HardLore - Furnace Fest (is Haunted)

Episode Date: September 29, 2022

Colin and Bo spent the weekend at Furnace Fest 2022 in Birmingham Alabama which took place at the notoriously haunted Sloss Furnaces, and they stayed at the notoriously haunted Tutwiler hotel... Is one of them lying, or did they share a possible paranormal experience?   HardLore: A Knotfest Series, Fueled by Monster Energy Edited by Steven Grise • Title sequence by Nicholas Marzluf Join the HARDLORE PATREON to watch every single weekly episode early and ad-free, alongside exclusive monthly episodes. Join the HARDLORE DISCORD for community discussions and to participate in our future Q&A episodes. FOLLOW HARDLORE: INSTAGRAM, TWITTER, SPOTIFY, APPLE FOLLOW COLIN: INSTAGRAM FOLLOW BO: INSTAGRAM, TWITTER   For sponsorship opportunities, email us! [e-mail] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Indianapolis, New Jersey. All right. No, no. Media. Yeah. Me and, oh, I would love to go there, too, brother. The Mall. Of America.

Have you heard of it? You ever fucking heard of it? You're recording? Yeah. Hello, welcome. It's our Lord time. What's up, Bo? You're sick of me yet?

Absolutely. But no. Sick of me yet, man. You know, I feel like I just saw you, you know? You did. I know I did. Yeah, that was yesterday. Kind of. Kind of. Yesterday, late. But we just got back from Furnace Fest. I'm still snouting up gray. Oh, are you? I got gray coming out of me out of my head.

I got to tell you. I was expecting to feel real bad physically coming home this weekend. But at your advice and Brittany's advice, I was sucking down them liquid IVs all week. Liquid IV, baby. Holy shit, friend of the show. Yeah. I bought a 48-pack, it cost me about $1,000. Yeah, I was going to say, that's... But now I can't live without it.

Hey, liquid IV, you know what I mean? It's good stuff, though. Put some liquid I.B. into my liquid death, and then live. Just live away. You got that... Where do you want to start here? I want to talk first just about... I feel like we got a lot to talk about.

actually, more than we even realize. We really do. We stayed at a hotel called the Tutweiler. Tutweiler. The Tutweiler. The Tutweiler. As the locals call it. In Birmingham, Alabama, where Furnace Fest was, and it's right downtown.

And it's a cool, old hotel. The first day, before we even need to talk about the lineup, the very, that we got a tremendous McDonald's. No, yes, McDonald's. McDonald's was good. Tremendous. fries a little cold, but, you know, everything was there. I had my first bite of a Big Mac, which I suspect you might splice in right now. All right, here we have.

This is hard lore. We're here live, Birmingham, Alabama. We got cinematic edition of Bo's first Big Mac ever in his life. I don't even, oh, there, okay, there it is. Just some sauce on there. You see that we didn't, he didn't chicken out, though he's so brave, such a brave boy. Here he goes. Bo's first Big Mac.

Here's two, you pals. Good luck. pleasure. I'm sorry. Finish it. You could taste it. Get into the middle. Don't fuck with me, boy.

Get into it. The pickles are good. Pickles are great. Yeah. What do you think of the third bread? How about that? Extra bread. They put another one in there, huh?

Yeah. Ooh, that's a good bite. There's a lot of pickle there. What do you think of that bite? That was good. Oh, man. It would be so good with ketchup. Think about the sauce as a pickle sauce instead of a cream sauce.

I know. That's what I'm doing. Isn't that helping? You're hoping. There's Brittany. She's our Christian Heartful correspondent. She'll be live with us at Furnace Fest. You love it?

New favorite? I don't hate it. I don't hate it. This is breaking news. This is huge. I don't know if I get it again necessarily. Would you do extra sauce next time? He almost did that to me.

I did it to me. I'll tell you what. You put extra sauce on that bad way? Of course I did. What am I a fucking piece of shit? I'll see. I just, oh, God. I just got.

if I lot I can't do it I could do probably this man is covered I could probably do light maybe how close is this to in and out soft spread or whatever well better okay similar similar yeah but but that we got 40 nuggets too so we're pretty well set up here at Birmingham do they Birmingham here or a ham I don't know. We'll see you tomorrow. I'm very tired. Man.

And as you'll see, he ate about half of it. I ate it. It got goopy, but I got it. I was really proud of that. Thank you so much. Went to bed, slept okay. Next morning, we went to Walgreens on our way. And with a clan apologist.

Oh, dude. Oh, my God. That was unreal. There's so much to talk about. The Uber driver was. was like, because Bo had mentioned having, like, everybody in Chicago, old Chicago having running ins, run ins with mobsters and whatnot. Everybody's got an Al Capone story in Chicago.

Somebody's uncle. This motherfucker is like, you know, I actually live two doors down from the grand dragon of the clan. And I'm sitting shock and I'm like, oh, yeah? We're like, oh, that's crazy. Like, because he said it in a way where he's, it's like leaning negative, but you're not sure. Right. And then he's like, well, actually, my next door neighbors, he was, they found he was beaten on his wife and the clan came and burned across in his yard. So it's like how we,

he was expecting us to be like, whoa. Wow. The clan is fucking sick. Where do I? Yeah. Just on, and we were just kind of like, so they're not all bad. Yeah, that's exactly, that's exactly what he was saying is not all clans under bed. But what ethnicity was that neighbor? precisely. Yeah. And what is the veracity of this story? Right. Is that what?

I don't know. Who? Did the neighbor exist? Was it a ghost? Was he really a dragon? And speaking of ghosts. We found a book called Haunted Birmingham. Colin found it right by the checkout.

They knew. They really knew. They knew we were coming. This book ended up being a lifesaver and a guide. for us this whole weekend. And we didn't realize until day three that the front cover was our hotel. The back cover was the venue of Furnace Fest.

So we're surround. We are cover-to-cover haunted. You know, like... The whole experience. The whole experience. And then we were drinking coffee across the street from the theater that was like the inside cover. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. So day one, we're reading this book, and I decided to go to the index and sure enough, Tupwila, The hotel is in there. Colin, what room number were you? I was 613. I was 6.09.

I'm reading. And Sean, our videographer gentleman, was 621 or something. Also on the 6th floor. Reading through the thing. The only place, the only room and floor on the entire hotel, the 6th floor. Come on. Room 604. So right between Bo and I.

Yeah, literally just right around the corner. So like we're reading that. We're like, oh, cool. Because like, cool. At least there's something. Yeah, yeah. The story was a girl sometime in the 90s. There was a ratat-tat-tat, like a knocking on a girl.

This was funny to me two days ago. But wait, wait. Not as funny to me now. Let us bookend this story. Okay. Much like the book itself. Okay. So we're going to say this is what we found out about our hotel.

And you know me. Yeah, yeah. I'm not a cynic. I don't think you're dumb. I just think maybe you're mistaken. I'm a skeptic. So we're at the fest. What do we got here?

We got day one. Who do we see? Friday, September 23rd. You're going to put it on the... Oh, yes, you are. You're going to do a little bow? Oh, I love Little Bo. I know you.

All right. All right. Who do we got? Let's just go ahead and say this now. We weren't there before 1 p.m. ever. No, we weren't. Because we're there late, and boy, do we love to sleep. And we love a late night snack.

And it's hard to get up when you're snoozing. So who is the first band we watched here? Probably E-Town, huh? I think it was E-Town. So it was like I got to show up and have the best time. Right. And I watched a little bit of E-Town. We also had to like set up, find our spot, you know, blah, blah, blah.

That was, that was, and let's go back to that for a second. We dealt with Ryan from Frist Fest, who was like... A champion. Like unbelievably accommodating. The whole fest was accommodating maybe to a fault. Until the last day. Until the last day. But before then, it was like...

Do whatever, man. Anybody could go anywhere. But, you know, by day three, they had solved that. Yeah, they figured that out. I mean... And humiliated us live on stage. Simply humiliated us. Yeah, but you got them back.

I got it back. So yeah, you, I watched, you enjoy E-Town for a little bit, then I went over and caught a little bit of anti-flag. Couldn't fucking, what did I say that live on the show? Oh, shit. Well, here's a preface here. I've never heard an anti-flag track.

But all, in eighth grade, my enemies loved anti-flag. So it was like, they were like the baseball team to me. It was like, all right, well, I beefed the, the baseball. baseball team and I'd be anti-flake. That was much the same with like the the pink Floyd Nirvana shirt kids. But they were fucking losers.

So it's like you're the bully in that situation. But I would see the shirt and I'd be like, okay, I'm good. I don't need that in my life. But then you heard like that I heard Drain you and I was like Oh. Okay. And Darkside. Yeah. Drain.

So you are you dark side over the wall? I am. You know, I'm a theatrical fucking stupid little fucker. I know you're a real drama queen. So the wall is my shit. Okay. Supposedly animals is like the one. Like, like Floyd heads, like love animals.

I can't tell. I'm like, I love Pink Floyd. Never heard it. Okay. Fair enough. No, but yeah, we were on a drive our first trip in Australia and it was like one of those like crazy long drives that you have there. And it was iPod days and I just put on Darkside. I'd never really sat down and listened to it. I think I listened to it twice through. It's not that long of a record. No. You

ever done the Wizard of Oz thing? Yeah, with my mom. You actually sat there and did the whole time. Yeah, it doesn't. I mean, it's crazy. I would blow my fucking brains out. Morning again. I can't, I'm sad. I miss morning again, to be honest. Yeah, I feel like we didn't really look at this lineup until we were there. I remember like hearing morning again finish and being like, okay. Fuck that up. Yeah. I saw anti-plag, anti-plag.

Anti-plag. Nine out of ten dentists recommend anti-plac. Anti-plag flayed one song. And then they played Die for the Government. And I left to go find Colin again. I remember when Integrity was playing, we had to get to drug church. And then it was like,

oh, Mad Ball's playing while Angel Dust was playing. So it was like, I caught can't stop, won't stop. That had to go watch Angel Church. It's like... Yeah. Saw all the homies, you know? Yeah, it had to see the homies before seeing bands that I love. But, you know, I have seen many, many, many times.

We spoke on this list, we spoke with Drug Church, Angel Dust, case your strain, newfound glory there that day as well, right? A representative of newfound glory that when you see, you'll think is... When the listeners see, they'll think is funny. They'll be like, what the hell? Yeah. I think that's it that day. We didn't do that many that day.

No, this was like prep and build. We had to link and bill this day. Yeah, we really did. Wanted, we were going to talk to Pat from Fiddlehead and Havehart, but he ended up having to leave a lot.

But I got a, I got a guarantee. A guarantee that he will be on for a full episode. So all you little, all you little babies can enjoy that. Until then, he did bail on us personally.

I will harbor resentment until the episode, and then the episode is starting, I'll be like, oh my God, friend of the show Pat is here. Didn't get to see Quicks-N, which I personally was bummed about, would have loved to talk to Wander. Yeah, you want to fucking.

I want to, all right, so the next day. That was it for day one? That was it for that day. I mean, these days were really long, but, you know, are there any anecdotes and nuances from day one that we can share, perhaps.

Just from looking at that list. Well, I mean, people will see when they watch the minis, but oh my God, the drug church one was one hour long. And the angel does one, Justice said, was fucking amazing. But it's that amazing shit. It was perfect. No, it was amazing, but yeah, he was, he was sipping on what,

White Claw surge, is that what it is? I guess it's got more alcohol. So he was like, listen, we got to do this while I'm drunk because I'm not going to remember. And in like 30 minutes, I'm not going to be here mentally. And it ended up being so much fun. It's completely different than the podcast episode we did. Yeah, it's true. We talked, the one with Vincent was really good.

Yeah, he's. He's just so enjoyable to talk to. He also told us, gave us a guarantee. He said, I don't do podcasts, but I'm going to do. yours. I think that's what a friend of the show does. That qualifies him surely as a friend of the show. We're going to do one with Hoyer, but Hoyer had to go to.

So Hoyle will be on for a full episode as well. So we, did you just spell on your keyboard? Sure did. Oh, boy. So we packed up now, also keep in mind, we're traveling as a four piece because we had friend of the show, Brittany. Oh, Brittany Miller. My first time meeting.

Yeah. It's simply a delight. Yeah, she's my BFF. Just a delight. Couldn't get enough. She was also our Christian hard correspondent. So it's like when we'd be like, you know, Norma Jean, what about these guys? She'd be like, oh, yeah.

Did you just say hard correspondent? I sure did. Like all one. Wow. Yeah. This is why. You know who came up with that? Tell me it was her.

It was her. God. I know. Gotta have her back on. We'll do a full Christian hardcore episode. just and just break it all down. She'll be on. Oh, that's a good idea.

She's in the water. We did a, okay, we'll get there. I guess it's day soon. Yeah, we'll get there. We'll get in there. Well, hold on. Hold on. We had a very important meal.

We really did. We went back to the hotel. We talked about so much that it was only appropriate that we tried a cop, you know? Yeah. And we ordered like $80 worth of Taco Bell. Which like is, to me that's like, that's like another, 20 on top of my personal order, you know?

Oh. Is that me or you? No, that was me. The homie spam risk. We'll never leave me alone. I hate spam risk. I hate that fucking guy. Punisher.

So they got, so I have a picky order, Colin obviously hates me for it, but they got the orders right. I really do. Except we ordered four Baja Blasts. Zero.

Four Baja Blas zero. And they for sure gave us four. diet, mountain dues. He doesn't. Don't say that it was full sugar. Earmuffs real quick. No. Don't listen to this.

We ordered four and they for sure gave us four. They didn't. It was not full sugar, Mountain Dew, it was diet. I would have tasted it. There were four heavies. I would have tasted it otherwise.

And then we slept like little babies and then it was the next one. Which I wouldn't have done with a full large mountain dew in me. So you told me it had don't bring that. You told me that sugar. I keep it 99. I'd be lying sometimes.

You said sugar doesn't, you said it's not real. Don't worry about that. So then slept like a little baby, got up, got Revelator coffee, which was nice. Big shout out to Revelator coffee.

Yes. Everybody in there, every member of the staff hated our guts for sure, which is the way it should be. You don't have to be a nice barista. That's how you guarantee a good cup. Exactly. If, like, if you, if you so much to smile at me, you're only getting a 20% tip.

But if you disregard me emotionally, you're getting 30. 25. They had a deal for buy one, get one of 16 ounce cold brews. Like, why? I want everybody to really think about that. I think I figured it out after. They want you to bring a friend and hang out. But they didn't even really really.

have an inviting hangout. No, they did not at all. But it was the, dude, the chair at the table is maybe the worst in history. Yeah, you felt like you were being tortured. No lumbar support, but great backcrack ability. Yeah. But I think the gimmick was, okay, people are here for Furnace Fest. Bring a friend and you buy one, they get it too, you know?

I guess. So what ended up drinking, what ended up happening was I ended up drinking 32 ounces of cold brew for $6. And you're not that kind of guy. I'm really, I'm a one cup of day guy and I'm good. I want to keep it that way because I don't want to, you know, I don't want it. Brittany's drinking quad shot. She's a sick fuck. She does quad plus two.

And then the girl, the third day was like, hey, like I made another one because this was just so crazy. Do you want it? And she was like, sure. So that's like. Echo. How many? How much caffeine is in a shot of espresso?

According to reference.com, a shot of espresso that is equal to 1.5 ounces contains approximately 77 milligrams of caffeine. If the shot is a single ounce. Echo, what's 77 times six? 77 times six is 462. That's a lot. And she for an hour later was like, you guys want coffee? Yeah, I mean, that's just too much. I want to keep it low because I don't want to

I don't want it to wear off sure I don't want to get to her depraved level she is depraved for sure she'd be the first two of the minute um but that place was good and then we went to the fest yeah who do we see we just missed counterparts just fucking miss friend of the show

counterparts let's uh yeah let's talk about kuma let's talk about kuma quick so beloved friend of the show kuma passed we've got the news Brendan's beloved cat yeah uh kuma pass Our condolences to Brendan. Sincere condolences, because not only, like, do we know, obviously, Kuma meant a ton to

Brendan, but, like, everybody owns pets. We all own a pet. We all have something near and dear, or have lost something near and dear. We all know that, like, genuinely really sucks. Absolutely. Because there's, you can't communicate, can you? And this is what we do as pet owners. The only way we can communicate is through the love that we share.

Is that right, Zoe? Quit. Squit. They're all here. They're here because they need us, as Brendan once said on our show. And we give them the best life that we can. And clearly Brendan gave Kuma the best one a cat has ever had. Very well put.

Based on the, I mean, people are going to chant this cat's name at their gigs for the rest of his life. Which they did, he told us. Yeah. However, I realized I got ahead of ourselves. We went before the fest. We went to Waterberger. my first time eating inside of a water burger. Right.

Now we filmed some stuff for it, so you guys are going to see it, so we don't want to give too much away. No. But, but, um, but, but.

Speaking of butts. Speaking of butts, I got something here. You really did, man. It's a little wave file called poor Colin. Now, you're going to play the whole thing? I guess I'm,

I'm going to edit the whole thing. Well, it's, I got it from, I got it from toilet seat. To hand drying. Okay. So that's how I clipped it.

So we were using, we weren't using mics like this. We were using lab mics that are just on you. And you can't, like apparently now we know you can't turn them off. You cannot actually stop the recording. Because there's other recordings of us being like, no, it's off. Don't worry. You're good. You know?

And but then this one specifically, I think we both forgot that the mics existed. And your boy had to do what your boy does. So here's me Here's the audio of me taking a shit At Waterberger in Birmingham, Alabama You're gonna play it or am I gonna play it? I'll play it for us just so weird Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, God. That was a video of me listening to a recording. Dude, this, I'll, let me say, I'm gonna tell you what I told. I show the Salana and I said that the sigh made me rethink my whole life.

Because I, like you, I had no idea I was being recorded, but me in private is like, ugh, while shitting, which is like not necessary. What does that do? Duh. What does that do? It doesn't do shit.

So it does shit. Play it again. Have it to them one more time. All right. Here's this one. Oh, God. Sigh is criminal. Because it's not even.

Here's the other one. Yeah. Now, that sounds like a plastic lid is slamming onto porcelain. That's in there elsewhere. Yeah, that's in there. Yeah. So I know it's, that's Colin's ass.

That was my 100% ass. So anyway, that was Waterberg. That's what Waterberg. Well, the real, the real beauty of this is Colin is, is in the bathroom using it. And I'm looking at our little receiver, and I say to Brittany,

it's still recording. And he's in the bathroom. He hasn't pressed mute because we thought mute worked. Mute does not work. And you'll, there's a thing, but I. Sorry, but rode on the spot.

spot, but on your lives, the mute button does not work. And I have it set to do that before Jason says something. But in part of some of the audio that I cut out, there is you coming back and me telling you, and you going, that's amazing. And Brittany and I lose it. And unfortunately, that's gone. But like, why is that gone? You know?

Me shitting is there, but you, like, you having repressed record again is not there. Yeah. It's a horse shit. All right, let's get back to this. RIPA, Kuma. Yeah. We did speak to Burnin again. Mm-hmm.

I don't... We talked about Kuma, and this was before we learned... Yeah. It was passing. So we'll see if, out of respect that we... Maybe we don't put that one. Maybe we don't put that one out. It's going to be up to him.

Yeah. Up to how it feels. I think the first band that I watched was figure four, had a blast. Talk to Andrew, a true friend of the show. That, okay, this is something we should probably get into. Yeah. Speaking of the Waterburger audio debacle. Damn, dude.

I mean, you especially, I felt great. So as soon as we get to the fest, basically, we see Andrew, who I don't know if I've ever spoken to. And he comes right up. And he's like, guys, I've heard every episode. I heard we're doing something this weekend. I've got a gift for you. Yeah.

Do we spoil it or do we wait for the... I guess, no, because this is the recap. Yeah, this is the review, because who knows when that's going up. Right, right. So if you want to see us drinking what he gave us, you got to tune in later. So he knows firsthand my stomach problems just from the show. And this man came on onto the mini show with a thing of metamusel. Like orange-flavored metamuseal.

And poured about 14. ounces of it in your eight-ounce cup. Yeah. And gave me a pretty reasonably sized one. I maybe should have had yours. I had to, I mean, it was thicker than pudding. It looked like pumpkin puree. That's precisely.

That was the consistency. And I think that you, here's my, so you threw up the next day. No. Yes. You did. It was the same day. It was the same day. You're right.

I woke up pukin. So you threw up the same day, which makes me think. So he asked us to stir it with our fingers, right? Uh-huh. That makes me think your hands were really dirty with, like, poop on them and stuff. Is that what it makes you think? You threw up because of the poop on your hands, and I was fine. Now, is it that or is it because I have a regular tummy, and you're cursed from the womb?

Why would Meta Musil make a regular tummy throw up? Because I had to fucking chew it, Colin. You think your poop got so firm that you threw it up? Truth. What? Do we only eat the pizza on that last day? Wait a minute. No.

we are kind of, we're skipping ahead of day. We are. Because that was Sunday. Because we talked, we spoke, he also saying in Comeback Kid on the Sunday. So it counts. So we talked about Comeback Kid and Figure 4. Again, never spoken to the guy in my life. We got to the bottom of the Christian stuff.

Well, kind of actually. Currently, the bottom. Currently, yes. No, we got to the middle of the Christian. We got to the middle of, yeah. Because they're out there still. They're, they're, these motherfuckers, man. And like Andrew aside, because he was like, he was great.

He was very open about it. But like they're still among us in society, you know? The post Christian agency guys. Like, ah, we were never Christian, you know. We see you. We know you lie in. You know what that doesn't want? Those colors don't run.

Those colors do not run. Yeah, yeah, exactly. You'll see it. Yeah. That one was good. He was very cool about it. He said on stage, just for anyone curious, during their set, he said, this band used to be a Christian band,

we're not anymore. And the room cheered. The room cheered. So maybe this fest used to be a Christian fest. It's not anymore. Or it was just full of people who, you know. Who a doubt, D with the D. Yeah.

What do we got? Misbleeding through, I believe we ate. And then it was Earth Crisis time. And God knows we were missing Earth Crisis. Talk. Go ahead, Colin. Said of the weekend. I mean, Earth Crisis in E-town says to the weekend.

sonically. They sounded so good. Said of the weekend on any stage at any, on any day. Dude, they legitimately, I, I, but they sounded like they practice.

They've never stopped practicing. They, they played perfect and sounded huge inside of a steel, like an aluminum roofed steel shed. And played hits. And played nothing but hit.

Well, mostly hits. It was like a new song. Yeah, they played new songs. Yeah. So that was very special. And then we did, people are wondering, we did a little mini hard lore with Carl,

which was very special. It was very good. And then afterwards off camera, and obviously I'm not going to say what we talked about, but it got even better. Yeah, we talked for another like 20 minutes

after we wrapped and was like, Sean, you still fucking rolling? Yeah, yeah, it was a bummer. Yeah, it was good stuff. But hey, you know. But he's down.

He's very down. He's very down. Cool guy. Um, demon, I found a spill canvas. We were recording the rest of the night. Yeah.

So this is where at this, so we knew that the day was going to be light with interviews. So we did the What a Burger thing in the early afternoon. And then we decided, hey, Haunted Birmingham told us something. And I read that sucker. Covered to back.

Covered a back. Covered a back. And, uh, we thought, okay, we'll walk around the steel manufacturing. furnace, hence furnace fast, where

we've been told the whole weekend that like many a worker had been like sucked in and incinerated. So we thought, okay, well, let's like walk around and check her out. You know, have a look. And we recorded it. I had a blast.

I think it's unfair to say we recorded it. I think it's more accurate to say we shot a 30 minute ghost hunting pilot. So, Look out for Haunt lore, episode one coming soon. Haunt lore ghost stories from tour.

Come on. It's done. It writes itself. We had a great time. I don't want to spoil anything because there is one thing that happened that truly was pure happenstance and was so cool. Oh, yeah, that's saved. I can't. That's a good moment.

It was a very good moment. It was like, wow, we are world famous. Well, you just gave it away. No, no, that's fine. That didn't do anything. I'm just saying, but no relation to anything else, we're from a world famous show.

And then, do you remember where we ate? Saturday? Yeah. Oh my goodness, Waffle House. Tell the story, brother. We went to this weird little Waffle House in Birmingham that was like under a hospital.

Chaos in there, of course. Of course. But like even more. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Like, you couldn't sit, that we walked in, the counter was wide open, and we were told immediately, nope, that's closed. Yeah. Sure.

It surely wasn't, but it was. Then there's also that, like, a lot of Waffle House. This is, like, half the size of a normal seating area for a Waffle House. So granted, there's a big fest going on. Lots of people surely want to eat 24 hours, blah, blah, blah. With that consider, we sat pretty fast. The other Waffle House has that, like, little mini bar that's, like, not a high bar stool, but like a normal chair. at the bar also closed.

They really just, they wanted to turn people away. I don't blame them. But there were like six people working. That's true. They're quite a few. Once we finally sat down, we had Miss Portia, wait a noise. Ms. Portia, you know, she was lovely, as they always are, at the Waffle House. Because we were lovely.

Yeah, yeah, we were nice. When the people behind us were like one remark away from getting stomped out by the entire place. We were really, really ready to fight those people. And if you're seeing this, we noticed. Yeah, I'll kill you, literally. Steak and eggs weren't on the menu, but Ms. Forcia let me order it because she loved me.

She called Bo's sweetheart before she called me a nickname. And it broke his heart. And it broke me up my heart. So I said, Ms. Portia, I noticed you called him sweetheart, and you didn't call me anything. And she responded, okay, snugglebug. She took a second. She was like, yeah, what do I got?

My soul ascended. And then she called me baby, and then I got a sweetheart. And it was like, all right, Miss Portia loves me. I'm fine. And the night's okay. That's okay. And then the bill came. Then the bill came.

Now, we told her right at the beginning, hey, make it one check. We're going to make this the easiest night. We're going to be the easiest check you have of the night. She said, we'll see. Now, all of you have been to Waffle House shortly, or you've heard of it. aware of one of the big five people at waffle house take a wild guess say it out loud right now to

say it out loud i want to i want you to type it in the comments before there you go before you get to this type it in yeah pause the video type in what you think five people at waffle house costs and then i want you to reply to yourself and and be like dan yes to yourself own up to it so the bill doesn't ever come you know we go and stand up and go to the register to handle it and uh she's like, you want to know how much your bill was? And at first I'm like, no, it's fine. Like, you're, we love Miss Portia. So it's, it's fine.

And it's Waffle House. And it's Waffle House. I'm like, this is going to be, this is going to be 60 bucks, you know? Exactly. Exactly what I would have guessed. Yeah. Yeah. Even with the steak and eggs, which don't come with eggs, uh, being 1450.

She said, she was like, you want the steak and eggs? And I was like, you know that that comes with hash browns and not eggs, right? And I was like, huh? Well, well, Can I, what if I, can I add eggs? And she was like, too shay. Yeah, she was like, I didn't even think of that. You're a, wow, man.

So get at the register, say, Ms. Portia, I guess tell us, since you're making a face. And she just says, it's $200. Even. Even. No tax, no, nothing. And I'm like, well, that's not right, of course. That's what Colin said. And her response is, well, well, well, I said, well, I said, well, no, it's not.

And she said, well, toppings are a dollar each. And I said, well, how many times do we get? She said, one. So, so this is, let me, I'm going to do my impression of her calculating it from the bill next. And again, Ms. Portia, we love you if you're listening. Fed in front of the show, but she's doing this. She's like, okay, the stakes were 1450. 14.

And then instead of doing plus, she was like, clear. 14. And then so somehow the first time, she must have done like 1450 times a thousand and then was like, oh, 200. Their bill is 200. And just hoped that we didn't. We were just like, no problem. Anything you say, man. But I stood there and I was like, all right. She could not, she was like, Kiki, come over here and police help me. And Kiki was busy. So yeah, literally. We waited to leave for 10 minutes. Because I was like, okay, Portia, I will, I'll help you calculate. He went down the itemized list. We did the thing.

I did it together on my phone with her. And it was 81, 725 or something. Yeah. Which I, you know, I got, I got steak and eggs. So I guess we got two orders of steak and eggs. Yeah. Two All-Stars. Because Sean, our videographer, all weekend.

The whole weekend. Dittoed my order anywhere. Just give me whatever you got. Which, like, respect. I like that it was what I got, not when you. you got. Not never what I got. You know?

That says something. Yeah, that was Waffle House. But I will say, love the meal. Hell of a meal. Can't wait for, can't wait for next time. I had no complaints.

I got the All Star for everybody wondering. All Star was scrambled. No, I got over easy with smothered and covered and a diet cook. It was wonderful. I forget the name. It's like shit it or something,

but I got chili on my. Oh, dude. He got chili on his on his hash browns without shredded cheese, which is puzzling because they have that. I don't, well, see, here's the thing here. So this is my, the perversion of my liking is that I like to put ketchup in my chili in my hash browns. There's already ketchup in the chili. That's okay.

I'm like a little more, you know. I'm saying that doesn't bother me. I'm with you. If you get a chili dog, would you put ketchup? in that? Sure. Okay. See, I do that. Well, you're a ketchup guy. I'm a ketchup. Hey. So I'm talking to, like, the one person who is like, yeah, I can see that being pretty good. That's not that bad, dude. Everybody else is getting lighten a torch right now on their way to my house. And then, uh, we went to sleep and went to bed and went to revelator in the morning, didn't we? Just like the day before. We sure did.

Just like the day before. And then. And then it was time for Sunday. So Sunday was like our busy day. Yeah. Well, do we eat Sunday morning? Oh, Hank's. Or, What is that what it's called? No, that's not Hank. Hank's is here. We went to some. Hero donuts. Yeah, hero donuts.

With a fucking miserable chicken sandwich, huh? Bad chicken sandwich, pretty good donut. Great donut. Yeah, I was happy. But you bit into it and you were, this was, there was a, I'm not kidding. For a full 60 seconds, Bo was like, it was. It was. Like, instead of spitting it out, he just sat there breathing fire.

There's nothing. grosser to me than partially chewed up food. Probably part of the reason why I never want to have a baby, you know, because that's just real, I don't know. Because you don't want to eat it or kids, kids, I don't want to eat a kid. No, the babies are always spitting. Yeah. And like, you got to feed them and they're messy. Babies and old people, I can't, can't deal with that. Um, interesting. So I suffer. We really, we really go out of this life the same way we came in, huh? Just a fucking loser. Just a total dork. Yeah. Okay. Uh, chicken sandwich didn't taste like anything, but the, uh, the donut was good.

It tasted like hot. That's what the chicken sandwich tastes. That is very true. It tasted like inconvenience in my mouth. Um, so then we got to the show. Miss Jesus Peace, unfortunately, but. I think, yeah, Dying Wish was the first. Yeah.

Saw pics and Vids. It looked great. Yeah, I, I watched Dying Wish. We both watched Dying Wish. Yeah, come back hit played late, remember? Oh, this is when we got humiliated. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's not, it's, it's not just to preface this.

I'm not, we're not shit, you know? No. If somebody's like, hey, guys, you can't be on the stage, it's like totally fine, you know? But this is day three. Day three, where we'd been doing whatever. Whatever we wanted. Okay, because we're still wearing, now they gave us these paper wristbands. Which were the artist bands before the artist bands were delivered.

Correct. So we had essentially artist bands. Which, you know, I don't care. And it's like, and I, again, that's not, that's not even the point. Sure. It's not even, no, no issue, but, you know, I wanted, Emma and Dying Wishar is like actually a friend. Wanted to watch their set on stage. I watched Earth Crisis from behind the drummer.

I never met him, you know. Yeah, I was fixing his crash. Yeah. The whole set. It's so true. And the security guard didn't thank me for that. They didn't know how to do that. But also, I think, this is pure speculation.

but I think because, maybe because, like, Mastodon, like... I think that's a fact. Yeah, right. Like, hey, Mastodon's playing, we need to kind of step it up to it. We need security to really, like, more than they already are. Yeah. So, Colin's already off the stage, and I totally rad at him out. You fucked me, man.

I could not believe how hard you fucked me. In front of a whole room. Because at first she was, I was like, I'm with this fan, like a lie, you know? Yeah, yeah. I'm with them emotionally, I would say. And that's what I was. said to her too unknowingly that you said that but then the guy asked the guy was like what do you you would DJ or something and I was like yeah I'm the DJ but I said here's the thing I said it

with a smile to be like yeah man yeah I'm the DJ to be because I thought he was giving me the in I thought he was being like are you the DJ and maybe like I'm the DJ but instead he was just testing you like this guy's going to say so he had the the gal I was like yeah I was like I'm with that guy over there. I pointed it right at college. And then he marches up to me to tell me that we're both getting kicked off. He was like, where's the DJ stuff? And I was like, uh, and then he did this.

He pointed off stage and walk us off. The full point, dude. While pointing. Go. Go. Full on guiding us off. I'm making eye contact with people who are laughing. Ooh.

I'm getting stupid. Oh. See, I don't, I never saw any of that. I don't care because it's like, in reality, I had no right to be there. So who cares? You were like, it is now my personal mission to fuck this man. However,

however, it's not actually this man. It's whoever told him that the wristband wasn't good enough. Sure, sure. That's my beef. It's a communication breakdown.

Sure. So I went to the girl who gave us our wristbands. She's in the same friggin place. Right. And I tell her exactly what happened. And she was like, just for the record, just to get the same wristband that everybody has now.

Because I was wearing my shitty paper one all three days, shaking a shower, wiping my ass with it on. Who knows what was going on with that thing. We have audio recording of that. You'll hear, I was doing this with this wristband on. So you can only imagine what was on that thing. I explained to the girl and she was like mad for me. She was like, that is the, she was like rolling her eyes.

And she like immediately gave me one. two, one for me and one for Colin. I went back, gave one to Colin, went straight back. At this point, it was literally I was just... You were just being... I was just being petty, honestly. I was just like, I'm good now, and the guy...

The guy was walking up. Oh, dude, I witnessed that. He literally went... He, like, looked away, and the girl was smiling. She was like, okay. She was fine with it. She didn't give a shit. Dude, as you were going on, back to the guy,

he was sitting there like this. He was so busy. He was furious. And I was like, ha, ha, ha, ha. Yeah. But whatever. They had a good set.

Great. Dude, 1.45. It was lit. Yeah, it was. There are a lot of people in there. Miss comeback kid wanted to see them.

You saw? No. Brittany went and watched. Oh, wow. I was watching Dying Wish and dealing with fucking wristband land. And then I knew we were going to start getting busy. Yeah, yeah.

True. And I saw Nolan from Kubla Khan on stage for Dying Wish. So I was like, hey, after your set, come on by, kind of a thing. Kind of knowing we were going to be busy, wanted to kind of. That was a good one. The Kibokan one was awesome.

And now you motherfuckers that are begging us every goddamn week to get these fuckers on, there you go. They're coming on. We'll do a full one for sure. They were very, very enjoyable. The blue cord played after that. Didn't catch them. Didn't catch them.

Didn't catch. We didn't catch Koya. We must have been doing. I think we were a mid interview. I was pretty bummed about that. Yeah. Because we had also set up a mini one with them. But we're just going to do a full one.

And we also had like our first like official scheduled interview with in flames. Oh, with In Flames. It was like, see you at 315. Yeah, yeah. We could not miss that. Wow. Yeah. That was a special one.

Yep. Um, that was good. It was fun. It's the, the thing that we're finding is that like the more professional, the band, the easier it is. They're just such pros that like, they don't, they just. There's no effort.

Like we don't have to get anything out of them. No, yeah. They know what they're willing, like what's okay to talk about and what's what they want to focus on. And it just kind of comes out. And much like the Earth Crisis one, we had some good little anecdotes for In Flames. I don't, without spoiling too much, I asked them if they were going to play a song. And he said, and he went right to the camera. I was the only song by In Flames that I know, by the way, it was on my little, my pre-I-Pod MP3 player.

I asked him and he looked right at the camera and went, uh, no. And then I texted you while they were playing it. I was like, I think you just asked them to play Freebird basically. Yeah, like their least favorite song to Flames. Like in Flames World, you said play Freebird. Yeah. When, okay, now let me just share this. Please do.

During their set, I watched this man, Anders, that we talked to, the singer of In Flames, destroy a heckler in a way that I've maybe never seen before. He's talking about, this is a very simple thing. He says, we just did a new album. And I think it's really good, basically, is what he said. The heckler is front row. Just right up front against the barricade. Right against the barricade in a red shirt.

So you're the most visible person ever anywhere. Says, yells, does it suck? Which is like, oh my God. So, and it's like everybody heard it. You know, does it suck? so Anders asks him he's like hey man on the mic

like when you listen to music do you hope that it sucks or do you hope that it's something you want to hear and then he has some stupid response and then Anders has a like response to that and then asks for his name and the kid's name is Mitch and then it just goes bitch and the band is like

and the crowd is like oh but the band is like like like no he said Mitch man like Mitch with an M, he said Mitch. So and then he responds, well, you're my bitch. And then they just go into the next song. So like hardest band of the weekend. Easily. That's like that's like clickbait like in flames destroys heckler type type thing. You telling that story reminds me of and it ties in surprisingly into the Gothenburg thing. We toured with at the gates, The Haunted and Decapitated in 2016, 17.

And we were as the last show on the tour, we were in San Francisco at the San Francisco Ballroom, huge fucking venue. And I went out front to watch Decapitated. And a dude in front of us in between songs, like the guy, the singer, I think at the time, the only original member at the time, and still, is Vogue, the guitar player

who's, like, an original, like, survived the horrible accident they went to. And whose brother died in the accident. Right. This dude in a moment of, in between songs, says, play something old, like when, from when before your brother died. No fucking one. Swear to God. And, like, I'm, Colin, you mean, I'm hot to trot my brain,

but I'm not like a brawler. I'm not like a fight or a guy. I'm really, I'm not a hard ass at all. Yeah. And I like, I like, I was like,

well, I have, yeah, I have to do, like this is insane. And before I could do anything, fucking Ola England, who was playing in the Haunted,

and who was also like eight and a half feet tall. Yeah. Is next to me. And he just like looks straight. He's wearing a football jersey, like an American football jersey kind of thing. And he looks at the guy, he goes,

not fucking cool, man. And the guy was like, and it was enough. probably should have gotten a lot worse and thankfully I don't think anyone on stage heard it because they all have been ears so they're all fine but like truly an insane thing to say

dude I mean being being talked down to in a Swedish accent is like yes sir and like no matter what from above yeah yeah absolutely they're the tallest people on earth um so I remember that um so they played um

see we talked to Before sick of it all was a really wild sequence there, huh? We talked to nothing. And Jesus' peace at the same time. And Jesus' peace at the same time. Possibly our most chaotic episode. That was crazy. Someone today posted that if you're watching the,

the Joseph from tsunami mini episode from Sound of Fury came out today, and one of the top comments was, every one of these is chaos. I love it. You don't know shit. You're going to love this thing. This one is insane. He's like they're, I can't even describe this.

Yeah, it's, we had three people on who were all on different planets. All on different substances and planets and levels of, of coherency. It was wonderful, perfect. So, AF Sigridol, American Nightmare, and then Macedon, who do we do last in the day? I'm blanking. Oh, Jesse Stick to Your Guns. Jesse from Sick to Your Guns. Dude, that one was great.

It was a delight. So, easy. Again, a pro. Pro who just gets it. And just like that. That was where... That kind of made something click in my brain with that one.

Like, it made me realize, like, bands go to these festivals and get interviewed by... Chuckleheads, you know? And we're, like, we're... You said a different word on Sunday, but I'm going to let that slide. You said, like... Oh, Jobbers.

Yeah, jobbers. Yeah, yeah. They're getting interviewed by jobbers. But it's like this one is like the boys interviewing the boys, you know? Right. So there's there's something, even in in flames, like halfway it kind of clicked with them like, oh, these, these aren't fucking losers. They've like, they're not.

They are. But like, where did you find the inspiration for the new, you know, like, what are your influences? Fuck you. Yeah. I want to be like, where do you eat? What are you eating for dinner? Yeah. You shit good?

Oh, we also, and this was during the day is when we did the Andrew figure four video, which we mentioned. So we did a bunch of interviews. Dude, what was that with the pizza place at the fest? Let's talk about that. $16 a slice? I'll kill you. PA, P.A. Brittany, very generously offered to buy. Asked if anyone wanted pizza.

Yeah. And before paying. And first of all, this is after hours earlier of looking for pizza and Alice. Alabama and realizing that there just isn't any. No pizza in the whole state, but I digress. Pizza sounded really good. And so me, Colin, and Sean got two slices each, cheese and pep each, and then she got herself one.

And I'm like, and we're like, what do we owe you? We're like, damn, is this like 50 bucks? Yeah, right. Of slices, right? Seven slices of pizza. That's less than one pie, you know? I didn't even think about that's one slice less than a pie. It was $100.

$100. If you went to this fest and paid for this pizza, I'm so sorry. I mean, it was good. It was fine. But it wasn't $16 a piece. It was criminal. You know, it was good. The cone.

The cone, dude. Cones were great. They had a big ice cream place there that looked like an ice cream cone. It was, you could get it dipped. Sprinkled. Yeah. Also, this, this. brings up something about both that I didn't know.

And maybe I'm crazy here, but I don't think that I am. No, you are. This is crazy. You get soft serve ice cream in a waffle cone. What does Dairy Queen come in? What are their comb? For sure, a sugar cone.

Is it a sugar cone? I'm not doubting you. I just hadn't thought of it. Type a letter P. Type a letter P. See what comes up. No, I don't. Yeah, okay.

So it's sugar cone. Yeah. Put P. Which I just never thought of. W.W.W. P. Price line, baby. Saved.

Any, okay. Good. Good for you. That's what incognito mode is for you. Yeah, okay. You do it. Okay, living alone and doing incognito mode is like, that's trauma, you know?

Oh, wow. That's from trauma. No comment there, but. I never thought about the cone with soft serve versus not. Obviously, for McDonald's, I wouldn't be like, oh, I wish they had wall. So I get it. But if the option's there, I want a waffle cone.

And that's like, functionally, let me tell you why you're wrong. And I'm sure. Hold on, let me. Oh, he's big again. The bottom of the sugar cone. What is it? A cake cone or is it a sugar cone? It's a sugar cone.

It's a sugar cone. Sugar cone. The bottom of the sugar cone once, while you're working your way from the top, that bottom is soaking in real good and becomes the best part of the whole thing. Better than the swirl of the top. Let me explain a concept to you that might blow your ass. The same thing happens with a waffle cone. The same exact thing happens.

That's just not true, though. Think about how many waffle cones I've eaten in my life. Not enough. Apparently, where else is it going to go? I guarantee you five times more than you have. Come on. You ain't never been 260 pounds. No.

You only get that with. by breaking a Guinness book record or two. What the hell? And mine was it was in Waffle Cone. You'll be getting that way by having a stroke. No, all right. The same thing happens. But I got it dipped.

It was delicious. It was wonderful. That was great. And we've talked about the whole weekend watching Mastodon. And then we just didn't watch Mastodon. It's because they bailed on us. I would have felt more obligated. That is true.

did, but we had it set up and then like that day, they were like, we're not being press, actually. Respect, I mean, they're pros. So what do they need to do this for? They don't need to do it for. They don't need our 10 minutes of coverage. Their new record is mentioned in fucking Rolling Stone or something. Yeah, they don't do shit.

They were rolling. Rolling Stone ain't finding out what they're eating. That's true. How, like, nobody is going to know what Mastodon gets from McDonald's until, until they talk to us. we were so tired, in fact, that this was the only night we did not get food on the way back. Yeah, we didn't even eat. I didn't eat dinner.

Neither did I. Well, also, my flight was, it was like during the Stick to Your Grounds interview, I feel like I opened my American Air thing. It was like, boards in seven hours. So I was just counting. And it's like, okay, if I sleep now, I'll get four hours. You know, if I go to bed and half, if I eat dinner, maybe I can get three and a half. So I was out by 10.30, I think. So now is where we pick.

We pick back up on where we left off. Okay. The time is 1137. Is that what time? I was speaking to someone and I literally texted. Colin just tried to fuck with me. Now, I explained that the only ghost story in this hotel was from the 90s. A girl was like, there was like violent knocking.

on her door. She had to call the front desk. They came up and like got her a new room or whatever. This is room 604. Which is, it's so funny that that made haunted Birmingham. That like the, the writer was like, we fucking got one voice. Like somebody heard knocking once.

We got a new chapter, guys. This is great. So 1137 p.m. Central Standard. And by the way, I lied in the group chat. It was three loud knocks on my. door. Wow. I said five to try and get you to be like, no, maybe, I thought maybe you'd fuck up.

Because I still, and believe me, I still think it was you, by the way. Like, I'm not fooled. Mine was three as well. I'm just explaining, I know it was because you fucking did it, but I'm just explaining what happened. Sure. So I had showered. I had a towel, and I'm wearing a towel.

Sure. See, see how he's laughing, guys? You're telling me about having a towel on your head. You have no functional knee for that. Also, you were talking about... I washed my hair. You were talking about cutting your hair. Is that because you saw the video that I posted? Yeah. I figured, I figured you might see that and be like, it's time to make a change. I literally said to someone earlier today, I'm making changes. I look so bad in that video. Leave Bo alone. You're very, you're very, Colin, you're very kind and you're

very supportive of me. Anytime I speak disparagingly about myself and I appreciate that. I do appreciate that because it does matter. And I do know that it's only surface level stuff, but I'm very careful with my camera to be, you know what I mean? The angle is rock solid. You're doing the Kevin Smith.

Yeah. Is that why you posted it? No. See, this is how my mind works. See, I would never do. I would never intentionally humiliate you. Yeah, I think only but accidentally. See, I'm

not looking at something like, damn, Bo looks like shit. I got to make sure as many people see this as possible. I didn't think until after, you were like, you were like, man, I'm cutting my hair. And I was like, does Bo look like shit in that video? I posted and then I watched it again. I was like, it's a rough one. It's a rough thing.

I might have done him a little dirty. I didn't mean, it was not in touch. No, no, no, no. I mean, that's how I look. I look. Like 100% that's on you. I am, I am, I, Find the way I look in the Joseph interview,

unagreable. I just, I'm going to, this is it. We're starting. Your body is morphing. You know, it happens. Yeah, it happens. So anyway, I had washed my hair, so my hair was in a towel because I don't like it.

If I go to sleep with it wet, it is actually insane the next day. So I try to dry it as much as I can. I hate a blow dryer. Sure. So I'm wearing a towel around my waist with my little Peter hanging out. Towel in my hair.

Oh, the slit is perfectly in the front? Right in front. I don't like, I don't beat her on any bush. Sure. And I put on my slippies. I go to the front and I'm standing out in the hallway in a towel because what I'm assuming is that you're filming.

Oh, okay. Right? So I'm assuming like obviously this is Colin. Obviously there's like a little corner of an... You think, so let me break this out. Could I maybe explain? Could I maybe finish this? It's just like the rationality.

I just want to explain why. Well, I thought maybe you decided I'm not going to sleep. Okay. And I thought the little quarter of an iPhone camera was going to be around a corner so I was being kind of funny. Meanwhile, some ghost is like, this fucking guy. Like, bro, push your off.

Yeah, yeah. But a front or across from the hallway for me is like the housekeeping linen closet and the door is cracked. Oh. I go and push that fucker in. No way. Yeah, I know it's you. You know what I mean? But that, okay.

But in the moment. Continue, sure. In the moment, I know it's you. Push that open. There's nothing in there but towels. There's then like, there's like a little corner. Like that hallway wraps around. It's really weird.

I went around. I thought for sure you were going to be like, no one's there. Which is crazy because like I was in my bed. I was like watching TikTok wide away. That thing, that thing knocked and I legitimately thought I was going to open it, see you and be like, did I get you? What do you want from talk about? Oh. That's what I thought was happening. Okay. So this, okay. So not only now.

We haven't really talked about this. I want, I was, okay. I knew that if I texted you and if I was like, hey, uh, then you would be like, I'm, I'm being an icebox boy with the ghost. And I'm just, and I'm stone. You're no selling a ghost. Straight up no selling a ghost. Like the first time ever a ghost is like, this guy is fucking crazy. He's got balls.

So not only am I like, what the fuck is going on? But then I'm also like, so we're not eating? You know, like I'm bummed on top of. That's where your mind went. I'm starving. Like, yo, a ghost just knocked on my door. that means no dinner. So no texts the whole night between us.

I was asleep. Oh, but I also need to, and I also need to point this out. I put on a shirt, Jim Shores that I brought, and I walked to Collins' room, and I straight up put my head, my ear against the door,

and I hear something, I hear TV or phone. You heard, Come to find. Halloween Wars, which is a food, I fall asleep to the food network in any hotel I'm in,

and YouTube at the same. time, which you can attest. I told you the night before. You did? You haven't said that. I said I fell asleep to YouTube. My screen was on all night. On my brand new iPhone 14. Which by the way, hey, Apple, if you're listening. Holy shit, dude. This battery. Okay. For example, right now, I don't charge. I unplug this motherfucker 12 hours ago or 10 hours ago. Go ahead. 57%. Colin, I unplugged this in Alabama. 29%.

Are you serious? Yes, I'm... Because they say when you first get a phone... I always. Okay, see, I'm not. Okay. And I be on this mode. My screen time is probably

as long as I've been away. They say when you get a new phone to like kill the battery a couple days of a row of it. That's not true anymore. Well, here I am. And that's what they were saying on the iPhone subreddit threads.

So whatever. Like now? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, dude. They've said that the kill the battery thing is not true anymore because of the battery optimization setting. The battery's unbelievable on this phone.

It's crazy. It's great. I've never... If anybody's wondering. If you're on the fence about this new fucking thing, I know like corporations or whatever, we love corporations in the show. We're pro-corporation.

Friends of the show. Friends of the show. But man, this battery, like, normally I'm like a charge twice a day type guy. Dude, we were at a fest all day. All day. I got back Saturday night to my hotel. my battery was at like 70%.

Unbelievable. So that's been great. So I heard the Collins thing was on it. Also, I swear to God I did this. Just in case I did this. I looked at your pee pole and I went like that. Just in case you were like filming through the people. Wow.

I didn't knock on the door. I didn't want you to think that I thought that you got. You know what I mean? Sure. I didn't want you to think that you got me. And you still haven't. And in reality, I, I didn't get you.

No, you didn't. No, you didn't. No, I didn't even, I didn't attempt to. No, and you wouldn't. So, so that's the thing is, and here's what I'm, I'm asleep at 10.30, right? Were we even back by then? Yes. Okay.

I'm at least asleep by 11 earliest, because I was like, I need to sleep, you know? My, my, my, my, my lift left at 2.55 a.m. You know? Yeah. You texted the group chat with. Sean, are you good to leave it this time? I think it was like three. Yeah. So I was, that was real. At like one or something, maybe 12.30. The same thing happens. Those three knocks on my door. And I'm hard, hard. Hard. Hard. They were loud. Loud. Like open up.

Harmingham PD, you know? Yeah. Yeah. And I was like, fucking bow. You know? So I didn't even sell it. I just want to. to bed. Went right back to bed. And then something, oh, you told me, oh, okay. Brittany and I are waiting at the gate and you're like, I just threw up. Yes. Okay, good. This is, I, and I did. I woke up with really bad acid reflux and I went into the bathroom going, I think I might, and I just puked. And that was for sure the metamusal. What else did I eat? Just the pizza, which I ate, too. Just the pizza, which you also ate, so I don't. And the metamusals, maybe I'm just built different. And it was all bad and not but I'm good you know yeah that's that if any if I know anything about you is that you got a good stomach so I texted the group chat and I said I just woke up puking blah blah

Colin says should I read it word for yeah yeah hold on because this is good this is I say uh sorry sorry sorry sorry just woke up peaking did we eat after the pizza because I couldn't remember and it was 4 30 in the morning Colin said whoa we didn't not. At 512, Brittany said, but I hope you're doing okay. I said, this is when I was up. I said, I seemed to be okay at 8.30. Colin said, excellent.

Karma made you throw out for pounding on my door at midnight. And I said, I was surprised you were up. I said I was surprised you were up that late, which is funny because that's me saying, oh, it was you. And I was like, what the fuck is this? Exactly. So this is all kind of making sense now, right? And then you said, I was awoken by pounding on my door. And then I sent a video of me leaving Haunted Birmingham in a shelf. If you stay in room 609 at the to-ala, you'll find it. The real Bible, Haunted Birmingham. So then I posted, Colin posted his photo dump of the weekend. And I posted a little comment in the story because he mentioned me that said, he tried to scare me at like,

1 a.m. I was off by an hour in 23 minutes. But I had a great time, blah, blah, blah. Colin replies to me on Instagram and says, on a serious note, I actually did not do that. Must have genuinely been Sean, our videographer. So it's like the explanation here, I don't think Brittany knew. She didn't know my room number.

Your room number. Unless you and her conspired, which is kind of what I still think. What would there be to conspire? Why wouldn't I do it myself if I was conspiring? because you guys were just figuring something out. I don't know. You were up talking and changed your mind.

I don't know. I just, I just, nobody here was up talking. I want the world to know that this motherfucker has not fooled me. But so, so here are the explanations, right?

It's either Colin it or Brittany. Right. Colin and Brittany. It can't be Britney on her own. That's true. Because she didn't know your room. It can't be Sean on his own either. I think I did say it, but the odds of him remembering.

Yeah, I think, well, okay, so here's another note. Would you even know? Here's another note. Because you never went to my room. I never went to your room. Here's another note. Sean, at one point, before the day we flew out, told me, I went to get like a bag of chips or something, and I was going to scare you.

He was like, I was going to knock on your door. And I hadn't even said anything. So it most likely wasn't Sean or Brittany. It was most likely Colin, not unconfirmed. It was. But like, so the alternative is someone fucking with everyone. Yeah. Because they're not going to be a-

Right? Like just going around. It just could be another haunted Birmingham fan. Or it was like, I'm going to get the sixth floor, you know. But you can't get in without a key. But the fucked up thing too is that. Oh, dude. The security, okay, there's two security guard.

Oh, man. You forgot about that. Fucking. Oh, my. Night one, 2 a.m. We're just walking around. It's like a beautiful lobby

with a tonnage seating. I read that it actually it's replaced now, but it used to be like Italian, I are a marble. It was like a very, it was known for being really pretty.

Yeah. Okay. So, I mean, if you look at it, the exterior of this hotel is like beautiful. It's gorgeous.

But then there's these little rooms right next in the lobby that are just like for chilling or like smoking a cigar with the boys, you know? Yeah, yeah.

And in there, the security guard, 300 pounds is like dead asleep hand on cock and balls like he is breathing and snoring so violently that his phone is lighting up on his chest from movement

so you thought he was awake I thought he was awake I thought he was laughing at the TV because I thought there was a TV in there and I'm slightly behind Colin and before Colin doesn't realize it I do a stop and stare and like and before

Before you even stop, I have to stifle a full-on, like it would have been a spit-take. A full spit-take. I do a full... It was so unexpected. And like, it was the most violent ball grasp I've ever seen. Like, I could see just from the top of the wrist that it was like... Dead asleep, though. Second security guard interaction was Saturday night, I think.

And I asked the dude who was working the craziest graveyard shift of all time. I'm like, excuse me, sir. And he comes with me, he goes, what's up? And I was like, you ever see any ghosts? And he goes, nope. And just walks immediately bolts away. Which is like hilarious. Without a moment's thought.

No thought. so either he's lying and he's like I don't want any part of that you know yeah yeah yeah or he's serious and he's just sick of being asked

yeah the next day come on oh the next day he's still fucking working and what happened I don't remember you said still still here

oh yeah and he's like yep and walked away and does the same the same thing so he was sick of me for sure so it's most likely not Sean It couldn't be Brittany on her own.

It's probably you. It could be someone who works there or who is staying there and it's definitely not a ghost. So what is the most likely... It's not me. You guys, I'm looking at you right now. Colin is either going to take this to his grave

or within a year we're going to find out it's him. Okay. You understand? Yeah. Stick with me. You'll see. It doesn't even make sense in the lore of the ghost.

What do you mean? It was only 604. that in the book, but there could be other unreported cases. The ghost weighs still 2022. We're the second reported knocking case. You don't think that that's a breakthrough? Who was first, who was second? I was first, so I was the second.

You were second. I'm just saying like in a night. We're the first, we're the second reported case in a public record. Dude, you know what we should. You know what we should do right now? What's that? Is call the hotel. No, call.

the hotel on, like, live and ask them if on Sunday night there were any reports. Of any other rooms? Because I didn't call. You didn't call. And don't, don't tell them we know about the, the haunting. I'm not going to, like, the stories. You are being transferred

to the operator. Thank you for God. So, wow. I have to me in this week. It's been tricky health for them, please. Of course. Thank you. This is important, though. I agree. This is an interesting thing. This is called

Due diligence. Due diligence. Hindsight. Because if even one person was like, someone was not going to, then we know it wasn't you or me. That's right. You're not going to knock on a random guy's door. You know?

Neither would Sean, neither would Brittany. So this could really vindicate you. How long did it take you to come out of your room, would you think? 15 to 30 seconds. Enough time for someone to get out of the corner. You think so? I mean, I was.

How far was my. room. I don't, I didn't even see the side of the hotel that your room was on. That's true. How far was it? It's about the same walk from the elevator and then an extra 15 feet to the left once you get to that hallway. So did you come out fast enough where I could have

still been going to my room? I don't think even a person with a walking cane would have been gone. I didn't want you to think. I was like, what's the hubbup? Because I was so convinced it was you. I wanted to seem, you know, I wanted to

a scene casual. Okay. Does that make sense? Yeah, no, I get it. I thought for sure you'd be filming. So you were like, I'm just going to know, sell this thing. Exactly. And like casually open the door.

What are we eating again, Colin? Yeah, yeah. That was my plan. There was no food involved. None. That was the scariest part, frankly. All right, come on. Downtown Tuttweiler.

How busy could they be Tuesday night? That's what I'm saying. I like that I had to hold the fucking speakerphone to the microphone to the microphone in that entire time. So it's just going to be, oh, for two minutes. So,

like, like realistically, because look, I mean, the odds of it just being you and me. I think, I think that you,

it's got to be Sean. I don't think that you, so something I hadn't even really considered is that, like, if you only, you, you have too much story

to have only knocked on my door and not, I have, I healthy. Hey, I had a quick question for you. A weird one. I stayed there Sunday, I believe.

Yeah, I checked out Monday morning. While I was there, I was in room 613. And someone else was in 609. In the middle, a friend of mine was in 609. At the middle of the night, there were like really loud knocks on my door. I was wondering if there were any other guests that reported something like that. You said this was Sunday night? Yeah.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Is that historically something that happens there? Was somebody just pranking me? I'm not really sure because I wasn't even aware of it. I wasn't even working on Sunday. You weren't working on. No.

And I didn't see any notes or anything. I mean, I didn't call until now or anything. Just curious. I was just curious because I'll be honest with you. I read a little book that said the sixth floor. so is maybe haunted. So I just kind of wanted to see. Oh, yeah.

Explained to her that two friends are figuring it out. As you can say, you know, on the website, they've been saying that it was the sixth floor. It's haunted or whatever, but. Specifically the sixth floor? This is my first time. This is my first time hearing it. Okay.

So this is, okay. This is huge then. Yeah. All right. Well, because it, like, it happened to both my friend and I. And we're figuring out that it wasn't each other. We're figuring out that we both thought it was each other.

Yeah. So. Yes. Keep this in mind. This is my first time hearing it. All right. Well, you be careful there now, okay? Yeah.

Something's going on. Don't go on that sixth floor, okay? I've been working yet since 2016. Beautiful. And this is the first time? Wow. Okay. So this is rare.

26th. Okay. Yeah. Well, maybe I'll see you next year. Thank you for the information. All right. No, thank you for the information.

You're welcome. All right, bye-bye. Okay, it's got to be Sean, and he's just no selling it. You think so? It's got, I mean... He didn't know where your room was.

He could figure out what room Mr. Chris H was staying in. He could have figured it out, is all I'm saying. But here's the thing. He said that to me unsolicited. The whole like, I was going to knock on your door, but I decided. The night before, but this was our last.

No, that was that night. Oh, so then maybe. It was that morning. He was like, yeah, I was going to knock on her door, but like I figured you. Oh, it was that morning. It was that morning. It was that. Yeah.

It was before I had said anything about any knocking taking place. And the thing is, is like no one else would have known what floor we were staying on. Exactly. We talked about it in the mini. hard lore thing, but that's... But that's... Nobody's seen there. And nobody else we knew

was staying there. Exactly. A mystery. To be sure. A real shame, because I looked good coming out of that hotel room. I would have loved to have seen it.

I wish that I was involved, but it wasn't. Okay, so what I was saying before is... Yeah. At one point, I was like, Bo's... Bo knocked on my door, and he's gonna do something

where he's like, no, somebody's not in mind. Exactly what I thought. You have too many nuances to your story for it to not be real. I'm telling you, like, again, my knock happened first, and you were the one who's like, oh, yeah, happened to me too. So obviously, I don't believe you. But I'm explaining.

You genuinely don't believe me still? Well, I don't believe it was a ghost. So I literally think it was someone fucking with everyone, somehow knowing just our thing. Somehow maybe other people weren't staying in other rooms. I didn't hear anyone next to me, you know? Oh, like, oh, no, nor did I. Or it was you.

Okay. That's, I mean. It's, I'm just telling you. Yeah. I didn't have enough time for it to be me. I needed to sleep. But for all, I don't know if you were talking. My flight was talking to your life or something.

I don't know, but I don't know what you're doing. How do I know? I don't, I believe, like, dude, I was like, I can't eat dinner. I need to go to bed. Which is very unlike you. Exactly. Very. Thank you.

That's not me. That ain't me, babe. No, no, no, no. That ain't me, babe. So it's like, I've, I forgot, I forgot, forgone dinner to sleep. And then what, an hour later, I'm going to knock in your fucking door? Yeah.

So, so what are we saying here? You know what I mean? Find out next year on. Yeah, straight up. We've got to stay the Tuatweiler again. Jesus Christ. So that happened Did

It really did happen Like everything we just explained Really did happen So I would love to know Who was fucking with us I would love to Who or

What was fucking Yeah Spector demon or Transient How was your flight home The worst Yeah Super early

With Yeah I left dude I was awake For I had No joke. Do you have an Apple Watch? No. Okay. Well, there's the stand hours that show how many hours you've been saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. By the end of the day, I had 24.

24 hours of standing. 24 stand hours on the watch I had. Like, it showed, like you stand once per hour. It registers as one. Yeah. So, I mean, I only flew back at 530 because that's when Britney's flight was. And I was like, yeah, I'll probably be fine. And then that morning, I'm like, this is. this should be illegal. I also dude. Why? Okay.

Not enough people are flying at fucking noon to 8 p.m. For that to be the Starbucks fucking hours. Why is the Starbucks closed at 3 a.m.? Ah. Somebody is there and has never needed it more in their life. Yeah. And like, why is McDonald's, McDonald's closing at 8 p.m.

And Starbucks opening at 6 at an airport. What's funny that you mention is my flight was at 10.30. I got to the airport around 9. Got through fucking... I love flying out of smaller airports because it's like... I mean, it's sick. You didn't appreciate it? No.

You wouldn't even need it, but I'm going to get it. What do you, like, what are you waiting on? Honestly, I would have in 2020. And then the world shut down. But like, it was, I was like, yeah, we should do that. And then just don't. I definitely will if things go the way they seem.

But got through, I went to the terminal to the left. The Starbucks line was 30 people deep, waited for probably 10 minutes, didn't move. Checked on the website what all was available, because sometimes there's another Starbucks in the opposite terminal. Did you mobile order? No, I just walked and there was no one in line. Dude, mobile order.

But there was no one in line. Mobile orders like get priority. Do they really? Yeah. That has to suck. There's like a mobile order person who's just blowing through them. Well, at each location, there was only one person.

Okay. Yeah. And I asked the girl at mine, I was like, oh, you're by yourself, huh? She's like, yeah, I opened up this one. She's like, I came over here to open it up. Oh, God. Brutal.

Pretty brutal. But I got home. No problem. I was home before. Airport Starbucks needed to be 24 hours. We need to stop fucking around. McDonald's too, man. I feel like every.

Starbucks can be 24 hours. There's going to be some justification. Well, now, nobody wants to work. So, I don't actually believe that. But, uh, but, uh,

but yeah, I mean, it's, dude, I like you, there are always, there's always somebody waiting three to six a.m. Always.

And they need it more than they needed. I mean, you're absolutely right. There's no, the Starbucks need to be open. Um, My only complaint about the whole thing was flying Southwest, you gotta get in line. You gotta line up.

Because it's like first come first. First come first serve for overhead and seats. Ah, but I did. So I'm normally an aisle man. I was a little tired. It was early. I said, you know what? I'm gonna take the window.

Just I didn't have to pee. It was early. I knew I was going to be fine. The flight's like an hour and 20. Sure. I, in my sleepy brain, came up with a contraption that will allow one to, I'm not even going to describe it on the show. Because I'm going to patent this. Okay. You think you've got it. Okay. It's going to be the first hard lore patented product.

Okay. It's ours. Okay. It's out. I get it too. I get it. Mine and yours. Probably 6633, but it's ours. Hey, I'll take it. I also thought of an accessory that would allow you to watch your phone on it. Like, I'm not even joking. I really, I like drew it. Wow. I don't know anything. If you guys know what you think about it's not like that. It's not like that. thing where you like... No. It's way more sinister looking, but I think it would work. I'm listening. I really genuinely do it. I'm all ears and all eyes. If you listeners know anything about patenting,

please let me know. You can't be a part of it, but you can help us. You can help me create a product. One percent. I'll give away one of my 33. Yeah. If you have a 3D printer, let me know. But then I was home and that's pretty much it. And we should say like we know that maybe you guys look forward to guests and stuff, but like Colin and I just got an ass full of each other this last week. And then we're going to have to try and get someone else in on it.

We're only going to talk about this anyway because it's fresh on. You know what I mean? We got to get these stories out. It's like a sneeze. We got to get it out. When we have some good ones like who owe us on the horizon, it's true. Lined up. It's true.

We are owed. And I'm going to get it all back. You know what I'm saying. But yeah. That was Furnace Fest. It was blast. I had a blast. Had a great time.

No pun intended. Nice. Very nice. Thank you. You know, I'm hoping that we get to continue doing this kind of thing. This kind of seems to be where we're headed. I had to talk with our boss today at Notfest who was like, yeah, I like that. Because I was like, listen, this could be we go to the show, we eat a thing, we look for ghosts.

and that's it. That's it. And so we'll see. We might have some good shit coming. We'll see, man. But next thing like that we're doing together is maybe the HC one. Maybe. Maybe.

And maybe FYA. Y'all got ghosts in Boston? I bet they do. You do? It's an old place. You bet they do? I should. I should clarify.

I bet they have stories for sure. Fuck you, man. That's it for this week. We will see you next week. Thank you so much for joining us. Bye.