Welcome to Overeducated and Underemployed. I'm
Fedden. We're here with part two of my interview
with Cole Taylor, the owner and founder of Classic
City Wrestling. And here we go. We're going to
dive right back into it. Here's part two. We'll
have to back up a little bit. Cool. I have no
shortage of ridiculous ideas. So I've fantasized
how my pro wrestling company would work in my
head forever. And I felt like if it was an Athens
brand, you'd really be missing the point if you
don't have live music as a part of it. Absolutely,
yeah. So I've been viewing that forever. The
pandemic happened. That was a very magical time
for me because I'm very high strung by nature.
And just having that year and a half of just
like doing nothing. I can relate, man. It was
like one of those times where I felt like relief.
Totally, totally. And a lot of people were struggling,
but I was like, I feel great. Yeah, yeah. It
allowed my mind to unwind and experience different
things. And I got to learn a lot about myself
and like things that interested me. It's very
special. And I reached out. I was thinking, I
should do something during this time that I would
never, ever do. And so I reached out to a friend
of mine who I'd met. I used to throw parties
at the Flickr bar where I'd show old wrestling
classics. Awesome. That's the beginning. Yeah,
I guess I forgot to tell that part. I was at
a point in my career where... Eventually, I ended
up becoming tour manager, but as the assistant,
I was getting a little bored. Maybe not on the
road, but in my off time. I needed to come up
with something cool. I started throwing these
parties where I would show old wrestling shows
on the big screen at the Flickr. What I found
was that non -wrestling fans were who came to
the shows. 60 to 80 people in that little room
which is a lot in the flicker and like they would
all cheer and go wild and sometimes throw things
at the screen it gave me a vision of what an
actual wrestling company could be I'm like oh
these are my people yeah these are my people
this is it but I kept that in my back pocket
and then I eventually got promoted to tour manager
and all of that spare time and boredom that was
gone yeah that just played into a memory Flash
forward back to the pandemic. I was working.
I reached out to a friend who was a pro wrestler
that I met through those parties. And I'm like,
hey, this is crazy. I'm not even looking for
money. If you find some dough to throw me, you
can, but that's not what this is. I just, during
this time, who knows how long it'll last, I'd
love to be involved in pro wrestling. Just like
it's something I've wanted to do my whole life.
Let's do it. And he's like, sure. We got a show
coming up. Why don't we just come hang out? And
I hung out for a few times and they needed a
ring announcer. I became the ring announcer.
It was great. And I made a friend there. And
I talked to him about what I thought an Athens
pro wrestling company would look like. And just
having fun. Not thinking twice about it. Just
like bullshitting with your friend during the
downtime. he who's my partner now he got the
vision and had a very similar vision of his own
and it was just like cool and it was like this
like jokingly one day you and me we're gonna
we're gonna do this we're gonna do this and i'm
like shit man if you ever i'm like in all seriousness
if you ever really want to do this just give
me a call man i'll be in the pandemic The pandemic
ended. I felt the need to spread my wings and
fly. Is there a consensus on the date of the
end of the pandemic yet? Oh, man. We started
the tour. I felt the need to spread my wings
and fly and work with other bands and whatnot.
So I'd left Truckers and I was touring with different
people. Some tours were phenomenal and some tours
were the opposite of phenomenal. Yeah, yeah.
I ended up going through like a really brutal
breakup at the time. And so all that was happening
and I got some dirt under my eye, but we're good.
All that was happening and it sucked. Yeah. It
was just like a lot happening. And my friend
gave me a call. He's like, so about that. And
I'm like, yeah. And we decided to call it Classic
City Wrestling. And we had a project. And I never
really meant to get into pro wrestling like it
is now. I thought this would be just a fun little
thing we did. And I went through, I tried to
do Classic City Wrestling and The Road. And I
had the most brutal tour ever. It was a three
and a half month long tour. It was very... It
was brutal. I don't want to speak ill of anyone,
so that's just where we'll leave it. And everybody
has good tours and bad tours, too. So that wouldn't
even necessarily speak about the people necessarily.
But I just needed a little time off. Around the
same time, I got offered a desk job, and that
didn't last forever either. I learned very quickly
I'm not a desk job. Yeah, me neither. But very
quickly, this Classic City Wrestling idea, it...
it grew and became a thing in Athens significantly.
It became more than... It became exactly what
we expected and something we never could have
dreamed of at the exact same time. It's almost
like you had the vision for it, but you never
necessarily thought it would actually come to
fruition. Yeah, it happened by accident, but
now I'm all in now. Yeah, yeah, of course, yeah.
But yeah, it just came to be. And artistically,
it's got a... We take this on the road. We do
other cities, but it has to be that Athens vibe.
When we go to other cities, we're rocking for
them. We're not rocking for Athens, but we have
to do it as who we are. It's a classic city,
right? Yeah, exactly. It's the wrestling brand
from the classic city. Yeah, you did that show
in Nashville with Thelma and the Sleaze, right?
Thelma and the Sleaze happened in Macon. Macon.
Have y 'all done Nashville yet? We did a show
with the Dexateens. Dexateens, okay. Awesome.
That was amazing. What was the first one? The
very first one. Let's go back to the first one.
It was two days ago. And I know I met my girlfriend
that I have now the day after. Oh, cool. Each
anniversary helps me remember the anniversary.
And we will leave it ambiguous as to which is
reminding him of which. Exactly. But three years
ago, we did a little show at a brewery on the
outskirts of town. Which one? southern brewery
okay and there was a pro wrestling company that
used to run shows before and they stopped and
we thought we might have a little built -in audience
and let's try it and we had intentions of doing
it long term but like it did really well and
then i hopped on the road and i missed a few
shows and came back but yeah yeah the The first
show was special. Drive -by truckers were playing
Homecoming. It was the time they played Homecoming
in April. Yeah, right after it got delayed because
there was a resurgence. Is that what it was?
I think it was originally going to be in February,
and then they pushed it to April that year. I
remember having our show booked, and the truckers
announcing they're having a show the same day.
I'm like, you've got to be fucking kidding me.
Oh, no. And I was amazed at how many drive -by
trucker people actually showed up. Oh, yeah.
After the third batch, they're like... All right,
man, I had a blast. Who was the band for Classic
City Jukebox? They're a local party band, and
they did so many shows with us. They did the
first year and a half's worth of shows with us.
Oh, cool. That might be a stretch, but they did
so many shows with us. And Matt Patton and I
were talking, and I don't remember who jokingly
said it first. One of us, like... I don't think
it was a serious conversation in the beginning,
but we joked about how fun it would be if the
Dexatines played one. And then we just kept joking
about it. And those jokes became, and then all
of a sudden Elliot was in. Then when they played,
everything changed and we started having other
bands play. And that was my next question was
like, was the intention originally just to have
the one band? Did you always plan to have? A
different band. We always wanted to have different
bands, but we thought that this local, beloved,
fun band would be a very good band to have. The
branding was right, too. Yeah. Totally. I see
what you did there. They were the perfect band
to join us while we were finding our footing.
Yeah, yeah. And that was the intention. And we
didn't know exactly what we wanted. You learn
what you want by accident sometimes. Yeah, I
used to work with a lot of graphic artists, and
they would get so frustrated because the clients
would not know what they wanted until they saw
it. Yeah. And that's fine and dandy until the
graphic artist is doing 100 revisions, trying
to figure it out. All of a sudden, three edits
ago... That design wasn't so bad when you see
the paycheck. So you hurt yourself pretty bad
at one point. Did that injury have anything to
do with Classic City Wrestling? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We had Taxi Cab vs. Are you familiar with Taxi
Cab? I'll pretend that you're not familiar. I'm
not, so this is perfect. So Taxi Cab vs., it's
this really cool thing. They were, Jim Wilson
is the front man of it. And they've got, there
might be 16 people on stage. And it's like Afrobeat,
but not, but like a who's who of Athens musicians.
Oh, cool. Brad Morgan was playing drums for them.
Nice. When I hurt myself. Like sometimes, it's
the coolest thing in the world. Do they still
do it? Yeah, yeah. It's one of those things that
like, it only happens about twice a year. I'll
have to come up for it. No, it's worth seeing.
It's worth seeing. But I really, I really. I
feel like we settled into a groove of how the
show was, and I wanted to break script of what
to expect. And you ended up breaking more than
just the script. Exactly. I had Jim Wilson start
the show in the ring with strippers surrounding
him, and just really walk through the crowd while
he was singing the intro song. And I had this
vision of us both intersecting and walking around
the arena together. Essentially, I was waiting
for a cue to happen before I did my next thing.
The band was going to do something and that would
give me the cue and I was waiting. And I climbed
on the subs because it's hard to explain what
you're thinking when you're adrenaline possessed.
I climbed on the subs and Jim climbed on the
40 watt bar and Jim did this really cool jump
off the bar. And I don't know if I was... Trying
to be in it with him or if I was... I'm not sure
what I was thinking. In my, like, 40 years old,
thinking I'm punk rock and whatever, I jumped
off the subs and tore my ACL, my meniscus, and
broke my knee. And I didn't really feel anything
because I had so much adrenaline. What defies
my understanding of the injury, I was able to
get to the ring. Which was, to be fair, only
about three steps in front of me. But I got in
the ring and then I just collapsed. And then
I stood up again and I just collapsed. I'm like,
oh, fuck. So I just hopped on one foot for the
rest of this and did my little intro speech.
And the rest of the show, I had two people just
kind of... half -ass carrying so you finished
the show yeah finished the show it's funny that's
amazing i heard there was a nurse there so we
got the nurse to come and my knee but in true
athens form the nurse was just shit hammered
okay we don't need this nurse here helping me
this is not a good yeah yeah yeah man that reminds
me of a couple of little stories that that i'll
share with you totally So the first band I ever
fell in love with was a band called The Marvelous
Three. Butch Walker's band out of Atlanta. And
honestly, man, the fan base, being as fanatic
as they were, was part of what attracted me.
People love Butch Walker. But I went and saw
him play in Dothan, Alabama. I believe Starship
played that day as well. Okay, that's cool. There
was somebody else. But during the first song,
he jumps off the monitor. And he tears his Achilles
tendon. Shit. And they end up postponing the
album, canceling the tour, all this shit. He
was out of commission for months and months.
But that motherfucker finished the song. Hell
yeah. He didn't finish the show. But he finished
the goddamn song. And then there was this other
thing that made me think of was when I was like
13 or 14. And I'm a tall guy, and I've always
been pretty tall. I don't remember you any other
way. And so even at 13 and 14, people thought
I was an adult anyway. I've seen the Mighty Boss
Tones in my hometown. And people were stage diving.
So I thought that would be fun. I've never seen
a crowd part as quickly as that day. And thank
God that I wasn't an adult because I still had
rubber bones. Yeah, that was... So at least there
was like... I had the idea that somebody was
going to catch me. Totally. So how did that affect
your ability to run Classic City Wrestling for
the next while, while you recovered from that?
Oh, man. Was it a huge impact, or were you able
to navigate around it? I don't know. Everything
started piling up for sure. Just trying to figure
out how to make ends meet, and I'm stuck on a
sofa. There's certain, as I held my leg up, people
listening can see me do that. In a way, the strangest
way, don't get me wrong, if I could do it all
over again, I wouldn't have jumped off the subs.
Really? Oh, my God. But in a strange way, it
was really helpful because it's like the pandemic.
It allowed me to, despite those things that I
just prefaced with, it allowed me to slow down.
It allowed me to see things a little more clearly.
I started painting rocks at the time, and, like,
it opened up a... and i started painting rocks
and reading comic books at the time and it really
opened up a whole new creative way of looking
at the world and i think for all of the hindrances
i think it gave me something in return so i think
that it helped and don't get me wrong like there
was a period of time where i i did the show from
a throne That I stuck on the stage. The throne
being a chair that a union guy in New York City
stole from the Terminal 5 and gave to me. I've
been to that venue. I've seen the drive -by druggers
there. Totally. Might have been that show. Probably.
I don't know. It was New York in, what, 2011,
2010? Yeah, that's about right. But I did some
shows from a chair. I was on crutches for a few
shows. We didn't have to cancel any. which was
really good. We just made it work. I think what
you said is really interesting because sometimes,
first of all, sometimes people that have a lot
of aspirations, really heavy drive, don't know
when to set boundaries for themselves. I'm the
worst. And that like physically placed a bunch
of boundaries. Right. Life set the boundaries
for me. And that also makes me think about even
just going back to the Hollywood code of you
couldn't show sex on screen. or all these things.
But what they did, what the filmmakers did was,
oh, we're going to make fireworks mean sex. We're
going to do all these things that symbolize these
things that we can't show. And some might argue
that they created visualizations that exist in
our culture now that never would have existed
if they were allowed to just show whatever the
fuck they wanted to show on screen. Totally,
totally. So sometimes constraint. can really
be a blessing. Absolutely. I believe in that
hard. And I think it goes back to what you were
saying earlier with the 80 -20 thing. Maybe you
were just going too hard. Life was like, hey,
motherfucker. I think about that a lot. I think
about those people that, you know, maybe perhaps
they lose their job. And the thing that they
say to their employer when they lose their job
is, oh man, I wish I'd walked away when... I
wish I'd walked away when I was starting to have
those thoughts. I wouldn't end up where I am
now. And I often wonder that too. I'm like, I
sure don't want to have that conversation with
someone someday. But yeah, all the time. I truly
believe that if you're, if there's something
that needs to happen and you're not going to
make those decisions for yourself, not always,
but a lot of the times life will make those decisions
for you. Yeah. And. I don't want to say this
in absolute, but I think that there is a little
bit of the universe giving me what I was supposed
to have. That's fair. I'm sorry it hurt so much.
Yeah, it sucked. So, I gotta say, as an observer
of everything you've been doing for the last
decade or more, it felt like Athens Ass Whooping
was like the culmination of the kind of everything
you've been doing. For the last decade. It was
the moment of everything coming together. I just
want to know, A, how did that even come to happen?
B, did you ever... I'm sure it had to be a secret
hope or whatever, but did you ever think it was
going to happen? Was it a promise they made to
you one day? I'm just really curious about how,
because I feel like it was almost too perfect.
It's like everything we could have wanted. It
was one of the more special things that I've
ever been a part of. It was really special to
be there. It's good to hear. It's good to hear.
Of course I always wanted that to happen. But
I never thought it would happen. One time I texted
Patterson, maybe a year and a half before the
Athens Ass Weapon actually came about. sometime
you and me, man, you're going to be the house
band and I'm going to have my show and we're
going to show the world something we've never
seen. They've never seen. And Patterson didn't
text back. They were testing the waters. Just
left your ass alone. Yeah. I'm like, okay, point
taken. And in our reality, he probably was just
busy. It just didn't get, but I did a show in
Nashville and Cooley came to the show, which
was really cool. And... That was the one you
did with Dead Confederate? That was Dexatines.
Dexatines. Sorry, I'm... Dead Confederate was
the other... That was... Okay. I'm just trying
to, like, when I cross my wires, I need to untangle
them for everybody else. 100%. 100%. Hardy Morrison's
band at the time. Oh, yeah. But anyway... I love
that guy. He's great. Totally. Cooley came to
a show, and he texted me the next day, like,
a classic. Hey, man, I had to split immediately
after the show. Didn't get to say goodbye, but
I want to tell you how much fun I had. And I
texted him back, and I was like, yeah, man, I
have this vision. There's an arena that opened
recently. I'm like, I have this vision, man.
If we could ever play a show at the arena, it'd
be really cool if you guys played with us. And
I'm like, okay, I guess it's just not going to
happen. And I didn't really think too hard about
it. And, like, I told Brad. I had a fantasy of
it happening, and Brad was like, Brad had been
to the show. He'd been to the show as a fan,
and he played one of the shows with Taxi Cab
vs. Yeah, yeah. And Brad got it, and Matt Patton
got it, because Matt Patton had played a show
with the Dexa teams. Like, I told both of them,
like, yeah, it'd be really cool. Yeah, man, it
would be cool. But that was where it ended. You
can't over -push shit. No, certainly not, yeah.
Especially when you've had relationships with
people for so long. Totally. You never want to
take advantage of those. Yeah, all you want to
do is be cool. Yeah, and the fact that they'd
even consider it is pretty amazing. One day,
Brad texts me and says, hey, you should give
Patterson a call. And then Matt Patton texts
me and says, you should give Patterson a call.
Then their manager, Christine, texts me and she's
like, hey. can you send me a Classic City Wrestling
hat? And I'm like, okay, so they've been talking
about Classic City Wrestling to her. I'm like,
I wonder. And still nothing amounted from it.
I saw Patterson a couple days later. He was doing
a show at the Georgia Theater. Like, nothing.
I'm like, huh. And I just moved on. And eventually
I got a call from their manager. And she just
asked me about how realistic it would be to do
it. I'm like, what are you talking about? Let's
do it. And we started talking, and there's an
extraordinary amount of logistics that we had
to work out that I don't need to get into. Yeah,
sure, sure. It got to the point where the logistics
were worked out, and then the 40 watt gave us
the date. It was this moment of, shit, this is
for real. Holy shit. Did y 'all intentionally
make it that close to homecoming, or did it just
work out that way? That was definitely a thing
that... They're already here. That was definitely
a thing that I thought about. I'm like, would
it be better to try to like find a gap in their
schedule on tour and just have a show? I talked
to Patterson and he made it clear that without
saying that it would be cooler to do it around
homecoming. Yeah, yeah. And I was not a believer
that it would work out on a Monday. Especially,
I was not a believer. If they're listening to
this, I hope they're laughing at me for being
an idiot here. But I was not a believer. I'm
like, we've never done a show on a Monday. A
lot of people are going to leave. I sent out
some feelers to people in DBT camp. Hey, you
think you'd want to see a show on Sunday? They're
like, maybe I can stay, but I wouldn't bank on
it. And eventually I just said yes because I
really wanted to do it. Yeah, of course. Even
if it didn't get the attendance that I'd want,
it'd still be pretty awesome. By the way, how
quickly did tickets sell out for? Sold out in
two and a half hours to the minute. Yeah, we
knew. And then I was worried. I'm like, shit,
it's going to be nothing but DBT fans. Did our
fans get tickets? Is the show going to translate?
And I felt like both fan bases showed up. I love
that you bring that up because I sat in front
of a guy who was a little annoyed that he couldn't
get front row seats. And he was like, man, is
it just going to be all truckers fans? Are they
here for the wrestling? I don't know. And this
was probably about halfway through the night
we were having this conversation. He was like,
but y 'all are fucking awesome. Hell yeah. And
he was like, y 'all are into it. Here for it.
Yeah. We love that you're here kind of thing.
So like I felt the classic city wrestling fans
were really welcoming to the heathens. Totally.
It was, that's like a cheesy thing to say, but
it was like that night it was y 'all were all
one fan base. Yeah. It was clear. I was worried
that like the heathens wouldn't like know like
the chance and how to do it. And I was proven
wrong within 10 seconds. Man, we had fans. We
had people like Sean. I'm going to give Sean
a shout out. She was teaching people chants for
Effie and everything. All week, all weekend.
And I think the fact that we had the time together
beforehand. All right, who are we rooting for?
It was a really magical night, man. It's a weird
thing. It's a weird thing. I'll remember it for
the rest of my life, man. I feel it's a weird
thing of knowing the significance of something.
I don't want to come across as arrogant, but
I like to think that in 20 years when people
talk about great Athens moments, that'll be one
of them. I would be shocked if it isn't. Yeah.
Really, man. As somebody who's there, as just
a fan, it was one of the coolest things that
I had. I didn't really know what to expect. Honestly,
I was just there because it was something unique,
and you were doing it, and I just wanted to support
what was going on. And I could stay. Not everybody
could, but I could. And, dude, it blew me away.
I appreciate that, man. And I think that the
fact that it was during homecoming means that
you got to have people from all over the world
experience classic city wrestling at a time.
And I felt similarly when I, because I did, on
Sunday, I ended up doing some comedy at the Globe.
And I had friends from all over the country show
up for me. Exactly. Because they were all in
town for a different reason. Already, we were
all here together already. And so I feel like
it worked because it was a Monday. Yeah. In a
way. Yeah. Because it was like the people from
all over the world, they weren't going to leave
a day early if they could stay. Totally. But
if you had done it an off date, the UK people
wouldn't have been able to be there. The people
that come from the West Coast and the Midwest,
I just think it would have been a very different
experience because of the fans there. Yeah. Because
you're talking about how much we all became one
fan base. I don't know if that would have happened
any other time. Right. Who's to say? I just don't
know that... I will say this. When I go see the
truckers in any location other than Athens, it's
very different. Yeah. And I know you know this
because you've been with them on hundreds of
shows, but it's very different. Homecoming is
its own vibe. It is. No doubt. But I think part
of that is you have the most diverse fan base
in the sense that when you go see the drive -by
truckers in Akron, Ohio, it's all people that
live in and around Akron. They're all Ohioans.
And you go see them in even Atlanta at the Tabernacle.
It's mostly Georgians and people from around
here. 100%. DC 930 Club. They have some of their
most epic shows there, but it's the 930 Club.
And the only time that I think it wasn't was
like New Year's Eve that one year with Booker
T. That was one of the best shows. In fact, I...
I regularly say that's the best concert I've
ever seen. I wore a Stetson that night because
I wanted to look good for Booker T. And I met
some people that I'm still friends with on that
little weekend there. But I guess the thing that
gets me is when it's in Athens, it's not Athens.
There's Athens people here. Don't get me wrong.
Half the people are from Athens probably. Right,
but half the people are not. And so with that,
you get this group of people that are... diverse
in every way except for the fact that they love
the drive -by truckers yeah yeah it works and
there's yeah there's something really unique
about that that i don't know that there's not
a lot of bands whose fan bases can even relate
to that for sure 100 and we're just really fucking
special like lucky to be part of something so
special i think about that often fans like I'm
reminded like when Patterson talks about in The
Secret to a Happy Ending, he talks about when
he took home Led Zeppelin for the first time
because the artwork looked cool. Yeah. And it's
not because he heard it on the radio, but he
took it home and it was fucking Led Zeppelin.
Yeah. And he just lucked out and got into one
of the greatest fucking bands ever. And that's
how I feel. I got into Led Zeppelin before they
were, before anybody knew who the fuck they were
or like somebody that important. Yeah. And I
think in 20 years, people will be talking about
the truckers like that. And I think moments like
Athens Ass Whoopin' are part of what symbolizes
how much they care about their fans, how much
they care about the people that they've worked
with over the years, and also just how much they
like having fun at what they do and just enjoy
it. Because that's not something you do unless
you want to have fun. Totally. Bands aren't up
there playing classic city wrestling. with the
attitude like they're in a swimming competition.
It's a very... Like, bands do get up there. Bands
do. Bands are usually very pumped to be a part
of it. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, and, like, it's
very much a thing. Like, a lot of times bands
feel like it's, I don't want to say a milestone,
but, like, one of those, like, special shows
for them. And I think the truckers approach it
as a special show. I think rightfully so. Yeah.
I think just because... one thing might be more
popular than the other doesn't mean that both
aren't really special. And just because something
is newer than something else and is still growing,
I think we're at the beginning of classic city
wrestling. Yeah. Even if we're not, nothing like
this has ever happened here. Have you ever...
This is the last thing I want to get at with
you. Have you ever seen anybody do anything like
this before? I feel like it's not a very novel
concept. of having music and having wrestling
at the same time. And there have been other,
there have been other acts out there that do
similar things. There's a company out of Richmond,
Virginia that has music. Yours feels like it's
really got like a punk rock attitude though.
That's what we want. That's what we want. There's
a company that does hip hop and wrestling. And
I feel like ours has more of, I think it goes
back to that thing I was talking about, like
my conversation with Jay, that when you go out
there, believe that you're the best in the world.
And we do. We truly do. We believe that there's
no one else, period, better at creating this
atmosphere and doing this show than we are. And
part of what makes Classic City Wrestling special
to me is it's like the drive -by truckers concept
or a fish concept where... It is totally about
the music on stage, but it's also about the community.
And we're all in this thing together, rallying
behind this thing and creating something bigger
than us. When I'm in the ring and the whole audience
is chanting CCW to me, it's bigger than me. It's
bigger than them. It's something that is happening
in that moment that we're all in together, that
we're creating, that nobody can take from us.
And to me... You don't find that in wrestling
too often. And I think that is what makes us
special. And I don't know if I answered your
question. No, I think you really did, man. And
on that note, I want to thank you for being on
the best podcast on the internet. Fucking A -rated.
And where can we see Classic City Wrestling?
I know you've got some stuff coming up in May.
What's beyond? Tell us about that and beyond.
It hasn't been announced yet, but I bet it will
be by the time this comes out. And even if this
comes out before it gets announced, I'm cool
with it. We're doing a show in Asheville, North
Carolina on June 28th at the Orange Peel. That
place. We're doing a show at Basement East in
Nashville, Tennessee on August the 2nd. And we're
going to do a show in... Athens at the Fabulous
40 Watt on May 17th. And where can people get
tickets for those? They can get tickets at the
website of each venue. I'm meeting with a web
designer next week to help me get this going.
And pretty soon I'll be at ClassicCityWrestling
.com, baby. Cool, cool. And what socials are
y 'all on that people can follow you on? You
can follow us on Facebook. Instagram is where
we're the most active. ClassicCityWrestling706.
That's the Athens area code. All right. And I'll
make sure to put all this information in the
info for this episode as well. And if you send
a message to Instagram, it goes to me. I'm who
reads it. So I'll get back to you. All right.
Thanks a lot for being here, Cole. Is there anything
else that you want to, before we, is there anything
else you feel like everybody needs to know? That's
a good Star Wars shirt you got on, man. I'm just
being true to yourself, man. And that's part
of what this is. Hell yeah. Thank you so much
for being here. It was a blast. So that was my
interview with Cole Taylor. Make sure y 'all
check out Classic City Wrestling. If you're not
in a position to see one of their shows live,
I have linked a video to their extravaganza with
the drive -by truckers back in February. They
videotaped it. You can see the whole thing, all
three hours of glory. The YouTube video is linked
in the description of this episode. Thanks for
tuning in. My next solo episode... My next solo
episode, I'm going to be talking about music
-based video games. Make sure you tune in for
that. Everything from Dance Dance Revolution
to Rock Band and Guitar Hero to even Tetris Effect
Connected. Check it out. And then next week on
the episode, I have an interview with Levi Crumley,
who is a pillar of the Athens George comedy scene.
I traveled up to Athens and did several interviews
out of the worst hotel room I have ever stayed
in. So I really appreciate all these people coming
to my dive hotel and doing these interviews while
I was up there. Make sure you check out Classic
City Wrestling. Make sure you check out Nicholas
Malice and the Borealis and Classic City Wrestling
at the 40 Watt on the 17th of May. And then on
June 28th, Rhinestone Pickup Truck will be the
musical guest at the Orange Peel in Asheville,
North Carolina. Don't miss it, y 'all. It was
one of the most fun nights I've ever had. Thanks
again to Cole for sitting down with me. He was
a pleasure to hang out with. And thanks again
to y 'all for listening. If you want me to answer
one of your questions, send me an email at feddenxr
at gmail .com. That's F -E -D -D -U -N -X -R.
at gmail .com. Check out my website, fedin .net.
Thanks to Lee Baines for inspiring the title
of this podcast. In the next few weeks, I've
got Sloan Simpson from the Sloan Brothers, Jay
Gonzalez from the Drive -By Truckers, and next
week we've got Levi Crumley, so make sure you
hit that subscribe button. Thanks again for tuning
in. This has been overeducated and underemployed.