Episode 38 - Cooper Alan

[00:00:00] Speaker A: This was for the home team. This was for the home team. [00:00:14] Speaker B: Hey, welcome to Tailgate Beers. Ryan and Austin here as usual. Tonight we are here at Cruz's West Peoria Farmington Road, and we have a special guest today. Cooper Allen's joining us. Cooper, thanks for joining us. [00:00:27] Speaker C: It's an honor. [00:00:28] Speaker A: But I didn't do well I plead the fifth I did some shit when I was drunk last night I raised some hell out Posted bail But I won't testify it all went south and I ain't proud But a good time ain't no crime I'll plead the fifth of Jack again When I go out to. It all went south and I ain't proud But a good time ain't no crime I'll plead the fifth of Jack again When I go out tonight. [00:01:19] Speaker B: So you've been. Been to Peoria before. I know that. [00:01:21] Speaker D: Right. [00:01:22] Speaker C: Plenty of times. The first time we were in Peoria, it was unfortunately not here. We played at a Kenny's west side pub. Okay. [00:01:28] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. [00:01:29] Speaker C: That was on the very first tour we ever did. And then I think we kind of graduated to cruising like that next year. And I think we've been to Peoria or like Bloomington probably eight times now. It feels like. [00:01:40] Speaker D: When. [00:01:40] Speaker B: When was the first time you were in town? When was it? [00:01:43] Speaker C: Was. Was that 20? 21. For anybody in here that might remember 2222 at Kenny's. Oh, at Kenny's. No, Kenny's was 21. Yeah, that was fresh out of COVID. [00:01:53] Speaker D: Just coming in hot. [00:01:54] Speaker C: Fourth show ever. [00:01:56] Speaker D: Wow. I did not know the kimmies thing. I just knew when Wayne said that you were coming to play Cruisins. And at that point, I didn't know much about you other than you were doing your mashups, as everybody, you know, did. Then you came here and you. How. I don't know. I don't know what was sold that night, but that was a packed. [00:02:16] Speaker C: Sold out. [00:02:17] Speaker D: Packed. [00:02:18] Speaker C: Okay. [00:02:18] Speaker D: So, yeah, sold out because it was packed. And then again, I'm still. You still had to sell me on it. You did the whole crowd. Somebody throw out a couple different. Oh, yeah, you know, songs and stuff. And then you did it. I was like, I'm sold. I am sold. [00:02:37] Speaker C: It was a totally useless, useless talent till. Tick tock. And now I guess it. It does something. [00:02:42] Speaker D: No. And then just your performance, stage presence, you know, everything. Your voice is really good. So. No, it's. It's something where as a TikTok person, you know, it's like, okay, these mashups are cool. But I mean, how's the performance going to be? How's that going to go? And yeah, you blew me out of the water. And then you play tailgate following 2023. [00:03:03] Speaker C: Yeah. You've been a big part of helping us develop and grow, putting us on stages, big stages, bigger stages than we probably should have been on at the time and helping us kind of grow into it. So. Thank you. [00:03:12] Speaker B: So I want to kind of start in the, in the middle a little bit, and I do want to talk about, you know, the band that you formed, and I think it was eighth grade below the line. [00:03:20] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:03:21] Speaker B: And we'll talk about that a little bit. [00:03:22] Speaker C: Thanks for doing your homework. [00:03:23] Speaker B: Absolutely. So I, I, I want to jump into the middle and talk a little bit about, so Covid timeframe, we're talking, kind of talking about, you know, 2020 and, and, you know, the 615 house was, was a big content creator for you and how you somewhat, not necessarily started, but how you got into the TikTok scene, which, which obviously has been huge in your career. Tell us about that experience and, and what that looked like for you. [00:03:47] Speaker C: Yeah, it was crazy time. Just, you know, Covid, before COVID we were playing at Broadway bars. Me and the guys that we all still play together now, we were playing it, you know, Wild Horse and Old Red and doing cover sets. And then Covid came along, we started doing the Tick Tock thing. And my wife was like, you got to get on Tick Tock. And a couple people told me that. And so we got on it, luckily had some success. And then when it was kind of time to not, like, be inside all the time, some other people, like Chris Rudiger was a guy I'd known before COVID and he was like, you know, I'm doing this TikTok thing too. Let's get, you know, you, a couple other people that have, you know, had success on the app. Let's get together in house and just start, like, doing stuff, making videos. It was really fun that the house was awesome. It had like a pool and was like a mansion or whatever, which was kind of fun to be at. And that's kind of how I met a lot of, like, my closest, you know, artists, music friends I kind of met through that, like Thomas Mack, Alexandra K. We hit it off and that's the first tour we went. When we went to Kenny's and all those places that was with them, we all did it together. So it was really, it was a way for us all to grow and make videos and Kind of capture the eye of industry people, I guess, but it was more like, you know, meeting friends. [00:05:08] Speaker D: What is the six? I don't even know what that is. [00:05:09] Speaker B: Oh, you don't? [00:05:10] Speaker C: No. [00:05:10] Speaker D: I didn't explain my research. [00:05:12] Speaker C: You can explain it. I don't know why this was a thing, but, like, early TikTok, they had, like, the Hype House and the Sway House, and I don't really even know what that is, but it was just like, these influencers would live together, and. [00:05:26] Speaker B: We'Ve heard from Taylor and Montana Boys and all that kind of stuff. [00:05:31] Speaker D: You. You lived in this whole. This house with everybody. [00:05:34] Speaker C: I. I did not, okay, necessarily live there. [00:05:37] Speaker D: Okay. [00:05:38] Speaker C: I lived, like, two miles away from there. [00:05:39] Speaker D: But you. You guys, like a big hangout path, essentially. And you guys would just do content creation. [00:05:44] Speaker C: Yeah, we would go, like, you know, once or twice a week, go over there and just make videos and sing and kind of do anything any of us could think of. And you look at that, the original, like, group that met there. It's pretty crazy seeing, like, Priscilla Block, crazy success. Ashley Cook, crazy success. Tiger Lily Thomas, AKA Bonner, Sammy Chris, just like Priscilla. It was pretty. It was pretty cool. [00:06:08] Speaker D: Pretty cool group. [00:06:09] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:06:10] Speaker B: Surfside's got real vodka, real iced tea, and real lemonade. You know what's not real? That excuse you gave to skip the tailgate, grab a Surfside and redeem yourself, champ. Now back to your regular programming. Yeah, so. So you guys would get together in the house, or they would get together in the house and just kind of create stuff together. I. I've seen. Or there's maybe a little bit of songwriting going on behind the scenes, too, but it's kind of a house that was basically. I don't know if it was necessarily given, but it was, you know, used or could be used for. You guys just kind of hang out and do all this content creation. But it's continued after you guys got kind of a class there together. But it's continued after that. I know Clayton Shea, who is Tailgate Beers Alone. He went later on as well. I've seen some mashups from him from that kind of stuff, too. So Chris does a lot of podcasting as well. Austin Snell's been on with Chris and. [00:07:02] Speaker C: And all of that, so. Smart dude. Very smart dude. [00:07:07] Speaker B: So. So from there, kind of going forward, so you kind of have all of that, you know, behind you, you start to get that. That bigger following on. On TikTok, and then, you know, what. What kind of happens or what. [00:07:18] Speaker C: Where you go, it Was. I mean, it was kind of just fun for a little bit of just like doing silly viral videos, trying to, you know, get as many followers as you could. I didn't really understand what was going on. It sort of got real, I guess, when we had like, song called New Normal was my first song. Never, you know, quote, go viral on social media and finally saw, like, real people organically streaming my music, which was really cool. And never had that. And so just kind of kept on releasing music and trying to get people's eyes on it and growing that. And then once we could go back on or could go on tour, we just kind of rolled the dice, me, Thomas and AK together. And we're like, let's just. Let's see how many people show up if we actually go and do this. And I think we're playing 250 to 500 cap rooms, but we're selling out about every show. And people were buying tickets to come sing our songs and get T shirts and all that stuff. And it's just kind of grown. Grown from there. [00:08:20] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:08:20] Speaker B: That's awesome. And so I know most recently you. You wrote a song about your. [00:08:27] Speaker D: Your wife. [00:08:28] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:08:28] Speaker B: And so kind of surprised her at the reception with. With singing that to her. How did she take that? [00:08:35] Speaker C: I think she liked it. [00:08:36] Speaker B: I hope so. [00:08:37] Speaker C: It would have been awkward. No, that was. That's the most nervous I've ever been to sing a song. Was that song. But that is. That always will be. And was at the time just my favorite song I've ever written. Certainly a super special moment. [00:08:51] Speaker B: Absolutely. That's what I was going to say, too. [00:08:53] Speaker D: So we get the. We got the Tar Heels Duke game starting. As he's a massive UNC fan. [00:09:00] Speaker C: I see a real life psycho come to life. I change 00 right now. [00:09:05] Speaker B: So we caught it just in time. [00:09:06] Speaker D: How many games have you gone to? Or is this something that you did a lot as a kid? Is it something like what made you that Tar Heels fan? [00:09:15] Speaker C: So my dad went there and then my oldest brother was a manager for the basketball team for five years. My middle brother walked on for two years. He played. I went to Chapel hill, graduated in 18. So I. I bet I've been to like, you know, 200 Carolina. [00:09:31] Speaker D: Oh my God. [00:09:33] Speaker C: And it is where we're from. It's. It's a fricking religion almost tobacco road basketball. And I hate Duke more than anything in the world. [00:09:41] Speaker B: Heard a story that your brother that walked on there, he would get you some, like, secondhand Jordan shoes that you Would wear in high school playing basketball too. [00:09:49] Speaker C: Dude, I was. I was the freshest looking kid out there. If you're gonna get dunked on, you might as well get dunked on with looking good fresh Jordans. [00:09:57] Speaker D: That. That Tobacco Road is like a bucket list of mine of being able to go down that way and hit all those schools. Being able to see it and dude, game. [00:10:07] Speaker C: Everybody should see it in person once in their life. And you can't. I mean, the Duke at Duke is impossible. But everybody should go to Chapel Hill for. For one of those games. It's insane because it Duke, they like. [00:10:18] Speaker D: Camp out for like a long period of time. Do they do that? North Carolina, we have lives. [00:10:26] Speaker C: We talk to people. [00:10:29] Speaker D: So you absolutely just hate Duke. [00:10:31] Speaker C: Hate him so much. [00:10:32] Speaker D: Okay. [00:10:33] Speaker C: It's. I can't even explain it. Imagine what you hate most in the world that bad multiplied by two to three. [00:10:42] Speaker D: So did you know people that went to all the other schools being from down there, that you're just like, man, if you're going to choose to go to the school, our friendship ends? [00:10:50] Speaker C: Well, I didn't really know anybody that went to Duke again because I won't get into that. That'll be mean. A lot of people that went to NC State also. My wife went to NC State, like, so that's okay. Like, I hate NC State, but the kids that go there are awesome. And like, some of my best friends, you know, went to NC State. Wake. Not quite as much, but being from Winston, like, I'll cheer for him a little bit. But Duke is just all like kids from New Jersey that, you know, fly down there and they're all really. They're all smarter than I am. So that's. I think it's like a little man syndrome. [00:11:21] Speaker D: Except for Mike Stud. [00:11:23] Speaker C: Yeah. Did Mike Stud get it? [00:11:24] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:11:25] Speaker C: No way. [00:11:26] Speaker D: He pitched it. [00:11:26] Speaker C: Duke. Oh, my God. Well, then he's. He's definitely smarter than him and Marcus. [00:11:30] Speaker D: Him and Marcus Stroman, I think, went there together. [00:11:33] Speaker C: Really? [00:11:33] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:11:34] Speaker C: And was Posner around there at that time or was that very well could be because, yeah, he went there. [00:11:40] Speaker D: I don't know if Mike was smart or not, but I know he threw out his arm at Duke and that's how him and Stroman were buddies. And that's when he started his music career. Well, but he was up. He was from up north in the east coast area. [00:11:55] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:11:55] Speaker D: Came down to Duke. [00:11:56] Speaker C: It's tales all the time, man. [00:11:59] Speaker D: What. What is something like with the festivals when you started doing tailgate and tall boys. What was a goal of yours when, you know, here you are like, hey, we're getting ready to do tailgate. I don't know what this festival is. What was your goal that year as far as gaining fans and being on that big stage? [00:12:17] Speaker C: Dude. First festival season. Because I think the first festival season we did, we played tailgate and it was in June, so I think we did like the Myrtle Beach, Carolina country music Fest. One other thing. And I think the next weekend was tailgate and tall boys. And it was going from like, you know, playing some really fun club shows, but to like the big festival thing. And it was the Morgan Wallen day and Hardy. So, like, the place was packed early because everybody wanted to be there. [00:12:44] Speaker D: Well, that was side stage year. Yeah. [00:12:46] Speaker C: And so we did the side stage in 2022 and it was, you know, I mean, maybe some people were there to see us, but most people were there to see Morgan and it was packed. And I was like, this is. And there's got to be like, we're on a side stage. There's got to be, you know, 10,000 people just like right here. And that was awesome. [00:13:05] Speaker D: And then 2023, you do main stage Clinton. I think you played Clinton and then you did Bloomington main stage the following year. [00:13:14] Speaker C: Don't sleep on Clinton, man. That's a good place. Good people. [00:13:18] Speaker B: That's my favorite Tailgate cowboys. [00:13:19] Speaker D: Yeah. I heard so many people talk about AK. [00:13:23] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:13:24] Speaker D: And you. That first, that, that 2023 year, it was like AK and you gotta have them back. Larissa from Wild Rose has always talked about how great you were. Are we getting Cooper Allen back? [00:13:37] Speaker C: That's awesome. [00:13:38] Speaker D: Those are two big names that I heard a lot of Jiko and a lot of people talked about his. His performance as well. [00:13:44] Speaker C: But the. The mayor of Clinton. Oh, yeah, he's still the mayor of Clinton, right? Yeah. [00:13:52] Speaker B: He's a Tailgate Beers alum as well. [00:13:54] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, he was on down there too. [00:13:55] Speaker B: Yeah, we had good, good conversation with him. [00:13:59] Speaker D: He's a great, great dude. [00:14:00] Speaker B: He comes over once in a while and, you know, watches an artist and stuff like that. So. [00:14:05] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:14:05] Speaker B: Surprising that coming over tonight. [00:14:07] Speaker D: I know we always call that. The ongoing joke was that it was the mayor's party is what it was called. But no, he advocated for his town, you know, trying to get something different to happen in that town to bring people there to change the narrative of that. So I give him big props. And that's not even like his full time job. I mean, he has a full time job and then is like oh, by the way, I'm the mayor of Clinton too. [00:14:29] Speaker C: That is. [00:14:30] Speaker B: So let's go back back to the beginning, as I mentioned. Like I said, I think it was eighth grade. You and some buddies there in. In town and went to school together, started a band below the line, of course, and you guys played just wherever you could for school events. [00:14:48] Speaker D: What. [00:14:48] Speaker B: What was it at the eighth grade level that. That you guys were able to. To get into, to. To play? [00:14:54] Speaker C: First gig was a haunted trail at our school. And I mean, there were maybe 12 people that were like, chilling there watching us, but it was, to that moment, the best thing I've ever done in my life. I was like, this is awesome. We, like, encored with Purple Rain. And I was. I'm not a very good guitar player. I was the lead guitar player for our band. I was there trying to just botch a Prince guitar solo. And it was just such a show. But it was awesome. Yeah, like, I was up there with my buddies and, you know, parents and friends were having fun, and you just kind of. I don't know. I think performing music is like the best and most addictive drug of anything. It's just such a high. It's so fun and so just would do anything to be anywhere playing music from then. There were some bars that would let us play and like, my brothers and their friends would show up and school events, really anywhere. And then college, you know, started playing fraternity sorority parties, college bars. That was a whole nother beast. [00:15:53] Speaker D: Were you that guy that would show up to the party with a guitar to start playing? Have you ever seen that, like, video or meme where there's always that one guy that shows up with his guitar. [00:16:01] Speaker C: Jeans and plays Wonderwall at the campfire? No, I did that once in middle school, and I sat there and was playing. I just was like, I'm cringing at myself. And that's a lot for me to cringe at myself. [00:16:15] Speaker B: So. [00:16:16] Speaker D: So you. [00:16:16] Speaker B: You have the same band all the way through, through high school, like you said, you went to. Went to college, and you still kind of playing within most of the same group, I think. [00:16:26] Speaker C: Yeah, we added some in college, and then once I moved to Nashville, luckily met the guys I'm playing with now. And Scotty over here was the first guy I met. He's guitar player. He called Darius and Tom and got them to join. And we've been, you know, since about 2019 playing together. [00:16:46] Speaker D: Wow. Scotty was talking to us earlier. He was like, if you guys want. If you want some real guests on the show. [00:16:52] Speaker C: He's like, I'm on the tell all. The Scotty tell alls. [00:16:56] Speaker D: The Scotty tell alls. [00:16:59] Speaker B: So talk about some of your, your, your cringe moments from, from TikTok. What are some of the cringiest videos that you would look back on now and be like, I can't believe that somebody allowed me to hit post on that. [00:17:13] Speaker C: I mean, pick jokes on you. Jokes on you. He has not just spin the wheel and pick them. There was, I mean, to the. I probably posted a cringy thing two weeks ago. But the worst, I think my wife and I are like in a bathroom and like she's wearing obviously her clothes. I'm wearing my clothes and like the sound is playing and like the light switch flickers and it comes back on and I'm wearing her clothes, she's wearing my clothes. And that was, that was the first time I watched it back and I'm like, I, I don't know about this. Was. [00:17:46] Speaker B: Was that like a trending thing at the time? I probably. [00:17:49] Speaker C: Yeah, I was like, that skirt looks comfortable. It was. I mean it's. Those things are also the kilt thing. I, I understand what those guys are doing. [00:17:58] Speaker D: Maybe we can, maybe we can pull the guys here a little later and get, get the cringiest one and pop it on. [00:18:03] Speaker B: There you go. There you go. [00:18:04] Speaker C: Yeah, I can send you about a hundred. [00:18:14] Speaker D: Look, I just flipped the switch. I don't know nobody ever. So I don't, I don't know if you watched the. Went to the segment. I asked today on the. [00:18:28] Speaker B: I did, I did. I just didn't respond. [00:18:29] Speaker D: So I watched the, I watched the bert Kreischer Hardy Co Wetzel, Stephen Wilson Jr where Bert's like cooking for him in the kitchen kind of and they're doing all that. I don't know if you've seen it or seen any of the clips from it. [00:18:46] Speaker C: I think I saw something, but I don't know. [00:18:48] Speaker D: It's just comical in of itself. But it was funny because he asked a question and I have one that we ask later. But it was a, it was an interesting question. So if you could, if you could get on a stage somewhere and essentially transform, pick somebody who would you essentially want to just show up on stage and be able to play like every single song of theirs. You know, like if you could all of a sudden somehow in the Matrix just end up with all the notes, everything in your head but like go to that moment and either play that sold out show of Morgan Wallins to Willie Nelson to anybody who would you ever want to like change that spot with? [00:19:30] Speaker C: I got two, I think either. Kid Rock, Woodstock 99. [00:19:36] Speaker D: Oh, man, that's. [00:19:38] Speaker C: Wow. I've watched that concert like a million times. [00:19:41] Speaker D: Like googling woodstock99 is the best thing ever to see any of those one when he like. Yeah, they blamed it on Hit Corn. Like blamed it on him. [00:19:51] Speaker B: Yeah, it was like a Netflix special on that. Just about that whole thing and starting the fires and burn the whole place down, basically. [00:19:57] Speaker C: Yeah. And it got kind of sad. But the Kid Rock said he still. [00:20:00] Speaker D: Had his whole crew with him. He had. I mean, that was. [00:20:04] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:20:04] Speaker D: That's when he was. He was everywhere, all over, like MTV back in those days. And just Kid Rock, the Devil Without. [00:20:13] Speaker C: A Calls was like, that album is so good, man. And it was like nobody else did the like rock rap thing, I guess, like Reg against the Machine. But I don't know. I've always been a big kid rock genre. [00:20:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:26] Speaker C: Nobody else can rock a pimp jacket like. Like Bobby. [00:20:29] Speaker D: So what's the. What would be that. What's the second or you said two. [00:20:32] Speaker C: People, probably some Eminem, like, okay, Prime Shady, man. If you could, you could pull off a whole shady set. That's pretty. That's pretty wild. [00:20:42] Speaker B: So going there, talking about some of the mashups that you've done, stuff like that, and I've heard you do some of the Eminem and you know, what, what. What was the idea? I mean, were you kind of the one of the first ones that started doing that? That just on a whim? [00:20:57] Speaker C: Yeah, probably. [00:20:58] Speaker D: Did you forget mashups? Let's claim it here right now. [00:21:03] Speaker B: But we have to go out on a stage and tell. Tell the crowd, hey, name a songs and go out and then be able to do it. I mean, that's. [00:21:09] Speaker D: That's borderline on the spectrum. [00:21:10] Speaker B: Right. [00:21:11] Speaker C: So I think about that every day. People tell me that every day. [00:21:16] Speaker D: It's weird. For sure. You place those people, like when somebody does that stuff, I'm always like, that's not real. He told those people, like before, they're each VIP and he told them. But I believe I saw it. [00:21:30] Speaker C: But we were doing in bars, like college bars when we were playing those four hour sets and everybody's been doing stuff like this for, you know, all time. You have four hours of songs. Like, that's a ton of songs. Yeah. So we would just like sit there and start with like All Star by Smash Mouth and just keep on playing that chord progression. And me and my bass Player, guitar player at the time would just like riff and how much we could do before, you know, a crowd of drunk people at a bar noticed. And you go 45 minutes playing the same chords and singing these songs. And it was like it became a game almost. And then, you know, just throwing stuff at the wall on the Internet. It's like, let's just try. Let's do this thing. And for some reason it worked. [00:22:11] Speaker B: So you've had to have seen some of the. The Tick tocks or videos of a bunch of. Of these guys sitting in the kitchen, like all around a counter, like a U shaped kitchen counter. And they're just going next, back and forth. [00:22:24] Speaker D: The only reason I've seen it is because of him. When we. Right, but. [00:22:27] Speaker B: But some of that, maybe not all of it, but some of that was the 615 house we talked about earlier. And, and where some of. And it was just being able to just kind of go and, you know, you seeing a verse or a line, the next person, you know, jumps right in without missing a beat. And then it just kind of goes around in a circle. I mean, it's. [00:22:44] Speaker D: That goes into the rap stuff too. Where Eminem has. I mean, when he. Remember when they talked about how Eminem just would read the dictionary and how he. I mean, his, how fast his brain works to be. I put that on that level of where you've. You've got something in your head that you can kind of spit up words as quick as possible and then doing. [00:23:03] Speaker C: What you know that guy can do. Or like a, you know, Lil Wayne. [00:23:08] Speaker D: Little Dicky's another one that, like when he's gone on like certain talk shows and they're like, all right, we're gonna get a beat. And then they give him like three or four topics and then he just goes. I'm like, I don't even know how you do that, but I'm not lyrically inclined. His rap song was Snoop Dogg that. I don't know what it's. I don't remember what it's called, but that one's a. That one's a good one. But I've been listening. I'm a Pian Door listener. And so I recently was doing Limp Bizkit radio. [00:23:34] Speaker C: Oh, hell yeah. [00:23:35] Speaker D: Eminem's eight Mile track. Some of the songs from that keep popping up on there. Yeah, but that's another great one where you can put in Limp Bizkit and from that, Pandora's pick, you're getting corn, you're getting Eminem. I mean, you're getting all these different random genres from that linkin. Park is popping in there for some reason. And yeah, yeah, the Eminem one. Just like, man, those old albums, Eminem's are so good. [00:23:57] Speaker C: Ridiculous. I mean, nobody had a cadence like that and nobody ever will. It was just like. Everything was so unexpected and like, just cool. But also catchy as. That's really hard. [00:24:06] Speaker D: Run. What is it called? Run. [00:24:09] Speaker C: Oh, gosh. [00:24:10] Speaker D: What is it called? I hadn't thought about this song and God knows how long. No, not stimulate 10 to N. Who's winning 10 and up. [00:24:24] Speaker C: Dukes up by one review. [00:24:26] Speaker B: Flag's out there. Cooper, Flag's out. [00:24:28] Speaker C: Isn't he hurt? He is out. [00:24:30] Speaker D: Dude, that. They're still really good. That ankle roll. I hate watching. I hate seeing those. [00:24:36] Speaker C: Luckily, he wasn't limping today. I think he'll be fine next week because he is. He's kind of hard to hate, honestly. And of all. [00:24:43] Speaker D: Oh, you said. You know, that's not what you said earlier. [00:24:46] Speaker C: So now you're flipping. [00:24:47] Speaker D: Now you said. You said. [00:24:48] Speaker C: But he's not annoying. Like, he's not JJ Redick or like Greg Paulus. He's just like, he's a pro. [00:24:55] Speaker D: Run Rabbit run or Run Rabbit or. I think that's what it was. I hadn't thought about that song. And I don't know how Rabbit Run on 8 miles track. And then, I don't know, it's just been playing. I'm like, gosh, I miss. I love that Eminem in that time was incredible. [00:25:10] Speaker C: Nobody better. [00:25:12] Speaker B: I'm hearing a truck pull up out front, and I bet you that's Wayne. [00:25:15] Speaker D: And I'm not getting yelled at like before where Wayne's like, we're gonna miss. [00:25:18] Speaker C: Dinner, God damn it. So get Wayne on the mic himself. Yeah. [00:25:22] Speaker D: We're not getting off until he walks in. [00:25:24] Speaker B: I know Austin's got a. Got a question. [00:25:26] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:25:26] Speaker D: So our burning one that comes up all the time is. And it's a little controversial now, but you get to that point where you and your wife finally go out and buy that private jet that you've been wanting for so long, and you load it all up, you start heading wherever you're going to head to some getaway, and you just happen to bring every album known to man. I'm not sure how many parachutes are on there, but you secure one and you gotta grab five albums for the rest of your life. Like, you just. You gotta take them with you. You're never gonna listen to anything else. That's what you're Taking with you. [00:26:06] Speaker C: Okay. I do Devil Without a Cause. I'd probably throw like, an Eagles Greatest Hits on. There are Greatest Hits? [00:26:20] Speaker D: They made a CD of it or an album of it? [00:26:23] Speaker C: Yeah, it counts. Eagles Greatest Hits, man. I'm trying to think which Nickelback record I would take. Could honestly just probably pick five nickels. [00:26:34] Speaker D: I'm sure they have a Greatest Hits on them, too. [00:26:37] Speaker C: Yeah, Nickelback Greatest Hits. Whenever that's a thing. See, this is a really, really good question. [00:26:47] Speaker D: I pride myself on it. And so far to this date, Jesse, I think, might be the only person that has the answer in all five. [00:26:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:54] Speaker C: A Cracked Rear View Hootie, that first record. And. [00:27:03] Speaker D: I mean, everything else is going in the water, so never gonna hear. [00:27:07] Speaker C: Everything else ever, ever. [00:27:09] Speaker D: You'll never get it again. [00:27:11] Speaker C: All right. There's got to be a lot. Probably Last Waltz Band. [00:27:15] Speaker D: Okay, that's an interesting. [00:27:18] Speaker C: Yeah, a couple of them in there. [00:27:20] Speaker D: Yeah, several. First. [00:27:21] Speaker C: Oh, dude, last one. [00:27:22] Speaker D: You didn't take a single Eminem record. You didn't take a smack. You didn't take Smash Mouth. You mentioned you didn't take. [00:27:27] Speaker C: You could have taken. What is Astro. [00:27:30] Speaker D: What was that album so good, dude, Everything going on it. That's the greatest. That's the best part, because. How old are you? [00:27:39] Speaker C: 29. [00:27:40] Speaker D: Okay, so around that time where MTV is, you're able to see Britney Spears as, you know, a young boy going, oh, my gosh. To. I'm watching Corn. And the next person is, you know, Snoop Dogg is on, you know, the top 10. [00:27:58] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:27:58] Speaker D: To you name it. It's just such a variety. And then all of a sudden, when Smash Mouth came on and you're like, I don't even know what genre this falls into, dude, the Greatest. [00:28:10] Speaker C: Other than My Wedding and Carolina beating Duke in the final four, the third greatest night of my life was, like, his senior year of high school. Me and, like, eight other dudes just got hammered at the Smash Mouth, Sugar Ray concert. And there were, I mean, maybe a thousand people there at this big amphitheater, which, who knows why, love those bands. And so they called everybody out. We were on the lawn, and so we were like, fifth row at Sugar Ray and Smash Mouth, and it was still the original singer of Smash Mouth and so Wrath and all that stuff. That was highly recommend. [00:28:44] Speaker B: You threw me off with. With seeing Britney Spears as a little boy. [00:28:51] Speaker D: If you weren't hot for her and Christina Aguilera. [00:28:53] Speaker B: No, seeing Sydney. [00:28:54] Speaker C: Britney Spears as a little boy. [00:28:56] Speaker D: I didn't see her as a little boy. I saw her when I was a. [00:28:59] Speaker B: Little girl, I got stuck on that. [00:29:01] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:29:01] Speaker B: After anything he said after that, I don't remember. [00:29:03] Speaker D: You just lost. Yeah, that was. [00:29:04] Speaker B: That was. You lost me there. [00:29:06] Speaker C: Anyways. [00:29:06] Speaker B: But anyway. Hey, tailgate beers here. We want to thank Cooper Allen for taking the time. His team for taking the time and sitting down with us today. It's been. It's been a pleasure to get to know you. Really looking forward to seeing you on stage tonight. I actually get to watch because every. All the other times I. I've been working, so. Really looking forward to seeing you. Thank you very much. [00:29:25] Speaker C: We'll be drinking some tailgate beers together.