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Hangin' Out In The Holler
Whiskey, Barbecue, and Southern Adventures: Exploring Lynchburg with Barrel House 107 EPI 219
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Ever wondered what it's like to balance a love for whiskey with the chaos of of coming to the Jack Daniel's BBQ in Lynchburg? Join us as we journey with Barrel House 107 from Memphis to Lynchburg, exploring everything from cozy log cabin stays to the contrasting vibes of these two iconic southern places. Our lively chat meanders through personal stories, revealing how my dad took his first curious sip of local whiskey, and the delightful adventures of our dogs roaming in Fayetteville. With humor and heart, we unravel the art of whiskey tasting and the nuances that make each experience distinctive, all while sharing a laugh about our favorite bottle stickers.
Have you ever dreamed of owning your own whiskey barrel? Discover the secrets behind planning and executing a dream whiskey purchase, complete with tales of budgeting, barrel selection, and the nail-biting logistics of transporting liquid gold back home. The thrill of collecting whiskey—especially those elusive prohibition-era bottles—sparks joy and passion in our conversation, showing how this hobby transforms into a spirited lifestyle. With our community of whiskey lovers, we exchange stories about the rare finds that light up our collections and the camaraderie that enriches our lives.
Step into the bustling world of Tennessee as we celebrate the local culture, from the barbecue scene to the charming small-town eateries. Our episode captures the essence of friendship and community, highlighting the global recognition of Jack Daniels and the spirited debates it inspires around the world. Whether it's a marathon story filled with good-natured rivalries or a delightful morning spent indulging in donuts and laughter, we invite you to experience Tennessee's vibrant spirit with us. So grab a glass, sit back, and immerse yourself in a world where whiskey, friendship, and unforgettable adventures await.
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Speaker 1:It freaks me out, are we?
Speaker 2:good, we're good, we're on, yeah, we're on.
Speaker 1:Okay.
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Speaker 1:Yeah, where am I?
Speaker 2:You're one, I thought, I don't know. Well, we are back again on a special Thursday Hanging out in the hallway.
Speaker 1:You know what I think? Let's see. Let's see which one hey Hanging out in the hallway. You know what I think?
Speaker 2:let's see.
Speaker 1:Let's see which one. Hey, if you're all, that ain't mine.
Speaker 2:This is mine, okay, all right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, special Thursday night. This is hey man with Barrel House 107, everybody. Woo.
Speaker 2:The night before the chaos starts up here in the square for the barbecue.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the first episode on a Thursday night and we have Barrel House 107 here Travels all the way from Memphis. How long have you been here this week?
Speaker 3:Oh, I just got here. We left late today because we brought our dogs with us and we couldn't check in until 4, so we got here about 3.30.
Speaker 1:Did you?
Speaker 3:check in at the hotel in Lynchburg? Oh no, we're in Fayetteville. We got a nice little log cabin right off the river.30. Did you check in at the hotel in Lynchburg? No, we're in Fayetteville. We've got a nice little log cabin right off the river Room for the dogs to run and not bother anybody.
Speaker 2:I imagine there's probably no rooms anywhere in Lynchburg for the next four years. I wonder.
Speaker 1:I bet they sell out quick. Have you ever stayed in the Lynchburg one? For this. Yeah for this.
Speaker 3:Like you said, said they're booked up. The people that I'm booked up two, three years out, anything around here is probably booked up dang and then the place that we used, that we originally that's what I was about to say, because you were talking about a cabin.
Speaker 1:Have you ever stayed at that cabin just up the road over here? Okay, no, so there's the first time staying at the cabin yeah, okay, it's nice we checked in.
Speaker 3:I got everything unpacked and told everybody bye and came into town.
Speaker 1:Yes, you were just like a local, though that's what I love it about you well, you can't you know, you know, you know everybody. And so what have you done? You know you're doing the podcast, now what have you done before this?
Speaker 3:you hung out with anybody no, uh, I mean, I usually just come to town and, like me and my wife, they say opposites attract and so when people start hey, she goes off somewhere, she's like I'm gone and she's. She's off doing her own thing or taking the kids. But um, but no, it's just, I just, I mean you could drop me off there on a thursday with nothing to do and I would just walk around. I mean just the contrast between Lynchburg and Memphis is you? You there's, you're on the opposite end.
Speaker 1:I know we were trying to get you to come down here.
Speaker 3:Like, move, actually move one day, one day, one day, that's really the go one day yeah, right now my dad's getting open his years, and so I can't be four hours away and something happens yeah, yeah, yeah, I got you, I got you.
Speaker 1:He come with you this trip.
Speaker 3:No, he didn't no, he, he, uh. This is too much walking for him. He's like last time I come down there, there wasn't enough places to sit down.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he was wore out at the.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he was yeah, he got his first taste of the wager and he's like that, think that's enough for me that was so.
Speaker 1:That was the first time he'd ever this year going to the wider yeah that's the first time he's ever. He had no idea what to expect is your dad big into whiskey, like jack daniels, like you are now.
Speaker 3:Uh, it's frustrating sometimes because, like I'm not the guy that can pick up a bottle. I'm like, oh, I got vanilla and tobacco you know notes and stuff like it's good or it's not, but I can. You can give me five bottles and I can taste the difference. I'll come in there and I'll be like man, this is so good, dad, try it, and he'll taste like whiskey. I'll never take you to a tasting, you would just run everybody out. He does have. He could probably fill up this whole table with all the open bottles that he's got at his house and then just vodka and cherry, this or this, and he'll open something. He'll drink about two inches out of it and leave it there and it may sit there for four years before he touches it again have you?
Speaker 1:so you're talking about like with the taste and everything, because that's one thing I was like how do they do that with the taste testers when they're picking barrels out like single barrels? Have you ever been something like that? Yeah, because they'll try they'll try, oh really yeah oh, I didn't know that it's got his own little sweetness.
Speaker 2:It's got my own little name on it and everything and I put the sticker on my wife likes the sticker bottle.
Speaker 3:So we, of course, if we bought a barrel, we had to put the sticker on it. But um, yeah, they'll pick you out three barrels and they're. They're each one's a little bit different and so you know you just taste them, and usually your taster whoever's your tasting guide will tell you how to taste it and stuff, because most people don't know. But um, yeah, and you? You just sit there and you sip a little bit of this.
Speaker 1:I was about to say you can take a couple swallers yeah, and like you can definitely tell.
Speaker 3:Like like these here, I've got got probably 15 cases in my bedroom right now and I'll be drinking something else and I'm like I'm not going to the liquor store. I'll go in there and I'll pop one of them open and you sit down and it's just a totally different taste.
Speaker 3:But yeah, you can taste it Like you've got your sweet and your spicy and your oaky and stuff. And I've never been one person that can sit there and pick up a bottle and give you a profile. But you know you sit down, especially somebody like goose or randall that's been doing this for yeah, 400 years they can.
Speaker 1:Did you go on one with them?
Speaker 3:I have been on one with goose oh, that's amazing. Yeah, man right, I think, either right before, right after his retirement oh, that's awesome and so like I got. I snagged him up before he the grandkids yeah, before he could retire.
Speaker 1:How do they do it? I can't I, I can't ever remember.
Speaker 3:So they have to take them all out of the bottle or the barrel, pretty much when you when you go to the taste and for the most well, for the single barrels you can pretty much bet they're already bottled. They take that barrel, they bottle it and then they bring you a, a little pint bottle, the you know three different barrels, and then everybody gets a little tasting of it and they go through how to taste it and, um, you know you pick the one that you like. When you pick it they go back there and they send that pallet to your liquor store and then you go pretty much they have to sell it to the liquor store. Liquor store sells it to you. But if you pick out, if you're doing a like a barrel proof or a barrel proof rye, you pull it straight from the barrel and so you know you get little chunks and all I mean just straight from the barrel. And I haven't been able to do that yet.
Speaker 3:That's next on the list but, yeah, when it was a great feeling going to my liquor store and driving out my wife's little suv with 47 cases of booze in the back.
Speaker 1:That poor, poor suv was squatting so hard you hit a speed bump and the bottom of the thing would bottom out.
Speaker 3:I'm like, oh, I better slow down but yeah you, you pull up in the driveway and you're going in two cases at a time and you're all man, you get it all in there and you're looking. I was like that's all mine, man. Twelve thousand dollars, man, my wife would kill me.
Speaker 1:How much? How much do you have left? Do you think?
Speaker 3:um, we, like I said we start off with counting what I brought with me today um about 15 cases left and uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah uh, a year and a half I have been this like this is definitely something on my bucket list.
Speaker 3:And so years ago I would sit there and I would count down how many months till I turned 40 and I would take 12 000 divided'm like I need to put $179 away every week. And then, closer I'd get to it, I'm like, oh, it's like $204 every week and I can buy a whole barrel. Well, my wife's like, if you're going to do it, let's do it. And so, you know, at the time I was selling firewood, working overtime. And then you know, the page has brought me more, uh, publicity and, I guess, credibility. So if I sell something, there's fewer people wondering if it's legit or not because you know the reputation behind, I guess my name, and you know people trust me and people all the time right hey, what's this worth?
Speaker 3:or what about this and stuff? And if I don't know something I'll figure it out. But I would sell things that I. You know it was my. I'm limited to our little dining room and it's getting cluttered. So, like today, I brought a little car full of stuff to sell because I'm running out of room, but we sold enough and we finally got the money together and did it. It was 12 250. I got the receipt at home framed. It's the most I've ever spent at the liquor store. It's twelve thousand two hundred and fifty something dollars. And the cool thing is, like I said, they sell it to your liquor store and your liquor store. It's up to them of what they're going to add to that.
Speaker 1:You know, like oh, so they try, yeah, add their own fees and everything.
Speaker 3:So he, he's like look man, you know I, I he's a little bitty store and I'm literally if I'm not buying it here and it's not a collector bottle from 19 whatever. I'm buying it from him, so he gets all my business. And he was very generous and said look, I'm just gonna whatever tax is. So I got it pretty much at his cost and uh, yeah we went up there and shoved $47 or 47 cases in the back of a Chevy Trailblazer.
Speaker 1:Drove it home. Well, you do. That's freaking your wife's, amazing though she is.
Speaker 3:You know I was about to say I have the best wife in the world.
Speaker 1:I was about to say Shout out to your wife, because that's freaking awesome, let me make sure that the notes got there.
Speaker 3:Okay, it says best wife ever. Okay, good, I can show her that.
Speaker 2:I'm going to go home and be like Caleb I'm going to buy a barrel of whiskey and get it delivered to Luke and Lola.
Speaker 3:You go to work Monday? Yes, okay, so just make sure she hits you tonight.
Speaker 2:so it's gone before you go to work Monday and nobody sees that shiner, that's right.
Speaker 1:Scott Lawson said if we give you five bottles, you'll take the clothes off.
Speaker 3:No, nobody wants to see that.
Speaker 1:I promise you that's been the most you've spent on bottles together.
Speaker 3:At once, at once.
Speaker 1:Okay, what about just for one bottle of Jack Daniels? How much have you spent just for one?
Speaker 3:I guess the most expensive item I have that I've ever spent money on is probably an original jug, and then you've got the 1895 and 1870 bottles, which of course they're empty over there. It would be $10,000.
Speaker 1:But I think actually going to the liquor store and buying it probably less than $200 my gosh. Yeah, man, what I was about to say uh, you were talking about the eight, wait the 18. Yeah, because of your facebook page, people post. I see that people post bottles that they have empty or full. You know, has it? Have you ever seen one full? Yeah, they got a square house.
Speaker 3:You go, go to the mottler house, they've got and they got them there yeah, they are actually sealed.
Speaker 3:They got the nice little tin uh cap on it's, corked with the little tin cap on it and uh, they got some of them got the labels, like I've got, uh, two of the 1895s. One of them was apparently in a fire and I mean it. If you don't look at it real hard you won't see it, but if you look at it it's kind of crooked. But if you look at it from the right angle you can see where the label is actually burnt into the glass. I was trying to clean it off. I thought it was just oh, yeah, a lot of it.
Speaker 3:But I look at it and I was like it says old time whiskey, and then you see berg over here, so it was actually in a fire but um, but yeah, they've got them. There was, um, there's a fellow in australia, uh, who has one, and uh, but yeah, the squire house has a few of them. Um, they call it to 1895 but it goes from 1895.
Speaker 1:oh, so it's, it's a span, it's just that design bottle.
Speaker 3:I got you, but yeah, they've got them in there. It's actually still got the actual paper label and sealed full.
Speaker 1:What about the Prohibition stuff? See, I don't know much about. Was there anything made in For?
Speaker 3:medicinal use. That's my excuse. My wife says I'm sick in the head so I have to have my medicinal whiskey here. Uh, but yeah, jack had a special or not, jack is actually the mottlow, but they had a special. Um, during prohibition they could make medicinal whiskey. And you get a prescription from your doctor and says yeah, you need to drink okay so, um, there's, uh, it's a, it's a black label.
Speaker 3:Not it's a black label, but um, yeah, some of the older bottles and some of the older signs that they used to put out with. If you look on the bottom of it says for medicinal purposes. Um, I was gonna look this up.
Speaker 1:What are we doing? See, I didn't even. There it is yeah, hit images see if we can pull one of these up uh, you're gonna hit the that's. That's the pro. Is it hit?
Speaker 3:uh jack daniel's medicinal or uh medicinal whiskey, and it'll show you. It says on the on the label uh god, I couldn't tell you the spin m-a-d-i why don't you have? I don't correct. There you go. Let's see that was close. Take prohibition off. There you go. I think that's what's missing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it's going to be a little. Would it be like Lim Molo?
Speaker 3:No it was it's a there you go See. Was it's a there you go see that one right there. That's what you need to look for. That. That's the uh reproduction thing. But it says down here for bottled exclusively for medicinal use, see right there oh yeah, so it's the black light.
Speaker 1:It's the black light, it's an old black label.
Speaker 3:They're really beautiful labels back in the day but yeah you could. They're in prohibition. They very, very little whiskey was made but it was for medicinal use and I'm pretty sure a lot of that other use and friends and family that's what I've been drinking which one, my coke right there, the bottled and bond oh the ball, oh the bond, right here no, the blue one oh that, yeah, you're drinking that with a coke?
Speaker 1:nope, no, that's the single malt no, no, this is, this is the oh, I know which one you're talking about, that's the triple mash, bonded, bonded that triple mash is something amazing, that's.
Speaker 3:That's. That was until I bought my own barrel of whiskey and I had just cases laying around the house that triple mash is fantastic. So it's a little bit of that and a little bit of that and a little, and it all in triple dash, do you?
Speaker 2:drink like the jack apple and cinnamon.
Speaker 1:No. So no liqueur and everything for you. Hell, no. What about if they come out with peach? Because I think that's the first, I think that's the next one. I mean, they were kind of on a roll with it, and then because they come out with honey, which honey's been huge with the women. I mean not going to lie, I mean it's been huge.
Speaker 2:I think the honey is Honey's all right. I like the apple just because I like apple-flavored stuff. Or cinnamon Cinnamon Out of the three, cinnamon would be my favorite Everyone hates cinnamon.
Speaker 3:No, out of the three, cinnamon would be my favorite. I don't like the honey has kind of an artificial flavor, the apple's too sweet. But if I do, if you, if you do it right, you get. I think what thing it's? One part cinnamon and two parts apple is the apple pie yeah, that sounds good oh, who was it? One of the one of the tour guides told me about that and I went home and I had just called dusty and asking menu boo coos minis at the house and I took one cinnamon and two apples, mixed them together.
Speaker 3:It's still too sweet.
Speaker 1:Arthur Sneeden howdy from Arizona and he's moving to Lynchburg.
Speaker 3:Hell yeah. Does he have a father-in-law suite that I can spend the night at?
Speaker 2:See, I don't do.
Speaker 1:Junior Burdick cinnamon would be the fire. I don't do the Jack.
Speaker 2:Fire, just because it reminds me too much of Fireball.
Speaker 1:Everyone says that what do you think? What do you think? What do you think Burroughs Is that?
Speaker 2:accurate. There's probably a different taste, but I guess it's just the head game. I've drunk so much Fireball in my lifetime.
Speaker 1:I got you, I got you, yeah, I got you. When I do the honey, I like just um, what is it? Brits lemonade? Yeah, and I just throw that in there fireball.
Speaker 3:Oh, anybody who, anybody over? Anybody over 25 drinking fireball has some needs to see a doctor or something. That stuff is terrible, like that. Was the stuff back into that, was it that puckers uh?
Speaker 2:full of sugar mad dog 2020.
Speaker 3:Yeah, worst hanger ever.
Speaker 2:No, you've had Mad Dog 2020, right, benji? Did we talk about this one? Yeah?
Speaker 1:yeah, I think we did. Yeah, yeah, I had Mad Dog one time and that was it. You've introduced me, honestly, to the worst shit when it comes to alcohol I've ever had. Remember those little thingies that you. Oh, those bootleggers Damn. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:One time we were on the podcast and this was thank God before it was live. But these little things I'm like, oh man, these are pretty good and everything. Those are awful the next day, the next day it was like the country cocktails. I love those country cocktails oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, when we go to the beach.
Speaker 3:I know I'm going to be hot and dehydrated not to drink yeah hard liquor right, so I'm like I'll hit the gas station or whatever and grab me and they, for whatever reason, they don't have the cherry the cherry limeade in tennessee that I can ever find, unless I come to lynchburg, like that's the only one I love and I can't find it. So if I'm out of town I'll grab it and I'll be at the beach and then the next day I'm sleeping until noon with the worst headache ever do you drink the, the pre-made?
Speaker 2:cans, I'll try them no I just don't yeah the actual jack and cut the one they came out with jack and I can coke. Coke, yeah, not jack, that's the best out of them, but there's the party pack.
Speaker 1:But yeah, this is what you're these. So they got jack and cola cola.
Speaker 3:No, that's like rc cola, that's like.
Speaker 2:RC.
Speaker 1:Cola, the one below it right there, that Jack and Coke, that one yeah.
Speaker 3:That one is actually the best out of all of them.
Speaker 1:But no, I can buy me a two liter in a bottle and do it better. The party pack I didn't even know about Because they usually come in glass. I think Chuck's actually got the dark Cola ones. Yeah, he's got a lot of them over there, Back there in the back.
Speaker 3:Those and then they come out with the teas recently. They're hard teas.
Speaker 1:Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they got them over at the hardware store. They're okay yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh wow, hey did you.
Speaker 3:Okay, yeah, he's looking over there, original hard tea, peach hard tea. Yeah, I bought a 12-pack and you get three of each and I set it home. Each night I would pop three of those, but let's see, was it? Raspberry was okay, you're talking about peach.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah See, I knew he had one.
Speaker 3:We are definitely not rating Chuck's refrigerator at the moment.
Speaker 2:Well, I can imagine he's probably sold out of everything. He's asleep.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you must be. Come on man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 35. Well, 24 pack.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 24 pack. Yeah, yeah, If you're going to, there's a good picture of it. Yeah, the down home punch for the cocktails is I mean they're great, they're great if you're at the beach or at a tailgating or whatever. I wonder how much alcohol? What does that say? 5%, 5%.
Speaker 3:Yeah, good enough to get you a headache. Yeah, yeah, but as far as the sugary stuff, I don't know. I guess I've had enough hangovers in my life. I'm done with that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the sweet stuff will Drink the hard stuff. I'm done with that. Yeah, the sweet stuff will.
Speaker 3:Drink the hard stuff.
Speaker 2:Makes the pain go away. Just a good old neat glass of whiskey.
Speaker 3:Okay so do you mix Jack Daniels, or is it just always straight for Barrel House? I will have the occasional Jack and Coke.
Speaker 1:I'm getting really close to 40, so I'm trying to watch my sugar intake. What is it? Not the diet, but zero sugar Coke.
Speaker 3:No, no, zero sugar, nothing. My mama was a big diet Coke person. I remember that's all that would be in the fridge and I tried it and it just tasted like it had been in the back of a pickup truck for a week and a half. I can't do no diet, zero sugar, none of that stuff. But um, now my wife, years ago um, you see, years ago, two years ago maybe she bought me this big ice rubber ice tray and it makes these giant like two inch cube ice. So I'll get my drinking cup and I'll put one cube in there and I'll make it float and that's it.
Speaker 2:I got the. I got the circle, you got the circly ones. That's always split in half really not mine hasn't. And I've also got the uh the set. I want it like dirty sand, like years ago. I've never used it, but it's got the steel ice cubes oh, those are cool.
Speaker 1:They look fancy, but now they don't last what about, uh, have y'all ever tried the smoke for the whiskey? I know, I know that was kind of a thing and I've seen it on tiktok, where they're like take the wood and smoke the wood have you done?
Speaker 3:you go over here and something like that lynchburg distillery in the square and get you a smoked old-fashioned. It is the best thing you will ever have. I mean it's amazing and like I go over there and you know it's, it's, it's a dry county, it's a tasting. You know the maximum of twos and I even tried going out there changing my hat and my shirt and sitting on the other side. They always catch me. But like those are amazing, those smoked little fashion my wife bought me a smoking kit.
Speaker 3:I can't remember, I think it's for my birthday and it's just one of the cheap ones off amazon. But they send you like nine or ten different little tens of, uh, applewood and hickory wood and cherry wood and I'll smoke it up and you know I love it. And so for a while there I was peeling lemons and had cherries and stuff like that and and oh she would get mad she'd come and I was like it smells like something's on fire. I'm like, yeah, my cup, try. So the cherries and stuff like that, and and oh she would get mad she'd come in.
Speaker 2:I was like it smells like something's on fire. I'm like, yeah, my cup, try. So the cherries and whiskey or bourbon, whichever delicious, especially a little splash of cherry juice in it that's, yeah, that that sounds good yeah, I had a uh. I drank a whole bottle of uh, of what was it?
Speaker 3:Apparently, it was good.
Speaker 1:if you can't remember, Was it what with dickle? No it wasn't dickle.
Speaker 2:Oh, it was. Hang on, I'll tell you hang on.
Speaker 1:What about so Green Label? Do you have any Green Labels anymore?
Speaker 3:Is that something kind of fiddling out? Well, when they discontinued it.
Speaker 1:So it is discontinued? Yeah, only a year ago.
Speaker 3:I can't remember how many years ago, but yeah, they cut that off.
Speaker 1:I'm sure you've got your bottles.
Speaker 3:Woodford Reserve. That's good stuff. Yeah, me and my wife we pulled out of our neighborhood and went separate ways and she bought everything on this end of the street and I bought everything on that, everything on this end of the street and I bought everything on that. So we've got probably a case and a half at the house. But yeah, that was I guess that was for me when growing up, you know, when you got 20 in your pocket and you got somebody old enough to go to the liquor store and like, can you get me some jack and green labels?
Speaker 1:five hours I was about to say don't, hey, don't throw that green label. Don't throw that green label under the bus. Hey, if it was between black and green, I'm going green. Yes, $5 cheaper, I'm going green $5 cheaper, I'm going green.
Speaker 2:I think I'd probably go original and black label, just because that's what I would put in my Coke was the black label.
Speaker 1:Now, okay, you're skipping out on the $5, but you're getting more of that oaky.
Speaker 3:It's sweeter 15, 16, which I definitely was not drinking at that age. But at 15, 16 years old, you're not going straight into the hard stuff. Well, not the hard stuff, the oaky smoky type stuff. You're weaning yourself out in there. Green Label was there for you. You get past the sugary crap like Puckers and Mad Dog and stuff and you start getting the real whiskey. Green Label is a lot lighter and $5 cheaper Will said yeah.
Speaker 1:Green Label is the OG Thoughts on. Let's see Junior Burdick thoughts on the 10 and 12 year.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's so good I wish they would I wish they are making it more readily available. Each year it goes along, but you know you got. The problem is, liquor stores know that this is a very limited run and msrp might be 90 bucks, but they know that they can probably charge 200 bucks and they're still going to sell it.
Speaker 4:I actually went into one of the liquor stores that I had regularly visited.
Speaker 3:I mean, they're walking distance from my house. I walked in there and actually I called them ahead of time and I said can you all put me on the list if you all get some 10 and 12? It was the first year for 12. And they said, yeah, we'll put you on the list. Well, they called me and said we got it in. I said, all right, cool, I show up and they go over there and they grab it from behind the counter Boop, 12-year, $4.99. I thought they were messing with me. They were, for real, wanting $400 and $500 from the liquor store. I'm like no, I left there and I went to my liquor store, Timber Creek. I think it was like $95, $105. I was like that's way better.
Speaker 3:The special releases they know that they can jack the like the coy hill that they just came out with, it hasn't well? It started hitting memphis some stores, but you know they've already got stores asking three, four hundred dollars for it because they know that's what people will buy for 90 bucks, then put it on the secondary market for five times that so which one do you think?
Speaker 1:is it 10 or 12 that you would go with?
Speaker 3:12 years is 107. I think, yeah, 107 proof. 10 years, 97 proof. But I don't know. Both of them are pretty good. That 100 proof area is kind of my sweet spot you get the, the cool hill stuff. I mean you're getting 120, 140, 150. That just burns your tongue to me, but that 100, 107 spot, that's a sweet spot.
Speaker 1:So either works for me. And what were y'all talking about the lawn before we started the show? Right before the show, you were talking about the lawn. Oh, the campout. Which one? Yeah, the campout. What were y'all talking? Yeah, I wasn't paying attention.
Speaker 3:A couple weeks ago they released the Koi Hill down at the White Rabbit and there was 100, 125 bottles or 300, 325 bottles available. And you know, of course, if you get it at the distillery they give you the little tag and everything. But yeah, I think it was on a Wednesday. People were starting to camp out Tuesday morning and so from the White Rabbit Bottle Shop down the bridge and up the street, yeah, they were camping out.
Speaker 1:They can camp there.
Speaker 3:They just let them they would bring a chair and sit out there and sleep in their chair. I always told everybody I was like ain't no way in hell I'm going to be out there, camped out for no bottle. But it kind of looks fun yeah it.
Speaker 1:I mean, there's been times I've seen I don't know if it was the 10 or 12 when people were out there and it was like in the winter time or it was super cold and I'm like people had a little bonfire out there keeping them warm.
Speaker 1:So, as a whiskey connoisseur yourself, okay, someone wanting to get started in this journey. They're grown up, they're getting grown up, they're tired of all the sugar crap. They're wanting to go to whiskey. How should they do it? Should they start? Did you start with one label, like Jack Daniels, or should you try multiple ones? And then pick between what's the strategy.
Speaker 3:What is you? I guess my grown-up life started when we bought our first house, so 2011,. Let's see how old was I 26.
Speaker 3:So I was about 26. We bought our first house and, of course, most people in that age that drink a lot, they put their empties up on top of the cabinets in the kitchen. So you got all these empties, your trophies. And so at some point about 2014, 2015,. I decided, like I'm going to go to the liquor store and I'm going to buy one of every single thing Jack Daniel has, and I put that up there, and so when my bar went empty, I'd go over there and I'd pull that off and then I would replace it, and then, as jack came out with different bottles I think that was about the same time they started the uh, the master distiller series.
Speaker 3:I would do this seven I started either the second or third one they came out with about that time. I would buy those and then they would come out with something new and I would always make sure that I kept one up there and it gives you a tasting. And at one point I think I the most I had was like 17 different types of Jack Daniels on my bar and people would come over and I'm like there's no way you're gonna survive a full lineup. So I'd say, go in there and pick five things and we would have these uh little cups that you get at the uh tastings and stuff here. Since I do enough tours, I had a collection of those and we would set up a little. You know, go pick five bottles and we would do a tasting and stuff.
Speaker 3:So it kind of gives you gentleman jacks a little bit lighter because they, you know, double mellow it. And then you got original black label. We had green label which was a little bit sweeter. Then you got, you know, your rye products, your single barrels, which are a little bit stouter. Your barrel proof was a little more stouter. And then, you know, especially when they started doing the uh, the tennessee tasters and which now is the distillery series. They're experimenting with different woods and methods and stuff. So it gives you your own home tasting. So you know when you come out here and do a tasting they're going to give you a spectrum of their products you know you're going to have. This stuff might be a little more stout and this over here might be a little more sweet and a little more mellow, and you know.
Speaker 1:But they have variety for everybody now but that's the great thing about min.
Speaker 3:You can go to the liquor store and buy you a mini for three or four bucks and you can do your own teeny, tiny little tasting at the house. So if you're done with beer and sweetie stuff and stuff like that, you just go up there and get you some minis.
Speaker 2:Shooter bottles.
Speaker 3:Yeah, little one shots or double shots and stuff and do your own little lineup at home.
Speaker 2:What do they call them? Airplane shooters? Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that sounds.
Speaker 3:Little airplane bottles, mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that sounds good.
Speaker 3:That's the cheapest way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when did you know that you had your collector? When is that point?
Speaker 3:Coming to Lynchburg was a bottle list or a bucket list, as you want to say. I always said, in one day I'm going to come out here, I'm going to see the Grand Canyon Times Square, come to Lynchburg. And so my wife's like, well, they were like, let's do it. So I think it was 2017. We came out here in October. Uh, I think it was October 9th 2017. I think it was the first time we came out here and every picture she took at me looked like I was a little kid at Disney World. I had the hugest grin, I was in my place and it wasn't so much that Jack Daniels is here, it's just the small-town feel, the people that you meet. And then a friend of mine or somebody I met online said, hey, you should try this Facebook page, and it was the Volunteer Squire page. And so you've got the Tennessee Squire Association, which is worldwide, but people have made little fractions. You've got the Volunteer Squire. You've got Florida Squires and the Sunshine State Squires for the Florida folks. You've got the Northeastern Squires. You've got little branches of that. That just kind of makes it little smaller groups, and so the Volunteer Squire Volunteer State Squires was Tennessee, and so it was a whole bunch of people like me that are in Tennessee. So I came out here and I met a few of them. I talked to them online and then you start seeing these many liquor stores people had in their house and I'm like that's so cool.
Speaker 3:So at the time I started buying all of this stuff from 2015-ish or so I started going back. I couldn't afford $600 bottles from 1970, so I'd buy the empties and you start working your way with everything they would have released forward and start slowly working back, and then, of course, you'd find a $600 bottle that somebody might sell for $300. You pick that up and so wherever you decide to start collecting, you want to keep up with what's coming forward, everything that they released out. If you can get it at decent price, start there. But then also you look at all of the stuff going back from now to the 70s, then all the beautiful decanters that they came out with and the special releases stuff. You know you pick those up along the way, but I think once I found Jack Daniel collectors on Facebook that was that was when I got hooked in and my wife told me she's like you can have one curio cabinet and I was like, well, it's full. So she's like, all right, get you another curio cabinet.
Speaker 3:And we took Granny's china cabinet and took all the china out and started filling it up with liquor bottles. And then, once the dining room table left our house and we started filling it up with whiskey, she's like, all right, well, we're gonna do this, let's do it right. So we went, started researching bookshelves and wall-to-wall shelvings and, of course, we have an ikea in memphis. So we went to ikea and bought five shelves. Well, five shelves didn't cover it, so we went and bought three more and finally we filled up an entire wall what is the percentage of your house?
Speaker 1:how much percentage? Wise is probably filled up with bottles oh, just a dining room?
Speaker 3:oh really, she will not. Okay, the dining room and a portion of the kitchen. The bar left the dining room and went into the kitchen. So I have the bar on one wall in the kitchen. That's got jack outside of the dining room. But she says the dining room it's got to stay in the dining room. And so at one point I wanted to buy another barrel, because I take all of my photos that I post on the page on a barrel. Well, the barrel that we first bought had our squire name or our names and our squire information on it and I didn't like that. So I kept kept telling I want to get a barrel house 107 barrel. And so I finally bought that last year was it early this year, recently? So now we got two barrels. I was like what we're gonna do with the old barrel? She's like it's not going in the rest of the house. You either got to go outside or you got to push it to the side. So we agreed to push it or she agreed to push it to the side.
Speaker 1:Well, let's see Scott Turner. Any picks on the rock today. On the what.
Speaker 2:I think he's talking about the.
Speaker 1:And then the Lynchburg local. You know it does have the still local feel to it. And Woody Woody Beffer definitely, oh yeah, Does he still do his horse and buggy local. You know, it does have the still local feel to it. And woody- woody befford, definitely, oh yeah, does he still do his horse and buggy? Last time I was here yeah, you can catch him at the lynch bird distillery. I know that's sometimes when I see him. He's an awesome dude yeah, woody, woody's.
Speaker 3:Definitely, if you're here, you'll find Woody, you will, with all his horse and talent but, like you said, it gives it that small town feel and everything. It does.
Speaker 1:You know. I mean where else are you going to find, like a horse and buggy, a one red light? I mean it's like the little town and everything. I mean it's a little, I don't know. It's still for something as big as Jack. It's crazy that they've kept it so small, so small. Have you been to other distillers and seen like their organizations and how they run things? Is it kind of like similar?
Speaker 3:No, that's not. We've got in Memphis, we've got Old Dominick and it's downtown and it's one building which is an old. It's an older building downtown on front street. But you come into lynchburg, depending on which way you come in, you're going to see. If you come in off uh, was that a? To think it off, 82 on a 50. You come in and you see the old barrel houses. If you come in like you're coming in from uh birmingham, you see the old, old, the, the newer, warehouse style or uh warehouses. But yeah, depending on which way you come in, you are greeted with a series of barrel houses all along the way. You don't see, no, in memphis. I don't know where they store all their stuff at old dominic, but it's one. There's no way that they can compete with the volume that Jack Daniels puts out.
Speaker 2:A couple months ago we were down here at Miss Mary Bobo's and we were eating with some people from Kentucky. Oh yeah, they were telling us that, besides Jack, the next best distillery they've been to would probably be Buffalo Trace in Frankfort, kentucky. Yeah, were they.
Speaker 1:Didn't Brown Foreman, or didn't they own?
Speaker 2:No, they don't own. No, that's for like you get Blanton's.
Speaker 1:Ah, I gotcha, Okay, okay okay, I gotcha, gotcha. Let's see, I was going to talk about the gear that you got on. Going to talk about the gear that you got on, okay, so the hat, the merch and everything. When did this come out? I remember last time you were here I don't think I saw it. Did you have the? No, I did not have. I was about to say, dude, I love that, I love the trucker hat man it's the foam, hat it man.
Speaker 3:It's like I'm born in 85, so I remember the old foam labels on like sprite and dr pepper in them, old bottles yeah, yeah man, yeah, yeah man, I love it and my grandfather lived up on Tennessee River and they had this little store there. A little town called Ponderosa and they had this little store there and the creek that you would come in off the Tennessee River onto Hog Creek to meet them and they had these old foam trucker hats onto hog creek to meet them and they had his old foam trucker hats.
Speaker 1:And so the barrel house, 107 page I think, right now we're like 18 500 or so followers on your facebook. Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's what I was about to say where do people get?
Speaker 3:well, people ask people I have, you know, over 18 000 people in there and they all want, everybody wants something different. So you know, like, when you're going to do shirts, when you're going to do hats, when you're going to do this, that, and the other night, no matter what you do, it's you know, if you pick one, you know you may sell 20 or 30 of these or 15 hats or 20 shirts. So there's a couple of different places online that, will you know, you can do, made to order hats or whatever. So I found this little website I can't remember what it was, but they did these foam trucker hats, and so I was like, all right, y'all wanted hats. So I signed up with them and I gave them the logo. And you know, people can just go online and to this website and order one, and so they would open the ordering up for like a two or three week period and then close it up and then whoever ordered would send them out. So, being that, my favorite event out here is the. White Eater.
Speaker 1:I had to go with orange yes, I freaking all orange. Yeah, I had to go with orange. I freaking love it. Do you have it? So you've got the shades? Yeah, are the shades for Barrel House.
Speaker 3:No, these are Party City Special. Oh my gosh Party City. Yeah, we've got a Party City right down the street.
Speaker 1:Do people ask so are you just selling caps right now?
Speaker 3:I'm not Every now, I'm not, I'm um, I'll every now and then people will start asking for hats or shirts or whatever, and so, like the last whiter hunt, we did, um, I opened up shirts and you know anybody who bought a shirt and if I saw them in a shirt, I had these uh patches made over here at uh honey bunny mercantile right down the street. So she made me these patches that said barrel house 107, white or hunting club, and so I told anybody you know anybody who wants a white or hunting shirt so we made these shirts here. And you know if I told everybody, if I found you wearing a shirt, that I'd give you a patch but it's fun. I mean, it's it, it's not.
Speaker 3:The page is not big enough to let me retire yet, but it's fun. I mean, it's not, the page is not big enough to let me retire yet, but it's big enough to where, if somebody wants shirts, I can do shirts and I will sell enough just to break even.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:I'll break even and that's fun, as long as it doesn't cost me money. The page actually does cost me money to keep it running because of course it's almost four years into it. I'm running out of stuff. So any I'll hit antique stores, thrift shops, anything new that jack down comes out with. I try to purchase things that will continue the page and keep people's interest. So you know, in that aspect, yeah, I am buying stuff to literally just buying stuff that I think people would be interested on the page. So like the hats, the shirts, the patches, anything like that that I sell on there, if I do make a profit, that profit goes right back into the page.
Speaker 2:You have a request for a Barrel House 107 underwear.
Speaker 3:Oh, what does she look like? Mary Greco, jessica, mary, you're married you better you better stop that, kevin, I don't want to manage her husband kevin's gonna be pissed if she's yeah, I didn't know. Yeah, okay mary, calm down, calm down, mary joshua joshua pack, hey y'all.
Speaker 1:And then, speaking of hey y'all, hey y'all is watching. Oh, hey y'all, yeah.
Speaker 3:Dano, dano, they'll be here all weekend. Dano, hold on, let me try. Let me try.
Speaker 1:Dano hey y'all.
Speaker 3:No, I can't do it. I can't do it. We freaking love. Hey. Y'all, click on them, follow them. They're freaking amazing. Y'all is everywhere. Amazing. When I get old and retire, I want to do that.
Speaker 1:I want to just travel tennessee. And it's the new, it's for anyone who doesn't know it's basically tennessee crossroads, but smaller I guess it's one, but a great feel it's got a great feel to it and the characters, they make the characters out of it and it's like you were doing Dano's voice over there. Hey, it's awesome.
Speaker 2:I know they'll be here Saturday for the FOP. No, not the FOP. Is the Lodge having a breakfast? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:The Lodge is having a breakfast. Always try out the breakfasts.
Speaker 3:On the breakfast. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, the Lodge is having a breakfast, yeah, I love to try that.
Speaker 1:I always try out the breakfasts on the weekend.
Speaker 3:Oh, it's so good and pancakes are amazing. Is it what? $10, all you can eat, or something like that. I have no idea. I can't remember. I can't remember what it was either.
Speaker 2:They posted about it, but yeah.
Speaker 3:But yeah, hey y, I met them on versus last year, the year before, we sat down with them and just talked and I mean they are genuinely nice, great people and they just I love watching their page. They follow all. They just go around Tennessee talking about different things that you can see do in Tennessee and I mean they will find stuff that you've never heard of a little small towns and like the little restaurants.
Speaker 1:They hit up the little restaurants and everything and you're like where has this been my whole life? That's what I love about it. They hit like the little stuff that you wouldn't think would ever be there and it's there. They cover all that. And with the history and stuff they do awesome.
Speaker 3:And I couldn't do that without his stretchy pants.
Speaker 2:You'll see him this weekend. Ask him about the Pepsi machine.
Speaker 1:The Pepsi machine. Oh yeah, Pepsi machine, that's freaking awesome.
Speaker 2:White County, wayne County, wayne County it was not west.
Speaker 1:Well, it was more towards your area.
Speaker 2:Yeah, going out towards.
Speaker 1:Memphis yeah. Wayne County is out towards yeah. Wayne County is out of his way? Yeah, you'll have to look it up. Is that your like?
Speaker 2:special whiskey sipper.
Speaker 3:My little sippy cup.
Speaker 1:I love it so.
Speaker 3:Jack daniels is is well known around the world. Uh, you can't see it there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was looking.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was looking to see what it was there's a fellow named eric in the netherlands and out of everywhere in the world that you could find jack daniels. He has the most amazing collection slash store in the Netherlands and so people ask me all the time where can I find this bottle or that bottle? Well, the best way to find hard-to-find collectible bottles is when you've got a collector wanting to sell one. But people like Sue Clark who owns the Whiskey Cave out in Hendersonville, you got Jeff Johnson here in Lynchburg, you got Dana Rifley here in Lynchburg. They are collector stores but Tennessee law does not allow them to ship that bottle from wherever they are to wherever you are. It's against the law.
Speaker 3:But right in the netherlands we got different laws. So eric in the netherlands he uh kind of basically opened up a jack dano's collector liquor store called the jack safe. So you go to JackSafecom and he's got bottles from around the world. Now we've got everything here in Lynchburg in Tennessee. But when they ship a bottle of Jack Daniels to the UK or Germany you're competing with the English in the German market. You know they're used to drinking whatever they drink over there. So Jack Daniels has got to compete. So they put together nice little packages, tins, gift sets and such. So what you can find in the US versus what you can find anywhere else in the world is different.
Speaker 1:It's the same whiskey same bottle, but you've got amazing tins.
Speaker 3:They've got these guitar cases I absolutely love. They got a little mini bottle that comes in this tiny little guitar case from china. They've got them in the uk and full-size bottles. Czech czech republic um. Germany's got great stuff. The uk's got great stuff. But you know you go to uk. You're looking at guinness beer you know right, yeah, so you're competing with their cultural customs and stuff like that.
Speaker 3:So to compete with that, jack daniels puts his cool little gift sets together and so, uh, eric in the netherlands has pretty much the worldwide collection of jack daniels stuff, so it may be the stuff that you can find in the us japan that's what I was about to say.
Speaker 3:I know japan's a big oh yeah, they got these cool little uh, cradles. They call them cradles but they're little wooden boxes and the box comes in. I mean like if you was going to bury a jack daniel bottle and be respectful, that's the way they package their bottles and they're beautiful. And so eric at the jack safe, if you are in kentucky and you want a bottle from the uk and you want to be able to find it, you go to online to jacksafecom and you order it and of course, shipping is going to suck, but you're going to get that bottle directly to your house. And so eric sent me these cute little cups. I don't know if we can see them.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, yeah, we got it right there.
Speaker 3:These cute little cups say jacksafecom, and so he sends me these things, and so of course I sell small little items. I don't sell full bottles or anything like that, but I sell little items from time to time, and any time I sell something, I send one of these cute little Jack Safe cups or lighters or whatever with me. So this is my fancy cup that I was going to drink Pinky out.
Speaker 3:Yes, exactly, since I was the second time non-Lynchburg resident on this podcast, I was going to bring my fancy sipping cup. So I brought my fancy sipping cup from the jacksavecom. This here come all the way from the Netherlands. But yeah, like I said, jack Daniels, that's my absolutely favorite part of the collecting the page All of this together is. I meet people from Germany, italy, uk, aleno, from Ecuador, man, god knows how many people from Australia. Australian people are so much fun. If I could afford a 32-hour flight to Australia I would go hang out with them. I mean, they are basically just like I hate to say this, but British rednecks. They are so much fun. I'll be on the phone with them and we cuss. They cuss publicly without shame.
Speaker 1:It's amazing.
Speaker 3:I'll be on the phone at like 6 o'clock in the morning with somebody from australia and they'll be using words that I probably shouldn't say yeah, there's one word there that is normal for them that I know it's a four letter c word yeah, it's normal for them to use it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but very yeah you kind of get shamed and they're like morning yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Actually, recently, last month, a man named Archer Birch from Sydney, australia, came from Australia to the US and he came specifically to Lynchburg because it was his 50th year as a Tennessee Squire and I was brought in as, I guess, a third-party invitee to this event. And he came to Lynchburg to marry Bubba's to have lunch and take some tours and spend some time, but to celebrate his 50th Squire anniversary, and so I met him here in Lynchburg. He's an amazing dude and he has done so many cool things that I just hope by the 20, 30 years from now I have met a fraction of the experience.
Speaker 1:I can't remember. Yeah, I can't. I mean, I can't imagine 20, 30 years, the stories that you're going to have.
Speaker 3:I'm probably like what, five or six years into my Squire life. So when?
Speaker 1:did you? Yeah, so when did you who nominated? Because you've got to be nominated, not just by one. We were talking about a couple people, right?
Speaker 3:No, you don't have to be no, it's one.
Speaker 1:Squire can nominate another person.
Speaker 3:Okay. So who nominated you? So a man named Danny nominated me, and he was one of the first people that I met online as the Jack Daniel obsession people, and so I started talking to him and you know the way, you've become a Tennessee Squire. For those who don't know, a Tennessee Squire is someone who absolutely loves jake daniels and but there also had to be a good person. You give back to your community, you help others, you uh, basically, if you're a firefighter, first responder, police officer serving your community, that's, that's the level that you want to achieve. But, like me, I'm none of those. But at the same time, if you know, there's been many times that I pulled over to help somebody with a flat tire.
Speaker 3:I've actually pulled people from burning cars and houses and stuff like that. But that's what you want. You want to give back, you want to uh, if you're able to help charitable causes and stuff like that, you want to be a basically a good person. And so when you meet another person who is very enthusiastic about the jack daniel brand and they're a good person and you know they give back to the community, help others, you know that's someone who should be nominated a squire. So so Danny met me online and then eventually here in Lynchburg and he nominated me to be a squire.
Speaker 3:And so once you become a squire, you get a squire card and you get special privileges. Like you get to go to the Motlow House and just pretty much sit in there and just talk and that's the amount of knowledge and history and stories that you hear just at the Motley House is amazing. But you know, like here at the Jack Daniels 35th Invitational Barbecue Competition, they've got a squire tent and so if you're a squire you get into a squire tent so you can pretty much do anything from eating, getting your hair cut, buying Squire merchandise.
Speaker 1:That's right yeah.
Speaker 3:They've got live music it's amazing. And then also the other people that are in there, and that's the best part. That's the best part of being a Squire, being a collector, being. All of that is the people from every inch of this world. Tiny little town in middle Tennessee.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so as far as Squire and then nominating people with so many followers that you have on Facebook, do you get a lot of messages, people?
Speaker 5:want.
Speaker 1:Yeah, how do you handle that? How do you?
Speaker 3:handle something like that For the most part. If I don't know you personally, I won't nominate you, Okay.
Speaker 3:I did recently have a gentleman reach out to me and his wife is a huge Jake Dino fan, but she's from the UK, she was born and raised in the UK and she eventually moved to the US, married a if I remember right, it's a New York police officer and he died in the line of duty. And so she's, of course, from the UK. She's over here, her husband has passed, and this gentleman, his wife, went through, I think, cancer. If I remember right, she passed, so he's in a bad place, she's in a bad place. Well, they met each other and fell in love, and so they basically helped each other through a very difficult part in their life. And so he reached out to me and said look, my wife has been a jack daniels fan since age 11, so I know y'all said oh, age 11.
Speaker 3:But she had some difficult parts in her life. And so, anyways, he told me this story how she was going through some stuff and her nan had spiked her Coke a little bit to help her through these difficult parts of her life. But I actually met these people halfway between where they live and where I live. We met and we talked and wonderful people, and so that's probably the only time that somebody has reached out to me on the page saying hey, can you nominate me? Or somebody I know. I actually met them in person, sat there and talked to them for a while.
Speaker 1:So in person, yes, oh, wow.
Speaker 3:So I get a lot of requests hey, I want to be a squire, especially anytime I post any squire event ah yeah, yeah, yeah, of course but I'm not going to do that because I although I think that the squire association has kind of become a collector thing hey, you give me this bottle, I'll hook you up kind of become a collector thing hey, you give me this bottle, I'll hook you up, kind of thing I want to stick to what I think is right and so, yeah, probably since man, the last five or six years, I may have non-admitted five or six people, but you know, I want to make sure that anybody that I bring into the association is someone who deserves to be here.
Speaker 1:Hey, unlock the door. Who is that? It's Dan. Yeah, yeah, man, it's Dan.
Speaker 3:It's hey y'all. Oh, it's not the police.
Speaker 1:No, it's not Okay cool.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 1:Hey, hey, hey y'all.
Speaker 5:Y'all are going to believe this.
Speaker 1:No way.
Speaker 5:No, not Ralph's. These are not Ralph's. These are Morning Glory. These are Morning Glory, oh yes.
Speaker 1:Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 3:Y'all brought snacks. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4:Thank you, how's? It going how you doing Pretty good, ooh, what do I want? Oh, there's what's this one right here.
Speaker 5:There's cherry, there's lemon and I just made a surprise.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, you guys just like time travel here.
Speaker 5:Damn.
Speaker 1:We were doing biscuits and gravy this morning in Spring Hill and so, on the way we had to go through, Unionville.
Speaker 5:So we stopped. We got no months oh my gosh that's freaking awesome.
Speaker 1:So you guys are gonna be here this weekend.
Speaker 2:We were just talking about it you know, come around and say hi on the camera oh my gosh, it's so good.
Speaker 3:Hey, y'all how you doing.
Speaker 1:Hand him your mic.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I tried that earlier. I didn't do it as good as you Do it. Come on, give us a hey, y'all hey y'all how you doing so.
Speaker 1:Real quick. We were talking about the Pepsi Because he lives out towards Memphis. We were trying to know Wayne County, we Wayne County.
Speaker 5:We had somebody reach out to us that had seen us on here and back 15-some years ago they had church revivals out there in the middle of that field and they would bring a generator and hook it up. They had a machine gun and a light going and they just left it and they've mowed around it all these years.
Speaker 1:That makes sense. So this is not some haunted creepy. No, the lemon one.
Speaker 3:I don't know what I got, but it was amazing.
Speaker 5:Where did you say these were from Morning Glory Donuts?
Speaker 3:in Unionville. Morning Glory Donuts and.
Speaker 2:Bobo missed it yeah.
Speaker 1:He missed it. Hey, that's what happens, that's what you get, because, remember, when y'all brought the Rouse Donuts and I wasn't here, he should have wore a hat on the beach. That's it. Yeah, oh, is that why he didn't come? Because he got sunburn on the head?
Speaker 3:Probably, oh yeah.
Speaker 5:Got come because you got sunburn on the head Probably. Oh yeah, yeah, gotta keep that dome shiny, that makes sense. Sunburn or whitefoot and whelps on that head. I was about to say probably both of them.
Speaker 1:So, hey, y'all, you can go on their Facebook page and the TikToks. I love the TikToks that you guys do, so guys follow them on TikTok. They're hilarious, it's so awesome.
Speaker 2:We're on Facebook, instagram, tiktok and YouTube and y'all will be here all weekend. Right, We'll be here all weekend. All weekend, come say hi to them.
Speaker 5:Yeah, we'll be up at the Whiskey Trailhead. Not hard to find, not hard to find, we're right there.
Speaker 3:They're everywhere.
Speaker 5:Here, there, everywhere.
Speaker 3:And if you.
Speaker 5:We put out a bunch of silly stuff, you know and people like what we do. This Saturday you've got to check out Biscuits and Gravy. It may be the goofiest one we've done yet. If you get a chance.
Speaker 1:That's what we were talking about. We were talking about how you guys developed the characters I'm sure you guys were on the road and everything while we were talking about this but how you guys have created the characters for your show and that's what makes it so. That's what makes it awesome.
Speaker 5:All the things that you find and then like the characters, like with the, the biscuit and gravy segments are awesome. Back before we got with the state, you know, when we did the videos and stuff at home it was always.
Speaker 4:I never got out of this character. You know they were stating that character all the time.
Speaker 5:And then when I would meet people, you'd get that deer in the headlight look, because the voice was different and they didn't know who they were talking to, you know. So now it got to where it was rough on my voice, so now I do the hey y'all how you doing. And then I kind of break away from it.
Speaker 2:So this Saturday breakfast is at the lodge right.
Speaker 5:Breakfast down here at the lodge.
Speaker 2:Man, they usually do a good job down there. Was it $10?
Speaker 5:I think it's $10.
Speaker 2:All you can eat or something.
Speaker 5:All you can eat.
Speaker 2:And there was biscuits and gravy.
Speaker 5:Biscuits and gravy, you'd have scrambled eggs and coffee. They got juice. It's a good deal and it goes to help someone over here at the high school. They do a good job helping out with kids over at the high school.
Speaker 2:Man that's awesome, I'm going to have to leave the house there Friday or Saturday morning.
Speaker 1:I'll have to come on the road, this road right here I'm not going to drive through 55. Yeah, you're going to have to get here, probably super early.
Speaker 2:What time did it start? 7 o'clock, I think, was it 9.30. I thought I saw 7.10. 7.10? I can't remember.
Speaker 5:I can't remember, it's either 9.30 or 10. But it's a really good breakfast and for a good cause.
Speaker 2:Awesome. So if you are in the area, stop in. Get you some biscuits and gravy.
Speaker 5:Say hi, say hi.
Speaker 4:And if you see Woody Bedford around smack the horse Hayes 1 got us interested in that over there.
Speaker 5:So they have to give him a big pat on the back for that.
Speaker 1:Oh, sweet, sweet, Dano, I got it right. Dano, look ato. I got it right, dano. Dano, look at me. I got it right, yeah, so.
Speaker 5:I tried to mess it up last show.
Speaker 1:I was telling Bubba. I was like I'm going to give him a shout out, but I'm going to say Dano, and I kept saying it. Y'all know how bad I suck at names. And then I got on here and started saying it like right, dano. At me he's like you're saying the name right and I was like whatever, I was actually proud of myself, I think when y'all hit.
Speaker 3:Y'all's high point was when y'all interviewed me last year, right.
Speaker 5:I think so.
Speaker 1:That's what blew y'all out of the water sitting up there on the porch it's so cool all the people, how it's all connected and everything actually, when I interviewed them.
Speaker 3:I, if I remember right, it was my middle child and my daughter my oldest and they were sitting there with me and they were talking.
Speaker 3:We were sitting there and when we got done we walked away and my daughter just goes wow, dad, that's so cool. I said what she's like you're like famous and I'm like, yeah, and so like y'all helped me especially, like, but like putting the post, put me out there, like cool points with the kids. Yeah, they're like, wow, you're like famous, you're on like people interviewing you and stuff and you're on podcasts. I'm like, yeah, I'm like famous, y'all know who I am.
Speaker 1:I mean all you guys are. Yeah, you're going to say something because we had somebody comment about the hey Y'all link on there. We'll post it and we can put it at the top. Just give us a moment, We'll post it At the end of the show. I know we can definitely do it. So if you just hang on, at the end of the show we'll post the hey Y'all Facebook page, the link, so you guys can go like and follow them, especially for this weekend.
Speaker 3:Let's go to Facebook and their search bar and say, hey y'all.
Speaker 2:And this guy's face pops up, that's right, you can't miss it, you can't miss it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm trying to look for their profile pic. Yeah, you can't.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I'm going to practice on my hey y'all how you doing.
Speaker 4:No, I can't hey y'all how you doing you got it.
Speaker 2:You got me beat. Let's see. Of course, technology doesn't like to work right down here.
Speaker 1:Well, we weren't right with them. The audio wasn't plugged in. Yeah, for a little bit it wouldn't no, but this this weekend, everybody, I can't wait that's going to be, and when do you post the videos and everything for that day that?
Speaker 5:you do them. I'm trying to do a follow-up. Depending on what time we get home, I might stay up a little bit late, put stuff in for today, but we we've been up on the road since about 5 30 this morning. We went to spring hill spring hill this morning and did a biscuits and gravy over there. Then we went to Unionville and got some donuts. Then we got over here about 11.30. We did a Jack Daniels tour. We had lunch at Mary Bobo's and then back up here for a concert tonight.
Speaker 2:Was it fried chicken?
Speaker 5:Yes, Fried chicken and okra.
Speaker 1:I don't see how you're walking after that.
Speaker 3:Like after you get out of there all the fried food. He got a stretchy pants on, so it'll be, let's see.
Speaker 1:yeah, I think Arthur said he met you guys.
Speaker 2:Yes, met him in January when he was in town Coffee club at the Square.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I'm sure Dano's been everywhere. Dano's been everywhere you can catch him. I've been everywhere, man, so you guys will be here all weekend.
Speaker 5:Yeah, we'll be here tomorrow. We'll probably get in here around noontime tomorrow and we'll hang out tomorrow afternoon late and then Saturday morning we'll be here early Saturday, probably hang out over all day. Whiskey Trailhead's got a porch on the side of the building down there so we usually sit up down there. I have my little kids' drum set set up and my kazoo and all my goofy dad jokes Awesome.
Speaker 1:Is this your first time doing this? No, no, we did it last year, so y'all did it.
Speaker 5:last year we had a big time doing it last year, so we'll hang out up there again this year.
Speaker 1:And meet all sorts of different people.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, here and and meet all sorts of different people oh yeah, we haven't even jumped into the barbecue.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was making my way oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Is there a barbecue restaurant down here anywhere, like I don't know? Maybe this place, probably they might chuck, might have a little bit of barbecue barbecue might have barbecue.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I gotta gotta have a talk with chug. They pulled up down here yesterday and he's washing his car and he didn't even offer to wash mine. I don't know what he's doing oh, that mustang oh, yeah, he has a mustang he's got.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I forgot about he got that mustang. Yeah, he's got that mustang. Oh, that's a nice one a couple, was it a couple?
Speaker 2:weeks ago he come cruising down here had his little arm propped up. Yeah, yeah, right after the show.
Speaker 1:I mean, come flying down, we're like who's this guy?
Speaker 2:I think he just bought it then, didn't he?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think he did. Yeah, low rider, that was sweet. You can't get barbecue, but that was the biggest misconception. When people come down here, they don't serve it.
Speaker 3:No, you cannot go to the competitors and ask for a barbecue. They cannot give you food.
Speaker 2:If you want barbecue, you come to Barrel House Barbecue.
Speaker 3:Right, get you a grilled cheese on crack or a grilled cheese on crack jack. Or both yeah and you can't make it at home. No, no, I tried, I tried and I messed it up every time.
Speaker 2:It doesn't taste the same.
Speaker 3:No, it doesn't.
Speaker 2:And then when you leave here, you go up to the trailhead and you buy all of Ryan's merch. There you go. You've got to get that merch man. And when you come here.
Speaker 5:you've got to take it easy when you come in the door and check the front door out, Because there's a picture of me and Mary up there.
Speaker 3:There's a picture right there.
Speaker 5:There's a picture right there.
Speaker 2:Right above the doorkn.
Speaker 1:They cover that up when you also get in here. We need some $100 bills back in here. We're tired of seeing all these $1 bills. Somebody drop a $100 for us.
Speaker 5:Get you a $100. Get you a $100.
Speaker 2:I'm telling you, there was one over there by that air conditioner A couple years ago and it didn't stay long.
Speaker 3:I need gas money to get home.
Speaker 1:Give it a couple weeks 250 miles back to Memphis.
Speaker 3:I need gas money.
Speaker 2:But yeah, no, you can't get barbecue from the competitors. You come to Barrel House.
Speaker 1:Why is that? I've lived here all my life and never asked that question. You've got to feed the judges you want to make the judges happy. You've got 50 folks down there judging your food. You got to feed off here some something to eat. I mean, do you guys have a connection to either one of y'all?
Speaker 3:have a connection to his name is some of the competitor barbecue.
Speaker 5:Not a competitor because I mean he wrote down there man, good looking stuff, down there it does man it smells good, it smells good.
Speaker 1:And all the different people from different countries.
Speaker 2:Yeah, of course, I think there will be a lot of food trucks set up down here.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I know Wiseman Park will have a lot of food trucks, miss.
Speaker 2:Mary Bobo's had a food truck coming this weekend. Don't tell you if I saw her, I want to say that's right.
Speaker 5:That's the craziest thing and I seen him come in this morning. He was down here as we were coming in. He's got an old, it's like a 67 or 69 Cadillac. He's made a smoker out of that thing. I mean, he's got it, lifts the tailgate or the side gate, lifts up on that thing and the whole car is a grill and a smoker.
Speaker 1:And usually it's. Is it the foreigners that win? Usually Someone internationally, Do you remember? From last year, or is it? Oh is there a division.
Speaker 3:Don't ask me.
Speaker 2:I know we interviewed one of the ladies who Was in it. Yeah.
Speaker 1:What about a couple years ago? Yeah, Are you talking about the one from Memphis?
Speaker 2:Yeah, Melissa Cookston? No, I don't know her, I don't know if Bob don't know Bobo was. I thought he's gonna jump through the TV or the screen to a bubble is a huge barbecue.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, we're missing that part.
Speaker 3:He loves barbecue slag her like couldn't handle the beach, but in this place, you want to come here, get a seat.
Speaker 1:If you have to wait, we all know it's worth it.
Speaker 3:It's worth it and you can draw on the walls and you can draw on dollar bills, which is defacing government property legally.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so author. Thanks man. He put y'all's link in the comments.
Speaker 2:Yeah, good deal good deal but yeah, you come here and there's pictures of me and benji and random people on the wall, right, yeah?
Speaker 3:I done written my name on about 15 different places in here.
Speaker 2:And if you come here and if you find the Ralph's Donut box, it's on the wall somewhere in this restaurant.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, he put it on the wall he put it on the wall, I don't know where he put it, it's on there. Hey, it's in a good spot. I mean it's hidden with all this stuff on here.
Speaker 3:Arthur Sneeden. You can reach out to hey Y'all on Facebook and he will pay you for the publication and the advertisement that you have done for us.
Speaker 2:There you go, we've got donuts.
Speaker 1:Yeah donuts, he will pay you in donuts. The donuts have been amazing. That definitely hit the spot.
Speaker 2:We'll have to next time you come on, we'll have to get Rouse Donuts for him. Yeah. If he's not had Rouse, we'll have to get some. You'll leave Memphis and you'll go to what was it?
Speaker 1:You'll go to the plateau. You'll be like I want to move Lynchburg's the number one spot, but second would be Cookville.
Speaker 2:We're going to Cookville. Yeah Well, actually these shorts, these old man Cargill shorts they got on, are stretchy pants. Well, see, it's like.
Speaker 3:I knew they were coming with donuts because I wore my stretchy shorts Exactly. Premonition.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like that day that we showed up and there was a box of Rouse here, we were like what, what? There's a box of rouse here. We were like what, what?
Speaker 1:we, uh, we devoured those yeah, we did, yeah, we did honestly. Yeah, my wife said thank you oh, yeah, because yeah, so she was so happy when I brought that box and these donuts here.
Speaker 5:Like I said, these are morning glory donuts in unionville and they're priced about the same as rouse that's crazy. Yeah, good, I think it was 13.75 for a dozen of mixed. You know everything they had.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the, you can't beat it, man. The one I had, the lemon was amazing. Yeah.
Speaker 5:That's the first one I ever had was lemon, because usually if you go to a K-Donut Krispy Kreme you know you've got to bite that thing two or three times before you ever get any lemon.
Speaker 1:This one you bite into it, man. It's there, it's yeah, and you're not paying 30 dollars either.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're gonna get another, we get a box. It's only on saturdays. The amish donuts, the uh down there in belvedere, yeah, you ever had those? No, those are.
Speaker 1:Those are good the morning glory guy. Doesn't he have a restaurant over there now, or is that somebody?
Speaker 5:it's a I think they're. They're not. It's a different part of the family.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, because I remember you all talking about it last time. There's a Morning Glory.
Speaker 5:Catfish and then there's a Morning Glory Donuts, but I think they're separate families but they're somehow related to them. And the Morning Glory Donuts. They're opening up a second shop in Nashville now Because they're sold out. By about 10 or 10.30 every morning they're sold out.
Speaker 1:So they're opening up a second location. That's awesome. Yeah, that'll be that'll be really good.
Speaker 3:We need a donut shop here.
Speaker 2:I do not know a place to get donuts around here there's a couple tell home's got some pretty decent like a whiskey donut or something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm thinking cinnamon fire right now.
Speaker 3:Each donut's got a little shot right in the middle. Got a little shot. Show up to work with them donuts.
Speaker 2:They make the glazed donuts in Belvedere. Those are good. Especially when you just get them hot.
Speaker 5:We went down there. We did a thing on them last weekend. They had their annual fall festival. We went in down there a couple days ahead of time and miss charlotte boy, she's super nice and she goes in there and she takes care of us. Man, we get to move around, do what we want to do. And, man, they had some good fried pies. Now, good fried pies, they've got them there.
Speaker 2:I like swiss panthers sandwich, like a reuben sandwich, yeah yeah it's gonna be.
Speaker 1:It's to be a blast down here this weekend. There's so many people. How many people do you think?
Speaker 2:40,000, right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's about average. That's a lot of people on Lube.
Speaker 5:The weather's going to be great, so that's going to bring out a few more.
Speaker 2:I think it's going to be 70s sunshine.
Speaker 5:It ought to be good.
Speaker 2:Stephen's going to be here. I heard there's a guy called.
Speaker 3:Barrel House 107 that was going to have a booth right out front of Lynchburg Gifts and More. I did hear that Just the left of the hardware store. If you find a hardware store and you just go left and you'll find this big red tent, right there I'll have Jack Daniel memorabilia and all kinds of stuff for sale that will help my wife spend money. Yes To buy more. Yes, right, right, right.
Speaker 1:To invest more.
Speaker 3:But also there will be other vendors all throughout the square on Saturday. I will be there Friday and Saturday.
Speaker 2:The rumor has it, if you come and you buy all his stuff, he will buy you lunch at Barrel House.
Speaker 3:I will twerk for you if you do that. But actually my nine-year-old Marshall has a special gift for a non-specific buyer. So anybody who spends money has a chance of winning a special prize from my nine-year-old named marshall, who's put again, again to put together a special gift for one lucky individual. So, but if I don't have it for sale, lynchburg gifts and more will have it for sale, so come on by on the corner.
Speaker 1:It'll be on the corner.
Speaker 3:It'll be right on the corner. Also, any autographs and selfies with the Barrelhouse 107 guy will cost you $1. That will go towards the animal shelter out here. Friends of animals, if you want a picture with me, it will also help scare away pests like snakes, raccoons, possums. You just take that picture and put it outside your home and it will pest-proof your house Until spring.
Speaker 5:Man, It'll stick it out in your garden.
Speaker 2:Will this booth?
Speaker 3:have hats there? No, it won't. Well, it will have a few hats, but it will have hats, wall-hanging accessories, memorabilia from 1960, 70, 80, 90, and the 2000s. So I have cleaned out my closet and brought it into my 2020 Chevy Malibu. So come on here, my Malibu will be full of stuff for you to buy.
Speaker 2:And he will sell the Malibu $75,000 out the door right now.
Speaker 3:Oh, Zach, that sounds good man.
Speaker 2:I appreciate that He'll even sign it, yeah.
Speaker 3:I will sign it, lick it and dance on top of it if it takes that.
Speaker 2:It's a heck of a deal $75,000.
Speaker 3:But yeah, lynchburg has an animal shelter rescue group called Friends of Animals and people actually come out to Lynchburg and will drop off stray animals.
Speaker 2:We have them on Regularly. A couple years ago two years ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we had them on. Yeah, I think when we first started doing the show here in the house. I remember I can't yeah. I know who she is but she's an awesome lady and does so much.
Speaker 3:Brandy recently retired.
Speaker 1:She recently retired.
Speaker 3:I don't know who's taken over since then, but people will actually come out to Lynchburg and drop off stray animals for some odd reason. A few years ago we had Lizard, the Lynchburg Cat, and my kids would spend all day with.
Speaker 2:Lizard.
Speaker 3:Yeah, lizard did not live forever, but yeah anyways, he has a book written about him.
Speaker 1:He does yeah.
Speaker 3:If you come by the Barrel House 107 garage sale booth in the Lynchburg Town Square, I will be taking donations for the animal shelter and if you want a picture of me or an autograph from me, it costs you one whole dollar.
Speaker 1:That's a good deal, though I think that's for a good cause.
Speaker 3:One Buckaroony, and I might even dance for a five.
Speaker 2:We won't even talk about ten, just keep going.
Speaker 1:We won't even talk about ten dollars. Did you ever get? To meet Lizard.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 3:I have not. Did you get to meet?
Speaker 2:Lizard.
Speaker 1:Lizard was an awesome cat he was a sneaky little cat too. We would have shows sometimes.
Speaker 2:So of course this was years ago. He snuck in here one time and if I had a gun I probably would have started firing off because he scared me so bad.
Speaker 1:We were sitting here and he just jumps jumps smack dab in the middle of the table and we're like where'd this thing come from?
Speaker 2:he didn't like us either. I hated I couldn't grab him. No, no, we finally got him out, but he, he didn't like us at all, because I guess we were invading on his territory here well, I never met lizard, but now was it buddy the beagle that that hangs out here on the square buddy buddy's around here and he loves pepperoni yeah, he used to hang out up there by.
Speaker 5:I used to. We used to hang out here on the square. Yeah, buddy's around here and he loves pepperoni. Yeah, he used to hang out up there by the waffles, whiskey, waffles, whiskey waffles, and Buddy would come by every morning and make his rounds, man.
Speaker 1:That's awesome, but that goes for a good cause because I know it goes to the dog food at the animal shelter and everything because they need yeah.
Speaker 3:That's my 9-year-old. He would always come out here looking for lizard and it was right outside uh, lynchburg, gifts and more. He found lizard and he was. That was back during covid, when you had to, you know, cover your face because he was too pretty for a public old lizard.
Speaker 1:He'd always, yeah, he'd always.
Speaker 2:That was the cat man that I know we would cat man I hate cats.
Speaker 1:We would leave and he would be right there at the door, trying to come back in and then, so we just started going out the back way.
Speaker 5:There must be another one there, because we were on a tour today. Hanging out over by the cave where the water comes out. At Jack, they kept telling us watch out for the gray cat and we never did see it. But the tour guide ahead of us said we jumped Watch out for the gray cat. And we never did see it. But the tour guide ahead of us said well, it jumped out over just a minute ago, but we never did see it.
Speaker 1:So we've only got one over there hanging out. There's always been one, but I mean Lizard was like the one.
Speaker 2:I think did Chuck name him.
Speaker 1:I think Chuck named him yeah. I think that's why it kind of caught on, because I think I think I know Chuck took care of him. Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, he ate barbecue. He was fed very well. Yeah, he got fed pretty good, yeah, he got fed.
Speaker 2:Really well, yeah, he got fed.
Speaker 1:You'd see him chilling out right here on the bench yeah, he'd be chilling out on the bench and then at night time he'd be like right there.
Speaker 2:We'd be like, oh yeah, he would be, he would he would sit right there on that mat in front of the door looking out like like waiting on us to come out, like what are you guys doing there? You got any food, you're bringing it to me. What's going?
Speaker 1:on, it's gonna be. It's gonna be an awesome weekend. Yeah, and I'm looking. How many years have you been doing this for our house, I mean?
Speaker 3:uh, I think my first one was 2019. I'm a relatively new comer to all of this, but 2019, they skipped 2020, so this will probably be my fourth or fifth year. I can't count good.
Speaker 2:Like I said, we're coming down Saturday. We'll be at the Squire tent, me and my wife, for a little bit, but I don't think I've came to the barbecue in probably over 10 years. It's been a while, I guess, growing up around this area, just never got down here.
Speaker 5:I can remember back years ago we had a little small MG midget convertible. We were out riding around and my wife, she had had some problems with her jaw she called TMJ, and they had to break both of her jaws and then reset them.
Speaker 4:So, being the loving husband I was. I brought her to the barbecue festival. I remember being a kid.
Speaker 2:So my mom's great uncle lived right here across from the library Once you turn up going to the library in elementary school. First house on the left Lived there for as long as I can remember, but that's where we would always park. We always had our front door parking for any event in Lynchburg where other people had to walk or get on a bus and get shipped back down here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and thankfully they got the road all fixed at the hospital. That was going to be a disaster.
Speaker 2:Parking tomorrow.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Parking tomorrow. I'm trying to think. I guess we'll have to park at the hospital.
Speaker 5:They're busing in from the hospital.
Speaker 1:yeah, Do you get here early enough to where you don't have to do that?
Speaker 3:I am lucky enough that I have a special parking spot and a special parking pass. So, yes, it will be a five dollar donation to the animal shelter, but it will help me be real close to where I'm selling all my stuff is this the first time you're selling yourself yes, yes, um, it become the first year that I've really run out of room in my assigned dining room, that I'm allowed to put all my stuff here, so.
Speaker 3:But yeah, every year I come to barbecue. Why you? Pretty much anytime I come to lynchburg it's not only a little visit for me, but it's also the one chance that I get to see a lot of people. So anytime I'm in lynburg it's not only a visit but it's also kind of like a mini business trip, like, hey, I'm bringing this with me to somebody. It saves on shipping through FedEx or whatever.
Speaker 3:But this year I decided, instead of walking around trying to meet up with 20, 30, 40 people, I will find a place and I will sit there all day for two days and you can find me and I'm bringing out all the stuff that I don't have room for anymore. Yeah, that's smart.
Speaker 1:Do you have people that just come up to you and say oh yeah, I follow you on Facebook, really yeah.
Speaker 3:It's actually funny because, like the shirt I'm wearing today, it's got Barrelhouse 107 in my hat and stuff. And I would have people say, hey, I want a Barrelhouse 107 shirt or a hat or something. So I will put together a little small promotion and stuff. Anybody orders a hat in this three-week period, I'll send it out to you. Well, my wife happened to be out here one day and we were separated and I was off doing this and she was doing that and somebody came up to her and was like, oh my God, I'd like your shirt. And she was just terrified. She's like I don't know who all these people are, but they're asking me about my shirt and yeah, so she stops wearing the Barrelhouse 107 shirt because she likes the anonymity of being able to walk around town without the shirt on.
Speaker 3:But yeah, I have people all the time who will stop me. I'll be here for an event or just a random weekend that I have nothing else to do and I want to come out here and meet up with somebody and I have, you know, friends from all over the world who will show up here on random days and I'll say, all right, I'm gonna take off that weekend, make sure I can meet you and talk to you and meet you and stuff like that. And yeah, I'll be out here just meeting one person and have four or five other people. You know that. Recognize me from the page and I always wear the same hat and it's not the bright orange hat that I got on now, but it's this black and gray hat that I always wear and it's faded and wore out and they'll recognize me and stop me and stuff. And you know, my kids of course think I'm just the coolest guy in the world, which works for me, but you know it is.
Speaker 3:It's really nice to meet people from all over the us, all over the world, and you know I I used to work night shift. I would talk to people in Germany and Australia while I'm at work and you know, it's just they're playing on my phone while we were at downtime and stuff. It's Jack Daniels comes from this teeny, tiny little, smallest County in Tennessee, and yet you can find people around the world that recognize the name, the brand, and you know even my page and it's it's that's my favorite part and and with the people.
Speaker 1:You're talking about international people. That's awesome to see all the international people and then if you're doing like business with them, it probably saves you a lot on shipping. Yeah, yeah, yeah, like that's crazy, that's that's one of the.
Speaker 3:If you're a jack daniel, a serious jack daniel collector, barbecue is the one time a year you want to be in lynchburg because you have people from all over the world. They're bringing stuff that only their country has, like australia. Up till recently they only they were the only country that had a white label. It was a 1907 bottle Jack Daniels bottle that only sold in Australia. They recently discontinued it, but for years any time Australians would come to barbecue they would bring a case or two of that because they're the only ones who have it. So that was your chance to save 60 on international shipping of an illegal product that you're not really supposed to ship in the first place. They put in their carry on, they bring it over here and, bam, you got you a bottle from australia. But but yeah, yeah, you get to meet the people, like I have met people.
Speaker 3:I got uh gerardo, who was born in italy, lives in germany right on the black forest and we think black forest ham, black forest gummies that's where he lives. You know you got the steadmans from uh the uk. There's actually a place called smoking jacks in the uk, off of the isle of white. It's a Jack Daniels themed barbecue restaurant pub in the UK. People like that. I get to meet people like that. I got people from France, like I said, lino from Ecuador, god knows how many people from Australia I mean Australians love Jack Daniels. They'll drink it out of a flip-flop.
Speaker 5:That's the same with people in Japan. When I went to Japan a few times man, they loved Jack. Daniels, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:You tell people you're from Tennessee, from where Jack Daniels made you are a small-town celebrity wherever the hell you're at.
Speaker 2:That is true. So we went on a cruise two years ago, um, our little you know time dining we had. The guy was kind of like, hey, where you from, you know? First we were like tennessee, he's like, oh, country music, yeah, yeah. He's like nashville, like no, no, no. I was like, uh, close to lynchburg, he goes, lynchburg, lynchburg, he goes. He's like jack daniels, like jack daniels. So the whole, so that whole week he called me Jack Daniels, that's all he could remember, and he didn't speak much English, but he just Jack Daniels every time he saw me. Jack Daniels, jack Daniels.
Speaker 5:One of the trips I made to Japan, they had a big barbecue for us over there. So, steve, he was telling them that Jack Daniels was better than the Sockie. So they had a big argument going. So we went down there and they sat at a table and they pulled each other a shot. So they did a shot of Jack and a shot of Sockie and they both sat there and hit it. And they sat there and they talked, and then another guy would come in and say what are you all doing? And so he would turn around and start talking to him. What he would do? Tell him, you know, jack Daniels, they would pour shots. So while they were over here doing shots, this guy would get up and leave and another guy would sit down so they would do shots over here. And then he'd turn around over here and this guy oh, we must do shots. You know they sat there and double teamed him all afternoon.
Speaker 2:And we had to pour him into a cab to get him home. That night we uh, I was, I was watching some interview I don't know who it was with, but they were talking about the undertaker, like back when he was wrestling. Anytime after a show they would all go to a bar, yeah, and he said the first thing he would do is he would get the waitress to bring him whatever bottles of jack they had on the shelf, and then they would. He would have them, he, no matter what two or three bottles he would have to. They had to fill up every uh shot glass they had and he would all just, they would all just sit there, start taking them.
Speaker 2:That's all he would drink was jack daniels because he's been, yeah, he's been here before, yeah, yeah do y'all ever get recognized, like like you have to eat or somewhere, somewhere like hey, I know you from. Hey y'all, oh, yeah, yeah, we get recognized here.
Speaker 5:We we were up at uh edgar evan state park in east tennessee and we were camping, so we was up there and we went to the ranger station that morning and got us some pamphlets and stuff. When we come out we had our two little dogs with us and so the dogs was barking and they had two small children and little girls, she said.
Speaker 5:She said oh, they got puppies. I said well, they're little small dogs. I said they can come over here and play with the dogs if they want to. So they come over and they started playing with the dogs and I asked the lady. I said where are y'all from? And she looked at me. She looked at her husband. She said you're that famous guy from Winchester.
Speaker 2:She said from McMinnville, and they followed us. I've been recognized one time doing this and it was at Sonic in Tallahoma. Some lady was like hey, I know you, you're on that show with Benji, because it's always like everybody knows Benji but nobody sees the good looking who's.
Speaker 3:Benji. Yeah, who is Benji? Who's Benji? Who's that?
Speaker 1:guy Bobo really steals the show though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, everybody kind of knows Bobo. I've been talking to people and they're like because I forgot I was doing something one day.
Speaker 1:The bald-headed dude. That's what they think, and I was like I've got to leave.
Speaker 2:I was like I had to go to Lynchburg. What are you going to Lynchburg for? I was like, well, I'm on a podcast.
Speaker 5:And they're like Benji. So where is Dosho Bo Jones?
Speaker 2:this morning he went to the beach and he's got sunburn on his head. He's a big wuss. You know he's a crybaby.
Speaker 3:It's funny, though Me and my boys came to the Tunnel Tower 5K last month.
Speaker 3:Oh, yes, yeah yeah, yeah, and I may not be able to talk about this, but Chief Whalen from the Jack Daniels's fire brigade asked us hey, y'all want to come help set up? And we're like, yeah. He says, uh, okay, be at my office at 4 30 am. He's, yeah, oh crap. Well, he was chief whalen was nursing a bottle of tenure that night and I said, okay, we'll be there. He's like, well, let me put this away because we got to get up real early.
Speaker 3:So I told my boys those if y'all get up early enough, y'all can help, uh, set up for the fire brigade. So they that was the first time they went to bed right on the dot. And I get up at four o'clock in the morning the next day and I say y'all wake up. And I mean they both 9, 11 years old. They popped up and we go to the meetup with Chief Ray Wayland and they were lucky enough that they got to go down to the fire brigade which is behind the gate on the bottling lines. So they got to go to the actual Jack Daniel's Fire Brigade. They took pictures with the trucks and everything and we went down to the square and my youngest helped set up the bottles for the runners and stuff. And my 11-year-old actually got to help set up the flag to hang up and everything.
Speaker 3:And so we were down there at the Butt Crack-A Dome on a Saturday morning to run a 5K and they were both. They got Fire Brigade gear. They got hats and shirts and stuff that only the Jaguars Fire Brigade get and stuff. So they were just they were blown away. And I told them I said y'all may not have a cool dad, but y'all have a cool dad who knows cool people. And so they were down there at 4 o'clock in the morning raising flags for the Jack Daniels Fire Brigade and Chief Whalen helped show them how to do everything and stuff. It was just amazing and people think Lynchburg Jack Daniels whiskey. They don't recognize the fact that this is also a place for kids.
Speaker 3:It may be whiskey.
Speaker 1:They do a lot for the schools there is, so much that people 21 and under can do.
Speaker 3:Not only do you have these small shops in town, you have small businesses that you can support the candy shop. Right. You got the Tunnel to the Tower to 5K. Both my boys ran the 5K. We've been here for multiple of the Alzheimer's walks.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, down there.
Speaker 3:You've got the barrel tree lighting at either end of November, early December. I love it.
Speaker 5:Yeah, Of course barbecue. I never got to come over for one of them.
Speaker 3:You've got to. If something's come up.
Speaker 5:I've never been there, I've never got to see one of those You've got to.
Speaker 3:Hey, Santa comes. If you come, santa will be there. You got cookies hot chocolate, hot cider. Come Santa will be there.
Speaker 5:I've tried for years, but I've just never been able to make it. Did you run the?
Speaker 2:5K.
Speaker 3:I did, I ran it. Actually, I opened my mouth and I told everybody that if the Barrel House 107 Tunnel Tower 5K team raises over $1,000, I will do it in full fire gear me 80 pounds of gear to put on to do the 5k what uh man? What was your time? I didn't count I made it I have finished.
Speaker 2:I did two I did the last two years me. We've done the wobble gobble in telehoma. Y'all been to that one? No, I haven't been, so that was pretty fun. Uh, this year I'll be my third year. The first year I did it. My goal was under an hour and I think I did it 58 minutes. Year, the first year I did it, my goal was under an hour and I think I did it 58 minutes. Last year my goal was 55 minutes. I think I did it at 56 minutes. So this year I've told myself I'm gonna finish it in 50 minutes because my wife and my kids, they, they do it. Of course, my nine-year-old, she could do it four times by the time I get done one time, but she, she'll run all the way down and you'll see her like half a mile down the road and and then she'll turn around and run right back and I'm like man, just keep going.
Speaker 5:There used to be a bunch of guys when I worked at Nissan.
Speaker 5:Every year they would go to Nashville for the marathon they have up there and there was a bunch of guys that they'd get up there trying to raise money for charity and one of the guys he's a pretty heavy-set fella, you know, and him and one of the big bosses, they had a bet going on the big heavy-set fella about a third of the way through he thought he was having a heart attack. It was hot and he was hurting. So they put him in an ambulance and took him up and the medical station was up close to the finish line in an ambulance and took him up and the medical station was up close to the finish line and so when he got out he used to he you know they riding in the in the ambulance he cooled off a little bit, he got out and he seen the finish line over there. So he had the little timer thing. So he went over and ran across the finish line and told everybody you know he was written.
Speaker 5:It's because it came up in the newspaper. You know what everybody's times were and he was telling everybody he beat everybody, everybody. You know it's going to come up in the newspaper. You know what everybody's times were and he was telling everybody he beat everybody over there, you know, and he was on his way to the hospital.
Speaker 2:My oldest daughter, her first year, and she's been griping about it since we signed her up. She's like I'm not going to waste a Saturday and get up blah, blah, blah, but then I told her there's a prize for last place. So I think blah, blah, blah, but then I told her there is a prize for last place. So I think now she's got her sights set on this last place I brought my boys.
Speaker 3:They were uh marshall's 11 and uh leland's nine, or no, first time doing it I'm screwed up. Marshall is nine, leland is 11. Leland came with me last year, both the boys came with me this year I got you and uh, there's also a good friend of mine, kevin green.
Speaker 3:He runs these things like their morning breakfast. He, he actually ran like a I think it's a 51 mile run in 24 or 12 hours. Yeah, he's, I don't know what's wrong with him, but his wife, shannon, uh, she's in a chair, she's in a wheelchair and he pushes her in all of these races. And yeah, he came to, uh, the last two, uh, tunnel towers, 5k and he not only runs but he pushes her in the chair, and so they're a team. And this year I said you know, I'll run it in full fire gear if we can raise over a thousand dollars. We raised, I think it was eleven hundred and seventy five dollars. So I ran in a fire gear. Well, kevin's like I'm gonna one up you. So he runs it in fire gear too and pushes shannon in the chair. Well, of course, I wait and let the fast people go first and I get in the middle somewhere.
Speaker 3:And so my 9 and 11-year-old they both run this and my 11-year-old beat Kevin and he comes back and that's all. I get back to the finish line and all I can see is his glow in his face. He's like I beat your friend. I said what do you mean, your friend that runs these things all the time I beat him? I beat, beat your friend. I said what do you mean, your friend that runs these things all the time I beat him. I beat him by like 45 seconds or something. I'm like, well, he's running in 80 pounds of gear and pushing his wife, but I beat him. And so now, not only are we coming out for y eater every year and uh, barbecue and the barrel, uh, the barrel, true lighting, but now we've had yeah, we beat kevin, but we're going to come out for the tunnel to the tower 5k every september.
Speaker 3:So so now you can pretty much guarantee me we're going to be out here four times a year at least, but it's usually probably, you know, seven, eight times year.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love that. You all the way from Memphis. And the first time, honestly the first time we interviewed I was like it's just, I was telling them. I was like it's probably just going to be a because we had recommendations to have you on. So I said you know, he lives in Memphis.
Speaker 2:I didn't even know you lived in Memphis. I thought he lived here. I did at first too, Part-time. Yeah, I'm just going to be honest with you Part-timer. I was going to be honest.
Speaker 1:And then I got the word, I was talking to folks and then they were just like oh no, no, he doesn't live in Lynchburg. I was like where does he live At Memphis?
Speaker 2:And I was like no, he doesn't. I was like I don't know anything about this, hang on a minute. And then I was like man.
Speaker 1:He's coming this week to do the podcast.
Speaker 2:Like he's driving. I forgot what it was, but yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm a part-timer. I'm a part-timer.
Speaker 2:So I thought when I seen Barrel House 107, I was like, okay, well, I thought you worked at Jack Daniels and I was like I didn't know what was going on until I started doing some research on the page, I was like, okay, well, this ain't even what I think it is. And that's when I found out you live in Memphis.
Speaker 3:I was like, oh, okay, y'all found me on the hey Y'all page, right hey.
Speaker 1:Y'all. Yeah, it was emails. We were getting emails to have you on and I'll wrap it up. We appreciate you guys love coming here and doing all these things but, we appreciate you guys being doing what you do, like to bring it out, like to bring because everybody does, like talks about the whiskey I mean Jack Daniels does and you guys really kind of give like the homegrown feeling when you guys talk about it, all the different and like the bottles and everything that you do.
Speaker 1:It's awesome yeah, it's not just, and it's uh, it's fun and a great way for people who love jack daniels to meet.
Speaker 3:It's, it's you and your story, but everyone else is can get involved in it yeah, it's the same thing with you guys it's not just jack daniel's whiskey, you know you can find it at square black label bottle anywhere in the world, pretty much yeah but it's also the small town feel it's the people in the square that have the shops like honey bunny and lynchburg gifts and more, and the harley davidson shop and a candy shop and a pizza shop and the Pizza Shop and a lot of people think Lynchburg Jack Daniels, but you also have American Craft Distillers or Lynchburg Distillery.
Speaker 3:You've got the wine shop. You've got so much stuff in this town square and it's not just whiskey, it's not just hey. You come 21 and up, it's kids too. Bring your kids, bring your kids, bring your kids to Lynchburg. There is candy, there is all kinds of stuff. You get a moon pie store that's got candy and moon pies and sodas, all those old-fashioned sodas that you've got to pop the top off with a can opener.
Speaker 1:You've got everything in this town.
Speaker 2:Go to Miss Mary Bobo's. Get online everything in this town. Go to.
Speaker 5:Miss Mary Bobo's Get online, Get your reservation. Bring your stretchy pants. There's no telling who you'll sit around the table with. It feeds your family side down there, but man it's good food.
Speaker 2:Every time I've been there, it's always been me or my family. But there's somebody from California there, or Wyoming or New York. You don't sit at that table with just yourself.
Speaker 3:You sit at that table with people from around the world and you also get a great host that is from Lynchburg that has stories and history and everything to tell you about Miss Mary Bobo's, the town and everything. Mark Northcutt is a good friend of mine. He helps me tremendously with this page. I will be writing up a story about some history stuff and I run through him first. Miss Mary Bob Bubba has Mike Northcutt as your host. So if you go there and you get Mike Northcutt as your host, you've got a bona fide Lynchburg historian to sit there and you can ask any question you want. He has the answer. I don't say he has the answer.
Speaker 1:He will find the answer yeah, and you get that. And then a lot of people have never experienced eating at a table like that, especially with just a group. That's what makes it special Right.
Speaker 3:You will have people from around the world. You will have people from other countries, other states, everywhere that will sit down with you at Mary Bobo's and spin that food around and just keep spinning it until you find what you want and get you some more, and get you some more.
Speaker 5:Yeah, we filmed a commercial back in spring over at Miss Mary Bubba. There was a bunch of us for tourism and they were filming commercials regionally and so they did a commercial. So we got to sit in over there and we were eating and we had that big Lazy Susan in the middle man. I bought one of them and put it in at the house. Susan in the middle man, I bought one of them and put it in at the house. That way when I get ready to fire something around the table at Mary, I just rifle it off the wall over there.
Speaker 2:Give me them potatoes over there.
Speaker 3:If you leave Miss Mary Bobo's and you are not full, it is your own fault, it is your fault you got nobody to blame but yourself. Spend that thing around until you are full and walking out miserable and then find a chair in the square somewhere to sit down until you feel good, like walking again.
Speaker 2:If you want to see something crazy, come to Lynchburg at 630. You'll be the only one standing on the square. Unless it's this weekend, I guess.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this weekend.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So we can catch and keep up with you guys on Facebook, instagram and what else do you?
Speaker 3:I'm just Facebook and Instagram. I'm simple.
Speaker 1:I watch the Instagram. Yeah, I'm more with you on the Instagram, but Facebook Instagram. I do the Facebook Barrelhouse 107. And of course, hey, y'all hey y'all, hey y'all.
Speaker 5:We're on Facebook, tiktok and youtube are y'all only fans. Yet no, I'm gonna get the only fans going.
Speaker 1:I got that head slicked back though that ain't hurting for it, yeah, but thank you guys, man, it's Steve. When you come by, man, we so much appreciate it you coming in and spending your time with us. You come all the way from Memphis. I know you've got a bunch of people here that you hook up, talk with and everything, and we just appreciate you stopping by, getting your story and listening to your story and the stories you have of others. So that's what I love, and thankful for you to come on, of course. Hey, y'all.
Speaker 5:We didn't mean to barge in tonight, but we wanted to bring you to the house, no, and the donuts have just been fabulous.
Speaker 1:You kind of spossed it, perked it up.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:We could always go for donuts.
Speaker 2:You'll see Burl House set up here off the square.
Speaker 1:It'll be on the corner.
Speaker 3:Corner right in front of Lynchburg Gifts More so, if I ain't got it, they got it. And, like I always say, good whiskey is best shared with friends. I don't care if you're from Tennessee, america or around the world Good whiskey is best shared with friends.
Speaker 2:And then, after you buy all his stuff, go to the trailhead and buy all of Ryan's stuff Whiskey trailhead.
Speaker 5:we've been right there by the Squire's tent is where we'll be set up, that's where I'll be Saturday, so y'all come by and see us and remember, don't just travel Tennessee, experience Tennessee.
Speaker 3:One more hey y'all, come on, hey y'all, come on, hey y'all. There you go. I can't do that. I wish I could. I wish I could.