Episode 35 - Sterling Elza

[00:00:00] Speaker A: This was for the home team. [00:00:08] Speaker B: This was for the home team. [00:00:14] Speaker C: Hey, welcome to Tailgate Beers. Ryan and Austin here as usual. Today we're sitting down with our friend here, Sterling Elza. [00:00:31] Speaker B: My stories always, they always live up in my head. So I alone, I know it's. I found my midnight Bel. [00:00:54] Speaker A: I found my midnight Br. [00:01:00] Speaker B: And I hate all my midnight. [00:01:05] Speaker C: Sterling, thanks for, for joining us. You're playing here at Cruz's West Peoria Farmington Road tonight. First time here in Peoria, Illinois? [00:01:12] Speaker B: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I think it might be my first time in Illinois. [00:01:16] Speaker C: No kidding. [00:01:17] Speaker B: It might just be. [00:01:18] Speaker C: So you've been, been traveling around. I know you were in Kansas City I think last night or within the last few nights. You're heading to St. Louis next and, and making a stop here in Peoria. [00:01:27] Speaker B: Oh yeah. [00:01:27] Speaker C: What are you excited for tonight? [00:01:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm pumped for tonight. I've heard from all my homies that cruiser was their favorite spot that they played all year, so. So I'm pumped for tonight. [00:01:40] Speaker C: So we've got a lot to live up to tonight. [00:01:41] Speaker B: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. [00:01:43] Speaker A: Who are some of the people that you talk to? [00:01:47] Speaker B: Locade. [00:01:48] Speaker C: Yes. [00:01:48] Speaker B: He loves it. He said it was the most fun place that he played all last year. And then one of my buddies, TM for Dylan Wheeler, he slid up and he was like, you're gonna love that place. [00:02:02] Speaker A: There's a lot of mixed emotions in this place. [00:02:04] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, you mentioned Lekay too. And I did. Austin was out on assignment that day. I did podcast with Lecade. So he's the Tailgate Beers alum. Had great conversation. A lot of fun that night he had put on. And this gnat still is flying around. Yeah, we gotta like name it or something because every podcast it just seems to come out. But, but no going back to, to Kade. Just such a, a down to earth guy. Such easy conversation. And. And I heard just off camera before we started that you've got something coming out with him coming up. [00:02:37] Speaker A: Yep. [00:02:37] Speaker B: We are putting out a song March 28th. No, I'm super excited for that one. That one's gonna be fun. He sent it to me. He just sent me like a soundcloud link and I was like, oh, that's a good song. I want on that song. And it. We had actually done a song together before just because of like label trouble and stuff didn't come out. Uh, but yeah, so we're pumped. We've been trying to do this for a long time, so. [00:03:20] Speaker C: So how does that work from a fan perspective? I mean, he. Lecade comes to you, Arcade comes to you and says, hey, I got this song, you know, like, do you pick a verse that's already written? Do you, you know, do some own stuff on it or. [00:03:32] Speaker B: You know, usually what I would do is write my own verse for it, but he already had one written and I really liked it and I didn't want to change it at all. So, you know, I probably financially bad decision. Probably won't making very much money off this one, but no, I'm pumped. It's just. It'll be fun. I'm excited. [00:03:51] Speaker A: How'd you guys come to know each other? [00:03:54] Speaker B: I met him through my A and R guy at my label. He. He set us up to write one time in Nashville. But yeah, so I met Cade, I guess, New Year's Eve 23, I guess. Yeah. And we've just been homies since. He's one of my best friends in the music scene, for sure. You know, we talk all the time. He now he's great. I love that dude. [00:04:21] Speaker A: What do you consider you guys. Music is similar in a way. I would say you lean. I was listening to it today, actually, on my drive to work, where you have like, some of your songs have a vibe to like 90s, early 2000s. [00:04:37] Speaker B: Yeah, for sure. [00:04:38] Speaker A: Like even rock or like. I don't lean too far to like punk rock even. There's like. [00:04:44] Speaker B: Yeah, for sure. Yeah. [00:04:46] Speaker A: But where do you put yours at in the category of country music today? Because it has a different sound too. [00:04:54] Speaker B: You know, so we actually, after the first couple songs, we started putting our stuff out under a rock instead of country one because I don't know, it is. You know, it's heavier music, it's rock music, but it also. It's way easier to chart on like, on the Apple music charts and stuff like that on the rock charts than it is, you know, country. [00:05:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:22] Speaker B: So. [00:05:22] Speaker A: And that's something where it's always interesting to hear people's perspective on where they fall and why. Because like I said, I was listening to it today and like, man, this is the beat in the very beginning of one of the songs. Just like this has like this little vibe of a. Of a punk rock, you know, some 41. Like a. Not a country song necessarily, but I think you get categorized there and has a different sound that you've done stuff with, and le has a. Another kind of different popish. [00:05:52] Speaker B: Right. And you know, like, I think one of the reasons that we do lean into like the country side of things as. As much as we do is one because nobody's booking rock groups, you know, and there's not a lot of good, you know, rock clubs that are filling up with people, but there are a lot of really good country bars that people will go to, you know, so. But no. And at the end of the day, like, the Texas music is. Is what I love and what I grew up on. So. [00:06:26] Speaker C: So. So you mentioned it. And. And so you're from New Braunfels. [00:06:30] Speaker B: I'm originally from Amarillo, but after I graduated, I moved down to New Braunfels. [00:06:35] Speaker C: So not too far from San Antonio. Yeah, and I connected with that because I lived in San Antonio for about four years. [00:06:40] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:06:41] Speaker C: Been in New Braunfels several times. I think there's a water park around there. [00:06:45] Speaker B: I live right there. [00:06:46] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:06:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:06:46] Speaker C: Really? [00:06:46] Speaker B: Yep. [00:06:47] Speaker C: So, yeah, me, my. My family. My other two kids went there one time and enjoyed that. Is there a horse racing? Yeah. Yep. And there as well. So stationed in the military in San Antonio and New Braunfels was. Was a stone throw away. [00:07:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. No, I love it there. It's my favorite place in Texas by far. [00:07:07] Speaker C: So you call like some of that background, that music, some of the, like the red dirt type of. Of of of genre of country music. You know, certainly we talked about had the. Had the rock side. So who. Who else in the industry do you kind of, you know, put yourself alongside of as far as your music is concerned? [00:07:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I would say, like, you know, Dylan Wheeler, Austin Mead, CO Wetzel, Reed Southall, kind of that whole group of Texas rock guys. I guess that's really the only name anybody's been able to come up with that kind of makes sense is Texas Rock. So. [00:07:49] Speaker C: Yeah. And I've had a few people that text me today, ye are coming tonight, and they're like, hey, you know, he kind of sounds like some of those name you mentioned, code for sure. And. And stuff like that. So that's. That's cool. [00:07:59] Speaker A: Yeah, and they've. That's changed a lot and putting in like CO Wetzel's, you know, group. I'm trying to think of who really did it before co. I think it took company a long longer than it should have, in my opinion, because I'm a KO fan and I'm a rock fan. [00:08:16] Speaker B: Right. [00:08:16] Speaker A: I'm like, co's been doing this for while and now it's awesome to see that there's kind of this following of people that are coming up with co. Yeah. Or in that genre that are bringing that kind of rock vibe to. To the Scene. [00:08:30] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. [00:08:31] Speaker A: And Hardee's help, we've talked about that with Lakeview and everybody that Hardee's helped. But I still even put Hardee's is different than what ko's is and treaties and that, that genre you just mentioned of that Texas rock. [00:08:44] Speaker B: Yeah, everybody's got their own flavor, for sure. It's all, you know, kind of in the same vein. [00:08:49] Speaker C: But let's go back to early age. [00:08:52] Speaker B: All right. [00:08:53] Speaker C: You know, I, I've seen that you picked up a guitar around age 5 and started messing with the guitar a little bit. I, I, I've heard that one of your first concerts around age eight was Motley Crue. [00:09:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:09:04] Speaker C: So obviously there was a rock, you know, type of upbringing that you had with your mom and dad as well, and them taking you to concerts that certainly had an influence, I assume, on. [00:09:16] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, for sure. And it's funny because, you know, my dad's an attorney and he's raised a musician now, so. But no, it's all his fault. It's all his fault, whether he wants to take the blame for that or not. Yeah, definitely his fault. And my mom, she just thinks it's so cool. So it's, it's funny. [00:09:41] Speaker C: Is she, like, on your socials and, and stuff like that? Oh, yeah, always, always keeping up that way. [00:09:47] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Yep. [00:09:48] Speaker C: They, they come out to, to many shows and, and see shows, you know. [00:09:51] Speaker B: My mom does, but my dad travels a lot, so he doesn't make it out to as many. But he is coming to Green hall whenever we announce that one. He, he sent me a screenshot, so he's coming to that one. He took me to Green hall when I was like six and I bitched until we left because it was so hot. [00:10:08] Speaker A: So, so let's talk about Tailgate and Tall Boys. You're here at Cruisins tonight, but coming in June, we're going to get together again. Have you played many festivals throughout your time or what's. [00:10:24] Speaker B: No, I haven't. This year's are going to be our first year of festivals and stuff, and we've got a few. So. [00:10:29] Speaker A: Okay. We won't name any of the other ones, but the big one that you're going to end kind of, I think you said, even possibly your tour this spring on or summer. [00:10:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:37] Speaker A: Is Tailgate and Tall Boys in Bloomington, Illinois. You're playing Thursday, June 12th. [00:10:44] Speaker B: Yep. [00:10:44] Speaker A: It's. That's All Day with Gavin Adcock, Old 60, Hudson Westbrook, Vincent Mason, you and actually Isaac Durst, who's opening here Tonight for you. [00:10:54] Speaker B: Yep, yep. No, I'm pumped. It's going to be great. [00:10:57] Speaker A: How many of those guys do you know or have you. Have you talked with before? [00:11:03] Speaker B: Most of them. I've met co a couple times. I've talked to Hudson. We haven't met before. I met and I forgot his name. Forgive me. The old 60 guy in Nashville, same night. Yeah, yeah, we met. [00:11:20] Speaker A: He was there with his parents really and everything. And they, they were driving up from like Kentucky. They drive up like every couple weeks or something like that. [00:11:28] Speaker B: Oh, that's cool. Nice. But yeah, no, I'm pumped. It's going to be fun. [00:11:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:11:34] Speaker B: See some homies again. [00:11:35] Speaker A: And that side stage, which the surfside stage will be the stage that you're playing on. [00:11:41] Speaker B: Oh, sweet. [00:11:41] Speaker A: So they are the sponsor of the stage. [00:11:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:11:44] Speaker A: And the boys raised Rowdy, our partners with them and everything, so. And that GA stage, so you've got the main stage and then right off to that, the actual side in ga. So that thing just gets so populated with people. It's right by all the vendors. It's. [00:12:04] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:12:04] Speaker A: It's a great, it's a great spot. So it'll be a prime time, man. [00:12:08] Speaker B: Yeah, no, I'm pumped. We're all pumped. [00:12:10] Speaker A: So what's, what's on the agenda as far as this tour? This, you know, this the spring slash summer. You going places that you've never been before. Is this opening up kind of that can of worms where you're like, man, we've never been west or east or. Where are you going to? [00:12:28] Speaker B: Right. We're hitting east coast and kind of southern states and stuff like that. Alabama and stuff. So. Yeah, no, I'm really excited for sure. Go play a bunch of places I've never been before. And it'll be nice to go back to Florida. I lived there for a couple years. So. Go hang out. [00:12:49] Speaker A: It's kind of like your second home state in a way. [00:12:51] Speaker B: Yeah, pretty much. [00:12:52] Speaker A: What's a place that you're most looking forward to? Kind of like, man, I can't wait to get to. [00:12:57] Speaker B: First night of the tour actually is in Milwaukee at the rave. So that's going to be pretty cool. [00:13:05] Speaker A: Badass. And you're. Are. Who are you playing with or headlining? [00:13:08] Speaker B: No, we're going out with Kid G. Oh, sick. Yep. [00:13:12] Speaker A: Dude, that'll be a blast. The raw is a good, good time. [00:13:16] Speaker B: Oh yeah, they've got. I've never been so. See, that's a new place. [00:13:20] Speaker C: They got Wrigley north up there in Milwaukee area. Oh, yeah, yeah, they'll love that. They'll love hearing that. Wrigley north, the, the brewers where they, they play. Brewer Stadium, whatever it is they call it. Wrigley north, that's what we call it as Cubs fans. [00:13:33] Speaker A: Oh, that's dumb. Are you a big sports fan at all? [00:13:38] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, I love sports. I grew up playing tennis, but okay, I like. Cool. [00:13:43] Speaker C: So you played tennis at a pretty high level. Yeah, like in Florida if I'm wrong. But you played at like one of the premier like, you know, college recruiting type of schools for sports? Yep. Img. Yeah, yeah. [00:13:59] Speaker B: Yep. Img. Yeah, it was great. It's, you know, a kid's dream. Get to go live off by yourself. And so I moved off to Florida when I was in eighth grade. So it was just like thrown into it living in a dorm. My parents mailed me a suitcase because I originally was just supposed to go for four days and I didn't go back home for a second semester. I just stayed in Florida. [00:14:25] Speaker C: So is that like a possible option after, after high school, college, that kind of thing of continue to play tennis? [00:14:31] Speaker B: It was supposed to be, yeah. So I graduated and moved down to New Braunfels and I was going to keep, I was going to basically just take a year off and then try to go play college tennis somewhere. And then one day I was just like, that I'm good. And it just kinda, you know, we've gotten really lucky, but we've also put in the time and we're prepared to get lucky and we got a lot of good people in our corner, so. [00:15:02] Speaker C: So pickleball is kind of the, the big thing these days. [00:15:05] Speaker B: Oh yeah. [00:15:06] Speaker C: Have you ever gotten into pickleball with your tennis history? [00:15:08] Speaker B: You know, I played a little bit, but I hate it. I hate it. It's just too, yeah, it's, I don't know, it just, it doesn't feel right, you know, it looks fun. I'm sure it's fun if you don't play tennis, but it drives me insane. [00:15:22] Speaker A: How good are you ping pong? [00:15:24] Speaker B: So good. I'm so good. I'll take down yalls whole staff, I promise. [00:15:30] Speaker C: We need that. What do we call it? The, the other camera? What are we calling the other camera? We're going to put up peanut gallery camera. We need to get that one set. [00:15:38] Speaker A: Up so we get our can get a pingpong match on. [00:15:41] Speaker B: Oh yeah. [00:15:41] Speaker C: On video there's a little, little poster over there and in a frame for the last winner. But, but no, I, I, I, yeah. [00:15:51] Speaker A: I never would have pegged you as a. He does his research. I would have never pegged you as a tennis guy. [00:15:55] Speaker B: Yep. Yep. Oh, yeah. Fifteen years. [00:15:59] Speaker C: So is that an influence from mom or dad or early age? [00:16:02] Speaker B: My dad played tennis, but kind of the story I've heard is I just saw it on TV and was like, I want to go do that. [00:16:11] Speaker C: So all singles, Any doubles? [00:16:14] Speaker B: I did both. [00:16:15] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:16:15] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:16:17] Speaker C: You don't play much today, though. [00:16:19] Speaker B: No, I don't. There's. It's funny, I don't know if y'all are familiar with Cody west, but his bass player actually plays tennis. And so I need to. I need to make it out to Stephenville and hit the courts with him soon. But no, I don't play much. I just don't have time. And when I do, I just want to sleep. Get ready to go drive again. We've driven so much the last couple weeks, it's insane. We. We went Virginia to New York. We were in New York for a couple days recording some of the new songs and stuff, and then drove to my parents place in Oklahoma, hung out at the ranch for a couple days, and then Kansas City, then here. So we're. I'm so excited. Our drive Tomorrow is only two and a half hours. [00:17:07] Speaker C: St. Louis is pretty close. So. Talk to us about your, like, your stage presence. I mean, just sitting here with you, I mean, you're. You're a chill guy and, and you're laid back. I mean, does. Does that same Persona come. Come out on stage or is it like putting on, you know, a different mask, per se? [00:17:25] Speaker B: Yeah, it is for sure. And it's funny. Cause people expect me, you know, when I'm at home to just be partying all the time and whatever else, and it's just like. No, actually, I don't. I don't go to the bar when I'm at home. I just kind of hang out. But no, it definitely is like, like putting it on. But you know, at the same time, I also, you know, I'm that in the moment and, and, and into the songs and having fun with the crowd. [00:17:57] Speaker C: And so what is your. Your. Your way of. Of interacting with the crowd and getting them kind of into it? Some people. You certainly have not heard some of your music. Some people have. [00:18:08] Speaker B: And, you know, I'm. I'm still kind of bad at it. I'm getting better. I'm getting a little better. [00:18:15] Speaker C: But kind of like us in podcasting, we're. We're still bad at it. But. [00:18:19] Speaker B: Yeah, no, I figured if you either Just like say the name of the place that you're at or something along the lines of how much they hate their ex. It usually. You usually can get something out of them. You can get something. [00:18:37] Speaker C: So a lot of relate to there. There are a lot of people relate to that. [00:18:40] Speaker B: I get. [00:18:40] Speaker C: Yeah, I get that. [00:18:41] Speaker A: Have you wrote a lot of yours off of your own, like, feelings and personal, like. [00:18:47] Speaker B: Yeah. Over exaggerator, you know, so I'll take little, like, little things and just blow them out of proportion and. [00:18:57] Speaker A: But you know how, like, a lot of people write songs are out of a really dark place sometimes where that someone. Look at. Look at Morgan Wallen's double album. Look at some of these people that came out with these albums that were out of a dark place, whether it was Kurt Cobain or whoever. Whoever you want to relate to. [00:19:13] Speaker B: Right. [00:19:14] Speaker A: Do you feel that some of yours, like, your best songs that you wrote were actually like, I don't know how. Where it came out of, but you were in an emotional state. [00:19:23] Speaker B: Yeah. And, you know, those are usually the ones that come real quick. And then, you know, if everything's been great for three months, usually not a lot to write about, but now the second stuff starts going wrong, my gears are. My gears are turning. So are you. [00:19:41] Speaker A: Are you seeing somebody right now? [00:19:43] Speaker B: Yeah, I have a girlfriend. Yeah. [00:19:44] Speaker A: How long you guys been together? [00:19:47] Speaker B: Like, five months. But we talked and then we decided we didn't like each other and then we got back together and she make. [00:19:56] Speaker A: You sign anything and, like, you. You can't write a song about her. [00:19:59] Speaker B: No. [00:19:59] Speaker A: Are there any conversations that lead up to, like, hey, have we ever seen like. [00:20:04] Speaker B: No, but we've talked about it, though. We both think. We both think the tick tock blasting is dumb. So hopefully if, you know, if we ever do break up, that maybe it'll stay off social media. But no, I think she wants me to write a song about her. [00:20:21] Speaker A: Oh, really? [00:20:22] Speaker B: But the bad thing about that is I. I can't write happy songs or love songs, so I don't think she's. [00:20:29] Speaker A: Only one way you're gonna get a song lady. [00:20:31] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:20:32] Speaker C: Are you a tattoo guy? [00:20:34] Speaker B: No. [00:20:34] Speaker C: I'm not gonna say so. No. No. Probably initials or her name on you or anything along those lines. [00:20:40] Speaker B: No. So I need to convince her to. To get my name tatted, but there you go. Until then, I think we're. We're safe. [00:20:47] Speaker A: That's so funny. I've always just wondered, like, if it comes up in relationships of like, hey, listen, you know, because what Taylor Swift had like, she wrote a song, like, about John, maybe every single one of her exes. And it's like they're all. They're all. Well, they're all famous anyways. But now the songs are all. [00:21:05] Speaker B: Yeah, blown up. [00:21:07] Speaker A: Could be. [00:21:08] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:21:09] Speaker A: Could write some crazy breakup song. Maybe you'll get into that. Do you ever think that you'll get, you know, super lovey dovey and write some love song about somebody someday? [00:21:17] Speaker B: I'm sure I will, as I probably get older and, you know, get married and all that, so. But yeah, I'm shooting probably like, I don't know, 30. Seems like the good age to like, okay, we have to be adults now. Or maybe not have to, but like, at least kind of act like it. Maybe slow it down a little bit. But no, we. I'm 21, so we got nine more years of fucking off and having fun. [00:21:49] Speaker A: There's two different ways to think about it, man. I mean, I had kids at a young age to the point where I'm 45. My kids will be 18 and 20. [00:21:56] Speaker B: Yeah, fair enough. [00:21:57] Speaker A: You have a whole second life. If I make it to 45 again, you can just live in the moment and go by feel. But speaking of living in the moment, let's go, you know? [00:22:08] Speaker C: Let's go. [00:22:09] Speaker A: You're young. I don't know how much. How much do you fly? You fly a lot. [00:22:13] Speaker B: No, I don't. [00:22:14] Speaker A: I'm a driver, period. [00:22:17] Speaker B: Yes. [00:22:18] Speaker A: All right. Do you watch the news about all the things going on with planes and. [00:22:21] Speaker B: Yes. [00:22:22] Speaker A: Pretty much like dropping like crazy. [00:22:24] Speaker B: That's really helping my theory of it's hard to be in a plane crash when you drive, so. [00:22:30] Speaker A: Right. But let's say hypothetically. Hypothetically, you're on in nine years when you decide to grow up being an adult, that you get a private jet. [00:22:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:40] Speaker A: And you've got the love of your life and you're serenading her with her songs and you guys have a dog. Probably. [00:22:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:47] Speaker A: Are you a cat guy? [00:22:48] Speaker B: No. [00:22:49] Speaker A: All right. [00:22:49] Speaker C: Dog guy, though. [00:22:50] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:22:51] Speaker A: All right. So he's got a dog. Thank God. So got the dog, got the wife, maybe a kid. You're on your private jet. [00:22:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:57] Speaker A: You happen to bring every album known to man with you on every plane ride, but it starts going down. It possibly was an old Delta plane. It's headed down. You've got a short amount of time to bail, but take five albums. I don't know what happens to the wife or the dog, but you can grab five albums for the rest of your life. [00:23:21] Speaker B: Okay. [00:23:22] Speaker A: What five albums are you taking? [00:23:26] Speaker B: I'm gonna go with Nevermind by Nirvana. Solid. Goodbye and Good Riddance, Juice World, Noise Complaint, co, Alice in Chains, MTV Unplugged. Number four. If that counts as an album. [00:23:46] Speaker C: Yeah, absolutely it does. [00:23:51] Speaker B: Oh, man. Five's tough. Five is tough. [00:23:57] Speaker C: Got a good mix in there. Good. Got a good mix? [00:23:59] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know. Five probably. I don't know, something by the Foo Fighters or maybe Guns N'ROSES or. I don't know. That five spot could go to a lot. [00:24:13] Speaker A: He's gonna eat at you like this is probably. Hopefully this eats you worse than your Megan Maroney question. [00:24:18] Speaker B: I know, I know, I know. [00:24:21] Speaker A: So that's a good one. I mean, that's, I think, at least four or five. [00:24:28] Speaker C: Yeah, hardly any of those we had. I've had duplications of. [00:24:33] Speaker A: Yeah, those are good ones. I think it says a lot about somebody. [00:24:38] Speaker C: No, definitely the Alice in Chains one that. That I love. The Unplugged. [00:24:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:42] Speaker C: I can sit there and listen to that all day long, over and over again. One of the few albums that I would actually just sit there and listen to too. [00:24:48] Speaker B: Pearl Jam. They have a good one too. All the. All the Unplugged ones are great. So good. [00:24:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:56] Speaker C: So we're sitting here at. At Cruisins Farmington Road here in West Peoria, hanging out with Sterling Elza. And he's been very gracious. Him and his team are here in the room with us. He's playing here tonight. First time in Peoria, first time here at Cruising. We already talked about. He's playing at Tailgate and Tall Boys Bloomington this year. That is going to be a hell of a day. [00:25:16] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:25:17] Speaker C: Opening day with. With those names. Co and Vincent Mason and Isaac Durst, one of our local friends. He's a Tailgate Beers alum as well. [00:25:27] Speaker A: Old 60. Who's Gavin? Who's crazier than Gavin? [00:25:30] Speaker C: Goodness. And that's kind of what I was thinking about. So we talked offline or off the camera about Gavin who was here. And we're in the green room. This is where our set is at for Tailgate Beers and Gavin. Gavin already took the leg lamp. But. [00:25:46] Speaker B: But okay, I saw the. I saw the frame over there. [00:25:50] Speaker C: There. There was a leg lamp and. And Austin tell the story more than I can, but there's a leg lamp on the. On the big table. And he decided it look would look better with him on tour than it did here. [00:25:59] Speaker B: Hey, fair enough. [00:26:00] Speaker A: It pops out every now and again. And all I ever wanted. [00:26:02] Speaker B: Oh, I'VE seen it in the. [00:26:03] Speaker A: All I wanted to see get a little shout out. But we have talked. Wayne and I have talked where we've said that every sellout show, we should gift them a leg lamp as like. [00:26:12] Speaker B: Oh, that would be cool. Y'all should do that. [00:26:14] Speaker C: So. But my question is, it's kind of along those. Is looking around this room. There's a lot of cool stuff in this room, right? What. What is your. Your. Your team gonna. Gonna accidentally take on. On the bus with you or on the. On the. In the van with you tonight? [00:26:29] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:26:30] Speaker C: I don't know. [00:26:31] Speaker B: Does it count if I tell y'all? [00:26:32] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:26:32] Speaker A: I mean, we have cameras up in here now, so we got guitars. [00:26:35] Speaker C: We've got signs. We've got. [00:26:37] Speaker B: That sign is sick. [00:26:38] Speaker C: Ping pong table. We do have two of them. We do have two of them. [00:26:42] Speaker A: Don't tell them that. Why would you tell them we have two of them? That's our only one. [00:26:47] Speaker C: Oh, that's right. [00:26:49] Speaker B: I. I just ordered two big neon signs for, like, stage ornaments, basically. So, so pumped, like old school ones. I don't really know what they're gonna look like. I'm not really sure. I just. I'm letting my mom take care. Or they're your, like, logo and they're like my logo. Yeah. Well, I can have my name. [00:27:07] Speaker A: I'll send the. Well, if you already have them ordered. But this was flawless. Like, the place. [00:27:11] Speaker B: Yeah, looks great. [00:27:12] Speaker A: They literally were on it like white on rice. Then what's nuts is I sent them a video of the R and ryan was flickering 30 seconds out of the box. Okay. Yeah, I didn't know. I just wanted to document it. And I just said thing. I said, hey, I don't know if this is standard. I just wanted to send it that way, at least had it documented. [00:27:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:31] Speaker A: Next day. Hey, Austin, sorry you're having issues with your sign. I never asked for anything else. I just said, is this normal? Do I need to leave it on for so long? Sorry you're having problems. I got so and so copied here. They're gonna look into this. That person within like two hours. Said, austin, we are so sorry for your experience. We're sending you another sign. [00:27:50] Speaker B: No way. [00:27:52] Speaker A: Keep the other ones. [00:27:53] Speaker C: As you can see, it's never had an issue warmed up. [00:27:57] Speaker A: But no, it was one of those deals where these. Yeah, they are nice. [00:28:01] Speaker B: I love a good neon sign. [00:28:02] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, I love it. [00:28:03] Speaker A: Speaking of it, though, of the sign, but also your. Your name. So is Sterling your real name? It's not a stage name. It's not your stripper name or nothing like that? [00:28:14] Speaker B: No, it's real deal government name. And it's so funny because my whole life I'd never thought of it not sounding like a name. And then we go to shows and stuff and people are like, so where did you come up with that? And I'm like, it's my mom and. [00:28:30] Speaker A: Dad gave it to me. [00:28:31] Speaker B: Yeah. But I was named after my uncle. And so. Yeah. Stole his name. But. Yeah. No real name. [00:28:40] Speaker C: Well, we want to thank you for sitting down. I know we got some food. Sounds like we got some food for you too. So I'm sure you're. You're hungry and want to dig into. [00:28:48] Speaker A: Hungry after that gift or what. [00:28:54] Speaker C: But shout out to Steve O. Woods, good friend of ours here at tailgate, beers and cruisins and tailgate and tall boys. So he's always watching. I see him on there quite a bit. So shout out to him and. And the gifts he provides for the artists here. [00:29:06] Speaker A: Yeah. It's a gift that keeps on giving. Your little wood box. [00:29:10] Speaker C: But let's do it. Let's do a cheers. [00:29:13] Speaker B: My water there. [00:29:14] Speaker C: That's fine. Thank you. Thanks for joining us. [00:29:17] Speaker B: Yeah, man. Oh, thank you all for having me out. I appreciate it. [00:29:20] Speaker C: Good to see you. Good to see you.