Kurt Meyer, Historic Noblesville Flooding and Top Whiskey Drinking Songs

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You can't possibly do this for a living. Hey everybody, welcome in to the Hamco Live Hot Ticket podcast, season 1, episode 21 here on the Get In Podcast Network. I'm your host, editor-inchief of Hamco Live, Josh Cecil. How you doing? Uh, with me as always, by God, he is a global icon and a national treasure.

That's Tyler Meechum. Tyler, say hello. Morning, gentlemen. And over there behind Video Village, uh, he's faceless, but he's got that, I'll say it, sexy voice. That's producer Chris.

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Uh, let's say hello to Noblesville legend. Like we can call it a legend. That's fair. That's fair. Mr.

Kurt Meyer. Listen folks, if you're going to if you're looking to move to Noblesville and especially if you want to live in Oldtown Yeah. Kurt's the guy to talk to. I try to be I try to be the guy you are. Before we started, actually, I'm gonna have you kind of scoot into camera because towards Tyler a little bit.

Get over here, Kurt. Yeah. Get buddy up there. I don't know. Your microphone is just like kind of I was going to say that earlier.

I felt like his microphone was in my way. It's too big. Like a It's blocking. He gets that. I take a lot of space.

How's that? That's better. Okay, that's better. Yeah, we'll do. I'll take that.

Uh, you guys were talking before we started because you sold No. How'd that work? You He was my realtor when I bought my house. That's a nice way of saying it. Yeah.

Yeah. It was a beautiful little transaction we put together. Totally unexpected and Yeah. like kind of magical. Yeah.

And if like you said, if you are buying a house in Oldtown, you need somebody that knows what they're looking at because these houses are unique and quirky and quirky is a nice way of saying it. And uh Kurt did an amazing job walking me through it because there were all sorts of weird issues that the other buyer was scared off and he looked at him, he's like, "It's fine." Yeah. And he's a way above average buyer. He's he's doing a good job. Okay.

I thought you meant like I thought you meant like you know competency more competency. He does not mean this. No, I don't have more cheddar than average. I don't discuss my client's financial issues. I will.

He's destitute is the is the word that comes to mind. Uh no, that's good. We'll talk more with Kurt here in a minute. Uh we like to talk about our weekends. So, let's go around the horn here.

Tyler, how was your weekend? It was pretty low-key. I mean, we just kind of sat inside and watched it rain most of the time. I did have a gig Thursday at a new place. Walk-ons.

Yeah. How was that? Not hurt. I saw that. The food was great.

Um, but it was one of those gigs where when we started, there were more people in the band than watching the band because it was Thursdays. It was like the that front was coming in. It was kind of nasty. We were set up outside. There were three of us playing and between zero and two people most of the night.

So yeah. Uh yeah. Gosh, I I've been there. It's like Cajun food, right? Yeah.

They have gator tail. I didn't get it. I just like maybe I don't want to. My stomach Oh, that's food. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, I thought I was like ladies or something to the parking lot. Got me some gator tail. I've had gator. I've had gator.

I have had tea as well. New Orleans. Yeah, I had it in New Orleans as well. Yeah, I remember being just kind of like chewy. I don't remember.

Yeah, I asked if it was local caught. I know I'm not interested. You're the more farm to table guy. You like to shop local and think global. Yeah, I Yeah, shop don't adopt.

You know that's right. Chris, how was your weekend? My weekend was great. I went to Teroot on Friday. High ground.

You know it. And uh Fousey had a show at the Teroot Brewing Company with a couple other bands. Band called Daybreak out of Greenfield and then a band called Only on Sundays out of Teroot. And was this on Sunday that you went? No, no, no.

Uh they played on on Friday. They made an exception. That's good. Made an exception. But uh all the bands were great and the venue was great and uh we look forward to going back to Teroot.

Now, how'd you score this gig? I have no idea honestly. Fousey just asked He's like, "Hey, man. You want to go to Terote?" And yeah, I do. Yeah.

All right. Remind me when we're done here to talk to you about a place in Cincinnati that I think Fouse could do. Okay. All right. Kurt, how was your weekend?

Crazy. I've had house guests in the past week. Uh my son and his family from Japan are with us. Um my sisters from one LA, one Florida. Um another son, two sons, both from Bosezeman were here.

So, yeah, crazy times. and some folks are still in town. So, my that's a lot of people. It is busy busy busy. Family reunion.

Uh kind of. Yeah, we had everybody together to had big family gathering on Saturday and um everybody held off uh some in our house, some at Airbnb uh just down the street from you guys on Logan and um yeah, good times. Yeah, that's a lot. Lots of late night and lots of music, listening to music. Yeah.

Um, which son of yours did I work with? Uh, Jack. Yeah, Jack. Was he is he in He lives in Bosezeman. Okay.

He was at uh he was at a brewery in Denver for he was Yep. He was ran a big brewery in Denver called Renegade and then went to Bosezeman and he's out of the beer world and into the bicycle world now. Okay. So, yeah, I love Bosezeman. It's a great town.

Yeah. My college roommate was from Bosezeman, so I've been there a couple times visiting him. It's just such a great great town. Beautiful. Yeah, great town.

I love visiting there. Yeah. Yeah. So, we should talk about the rain. Well, my weekend was again lowkey.

I don't even remember what we did. I had all the kids, so I watched a movie. I don't even remember. It was just kind of a Yeah. down we well the the rain.

So we are in the midst I guess we are in the recovery portion of historic flooding. When was the record set? 1913 and we got almost a foot higher than that this time. And that flood devastated the Midwest. It really did.

So many people more I think were living in the flood plane then than now. Yeah. Yeah. So, I don't know what the I mean, I don't even know how it's measured in terms of water level, but a lot of Oldtown um obviously everything down by the river just flooded. I mean, yeah, incredible.

Like, yeah, there was a flood in the early 90s, uh 1990s, and the FEMA put money up and moved a lot of people out of Noblesville's old what they call the old southside, which is really the west side. And um so there's probably a third or half as many houses down there as there used to be. So the with the big park that's down there uh west of Fifth Street uh is where there were a lot of little simple little cottages that got blown away in that. Southside Park. Yeah.

Okay. So Southside Park was built there much like uh um you know the the park on Federal Hill was put there and made a park so that it can just fill with water whenever there are floods. So yeah. Yeah. Certainly did fill.

Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so those of you who have been to Federal Hill for one of the concerts, you know, of course the stage, the water was up on the stage.

It literally Yeah. was up on the stage. I saw those drone shots. It was pretty impressive that nature can take over quite like that. Yeah.

Yeah. Uh, we I looked to you for all historical I'm filled with all kinds of useful information. Yeah. as part of being a realtor for downtown, you're also very knowledgeable in the history of Noblesville and an author, I might add. Our second author two books, right?

I have published two books and and Tyler saying that he had done a gig where there were more people in the band than the audience. I've done book talks that were like that at libraries. Well, I'll just talk to these two people in the front row about my book. It's very awkward and it is feels very stalky kind of like I stalked them to talk about my book, you know. That's good.

And also, uh, I guess we should mention this. Uh, we got some whiskey here because Kurt is a whiskey connoisseur. Connoisseur. Connor. I like that.

Connoisseur. I like whiskey drinker. Whiskey drinker. There you go. That's aicado.

I like that. There's a lot less pressure on you when you're just a drinker. You don't have to know as much. Actually, you're expected to know less. Yeah.

Or be able to communicate less, right? Right. Happens to me frequently. Perfect. So, we're going to try some whiskey.

Yeah, we got some Colonel Taylor here. I don't think I can do it right now. Wait, just just get a sniff of it. Hold your mouth open and do a nose it a little bit. Caramelly brown sugar.

Ah, my beautiful fiance Ginger and I did a um bourbon trail tour over spring break. Went to Rabbit Hole Distillery and uh Forest Old Forester. Yeah, Old Forester. Forester, they have a great facility. Yeah, it's really cool.

That was my favorite. I went down there with a local architect Darren Peterson last year and we did a a barrel selection down there with some other folks and I we were treated like kings. It was just a wonderful experience. I never never gone through something like that before. And they actually had their uh their head taster, the person who decides what goes into every bottle.

And that person spent like three hours with us. Never looked at her watch to see when do I get out of here. She just hung out and answered our questions. It was a real treat for somebody like me who loves bourbon. Yeah.

To be able to ask questions of somebody that knows so much more than I'll ever know. Yeah. Yeah. Does she say things like uh we put uh in this barrel we we put whiskey in it. That's you know there there's kind of an expectation up front that that's the case.

Okay. And so she didn't really need to say that as much. She was saying more things about like corn and rye and molted barley and wheat and things like that. Uh they mentioned so at the end of the tour um they do like a whiskey tasting bring out four four of these with about that much in it. Um but the guy was saying if you smell here like with your nose on this rim versus this like you get different notes that way.

Yeah, that's that's more knowledge than I have. I only know one way to do it. And they gave us these really good chocolates with one of the whisies we had. Yeah. That were made locally there in Louisville.

You know, Angel's Envy does a great thing where because they do so many of their barrels secondarily aged in a a rum or a cherry or some other kind of cask and they'll sit you down with chocolate covered cherries or raisins and they'll say, "Taste that now. Now take a sip of the bourbon. Now taste that again." And you sense, "Oh, you're there are other flavors coming out of the bourbon when you connect it to something similar." So you drink a little bit of bourbon, then you eat a raisin, then you drink the bourbon again. Yeah. And you you're sensing different things.

I usually drink a whole bunch of bourbon and then eat pizza. Kind of how I taste it. That's been my habit in life, too. But I aspire to have some knowledge beyond that, which I haven't really gained. You taste the pepperoni and regret in this.

There's always a little regret in a glass of whiskey. And when we get to songs, we'll see that that's a common thread, right? Oh my goodness. Pepperoni and regret. That's should be a name of your house.

I've seldom regretted pepperoni, but I've often regretted whiskey. There you go. No one ever regrets pepperoni. Um, yeah. So, back to the flooding because I think that's important to discuss.

Um, I don't know. Have were anybody in your circle affected by? Luckily, no. No. And and my business is in Anderson.

Anderson also had also had flooding. Yeah. But luckily, uh we're on downtown Anderson, uh 14th of Meridian, um which is 32. And miraculously, like nothing along 32 seemed to be too impacted between me and my business. Everything was was dry and I could get to work and it was fine.

I don't know what everybody's talking about, right? Yeah. Well, I felt bad, too. Means almost feel guilty, you know, that uh I never lost my power. There was never any water in the basement.

Um I could get to any store I wanted to get to. Nothing was ever, you know, going east of town for shopping and we had everything we needed. Um you know, I'm getting messages from people, friends all over the country and all over the state saying, "Hey, is everything okay there?" It's like, yeah, everything's perfect. I mean, it's not, but yeah, for me, we didn't really experience it. the uh uh the apartments there at Federal Hill like whole building lost power I believe and I don't know if it's back on yet or not but my goodness I can't even imagine because well and some of that building design that's what surprised me you know they have the first floor businesses elevated for a reason and then the parking garage was made to fill with water so I don't know what happened with the electricity but when I would see Noblesville chatter comments like they're so stupid they put that park there and that building didn't they know it PL it's like yeah they did that's why it was all done the way it was done you know people always think that oh my first thought is way smarter than all the engineers right sure and they're quick to tell you on no yeah uh yeah but just uh gosh you I feel so bad for some of these businesses like shorts bait and tackle yeah those folks right there really got hammered my goodness I saw pictures of just cars in their lot I think there's a with George Hendricks's auto garage you some cars there that probably were not not functioning and they got trapped there.

Yeah. Yeah. just just devastating and people getting displaced and but I think the I felt like the city did a really good job of being communicative and um Patrick Pro was on the show last week and his uh organization Noblesville Reserve Village um jumped right in and I think they are still running some uh efforts out at the fairgrounds. I was communicating with him last night. And you know, it's kind of interesting.

We had our that family gathering I mentioned on Saturday. We'd had that catered by Quudoba and but when we were done, half the food was still there and it was all hot. So, we boxed it up. We went out there and walked into their facility and said, "Who wants to taco or burrito? It's ready to it's ready to go." So, we were able to put that food to use rather than have it go to waste.

Yeah. It was just how it played out to be able to just contribute our little drop in the bucket of of help. Yeah. Yeah. And you said we're going to donate all of this show's profits.

Yes. Today 100% of today's proceeds will go Yeah. towards something. But, you know, on a on a side note, I was at the state fair yesterday and I had a couple musical memories, but uh at a particular just as we were leaving um but just to see so many people there and I think people were a little hungry to do something fun and to get their mind off of what we'd all been through in the past week here, the worry and so forth. It was absolutely packed yesterday at the state fair.

It was kind of interesting. I'm leaving and I'm under the grandstands getting ready to walk out under the tunnel over to the parking area. And remember the first concert I ever went to at age 15 was at the grand stands at state fair. It was Chicago. Chicago was in their early heyday.

Nice. Um all the horn section and everything. And as we're walking out, I bumped into Joshua Powell, uh you know, a musician, songwriter, guitarist out of Indianapolis. Um he's been a family friend for a long time. went to college with one of my boys and uh has spent a lot of time in our house.

So, fun stuff seeing people cut loose yesterday and eat a lot of uh weird Yeah. And um you know, the weirdest thing we had yesterday was corn dog sushi. Hold on now. Hey, now you get my attention. Way simpler than you would have imagined.

It's essentially a corn dog with a stick pulled out and then cut across into little sushi sized bites with chili sauce and nacho cheese and they give you um uh chopsticks. Chopsticks. Yeah. And it was it was underwhelming. They did sprinkle onions on top, make it look a little bit like eel sauce.

I feel like that's what I feed my kids. Yeah. You just Now you can call it sushi. Do sushi. Yeah.

What I like to do. Go ahead. I take the sushi bites. I take one of those chopsticks. I put the bites all together and I push the chopstick through it.

And then I just eat it right off the top. Like a corn sushi corn. I call it deconstructed sushi corn dog. Oh goodness. Uh yeah.

So I guess today was or yesterday. That's when you went yesterday. Yeah. Uh that would have been $2 Tuesday. Yeah, I'm cheap and that's why we went had to add grandchild with me and rode a lot of rides with a little seven-year-old and had a good time.

I haven't been to the state fair since I went and saw the Gin Blossoms play there in 2023. I guess it was that was the last time I That was a great show. Whoa. Really? Yeah.

Was that the Pokemon card hunt year? No, that was Gosh, that was probably five, six years ago now. track of time. So, for the listeners, uh, one of my long-standing clients has been, uh, Moonshot Games, and we're using their studio. Moonshotamestore.com.

Make sure you go to moonshotgamestore.com and get yourself a new game, maybe uh, some Pokemon cards. Speaking of Pokemon cards and the state fair, it was six year ago, seven years ago, something like that. We did this thing where we hid oh gosh, I forgot how much it was, like 10,000, $100,000 worth, 50 thou, some absurd number of uh Pokemon cards all over the fairgrounds. So, what I would do, so I was there for two weeks. Um, every morning I would get there at like 7 8:00, I can't even remember, and I would take a lap around the fairgrounds walking and hiding Pokemon cards.

And it was a uh like a scavenger hunt. So, we had like a a an app where you could um get hints and uh you would scan the Pokemon card once you found it and that entered you into a whatever a prize pool to get some uh Pokemon cards. The first person to find each card got a prize and then the first person to find all the cards. There's like 20 cards every day um also got a prize. So, such a cool concept.

Yeah, it was a lot of fun. We need to do something like that at Trade Up Fest to hide some of my old baseball cards. Okay, there you go. Trade up. Alfredo Griffin.

And I've heard at the state fair in the hog barn, they're still they're still sweeping up packs of Pokémons. They're still finding them. Yeah, we didn't find them all. Yeah, they get the wood chips up underneath the hog, the biggest hog in the world, and they're like, "What the hell is this?" Three packs of Pokemon. Uh this is good.

Um so your first concert was Chicago at the state fair. Yeah. So um I kind of think of my uh parents as and I having very different musical tastes, but um when they were in their teens, uh they I guess they're actually in college because I think they were together. I'm not 100% sure on this timeline, but they both went to the state fair because they were both involved with 4 for years and years. Um I guess this would have been 60 more than I don't know.

I'm not sure on the date, but uh the Beatles played the Indiana State Fair. Was 1964. 64. Okay. In the coliseum.

So they got to see the Beatles. My parents saw the Beatles. That's incredible. I know. That's so weird to think my parents.

So was that like when they came over for the first time did like stadium? It was either the first or the second tour that they did a couple of tours in that first year that they hit America. Okay. Because the Ed Sullivan show when they appeared on Ed Svin. That was 64 I think.

It could have been late 63 or early 64. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Isn't that interesting?

Beatles played the state fair. That's actually it wasn't the state fair but it was the coliseum at the state fair grounds. It wasn't during the state fair I don't believe. Oh okay. I thought somebody call in and tell me if I'm wrong.

Yeah, check that. Chris, he's doing Oh, he's already on. Perfect. Um, yeah. So, that's good.

And, uh, man, they pull in some pretty good acts. Yeah, I saw Green Day there. You saw Green Day at the State Fair at the Pepsi Coliseum. Okay. Yeah.

Dookie tour. Uh, I don't know. It would have been like 98. Wow. 97.

Right around Dookie, right? No, it was after post Dookie. Uh, is that Nap? Um, interesting. Okay.

Uh, who else has been there? I saw Barack Obama with my kids at the state fair. He wasn't singing though. He was only talking. Oh, you missed out.

He can sing. Yeah, he does crew a little bit. I've heard it. Mhm. Um there the Beach Boys were there last year or the year before.

Really? Yeah. My sister just saw the Beach Boys this summer at the Hollywood Bowl and she said it was a sad sad Yeah. experience. Yeah.

I think you just got Mike Love left and his voice does not sound good and everybody else is a replacement. Well, I think there's two different touring outfits. There's Mike Love and kind of none of the other guys, right? And then there's the one with uh Yeah, it might be him. He one of the other originals and then everybody else's.

Yeah, Mike kind of separated himself. Wilson was playing with those guys towards the end of his life. Um but yeah, now it's all it's John Stamos, right? Isn't he? Yeah, he was there.

My sister said he was there. Yeah. It's like uh a lot of these bands that are touring now are basically cover bands where like Chicago, you mentioned Chicago, they're still touring, but it's I don't think there are any original members left. Uh the horn section uh had originals when I saw them in the last decade at Deer Creek. Okay.

Um and actually it was one of those things I didn't want to go. I'm kind of over oldies shows and then every time I'm drugged to one I realize, oh, this was actually good. you know, got a lot of good songs, right? I would rather go to a small venue, see somebody new, and then I go to an oldie show and like, oh, we were last year went with friends and saw um the Doobie Brothers, which I used to see every summer when I was in high school and college at Mark Square Arena and um thought I don't really need to see the Doobie Brothers and they had Michael McDonald with them. They sounded great.

Yeah. Yeah. Good for them that they're still out there, you know, and they have payments due on their mansions and they need to get out there and, you know, same on their walkers and, you know, get out there and that's one of those concerts every time I see it on because you're I think they play every year. Sure. Um, and I think I should go see them because I love the D Brothers and for whatever reason I don't ever make it out, but I would like to go see them.

I heard that show was amazing with Michael McDonald. I heard it was awesome. Do you have any good Michael McDonald stories? I've I've encountered him. Yeah.

Oh, do tell. You want me to tell the story of opening? It's not It's not much of a story. I was uh it was after Crowfield, my band, had dissolved. Um and I got asked to open for Michael McDonald at the Performing Arts Center in Charleston.

And but it was like right around that time where you remember that uh was it 40-year-old Virgin the Steve Carell movie and there's a scene in there where Michael McDonald's playing on all the TVs and and Paul Rudd I think hates him or is making fun of him and if he's like if I hear yamo be there one more time I'm going to yamo blow this place up or whatever. And so at at that little moment, Michael McDonald was like a punchline for my age group and I I didn't really want to do it because I thought it just wasn't cool, right? Um but my dad was a huge is a huge Michael keyboard player obviously. Yeah. And so I did it and really just so my dad could meet Michael McDonald and I opened up for him was he was nice.

Lovely lovely gig. Um glad I did it but yeah that's very that's cool. Little feather in your cap there. Yeah. So, you know, opened up for Michael McDonald's.

My oldest son, Cal, is a music obsessive and um you know, he used to laugh if I was listening to Steely Dan, you know, when he lived in the house, he's like, "Hey, you're listening to that old man you know, and um he lives in Japan and and he rides a train back and forth to work and he's like listening to podcast and listening to music and something new all the time." And he's like, "Okay, I'm getting into Steelely Dan." And then he listens through a set of podcasts that take him through every track they ever recorded and explains every single one. And then he's like, "Okay, this Michael McDonald guy, I guess he was in a band called the Doobie Brothers. What should I listen to?" So after living on the fault line, pull up that album and that's one you wouldn't be ashamed to say you listen to. And so he'd become a little bit of a Dupy Brothers fan after, you know, disdaining it. You know, he's in his mid30s and uh, you know, looking down his nose at dad's old music, but um, coming around on it.

Yeah, he's he's a big living on the fault line doobie brother. It's like he's like discovering these things like an an archaeological dig, right? Like I do some old blues singer like this is amazing. Who is this? It's something from the 1930s, you know?

And I listen to it all day. And our kids will be doing that with Hoodie and the Blowfish. Dad, have you heard this cracked rearview mirror album? Let me walk you through times. Hey, we should uh speaking of songs and get into songs, let's do the hamco live top five.

Let's do it. Oh boy. Which button is it, Chris? Oh, he's going to mess it up. Nope.

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Colonel Taylor. Uh we decided to do in honor of our guest Hamco Live top five whiskey drinking songs. And so I feel it's only appropriate that we have a little hair of the dog. All right, Colonel Taylor. Tell me about Colonel Taylor's Kurt.

This is uh one of the easier to find of the hard to find bourbons out there. And all the hard to finds are getting easier to find now is uh the bourbon craze es a little bit. Um but uh you'll get some caramelly brown sugar goodness as you uh sip on this and can't possibly go wrong. Yeah, that's nice. Mhm.

Just wet wet your tongue. Wet your whistle there a little bit. We don't do shots around here. Calm down. That was That was last night.

It takes forever. So thick. Look. Look at the legs on that guy. Huh?

Is that that term we use? Heard you say that at Sids a few times. He must work out. That's good. Oh, um, well, two things.

One, we, uh, we've done a bourbon tasting. Sure, we have a couple times. Yeah. So, you're kind of known man about town, if you will, who does the occasional bourbon tasting. Been to one.

Great time. It's a good way to stay connected with people you want to friends you don't get to see that often. I say, "Hey, after work on Wednesday, why won't you come by and let's sip a couple bourbons and talk?" And it's a good way to stay connected with people. Yeah, it was it was a lot of fun. And you were so accommodating to let me stay there in the yard overnight.

Found you curled up on the patio orange the next morning. I threw a little blanket on you. Maybe a glass of warm milk and Oh, a little kitty cat. Saltine crackers. Okay.

So, this is Colonel Taylor's. Do you have a favorite whiskey? You know, or maybe it just keeps evolving. I used to say I was a wheat guy and the Weller stuff, the Weller 107. I would say that's my that my desert island.

If I can only have one bourbon, that'd be okay with me. But and I always said I wasn't a rye guy, but I'm kind of becoming a rye guy, I guess. And um things change as your pallet changes and you learn and so forth. And um anyway, my go-to that I can pick up at Costco right now is a 1792 foolproof. It's very high in alcohol, but you throw some ice cubes in there to soften it up a little bit.

You can get a bottle at Costco for Are they a sponsor? Because I'm almost doing commercial for them. Yeah, we can't give that stuff away current. Okay. 30 32 33 bucks a bottle and like for an everyday bourbon, you know.

I sip that one with my ice cream or my chocolate bar before I go to bed at night. That's right. How I That's how I maintain this physique sadly. Secret. Secret.

Yeah. Um Yeah, that's good. My quit flirting with that thing and take a drink. I already took a drink. It was delicious.

My buddy Todd did a distillery tour in Scotland um of some scotch and he said they told him that like when you take a how do you do it? You take a drink and breathe out. Yeah. After you sip. That's supposed to I don't know not making it burn as much.

Well, I think actually what you would say is take a gentle breath in as you're sipping. So a lot of people tend to kind of hold their breath out then they breathe out and they feel that heat. If you just gently breathe in, try not to take it into your lungs, and um yeah, gives you a little fair sense of the taste. What What's your thoughts on scotch? Because I have an unpopular opinion.

Um I don't like the real smoky ones. Okay. Or there's some that like taste very much like gasoline like have like a petrol. Okay. And I guess that's the smokiness.

I don't like that kind. I've had some that are what I would describe as leathery. It tastes like leather. Fair. That I like.

I think it tastes like band-aid smell. Tastes like band-aid smell. Okay. Like Yeah. Like the petroleum band.

Yeah. Does not do it for me. But I'll tell you, watching a Colts game some years back with some friends and I I I went and got myself a little glass of scotch and it was Leafroy, which is very Petey. It's got, you know, they smoke the grains with the Pete. And um I didn't tell anybody what I was drinking.

Not like an announcement. And I just sat down. A buddy sitting in front of me. I see his head pop up and he's like, "It smells like somebody shining their shoes." It was shine. Not not dissimilar from the band-aid.

Yeah. And we're putting that in our bodies, right? Yeah. You know, funny story. I got sick on Jack Daniels in college and so I decided I'm not a brown liquor guy, but in my early 50s, I had some friends that were into scotch and so that's when I how I got into drinking whiskey.

And so I was drinking Leafroy and Arbeg and some of those those uh Pey ones. And I was at a at a outdoor bonfire with um another audio file friend of ours, Rob Bako, that some of us know in Oldtown. And Rob was drinking from a flask. And I said, "What are you drinking?" He said, "Well, I'm drinking bourbon." He goes, "Here, have a sip." And it was Elijah Craig, just the basic uh model you would get at any grocery store. And I thought, geez, why am I drinking scotch when I could drink this?

It tastes so much better. And I wonder is this because I'm I grow up in a place where corn is all around me and all, you know, half of everything we eat has corn in it. Yeah. So maybe that's why. Who knows?

I think Well, it's just a sweetness. There's I mean, I'm not going to drink a ton of bourbon, you know? So, if I'm going to have a little bit mean, not every day. Not every day, right? Four times a week.

I think this top five is going to tell us a lot about our relationship with bourbon. Oh, that's true. I think it will. So, let's get to it. Yeah, let's get to it.

Uh, you start us off. All right. There's I didn't want to get too on the nose with whiskey has to be in the title, right? I I went more for um what kind of mood vibe do I want um when I'm drinking bourbon? I I don't drink bourbon unless I'm hanging out with Kurt, right?

Um I used to. I don't now. I went with Tupelo by Jason Isbel. Oh, okay. He's a recovering alcoholic, which is interesting.

Yeah. And I when he was trying to sober up, I was opening for him and kept trying to offer him drinks. And good thing he didn't take it cuz we wouldn't have this album now. You're a bad influence. Are you serious?

Yeah. I didn't know you opened for him. Yeah. Um, so when was this? I thought he he's like newly sober.

Uh, no. The southeastern album's a dozen years old and that was about getting sober. So, it's been 15 years to 10 to 15 years. So, the reason I like Tupelo has a nice uh it's in a major key. It's not sad.

Um so, it's not about like drowning your sorrows in whiskey, but one of the lines in there is um haven't been wasted in a long time, but tonight it feels just right. I like I just kind of like that. Yeah, that vibe. Um, he's just kind of it's it's a relaxing song. Um, there's some yearning in it.

Um, I like to yearn when I drink. Well, but I think lyrically he's like one of the best people in the business these days. I agree. I I think he's one of the best lyricists out there right now. So, last year when we saw him, wasn't it?

Like right around this time. Yeah. Yeah. From Fort Wayne. Yep.

The Clyde. The Clyde. Yeah. It's great venue. Yeah.

So, that's my first choice. Tupelo. I know that's probably not the top of anybody's list when they think of whiskey drinking music, but for me, that's what I want to hear. Okay, Kurt, you know, I would pair two side by side because they're from the same guy in the same album, and that would be Chris Stapleton. And, you know, a lot of people know Tennessee Whiskey.

Sure. Which what I love uh you know, the argument I would love to make about that song is people go, "Oh, it's a great country song." Like, that's not a country song. That's blues. That's R&B. Yeah.

And the only thing that makes it country is his voice, which is halfway between Johnny Cash and Otis Reading. Um, great song, but it's a blues R&B song. Well, I think the way he does it is blues R&B, but if you listen to the George Jones, the original version, which may not even be the original version, but it's way it's I didn't even know that wasn't a Chris Stapleton song. Yeah. So, give it's completely different.

So Chris does it in like 68. George Jones does it in 44 and it's it's very country. I'm g have to look that up on my way out of here today. But you know, I would I would pair that on the same album with Whiskey and You. And that's probably my absolute favorite Chris Stapleton song.

the the the the comparison between the obsessions that you can have in a relationship with a person, um an addiction you could have to alcohol, um and blurring the lines between what my problem is. Something's lying to me. Is it the woman or is it the alcohol? Right. Um that's a great one's a longgone bitter truth.

Um, you know, I I love that counterpoint that he does uh topic-wise often in his songs, and I go back to that song over and over again. It's such a great song. Yeah. Good call. Yep.

Christopher, what do you got? Dollar Bill Blues by Towns Vanzant. Oh, Dollar Bill Blues. Yeah, this might be the uh top five where you get another another couple on there. Oo.

Yeah. What a treat. You are on a streak right now. And this is the second time you've mentioned Town of Fans as part of the Hamco live top five. He's one of my favorites.

And we should mention that uh we have a Spotify playlist. You can go to Spotify and check out Hamco. Just search up Hamco. And this one's called the Hamco Whiskey Jams. Whiskey Jams.

Hamco Whiskey Jams. Um okay. I'm going to put um a song that I've been listening to a lot lately um by Midland. Midland. Midland.

Midland. Midland. Midland. I don't know. Pick one.

Go Midland. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to go Midland. a drinking problem where the chorus um people say I got a drinking problem and then you know that's the first front end of the chorus and the back end is I got no problem drinking at all.

That's good. But it's a very classic Texas country. Yeah. All right. Number two.

Man, I feel weird about this one, but I'm going with it. Okay, let it be. Bye. I saw that on there. Explain yourself, sir.

I Okay, I don't again. It's I don't want to lament when I'm having a drink. And but also having a drink is kind of just You're looking to urine. You don't want to lament, you want to. Yes.

I I want I want part of tying one on a little bit is kind of just releasing and letting things go and just happen as they're going to happen. You're just stepping out of uh trying to control everything around you and you're just having a little moment. And I think let it be has that that feeling. Okay. It evokes the mood.

It it evokes the mood of the type of relaxation I want to have. Okay. And it yearns like a mother. And Mother Mary comes to you. Yeah, he does.

Yeah. Or Gator Tale, depending on depending on when where you're drinking. Uh Kurt, another one, you know, uh I was just kind of looking for titles to remind myself and went through my playlists and so forth. I've got a database. I started downloading and saving music gosh almost 30 years ago.

It's probably 25 years ago. Legally downloading. Uh there was some of that going on and it's up to about 23,000 tracks. So I type in what do I have and you know somebody that I forget that I like and I come back to it's Ernest Wranglin and he has a song called um what is it? Bourbon Street Skank and Ernest Wranglin if they did a few of those.

Well the street is filled long time ago. the street is filled with them. And um anyway, uh Ernest Wranglin is kind of, you know, if uh if uh the Muscle Scholes sound is an iconic, you know, record studio, then Studio One in Jamaica would be its counterpoint for reggae music. And if Steve Craropper was the guitarist of choice at Muscle Scholes, which of course he was, his counterpoint in Jamaica would be Ernest Wranglin, who played with the Scatalytes and with uh uh Bunny Wher and with Bob Marley, and he's on so many great uh Bob Marley. Have you ever heard Bob?

Some people know him as Robert. Some people call him Bob. Look into it. His mom called him Bobby. Um, but uh, anyway, he's one of those people you're hearing reggae songs all the time and you don't you're not paying attention to who the guitarist is.

But anyway, Ernest got a lot of great albums that are they're instrumental, great to put on and just let them roll in the background. That was I was listening to this yesterday. Um, and it was not what I expected. Bourbon Street Skank, first of all, I'm expecting like bluesy and vocals and it was neither bluesy and did not have vocals. took me by surprise.

And you have to remember that that term does not mean a derogatory comment about a woman uh in the reggae world. It's it's a funk. It's a groove. Oh, I didn't know that. Yep.

Look at that. We're learning something. This is an educational podcast. Yeah. It's okay, kids.

You can listen to it. It's educational. Uh producer Chris, what do you got? Um I really loved that Ernest Wranglin song. Um and my other one that I really loved on this list was Whiskey and You.

Was that your first choice, Kurt? Yeah. Number one. Yeah, it's my number one. Okay, then I'll have to go with one bourbon, one scotch, one beer.

Finally. But whose version? You got it in there. Whose version would you want? Would you Wait, didn't you pick that for a grunch song or something one week?

I picked it for a country song. Uh, so I feel like John Lee would be who I would think of first, but growing up in the musical waist radio wasteland that I grew up in here in Indiana, I would have only heard George Thorough Good. Which do you prefer, Chris? I'm only familiar with the one version. I'm have to admit that.

Okay. So, I prefer the the version that I put up here. George. Yes. Here's a fun one with George Thood.

When I was in high school, the uh we had a convocation. I don't know if you guys had convocations at your school where all the students get together and this was in our gym and we had a I guess you'd call him a motivational speaker come through. Was it George Thur? No, but he ended it was like a don't do drugs kind of speaker, right? But he ends his act, I guess, with um he goes off stage and I feel the cringe.

comes back um with a inflatable guitar and like sunglasses and you know maybe he popped his collar and loosened his tie and messed up his hair. Um, and he comes back as George thoroughly good and does a parody of bad to the bone, but it may have been good to the bone. I don't remember. But it was just like his whole thing was so cringy. And how old like is this high school?

High school. Oh, that's not going to land. No. Do either of you guys play inflatable guitars? I don't know how that works.

Yeah. Well, yeah. He's doing something I couldn't do. Yeah. Good.

Good on him. Uh, okay. My last one is uh mix it with whiskey. Yeah, you got to go for that. So, our guy Larry Fleet, who is of course the headliner at the Trade Up Fest coming up in September 19th um at the arena out at uh Noblesville here, the Riverview Health Arena at Innovation Mile.

he'll be headlining it and his song Mix It With Whiskey I think is it's got that double entandra. It's not as quite um not quite as uh painful as whiskey and you um but it's you know just this idea of some things go better when you have a a drink in your hands. Mix mix it with whiskey. All right. So, here's what we got.

We've got Tupelo by Jason Isabel. Whiskey and you by Chris Stapleton. Dollar Bill Blues. Who is that again? Towns Vanzant.

Towns Vanzant. Drinking Problem by Midland. Um, let it be. That's the Monkeys. Monkeys.

The Rutles. Uh, let it be by the Beatles. Uh, Bourbon Street Skank by Ernest Ragland. One. Did I say that right?

I don't know how to say it. Yeah, I don't know. Reglin. What's it What's it called? Raglin.

Sounds nice. Ragland. Yeah, I like that. Let's do that. Whatever.

Earnest. Uh, one bourbon, one scotch, one beer by George. Thoroughly good. And mix it with whiskey by Larry Fleet. All right, let's narrow it down.

Let's start with I think it's easier if we start with the ones that stay. Yeah. I think whiskey and you is a no-brainer. Yes. Mix it with whiskey.

All right. Mix it with whiskey is in there. Sure. Oh, then it gets a little, you know, I think that the uh Tupelo. I like that.

Okay. I like the vibe. I like the idea. Yeah, I was also thinking Tupelo. Okay.

All right. And h we can't let have Chris. He can't get both of them again. No. Uh so is it dollar bill blues or one bourbon, one scotch, one beer?

Dollar bill blues. I agree. I don't want to put one bourbon, one scotch, one beer on there for Yeah, it's too obvious. I think that's right. Okay, I'm with Chris again.

Sorry, George. Oh, dollar bill blues. All right, now we're down to drinking problem. Let it be. Bourbon Street Skank.

As much as I love Let It Be, I don't think of it as a whiskey. That's fine. So, we can cross that one off. It's out. Let it be.

Gone. Drinking problem. Bourbon Street Skank. Uh, I feel like the Bourbon Street Skank is only called that because a song needed to be called something. As much as I loved it, as much as I loved that song, and I really did.

I didn't It didn't really remind. It could have been Logan Street skank. I mean, it could have been anything. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. What is the Logan Streak skank up to nowadays? Uh, this is We're getting politically incorrect here. That's right. All right, we're crossing that one off.

All right, Bourbon Street Skank out. That leaves drinking problem by Midland. Oh, I got two in there, boys. All right, here's your top five whiskey jams according to the experts at Hamco Live. We got Tupelo by Jason Isbel Whiskey and you by uh Chris Stapleton, Dollar Bill Blues by Townis Vanzant, Drinking Problem by Midland, and Mix It with Whiskey by Larry Bleet.

We could not have curated a better list. We are afficados. Hit the button, sir. All right, let's get into uh trivia from Joe Rudy. But first, before we do that, couple quick promos.

Smooth. Uh we got Trade Up Fest coming September 19th. Make sure you go check this out, guys. This is going to be a great show, great day. Um, real quickly, it is an all day event from, well, gates will open at 10.

From basically 11 till 5 that night is a free community concert. Come out, enjoy. We've got eight bands, two stages, and of course, the signature of the event is that uh, Trades Village where you can try a trade. You know, put on the uh, the welding mask and virtually weld. Um, I just confirmed yesterday Vincen's University will be there and they are bringing a flight simulator.

Actually, let me look that up. What all they're bringing because it was really interesting. Like a jet engine. Yeah, they were going to bring like a half jet engine from their aviation school. Um, and bring the kids out.

You can touch truck. Yeah, there's going to be some heavy equipment there. Um, let me just We got a really cool graphic up on our website right now. The Trades Village. I saw that.

Feel like I'm there. Yeah. Yeah. That's an artist rendering, by the way. That's not a There are some brands there that will not actually be there.

And I can't guarantee you that. I think there's like a backo or something. Um, tell me I don't get to drive a backo. You don't get to operate a backo, I don't think. somehow.

Maybe uh Oh, here it is. They're going to bring a trailer. Oh, a robot dog. Oh, one of those that walks around. Yeah, I think so.

Cool. Yeah. Um, what kind of treats do you feed a robot dog? Microchips. Yeah, he's quick.

It's all about timing. I don't know where it is. There you find there. Yeah. Uh, but yeah, there's tons of cool stuff in that trades village.

Um, you know, if you have a kid that is trying to figure out what's what's next in this world after graduating uh high school, do I go to college? Are there other paths? Yes, there are other paths. You don't have to go to college to be successful. Um, and just because you go to college does not mean you will be successful.

Um, take it from me. Take it from all of us. Um, but you can go check out some of the career paths and apprenticeship opportunities in the skilled trades and advanced manufacturing industries. Then that night, of course, get your tickets. This you will need a ticket for.

All the day stuff completely free. Come out, enjoy it. Food trucks, eight bands, two stages, and the Trades Village. But that night, we're going to go inside the arena and uh we'll have a concert. Nora Ree, local talent uh opening up uh followed by the Wilder Blue.

Um, and then Larry Fleet, who was in the Hamco Laptop 5 with Mix It with Whiskey, he'll be closing out the night. It's going to be a really awesome day. Really excited about this event and uh, just need to sell some tickets. So, go get your tickets, please. Do you want to see a romant?

All right, but let's get into some trivia. Christopher, we're playing trivia. Trivia, of course, brought to you by Rudy's Recycle Shop off of State Road 19 in Cicero, Indiana. Go see your boy Joe Rudy. Get your bike tuned up.

Um, get yourself a new bike or get yourself an old bike. He doesn't care. He just wants to sell bikes and fix bikes. Joe has worked on my bike. He's worked on on my bikes as well.

My bike as well. Yeah. Uh, so go see Joe Rudy there at uh Rudy's Recycle Shop and you can go visit online at rudy's reccycleop.com. All right. Here's the uh category.

Pop sloft. pops soft and we already talked about Michael McDonald, right? So, can I just make him my answer for everything? I do like the idea of doing a pregess like what are the opt What are the chances be get it right? Yeah, just for fun.

Yeah, John Sakata. All right. Bet yourself up to 30 points. Um, yeah. Okay.

Go. Yeah. All right. Everybody got a bet locked in? Yep.

All right. Here's your question. This Grammyinning singer songwriter slash pianist grew up heavily steeped in the real estate business under his father, a prominent attorney and real estate developer in Williamsburg, Virginia, where their family real estate company continues to operate to this day. He's won three Academy Awards, including best new artist 1987, best bluegrass recording 1990, and best pop instrumental performance in 1994. His most famous song was number one of the Billboard Hot 100 for one week in 1986.

Got it. I think I have it, too. I'll read that one more time. No idea. This Grammyinning singer, songwriter, pian pianist, pianist, pianist, piano, piano player grew up heavily steeped in the real estate business under his father, a prominent attorney and real estate developer in Williamsburg, Virginia, where their family real estate company continues to operate to this day.

He's won three Academy Awards. Academy Awards? No, three Grammys, right? Yeah, three Grammys. They don't give best including say including best new artist 1987, best bluegrass recording in 1990 and best pop instrumental performance in 1994.

His most famous song was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for one week in 1986. Kind of put this only thing that makes sense to me and I feel like the bluegrass was a giveaway for me. Yeah, I got nothing. I got nothing. And this is kind of what I'm good at.

So, I'm I'm dispirited. Mhm. Mhm. And I just saw post about a bluegrass festival that he's playing at or that my answer is playing at. Pianist at a bluegrass.

Yeah. And that's what I was like, that's weird. I wonder why that's all about. So, I'm just going with this based off of that random post I saw. I might be overly confident.

The dates don't necessarily add up for me. So, we'll see. Everybody got something locked in? Yep. All right.

Usually Chris goes first. All right. Christopher, what do you got? Elton. John.

Elton. John, who is from England? Where did he get that accent? New England. That that West Virginia accent he has.

The Virginia Cockney. All right, we got Elton John. Uh Kurt, I got nothing. I got I can't even think of a pianist that would have been hitting the the the airwaves at I mean Bruce Hornsby. I'm I'm saying Bruce Hornsby just because I got nothing else.

Okay, Tyler, what do you got? Bruce Hornsby. Guess what I got? Bruce Hornby. Bruce Hornsby.

I got that at the last minute. It came to me. Uh yeah. So, let's see what the answer is. I'm guessing The Way It Is the number one song, The Way It Is reached a different level of popularity when Tupac sampled it in the song Changes.

The answer, Bruce Hornsby. We got a three-way tie. All right, so it'll come down to the bet. Can I Can I tell you a funny Bruce Horton Beach story? I Yes.

Tell me I had tickets to see him at Deer Creek. It'll always be Deer Creek to me. Sure. Um and I somehow got second row right in the middle. Wow.

And the show starts and this is a few albums into his career. And there is this squonking screaming sound that I only later realized was an accordion but really really loud. And you know he's tall. He's like freakishly tall. He's like 66 or 6'8 or something insane like that.

and he comes out on the stage with an accordion that he'd been playing backstage and he's like dipping to the audience and smiling at us and you're making I He just looked ridiculous. He really looked ridiculous and I'm trying not to like laugh at him cuz he's like looking like right at me. It's like it was so awkward. I was like so I was like gritting my teeth and trying not to lose it. He to me he looks like Woody from Toy Story.

He does. I love him. I love him. But yeah, you're right. That's good.

I heard a live version of the way it is, I don't know, years ago, but it stuck with me because they extend it and everybody basically takes a solo, but there was a bass solo in there where this bass player just rips it and it's unbelievably good. There aren't a lot of good bass solos out there. It's the challenging thing. Yeah. Uh, how many did you bet?

10. 10. 23. Oh, I had 19. So, Tyler's gonna win it.

Streaking. Streaking. Lots of streaks going on right now. All right. Hey, that's all for the show.

We got to end with what you listening to, Chris. I have been listening to uh Jackie Matu. It's like a reggae organist that I've been enjoying a lot. I've also been listening to this song called D4L by Big Woo, who's a local dude, and a group called Homebrew out of New Zealand, as well as the new Ghost on Maple album. Was that out?

It is. It arrived yesterday. Uh courtesy of Front Porch Records. Nice. And uh the new Rusty Redmacher album, which has not arrived yet, but our test presses did come in.

Wow. That's exciting. That's fun, man. Too. All right.

You know, the uh during co I'd be out working in the garden sipping my ginonic. Sorry, not whiskey that time. And the Dean Van uh Van Djk and uh and uh Jeff uh would be he was giving Jeff uh guitar lessons in the garage. and I'd hear him playing and I'd walk down and that's where Ghost on Maple started was in that garage and those two guys taking guitar lessons. Yeah.

Huh. Cool stuff. Uh what do you listen to, man? It's It's Back to the Grind for me. Billy Joel learning learning Billy Joel songs.

Yeah, you that's coming up next weekend, right? Yeah. Yeah. Not not Yeah. Yeah.

So, are you like a Billy Joel impersonator now? No, I'm in a Billy Joel tribute band, but I'm just an auxiliary musician. He's impersonating a musician. Gotcha. All right.

Going on 20 years now. Uh yeah, that is next weekend. August 29th is Front Porch Music Festival, of course, down here in downtown Noblesville, um on Logan Street. Um come out for that and then stick around for the concert at Federal Hill that night. Tyler and Brett Wisconsin, who's been on the program before, uh, have a Billy Joel tribute band and they are opening up for the Gar Brooks tribute band.

So, a lot of tributes. Yeah, that'll be a great weekend. Make sure you come out for that. Um, Kurt, first of all, yeah, couple of things. You are, as we said at the top of the show, a real estate agent.

Um, where can we find you if we need if we need you? I think the socials are a good way to find me. Um, Instagram, Facebook. I got kind of a big presence in both places. You put easy to find me.

Great contest. Yeah. One of my favorite things that you do. Well, first of all, your updates on, you know, what's happening um downtown with traffic and parking and construction are always great. Um, your history lessons are always great, but my favorite thing you do is you'll do a you have a picture up, a historic photo of what a specific spot in Noblesville looked like in whatever 1918 or something like that.

Yeah. And then that picture will come down and you'll show the same spot today. I love those. Those are so cool. That's what made me go viral.

I'm I'm at like 43,000 followers on Facebook. And that what that a lot of that push really started from a photograph of a woman from 1897 sitting on a front porch um right in your neck of the woods. Um Jinger's old house sitting on her front porch and you pull it away and you see that front porch, the exact same spot, the exact same brick house in the background. And I'd be gaining 5,000 5,000 500 followers a day after I posted that. People were like, "That's amazing." You know, so it's just like Yeah.

The interesting ones too are um like where you see the big changes to where they can be heartbreaking. Yeah. When you see a beautiful piece of architecture that this town just so easily wiped away at some point in the past. Yeah. Any parking lot you see in Noblesville in downtown Noblesville just accept that something beautiful was there and destroyed.

Some of like Did we ever have a movie theater down here? We had two. uh one at the corner of 9inth and Clinton um that was demolished in the early 90s um and then one uh where the Levenson building is now. It started out as an opera house so a live performance uh theater that later became a movie theater and that was destroyed I want to say in the 60s or 70s but I don't remember exactly. What was that called Kurt?

Uh that was a wild opera house there and then uh the Diana was uh same name as the Typton Theater at 11th and uh and uh Clinton. Man, I would love to have you know the town would kill for that theater at 9th in Clinton. It was a heartbreaker that it was so and the mayor at the time uh practically laid down in front of bulldozers and the business community just didn't defend her or support her and the building got destroyed really for almost no reason whatsoever other than we don't want to maintain this building. And it had one of those stage like threetory uh you know popups in the back so you could raise and lower you know scenery and all of that. Yeah.

To do live theater. That would be so fun now to have a theater downtown. Yeah. Like how many millions would it cost you to build one now and you could have just saved it? Yeah.

Yeah. That's crazy to think about because there's been conversations about that like some sort of venue downtown. So uh what are you listening to Kurt? You know, I used to be a really album focused person when I was younger. I've become a very song focused person.

And so I'll say I'll hear something and I'll I'll Shazam it or I'll make a little, you know, note on it. Um things popping up now. I've I've always been a big Iron and Wine fan. Their latest album has a song on it called In Your Ocean and the harmonies are just killer. Um Kevin Morby keeps popping up on uh you know, Instagram and and uh Apple Music keeps thinking I should be listening to Kevin Morby and I'm starting to agree.

Uh, Dear Tick has been doing a lot of more stripped down acoustic stuff and I always like that. That scratchy squeaky John Macaulay voice is wonderful. And another band I don't know how to pronounce their name, Cigarus, uh, from Iceland. Sugar Ray. They're from Um, you know what?

They have done a lot of interesting atmospheric music over the years. And the there's a a remix release of an album from perhaps 20 years ago has a song on it called Hippopola. It's very orchestral and you cannot understand. I don't I'm not even sure he's speaking the Icelandic language. He may just be singing sounds that sound compelling for that moment in the song.

Um Jonesy is their lead singer. And um yeah, Cigar Roose I highly recommend. Okay. Hippopola. I love this in your ocean.

I'm going to go check that out. Have you heard the uh Iron and Wine Colleexico album from your Oh, that's fabulous. That's one of my favorites. Yeah. Yeah, that's great.

And that it's it's very similar to in your um in your ocean there's a song uh uh it's either Father Mountain or Grandfather Mountain. It has a very similar vibe and the female background singers. It's just both of those are fabulous. Either Grandfather Mountain or My Father's Mountain, Mansion on the Mountain, something like that from that Klexico album. It's stellar.

Uh, well, I've been listening to Midland a lot. My birthday coming up here Sunday, 48. Wow, you're old. Yeah. As I was looking, I was, we were setting up today and I asked Chris, I was looking at the camera shots on the monitor.

I was like, is that blurry? Like, are we out of focus? Does it need to be focused up? No. I think my eyes are just like all of a sudden bad.

It's all downhill from here, buddy. It doesn't get better. Boy, oh boy. Anyways, I got some new uh vinyl for my birthday and Middlin was one of the ones I picked up. So, I've been listening to that a lot.

Hey, that's all for our show. We want to thank our guest Kurt Meer. Go check out the socials. Really give it a give it a follow on Instagram or Facebook. Those videos of how Nobles has changed is are very fascinating.

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I want to find a way to sneak a 38 special reference in. Okay. To every episode like Seinfeld does with Superman. Okay. Yeah.

I guess I forgot about that. Yeah. Like the symbol or something. Yeah. It's funny.

Yeah. I don't know enough about 38 Special though, so I'm gonna have to brush up. I know that and that's about it. Actually, I worked uh backstage at Rua or Deer Creek one year, one summer. This is back when it was Verizon.

But uh 38 Special was on tour with Skard and um that's the only reference I have of 38 Special was working that show. Okay. Yeah. Well, we'll brush up on our 38 special lore. Okay, that sounds good.

That's all for uh the Hamco Go Live Hot Ticket podcast. Thank you for joining us and we'll see you at the next show. Hamco, over and out. Sticky floors, buzzing ears on tiny stage, big time sound. Every lost kid home.

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