We are back.

I got Pick Henley to my right, I got Jiff Florentine to my left, and I got BlackBerry Smoke in front of us.

What's going on, guys?

What's up?

You can you come with a lot of people?

Hey man, there's a there's a lot of people supporting you, guys.

Our numbers in the band right, the whole band too.

Usually just got too.

We got we got the whole band.

That was awesome.

Yeah, I was.

I was scared we were gonna just get you guys with a couple acoustic guitars.

I mean that would have been cool too, trust me.

But then I heard that they're no, they want to set up and play, and I couldn't be happier.

Jiff Florantine turned me on to you guys.

Uh, this is BlackBerry Smoke, he goes you got here Like an Arrow this album, And I was surfcasting and just listening to the thing over and over again, dancing like an idiot.

But I don't know, is that okay?

If I was dancing to the BlackBerry Smoke nearby, she was with the kids somewhere.

I was just by myself, surfcast listening to Liking an Arrow by BlackBerry Smoked the whole album.

Yeah, I just absolutely love it.

Thank you veryzing.

It's okay to dance, yeah, it is okay to dance slowly, but you have to confirm with quarantine everything.

Yeah, I don't even know it in here, Like.

Did you call him and were like, dude, I was, I was doing a risky business thing.

I just wanted to make sure they all right.

It wasn't and then and then then I hung up and he's like, what happened?

I go, I was going through a tunnel and he's like, really in Jersey.

No, the first time I met BlackBerry's book.

So my ex wife was a big fan of there.

She likes country and stuff.

She goes like this BlackBerry smoke, Man, I think you're gonna like them.

You guys are doing a gig in Pennsylvania, say sor right, let's go out.

We'll spend the night, we'll get a hotel, we'll spend that.

We'll go.

Like, I listen to a couple of songs, I'm like, I like these guys.

You guys are good.

So we go to the show, you know, and nobody knows me from that metal show there, which you know, so it's all, you know, a different audience for me.

So afterwards, Britt the drummers hanging out after the show and he's talking to some fans, and my wife's like, I want to go meet him, Like go, let's go.

We'll go get a picture with him.

And he thinks I'm like, yeah, why not, I'll barge im.

I'll just go and get a quick picture and we'll leave.

We'll go back to the hotel.

And I'm waiting online and BRIT's looking at me like like he's looking at me like like I owe money or he's and he's smiling.

I'm like, maybe maybe.

He's coming on to me.

That's what I say right there.

Yeah, I'm like, maybe he's coming on to me.

I'm not gonna I don't know if I like a guy with a long beard, if I'm going to do that.

Well, he's like, dude, what are you doing here?

Right?

So then when I get to the line, and so then when I get to we get to he's like, dude, that metal show.

He's like, we watch it all the time on the bus.

Holy ship, I can't believe you're here.

I'm like, yeah, this is.

My wife's like, oh man, I goes can you hang you want to come on the bus.

I want you to meet the other guys.

And we drank till four in the morning.

It was unbelievable, out standing, first whisky, first time meet, We're on a tour bus, drink at like four in the morning with him, first.

Time Jim drank.

It's weird.

Yeah, I was trying to pressure and it was whisky.

Going back to why we asked Jim, you know about things because I like, uh this, Well, these guys I like grapefruit beer and and it drives him insane.

The books in the world.

What's the us guy?

I asked that exact question a week ago when this came out, such a thing as a.

Guy I had a well, I had a buddy years ago I played in a band with and uh and uh he had.

He was a Zema guy.

He was the only Zema guy that I ever knew.

And he would uh.

He had this little bracelet that he would when he ordered Azma.

He would put his little bracelet over the.

Neck of his And one day I said his name is Chris.

I said, Chris, what is that?

He said, it's my beer buddy.

And I said, well, okay, Well, why is that, and he said, I don't want anybody else to think that it's theirs that way.

I know it's my zema.

And I was like, I got news for you, Jack.

Ain't nobody thinking that's their name.

There was such a thing as grapefruit beer.

This is a big something and drink.

I just I just like grapefruit beer.

It's not as fruity as you think.

Somebody helped me, Yes it is.

I'm on one now.

One guy in this room has had a great fruit beer I've never heard.

I guess I'm not drinking with these guys till four in the morning.

Huh.

He just said, why you heard him?

You can do that with grape fruit beer, because you know your body absorbs what it needs as far as and then you just miss it out the rest of.

The voice of reason.

Yeah, absolutely, I hear you.

Guys are only here till five, so I would love to get into some guys.

Yeah, right on.

This is called let it burn.

It's Britt Turner on the suitcase.

Ladies and gentlemen.

Well, if I had a nickle for every line is town little nothing, and.

If I had a down for every time a sensual.

If I help anybody guys, I'm about before everything.

I'll see it.

I can't be said on that.

Don't ma, don't mean nothing to me.

Let it fin.

Just let it burn round stick and hanging around here waiting on the time turn and don't matter be smartly just as long as I get out, let it burn.

Listen.

I want two damn hard.

To bound up and shot un ship, to get a little behind and have a man come.

And take it back.

And I'll readers jump my neck with from the phone.

Will if the wonderful bad talk, I wouldn't have to look at home.

Let us burn where mama.

Let it burnt.

I can't wait to see your moll when no turn.

I was playing on the skirt brooms kids away to death.

He letter burn when I'm singing, and now you're writing on the tap turn.

Well, even if I want to stay, they didn't probably want me out of here anyway.

That's fine.

Let it burn.

Upside down.

They told us to pause after the song so they can repurpose the music for other channels.

Here it's serious.

Suppish to be guilty.

That was awesome.

Let it burn from BlackBerry smoke up their new Uh, but do you call them CDs?

You don't call them CDs.

Off there off their latest record like it Arrow and every song on that record is just absolutely amazing.

And that's that's the latest single, right that you know?

Because I know you're putting out it seems like it's it gets confusing.

I'm like, do we have a single?

Because Sunrise in Texas came out and yeah, they they were.

They made WE don't know.

What made a song available?

Uh, previous to the record being officially released.

They made a song a week or every two weeks available, So I guess it was a single, single single.

I would figure that if we had a producer, he would say, I don't hear a single?

Yeah, doubles.

I was gonna say.

I had to get the room, Joti, so you can do.

I don't know what's I don't know.

Fixing is what I did to but set it back up.

You were hanging in there.

That was awesome.

Is that an actual suit?

What is That's a suitcase.

That's where the drums go.

It's from the forties.

That's an old suitcase.

So you turned into a drum Well.

Yes, don't a suitcase.

Don't it's a drum.

Set and uh, and everything the greatest thing is it packs up into this suitcase.

If the's twelve hundred dollars, you can have one too, aren't.

You a pack of firecrackers?

That's something like you got an urban outfitters.

With polarn Yeah, all right, can we get another one from you guys?

Yeah, let's do.

There's this this funky one called Believe you Me nice?

Haven't a revenant?

Listen to you?

I can't think to say.

I may not allow answers to your question.

I'll not know all enough.

Well, and all comes back to you.

Haven't thing?

What comes around see?

It goes around me.

I ain't no say honey, I am pressing to you.

I don't put my finger and no.

Somebody says, amazing wild just a few more chips around the sun.

Now all goes back to you.

I have athing you do?

What comes around your seat goes around me?

Where all those I do?

You have a thing?

You do?

What comes around you?

See in those around me?

Fall first?

Believe you me from BlackBerry smoke.

Wow, that is funky goodness, really funky goodness.

That's a good one.

That is a really good one.

Thank you very much.

You guys are playing the Beacon Theater tonight tonight.

I believe there's a few tickets available, and our listener is, what is it forty four percent off using the code series XM through ticketmaster dot com.

I believe, let's go fifty.

I don't know why, let's go.

I don't know why they come up with I don't know contribute to thank Aaron.

Let's just round up the same guy that's always got his hand out for seven hundred dollars when we come to New York City.

It's like, oh, you want to use the elevator, that's seven hundred dollars.

You want to load in seven hundred dollars?

Oh yeah, I was getting the other six percent?

Is that the right?

Okay?

Have you guys played the Beacon Theater before we have?

Years ago we.

Opened for Zezy Top there.

Oh wow, two nights in a row.

I met Paul Rodgers and a little guy.

Yes, he's like four foot yeah yeah, yeah, like Bloomberg.

Little Bloomberg.

You can actually pick up Bloomberg, se him on the street.

You're allowed to pick him up and give him a tussle.

Yeah, shake him?

You ask all you exactly?

I didn't know Paul Rodgers was short.

Little guy huh yeah, I.

Literally like ran into it.

You know, the Beacon backstage is kind of like a uh, it's a puzzle, ye, And I rounded a corner and it wasn't.

Like a oops, hey, how you doing?

It was an embarrassing collision.

You literally ran into Paul h and it kind of he was annoyed, which that was I'm sorry I was to wash that down.

Sorry, look a.

Man, I really apologize to Zema if they're still out there.

That maybe.

I haven't seen a Zema in the years.

Right, they're dead, They're replaced by the Grayfruit beers, but they still got the cole bottle.

I usually go to the Beacon Theater for the Almond Brothers, have been there so many times, but mostly for the Almond Brothers.

And you guys do a song with Greg Almon on the new record like Narrow.

How do you meet Greg Almon?

Uh?

We played The first time we met him.

Was at the Peach Festival in Scranton, Pennsylvania, which was the festival that the the Almond Brothers.

Sure yeah, I guess you'd say, And we.

Met him there and then we played a couple of his laid back festivals.

And we've got some mutual friends from down in Making, Georgia that know him well, and uh so, yeah, it's it's it's been cool to spend a little time with Greg and I mean he's Greg Almond.

Come on, and there's rumors the Almand Brother's gonna, you know, do it again.

Huh.

I mean there's always the are they done?

Are they not done?

As long as you got Warren Haynes forever, so let's let's say it.

Yes they are.

I believe that.

With you in one form or another, the Almand Brothers will continue.

Yeah, they've only solved the.

Beacon out two hundred and thirty eight times, right.

I mean something like that.

There is the market, Yeah, yeah, they do the residence Steely Dan's done it fifty one times and that's cute.

But yeah, you to come out.

I think as these all these bands get older, if they stay in one spot, what do with Vegas Residency or the Beacon and just do like fifteen shows there.

They don't have to travel, they're not on a bus, they're not getting on a plane.

Siff the time zones.

They could just hang and just walking through the gig.

It's gonna bands and then the new thing where they just do you know, one album, the show is like they do the whole album and then yeah, then the encore is like night, yeah, the night whatever they call it.

But a lot of bands are starting to go down that road as well.

Yeah, can we squeeze one more out of you guys before we get out of here.

We're gonna do that tune that Greg Olman.

I was hoping you would do that one.

This is a song that Brandon and I.

Wrote over there on the Keys, and it's called Free on the Wing.

This is for you, Greg.

I think Greg's been feeling under the weather, so we'll dedicated to Greg.

Sky Busy.

He don't know that she's leaving.

Me today.

He cried over what we can a stray on to hit straight into the summer.

One love story is over and another just because you ever come and we go.

I'm sure the gooss on.

I found a.

Good search for a.

Some go looking the full Little change just seem to read maybe try to rid the sleep clean.

Others just seen late the Ever'm gonna settle down.

They're just wanting to be in between, to be free all the way, to hit straight into the sun.

One of the stories over then another's just begun.

And here we can't legal.

I surely goes on.

I find with research for all people just wants you to be what they want you to be.

Nothing ever, turns out to me were we thought it would be.

Mm hm to be free on the way, to get straight into.

The stor.

One love story is over and the brother's just been fun and here we come and we go.

I'm sure it goes on.

I found a search for oh.

That repurpose free on the way, BlackBerry Smoke from their album Like an Arrow.

That's that's amazing.

I was slow dancing to that one on the I was that one by myself while my line was in the water.

I'm telling you that the album Like an Arrow is just ridiculous.

It's so so good.

And all three of those were off the record.

Yes, and I'm starting to get into the older stuff.

I'm a newer fan because of Florantine and uh and then one of my listeners turned me on to you was doing led Zeppelin's uh Rover Rover.

Yeah.

Wow, that's a great version of that.

We played it on the radio the other day.

Thanks Many.

That was we uh Mojo magazine they put together Uh it was the fortieth anniversary of Physical Graffiti, So they chose bands to re record that record and uh and this is funn.

They were like, would you guys like to record a song from Physical Graffiti?

We said hell yes.

They were like, which one do you want to do?

You want to do?

And we said, uh, down by the Seaside And they were like, hmm, that was taken And I was like, okay, Custard Pie.

They were like, that one's taken.

I was like, I was like, okay, well then which one's free?

And they were like the Rover.

And you know, I mean we were like, okay, fine, I mean it's not like you could go damn, I don't want to do that one.

Yeah.

Do you know who did the other two?

I got another too.

I don't remember.

The Temperance Movement.

Some friends of ours from the UK they did Houses of the Holy Then they did a great job.

Yeah, and you guys did a great job with the song you didn't want.

To do there now now truth, truth be told, we did want to do it.

To me, that's the greatest double album of all time.

How good.

I will say this my my initial reason for wanting to do Down by the Sea Side is because it's probably the uh not the easiest to sing, but not quite as hard to sing as all the rest of the damn songs on that record.

Yeah, absolutely, I think we got to get you guys out.

I want to try to get you to do another one, but you guys already did three and we really appree unless you want to do one more as we leave.

But it's up to you.

Let's do We'll do it.

We'll do a verse in chorus of of this one.

Let the us and run.

Now, brother, Because you eat a lot of time, don't you act surprise when it all goes a hell on your dad?

Maybe you can stand tall enough to look the devil out it.

What's your better?

Make you get away quick so you don't have to answer why the.

Bell's little rays and the rains well, two thousand years of ferry in the rain, the rain, the thunder, whether that get a sun?

Wait your father thunder.

To get the rest of it, you have to come to the beacon.

I will be there, kidding me.

I like these guys.

He's from he's from Lynette, Alabama.

Yeah, warrigle, yeah, worry man.

It's like it's like having sex and the girl, just let you put the tip in just taking dinner and then you can finish it.

We're gonna get along with these guys.

That's exactly what I very tip of that song.

Please, that's awesome.

Listen, man, this was a real thrill for us.

I really appreciated BlackBerry uh BlackBerry smoke.

Excuse me playing the Beacon Theater tonight.

And maybe it's up to fifty percent off.

I don't know if you use the code serious exem at ticketmaster dot com.

Yeah, get the new record.

It's great.

It's called Like an Arrow and the past catalog.

Everything they put out is great.

And that's the first song off the album.

Yeah, which they play half of them.

Yeah, that's hilarious.

All right, guys, thank you so much.

We really appreciate it.

Thank you, guys.

Come back and see us again.

We'll be right back radio.

He's back.

How do they sound, Eric?

They sounded great.

Do you like him?

Yeah?

I got a fan now and one of the guys he said, hey, man, I just found your show two weeks ago.

I love it.

Brandon, Right, Brandon, Yeah, he's like I was.

I was texting my wife going only fun are gonna be on their show?

That's kind of cool.

I was having hillbilly bonding moments with the lead finger there from Alabama.

Yeah, you guys went off into the corner and we're a little bit of some Semas.

It's called the Valley.

Yeah, we're looking for some funny Is that from Georgia?

Like making Atlanta around that area?

But how funny?

Like they didn't even they've never heard a great food beer?

Is that a thing?

And they weren't even likely.

We're gonna get along just fine with those guys.

They play their their biggest song off like an Arrow waiting for the Thunder, and then just and then what they gave us a third of the song.

That's that song was great, but then they fucking just ended it like that.

That's hilarious.

Well they figured it probably like I we'll get we'll go.

We'll put three songs out there.

We don't really put a four.

Yeah, no, I understand, but I know that was like one they should like because they'll probably like open with that one tonight.

Yeah, such a good song to open with.

It's the first song off the record, like an Arrow.

Yeah, they'd probably come out and do that one.

First.

Doctor Steve wrote me he goes, What the fuck was that song they were playing at the end that they just cut short.

Well, that's the that's the big one off the album.

But the songs they played for us were great too, man.

I like the funky one was really yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Reminded me a little bit of a Shakedown Street by the Grateful Dead a little bit.

I was.

I was hearing a little uh Spanish moon yeah, okay, right on, yeah, yeah, but it was.

I'm very happy.

I hadn't months and I've seen the show.

You're going tonight?

Yeah, yea, I'm going tonight sun Rise in Texas.

Another great one off the I'm Gonna go Home and que oup and get ready.

There's not a bad song of the round.

I haven't liked the whole album in a long fucking time.

I could hear the h and he didn't even have Greg Almond joining him on that one, right, and I can't that's must be I've only heard that one like twice, all right.

Got to be a fabulous track.

Yeah, Free on the Wing, Yeah yeah, yeah, that was really good.

We're losing you, Quarentine.

You got to get out of here?

Are you going down?

At forty fifth and ten?

Yeah, my GPS.

I got that they could fix a flat in ten minutes.

Yes they can, They absolutely can.

Kenny has gone there a few times with our flat tires.

It's so funny.

They listened to the show too, because the guy called us.

That's so weird.

Wait was he from the place?

I thought he was just a fan saying?

Go?

I don't know man either.

Yeah, I was not sure either what he was saying.

But he said, don't forget to say.

Poppy a lot.

Yeah, but he sounds like the poppy.

Yeah, I thought he was there.

That's what I thought too, But I don't know.

Well, I got a hole in the tire, so it's like it big hole.

So it's not I'm gonna even know the tire from them.

Oh boy, So it's not one they can plug.

But they'll have something.

Just throw something.

I don't know, just trust and then the tire is not gonna come off something there.

I gotta throw something.

Where's the gig and the cat skoo?

I don't know.

I hope they give you a tire with an obnoxious rim, just one.

Oh yeah, but you would love that.

You wouldn't give a no calls from the car.

I want to I want to see how this tire joint is all right?

Yeah, I'm serious.

Calls from the car, Are you really leaving?

Like right now?

Yeah?

I gotta go because I gotta get up there.

It's two hours from here and I gotta go get this.

Well, thanks for coming in.

I knew, uh, I knew it was going to be tight, but I also knew you would like to see.

You, right.

They were happy to see you too, Yeah, you know that's cool.

I hang with them whenever I can.

They played down at the Stone Pony out the out door stage for a government mule over the.

Wow, So I went down there and hung with them.

Those guys, they're gonna be huge off this record.

Don't you think There's so many I know, catchy songs.

I know if it could just I don't know if, like, if the music business was where it was fifteen twenty years ago.

These guys who used I forget about it, you were just.

Starting to get big over in England, over in Europe.

Yeah, they really started catching over there.

I was talking to Brandon about that right after they finished, because I told them how I got turned onto the record company too.

And they're like, dude, we did a tour with those guys.

They're so fucking cool.

We'd love to do a tour with them in the States.

You know, it's weird because they don't know what format.

They just band can be played on.

Because I do a lot of country radio on.

The road on Outlock Country here right at country.

But when I'm in a town where they just do terrestrial radio, the country station go on to promote the shows.

I'm like, you guys play BlackBerry smoke, Like ah, it's a little too scared of it.

I know radio and I and I know I'm in it.

It drives me nuts.

This ship country media people were thinking country radio is very That's why outlock country rules, because country radio is really just ship.

There's a rock station.

Now no, no, the country stations that say, naw, we can't because the rocks.

Some of the slower ones I know they got it's a little too heavy.

In Texas, I know they'll play Zach Brown, but they won't play that and Zach.

You know, they run Zach's label the last record and they you know, they I saw them won't for Zach and at the Meadowlands and the Garden and stuff.

So yeah, it's weird.

Every time, I asked, when I do go, you guys play back to smoke.

Oh it's a little too heavy.

Yeah, I can stay away from.

Here, spineless.

That's why Donny Cash took out the ad and flipped off country a.

Heavy.

Yeah, but that's such such a catchy song.

Oh man, So they're so all right because rock radio is not playing Improbable Now.

It's a tough it's you know, classic rock's not playing them, even though they sound like they classic rock, they're not playing them.

You know, a station like Octane even here, it's serious.

They're not going to play them, right, you know.

So it's a it's a they're in a weird, weird area.

But if they can, if they if they like Q one of four in New York, the local classic rocks, if they put them in the mixed, people go crazy, love it.

They are.

Yeah, they overthink everything.

I was trying to say, and or whatever, she's got to go Yeah, to run him out.

I was talking that whatever, what nothing, I might be back over there on regular radio.

You're getting tired.

No, I was having a cover whatever.

I was having a conversation.

But that was the type of ship I was talking about.

It's just like fuck.

Throw the rules out the window.

Man, it's time.

Don't overthink this ship.

Right especially now with all the competition.

Now, you got to take chances.

Don't get more conservative right.

Now because some there's at least two companies that are trimming everything down because they're trying to sell them.

So they're not going to take any chances whatsoever.

Right yeah, yeah, but they and then they wonder why that whole world just died.

Drive up.

Don't care at this point.

They wanted it's unbelievable.

Whatever they can for it and move on, right.

I mean, the signs were there for years.

It was like, wake the fuck up.

You got to open up your playlist.

You gotta let your DJs talk.

Find find talent of the DJs.

As much as I beat the ship out of them, there are plenty that to know what they're doing and then and have a go at it.

Whatever.

It's because I'm in this business.

I've been in this business my whole life, and I see the mistakes all the time.

The disgust on your friend, it's ridiculous.

It's mind boggling.

Because if I always go to like if you're in a bar and the jukebox is playing and Sweet Home Alabama is played, followed by Metallica followed by Zach Brown.

Nobody Leave, Nobody leaves.

Everyone's like, oh cool, there's nobody's pissed off.

Excuse me?

Can I talk to the owner?

You know?

Cool?

I like Metallica, I have to scare you.

And then they play all right, just I like this one.

You know, it doesn't matter, but that's what they do in.

Europe as you know, you know more than anyone, these like rock festivals and stuff.

They throw them all together and the kids love them.

I told you Stapleton was opening for Gunge and Roses on a Nashville show.

Yeah, I got's great.

He's really good.

You know what are some of the like mixes in Europe on these metal shows.

Journey was on the same day that slip Knot headlined.

Yeah, and eighty thousand people over download in England were going crazy.

Journey went on at like four thirty in the afternoon.

At five o'clock, place was going ballistic, and then Slipknot was on three hours later.

Fabrulous and well.

Ready for that here in this state doesn't matter?

Yeah right, I know the Journey songs.

I'm not gonna be pissed, like what the fuck is this?

I'm like, all right, cool?

Is this cool?

Yeah?

These radio programmers, they're ignoring the fact that everyone's making their own fucking playlist on their phones, Like, wake the fuck up.

That's why Bonnaroo works a lot too, because it's just a hodgepodge of everything.

Really, it just went.

They had comedy there and I was lucky enough to play their twice and it was just a joy to walk around to all the various shows.

Elvis Costello's over here two hours later, over here's the gorge.

Yeah, it's weird because Metallica has done a couple of her own festivals oryan fest in they did one in Atlantic City, and they did one in Detroit, I think it was the other one, and they had a big mixture on there, and the metal heads didn't go forward in America.

No, they didn't like it at all.

They had a comedy tent that I did comedy at, but but they just had old They had a I forget.

Eric Church was on.

Yeah, he headline one, like he was on a big stage earlier in the day and sh like that.

In the metal head's like, what is this ship that good?

He's great, Yeah, he's great.

But so then there was all these different It was a punk band and it was this KG Elephant and shit like that.

So there's like these old metal heads like this fucking so.

You know what I mean, you were at the mall where your fucking chick for three hours the day before as she was standing there trying shit on.

Did you like that?

So you can't sit through thirty minutes a KG Elephant, maybe you might like a song.

So I guess, well, everything I just said is it's not gonna happen here in the States.

Like now, they're just not like Europe's you know, they still like they don't they don't follow trends like they're doing with the music.

Yeah, if they like it, they're not worried that.

I saw Limp Biscuit at that same download festl like the next day, I mean, destroy in front of eighty thousand people.

And this was maybe six years ago, so it wasn't like in their heyday.

Now Limp Biscuit, you know, they can't do a club in the States more than you know, five hundred people, unbelievable, you know, but up there and they destroyed, right for forty five minutes it's so weird how that.

Just plays out, really strange.

All right, we got to get Florentine out of here.

Phones will lit.

Everyone enjoyed the performance.

That's very cool.

Damn it, Opie, you've got me hooked.

I told Opie how good they are live.

Florentine got me hooked on this group.

For this podcast, I like to tell you about a similar group that I love.

All right, we'll go to the phones in the second after we say goodbye to mister Florentine.

So where you're gonna be.

Buddy, Well, December ninth, my new comedy special A Simple Man comes out.

Go to my website, Chamflorentin dot com.

This two trailers up there for the special and you can pre order it now digital download all that shit streaming.

All right, I don't think i'll see it till aft of the holiday.

So happy Thanksgiving.

I don't know if you guys know what's going on if you're not with family, but you just would like, you know, a bunch of friends get together.

They call it friendsgiving.

No, yeah, yeah, I saw a banner with that written, and I wonder what that meant?

Friends?

What are they still just call Thanksgiving?

Because people don't want to be with their families anymore, so they just go out with their friends and do it themselves.

Oh that's so sad.

What said that they did?

They don't have family or I still like most of my family, A lot of it.

It's very popular, more so now because of the election.

A lot of these kids don't want to deal with their parents and talk politics and a lot of stuff, so they're just avoiding it all together and going and doing their own thing.

But that's the time you get together with your family.

The rest of the year, you're really not with them.

It's usually Thanksgiving and Christmas, everyone comes together for a little bit.

But the Trump shit's going to be obnoxious this year.

Whether you are for Trump or against him, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving.

Is going to be a not sharing family's apart.

It's gonna be fucking this fucking guy.

He wants Jerry Cooney to Oh God.

Turn the lights off.

You'll think, God, damn, he walked by it through that.

You guys really curtains then we don't need him.

We don't know if he's disgusted by I kick me and Vic could bring this this boat in.

I think we can bring this back to the doc no problem.

Uh what we were saying there?

Oh yeah, so friends, give I didn't know that.

Yeah, that's awful.

I did not know that.

That's yeah.

But the Trump stuff is gonna be just ridiculous.

Have I even I was instructed?

Someone told me that where I'm going to be, like, you know, if it's the ship starts.

Uh.

This guy just said I'm just leaving and I'm counting on you to go with me.

And I'm like, do we do a strong He goes, no, no, no, We're not gonna make a big deal out about it.

We'll just vanish.

They'll do the Liverish exit.

They'll just be looking around and all of a sudden we'll be gone.

And I'm okay, I'm with you.

Do you really think something's gonna happen?

He I don't know.

I'm just just just make him sure.

I'm like, all right, that's what I have selective hearing about him.

Sure Trump stuff comes up.

I just like, I.

Can't do it.

I just can't do it.

There's too many people that really really believe in this guy.

I've never been that pass, not a one guy guy.

I just I don't believe.

I don't believe that one guy could change the country that much and make your life that much better.

I just have never believed that.

Let it play out, Let's do what happens, you know what I mean.

He might hire to write people around.

He might be he might be an amazing president for some You ever know if he pulls that guy is so motivated, you know, and everything he does to be the best and destroy everything in his path.

You never know.

He might just hire the right people to make the right decisions at the right time.

No one would get my attention for real.

If Trump made an announcement he's going to do with some massive like construction project.

He's got a big infrastructure plan, no like the old days, like some Hoover damn ship, that's what I mean he's got.

I thought he had some sort of vet or the Golden Gate Bridge or another authority, another tunnel to get us in and out of this this this crowded city of ours, or or one of those bullet trains, you know what I mean, some huge, over the top construction project, and then that would bring a lot of people together, like dam.

Just give him the hundred days.

That's whoever it is, whatever's been in office, the standard report.

They wait one hundred days and then they all have done every single president since the Dawnham presidents, that they give him the hundred days and.

Then they talk about it.

So we just got to sit back, like you said, sit tight and just wait.

But I would love to see one of those where there's a huge announcement we're finally gonna do.

We're gonna dix every bridge in amor.

Not even that's just some amazing over the top project.

Of course, our breaks need to be I think the bullet trains.

I think like getting you know, the fast the trains that just go what three hundred miles an hour whatever it is, something like that.

I think if they're up to three hundred miles now, cutting the time between Washington, New York and I think they've talked about one from San Francisco to l A for forever.

And I think there's they would like to connect Texas in that way as well, some of the some of the cities, all right, you know, something like that we'll see or maybe another big damn.

Maybe it could be the wall.

Maybe the wall we got we got a wall.

We got a wall down there.

It's not a bad believe it or not as people think it's bad, but it's not, like, yeah, part of it's gonna be a friend.

So do we have water somewhere that we need to hold back?

No, I don't know.

Oh you mean a damn you're thinking of a damn somewhere?

No, I think everything's all damned up pretty much.

We're through with the dams.

And when you want to see a big project, if it's a good idea, not just for the sake of having a big projecting.

The Hoover damn into an IMAX screen.

Oh wow, all right, how cool that would be awesome.

Why not I'm ax in a laser light show right there at the dam.

Of course.

Imagine seats that that are literally just stacked all the way up, built into the mountain.

Oh my god.

See something like that.

Then I'm like, all right, I'm in.

No, they've had a whole bunch of these projects just leaning around forever, but they just think it costs too much.

So all right, Flor kept me here twenty more minutes.

I know that's right.

Whatever.

Hopefully you get your tire fixed if you can call us.

Well, yeah, all right.

And I didn't know about this friends giving thing.

I had no idea.

I think that's kind of sad.

Actually, I think it I regularly started before the election, if I'm not mistaken.

It just started, like you know, people in New York that can't make it out to San Diego.

Family said they just hang and they call friends.

Yeah, that was I understand that one.

I've done that one.

No, I understand that.

But it sounds like it's getting bigger where people are actually making excuses why they.

Can't go to Long Island from Manhattan.

They're hanging out with their friends instead.

Exactly what it is, they just don't want to deal with their families because of the election the most, at least stuff that I've seen on Facebook, and they're just going to go out and you know, cook and drink with their friends rather than having to deal with their family and actually have a discussion about anything.

But why would you blow off to the opportunity to be ship talking in the in the car on the way home.

Yeah, that's always fun.

I always love that one.

That's very that's very very fun.

Yeah.

I perked right up for that.

Well, there's nothing better than some good old family shit talking on the car and if you got a long ride home, man out ugly right.

All of it, the marrible food, the bad ideas, especially at Christmas, the shitty gift.

Talking is always really wrong.

Oh, I'll acknowledge them.

There's they're talking shit about me as well in their cars on the way home.

I might need to do to it.

Last year, my niece, my niece reminded me a few months ago that my brother was taking the big family picture one year and my middle brother has been married four times, and so my brother was taking the picture.

My older brother says to wife number two, he was like, Uh, you need to get out of the middle and move down there on the end because when you all get a divorce, we'll.

Be able to cut your right off the picture.

That.

Wow, we're taking the fucking family picture.

He said it.

Oh that's beautiful.

I forgot it happened with my knees.

Her dad reminds, you remember when dad said that to whatever which one that was.

That's fallsy, that's Terry man, he's ballsy.

That's my move with fans.

When it's a couple that want to picture, I go a.

You should get your individual just in case this doesn't work.

That's my move.

I just stand in the middle.

Yeah, my friend, uh, this comedian friend of mine.

He was getting married for the fourth time.

He's like, dude, I want to come to my wedding, and I'm like, you know what, I'm gonna skip this one.

I'll come to the fifth.

That was my text back to walk Yeah, okay, and then didn't.

He never even got married.

The ship broke up.

So it's Ron White's joke.

He says, I had a bit with my cousins on who's going to get married first.

He goes, I came in third, fifth, and seventh.

A good joke.

That's a very good joke.

Chuck wants to check in.

We got a lot of phone calls, so all right, let me run before Chuck.

It's on.

I love Chuck, but I gotta.

All right, yeah, go go go a big thing to Florentine for first Uh, I heard of BlackBerry smoke, turning me onto BlackBerry smoking.

Then I turned Vic onto that.

I guess that's how it works.

And coming in today for the performance, got it.

I can't wait to re listen to that.

I know.

Did it sound good on the radio?

Great?

All right, awesome, and there's got a great voice man.

Yeah, And I think we got some videos we'll put up on the YouTube channel Opie Radio later.

All right, Florentine, we're babbling.

Get out of here, because it's always weird to just usually take a break so someone can leave.

But no, it's not weird.

It's just like leaving on one night stand.

Like I just.

I mean, I've been doing it ever since, even with the beepers.

My manager.

I got an audition.

I gotta get the fuck out.

I told them not early in the morning.

That's what you're doing right now.

All right, let's let's go to the phones.

They are lit u, Chuck, what's going on, buddy?

Just you already did well.

I was gonna say they're good live.

But they're amazing.

I have never seen them live live.

I mean, I'm very excited about tonight.

We got to see a radio station performance, which is slightly different.

But uh yeah.

I mean I've heard a bunch of their uh songs live on on online.

But man, I like them, Chuck.

I've seen them in a big place to sing out in Cherokee, and I've seen them in a place there's like three hundred four hundred people.

They're They're a really good band.

I have never heard it in those songs out there.

I had to listen to it on my LAMT phone.

I didn't And here's that good?

But I like that funky when you was talking about.

Espacially, yeah, believe you me.

I believe I believe that was good.

I was good.

Yeah, So I wish I was up there.

I'd like to see that in the Bacon.

I always wanted to go there.

You should go on the Outlaw Country Cruise, Chuck.

They're gonna they're gonna play on that real they played on it once already and they're gonna play on it again.

You should.

You should do some comedy work.

Temper approached me about we were we were trying to get that.

Weaseled in somehow, but uh, that'd be really fun.

Oh, you gotta do that.

My wife wasn't fucking cruises, man.

I gained too much fucking weight.

There.

It is the eating drinks, yeah, the uh, the Outlook Country Cruises.

Uh, the second Voyage.

Yeah, twenty seventeen.

People wanna they're going to be in my hometown.

It's February the third, I think, yeah, but.

I hope they really catch on.

I'm surprised they haven't caught on more than they have at this point because they're just I don't know, I can't.

I can't stop talking about them.

Country country stations on the reg Reggor radio ain't gonna hardy play them.

They're kind of in between because in their combination of everything I grew up listening to.

That's what I was saying.

Yeah, you hear a little of everything, and yeah, echoes of good stuff all through it.

Right, Uh, chuck, how's your Thanksgiving shaping up?

You got your?

You got your don't have a big crowd over the house and the prize of turkeys?

And I am and I shot a big deer last week, and we're gonna cook it and we're gonna have.

A big time.

And you're gonna be all right with the lesbian daughter?

Is that gonna be a problem.

Hell, yes, he's coming, gonna bring her down, let her have whatever.

You call it.

She starts scratching, scratching her fucking nuts.

I'll bust out laughing again.

Is there gonna be a lot of Is there gonna be a lot of Trump talking in your house for Thanksgiving?

I don't know.

I think you know you were talking about that man to go about families.

I think I'm just gonna say, put a sign on the door, We're not gonna talk fucking policies because you get a bunch of fucking red Nicks and then you get some fucking women that was from Hillary, and you're gonna have a problem.

And you get a bunch of white liquor and smoking pot and everybody slept.

That could be some trouble.

How many turkeys are you gone?

Frosh?

We're gonna have a sign on the door says no fucking politics.

Have a good time, and we're not.

We'll talk about fault.

Yeah, let's see how that works.

How many people chuck?

And we probably have one hundred?

Wow?

Are you serious?

Yeah?

Yeah, I got a big place and it's supposed to turn old, but we got.

Plenty of room.

We'll have a gang of people, damn ten people and people around the country and their kids and all that shit.

We'll have a big time.

Do you pry the turkey in the peanut oil?

Ah?

Yeah?

I have people do it?

Don't I get just sucked up.

I never I get to you're smart.

I've never enjoyed it.

I've never enjoyed the man.

Yeah, that's good.

I guess they just haven't had it properly.

I'm a smoke Turkey fan.

Now have you ever burned down a barn or a house with that shit like those videos online?

No?

I tried it one time, and I know one thing, you better not trying to do it fucking frozen.

Yeah, that's what I happened here.

Yeah, that's what happens every time.

That's what I hear.

We have a big get like it.

I got a guy owns the restaurant and he comes over and they do everything and we have we haven at big spread.

I don't fuck that ship.

And then when it's over, I pay you people to coming out of your lip.

I ain't stucking without either.

That's good.

Yeah, there you go.

What else is on your mind?

Everything else good?

Yeah, everything's good.

I've got all.

I always got back to Key West and I'm I'm down here in Homestead, Florida right now for the damn NASCAR ship and I'm coming on thanks to you.

That scars to you see.

Get to just take off and go to go to Key Way.

It's the fin I've been doing off god ship going that where she wanted to go down there and I just followed her around for fucking six days all I did drink liquor.

That's about you.

Oh wait, you went with your wife for once.

Yes, you wanted to go.

You know, after a while you gotta say yes.

Man.

You can't get you can't keep just saying no all the time.

That's right, man, Why I play that happy?

It ain't nobody.

Yeah, all right, y'all going, He's going fishing.

I'm going fishing because this is pretty.

I was.

I was debating that.

I was debating that that's.

What I might sucking.

He says, to get back on the blow.

I heard, that's suggestion.

I talked to black Fish Book.

They said they're coming back sooner than later.

So I'll catch them definitely next time.

It's a short weekend because we're doing radio next week a little bit.

So I should post a picture of the bluefish my fishing buddy caught, and then you'll understand what was Then you would understand why I wanted one more shot at it.

Because they are they are leaving town.

We called my I called my brother Mike.

I only have to and I called my brother Mike because he is a monster.

I don't know which one he likes more, of the fishing or the chance to go a cons exactly like Black Bear's mug and.

He no hesitation.

Yes, tell him, tell him to get his eyes after those fish.

I heard it.

It was the first thing he said.

I'll probably shut out.

I'll probably get shut out, but whatever now, Yeah, we talked about it too much.

One more and maybe next weekend too.

Everybody be that was a hoss.

Yeah, I was holding twenty pound fish.

I think he said it was about twenty pounds right off the beach.

Giant bluefish.

I've never seen one that big reeled in off the beach.

Let's say, how did George and Baltimore?

George don't have your love you?

Hey, well you love the show, Thanks George.

But but I'm pissed man why he was a record company first?

You got me turned onto the record company and go to the concert two hundred dollars beer concert t shirt.

With Black Beerry.

They were unbelievable.

Man, that is a sound and like you guys are saying, I don't know what radio station would plan.

They're just unbelievable.

Yeah.

I think they get I think they get a little taste of the action.

Their new album Like an Arrow is on YouTube.

The whole thing so if you want to check it out.

But I'm one of these I try to like support bands and stuff that I'm into, so you know, maybe try to download their their record like an Arrow.

But and how funny are they They play that monster song waiting for the Thunder and then they just cut it off like that.

That was hilarious.

That was that's so ballsy.

I'm like, are you serious?

That's why.

But that's why outlaw country works.

That's why little Steven bless his heart, when they gave him the little leeway to come up with some channels down here.

That's a brilliant decision for him to think of that, because otherwise where.

Would that be played?

Right?

I like underground garage, that's a great channel.

I used to love standing channel.

I used to listen to download Country and then I don't know why, I just stopped.

I got to get back listening to those guys.

When I worked on that, it was fun because everybody there's again, there's a lot of leeway to play a lot of different styles.

It's not just country, you know, other than in the title and Temper uh, Temper knows his ship man.

And he's running out at the country.

Yeah, Well, the rumor, and we should ask Jeremy is the rumor was Little Stephen was at a show at the at Irving Plaza and Temper was playing the music before and then the music between the opening act and whoever was headline, and Little Stephen wandered over to him and goes.

Find me the DJ.

I want to talk to whoever's playing all this?

I don't kidd and then introduced himself and said, you know, I think so, but Jeremy can say for sure that's that's it's a damn good story.

If he didn't have it that way, if he's still around, to have him come in here.

But George, all right, there you go.

You're gonna have to spend a few more bucks.

I wish Wine was still there because my wife and I were going out to dinner and it's a restaurant that only serves practice.

Okay, I'm thinking, what.

Would you say?

Wait, you go into a restaurant that only serves breakfast?

Yeah, for dinner.

I'm all in, But I think Florentine would not be happy about that.

If I would love to hear what he would say, I'm all in.

I mean he would say, you got a order like the eggs and a bake.

And you can't owner pancakes for dinner.

No you can't.

That's no.

I guarantee that's.

That used to be a treat when I was growing up, breakfast at night and it was always pancakes.

Let me.

Let me try to get him on the phone.

Let me.

Can't let him he's trying to get his somewhere.

No I can't.

I'm sick when he comes to radio.

I gotta do this now.

There's got to bother him.

He's driving, because we need to know, we need to know if this will what's the name of this place?

Man, It's in Baltimore, and I know you know you always go out to the Goopies, but it's called Homemade.

They do everything from scratch.

Man, it is the best restaurant you've ever been to.

If you love that Southern cooking, sausage, gravy, and biscus.

I was going to say that was my first thing I was going to ask, is how was the biscus in gravy?

Man?

Uh?

They need to die for Jim.

They do everything.

George.

Hold on one second, Florentine, I got you on the on the radio through my cell phone, all right.

I'm still in the garage.

I didn't even leave again.

Then, oh, he's still in the garage.

Hold on, I got the speaker on.

Uh, so we got a guy.

He's going out to dinner with his wife, but they only serve breakfast at this restaurant.

Is that okay?

And what sure?

You order that?

That makes it okay.

As long as he doesn't use the word because that's the word people use to have breakfast for dinner.

And then you call it brinner.

Oh fine, yeah, I'll do it again.

He's a like, uh, a waffle house on the road at like six o'clock and get eggs and pash brown or something like that.

So I don't care, but just don't use brenner.

And I told I told this guys.

You order the eggs and the bacon.

I think Florentine would be okay with it, But don't order the fucking pancakes for dinner.

No, you get that's fine.

I didn't even know.

Just don't call it brinner.

Breakfast isn't the breakfast isn't going to be a forty.

Dollar plate, right, But I had no idea that was even a word.

Now you don't mind, you know, don't don't fruit them up though.

Don't fit them up, and don't take a picture.

I won't do that.

Nobody cares.

Everyone knows what pancakes look.

All right, bro go get your tireffects.

We'll talk to you.

So all right, all right, there, d He's gonna be still down there when we leave in twenty minutes.

He's still down there in the garage doing all He's cool with it.

Just don't call it Brentner there, George and you.

All right, all right, thank you, guys, all right, enjoyed BlackBerry smoke.

They are They're very cool.

They are, Thank you, thank you, thank you.

All right.

Man, let me say hi to Jackson in Boston.

Jackson, I'm in radio too.

You're here.

Oh sorry, it's so cool, man, it's so cool.

Sorry that you're in radio.

For many reasons, because I know me and Anthony ruined it for a lot of people.

I really do know that the rules changed after we fucking fucked it up.

Yeah, you fucked it up for all of them.

I have to admit it.

I have stayed awake, uh not many nights.

I'm like, wow, we really fucked up the business.

What's all the other day?

Oh, Charles luck madera.

Jesus, where's he?

And last I heard he was in Hawaii or something?

He is, but uh, the one of the guys from our station did a movie premire the other day and Charles came to.

See the movie.

Cool.

What's what station?

You ws LX, Boston's classically Yeah, man, CBS Radio.

Man, what do you do for that?

Real fast?

I'm one of those producers for the Carlson Mackenzie morning shows.

I've been on that show.

Do you know Vick Kenley?

Not in the least two and a half years.

No, I'm wrong.

Yeah, I'm a big fan.

Now, man, you you're fucking.

Awesome with over could have sworn I did this show, you mus.

I'm saying I've only been with the show for like two and a half years.

I was, I was well, I was at Magooby's this earlier this year, in like March or April or something, and I know I did morning radio and that looks like where I was standing.

But I could be wrong.

All right, Jackson, gotta let you go.

All right, bro, Hey, thanks man, keep up the good work.

Bro.

I will thank you.

Let's say hi, we only have a couple of minutes left.

Here Dan and Virginia go ahead, Dan.

Hey, that's like I said, I love it.

So, yeah, you guys talking about Fronksgiving.

So we've actually been an Frinks Givings about three or four years now.

It's great.

So we do it before Thanksgiving and we all do our home to our families and basically just as an excuse to cook and get really fucked up.

It's a lot of fun.

Wait, but do you do it on Thanksgiving Day?

No?

No, no no.

So we do it so like tomorrow this year or a week or two before.

So so we all still go back to our families.

They just got an excuse for all of us to get together.

And like I said, cooking up.

Well that's what Wednesday before Thanksgiving is for traditionally.

No, we're talking about Irak said that actually friends are completely blown off their families that they could easily get to.

He's just adding an extra one, right, And on Thanksgiving they're just hanging out with their friends.

And it's not because they were far away from home or any of that shit.

Yeah, that's just fucking silly.

I mean, you can't handle your family for a couple holidays every year, that's easy, man, I've done both, you know, I've been.

I've been.

I used to work this week every year in Cincinnati and I would go to my friend's house and we would throw out the hole spread with just you know, seven or eight of us, and I loved it.

It was great, and I was making money and.

Avoiding crazy family stuff if any of that was been going to happen.

Right, let me say hi to Joe and Ohio.

Joe, go ahead, Hey, how are you doing?

Guys?

Really?

Through the show, thank you, you were talking about the radio stations with the blended format, theah one here called I think they called it like the Brad, and it was a bridge between two format changes.

It was awesome.

But this current generation who's like everything is one hundred percent YouTube.

I want to view the same video eighty seven times in a row.

They don't want.

Variety and they want to be able to pick their own stuff.

It's kind of stupid.

And you know, we had to wait around for our favorite songs on the radio, and now these kids are like, fuck that, why would I wait.

I'm going to YouTube and I'll listen to whatever I want.

So that's that.

I'm gonna watch the same video eighty seven times.

Right, I hear you, dude, that's our music.

I got to actually cut you off today.

Thank you bro?

All right, Joe, call back Joe from Ohio.

Vick Kenley.

Wow, four days in a row for you, man.

I know I'm gonna take like a month off.

No.

I like request.

I definitely liked it.

I'm exhausted.

What do we what do we got?

You're gonna be going.

I got New York City.

I'm going to BlackBerry Smoke tonight.

I've got New York City dates through New Year's and then in January and February, I'm doing some.

Days with Kathleen Madigan.

So I'm in Birmingham, Alabama, Macon, Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia.

And then in uh February, we're in Chattanooga and Memphis, Tennessee.

Get Kathy Madigan in here.

I'm gonna try.

Kathleen is absolute.

Her new specials on Netflix right now.

It's called Bothering Jesus.

It's hilarious.

I believe I've never had her on the radio.

She's great, which is just stupid.

She's great.

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