WEBVTT 00:00:12.730 --> 00:00:16.070 Welcome to Overeducated and Underemployed. I'm 00:00:16.070 --> 00:00:19.570 Fedden. We're here with part two of my interview 00:00:19.570 --> 00:00:22.769 with Cole Taylor, the owner and founder of Classic 00:00:22.769 --> 00:00:26.730 City Wrestling. And here we go. We're going to 00:00:26.730 --> 00:00:31.420 dive right back into it. Here's part two. We'll 00:00:31.420 --> 00:00:35.100 have to back up a little bit. Cool. I have no 00:00:35.100 --> 00:00:39.460 shortage of ridiculous ideas. So I've fantasized 00:00:39.460 --> 00:00:45.380 how my pro wrestling company would work in my 00:00:45.380 --> 00:00:49.359 head forever. And I felt like if it was an Athens 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:53.320 brand, you'd really be missing the point if you 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:55.899 don't have live music as a part of it. Absolutely, 00:00:56.200 --> 00:01:00.259 yeah. So I've been viewing that forever. The 00:01:00.259 --> 00:01:03.259 pandemic happened. That was a very magical time 00:01:03.259 --> 00:01:05.959 for me because I'm very high strung by nature. 00:01:06.140 --> 00:01:09.000 And just having that year and a half of just 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:12.459 like doing nothing. I can relate, man. It was 00:01:12.459 --> 00:01:14.420 like one of those times where I felt like relief. 00:01:14.799 --> 00:01:17.480 Totally, totally. And a lot of people were struggling, 00:01:17.620 --> 00:01:20.120 but I was like, I feel great. Yeah, yeah. It 00:01:20.120 --> 00:01:23.140 allowed my mind to unwind and experience different 00:01:23.140 --> 00:01:25.640 things. And I got to learn a lot about myself 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:29.040 and like things that interested me. It's very 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:32.659 special. And I reached out. I was thinking, I 00:01:32.659 --> 00:01:36.879 should do something during this time that I would 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:40.359 never, ever do. And so I reached out to a friend 00:01:40.359 --> 00:01:43.599 of mine who I'd met. I used to throw parties 00:01:43.599 --> 00:01:45.540 at the Flickr bar where I'd show old wrestling 00:01:45.540 --> 00:01:49.680 classics. Awesome. That's the beginning. Yeah, 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:52.900 I guess I forgot to tell that part. I was at 00:01:52.900 --> 00:01:57.299 a point in my career where... Eventually, I ended 00:01:57.299 --> 00:02:00.019 up becoming tour manager, but as the assistant, 00:02:00.180 --> 00:02:03.340 I was getting a little bored. Maybe not on the 00:02:03.340 --> 00:02:05.859 road, but in my off time. I needed to come up 00:02:05.859 --> 00:02:08.300 with something cool. I started throwing these 00:02:08.300 --> 00:02:11.219 parties where I would show old wrestling shows 00:02:11.219 --> 00:02:16.199 on the big screen at the Flickr. What I found 00:02:16.199 --> 00:02:18.340 was that non -wrestling fans were who came to 00:02:18.340 --> 00:02:22.500 the shows. 60 to 80 people in that little room 00:02:22.500 --> 00:02:25.379 which is a lot in the flicker and like they would 00:02:25.379 --> 00:02:29.500 all cheer and go wild and sometimes throw things 00:02:29.500 --> 00:02:33.060 at the screen it gave me a vision of what an 00:02:33.060 --> 00:02:35.180 actual wrestling company could be I'm like oh 00:02:35.180 --> 00:02:37.800 these are my people yeah these are my people 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:39.879 this is it but I kept that in my back pocket 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:42.080 and then I eventually got promoted to tour manager 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:45.340 and all of that spare time and boredom that was 00:02:45.340 --> 00:02:49.349 gone yeah that just played into a memory Flash 00:02:49.349 --> 00:02:52.009 forward back to the pandemic. I was working. 00:02:52.550 --> 00:02:54.969 I reached out to a friend who was a pro wrestler 00:02:54.969 --> 00:02:57.830 that I met through those parties. And I'm like, 00:02:57.870 --> 00:03:01.110 hey, this is crazy. I'm not even looking for 00:03:01.110 --> 00:03:03.810 money. If you find some dough to throw me, you 00:03:03.810 --> 00:03:07.949 can, but that's not what this is. I just, during 00:03:07.949 --> 00:03:10.229 this time, who knows how long it'll last, I'd 00:03:10.229 --> 00:03:12.569 love to be involved in pro wrestling. Just like 00:03:12.569 --> 00:03:15.009 it's something I've wanted to do my whole life. 00:03:15.689 --> 00:03:18.509 Let's do it. And he's like, sure. We got a show 00:03:18.509 --> 00:03:21.050 coming up. Why don't we just come hang out? And 00:03:21.050 --> 00:03:23.250 I hung out for a few times and they needed a 00:03:23.250 --> 00:03:25.110 ring announcer. I became the ring announcer. 00:03:25.469 --> 00:03:29.090 It was great. And I made a friend there. And 00:03:29.090 --> 00:03:34.909 I talked to him about what I thought an Athens 00:03:34.909 --> 00:03:38.210 pro wrestling company would look like. And just 00:03:38.210 --> 00:03:41.430 having fun. Not thinking twice about it. Just 00:03:41.430 --> 00:03:43.770 like bullshitting with your friend during the 00:03:43.770 --> 00:03:48.620 downtime. he who's my partner now he got the 00:03:48.620 --> 00:03:52.060 vision and had a very similar vision of his own 00:03:52.060 --> 00:03:55.219 and it was just like cool and it was like this 00:03:55.219 --> 00:03:58.500 like jokingly one day you and me we're gonna 00:03:58.500 --> 00:04:00.340 we're gonna do this we're gonna do this and i'm 00:04:00.340 --> 00:04:02.680 like shit man if you ever i'm like in all seriousness 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:04.539 if you ever really want to do this just give 00:04:04.539 --> 00:04:08.030 me a call man i'll be in the pandemic The pandemic 00:04:08.030 --> 00:04:12.430 ended. I felt the need to spread my wings and 00:04:12.430 --> 00:04:15.030 fly. Is there a consensus on the date of the 00:04:15.030 --> 00:04:20.370 end of the pandemic yet? Oh, man. We started 00:04:20.370 --> 00:04:23.310 the tour. I felt the need to spread my wings 00:04:23.310 --> 00:04:26.269 and fly and work with other bands and whatnot. 00:04:26.610 --> 00:04:30.029 So I'd left Truckers and I was touring with different 00:04:30.029 --> 00:04:32.990 people. Some tours were phenomenal and some tours 00:04:32.990 --> 00:04:35.089 were the opposite of phenomenal. Yeah, yeah. 00:04:36.829 --> 00:04:39.550 I ended up going through like a really brutal 00:04:39.550 --> 00:04:43.769 breakup at the time. And so all that was happening 00:04:43.769 --> 00:04:48.149 and I got some dirt under my eye, but we're good. 00:04:48.490 --> 00:04:53.490 All that was happening and it sucked. Yeah. It 00:04:53.490 --> 00:04:56.589 was just like a lot happening. And my friend 00:04:56.589 --> 00:05:01.050 gave me a call. He's like, so about that. And 00:05:01.050 --> 00:05:04.470 I'm like, yeah. And we decided to call it Classic 00:05:04.470 --> 00:05:08.490 City Wrestling. And we had a project. And I never 00:05:08.490 --> 00:05:11.569 really meant to get into pro wrestling like it 00:05:11.569 --> 00:05:13.290 is now. I thought this would be just a fun little 00:05:13.290 --> 00:05:17.069 thing we did. And I went through, I tried to 00:05:17.069 --> 00:05:20.550 do Classic City Wrestling and The Road. And I 00:05:20.550 --> 00:05:25.449 had the most brutal tour ever. It was a three 00:05:25.449 --> 00:05:29.500 and a half month long tour. It was very... It 00:05:29.500 --> 00:05:31.439 was brutal. I don't want to speak ill of anyone, 00:05:31.620 --> 00:05:35.220 so that's just where we'll leave it. And everybody 00:05:35.220 --> 00:05:38.720 has good tours and bad tours, too. So that wouldn't 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:40.759 even necessarily speak about the people necessarily. 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:45.480 But I just needed a little time off. Around the 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:47.839 same time, I got offered a desk job, and that 00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:50.019 didn't last forever either. I learned very quickly 00:05:50.019 --> 00:05:54.000 I'm not a desk job. Yeah, me neither. But very 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:57.139 quickly, this Classic City Wrestling idea, it... 00:05:57.480 --> 00:06:01.180 it grew and became a thing in Athens significantly. 00:06:01.899 --> 00:06:05.199 It became more than... It became exactly what 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:07.879 we expected and something we never could have 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:11.160 dreamed of at the exact same time. It's almost 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:12.939 like you had the vision for it, but you never 00:06:12.939 --> 00:06:15.620 necessarily thought it would actually come to 00:06:15.620 --> 00:06:17.819 fruition. Yeah, it happened by accident, but 00:06:17.819 --> 00:06:20.480 now I'm all in now. Yeah, yeah, of course, yeah. 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:25.139 But yeah, it just came to be. And artistically, 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:28.240 it's got a... We take this on the road. We do 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:30.540 other cities, but it has to be that Athens vibe. 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:33.279 When we go to other cities, we're rocking for 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:35.920 them. We're not rocking for Athens, but we have 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:38.800 to do it as who we are. It's a classic city, 00:06:38.899 --> 00:06:41.019 right? Yeah, exactly. It's the wrestling brand 00:06:41.019 --> 00:06:43.839 from the classic city. Yeah, you did that show 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:46.540 in Nashville with Thelma and the Sleaze, right? 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:49.620 Thelma and the Sleaze happened in Macon. Macon. 00:06:50.019 --> 00:06:52.199 Have y 'all done Nashville yet? We did a show 00:06:52.199 --> 00:06:54.379 with the Dexateens. Dexateens, okay. Awesome. 00:06:54.819 --> 00:06:58.399 That was amazing. What was the first one? The 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:01.199 very first one. Let's go back to the first one. 00:07:01.300 --> 00:07:07.040 It was two days ago. And I know I met my girlfriend 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:09.879 that I have now the day after. Oh, cool. Each 00:07:09.879 --> 00:07:11.959 anniversary helps me remember the anniversary. 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:14.959 And we will leave it ambiguous as to which is 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:18.680 reminding him of which. Exactly. But three years 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:22.759 ago, we did a little show at a brewery on the 00:07:22.759 --> 00:07:26.160 outskirts of town. Which one? southern brewery 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:30.019 okay and there was a pro wrestling company that 00:07:30.019 --> 00:07:33.579 used to run shows before and they stopped and 00:07:33.579 --> 00:07:36.100 we thought we might have a little built -in audience 00:07:36.100 --> 00:07:40.860 and let's try it and we had intentions of doing 00:07:40.860 --> 00:07:43.819 it long term but like it did really well and 00:07:43.819 --> 00:07:47.639 then i hopped on the road and i missed a few 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:52.339 shows and came back but yeah yeah the The first 00:07:52.339 --> 00:07:55.100 show was special. Drive -by truckers were playing 00:07:55.100 --> 00:07:57.300 Homecoming. It was the time they played Homecoming 00:07:57.300 --> 00:08:01.899 in April. Yeah, right after it got delayed because 00:08:01.899 --> 00:08:04.500 there was a resurgence. Is that what it was? 00:08:04.860 --> 00:08:07.379 I think it was originally going to be in February, 00:08:07.399 --> 00:08:09.519 and then they pushed it to April that year. I 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:11.980 remember having our show booked, and the truckers 00:08:11.980 --> 00:08:14.279 announcing they're having a show the same day. 00:08:14.339 --> 00:08:16.800 I'm like, you've got to be fucking kidding me. 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:19.980 Oh, no. And I was amazed at how many drive -by 00:08:19.980 --> 00:08:22.339 trucker people actually showed up. Oh, yeah. 00:08:22.399 --> 00:08:25.459 After the third batch, they're like... All right, 00:08:25.459 --> 00:08:29.040 man, I had a blast. Who was the band for Classic 00:08:29.040 --> 00:08:34.059 City Jukebox? They're a local party band, and 00:08:34.059 --> 00:08:38.840 they did so many shows with us. They did the 00:08:38.840 --> 00:08:40.639 first year and a half's worth of shows with us. 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:43.980 Oh, cool. That might be a stretch, but they did 00:08:43.980 --> 00:08:48.100 so many shows with us. And Matt Patton and I 00:08:48.100 --> 00:08:51.120 were talking, and I don't remember who jokingly 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:54.159 said it first. One of us, like... I don't think 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:56.159 it was a serious conversation in the beginning, 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:59.580 but we joked about how fun it would be if the 00:08:59.580 --> 00:09:03.740 Dexatines played one. And then we just kept joking 00:09:03.740 --> 00:09:05.580 about it. And those jokes became, and then all 00:09:05.580 --> 00:09:08.320 of a sudden Elliot was in. Then when they played, 00:09:08.340 --> 00:09:12.820 everything changed and we started having other 00:09:12.820 --> 00:09:15.539 bands play. And that was my next question was 00:09:15.539 --> 00:09:17.940 like, was the intention originally just to have 00:09:17.940 --> 00:09:21.940 the one band? Did you always plan to have? A 00:09:21.940 --> 00:09:24.600 different band. We always wanted to have different 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:29.399 bands, but we thought that this local, beloved, 00:09:29.460 --> 00:09:35.960 fun band would be a very good band to have. The 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:40.000 branding was right, too. Yeah. Totally. I see 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:43.639 what you did there. They were the perfect band 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:46.940 to join us while we were finding our footing. 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:50.460 Yeah, yeah. And that was the intention. And we 00:09:50.460 --> 00:09:52.899 didn't know exactly what we wanted. You learn 00:09:52.899 --> 00:09:55.940 what you want by accident sometimes. Yeah, I 00:09:55.940 --> 00:09:57.980 used to work with a lot of graphic artists, and 00:09:57.980 --> 00:10:00.799 they would get so frustrated because the clients 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:03.240 would not know what they wanted until they saw 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:07.720 it. Yeah. And that's fine and dandy until the 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:10.519 graphic artist is doing 100 revisions, trying 00:10:10.519 --> 00:10:14.240 to figure it out. All of a sudden, three edits 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:16.830 ago... That design wasn't so bad when you see 00:10:16.830 --> 00:10:19.690 the paycheck. So you hurt yourself pretty bad 00:10:19.690 --> 00:10:22.690 at one point. Did that injury have anything to 00:10:22.690 --> 00:10:26.370 do with Classic City Wrestling? Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:10:27.029 --> 00:10:33.450 We had Taxi Cab vs. Are you familiar with Taxi 00:10:33.450 --> 00:10:35.429 Cab? I'll pretend that you're not familiar. I'm 00:10:35.429 --> 00:10:38.230 not, so this is perfect. So Taxi Cab vs., it's 00:10:38.230 --> 00:10:42.169 this really cool thing. They were, Jim Wilson 00:10:42.169 --> 00:10:46.289 is the front man of it. And they've got, there 00:10:46.289 --> 00:10:50.330 might be 16 people on stage. And it's like Afrobeat, 00:10:50.450 --> 00:10:53.690 but not, but like a who's who of Athens musicians. 00:10:54.149 --> 00:10:56.590 Oh, cool. Brad Morgan was playing drums for them. 00:10:56.750 --> 00:11:00.490 Nice. When I hurt myself. Like sometimes, it's 00:11:00.490 --> 00:11:03.549 the coolest thing in the world. Do they still 00:11:03.549 --> 00:11:05.669 do it? Yeah, yeah. It's one of those things that 00:11:05.669 --> 00:11:08.129 like, it only happens about twice a year. I'll 00:11:08.129 --> 00:11:09.929 have to come up for it. No, it's worth seeing. 00:11:10.149 --> 00:11:14.220 It's worth seeing. But I really, I really. I 00:11:14.220 --> 00:11:16.600 feel like we settled into a groove of how the 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:19.860 show was, and I wanted to break script of what 00:11:19.860 --> 00:11:21.840 to expect. And you ended up breaking more than 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:24.820 just the script. Exactly. I had Jim Wilson start 00:11:24.820 --> 00:11:27.179 the show in the ring with strippers surrounding 00:11:27.179 --> 00:11:31.379 him, and just really walk through the crowd while 00:11:31.379 --> 00:11:33.259 he was singing the intro song. And I had this 00:11:33.259 --> 00:11:35.980 vision of us both intersecting and walking around 00:11:35.980 --> 00:11:39.710 the arena together. Essentially, I was waiting 00:11:39.710 --> 00:11:42.250 for a cue to happen before I did my next thing. 00:11:42.389 --> 00:11:44.750 The band was going to do something and that would 00:11:44.750 --> 00:11:48.649 give me the cue and I was waiting. And I climbed 00:11:48.649 --> 00:11:51.789 on the subs because it's hard to explain what 00:11:51.789 --> 00:11:53.570 you're thinking when you're adrenaline possessed. 00:11:54.029 --> 00:11:58.169 I climbed on the subs and Jim climbed on the 00:11:58.169 --> 00:12:01.809 40 watt bar and Jim did this really cool jump 00:12:01.809 --> 00:12:05.700 off the bar. And I don't know if I was... Trying 00:12:05.700 --> 00:12:07.600 to be in it with him or if I was... I'm not sure 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:11.659 what I was thinking. In my, like, 40 years old, 00:12:11.740 --> 00:12:14.620 thinking I'm punk rock and whatever, I jumped 00:12:14.620 --> 00:12:18.820 off the subs and tore my ACL, my meniscus, and 00:12:18.820 --> 00:12:22.559 broke my knee. And I didn't really feel anything 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:25.720 because I had so much adrenaline. What defies 00:12:25.720 --> 00:12:28.179 my understanding of the injury, I was able to 00:12:28.179 --> 00:12:30.940 get to the ring. Which was, to be fair, only 00:12:30.940 --> 00:12:34.019 about three steps in front of me. But I got in 00:12:34.019 --> 00:12:36.240 the ring and then I just collapsed. And then 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:38.080 I stood up again and I just collapsed. I'm like, 00:12:38.179 --> 00:12:42.840 oh, fuck. So I just hopped on one foot for the 00:12:42.840 --> 00:12:45.919 rest of this and did my little intro speech. 00:12:46.139 --> 00:12:49.539 And the rest of the show, I had two people just 00:12:49.539 --> 00:12:52.340 kind of... half -ass carrying so you finished 00:12:52.340 --> 00:12:54.960 the show yeah finished the show it's funny that's 00:12:54.960 --> 00:12:57.100 amazing i heard there was a nurse there so we 00:12:57.100 --> 00:12:59.580 got the nurse to come and my knee but in true 00:12:59.580 --> 00:13:01.960 athens form the nurse was just shit hammered 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:04.639 okay we don't need this nurse here helping me 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:08.639 this is not a good yeah yeah yeah man that reminds 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:12.159 me of a couple of little stories that that i'll 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:16.090 share with you totally So the first band I ever 00:13:16.090 --> 00:13:18.009 fell in love with was a band called The Marvelous 00:13:18.009 --> 00:13:21.889 Three. Butch Walker's band out of Atlanta. And 00:13:21.889 --> 00:13:25.370 honestly, man, the fan base, being as fanatic 00:13:25.370 --> 00:13:27.830 as they were, was part of what attracted me. 00:13:27.830 --> 00:13:30.070 People love Butch Walker. But I went and saw 00:13:30.070 --> 00:13:32.909 him play in Dothan, Alabama. I believe Starship 00:13:32.909 --> 00:13:36.470 played that day as well. Okay, that's cool. There 00:13:36.470 --> 00:13:39.570 was somebody else. But during the first song, 00:13:39.750 --> 00:13:43.389 he jumps off the monitor. And he tears his Achilles 00:13:43.389 --> 00:13:47.330 tendon. Shit. And they end up postponing the 00:13:47.330 --> 00:13:49.929 album, canceling the tour, all this shit. He 00:13:49.929 --> 00:13:51.610 was out of commission for months and months. 00:13:51.730 --> 00:13:54.389 But that motherfucker finished the song. Hell 00:13:54.389 --> 00:13:56.909 yeah. He didn't finish the show. But he finished 00:13:56.909 --> 00:14:00.929 the goddamn song. And then there was this other 00:14:00.929 --> 00:14:02.850 thing that made me think of was when I was like 00:14:02.850 --> 00:14:06.309 13 or 14. And I'm a tall guy, and I've always 00:14:06.309 --> 00:14:08.990 been pretty tall. I don't remember you any other 00:14:08.990 --> 00:14:13.129 way. And so even at 13 and 14, people thought 00:14:13.129 --> 00:14:15.649 I was an adult anyway. I've seen the Mighty Boss 00:14:15.649 --> 00:14:19.830 Tones in my hometown. And people were stage diving. 00:14:20.029 --> 00:14:22.830 So I thought that would be fun. I've never seen 00:14:22.830 --> 00:14:26.929 a crowd part as quickly as that day. And thank 00:14:26.929 --> 00:14:29.070 God that I wasn't an adult because I still had 00:14:29.070 --> 00:14:34.389 rubber bones. Yeah, that was... So at least there 00:14:34.389 --> 00:14:36.690 was like... I had the idea that somebody was 00:14:36.690 --> 00:14:40.940 going to catch me. Totally. So how did that affect 00:14:40.940 --> 00:14:44.639 your ability to run Classic City Wrestling for 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:46.419 the next while, while you recovered from that? 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:50.559 Oh, man. Was it a huge impact, or were you able 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:53.700 to navigate around it? I don't know. Everything 00:14:53.700 --> 00:14:56.700 started piling up for sure. Just trying to figure 00:14:56.700 --> 00:15:01.440 out how to make ends meet, and I'm stuck on a 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:04.720 sofa. There's certain, as I held my leg up, people 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:10.100 listening can see me do that. In a way, the strangest 00:15:10.100 --> 00:15:12.320 way, don't get me wrong, if I could do it all 00:15:12.320 --> 00:15:14.419 over again, I wouldn't have jumped off the subs. 00:15:14.919 --> 00:15:18.840 Really? Oh, my God. But in a strange way, it 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:21.299 was really helpful because it's like the pandemic. 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:24.200 It allowed me to, despite those things that I 00:15:24.200 --> 00:15:26.419 just prefaced with, it allowed me to slow down. 00:15:26.899 --> 00:15:29.179 It allowed me to see things a little more clearly. 00:15:29.259 --> 00:15:31.899 I started painting rocks at the time, and, like, 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:34.539 it opened up a... and i started painting rocks 00:15:34.539 --> 00:15:37.580 and reading comic books at the time and it really 00:15:37.580 --> 00:15:40.580 opened up a whole new creative way of looking 00:15:40.580 --> 00:15:44.000 at the world and i think for all of the hindrances 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:47.600 i think it gave me something in return so i think 00:15:47.600 --> 00:15:51.279 that it helped and don't get me wrong like there 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:56.220 was a period of time where i i did the show from 00:15:56.220 --> 00:16:00.080 a throne That I stuck on the stage. The throne 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:03.059 being a chair that a union guy in New York City 00:16:03.059 --> 00:16:06.360 stole from the Terminal 5 and gave to me. I've 00:16:06.360 --> 00:16:08.919 been to that venue. I've seen the drive -by druggers 00:16:08.919 --> 00:16:11.340 there. Totally. Might have been that show. Probably. 00:16:11.500 --> 00:16:15.620 I don't know. It was New York in, what, 2011, 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:19.580 2010? Yeah, that's about right. But I did some 00:16:19.580 --> 00:16:23.799 shows from a chair. I was on crutches for a few 00:16:23.799 --> 00:16:27.039 shows. We didn't have to cancel any. which was 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:30.720 really good. We just made it work. I think what 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:32.340 you said is really interesting because sometimes, 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:35.659 first of all, sometimes people that have a lot 00:16:35.659 --> 00:16:38.919 of aspirations, really heavy drive, don't know 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:41.039 when to set boundaries for themselves. I'm the 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:45.159 worst. And that like physically placed a bunch 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:47.100 of boundaries. Right. Life set the boundaries 00:16:47.100 --> 00:16:50.379 for me. And that also makes me think about even 00:16:50.379 --> 00:16:53.960 just going back to the Hollywood code of you 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:57.750 couldn't show sex on screen. or all these things. 00:16:57.929 --> 00:17:00.409 But what they did, what the filmmakers did was, 00:17:00.450 --> 00:17:03.309 oh, we're going to make fireworks mean sex. We're 00:17:03.309 --> 00:17:05.769 going to do all these things that symbolize these 00:17:05.769 --> 00:17:08.210 things that we can't show. And some might argue 00:17:08.210 --> 00:17:12.329 that they created visualizations that exist in 00:17:12.329 --> 00:17:15.650 our culture now that never would have existed 00:17:15.650 --> 00:17:17.349 if they were allowed to just show whatever the 00:17:17.349 --> 00:17:18.789 fuck they wanted to show on screen. Totally, 00:17:18.789 --> 00:17:22.819 totally. So sometimes constraint. can really 00:17:22.819 --> 00:17:25.920 be a blessing. Absolutely. I believe in that 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:28.299 hard. And I think it goes back to what you were 00:17:28.299 --> 00:17:31.400 saying earlier with the 80 -20 thing. Maybe you 00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:34.519 were just going too hard. Life was like, hey, 00:17:34.559 --> 00:17:38.180 motherfucker. I think about that a lot. I think 00:17:38.180 --> 00:17:42.480 about those people that, you know, maybe perhaps 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:45.859 they lose their job. And the thing that they 00:17:45.859 --> 00:17:47.900 say to their employer when they lose their job 00:17:47.900 --> 00:17:51.140 is, oh man, I wish I'd walked away when... I 00:17:51.140 --> 00:17:53.099 wish I'd walked away when I was starting to have 00:17:53.099 --> 00:17:54.900 those thoughts. I wouldn't end up where I am 00:17:54.900 --> 00:17:58.059 now. And I often wonder that too. I'm like, I 00:17:58.059 --> 00:18:00.000 sure don't want to have that conversation with 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:03.960 someone someday. But yeah, all the time. I truly 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:07.400 believe that if you're, if there's something 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:10.200 that needs to happen and you're not going to 00:18:10.200 --> 00:18:13.180 make those decisions for yourself, not always, 00:18:13.299 --> 00:18:15.539 but a lot of the times life will make those decisions 00:18:15.539 --> 00:18:19.390 for you. Yeah. And. I don't want to say this 00:18:19.390 --> 00:18:22.190 in absolute, but I think that there is a little 00:18:22.190 --> 00:18:25.269 bit of the universe giving me what I was supposed 00:18:25.269 --> 00:18:29.130 to have. That's fair. I'm sorry it hurt so much. 00:18:29.289 --> 00:18:33.150 Yeah, it sucked. So, I gotta say, as an observer 00:18:33.150 --> 00:18:35.930 of everything you've been doing for the last 00:18:35.930 --> 00:18:39.849 decade or more, it felt like Athens Ass Whooping 00:18:39.849 --> 00:18:44.289 was like the culmination of the kind of everything 00:18:44.289 --> 00:18:48.059 you've been doing. For the last decade. It was 00:18:48.059 --> 00:18:50.119 the moment of everything coming together. I just 00:18:50.119 --> 00:18:56.380 want to know, A, how did that even come to happen? 00:18:56.599 --> 00:19:01.059 B, did you ever... I'm sure it had to be a secret 00:19:01.059 --> 00:19:03.920 hope or whatever, but did you ever think it was 00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:06.700 going to happen? Was it a promise they made to 00:19:06.700 --> 00:19:09.819 you one day? I'm just really curious about how, 00:19:09.859 --> 00:19:12.160 because I feel like it was almost too perfect. 00:19:12.619 --> 00:19:15.440 It's like everything we could have wanted. It 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:17.180 was one of the more special things that I've 00:19:17.180 --> 00:19:19.799 ever been a part of. It was really special to 00:19:19.799 --> 00:19:22.240 be there. It's good to hear. It's good to hear. 00:19:22.619 --> 00:19:25.700 Of course I always wanted that to happen. But 00:19:25.700 --> 00:19:29.720 I never thought it would happen. One time I texted 00:19:29.720 --> 00:19:33.339 Patterson, maybe a year and a half before the 00:19:33.339 --> 00:19:36.730 Athens Ass Weapon actually came about. sometime 00:19:36.730 --> 00:19:39.490 you and me, man, you're going to be the house 00:19:39.490 --> 00:19:41.450 band and I'm going to have my show and we're 00:19:41.450 --> 00:19:43.589 going to show the world something we've never 00:19:43.589 --> 00:19:47.069 seen. They've never seen. And Patterson didn't 00:19:47.069 --> 00:19:51.309 text back. They were testing the waters. Just 00:19:51.309 --> 00:19:55.190 left your ass alone. Yeah. I'm like, okay, point 00:19:55.190 --> 00:19:58.069 taken. And in our reality, he probably was just 00:19:58.069 --> 00:20:01.970 busy. It just didn't get, but I did a show in 00:20:01.970 --> 00:20:04.230 Nashville and Cooley came to the show, which 00:20:04.230 --> 00:20:07.299 was really cool. And... That was the one you 00:20:07.299 --> 00:20:09.480 did with Dead Confederate? That was Dexatines. 00:20:09.579 --> 00:20:12.099 Dexatines. Sorry, I'm... Dead Confederate was 00:20:12.099 --> 00:20:14.940 the other... That was... Okay. I'm just trying 00:20:14.940 --> 00:20:17.500 to, like, when I cross my wires, I need to untangle 00:20:17.500 --> 00:20:20.440 them for everybody else. 100%. 100%. Hardy Morrison's 00:20:20.440 --> 00:20:22.859 band at the time. Oh, yeah. But anyway... I love 00:20:22.859 --> 00:20:25.500 that guy. He's great. Totally. Cooley came to 00:20:25.500 --> 00:20:29.460 a show, and he texted me the next day, like, 00:20:29.579 --> 00:20:32.759 a classic. Hey, man, I had to split immediately 00:20:32.759 --> 00:20:35.039 after the show. Didn't get to say goodbye, but 00:20:35.039 --> 00:20:37.920 I want to tell you how much fun I had. And I 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:40.740 texted him back, and I was like, yeah, man, I 00:20:40.740 --> 00:20:43.000 have this vision. There's an arena that opened 00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:45.339 recently. I'm like, I have this vision, man. 00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:48.799 If we could ever play a show at the arena, it'd 00:20:48.799 --> 00:20:51.940 be really cool if you guys played with us. And 00:20:51.940 --> 00:20:53.880 I'm like, okay, I guess it's just not going to 00:20:53.880 --> 00:20:57.140 happen. And I didn't really think too hard about 00:20:57.140 --> 00:21:02.059 it. And, like, I told Brad. I had a fantasy of 00:21:02.059 --> 00:21:04.759 it happening, and Brad was like, Brad had been 00:21:04.759 --> 00:21:06.579 to the show. He'd been to the show as a fan, 00:21:06.680 --> 00:21:08.960 and he played one of the shows with Taxi Cab 00:21:08.960 --> 00:21:13.839 vs. Yeah, yeah. And Brad got it, and Matt Patton 00:21:13.839 --> 00:21:15.539 got it, because Matt Patton had played a show 00:21:15.539 --> 00:21:19.259 with the Dexa teams. Like, I told both of them, 00:21:19.319 --> 00:21:22.180 like, yeah, it'd be really cool. Yeah, man, it 00:21:22.180 --> 00:21:24.579 would be cool. But that was where it ended. You 00:21:24.579 --> 00:21:27.700 can't over -push shit. No, certainly not, yeah. 00:21:28.569 --> 00:21:30.950 Especially when you've had relationships with 00:21:30.950 --> 00:21:34.170 people for so long. Totally. You never want to 00:21:34.170 --> 00:21:36.130 take advantage of those. Yeah, all you want to 00:21:36.130 --> 00:21:38.970 do is be cool. Yeah, and the fact that they'd 00:21:38.970 --> 00:21:41.970 even consider it is pretty amazing. One day, 00:21:42.069 --> 00:21:45.289 Brad texts me and says, hey, you should give 00:21:45.289 --> 00:21:48.029 Patterson a call. And then Matt Patton texts 00:21:48.029 --> 00:21:50.069 me and says, you should give Patterson a call. 00:21:50.369 --> 00:21:54.490 Then their manager, Christine, texts me and she's 00:21:54.490 --> 00:21:56.859 like, hey. can you send me a Classic City Wrestling 00:21:56.859 --> 00:21:58.880 hat? And I'm like, okay, so they've been talking 00:21:58.880 --> 00:22:01.380 about Classic City Wrestling to her. I'm like, 00:22:01.420 --> 00:22:04.259 I wonder. And still nothing amounted from it. 00:22:04.599 --> 00:22:07.559 I saw Patterson a couple days later. He was doing 00:22:07.559 --> 00:22:09.500 a show at the Georgia Theater. Like, nothing. 00:22:09.579 --> 00:22:14.619 I'm like, huh. And I just moved on. And eventually 00:22:14.619 --> 00:22:20.759 I got a call from their manager. And she just 00:22:20.759 --> 00:22:24.079 asked me about how realistic it would be to do 00:22:24.079 --> 00:22:27.299 it. I'm like, what are you talking about? Let's 00:22:27.299 --> 00:22:30.819 do it. And we started talking, and there's an 00:22:30.819 --> 00:22:33.480 extraordinary amount of logistics that we had 00:22:33.480 --> 00:22:35.900 to work out that I don't need to get into. Yeah, 00:22:35.900 --> 00:22:38.819 sure, sure. It got to the point where the logistics 00:22:38.819 --> 00:22:42.180 were worked out, and then the 40 watt gave us 00:22:42.180 --> 00:22:45.220 the date. It was this moment of, shit, this is 00:22:45.220 --> 00:22:47.660 for real. Holy shit. Did y 'all intentionally 00:22:47.660 --> 00:22:49.779 make it that close to homecoming, or did it just 00:22:49.779 --> 00:22:52.420 work out that way? That was definitely a thing 00:22:52.420 --> 00:22:54.849 that... They're already here. That was definitely 00:22:54.849 --> 00:22:57.309 a thing that I thought about. I'm like, would 00:22:57.309 --> 00:23:01.329 it be better to try to like find a gap in their 00:23:01.329 --> 00:23:05.029 schedule on tour and just have a show? I talked 00:23:05.029 --> 00:23:08.150 to Patterson and he made it clear that without 00:23:08.150 --> 00:23:10.690 saying that it would be cooler to do it around 00:23:10.690 --> 00:23:15.130 homecoming. Yeah, yeah. And I was not a believer 00:23:15.130 --> 00:23:17.690 that it would work out on a Monday. Especially, 00:23:17.829 --> 00:23:21.720 I was not a believer. If they're listening to 00:23:21.720 --> 00:23:23.700 this, I hope they're laughing at me for being 00:23:23.700 --> 00:23:27.740 an idiot here. But I was not a believer. I'm 00:23:27.740 --> 00:23:31.259 like, we've never done a show on a Monday. A 00:23:31.259 --> 00:23:33.380 lot of people are going to leave. I sent out 00:23:33.380 --> 00:23:37.160 some feelers to people in DBT camp. Hey, you 00:23:37.160 --> 00:23:39.619 think you'd want to see a show on Sunday? They're 00:23:39.619 --> 00:23:42.579 like, maybe I can stay, but I wouldn't bank on 00:23:42.579 --> 00:23:46.359 it. And eventually I just said yes because I 00:23:46.359 --> 00:23:49.480 really wanted to do it. Yeah, of course. Even 00:23:49.480 --> 00:23:52.579 if it didn't get the attendance that I'd want, 00:23:52.740 --> 00:23:56.960 it'd still be pretty awesome. By the way, how 00:23:56.960 --> 00:23:59.539 quickly did tickets sell out for? Sold out in 00:23:59.539 --> 00:24:01.579 two and a half hours to the minute. Yeah, we 00:24:01.579 --> 00:24:04.539 knew. And then I was worried. I'm like, shit, 00:24:04.579 --> 00:24:06.440 it's going to be nothing but DBT fans. Did our 00:24:06.440 --> 00:24:10.359 fans get tickets? Is the show going to translate? 00:24:11.059 --> 00:24:16.109 And I felt like both fan bases showed up. I love 00:24:16.109 --> 00:24:18.950 that you bring that up because I sat in front 00:24:18.950 --> 00:24:21.109 of a guy who was a little annoyed that he couldn't 00:24:21.109 --> 00:24:23.529 get front row seats. And he was like, man, is 00:24:23.529 --> 00:24:25.470 it just going to be all truckers fans? Are they 00:24:25.470 --> 00:24:28.230 here for the wrestling? I don't know. And this 00:24:28.230 --> 00:24:29.789 was probably about halfway through the night 00:24:29.789 --> 00:24:31.349 we were having this conversation. He was like, 00:24:31.430 --> 00:24:34.410 but y 'all are fucking awesome. Hell yeah. And 00:24:34.410 --> 00:24:37.519 he was like, y 'all are into it. Here for it. 00:24:37.559 --> 00:24:39.900 Yeah. We love that you're here kind of thing. 00:24:40.039 --> 00:24:43.059 So like I felt the classic city wrestling fans 00:24:43.059 --> 00:24:45.940 were really welcoming to the heathens. Totally. 00:24:46.000 --> 00:24:48.980 It was, that's like a cheesy thing to say, but 00:24:48.980 --> 00:24:52.039 it was like that night it was y 'all were all 00:24:52.039 --> 00:24:55.619 one fan base. Yeah. It was clear. I was worried 00:24:55.619 --> 00:24:59.500 that like the heathens wouldn't like know like 00:24:59.500 --> 00:25:02.019 the chance and how to do it. And I was proven 00:25:02.019 --> 00:25:05.059 wrong within 10 seconds. Man, we had fans. We 00:25:05.059 --> 00:25:06.900 had people like Sean. I'm going to give Sean 00:25:06.900 --> 00:25:11.019 a shout out. She was teaching people chants for 00:25:11.019 --> 00:25:14.019 Effie and everything. All week, all weekend. 00:25:14.480 --> 00:25:17.000 And I think the fact that we had the time together 00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:19.519 beforehand. All right, who are we rooting for? 00:25:20.480 --> 00:25:24.099 It was a really magical night, man. It's a weird 00:25:24.099 --> 00:25:27.079 thing. It's a weird thing. I'll remember it for 00:25:27.079 --> 00:25:30.160 the rest of my life, man. I feel it's a weird 00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:32.859 thing of knowing the significance of something. 00:25:33.529 --> 00:25:36.009 I don't want to come across as arrogant, but 00:25:36.009 --> 00:25:40.690 I like to think that in 20 years when people 00:25:40.690 --> 00:25:43.490 talk about great Athens moments, that'll be one 00:25:43.490 --> 00:25:46.289 of them. I would be shocked if it isn't. Yeah. 00:25:46.829 --> 00:25:50.390 Really, man. As somebody who's there, as just 00:25:50.390 --> 00:25:53.390 a fan, it was one of the coolest things that 00:25:53.390 --> 00:25:56.549 I had. I didn't really know what to expect. Honestly, 00:25:56.990 --> 00:25:59.250 I was just there because it was something unique, 00:25:59.390 --> 00:26:01.549 and you were doing it, and I just wanted to support 00:26:01.549 --> 00:26:05.240 what was going on. And I could stay. Not everybody 00:26:05.240 --> 00:26:10.099 could, but I could. And, dude, it blew me away. 00:26:10.539 --> 00:26:13.920 I appreciate that, man. And I think that the 00:26:13.920 --> 00:26:17.619 fact that it was during homecoming means that 00:26:17.619 --> 00:26:20.059 you got to have people from all over the world 00:26:20.059 --> 00:26:23.819 experience classic city wrestling at a time. 00:26:23.839 --> 00:26:26.180 And I felt similarly when I, because I did, on 00:26:26.180 --> 00:26:28.200 Sunday, I ended up doing some comedy at the Globe. 00:26:28.680 --> 00:26:30.920 And I had friends from all over the country show 00:26:30.920 --> 00:26:32.720 up for me. Exactly. Because they were all in 00:26:32.720 --> 00:26:35.079 town for a different reason. Already, we were 00:26:35.079 --> 00:26:36.940 all here together already. And so I feel like 00:26:36.940 --> 00:26:41.039 it worked because it was a Monday. Yeah. In a 00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:45.059 way. Yeah. Because it was like the people from 00:26:45.059 --> 00:26:46.720 all over the world, they weren't going to leave 00:26:46.720 --> 00:26:52.059 a day early if they could stay. Totally. But 00:26:52.059 --> 00:26:55.559 if you had done it an off date, the UK people 00:26:55.559 --> 00:26:58.319 wouldn't have been able to be there. The people 00:26:58.319 --> 00:27:00.180 that come from the West Coast and the Midwest, 00:27:00.519 --> 00:27:04.420 I just think it would have been a very different 00:27:04.420 --> 00:27:08.920 experience because of the fans there. Yeah. Because 00:27:08.920 --> 00:27:11.539 you're talking about how much we all became one 00:27:11.539 --> 00:27:14.299 fan base. I don't know if that would have happened 00:27:14.299 --> 00:27:18.220 any other time. Right. Who's to say? I just don't 00:27:18.220 --> 00:27:20.740 know that... I will say this. When I go see the 00:27:20.740 --> 00:27:25.140 truckers in any location other than Athens, it's 00:27:25.140 --> 00:27:28.279 very different. Yeah. And I know you know this 00:27:28.279 --> 00:27:31.779 because you've been with them on hundreds of 00:27:31.779 --> 00:27:34.740 shows, but it's very different. Homecoming is 00:27:34.740 --> 00:27:38.720 its own vibe. It is. No doubt. But I think part 00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:43.500 of that is you have the most diverse fan base 00:27:43.500 --> 00:27:47.079 in the sense that when you go see the drive -by 00:27:47.079 --> 00:27:50.660 truckers in Akron, Ohio, it's all people that 00:27:50.660 --> 00:27:54.279 live in and around Akron. They're all Ohioans. 00:27:54.910 --> 00:27:59.069 And you go see them in even Atlanta at the Tabernacle. 00:27:59.690 --> 00:28:02.230 It's mostly Georgians and people from around 00:28:02.230 --> 00:28:06.049 here. 100%. DC 930 Club. They have some of their 00:28:06.049 --> 00:28:09.109 most epic shows there, but it's the 930 Club. 00:28:09.190 --> 00:28:11.170 And the only time that I think it wasn't was 00:28:11.170 --> 00:28:14.109 like New Year's Eve that one year with Booker 00:28:14.109 --> 00:28:17.789 T. That was one of the best shows. In fact, I... 00:28:18.490 --> 00:28:20.630 I regularly say that's the best concert I've 00:28:20.630 --> 00:28:22.609 ever seen. I wore a Stetson that night because 00:28:22.609 --> 00:28:25.670 I wanted to look good for Booker T. And I met 00:28:25.670 --> 00:28:28.670 some people that I'm still friends with on that 00:28:28.670 --> 00:28:32.549 little weekend there. But I guess the thing that 00:28:32.549 --> 00:28:36.990 gets me is when it's in Athens, it's not Athens. 00:28:37.269 --> 00:28:39.450 There's Athens people here. Don't get me wrong. 00:28:39.490 --> 00:28:41.569 Half the people are from Athens probably. Right, 00:28:41.569 --> 00:28:44.349 but half the people are not. And so with that, 00:28:44.410 --> 00:28:48.359 you get this group of people that are... diverse 00:28:48.359 --> 00:28:51.579 in every way except for the fact that they love 00:28:51.579 --> 00:28:54.299 the drive -by truckers yeah yeah it works and 00:28:54.299 --> 00:28:56.480 there's yeah there's something really unique 00:28:56.480 --> 00:28:59.420 about that that i don't know that there's not 00:28:59.420 --> 00:29:02.900 a lot of bands whose fan bases can even relate 00:29:02.900 --> 00:29:07.220 to that for sure 100 and we're just really fucking 00:29:07.220 --> 00:29:10.440 special like lucky to be part of something so 00:29:10.440 --> 00:29:15.390 special i think about that often fans like I'm 00:29:15.390 --> 00:29:17.869 reminded like when Patterson talks about in The 00:29:17.869 --> 00:29:20.130 Secret to a Happy Ending, he talks about when 00:29:20.130 --> 00:29:21.950 he took home Led Zeppelin for the first time 00:29:21.950 --> 00:29:24.289 because the artwork looked cool. Yeah. And it's 00:29:24.289 --> 00:29:25.809 not because he heard it on the radio, but he 00:29:25.809 --> 00:29:27.809 took it home and it was fucking Led Zeppelin. 00:29:27.970 --> 00:29:30.970 Yeah. And he just lucked out and got into one 00:29:30.970 --> 00:29:33.190 of the greatest fucking bands ever. And that's 00:29:33.190 --> 00:29:35.589 how I feel. I got into Led Zeppelin before they 00:29:35.589 --> 00:29:37.849 were, before anybody knew who the fuck they were 00:29:37.849 --> 00:29:40.650 or like somebody that important. Yeah. And I 00:29:40.650 --> 00:29:43.369 think in 20 years, people will be talking about 00:29:43.369 --> 00:29:47.359 the truckers like that. And I think moments like 00:29:47.359 --> 00:29:51.859 Athens Ass Whoopin' are part of what symbolizes 00:29:51.859 --> 00:29:55.180 how much they care about their fans, how much 00:29:55.180 --> 00:29:56.500 they care about the people that they've worked 00:29:56.500 --> 00:29:59.559 with over the years, and also just how much they 00:29:59.559 --> 00:30:02.200 like having fun at what they do and just enjoy 00:30:02.200 --> 00:30:05.059 it. Because that's not something you do unless 00:30:05.059 --> 00:30:09.900 you want to have fun. Totally. Bands aren't up 00:30:09.900 --> 00:30:13.009 there playing classic city wrestling. with the 00:30:13.009 --> 00:30:15.029 attitude like they're in a swimming competition. 00:30:15.569 --> 00:30:20.269 It's a very... Like, bands do get up there. Bands 00:30:20.269 --> 00:30:24.210 do. Bands are usually very pumped to be a part 00:30:24.210 --> 00:30:26.630 of it. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, and, like, it's 00:30:26.630 --> 00:30:29.769 very much a thing. Like, a lot of times bands 00:30:29.769 --> 00:30:32.009 feel like it's, I don't want to say a milestone, 00:30:32.210 --> 00:30:34.529 but, like, one of those, like, special shows 00:30:34.529 --> 00:30:37.349 for them. And I think the truckers approach it 00:30:37.349 --> 00:30:39.470 as a special show. I think rightfully so. Yeah. 00:30:39.750 --> 00:30:43.940 I think just because... one thing might be more 00:30:43.940 --> 00:30:45.980 popular than the other doesn't mean that both 00:30:45.980 --> 00:30:49.140 aren't really special. And just because something 00:30:49.140 --> 00:30:51.880 is newer than something else and is still growing, 00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:55.259 I think we're at the beginning of classic city 00:30:55.259 --> 00:30:59.220 wrestling. Yeah. Even if we're not, nothing like 00:30:59.220 --> 00:31:01.599 this has ever happened here. Have you ever... 00:31:01.599 --> 00:31:04.599 This is the last thing I want to get at with 00:31:04.599 --> 00:31:07.039 you. Have you ever seen anybody do anything like 00:31:07.039 --> 00:31:10.220 this before? I feel like it's not a very novel 00:31:10.220 --> 00:31:14.220 concept. of having music and having wrestling 00:31:14.220 --> 00:31:18.359 at the same time. And there have been other, 00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:22.539 there have been other acts out there that do 00:31:22.539 --> 00:31:25.460 similar things. There's a company out of Richmond, 00:31:25.539 --> 00:31:29.539 Virginia that has music. Yours feels like it's 00:31:29.539 --> 00:31:32.380 really got like a punk rock attitude though. 00:31:32.559 --> 00:31:35.279 That's what we want. That's what we want. There's 00:31:35.279 --> 00:31:38.400 a company that does hip hop and wrestling. And 00:31:38.400 --> 00:31:42.640 I feel like ours has more of, I think it goes 00:31:42.640 --> 00:31:44.420 back to that thing I was talking about, like 00:31:44.420 --> 00:31:46.660 my conversation with Jay, that when you go out 00:31:46.660 --> 00:31:48.640 there, believe that you're the best in the world. 00:31:48.779 --> 00:31:52.839 And we do. We truly do. We believe that there's 00:31:52.839 --> 00:31:56.740 no one else, period, better at creating this 00:31:56.740 --> 00:31:59.660 atmosphere and doing this show than we are. And 00:31:59.660 --> 00:32:04.119 part of what makes Classic City Wrestling special 00:32:04.119 --> 00:32:07.180 to me is it's like the drive -by truckers concept 00:32:07.180 --> 00:32:11.769 or a fish concept where... It is totally about 00:32:11.769 --> 00:32:14.690 the music on stage, but it's also about the community. 00:32:14.809 --> 00:32:18.049 And we're all in this thing together, rallying 00:32:18.049 --> 00:32:20.069 behind this thing and creating something bigger 00:32:20.069 --> 00:32:23.089 than us. When I'm in the ring and the whole audience 00:32:23.089 --> 00:32:27.269 is chanting CCW to me, it's bigger than me. It's 00:32:27.269 --> 00:32:30.490 bigger than them. It's something that is happening 00:32:30.490 --> 00:32:33.950 in that moment that we're all in together, that 00:32:33.950 --> 00:32:36.470 we're creating, that nobody can take from us. 00:32:36.730 --> 00:32:40.140 And to me... You don't find that in wrestling 00:32:40.140 --> 00:32:44.140 too often. And I think that is what makes us 00:32:44.140 --> 00:32:47.039 special. And I don't know if I answered your 00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:50.900 question. No, I think you really did, man. And 00:32:50.900 --> 00:32:53.420 on that note, I want to thank you for being on 00:32:53.420 --> 00:32:55.920 the best podcast on the internet. Fucking A -rated. 00:32:56.259 --> 00:32:58.880 And where can we see Classic City Wrestling? 00:32:59.059 --> 00:33:01.119 I know you've got some stuff coming up in May. 00:33:01.380 --> 00:33:03.579 What's beyond? Tell us about that and beyond. 00:33:04.269 --> 00:33:07.150 It hasn't been announced yet, but I bet it will 00:33:07.150 --> 00:33:10.730 be by the time this comes out. And even if this 00:33:10.730 --> 00:33:12.730 comes out before it gets announced, I'm cool 00:33:12.730 --> 00:33:16.089 with it. We're doing a show in Asheville, North 00:33:16.089 --> 00:33:20.210 Carolina on June 28th at the Orange Peel. That 00:33:20.210 --> 00:33:23.789 place. We're doing a show at Basement East in 00:33:23.789 --> 00:33:28.849 Nashville, Tennessee on August the 2nd. And we're 00:33:28.849 --> 00:33:33.369 going to do a show in... Athens at the Fabulous 00:33:33.369 --> 00:33:37.190 40 Watt on May 17th. And where can people get 00:33:37.190 --> 00:33:40.049 tickets for those? They can get tickets at the 00:33:40.049 --> 00:33:42.369 website of each venue. I'm meeting with a web 00:33:42.369 --> 00:33:44.609 designer next week to help me get this going. 00:33:44.750 --> 00:33:47.210 And pretty soon I'll be at ClassicCityWrestling 00:33:47.210 --> 00:33:50.470 .com, baby. Cool, cool. And what socials are 00:33:50.470 --> 00:33:52.710 y 'all on that people can follow you on? You 00:33:52.710 --> 00:33:55.130 can follow us on Facebook. Instagram is where 00:33:55.130 --> 00:33:58.630 we're the most active. ClassicCityWrestling706. 00:33:58.849 --> 00:34:01.579 That's the Athens area code. All right. And I'll 00:34:01.579 --> 00:34:03.680 make sure to put all this information in the 00:34:03.680 --> 00:34:05.799 info for this episode as well. And if you send 00:34:05.799 --> 00:34:09.880 a message to Instagram, it goes to me. I'm who 00:34:09.880 --> 00:34:12.679 reads it. So I'll get back to you. All right. 00:34:12.719 --> 00:34:14.760 Thanks a lot for being here, Cole. Is there anything 00:34:14.760 --> 00:34:17.360 else that you want to, before we, is there anything 00:34:17.360 --> 00:34:20.820 else you feel like everybody needs to know? That's 00:34:20.820 --> 00:34:23.420 a good Star Wars shirt you got on, man. I'm just 00:34:23.420 --> 00:34:25.099 being true to yourself, man. And that's part 00:34:25.099 --> 00:34:27.820 of what this is. Hell yeah. Thank you so much 00:34:27.820 --> 00:34:31.480 for being here. It was a blast. So that was my 00:34:31.480 --> 00:34:34.320 interview with Cole Taylor. Make sure y 'all 00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:36.360 check out Classic City Wrestling. If you're not 00:34:36.360 --> 00:34:39.519 in a position to see one of their shows live, 00:34:39.719 --> 00:34:46.179 I have linked a video to their extravaganza with 00:34:46.179 --> 00:34:48.780 the drive -by truckers back in February. They 00:34:48.780 --> 00:34:51.840 videotaped it. You can see the whole thing, all 00:34:51.840 --> 00:34:57.000 three hours of glory. The YouTube video is linked 00:34:57.000 --> 00:35:00.420 in the description of this episode. Thanks for 00:35:00.420 --> 00:35:10.260 tuning in. My next solo episode... My next solo 00:35:10.260 --> 00:35:12.539 episode, I'm going to be talking about music 00:35:12.539 --> 00:35:16.440 -based video games. Make sure you tune in for 00:35:16.440 --> 00:35:19.260 that. Everything from Dance Dance Revolution 00:35:19.260 --> 00:35:26.900 to Rock Band and Guitar Hero to even Tetris Effect 00:35:26.900 --> 00:35:31.849 Connected. Check it out. And then next week on 00:35:31.849 --> 00:35:37.690 the episode, I have an interview with Levi Crumley, 00:35:37.769 --> 00:35:42.449 who is a pillar of the Athens George comedy scene. 00:35:42.889 --> 00:35:47.489 I traveled up to Athens and did several interviews 00:35:47.489 --> 00:35:50.389 out of the worst hotel room I have ever stayed 00:35:50.389 --> 00:35:53.090 in. So I really appreciate all these people coming 00:35:53.090 --> 00:35:57.050 to my dive hotel and doing these interviews while 00:35:57.050 --> 00:36:02.900 I was up there. Make sure you check out Classic 00:36:02.900 --> 00:36:10.719 City Wrestling. Make sure you check out Nicholas 00:36:10.719 --> 00:36:14.639 Malice and the Borealis and Classic City Wrestling 00:36:14.639 --> 00:36:18.780 at the 40 Watt on the 17th of May. And then on 00:36:18.780 --> 00:36:24.159 June 28th, Rhinestone Pickup Truck will be the 00:36:24.159 --> 00:36:27.119 musical guest at the Orange Peel in Asheville, 00:36:27.179 --> 00:36:31.250 North Carolina. Don't miss it, y 'all. It was 00:36:31.250 --> 00:36:36.250 one of the most fun nights I've ever had. Thanks 00:36:36.250 --> 00:36:38.849 again to Cole for sitting down with me. He was 00:36:38.849 --> 00:36:45.429 a pleasure to hang out with. And thanks again 00:36:45.429 --> 00:36:48.409 to y 'all for listening. If you want me to answer 00:36:48.409 --> 00:36:51.630 one of your questions, send me an email at feddenxr 00:36:51.630 --> 00:36:56.369 at gmail .com. That's F -E -D -D -U -N -X -R. 00:36:56.840 --> 00:37:00.639 at gmail .com. Check out my website, fedin .net. 00:37:01.500 --> 00:37:04.079 Thanks to Lee Baines for inspiring the title 00:37:04.079 --> 00:37:09.460 of this podcast. In the next few weeks, I've 00:37:09.460 --> 00:37:15.360 got Sloan Simpson from the Sloan Brothers, Jay 00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:18.440 Gonzalez from the Drive -By Truckers, and next 00:37:18.440 --> 00:37:20.780 week we've got Levi Crumley, so make sure you 00:37:20.780 --> 00:37:24.099 hit that subscribe button. Thanks again for tuning 00:37:24.099 --> 00:37:27.960 in. This has been overeducated and underemployed.