Spring has finally sprung, and that means two things: less than 80 days to Bonnaroo 2025, and it's time to reveal our contest winners! After twelve weeks and countless entries, The What Podcast crew selects the winner of two GA wristbands plus a camping pass, a print from I Am Bonnaroo photographer David Bruce, and a Bonnaroo Yearbook! We also start our deep dive into the Bonnaroo 2025 lineup, starting with your suggestions and Bryan shares his Bonnaroo playlist to kick things off. Join our discord for more listener suggestions that we couldn't get to on the show.
Elsewhere in the episode, the crew discuss CaveJam coming up and Lollapalooza's quick sell-out, plus the release of the Where in the Woods lineup for Bonnaroo. Oh, and one more thing-why Kitchen Dwellers might not be Bryan's cup of tea...
Listen to the whole episode right here, or watch the video on YouTube. And don't forget to like, rate, and subscribe to The What Podcast wherever you get your podcasts!
Topic: Bonnaroo
Guest: Lena
00:00 | Intro |
06:00 | CaveJam |
08:12 | Contest submissions |
37:23 | Bryan on other podcasts |
39:02 | More winners |
45:08 | Bonnaroo artist suggestions |
50:37 | Lollapalooza |
53:19 | Where in the Woods |
58:17 | Outro |
Couple of y'all, I don't mean to be a jerk about it.
Couple of y'all sent me, and thank you again,
but kitchen dwellers as a suggestion.
I don't know where this has gotten misunderstood.
This is a pure bluegrass band that doesn't have a drummer.
It ain't kitchen dwellers ain't going to work for me.
It's not going to work for me.
If it's a drive by, it's a walk by, I'll give it a listen.
But I thought, OK, these, I don't know, maybe we talk a lot,
guys.
Maybe they've got misunderstood where I'm at.
But I don't want to be the-
I think maybe you got trolled.
Maybe.
All right, Bryan.
I'd say I don't know.
Bryan, we've got the band for you right here.
I might have lost the context.
If somebody's at home laughing, I made
him listen to Kitchen Dwellers.
Ah.
Hey, everybody.
Welcome back to the What Podcast.
It is a gorgeous, gorgeous weekend here in Chattanooga.
I don't know how it is, where you guys are.
But what is this?
March 23rd weekend-ish.
I don't think it could be any prettier.
Yeah, it's been pretty awesome around here.
No, we finally made it into spring.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Spring's officially here.
Weather is a little cold.
And then it got a lot better this weekend.
Of course.
Yeah.
First day of spring down here was 46 degrees.
It was freezing.
And then the next day it was 75.
When you see all the memes about the South, those are right.
But I'll take it every day of my life.
I love that.
Clichés are clichés for a reason,
let's put it that way, as we've always said.
We're on like third spring right now, third spring.
Part of why that's important is it means that, Bryan,
I think you said you're out doing yard work.
Russ, that means you're probably in the bus going somewhere.
In fact, you had a busy weekend already, right?
What was the event?
Another car show?
Yeah, we had a big car show downtown, Riverside.
This is our 10th year putting this show on.
And this is an all-encompassing, not just Volkswagen,
it's all makes and models, mostly imports,
mostly modified cars.
So if you were anywhere near Chattanooga
and you heard engines and cars and stuff going down the road,
that's what that was about.
We have a lot of people come in front of town.
Oh, yeah.
It's got a big, big tourist in.
Not tourist, but.
But people travel for this event.
And I'm 10 miles from downtown, roughly 8 to 10 miles
from where I live.
And I could hear those burners.
I could hear a few last night.
So it is a wild event we have here.
Car shows to me are always wild to begin with
because people just, it's such fandom.
My god, how many podcasts are there on Meacham, right?
And Riverside and all these other things.
But they barely advertise.
It's kind of like a Bonnaroo style thing.
There's barely advertising.
There's not even, I wouldn't know anything about it
if I didn't know people like you, Russ,
that were involved in it.
And it packs our city every year.
So I'm a big fan, even though the cars are not my favorite.
But if you're in the know, I mean, you know about these events.
And of course, we've got, we also have the Chattanooga Motorcar
Festival, which will be in the fall.
And that's more of a classic car show.
That's the other end of the wallet.
Yes.
Yep.
They're both bring your checkbook,
but that's the bring your big checkbook.
They're both bring your inheritance
and your generational wealth.
But yes, I love the motor car thing a lot.
But the Riverside one's fun too.
And Taco's always got to get himself involved in those.
There's a car or a bus.
I always manage to get involved.
Yeah, he's gonna be there.
Yeah, and then we ended up going to Low Main Saturday night
after the car show and then walked over to Yellow Racket,
which is the record store next door.
They were having a live show, a band playing.
And so I ended up picking up some records.
So I'll show you.
Not even record store day.
He's already buying.
Not even record store day.
I'm already picking stuff up.
So this is the Yes album, which I already have,
but this is a Japanese import.
So I had to get that.
Look at this guy.
Now he's got it twice.
Now I have it twice.
That sounds like me.
I have to have a list of all of my albums
because I'll end up buying the same record twice
if I don't make sure that I already have it.
Well, and real quick that I've noticed in collectibles,
Japanese-produced versions of American products
or collectibles, records, guitars, things like that,
they always had.
They're the hardest ones to get.
And they're probably the best ones made.
I don't know that they're the ones everybody wants.
It's a player.
But that's what caught my eye was that it's in Japanese.
And it's almost in kind of a paper.
I mean, this isn't even a really record sleeve.
It's just kind of a paper thing.
So that's weird.
That's cool.
And then Rick Wakeman, he was also the keyboardist for Yes.
And he's done a lot of solo stuff.
And I've never gotten into any of it.
So this was $5, so I picked that up.
And then this last one, Barry, I think you'll appreciate.
I got the Kraftwerk 50th anniversary of this album.
There it is.
Yeah.
I think I mentioned a couple episodes before.
And I highly recommend it if you at all
love listening to Rick Beato interviews.
His interview with Rick Wakeman is outstanding.
Rick Wakeman is a terrific storyteller.
And I mean, it's everything from his interactions
with like the Beatles to the Queen.
It's really, really entertaining.
Plus his music and all that.
Yeah, Rick gets some amazingly good guests.
Yes, he does.
He is Rolodex for pulling guests.
I mean, they have got a machine with his YouTube channel
these days.
I see it all over my social.
He does a great job.
I mean, it's a great day.
There's a bunch of them.
But the Rick Wakeman, I highly recommend.
Also, real quick, Russ, I think I let you know.
I've reached out to our friend Todd Mayo over at the Cavern.
Looks like hopefully all three of us maybe.
But for sure, you will be going to Cave Jam Memorial Day
weekend.
Yeah, Memorial Day weekend.
Cave Jam is their jam band kind of festival
that they're putting on.
And off the top of my head, what was it?
String Cheese is playing.
Who else?
String Cheese, infamous string dusters, Andy Frasco,
Bonnaroo people will recognize.
Yeah, it's another cool lineup.
String Cheese is a star of the show, no matter how you slice it.
And they're all weekend there.
And the infamous string dusters, if you're a Billy Strings fan,
there wouldn't be Billy Strings style
without the infamous string dusters.
They became that band that still did traditional grass.
But boy, they did it just a little different.
And it really stuck out 20 years ago.
And then Billy Strings took it to a whole other level.
So that's really cool.
And again, shameless plug, but go back and listen
to our interview with Todd Mayo.
One of my favorite.
I have so many favorites.
That was one of my favorites.
It was fun.
It could be my favorite just because we've done some,
forget whether y'all enjoyed listening and watching.
We'd appreciate if you did.
But just the act of doing it, the enjoyment of doing it,
going to that property and seeing that farm on the farm,
not the farm, the cave, on that absolutely beautiful November
day.
I mean, I haven't had much more fun in the last couple of years.
And the conversation was fun, too.
Yeah, he's great.
I look forward to being there.
And it may, hopefully, me, maybe you, Barry, but definitely
our guy, Taco.
He'll be signing autographs.
Yeah, I really want to go just because I just
want to go camp there.
It's such a beautiful property.
They got such a great set up for camping.
I want to do cave tours.
I want to do cave tours.
Russ, we got the bus.
We'll be there.
The bus will be there.
So yeah, and hopefully you guys will be able to come.
And maybe we can do some interviews.
Would love to do that.
Would love to do that on a Saturday.
So if we can make it happen, Todd, we'll see you then.
All right.
Well, the big news for us this week,
we are going to give away some prizes.
And we got a bunch of submissions.
And we got a bunch more that we haven't shared with you guys.
And Russ, I think you pulled up a few of those, right?
We're going to do.
We'll go ahead and we can't play all.
We've got so many submissions.
We can't get to all of them.
But I have picked a few of the last ones that we got.
So there's some band recommendations.
So if you're diving into the lineup,
this will be a good chance to kind of discover
who you want to see.
We haven't done a whole lot of lineup stuff.
No, we're going to start.
And we're going to start doing that.
And before this show's over, maybe on the back end,
I've got my first playlist put together.
But I want to set it up a little bit.
And it's based on some submissions and suggestions
that we got that I went through.
So we'll start here and we'll see where it goes from there.
But I do have my initial playlist
to finally start the discovery portion of this time frame.
So I'll get to that here shortly.
So let's recap real quick.
I know you guys probably think this
is that we're super, super organized
and everything is planned out.
It's not.
So what we did was we knew we had two tickets to give away,
including a camping pass.
During the course of asking these questions,
our friend David Bruce reached out and said,
I'd love to give a print, one of his I Am Bonnaroo prints away,
which is awesome.
And then we had occasion to interview Caleb, the Bonnaroo
yearbook.
And he said, I would love to give one of my books away.
So we have that as well.
So over the course of the last, what, three months,
we've asked questions such as, which shows would you
like to do over?
Which bands would you recommend?
Why do you want to go?
I'm trying to think of some of the other questions.
We just kind of pulled them out of our ass some weeks.
Thank you.
I wasn't going to be that subtle.
But I can't really remember what they all are.
But you guys always came strong.
You did.
We put in so many of them, and we could never play them all back.
But we appreciate what you did.
We got a lot of great submissions.
And we had submissions that were emails.
We had some voicemails.
We had people record videos.
We had faxes.
I mean, this was a multimedia contest.
And you guys really brought everything.
So we appreciate all the submissions.
And what I loved was it was a lot of sometimes somebody
would, like every week or every other week or something.
And we've sat on here so, so many times.
We all basically have the same stories.
We just tell them differently.
And that is a few different.
Very cool.
And I think you'll get some of that in this.
So what's the first one you got, Russ?
All right, I think we're going to start with Michael.
This is a little bit longer.
And if you're just listening and not watching,
you might want to check this one out.
Because Michael, as he explains, he's a visual artist.
And you'll kind of see some of his creativity in this one.
So we definitely had to play it.
So let me find it.
Here we go.
Let's go with Michael.
Hello again, WOT Podcast.
I am Michael.
And I am back to answer a variety of questions
from the past few weeks.
The first one I want to start off with
is what position I'd want at a music festival.
I'm a video artist, projectionist,
VJ, whatever you want to call it.
I do a variety of liquid light shows and analog video art
like you see here and throughout the rest of the video.
My goal is to find a band to tour with
and do all their visuals and live shows.
Doing visuals at a stage like the West Stage of Bonnaroo
would be probably my wildest dream come true.
So that would be the position I would
love to have at a festival.
And then the other question I really
want to dig into here is the 2025 versus 2020 lineup debate.
Because I think there's a very clear and mathematical answer
to this debate.
But at first, I want to unpack the 2020 lineup
for a hot second.
Looking at it, the first artist that really stands out to me
that didn't make it back in 2025 is Andy Frasco in the UN.
He was my big Bonnaroo discovery that I had never
heard of before going to Bonnaroo.
But after going and seeing him at Bonnaroo,
I will never miss an Andy Frasco show that's
within driving distance because he always
puts on such an incredible show.
I think if I was the one booking Bonnaroo,
I'd give him the Grand Ole Opry treatment
and let him headline every Thursday, every year.
Because I think he's the perfect way to start Bonnaroo
and have your Thursday night.
It's such a fun, crazy vibe.
And I think he's perfect for Bonnaroo.
Looking at the headliners from 2020,
I think Tool and Tamim Pala blow all the headliners from 2025
out of the water.
And I'd much rather see Tool or Tamim Pala
than any of the headliners from 2025.
And then the last really big standout artist from 2020
is Oysterhead.
I know they're probably pretty hard to book because they
rarely ever play shows.
But I believe in the Bonnaroo magic
and I want to see them come back.
If I was booking, I'd definitely try to get Oysterhead back.
And then looking at 2025 after looking at 2020,
it seems a little underwhelming.
And I can see why people would think that the 2020 lineup is
better.
But then you look at 2025 and in the top right hand corner,
there's an orange circle that says King Gizzard three nights.
And you look back at 2020 and you see King Gizzard one night,
which means, mathematically speaking,
that the 2025 lineup is three times better than the 2020
lineup.
Purely because we get three nights at King Gizzard.
My one piece of advice for this year's Bonnaroo
is do not miss a King Gizzard set.
Go see all three.
They're going to be different.
They're going to be insane.
They're going to be great.
I have their entire large discography here on vinyl.
If you're trying to get into them,
I'd recommend listening to I'm In Your Mind Fuzz.
It is my favorite album of all time,
but it's also just a great place to start
because it's got some chill stuff
and it's got some heavy stuff.
So it's a good starting point to figure out
what you want more of.
You can also start with just getting into their live shows.
I think Bonnaroo 22 is one of their best live shows,
and it's also the show that I'd relive if I could
and I do from listening and watching this show all
the time again.
This is really cool.
It's got a Bonnaroo map on the inside.
But there it is.
Don't miss King Gizzard.
The only people not going are the people who haven't seen them
because if you've seen them, you know and you'll be there.
Some final thoughts and other artists
I'd love to see at Bonnaroo that I'd book.
Viagra Boy is number one.
I want to see them at the farm so bad.
I've seen them a couple of times over the past couple of years
and they're always great.
I'd also love to see more psychedelic rock acts
at Bonnaroo, stuff like the Black Angels, Pond, OC,
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets.
I think that'd be a really fun vibe for Bonnaroo
that they don't really have a lot of usually.
That's all I got.
Hope to see y'all at Roos.
Thank you, man.
How cool was that?
That was excellent.
First couple notes of the old school monitors look great.
And then with the Dead and Company doing their, hopefully,
last residency at the Sphere starting this week,
the Deadhead had a nice look.
But yeah, that King Gizzard, Lizard, Wizard fandom
is no joke there.
That guy knows what he's talking about.
I'd like to go through his record collection sometime.
And then sometimes I used to joke on the other,
what do I call it, the Center for Song Naming an Album
Institute.
Viagra Boys just doesn't work as a band name for me.
It just doesn't work for a band name.
I don't like it.
Yeah, they're on the same bill with Limp Bizkit.
Maybe Limp Bizkit started the reason
we never needed to make that institute.
No, that was awesome.
I'm also glad he mentioned Andy Frasco,
because we were just talking about Cave Jam.
Correct.
Michael, if you're within driving distance of the Caverns,
come see Andy Frasco at the Cave Jam.
Michael, I got a few years on you,
but I have a feeling we'd enjoy hanging out just fine.
You seem cool to me.
I think so.
I know Russ mentioned it, but if you're just listening to this,
you have no idea what we're talking about.
But Michael did an amazing job with that video
using his skills.
So I can't promise, but I know Russ, you and I talked about,
I think we saw this earlier in the week,
and I'm like, we need to help that guy out.
We need to hook him up with some people in the business,
because he knows what he's doing.
We do, and I think he would love to.
And I think it would be a great fit.
He could clearly do some really cool visual art for a band,
such as one of these King Gizzard,
or just with all the trippy visuals and stuff.
It looked really cool.
That was well done.
I'm usually on anything we're going to play back
and do on any kind of, not to show any show I ever do.
Brevity is king.
Let's get to the point moving along.
But when you bring visual aspect,
that kind of changes the whole thing.
I like that approach.
It looked cool.
It was very cool.
All right, what else you got?
It was worth sticking around for the whole thing.
So we've got a couple of voicemails, too.
This one we'll start with is Breity.
And I think this is getting into some of the recommendations
for who to watch on those issues.
Oh, note taking time.
Let's go.
Yep, let's go.
Hey, everyone at the What Podcast.
I'm Breity from Asheville, North Carolina.
And an artist I kind of want to shout out and put
a little spotlight on is Daddy Frayer.
I discovered him doing some lineup research.
He's like a six foot 10 man from Iceland
with the voice of an angel.
Definitely got a unique sound.
I guess it's like a electronic slash pop music kind of sound.
But if you check out some of his live sets,
he seems very fun, engaging,
and his voice sounds great live, too.
So I can't wait to see that.
And I hope his name starts getting a little attention
before the festival starts.
Daddy Frayer.
All right, Brady.
Do you know anything about Daddy Frayer?
Daddy Frayer.
I spelled it like prayer with an F in front.
Daddy Frayer.
I'll give it a listen.
Six foot 10 Icelandic man with the voice of an angel.
Yeah.
Tight cast.
Sounds not real.
Sounds not real.
Yeah.
Very cool, thank you.
Yeah, I've started this morning like you, Bryan.
I was doing a little yard work or garage work.
So I had kind of the phone Spotify and I just hit some,
I don't even know who's Bonnaroo 2025 playlist it was.
Well, before we get out of here,
I'm gonna give you a quick, my quick short run down
and we'll get you a link to it.
But go ahead, Taco, what else you got?
All right, we'll play this one.
And you've heard it before, but this is Lena.
Hey guys, it's Lena.
How exciting that it's the last week of the giveaway.
First of all, Barry, I'm so sorry you have COVID.
That's the worst.
I'm also sending this getting over a stomach bug.
So hoping you feel better soon.
As for the prompt this week, of course, like always,
I'm gonna say Flip Karen is someone everyone should listen
to, but I don't think they need me to tell them that
or to tell people that anymore because I actually just
thought that they sold out the Mission Ballroom
in Denver, Colorado.
And it's just so cool to see how much they've grown
since the first time I saw them in a dive bar.
But I'm so excited to see them at Bonnaroo.
Some other artists that I'm really excited about
are Will Durado, which they actually toured
with Flip Karen a while ago.
So that's how I originally found out about them.
But I've loved their music ever since
and haven't seen them live yet.
So that'll be really fun.
And then Rachel Chinariri, I'm excited for her
because she was supposed to tour with Rummy Wolf,
I think earlier last year, and she had to cancel.
I think it was a financial reason.
I don't know for sure, but I'm really excited to see
that she's on the Bonnaroo lineup.
And Gigi Perez is another one that I think could have
a capital-like power.
I know a lot of her songs have gone viral on TikTok.
So I'm excited to see her.
And then BD Stockwell and MJ Lenderman
are two other names that I'm excited to hear live.
So yeah, thank you guys for this episode.
And you got my name right, I appreciate it.
And I appreciate you being so generous to think of me
with those podcast episodes with Tuba and Bryan
and all of that.
So yeah, thank you.
Hey, and there's our winner.
Good morning, Lena, how are you?
Good morning, good.
Thank you guys so much.
I'm so excited, I can't even describe.
I thought you were traveling.
It doesn't, if you are,
that's a pretty cool looking vehicle.
I decided to stay home for a little longer.
My parents live in Atlanta,
so I've been visiting for the weekend.
Well, I know you and I spoke a little bit the other day.
The reason that we chose you is several reasons.
It was not only the number of submissions,
but the variety.
Loved the fact that you basically took care,
took advantage of every opportunity
except the fax machine.
And we'll get to that.
Yeah, I don't have the capacity to use a fax machine.
Never done it before.
And I wasn't gonna try it for the first time.
Work on that for next year.
Tell us a little bit about yourself.
Where are you from?
How many times you've been?
Again, you've said it before,
but what is it special about Bonnaroo?
I'm from Atlanta, Georgia,
but I go to the University of Florida.
I've been there for like six years.
I'm an occupational therapy student,
but I am very interested in the music industry as well.
So I might make a little career pivot,
which is what I've been talking about
in some of my entries.
But I've been going to Bonnaroo since 2022,
I think was my first year.
And I've been twice now, so this will be my third year.
And I just love the community aspect of it
and how many friends I've met,
how creative and free everyone can be.
And it's just like an escape from reality.
It feels like when you go onto the farm,
like you don't have to think about the outside world
for almost an entire week.
And that's really rare these days.
So I just love it.
Blaine, I gotta ask,
because it would not get out of my brain if I didn't,
six years in Gainesville, that's a long time.
You just-
She's on that career path I was on.
Enjoying college life?
I mean, it's been, honestly, I'm ready to get out of there.
I love Gainesville.
It has a special place in my heart.
And the music scene is actually really amazing in Gainesville.
There's a student-run record label,
a lot of like really amazing local shows.
So I cling onto that and it gets me through,
but I'm ready to be in a bigger city
with more access to live music and just more experiences.
Well, being from Atlanta, that's a good place to start.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, yeah.
All right.
So talk a little bit more about this career thing.
Occupational therapy and music industry
are two different things.
Absolutely.
Have a plan B, have a plan B.
I'll throw that in there, sorry, go ahead.
Yes, yes, for sure.
So I'm definitely gonna graduate.
I graduate in December with my doctorate.
I've been working towards it for a really long time.
And so I'll always have a stable career with OT.
Like OT is very highly demanded.
I just, I've always been very creative and loved art
and especially like expressing my art
towards artists and musicians that I love.
So I figured that there's no time like the present
to at least seek out opportunities.
And maybe if I get my dream job, I can let go of OT,
but OT will always be there.
I'm doing an internship with a company called Topeka right
now.
It's like a music vacation company.
They're sort of like music festivals,
but for I think their target is like older adults that
don't really want to deal with like the camping
or the long lines of Bonnaroo and festivals like that.
So it's been a really cool experience to learn from them.
Is that kind of like the cruise kind of thing?
And those different kind of, I don't know what I would call
almost boutique style getaways.
Is it in the vein of something like that?
Yeah, it is.
The founder of Topeka actually founded Sixth Man.
The founders like the Rockboat and those cruise vacations.
And it's just like on the beach in Miramar Beach
and they help you book accommodations.
And it's more like a vacation than like a festival
is how they advertise it.
But I'm going on site in two weeks
to see the My Morning Jacket vacation
and to help them with that.
And I've never seen My Morning Jacket,
so I'm very excited to get hands on experience.
Barry will be jealous of that because that's the first time.
Call me.
Call me.
That's the first time My Morning Jacket
has done the one big holiday weekend outside of Mexico.
I believe that that's the first time.
Wow, I didn't realize that.
They've taken it, they brought it to the States.
A lot of people said maybe that was from cost cutting measures.
Whatever, it's still a beach, it's still a resort
and it's still a weekend of My Morning Jacket.
So people should enjoy that just fine.
Six man, that's Jeff Cuellar, isn't it?
That's what I thought.
That's our buddy.
So yeah, we might know some people.
Yeah, yeah.
We might be able to, but along those lines,
what is exactly you, so what do you think the job is gonna be
and what do you want the job to be?
Because I mean, even when we had Tuba on,
it's like everybody thinks you're gonna stay in side stage
and watch your favorite band 100 times a year
and they don't consider that it's real work.
So what is it you imagine this job is gonna entail
and then what is it you want to do
and you can do those in either order?
Yeah, I'm trying to figure all that out still,
but I have always had a really high work ethic.
I think I've learned that from grad school.
So I'm used to like really grinding and working on a team
and I really like planning things
and I liked leadership positions
and my vision ultimately,
like I'm very interested in festival direction,
creative direction and planning community experiences.
Like I think Bonnaroo could really benefit
from more like community art experiences
like for people to come together
and I don't know exactly what that looks like,
but one thing that like really inspired me in that way
is I did a live art exhibit at a flip turn festival
they did in Gainesville and we all like painted shoes
for the band.
So I started it and then people came and like came
to my booth, sat down and helped me finish the shoes
and then we gave them to the band at the end
and it was just really cool to see everyone express
creativity in a way that they maybe haven't
in a really long time and like people made friends
and chatted with people they wouldn't have otherwise.
So I envision like helping plan festivals
and planning like community experiences
that bring people together in that way.
Well, I hate to be the now more than ever guy
or most important time in the history of the world guy,
but I think you'll find as you get older
that I think many of us that come from a creative background
will find out that that community involvement,
the community building, the being active
within the community, it doesn't really matter
which community we're talking about.
It doesn't have to be Bonnaroo,
it doesn't have to be the festival community,
it can be something that you're involved with at school
in Gainesville, somewhere in Atlanta,
maybe on the outskirts in Atworth or something somewhere
or anywhere, I think you'll find those skills
and those tools that you build now
for something that you're just excited about
because it's one of your passions
could later turn into bigger, bigger passion projects
that you're not even thinking about now.
So I mean, you didn't come here for advice for your career.
Yeah, but I know a lot of people
who've done these very same things
that are now like almost to an annoying level
involved with getting small communities
within where they live.
And I think that's, my whole point there,
sorry to ramble on that is,
these are skills that go far beyond
all of us having fun in June on the farm, right?
And I think it sounds like you're probably thinking that way.
Yeah, absolutely.
Well, I appreciate that.
I'm honestly just ready to like learn
and absorb knowledge from anyone at this point.
It's like a very new decision that I've made
to explore this.
So I'm just looking forward to learning.
And also there's a lot of accessibility things
that come with my OT knowledge
that I feel like could be a useful skill
in the music industry as well,
especially for a company like Topeka
that targets not all like 20 something year olds.
So we'll see where it takes me.
All right, so I'm gonna go on a Horish fishing expedition.
You made several submissions to our contest.
Tell us why and tell us why you did so many.
I mean, we ask all kinds of questions about,
we ask about what sort of bands to see,
you know, your things, your regrets,
the ones you do over all of that.
And I'm pretty sure you submitted some sort of response
to everything.
So tell us why you love us so much.
That's basically what I'm asking.
Yeah, why do you love Barry so much?
There it is, let's just go with it.
Oh, well, I'll be honest.
The first Bonnaroo podcast I started listening to
was the RooBus because I saw the Flip Turn pre-show
the first year that I went to Bonnaroo.
So I got into them and then they talked about
your podcast a lot.
So I started listening to your podcast.
And when you announced the giveaway,
I was really excited because unfortunately
on a college budget right now,
I couldn't afford to just buy tickets flat out.
So I was gonna go either way, but I was gonna volunteer.
And I volunteered in 2022 and it was a really like
great learning experience, but I was exhausted.
I was sick at the end and I didn't get to see all the bands
that I loved.
So I was just really hopeful that, I don't know,
I was gonna answer all the questions.
They were fun.
I enjoyed listening every week and I was like,
maybe something great will come out of it.
And it did.
So I'm very thankful for that.
I'll tell you what, Lana and anybody else
who's curious about these kinds of things,
as potentially annoying as a good sound,
volunteering for the festival is a really good way
to get in.
Now you've got to pay your dues,
just volunteer one year and then you're doing,
you're parking cars, you're doing the worst of the worst.
But I know people have done that for decade and a half.
And now they work with companies who set up hospitality
for VIP around the country.
It is a way in.
So don't leave that in the back of your head
if the connections you get through us,
though, it's very strong.
If you don't get anything there,
always have that as an option as well.
Yeah, I mean, I loved volunteering.
It was just really mentally and physically exhausting.
And especially being in a grad student now,
I was like, it probably won't be ideal
to already miss a couple of days of school
and then be exhausted from volunteering as well.
But that was like what made me fall in love with Bonnaroo.
That was my first year that I volunteered
with my two friends.
And we were like kind of miserable the whole time
because it was the heat wave, but then we left
and we were like, that was the best week of our lives.
So I would do it again for sure.
Just like everything Tuba said and everybody else,
even that it ain't glamorous and it's hard work
and there's a lot to do, but it still gets you,
you meet a lot of people that way.
Yes, absolutely.
I always like to reference back to our earlier shows.
And I promise you, you probably didn't have somebody
pee on your back, like Paul Janoway from St. Paul.
So if you haven't heard that episode, go back and listen.
It's still one of my all time favorites.
Well, he ended up playing on the bigger stages
of the festival.
He made a career out of it.
One last, tell us, you're bringing a friend.
Tell us about your friend and I hope she's excited.
Tell me about when you called and said,
hey, guess what, we're going.
Oh, she was so excited.
I called her as soon as I found out.
Her name's Mary and she's an OT student with me
and I somehow convinced her to come volunteer with me.
I was just looking for anyone to go with me
because I was gonna go alone,
which I wasn't really comfortable with.
I had met a few people at a Gloss Animals concert last year
that I knew were going and I was gonna join their group,
but I didn't know them super well.
So I convinced my friend Mary to come.
And then this is just amazing that now we don't have
to volunteer and we can enjoy all of our favorite artists
and just have freedom all weekend.
And she was ecstatic.
So we're both really excited and it's her first route.
So I'm really looking forward to showing her around
the farm and just having a great week.
Well, you don't know them,
but I'm gonna go ahead and let you say it.
Say, give thanks to Dan and Brad
and everybody else at C3 for your tickets, right?
Yes.
Because that's who we're getting them from.
Thank you so much, Dan and Brad and everyone at C3.
I love C3.
That's like a dream company for me one day.
They're the biggest in the business right now.
Yeah.
They're very cool.
Real quick before we have nothing to do with anything,
being a Florida Gator and clearly much younger
than demographic that would be very much into a guy
like Tom Petty, but deep roots in Gainesville.
Yes.
Does his aura, because since he's passed,
that was about eight years ago and the music they play
of his during the football games and the more they've tried
to continue to keep his name and his legacy in that city.
Is that still felt by the youth of the school?
Because it's still celebrated outside of the third quarter
of a home Florida Gators game.
I think that's when they play or one of the,
there's one spot where they play one of his songs.
Yes.
That's always fun to watch.
Do you feel that?
Do you see that?
Do you appreciate that?
Like, I'm sure you appreciate it,
but would you talk about that quickly?
Yeah, I do.
I mean, I think it's mostly for people that really love music,
like maybe not the general demographic of all students,
but I love looking into what's going on in the music world
and I always see our local venue,
Heartwood Soundstage hosts Tom Petty nights all the time.
And I'm always hearing about Tom Petty
and hearing about his legacy.
So I definitely feel like his influence is still strong
in Gainesville.
There's murals when I drive around
and it's a very, very strong presence in our city,
I would say.
Yeah, it's, I won't back down.
I believe that they play it.
Yes.
Start of the fourth or the end of the third
and the whole place in the swamp at the football stadium
sings it.
It is every time I see it, I'm not a Florida football fan,
but I'm like, this is cool.
And I've never been to Gainesville.
Yeah, it's great.
I haven't been to enough football games,
but the ones I've been at, it's been really special.
Well, I was gonna ask you about
how you think your basketball team is gonna do this week,
but I figured there's no reason to go down that road.
Hopefully well.
Well, you already jinxed two of us,
so leave Lino.
I know, Kansas.
See you in Kansas.
Kansas is out, it's real.
Hey, that was cool, right?
What a surprise, or maybe not.
I felt like she was the good winner.
She was the right one.
We put it together.
And for anybody, I just wanna make sure,
like we don't do contests 100% traditionally
like you're used to with old legacy ways of doing it.
We wanna keep it fair, we wanna keep it open for a while,
but in the end, we really are looking for the best.
And just because you didn't get a winner on this,
we have a couple other winners we're about to announce.
Doesn't mean it wasn't near the best,
but we have to collectively decide it.
It was tough, it was really tough.
You're 100% right.
She mentioned Flip Turn, a friend of the show.
Again, I keep referencing back to earlier episodes.
They were on with us at Moon River.
We almost discovered them.
That's why I feel, they were nobody until.
They were nobody until.
They had that video game and that's like it.
Yeah, yeah, proved me wrong.
But what was the other thing she said?
Oh, she mentioned that she discovered us
through the real Roo Bus.
And I meant to mention at the first of the show, Bryan,
you did an episode last week with those guys.
Yeah, damn it, Taco, I told you don't let me forget.
And I damn near forgot.
Yes, I wanna thank Daniel very much from the Roo Bus
and Charl and everybody involved with the Roo Bus,
but it was just Daniel and me on the section
that I recorded with him.
And we spent about 30 minutes or so, maybe 40,
on the first 10, 12 years of the festival
and bounced around a little bit and got distracted
as per most podcasts do.
But there was one or two things I did not remember going in,
getting pulled over by the cops was one of them.
And it kind of came into my head back in 2003
while we were talking about it.
I won't spoil it, go listen to it.
I had a lot of fun.
And so thank you so much for you guys reaching out to me.
And this has nothing to do with anything.
Y'all didn't ask.
Same week, I got asked to be on a Pearl Jam podcast
as the spring tour's about to start down here in the South.
So I'm gonna do a little correspondence
from the shows on that.
Means nothing to anybody.
I don't even suggest you listen to it.
But yeah, you won't be able to and it'll be gross.
No, no, Barry ain't gonna be there.
Slobbering.
Yeah, and Taco, you ain't gonna be there either.
I'm just saying, those are a couple of weeks of fun.
I mean, I enjoy this.
I didn't get to talking about things I like.
So thank you to Daniel and to Randy
from the Live on Four Legs podcast.
Well, and it was a good listen.
I enjoyed hearing your remembrances of early Bonnarooz.
So there's that.
Again, congratulations to Lena.
She gets two tickets and a camping pass.
And to your point, Bryan, I interrupted,
but when we start these contests, we have no clue.
No, it's like, let's go.
How we're gonna choose.
But as often happens, a theme sort of presented itself.
And I felt like Lena was a great winner because, as I said,
not only the number of submissions,
but she took advantage of the multiple ways to enter,
which we've never done before.
We've had a couple of ways.
Yeah, yeah.
This year, we had video, text, voicemail,
and even fax machines.
I will say, Lena, you should have found a fax machine.
I know, right?
You should have.
I would have completed the entire perfect submission,
trifecta, not trifecta.
Yeah, we didn't have one person that did every single one.
We did get some faxes.
You know what, Lena, on the campus
of the University of Florida,
somewhere there's an old office
that's got a fax machine in it.
But I kid, I kid, I kid.
But along those lines, and in keeping with that theme,
the winner of the I Am Bonnaroo David Bruce Print,
which is, he does, if people remember,
he shoots, and he's done this for years now.
A lot.
Over a decade.
A lot.
It's old school.
It's black and white predominantly,
though he has started shooting some color.
All on 35 millimeter, right?
Yeah, or one, is it?
Film, anyway.
It's film.
Yeah, yeah, I don't know the exact specifications
of what he shoots on.
I was just trying to remember how he tags every post.
I am also on.
I read it on 20 or 35 or both.
Either way, it ain't how anybody else is doing it.
It's not digital.
In keeping with that, the winner of the I Am Bonnaroo Print
is Bosco, who made his submissions via fax machine.
There you go.
Makes sense, right?
Primitiveness will get you a long way around here.
Also made multiple submissions.
So Bosco will be reaching out and getting your information
and we'll be sending you a David Bruce Print,
which is awesome.
It is awesome.
And to anybody who might think or to Bosco yourself,
ah, I didn't win the grand prize.
That's not how he labeled it,
but I didn't win that top one.
There's something awesome about an authentic great print.
I know you know Barry, you know that we all know that,
but oftentimes we as a consumer look at the pricing
of some of these things and it's difficult
for most people to be like, oh, I'll buy that for two.
I'm making up numbers here.
200 bucks for whatever this is.
It's like, yeah, I don't know.
But to get handed to you by a guy who spends his summer
every year down there making great shots.
Loves it as much as we do.
Find yourself a great frame and that thing is gonna have
a story to tell the rest of your life.
Oh yeah. That's exactly right.
And again, so keeping with the theme a little bit,
our third prize, our third giveaway is a copy
of Caleb's Bonnaroo yearbook.
That was a fun one to stumble on with Caleb that week.
We didn't know what we were doing that week
and all of a sudden we have him on to talk about
this really cool book he's put together
and project is not just a book, a project.
And that's my copy by the way,
you're not getting that one.
That's mine. No, he signed that one.
I bought my own, but Caleb offered to provide us one
and the winner is Vivian and sort of with a theme, Vivian,
who said she will, has been I think 10 years,
but will not make it this year because she's gonna have
a three week old child at the time.
I had that email from her printed off.
Yeah. Something like that.
What will she need to be doing while baby's sleeping
and she's missing Bonnaroo?
And I thought she can go through this book.
Yeah, relive the last year.
So there you go.
She also mentions, cause last year we did a voicemail
contest and we played one of her messages on the show.
She gave a tip about making sure you clean up
after yourself.
And she says, leave it cleaner than you found it,
which is something we always try to do when we camp
at Bonnaroo or anywhere else.
And she says it's one of the greatest things
about the Bonnaroo spirit.
So clean up after yourself.
That's right.
Don't leave a bunch of trash around and yeah,
respect the farm.
That's one of the core principles.
Excellent work from mother Vivian,
the Bonnaroo mother Vivian.
Thank you very much for that.
And before we get too far away or away at all
from submissions, just as we wrap this up,
I wanted to quickly, if it works for you guys
to give you a couple of emails I printed off
and I'll go with this very quickly
to originally start my discovery playlist.
Not my playlist that has Megadeth all over it.
Not my playlist that's got glass animals all over it.
Let me go back real quick, Bryan.
I'm sorry.
Just to put a bow on the gift thing.
We've done it in the past where we picked people
who've never been.
So it was a, how can we further this thing along
type of thing.
But this year submissions were all veterans,
very passionate about it and loved it.
And anyway, that just, they all seem to have that sort
of the same theme.
So I'm sorry to interrupt you.
No, no, you're fine.
And as we've seen the creativity and the effort
and production is picked up.
And you're gonna get my attention with that
every single time.
I don't really care what you're talking about.
If you've got a cohesive thought with some production
and some creative, especially if you have
technological skills, you're gonna get me every time.
I mean, if you make a phone call,
then you're a dullard and we don't like you.
Cause I'm a phone call kind of guy.
But just a couple of these that I got in the last few days
since I was talking about last week of how much last year
we actually spent a lot of time on soliciting people
to send us suggestions and not as much this time,
just because we make this show up as we go
from week to week.
And I got a few here that I'm sure you guys maybe saw
and glanced through that were huge for me.
So over the last couple of days,
it's just a handful of names.
It's not too far.
This one from Joey, these are via email.
Thank you for this Joey.
MJ Linderman, who I think Lena mentioned earlier
and Daniel Donato, which I'm already somewhat familiar with.
Those are two.
And then from Nicholas,
he sent in a lot of nice things to say, big long email.
And then a day by day Friday,
and I just picked one each day,
mannequin pussy, which I've heard of, but that's all,
heavy punk rock, then Saturday, dope lemon,
mellow indie rock from Australia.
So that grabs my attention a little bit.
And then also Australian from Sunday,
Royal Otis, Australian punk rock.
So I quickly ran over and made a 20 song playlist,
which we'll throw up here.
If you happen to want to give it a look and see where it goes.
And so from those suggestions, I have dope lemon,
mannequin pussy, Daniel Donato, MJ Linderman,
and Royal Otis, as I just all mentioned.
And then I threw in dogs in a pile,
cause I heard that somewhere else.
And then I strategically just with every other two songs
or so put in a song I know really well.
So the playlist doesn't lose me, right?
So I'll hear like, I've got Megadeth, Avril Lavigne,
the brand new Goose song, and Foster the People,
layered in between those trials.
So there you go.
There's my first 20 song list.
A little discovery going.
And then hopefully by the next two, three, four weeks,
however long, I'll add to it or create a whole new
discovery list.
And that's how I'm going to try to layer them in.
So if you'd like to take a look at that,
we'll link it to the screen.
Yeah.
And you mentioned emails.
We get a lot of email suggestions for who
to check out on the lineup.
And I think you mentioned a few.
Instead of reading them all here,
we'll post them in the Discord so everybody
can see what people have picked and what
people are recommending.
And we'll post your playlist too.
So if you're ready to get started diving into this lineup,
that's a good way to get started.
Exactly.
And so far, last year, this was huge for me.
Absolutely.
And so far, I haven't given this more
than a single run through.
But this MJ Lenderman, I didn't get where he's from,
but he's got 500,000 monthly listeners, which actually
isn't a lot from a top tier aspect.
So he might be a Thursday or an early tent show day.
If you like drive-by truckers, this
is the sound of music he makes.
I don't know if he's singing about the South
and the TVA ruining his uncle's property back in 1936.
I don't know if that's what he's singing about.
But the music itself has that southern, grungy, slightly
angry, but then slightly sometimes celebratory of things.
It's very cool sound.
There's a very good chance MJ Lenderman
is my first new discovery, have to see.
I'm not there yet.
I'll report back.
Nice.
I'm glad you mentioned him, because he
has been brought up to me multiple times as a suggestion
from a lot of people that I trust their musical tastes.
There's a chance that he might be,
this might be one of those, if he has a big tent stage show,
that gets a big crowd and gets a big response,
might be the big stepping stone to wherever he's going.
So I'm happy to have found that.
It's funny.
We're all three on the same page.
We didn't talk about it coming out of January,
but now is the time we all three seem to be.
Now I'm ready to start diving into the lineup.
Yeah.
I mean, I didn't pick this time frame on purpose.
I did purposely decide at first, I want to get excited,
and then I want to shut it down a little bit.
We've got to work on a lot of things for this show.
We've got to work on a lot of things for our day jobs.
Let's not get too wrapped up into six months of listening
to all these bands.
Now's the time, and y'all's help is going to be invaluable.
So thank you.
Thank you for taking the time.
And if you want, the RooHamm guys, they've
taken a couple of deep dives, and I love listening to their show.
Speaking of which, I actually meant to write that down.
Festival glowing all over our boys.
Yeah.
As well they should.
I mean, they didn't give up.
They've given us some credit.
I mean, it feels like we kind of had to pull the teeth
to get the credit.
But they were falling all over themselves.
It's a great show.
Parker and Michael.
Good.
Great job.
What a cool thing.
But Al and our boy BP, Brad Parker, and whoever else.
Greatest show ever.
I'm like, all right.
It was a good one.
Is it as good as ours?
So if you want to go listen to that.
But we'll be doing ours coming up pretty soon.
Looking forward to that.
Other news came out.
Lollapalooza lineup came out this week.
And guys, man, I'm old.
There's like three bands on there, I know.
Flip Turn is one.
Cage is another.
That is not my lineup.
But it's almost already sold out, right?
It is sold out.
The four day passes sold out in like a day.
Wow.
That doesn't even happen.
That doesn't happen anymore.
I don't know how many tickets say so.
I have no idea.
A bunch.
Grant Park is massive, right?
I don't know how much it holds.
So it's an OK lineup.
But the first thing that came out, or first thing in my head,
it's the same thing.
These same damn headliners.
I'm tired of that.
I'm tired of hearing about it.
Now, it's clearly working if they're selling out Chicago
just like that.
Because my guess is a lot of people living in Chicago,
if they've made the trip to Manchester,
even a few times, one time, two times,
they might be done with that.
They might be done driving to Tennessee to see a festival.
So maybe that's working out.
I think in the past, the undercards have always
been more similar than we gave credit.
But it's just these years, this year specifically, I mean,
Olivia, Tyler, they do have Sabrina,
which we don't have, Luke Combs.
And by the way, the more I listen to Luke Combs,
the more I ain't impressed by this act on Thursday at all.
I'll love you anyway.
Some of these songs are just you.
And that's fine.
That's my point.
I'm not dogging Lala.
I'm good for them selling out.
But that's not my lineup.
They do have corn, at least.
They do have corn in Chicago.
And they got your boy Dom Dalla, Barry.
Dom Dalla, who I keep listening to.
I keep listening to.
I like it.
See, just like that, they got fostered the people.
They got Royal Otis, two of the ones
I just mentioned on my list for Rue.
I haven't even gone that far.
Barry Can't Swim.
If you don't get the stage announced for Rue.
I hope he makes it to all these festivals if he can't swim.
If you don't get to announce the band at Bonnaroo,
you can maybe make an arrangement
to go up to Grant Park to MC the Barry Can't Swim.
But they got Flip Turn, of course,
which Flip Turn has a new album out.
So they're going to be on every festival.
That makes sense.
Yeah, I mean, but they sold out.
So if anybody's irritated by that, the joke's on them.
Yeah, good for them.
All right, what else, guys?
What have we missed?
I tried to make a list.
Wear in the Woods.
Wear in the Woods.
Yeah, the only thing I wrote down about the Wear
in the Woods, that came out about,
by the time you hear this, it was about one week ago today.
We had already recorded and dropped at that point.
Sometimes I can pretend like I know some of these artists,
and this go round.
I can't.
What I thought was interesting enough to jot down,
that they're doing a city takeover for the course
of the programming.
So you're going to get EDM, and maybe not strictly only EDM,
maybe something that's more to different offshoots, right?
People who can talk about the different brands.
But they're going to be representing Nashville, Atlanta,
New Orleans, Austin, Durham, North Carolina, of all places,
Miami, and Memphis.
So they will have city-themed takeovers
during Wild in the Woods.
I don't know what that means exactly, but at least it's,
as always, as they do in the Outerooz,
curation is always the key to the day.
Everything they do out there is a very specifically
deliberate curated event, and this is no different.
And I bet with these changes, slightly just as far
as programming, all the other smaller changes
we've talked about on here as far as how late it's open
and interest in Outerooz, I have a feeling
Where in the Woods might be at its peak,
at its best user experience this year, would be a guess.
Because remember, the reason they kind of made this change
is they don't want to feature a huge EDM artist there.
Because remember last year, after the last headliner
finished on Sunday, everyone went to Wear in the Woods,
and it kind of created a safety issue.
There was a lot of people.
There was very few exits, and it was
because that was really the only act left to see.
So that's where everyone crowded into.
So I think they're trying to do it now where it's lesser known
acts, and they are doing a city by city thing, which
is pretty cool.
Also, if you remember, Reddit doesn't like to give us credit,
but we did confirm Sparkle City Disco would be there.
That's a Nashville DJ duo, and they played back in January
when they did the Nashville meetup.
They were one of the bands playing, or acts playing.
So yeah, I mean, I think as far as that late Sunday night
thing last year, it doesn't matter
what you programmed all week, and what you did all week,
and what you thought about all year round,
close it down Sunday night.
Yeah, they could add you and me in there,
and it was going to be packed, because it
was the only thing going.
Yeah, it could have been Bryan and Barry on the spoons.
I go back to one of the few times I closed down Monaru.
I haven't closed it down too many times.
In the Elton John year in 2014, I did.
And I was wandering around chasing a girl and her friends,
and I end up in VIP.
And next thing I know, I'm all lost out in the middle of the night
looking for something to do.
And dude, there's nothing to do.
As a matter of fact, we need you to just shut up and go to bed.
Right, right.
Along those lines, and Rush, I think
you shared Brad Parker's comment on what?
Festiverse about Matt Romuni, and the commentary people
were saying about it going away.
And he said it's not going to go away.
They're going to have a similar vibe just somewhere else,
but they want to try to bring something similar to Jake.
It's making Jake back, right?
I mean, you know more than me.
I don't know any more than you, but that's
kind of what we assumed was going to happen here,
was that it's not going away, but more just transforming
into another version of this.
And yeah, like you said, bring back the party atmosphere.
Yeah, what we kind of speculated on last week,
and I think that makes the most sense,
it does feel like there's a possibility that as just a wedding
chapel, there is some space being wasted there.
Like that you can do more there and put that somewhere else,
but you could start the whole thing of,
if you move it out of Senru, are you just effectively one step
away from moving it away completely?
And I don't think most people, the who stage,
plenty of people have thoughts on.
Holy Matt Romuni and people getting married,
I mean, that's such a tiniest fraction
of the people who are ever going to attend
Bonnaroo truly care about.
You can get rid of that tomorrow,
and by the end of the week, nobody
even remembers ever moving it.
I mean, I don't think they're.
I think keeping it going is fun.
Still working, getting our guy in here from last year.
I think it's a super neat thing, but it does,
it's got prime real estate.
That's why it was Snake and Jake's.
It was prime real estate.
It might be time to make that more prime real estate.
All right, all right guys, so coming up,
we've got a couple other venue, or not venue,
but festival people reach out.
They want to come on and talk about their events.
I'm excited about that.
We've still got some more, you know,
we want to have Brad and Cory back on.
We have talked to Cory since he's now a dad,
so I can't wait to hear all about that,
but they want to come on and talk about music,
and we still need to have Bryan Benson,
and I don't know if Steven's coming on with him,
but definitely Bryan to talk about the lineup
and how it was built, and all the different questions
about everything from infinity to whatever else, right?
He would be the guy, so what else, Russ?
Well, you mentioned Cory, speaking to him.
We're still planning maybe doing something in Chattanooga
some time, as far as a Bonnevue meetup
similar to the Nashville one that they did back in January.
I've talked to Cory and kind of given him some suggestions
for places to do it, and then kind of hooked him up
with the right contacts,
so maybe they can make something happen.
It's in the works.
Cool, cool, we'll see how it goes.
And it's getting here quick.
It's getting here, that's right.
We're 90, less than 90.
Way less than 90.
We're under 80.
Yeah, we might be under 80.
Oh my God.
Woo.
All right, I think that's it.
Thank you guys.
Thank you everyone who submitted suggestions
and contest entries, and congrats to our winners.
And we'll be in touch to let you know
how we're gonna get to your stuff.
Yep, and join the Discord, the whatco.discord.
We'll put some more suggestions in there.
We'll do some more questions and answers and stuff.
Yeah, and I think as I just popped in my head,
I'm gonna try to make a new discovery,
new-ish discovery playlist, maybe not every week,
but every week or two,
and then just kind of give a quick report card.
I'm not deep looking at all this stuff,
but the little I heard of these suggestions I got,
I got excited,
because it all sounded exactly like what I wanna hear,
except for somebody.
Here's the thing.
A couple of y'all, I don't mean to be a jerk about it.
A couple of y'all sent me, and thank you again,
but Kitchen Dwellers, as a suggestion,
I don't know where this has gotten misunderstood.
This is a pure bluegrass band that doesn't have a drummer.
It ain't Kitchen Dwellers ain't gonna work for me.
It's not gonna work for me.
If it's a drive-by, it's a walk-by, I'll give it a listen.
But I thought, okay, these, I don't know,
maybe we talk a lot, guys.
Maybe they've got misunderstood of where I'm at,
but I don't wanna be the-
I think maybe you got trolled.
Maybe.
All right, Bryan.
I'd say I don't know the- Bryan, we got the band for you
right here.
I might've lost the context.
Somebody's at home laughing.
I made him listen to Kitchen Dwellers.
I might've lost the context on the joke,
because I was going through it so fast.
And now for Bryan.
Kitchen Dwellers.
He's at home right now listening to Kitchen Dwellers.
It's the first one I pulled up.
I was like, oh, I've heard that one a few times.
I bet it's good.
Deedle deedle deedle deedle.
That's funny.
And now I'm to the point.
If there's not a drummer, don't even send them my way.
I need a drummer back there, man.
Thank you though.
Thanks everybody.
Have a great week.
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