Episode 15: Dean Hunting, Iain Ross

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I got the whiskey. Let me have a drink of your whiskey.

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Better get out of here. My name's Ken and I clean Willie Nelson's
under hole. Under hole?
I know you don't agree but I think he's the king of country.
Get the fuck out of here. Get out of my studio.
No, hell no.
From the Ramona radio studios,

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it's the Travis Billy Ross Outlaw Country Show.
Alright, we're here. It's Sunday again y'all. Happy Sunday.
Travis Billy Ross Outlaw Country Show. With me as always we got Sweet Curbs.
Hey, hey. And we also got Eric Goforth. Hello again. And we got a very special guest today.
We got Dean from Outlaw BBQ. How are you my friend? Good, how are you doing?

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I heard you got some good barbecue. We got some ribs today.
Oh nice. We got some homemade hot dogs. Nobody likes to party with salads.
This is true. Unless it's an outlaw salad. Which I'm having right now.
What are you drinking there? Outlaw salad.
Outlaw salad. Your whiskey of choice and five water croutons.

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Water croutons. I love it. No more than five. You can have less. No more than five.
You can have more than five. Otherwise you're just drinking water at that point.
And that just makes you rust. Makes you rust.
Oh man. So tell me about yourself man. Give me some, I want to hear a fucking crazy story.

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A crazy story. Yeah, I know you got some good ones. I've hung out with you several times.
I want to hear a hunting story. A hunting story. The funnest hunting trip I've ever been on.
Yeah. Nobody fired a shot. What? We came back with six cases of wine.
Oh, there you go. How do you go hunting for wine?
It sounds like a good story. We were hunting for wine. We were hunting for hogs.
We went to Paso Robles. There was five of us and it was just a clusterfuck.

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You can say that. You can say that. All right. Sorry.
We drive all the way up there. My cousin who's an avid hunter from Oregon came down for this big epic pig hunt.
We're on Fort Hunter Liggett. And I'm the kind of guy that's organized with everybody.
I'm like everybody you've got your gear and I'm going to send you out a gear list even if you don't use it just because that's how I am.
So I sent out the gear list. Now we're in Paso Robles. It's getting late and everybody's got their gear. 100%.

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So we go to Kowlinga and we heard of this like secret honey hole and we got to hike all the way up this mountain.
And the one guy smoked three packs a day. And I told him I said I'll take you hunting. You got to quit smoking.
He's like, yeah, I quit. We get a quarter mile up this hill and it was a hill not even a mountain and he collapsed.
Oh. I took him off the mountain on my shoulder carrying his rifle and my rifle.

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The other guy wore the boots that he had in high school and he's in his late 30s and he walked out of the soles.
He only had the leather uppers. So we're walking down this hill and my cousin and I were looking at each other.
This is not going to be good. So we get back. We're staying on base at Fort Hunter Liggett.
We got to check in at the shack in the morning at four. So three thirty we get up.
We roll over there. We're 200 yards from the shack. And I turn around and say everybody's got their hunting license. Check.

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Everybody's got their driver's license. And the one guy goes, driver's license. What for?
So that they know that's your hunting license. Idiot.
So now I'm pissed because we're swimming off on this little side road and all of a sudden lights up everywhere.
And this guy rolls up to us and goes, this is a designated no civilian area. What are you doing here?
And he had his hand on his gun. Oh, yeah. His little nine millimeter.

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And he looks at me and he goes, what are you doing here? I'll take you to jail right now. Did you rent a cop?
And I will be at the mall right now. And he was the size of three rent a cop.
So I thought he was just joking. He was pretty serious. He's taking his job pretty serious.
And then he goes through all that and I explained to him, we got to go all the way back to the barracks to get a driver's license.

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He goes, I just leave that fucker here. He's an idiot. I'm like, yeah, I'm about to.
And he's walking away. He's about 15 feet away. Hand on his gun. He turns around and goes, what are you guys doing here?
And he goes, what did you call me? Oh, God. It was like he was going to unholster his gun.
I'm like, what the hell? We're hunting pigs, actual pigs.
We go back, get his driver's license, go to the shack, check in 10 minutes late.

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And they said, and we had all planned for black powder hunting. We had all bought, you know, black powder muzzleloaders.
And we've been practicing. We're dialed in. We're excited. We get there and they go, yeah, we closed down the black powder zone 19.
You can go hunt these other zones, but they're massive, massive thousands of acres.
We're like, no, we wanted 19. He's like, well, it's closed. We're doing training, tactical training.

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So we said, well, we're close to Paso. Let's roll into town and just get some beers.
And the guy that I carried off the mountain tripped and fell and busted up his knee.
So he's got baggy camis and his knee was so swollen it filled his pants.
So like, OK, let's go by CVS to get some aspirin or something. I don't know what to do.
My cousin goes in and gets ice packs and aspirin. I'm sitting in the car.
All we've got all we've got in the truck at this point is probably three cases of beer. There's no food.

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There's nothing. Just a bunch of cold beer. So the guy that hurt his knee says, hey, I found a first aid pack.
It's got a it's got a snap pack in it. You know, you snap it. It's instantly cold.
And I turned around because I'm driving the truck and he's in the backseat passenger side.
And I went to say, don't. My mouth is open and he slaps seams come undone.
Shit sprays everywhere. It's in my mouth. It's in my eyes.
There's a round spot on the windshield where my head was when I got there.

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And it's a burn block. All the goo. I roll out of the truck.
I'm in the parking lot. My cousin comes out and he's like, what the fuck is with you people?
Because all these other three guys are just grabbing cold beers and dumping on my head rubbing on my face.
So he walks out and sees just rolling the parking lot.
So now we're still all in our dirty camis. And we're like, you know, screw it. Let's just head home.

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So we start heading out. I think that's 41 heading out of Paso and the roads closed.
They're doing miles of work on the road. So we're sitting there and now we're out of beer.
And we're like, well, there's a winery right there. So we go in our campings drinking wine.
And we came back with cases of wine and no pigs. Classy. Yeah. Got to look classy.

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Let's get a song in here. Yeah, that's awesome, man. All right.
Country songs outlaw. This is our outlaw country radio show.
We bullshit. We also play country music. What would you like to hear, Dean?
Oh, give me something. Wayland. Wayland starts every Monday.
So is that is that the your king of country? Wayland's my go to for old country.
Yeah. Yeah. You know, there's a lot of new guys. Creed. Oh, yeah.

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Creed Fisher is awesome. We saw him at the main stage last year.
I had tickets. I was hunting in Texas. I know you got to get the music. I'll tell that story.
Yeah. Yeah. No, yeah, dude. We we saw him a couple of about a year ago.
Yeah, it was a year ago. I had tickets for the show. I had a table.
He's going to be back in town here in a couple of weeks. Yeah, he's coming back.
I know it's a Thursday. Yeah, we all work. No, we're playing at Family Naturals.

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I know I work at Bombo on that Thursday. Maybe they'll come by and hang out.
I was hunting in Texas. I get a phone call. Creed's in town.
I'm like, get us a table. Oh, yeah.
Closed everything up and immediately drove 23 hours straight through.
Truck takes down halfway. Now it's almost a 30 hour drive.
We get here in time. I shower and go to the show. And now I'm just losing it.

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I'm just dropping dead. I'm so tired. And I'm like getting sick.
I'm like, I can't do this. And I saw a whole group of young Marines going by.
I'm like, you guys got a table or standing? They're like, we're standing, sir.
I'm like, my name's Dean. And now you got a table. Nice.
Two days. So I still haven't seen him.
Oh, yeah. Well, let's play it. Let's play Creed Fisher song.

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I'll do some whaling first.
Lord, it's the same old tune. Fiddling guitar.
Where do we take it from here?

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Rhinestone suits and new shiny cars.
It's been the same way for years.
We need to change.
Somebody told me when I came to Nashville,

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son, you finally got it made. Old Hank made it here.
We're all sure that you will. But I don't think Hank done it this way.
No. I don't think Hank done it this way.
Look at it.

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I've been on the road making one night stand, speeding my young life away.
Tell me one more time just so I'll understand. Are you sure Hank done it this way?
Did old Hank really do it this way?

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Well, I've seen the world with a five-piece band looking at the backside of me.
Singing my songs and what it is now and then. But I don't think Hank done it this way.
I don't think Hank done it this way. Take it off.

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I don't think Hank done it this way.
Whoa. Whoa.

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If I could make a living from walking in the woods,
you can bet I'd be sitting pretty good high on a hill looking at a field downwind.
If I could make a nickel off a turning embass, never worry about the price of gas.

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I'd be wheeling and dealing and sitting there reeling a mill.
Hunting and fishing and loving every day. That's the prayer that a country boy prays.
Thank God he made me this way.
Hunting and fishing and loving every day. Early in the morning, late in the evening.

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I'm getting red and dirt rich and slitter of a paint. Hunting and fishing and loving every day.
I get a little fall upon buzz sound to gravel when I'm backing up.
Pulling the string on a 9.92 stroke. Murphy.

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I love it when my baby wants to roll with me. Throws her boots on, climbs in a tree.
Tucking her hair in my hat and she's ready to go.
We get to hunting and fishing and loving every day. That's the prayer that a country boy prays.

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Hunting and fishing and loving every day. Early in the morning, late in the evening.
So while y'all are up there breathing in that old dirty air, I'll be down here knee deep in the Muckle Lake.

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Hunting and fishing and loving every day. I want to see them tall pine sway.
Y'all close them eyes. Let's go there in our mind.

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Hunting and fishing and loving every day. That's the prayer this country boy prays.
Hunting and fishing and loving every day. Black coffee in the morning, dark whiskey in the evening.

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Won't you come along with me? Won't you come along with me? I know you want to see a hunting and fishing and loving every day.

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Alright. We're back. We're hanging out with Dean from Outlaw BBQ. Hey y'all. And dude, Dean brought us some ribs.
Tell me, this is beef ribs, right? That's Eastern Montana meat. Eastern Montana meat? Yep. Man, that seems good.

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Monster beef ribs with a, it's got a espresso chocolate rub. Oh yeah? It's delicious. Man.
So I want to know what made you start doing barbecue as a gig? Oh man.
I used to own a bigger company and sold it all, got rid of it to come home and just be a dad.
And so that got me into doing it for a business. What got me started into barbecue was I had my kids and then realized my dad wasn't in my life that much.

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We didn't have much to talk about. He was a professional barbecue. That's what he did for a living. Travel around the country and do barbecue.
And so I'm like, I'm going to buy a smoker. So we got something to talk about. And from there it just took off. Very cool.
Yeah. These ribs. Amazing dude. I'm glad you like them.
How long have you been doing it? 28 years. Oh wow. I've been selling here in Ramona for four. Oh yeah.

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Oh that's not that long. No, no. I just, one day I built that little cart that you see me with. Parked down on San Vicente. I had like 60 regulars.
I would text people where I'm going to be, what the menu is, show up on time because it sells out. Nice.
And now I can't text everybody because there's about 3000 people on that list. Right.
I think the first time we ever had Outlaw was smoking cannon. They had the anniversary party last year. Yeah. Yep. Yep.

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Man, I just can tell you, man, thank you dude for sponsoring this show. Oh, you're welcome. I love it.
We wouldn't even be here right now if it weren't for you. You would. Sponsor. I don't know. Sponsor in the Outlaw country show.
It would have remained a concept around the fire pit. Is that where you thought of this? Around the fire pit? Yeah.

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Yeah, we were sitting at I think Red's. Yeah. We were just kind of BSing. Yeah.
And I said, Travis, dude, you need your own show. I know, man. I don't, I was digging it, man. I love this. This is so much fun.
Yeah. Huge heartfelt thanks. I love just hanging out. Yeah, man. Thank you. Yeah, honestly. My pleasure.
He came up and he goes, when's this show going to start? And I go, I don't know. We've got to find a sponsor. And he goes, next week.
I went, okay. And here we are, man. What are we on? Like the 14th or 15th? Yeah, this will be episode 15. 15?

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Season two. Season two? Kirby's going to start demanding vacation pay and benefits. Oh, I got a list. Just wait.
Just wait. Y'all are getting paid? No. That's funny. What are we doing shots of here? What do you got there, sweet curbs?
It's pecan whiskey. It's pretty good. Pecan whiskey? Began. Where'd that come from? Cassie.

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Hey, I'm going to try this. My shot glass has boobies on it. Huge boobs on it. What does it say on it? What does it say on the shot glass?
It says, suck them up. All right, I'm going to do it. You got the best laugh. Is this it? This is the whiskey we're doing? Yeah.
What are you drinking, Dean? Well, I already drank that shot. You already got that? I'm nursing my head.

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Do you need another one, man? We got some gentleman Jack if you need. Well, I've got my outlaw salad going still. Outlaw salad.
I try to stay fit and trim, so I'll probably have another salad. It looks like you got a couple croutons that have melted.
I have some melting water croutons for sure. I'll freshen that. All right, try it. Let me know what you think.
All right, I'm going to try this. Pecan whiskey. Pretty good. That's pretty good. That would be good in coffee.

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That would be good in coffee, actually. Pecan whiskey. I recommend it. Five stars. Or however many stars is a good one.
Ten out of ten whiskey drinkers would recommend. Nine out of ten whiskey drinkers think the tenth whiskey drinker is an idiot.
I know, right? It's like the dentist, right? Nine out of ten dentists approve.

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I want to hear what that one dentist has to say. Right? On those commercials? Why does this guy not approve of this?
Yeah, growing up, I was one of that too. I'm like nine out of ten dentists would recommend it. I'm like, well, what's wrong with the tenth guy?
I want to talk to that tenth guy. He doesn't brush his teeth. He's not a real dentist.
He's got a rotten teeth, god damn. He took the home study course. He did to a lot of school. But he's really inexpensive.

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Right, right. He's like, baking soda. That's what my grandma used. Peroxide. Baking soda.
That's what my grandma used. Baking soda and salt. I was like, oh. Baking soda and Windex. That's all you needed.
Oh, that's like my big, big, big wedding. Windex cures everything. Windex will take care of everything.
That's funny. Oh, man. Good stuff. Oh, shit.

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All right. So music. Let's talk about music. So we have this ongoing thing, man, where all of our guests, we always ask, like, who do you think, you know, king of country, queen of country?
I know everybody knows that it's not, it's not George Stripe. He's not the king of country. In my opinion, it's Hank Williams, Sr., the king of country. Who would yours be, Dean?
I think you're pretty close with it. But there's so many different genres of country and so many styles of country.

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Like, I still love some of the old, you know, original late 40s country. But when you get into Hank Sr., not only did he make it come alive, who was the original punk?
Like, you listen to punk music and look at the lifestyle. Who was the original punk? Yeah, Hank Sr. Hell, yeah.
Hank Sr. started the punk movement too. I see. I knew I liked you, man. Good friend.

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Hank Sr., you know, Waylon, Willie, the hag. If you don't like the hag, you just should live in the United States.
Murl Haggard, come on now. Bakersfield, man. Absolutely. Oh, Dwight. That's a whole different vein of country, you know? That Bakersfield sound, I just saw him.
Oh, did you go? I did. Hell, yeah. Yeah, they just played not too long ago. Yeah, like a couple weeks.

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Where at? Where? In town? No, downtown. Where was that? Sequan? Not Sequan. It's Harris. Harris Rincon. Yeah.
Harris, okay. I knew it was a casino. Yeah. That RFN girl was there too, Victoria. Oh, yeah. The RFN girl.
Did you guys find each other there? I didn't see her. Did you take selfies? No, no. Not a selfie person.
I don't think there's any selfies of me out there. My kids take them just to make fun of me, but that's not a selfie, I guess.

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You don't have any social media? I don't do any social media. No Facebook? No, no, no. I don't advertise my barbecue. Yeah, well, we do. I appreciate that.
Hell, yeah. I have customer Erin Boone. Shout out to her whenever I'm going to cook because I send my menu out to as many people as I can.
And she just posts it and all of a sudden people show up. Yeah. And I sell out. I go home. You know, Michael Dean Goodrich always sends in private message group for the Ramona Music Alliance every Monday.

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I intentionally send it to him. Yeah. And I'll be there this Monday. Okay, cool. Yeah, he always shares it throughout the group so everybody knows.
And then there's always those people that want like vegan stuff. And I'm like, what? It's barbecue.
I do a lot of vegetarian, gluten free, sugar free. So whenever I send that to Michael, I'll say if there's a vegetarian request, let me know and I'll do the chili reno bake or all that chili reno bake.

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Yeah, so not this week, but the next time I'm at Red's, which is the following week, I'm going to do because it's so hot spring rolls. I love Asian food. So I'm going to do my version on all different spring rolls.
That sounds delicious. So you brought us some East Montana ribs. East Montana meat ribs. These are so good.

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That's from, so we don't, we're just a farm now. We don't ranch anymore. But all the neighbors do. So I brought back a whole bunch of beef. We have 16,000 acres out there that's in the bloodline in the family that my fifth great grandfather homesteaded.
He was a mountain man, a guy in a trapper on the flathead. And when Montana became a state, he came down to Missoula and they started giving away land to married couples that would stay on it and prove the land.

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So he married a 15 year old blackfoot girl and they headed west and they must have broke down or I don't know ran out of some shit. He said, let's just stop here in the middle of the prairie with not a fucking thing around.
We're going to live here. You know what's funny is I fly all over the country and I'm all over the Midwest and I go to all these different places and I always ask the same question. I'm like, why are they here? There's nothing here. And now I know it's probably because they were trying to get somewhere else.

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They broke down. They broke down. Axle broke on the wagon. Yeah. They realized they were almost in North Dakota. They were running out of Montana so they had to stop. But there's good and bad about it. I was just home and I didn't want to come back.
There's nothing like it. I mean, I'm driving through Lindsay. Lindsay would be the closest town to our ranch and that's 17 miles of dirt road. Population 26. 26. There's a gas pump there. And so I went in to get gas and I'm like, I'm going to get gas on, well, there's only one. Number one.

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Number one. He goes, oh, just pump it and leave the cash on the counter however much you get. Wow. That's awesome. And then I noticed that what used to be like a post office, but it wasn't. It had a little cooler with ice cream goodies and some cold beers and your mail was just in a pile in the corner and rubber band together by the family.
So if you were into town, you'd grab the Gavin's and the Bastas mail. Just bring it here. You have to drive all the way to town. But one of the local ranchers started a little bar restaurant there. So I went over in the morning and he's like, I don't know you. I'm like, I don't know you. I haven't been here since I moved here in 86 planning to join the Marine Corps.

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But we sat and just bullshit for a while. And I'm like, yeah, I'll have a coffee. And he goes, yeah, well, the coffee you want, buddy. It's on the house. Everybody's so different and there's no trash. Every exit on the main road, every rest stop, there's no trash. There's no graffiti. People are friendly.
Yeah. So you're a Marine? You're a Marine?
No, I got, oh man. I moved here in 10 years. I wanted to be a recon Marine.
If I may, let's do a, I got a cool grilling and chilling song.

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Cool.
Let's play a song. You're going to bring us some more food to taste.
All right.
And then I want to hear the story about how I'm not a Marine.
Marine.

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Got a list on a fridge, almost gave it a damn. Finally made up my mind. So here I am just grilling and chilling. My favorite kind of time killing. No running, just sunning. And get my fair share of fun in.

(25:25):
Got it made in the shade with a radio playing some strikes, singing, oh, Dean Dillon. And trying to keep my beer from spilling and grilling and chilling.

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I got some chicken and beans, got some corn on the cob, a cold cooler, a beer. Let me pop you a top. No, you don't need a thing. No reason to call. Just drop on in. We'll have a ball just grilling and chilling. My favorite kind of time killing.

(26:15):
No running, just sunning. And get my fair share of fun in. Got it made in the shade with a radio playing some strikes, singing, oh, Dean Dillon. And trying to keep my beer from spilling and grilling and chilling.

(26:44):
When it's been a long week and I'm dead on my feet and I don't want to worry about work anymore. You'll find me out there, laid back in my chair, just thanking the Lord.
For grilling and chilling. My favorite kind of time killing. No running, just sunning. And get my fair share of fun in.

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Got it made in the shade with a radio playing some strikes, singing, oh, Dean Dillon. And trying to keep my beer from spilling and grilling and chilling.

(27:48):
I got my toes in the water, ass in the sand. Not a worry in a world of cold beer in my hand.

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Life is good today. Life is good today.
Well, the plane touched down just about three o'clock and the city's still on my mind.
Bikinis and palm trees danced in my head. I was still in the baggage line.

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Concrete cars on their own prison bars like this life I'm living in. But the plane brought me farther. I'm surrounded by water and I'm not going back again.
I got my toes in the water, ass in the sand. Not a worry in a world of cold beer in my hand. Life is good today. Life is good today.

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Adios en vial con Dios. Yeah, I'm leaving G.A.
And if it weren't for tequila and pretty señoritas, I'd have no reason to stay.
Adios en vial con Dios. Yeah, I'm leaving G.A.

(29:30):
Gonna lay in the hot sun and roll a big fat one and grab my guitar and play.
Four days flew by like a drunk Friday night as the summer trued to an end. They can't believe that I just couldn't leave and I better do to my friends.

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My bartender, she's from the islands. Her body's been kissed by the sun. Coconut replaces the smell of the bar and I don't know if it's her or the rum.
I got my toes in the water, ass in the sand. Not a worry in a world of cold beer in my hand. Life is good today. Life is good today.

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Adios en vial con Dios. A long way from G.A.
Yes, and all the muchachas, they call me Big Papa when I throw pesos that way.
Adios en vial con Dios. A long way from G.A.

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Someone do me a favor and pour me some Jager and I'll grab my guitar and play.

(31:20):
Adios en vial con Dios. Going home now to stay. The señoritas don't care when there's no dinero. I got no money to stay.
Adios en vial con Dios. Going home now to stay. Just gonna pop up by the lake and put my ass in a lawn chair, toes in the clay.

(31:52):
Not a worry in a world of PBR on the way. Life is good today. Life is good today.
I love that song, man. Did you just do the brrrr thing? I just did it.

(32:15):
Oh man, so, all right, Dean, you brought us some more food. We're here with Dean. Outlaw BBQ. God dang it. What are these sausage things you brought?
These are hot dogs. Two more hot dogs, homemade, all beef, none of the crappy parts, all true beef hot dogs, natural casings.
And that's Eastern Montana meat also. So I made one just ketchup and mustard there so you can, you know, taste the wiener. And the other one is a taco dog.

(32:38):
Taste the wiener, sweet girl. The taco dog is very good.
I've never heard or seen a taco dog and that thing looks really rad.
You know what that is? There's probably not another one ever made.
But for those that are just listening, describe it for us because...
Well, so it's a seated bun and it is the homemade wiener and then you've got lettuce and tomato and salsa. And I normally would put a pureed bean with salsa on the bottom.

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So here's the story on that taco dog. I wasn't planning on making that. We were going to do a taco pizza tonight, you know, prevalent in every Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota pizza place.
Pizza Hut had a taco pizza. Totino's, little frozen thing. Their biggest selling pizza was their little taco pizza. They're kick ass and I'll make that next time.
But so I went to get the pizza made over at Jessica Rabbit's, my buddy, and I walked in and she goes, nope, they were just too busy.

(33:27):
So I took the pizza toppings that I was going to make the pizza out of and made the taco dog. Just made that today.
It's delicious. I like how you call her Jessica Rabbit. We're talking about Jessica Frankenberger.
She raises rabbits. She's awesome. She raises rabbits, but she also runs the pizza place at Ramona.
She raises a little bit of everything, doesn't she? Yep. Yeah.

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Well, man, I gotta tell you, that was the best wiener I've ever had. Couldn't even say it with a straight face.
It wasn't too small, too big. No, that was good, man. That was a perfect wiener. You enjoyed that in your mouth.
So what's the difference between a sausage and a wiener? Like what makes the difference?
Was that a, so you said it was, what did you say? Stop playing with the wiener.
Naturally. It's a natural casing in there, but I think the difference between a hot dog and a sausage is the grind of the meat.

(34:17):
And I'm not a hot dog professional at all. I make my own sausages. You all know that. I hunt most of the meat that I make my sausages out of.
And when you make a hot dog, it's like a pureed meat. It's just disgusting. And then you shoot it in the tube and there's your wiener.
But with the sausages, I do a rougher grind and a little more fat because that fat renders out inside the sausage.
And that's the key to sausage. You got to cook them just right. Otherwise you dry up all that fat and nasty.

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Monday, I'll be doing double smoked sausages, homemade wieners, brats, brisket, beef ribs, two different styles.
I'll do the coffee rub you just had. And I'm going to do a Korean style with gochujang and lemongrass. Nice. Yum. They're pretty good.
And that those ribs are actually coming from Ramona family naturals. Oh, wow. Oh, yeah. So I got a rack of ribs from Victoria there. Oh, yeah. All organic. All organic.

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Grass fed. The yellow set of white. Oh, yeah. Fantastic. We love our Ramona family naturals. Such a great place. Great store.
In fact, that's where the lettuce and tomato and oh, yeah, I try to buy as many of my ingredients and support her as much as I can. Yeah, yeah. Me too. We go there all the time.
She has music now on Sundays. Like I've seen you on Thursdays. Well, we play there Thursday.

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And she had something going on a Friday or so ago. Live music there. Oh, yeah. The band was really good. Yeah, really good.
All right. Before we went to break, though, you were going to explain to us why you're not a Marine Marine. Oh, boy. Can't believe you got this story out of me. So let's hear it. I'm doing a shot first.
One of my titty shot. One way ticket come to California. My only goal. I've had two goals in life that haven't achieved one. Stay married to the same one my whole life. That didn't work out and be a recon Marine.

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So I get here and we're doing the whole thing and he goes, you ever had any major surgeries? No surgeries. But I'm being a smart ass. I'm like, I got thrown off a bull onto a fence post one time. A T-post ripped my back in half.
What he's like, Pack up your shit, son. You'll never be a Marine.
Wait, that when you hear that story. That's the end of me being a Marine. So I call my mom. I'm like, Mom, I don't know what to do. I got 300 bucks. You know, I'm in boots and jeans and pearl snaps.

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And she's like, Well, go to college. I'm like, Oh, hell no. Oh, God. She goes, I found a college. Would you just go see it? It's my mom. So I'm like, Of course, Mom, whatever you ask.
So I go to Long Beach. I'm doing the tour of the campus and the lady must have guessed I was straight because one of the facts she threw out me was if you come to school here, there will be six straight guys for 400 women.
I'm like, Oh, hell yeah. By the way, what do we do here? She's like, Well, you got choices. You can go in this or this or that. I'm like, All right. What's that girl doing? I believe she's first year interior design. I'm like, I'll be a fucking interior design.

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I have a degree in interior design. That's awesome. You have a degree in interior design. You got a degree in interior design. And you made mom happy. You went to college. Yep. Went to college. Got that silly degree.
All right. So so so you used to write bulls you got bumped up. No, this is this is playing in in in the corral. Gramps like don't get on that one. Okay, tumble tumble. And there I go. And I'm like, Yeah, damn. See now, Travis, last week, you said you wanted to try bull riding. I want to ride a bull. I totally do it. Let's do it. It'd be fun. Let's do it. I'm totally down to do it. I want to try. We may die but I know. What a great way to go out. What a great way to go out. Right? Yeah. See.

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Man. Cheers, dude. I don't know how I feel about that. So it carries you want to ride a bull. You know, the worst part, Travis, you probably wouldn't kill yourself. You wouldn't end up with a little minor injury. She would end up having to take care of your dumb ass. I know. That's what it'd be. Wiping the corral off your chin. Son of a bitch. Had to write that down. But what you did. See, but you got to think of it like surgeons where they can't mess up their hands. You got to keep your hands nice so you can play. I'm like that too because I got to play guitar. If I don't. Well, if you ride a bull, you might not die. But maybe you should. Yeah. I'm like that too because I got to play guitar. If I don't. Well, if you ride a bull, you might not die. But maybe you should. Yeah. I'm like that too because I got to play guitar. If I

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don't. Well, if you ride a bull, you might not die. But maybe you should just look for some yearlings or something. Just a little calves. We can do it with a mechanical bull. We can do sheep. Mutton busting. Mutton busting. So when I used to live in Poway and we'd go to the Poway Rodeo, you put all my kids in mutton busting when they're little. And I'm like, oh, I'm going to train you now. So we started working out for it. So I put them on my back. I'm like, yeah, I'm bucking through the house. I'm like, no, don't sit up. I said bend over, put your head right next to my head and wrap your arms around and grab underneath my neck. And I bucked around the house.

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I'm like, I'm going to do a little shitty little hats and boots and shit. They did pretty good. I'll let you ride a sheep. A sheep? I don't even want to see that. You can ride a mechanical bull. I have. I've ridden a couple of mechanical bulls. I remember where I was. I was in Bakersfield actually. It was called the Cowboy Bar. Yeah. Seems appropriate. Cowboy Bar in Bakersfield. It's a pretty famous place, I think. I rode a mechanical bull at the Poway bowling alley. Yeah. Sadly, that's gone. The Poway bowling alley? Yeah. Yeah, that was cool.

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These guys mess with girls on the bowl though. Yeah, they make their asses jigged. Yeah, the boobs go. They make the back of it go pow pow pow pow pow pow pow. I've heard your old videos about that. I don't know. I've never sat and watched them for hours. If you ever watch a twerking how to video, it usually starts with that. Same thing. Cowgirl thing originally. It was like cowgirl. I rode the Bull at Gillies. Oh yeah, the second Gillies. I remember a story my dad said he went to the original Gillies and then I had a showroom in Dallas with my other company.

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in my other life. And one day after work, I'm at the other
Gillies. And it's not in Dallas, but it's close enough. I drove
to I don't remember where it's at even riding that bull and
having some beers and you just meet the nicest people when
you're drunk. So I met a whole group of nice people down there
and ended up spending several days in Tyler, Texas. Oh my
god, ranch, shooting, bullshitting and barbecue.

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Man, have you ever been to a place called? It's a it's a
barbecue place in Austin, Texas. Oh, damn it. What's it
called Salt Lake or Franklin Lake? That's what it was. I
saw like many, many times. Yeah. Yeah. So there's two salt
lakes. I've been to the original salt lake where they're still
cooking on the original pits. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And I actually
cooked there. Oh, yeah. And that salt lake they've got it's

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like bring your own booze. Yeah, yeah. It's be wild be
remember that. So I was out there on a work trip. It was me
couple of dudes I work with. And they were like, yeah, be wild
be and we're like, what? What is it? What is it? We're gonna
bring on beer like so yeah, it's all outside all like
picnic, you know, outside they had a band playing and
everything. Pretty cool place. And they had that huge frickin
like pit of all the meats that they had the sausages. Yep.

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Freaking Yeah, the only things I didn't like about that. And it
happens a lot in what depending what part of Texas you're in
because that was a lot of Eastern Europeans that settled
there. A lot of their sauces are more like chutney. Oh, yeah. And
I don't care what barbecue restaurant at least I haven't
found one and I've traveled extensively through Texas, they
spend a lot of time there and every barbecue restaurant I've
been to the side suck. They're terrible. It's like open a number

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10 can of green beans. There's your side. So when I started
doing this, I'm like, I gotta have bitching sides. So y'all
have had my cornbread. Oh, man, that cork with a whole bunch of
bourbon in it. Yeah, bourbon. Yeah, it's almost like your
cornbread is frickin crazy. I had a lady last week at the park
who was from Texas and I did ribs and she came back and I
did brisket too. And she's like, well, I'm going to try this and

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that I got brisket too. It always sells out fast. You can
see I'm from Texas. I'm not gonna try your brisket.
Oh, and I was like, well, you know, I'm just learning. So
maybe could I give you a free plate and just give me some
pointers. Yeah, 20 minutes later, she comes back. She goes,
how much brisket you got left?
Like, look at that. I was hunting in Texas the last time.

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And so when I used to own my company, I had a showroom in in
Austin. And after work, I meet with my reps and I go out to
this little tiny bar to get a bite to eat. There's only me and
one of the guy at the other end of the bar and I'm watching a
baseball game. And I'm like, Hey, dude, you want to split a
pitcher of Coors light save some money. He's like, yeah, slides
down. We drank about 10 more. He called in sick the next day and
took me hunting had his buddies calling sick. They all came over

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put on a big barbecue. And that's the ranch I hunt in Texas.
We've been friends for like 15 years. Crazy. Yeah, Randy card
brother. I love you.
Oh, yeah, man. Shout out to that dude.
Oh, it's a badass thing. I mean, I rolled down there and we hit
the ranch and it's their family ranch, but they don't ranch it
anymore. It's just a hunting grounds. Oh, yeah. And hogs
everywhere. So you can like go there and like pay him. Be like,

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we're not you but like somebody like me or nobody. No, no, no,
not a chance. All right. Let me know when you're going to get
them want to go. But each time I go, I want to take one person.
So the last time I was there, he had some of his buddies over
and one of them owned the barbecue place in town. And so
I always I always bring like a gift for the family. And I cook
all the food. So I made brisket. And I'm sitting there. I'm like,

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you know, it's kind of ballsy. I'm making brisket in Texas. But
so there was this one guy, I didn't get to hunt with him. But
then he comes back and he gets a plate of brisket. He's like,
where'd you get this? This isn't from my restaurant. I'm like,
dude, I don't even know you. He's like, well, that's not my
brisket and walks away. So I got a ring. Who is this guy goes? Oh,
he owns the really popular brisket restaurant in town. Oh,
yeah. So we had a little bit in a stand the next day. And we're

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sitting there talking. He goes, I gotta tell you something.
Don't you tell anybody this goes that's better than my brisket.
But those guys have restaurants, you know, I'm not brick and
mortar. So I can take a long time and double smoke it and you
know, make fancy rubs and but I don't do fancy rubs on brisket.
I'm just straight up garlic powder, salt, black pepper. Oh,
yeah. And then it's all just how you treat it when you wrap it

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and what you do. I was at a barbecue restaurant. I don't
know where I was at somewhere in the country. And they had one of
those they take those propane tanks and they lay it on their
side. They're like 30 feet long, right? They do these massive
brisket runs all day long on this stuff. It was very
interesting. I mean, you have to educate me on this because
these brisket masters know the heat and know the movement of

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the heat so well in there that they've got this toolbox of two
by fours and four by fours and certain sprays and everything.
They are they are artists. When you can make a brisket like you
that that is a science. It is an art form to manage the
temperature and how it moves across the meat. And it's just
it's an amazing thing to watch. You got another smoker. So I

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have 13 different smokers and I use different smokers for
different meats and different size smokers because they cook
different they cook faster, they cook slower, more smoke less
smoke. And so I've got mine tuned like I don't even need a
thermometer anymore. I put my brisket on and I still keep a
journal. I know what time I put it on. I know how many pounds
that brisket was. I know how much fat I trimmed off of it. I
can go out and look at it and go Oh, that's gonna another six

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hours. I go out and just poke it once ago. Yep, that's done.
Wow. Yeah, it is amazing. It's actually super easy once you
just, you know, do it a couple hundred times. Yeah.
Just a couple hundred. So let's play another song. We come back.
You got some more food for us to try. That's all I brought.
That's okay. That's all right. All right. Nobody's nobody's
playing now. Time to leave. No, no, no, no, no, no. We've got a

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couple of very important housekeeping items we have to
tend to with you. So what do you want to play? What music? How
about some Creed Fisher? Oh, yeah. We got to do. Yeah, you
want to sing along? Yeah, we can sing along. Don't threaten me
with a good time. I want to sing along. Yeah, I want to sing
along. Don't threaten me with a good time. I want to sing along.

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Man, how are you? How are you going to drink over there? Good.
I should be thin by now because that's my second salad for
dinner.

(45:59):
Swimmers going round all around town. You've been talking shit.
Say I can't play and you say I can't sing. Yeah, my songs,
they won't be hits. I've never been a violent man. I'd rather
be drinking beer. But that's a name granddaddy gave me. And

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let me make it clear. You're gonna shut your mouth or say it
to my face. I'm gonna use your ass like a broom to sweep this
place. Go on and call up your friends. You better bring a few.

(46:45):
I come from a different time. When the men were all old school.
I've seen your kind a thousand times. Baby-faced and cute. No

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calluses on your hands. No scuffs upon your boots. You
probably think the holler is a rap song in your car. You don't
know the first damn thing about playing these smoky bars. You're
gonna shut your mouth or say it to my face. I'm gonna use your

(47:37):
ass like a broom to sweep this place. Go on and call up your
friends. You better bring a few.
Cause I come from a different time. When the men were all old

(47:57):
school.
I don't care if you don't speak your mind son. You got
something to say. All I ask you stand up and grow some balls
and say it to my face.

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Cause if I keep hearing whispers son. You're still talking shit.
You're gonna hold me gas money to get back over here and it's
gonna be talk shit get hit.
You're gonna shut your mouth or say it to my face. I'm gonna use

(48:39):
your ass like a broom to sweep this place. Go on and call up
your friends. You better bring a few.
Cause I come from a different time. When the men were all old

(49:00):
school.
Cause my grand daddy sure was old school.
What's up with you son?

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It's talk shit get hit.
What's that? I don't hear nothing.
That's what I thought.

(49:58):
I'm waiting.
I'm gonna work today. Just wanna sit around and play. Gonna

(50:32):
hit balls off the dock. Kick back in my flip flops. Don't own
nothing to the lender. Nothing spinning in the blender. The
agenda is beers and sunshine.
In summertime.
Ain't nothing.

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No.
Don't know how to fix it but I think maybe turn on the good
times. Turn off the TV. Yeah they only be as I need. As beers and sunshine.

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Gonna call my girl and say let's get our friends and hit the lake.
Grab a boat and get to floating. A little buzz and a little toasted.
We're gonna hang and have a little fun now. Flying high like we'll never come
down. We're gonna go until we run out.

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Beers and sunshine.
Back porch nights in South Carolina.
Ain't nothing finer than me. My girl's talking up a little louder.
Everybody's down. You know we're going crazy. Don't know how to fix it
but I think maybe turn on the good times. Turn off the TV. Yeah they only be as I need. As beers and sunshine.

(52:10):
As beers and sunshine.
As beers and sunshine.
Board fires in summertime.
Back porch nights in South Carolina. Ain't nothing finer than me. My girl's talking up a little louder.
Everybody's down. You know we're going crazy. Don't know how to fix it but I think maybe turn on the good times. Turn off the TV. Yeah they only be as I need. As beers and sunshine.

(52:43):
Oh, beers and sunshine.
Oh, beers and sunshine. Board fires in summertime.
Time, time.

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Alright we're back. We got Dean at La Barbecue hanging out with us today. Dwendal plate of food in front of us. This is huge. You should see this in the studio.
I'll have to bring more next time.
You gotta give me some ideas what you want next time.
We got huge ribs. We look like we're in the Flintstones right here. Look at that.

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It's funny. We're gonna do them again tomorrow. Can the dog eat the ribs? The bones? Can dogs eat cattle bones? I think so.
They said just not chicken because it splinters. Yeah you should give them a cattle bone.
Well you can give them raw chicken and they can eat and then it doesn't worry about that. If it's cooked chicken I think they choke on the bone.
Chance. Give Chance a bone.

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He's a studio dog. This is Chance. Oh my gosh look at him. He's so cute.
Gimme gimme gimme gimme. He's all into it too. Living his best life. Oh man. He's a fan of my ribs.
Alright so Dean, rumor has it that you don't try any of your own food. I don't eat a lot of barbecue. No? Look at me dude.

(54:15):
My go to for barbecue, I love beef ribs. Beef ribs yeah. I like brisket. That's about it. I'm a big fan of my sides. Like carrots and ginger butter and honey and the bourbon vanilla cornbread.
The tally mac. Dude your tally macs. I like your noodles and the dill butter. That's good too. My grandmother used to make that for us when we were kids. It's simple.

(54:38):
It's some shitty noodles and you throw too much butter in there that will kill you. The difference is I make a homemade chicken stock and then I throw in some fresh dill to it.
That's really good. People just eat it up. So good. The cornbread is my number one side. That bourbon vanilla cornbread.
We got the dog over there eating bones. Sometimes you make jalapenos and those are pretty good too. Stuffed jalapenos but I only make those when I can find double jumbo jalapenos.

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Because I charge three bucks a piece. So you got to get a bunch. So someone told me because Dean's always trying to out spice me. So I bought this salsa from this woman and she said the beat up jalapenos, the ones that look brown and like kind of like maybe like they're bad are the best ones for spiciness.
Interesting. Is that right? That's what she, I don't know. That's what she said she uses to make her salsa. Interesting. Like they're just older or they're bruised or what? Yeah I don't know. She said the ones that look yeah like bruised like they'll have brown spots on them and.

(55:30):
I'm going to go home and abuse my jalapenos. The ones that look like they're usually the spicier ones. Go spike that jalapeno. We'll see how that works.
Stuffed jalapenos are good though. Those are, so those are jumbo jalapenos. They make a sweet corn cake and mix it with Philadelphia cream cheese. Refrigerate it. Take most of the seeds out. Unless I make it for you I leave the seeds in. And then stuff that. Wrap it in thick bacon and smoke it over a mesquite. So good.

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I'm telling you right now anything wrapped in bacon. Oh I agree. Yeah. I agree. I've had ugly girls. I'm like I'm just wrapping you in bacon.
The best part of those jalapenos is the next day. If you've never made the jalapeno sandwich the next day so buy an extra. Refrigerate it. The next morning you cut it in quarter inch slices. Put some eggs in your skillet. Start to scramble them up like you're going to make an omelet and roll it over.

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So I lay out four pieces of jalapeno and then I'll flap the egg over it and then a piece of either Swiss or provolone and put that on an everything bagel.
That sounds very good. Everything bagels. Those are amazing. Yep. What's it like to be your neighbor? They always smell good. Yeah. You barbecue them all the time. They can smell it all the time. All the time. Yeah.

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It's freaking California. You don't know your neighbors like back home. It's just different. I know everybody's first names right around me and I've got some great neighbors. Steve and his wife across the street and Brian and his wife across the street.
If I have leftovers I'll drop it off. I've got a whole group of people that if I ever have leftovers I'll go drop it off. Like Smokey Cannon Brewery. Oh yeah. I love walking in and feeding them. I don't think I've bought a cocktail in this town for a couple years.

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Here's the other cool thing about Dean. He is at his stand wherever he's set up cash only and if people don't know that I've seen this man. Oh that's okay. Get me next time. I'll be here tomorrow or I'll be over here on Tuesday. Just come pay me back then. Here's your food.
I had a guy walk into Reds. When were we there? I wasn't cooking. It was last Monday and I'm sitting in back by the fire pit with Clarence and this kid walks in and he's pointing at me and I look behind me. I'm like what the hell is this kid pointing at me for?

(57:35):
And now he walks up to me and he hands me 20 bucks. He goes man I've owed you this for like a year. Oh damn. No way. Oh wow. I wouldn't remember but that's one thing. Oh I remember that. I was sitting next to you. Yeah. If you ever see me and don't have cash stop get food. You'll see me around. Pay me another day. That's awesome dude. That's why I love this town man. I love Ramona. Absolutely. That's all. It's got some similarities to my small town Montana. Like we would raise the best potatoes and sweet corn. If you've never had peaches and cream sweet corn you need to take a vacation and go get it. Oh good. But we would. Peaches and cream sweet corn?

(58:04):
Highest sugar content corn there is. It was developed on the western slopes of Colorado. Okay. Oh and speaking of that I'm going to bring back a case of peaches from Colorado. You've never had peaches like this. It's ridiculous. Nice. But you're going to make some like dessert like peach cobbler or something? You don't even need to put a dessert. They're a dessert. Oh yeah. Just a peach? Yeah. I love peaches. They're ridiculous. I could eat peach for hours. They're famous. People drive from states around. That's the creepiest line in a movie ever. What movie is that from? Face Off. Yeah. You want to try it?

(58:34):
Damn it. I always win. I know. So she won last week and the what it so we put this thing out on social media where I get a reward. What are the what are the what were the things Eric? On the short list was dyeing your beard. So dyeing my beard. I think that sounds like a great idea. Yeah. So it just so happens I have access to a wide variety of colors for hair. So let me recap what people said. So here's here's what some of the submissions and then we

(59:04):
want to get Dean's feedback. So normally we punish somebody for losing right. But last week we decided we should reward somebody for winning and then we gave it to the world. Right. Well you'll still get punished for losing because you're going to dye my beard. So here's so here here are some of the suggestions. So Travis does a chore of Kirby's choosing every day for a week. Well I do that every day. You better get out of here. Somebody said you should do a town hall serenade to Kirby.

(59:34):
So just on the front porch front stairs right there on the front steps. OK. All songs all sweet curbs. What song do you want me to sing for you those sweet curbs. If I was to do that that would be the if that was the vote. What would you like to hear. Shitty die bar. No. That'd be what song you'd like to play. What's what's what song would you like me to play. I don't know. I would have to think about it. Oh yeah. Because that would be one of those once in a lifetime things. That'd be kind of cool. We definitely have to video that. And then one of our esteemed local photographers.

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Came up with a great idea of Kirby gets to die TBR's beard any color she likes. Yes. Now she. Now that ended up with the most votes. No way. Really did. Yeah. You have to wear that color till it fades out. I guess I would shave my damn beard.
Well this took him two years to grow. So I don't know if he's willing. But then he's not TBR anymore. I know if I shave this nobody recognizes me.

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So what do you think. What do you think. What do you think Dean. What color.
You're just trying to really embarrass him. The coloring his beard would do it. What about the serenading thing in the town hall. I like that one. I think that would be a cool one. That'd be cool. I mean the most embarrassing thing you're trying to do that would be to make him wear a man bun and color his beard.
I carry an extra sharp Kershaw knife in my truck and I just hope to find one of those little fuckers drunk on the sidewalk. I'm going to cut that man bun off. I'm sorry. Hang him off my mirror. I'm collecting them like a scalp.

(01:01:01):
You're wearing a man bun right now. You're just a fucking idiot.
So OK. So then a man bun a beard coloring and a song. We're just going to combine our song.
I'll sing us. I'll say her name. Just we could sing to you. I like I like how he started to persuade.
That was like the second thing though. The second thing you sing to me all the time. So no I never sing to you. What are you talking about. But is he ever saying to you while you're coloring his beard.

(01:01:26):
No that would be a new one.
And is it justice beard or is it all body here like no just as you're going to match the carpet. What are we doing here. Beard and mustache. No.
Just neck up neck up. OK. Well I don't have any body. Look at me. That's true. That's two years.
I think my son was born with more hair. Yeah that really is in October two years.

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Well maybe cut the salad. We're going to diet. All right. So that's the consensus. That's the winner. So that's the winner.
So Kirby gets to dye your beard and it says any color she likes. All right. So would you rather that or a serenade. I can do that. I think I'm going to dye your beard.
How long does he got to keep that for. It grows out I guess or fades out. So if it's like another five years. A Kool-Aid color. Yeah that's like. It's a commitment. Kool-Aid wears out.

(01:02:21):
Maybe you should like brush up on your music.
Dang stop yelling at me.
We'll make it fun. We'll do like a rainbow babe. No you've got to remember this now Kirby because what if he wins another contest and then he gets to put something on you.
You better get out of here. He's literally tattooed my body. I don't. It's fine. We all tattooed our bodies. We all have the same tattoo. Even Eric. That's like the most permanent thing there is whatever punishment.

(01:02:45):
We all got tattoos and we're not afraid of that stuff. Oh man. All right Dean. Thank you so much dude for feeding us tonight. Man. We'll do it again soon. So good. We had the ribs. We had the hot dogs. It was all delicious. That was amazing.
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1-2. Yeah, hit up. I'm getting booked into 2025 already. Oh, yeah. So hook it up soon if you got an event. Oh, man. I do. Thank you so much for sponsoring the show, man. These past 15 episodes have been awesome. We appreciate you, dude. I appreciate you guys. Everyone of you. Yeah. All right. Let's play some music.

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You can tell your old man you'll do some large mouth fish in another town. You just got too much on your plate to bait and cast a line. You can always put a rain check in his hand. Till you can't.
You can keep putting off forever with that girl whose heart you hold. Swear in that you'll last some day further down the road. You can always put a diamond on her hand. Till you can't.

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If you got a chance, take it. Take it while you got a chance. If you got a dream, chase it. Cause a dream won't chase you back. If you're gonna love somebody, hold on as long and as strong and as close as you can. Till you can.

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There's a box of breezy parts sitting in the trunk of that 65. Still waiting on you and your granddad to bring it back to life. You can always get around to fixing up that Pontiac. Till you can't.

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So take that phone call from your mama and just talk away. Cause you'll never know how bad you wanna. Till you can't someday. Don't wait on tomorrow cause tomorrow may not show.

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Say your sorry's, your I love you's. Cause man you never know. If you got a chance, take it. Take it while you got a chance. If you got a dream, chase it. Cause a dream won't chase you back. If you're gonna love somebody, hold on as long and as strong and as close as you can. Till you can.

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Till you can.

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Yeah.
Thank you.
I got rice cooking in the microwave. Got a three day bed I don't plan to shave. And it's a goofy thing but I just gotta say, hey, I'm doing alright. Yeah, I think I'll make me some homemade soup. I'm feeling pretty good and that's the truth.

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It's neither drink nor drug induced. No, I'm just doing alright. And it's a great day to be alive. I know the sun's still shining when I close my eyes. There's some hard times in the neighborhood. But why can't every day be just this good?

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Oh, oh, oh.
It's been 15 years since I left home. Said good luck to every seed I'd sown. Give it my best and then I left it alone. I hope they're doing alright. Now I look in the mirror and what do I see? A long wolf there staring back at me.

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Long in the tooth but harmless as can be. Lord, I guess he's doing alright. And it's a great day to be alive. I know the sun's still shining when I close my eyes. There's some hard times in the neighborhood. But why can't every day be just this good?

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Oh, oh, oh. Sometimes it's lonely. Sometimes it's only me and the shadows that fill this room.
Sometimes I'm falling, desperately calling, howling at the moon. I lose.

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Oh, oh, oh.

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Well, I might go get me a new tattoo. I'll take my old Harley for a three day cruise. Might even grow me a full man chew.
And it's a great day to be alive. I know the sun's still shining when I close my eyes. There's some hard times in the neighborhood. But why can't every day be just this good?

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Oh, oh, oh.
Sometimes it's lonely. Sometimes it's just this good.

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Oh, oh, oh.

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Well, I've heard those city singers singing about how they can love deeper than the oceans, higher than the stars above.
Well, I come from the country and I know I ain't seen it all. But I heard that ocean's salty and the stars they sometimes fall.

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And that would not do justice to the way I feel for you. So I had to sing a song about all the things I knew. My love is deeper than the holler, stronger than the river.

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Higher than the pine trees growing tall upon the hill. My love is purer than the snowflakes that fall in late December.
And honest as a robin on a springtime windowsill. And longer than the song of a whippoorwim.

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From the back roads to the Broadway shows with a million miles between. There's at least a million love songs that people love to sing.
And everyone is different. And everyone's the same. And this is just another way of saying the same thing.

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My love is deeper than the holler, stronger than the river. Higher than the pine trees growing tall upon the hill. My love is purer than the snowflakes that fall in late December.

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And honest as a robin on a springtime windowsill. And longer than the song of a whippoorwim.

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My love is deeper than the holler, stronger than the river. Higher than the pine trees growing tall upon the hill.
My love is purer than the snowflakes that fall in late December. And honest as a robin on a springtime windowsill. And longer than the song of a whippoorwim.

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A whippoorwim. A whippoorwim.
Oh man, what a great song. Longer than the song of a whippoorwim.

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I love Randy Travis. He would be at the My Short List for King of Country, one of them.
Randy Travis? Yeah. Alright, so we're back. Man, we were just hanging out with Dean, Outlaw BBQ guy. Love that guy. That was so good, dude.
And then we also, now we have another guest. I'm going into segment two very full. We have a new, I know I'm full.
We have a new guest, y'all. It's the keyboard player and lead guitar player for a band called Dirty Confetti. We've got Ian Ross with us hanging out.

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No relation. No relation. Maybe, who knows? Who knows? Maybe, who knows? How's it going, man?
It's going well. It's going well.
Alright, so we've got, oh man, Ramona Family Naturals. They were hanging out with us right now. They're listening. Yeah, she's out there.

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Rumor has it, we have a new sponsor. We have a new sponsor. Ramona Family Naturals. Victoria. Big thank you. Big shout out.
Thank you, Miss Bradley. Yes. Oh, look at her. Oh, that was magic. How do we do that one?
We're going to have every time, every time you mention her name, she'll get a kick out of it.
That's appropriate because you know what that reminds me of? I don't know why, but the game show, Supermarket Sweep.

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Yeah, yeah. Alright, we'll do it live. Let's hear that one. Victoria.
Victoria. We'll do it live. Do it live. I can all write it and we'll do it live.
Fucking thing sucks. This thing sucks.
Man, dude, alright, so Ian is the lead guitar and keyboard player for my band, Dirty Confetti. Yes, sir.

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And we always joke around when we're on stage when we mess something up. We'll do it live.
Classic bit at this point.
Dude, man, good hanging out with you, dude. Yeah, always.
So you know the thing here. We always talk about who you might think the king of country might be.
And it's not George Strait. Yeah, it's always somebody else. We know that. It's always somebody else.

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It's always somebody other than George Strait. I keep my tongue bare. What's your influence, man?
So I love a lot of country guys, a lot of guys, a lot of people know.
But I'm a younger guy, so I get that generation of Spotify always auto recommending you stuff.
And I'm obsessed with this guy called Nat Stuckey. Nat Stuckey is kind of contemporary of a lot of other guys.

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But sounds a lot like Waylon. Very similar. Is it new? No, no, no, no, no.
Like 70s or not a lot of people know him, but he has these just silly ass little songs. He's from the 70s? Yeah.
Like same... That's Nat Stuckey. Sounds very similar to Waylon.
Oh, dude, that sounds killer. Killer. But Nat's hilarious. He has some songs. He has some really...

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I feel like got kind of a cult popularity from that kind of...
You know, people go into country, old country music, and there's a lot of stuff about...
You know, I cheated on my baby. I was hanging out with a woman at the bar.
And he has a really funny one about being at a bar. He doesn't recognize the time.
But I really dig guys like that that were really competing, but they never quite got there.

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Because there's some dudes that are like, I'm just going to go for the whole Waylon thing.
And they try being Waylon completely. And it's like, you just sound like Waylon.
But there's other guys that are like, wow, you are trying to sound like somebody, but you're clearly yourself.
And he's kind of one of the... I love Nat. My buddy and I just are obsessed.
There's a couple of albums that are hilarious, but he has one about...
About going to... He's heading on the way home, meets a girl at a bar, and he ends up talking to her, offers her a drink.

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She's crying. And he's like, I got caught up there until four in the morning, and I realized I hadn't called my wife.
And he's giving you a way out of that situation. And in the song, he's like, here's what I told her in an effort to save my life.
And he goes, don't pay the ransom, honey, I've escaped.

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Considering what I've been through, I'm in good shape.
My wrists and ankles are a little sore from the tape.
How do you not pay the ransom? But stuff like that. I mean, you know, popular guys that really dig.
I love Albert Lee, but it's always these weirdos.
Albert Lee? Oh yeah, from Heads, Hands and Feet. All those guys. Amy Lou Harris, all those guys.

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Dang, dude. British weirdo.
Man, you said you were young. I don't want to ask you how old you are, but maybe, I don't know, how old are you?
78 years old. No, I'm 22 years old.
He's 78. No.
22 whole, some years.
22 whole years, man. And you know a lot of good old country music.
Oh yeah, when I was about 15, I heard, oh shit, who was it, Chris?

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Chris LaDue?
No.
The guy from the Birds. Oh my goodness gracious.
The Flying Burrito Brothers. I heard the Flying Burrito Brothers when I was like 14, 15.
They say the burritos.
I thought that was David Allen Cole. Wasn't that David Allen Cole?
But he's writing about that band. That's what he's saying.
I heard the burritos out in California.

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That one, okay.
Because we were in LA Country Band, it had a bunch of classic guys, but it had a...
Roger McGuinn had a 12 string guitar.
It was like nothing I'd ever heard.
Yeah, no, but I heard those guys when I was really young, and it warped my brain very heavily.

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And I got kind of, I'm like, wait, these guys are from LA? This sounds like Texas kind of country music.
Flying Burrito Brothers. And I was like, shoot, I'm going to start doing stuff like that because that sounds pretty good.
And I mentioned that to a couple of my friends, another 20, 22 year olds.
And they were like, mind blown. They're like, who are these guys?
And they started going down the rabbit hole.
Now I have a whole friend group that rides like Harley's and stuff.

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And they're like, man, I love Flying Burrito Brothers. Yeah, brother.
I'm like, I don't...
Yeah, brother.
Literally, it's hilarious.
Because it was like these kids are like, I want to ride motorcycles.
I'm like, hey, have you ever heard of this band? And they're like, no, I haven't.
And then word spreads and they're like, man, you ever heard of this band?

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I'm like, yeah, I told you about that band.
That's all I listened to on my bike, man.
I told you about that.
That's great. Like a bunch of 27 year olds. And they're so nice.
They're not like, hey, I know this band. You don't.
They're like, man, thank you so much.
Hey, do you know anybody else who's older that likes riding?
Yeah, I know.
They're like, do they know this song?

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I'm like, no, only us. No, it's just us.
It's a secret.
We're normies here.
Ian, what are you drinking? Do you need any whiskey?
Well, I got Yukon, Jack, that I brought.
You brought some Yukon?
Yes, sir. I brought it for our new friend.
Do you want a cup with some ice?
Sure. A couple of ice croutons.

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I do have a question for Ian. Your dad is a musician, too.
So did you always grow up around a very good musician?
Did you always grow up around music?
Was that just something that was always a part of your life?
I grew up around him and he was a great dad in the sense he was like, I'm very involved in music.
OK, here, let me start over. He moved here, I believe, in 1994-ish.

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From the UK?
Yeah, from the UK. So he was really into programming computers when he was like 18, 19, and like 77, 78.
So that's like Commodore 64 games.
You make like asteroid games and stuff. But through that...
Heck, man.
But he went on in his college to be like, I want to do control engineering.

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So back then, control engineering was pretty simple, in my opinion.
Well, compared to now, it's an insane degree to get. But it was like programming, all that shit.
So you get a degree, control engineering, you're pretty much set. I can go computers, manufacturing, whatever.
He was in England and the guy he was working for at the time, from what he's explained to me, was like, hey, man, we like it. You're great.

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We have an internship over in California, if you're interested, like 93, 94. And he went, yes, please.
And he flew over here, got a truck, got an apartment. Again, that was the blooming of the computer industry.
So he was fine from there, hopped on whatever. But he's always been a music guy.
But he, in his mind, was like, I'm not good. He's a freak, by the way. Anybody listening? My dad, Andrew Ross, is a freak.

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Wicked freak. So good. Also no relation. He's a badass, dude.
No relation to me. Not to Travis.
Sometimes Ian can't make our shows, so we get him. We get Andy. He's a freak. He loves it. He's always asked.
But he moved here and then eventually got into Ramona. He met Jim Soldi before John owned the music store.

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He knew Jim. And I believe he was a lady before Jim owned it, either after Jim or before Jim.
I don't want to get any misinformation out there. But what I heard is he was involved in that, loved music, met people at the music store.
He started doing Almond Brothers covers. And there's some great stuff of him in the late 90s doing Almond Brothers stuff that's just unbelievable.
He's got all the parts down with Jim. They're doing the same harmonies they're doing on the record. It's unbelievable.

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And I didn't know anything about that. My dad was very, growing up, he was like, hey, if you don't want to do music, you don't have to do music.
I do music, whatever. He would tell me as a five year old child, am I having band practice? My friend Michael and David and Marcus are coming over.
I don't know if you know them. I'm like, I'm five. I don't know anybody. But he's like, is it OK? I don't know.

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But he would have people over. He's like, Ian, it's fine. And I was very not involved in that. But I thought it was cool.
And he was very not like, you need to play. He was very, you don't need to play. But I had an electric Yamaha keyboard in my room.
I was like, that's really cool. Quick side tanger. Remember one night at Yamaha keyboard, I had like preset songs.
And I don't know if you know the song Killing Me Softly. Killing me softly with his. By the Fugees? Yeah. No, not by the Fugees.

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I mean, the original is not by the Fugees. But it had. The one people know. Yeah, the one people know.
But it had a preset on the keyboard that was like you just hit play and it would play a song. And it was that song by the Fugees.
And I remember one night being very young and it would not stop playing. And my dad was already asleep and it was like eight o'clock and eight o'clock until like eight in the morning.

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The song Killing Me Softly, a midi version on piano by that band. I cannot listen to that song ever since that happened.
One time, one time. Yeah. We'll do it our next gig. We're doing Killing Me Softly. Good luck finding somebody.
No, but he showed me on that piano and I was like, this is really cool. I was a little kid in like second grade. I started getting lessons.

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And then from there it was like, oh, this is cool. I hated it till sixth grade. Then it was like my piano teacher's like, you hate piano. It's pretty clear.
Deep Purple. You ever heard of them? Like, no. She's like, you should check out organ. I listened to organ. And then that kind of was like, all right, I got to find keys.
That's long winded bullshit. But it kind of gets deeper.
That's crazy. Well, shit, let's listen to some music. What do you want to hear? Sure.

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How about the Flying Burritos? Yeah, let's do that. I'm David Allen Cole. Oh my goodness. Yes.

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I'm the one who showed you how to do the things you're doing now.
He may feel all your charms. He may hold you in his arms, but I'm the one who lets you in. I was right beside you then.

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Once upon a time, you let me feel you deep inside. And nobody knew, nobody saw. But do you remember the way you cried?

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I'm your toy. I'm your old boy. But I don't want no one but you to love me. No, I wouldn't lie. You know I'm not that kind of guy.

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I'm your toy. I'm your old boy. But I don't want no one but you to love me. No, I wouldn't lie. You know I'm not that kind of guy.

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Last night I stopped off for a beer on my way home. And I saw this brokenhearted sweet thing crying all alone.

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My tender heart was deeply touched at the sight of a woman's tears. So I said, hi there, as I pulled up a chair and ordered us a couple of beers.
We must have drunk a gal and a brew. When I looked at my watch it was half past two. And I suddenly realized I hadn't even called my wife.
And knowing what would happen to me when I got home, I nearly broke my neck getting to a phone. And here's what I told her in an effort to save my life.

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Don't pay the ransom, honey, I've escaped. Considering what I've been through, I'm in good shape. Well, the wrists and ankles are a little sore from the tape. But don't pay the ransom, honey, I've escaped.

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Now if you get tied up somewhere tonight on your way home, in a poker game or with a good-looking dame and it slips your mind the phone.
Don't blow your cool like a crazy fool and tell your woman where you've been. Your situation requires imagination and I've got a suggestion, my friend.
Tell her, don't pay the ransom, honey, I've escaped. Considering what I've been through, I'm in good shape. Oh, my wrists and ankles are a little sore from the tape. But don't pay the ransom, honey, I've escaped. No, don't pay the ransom, honey, I've escaped.

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Alright, we're back. Indeed we are. That was a good song, dude. That was a good request. Thank you. You played the two I was thinking about. Yeah, that's what we do, bro.
You name it, we play it. That's what we do. You name it, we play it. We always bring our guests on. Don't pay that ransom. We always ask what songs you want to hear and then we listen to them and we enjoy them. Yeah. We love them.

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That reminds me of the song kind of similar style of song by Jerry Reed. She Got the Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft. Yeah, it's a good song, dude. Jerry on that first album when he was just doing nylon string stuff, he has a really cool one about talking about his lady.
He did the same thing. He was very much like, you got your eye on your woman, you know, what are you messing with? He's like threatening the guy looking at his woman. It's a very Jerry Reed talk. She got the gold mine, I got the shaft.

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It's a great song. It's called Outlaw Country. It's like these guys have gone to jail for this very thing they're singing about.
I know. I know. We talked about going to jail last episode. I don't know. Ian, you ever been to jail? I've gotten close a couple times. Gotten close.
Have you ever been handcuffed? No. Okay. Me either. I got out of it. You're still very young though. Yeah. I crashed a car and ran home and then the police, the sheriff's, no, so it was in the road.

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I know what you're talking about. Yeah. So I got, I got, Hey, stay at home. We need to ask you about stuff. You stay at home. And I was like, that's weird. Usually you should go back to the scene. All right. I'll stay home. Never showed up. So again, legally, nothing happened. I was very so man. But I remember when you messaged me, I was like, Holy shit.
Yes. So you, okay. You got an accident. You ran home. Yes. Then you called and said I was in an accident and they said stay at the house. What happened is I freaked out. I hit my head pretty hard. I was so out of it from the concussion that I was like, Oh, it'd be easier to walk home.

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That's the God's honest. I would hit my head so gosh darn hard that I was like, I was so out of it. I was out of it for about three days. I was like, Oh, my house is close. It's been, at that point, it probably been like a minute and a half. But in my mind, I'm like, it's been like five minutes. I gotta go home.
So I ran home. By that point, Sheriff's Department, all those guys showed up and they were like, Who did this? My parents showed up and they're I guess our car or whatever. And I, they told me stay home and the so because of the car was still on the road, technically. And again, this was an accident. I wasn't being a fool. This I've never had this happen before. It was a complete mistake. It was raining. It was raining. It was super foggy. I had about a foot of visibility. I looked down for my phone and cracked my head off the thing and was super concussed. So ran home, whatever.

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Because it was in the road, it was not a Sheriff's Department issue. Had it been a Sheriff's Department issue, Ramona would have been like, We got you boy here coming down. You know, they're going down. But because it was in the road, it was a CHP thing. So CHP came and they're like, I tell them to stay home, you know, it but because the room office is very clogged, they don't have too many people.
La dee da dee da. The guy was just very much like, I just want an instant report. I want to get this over. I don't think you were drunk. You're fine. Whatever. I wasn't. And I get a call from him, but I'm still banged up. So I'm paranoid. And he goes, Hey, man. Yeah, we'd love to have a conversation with you just kind of get a report. And I go, Can we do this over the phone? He's like, No, dude, I need your license. What are you talking about? I'm like, Oh, okay. So in my mind, I'm like, I got to dress good. But again, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I

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cracked my head. I'm out of it. I'm wearing a striped, like a turtleneck t shirt with denim flares. And he shows up and I'm waving at him and he gets out of the car and he's thoroughly unimpressed. He's like, dude, I just need a report. Can you I don't care. I don't care what you're doing. Just please tell me what was happening. So like, ah, blah, blah, blah, this street is, you know, blah, blah, blah. I tell him everything and he just left. He was like, good. All right, cool. Tiny. Stamp stamp. His attitude was like,

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you have kept me on the line for five days. I've wanted to get this over with. And you're the one who's keeping it problematic. And I was all out of it. I'm like, I'm so sorry, man. He's like, you're good. Hope you learned your lesson. Just, you know, we know you now.
I'm all right. Never been in jail. So I'm the only one. I've been there a couple of times. I've never even been close to going to jail. Me neither. In my life. On my birthday, though, I was walking down the street, walking down the back alleys of Ramona with my friends. I was fresh with 21. Nobody carved me. So it's like I didn't get a free drink. I didn't get, we drank creme de menthe at the Turkey Inn. Creme de menthe. Because there's a, there's a Billy

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Connolly bit about, he goes, Oh, I'll have the, I'll have a pint, whatever the Pope drinks. And the Pope drinks creme de menthe. So he gets a pint of creme de menthe. And he's like, Oh, it's green. We are throwing up green everywhere. So I was like, that's funny. My buddy's not. And we asked the lady at Turkey Inn, Hey, do you have any creme de menthe? And she's like creme de menthe. And she's looking around and there's a bottle with dust. It's like thick dust. Like that brown dust. It's like nobody has opened this in years. We're going to give you free shots. We don't want it. You finish it. So me and my

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buddy's got two rounds of shots. We were just having a good time. We were walking down the back alleys and we're just jumping off fences, kicking stuff. And we were by where Packard's used to be the new coffee place. And we kick a fence. We jump off the fence for all like throwing shit. It's being weird.
There's this cop with like a patrol, like a big patrol vehicle. And he sees us kick something and it's loud. And we pause because we see him. It's all quiet. He goes, no shenanigans, boys. Okay.

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And we look at him and we go, yes, sir. No more shenanigans. Understood. We're sorry, sir. And he goes, all right, I'll keep an eye out for you. And we're like, Oh my God, we got to go home right now.
Ian has the best accents when he's telling a story.
Actually, that'd be kind of funny because your dad's from the UK. Oh yeah. Yeah. He's, he's closest, I think, to colonial English as you'll get 20 something years, but he's from Northern England, which is already like a hodgepodge accent of sorts.

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But he's been here for 20 years. So I try to do his accent. It's like, Oh, hi. Oh, hi. What you doing, son?
It's this bizarre, nobody could replicate it. I'll talk to English people. I'm like, what does my dad's accent sound like? We have no idea. We've never heard anything like this.
He's the equivalent of Creole in the US. Yeah. Yeah. Precisely. It's ancient English.

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Did you guys ever go to sixth grade camp when you were in school? Oh my goodness. Yes. So I went to the accent made me think of this. I went to sixth grade camp and like each group of kids gets assigned a counselor or whatever.
And our guy, his name was Pierre and he was probably 50 years old. We're in sixth grade. He was a very nice man. But Pierre would randomly go in and out of accents, like all sorts of accents.

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And he's like, I've lived all over the world. I can't control it. I just sometimes they just talk, talk how I talk and I can't do anything about it.
And then he would talk totally normal and then go into some other accent. Just. Yeah. It was so random.
My Nana was a very, very, very Scottish lady and she would she was the kind of like, oh, hi, kind of Scottish lady.
And she apparently would coach it. She had friends in like Argentina and stuff.

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And my dad would tell me she'd be on the phone with her friends in Argentina and she'd be like, oh, hi, hi. Yes. So it's so nice down here. It's so beautiful.
And my dad, what are you doing? You sound like kind of racist. Like this is right.
And she's like, I can't help it. I can't help it. I love them so much. I want to talk like that.
And I never believed that. And then I went to Scotland and sure enough, after a week, they'd be like, what do you think about a spear?

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I go, oh, it's so good. I kind of believe that. I sound like an idiot.
No, you sound good. You sound great. They're so polite about it. It's so funny.
That's hilarious. Let's play a couple songs and we come back. You want to take on Kirby and name that tune?
Yeah. You sure? All three of us. Yeah, for sure.

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So now we got to think of a consequence or reward. All right. Well, we got a few minutes to think about it.
And let's play some music. Be careful. And you might have to say your name is Key of the Deep.
Hey, pretty baby, are you ready for me? Yeah, you're good rockin' down from Tennessee.

(01:40:11):
I'm just that awesome about the saniton with the radio blastin' and the bird dog on.
As we travel ahead to San Martin, an old local yoke is gonna shut me down.
Cause me and my boys got this rig unwind and we'll come a thousand miles from a guitar chain.

(01:40:45):
Nothing ever happened around my hometown. I used to kind of just hang around.
But I heard someone callin' my name one day and I followed that voice down a lost highway.
Everybody told me you can't get far on thirty-seven dollars on a jack-of-the-tongue.
Now I'm smokin' in to Texas with a hammer down and a rockin' little cover from a guitar glass.

(01:41:21):
Hey, pretty baby, don't you know it ain't my fault. I love to hear the steel bells hummin' on the asphalt.
Wake up in the middle of the night in a truck stop, stumble in a restaurant, wonder why I don't stop.
Well, I gotta keep rockin' while I still can. Got a two-pack hand, but in a motel tent.
When my boots hit the boards, I'm a brand new man. When my back to the rise will make my stand.

(01:41:50):
Hey, pretty baby, won't you hold me tight. I'm loadin' up and rollin' outta here and now.
One of these days I'm gonna settle down and take you back with me to the guitar tent.

(01:42:27):
I was takin' a trip out to L.A. toin' along in my Chevrolet, toakin' on the number and diggin' on the radio.
Just as I crossed the Mississippi line, I heard that highway start to whine, and I knew that left rear tire was about to go.

(01:42:57):
Well, the spare was flat and I got up tight, cause there wasn't a fillin' station in sight. So I just limped on down the shoulder on the rim.
I went as far as I could and when I stopped the car, it was right in front of this little bar, kind of a redneck lookin' joint called the dew drop in.
Well, I stuffed my hair up under my hat and told the bartender that I had a flat and would he be kind enough to give me change for a one.

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Well, there was one thing I was sure proud to see. There wasn't a soul in the place except for him and me and he just looked disgusted and pointed toward the telephone.
I called up a station down the road a ways and he said he wasn't very busy today and he could have somebody there in just about ten minutes or so.
He said, now you just stay right where you're at and I didn't bother to tell the darn fool that I sure as hell didn't have any place else to go.

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I just ordered up a beer and sat down at the bar when some guy walked in and said, who owns this car with the D-sign and the mag wheels and four on the floor?
Well, he looked at me and I damn near died and I decided that I'd just wait outside so I laid a dollar on the bar and headed for the door.
Just when I thought I'd get out of there with my skin, these five big dudes come strolling in with this one old drunk chick and some fellow with green teeth.

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And I was almost at the door when the biggest one said, you tip your hat to this lady, son, and when I did all that hair fell out from underneath.
Now the last thing I wanted was to get in a fight in Jackson, Mississippi on a Saturday night, especially when there was three of them and only one of me.
But they all started laughing and I felt kind of sick and I knew I'd better think of something pretty quick so I just reached out and kicked old green teeth right in the knee.

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Now he let out a yell that'd curl your hair, but before he could move I grabbed me a chair and said, watch him, folk, because he's a thoroughly dangerous man.
Well, you may not know it, but this man's a spy. He's an undercover agent for the FBI and he's been sent down here to infiltrate the Q-Club's plans.
He was still a bit over holding on to his knee, but everybody else was looking and listening to me and I laid it on thicker and heavier as I went.

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I said, would you believe this man has gone as far as tearing Wallace stickers off the bumpers of cars and he voted for George McGovern for president.
Well, he's a friend of them long-haired hippie type pick-o-fags. I bet you he's even got a Commie flag tacked up on the wall inside of his garage.

(01:45:47):
He's a snake in the grass, I tell you guys, he may look dumb, but that's just a disguise. He's a mastermind in the ways of espionage.
They all started looking real suspicious at him and he jumped up and said, now just wait a minute, Jim, you know he's lying. I've been living here all of my life.
I'm a faithful follower of Brother John Burch and I belong to the Antion Baptist Church and I ain't even got a garage. You can call home and ask my wife.

(01:46:17):
Then he started saying something about the way I was dressed, but I didn't wait around to hear the rest. I was too busy moving and hoping I didn't run out of luck.
When I hit the ground, I was making tracks and they were just taking my car down off the jacks and I threw the man a 20 and jumped in and fired that mother up.
Mario Andretti would have sure been proud of the way I was moving when I passed that crowd coming out the door and headed toward me in a trot.

(01:46:47):
And I guess I should have gone ahead and run, but somehow I just couldn't resist the fun of chasing them all just once around the parking lot.
Well, they're headed for their car, but I hit the gas and spun around and headed them off at the pass. I was slinging gravel and putting a ton of dust in the air.
I had them all out there stepping and fetching like their heads were on fire and their asses was catching, but I figured I'd better go ahead and split before the cops got there.

(01:47:17):
When I hit the road, I was really wheeling, had gravel flying and rubber squealing and I didn't slow down until I was almost to Arkansas.
Well, I think I'm going to reroute my trip. I wonder if anybody'd think I'd flip if I went to LA via Omaha.

(01:47:57):
We played our cards right this time. We could do a good run of a name that too.
Well, we got Ian Ross here with us. You do sweet curbs and me Travis Billy Ross. Am I keeping score? I believe so. Sure.
She's the only honest one in the room. That's true. Yeah. But she always wins though somehow.
All right. So how does this work? So he plays a song and if you're going to guess, you can either guess the artist or you can guess the name of the song.

(01:48:26):
Most importantly though, you have to say your name first. So like something comes on, I'm Travis.
So he plays Amarillo by morning. You can't yell out Amarillo. You gotta say Ian. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Are we ready? Let's do it live.
Oh my lord. I'm going to lose so hard. We'll do it live. All right. We'll do it live. All right. Ian. James Brown? No, there's no way.

(01:48:59):
That's the intro music to the show. James Brown. All right. So we have to pick our genre.
All right. What do we want? 70s, 80s? I'd say 70s. That's probably got to even pick there. You go with that 70s? I'm going to obscure late 60s, early 70s. 60s, 70s? Yeah. I mean, yeah.
All right. So we're going to go 70s country. Yep. Yeah. 70s country. All right. All right. Real quick. It's actually two parts. You have the artist and you have the name of the song.

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So you get five. If you guess the first part, you get five seconds to guess the other part. Otherwise, it's open to all. We can steal.
And if you want to get it, you have to say your name. Got it. I mean, if you say the artist, but you can't think of the song or vice versa, you will still get one point. But after five seconds, it goes back. Right.
So then anyone can have it. Everybody ready? Yes, sir. All right. Here we go. Man, wait. Who? David Allen. Travis. Go ahead. David Allen Coe.

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Hold on. I got to go. Here we go. It is David Allen Coe. Five seconds for the name. This is the song. God dang. God dang. What is this? Anybody else? Kirby. Go ahead. My long hair just don't cover up my red neck.
Loudmouth in the corner. She made the title a lot longer than it really is. It's just long haired redneck. There he is. But she got it in there. We got one each, Trav.

(01:50:22):
All right. She got it in there. Ready for the next one? Ready. Here we go. I'd like to dedicate this song to my partner, soul partner, Mr. Duck Sound, better known as Sir Douglas Quintet from San Antonio. God dang.
Wherever you are, brother. Come on. I know the Sir Douglas very well.
I got to mute out the. Oh, Kirby. Go ahead. Wasted days and wasted nights. Oh, no. Who is it? I don't know.

(01:50:49):
Blank in blank in the Sir Douglas Quintet. All right. Travis. I think I know. Can I try it? Is it Charlie Pride? It is not. Freddie Fender. Freddie Fender. I won't give myself a point on that because it said it. That's fair.
Here we go. You ready for the next one? Yes, sir. Kirby. Go ahead. Delta Don Tanya Tucker. Tanya Tucker. I thought we were doing 70s. Sometimes you got to be quick on the buzzer. It is 70s. She came out with that song when she was like 13. That was like her first big hit.

(01:51:25):
That's Tanya Tucker? Yeah. No shit. She was like the Leanne Rimes of when Leanne Rimes came out with Blue when she was like 13. Wow. That's crazy. A couple ladies from that era that did the same thing.
All right. Ready for the next one? Yes. I do like this song. I know it's a good song. They played it at a dressage today. Did they? Yeah. All right. Here we go.

(01:51:55):
Travis. Go ahead. Conway Twitty? Anybody else? You're gonna kick yourself. I am gonna kick myself. Oh wait. I think I know what it is. Travis. Go ahead. Merle Haggard. Oh it is.

(01:52:18):
All right. You get five seconds for the title, you know. Hold up. Two seconds here. All right. It's open to anybody. I have no idea. No. Nothing. The Roots of My Raising. Oh, I just said it. I know. Dang it. I said wait. I feel like I just got ripped off.

(01:52:39):
I got one point though. I said Merle Haggard. I did. It's zero to three to two. All right. We're ready. All right. Ready. That's me. I'm zero. I love that mix. Yeah. I like that. That sounds good. I don't know who it is though. Even Keel Stereo. Oh, that's so good.
You guys are gonna kill yourself. Oh, Johnny Cash. Travis. No, I can't. He said Johnny Cash. No, no, no. We're playing by the rules, brother. He said. Rules are rules. All right. What's the name of the song?

(01:53:14):
The Kind of a Man. Ian. Kind of a Man. All right. You got one. It's called A Thing Called Love. A Thing Called Love. Dang it. All right. You guys ready? All right. Beautiful.

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Oh, I know this song. I know this song too. Damn it.
I thought I knew it. I know. You got five more seconds here. Anybody?
Travis. Go ahead. Charlie Pryde. Yes. There we go. It is Charlie Pryde. You know the name of the song? No. I don't know the name of the song. I just know the voices.

(01:54:09):
A Shoulder to Cry Arm. All right. You got four, babe. I got three. Wow. All right. You guys ready for the next one? Yeah. I got nothing.
Travis. Go ahead. Waylon Jennings. Yes. Argument with him. That's Waylon Jennings and it's also Willie Nelson. Correct. So that's two, right? Don't Let Your Babies Grow Could Be Cowboys.

(01:54:33):
Oh, dang it. I was just going to do that. Please don't make this song. I got two there, Sweet Curves. Make sure you mark it down. All right. You ready? Travis. Oh, God. Go ahead. Oh, man. Oh, I was just about to do it. You better say it.
Jolie Parton. Jolie. You know if you speed this up. So here's a fun fact. If you speed this record up, the 45 up to 33 and a third, it's perfectly in the tune of a male singing voice and it fully sounds like a male cowboy singing about his lover.

(01:55:08):
And he's upset that Jolie stole it from him. I seriously recommend listening to Jolie in 33 and a third. We're going to bring that up. We're going to do that next show. It's so great. We're going to try that one, yeah, for sure.
All right. You guys ready? Yes. Next.
Oh, hold on. Moving on.

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Travis. Go ahead.
Come on, the gambler guy.
Kenny Rogers.
There you go. You have five seconds.
Find time, believe me, Lucille.
She said Lucille.
Yep.
Yep.
The barona casino guy.

(01:55:59):
Rogers Roasters.
The guy that's everywhere.
All right, we got time for about two more.
All right.
Dos mas.
Here we go.

(01:56:25):
Kirby.
Go ahead.
Most Beautiful Girl in the World.
Good.
I'm going to give about five more seconds.
It's all single.

(01:56:48):
Oh, I know that voice so well.
Three, two, uno.
It's Charlie Pride.
God dang it.
I was going to say Charlie Self.
No, I mean, I'd say Charlie Crockett.
All right. Last song.
You guys ready?
Let's do it.
Here we go.
Come on, sweet Kirby. You know this.

(01:57:11):
Kirby.
Go ahead.
When Will I Be Loved.
Good.
I have no idea who sings it.
It's not Tanya Tucker, is it?
I don't know.
It is.
That's Martina McBride.

(01:57:34):
No, that's Martina McBride, but it's not.
No?
It's Danny McBride.
Who is it?
Three, two, one.
Linda Ronstadt.
Linda Ronstadt.
Do we have time for one more?
Travis and I are tied, seven to seven.
One more, one more.
I'm not gonna play games, I'm literally just gonna hit

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the next song button, you ready?
All right, here we go.
Travis, go ahead.
Thought it was set him up, Joe, but it's not, it's a...
Kirby. Go ahead.
Loretta Lynn, Quilmire's daughter.
God dang, whatever dude.
Yeah, I understand, no chance.
Thank you so much.
This was too mainstream.

(01:58:17):
Another victory under my belt.
Well, I guess I've already got to die,
you're gonna die my beard, apparently.
Yeah, we never did come up with a punishment or anything.
No, we're dying your beard, and then maybe something else
because I won again, I'll get back to you.
How about the fact that you have only, out of 15 shows.
I've won like twice.
The guy who runs the show has won twice.

(01:58:38):
I will say, the person I wouldn't want to play with again,
John Hancock and Michael Dean Goodrich,
they were very good. Yeah, they know it most.
They knew some good music.
Was it their era, yeah, they know it more than anybody.
We're out of time, my friends, say goodbye.
All right, you guys, we love you.
God bless you guys, happy Sunday, have a great Monday.
We'll see you guys, drive safe, take care.

(01:59:00):
God bless you.
I love you.
They raised their kids on a minor's pay.
Mommy scrubbed our clothes on a washboard every day.
Why, I've seen her fingers bleed to complain
that there was no need.

(01:59:21):
She had smile in mommy's understanding way.
In the summertime, we didn't have shoes to wear.
But in the wintertime, we'd all get a brand new pair.
From a mail order catalog, money made from selling a hog.

(01:59:49):
Daddy always managed to get the money somewhere.
Yeah, I'm proud to be a home.

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