well, going back to what we said, Pete Rose did it right, played hard. He did. He's a good way to wrap it up. And now they're going to put him in. He's passed away. They got their wish, and it's heartbreaking to me. Put him in.

He had a great documentary. You watched that. And it's the way he played the game. My favorite moment is when he, I can't remember who he, what catcher was he plowed him over in the all-star game. Oh yeah. Ended his career. Ended his career. Yeah. The man played the game how you want to play baseball. I love it. And it's really sad to me that when I found out he passed, I was like, you know,

What a shame. Because he wanted to be in so bad. You see him in a lot of interviews. He knew that was the pinnacle to what his career would have been. He just wanted to get in there. That's all he wanted to know, that he was in there. He just wanted to be recognized for his playing, you know, what he did as a player. 4,200 hits. And I hate that he'll never get to see it, but...

Not that MLB cares what I think, but I think. No, no. If you ask baseball fans, what's the first name that comes to your mind when you think of baseball? And Pete Rose is going to win hands down. That name's going to be, and not for the bad stuff. The guy ended up having a lifetime ban and

And they succeeded because he's not here anymore to witness it. But I think, I hope that they get it right at some point and get him in there. Hey, to Pete Rose. Yeah. Pete Rose, man. Charlie Hustle. Look here, I'm ready for a steroid for songwriters. Hey, do they have that? Or singers, is that a thing? I mean, it's also a good time. Let's take a little break. We'll take another shot for our sponsor and be right back. We'll be right back.

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All right, y'all. Welcome back to the Try That in a Small Town podcast. We got Jason Aldean with us. Yeah. Talking a little bit of sports so far, but I think we're going to need to...

Switch our attention a little bit. Just recently, we had a pretty bad hurricane that came up through Florida. It affected lots of Georgia, lots of North Carolina, East Tennessee. I know that's dear to all of our hearts. And, of course, all of our prayers and heartfelt wishes go out to those people. I know it affects you and you've got some areas that... Yeah, man. I mean, we still live part of the time in Florida. I mean, that's kind of our...

main second home, you know, when it's cold and the weather gets crappy here, we go to Florida. And so obviously Florida got hit, especially over in the Tampa area. Being from Georgia, you know, we were there some too. We have a place there in Georgia. And so, you know, Georgia got hit pretty hard, especially on the east, eastern side of Georgia. And then my wife's from North Carolina who really took it hard. So, man, it's just been, I think for a while, you know, it was just

I don't think we really were paying attention. We were on the road and just kind of traveling all the time and we're on flights a lot over the, you know, when that was happening. And so it wasn't until we got home this week and, you know, kind of started having a chance to look at Instagram and all that stuff. And you're starting to see all the videos come in. It was like, Holy shit, man, this is crazy. And, uh, I mean, towns like Asheville and some of those places just getting washed out. So it's, uh,

It's been pretty crazy. And I think we're just, you know, like everybody else, we're trying to figure out, you know, how to help and what to do. And especially, like I said, I'm from Georgia. My wife's from North Carolina. I mean, that's our home state. So we're going to pitch in there and help. And, you know, we posted a thing for people to donate to the Red Cross. And whether you like the Red Cross or another –

you know, another organization that's on the ground helping like whoever it is. I mean, I think anybody you want to donate to to help those people out is amazing. So I would encourage anybody, whether it's Red Cross or Samaritan's Purse or whoever it is that you, you know, would like to donate to to help. They're all amazing. I know there's a lot of people saying stuff about the Red Cross and I was saying when my dad died,

was a kid, their house burned down and the Red Cross, American Red Cross was the one that came and got them and gave them a place to stay and fed them and gave them clothes and did all that stuff. So, you know, people can say what you want about the Red Cross, but they're a great organization and they do a lot of good for people. And there's a lot of organizations out there like that. So I think whatever it is, you know, whichever one speaks to you and you want to,

to reach out and donate to them to help people out, you know, I say do what's in your heart there. And, you know, it's never going to be a bad thing. No, just find a way. Like you said, it doesn't matter how or who you give to, but I would encourage everybody to do that as well. And, you know, you kind of said something during the break, which is true. It made me think of during the Nashville flood. When was it? 2010. Oh, my gosh. You know, you get –

It's big news for a couple days and everybody sees the devastation and then they move on. Yeah, the next news cycle comes in and it's like you still got people boots on the ground working trying to clean that up.

The American public is sitting there looking at it, and when the next news cycle comes, that kind of goes out the window. That's the problem. For most people, they're looking at the news, and everybody feels horrible. How do I help? I live in Oregon. How do I get to North Carolina to help or whatever? It's just like, man, it's...

Obviously, you can't go there and drive around and help locate people and all that stuff. I mean, I feel like that's more of the people that are there, the National Guard that gets sent in to help with those kind of things. But...

you know, just, just helping fund the process of the rebuild and trying to, to get people there to help. I mean, and it's anything, man, 20 bucks, anything is, you know, 20 bucks buys a lot of cases of water for people that are on the ground out there. Whatever it is, man. There's a church on every corner here in Tennessee and they've got 18 wheelers and you can go and you just drop off. Like, like you said, bottle water, cases of water. We've already sent trucks, truckloads of stuff to North Carolina and,

you know, we've, we're kind of affiliated with a few different things right now, trying to help out as much as possible. And it's just, it's devastating, man, for a lot of those people. And,

And like Kurt said, I mean, it's not until, you know, everything kind of, you know, all the water kind of recedes and everything goes back to normal. You really get to see the devastation it caused. And then the rebuild happens. And then there's still a lot of people missing they haven't found and haven't heard from. And it's just this is like one of those like in Nashville. It was like they said it was like a hundred year flood. And I feel like, you know, these hurricanes and things like that. We don't associate, you know.

with having a flooding catastrophe. It's just like Nashville. Or a hurricane from a hurricane. Yeah, you can't picture it because it's like, especially in Nashville, it's mountains and you don't think of it being even possible, but it is. And when it does, like you said,

Everybody after the news cycle dies down, but they're still dealing with it. They move on to P. Diddy and whatever the hell he's got going on. But people can't work. No, for sure. And it's life-changing. They don't think about it when the cameras turn off. That's when the work begins. And the cameras aren't covering that. And people are really amazing.

I always love seeing how people come together. I remember in Nashville when it happened, it was pretty incredible. And hopefully that's what's happening and going to happen. I think so. There's still a lot of good people out there. Like I said, it's just whatever moves you, if you want to help, there's organizations. Don't just sit there and watch social media and watch the news and go, man.

that sucks. I wish I could do something. Because you can. You actually can do a lot. And it doesn't, you know, it's 10 bucks, 20 bucks, 50 bucks, whatever it is. And it just, it goes a long way when people are losing everything, having to rebuild their whole lives, man. It's wild. Jim just sent me a text, our producer, Jim. He said, 43.

Trillion gallons. Is that right? 40 trillion gallons of rain came down. That's enough to fill Cowboy Stadium 51,000 times. What? Or Lake Tahoe once. 40 trillion gallons of rain came down. Really?

That's unbelievable. Well, and then you just imagine, you know, when you're talking about mountains and the valleys and all that stuff that come with mountains, you know, it's rivers that are running through there. And once those rivers start overflowing, dams break. And it's just, I mean, it's just stuff that,

When they were building those things, you know, they weren't expecting that. You don't want to expect that kind of stuff to happen. You don't expect Asheville to be hit by a hurricane and get dumped that much water. You know what I mean? The footage of Asheville, it's incredible to see it. And I love that town. Yeah, it's heartbreaking. It's hard to even imagine that much water there. You can't even get there now from here, from Nashville. Yeah.

Nashville to Asheville shut off. You have to take back roads and stuff. The I-40 is washed out and it's going to be a year minimum. We used to drive that road a lot. We used to have a cabin in Waynesville, which is 20 minutes outside of Asheville. And so we drove that, you

you know, 40 straight there. And a lot of that road is, you know, through the mountains and it's, it's, it's going to be, well, you know, then we'll do what we do, man. That's people will, we'll come together and rebuild it and that's right. Bigger and better than it ever was. And it's just, you know, it's unfortunate. People have to lose homes and lose, you know, always think about like,

I think about like my kids and still all the pictures and memories and things that we have in our house. Like the things that are kind of irreplaceable. Those are the things that I hate when people lose houses, like whatever it sucks, but you can rebuild a house. You can't go back and get a lot of the things that people lose in situations like that. And that's what I always hate. But, you know, the end of the day, if, if, um, you know, you made it through and everybody's still alive and, and,

That's right. Just doing okay. Like, you know, the rest of the stuff will kind of work itself out and people come together. You know, we have a way in this country of coming together when we need to and, and acting like we're supposed to. And then when we want to act like a bunch of idiots, we can kind of do that too. So, but I feel like in times like this, people come together and do it right. So I'm hoping that's what happens. Well said. Amen. Yeah. And you got a lot of prayers going up, you know, for all those people. So yeah, for sure. Hey,

Hey, you know, staying on some more serious subjects, I think we'd be remiss not to say that today is October 1st. And that's a very special day for obviously us three and a lot of other people. It's the anniversary of the Route 91 Festival.

And I think we should probably take a second and acknowledge that, acknowledge the people that were there, the people that were lost, the families that had their...

And I don't know if anybody wants to start on talking about. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean, I just think every year, you know, this time of year rolls around and there's kind of this this weird feeling toward the end of September that I'm just like, shit, it's coming. You know, it's coming up and it's just one of those nights that, you know, I don't think we'll ever forget. And, you know, it's not something that I.

sit there and think about daily or at least I don't try to. It's hard. I mean, we still have shows and look around and we've had some lately where you look around and there's parking garages around and these tall buildings and it's still, I mean, we go out and play a show like that. It's still a little eerie for us, but a lot of people got hurt, got killed that night and

That's tragic enough, but to me, it's always the people that were left to deal with the fallout of that. All the families and kids of parents who died or parents who lost their kids that night and things like that. It's always a heartbreaking time of year for me. I never really know what to say. I was sitting there last night right at midnight and just sitting there like,

trying to figure out what to say. Like I post something about it every year and, and it's just like every year, man, it's just like, I don't know what else to say. It's just like, it's been seven years and it just never gets easier. And that's true. It's it, it never does. And every, you know, we go out to shows on the West coast and there's always people holding up the route 91 flags and, you know, coming into meet and greets telling us, you know, they were there and it's just, we, it's, it's around us a lot, you know, even though it's been seven years, we still,

meet a lot of those people all the time and it's just it just it never gets easier man it's just always a hard time a year for me so yeah i think people would be uh you know surprised about how much that we the three of us especially we we don't talk about this much as a matter of fact very rarely have we talked about it and i think it's because i thought about this on the way here tonight i think it's because our first thoughts go to the people that didn't make it

and not so much us does that make sense well it's like somehow we were able to like we had all this chaos and tragedy around us and somehow you know we got out of there nobody was hurt you know none of our guys i mean a lot of people mentally is more mental for our guys than anything but you know we had guys out front of house guys that were running sound i mean

taking it hard out there and you know everybody's got a different story and it's just with us i think we you know we've always kind of realized that man this was this was a really wild night like a you know something that kind of changed everybody changed our lives changed the way we thought about things changed the way we we run our tours now i mean our our security on the tour and stuff now is it's locked down more than ever yeah because of that still and

And it was a weird thing, but Tully's right. We don't talk about it much. We don't sit around and... I think people would be surprised to know that. We did a lot for a while in the beginning. And I really will credit you for... I remember this very specifically after it happened. It was weird, very strange feeling, almost like a just still feeling where it's like... And I remember Aldine Collins...

A couple of days after we got home saying, what are you doing? And I said, I was eating literally a gallon of ice cream with a spoon. Showing ice cream in my face. Yeah, I was like literally sitting on the couch. I hadn't moved. And he goes, well, get up. We're going to play Star Night Live. And it's like... I think some people forget that too. I didn't mean to cut you off, but it was, we had to cancel...

the next weekend's gigs because all of our gear was on that stage. FBI was there investigating. I didn't think about that. So we didn't have anything. But then you got a call. I got a call the day after, I think we got home Monday and Clarence called me on Tuesday or Wednesday and said, Hey, Lorne Michaels called and wanted to know if you would come do a cold opening on Saturday Night Live. Yeah.

And to be honest, I didn't want to do it. I was just like, man, I'm, I was so glad to be at home, be away from all that stuff. I finally kind of felt like in my safe place, you know, at home, my family and my wife was pregnant, eight months pregnant. And so, um, I just remember saying, man, I don't know, give me a minute to think about this. And so I took a couple of hours, just rode around in my truck and I was calling him back. I said, man, I'll,

I can get everybody ready to go, but I don't want these guys writing stuff for me and like what to say. And I'm like, Tom Petty died on the plane ride home. We were coming home the next day. And so I'm like, let me go do it my way. Let me put, let us play what we want to play. Let me say the things I want to say. I don't want anybody writing this stuff for me. And if he'll let me do it the way I want to do it, then I'll get everybody ready to go and we'll, we'll come up and do it. And totally was the first phone call I made.

As he was eating ice cream. I was shoveling it in. It was like, I don't even remember it. But I remember very clearly being up in New York and being really super proud of you, the way you handled that cold open, talking to the whole country. It's a lot of pressure. Because we weren't, I'm very comfortable saying this for my own, I don't think we were

In a good spot. I mean, I know I wasn't mentally at all. Just, just, I know I wasn't just trying to, trying to take it all in. You know what I mean? And for you to, to say what you said, it was so heartfelt and so true. And, and that's one of the more proud moments I'd say, you know, but it was all very, very,

very much a blur. Well, and I always said this too, when we went to play Saturday Night Live, I mean, the cast, crew, Lorne, Michaels, everybody involved, they treated us so well that day. I mean, we came in, they were so happy to have us. And they could tell, man, we were shell-shocked. I mean, we had just been through some shit and...

Even in that little studio where they do Saturday Night Live, there's not a lot of people in there. But I can remember being on stage and just still being like looking at everybody going like, is there anybody in here that looks weird? Yeah, a little rattled still. I mean, you were just shell-shocked. And you're trying to just, in my mind, I know like, hey, we're a band. We're going to have to go do this again. So you can be...

or do whatever, but like it's going to have to happen. And so we did that the next weekend. I think we played in Tulsa. Tulsa or Oklahoma City. I know we played New Orleans the next week because it was outside. Oh, it was the worst. And it was buildings. The first show we played back was Tulsa. Yeah, it was. I do remember that. Because I didn't even have my guitar. I had an old beater guitar that I had in a locker somewhere. We all had to get used gear or different gear. And of course, you know, you have to address a situation, which you did. Yeah.

Again, like Tully said, it couldn't have been more proud. And then New Orleans was either that week or another week and it was outside with buildings everywhere. And it was like, you said, it was like, oh, okay. How do you not think about what just happened? And I'm convinced, like I tell people this and I've said it before, that the Lord, you know, if there was a band that had to be up there to go through that, that he chose us.

for a couple of reasons. And we are, we have been together so long and I think he knew that we could carry on, deliver the message and get through it together. Cause I don't, you know, that bond that we have together really helped us through, but also to go back out and, and know that, you know, we're not going to let that affect our lives. We have to move on. Um, we're doing what we've wanted to do since we were kids. And it's like this, I think we all feel a certain amount of, of, uh,

If anything, I know for me, it's like, like we don't talk about it much because I think there's a certain amount of not guilt, but sadness for those who didn't make it out. So I feel selfish. I'm not, we're not going to feel bad for ourselves. There's people that died and there's families and they lost loved ones. So how dare we feel bad for ourself? We, you know, we, we made it through it. But I've, I've told people that, that God puts people in certain positions for a reason. And I, I,

no for a fact that's why that we were up there and it was hard to go through but i think we were able to to make make it be okay with you to move on yeah you know and to y'all's credit um not everybody could do that because and you don't know unless you've been through it whether you could or not and like you say you go to the next venue or the next plate and you're thinking oh that hill looks like a good place for somebody to

you know, lay up there. And then, yeah, it made me think of even during this conversation with Trump, you know, with the, with the first assassination attempt and then he's just right back out there. And that, that takes some nads, man. I went and, you know, obviously went to the RNC and saw him, sat with him a week after that happened. And I remember sitting there next to him thinking, you know, he, he acted so different than I had

was accustomed to him acting when he had been around me before and, you know, we were hanging out. He was very much more solemn kind of, you know, and I got it. I mean, I knew exactly what he was going through. That'll do it. Yeah. It's like it. I always said like when that happened to us, I mean, we were always, dude, we were living the dream. You know, we...

We're having hits. We're best friends. We play in a band. We get to go travel the world, play music together and hang out. It doesn't get any better for us. Right. And then all of a sudden, in one night, it's, okay, this ain't fun anymore. This is time to put your big boy pants on a little bit. And it really took me out of the phase of like, hey, this is fun and we're all just boys having a thing to like, this is different. This is different. It's a business and this is bigger than...

any of this other stuff that we've ever done. And it made me kind of, even though I was older at the time, it made me kind of grow up a little bit in a sense of like, all right, you got to, you got to handle this differently than you've ever handled anything before. And, and so I understood what he was going through when I saw him. And it was just, it was kind of weird to see that look on somebody's face. Cause I know we all had it. Yeah. The fact that we all made it off that stage, um,

When you think about it and look back on it and you see the map of where the bullet holes were and what hit and how, you know, it's... In your base. Yeah. In your base. I mean, windows were getting shot out of our buses. I mean, it was everywhere. I mean, it wasn't like it was centered in one place. It was random and just scattered everywhere. So, you know, but after the fact, you're just like...

what the hell was that? Like, did this really happen? Like I kept, I kept asking myself that I'm like, I'd wake up and be like, I'd turn on the news and go, yep, it's, it did. It's still, it's still on the news. It really was a thing. It's so hard to explain to people and actually impossible to explain to people, which is, you know, we've kind of used the term band of brothers, but it's not a term. We are brothers. We're family. And getting back to the point of like us, uh,

I'm glad that we were the ones because we, even though we didn't talk about it a lot, we were family enough to be able to lean on each other during that time. And if we weren't brothers and if we weren't family, I don't know how that would have gone, but...

When people ask, oh, what was that like? I can't explain that to you. I just don't like to talk to people about it that weren't there, honestly. And I don't mean to be an asshole, but I'm just saying, I'll talk to these guys, but unless you were there going through it, you'd just never get it. And I don't want to just talk about it with somebody so that they get all the information. Right.

It's like, I don't want to talk about it. It was fucking horrible. And I don't like to talk about it. I will talk about it with people that I want to talk about it with because I feel like it's safe. And like, you know, I'm talking to people that were there and went through the same stuff. Yeah, those were y'all's fans that were going down. For sure. And I think that's the, I think we're very similar, the three of us right here, especially when we deal with this. For some reason, there's a way I can put this in a box and put it in somewhere inside of me.

It's there. And it's a feeling of guilt for those who didn't make that. That's where a lot of my stuff, but it's in there and we can put it away, whether it's the way that we grew up or the way we are together in a positive way, we can put that away, move on. It's there. But we never forget that the thing is never forget the people that didn't make it out of there. That's for me, that's the...

the pure sadness. And y'all recognize those. Well, like I said earlier, man, the families, the ones that, you know, the people that didn't make it out, that's tragic enough. But the families that were left to have to deal with the loss of those people, that's the ones I, that's the ones that get me. I don't feel like, I don't feel fair. It feels selfish to me, for me to be sad for myself or sad for us. That to me, that's a,

a small way of looking at it. We made it out. We should be celebrating that we're alive. The people that didn't, it always bothers me when people let themselves... Make it about them. Yeah. That to me is...

That's disheartening to me. Yeah, because there's not a rhyme or reason for this person gets shot and somebody right beside them didn't. And you can't really process that. Well, listen, and I'll say this, man. Anybody that was there that night, whether you were on stage or off stage or whatever it was, if you were at the show...

It was a tragic deal. Like I said earlier, everybody's got their own stories of what they did, how they dealt with it, what they went through that night. I think ours kind of got magnified because we were actually on stage. And I can tell you, and these guys will tell you too, it's not a fun thing to do.

to be a part of. I mean, it's not something that I wear, you know, as a badge of honor. I was the one on stage when that, like, I hate that. I mean, like Tilly said, I'm glad it was us rather than anybody else. But like, it's not something I'm proud of. Like, I don't, I don't use that and want to go out and talk about it. Any chance I get, it's like, it's not the way I'm wired. It was tragic. I hated it. It was one of the worst nights of our lives, if not the worst. And, you know, it's not something that I,

typically go out and talk. We used to run into people at the airport and they'd be like, you know, want to bring up Route 91. Like, they just met us. Hey, I'm a big fan and want to talk about Route 91. I'm like, I'm not doing this shit right now. Like, I'm not, I don't know you. I'm not, no offense, but like, you weren't there and I don't, I'm not going to sit here and talk to you about this. Like, come on. It's not something that's fun to talk about. When we were up there, you know, we grew up,

you know, as kids being musicians and playing in bars and becoming a band and living in Nashville and touring and making this great thing we're doing. When it started to happen, you got to, people don't realize like gunfire was like,

not even crossing my mind. No, there was stuff falling on. And like, I thought Curtis guitar had taken a shit. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, I've heard people say, you know, whatever, how we ran off stage, but we literally had no idea what was going on. Yeah. There was something in our ears that pisses me off. Yeah. Actually. Yeah. It's,

If you think we... You ran off stage and didn't tell anybody anything. I hear that shit all the time. And I'm like, I want to just grab him by the throat and go, listen, man, I'm being yelled at in my ears. I've turned around my security guards. I'm like, I have no idea what's happening. In our brain, just so people know, when stuff like that happens...

My first thought generally goes to, is the stage collapsing? Or is the lighting dressing? Something's wrong and I don't know what it is. So I'm just getting out of the way. But a shooter in a hotel, there's not even in my brain. And I remember we have some good Navy SEAL friends and I remember talking to them after and them saying, you know, you guys aren't equipped to register this. And it's still to this day, it's like, God, that, wow, like,

We're musicians. And now it's changed. Like Jason said, now when we play a show where there's buildings, we played a lot of them recently, there's buildings around. There's SWAT teams up everywhere. Never thought about that stuff. It's a whole different ballgame. Never thought about that years ago. That night, we're up there playing a show in Las Vegas. Like we had done a thousand times before. I like the thing. Vegas has been good to us from day one. And that's another thing. Our connection to Vegas is...

is full of history. That's what I say. We've had a million great memories there and one really, well, maybe a couple really shitty, but really one bad one. But it was a horrible night. But I mean, the city of Las Vegas, we've had a lot of great memories there too. We're thankful that you guys made it

And we will always pray for and remember the ones that didn't make their shot. Absolutely. Always remember and pray for those people. Cheers. Route 91 fam. Love you all. I gotta get a sponsorship for these. The hell's that thing? It's called...

It's called... Is that that... I know what that is. That's if you don't drink, it gives you a little buzz. It kind of gives you something. It's kind of like steroids. It's cheating. It's a little bit of something. Can we get a sponsor? Let's call that the Pete Rose. This is cheating. He's juicing. He's juicing. What's it called? It's just called Feel Free. It's like... Yeah, it's just natural stuff. It's like cabarut and...

And crate them. It's like super granola. It gives you a little something. Are you doing yoga on the sides too? I'm not flexible enough to do yoga. I can't touch my, I haven't been able to touch my toes since I was three. No.

Damn hamstrings will snap. You guys need to stay limber. The older you get, you got to stretch. I ain't never been limber. You got to stretch. That's the hardest thing. Yeah, when you say stay limber, you're insinuating that I've been limber. It's like stretch. It's like while we're working out, you're laying down to do a setup and you're going, oh God, oh God. We're getting in the fall, Neil. You're going to have to get the ones with the fuzzy stuff on the inside. I don't even know if we're on or not, but let's end it with this. What's up?

The Braves are in the playoffs. Braves are in the playoffs. You're on your way home. Oh. How do you feel about it? I don't feel good at all. Listen, here's what I love about the game of baseball. Obviously, you guys know I grew up playing baseball. It's my favorite sport. Huge Atlanta Braves fan. Yeah.

which is just got a son, Dale Murphy, Jersey, this past week. Dale Murphy, my favorite player growing up. So, but I'm a huge race fan from back in those days. And, um, man, they're just banged up. Acuna's out. Yeah. Uh,

Austin Riley's out. Spencer Strider's out. We just got key guys that are just not in there. But baseball, that's a great thing. You need a couple pitchers to get hot. Any team on any given day can score 10 and a pitcher can throw lights out. Except the Titans, they can't score 10. Oh, no. They scored 30 on the Dolphins. Oh, I forgot you guys were in here. Oh, God. Oh, God.

We have opinions on some of the Titans players. Let's get into that. You sure? Sure. What time is it? Yeah, hell, I got a minute. What do you got? I can't wait to hear this. No, it's... First of all, we'll love this great athlete. I was on record as saying great athlete, but the experiment is over. We're moving on. What...

So to catch everybody up. It hasn't been great. We're recording on a Tuesday. Monday night game was last night. Will Levis got hurt. Thank you.

thankfully for the Titans. Mason Rudolph came in. He wasn't hurt. He had a look like this. He wasn't hurt. He was a fake injury. Well, you don't want to say thankfully he got hurt. He was doing this and taking his shoulder pads off. He looked like he was crying. He wasn't crying. There's no crying in football. There's no crying in football. The NFL's rigged. The bottom line is this. I think Levis is on, I mean...

you know, he, he has had a couple of different coaches. I'll give him that coaching changeover. Hasn't really had like a stud QB to sit behind and, and learn from. He hasn't really had a veteran guy there. So I give him a little break on that, but I,

It's more the Titans for me. It's like, go get a guy. If this is going to be who you think your guy is, go get somebody that helped teach this kid how to play and how to read defenses. I think he's great. I don't think he's – I think he's a utility guy like Taysom Hill. I think he'll come in and put him in a tight end, let him run the ball. I don't know. Do something. I think some guys you can draft out of – I mean, Jaden Daniels. Plug him in, do a system. He fits. He's balling out. Yeah.

Some guys. Look at Malik. Look at Malik. Well, yeah, he's with the Packers now. He goes off and. He threw for more yards in that one game than he threw for him the whole season. He started falling. That's the way it always goes. That's a prime example. That's the way it goes. I don't care what anybody says. It's all about the city, the locker room, location, the players that you have around you. It's all about that. In and out. In or out on Will Levis.

No, he's out. Out? Yeah. I think out. Just for morale of the team. But the coach, by the way, and this will air Monday, the coach says Will Levis is playing. Well, probably so. I'll say this. Good luck. What I've seen so far, I'm out.

But I'm hoping he figures it out, turns it around. I mean, listen, I don't know if it's going to happen. You know, like Sam Darnold went to the Vikings. Right. And it may not be the Titans. He may get traded. It may not be the Titans. He's a stud. Yeah. He's probably going to be a stud somewhere else, not the Titans. Like we always talk about NFL, playing quarterback, hardest thing to do. Yeah. If you don't have – And we're all talking about it like we've done the shit. I know, right? These guys are going, look at these –

150 pound weigh in bricks. I'm just telling you though. We could make it through warmups. Listen, listen, look. I mean, that's legit. It is. It's fair. But here's the thing. It is the hardest thing to do. You play, you know, you got to have a great offensive coordinator. You got to have a scheme. You got to set your guy up to win. And they have not done that. Levis is a great athlete.

He's not an NFL QB. Not here. Not with this. But maybe. Shit. He goes up to Green Bay. Who knows what he does? And maybe it's, you know, offensive line is great. He's having a lot more health. He's not having a lot of time. So, I don't know. Maybe he can go to Miami. There's a lot. I need some help.

Miami needs help. Miami's about to bring back Marino. See if they can get him. There he is. Look at that. But we're still going to pull for the Titans. We pulled for them. You wanted to win. I love the Titans. I want them to do well. It actually sucks to watch it and then just kind of be average or below average. It's like... Hey, it's hard to be a Titans fan. It's hard to be a Pats fan right now, but Titans fan, look...

You give. Everybody goes. We've had great players here. Yeah. Had the best quarterback of all time for all those years. It's tough to be a Pats fan. Nobody's got remorse for you right now. Here, here. It was tough back in the day. You didn't have to go through Steve Grogan. I remember Grogan. He had a damn neck on him like a...

And then I had a good run, which is why I'm being patient with the situation now. Hey, can we keep our bet? If we meet again, if Alabama, Georgia meets again. Okay, let's end it with this. Let's do it. Let's do a bet. I'm in. I'm in for whatever. I was in today. I wore this just for you, buddy. That's maroon. That sucks. What is your color?

It's crimson. You know what color it is. That's the same. You guys made up a color. Your color is this color. Georgia's red and black. Red and black. But that's close enough, and he did think about that when he got here. You think I would normally wear this? This was just for you. That's maroon. That's like Texas A&M, Mississippi State, Florida, whatever that is. This company doesn't even make a hat in crimson because it sucks.

I will say, Jason was not here for the bet, and I think the fact that he wore that. I'm in. I'm in. If they meet again. If we meet again. Hopefully in a national championship, that would be great. That would be fantastic. And then we, like, really figured out. I'll come in with a whole damn Alabama football uniform on. I had a picture of a onesie.

For you to wear... That's not getting ridiculous. You may want to see it first. Give me a sweatshirt and a damn hoodie or something. Let's make it good. No. He's not going to come back looking like... Let's make it good. I will wear the Bulldog hat that Corso wears. How about a tattoo? How about this? How about if we went...

If you win, you pick my outfit. If I win, I pick your outfit. Absolutely. Deal? Absolutely. They shook on it. They shook on it. This is good stuff. And do, would you like to mention, you got a benefit coming up in just a few weeks, really. You and Britt, you got a benefit coming up, a golf tournament and all that. Do you want to mention that and tell them about that? Yeah, October 16th, man. Coming up, we have a tournament we're doing here, a little golf tournament here in town for the Sentinel Foundation that,

raise the money to fight child trafficking. This is the second year we've done the golf tournament. Last year was kind of our first year and we were filling it out. Kind of didn't really know what we were doing. Just wanted to start helping out and, and you know, child trafficking to me, I mean, it's kids are very soft spot for me. Anything that has to do with kids I'm in and,

Um, you know, so this is a great organization we started working with a couple of years ago and, um, second year it's getting, you know, getting bigger and better. We got, uh,

lot cooler stuff this year now that we know what we're doing. Well, y'all did great the first year. No, it was great. It was great. It was just... Like $500,000 or something like that. It was amazing, but it's just one of those things where the first year was great, but you want to build on it every year. And I'm a student of the game. So I'd never done that before. We did it a year. I'm like, okay, now I get it. Now I know how to go out and

you know, really help raise some money for this thing. And so it's amazing calls. We got a, uh, October 16th, 17th. It's the Aldine freedom classic. Maybe you guys are in. Yeah. I'm in. I'm not winning, but I'm out of town, but I will contribute or sponsor a team or something. I definitely want to help you guys. Small town. Yeah.

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