The Rambling Gypsy
Welcome to The Rambling Gypsy Podcast, where Tiffany Foy and friends invite you to join them on their porch for a candid conversation about the quirks and adventures that make up their lives. From Tiffany's eclectic collection of animals to the chaos and joys of raising boys, there's nothing held back as they share their unfiltered perspectives.
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The Rambling Gypsy
Living Life Unplugged with Brooks Robinson
Welcome to PART TWO of Brooks Robinson on The Rambling Gypsy podcast. Brooks and Tiff dive into the intense connection felt during live performances and explore how essential it is to leave personal baggage behind. This episode brings passion, dedication, and emotional compartmentalization, whether you're playing drums or managing a family enterprise.
Stay tuned until the end for a sneak peek of what's next - transformations, turnarounds, and an incredible guest lineup await. 👀
Mark your calendars for September 19th, as we gear up for live podcasts and prepare to hit the road in 2025. #SPF90
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Hey guys, welcome to the Ramblin' Gypsy podcast. My name is Tiffany Foy and we are on my porch. We are fortunate to be fortunate, and this is part two with my guy Brooks Brooks Robinson, part two, part two.
Speaker 2:I had no idea I was going to talk so much.
Speaker 1:Come on. Well, now we've already introduced him, we've already been through a bunch of the music stuff and that is adorable that you think that you don't know that you're going to talk so much. He's the one that doesn't need a microphone and he's the storyteller. Oh, come on.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's good, though I'm very quiet, reserved, never says much.
Speaker 1:no, no, I mean you are quiet, but you're not quiet, is that?
Speaker 2:yeah, that's you quiet, but not quiet quiet but not quiet.
Speaker 1:You're just. How do you say I don't know you're quiet, but you're not quiet.
Speaker 2:Yeah, depends on the situation in the company that's true. That's with me too that has a lot to do with.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if, I'm not comfortable, I'm out. I'm just totally like, yeah, this is not my vibe. I gotta go. Yeah, or two words in. No, I'm not gonna like you. Yeah, I don't. Nope, we're not gonna be friends, we're done bye. Yeah, it was nice yeah thanks for trying.
Speaker 2:It was good. Thanks for playing, for playing.
Speaker 1:Real talk, toodles Bye, gotta go. Somebody call me, somebody phone a friend. Somebody make my phone ring now. Yeah, so we talked about your music, we talked about things that you've done, we talked about the amazing experience with Charlie, which was really, really, really cool.
Speaker 2:And so from Charlie, where'd you go After Charlie Zanes? For a little bit, charlie retired, right at a vocal thing, right. Uh went and played for zane williams for I don't know, maybe six or eight months, yeah, um funny thing. So I ended up with josh ward. I had met josh, kind of, when I got the vibe that the Charlie thing was kind of slowing down, right, right.
Speaker 2:Uh, at River Road Ice House I went out and caught a Josh show. I'd never seen him before and uh, I don't know if you can tell, if they can tell by looking at me, but I don't really listen to a lot of Texas country. I mean. I'll listen. When a new album comes out, I want to listen to it right be familiar with what my buddies are doing right but it's not something that I put on every day right uh, you know I'm a 90s glam rock motley crew.
Speaker 1:Yeah, kind of you know slipknot yeah you know angry music right that calms me um which is so kind of funny that you mentioned that, because if you know anything about cody canada- oh yeah the kit, shan and the kids, and they're very much that vibe too as well. In fact, we've been to some concerts. Jeremy and I went with we took garrison I don't remember which one it was and but yeah, where we've we've been to some concerts. Jeremy and I went with we took garrison I don't remember which one it was and but yeah, where we've. We've been to some, some rock concerts together.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've always just kind of it's people be like wait what?
Speaker 2:oh yeah yes, metal yeah tyler too, my nephew.
Speaker 1:You know he plays and does and he first, when he first started playing it was freaking headbangers ball and oh when mtv still had music. Yes, exactly yeah, and that's tyler. And you look at tyler and like, yeah, to see tyler in the country scene is like wait what? Yeah?
Speaker 2:but yeah, so go, okay, yep so, um, I told josh that night I was like, hey, you know you got good tunes. Yeah, I mean listen to rock and roll, metal, all that stuff, but because of pops, you know, loved country had a love for country, obviously working in the scene had a right for country and josh really had that old school sound. Yeah, Stuff. That resonated with me and had an incredible voice for what he was doing and I told him that night I was like, dude, if you ever need a drummer, call me.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And two years passed. I do remember that Nice, two years passed and I don't remember if they I'd been talking with his tour manager at the time about maybe going to work for him. And you know, the stars aligned and yeah, I got a call hey, are you still interested in the gig? You want to do this? Right? I was like yeah, and I think at first Josh was uncertain because he had this picture and idea in his head about what kind of drummer I was, and he wasn't altogether wrong about it.
Speaker 2:But as far as being able to adapt, Right To do what he needed me, what he needed from me, and the beauty of it is we had such a great working relationship. Why he trusted me so much so quickly, I don't know. Maybe it was the history of the background working with Charlie, that stuff, but he very much did what charlie did. He wanted me to be me and I I felt like his show could be pushed a little more to the edge and and he gave me the leeway to do so, to do that and sometimes to do that without asking permission, you know, and josh is such a very um, old school cowboy.
Speaker 1:Just he's got um, he's very chivalrous and very genuine and things that you just really don't run into anymore, you don't see anymore. He's one of the most kind-hearted humans and y'all are both very calm and very I mean like, do you say like a soothing soul? I mean because me, I'm high, strong and I'm I'm bouncing off the walls and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm always going a million miles, nothing. And and then you two I mean, you know, there's just those people that you just talk to and you're like, oh okay, I feel so much better and we didn't even really talk about it.
Speaker 1:You just like it's just like you just like it's just like you just take, bring us down to a whole different level. But I could see you two where y'all would just instantly jive because you do have an old school heart and you have calling me old.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean once again, once again, yeah but your dad, your pops, is that way.
Speaker 1:I mean I talked to him about a lot of things and I mean he's my go-to for a lot and you know that. And there's conversations that you don't even know the half of that me and your dad have had where I call him and I'm hysterical and I mean he'll either be at my front door in less than 20 to 30 minutes or I'm on the phone with him and he just brings me down. Josh, is that? Is that nurturing?
Speaker 1:just that that good cowboy just kind of I mean really cool. But I could see where y'all would have a perfect marriage in the music industry where you could kind of push him, cause you do not look like the guy that's going to be sitting in the back of a Josh Ward band. I mean playing a two Ward band, I mean Playing a two-step shuffle Seriously. Yeah. No, that's not yeah. And this is the drummer.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but he's going to let me open the show with a Motley Crue riff. Yeah, I've seen that happen. We've got to balance each other out.
Speaker 1:It is a really cool balance and yeah, so it is. I can see how that really that did work, how it was a very good vibe for both.
Speaker 2:You two or y'all had them and we had a great run. Unfortunately for me, years of being on the road and I use this as a description all the time. Um, if anybody has ever seen me play, they're like so what happened? I'm like well, you know, when you reach to the ceiling and try to hit the floor and a drum gets in the way, I didn't realize the damage it was doing, doing even though I was very, extremely religious about warming up, stretching before a show. Um, it got to the point where they I was hurting more playing the shows than I was having fun.
Speaker 2:And I knew I needed to take a break, right, thank God for a hobby.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That has grown exponentially To the point that it is absolutely my new passion.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Still love playing music, still yearn to play music.
Speaker 1:So you've been off the road for a year, touring full time.
Speaker 2:I've been off the road this past April would be a year A year so 16 months now something like that.
Speaker 1:So, and you and I have talked about this and we've had multiple conversations of do you miss it? And I mean it's obviously it's gotta be hard not to miss. You did it for 30 years, so, but you do have a hobby and you kind of piddled around with motorcycles and kind of crazy enough, jeremy has got a shit ton of them and I'm when I'm talking, we got a fucking museum of them and Brooks is picking around and you've always worked on on the bikes and so years and years and years ago and and that's kind of how the first hard luck kind of happened was we found a building and was right down the street from not far from you and not far from us, and and basically, jeremy needed somebody to maintain, maintain everything that he had, and I needed a place to start a business, and so so, boom, hard luck was born.
Speaker 2:Hard luck was born.
Speaker 1:Hard luck was born and so, yeah, I remember the first motorcycle lift, I remember the first, you know the whole, yeah, ground zero, boom, it was born, and then that was a long time ago, feels like yesterday. Isn't that crazy. I drive by that building all the time and I look, and I look and I'm like, golly, there's some that was a decade ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah, isn't that insane? So off the road. So now you've got oh, what I was going to say was, in that time that you've been off the road, which has been just now, what 16 months? You said 17 months or whatever it is. And we were at a show together recently with a whole group of people and side stage watching.
Speaker 2:Red Clay Strays.
Speaker 1:Red Clay Strays. You guys, and these guys I don't even know how you really honestly explain them. They are, you look at them and their vibe is very. I just freaking love it. I mean I'm talking the. Some of them have a very rockabilly vibe. Yes, I mean like the yes, yes, it's just so good. Like that reminds me of my old potash shoes and I mean just, I mean it's just so good, it's just so good and we're side stage and we're talking and you know the sound guy and, um, the drummer for them.
Speaker 2:That guy stole the show for me.
Speaker 1:The guy is a vibe is. He reminds me so much of Ruben, for which is literally. I just want to put Ruben in my back pocket and take him everywhere we go, because he is, this works for Shane Smith and the saints, and he is. He's always got the biggest smile in his vibe. I mean, you've seen him? He's just like this little grasshopper that just jumps all over the place.
Speaker 1:And we were side stage at Whitewater Saturday night when the boys were playing and we had Keane there that we did the cancer benefit for and we had beach balls and they were bouncing the beach balls through all the fans and the crowd and one of them popped up on stage and Ruben went to go kick the beach ball and he turned around. He was like, and I was like, I was like you did it, son, and he was so cute and just so happy, but it was, yeah. That reminds me so much of the drummer for red clay.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:I was standing there and I was watching you watch him and I'm watching him and I'm not a drummer and I'm just beside myself and I'd seen them several times before, when in the keys and and that was your first time to see them and I turned around and I looked at you and I said if this doesn't make you miss playing, nothing is going to fucking make you miss playing.
Speaker 2:I missed that electricity from a big crowd, that was.
Speaker 1:So there's three stages of this event, and that was, I don't think if, even if there was no one in that crowd, if you didn't feel the electricity from that dude. Oh yeah, you're dead to the world. I mean, you're not feeling, you can't feel, you can't nothing. That guy, wow, but the whole band and everything is just phenomenal, but you coming from being a drummer for 30 years and watching that guy.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean you were like's fucking off to that dude that made me miss the moment a lot, a lot, a lot yeah, yeah, oh, I saw it. I I mean knowing you and and being my bestie for as long as you have, and and it was. It was a cool experience for me to watch you watch him, and I wish we would have sat and visited with him afterwards, cause I would have loved to. It would have been a great conversation with just you two talking and and listening to y'all talk about.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Geeking out on drum stuff Well because when you play, I mean you, but he happy play.
Speaker 2:I mean you, yeah, but he happy drums, you angry drums. He kind of reminded me of, like Joe Cocker.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Joe Cocker was a drummer.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And everybody like from Nick's age under is going who the hell is Joe Cocker?
Speaker 1:Yeah, but anyway, that's.
Speaker 2:I mean, that's really yeah, and he had a LaVon Helm kind of thing to him too Wow.
Speaker 1:I'm dating myself, but I mean great Us, actually Great drummer, it's fine, yeah, yeah, but really, but I always had when.
Speaker 2:when I had the opportunity to meet people after shows, I think the funniest thing that resonated with me from multiple people was like wow, you're so nice and not like what I thought you would be like, and that always kind of took me aback. Have you ever watched?
Speaker 1:like any. I mean, have you ever watched yourself perform? Does that? I know that sounds like really Tiffany, you just said that, but I mean, have you ever Rare?
Speaker 2:I don't like to watch videos of myself. It's weird, but I've seen enough videos. I get it. I've seen enough still shots of your face yeah, I angry drum yes, you do uh, I I attribute that to to why I am so laid back, because I took my frustrations, my, my mental anguish, right. Anything I had going on. Yes, um, honestly, that's a lie though because you can't lie on the porch well, one thing that I always preach we always tell the truth on one thing that okay.
Speaker 2:So one thing that I always preach to the guys in the band um, and it's a very hard thing to do, but it's always deserving of the people that paid their hard-earned money to get in and watch the show, because everybody's got their own bullshit that they have to deal with day to day 100 but when you are an entertainer, part of your job, aside from delivering the artist's music, everybody that's out there in some way shape or form is needing a break from the day to day.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:And I told the guys we'd always do, you know, 30 minutes prior to a show is just band hang, yeah, and then we'd have a quick little get together and then we'd go to the stage and I told the guys when I and I just felt it, and I told them, I said, look, because you can make a habit of carrying baggage with you and letting that affect your performance, whether, uh, you forgot to pay a bill, right, and you got that weighing on you or you're, you're an argue argument with your best friend and that's weighing heavy on you.
Speaker 2:And I told the guys. I said you know, one thing that I learned through my time traveling with bands is those people didn't come there to hear perfection One. They came there to be entertained and for that 90 minutes that you're on stage you are their vehicle to transport them away from whatever struggle they're having at the moment.
Speaker 1:You have to put it on the back burner. You've got to. It's not easy.
Speaker 2:No, not, but I told I would tell guys and I've told for a long time, I've told them. You know, whatever problems you have going on, even if it was, I was having a disagreement with my band brother, yeah you leave that at the bottom of the stage stairs and when you walk up, there right, you have an expectation to fulfill for those people, right?
Speaker 2:And then I'm like and then, when the show's over, you could pick up your personal baggage and you know, if it was me, you got to leave it at the front door. Yeah, if it was me and one of the guys in the band having a disagreement or something. Right, we were best buds again when we were on stage, right? And then we can go back and yell it out on the bus after.
Speaker 1:That can wait till after I tell the kids and you know, owning businesses and what have you with our family and it's not easy. I mean, it's in the same deal, different aspect of course, but it's um or situation, but it's it. Uh, having a family owned business during the day from eight to five. We have to forget that you're my kid or you're my husband and at the end of the day it's got to stay there. If you come home and you bring that home with you, it will destroy a marriage, destroy a friendship.
Speaker 1:It will and and it's not easy, it's not easy, and I've I've been doing that for a very long time and it's, it's hey me, pops and aubrey.
Speaker 2:We're the construction crew together for a long time yeah we've had some serious yeah, yeah, um yeah, put the, put the nail gun down.
Speaker 1:We've had some serious discussions give me the hammer, and at the end of the nail gun down.
Speaker 2:We've had some serious discussions. Give me the hammer. And at the end of the day, when we left the job site, seriously, I've told them high five, let's all go have a cocktail, let's go do our family dinner.
Speaker 1:We still have Thanksgiving together. We still we used to, and some people can figure it out and most people cannot. And it's one of those things where and you've heard me say it a million times over, in fact, when we were in Cabo, I said I'm going to take a lap. And I mean I was up and I was, and I lapped that I don't know if y'all have seen the size of the hotel that we stayed. We stayed at Pueblo Bonita, pacifica. I lapped that sucker five times seven o'clock in the morning. I was like nope, to take a lap, I'm gonna keep laughing. That was not enough. And then I just kept on laughing and getting that. I came back and I was like okie, dokie, hi, what's now? I'm ready to talk and I mean I just needed to, but you can't, you've got to there's, there's just, it's not easy. It is absolutely not easy.
Speaker 2:But you're, you're absolutely correct it's see, that's the beautiful thing about being a biker.
Speaker 1:You just get on there and just whoosh, because there's not much that a tank of gas won't fix, no doubt, and I get it.
Speaker 2:I'm that girl, and you know.
Speaker 1:I am, because I absolutely completely get it so. Hard Luck is born, Hard Luck is in Bracken.
Speaker 2:Yes. So Bracken is this adorable um podunk stretch of a road it's really yeah, if you can call it a suburb it is a road.
Speaker 1:It is a road, it's a stretch of a road and, ironically enough, um alan, the guy that built bracken and did all the buildings, has Alco's construction and Alco's buildings and I met him after he built Bracken and put all that together. He was I've known that guy for a very long time Very, very cool dude, very, very cool dude. But so it is it's. It literally is a stretch of the road. So if you're new Bromples and then we have San Antonio, and in between there is and even being born and raised local, you have live Oak, you have Selma, you have Cibolo, you have shirts, you have all these little garden Ridge, you have all these little things, and it's literally like what the hell did y'all just like roll the dice and just decide you know what? Let's just keep everybody guessing, because it all just kind of blends into one.
Speaker 1:Well and one little, one little area that connects the other little area is this little road that's Bracken.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and the crazy thing is is it's not like my address is not Bracken.
Speaker 1:Texas, it's San.
Speaker 2:Antonio, exactly, it's kind of like green Right Like green isn't green, it's New Braunfels, right. But it's still green Right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, even the boys' custom shop. It's Canyon Lake. They can spit at the post office from the front door of the custom shop, which is Canyon Lake. Yeah, they have to use a New Braunfels address, no a Canyon Lake address. Excuse me, but they're not allowed to do postal stuff at the Canyon Lake post office. They have to come all the way into town to use the New Braunfels one. Who is in charge here?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Who is making up the?
Speaker 2:Who can't pay the math. They're not paying our fuel bill.
Speaker 1:I can tell you that much because that makes zero cents whatsoever. But it's kind of like when the kids were going to school so many kids that lived in garden ridge before we had 47 000 high schools in our town they went to canyon high school yeah so they would drive from garden ridge past new brumfels high school to drive another 20 minutes to get to canyon high school and that's where those kids would go so it's just because it was the division, that was where the river is, and so that was the dividing factor between.
Speaker 2:But now we have high schools all over the place yeah, somebody didn't know that there was a back way to get to new bronfels from.
Speaker 1:Yeah well, now they have. Whoever let the cat out of the bag has fucked up my whole entire.
Speaker 1:Thing because I was still am the back roads person. And yeah, um, you guys have heard me mention nick a million times, but I've, I've taught her a whole lot of the back roads. And now I'll, when we're going back through ratama or going back where, because that's kind of similar to where your shop is, and she goes to ratama with me all the time because that's who takes care of my horses and and things and um, I'll say, do you know where we are at? And she'll go, nope, no clue. And I'll say, do you remember where we pick up the eggs? And she'll go, oh, I know exactly where we're at.
Speaker 1:It's kind of like saying yeah do you know where that that uh gas station is? And then you go, nope and you go. Oh well, do you know where the corner of river road ice house is? Or do you know where you know?
Speaker 1:right the grumpy's everybody knows. I mean, if you don't, you should, because you don't know where grumpy's is, you should. You should know where grumpy's is, and that kind of, because you can say, do you know where bracken is, and it's no, but then you can say, do you know where the not hanging tree, what?
Speaker 2:is that it is hanging tree.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I always get that one in the one on 281 um mix because they're the environment is so, so much like it's biker bar two, biker bar two, so it's. But oh, I forget the name of that I know, see, and I get them confused all the time. But it is hanging tree that's over there by you, which is a really cool old dive bar and um actually played there one time, really Nice.
Speaker 2:Yes, I've never been back in that place again.
Speaker 1:Really. So I used to take pig pickles my pig, you remember pickles and I used to always call her piggy. I used to take piggy there all the time and they everybody in that entire place knew who she was and she's always been. I take her from the time she was wee little till till she was a big girl to live music and stages and she, she loved that place and they'd always have her stuff. I wouldn't even have to pack her carrots or whatever it was. They they knew she loved the starburst and they would have her in the back. Yeah, so we have. I wish I that was before we had all these fancy phones and shit, but yeah, I wouldn't. I would love to have those pictures of her and I just chilling with on the front porch with. They had cats at that place next door, but the cats would be like the hell kind of cat is this?
Speaker 2:I think he didn't give a shit. It's the biggest cat I've ever seen.
Speaker 1:I know she just She'd just run around and snort and snort and yeah, do her thing, and she knew where she was going and yeah, it was cool. But yeah, but that's where Bracken is and that's where Hard Lux is and that's where Brooks is at, and you do anything and everything pretty much for.
Speaker 2:American V-Twin. There it is, yeah, yeah full service, maintenance, customization from that to ground up custom builds.
Speaker 1:You did a um, a custom build for? Was that the rot that you had? Yeah, which one?
Speaker 2:was the one that you. I built that one for a customer, but I showed it at the rot rally. Uh I remember that biker build off in uh dallas. That one got me in with the right people and really caused the shop to take off yeah, because you're always just jammed, always, always I keep saying I'm gonna catch up eventually. And then when I come close I get concerned like, oh, I need business to come in right.
Speaker 1:And I finally started telling the guys, when you hear me walk around and say, man, the phone needs to ring yeah throw a wrench right hit, trip me, hit me in the head, do something, tell me to go for a ride, stuff an oil rag in my mouth.
Speaker 2:Tell me to shut up Anything. Whatever it takes, I mean we're always going to take more business.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But I mean, I guess when you have your own business it's a good thing to not ever really catch up as long as the work's moving. That's right, yeah, you don't sleep a lot.
Speaker 1:No, boy, do I know that? Yeah, I absolutely know that. Yeah, it's um, it's never ending. But that's one thing that you and I have a lot in common is our work ethic.
Speaker 2:Like we, we never stop, we never slow down, and if we do, it's kind of like why, and even when you do, even when you're not at work and you're just relaxing, doing whatever else still in the back of your head, you've still got, still going. The wheels are still turning. You're still Always Ideas.
Speaker 1:Yes, you know Non-stop. What can I do?
Speaker 2:better. What can I make better? Yes, what can I do different? What's the next level? What can?
Speaker 1:I make better? What can I do different? What's the next level? Where am I going from here?
Speaker 2:What's the next?
Speaker 1:thing. What's the next thing? What?
Speaker 2:gets me exactly to that next level.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, it's kind of how my porch kind of evolved and you know, um, but yeah, it was kind of felt like I was kind of losing myself there for a minute, you know, and I'm thinking, golly, there's. I'm always. People always ask what are you doing? I mean you what you? You had a donkey in your car and like you went, why what's happening? And yeah, and that's kind of where it all kind of came into fruition and so, yeah, just talking about the day in the life of my freaking shit show and. But it's been fun having people like yourself on here and getting to introduce everybody and show. I mean, there's so much that that people don't know and you're a pretty cool dude.
Speaker 2:I have my moments on occasion.
Speaker 1:I don't. Yeah, you damn right, I do. We have, just like Nick says we. What do you think? What'd she say? What do you mean? Why did we build a porch? To tell everybody your bullshit? I don't, I don't know, it's the funniest freaking thing.
Speaker 1:I can't even think about it right now. It's the very first episode when we can. Me and kel were laughing what why are we here? I don't know why we're here and she just lost her shit. What do you mean? You don't know. Yeah, we just built this whole porch and oh, it's just so cute. I love when she throws temper tantrums. You've seen her throw a couple, but she's so, my little fireball. She's so cute, she is, she's so cute, she's so good for me. Yeah, where were we all going? Somewhere, wasn't she like in Dallas or something? And oh, weren't we? That was when we were all at the show. Yes, because she wasn't there. We were all in the show at Gonzales and we were. It was. Josh was there. You're not playing for Josh and Shane Smith and the Saints were there.
Speaker 2:That was the time we read Clay Strays.
Speaker 1:We were whatever. Blah, blah, blah. I handed you my phone, I was doing something, and I said send a text or whatever. And you said when is Nick coming home?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah I remember I was like this is not what I do and I was like, well, can you just help me? I don't even know why I couldn't do it or what my problem was or what. Oh, I was braiding my hair or some shit. That's when I had my. Yeah, y'all know, my hair has always got something. I'm giving it a break. By the way, if y'all are wondering what the hell is going on, I'm just giving it a little break because it's it's tired and it's hot. It's 197 000 degrees outside, but um, yeah, it was so funny because you looked at me.
Speaker 1:You're like wait what y'all was not a good feeling yeah, yeah, yeah that is definitely her wheelhouse, not so much mine it was hilarious, it was very funny, but yeah, but um, oh, you know what we forgot to do. We got to do the word of the day. All right, this, okay. So the word of the day is thugby, thugby. Okay, so it's a game played by wannabe thugs without a ball per. And here's a perfect example when you boop them upside the head unexpectedly, and so if you, you know you're with Kel and the whole crew, I mean you're in and out of our all the time. So you know what a boop is. I mean boop can be anything you want it to be. You can boop your nose, you can boop the shit out of somebody.
Speaker 1:That is when you play thug beat. That's exactly what that is when you just walk by and just smack the shit, little top spin in there yeah, yeah, when you think you're a thug but you're really not, but you just yeah, that's called thugby.
Speaker 1:So there you go, I like it yeah yeah, so when I'm at the resort and you don't wonder why I'm in the middle of you were there that night. There was a whole group of everybody there when we had who was playing that night anyways at the resort doesn't matter. But um, we'd turn around and there's 30 people in a freaking brawl and I'd jump right in the middle of them with the biggest guy, the biggest dude.
Speaker 1:I mean this guy literally was like could give the schwarzenegger, he could have given the Schwarzenegger, he could have given him a good run for his money. This dude was six foot something and just ripped and I kicked him and you backed him down. I did Well. Then one of my guys was on the other side of me. He was like you punched me and I was like, well then, don't get in my way.
Speaker 2:You know I'm going to knock the shit out of somebody. I saw it happen too, yeah, so that's exactly what I was doing.
Speaker 1:I was playing a nice solid game of Thugby and I won and I did. You did, I did, I did. I set that. Yes, I did. I don't you know hand, but now it's like I just I'm, I know.
Speaker 2:I think you went full on, mom.
Speaker 1:That's you know who else tells me that is Jake, all the time you went full on mom and he backed down. He did, I know yes.
Speaker 2:He was just a big old mama's boy.
Speaker 1:Big old mama's boy, yeah, and I mean, and his wife was there.
Speaker 2:I was, yeah, and I mean, and his wife was there and I was thinking I was gonna have to run him over with your jenny nah, I got this, I got this and you freaking crager.
Speaker 1:And they were. They're the same story all the time. Jerry tells the story all the time. He's like do you remember that one time I saved you and I was like, uh, no, no, first of all, no and no, you did not. And that's adorable that you think so. But he was like, oh, I walked out of the bathroom and I told this guy no, and I was like that is so helpful. I was like, no, you didn't, whatever. Yeah, just like I said I love you and you're cute, but yeah, but yeah. So that was, um, but that's a good game with thugby thugby, I'm gonna use that.
Speaker 2:I know you. I'm going to find a spot to use that.
Speaker 1:I can't wait. I just can't wait to hear the backstory. So what did you do last weekend? Well, I had a nice solid game of Thugby, about from 5 to 7, on a Saturday afternoon. What did you do? Well, you never know, were you at HEB.
Speaker 2:Where were?
Speaker 1:you could, you could, this could happen in a walmart parking lot.
Speaker 2:If I could play thugby going down 35 I would. That would be a whole different kind of game. That is real talk right there.
Speaker 1:That's when the helicopters come out where they're exactly with the cameras and they're, yeah, filming a nice game of thugby on i-35. Yeah, that is that. That that's a real situation. That could be a real situation. You would need some solid referees, probably for that game and a good attorney probably. I got a couple, yeah I know who to call.
Speaker 1:You want me to text them to you? I can share y'all share their contact with you. Yeah, well, this has been fun, did you really? Did you think that you were ever going to be sitting right there in that chair when you were helping me build this porch? No, no, you did not if you were going to say. Yes, I was about to call you out.
Speaker 2:No, I did not.
Speaker 1:Brooks, I've told you we cannot lie on the porch. You have to tell the truth, you have to be honest. Yes, no, I know you didn't. Even when Nick was on the porch, she was like I'm not doing that. I was like like, yes, you are, and everybody needs to know who nick is. I talk about you all the time.
Speaker 2:yes, you know I've played, been blessed to play some I was hoping you were going to tell this. I was hoping you were going to tell this side of the deal I was, uh, more anxious about doing this than to walk on stage in front of 10,000 people and sit down behind a drum kit, because I had something to hide behind.
Speaker 1:Right, and you know that is, and real quick, because we're, we're, we're, we're going to wrap it up. But in the music scene and in the music world and I've been fortunate enough to to meet a lot of them, Um, and I hope that I I continue to get to do that because I enjoy it and I love meeting new people and asking questions and their vibe and what made them get to that part. But it's very interesting to me how many musicians positions put on a mask. You will maybe not even hear two words out of them, and then Brady Black is one of them is scared to death and it is different.
Speaker 1:Even when me and Kel we were talking about this, her and I have been sitting on a porch talking shit, for I cannot tell you how freaking long. I mean, that's where this, this came about and and with her being with me all the time and people going who, what and why and why do you have this and what are you doing? And and here we are. But yeah it, it was very nerve-wracking for me right out of the gate to come in here because you, I mean it's just like it's a, it's different when you've got a microphone in your face and and you want me to what? And there's a why is there a camera looking at me? But yeah, for you guys that are, y'all are in the limelight. I mean, you've been doing this your whole entire life. And then to say I want you to come sit down and we're going to talk about things. It's like your tucker's up and you're like wait, what? Because what do you mean? You're exposed. Yeah, there's nothing to hide behind.
Speaker 2:You can't run, you can't get out of here, you can't hide you can't, yeah, and I can't speak for every musician, but for me it was very much like playing a character. I mean that I, I got to not be me, I got to be that guy that went up there. Right, I had a very larger than life kind of persona.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That I stepped into when I stepped on stage.
Speaker 1:When you step on stage.
Speaker 2:yeah, Because of the drummers that I idolized, looked up to kind of built myself after you know, yeah, I wanted that. Right and that's what I wanted to show. I know how much I enjoyed and the feeling that it gave me to watch those people play.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:And I wanted to give that same thing back from that position.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:So I think that's why a lot of times they're like I don't know, you look so angry yeah, and then you're so reserved when you're off stage, yeah, why are you so mad, right? You're so laid back. Yeah, I took it all out up there, yeah yeah, it is.
Speaker 1:That's really that is. That's a very interesting point and it is, and I, like I said, I've been fortunate enough to see both sides.
Speaker 2:Both sides of the coin.
Speaker 1:Both sides of it yeah, with you and others, and yeah it is. I don't remember which show it was, but there was one where I really paid attention, more so than others, and I really watched. I was really paying attention more so than others and I really watch. I was like really paying attention to your facial expressions. I was like the health, why is he so pissed Like? It was really like it was very evident, and that one that I don't know if it was the light angle or what it was, but yeah, so I've seen that. But he's one of those that watching him on stage and in the different areas and different venues, and his eyebrows and the things that he does, it's just oh, yeah, you know I couldn't do that if I tried, I mean, but it is kind of interesting even though you know, as, as the drummer in the band, you you didn't write the songs, but those songs make you feel something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, or at least they made me feel something.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So a lot of times the expression, the intent that was on my face was what that song was bringing about in me, the emotional side of that song for me, right and I guess it had to come out physically, yeah, in my, in my expression as well for me kind of get that as a fan too you know, I think as a fan it's the same way.
Speaker 1:Music I mean. You know how me and kelly, our music changes your vibe.
Speaker 2:I mean it's a whole vibe.
Speaker 1:But it can be that way in so many other things I think a vibe can um, it's what you have on. It makes you feel, makes you feel better about yourself or more confident. Or you know, if I'm gonna run around in my pajamas all day, I'm gonna feel frumpy and just be like you know what, fuck it, I ain't doing nothing. But if I get up, make my bed, put on a nice outfit or whatever, let's go. Yeah, you feel good about it. Yeah, you do feel it. It is a vibe.
Speaker 2:It is a part of the performance.
Speaker 1:It is Selling the product, yeah.
Speaker 2:If you will.
Speaker 1:And the product? Yeah, if you will, and sometimes that product is you, sometimes you can, you can you got to think about that y'all and you know something, something I want to say before we're done.
Speaker 2:Done is um good fest last week. So I believe the the first experience that I had with anything like that was helping out. I think it was called operation airdrop, could be as it was a long time ago. I don't remember Um, but it was. I mean, uh, it was nice to be able to give back to go help out with a silent auction.
Speaker 1:Yes. Whereas when I was there, I was so grateful when I was there at.
Speaker 2:Operation Airdrop I was, you know. Move this over here. We need chairs here. Move this table over here, Right and being on the road with the band and not always being able to make those kind of functions, and it being so long since I'd been to one. As much as this town has changed since I first moved here, oh God, 17 years ago. Yeah, it's nice to see that the community still comes out to give back.
Speaker 1:Yeah. When it's time to do that. We're very, very blessed.
Speaker 2:And also you know it's different coming from a non-musician side of it. You know I'm not in a position where that's the way I'm giving to it, but to have the opportunity to be there and help you and Nick out and kind of help arrange and set up and get through. The silent auction thing was a blessing to me. It was great to be able to help out Keen. I spent some time visiting with his granddad that was there they're from Aveline. He was completely floored.
Speaker 1:The mom and the dad came up in tears, we all cried.
Speaker 1:The little boy. You saw the whole thing and it was just, um, I don't, I have no words. I have no words. We will come together and we're going to make it happen one way or another. Corey and I have had such a blast doing the previous Good Fest and I'm just so grateful that he has allowed me to be such a big part of it. And you know me, I like to just jump in and help and do, and our family is the same way, everybody. It's just. It's so good to see our, our music family, our community family, our immediate family.
Speaker 1:Yeah and help and I just know that if I was ever in that situation that I I would hope that there was somebody that could, and that's what Corey and I we talk about it all the time. I wish that. You know, just, it's just those good, those, like Kelsey says, the smile makers club Yep, it's a small club and I was, I was very, very, very and beyond grateful to do what we did and very grateful for everybody that was involved. And when the parents just came up and oh, my goodness, it's like that's just the least that we can do, you know, I just I can't imagine just forever grateful and his little tears and him asking why are they even helping me when there's other people that need help?
Speaker 1:It's just like, look at this child you know God, you guys have done such an amazing job and he's just so grateful. And. But, yeah, such a beautiful family, yeah, and and we're going to keep celebrating that kid the minute he kicks it and um, he had a really rough day yesterday. Today's a little better day. We haven't gotten our complete totals, you guys, yet, but as of today, we still have more coming. We are not shutting the income portion of it down. We still have the QR code.
Speaker 1:The link is in my bio, it's in Corey's bio as well, it's on the Rainbow and Gypsy podcast and we'll share it personally again, but we are keeping it open until Friday. And as of today, a few hours ago, we're right at $45,000 that we raised for Keen Amazing. So we talked first thing this morning. There goes my leg hairs again. We talked first thing this morning and we wanted to give them a um, a nice boost of confidence, because our boy had a. He had a rough day at chemo yesterday, so we wanted to put a big smile on his face to let him know that we are here and we're going to help him. We're going to, we are not going to quit fighting and and we're going to do it all together for him, so thank you for being a part of it. It was really. It was a great day.
Speaker 1:It was a really good day, just when you think you can't do anymore and you're exhausted and you can't. And then you you think are you, how fucking selfish am I being right now this child is just doing, you know, and what an inspiration and and um, yeah, we're gonna. We've got some big things that kids can move in mountains every day and can. We can all learn so much from him and so really good thing absolutely I love you very much and I'm so glad that you're on my porch I'm glad you're such a good, good thing.
Speaker 1:You helped me build the porch. Now I got you on the other side on the porch I know, got to introduce everybody to you y'all. This is brooks robinson. Play a good game with thugby out there. Give somebody a boop take videos when you do it please do and share them, send them to me so we can just show. I mean, we, we might start a little merch outfit, I don't know, maybe some some nice, uh, nice good game of thug be, I mean with me can we get thug be jerseys?
Speaker 1:I. You know what I mean. You gotta have uniforms. Hey, we sponsored, uh, gage's softball team and gage's got I don't know who did his jerseys. Aubrey saw them Because, you know, aubrey plays softball with Gage and Gage made some. We're getting thugby jerseys. That's all I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, stay tuned. Ramblin' Gypsy podcast. Hey, we had a great time. Thanks for coming. Love you guys. I'll see you next time. Hey guys, it's Tiffany Foy from the Ramblin' Gypsy podcast.
Speaker 1:I just wanted to jump in and give you guys a little update on where we're at. Told you that we were going to be making a little bit of changes. We've got some new spots where we're going to be doing some filming. We've got some great guests that are coming up. Wanted to let you know, mark your Mark, your calendars. You know that we take our calendars very, very serious. That is a deal. You've heard it Me and Kel talk about it all the time. We are going to be back on the 19th of September, big strong. We've got some live podcasts that are coming up. We have a lot of fun stuff. We will be hitting the road in 2025. I cannot wait to hang on the porch with you guys. You also are going to get some new spots, new little things that we've been working on. Can't wait to share them all with you. Thanks for stopping in and I'll see you soon.