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00:00:00 Hello everybody. This is the Nashville daily podcast. I'm Stuart Deming and I'm Erin Pennington and we are live from, we work in mid town, look out honkytonks a new rock and roll bar is coming to downtown Nashville. New renderings of fifth and broad have been released. Plus our guests works with some of the most popular country artists here in Nashville. And he'll tell you a little about being in that industry, all of this and today's events on Nashville Daily
00:00:34 I hope you guys had a fabulous weekend. It is Monday morning and we would like to introduce to you mr Tim Gerst, which that's an awesome last name. Curse like the beer,
00:00:44 Like the beer. Oh nice. Yeah, that's awesome. Have you drank it? I have any relation. Rumor has it that my great uncle William Gurse started the brewing company. I've talked to you as a here in Nashville. You know, I talked to Yazoo about it some cause I don't know if you guys know Neil who used to work over there. Okay. Here in the marketing for about 20 years I think, and just left. But he, we talked through the history and William girth started the gross brewing company in Indiana I believe. OK. I think it was Evansville actually, but my, my dad had a bottle of the original Gurse beer on our shelf at home and it's still there and he always told me that the great uncle was with my grandfather's brother. Left the family, something like that. Well, I don't know what the details are, but somehow it apparently it's a family beer. I talked to Neil when I got married. He gave me all the freak or spirit one for the wedding. So people thought we were cool and it was our beer. Whenever, whenever I'm in town I am like a valet guys. Like what's your last name? I'm like, curse. He's like, like the beer. I'm like, yeah, like the beer
00:01:42 And then walk away. I'm going to do the same thing with Pennington. [inaudible] You'd be like, yeah, distillery. I make whiskey. Yeah. Mine. Mine that your last name does not have that type of influence. Yeah. Which is a good Scottish name. Is there anything with Deming that you know of any products with Deming? No, there's nothing with Deming a but it's a Scottish name and it was a mountain, like the protector of the household. So my first name is Stewart is servants of the household in my last name. Deming is protector of the household. And so basically the role in like the Deming Scottish, like bloodline is like they were the protectors of the Kings. Okay. Yeah. Very cool. Gersh just means drunk German [inaudible] hurry up or whatever technique. Tim, you have an incredible story on how you got here to Nashville. What is that?
00:02:37 Yeah, so I had come to Nashville a ton. I started when I was 16. I started working in the Christian music industry and I'm from Lexington, Kentucky, about three and a half hours Northeast. And so I'd come down here all the time for different events, like the double wards and conferences and events. And one day there was this girl that I started dating. I guess dating is not the right word. I was on our first date a MIT, this was after I blew her off like four times, like we're supposed to go on dates and I canceled like four times. So she finally gave me a chance again and I went over to her house in Lexington and we were having a good old time and her roommate goes, you guys are super cute. Like, how's this gonna work since she's moving to Nashville in two weeks?
00:03:18 Oh. And immediately without thinking I go, that's funny. I am too. I wasn't moving. And I started her entire relationship out with a lie. How's that going from early married four and a half years with the kid. So it's fine. But I finally told her like a year later that I hadn't planned on moving, but then on the way down here, since I hadn't planned on moving, I was still living at home with my parents and I had no money. And so I had like $41 in my bank account and I stopped at the rest stop in Mumford Ville, Kentucky and my car wouldn't restart. And so it was like 1130 at night called a tow truck service. They looked at, they're like, you have a dead battery. I'm like, cool. How much is the new one? They're like $85. And I'm like, can't afford a battery.
00:04:02 Oh my goodness. Lilly called this girl that I've been dating, I'm doing air quotes here for like two or three weeks now. And I'm like, Hey, I'm gonna need you to come pick me up in Kentucky. So she drove up to pay for a new battery for me because I couldn't even afford it when I moved here. Oh my goodness. And I moved to the most ghetto apartment complex. You live in your car for a little bit when you moved here? No, no I wasn't. I wasn't like that. I moved I lived with her for a Y free rent, her roommate and me. I mean, she probably loved me, but hated me just for freeloading live there for about two months. And then I moved into an apartment complex over on Elm Hill, pike and Briley. Oh yeah, that's my hood. I won't name the apartment complex, but what I'll tell you is it was a great deal.
00:04:45 If you can find this rate anywhere in Nashville, you'll be lucky right now, $350 for a bedroom in a two bedroom, two bath, a 1300 square foot apartment. Yeah. Those are called myths. Now, no, to be fair, one night I woke up to the coroner outside my door because my neighbor cut his brother's head off with a sword. That sounds about right. Whoa, that sounds about right. That area. Yeah. So then I moved to Bellmead [inaudible] I used to trade with in Bellmead Highlands is what they call it. It's like a, I weigh a 100 yards in highway 100 at Vons gap right there where the train track and then moved there and then we moved to Brentwood to Lenox village. So Brent [inaudible] technically. Yeah. Braniac. Yeah. And now you live in West Nashville? We're in Bellevue, so we're Macquarie lane and I 40 so we've went all the way around, but we love the West Nashville area. Oh absolutely. And that area just keeps getting better. And everything they're doing in Bellevue is phenomenal. Especially the neutral Chick-fil-A that's about to be in Bellevue. Oh yeah. I'm excited about that. All the basic people will be there with me in the morning. I was actually, actually this morning I posted on Facebook a quote from Kanye with album Kanye. What is it? You're closed on Sunday. What was it? Something about lemonade. My number one. You're right. That was on Sunday.
00:05:58 But I love you. You're my number one with the lemonade. Oh no, it's your close on Sunday. I love you. Chick-Filet you're my number one with eliminating. I'm like, Kanye West gets me. Yeah. Matters. But when you have like the rebirth with Christ, you got to go to Chick-fil-A according con. Yeah, there you go. I was sharing a video with Stewart. He had already seen it by the time I shared it to him, of him seeing him and his entire crew in choir and everything. Season singing. Jesus walks on an airplane according thing. Yeah.
00:06:28 So the whole, that whole video is 20 minutes long, but if you haven't seen it, I want to watch it. Watch it. It's interesting to hear him talk about, it's nothing around natural, I guess music, but hearing him talk about his life change just through interacting and like he compares himself to four or five years ago when he hit rock bottom and I think about the music and how he was bankrupt almost and had no money and he, he gives all credit to everything for his change in life. And you look at his music, he look at his business, you look at easy everything that's going on. And it's interesting cause he also said he wants seven children, which numb hard pass. I think the most interesting thing about all of this stuff that he's doing now is that you don't see Kim Kardashian in any of this new stuff that he's putting out, or pictures, videos, anything like that. It could be, should he just protecting her? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm intrigued to see what he does when he starts touring because as a new person, every time he liked cusses or anything, he goes, I just lost some points in my Christian scorecard. Some were a little intrigued in how he's going to tour his old media.
00:07:29 Yeah, he probably, he probably can't. Yeah. I mean I don't know what's going to happen when he starts going back on the road. Huh? Yeah. That'll be interesting. Actually. I think the most interesting thing about that interview
00:07:38 And we can move on is when he told James that he was going to, he, he was walking around somewhere and he realized that the next day he was dropping a line from gold Digger and he knew in his mind the moment that line dropped, he would be famous. Whoa. He was so confident in his writing skills of that verse that he knew that that song would be influential in the music industry and [inaudible] that was hands down going years. He's tied with, I mean if this album on the billboard comes out with number one this week, Jesus is Lord, this album, it'll be type of M and M for a top number one releases and like for nine albums in a row for, is that just for hip hop for, I'm not sure. None of, no. It's interesting as you look at him and he has some of the most Grammys of all artists. It's, it's interesting cause I, I work, I've worked with Vince Gill and I for a while. And when you look at his stuff, he has a lot of Grammys. He's been around so long. I mean look at Kanye. He's young. He's young. Yeah. And he, he's up there for me, single male for like 21 Grammys or something. Don't quote me on that stat, but it's in the 20s. It's that, it's definitely in the 20s. So Tim, you work
00:08:46 Kind of in the music industry, you're kind of all over the place. It's hard not to work in the music industry. Nashville, what exactly is your company? What's your company name and what does your do? Yeah,
00:08:56 So I run an agency here in town called thinks, well thanks. Well as a digital marketing agency that focuses on creating digital strategy, the content around it and the execution for clients. So that can be anything from social media management to video shoots, to web development, design, brand development paid advertising, SEO, et cetera. Some of our clients here in town, we work with artists like Chris young, Brad Paisley. We have Randy Houser, Morgan Evans, we've worked with in the past. Keith urban, Vince Gill, Kellie Pickler, Olivia Newton, John. Oh wow. So we go all form usher fifth harmony, like music industry wide. We've done a lie. And then outside of the music industry, we, we love everything that Nashville is doing. And so we worked with a lot of local natural businesses too. So we've worked with Edgehill cafe, which all are exist that's love that place when it was there.
00:09:45 That was cool. Of course it now it's still edge Hill cafe technically. Okay. But it's not open. Ah, so there's a whole, yeah. I'll tell you, when Elliot and his dad who ran that place, they're some of the best people in the world. I think they just, he was, he was out there all the time with his business. I w I would go out there for coffee when I lived over in that area. And you'd be sitting there talking to everybody. Yeah. His dad was always there. And so that whole crew and some of my best friends I met like, wow, they're you know, I did the marketing for awhile, but I love their coffee when they did it. And so I worked a block away, so it was my coffee shop right there. I was the only one really on music row.
00:10:22 Yes. By that time until now you have a Jack opened his place. What's it called? The one right there where the bicycle shop used to be. Oh, I know. Yeah, yeah. Oh, sorry. I couldn't remember the name. So, and Jack does a great roast and so they have that, but that's about as close as you get to coffee other and then like just love down into [inaudible] or Fido in Hillsborough. And so that was my place. And so I've done them. I do a gym out in West Nashville called boost pay club, which is a state of the art facility that has like a saltwater Olympic pool. Oh wow. A gymnastics facility. They do training programs for NFL athletes. So they do pre combined training and have dozens of football players for training. Awesome. They do athletic training programs for different high schools.
00:11:06 So high school is actually bring them in to be their athletics coaches and sports trainers. Wow. So it's a very immersive experience at your soccer. We also do brought some gold, which is an apartment complex in the apartment community in the Gulch. I don't say complex, it's a, it's a community but it's a great property. They also are developing other properties around town. So they used to have Broadstone, Germantown and Broadstone eight South and now brownstone Germantown's IMC, IMT property. And then now they're developing the old stock yards into yeah, I've heard about that. Yeah, it's really great and be cool. It's a, I've seen all the renderings. I'm actually going over to do a tour in November. That's all going to be amazing. So I'm excited that, so we try to get across the board and do different things. We, we believe that this town has so much creativity and uniqueness to it.
00:11:52 It does that there's so much opportunity for small businesses, so much opportunity for people thriving and doing whatever they think is good at the same part. Two on our end is we know all the other friends who run all the other digital agencies and we're, we're so collaborative and they are too, like this town is so small that you don't have that in LA. In New York. They're not cut throat. Like I literally like all the friends who run agencies we talked to whenever we're all putting in proposals or we if like, if they know that client's talking to him, that's one of my clients, they'll call me and vice versa. So we all communicate really openly. That's awesome. So it's a good community of being like, I think this town is, I was just telling steward, I moved here eight years ago, last week, and you know, one of my posts was that the community of Nashville is something that I'll never take for granted.
00:12:35 And I think like that is what makes this city what it is. Oh, absolutely. So what is your relationship with Nashville traffic? I know you're driving, you're driving all over the place on Nashville every day, but what's your relationship with traffic here? It's a love hate. What's much like the love, love, love is when national schools are out of session. That's my favorite time of the year. My favorite time is fall break, spring break, summer. You know, all the things where the kids don't go to school. So, you know what kids, I am rooting for you to be out of school. I don't know why. Like I don't ever see a school bus. So is it because no one goes to public schools and they send all their kids to private schools and they're driving them there for Williamson County? I mean, everybody, everybody works in a creative field.
00:13:18 So nobody has that. Everybody can take their kids to school, I guess. Yeah, no, my, my experience is interesting. So my wife and I had, when we moved to Bellevue about two months ago, we learned quickly. Our son goes to preschool and daycare on at a great, phenomenal facility called high hopes and Franklin sidebar. If you've never worked with them, you should. They're an immersive school that takes around half kids with special needs and half kids that are regular. And I hate saying that, but normal. And they put them in school together and that's cool. They raised that way. But then they offer a stay. The art therapy with physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, therapists. Amazing. See, I think these service students from 80 counties in Tennessee go there for therapies. So there are 80 counties. I believe that's the number. Don't quote me.
00:14:03 I was at a still, that was at a function one. So yeah. Well when you have the state of the art facility like that, that the people in that state are going to take advantage. Exactly. And they're, they're, they're, they're complete nonprofit. They do amazing work. And I've seen it with arcade, but it's on 96 at 65 and so we take the back roads. It's beautiful. We get to drive past the Natchez trace bridge every morning. Amazing. Which is a great look this time of year with the leaves changing and you're seeing it all happen everyday. You're seeing the immersion of the different leaves until you get to see it happening. But we drive under that everyday, go to school, it takes about 45 minutes. And then if I'm driving from 96 to music row, some days it's 45 minutes. Some days it's two hours and you never know. So we've made an agreement. My wife will take him to school most days cause she only has to go up to Brentwood. Okay. And I will take 30 into Nashville, which I never run into any traffic. 40 it's not that
00:14:52 Bad from that side yet. Not yet. [inaudible] We all that development opens on in Charlotte pike, it will be, Oh I know. Today it was slow. So I got off at Charlotte and took Charlotte in, which wasn't terrible. Okay. A ways told me to do that. Like how do you drive in Nashville without listening to ways? I don't, do you listen to Google maps? Nope. I excellent. Because I know the traffic patterns so well I could most of the time avoid traffic. So the other day, unless there's a trailer on the road just by itself, which happened the other day. So the other day my GPS technology was smarter than us guys. Yeah. So the other day I was at JWU picking up Amanda and they told me to take Lafayette down to Murfreesboro and I was going to take 31 minutes. I'm like, I'm not doing that inpatient today.
00:15:38 And so I took with these back roads and some of these, you know, I went through Wedgewood, Houston and I took some other back roads. I go home and 12 minutes. There used to be a time in Nashville where you could take the back. Roads were still kind of main road now. Now, now those, those backwards, no long ways. Yeah. They're no longer viable. I actually learned to drive in Nashville. I intentionally, I didn't need to do this, but I became an Uber driver. That's what I did. I became an Uber driver just so I could learn my way around Nashville. Cause yeah, I signed up the day it came to town with Lyft back like eight and a half. [inaudible].
00:16:10 Yeah, absolutely. That's very original and that's the main reason I did it. I was getting married so I want to make a little extra money for that. But outside of that, I just wanted to get to know Nashville and it was fun, like meeting people that time. Neil from Yazoo, I picked him up and then Lyft. Wow. Took him home, got his information, and then he gave me free beer for the wedding. That's how he, that's not the one that's closest. There's so many cool things, but that's how I learned my way around Nashville. Wow. That's all I wanted my way to do the 181,000 miles in this with the, with the, you know, you having these long commutes, is there anything that you do? How do you occupy, occupy your time in a car. Do you radio podcast. What do you do? I sound so snobby right now.
00:16:50 You know where I'm going with this. I know where you're going. Yeah, I have. I, I'm excited cause I don't remember this. I have a Tesla and so the car drives me. So I intentionally bought that. Knowing I was going to be driving a lime. So once I got on the interstate, I turn on autopilot. Does it work? How does, how does it work? Does it work really well? I don't have to worry about a thing breaking or anything. He does everything. It breaks, it stops. And so that's it. Once you touched the will like every 10, 20 seconds. Okay. So I keep one hand on the wheel just so it's there just kinda lightly just raising it to have some pressure. Okay. Way to cheat that system. I actually have a first week coming, so it needs about 14 ounces of pressure against it. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna, this is terrible. I'm putting your wrist weight on the Tesla to where I don't have to touch it. It's going to nail starts. The newer models of Tesla is going to be like [inaudible]. So, but honestly I'm able to be [inaudible] productive
00:17:50 On my drive into town. That's awesome. Something I would pay some money for that. You know, I think it's, again, by buying the Fest cows. Let me also say that if any police officers are listening to this podcast, I know that that might be illegal, but no, it's completely safe and I support the police and national mean just a lot of thinking, a lot of focus on the streets and yeah, worry about everything going on around me. I do listen to a lot, I listen a lot of talk radio, so I like to keep track of with what's going on in the world. Yeah. Which can be talk radio or comedy. It's all the same thing in the right now. It is. So what channels you're listening as I switched between different channels, I don't believe in like any Singletary channels point of view.
00:18:33 So I tried to switch between like the three major news outlets to get different perspectives. I listened to a lot of like how I made the guy Raz podcast with [inaudible]. Yeah. Hi, I made this, I listened to like household brands podcast, a lot of marketing things. Gary B fan. Oh, absolutely. So listen, I don't, I can't get into his podcast. I don't know why. Well, it's just audio quality. Sometimes quality, bad content he puts out necessarily isn't for consumption the way I would like to consume things. Yes. But I do think like, like watching him on social, I do see a lot of things there. So it's hard for me to listen
00:19:07 To him for like 10 days straight cause he does, he says a lot of the same things over and over and over again. So I have to take big breaks. I'm on like a two month break. [inaudible] Some events. Yeah. Some events in Nashville. So tonight at the Ryman you have Elvis Costello and the impostors at 7:30 PM. That's so they're really, they're not there. They're imposters fosters and I guess you have this thing called Nashville design week. I don't know if this is for like fashion designers, but you can find out and Nashville design week.org they're having events literally all throughout the week. They have tours of like city. They have like creative ideas and branding. It seems pretty cool. I had no idea how much I'll just reach it off their website. They leverage the power of collaboration, bringing together design professionals and the public acting as the amplifier for exhibits, talks, tours, workshops and installations that showcase National's design talent and educate the public on the role of all design professions in bettering lives. So it really has an amplifying mission of helping national artists, you know, probably bring about their brand in ways they never thought could be possible before. So that's pretty cool. And then tonight you have whiskey jam at winners. You want to talk about whiskey jam for a second and then what happened last week? Tim?
00:20:25 Yeah, last week was this amazing artists I know named Chris young. What a plug. No, [inaudible] welcome Christopher. Actually little tidbit. Chris young, do you know where he's from? Brentwood is a Murfreesboro. Murfreesboro born and raised. So he's actually a local, he considers himself, he lives here in Nashville. He's lived here for a while and so he one whiskey jam last week. They did the final outdoor show of the year. Talking to Warren and Ryan over there. They say it's the biggest crowd they've ever had. Wow. Which was great for them. Like I started using, you know when ward and Josh Hogue started it 10 years ago to look at 10 years ago or so, 2013, 11, 2011. So something like that. They never thought that would be the case. It's funny cause now Josh is one of Chris's co-writers on most of his music. Oh that's cool.
00:21:13 So Josh Hogue wrote a lot of songs that Chris has had success with, so wow, that's awesome. His current single out drowning was a Josh Hogue song is his big hit. I'm coming over think of you like, okay. Josh was on a lot of these records and I think Josh has written on every single one of Chris's records for the past three. Oh wow. That's cool. Yeah. And so it's the one Chris's best friend and then he started whiskey jam back in the day. So it's just funny how this town is so small. And Josh actually used to live in LA and write music and he wrote for, with like Ryan Tedder and the Backstreet boys and did a bunch of pop stuff and then moved here. Wow, that's an interesting, and he's still writing with like, he has the new, he wrote the new Kane Brown song, the marshmallow one thing I think is what it's called.
00:21:49 So he, he's written a lot of King Brown music, et cetera. So the songwriting community in Nashville is very close knit. People don't realize the impact of songwriters on the industry. Yeah. When you're outside of this town. Yeah. Oh yeah. We we went to the, to see the Hitmakers play at Cheekwood. Oh my gosh. Have you been in somewhere? I on the stars. Yeah. It's phenomenal. Fantastic. Incredible. This year. So you had the Warren brothers you had two other guys and a lot of them wrote for like Randy Travis and some of the bigger names. Yeah. The process of songwriting is so fascinating too. Cause sometimes songs are written in like 20 minutes. And you think through this fact that like some of the biggest songs are written like 20 miles a napkin covered in coffee. Yeah. It's crazy when you hear the actual stories, if you ever, like, if anyone's not from Nashville or here, like if you get a chance to go to songwriting thing where songwriters are sharing the stories behind the songs, go check it out because there's so many things you will never think through.
00:22:45 Yep. Speaking of things you would never think would happen. We have a rock and roll bar that's a slated to be built in downtown. This is so it's on third Avenue, third Avenue. We're looking at the Nashville business journal for this right now. Where's we're in downtown? Is this going on dirt? There used to be a restaurant called [inaudible] bar restaurant called Paranas. It had that huge mural right there on third with like that Toronto fish. Yeah, those beer hops in. It's really cool. So it's going into that old [inaudible] bar. They're doing a $400,000 renovation on this place. And it's set to open in late November. So it's going to be interesting having a rock, a rock and roll bar and then all of those honkytonks. Is it going to be close to the changed like a 50s rock and roll bar?
00:23:30 Like is there, is there any kind of like theme to it besides just rock and roll? So the, for the seventies and eighties themed bar, ah, can be like a seventies and eighties themed bars. That's cool. That's the kind of rock I grew up on. This is not, they're not giving us a name here on the Nashville business journal and it looks like, so we'll give you guys more information once that opens. And then also found on the Nashville business journal is sneak peak. Here's what living looks like at downtown's 450 million, fifth and Broadway development. And these are just renderings of what the apartments are going to look like at fifth and Broadway. Have you been to fifth and broad Tims since, since
00:24:12 They've started construction? I drove by the other day when I was going to the Preds game and it looks phenomenal. It does. We'll follow, you know with that food court that's going in all [inaudible] H a H OEMs backing out. They backed out. Oh wow. Maybe forever 21 ago. [inaudible] Apple's supposed to be opening a flagship store there. There hasn't been fully confirmed yet, but we saw that information a couple months ago on this national hose or something. I don't know. That would make sense. They had to expand green Hills to really give enough traffic for the city. Yes. The green Hills, I don't know if you knew this was the seventh highest revenue store in the world for like six years in a row. I can't confirm or deny any information that I may know. I used to work for Apple and so in the retail environment and so as a result, I got to see the numbers for all the stores cause I was, I worked in Kentucky at it and we watched all the stores in our region and I saw the numbers that Greenhills did everyday compared to our store.
00:25:06 Wow. And it was stupid ridiculous. And now one of my, my store leader, who was my manager at Apple is now the regional manager for all things. He moved down here and he manages Memphis, Nashville, Kentucky. He does a lot of that and the store does ridiculous numbers. Now when it did that cool Springs was not open so that once they open cold Springs that it adjusted because you gotta think Nashville, all your people at the store Franklins what's funny is my most vivid Apple store memory memory in Nashville, I'm in the Apple store waiting to get something and Peter Frampton walks in with this iMac. Oh my gosh, I'm like iMac. And he all of a sudden he needs it fixed cause it's not working. And they're like, well, you know, like you could just like, he goes, he goes, no, this has my music on it.
00:25:53 Like this is my life. Oh my God. And he's just carrying it like a baby inside. And I'm like, this is so national. Peter Frampton walking into the Apple store with an IMAX. Why are you just one iMac? And just like, just say, ah, but that would be amazing. Now they a flagship store that actually sounds sign and they're moving Apple music here. They're hip you opening up. Yeah, the huge concert venue. So I'm excited about Apple moving here. So these renderings just look cool. You can find that over on the Nashville business journal to see what the departments are going to look like. Lines and corn clean the food court. It's going to be cool that North American African American music museum, that's a tongue twister. That's going to be an awesome museum downtown American music history or something like that are, it's close enough to the food cause I don't feel like there's enough restaurants downtown that aren't like bar foods.
00:26:38 Right, exactly. If it's a big ordeal to go get food downtown, like you hope the wines fast though downtown. That would be the hope. Yeah. I mean especially like a heady B's in downtown five hour wait for hot. I was going to choose these yesterday, Midtown and the line for Hattie B's was that back to the corner and my mom [inaudible] Avenue and my phone rolls in town. He goes, he goes, is that that place where they wait for all that chicken? And I go, yeah. He goes, I wouldn't wait one second for chicken [inaudible] fair. He's also old school pescatarian now. Okay. It's our secret. You don't know if you knew this one 10 drive down to the bishops in cool Springs. It's the same Hattie B's hot chicken and you don't have to wait in line. You know my preferred hot chicken in town party foul party.
00:27:22 That was fantastic. Absolutely. I actually think the party fouls the best hot chicken. And what's your favorite meal to get at party foul? You know, I really have. You had the bunnies and hot chicken? Yes. So that's pretty good. We we did a special with that and my beer, we just threw all the power and shower and I looked like Santa Claus. Yeah, it was crazy. I think that they do really good stuff there. I get the medium. They do really, it gets warm. It does like the deconstructed Cobb salad. That part. That's my favorite salad. That's the merchant salad in downtown [inaudible] steak blue cheese salad. Fantastic. Ah, you know what else is good as at Tavern, the salad, little gyms now I've had that one. It's like fresh mozzarella and cranberries and rubella and all else. It's really good. We really was amazing.
00:28:03 So speaking of restaurants, where is your like to go to place in Nashville? It really depends on who I have in town. I love taking people to Eastern peak, which is expanding. So it used to be just on Nolensville right now it's in a Bellevue one. It's in Bellevue one and they opened one in the Gulch. Yeah. So it's great quality Asian food that's not like cheap, crappy Asian food. Okay. But it's not expensive as the one in the Gulch. I don't know. I haven't been there. I just saw the headline. Okay, that's awesome. So, but they have one in the gold. So that's great. I love DeSantos, which yes, just phenomenal pizza. And they have, they also have a new Bellevue one place. I just, I think that the place I go all the time, no, outside that like if I also have Mexican Coca-Cola.
00:28:44 Oh they didn't have tea or they have a Topo Chico in glass bottles. Yes. Which is better than the plastic bottles. Yes. Oh, 100% drinking anything out of a class bottles a hundred times better than that. Plus I'm a big fan of, you know, when I moved here for breakfast you know, everyone tries to find their typical GoTo breakfast place. That doesn't have a way. I was a big fan of funky griddle. She a fidelity, the woman who founded it, she actually goes to my small group and the guy is it her husband? Her son, her son. Okay. Cause I got to know runs it and I got to know him pretty well cause I would go there all the time. She owns a catering company here in town and she's developed, she's the one who developed fucking real and she does all of our catering for a small group every Sunday.
00:29:23 Oh awesome. It's like the, literally the best food in Nashville. I love the concept. Good for anybody who's not familiar with the funky girl griddle concept. You and your party will sit around a flat top grill and you will cook your own food. For the most part. Most things you cook yourself. There's sausage biscuits, fantastic. You don't cook those. They run. It is awesome. The one thing they don't go, yeah, no, they will cook it for you for $1 million. Have you seen it on the menu it says we'll cook anything for $5 million. It's a really easy pay, like $5 for all. You can eat pancakes, you can add toppings to it. It's a whole experience. I love it because it's, you know, I have some Canadian friends who introduced me to this food culture thing called raclette and raclette is where you have a bunch of cheeses and meats and mini sandwiches and you warm the cheese and meats and that you're cooking meats on top and you're making mini sandwiches.
00:30:13 Oh cool. But the whole concept is it takes you an hour or two to eat. Yeah. And you're not always eating, so you have conversation. Yeah. And I think the same thing is true about the funky griddle is you can actually go there and have a conversation because you're not waiting for your food, but you're also like not like in a jam crazy environment where everyone's running around and you have to scream. And that's what I like about it. Is that yeah. And the food's good. Yeah. The food and they have gluten free pancakes. I actually haven't been there in like a year. I need to go back. So I think I'm gonna go the next weekend. Yeah, last time I went I got all you all, you can eat pancakes and you can get, you know, wheat pancakes and somebody else can get regular pancakes and it's, it's all fantastic.
00:30:47 I love the concept. It's really fun to go to. Yeah, it is a, so a restaurant I ate at recently, this is not going to be taking anyone by surprise, but I didn't go with, no, we did go the rise [inaudible] coming out Sunday did no new menu. You have a new menu because they extended their hours to 9:00 PM but the place I went to is actually called honey fire and it was catered cause they just started reading them at Adrian honey fire and Bellevue one. Yeah. It's like there's good food out that way I'm, I ain't over there. It's funny. Shane is great on the show. Didn't yeah, I don't know if you listen to that. Listen to it. Yeah. That episode is fantastic. The food over there is phenomenal. I love what they're doing and the the area, they have the whiskey club too and it's just amazing.
00:31:30 Yeah. I'm a big bourbon fan so they have all sorts of bourbon and whiskey. Kentucky represent, Oh yeah, you're from Kentucky. Hey, you're bowling green. Right. Or went to school in bowling green. E town is where I'm from. Oh, still passing there. I went to Lexington this weekend. So BG, I'll lay down. You can't avoid details on the cross to do the duckies I'm hitting the BG going up is once you hit the BG, you know there's no more cops cause I've never seen a cop off the grass Parkway. No, never. I don't remember. So do you remember before like before the construction 20 years ago that's still going on? Yeah, I would go down the blue grass I used to have in my Subaru I had a small little DVD player inside of there. And so going down the blue cross Parkway I would like rent a DVD or something, pop it in and watch the DVD going mess.
00:32:16 You know with a Tesla you could have the car drive itself and you could watch a movie. Never done it before. No, I would imagine it would be fantastic. You know, doesn't have surround sound in the Tesla. Oh yeah. You put on Bluetooth app enhanced Bose sound system. You put the phone up on the Mount on your like vent. Yeah. Good to go. That's amazing. Never that. I've done that before. Nor would I can donor. No, that's just what they show you in the test models. Yeah. No, they don't show you that because that'd be [inaudible]
00:32:43 As you see on the, you recently the internet. Yeah. Youtube after market by honey fires.
00:32:49 Delicious. Like it's really good food. We had the Mac and cheese, the a, I wasn't a big fan of the Mac and cheese. Okay. Why not? I just didn't, I don't think it, I don't know. It just wasn't doing it for me. I love their Mac and cheese, but I've also had like, Shane make it fresh for me so maybe you know, I they do burn ins. Oh man. Which you can only really only get it like, I think it's ed Lee's does it only before they announced ADLIs I don't like at least burnings and, no, I don't. I agree. Like if you get Bernie ends outside of Nashville, they're really good. I don't think Nashville sucks. [inaudible] I know. That's the thing. And it's such a great piece of meat. Ah, yes. It's mostly fat, but still
00:33:27 [Inaudible]
00:33:27 And Shane does, they do a pretty good job over honey fire. It's not perfect, but it's the best in Nashville. I think they're my favorite brands in Nashville. Yeah. Overall, my favorite burnt ends are in Charleston, South Carolina, at this random barbecue shack on a highway. Mine, Chicago, downtown. I go, interesting. Downtown Chicago. [inaudible] Nice. Very interesting. What's the place? It's so, there's like three country bars in Chicago and I have to go for work and one of them downtown where they do concerts, had burned ends and I tasted them and I loved them. Huh. Amazing. Amazing. Aaron, where did you eat that recently? This is a regular for me. It's Cinco de Mayo loves him all the time. East Nashville location. I like that. I'm an a, so I'm, I'm excited for that. [inaudible] So a downtown, Oh, we've got a Brentwood on time vacation. My wife's right there. She's in Merimbula and farms.
00:34:14 Oh, they have one right there. That's nice. Yeah. occasionally. I'll go to the one on old Hickory Boulevard in Hermitage. But I'm not a huge fan of that one. They never answered their phone there. Just a lot of times I like to do takeout with, they didn't never answered their phone. They're probably going to Rose pepper much and East. Yeah, occasionally. That's another good go to that. That I really, really like. Rose pepper is phenomenal. The market. Rita's are great and Margaret, they use fresh everything in, I'm like no syrups or juices. Yeah, it's clear and it's gorgeous and it tastes great. My place is a pleasant mariachis. Yeah, I used together. I used to go there as someone I lived over that way in Linux village, Plaza mariachi, one of the coolest places in that one. Favorite Mexican places on? No one's Ville. It's across from the bowling alley and Tuscola. It's a little double wide trailer. It says a taco, Maria Mexico, Tennessee.
00:35:04 That's really big. Didn't know about this new thriving city in middle Tennessee. It's Mexico, Tennessee, nocturia, Mexico, Tennessee. It's really good though. They cook the food outside on grill and it's like a $3 cheaper. It's like I, I'll talk when you talk or something. You mean? Have you been to the taco place inside of [inaudible]
00:35:25 Thompson station? The new place in East Nashville. Thompson,
00:35:30 The other sit a hundred center station, taco station South of spring. [inaudible]
00:35:38 I don't, you know, honestly I don't get to East Nashville much. It's okay. I feel like you live in East Nashville and you're in East Nashville and is not true. I used to go over there all the time on my word all the time. You don't live there too. You know, I live in South Nashville. You know, I used to, we used to go over there all the time for one specific restaurant. That shutdown, that was in that shopping center across from Rose pepper. The silly goose. Oh yeah. One of our friends was a sous chef there and we absolutely loved their food and they shut down one day. Oh man. A lot of restaurants in East Nashville shut down. They have like, they don't give any warnings. They just shut down a lot of different things that can happen that can lead to it. But that restaurant was phenomenal and we'd go over there for that, but we don't get over there too much anymore.
00:36:17 Yeah, it is. It is really, it's old because of the traffic. Like it's, it's a pain to go across the river. Going to build a bridge from East Nashville to Opry mills like that would, it's so much traffic. Exactly what I think. I think [inaudible] they should make another one from festers to East Nashville. Make sense? And that would take care of all traffic problems. Cause the problem is you go in and out two roads basically and everything gets backed up. And when I used to drive Uber, I'd be at Opry mills and get a request from someone in East Nashville because technically I was the closest [inaudible] dry. Oh my gosh. Especially in like wooden stuff. That's terrible. It's like why wouldn't they just build a bridge there and alleviate like getting the airport would take 10 minutes from East Nashville. That wouldn't be amazing. Fantastic job. I'll re mills could probably benefit from that traffic as well.
00:37:03 Yeah. I mean I'm going there after this, I got to go get a new leather bag for Molson's leather out of a drive. It is now. Yeah. yeah. Hi, by the way. Have you seen what they do with the water park over at Opry land? So have they opened it to the public like I've seen you. You've got to stay. Yeah, you have to stay there. If you live in, if you're a Davidson County resident you get discount. Okay. Yeah. So there's a promo code you can find online. You get big discounts. But it's indoor, outdoor, so even in the winter you can call it sound waves, sound waves, the ads really great. We've stayed over there and tried it out and it's just great. What's have you, have you been on any of the water slides rise? Anything? I've just been able to check it out.
00:37:40 I haven't done it myself cause I have the kid and he's still young, but like I have friends who have done it and like slides and lazy rivers and cabanas and surfing thing and all that. And it's like, it could be 30 degrees outside snowing and you can still science it. Yeah. Well people still residents, it's like hundreds. It depends on the time, but like as all really a 150 $170 a night. Okay. And you can take a family of four and go to those sound waves. So did I, I know we, I know there was a lot of controversy cause they didn't have like bathrooms for people like the changing. Interesting. But the, I think the idea is that you are staying at the hotel because you can't buy a pass. Just the sound waves. So the idea is that you have a hotel room, right? Yeah. Maybe that's the reason. But I think that's the reason. But it was interesting because the city of Nashville gave $15 million to build that, like help build that and like the residents of Nashville can't use it unless they're staying at the resort. But you know, it's the same, you know, Nashville pays into incentivize national pays into Bridgestone arena they paid into and you don't get to walk into there for free. Absolutely. So I think
00:38:36 His point is you can't get a day pass years ago. But I give that too. Cause then it would just become a waterpark. It's overcrowded. Like I'm like Nashville shore zone there.
00:38:45 Yeah. There's some beauty to what exists
00:38:48 There in, so I think like if you think about the perfect time is to take your family when the Christmas lights start going, Oh man. Yeah. You know, go out there, get a room, go experience ice and all the stuff they have their go to the water park during the day. The fact you can go to a water park on Christmas break and then go experience everything for Christmas at night. Yeah, go over to the, it sounds like an amazing Nashville experience. Go over to the grand Ole Opry experience a show there they have, when they move the opera to the Ryman, you know, it's like just go experience that area. If your kids get bored, walk over to the mall and shop. It's an entire, it's an entire movie daily. Buster's like everything's right there. Yeah. It really is an escape game over in Nashville. Oh yeah. They just opened that place or whatever that is close to the actual escape game, didn't they? In the mall. Yeah. So like you could, you could literally spend an entire day just spend a, it's crazy the amount of
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00:40:09 Your screen threads. I got to tell you, they are amazing people over there. Scott and [inaudible]. Okay. Once ones, yeah. Yeah. Like just some of the most amazing people. We, we partnered with them on several different things and they're just phenomenal people here in town and they'll day you right. So check it out and they have some really cool stuff. That's awesome. Okay. Actually the onesies, those ones, these are phenomenal. The which ones? Well, the ones that they have in store and then the ones that they also make for a Nashville TN. Okay. Yeah.
00:40:37 I didn't know if we were going there. Now the national team, which we haven't talked about, so side note,
00:40:45 You guys may follow the Instagram account at Nashville, TN. You've had Matt on here before. So I helped manage that page for those who don't know. And we work with screen threads for our merchandise stuff, but they ma, I love that it's a local business. They found a way to create their print shop in the back, use the front for retail space. And what marathon village has become over the past few years is insane. Insane. And so, yeah, definitely check it out. It's a family run business that's really well done. Yeah. okay, so talking about Nashville, TN how did Nashville TN become a thing for you? So there's two partners on the page, Matt, who you had on the pay on the podcast and then Brian Cronin who runs it too. And I met Brian because I started, I'm a true guy who never knows how to stop.
00:41:30 I decided, I decided let's start a candle. So I started making my own candles. They were called, what do I call them since? Well thanks. Well since I actually learned how to make candles myself and I would make them by hand at night and I would sell the candles and I wanted to promote them that the Nashville made handles. So I reached out to the page and met Brian and through talking to him, he and I became really good friends and so I was like, dude, you guys are under capitalizing a lot of things here. Like how can I get involved? And so we create a partnership where I joined up with them and I, I manage the day to day content of the page and help with a lot of the different partnerships that we have with different businesses around town. And I've been with them now about three years and it's just crazy the people we get to meet and things we get to do because of having that platform.
00:42:16 Yeah, we just crossed 275,000 yesterday and yeah, it's cool. It's really cool because the page was not created by either one of them either. They both got into it after the fact. And so we're all just here but, and we, Oh, you know Brian's from here. Oh, he's from Michigan and he went to school at MTS. You then moved away and came back. Okay. Matt, what's your for awhile here for a while, moved to Atlanta and came back and then so we all like have migrated back here and we actually believe in what this town is. And I think that's a cool thing. It's like, it's not just an influencer network run by someone or some big company. It's, you know, guys who live in Nashville who are local business owners. It really is. And we all run marketing agency at some point. You know Brian runs Apple media, which is a company that focuses on SEO and PPC and lead gen. And Matt is a media buying company and marketing company that does a lot with television, radio and billboards and PPC lead gen as well. And then I'm a digital agency and so all all around the board, you know, we're all entrepreneurs and we see what's going on in this town and we get to highlight it. And you know, there's, we talk about the content makes all the time, which is interesting. It's like how many times can we post a Batman building
00:43:25 Unlimited. Unlimited. Because if you go, your most popular posts are going to be your Batman building posts. I know. It's interesting. Is this still the most popular posts? Don't wander off the snow in the Batman building. Is that the most popular posts I re posted twice. I know exactly what you want to do. Is that, was that, that was Ryan who runs parachute meets. Yes. Right? Yes. Yeah. And like put there's, you know, I heard you guys talked about, you guys probably met because of seeing his photos on Nashville, TN. Stuart and I met because of me reposting his photos on Nashville, TN and probably because of, I said this on mascot. Yeah. Because of probably those reposts I was introduced to Stewart in that store it and it's crazy. So I think the
00:44:02 Beauty of what this, this page was created to be a page where we could highlight, let me rephrase it. I don't know why the page was created. We didn't create it. The purpose of the page now is to highlight all the great things happening in Nashville and if we get an opportunity to, I think it's our duty to share light on things that may not be appropriate in Nashville. So yeah, I think we haven't done it too often cause we tried to stay away, but last week or two weeks ago, the homeless, the homeless thing, you know, they, they weren't gonna open up the emergency shelters, right. We, we felt like as a whole, our responsibility was to educate people on how we can still help the community. Now that doesn't mean that we needed to bash the city for why they did it. You know, our entire content was focused on, we heard that the city is not going to open up emergency shelters.
00:44:49 It's an issue in Nashville with almost 2000 homeless. Here are some great nonprofits that you can support that will still support homelessness regardless of what's going on. Yeah. And give people the opportunity to give back, give back and be a part of this community. And you know, I have my guy like I'm very particular like with the, with the newspaper there's a guy named Sean who's at the end of music row King as he walked dry by a bit. Gang queen. Yes. Yes. Any shot you're talking about John and you know, for years I, he's been my guy and I, everyday I see him and I walk up. He's like King. Yes. We're friends on Facebook now. Yeah. And like, he's like, I see the little Prince at home. How's the little Prince doing? That's all you know. But like, I built a relationship. He's my dude.
00:45:26 You know, like, I think that if everyone in Nashville found those people, I mean, think about how many people are in town. If we each found someone that we make sure that we're regularly checking in with, see what's going on. Yeah. I know about some of the struggles he's had with getting of housing and apartments and history and it's like, just know that like this, this town is a community and we rally around each other when everything's happening. Think about the flood. I was, I came the week before. Wow. Then I moved a year after, but like I was, I did the double words at the grand Ole Opry and then it flooded like a few weeks later, so it's like, wow. When you think about like how people rallied around that they rallied around different things that happened in this town with waffle house, et cetera. Like that's what this town is.
00:46:06 Then I think that our page is able to share how people come together. I mean when my son was born, I shared a photo on the page. He was born in the NICU at Vanderbilt and I shared a photo on the page and we got a corporate partner that was going to donate for every new follower. They got. Every retweet or retweet, went on Twitter, every comment and every likely got, and just by people engaging with that photo, we raised like three grand for Vanderbilt. That's amazing. And you know, so I think like the things that happen in this community we're working on finding more ways to give back to the community with different nonprofits. So I would say keep an eye on that because for us it's, it's a business, but there's so many different things here in town that we can do.
00:46:40 So we were looking at different nonprofits around town. Yeah. There's a new one opening that over on Belmont called the store. Okay. Yes. It's going to be really cool. That's crazy. Yeah. So I'm what we do their marketing and help out with them. And it's going to be a grocery store for people that can't afford groceries. And the whole idea is, you know, talking to Brad about is he wants people to be able to go and say, Hey kids, let's go to the store. So they're not intimidated by saying, let's go to the food bank. Let's go. And they go and they get fresh produce, fresh meat, all this stuff that you get at a grocery store and then you go check out just like you would in a grocery store but you never have to pay. Yeah. And I think that that experience of a parent not having to be shamed by taking their child in that situation is what's gonna make it successful.
00:47:23 It's a partnership with Belmont and it's one that only can continue to support because it's gonna cost every day to put fresh fruit there. Right. Yep. What do you think about the difference of maybe private entities working alongside grants, of course to make something like that happen as opposed to, you know, a, a public fund, a public funded, something like that. Do you think having some kind of private relationship with the community makes a difference on how something like that would turn out? I think two fold. I think the, on the government subsidized part of things, if the government subsidizes, you're always going to have some sort of political issue with someone else in the community. And there's going to be negative feedback regardless if it's for good or not. And that's just because of the way our system is. I think being privately funded, you get the support of someone.
00:48:11 In this case I got Brad Paisley who can bring awareness to your on a national level and he can help with it, help get started. But then because of his relationships, they got a state grant. So they get that. They got, they got donations from some big major corporations and as a whole they also figured out how they can make it fair to everyone. They don't qualify anyone. Yeah. So their qualification process comes from eight or nine different companies in town that qualify. People that are nonprofits for people who need food. Awesome. And they make referrals in, so they're not the ones deciding who gets food. That's awesome. And so it takes that pressure off of them. And I think when you're able to combine and create a network of nonprofits and organizations that help people under a certain circumstance, that's where you see success. I mean, you see stuff like people loving Nashville.
00:48:55 Yes. I mean it's, there's so many good organs even outside of homelessness. I mean Tracy Lawrence here in town does a Turkey fry every year, and I don't know if you've heard about that, but the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, he sits in the parking lot at the rescue mission and he lines up 50 to a hundred deep priors. Wow. And he gets different part turkeys and oil and he fries turkeys from 6:00 AM till 4:00 PM that's amazing. They sell the turkeys at high cost, decent high cost and raise money for the nonprofit. Yeah. Then they also, he takes some of it and he delivers to people who need it. And then that night they do a concert of the wild horse and raised money and all the money. Hundreds of thousands of dollars every year goes back to the rescue mission. And we have Turkey for Thanksgiving with all of his friends and they cook turkeys all day long.
00:49:38 That's cool. And it's just like the G and that's his passion, like the different things that this town does for whatever it is. You have thistle farms, I mean gold cross the board from any type of nonprofit you want to look at. Yeah. Have you been to green door gourmet? Yeah, green to origami. I heard they're amazing. I think there are hidden gym in town. They are. They are really? Yeah. We've done a lot. They do different chef events. We had a Ford and get married out there. It was, that was a beautiful wedding. Yeah, we just talking about that cause we were at our house and the wedding was just phenomenal. She was the sous chef at [inaudible] and so the chef at silly goose actually catered the thing. So it was all their food was phenomenal. National, such a small town. I know Riley how that works. Yeah. I think that the more this community, and that's what we're, we work on the pages. The more this community can do things together and highlight that people's trying to start businesses and obviously we still have to take into account the tourism aspect. Oh absolutely. This town would not be what it is right now
00:50:28 If it wasn't for tourism. No. So we can't discount that. So, obviously we do all the woo girls.
00:50:34 I'm sorry, we're willing to put up with, sorry. [inaudible]. It depends on the, it depends on how drunk you are. All the different wounds,
00:50:45 You know. But then you look at like just in Nashville in general, hotel started dominating. So what do people do? Airbnb and now we see like boutique Airbnbs and become their own brand. And like I was literally just talking to a guy who has a building and they turned the second floor into Airbnb and they created like a brand around it. I mean, it's crazy. And so when you think about it, our town has found a way to capitalize on resources that we have to continue to grow on a personal level, not just a corporate level. Yeah, absolutely. So it's interesting, but yeah, the tourism, what was it like? What was the number last year point 8 million. Yeah, you can't, you can't deny the fact that what they do for this town for jobs, Maytag down. I mean, I think a large portion of our taxes are paid for by tourists.
00:51:27 Yup. That's why you have a 18% alcohol tax and downtown. It's why you have, by the way, did you see side down, did you see where they wanted to block off Broadway? So they were talking about the possibility 17 I don't know where I saw it on Fox 17 they were talking about it last week about blocking off Broadway, which Aaron I have been talking about this tremendously. Re should have done it a long time since they tested it. They tested it for several different things and yeah, I think if you stopped a fifth yes and went to first and you let people drive down first you had that corridor and up to fit and you had the next streets and that was just its own thing. Think about all the great events. I mean I guess there's liabilities, but open container can be a thing like an entire policies like security note that points like I have a million people down game. It's insane to drive. Yup. And it's probably safer to not put cars on the road. It's probably faster to alleviate that traffic source. And you've got to two security checkpoints instead of having security checkpoints at every single bar. Yeah. Yeah. Well they'll, they'll still have you been down to bourbon street in new Orleans? Yeah. Yeah, they do. They still let traffic go like if they were to close it, yeah. Parallel. but you know, they've been down to bourbon street here, bookings
00:52:39 Blue bar. Cause it's pretty amazing too. That's pretty good. Now prayer's alley. I didn't know where you're going. I was like, man. Yeah. Jazz and blues music and let's go. Yeah, we did, we talked about it.
00:52:50 Bursary or a printer's alley is a hidden gym, I think. I don't think too many tourists realize it's there, which is what's crazy usually off all the new speakeasies and stuff. We talked about that on the last Tuesday's episode was nightlife in Nashville. So you have a really interesting relationship with Vanderbilt medical center. Oh, back to that from bourbon street and now [inaudible]
00:53:07 Yeah, sometimes you'll end up at Vanderbilt.
00:53:10 Let's talk about that bill. What do you wanna talk about? I think just your experience with Vanderbilt and everything that's happening with your son. Yeah. So I think that when you look at Vanderbilt Vanderbilt hospital is so unique
00:53:26 Is I never, I realized the work they do, but I never realized how important it was. A, so our kid was born premature, spent a 28 days in the hospital including the NICU. We've been back all the time since he has genetic disorders, some brain disorders, some other stuff. And we're frequent visitors. We what they call VIP is, we know all the doctors. We, it's a, it's a great thing. But through that process, every time we have to schedule an appointment, they say, so where do you live? We like to try and schedule your appointments together. And I realize through getting to know some people that are like, people travel from like I was at the ER like three weeks ago, I knew going on five hours away to come to this hospital and I'm like, Oh my office is across the street cause I'm in Hillsboro village at the time.
00:54:06 And like, Oh, like the family can you fit me in where you can because like you have many other people had to deal with other schedules. But just the great work they do from pediatric cancer to PD, you know, our, our neurologist who deals with our son, dr [inaudible] is one of the top ranked in the world. Amazing. He's here. We have Dr. Thomas in the urology department. He's phenomenal. So as a whole, I think just the fact that we have world class care next door here in Nashville is phenomenal. You know, I was in Lexington this weekend and we had to go to the ER and the university of Kentucky hospital, which is another great pediatric hospital, but even, and I'm biased towards UK from there, but even there, I walk in and I'm like, this is no Vanderbilt like Vanderbilt is. And even when we had our doctors like, Oh yeah, we did, our residency is a Vanderbilt.
00:54:51 If we could've got in, we would've like every, every doctor there. Mecca wants to be at Vanderbilt. Even when our kid was in the hospital, our attending was a UK grad while I was weird. And then her resident was UK grad. That's crazy. And I didn't know this, this, what's interesting is how small the world is. I'm talking to her attending or her resident and she's talking about being part of dance blue at UK, if my wife was part of and knowing people. And then I'm like, so what's your first name? And she tells me and I'm like, are you married to a guy named drew? And she's like, yeah, why? I'm like, drew and I were camp counselors in Lexington, Kentucky together. Oh our child's doctor was the wife of one of my camp counselors. That's wow. And she, luckily I was lucky, I thought about it and messaged him and told her, told him, cause she was like, the next morning she comes in and she goes, I'm really glad that you told drew, cause I couldn't have told them that I met you because of HIPPA.
00:55:43 Oh yeah. So she told her husband that she met me because then he would know I was a patient. Right, yeah. Wow. But I think a, there's so many great doctors there who do phenomenal work. I mean we had, we had to neurosurgery and like just the, the, the F the surgery center there is phenomenal. Like in the pediatric world, like rascal Flatts has put a ton of money in, but like, just the, the resources and the capabilities they have for children and the care they have, you know, the environment, their environment. And there's so many people who do philanthropic stuff, you know, like Kristen Cantrell here in town who works at William Morris, she puts on golf term every year. She does a ton of fundraising for them. And there's a ton of organizations that do that. They just, they can use all the help they can get because I don't think people realize this.
00:56:24 They're completely separate entity than the hospital. Okay. Yes. So they're not tied to Vanderbilt children's is a nonprofit. Vanderbilt medical is not, I don't believe I had been called me other than profit for profit. The only thing, so they used to be the same, they split. And even to this point, every time you see a Vanderbelt logo anywhere, like the children's hospital, they're paying a royalty to Vanderbilt hospital. They use that logo from my understanding. But they are completely separate. And a nonprofit didn't realize that. Tim, what's one thing Nashville is missing? So some people have said theme parks, some people have said transit. What's one thing that was missing? It's a fair statement. But going outside of that you know, I would love to see more arts here so we have music, but I'd love to see more like New York, LA, since we're growing like, like fashion type of theatrical.
00:57:10 Like I'd love to see more tea pack does a lot of it, but I'd love to see them more wide variety cause there's so many people that want to do that. So you know, T pack comes in, you have one show every three months. It's cool and it's great. I've seen the lion King come to town. I've seen become Mormon. Hamilton's coming. Yeah. I mean there's some, but like, how do we get that on a more regular basis? I think the symphony does a good job in merging pop culture with music. Absolutely. I think that they've done a really good job on that side of it. But outside of that, like where do we see non-natural culture coming to mix with Nashville? So we're not just honky tonks and country music. Yeah. The rock and roll bar in my area, you know, and it makes sense, you know, Kings of Leon lives here, there's a lot of other artists outside of [inaudible].
00:57:48 That's your national Robert plants here. Yeah. And so people don't realize that there's a lot of that and so that's fine. But how do we see more non Nashville merge and showcase all the great things people are doing? Yeah. well that, that that festival, it could be a, a, a good start to learn some of that, but it's the maker. It's the national design week. That will be cool to hopefully, maybe we'll step inside of there and see if we can meet some more artists that are inside of Nashville. But yeah, that's, that's definitely true. There's some more theatrical would be. Yeah. Cause like even you can even use a symphony when the symphony is not in use. And you could do, you know, Shakespeare in the park does gray, but there's so many. I even a send ampitheater could probably jump into that.
00:58:29 Yeah. You know, I just think that we, when we get an at T pack it's good. But I think that so many of us, like every time I go to New York, I'm going this weekend I try to find a show to go to and it's like you shouldn't have to travel to New York to find that show. Yeah. Like I should be able to, and there's little tiny ones. We see it with [inaudible] with different things here with comedy. Yeah. But outside of [inaudible] you don't really see comedy here. And so like, why are we missing that part of culture? And so I think the arts as a whole is something that it's still catching up to the rest of national music. We do a great job. Like CMA has a foundation that helps schools and we put instruments in schools. CMA Fest as CMA music awards are next week. Yeah. Yup. Oh yes. The next Wednesday. There you go. That's awesome. Yeah. So I mean you have all these people that come to town, they would love to go see a show or go do something outside of the awards. Yeah, absolutely. How do we enhance the tourism to not just be, let's go down the bar and spend $20 million a year at this bar. Yeah. Because when someone comes in thinking about winning bachelorette parties, when people come
00:59:22 To town, what do they do? Peddle taverns, bars, restaurants. That's it. 100 and murals and maybe
00:59:29 The hiking, maybe going to Cheekwood for a cute photo, maybe going, you know Bellmead Bellmead plantation drink some wine or going to Harrington has some like, but outside of that like how do we find more things for it? Cause it's actually interesting. Like people always ask me, what do you do when you come down? I'm like, well I mean cause we go cheek. I guess we could go to the country music hall of fame. I guess we could, but like I'm trying to think of things we can actually do. Yeah.
00:59:51 [Inaudible] the rest of the things that are in bars, there's, there's a few things, but they're still very small. They're not, you know, as grandiose as everything else, like Cheekwood and Bellmead and everything like that. You do. Have you been to the Frist? Yeah. So they do great work. Yeah, I, that's one of the things that Frist is, we were talking about this on one of the podcasts. The first is great, but I think that their location and it's, I mean because you're not going to go 10 blocks, drink a drink a day, drink on Broadway, walk over to the foot of that big Hill. No, you're not going to do their viewing. So it's interesting [inaudible] I don't know how many of the audience going to dangerous are the audience is we're going to first, yeah, I think it was in Nashville yards. The first is in a strategic location. I think that would be good for the war for Amazon employees. All the residential that's going to be in Nashville yards. I think it's going to be great. Tim, thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having me guys. Where can people follow you on social media?
01:00:45 At Tim Gerst. So just T I, M G E R. S T, like the beer. And then how about your media company? So just check out thanks. Weil.Com. We are currently rebuilding everything. So you'll see that we're going with a new launch. We have some exciting news coming top of the year. And we're going to relaunch socials and stuff. And so right now you're, you're, you know what's interesting is people don't, may not realize Nashville being in the music industry, you basically shut down in December. So a lot of the music, it's about people outside of the town and they may not realize that. And so basically all December we take off to spend time with family and friends and the music industry shuts down. My team gets a lot of time off. So we typically take that November, December, after Thanksgiving to take a moment to refresh and get ready for the new year. So with that, we'll have a brand new site, brand new marketing materials, everything coming out with a new merger of another company. A lot of cool things happening. Cool. And so we're excited about that. And maybe new office space.
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