WEBVTT - Ep. 66: 300 McLargemouth Happy Meals 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:09.240 Oh man, that's a lot of large amount sandwiches for 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:11.760 the bag lunches. You know what I'm saying. I'm like, 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:14.800 I just caught a freaking carp. I just caught a 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:17.560 cart I'm gonna give you about four to six years, 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:21.360 and you're gonna have some severe gastro intestinal distress. You're 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:23.959 gonna have some big issues. I know. I laughed, like 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:27.440 George McFly. That's fine, man, laugh with me, laugh at me. 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:29.280 All that matters to me is that you're laughing and 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:31.920 having a good time while you are listening to the 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:37.080 Bent podcast. Good morning, degenerate anglers, and welcome to Bent, 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:42.080 the fishing podcast that has finally decided who will be 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:46.760 it's full time co host, it's new wingman in piscatorial debauchery, 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:48.720 and a person I can make do stuff I don't 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:52.199 feel like doing. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Hayden Samic 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:55.640 as our new co host. You got the job. You 0:00:55.760 --> 0:01:00.000 got the job, buddy, dude. I am so so happy 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.400 to be doing this. And you know, I've maintained since 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:06.360 day one that this is my favorite Mediator Network podcast, 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:09.760 and I really genuinely mean that, and like, as a 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:13.080 fan of this podcast. I hope that I could bring 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:15.040 to the table the kind of stuff that I would 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.240 like to hear and and I know you will, like 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:19.160 you know you've been you've been sort of like this 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.240 this like you know, floating guests. But now, dude, you 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:24.280 you own this too. And we've already talked about some 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:26.039 ideas to bring to the table in the future that 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:29.080 I'm super pumped about. And if I apologize if I 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.679 sound less enthusiastic, but like I'm fighting a cold. I 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:33.640 told you, don't ever have a kid, don't ever put 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:36.440 them in daycare. You will be sick for months. But 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.000 I I am. I am really pump man. I've been 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:40.959 I've been dying to analysis. I've sort of known it 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:44.440 for a little while. And I would also like to 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:47.080 to remind everyone that early on right, I told listeners 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:49.640 that I was I mean, I was listening right and 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.280 to please weigh in on who they thought should grab 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:55.960 the co host chair, and nobody got more votes than 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:59.280 you did. Man. Like, ever since our Halloween show, I've been, 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.200 oh man, I've been overwhelmed with notes and d M 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:05.760 saying like we've really been enjoying Hayden and he should 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:09.120 be the guy, and I couldn't agree more. Um, you've 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:13.200 you've definitely resonated with with the degenerates. Uh and from 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:16.919 the start, what Yeah, what mattered most to me was 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.919 how much fun you've been having doing this, Like that's important, 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:22.119 Like you gotta you gotta be having a great time. 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:25.400 And you've truly embraced it, nailed everything I've thrown at 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:28.040 you past every test, and um, I know we're gonna 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:29.920 have a blast. I'm really pumped. And I also I 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:34.160 do want to say I cannot thank everyone who guest 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:37.600 co hosted over the last month and a half enough. Right, 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:39.120 it's a fair amount of work. It's a bit of 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.440 a grind, but everybody, all my my buddies stepped up. Um, 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:44.880 and it's been good times. But I'm really excited to 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:47.360 get back to having like a full time partner in crime, 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:50.520 you know. Yeah, And Joe, I'm excited to be that 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:54.200 partner in crime man. You know, I hope I do 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:58.080 right by all degenerate anglers the world over. And I 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:00.360 just want to say again I'm super excited. Gonna have 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.200 a blast. Yeah, man, and you will. So let's let's 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.320 do this. Let's let's publicly air out what you are 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:11.440 bent benefits package includes because I've already arranged for you 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:14.760 to get some some gear from our wonderful sponsors thirteen Fishing. 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:17.799 I know you want an ice stuff, right, so perhaps 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.280 you'll even get a selection of ice lores such as 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.400 the Bernie. Have you seen that. It's like the it's 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:26.040 the little stone fly imitation and I know it's for ice, 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:27.760 but I could do nasty ship with that on a 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:31.880 fly rod. You could one crush fish with that on 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.000 a fly rod. Like I have a soft spot for 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:38.920 small soft plastics, like in general, because I just kind 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:41.360 of like catching like pan fish off the dock and stuff. 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.119 And there is nothing better than a little jighead one 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.600 of those, and like some four pound tests man, you 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:50.680 can crush croppy all day long. Um, I think I'm 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:54.160 gonna order a handful of those and actually try them 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:57.840 out on one of our local rivers out here in Bozeman, 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:00.640 because I I do believe that you really could crush 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:02.720 with those on a fly rod. Well, I already I 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:04.960 already know from certain sources who will go on named 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:07.920 that you can crush on your rivers with a trout magnet, 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.520 So I know you'll be able to crush with this. Yeah, 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.560 well have you? I also like those uh what are they? 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:19.800 The bamff soft plastics? Dude, those things just look so 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:24.200 darn buggy. Yes, yes, those and the coconut crab. Will 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:26.679 will arrange all that because I know you you mess 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:28.560 some things up in the rivers and on the hard 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:31.280 water out there. This year. Also, right as the new 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:36.200 co host, you get to contribute to the Bent Spotify playlist, 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:39.120 which hasn't come up in a while, but it's following 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:41.880 continues to grow. So what a great opportunity to remind 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:45.560 you guys that it exists. It's got like eighteen hours 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.839 of tunes for degenerates on it, handpicked by me and 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:51.480 Miles Malty, a few of our guests and now Hayden, 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:55.520 and I gotta say, man, I I strongly admire your selections. 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:59.400 It's a bit unexpected, so it's like an unexpected vibe, 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:03.440 but it's a good vibe, right yeah, man Um, I'm 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:06.520 gonna be interested to see what our listeners think about 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:10.200 these selections. You know, I don't personally, I don't think 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.760 they're like that out there or anything, but I guess 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:14.400 a lot of them have like sort of like a 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.520 different flavor. Like the playlist is a little schizophrenic in 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:21.520 my opinion, but that's just me. That's actually the perfect way, 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:23.359 that way to put it. But I think that's a 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.600 good thing. It's totally schizophrenic. It's all over the place, um, 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.320 and I think that's what makes it so great, Like 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.520 you just don't know what's coming up next when you're 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:36.240 you're you're, you're running on you know, shuffle with that one. Um. 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:38.080 But let's see, So what did you add? So Hayden 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:40.320 added cal Girl in the Sand by Neil Young and 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:44.240 Crazy Horse right, no issues with that Sunday Morning by 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.919 the Velvet Underground, who I also happened to be a 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.560 big fan of Finger by Thy Siegel, and I didn't 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:51.359 it's great tune. I didn't know that. I didn't know 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:54.640 that artist. I didn't know that guy. Uh yeah. And 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.359 then two tracks from Nick Cave in the Bad Seeds, 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.920 which is badass and prompted me to then at another 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:04.920 Nick Cave track, um, that being Red right Hand, because 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.240 that is the song that is playing when Jim Carrey 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:11.160 loses his wallet in the Porno Newspaper machine while carrying 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:14.120 the beer and pin wheels and wearing the giant cowboy 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.520 hat in Dumb and Dumber. So that's playing like just 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:18.400 before he gets robbed by the swede old lady on 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:22.520 the motorized card and bam, Nick Cave hit the big 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:26.640 time right there man with that scene right there? Um, 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:30.360 so one more edition? Is you right? So when when 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:32.520 we did your first news segment, I said we were 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.320 we were kindred spirits because we both grew up playing music. 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.400 And uh, sadly nothing I ever did is on is 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:42.000 on Spotify, which it's probably a good thing, um, But 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:46.080 but you are okay. You you went by dead Fellow 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:52.400 right and you wrote and produced everything right, um. And 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.280 the song we put on the playlist is is Machine, 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:58.880 and I gotta say it. It's awesome, dude. I love it. 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.520 It's got a very dark ib that's great. And I 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:06.000 know musicians hate when people compare their music to other ships, 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.920 so I won't. I won't let people form their own correlations. 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:11.760 But it's really good, um. And you have far more 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:13.920 talent than any band that that I ever played in 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:18.280 no it is. I mean I played chugg a chuggle 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:22.080 punk music and then like you know, screaming stuff in 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.840 uh in college. And I also point out that this 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:27.640 was my idea. Hayden, you did not, like want a 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:32.080 plug for your music here. I was the one that insisted, so, like, 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:33.680 you're not vain. I was like, no, no no, no, we 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.280 have to put this in there. Um. And you also 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:38.320 told me that that song ended up in a movie 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.280 starring Shila Buff. What is that about? I mean I 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:44.960 loved him in holes, you know, well this was a 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:49.880 departure from his roll in holes. Um. First, I need 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:51.880 to I need I need to qualify a few things here. 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.960 For one, Uh, you mentioned that nothing you ever did 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:58.440 is on Spotify, but but my stuff is. It is 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.040 very easy to get on Spotify. You just pay a 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:04.800 distributor like forty bucks and boom, it's there forever. So 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:07.760 it's it's not it's not like people think that it's like, wow, 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:11.320 you're on Spotify. It's like, oh, it's pretty easy. Um. 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:15.960 So this movie starring shy La Buff was a film 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:22.600 called The Tax Collector and it was so bad. I 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.240 didn't even watch the whole thing. And my song was 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:30.560 in it. And this is a direct quote. Variety described 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:34.800 it as about as much fun as having your face 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:39.560 dragged across asphalt from a moving suv. It got a 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:45.720 ninetent on Rotten Tomatoes. Shy was dominated for a Razzi 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:49.840 Award for the Worst Supporting Actor as a result of 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:53.040 this effort. So yeah, it wasn't the big break I 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:57.400 was hoping for, but it was indeed in uh In 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:00.079 in a movie, so that was pretty darn cool. I 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:04.120 feel like now I have to watch it. I have 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:09.280 to look up the tax Collector and oh Man anyway, 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:10.839 so you guys can find the link to the Bend 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:14.480 Spotify playlist in my Instagram. Buyo. Perhaps Hayden will link 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:17.679 that now too, um So, And then we're gonna move 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:20.200 on to one more thing we have to do to 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:23.120 make you official, um and that is have you be 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:25.920 the victim of an awkward moment in angling. Right before 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:30.240 you're allowed to make fun of other people's horrid fishing photos, 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:32.640 you have to get trashed. I did it, Miles did it, 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:41.120 and now you're up. So let's haze. But this is 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.760 a bit of an unconventional awkward moment in angling because 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:49.400 it's not totally a phishing photo. But I think it 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.800 may be one of the most interesting shots that we've 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:56.160 ever had. Like looking at it, you have to know 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:59.800 the story you're dying to know the story the second 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:02.599 you look at photo. Yeah, I could see how it 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:07.839 would peak one's interest. So here's what we got. Here's 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:11.280 why I'll pique your interest. This is a photo of 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.240 a photo, or to be more specific, it's a photo 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:18.320 of a flyer tacked up outside the front door of 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:22.199 a little live music joint in Philadelphia was called Connie's 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:24.559 Rick Rack. Now, I was not familiar with this place 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:27.640 until Hayden brought this up. Um, for anyone that just 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.720 happens to be, you know, fluent in the Philly music scene. 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.360 I used to play at the Kill Time and Club HP, 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.080 which stood for Club Higher Power back in the day. 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:38.760 Uh and and that meant they were a straight edge 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:40.960 establishment that we didn't know that and gotten all kinds 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:43.160 of trouble for drinking in the parking like we were 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:47.000 those guys like Higher Power. Oh I get it, hide 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:52.160 that beer anyway. On this flyer, there are three head shots, 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:57.200 all of Hayden. The top looks as though it was 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.880 taken at a formal event, like a graduation, perhaps because 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.000 just you always see a little bit, but it looks 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:04.400 like you're like there's a dress shirt collar in the 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.200 shot like you're spiffed up. Yeah, that was at my 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.920 That was at my buddy Marvin's wedding. There, there you go, 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:14.600 Marvin's wedding graduation. So we got we got that one. 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:16.559 The next one is you in a wool hat looking 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.199 like a scruffy musician, and there's there's nothing too odd here, 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:23.679 but like, was your hair highlighted? Do I detect some 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:28.680 sun in in those flowing locks in that shot? Another 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:33.200 stute observation. I had recently had my hair super long, 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:37.800 and I forget what the genesis was, but it got 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:44.640 bleached all white. Um, I don't really have an excuse 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:49.080 for it, and what you're seeing is the remnant of 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.880 it growing out after I had cut it off. I'm 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:54.800 not gonna I'm not making as much fun of you 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.280 as you think I would be, because I dyed my 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:00.880 hair blonde in high school and like early college years, 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:02.880 when I was still wearing like the sweatshirt with the 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:11.119 study it was that was there you go, there you go? Okay, 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:14.800 all right? But then right moving on the last photo 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:18.800 chosen for this trifecta is you with extra long hair 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:22.880 winging out from under yet another wool hat. There's water 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:26.240 behind you, and you're biting a fly rod and you're 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.240 doing the the frowned upon rod bite, which we've talked 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.760 about many times here on bench. So where was this taken? 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:36.600 So that was taken on the Salmon River, and I'd 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:39.040 like to say that this was in the days before 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:44.480 that had like become a kind of meme. Um. I 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.080 genuinely didn't have any where to I was waist deep 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:49.720 in the Salmon River. My buddy was taking the photo. 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.360 I had no place to hold that fishing rod, and 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:56.840 I was holding a big old steel head. Yeah. Well, 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:58.440 I figured there was a fish in the shot, but 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:01.200 we don't see that. It is just souper resumed in teeth, 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:04.400 hair and cork. Oh yeah, this is not This is 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:06.840 not a photo meant to identify a fish. This is 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:10.840 a photo, as we're going to learn. Right, So now 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:14.320 we understand the three photos on the flyer outside the door. 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:17.080 But here's what the flyer says, right, And this is 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:22.280 all written crudely with a sharpie at the top in 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:27.679 huge letters. It reads, this dude is all caps banned 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:32.600 for life from Connie's rick rack. Under that, it says, 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:38.280 meaning colon, he's not allowed in the building, Ever and 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:43.480 ever is underlined. So what the actual hell is going 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:49.480 on here? Okay? So you know it was, this was 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:53.000 back in my musician days, and I would like to 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:57.280 say that I did nothing wrong. What what had happened? 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.560 This isn't like I got like too drunk at a bar. 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:05.040 This isn't like I started a fight. What had happened was, 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:09.120 in the beginning of my musical career, I would hit 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:12.559 a bunch of open mics, as a lot of songwriters 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:18.040 are wont to do. Um. It turned out that Connie's 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:21.120 rick Rack I would hit that on Wednesday night. So 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:24.200 my thing was I would go to Linckety Split on Tuesday's, 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:28.720 Connie's rick Rack on Wednesday's Wooly Mammoth on Thursdays. Then 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:33.320 I play shows Friday Saturday, and I take Sunday Monday off. Well, 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:37.520 I was at Connie's rick Rack every Wednesday night and 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:40.440 there was a bartender there named Carla. Now Carla was 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:43.000 about my age, and a lot of the folks in 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:46.200 like that particular songwriters scene, we're kind of older. So 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.720 in between like me going up and playing my like 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.920 three songs that week, I'd hang out the bar and 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:55.880 I talked to Carla. Now, I didn't have this person's 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:59.720 phone number, I didn't have their Instagram. I wasn't friends 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:02.640 with him on Facebook. Just somebody that I would see 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:05.080 on Wednesday nights because she happened to, I don't know, 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:10.800 be pouring the drinks. Yeah. Well, it turns out that 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:16.920 this was the owner's girlfriend and he thought for some 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:20.680 reason that I was coming there every week to talk 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:22.920 with her. Now, I don't know why he didn't put 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.960 it together, like, oh, Wednesday night is open mic night, 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.560 and that is the night that I see this guy. 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.440 So what you're saying is it never dawned on him 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:36.000 that you were a person up on stage there every Wednesday. 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:40.560 This guy was not a genius um the So yeah, 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:46.200 I mean one day I showed up there and I 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.640 played a song and I got down and I go 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:51.840 to the bar and this dude, who had been my 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:54.400 friend up until that point, just like started like cussing 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.680 me out and you know, told me to leave. And 0:15:57.760 --> 0:15:59.600 so I was like, that's weird, and I left. I 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:01.720 just figured the dude had had too much to drink. Well, 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:04.560 he thought that I was like a legitimate threat to 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:08.600 like whatever he had going on, and uh, banned me 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:13.360 for life. And actually this poster didn't come into being 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:17.040 until like two years after the fact, when I had 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:21.160 messaged this guy and been like, hey, you know, I 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:24.000 hope you're good. I hope everything's cool. You know, I'd 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:27.400 really like to come back and uh and play at 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.720 Connie's or like hang out because my friend had been 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:34.320 having his first show ever there and I was like, look, 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:36.280 I don't want to sneak into this bar without dude. No, 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:38.400 he wouldn't go to support you, boy, Yeah yeah, yeah, 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:40.680 right right, So I wanted to you know, if the 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:43.040 guy didn't want me in the bar, I didn't want 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:44.680 to go there. So I was like, maybe I can 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:46.600 just bury the hatchet with him and then I'll go. 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:52.160 And that dude told me to get bent, and uh. 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:55.320 Then that was the response to the response to the 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:59.720 make good text was throwing the poster up two years later. Yep, 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:07.040 oh dude, he's bitter, right, that's so whatever. Yeah, well yeah, 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.640 but I mean so, but under the photos, get back 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.120 to the poster. Under the photos, it says your name, 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:14.879 it's like Hayden Samic and there's a bunch of stuff 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:18.600 blacked out. What is blacked out? Can you tell me 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:25.679 what has been blacked out? Come on, No, it was 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:30.360 clearly done in photos shop later. What's been blacked out? Um? Anyway, 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.880 at the very bottom of this, there's a quote that reads, 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:41.119 because I said so dash dud okay, yeah, thank you. 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:44.000 So what what I love about this is I feel 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:47.600 like they're there are three very different photos and that 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:51.080 was strategic because they were sort of going to showcase 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:58.760 all the faces of Hayden. He did, right, So in 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:02.240 case you walked it looked spiffy, you'd be recognized. Like 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:04.320 if you came in in a tuxedo, would be like, Bam, 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:06.960 that's the guy. If you walked in just looking scruffy 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:09.919 with a guitar case, they know that was you. But 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:13.119 I don't fully understand the inclusion of the fly rod shot, 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:15.640 Like was that in case you walked in in Jess waiters, 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:17.520 you know what I mean? And like, where did where 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:21.080 did dude get all these photos from? Well? He lifted 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:25.400 them from Facebook, and uh a bunch of folks did 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:28.680 suggest that I should walk in holding a fly rod 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.520 in my mouth to see if I immediately got booted 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:35.560 totally totally Like had this been me, damn right, I 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:37.119 would have walked in there with a fly rod in 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:38.840 my mouth, just to be an ask, just to prove 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:42.280 a point. Um, but you said so the place is 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:45.879 closed now, but the band had never been lifted before 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:51.280 it was closed. No, no, Ben never ever got lifted. 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:54.359 And hey man, some people just want to live like that. 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.520 It's up to them. Well, there he go, there he goes. 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:00.440 So we've got We've got plenty more awkward outs from 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.120 you guys in the pipeline, but we always want more. 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:06.040 And if you've been banned from the Quickie Marter tackle 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:08.560 Shop or Golden Crawl and have a makeshift mug shot 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:11.159 flyer to prove it, please do send it along to 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:13.920 Bent at the mediator dot com, which, by the way, 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:20.680 Hayden will now be checking as well. You know, well, Joe, 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:24.640 I gotta say, I'm pretty glad that that's over. Uh. 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:28.199 I'm sure I'll be able to find another awkward moment. Uh. 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:31.159 We'll take you somewhere in the future. Look, I have 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:33.639 more too, But all right, it's all about the fans man, Like, 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:35.720 nobody wants to see more awkward photos of me. So 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:38.360 I like the fan stuff, But um, I should put 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:40.520 myself on the chopping block. You're good for a while, 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:43.520 at least, like you've it's only right that I get 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:45.600 to that I get to crucify you a little bit 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:48.000 on one of these awkward moments in the future, I'll 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:50.960 consider it. But you're you're good for a little while, 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:53.720 and you've already been cut down once today, So let's 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:55.640 let's actually see if I can do that again, though 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:58.880 in a different capacity, in that weekly competition we call 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:07.879 Fish News Fish Noon. That escalated quickly before we dive in. 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:11.480 I gotta say thank you for all the b side 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:13.200 love that I got this week. Right, It's safe to 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:16.600 say that the vast majority of you enjoyed my ode 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:20.560 to American Chad. My favorite comment was that shad row 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:25.800 and eggs is last meal on death row. Good, right, 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:30.199 And uh, well, well I don't know about that. I 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:32.880 genuinely liked it, right, I will. I will eat that 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:35.360 again next spring. I also had a bunch of people 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:39.120 reach out asking for recommendations on where to go and when, 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:41.520 which is very cool, Right, I'm always happy to provide that. 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:44.719 Let's see how much of that I get after today's show. Right. 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:47.760 Episode two drops at one pm Eastern eleven Mountain on 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:50.760 Meat Eaters YouTube channel. Um, and I'll tell you right now, 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:54.119 this was my favorite one. Right We're chasing the the 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:58.280 very scorned snakehead in Virginia with my buddy Grant office 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:00.679 uh And I won't spill all the means, but this 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:05.159 was like the pinnacle of seven years of snake heading 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:08.960 for me. I won't soon forget this trip. Dude. It 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:11.880 just looked like you were having again. I was granted 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:15.119 a sneak peak of of this episode of B Side, 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:19.119 and man, you just looked like you were having such 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:21.760 a good time. Grant seems like an awesome dude. The 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:24.879 fisheries seemed awesome. You know. You could just tell that 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:28.960 you were truly stoked to be on this trip. He's 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:31.439 dialed and this is sort of like, you know, in 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:33.800 a way, growing up with with stock trout and then 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:36.200 you get your first taste of Montana, you know what 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:39.160 I mean. Like we were in like what i'd consider mecca, 0:21:39.280 --> 0:21:42.600 the mecca most hardcore and it's site fishing, and I 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:47.360 love site fishing, you know. Um, really fun one, really fun. Yeah. Man, 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:51.440 And not not to spoil anything, but I'll tell you what, man, 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:55.439 you were not fishing from doss boat. No. No no, no, no, 0:21:55.440 --> 0:21:58.080 no grant uh Now we were not in a tin can. 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:00.760 We were in quite the fishing machine man, which was 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:04.919 part of the fun. Ye. Speaking of fun, onto fish 0:22:04.960 --> 0:22:07.200 News For those of you who don't know, fish News 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:09.800 are weekly segment where Joe and I bring two stories 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:12.439 to the table and our judge on our journalistic skills 0:22:12.440 --> 0:22:16.879 and story selecting abilities by none other than Filled the Engineer. 0:22:17.680 --> 0:22:20.600 I went first last week, So Joe, this week, you're up. 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:23.879 I am, I am. I also hope um Phil enjoyed 0:22:23.920 --> 0:22:26.680 my earlier reference to dumb and dummer. He's a huge fan, 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:30.959 knows it like the bass of his fan anyway. All right, 0:22:31.119 --> 0:22:33.080 so here's here's a live one. We can have some 0:22:33.160 --> 0:22:36.240 fun with this one. Right here, Grab your jitterbugs and 0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:39.560