Episode 22 - TRivia with budds Ft. Ryan Budds

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thank you guys still like to say every tale Tells A Tale like I just just want to you're all about those Triple T's Let's uh let's just tell tail tail it

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your burning question I'm throwing questions out all over the place because I hope people aren't as slow as me guest

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here well they're fixing to have their question answered because time's up we're phoning a friend right Ryan

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buds good morning sir hey what's up guys thanks so much for having me are you uh what was it how was it you worded it off

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camera oh uh your official title my official title Ryan buds somewhat professional trivia host I love it nice trivia with

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buds I can't wait till I get to the day that I can call myself somewhat professional in anything so that's cool

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that's cool yes are we not somewhat professional camera dudes we're not there yet no I don't think we are I

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don't think we are so so a question that I think a lot of people are having I'm

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going to hit that question thing hard mhm the whole episode we'll get a question how did

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you and up with trivia with buds like were you just always obsessed with history did

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you I mean how did you land in this gig yeah I'm actually not a huge trivia guy

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I'm not a very academic guy I really like pop culture so movies Music Television video games comic books

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wrestling stuff like that um but I kind of stumbled into this uh I was doing

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standup comedy in Chicago in 2010 okay and yeah grew up in Chicago and uh was

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working at Community College for 3 years after I graduated college and I was like doing this standup thing and it was kind

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of getting better and better and I'm like I think I can do this full-time so I quit my job and uh for about a year I

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was doing comedy shows where I'd mostly work on the weekends and I needed some income like Monday Tuesday Wednesdays

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right gotcha and a guy named Tony Valley uh with a company called yes I am Showbiz in Chicago he had um these shows

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called standup trivia shout out Tony yeah I don't think it's around anymore but he uh he used used to uh have trivia

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hosts that were um all comedians he wanted to be like a little bit funnier and a little bit more upbeat than a regular trivia

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night you yeah yeah so it was really fun and um back in those days I would just

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show up I didn't even have to come up with the questions or run the questions or show them I just had to read them and

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kind of joke around with the audience yeah and so it was very low pressure I think it paid 75 bucks for two hours and

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I was like this is great extra income so I would work comedy clubs in the weekend and I would do trivia like Monday

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through Wednesday M and I started to like it so much at that point I had never even played like a trivia night or a pub quiz anywhere I didn't even know

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that was a thing right um and so this was at bars on the north side of Chicago okay in the Edison Park neighborhood and

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uh it was a lot of fun and I eventually got to the point where I'm like hey can I I lived on the south side of Chicago

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south suburb so I said would you mind if I started doing setting up some of these shows myself and kind of running in myself and he goes oh yeah no problem

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I'll give you everything you need to do it so did that for about a year and then uh moved out to LA and lived in La for

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10 years and when I was trying to get my my feet below me out there um I just

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went to several bars and said hey I used to do this thing in Chicago can I uh maybe do it here and um when you set it

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up yourself you would make you know obviously twice as much money I was like okay so I did that as much as I could and when I was doing standup in LA and

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working on um a bunch of different TV shows and movies and things I always kind of kept trivia as a little side

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hustle so I could do it um as many times as I could in a week and I mean dang it at 3750 an hour basically that's that's

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almost nurse money that's pretty good do call yeah yeah yeah and then or then when you start setting up yourself yeah

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an hour that's Doctor money yeah and you're in control of it it's only two hours and

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then I got a kick out of like coming up with the questions and the categories and prizes and all that stuff and that kind of just steamrolled into this

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business where I was like oh this is like a a good chunk of my family's income now it's as years went on so in

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2015 it was really starting to get big and then by 17 I uh I was able to again

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kind of quit my job uh working in TV production and and say I think I'm going to do this full-time and so I've been

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doing that fulltime ever since but we have about 25 trivia locations in LA and

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and in Northeast Tennessee now um still running stuff back home yeah I have a lot of great local hosts there that kind

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of took over a lot of the things I started out there there's certain places we've been out there for seven or eight years you know every week Vis A Beat

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that's really fun and then U moving to a new place like this it's actually I think took a little bit longer to build

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it up here cuz you really have to kind of like uh convince people like no this

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is this is like this will be better or this hey try this there's an education that has to take place our area is a

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little bit slower at times we're slow so it took me a good we've been here three years it took me a really good 18 months

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to kind of like get a reputation going and like showing up and hanging out and get your name out there doing free stuff and and all that stuff um but now it's

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pretty smooth sailing and uh we've got about 10 places on a weekly basis here so it's a lot ofun that is awesome so

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that's that kind of makes sense I I I was listening to you talk and obviously you don't have a Southern accent but I I

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really could I truly could not Point like pinpoint any sort of like a he's from yeah because I think it's because

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you've been all over like you two primary locations and then this is your

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tertiary yeah I have the Chicago accent with the long a of like

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Chicago it's mild though College those are the words people yell at me for the most uh but yeah here uh I do find when

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I'm hanging out with people with Southern Accents that like I like when I'm really trying to emphasize something

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it'll come out in me yeah it's like I want to be like them or something you know a little bit you

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pick it up you pick it up definitely um but so do you still do any comedy at all I have not done like a proper standup

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show since my son was born in 17 when I did the trivia full time so yeah that that was that's crazy to me because I it

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was such a big part of my life from 6 to 17 so a good 11 12 years where it was like every night doing something now I

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still do what I would call stand up a bit in terms of like crowd work at Tri

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shows where you're kind of like just making fun of stuff in the room and trying to you know make everything light-hearted and fun and moving along

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and the best place is to do that um shout out to Gypsy circus in Kingsport

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okay a lot of people know that place around here it's just a very low ceiling narrow kind of building so you can

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really kind of get that's the place where I'm like that itch yeah you're immersed and you're like this this would

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be a great room for a comedy show really so you can kind of get the the laughs that you're looking for there as like a

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comedian and a host you know this is cool psychology because so I in a in a previous life I was in a metal band and

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most of the venues you play in metal are small sure uh you know you've got like the Hideway here downtown things like

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that small venues are so fun cuz you can get you know 30 to 50 people in there 60

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people sometimes and and you do you get so like immersed Zone focused in that

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audience there's a club a chain of clubs in Chicago land and there's one in Nashville called zany and z in Chicago

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used to be like an old strip club or brel in the prohibition era and so it's

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very narrow small it only holds like 100 people and like that's you know I can still hear like laughs echoing in that

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room like when I think of sets I've had there and stuffs and stuff sure it's it's really like uh when environment

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that's when you're having fun as as there's nowhere for the laughs to go they kind of stay like like smoke in the room or something you know well I think

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it was smart on how you got your start I forget the guy's name um but he wanted

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comedians host Tony Valley that makes sense because I send him like a thank you text every time I think of his name

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I'm just like hey thanks man cuz like I never would have done this not something that would have it completely makes uh

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makes sense for all the reasons you just mentioned like the crowd work yeah you've already got a stage presence you're already able to read rooms alter

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rooms whatever uh and and and truly just kind of encourage people you you sort of

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break down those barriers yeah yeah yeah and I always think uh when I go to other trivia nights when they're really stuffy

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or the host is just reading the questions or the questions are super academic I'm always like taken out of it I'm like this is just like school to me

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but there happens to be beer I want it to be like a party to be like the fun stuff that to me it's never fun to

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remember like 16th century British royalty uh it's just not my like I'll never ask a question but maybe one like

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in some kind of very random round but um it's way more fun to be like you know what is Thor's home planet called like

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because everybody saw those movies you know in our Modern Age so it's like um I just I really go for the fun stuff that

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I like and I'm not a big Sports guy even though I'm from Chicago so that is another complaint people will say you

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said you're a socks fan which we won't hold that against you my fathers a cubby got my black shirt on uh but yeah

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there's people will be like you don't do enough sports questions but then like every time I I will do those sports questions the people that wanted them

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are never there that's always like the The Catch 22 of that and then everybody else goes what's with these sports

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questions we come because we you don't do Sports question you give us a fun experience yeah yeah yeah and too in our

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area I think one thing that kind of transcends into like the the trivia stuff with you being a comedian like

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again but we're in the South we're a little bit slower to warm up sometimes to especially when it comes to like

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Public public events my my big my big comparison that I always draw here is at weddings yeah it takes a lot to get

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elderly Caucasian people to dance yeah sure but if you have two things you can do it number one is a little bit of

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booze number two is the chaa slide seem to do it every single time that's our special ingredients that that's the

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special ingredients to get people dance so you are essentially the chaa slide of the trivia world that's how my LIC PL

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frame chaa slide of the trivia world I love it it fit somehow yeah if it's not it should be yeah uh that's that's a new

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that's a new one I like that I like that a lot I've got I got a note for you guys have you ever thought about just calling this uh Jerry and gar Jerry and Gary

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just jar and gar the first syllables oh wow no we have not yeah probably I think

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it's time for a Rebrand we just rebranded well we branded we rebranded the company true we were branding the

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company true faith and frames with jar and gar that's cool listen I'm always Jerry anyways yeah we get confused all

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the time like people call us Jerry and Gary they never get the DU and the T or if I go to Starbucks like my cup's going

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to say Jerry oh 100 times out of 100 it's good idea Ryan I like that I like that it's not bad a bit that's not bad

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at all that where my thoughts and doodles at left tip there you go there we go thoughts and doodles volume one

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that's going in there so you've you've uh you've been at this since 15 so 15

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full-time 10 like if you want to say like first trivia shows ever yeah so I'm looking at the uh the pages of history

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that mathematically means that uh and you check my math because my Math's not always the best but that means you've

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weathered Co might be difficult for an inperson trivia event yeah right some challenges

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there maybe of course yeah especially in California where everything closed I would say more than other places they got a little wild out there with Co yeah

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when I moved here people were like we like certain places like we didn't close at all oh man like certain places in

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California were closed for like six months like we couldn't go to C same with Chicago I was in Chicago during Co

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oh yeah it was wild so um and that was so Co was 2020 obviously and so I had

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been doing the full-time trivia thing for about 3 years at that point and everything was going great and I'm like this is great and uh and then everything

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closed I like oh no and like at that time I didn't have any trivia nights anywhere else it was all just California

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so um a friend of mine named Simon uh time he has a company called Simon time

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trivia in the Orlando area he went on Facebook live and was just like hey we can't do shows so I'm doing the show on

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Facebook had to Pivot he did like a two-hour trivia show and I played along with it and I was like that was fun I'm

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like I could do that I'm just sitting around so I started doing that and um those first nine months of Co I did it

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every single night of Co for nine months uh two-hour show so I do like old trivia

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nights and write new ones and put stuff together and do themed stuff and the first like month or two of that

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everybody was like on lockdown especially in California yes um but then people on lockdown in like California

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and Chicago and New York that were friends would be like hey you got to come watch this guy we do this thing

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it was Facebook which I had never used at that point we would have like 400 people

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watching absolutely and I was like this is crazy and this was also before a lot of algorithm stuff had come out and it

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was just kind of natural and when social media was still social met thank you meta sorry and then we would um I would

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throw like my van Mo and PayPal info in the banner at the top that was and in

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those early days I would make four five six s $800 in tips and I was like this is more money than I would have made if

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I had real shows and I'm like this is like in a weird way I'm like this is sort of like the future of like what

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this could be and so many people can play from anywhere um and then eventually that kind of died down because you know up and go back to your

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routines but I still kept it up for a while and then that turned into sort of like a a real community of like we call

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them like the quarantine trivia players there you go and uh to this day I still talk to a lot of those people and I made

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a lot of good friends that way and then once things open back up we would all meet in person

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L but days the venmo tips and stuff like kept my family fed I remember I was on

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the Ralph's website which is a grocery store chain California and it was like they were looking for overnight stalkers

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and my first job ever uh high school was um there you go doing carts and bags at

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at a store called Jewel in Chicago which um is owned by Albertson okay and so I

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remember thinking like I'm going to have to go back to my old first job because like I didn't that was the only thing I knew I could definitely get right and I

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could do it overnight and still see the kids and stuff I was like all right maybe I'll do that I was on the website

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fix no and I think the day that that dude Simon time did his live stream so then I saw that later that day and I go

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well maybe I'll try that so I never filled out the application but it was pretty close you know and I always wonder what that would have been like

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but um Luckily everything worked out then like I would say 3 months into quarantine I started getting hit up by a

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of agencies and just through my website for like Hey we're looking for this company wants to do a virtual trivia

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thing uh could you do something like that and so I had to figure out what that whole thing would be like and what to charge for that and things like that

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and uh that really turned everything around because I started to do three

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four five six shows a day um you know just like an hour here a half hour there 15 minutes here and this and stuff well

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was that yeah for different every company I've done a virtual show for I've done 1,200 virtual shows since Co

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started wow good go so in March uh in March of 2020 I had done zero and then

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like in December of 2020 I think I did 110 in just that month and so it was

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like every day I was doing a ton I think I did eight in one day and it was all holiday parties so all everyone's

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holiday party changed that year and they're like we got to figure out what to do to entertain these people virtually everyone's having a pivot and

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so I would do a show for an hour for Microsoft's marketing team and then be like all right see you and then immediately hop on another uh Zoom call

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for uh Activision video game whatever you know and then just keep bouncing back and forth and I didn't want to say

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no to anything because I didn't know when this would all dry up and things still weren't totally open you got to harvest when the harvesting is good yeah

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so I really overworked myself because I kept going it's just talking you could talk you know but then like if you talk

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energetically for like eight hours a day and then have to do it again the next day you're like I was really just uh it

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took me a while to kind of like Get Back normal after that and then uh we were moving we were trying to buy a house in

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the midst of all that so we bought we came and looked at a house here in Johnson City in January early January 21

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we bought it like the next day and then we moved for 2021 um when my daughter was done with

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most of uh pre kindergart kindergarten and uh and then we moved here and uh the

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rest was history but it took me about six months of living here to kind of like first of all the move was crazy

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truck across the country and then also just getting adapted to like what trivia life would be like here and then also

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those corporate shows kind of dying down um a little bit you know um they were still pretty pretty um packed on the

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calendar in most of 21 right 22 it definitely went down and now in in in 23 it went down and but I still they still

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pop up because there's still companies that are totally virtual like they don't have any uh physical locations anymore

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right um and then also there's just people that are spread across the world World sometimes they want to do something for them I have a show later

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today for a company and it's a really specific show where they have a Jeopardy champion on oh wow Amy Schneider who was

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the second highest winner ever after Ken Jennings not to be misten foreks in a row or something um millions of dollars

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and so basically this company hired her through an agency to come on a zoom call

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and then they hired me to facilitate Jeopardy so like the employees can challenge her to round the Jeopardy very cool um so that's a very specific show

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but I'm excited about that one that's later today um so some of those pop up and then uh you know I'm doing a lot

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more inperson corporate stuff too which I was doing before CO as well but like uh I just went to Huntsville Alabama in

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December for a show uh with a big like research company down there okay um I'll be in Orlando next week for um sort of

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like this big Ballroom style show where there's like a thousand people and they just want me to run around and do like

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trivia on the Fly Like table to table kind of a thing so like sort of like man on the street like what do you do what

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what are you do the company and then like here's a question and if you win here's a gift card or whatever um so every Show's a little bit different

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these days at the beginning everybody was just like we just want like trivia or just Family Feud or just Bingo or

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something um but now it's a little bit more unique and uh I love getting out there I love driving around the country

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and uh flying and getting sounds like you're very human interactive driven I really like talking yeah that's that's

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my my passion um you mentioned it there uh you're like oh it's just talking I can do of these well Garrett and I have

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realized that about this our cusp of like we normally bat shoot our podcast we let that out the other day um but

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like we found that like in regards to Quality yeah uh there we have diminishing return after like three

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episodes yeah it's like you're like you're just sitting here talking do you guys ever do more than like two of these

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in a day the most we've ever done is three or four oh wow but after that like

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mentally you're fatigued and then yeah it's just it's there's a there's definitely deading there I do daily

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podcast it's just Monday through Friday and it's really short by Design By the way Link in description below yeah oh

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yeah yeah check it out uh Monday through Friday there's about 1,700 episodes and they're all under 10 minutes most of them yeah um and it's just round of

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trivia that I usually use at my live nights so like it's 11 questions usually on a topic so so if I want to go like

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get those questions pre-screen so that I have an advantage on trivia yeah exactly and sometimes I recycle stuff uh for the

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live show so you never know but yeah it's um a lot of people find it on road trips so they're bored in the car

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and then they go and they scroll down and they just find a topic that everybody in the car likes NFL Legends

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and they click on that or something um so it's a lot of fun but I I try and record all five in a week in one day and

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that's about my limit you know they're like that alt together that's only an hour of talking right but then editing

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and stuff in between it's like that's about my limit you know and sometimes I'll do like three and then two the next day or but yeah I think there is a

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there's on how much you can Talk's a thres there's a misconception for someone who's never done it though like

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again it oh yeah you had never done all that many virtual events right so you're you're thinking the mindset is like oh

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it's just talking I come from a big family of teachers and I'm like my brothers uh teach every day and they

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have to do six or seven periods like they could if they could do it but then you think of all the downtime where they might just be like letting them work

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there there is a threshold I used to talk to people for a living and and when I would come home at the end of the day

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like my wife would say why are you dead I'm like I've used all my words I have literally used all my words today

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talking to people there there is one thing that I don't want to Breeze over because I am in my mind I have broken

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your path into basically two I'm not going to call them devastating events but two pivotal events that I that I can

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gather from your story thus far can you speak to social media and and how that pivot

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occurred for you with Co because we had a similar occurrence um whenever whenever Co hit we were shooting

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weddings at the time sure um all of our weddings ended up canceling or postponing so we we also had to make a

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pivot because companies had started reaching out because they realized that social media was going to be huge yeah

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by the way the weddings weren't there weddings weren't there so we we had to make a living as well which we were still doing it part-time at the time

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because we both had full-time jobs but I I think that was a a a piece of our

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company's history that I will forever be appreciative of if that's appropriate to say that co could be appreciated um yeah

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well I mean we learn everything offers a chance to learn something how how has that shaped your business and how you

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run things because you've now gone through a couple of different phases even with social media because you were very social media heavy with your trivia

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shows now you're kind of going back to more in person yeah so what has that path looked like and how do you still

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blend social media into that think there's a hybrid yeah yeah yeah I I'm a big fan of and I didn't understand them

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when they first came out but stories you the ones that disappear I didn't ever really post this cuz I'm like what's the

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point of spending time on something disappears right it's gone in 24 hours it took took me a minute you know I don't know when those came out if that

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was like 2016 Snapchat origin but I just remember being like why would I waste my

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time on that and then I realized how much I was looking at them and like you get these little Snippets of people's

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lives and so I I think that's my number one um thing that I post and the thing

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that I like to look at the most is is stories whether it's on Facebook or um Instagram I never really did Snapchat

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which I know still exists but um I never I'm I'm I should be Tik Tok I'm trying to think of a unique idea for what to do

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I don't want to just post look I'm at a trivia night like it has to be feel like Tik Tok has to have some kind of hook you do daily trivia questions I thought

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about that too um but I still feel like it needs to be a little bit more interesting than that so it's it's

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that's cooking and I should have probably been doing that few years you would blow up on Tik Tok I believe I

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think you could blow up on Tik Tok yeah don't get paralysis by analysis good point too yeah you'll find

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out what Tik Tok likes and what they don't like yeah I um I will say

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something I really got into is Etsy in the last year and again etsy's been around forever and what I do is so Etsy

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friendly I don't know why it took me till 24 how is trivia Etsy making con so

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if you go on at C obviously it's things people made and so I started just looking around and I've bought a few

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like uh trivia games off of there and so people post like PowerPoints of trivia nights you like

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here's here's a product and I'm a huge fan of the set it and forget it kind of

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like you make something and it's just out there and if people want it I think that's the passive part of that is so

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much fun to me um in the same way that some of these trivia nights that I run like in California those are sort of

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check in on them but like if the host is good and reliable I know that that's going to be you know you've expanded a

26:51

little bit you duplicated yourself yeah and so the Etsy stuff um I started looking at that a lot in the last six

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months months and I'm like in 24 I'm going to I'm going to like re I had like merchandise on Etsy that I had made like

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mugs and shirts and stuff yeah yeah yeah and I was like I think I'm gonna uh start putting some of my games because I

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have like thousands and thousands of PowerPoints that I've made right and uh I'm like one it's good for Branding

27:14

because it could be called trivia with Buds and people can edit those and do whatever they want with them but they see it if they leave it up there every

27:20

screen if they're using it at event or something I'm like that's that's good advertising and uh I love that the

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digital is just there forever and I love that there's you you know there's no limit you put $999 in you know as the

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quantity and it's just uh it's just super easy it's 20 cents to list

27:38

something on Etsy didn't know that um 20 cents to put a listing up and uh I think that's per year per listing but still

27:44

you know if I have 10 things up right now that's what two bucks that's something like that pretty good Roi yeah

27:51

uh so I started throwing some stuff up on there and I I was looking at other people who um do the same thing and not

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that many there a lot people who have printables you can get all these things you print out for like a babyer or

28:03

weddinger triv cards yeah trivia cards things like that but there was one dominant trivia company I guess on there

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and they started in 2020 and they have like 14,000 sales most of their things

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are5 to $15 and then they have bundles of things that are a little bit more that's a good pretty good amount of

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Revenue over $100,000 in just passive income once once you make the power

28:27

point so I'm like I should really do that and so I've had stuff up on there for the last uh 3 weeks and I've had something

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like uh 25 sales and it's just like this morning I had three sales on a Valentine's game I posted up and it's

28:41

got a round on romcoms and a round on Paris and around on just kind of lovey stuff and what was your price point uh

28:47

$8 so it's yeah to just have and that was just

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today you know and think three people bought it yesterday too so and you can put you could throw some

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dollars I think you could throw up to $25 in marketing at your ATS C page they like limit it in a weird way um I think

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I have it set for $5 a day right now I would say they do that to keep things competitive for everybody if I guessing so I have that way budget's not a limit

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for some creators so my goal I have 10 listings on there right now the person

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who has the most on there I think has 120 and I'm like what if I have 150 and it's just you're getting seen more and

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there's just there's just more uh they say the more listings you have the more traffic you get as well I'm just trying to kind of build

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that up so I think by the end of this year if I had 150 Etsy listings cuz it takes me about an hour and a half to

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kind of like redo everything to make it look presentable and things like that um and then you have to make little

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graphics and and videos that kind of advertise what it is but um I think it's going to be a slam dunk especially once

29:46

it's all done and that's a great model I like that that's a great model like that a lot the the previous industry that I

29:52

was in we had passive income opportunity and and you know when you first start receiving those little $2 here here and

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$5 here and $8 here like it's not a lot at first but it adds up passive income

30:03

can get very very large once you get that reputation just like with the Ser the service industry of these these trivia shows you just get known for it

30:10

you know and they're like oh that's the guy who does that and so that's what I found living here in the Tri Cities is

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um after three years people go oh you're the trivia guy like that's what I want everyone to say I mean that's perfect

30:20

you are the goto and there's a lot of trivia companies actually there's not that many there's a few other trivia companies in this region that kind of

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Dominate and they have like hundreds of different locations a week I have 25 and only 10 really in the Tri Cities the

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other 15 in California and I uh I think people hopefully are attracted or

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remember uh me attracted to my business or remember me from the business because I'm a guy right that's the guy or my

30:44

name is buds it's a company and buds also sounds like you're hanging out with your friends you know it's a little yeah it's just all

30:51

works out um and if if marijuana ever becomes legal here there go buds the

30:56

whole another connection uh to do shows at dispensaries and things which I did a lot in California well so so we talk

31:03

about this some too uh me and Jared but when it comes to like when it comes to differentiators um and being the go-to

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like that's our goal within you know the local media industry is we want to be the go-to guys um what do you feel like

31:17

here locally because the the second the second I'm going to say pivotal moment of of your career was making you know

31:23

two moves you know from Chicago to California from California to Tennessee yep what what gave you the ability to

31:31

hear in a local network that you knew I'm going to say nobody we just say that you didn't know anybody when you showed

31:36

up we knew the Facebook group to the Tri Cities Facebook group and we just liked everything that was posted in there that was a big reason we moved here shout out

31:43

to uh Courtney Stewart Evans Evans Real Estate Courtney Stewart runs the moving to the Tri Cities Facebook group so you

31:48

knew the group knew the group just because like we would be like oh let's you know when we were looking at where our house was going to be at let's see

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where's the closest whatever and we would what's the best barber you know

32:00

grp it's very grp so what what at that point in time then so we know we know that you had the group and the small

32:06

Network at that point in time but what became your differentiator because moving into a brand new area you have to

32:11

do something that nobody's doing or you're not going to be the guy so what turned you into the guy yeah I think

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that um being a social person is like uh a huge uh plus down here you know and I

32:24

always tell people I go if you don't like talking to strangers in public don't come to Northeast Tennessee because I remember the first week I

32:30

lived here yeah first week I lived here I went to a Zach be's in Greenville Z on

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the main on the highway on AJ that's actually called the bypass that's the bypass used to bypass Greenville but it

32:41

no longer does now goes through the heart of Greenville I was at that Zack bees right where you guys are at and um

32:46

I went in there and I'm looking at the menu I'd never been to a Zach bees and I was doing something and I was like I'll

32:51

get a chicken sandwich and I'm looking at the menu and a guy comes up next to me and he goes what do you think about getting and I was like oh and I was like

32:58

I don't know I've never been here nosy I don't know this is so teny he breaks down like every menu item detail he's

33:04

like so up here we got this and he's like I've had this last Tuesday and he's going through his whole life being from Chicago was that like alien to you no I

33:12

mean I've met people like that before but the next part of the story is that everybody is like that down here so it's

33:17

like if you go anywhere and you are an introverted person they're going to make an extrovert pretty quick yeah I hate it

33:22

for you cuz we're going to we're going to detail the menu for you and so I talked to this guy for 20 minutes before

33:29

either of us ordered then like I'm sitting down eating by myself and he comes over to like check on me and I'm like does he own this a like is he is

33:35

this his franch own just a dude just guy and he was with his kids and his kids came up he introduced his kids and I'm

33:41

like this is just different folk down here I was like all in on that and then next week you're in the family picture

33:47

yeah and yeah as X as uh from that

33:52

interaction I went I got to be like that guy and so everywhere I went that's how I tried to be and that's how I I I Tred

33:58

to come across and I really I think tried to come across that way my whole life once I was comfortable you know

34:04

probably like a teenager talking to to everybody right um but it really made me go it resonated then that I'm like I

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need to be like that times 10 down here and um I would say that once I started

34:16

doing that I would go okay I like this I like Johnson City Brewing how can I how can I run their trivia night cuz they

34:22

were kind of running it in house and they didn't really want to spend money on someone else do it and they had kind

34:28

of done it that way but we're coming off of Co so they're like we'll try something yeah we'll give it a whirl and but I hung out there and drank the beer

34:34

and saw regulars and did a lot of that at a lot of places around here before I had any paying gigs and I would just go

34:40

I would go into places and I would go do you want to maybe do a trivia night and they go H I don't think that's going to work here and I go well I have all my

34:46

stuff in my trunk I'm G to come set it up in here for free for love it and I'm just going to do it and uh they're like

34:52

okay you know like a lot of places are just like whatever man you sir were assuming the sale I like that so I would

34:59

just do it and then I would go home I wouldn't even I wouldn't even say like so what do you think now I would just leave but then they would always reach

35:05

out and say hey we had some people who like that last week come do that what does that cost for you to do that that

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that happened I think at three places so it's like beautiful but I had the time to do it too you know I was doing a lot of the corporate stuff still but I

35:17

didn't have any steady weekly nights and so now I I pretty much have something Sunday through Thursday that I do myself

35:24

and then on some of those nights like uh Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays I have um like two or three other gigs that I

35:30

have other local hosts run for me so okay very but I think a big part of that is is is investigating the climate of

35:38

you know what what are people like down here like at the Zach thing and then kind of going out and mimicking that in

35:43

a in in a real way not like I was going to say you you became so your differentiator that I can

35:49

diagnose here you just became a chameleon and and Amplified it yeah and then I also knew that my trivia was very

35:55

different than the other trivia so if people were looking for or or less

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academic and more pop culty that they wouldbe about that a little bit too and and that is the compliment I get around

36:07

here they'll go oh man I went to aubre and played another trivia night and it was just you know a dude in flip flops

36:13

in a horrible microphone and just kind of like mumbling stuff and it was you know super super bored less of an

36:21

experience we're bored yeah I want people to like the venue I want them to

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buy more stuff when they're at trivia night at the venue I want them to like the questions I want them to like me or whoever the host is and I want it to be

36:33

a brand that's not just a trivia night cuz sometimes like last night the whole place was packed at Tennessee Hills Bruce Stiller right down the street from

36:39

where we're recording there was like 70 players and a couple walked in and the the wife or the girl was like uh what's

36:46

going on he goes oh it's trivia night it's always like this and they couldn't down they walked out so he was a little peeved at it I'm sure but like that's

36:53

that's a good reputation to have trivia KN is always like this yes and so that's what you want people to say well that's

36:59

your brand essentially that's your brand I Garrett mentioned he you know he stated that the area slow and in a lot

37:05

of ways we are slow but I really think a lot of it just you mentioned education has to take place I think people are so

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reserved we are uh and it's we have to have the chaa I need to see I need I

37:17

need you to prove to me that this is going to work before I'm going to stroke a check for you you know what I'm saying and so that makes sense as to why you

37:23

would set up we have to see one person go dance first yeah and then we all join in and dance but it takes a while it

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takes a chaa slide one somebody's going to jump off that Cliff at the lake hey

37:34

they made it I'll jump now they die but too so one thing that I'm I'm picking up on with you at the end of the day and

37:41

this goes all the way back to you know your your comedic uh career you're a

37:46

performer yeah and and I can see and and now I want to come to trivia not um but

37:51

I can see that these for you are like a performance no no different than a comedy show where you're working the

37:57

crowd you're working the venue you want people to like the place that they're in you want them to like the people that they're with that is all it's symbiotic

38:04

at that point yeah it's all symbiotic but it's all characteristics of a great performer oh thanks yeah that that is

38:09

what I'm looking for and there are times where I go ooh the trivia was fine but I wasn't very good right and so well as a

38:15

performer you're not going to have an on night every night or that you know the the the people they weren't really

38:22

interested in anything I said except the questions and they were really just looking at the screen or whatever so yeah you you will make those little

38:27

notes for yourself you have different crowds yeah yeah yeah but you pick up on that and then there's places like I said

38:32

sometimes when I can rolling at Gypsy circus I walk out of there and I go I don't I I feel like I just did a comedy

38:37

show with a little bit of bingo mixed in or whatever it was you know sometimes it's I just I'm talking so much and it's

38:43

and people are laughing I go oh uh B7 and I forget that we're doing Bingo or whatever you know what what is your

38:49

biggest game because I you mentioned a few and one of my favorites is Family Feud I've told you off camera it's it's

38:54

not my brightest and most proud moment but participated in Green County Fair Family Feud my family did we lost and

39:00

I'm very ashamed of that BL on my record

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are there any like evidential archival pieces of that God I hope not we need to

39:11

find those we recre we got to do a rematch yeah boom we do your family versus your family but I really I am

39:17

curious is there like a clear winner as to like the most requested game Family Feud is probably the most requested

39:24

corporate game I do but sometimes be like hey we have 4,000 people can we do Family Feud and I'm like I'm like it's

39:30

really like 50 maybe like 80 and under you know for everybody gets a chance to play and talk a little bit and you

39:36

switch out teams as fast as you can um whether you're doing it virtually or in person I would say that's kind of the cap but um you know I yeah I would say

39:44

Family Feud's the most that's your crowd pleaser yeah that's the crowd pleaser and people like the everyone knows that

39:49

show and a lot of people watch it with their families at dinner and things so they like they're familiar with that one the most um we do Wheel of Fortune but

39:56

we don't I don't have like a real wheel it's like a digital wheel so it's like not as fun but it's the you know it's just wheel for is just hangman right um

40:02

but that's I like hosting I do like hosting the game shows and like today I'll be doing Jeopardy right those are the three ones I do the most um people

40:10

like uh sometimes I do this thing called Sunday Funday at Tennessee Hills distillery in Jonesboro and we'll do

40:16

just a mix of like whatever I feel like doing so we'll do like round of trivia we'll do a round of categories we'll do

40:22

a round of um Pictionary and different game shows and like we award different things to people throughout these two

40:29

hours so we do that like every other Sunday it's a lot of fun um but that's a good place it's a good testing ground to

40:36

kind of test out stuff that I might incorporate into a trivia night a traditional trivia night in the future or like a weird round that like I don't

40:42

know how it'll go so it's that's a good testing ground for that for sure you're doing some R&D on the fly yeah exactly

40:48

yeah yeah and I'll I'll straight up I ask a lot of audiences what you think of that I this this thing I'm doing for Jeopardy with Amy Schneider today I

40:54

actually ran last night round of it at Tennessee Hills the audience was pretty engaged and everyone that played was

41:01

good and one dude killed it like he was actually on Jeopardy and like oh wow he was just like boom and he knew everything and and he's he he usually

41:07

plays in a team by himself his name is Jared and uh he he dominated Jeopardy how did you do that he goes I watch

41:13

Jeopardy every day so like but these were all real Jeopardy questions I was using from like the '90s um that were

41:18

sort of Timeless ones that Evergreen ones that I Ed but he like dominated and I'm like this is going to be cool uh so

41:24

but I like to test stuff out and always ask their feedback like on the mic like what did you guys think of that and people be like it was too slow or like

41:31

two questions are too hard or whatever but like know that you need to know those things so it's good well we talk about feedback all the time we ask them

41:37

at the end of every episode hey give us some feedback good or bad like you have to have all of those things so that you can hone your product and when when I do

41:43

these live trivia shows like I create all the stuff on Sunday or Monday the five rounds we're going to do and I host

41:49

it Tuesday night so then I can go ooh there was a typo there or that word was weird or that question or that whole

41:54

round suck and by I can change it for all my hosts in California and say hey don't do that round switch it out for

42:00

this one you're able to dial it in yeah and so that's uh Tennessee sort of the testing ground for for California in a

42:06

way in that way so very cool yeah that's awesome yeah so like with trivia specifically is there how's that format

42:13

work is there like points is there a winner is there or is it just like yeah no every venue usually is giving away a

42:19

gift card you $50 gift card to get them to come back so like the winning team gets this gift card that they can

42:24

sometimes use that night or more than just use it the next time they come um so that's a big selling point is just

42:30

getting them to come back and then people really make it their their routine you know if they're on a bowling

42:36

team they Bowl every Thursday at 700 p.m. this is their thing it's like they play trivia every Monday at 6:30 or

42:41

whatever it is I got you um and so sometimes there's really big teams sometimes there's small teams sometimes when there's really big teams people go

42:47

can you put a cap on the big teams and you have to kind of go okay six or eight people at the most and um that's a

42:53

little bit hard actually of all the places I've ever hosted in California I have um the I wouldn't say it's a

42:59

problem but it happens the most year we like let's be a team of like 16 people the thing is though some of them are not

43:04

really playing or they kind of wandered in late somebody goes that team has 16 people and I go that girl's like on

43:09

Tinder she's not even you know what I mean she's not even looking up uh or whatever so like that trivia and tender

43:16

yeah yeah or people go out to smoke and stuff they're really not like involved they just be friends with you don't want

43:23

to like turn that business away either so you don't want to be like you can't bring everyone you know to the thing

43:28

because that's the whole idea of these things so you have to kind of balance that and I really only address it when it becomes a um an ongoing thing that

43:35

team always has 15 people on it or something hey split into two teams and kind of spread it out a little bit but um yeah it's the idea is that they are

43:42

accumulating points to win a prize uh as the show goes on and I do a little uh a

43:47

little bit of raffle type action so I'll just grab I have a rack in my garage of just like stuff my wife and

43:54

mother-in-law Buy on clearance you know they'll be like hey they'll FaceTime me at Walmart be like we got you know a

44:00

pyramid of bedet that are on sale for $5

44:06

from8 and do you want us to buy these as a silly prize and I'm like buy all of them clear F at Walmart is awesome the

44:12

pallets at Walmart sometimes are so cool or like after Christmas clearance I have a ton of stuff I just got and uh some of

44:18

sometimes that candy that you get at Christmas time is not Christmas branded and it's not doesn't expire till like next Christmas have you gone to the tote

44:24

store that's over next to Freddy my family is really into tote stores stores and all that stuff there's a prize

44:30

opportunity so I always have these prizes and then basically I will um I have like a tip jar out I'm like hey if

44:35

you throw a dollar in my tip jar I'll put your name on this wheel and we'll raffle off these silly things from the

44:41

like that you're keeping everybody involved in keeps everybody involved keeps everybody kind of like just coming up to the table and stuff and so little

44:47

things like that are like sort of tactics just you're just trying to create this environment that's not there at any other time of the week well again

44:54

too you're getting people involved in and and it's more than just trivia night and people go where did you get a bedet

45:01

I wanted it this trivia night oh my go they gave away a b to trivia night and that's advertising it just all comes

45:07

back to trivia with butts I love that yeah and now when I go

45:12

to Tennessee Hills every week I email 800 people here's the categories here's a sample question that's awesome I was

45:17

going to ask you uh if if you were taking advantage of email marketing because I would I would imagine well

45:23

just just contact right uh email text whatever is but yeah if you can logistically build like oh I acquired

45:30

this at Tennessee Hills Distillery yep next time I'm going to Tennessee Hills Distillery it makes sense to let all

45:35

these people know hey I'm going to be at Tennessee Hills Distillery exactly it makes complete sense it's great to go

45:41

like so we started a monthly karaoke night there it's been awesome I'm never a guy that I thought would host karaoke

45:47

and well so let me ask you this you're a host I got to ask karaoke is is is it I've heard I've

45:55

heard through the Great Vine that it's not fun when people who can sing actually participate in karaoke is that

46:01

is that true like is it better when people are always offkey or is it better when the person I think you need to have

46:07

like one to two good singers don't you yeah so I will tell you here's my selfish uh take on caraoke so far when

46:12

someone's really good I feel like I'm part of it because I'm giving them the

46:18

microphone and I set up the show I feel like the booker I I feel like Colonel Tom Parker to Elvis hopefully not that

46:24

evil but I'm like people are here because I set up this show and this person's really good like and like I'm

46:30

not looking for um like uh like props for that but it really just naturally

46:35

I'm like wow like that person was so good and like people are going to say oh

46:41

man we saw this person sing so well at that guy's karaoke show and it's a weird thing I never in a million years I I was

46:47

just like yeah I'll do it you know like they kind of talked me in a doing it and now I like I get a little charge out of that I love that and I actually love

46:54

most of the that we've done done it three months and every month's been bigger than the last we had 100 people at the last one at one point nice and I

47:01

would say 90% of everybody is really good and if they're not good they're entertaining no one's bad I we haven't

47:08

and it's also 7 to 10 it's not all hours of the night 2 a drunk karaoke it's really like I would say more family

47:15

style karaoke you know like it's there's not a lot of kids but like it's people drinking having a good time but not um

47:22

this excessive eight hour show they're not ready to be taxied out yeah yeah yeah I was like I don't want to do like

47:28

and there are those around here kind of like Dive Bar Late Night karaoke and I'm like I don't really want to do that cuz I've been to those and that's why I

47:34

didn't want to host it at first the Greenville Bowl Alle used to be one of those yeah I used to sing at it yeah I

47:40

think a monthly like just a little dose of it at this they have this new event space at Tennessee Hills I'm Like This

47:45

Is My Jam this is great A um but yeah I did not know you offered karaoke I I

47:51

certainly I certainly Love karaoke what I was is with the with the with having that email list from the trivia I can

47:58

say hey we're trying this karaoke thing 800 people and then you know fourth of

48:03

the audience might be from that list or something very cool are great karaoke I think it's fun if if people would just

48:09

like unguard themselves and participate if they would cut loose I believe they'd enjoy it again it takes one dancer at

48:16

the chaa slide that's true or with the chaa slide how will Jim just got up there and he's not that good of a singer got up there and sung some George Jones

48:23

I think I can do the same last show couple weeks ago we had uh three singers signed up and I was one of them and

48:30

there was no it was like we were supposed to start at 700 it was like 7:25 and there were like 15 people in the room and most of them were like I'm

48:35

not sing I just came to watch yeah oh man this so you started the show yeah and I'm like this is going to be interesting by like the time I was done

48:41

singing I had like 10 more people sign up because it it started like you said people saw it happening and then wed in

48:48

and then we went from 15 people to like a hundred people it's crazy most people sing songs at least locally I've only

48:54

ever participated in local karaoke uh Endeavors but like most people sing songs that are like crowd favorites

49:01

you're only going to sing the Friends in Low Places that like you've got and so like it just people are like oh I've got

49:08

one that I want to do after three shows I've learned like I can't sing at all like a real like singing anything like

49:14

with with real voice I can entertain with talking lyrics that I kind like

49:21

Fallon type thing right yeah like although I think sometimes he can really s he

49:26

he very talented but he does that that wheel singing thing that's crazy yeah you the celebrities the diversity of

49:32

voices that man can sing with it's pretty impressive like Hit Me Baby One More Time in the for or in the fashion

49:37

of the Beach Boys yeah I can sing like a boy band song like with a group and feel

49:42

fine about it cuz you're just you're not like I'm not really singing those dude that's my two plays '90s pop and 70s

49:48

country yeah that's my two lit My Own Worst Enemy like a good regular guy

49:54

karaoke song like really have to sing you're just kind of saying those words um I did Amish Paradise weird last time

50:00

I did and I felt good about that cuz I knew all the words and I didn't really have to look at the screen and he's I

50:06

mean Weird Al doesn't really kind of talking you know so um those are like I

50:11

found a little bit easier um but uh yeah karaoke's a lot of fun and having those

50:16

email and text lists man that's a big part of the business that started after Co when I started using this crowd per

50:22

software more y um shout out to crowd.com great uh do you ever give us any like

50:28

Collective Soul Shine just to get old

50:34

yeah that would be good I'm just saying throw some Creed in there Creed's got popular yeah Creed's coming back they're

50:39

going on tour again by the way sorry Johnson City probably pretty soon oh wow oh yeah or Asheville maybe wowzers I saw

50:45

the wallf flowers are going to be in Asheville what um big 9s band I guess okay Creed needs to play the orange peel

50:53

mhm oh in Asheville I just went to a show there for the first time I thought it was awesome yeah my first metal show was August Burns Red uh at the orange

51:00

pill I saw Alkaline Trio there with bow very cool that was awesome and they were my favorite band in high school and they

51:05

were from Chicago and I was like I wonder what this will be like and I've never seen them that close my ears were ringing the next day it was it was

51:11

awesome that is big enough but small enough like it's big enough to where you're like okay I'm in a real venue but it's small enough to where it's still

51:17

intimate yeah yeah okay mhm very cool so karaoke that's awesome karaoke's a lot

51:22

of fun yeah I think I think that could be a big hit I think I think karaoke would

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be I feel like that'd be an easier barrier of entry for people even the reserve people of the business owners

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here it's like everybody knows what karaoke is oh yeah yep you know so it's like if you well they know it brings people in yeah yeah so that I've heard

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some people say that they think karaoke is sort of a last ditch effort of a venue like they're like uh I guess we'll

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turn to karaoke and I'm like I don't think that's true if it's the right kind of place I was going to say if you're doing it in the right venue and you have

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the right host I don't know think that I wouldn't see it that way I could see what you're saying though like that could be I take my shirt off in almost

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every karaoke shirt there you go at some wow now I've got to go you really do that I do wow when's the next karaoke

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it's like it's like five drink Ryan and you truly turn into scaap from from yeah

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I'm really trying to do the Creed thing but yeah I usually or I get or I like yeah I just I'll get a little I'll get

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real loose and then people go do you remember what you did yesterday and I go no and they show me pictures oh I guess I tore my shirt shirtless I've done that

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at a lot of local auctions too to try and get the dollars up on like charity auctions wow I'm like I'll take my shirt

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off right now and then people like no you won't and then I'll do it and it's a silly thing I do but seriously it like adds money to the you are truly a

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performer yeah I'll do anything for charity sometimes that's awesome will you sing Scotty Doesn't Know that's see

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that's a great comedic song that you can sing and you don't have to really sing that's true that's a great song wow or

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Stacy's mom another those are both like in this those still come on my wife's playlist on her on her radio W radio

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the old not the new one oh the mly the no the old W no mly Cyrus no the old

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hit it with the w I think it's well Miley did it she did a dance to it

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back in her crazy days that's not the new no so when's the next karaoke

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event I've got to come to one of these it is Friday March 8th at 7 p.m about two blocks from here Tennessee Hills

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Bruce stillery would love anybody to come out March the 8th and if you come out and say you heard about it on this podcast I'll buy your first drink oh wow

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free drinks if you heard it here first if you heard it here first and you end up at the karaoke yeah sounds like you

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got a free drink sounds like y'all are all going to be shirtless wow what a time what a time uh

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so yeah karaoke is great I'm I'm really excited about the prospect of redeeming myself at some point on the Family Feud

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stage I think you need that some bigger game show Recreations locally like hey come play we can't call

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it Family Feud but call buds Feud or trivia Feud or something we'll do some bigger game with set pieces and buzzers

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and all that stuff um probably at the new Tennessee Hills okay in Bristol which opens by The Pinnacle sometime in

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2024 ,000 square feet so I've been kind of toying around with the idea of getting some some kind of bigger about

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the Paramount have you thought about doing things at the Paramount that's an actual theater in brist oh the actual theater um we've shot some things there

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Jennifer Jennifer that runs that place is super nice that feels a little too big for what I do but I don't know for

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sure I mean maybe you could that be a lot of fun don't cap yourself that's a good point don't cap don't limit yourself what about so here I know at

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least in the in the good weather days there are a lot of outdoor events yeah yeah I've done a lot BL or anything like

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thats like like Jonesboro is doing a Harry Potter walk around fast can you come do trivia that I've done a lot of

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that kind of stuff or movies in the park hey we're showing Hocus Pocus and can you do trivia and then we'll show the movie while it gets dark um a lot of

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stuff like that in Elizabethton and um and Jonesboro um and then uh I got to

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open for a Willie Nelson cover band in Jonesboro on the fourth of July last year uh so there were a lot of people in

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the audience and I they played smartphone trivia and um that was a good time and they gave everybody Willie Nelson bandanas so I got F like that a

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lot I like that were they called the ponchos and the lefties by chance no no I don't think so okay it's

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I'm gonna miss it was like a guy like you know oh okay it it was a guy's name and then like or something in my wheel

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house nice that's like old 7s country so so how can uh how can our listeners find

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you to uh reach out for their next corporate event or whatever yeah best place to go is my website trivia withth

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buds.com it's udds I'm sure you guys will link it somewhere Link in description below

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tribs.io website make sure they can contact you on that page and it works because I'll get messages and it'll say

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about me contact form I'm like okay they were on my bio page or um uh videos of

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what shows that's cool yeah so I really enjoy that that's a little trick someone gave me um Link in description below

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absolutely yeah triv buds.com I'm Ryan buds on all social media and uh yeah

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near or far hybrid or virtual or in person whatever it is I'd love to do uh trivia bingo game shows and more for you

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your friends your family your co-workers and uh thank you guys so much for having me today I think for folks participating

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it seems like you're going to have a good time yeah yeah always a good time I can I can imagine it being a good time might see shirtless Ryan who knows you

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never know uh you just really don't know what's going to happen at a trivia with buds uh yeah so thank you for being on

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Ry this has been so this has been cool because this is a deep dive into the the uh trivia world that I knew nothing

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about cuz I'm used to the Crusty old white dudes over at the table like mumbling into the mic um and you have

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open you have opened my eyes to what trivia can be and I appreciate you for that and

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for listeners that are just listening and not watching on YouTube go watch the Youtube video cuz I just took my shirt

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off wow he he didn't actually uh we didn't actually have that take place

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sure take my shirt off I had another shirt on underneath ah dang double shirt today almost had it jar there are also a

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couple things that our listeners can do here for Faith and Frames what are those things well first off go go tune in to

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Ryan's podast because that sounds like a a really good fun thing to do like I drive to Nashville a lot yeah yeah yeah trivia

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with your that would be a lot of fun I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to dive into that link in description below yeah uh so first check that out uh

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secondarily just leave us some feedback uh rate US review us stars and bars we

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read all of the comments we weed good ones and the bad ones uh we like them all yeah absolutely share it with

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someone who you think would like like to have a trivia event hosted I like that I

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like that I think that's a cool thing I think that's a cool thing um so here's the hard part before we go eat some lunch yeah you want to make it you want

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you want to hit us with the hard part uh we'll catch you guys in the next one thank you so much thank you guys so

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much lot of fun guys have a good

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one