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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kelly Nash, welcome on the phone.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
One of the founding members of the Wolf Brothers, Mark
Bryant from Hoody and the Blowfish. Think about when you
heard Darius singing in the shower when you guys were
both of the dorms over at usc.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Kind of good in the shower. He's sound good down
the while he was buttering up getting ready for us
to go out the group therapy. He sounds good now, Yes,
age fifty eight, he sounds He's like a fine wine,
as is our friend Edwin McCain, who we are on
tour with the Summer as well. I'm really thankful you
having me on, Jonathan. I've been listening to you my
(00:35):
entire adult life, so thanks for having me on, buddy.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
You know the great thing about having you guys still
in South Carolina, thank you. I know you were living Charlesty,
but you come to Columbia.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Good bite.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
As we get ready for the big show tonight, and
I know a lot of people. We talked to a
guy this morning who want some tickets his very first
Hoodie concert. He was five years old.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
WHOA, yeah, I know.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I don't know how his parents got him the fake ID.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
So talk about a full sort of experience.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Well, Mark, I've only been here twenty years, so that
was well after your time at the University of South Carolina,
and I've seen you numerous times. Love seeing you in concert.
I have to ask you. I've noticed on this tour
you typically wear T shirts, but the T shirt you're
wearing a lot these days has the word high Like hello,
what is that? A significance of those T shirts?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
That is a brand that I've recently got involved with
bringing to South Carolina, and it's a THHC incuged sheelter water,
no alcohol, no sugar, no cars. It's like this really
healthy way to catch a buzz. That's really what it is.
Are only five milligrams per can and it's the federally
legal derivative of PhD and so we have a THHD
in use shelter water now. And it's a way that
(01:46):
you can drink those type of beverages like you're having
a cocktail. They hit you in real time. It doesn't
take a while to kick in like gummies and all
that hits you in real time and you can control
your buzz and it's kind of wonderful. It's changing people's
lives especially people who can't drink alcohol anym or who
have to stop with sugar. We have the option. Now,
we have the alternative.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Congratulations, And I know that these drinks are becoming wildly popular.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah, man, I got involved at the right time and
got the option to bring it to South Carolina. And
that's what I've been working hard on over the last
couple of years. And we're already in greens and bottles
and that kind of stuff, and we're getting ready to
move into even the total lines of the world and
that kind of thing. So actually happening quick.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I know you guys have been spending a lot of
time on the road, but you were spending time in
the studio. And we get a new album to rave
over up. This album's called what again? Was the title?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Hop POPPD. Yeah, got bubble gum on the cover, and
then I have chewed bubble gum on the back, so
I named pop. I've got a bunch of new songs, man.
You know, I was kind of hoping we were going
to make a hoodie record for this tour, but when
that didn't happen, I went and got busy and made
my fifth solo album. And I'm loving it. The album
comes out in October.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Mark Brian with us from Hoody and the blowf is
getting ready for the big concert tonight at the Colonial
Life Arena, and obviously Columbia is where it all began.
I remember interviewing Darius back in nineteen ninety four up
in New York when I was working up there, and
it was the rocket ride that you guys went on
in the early to mid nineties. Is I don't know
(03:07):
that that's actually ever been duplicated, because that was an
unbelievable time for you guys.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
It is quite a story.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
You guys were everywhere with everybody, all at once, it seemed.
And I was reading a story recently about you were
so proud of a photo of you and Eddie van Halen,
and I forget who that was in that green room.
It was like before the Grammys or something. Can you
just remember some of that emotion that you were feeling
back then, and like some of the stars that you
were meeting, and you couldn't believe you were in the
(03:34):
same room with them.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Okay, growing up some of my biggest heroes already van Halen,
Versus Springstein and Pete Townsend. And I got to meet
all of them, you know, and they were all super cool,
you know. Once I told them how much their music
affected me, they gave me a hug, that kind of stuff.
I mean, they're just good people. And Eddie was super
super friendly anyway. He just that's the kind of person
he is. And so I just have such fond memories
of getting able to meet my heroes and then being
(03:56):
really cool. It's what you want, you know, It's so great.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Mark Brian.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
One of the things I don't know about you is
whether you have any brothers or sisters. But I grew
up with two brothers, and just the three of us
all the time together got to be very tedious at times.
When you link up with Darius and then Dean and
then Sony, you like brothers on the road. What was
one of the moments you remember where you really all
of you wanted to.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Kill each other.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
It usually came down to driving, like someone's turned to
drive and then they were like, man, I'm not going
to do it, I'm too tired or whatever. Someone else
had to do it. That was the thing where we
had a look out for each other, and you know,
I don't know, you get pissed at each other. But
you do what you gotta do and you pull it
all together, that kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Darius Rutger is, in my opinion, a bigger homer than
Jonathan Rush. For the game Cox, I think he's got
us winning eleven football games this year and his prediction.
When you look at the game Cox, what do you
see happening this year? Do you see us at Bowl eligible?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I think we're looking at the same thing that we've
been used to.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
The best part is we know because we were here
in like nineteen ninety nine. We went winless and we
were still selling out the WILLIAMS.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Brice Stadium for the first quarter and we were all
handed up back down to five points because we knew
pretty much what was going to happen.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
But that's how hardcore game Cock fans are. We're still
gonna be there, brother.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Way, Yeah, exactly. The own eleven Lou Holt season. I
mean that says it all right there. And now in
the age of nil, nobody knows what's going to happen.
And I feel like, you know, you kind of got
to pull an ace in this era, and we never know.
We might pull a team that has an eight and
make a run, but I feel like it's gonna get
harder and harder to do that with this nil thing
going on.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
As you traveled the world with the band, can you
remember a moment like you were in Tokyo or somewhere.
I don't know where you were, but somebody from South Carolina,
I'm sure, always pops up and presents themselves by yelling
out go coos or something like that to get your attention.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
What was the weirdest moment you remember when that happened?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Oh god, it's like you're in the Pacific Rim and
the game cock flag pops up in the and I
mean it it happened. You're exactly right, It's exactly how
it happened all over the world. We'd be all over Europe,
you know, be in the middle of Germany. I remember
being in like Cologne, Germany, and all these game cocks
were there. And you know, you go to Manhattan and
(06:12):
there's like a bars that are gamecock bars and that
kind of thing. So we're everywhere. Man As soon as
you find a couple of alumni in the same place,
they get together and start club.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
That's right, that's right. Whody has done more for the
Gamecock Nation than any other ambassador in the history of
this university. And I'm you know, I was thinking about
this idea though, that when you're out on the road
and you're meeting Gamecock fans, do you ever get a
chance to like watch games with anybody?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
That's so funny you said that, so to my point
of like, you get a few people together and they
start a club. My son moved to Nashville a couple
of years ago, and I went up to visit them
one fall day and we were hanging out there, Let's
go watch the game. Hey, let's see if there's a
Gamecock club in Nashville, And sure enough there were. There
was forty people at a bar in Nashville watching the game.
So we went and met and hung out with a
(07:00):
move Great.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Wow, that would have been so cool for them.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Mark Brian.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I know that you're excited about this weekend. Thank you
so much for sending some time with us on the phone.
But also I want to go back to your album
talk to me again about that. So true, Hoody fans
and Mark Brian fans understand we got new music. We
want to know more about we'll be able to get
that in our hands and stick in our ears.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I want to have some new music out while we
were rolling around the summer, so I started dropping singles. Kay.
There are three of them out so far, and if
you go anywhere mark Brian music on install or YouTube,
or mark Brian music or mark Brian Hoody, it'll be
easy to find them. And the first three you're out,
and the fourth one is coming. We've got a video
coming next Friday for the fourth one and it is
(07:40):
hot baby, good for you. And then the album comes
in October, so I'm really excited. It's always fun to
have new music.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
And you're wearing the high T shirts so you can
write this off two different ways on your business expenses.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Well, there's actually a song on the new album called.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Riding High by Josh Man Try promotion not just machine.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Absolutely, it's funny. I didn't write it as like I
wasn't writing it like thinking I was writing like a
jingle for the Seltz or anything. But it kind of
could be now that I look back at it kind
of could be a jingle.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Who would have thought that after all these years, when
all of us are just hoodie fans, and well officially
Wolf Brothers fans, and then Hoodie's fans ended up buying
you guys fosters at group therapy. Then you actually end
up having a video promoting the beverage. They'll be taken
over five points. Man, you're the king of five points.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Speaking of that, this afternoon, this Friday, and this afternoon
at group therapy, I will be down there from five
to seven slinging hot selters and letting people know what
it is and you know, educating. So I went down
and joined me and have a hot sheelter.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
I am in awe of your ability to promote be there.
You are fantastic.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I have got to come see you to the beginning
of five until well we got a big show, so
you won't be there much longer than five.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
But I'm gonna leave at seven so I can go
back and catch Edwin's said they're.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Gonna be like nineteen ninety all over again.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I'm going to show up wearing an old school n
OK T shirt and I want to get a selfie
with you with your high T shirt.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
That's perfectly We're doing it. It's on.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Oh Mark, Brian, thank you so much for your time.
Everybody is excited for it. It's a huge weekend. Thanks
for being here and making their game cat kickoff even
better with Hoodie and the Blowfish God.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Thanks so much for having me and one more plug.
I might as well do it also Saturday morning before
the game, I'm going to be over at Greens on
Assembly from ten to one, also slinging high and educating
people for the pre co gase. So come on by
there too.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Man oh man, have I ever come out with a product?
I got to hire you as a spokesperson. You are
next level.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I'm hired it all man, I'm part of the company.
This is my baby. I'm in.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I'm all good for you, Mark, I'm excited about it.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Thanks brother, all right, thank you all very much for
having me.
Kelly Nash, welcome on the phone.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
One of the founding members of the Wolf Brothers, Mark
Bryant from Hoody and the Blowfish. Think about when you
heard Darius singing in the shower when you guys were
both of the dorms over at usc.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Kind of good in the shower. He's sound good down
the while he was buttering up getting ready for us
to go out the group therapy. He sounds good now, Yes,
age fifty eight, he sounds He's like a fine wine,
as is our friend Edwin McCain, who we are on
tour with the Summer as well. I'm really thankful you
having me on, Jonathan. I've been listening to you my
(00:35):
entire adult life, so thanks for having me on, buddy.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
You know the great thing about having you guys still
in South Carolina, thank you. I know you were living Charlesty,
but you come to Columbia.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Good bite.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
As we get ready for the big show tonight, and
I know a lot of people. We talked to a
guy this morning who want some tickets his very first
Hoodie concert. He was five years old.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
WHOA, yeah, I know.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I don't know how his parents got him the fake ID.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
So talk about a full sort of experience.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Well, Mark, I've only been here twenty years, so that
was well after your time at the University of South Carolina,
and I've seen you numerous times. Love seeing you in concert.
I have to ask you. I've noticed on this tour
you typically wear T shirts, but the T shirt you're
wearing a lot these days has the word high Like hello,
what is that? A significance of those T shirts?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
That is a brand that I've recently got involved with
bringing to South Carolina, and it's a THHC incuged sheelter water,
no alcohol, no sugar, no cars. It's like this really
healthy way to catch a buzz. That's really what it is.
Are only five milligrams per can and it's the federally
legal derivative of PhD and so we have a THHD
in use shelter water now. And it's a way that
(01:46):
you can drink those type of beverages like you're having
a cocktail. They hit you in real time. It doesn't
take a while to kick in like gummies and all
that hits you in real time and you can control
your buzz and it's kind of wonderful. It's changing people's
lives especially people who can't drink alcohol anym or who
have to stop with sugar. We have the option. Now,
we have the alternative.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Congratulations, And I know that these drinks are becoming wildly popular.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah, man, I got involved at the right time and
got the option to bring it to South Carolina. And
that's what I've been working hard on over the last
couple of years. And we're already in greens and bottles
and that kind of stuff, and we're getting ready to
move into even the total lines of the world and
that kind of thing. So actually happening quick.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I know you guys have been spending a lot of
time on the road, but you were spending time in
the studio. And we get a new album to rave
over up. This album's called what again? Was the title?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Hop POPPD. Yeah, got bubble gum on the cover, and
then I have chewed bubble gum on the back, so
I named pop. I've got a bunch of new songs, man.
You know, I was kind of hoping we were going
to make a hoodie record for this tour, but when
that didn't happen, I went and got busy and made
my fifth solo album. And I'm loving it. The album
comes out in October.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Mark Brian with us from Hoody and the blowf is
getting ready for the big concert tonight at the Colonial
Life Arena, and obviously Columbia is where it all began.
I remember interviewing Darius back in nineteen ninety four up
in New York when I was working up there, and
it was the rocket ride that you guys went on
in the early to mid nineties. Is I don't know
(03:07):
that that's actually ever been duplicated, because that was an
unbelievable time for you guys.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
It is quite a story.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
You guys were everywhere with everybody, all at once, it seemed.
And I was reading a story recently about you were
so proud of a photo of you and Eddie van Halen,
and I forget who that was in that green room.
It was like before the Grammys or something. Can you
just remember some of that emotion that you were feeling
back then, and like some of the stars that you
were meeting, and you couldn't believe you were in the
(03:34):
same room with them.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Okay, growing up some of my biggest heroes already van Halen,
Versus Springstein and Pete Townsend. And I got to meet
all of them, you know, and they were all super cool,
you know. Once I told them how much their music
affected me, they gave me a hug, that kind of stuff.
I mean, they're just good people. And Eddie was super
super friendly anyway. He just that's the kind of person
he is. And so I just have such fond memories
of getting able to meet my heroes and then being
(03:56):
really cool. It's what you want, you know, It's so great.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Mark Brian.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
One of the things I don't know about you is
whether you have any brothers or sisters. But I grew
up with two brothers, and just the three of us
all the time together got to be very tedious at times.
When you link up with Darius and then Dean and
then Sony, you like brothers on the road. What was
one of the moments you remember where you really all
of you wanted to.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Kill each other.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
It usually came down to driving, like someone's turned to
drive and then they were like, man, I'm not going
to do it, I'm too tired or whatever. Someone else
had to do it. That was the thing where we
had a look out for each other, and you know,
I don't know, you get pissed at each other. But
you do what you gotta do and you pull it
all together, that kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Darius Rutger is, in my opinion, a bigger homer than
Jonathan Rush. For the game Cox, I think he's got
us winning eleven football games this year and his prediction.
When you look at the game Cox, what do you
see happening this year? Do you see us at Bowl eligible?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I think we're looking at the same thing that we've
been used to.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
The best part is we know because we were here
in like nineteen ninety nine. We went winless and we
were still selling out the WILLIAMS.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Brice Stadium for the first quarter and we were all
handed up back down to five points because we knew
pretty much what was going to happen.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
But that's how hardcore game Cock fans are. We're still
gonna be there, brother.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Way, Yeah, exactly. The own eleven Lou Holt season. I
mean that says it all right there. And now in
the age of nil, nobody knows what's going to happen.
And I feel like, you know, you kind of got
to pull an ace in this era, and we never know.
We might pull a team that has an eight and
make a run, but I feel like it's gonna get
harder and harder to do that with this nil thing
going on.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
As you traveled the world with the band, can you
remember a moment like you were in Tokyo or somewhere.
I don't know where you were, but somebody from South Carolina,
I'm sure, always pops up and presents themselves by yelling
out go coos or something like that to get your attention.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
What was the weirdest moment you remember when that happened?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Oh god, it's like you're in the Pacific Rim and
the game cock flag pops up in the and I
mean it it happened. You're exactly right, It's exactly how
it happened all over the world. We'd be all over Europe,
you know, be in the middle of Germany. I remember
being in like Cologne, Germany, and all these game cocks
were there. And you know, you go to Manhattan and
(06:12):
there's like a bars that are gamecock bars and that
kind of thing. So we're everywhere. Man As soon as
you find a couple of alumni in the same place,
they get together and start club.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
That's right, that's right. Whody has done more for the
Gamecock Nation than any other ambassador in the history of
this university. And I'm you know, I was thinking about
this idea though, that when you're out on the road
and you're meeting Gamecock fans, do you ever get a
chance to like watch games with anybody?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
That's so funny you said that, so to my point
of like, you get a few people together and they
start a club. My son moved to Nashville a couple
of years ago, and I went up to visit them
one fall day and we were hanging out there, Let's
go watch the game. Hey, let's see if there's a
Gamecock club in Nashville, And sure enough there were. There
was forty people at a bar in Nashville watching the game.
So we went and met and hung out with a
(07:00):
move Great.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Wow, that would have been so cool for them.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Mark Brian.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I know that you're excited about this weekend. Thank you
so much for sending some time with us on the phone.
But also I want to go back to your album
talk to me again about that. So true, Hoody fans
and Mark Brian fans understand we got new music. We
want to know more about we'll be able to get
that in our hands and stick in our ears.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I want to have some new music out while we
were rolling around the summer, so I started dropping singles. Kay.
There are three of them out so far, and if
you go anywhere mark Brian music on install or YouTube,
or mark Brian music or mark Brian Hoody, it'll be
easy to find them. And the first three you're out,
and the fourth one is coming. We've got a video
coming next Friday for the fourth one and it is
(07:40):
hot baby, good for you. And then the album comes
in October, so I'm really excited. It's always fun to
have new music.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
And you're wearing the high T shirts so you can
write this off two different ways on your business expenses.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Well, there's actually a song on the new album called.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Riding High by Josh Man Try promotion not just machine.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Absolutely, it's funny. I didn't write it as like I
wasn't writing it like thinking I was writing like a
jingle for the Seltz or anything. But it kind of
could be now that I look back at it kind
of could be a jingle.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Who would have thought that after all these years, when
all of us are just hoodie fans, and well officially
Wolf Brothers fans, and then Hoodie's fans ended up buying
you guys fosters at group therapy. Then you actually end
up having a video promoting the beverage. They'll be taken
over five points. Man, you're the king of five points.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Speaking of that, this afternoon, this Friday, and this afternoon
at group therapy, I will be down there from five
to seven slinging hot selters and letting people know what
it is and you know, educating. So I went down
and joined me and have a hot sheelter.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
I am in awe of your ability to promote be there.
You are fantastic.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I have got to come see you to the beginning
of five until well we got a big show, so
you won't be there much longer than five.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
But I'm gonna leave at seven so I can go
back and catch Edwin's said they're.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Gonna be like nineteen ninety all over again.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I'm going to show up wearing an old school n
OK T shirt and I want to get a selfie
with you with your high T shirt.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
That's perfectly We're doing it. It's on.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Oh Mark, Brian, thank you so much for your time.
Everybody is excited for it. It's a huge weekend. Thanks
for being here and making their game cat kickoff even
better with Hoodie and the Blowfish God.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Thanks so much for having me and one more plug.
I might as well do it also Saturday morning before
the game, I'm going to be over at Greens on
Assembly from ten to one, also slinging high and educating
people for the pre co gase. So come on by
there too.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Man oh man, have I ever come out with a product?
I got to hire you as a spokesperson. You are
next level.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I'm hired it all man, I'm part of the company.
This is my baby. I'm in.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I'm all good for you, Mark, I'm excited about it.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Thanks brother, all right, thank you all very much for
having me.
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