WEBVTT - Episode 3: Hotels with Hunter Kelly 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:04.000 Hello, This is Christian Bush and welcome to episode three 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:12.319 of Geeking Out, my new podcast. Every episode is a 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:15.480 new person talking about what they're obsessed with that has 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:18.400 nothing to do with their job. The only requirement is 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:20.520 that they're totally geeking out on it and they want 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:24.440 to talk about it. From Kung Fu movies to Japanese whiskey, 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:28.520 from old Atari video games to roasting pecans, from rebuilding 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:32.720 old cars to collecting baseball caps. Tell me what you love, 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:35.080 why you love it, how you got into it, and 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:40.520 what makes it awesome. Every episode is presented in three chapters. 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.000 Chapter one, my guest and I talk about what they're 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:46.960 obsessed with. Chapter two is a game I call Trade Joe, 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:49.040 where my guest and I turn each other on to 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:52.680 one thing that we've discovered. And chapter three closes the 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:55.800 show with me talking about music that I'm currently geeking 0:00:55.800 --> 0:01:00.000 out on and why I believe that curiosity is can 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.040 tageous and the life is better with a soundtrack. So 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:13.600 let's go Chapter one. Today's guest is the Amazing Hunter. 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:25.760 Kelly Hunter is a country music journalist working for Rare Country. 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:29.280 Hunter first interviewed me when sugar Land first released our 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.360 song baby Girl way back in the day. I have 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:37.680 never met anyone like this man. He is unforgettable and 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:41.000 funny enough. He was the person who actually inspired the 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:45.520 idea for this podcast. I caught up with him in Nashville, Tennessee, 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:54.320 one sunny afternoon over the summer. Why am I feeling 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:57.480 so wrong? My head's in the game, but my haunts 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:01.480 in this song she makes me feel so hm. Let's 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:03.120 get your head in the game from high school music, 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:06.720 Hunter Kelly, Welcome to my podcast. Welcome Christian. It's so 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.160 good to be here being interviewed by you. It's usually 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:10.560 the other way around. I know it's a turning of 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:12.760 the tables, but I like it. I love the way 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:16.160 that life work. Yes, tell me, tell me what you do, 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:19.480 who you are, Where are you from? Really quickly? Okay? 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:23.320 I am Hunter Kelly. I am a country music journalist, 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:28.119 reporter gad fly if you will, just about town in Nashville. 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:31.280 I work with Rare Country and their senior correspondent. So 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:33.440 I'm interviewing people like you who make the country and 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:37.079 western music all the time and eight love the country 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:41.120 music and grip in Birmingham, Alabama. Have lived in Nashville 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:47.040 for eighteen years. So as a as a you're a 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:50.200 journalist by trade, yes, And how long have you been 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:54.760 their journals? Twelve years? Twelve years? What did you do 0:02:54.840 --> 0:03:00.959 before that college? I mean Starbucks, sen A Starbucks. Yeah, No, 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.160 I really found my niche with writing at when I 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:07.040 was at Belmont. Started writing for the paper about music, 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:12.240 music that I loved, and then worked into syndicated radio, 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.480 worked with Clear Channel and then ABC News, ABC Radio 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:20.600 for a decade. Yeah, I interviewed, Yeah, so that was 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.760 that was a hoot, you know, just covering country music 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:26.920 for ABC News, so really being a point person for 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:29.960 them on all things country. Got the job one four 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:34.320 kind of crazy, kind of felt, yeah, I grew up there. 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:38.480 Now here we are. What are you into? I'm into 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:42.440 hotels across America that have dramatic architecture or that have 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:46.120 historical significance. So it's really every trip I go on, 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:50.080 I tried to stay at a hotel that includes that 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.600 falls into that or go visit them. So yeah, I 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:57.280 mean it's really like I'm a hotel tourist. I guess 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.360 how long has this been going on? Well? Picture it 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:09.200 not teen ninety, not nine. Atlanta, Georgia, where you're from. UM. 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:12.720 We stayed at the Hightt Regency in at downtown Atlanta, 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:16.120 and UM it was a memorable trip because I loved 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.919 just staying at I had expensive taste as a child 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:23.159 growing up growing up in Alabama. Favorite TV show was 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:26.320 Dallas loved like Robin Leach, lifestyle is rich and famous. 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:29.640 So the High Regency in Atlanta is a very dramatic 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:33.920 hotel and it was very high end. Um it's still 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.400 a very nice hotel, but in my mind it was 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:42.760 like the Palace. So the atriums, Yeah, the atrium is 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.480 twenty two stories, goes straight up. It was the first 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:50.760 one um that John Portman, who's very important architect, designed. 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:53.479 It goes all the way up, so it's just a 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:58.839 very dramatic lobby, very tall, and then at the top 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.960 it has a rotating bar and restaurant, which is the 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:05.840 hallmark of these Higher Regencies. This was the first one. 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:09.440 So you go up into on the roof and have 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:12.320 a three sixty degree with you with the city. So 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:15.680 this was the first one that John Portman did. And 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:18.000 now there are these old high some of them have 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.640 been changed with the Higher Regency. That was a real 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:26.240 calling card for them to have a dramatic atrium restaurant. 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:32.320 It does. Yeah, the Marriott, the Marriott, graand Marquis and 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:36.359 Downtindantly and across the street really looks like you're inside 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:39.440 a spaceship. It's kind of the same idea, except it 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:42.880 goes up forty stories, but it really looks like some 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:46.280 kind of alien ship that you're on, so much so 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:47.760 that it was I think it was used in the 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:52.560 Hunger Games. Yeah, everything in Atlanta. But this is really 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:57.200 I mean, it's just really dramatic. So how many of 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.480 these have you seen? I mean, do you make it 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:01.400 a point to it? I do, make it a pen 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.840 and how do you do you document it somehow? Well, 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:08.800 there's actually a list on Wikipedia, which is my you know, 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:10.880 as a newsman, it's my official news source. I always 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:16.080 say so trustworthy. Um, but they actually have a list 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:19.520 of I mean the rotating the rotating restaurants and bars 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:23.120 is really what we've started going across the country collecting. 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:27.800 So there's actually one in um Florence, Alabama, UM at 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:32.200 the Marriott property there. Yeah, and there's one in downtown Nashville. 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.000 They basically built the Sheraton used to open as a 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:38.440 higher regency in downtown Nashville, and so it's got that 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:40.840 really dramatic open atreya and that goes all the way up, 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:44.599 so it's really stunning when you look up. But the 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:46.920 there's a rotating restaurant at the top right here in 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.360 our hometown, but it's been shut down because of health 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.400 code reasons. I've looked into it several times and was 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.640 actually friends with the manager over there, who's moved to 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:58.480 another hotel since here in Nashville, but he said that's why. 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:02.120 But UM give her sneak up the no and always 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.919 meant to. It's one of those things I've called about it. 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.520 I've posted about it on YouTube, but I've never snuck 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.480 up there. But I do understand that you can rent 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.280 it out for private party. So everybody I know with money, 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.920 I'm like, why don't you you have an anniversary coming up? 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:17.680 Why don't you write that out so I can go 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:24.600 up and see this rotating um rotating restaurant. Motael dallas Um. 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:27.000 That was a two for really the High Regency. They 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:30.360 see Him awards were in dallas Um a few years ago. 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.360 So went out there and the High Regency downtown is 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:37.760 featured dramatically in the opening of my favorite television show Dallas, 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.440 so I had to stay there. And there is a 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:47.360 Wolfgang Puck restaurant that rotates. Um, there's the Reunion Tower 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:51.480 ball next to the High Regency in downtown Dallas, and 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:56.280 that rotates a lovely experience. It's a Wolfgang Puck property. 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:01.200 And UM. I was just watching a TV show UM 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:04.680 this past weekend about the Erie Canal and they showed Rochester, 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:08.680 New York, and I spotted what looked like a rotating 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:12.320 restaurants and like, well, I gotta go to Rochester flying 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:14.559 in and out of go to Tampa, Florida. Fly to Tampa, 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:19.119 Florida every year for vacation, and the hotel at um 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:24.240 the Tampa airport, well, it's shut down. I wonder why 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.040 they shut down. I don't know. We don't want to 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:31.720 go rot It's one of those wonderful things. Yeah, we 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:35.200 used to get dressed up to go. Yeah. Well that's 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:37.600 that's the that's that's part of why I love these 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:40.520 hotels like the Hyatt's that just seems so and that 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:43.200 are that are maintained, but that it's like a portal 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:46.520 into a past era. It's like you're on like a 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:50.600 PanAm flight with like these fabulous outfits in a full 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:53.199 meal and just we're like in a you know, a 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:57.360 fabulous Cadillac from the sixties or seventies. It's just really 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.599 the higher regencies, what they were doing with those was 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:04.120 really taking travel like up a notch from the Howard 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:08.679 Johnson too luxury hotels in a new way beyond like 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:12.240 the old school hotels like the Drake and UM, the 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:15.760 Fairmont in San Francisco, the Drake and Chicago, which I 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.360 got to stay at UM both of those last year 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.480 as well. So it was like, well the hotel the 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:25.000 Fairmont in Hotel was actually used in the TV show 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:29.320 Hotel Connie selicon James Brolin. It's an Aaron Spelling show 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:33.920 on ABC. So every time I go into a night 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.680 really nice hotel at home, or sing the theme song 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:41.199 to hotel, so actually sing the theme song to hotel 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:55.720 in Dona Na No, no, no, very dramatic. Yeah, that's awesome. 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:08.439 Yeah in the hot Springs. No, let's talk about a gem. Yeah. Well, 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:11.040 and that that's like the Drake as well. It's really 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:14.600 really well maintained, but the walls were so paper thin. 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.120 We were in a room and we were just quietly 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:21.120 about eleven thirty four of us listening to a living 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:24.360 Newton John like you do at eleven thirty at the 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:28.280 Drake and the the hotel security was called upon us 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:31.320 because they said we were too loud. But it was quiet. 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:33.800 I mean, calm down. I think it might have been 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:38.440 magic from the Zanna Do soundtrack. It wasn't crazy, you know, 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.480 it was. Yeah. So those walls are paper thin. And 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:43.720 you know, when you get those hotels like that Regency 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:45.480 that were built in the sixties and seventies, I mean 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.720 they're a pretty good insulation. That hotel, the High Regency. 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:50.880 The first time we stayed at it in eight nine, though, 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:54.600 we were there for Atlanta Braves game, and so my 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:58.079 dad freaked out because they were playing the Dodgers and 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:02.080 the Dodgers were staying there. So we met Commula Sorda, Um, 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:06.000 Darryl Strawberry. I was probably seven or eight at the 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:10.480 time and did not care at all, but Dad used 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.280 me to go meet these people. So I was this guy. 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:17.520 So yeah, So I mean my first time going in there, um, 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.280 I just remember, you know that was a UNIX seen 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:23.920 celebrities seeing famous people in this dramatic hotel. I mean 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:27.800 it made a really dramatic impression, and um, yeah, just 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:31.280 fascinated ever since. I went to Kansas City a few 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:34.040 weeks ago and stated at what was the Higher Regency there? 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:36.720 It's now a Sheraton, but then they had a I 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:38.920 believe it was a Western attached to it. So it's 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:43.400 all this big complex and um, there was an indoor 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.920 garden at the west end that it was like the sixties. 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:49.080 I mean it had to be seventy two, I think 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:52.040 early seventies, and it was just untouched. I mean you 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.160 feel like you're on the set of Three Company or something. 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:57.920 It's just it's just great. You know. So have you 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:01.120 traveled be on the cities? Have you going to like 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:03.840 the Berkshire's or any of these places where you know 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:07.320 there's going to be some preserved places like I know 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:10.599 there's some places in Michigan, you know, and like a 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:14.200 dirty dancing resort kind of like have you ever have 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:18.760 you ever put your foot into that world? No? I haven't. 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.600 And usually it's because when we go to a city, 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:24.400 there's a reason, like an artist we want to see 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:28.480 playing there, um, or a place that my boyfriend wants 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:33.600 to go, right. Yeah, So I'm piggybacking like, oh, what 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:38.160 hotels can I see there? Um? Do you have any 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:40.080 that are on your list right now that you haven't 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:47.640 seen it? You're pretty excited? Well really Miami, I mean Miami. Um, yeah, 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:51.080 I think the Fountain Blue just because, um, it's one 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.120 of those places I've I keep looking at and I 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:56.600 mean to go, but there hasn't been. Let's go to Miami, 0:12:56.760 --> 0:13:00.120 you know kind of thing. But you know the the 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:03.360 whole thing. I mean in dream Girls they made their 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:05.800 debut at the Fountain Blue. Was it the Fountain Blue? 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.280 We'll say it was for these purposes, but also in 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:11.240 The Bodyguard, you know, Rachel Mayor and the Big Rachel 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.720 when it explodes some you know, the Fountain bl I 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.679 love that. It's somewhere there's the ven diagram of movies 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:22.240 that you love and hotels that yeah, they overlap. That's 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.199 a really that's a really big big part of it. 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.040 You had to if you had to, if they were 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:29.679 going to film a movie of your life and there 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:33.719 was gonna be an hotel in it, what were they, Oh, well, 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:38.000 that would probably be the wind Free Hotel in Birmingham, Alabama, 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:43.120 which is now a higher Regency incidentally, Uh, it's attached 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:46.760 to the mall, the River Chase Galleria. So yeah, I 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:49.280 just had a lot of memorable stuff go down in 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:53.240 the wind Free Hotel. Um, it was really you know, 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:55.680 going to the mall, it was a big deal. But 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:59.600 also this hotel was really nice and so uh several 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.320 things are remember about the Winfrey Hotel growing up. When 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:04.880 I was the Fox six Star Student of the Week 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.480 for Gardener High School and the local Fox affiliate, they 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.800 had the gala there at the Winfrey Hotel. This is 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:12.480 my senior year of high school. And there was a 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.400 news anchor I always wanted to meet named Janet Hall 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:19.320 still on Fox six, the affiliate, and so I finally 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.400 got to meet her and that meant a lot to 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:24.320 me for reasons that I don't want to get into 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:28.440 because we'll never stop talking. Also, my meme all was 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:33.080 in the Miss Alabama Nursing Home pageant representing Handsful Nursing 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:35.360 Home about two thousand and so she was, I mean 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:37.840 it's theme. It was at the Winfrey Hotel in the 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.960 ballroom and that so um. Also the first time I 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:44.240 really connected with Nammi Judge from the Judds was in 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:48.240 the lobby of the Free Hotel from the Nami Judd 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:52.000 of the Judd Spain was in the lobby. She was 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.640 speaking there at the at the hotel, and I met 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:57.800 her in the lobby and have my first meaningful exchange 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:00.480 with That was my first meaningful ex change with the 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:04.640 jud What what would you mind? What was it? The 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:07.440 exchange that was some meaningful? Well, it was just really 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:11.720 about connecting with her um a little bit and telling 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:13.520 her about my love for the Juds and how much 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.120 the I mean, the Juds are really foundational for me musically. 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:18.720 So I had her signed the box set, sign a 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:22.120 tour program and also signed a photograph I got in 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:26.400 the year before at their fan club party here in Nashville. 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:29.240 So I still you weren't talking at all in the lobby, 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:36.120 almost girming from dear life. And this was before I mean, 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.760 did she did she make sure to sign your name 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:42.960 love to hunt Her so that you can't sell it. 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:46.760 I wouldn't want to know. I'm just saying, yeah, love 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.720 to hunt her. Love to hunt her is how it went. 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:55.680 I love it. Yeah. So the Winfrey Hotel and it's 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:58.360 still there. I actually went there two weeks ago for 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:00.960 the first time in a long time. And the thing 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:04.520 about hotels when I'm going and exploring that can really 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.040 rob them joys. Happened twice to me this year is 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:12.640 when there are weird ass comic book conventions going on. Well, 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:18.080 I'll tell you what. Oh my gosh, well I'll tell 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.120 you this. Um, I know that the all of the 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:24.840 Atlanta hotels that you talk about, um, mostly I see 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:29.320 them now when I go to weird ass comic So 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:32.120 when I was there just completely full. They're they're full, 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.160 and so I'm trying to enjoy the architecture and or 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:38.920 the nostalgia and just live in this time period of 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:43.720 the sixties and seventies. And then there are all these weirds. 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:47.400 What's not storm it's also furries, which has a whole 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:54.880 sexual component that's weird. And yeah, you really do so 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:58.360 I just really should start calling ahead and being like, Hi, 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:03.800 I would like to create a fantasy for myself. Are 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:09.639 there any weird ass furry conventions this weekend? So maybe 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:13.120 that's a thing. Is it a thing? Do you? Because 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:14.919 I do this sometimes, but I wonder if you do 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:17.320 it when you walk around these hotels and there's a 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.359 convention and all that you're trying to guess what the 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:23.679 convention is because usually it's not on the badge, you know, 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:27.920 it's usually not broadcast because they're usually servicing two or 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:34.960 three at a times. Yeah yeah, yeah radio like yeah, 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:37.280 well you have phone with those. Um you know the 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:40.600 a brilliant hotel which is massive here in Nashville. They 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:43.280 have conventions all the time. And in college we used 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:46.600 to would would go crash like the parties, Like we 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:50.879 crashed the radio check party, UM corporate party at the 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:53.159 Opperland Hotel. And my friend Kelly, who I grew up with, 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:56.840 who's just insane. She led them all inline dancing and 0:17:56.920 --> 0:18:00.920 it was just really fun. But I don't know why, 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:03.639 just usually don't. I'm not I'm not as interested in 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:09.520 what conventions are there. I want to go back in time. 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:13.640 So do you ever find yourself do you ever find 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:17.840 yourself dressing of the period or or taking a suitcase 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:23.639 from that period? Like like is that where it's coming from? No, No, 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:25.359 you just want to stand in the middle of it. 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:28.119 I just want to stay in there. Oh yeah, I 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:30.359 mean they're well documented on the Instagram. And then I 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:32.639 got this NASS Canon camera. We were this year that 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:36.119 um I did we stayed at the Peabody earlier this year. 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:37.920 It took a lot of great photos of the Peabody 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:40.639 in Memphis with the ducks. Ducks, they come out and 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:43.480 they come out. Yeah, which you know, the Peabody is 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:47.400 a grand, grand hotel. So are you a fan of 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:51.679 the of the bellman and the concierge and all the 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:55.240 people who work in these hotels? Yeah? I mean that's 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:57.359 one of the things I've been meaning to get a recently, 0:18:57.600 --> 0:18:59.719 and I want to get a book on hotel management, 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:02.479 and I think that's so alluring. But then I realized, oh, 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:04.760 but that would involve working with people, which takes all 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:06.959 the sexy out of it, And so I don't want 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:09.320 to get too far down that rabbit hole of actually 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:13.480 working in a hotel, you know, but I do love 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:17.359 vaguely the concept. So if you were someone's listening to 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:20.200 this and then really never thought they were staying at 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:24.840 and they wanted to dive into our Kelly land of 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:29.720 classic hotels, what would you start them on? I want, 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:35.159 I guess just I think the higher regency chain and 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:38.480 like looking at the hotels, um, if you go to 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:41.119 a city and you notice a hotel, tall hotel with 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:44.200 an atrium and a spaceship on the top. That was 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:47.320 a Higher Regency. M I've seen them in Fort Lauderdale. 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:50.280 They're out in California. They really took that design and 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:52.159 ran with it. So I think, you know, it's one 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:53.800 of those things. Just keep an eyeut when you're in 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:56.520 a city. There's one in Louisville. Like we pulled into 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:58.359 Louisville a few years ago for a show and was 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:00.919 on a tour bus and I called. I saw it 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:03.959 and called, so find out the hotel. Call see if 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:06.880 it's open. You know, go. It's just a fun thing 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:10.680 and you'll you'll see them out there. It's still still 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:14.680 do you do leave anything behind or take anything from 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:17.080 each point? Like how do you have any picture? Well, 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:20.080 one of the things with the higher regencies, it's very interesting. 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:23.120 A friend of mine just bought me. This will time 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:25.560 to you being from the Knoxville area for the high 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:27.879 it's now I think it's a Marriott, but it's the 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:31.520 one downtown in Knoxville that was a Higher Regency and 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:34.959 all of the highatt Regency hotels back when they actually 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:39.600 had a key have the key ring and its um 0:20:39.800 --> 0:20:44.159 bronze and it has then imprint of the hotel structure 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:47.160 on it, so I think high it's bringing it back. 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:50.560 The Higher Regency in Atlanta just had a remodel and 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:54.160 the chicken desk the back of the back wall behind 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:58.920 the check in desk is these keys just replicas of 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:02.080 these keys, so they're those exist. So I think, really 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:05.160 it would be that, But that's more of an eBay thing. 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:08.080 I think with it with from these hotels, I just 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:15.200 take my photos and my memories like National Park. Yes, well, 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:18.400 thank you for beating here. Thanks, it's been weird. Yeah, 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:25.760 that's that's the whole idea. Chapter two. In every episode 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:28.200 of Geeking Out, I see if I can trade one 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:31.960 thing I've discovered with one thing that my guest has discovered, 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:36.320 a friendly exchange. I call it trade you. I trade 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:40.080 you one thing that I've discovered or I'm just into 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:42.840 like a song or a Netflix show or something, and 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:46.600 you you trade me back something small. Because you were 0:21:46.640 --> 0:21:49.359 just talking about hotel I'll go first, because you're just 0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:53.040 talking about hotel rooms. Um, there's a thing that the 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:57.560 band Queens and stone Age started that you might enjoy 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:01.760 here in this and what it is is they are 0:22:02.800 --> 0:22:09.679 secret hotel wall art. So what they started doing because 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:11.440 they travel around so much. My brother turned me on 0:22:11.520 --> 0:22:14.119 to this is they started taking tools with them and 0:22:14.160 --> 0:22:18.199 the tools were like a screwdriver and a bunch of 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:21.480 paint pens and they will take down the art in 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:25.560 a hotel room from the wall and draw new art 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:29.440 behind it and then put it back up. They started 0:22:29.480 --> 0:22:34.960 it an arts festival in Joshua Tree and they would 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:38.680 do people's rooms. I'm showing. So they take off the 0:22:39.680 --> 0:22:42.560 painting off the wall and then they paint something behind it, 0:22:42.800 --> 0:22:45.200 and then they put the painting back on. So it says, 0:22:45.240 --> 0:22:47.920 if you're you're leaving a little secret for the next 0:22:47.920 --> 0:22:51.159 person that stays in the room. And the reason that 0:22:51.200 --> 0:22:53.320 I think that this would be important to you is 0:22:53.320 --> 0:22:56.320 because I've always had this weird superstition that and I 0:22:56.359 --> 0:23:00.000 think it's just from too many Tom Waite's songs that, Um, 0:23:00.160 --> 0:23:02.080 when you sleep in a hotel room, you take on 0:23:02.119 --> 0:23:04.960 the dreams of the person before you, right, And that's 0:23:04.960 --> 0:23:08.399 a weird superstition. I've had my whole life as a songwriter. Um, 0:23:08.440 --> 0:23:10.679 but this when my brother turned me onto it. We 0:23:10.680 --> 0:23:14.000 were we were leaving messages for each other because he 0:23:14.040 --> 0:23:15.919 was in the band Train and sugar Land was on 0:23:15.960 --> 0:23:19.560 tour and we were both doing amphitheaters, so backstage we 0:23:19.560 --> 0:23:21.440 were only two or three days away from each other. 0:23:21.720 --> 0:23:24.879 So we would leave things for each other behind the 0:23:25.080 --> 0:23:29.040 like the mirrors or under the desk and the production 0:23:29.119 --> 0:23:31.280 office or whatever, and Briannon would get him a couple 0:23:31.280 --> 0:23:33.280 of days later and he would do the same for me. Well, 0:23:33.320 --> 0:23:35.280 pretty soon after that he called me and he said, man, 0:23:35.320 --> 0:23:37.920 I gotta get you some paint pens. And I said why, 0:23:38.000 --> 0:23:40.560 he goes, because I want you to look for my robot. 0:23:40.960 --> 0:23:44.040 And he started making this one particular robot that he 0:23:44.040 --> 0:23:50.439 would draw and put behind the the the pictures in 0:23:50.480 --> 0:23:55.880 the hotel room where train was vandalized. Hotel rooms, Well yeah, 0:23:55.960 --> 0:23:57.480 but I mean, you're never gonna be able to figure 0:23:57.480 --> 0:23:59.639 it out which ones, But Slash I gotta do is 0:23:59.680 --> 0:24:02.240