He Quit Counseling to Build a Tailgate Empire | Lee Thomas, Tailgate Party Committee

Most people bring a cooler and some chairs. Lee brings inflatable houses, giant LED TVs, custom games, and Super Bowl ticket giveaways. The founder of the Tailgate Party Committee spent years as a high school counselor before deciding the parking lot was calling — and he answered by building one of the most over-the-top tailgating operations in the country.

Lee joins Luke to walk through how a counselor's instinct for reading people and defusing conflict turned out to be the exact skill set a traveling nationwide tailgate empire needed. From coast to coast, in snow and heat, at NFL and college stadiums, Lee has turned the pregame into the main event.

What we cover: From high school counselor to nationwide tailgate operator — the full origin story · Inflatable houses, giant LED TVs, and custom games at every stop · The High Five and Fist Pump cam that gets entire stadiums involved · Super Bowl ticket giveaways and how the logistics actually work · Why local food and culture are non-negotiable at every city · How a counseling background helps keep the peace at 500-person tailgates · What's next for the Tailgate Party Committee

Follow Lee → @TailgatePartyCommittee on all socials 

Find tailgate events near you → tailgateconnect.com

Transcript

Luke 0:00

Welcome back to the Tailgate Connect podcast. I'm your host, Luke Loric with Tailgating Challenge. I love all things tailgating, and if you're here, you probably do too. In today's episode, we chat with Lee with the Tailgate Party Committee. We learn how he turned his counseling profession into a profitable tailgate venture where he tours the country and hosts amazing fans in very unique ways with giving away products, inflatable houses, giant LED TVs, and even custom games that he does specifically at his tailgates. You have to listen to see exactly how he does his tailgate parties. Anytime we get to talk tailgating, we're doing pretty dang good.

SPEAKER_03 1:23

Definitely.

Luke 1:24

So Lee, the first thing I want to open us up with, because I mean I know a little bit about you and what you've been doing with Tailgate Party Committee, but we want to share that with our uh followers and fans today. So tell us, like, how did you get passionate about tailgating in general? Where does the love come from?

SPEAKER_03 1:44

Well, the love came from uh just the love of the sport, for one, you know, football, who doesn't love football? You know what I mean? So uh long story short, I was living in South Florida, uh, Fort Lauderdale to be exact, and they don't really do too much tailgating as we do in the traditional South. You know what I mean? As far as, you know, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina area, you know. So um, you know, I'm asking the locals like every weekend, like you guys are tailgate this weekend? They're like, nah, man, we have South Beach in our backyard. So I'm like, okay, touche. Okay, all right, that's cool. So I promised myself when I moved back to Atlanta, I was gonna go tailgate every game. Like every Falcon game, every SCC game, every whatever came through Atlanta um market. And just so happens that same year, I call it a blessing and I call it luck at the same time. And people say, how is it a blessing in luck? I say, well, I moved back to Atlanta the same year the Falcons went to the Super Bowl. The whole 20 to 3, long story short about that. But that same year, uh I was starting out tailgating, and um I was just telling people, like, just bring something, like a pot look, just bring something, bring something. I'm tailgating, I have the music, I have the coolers and all that kind of stuff. And then as we started to win through the season, it started getting bigger and bigger. So I was like, you know what? I could probably turn this into a profit, you know, just bring like 20 bucks and I'll do everything. So by the NMC championship, you know, it turned into without a stratosphere, it's with crazy. So, long story short, again, I end up going home counting like 30 grand from tailgating.

unknown 3:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 3:14

Just by saying, hey, I'll do it. You guys don't have to bring anything. It's so convenient for you just to show up, you know, pay your couple of dollars or whatever. And I had over like three or four hundred people at this one tailgate. You know, of course, we know the end result we had with the Falcons that year. But the very next year, we get to Ben Stadium.

unknown 3:31

Right.

SPEAKER_03 3:32

First game is Alabama, Florida State. End of the year, Georgia and Bam in the national championship, which was the first time ever two conference teams played in a national championship. So all this was going on, I'm like, you know what, let me figure out how I can capitalize off this on a major level. Obviously, I had the name already. So I was like, okay, what's next? Next year, Super Bowl's in Miami, then it goes to Tampa. So that whole little trifector as far as the Southeast region, and then the national championship fought the same little wave, right? I was like, you know what? I can probably capitalize off of this just by doing tailgating in my area for one. And I started to venture off when my team started to lose because people wasn't showing up anymore, you know. So, you know how they go, fair weather fans. Um I just down the road with it, man. I went on the road and traveled to Dallas at one point. Uh, that was the first I've ever been. They showed me so much love out in Texas. You know, everything's big in Texas, but they'd never seen my setup before. So at the at that time, I was known for uh the huge inflatable house or building I had at first. It was a huge white inflatable building. I purchased uh, it wasn't Tebu, I think it was like Alibaba or something. And um, nobody's ever seen this inflatable structure before. So it was kind of like one of those attractions when you see it in the parking lot, like, what is that? Who are they? So that brought a lot of attention. Come to find out that inflatable wasn't wind-rated right. And I bought it in China, it wasn't wind rated right. So any little gust of wind, any little drop of rain, it would just, you know, start, yeah, one of those guys. So I ended up purchasing um an inflatable house from a local uh rental company, and the owner was like, You the only one that rent these damn things. It looks like a bouncy house for kids, but it's not. It's totally like ground on the bottles, no bouncy. Anywho, I use it as my bar structure, and I just built around it. And I put TVs in front of it. The inside you walk inside the inflatable house, it's barred and all that kind of stuff, and the TV set up front, DJ booths to the side. So that brought a lot of attention as well. I got on the road with it, traveled all over the country. I pretty much did every Super Bowl you can think of except for California. Have it been to San Fran or LA. So I've done Phoenix, I've done Vegas, Miami, Tampa, New Orleans, obviously Atlanta. So I've been all over the globe a little bit, you know, the state of the country a little bit, um, just hosting tailgate parties, and end up eventually linking up with a bunch of fan club members. That's what pretty much skyrocket my business, meeting up with different fan clubs. You know, they say America's team, the Cowboys, but are they still America's team? I gotta interrupt you right there. I know they're as far as the fan base goes, man, they're everywhere. They're like cockroaches. They're everywhere, man. I mean, I've been on cruises. I've been, I've been out of the country. Uh Cowboy fan there. I'm like, what are you doing here? We're in America's team, we're everywhere. So uh they show up in the hurries. They're pretty good, cool group of people. I mean, outside of them losing every game. But uh Wow. They show up pretty, pretty big. So far as my my following on NFL standpoint, I would have to give it to those guys. Um, have we give it to the 49ers crew, my Ravens crew, my Bills, my field, they're crazy, crazy. Um sad is my Lenno Falcons is my weakest fan base, believe it or not, outside of, you know, what I do. And then, of course, with college, you know, uh, Georgia, Bama, uh, that's pretty much it. You know, I inherit a couple teams that came through, you know, as far as the Peach Bowl's concerned, um, Indiana, um, Oregon, they're pretty, pretty cool. But um other than that, um, that's pretty much where I stand as far as my tailgate business goes. And I just I just take a page out of every kind of book you can think of, from the nightlife to the hotel hospitality to the entertainment and uh obviously the sports world. I pretty much combine that into one and just create what you have as Tailgate Party Committee. And then I reach out to different vendors, different sponsors. Um, Monster Beast is one of our sponsors. We have Micelobe. Um I have a couple little little uh brand sponsors. They're pretty, pretty good with us. Um I don't know if you heard of Big Sip. Big Sip is kind of like um Buzzball. Oh yeah. Yeah, so they're one of our sponsors. So we have a pretty decent lineup far as you know the tailgate beverages go. Um, I'm going on 10 years next year, and ironically, the 10th year that I'm, you know, celebrating my business, the Super Bowl's back in Atlanta, 2028.

unknown 7:50

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 7:50

2027 season, but 2028 of the year. So it's going full circle for me, man. So I'm pretty thankful and blessed on what I got going on, you know. Haven't had any mis uh hiccups uh other than obviously COVID. But um what's so ironic about COVID is people were saying, you know, the phrase, we outside. Right? We've been outside. We've been like six feet distancing at that time. So COVID kind of uh was it was a we know, it is what it was. You know, COVID was what it was, but uh it was it kind of saved my business a little bit because you couldn't go into the stadiums at the time, you know, due to capacity and stuff like that. Uh so and then that year that Tom Brady won the national, won the Super Bowl in Tampa Bay, you know, the first team to host the Super Bowl and win one, I did that Super Bowl as well. That was like like pre-COVID or kind of like around that time. So I've been around the block a little bit, you know, for the past 10 years, um, doing uh pretty outstanding tailgates. You know, like I said, Georgia won the national championship, beating Alabama that year. Over 30 years of trying. So I experienced that tailgate. Uh, like I mentioned in Vegas, I was uh, you know, tailgate not there. Vegas first time having a Super Bowl, so I experienced that one. So when it comes to firsts, I've been around for a little while to experience first, you know what I mean? So now I'm just ready to get with the big boys now and you know, get with you guys and figure out how I can take it to another level.

Luke 9:12

Man, it sounds like you're already doing some pretty amazing things. Uh you like the next question I have, uh, you alluded to some of this, but I always like to ask, like, what do you believe makes your tailgate amazing? What makes it special and unique? You mentioned like the inflatable house, but is there other things that if someone comes to visit your tailgate and gets a ticket through tailgateconnect.com that they could experience or look forward to?

SPEAKER_03 9:38

I think it's just the authenticity, man. I mean, it's like it's like a family union of fans, you know, even if I never met you before. It's always that one lone cousin you never saw before. You know, so it's kind of like that vibe that we give out. Um, everybody's welcome. You know, I control the music, so we're playing everything from Luke Brown to Lil John, you know, so everybody gets a chance to hear whatever they like to hear. Um, I have a wonderful DJ, DJ E Rock. I mean, he's the voice of what I do. He's a big old black dude from South Florida, so he's twerking and stuff. So you can imagine a big old black dude, he's like a big teddy bear. And he's out there dancing and twerking. He has this radio voice, man. It's incredible. So with him in the mix, and then um, like I say, involving just everybody's culture, I think that's what makes us who we are. Um, alongside the game is gonna be the game. You know, we can't control the game well, you know, they're saying uh we won the party, you guys about to win the game, we won the party. So that's pretty much us. We win the party everywhere we go. You know, I tell people all the time that set that set up in our in our different little lots. I say, hey man, we're uh we're tailgating over here. We got a big, big uh group coming. You might want to shut yours down and join us. Of course, they're gonna say, oh no, we're good, man. You know, we just got a private little group until we bring out the huge LED screen video all and the sounds turned up. And then like, you didn't tell us you had an inflatable house. So that so that brings them over, like, well, we're gonna join you guys then. You guys got it going on, man. So it's pretty much word of mouth. That's really how it really started. I mean, like I say, with the games, the high-profile games helped me out. And then uh traveling on the road, um, just reaching out different fan bases, not just being biased and sticking with my Georgia or the Falcons. Um, even though my colors are black and white. So I'm pretty much like the referee of tailgating. You know what I mean? Our colors are pretty much black and white, man. So I cater to everything, everything there is.

Luke 11:24

Yeah, no, I mean, that leads right into the next question, where it's like, you know, sometimes people are thinking that they want to come to a tailgate. Maybe they're traveling in for a game and don't want to bring all their gear and they're looking for that easy button tailgate solution, but they're like, oh my gosh, like this is a rivalry game. We're the opposite fans. How are we going to be treated if we go to your tailgate? If they're the opposite, maybe we're in the opposite colors of what most of your tailgate is, if that makes sense.

SPEAKER_03 11:49

Well, uh Peach Bowl was uh this year, what was it, Indy and uh I want to say Oregon, right? In the Peach Bowl, going to the natty.

SPEAKER_02 11:57

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 11:58

I tell all the fans, I said, hey, whichever fan base comes out the biggest, the strongest, they win the music. They win the tailgate. So I gotta really cater to that following. You know, of course, like I said, we're not too biased, so we don't try to lean on them too hard when they're getting whooped on the scoreboard, you know, because our DJ can't, you know, we're they're they're losing by 20 or whatever, whatever. So we kind of be a little modest with that, not you know, put too much salt on the wound. But um, if your fan base shows up, you know, in the hurryers, man, we gotta cater to whatever the you know the public wants. You know, the public wants the ducks, or they want the the hoosiers or whatever, we gotta cater to those guys. So that's pretty much how our tailgates go. If it's neutral, then you know, it's it's definitely a uh house divided, so which is also fun. Because it's not, it's not always fun just having one dominant fan base because if that fan base is lose, then it's it's like crickets. You know, it's like, oh man, we're losing, and other teams winning, and nobody's here to really celebrate the other side. So I like to kind of keep it neutral always, or at least half and half, you know.

Luke 12:55

Sure. So uh am I hearing correctly? Like, because there's a lot of tailgates they shut down like before the game starts. Does yours continue like through the game, people can sit there and watch the game while they keep on tailgating?

SPEAKER_03 13:08

So when I started this business, I didn't know nothing about it. It was kind of one of those little taboo things. At first, when I Googled tailgate parties, and then the business side of it, it was kind of frowned upon to charge somebody coming to a tailgate. It's pretty much like, hey, you got your truck, got your cooler, let's bring it together. But, you know, business strikes, you gotta put your business hat on sometimes and kind of say, hey, we're we're we're selling experience. We sell conveniency. You know what I mean? So to answer your question, it's kind of like let us let us do this stuff for you without having to, you know, you do it yourself. We're convenient. We're convenient, we sell, we sell experience. Um, if you guys decide that you want to bring your own beverages or whatever, that's fine with us too. We're not we're not against that. So what sets us aside from other tailgates is like I said before, we sell the experience. We start three hours before kickoff as far as our all-inclusive. And then obviously the game is on. We do a whole little halftime little shindigs with our uh with our DJ. We do different things for us, customer engagements, we've giving away stuff, raffling off things, all kinds of stuff is going on during commercial break and during halftime. After the game, you gotta think, do I want to be stuck in traffic for two hours? Or let the or let the party keep going for at least a good hour, an hour and a half, and just whoever wins the, you know, who've won the tailgate, they wins, they win the game at the same time. Let's just, you know, put it all together, you know, keep it keep it going for a good hour and a half after the game. So that's normally where our tailgate separates from everybody else. You know, this they call it the watch party. I don't. I call it the tailgate party because we're doing everything there is as far as tailgating. And um, the game's just on TV. You know, obviously we can't charge you to watch something that's free on television. Right. You know, so we pretty much don't even add in the watch party stuff. We just say it's a tailgate party. The duration of our time is from if it's a one o'clock game, it's from nine to five or four or whatever. You know what I mean? If it's like, you know, if it's a late game, then you know, the time to adjust. So that's the difference between us and everybody else.

Luke 15:10

Now, I I mean, I personally love that because it's like, I'll be honest, I've been that guy where it's like, oh man, like I'm traveling, I just love the tailgate environment. And maybe I don't care as much about what happens in the game, but I still kind of want to watch it, but I don't want to spend like 500 bucks to go into the game or something like that. And so being able to send it to tailgate still with good people is amazing.

SPEAKER_03 15:31

I know some people love to hear the commentators on TV. We actually show and you can hear the game, you know. Of course, like I said, we took a little bit of from everybody's industry, entertainment, the music, the club, the nightlife, all this kind of stuff in and merged it with us. So once commercial comes on, we're already kind of doing stuff. Kind of like if you're at the game, you don't know what's going on on TV. Obviously, there's like 20 commercial ads running on TV. Right. We're kind of equivalent to that. During commercial, we're doing all these different giveaways. We might have your company on the screen that we have on an LED wall showing different whatever, whatever it is, ads or whatever, and getting everybody involved. Kind of like the whole Kiss Cam. We do the Kiss Cam, we do a uh who's who, where you're from, who traveled the furthest, all this kind of stuff. Getting everybody excited, even though your team might lose, you might still go home with the prize. You know what I mean? So that's what we pretty much did.

Luke 16:21

All right, I got it. A Kiss Cam at a tailgate is something I've never heard of before. Have you had a moment where you've done the kiss cam and it was an awkward moment for the people involved because maybe like, ugh, one of those type deals?

SPEAKER_03 16:36

Ours is not the kiss cam. I forgot what we call it. It's it's something kind of like a kiss cam. It's more like a like a high five cam. It's something like that. Um it's something like that. But it's had awkward moments where it's like uh give give a high five or some nap to the to the person next to you or whatever. It might be like, for us, we hate the Saints. The Falcons hate the Saints. So if you're next to an AIDS fan and it's like give an AI fan a hug, it's like, hell no. No, we're good on that. We're not doing that. Give you a fist pump or something, a pound, but I'm not giving you a hug. So it's been awkward moments like that. Um, yeah, yeah, yeah. We have a lot going on, man. We we try to incorporate a lot of different stuff to make it fun. Like I said, like I said, we're still experienced. So we just try to figure it out as we go, and then the next event might be different from the last, depends on who we play. You know, if you're playing a East Coast team, let's just say Baltimore, uh, we kind of cater to their, their, uh, what they like. They like uh crab cakes and stuff like that. Yeah. Kind of cater to them. We're dealing with a team, a team out west, let's just say a Raiders group. Uh obviously uh they like Dacos and stuff like that out west, you know, burritos and whatever else they like. And then, of course, in the South, we love our barbecue and our briskets and all that good stuff. So we do all that as well to, like I said, cater to our different crowd, fan bases, and make everybody feel welcome in their home, even if it's down to the local craft beers or whatever they drink up north and IPAs or whatever. We try to balance it out, make sure everybody's getting what they like, what they paid for.

Luke 18:01

Nice. What would you say, in your opinion, what's the coolest giveaway you've ever done to the tailgate?

SPEAKER_03 18:06

Ooh, so we personally didn't give it away, but one of our sponsors, my first big sponsor, was a um a realistic company called Meritage Homes. Okay. Um, they gave away Super Bowl tickets. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we had 400 uh employees that came to Rodelgate. They had their own section. We had the general public. And then um it was like, hey, we're giving away tickets to the Super Bowl. Um I forgot how they raffled it off. I want to say it was to everybody or maybe to their employees, but they gave away two Super Bowl tickets. I'm gonna say two or four. Yeah, that was probably the biggest. But as far as us, uh, we're giving away a TV. Pretty nice size little 55-inch TV, you know. One of those uh Black Friday deals, you know, you get one early in the morning for like 50 bucks and you give it away, you know. So done some things. I I've been trying to do a cruise after every Super Bowl to kind of like give back to like our biggest follower. It hasn't worked out in my favor because when I tried to do it, that's when COVID hit. Oh yeah. And I try to do it again. That's when some kind of virus hit on the cruise. I was like, everybody tried to give away something, obviously, something ain't happening. So maybe I gotta come up with another plan.

Luke 19:22

Hey, you can't go wrong with the T it can't go wrong with Super Bowl tickets. Go ahead and do it.

SPEAKER_03 19:27

What's so crazy is I've probably been to maybe out of what, 30? Well, I think 32 was about 20 something, 28 teams, 28 uh um stadiums or whatever. I might have been to half of them and only been inside maybe two of the stadiums. I'm always outside, you know.

Luke 19:48

Trust me, I totally, I fully get it. Because again, I'm all about that tail. If I'm traveling, I want to do everything as much as I can with tailgating and the culture and meeting people and experiencing everything. And if I don't make it into the game, I don't make it into the game.

SPEAKER_03 20:00

Never never been inside. I'm like, man, here's the here's the stadium in Vegas. Uh I'm like, yep, won't get a chance to go on there. Go down to the super, Super Bowl, uh, Superdome in New Orleans, never been inside there. Go to Dallas, ATT, never been inside Jerry's world. Go up to Indiana to, you know, Indianapolis, never been inside there. So I'm like, man, well, I'm at work anyway, so.

Luke 20:21

I mean, if you can uh have tailgating as your professional career, there's a lot worse places you can be spitting your time.

SPEAKER_03 20:27

Yeah, I mean it's pros and cons with this being like my full-time gig. Well, people don't know. Um, I was a high school counselor. I was a high school counselor, man, and um I created this business at my desk. Like I said, moving back from Florida to Atlanta, I'm working on like, how can I make the tailgate company what it was? I had a whole little portfolio of just stuff created that I think about how can I make it better, how can I do this and do that in the third. And uh, like I said, it was a blessing and it was luck. When the team started winning, people were showing up. I look at my paycheck, look at my tailgate check, I'm like, yeah, I think I'm gonna make this a full-time gig, even though it's seasonal. But, you know, if you balance out your your paychecks every now and then, you figure it out, you know, uh, you can you can make it work, you know.

Luke 21:11

Now, have you ever had to use your counselor past at a tailgate event to help anyone?

SPEAKER_03 21:19

Definitely, definitely. Um, you know what? I'm not gonna woo it. I've I've probably hosted probably, ooh, maybe over a couple hundred tailgates, and I haven't had not one altercation.

SPEAKER_02 21:32

Beautiful.

SPEAKER_03 21:34

And I've got a lot of people drunk. You know. But the thing about it, like I say, I I I've took a I've been in hospitality for a long time as well. Worked at the hotels and stuff, so I know how to, you know, look at people and and kind of like, you know, read them a little bit, the body language. And then we have security officers that, you know, that's off duty police officers. We have um nurses on our team. So, you know, when it comes to liquid. IVs and stuff like that, we're really prepared to deal with any kind of situation at our tailgates. You know, if a person is dehydrated, if they're too intoxicated, or if they're bored, you know, we got the fun patrol too. So, you know, we got pretty much.

Luke 22:13

The fun patrol down here. The fun patrol, yeah. What does the fund patrol do? Like what's their what's their role or what have they had to do in the past? I I call them game day bay.

SPEAKER_03 22:22

Okay. Game day bay is some pretty, pretty uh eye candy that walks around and see if you want you a shot or not. You want you a shot. You look a little blue parched. Do you want a little shot, you know, the little jello shot or something like that, you know? That's the that's the fun patrol, you know. Men and women, it's not just not just women that comes around. It's men too, you know. They're the fun patrol. So, you know. If you don't drink, we have other things that'll get you to the point where you can have a good time, you know. Even if it's getting up and just doing a good little dance a year or two, you know? So, you know, we want to make sure everybody's having a good time. From old to young, you know. And our older crowd is probably the the funnest crowd. So the younger people, they're too, they're too, you know, they're they're like this all the time. You know, young crowds. Yeah. So the old crowd, they're like, hey, that's not jam. I haven't heard that since I was in high school. I'm like, yeah, we got everything, every genre of music you can think of. We're gonna make sure you hear your favorite song. I guarantee you that.

Luke 23:14

So um, speaking of which, like, is this a family-friendly environment, like for younger kids, or would you say younger kids should not come?

SPEAKER_03 23:23

I advise people. I've been times where people email and say, hey, I got a six-month-year-old. I'm like, first of all, why? A six-month-year-old, but you know, no judging here. My son went to the Braves game before, and he he was pretty mad as hell when it was the sun was beaming on his head. He was like six months years old and it was hot. It was my first Father's Day game. I went to the Braves game, season opener or whatever, and um, it was it was excruciating hot. So I can understand bringing your kid and not bringing your kid. But uh with the loud music and then just people uh, you know, mixing alcohol with fun, it can get a little rowdy, not rowdy to the point where you gotta protect yourself, but just route just people having a good time. You know, I don't want nobody to spill a beard on your child. Hey, you know, from doing the That would be a party file. Yeah. You know, but I advised them all the time. I said, kids are welcome, uh, but be mindful that you must, you know, watch your child. We don't have babysitters that don't have daycare. You know what I mean? Speaking of daycare, I thought about that too. I was like, I should have a uh an area where we can do like a little daycare tailgate for people that have kids this age, that age.

Luke 24:28

The kids tailgated section over there.

SPEAKER_03 24:29

Yeah, kind of like when you go on a cruise and they have the uh the little camp ocean or whatever. Oh, yeah. You got a little section, you drop your kids off, and then adults go to the pool and to, you know, to adult spa. I thought about that too, but the liability of that, I'm like, nah, I don't, that's too much to worry about, you know, kids in the kids' area. But it is it is kid friendly. I do advise some of the parents. I said a couple songs might have some explicit lyrics, some of them, but 90% of them are all clean. You know, it just some songs are just, I just can't play the clean version. It doesn't come out right, you know. So I advise them, and they know. It's like, well, we cussed before too, so but for the most part, it's it's just pretty uh radio versions, you know, of all our music and content, you know.

Luke 25:12

All right, what's one song that should never be edited?

SPEAKER_03 25:17

I think back that ass up. I I mean you can't edit that song, man. If you can find a good clean version in Touchet, that's good, I salute you, but that's one song that you can't edit out. Um it's it's hard to edit out a lot of little John stuff, man. It gotta get people in the mood. Um and then some of my some of my classic rock songs, they don't have too much profanity in them. I I highly doubt any of them do, but I won't know it until I hear it.

unknown 25:48

Right.

SPEAKER_03 25:49

And I'm just like, I didn't know he said that anywhere in that song. So that's pretty much it. Other than that, other than that, that's the only song I can I think you can you can't bleep out.

Luke 25:59

Fair enough. Fair enough. All right, so tell me this. So obviously you're a big Falcons fan and a Georgia Bulldog fan. Is that is that fair to say? It's fair to say. Okay. So um, who would you say outside of those fan bases, who do you feel is the most fun fan base that you've had the privilege to tailgate with?

SPEAKER_03 26:19

To be honest, it's always the rival teams because there's so much history. Like, if Georgia playing Bama, that's like the biggest family reunion ever. Right. Even though that big brother is gonna always gonna be, we beat you guys last year. You guys don't have a national championship. You guys haven't been this, haven't did that. So it's always been those teams of Bama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina. I mean, SEC, it's like every weekend it's a rival. You know that. Every weekend it's a rival game. So it's like whoever we're playing as a rival team, that's the best ones. Outside of that, um, I think that the Ravens are pretty fun. Um, shout out to my guy, Brian B-More, around town. Those guys are pretty fun up there, man. They travel everywhere, they do everything from baseball to concerts to hockey to everything. You know, um 49ers, I just I didn't hear the 49ers group last year. Those guys were pretty fun. They had the Texans and the 49ers in Houston last year. They were pretty fun. And they'll be here this year playing Atlanta, so looking forward to that.

Luke 27:22

Um I'm a Niners fan, so bang bang out there. I love it.

SPEAKER_03 27:25

Yeah, yeah, those guys rolled deep, man. So they were pretty fun last year in Texas. Um, so between the 49ers and the Ravens, those were the most funnest ones, but it's some bougie ones out there. Like I said, those cowboys groups are bougie, man. Those guys are predominantly.

Luke 27:42

When you say bougie, I mean, is that like picky up wine and cheese? Or what is bougie?

SPEAKER_03 27:47

It's like it's like they have they're annoying. It's like you say the same stuff every year, right? You're going to the Super Bowl, and then when you don't go, you have an explanation. Well, you know, Jerry's calling the place, you know, well, the quarterback, Doc Prescott, and then they're just blaming everybody in the world for their mistakes. And then next season, it's we're going to the Super Bowl. Well, you have the same staff you had last year. You might have switched out a receiver here and there, but you got the same team. You know, and then, you know, it's just annoying. They're fun, but it's just annoying. I just get tired of hearing them. You know.

Luke 28:24

So, do you feel that the Cowboys will not go to the Super Bowl this year?

SPEAKER_03 28:30

I'm not gonna say that because they pay very well. So gotta watch what I say too. Um, they have the opportunity. I mean, like I said, NFL, I think all 32 teams have the opportunity. I mean, who would have thought that the Bengals would have went one year? The Bengals?

Luke 28:45

Never know.

SPEAKER_03 28:46

You know, never know. Um, so I I I mean, I think everybody knows the the common denominator when it comes to the Cowboys. We know who's the problem. You know? We know who's the problem. So you haven't been to saying she fired my man Jimmy Jones, and then you know. So oh Jimmy Johnson, Jimmy Jones. Uh well yeah, we know who the problem is.

Luke 29:08

Jimmy Johnson was pretty pretty good for him.

SPEAKER_03 29:10

Yeah, yeah. Very good for him. So, you know.

Luke 29:15

All right. Where's uh where's one place you haven't tailgated but you want to?

SPEAKER_03 29:22

Believe it or not, I would love to go to uh old Lambo. I would love to go to Buffalo. Um, and I mentioned these cold cities on purpose because I did the tailgate in Baltimore and it was freezing cold. But those guys were fun. Those guys, they were in snow with their shirts off, though. I mean, it was crazy. So, you know, I'm thinking maybe I should try one of those games. But my uh fire stitches kick in sometimes. It's like, nah, cold is not really that fun sometimes. I went to school in Nebraska, man. So me coming from Georgia to Nebraska, it's like when you see a whole river, whole lake frozen and guys are ice fishing, that's a different type of cold.

Luke 30:05

That is not a Georgia cold.

SPEAKER_03 30:09

Yeah, so you know, if I do decide to go to a uh a Buffalo or uh, what is it, Green Bay, it had to be in the spring or I mean in the early, early fall, summer, you know, September.

Luke 30:21

If you go to a Buffalo game, would you do the Bills Mafia table leap onto the folding table?

SPEAKER_03 30:31

Ooh, man. I mean my 40s now, man. That's the it's a little different now when you get a little older, you know. Just getting out of bed hurts. Like, imagine jumping on a hard table. You know what? It depends on how many uh concoctions I have. I I think I might, you know.

Luke 30:47

What's the over-under? Like, what amount? Let me ask you this question first. I always ask this question what is your favorite tailgating drink? If if you're just chilling, you're not having to run it, you're not worried about nothing, you're just chilling, what's in your cup?

SPEAKER_03 31:00

I'm gonna tell you this, and believe it or not, people think I do this on purpose. They think it's kind of like a little gag trip. But I I drank the cheapest stuff you can find. Remember Mad Dog 2020? Oh yeah. MD 2020? Oh yeah. You know, Coke 45? Oh yeah. So, what I've done right, I've made me a mad dog margarita. Your mad dog and your margarita mixer. And your margarita mix and a little splash of tequila, maybe a shot or two, you know. You shake it up, you got your mad dog margarita.

Luke 31:35

You know? Would you recommend that for the average tailgating connoisseur or is this an acquired taste? If you want to go to zero to 60, yeah.

unknown 31:43

Real quick.

SPEAKER_03 31:44

Yeah, real quick. And then it depends on how cold it is outside. Now, I must say I do have my seasonal drinks. You know, I'm a gin drinker, but I don't drink gin in the summertime. I drink only during the winter. And when it comes to those mad dog margaritas, that's more of a it's more of a summery, you know, kind of warm temperature type of drink, you know, because it's not one you just, you know, you just shoot like a shot and gin. That's kind of a keep you warm and and, you know, keep you nice and nice and toasty type of drink. So the mar the mad dog margaritas my go-to on the beach or on at the, you know, at the house, you know, barbecuing or whatever. It's one of those go-to's.

Luke 32:21

All right.

SPEAKER_03 32:21

So too many, too many of them is the problem.

Luke 32:24

So how many mad dog margaritas in order to jump into a table at a Bills game would it take?

SPEAKER_03 32:34

I don't know. Probably maybe four. Yeah, four mad dog margaritas, and then the right song come on. So it got, it has to balance out. The right song come on, and I had four mad dog margaritas, I'm going through a wall.

Luke 32:49

All right, so you're in Buffalo, the table's out there, you have your fourth mad dog margarita in hand. What song is coming on to trigger you to jump?

SPEAKER_03 32:59

Ooh, man. I've been digging a lot of classic rock lately, believe it or not. Like my playlist is crazy. If I see you my playlist, you'd be like, You listen to that? Really? Man, I mean, I mean, obviously you got your boy Jovi. I mean, living on the prayer. You got, I listen to a lot of soundtrack as well. Remember the old karate kid soundtracks? Yeah. What was my guy's name? Uh Roger something. I forgot. You're the best around. Yeah, those things get me amped up because it brings back my childhood, you know? So those songs right there, man. Man, yeah, I'm going through the wall.

Luke 33:38

All right, so you be on top of the table doing the karate kid move. Yeah, then jump in the car. Yeah, baby, yeah. For sure. Good stuff. All right, so you got your mad dog uh 2020 margarita in one hand. Other hand, you got your plate for food. What kind of food's going on there? You ain't got to worry about price cooking it, nothing.

SPEAKER_03 33:57

You know what? So my my team gets on me all the time because I never eat. Like I'm just so busy just into the event. And I have I wear so many hats. You know, I think I'm the DJ too. Even though I have my DJ E Rock, but he's the host. So I need him to be out in the crowd, you know, touching and kissing babies and hugging and shaking hands. You know what I mean? So me and him have this little thing where he can look back or he can say a couple word phrases and I know what to play. Right? It won't do him any justice if he's behind the DJ booth, you know, and he has this wonderful personality. So he's out there, I'm behind the booth, so I'm playing the music at the same time. I still have to run a tailgate, you know. So people calling me and asking me, hey Lee, you know, we're we're out of ice. We're doing this, we need to do this. I'm like, geez, that's why I have an event manager. Contact her. So I never eat. So I'm always doing multiple things. But I'm definitely gonna have a drink in my hand. But I just get caught up in the moment where they just have to make me eat, you know? So yeah, I might have two mad dog margaritas in my hand.

Luke 34:58

No food, but two mad dog margarines.

SPEAKER_03 35:02

No food, man. I'll eat till at the end of the tailgate. And then what are you eating? Uh, it's you know, burger, dog, uh size, baked beans, potato salad, green beans, uh, a couple rib tips. Um, I'm pretty much going through it there. Yeah, I'm eating the whole plate before I get home. Yeah. Yeah, I'm going in for sure.

Luke 35:22

I mean, again, a long tailgate necessitates some uh some nutrients afterwards, right?

SPEAKER_03 35:27

Yeah, definitely. Definitely. Especially if there's a good tailgate that was very successful, you know. No rain, it wasn't too hot, you know, because you know that he could beat you down out there, man. And then the rain just kind of brings you down. You're all soggy and wet, you just want to get home, and then the cold, that's another, that's another world. So my worst thing is I can deal with the cold, I can deal with the rain. I can't deal with the cold and the rain.

Luke 35:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 35:52

That's that's a no-go for me, man. So, yeah.

Luke 35:56

All right, well games. What's your favorite one that you like to play?

SPEAKER_02 36:03

I mean, you can't go run with cornhole.

SPEAKER_03 36:06

Um I don't know. I don't know. I kinda I kinda like mixing things up a little bit. I I do a um You remember Suicides in the gym? We want when you run to one end and you run to the other end. So we could we Is that a game?

Luke 36:25

Is that is that a TV end game now?

SPEAKER_03 36:27

Yeah, so so we we did we don't call them suicides, I think we call them um uh I I I got this stuff written down. I can I forgot the guns. But basically what it is, you have to run to one end of just look, we might create a table or line or whatever. Run to one end, take a shot, and then your friend, your, your team, your teammate has to run to the other end, take a shot. We made them to have maybe like four or five shots lined up, but they're all different stuff. It's not all the same stuff. So you might get some water, you might get some milk, you might get some juice, you might get a 150, 51, whatever nasty, you might get an Everclear, you might get, you might get a beer. It's all different stuff. So, yeah, that's a that's a pretty fun game.

Luke 37:10

Because I remember suicides were kind of rough back back in the gym. If you mix them in uh milk and alcohol and everything else, has anyone uh had a moment where they didn't feel so good afterwards?

SPEAKER_03 37:21

So the thing about it, our suicides are short. So, but they don't know what's inside the shots. We we tell them, say, hey, what's your favorite drink? We're gonna put their favorite drink in there. You like dark, you like brown, right, whatever, clear, whatever. Boom. Uh you like tequila, you like vodka, you like rum, okay, boom. So we got those in there. And we also got some other stuff in here, too, that you might not like. You know, so that's the part that you don't like. Just like the suicides, but the suicides we do are short. Okay. You know, you got a you got a six-foot, eight-foot table. That's nothing. But we take those shots, and you're just like, ew, that's that's Tabasco sauce. Yeah, my bad.

Luke 37:54

Okay, okay. I so it's not as much running for distance as it is different types of shots. Okay, okay. It sounds like at your tailgate, there's a lot of music and there's gonna be some you know. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 38:09

The dance off is always fun. The dance off. So we try to find at least four different types of people, right? You have your old, you have your young, you have your men, you have your woman. Okay. So with those two, you could it could be a a black person, white person, it could be a grandmama, it could be an auntie, it could be a teenager, it could be not a teenager, but uh a younger, 21 and up person, you know. So then you have Mr. Mr. Badass that thinks he can drink out everybody. You have those kind of guys, yeah, I can drink ESPRD, let's go. You have those guys, the super tailgators. And sometimes they're probably already drunk before they get to the game. So they don't ever really make it when it comes to the dance hall. But a lot of them uh are very impressive, you know, especially the older cats. You kind of underestimate. Yeah, I think they've been around the block for a while. So they got a couple dance moves, they've been waiting to let loose, you know. So we had one guy that we went viral in Jacksonville, the Georgia, Florida game. He went viral, at least about 20, 30 million views. Yeah, we always do the swag and surf as one of our kind of like our themes before it got popular in the stadiums. We've been doing it. And this guy, he turned his own swag and surf on. Like he went full throttle with his, you know what I mean? And we didn't know we went viral until we got home. You know, everybody was like, you guys, you guys are such and such shared your post. And I'm like, what post? Someone else filmed it, and we were just doing our regular thing. You know, and by the time we got home, it was like, you guys are on YouTube, you guys are on this, you guys are on TikTok. I'm like, what's a TikTok? This was like before TikTok was TikTok. I was like, what's a TikTok? So that was crazy. The sad part about it was we had no logo, no banner, we had nothing up. So when you see the video, of course you see DJ E-Rock. Right. Because he's in the middle, you know, controlling the crowd. I'm at the DJ booth playing the music. So I had the whole clip. So when you see it, you can be like, oh, you guys didn't even capitalize off of that. 30 million views? Nobody knows who we were. We had to share it and tag ourselves in people's posts, like, oh, that's our video. Yeah, right. It's not you guys. Oh, well, that's DJ Ewot, clearly. I mean, he's this is him right here, him right there. So that was one of those moments, like, man, you can't never plan for going viral anyway. You know.

Luke 40:34

Always, but always be prepared so you don't have to get it.

SPEAKER_03 40:36

That's why everything I have on now, everywhere I go, it's it's definitely tailgate party committee stuff for sure. I learned that lesson a long time ago.

Luke 40:45

It's not a it's not an L as a loss, it's an L as a lesson.

SPEAKER_03 40:50

Definitely, definitely. I like that. I like that.

Luke 40:53

All right, so tell us this season, coming into 2026, um, what events do you have on deck? How many you got? What what do people need to expect to get ready for or excited about TK Park committee?

SPEAKER_03 41:05

I got my notes here. All right. So, um, believe it or not, I have no events in September. None.

Luke 41:16

How? How is that possible? Prime time.

SPEAKER_03 41:20

I mean, I mean, like I said, I'm not biased when it comes to no team, especially my home teams. I go off the high-profile schedule. I look at I look at the NFL, I look at the college schedule, I'm trying to figure out, okay, which are the high-profile games that are in my region, that are not back-to-back dates, that are not, you know, too far away I couldn't travel. Because I've done that before. I've I've had games back to back, and it wasn't so fun, you know, at the end of the day. So what I did was the best schedule I came up with was which I have now. Our first game was in October, October the 5th.

Luke 41:53

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 41:54

That's Cowboys and that's Texas and Houston.

Luke 41:59

So one of your favorite teams, right? Fan bases.

SPEAKER_03 42:03

So I I strategically picked certain locations for various reasons. Remember when I told you before when I first started tailgating, I looked at what's going on next year and the year after that. So Houston, as you know, the Super Bowl's come back to the Southeast region. It's been out west for a long time now. You know, it's been to Vegas, it's been to San Francisco, it's been uh LA, and then back and forth. So next year it's going to be here in Atlanta. Um next season, well, LA then then Atlanta. And then uh, so I'm like, okay, outside of NFL, the national championship bounces around as well. You know, it might end up in Houston, Dallas, Miami, wherever. So if I end up building my relationships in these different cities, these different markets, then I'm pretty much, you know, a household name as far as, you know, setting up in their region. You know, I I don't want to just come in a city and just, you know, start a, start a tailgate uh event without kind of like with the locals a little bit, sharing a little love and reaching out to the local vendors, uh, different businesses and stuff like that. Even the parking. So the parking is our main thing. Once I find my real estate, which is the parking, once I build my relationship with those people, that's where the fun begins. Once I'm stapled and stamped in, okay, my tailgate is one block away or a half a mile or whatever, whatever, we're going to create this huge festival of of goodness, that's where it all starts. Now I have to figure out, okay, what's the best game option? I mean, Dallas and it's an in-state game, you know, Dallas and uh in Houston. October 5th. Right? So the very next day or never next week, I have Georgia Bama in Tuscalucin. The very next day, literally October 11th, I have Ravens in Atlanta. The very next week I have the Bears in Atlanta. The very next week after that, the twenty fifth, I have Have your 49ers in Atlanta. The very next week after that, October 33rd. I'm still in October. So the 5th, the 10th, and 11th, 18th, the 25th. Now Halloween night. Georgia, Florida is in Atlanta this year. But the Jags will get a new stadium. So not only is it on Halloween, we have the Georgia, Florida game in Atlanta. Right? Now I have the 11th of November. The Cowboys and the 49ers. Oh boy. In Dallas. So I had to ask myself, because now I now I have a problem. I have the Chiefs in the Falcons the same day. The Chiefs are not really a hot commodity anymore. Used to be when they was doing the.

Luke 44:45

I mean it might be again this year. Mahomes would probably be back. You never know.

SPEAKER_03 44:49

But you gotta think. My biggest fan base is Dallas. I just inherited the 49ers last year, and they're playing in Dallas. Oh yeah. So I mean, Kansas City and the Falcons, you gotta think. I'm doing the Bears, the 49ers, and the Ravens at home. The Chiefs over the 49ers and the Cowboys. Nah, we gotta go. Yeah. So I so that's pending, but I highly doubt I do that. And then I'm pretty much off until December 5th SEC Championship. The very next day, still in Atlanta, we have the Lions and the Falcons. So December 5th is SEC. December 6th is the Lions and Falcons. And then I'm off for pretty much Christmas break. Come back and we play the 8th, January 3rd. National Championship, January 25th, and then Old Mighty Super Bowl's on Valentine's Day.

Luke 45:43

Oh man, I can't believe it's going on Valentine's Day this coming year. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_03 45:47

Yeah. So I haven't put in any any um bowl games or uh any playoff games, obviously, because we don't know who's playing who. So those can be you know added into the mix as well. So yeah, so right now I'm got about 16-17 events. And out of those 16-17, you gotta think, the teams I just named is like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And it's high big profile teams, you know, the Ravens, Cowboys, 49ers, I mean Bears. Alabama, Georgia, you know, Lions. Some big more than playing, you know.

Luke 46:27

No doubt. No doubt.

SPEAKER_03 46:29

Yeah. So but yeah, September is just nothing, man. I'm just gonna be sitting back watching TV like everybody else.

Luke 46:36

Maybe you could travel around and just get some different tailgates for fun.

SPEAKER_03 46:39

So I I partner with my good friend Scott, XP Hospitality. Oh yeah. I don't know if you know Scott, he's a pretty good, pretty good friend of mine. Um, I might end up joining him with some stuff. Uh we partnered up on a few events. I'm sorry, I'm in the lobby in my hotel if he has some kids. Yeah, I'm I'm my house is getting renovated right now. Okay. So I'm pretty much homeless for 60 days. So I'm at the hotel in the lobby. Not homeless, but not really homeless. But uh yeah, um, so Scott has a lot of events activated outside of uh my actual event. So I might end up doing some stuff. Maybe in you guys neck of the woods, we might cross paths one day. I don't know. So it all depends on what he has on his schedule. Um also we're doing the uh World Cup as well. So starting on the uh, I think it's the 15th. Every three days, the 15th, 18th, then the 24th, 27th, and then up to I think like the uh 11th, which is like the semifinals. I know nothing about soccer. Nothing. Our own Atlanta United team, I haven't been to not one game. We got that team a couple years ago. We won, we won the championship like the third year we had them. I still know nothing about the soccer team, the soccer world at all. So, FIFA being here, I'm like, I don't know what to do.

Luke 47:53

I mean, tailgate, right? Again, World Cup. I'm not a huge soccer guy, but it's not an all-star idea that this is this is like a Super Bowl for the world. It's like, it's that big, it's that important on a global scale. And so, yeah, and you're doing, are you doing the uh tailgates for the Atlanta region?

SPEAKER_03 48:13

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because the lot that we have, um, the owners uh personally contacted us. They want to pretty much rent out us. They want to rent Tailgate Party Committee, the hourly experience is what we do, and pretty much showcase it to the soccer world. Um, so we have prime real estate around the stadium. Of course, you have your uh your cling zones where you can't do so much branding because of the FIFA. They, you know, they made us change our logo on the on the Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Oh, yeah, yeah. All stadiums. All stadiums don't have bravium with them. So it's there's only a certain amount of areas, certain areas you can go where you can pretty much brand if you're not a partner of all the previous brands they have, you know, like it's Coca-Cola, if it's Verizon or something like that. If you're not part of none of those brands, you can't really just show up and just with a Pepsi tint and in a banner, you know, and stand outside and say these bins because they're partnering with Coke and they don't like that.

Luke 49:04

So I get it. It's all it's all about the money.

SPEAKER_03 49:08

Even though we're on private property, it's still, you know, you don't want FIFA to come over and say, hey, you guys authorized to do this, and then they're gonna bring out their little receipts and checkbooks and balances and, you know, shut us down. You know, so we kind of we we trailed that thin line where we're doing what we're supposed to do, but we don't want to cross over until get, you know, shut down.

Luke 49:25

So that's totally fair. And like I said, I I have never tailgated for a soccer game before. Me neither. But that would be one that I would at least be interested in to see like how how the world tailgates. Because again, you're gonna have people from all over the world coming to some of this stuff.

SPEAKER_03 49:40

Yeah, and going up my resume, I've done a lot of firsts. There you go. It's another one. There's another one. Yeah, man.

SPEAKER_02 49:47

Another one.

SPEAKER_03 49:48

Another one. I'm excited about it. And I hope it's hope it's a good turnout, you know. But we're gonna see.

Luke 49:54

We shall. We shall. Well, well, tell me this, Lee. Where can people find you online? Give us your socials out there so people can come check out some of the stuff you're doing to some of those dance moves and mad doll 2020 margaritas.

SPEAKER_03 50:06

Yeah. Everything is tailgate party committee. Everything. YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, MySpace. Everything is tailgate party. Is that still a thing? Yeah, I yeah, man. I guess uh what's his name? Um Tom's. Tom's still out there somewhere. Yeah, so everything is tailgate party committee, you know, for for various reasons. Of course, the algorithm picks it up and does all their little internet things. So, you know, analytics does this thing. So, of course, I made it that way for a reason. Uh oh, I forgot to mention, I've created what I call is called Tailgate Anthems, right?

unknown 50:42

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 50:42

So, you know, we have our classic playlist that we're gonna play at your local function. You know, if you're if you're on the West Coast, you're playing your West Coast bangers. If you're on the East Coast, if you're down south, you're in the Midwest, you're playing your local bangers, right?

SPEAKER_02 50:58

Sure.

SPEAKER_03 50:58

Of course, you're playing your national song as well that everybody knows. You're playing all your classics. If it's hip hop, if it's pop, RB rock, whatever it is, you're gonna play all the classics, everybody knows. What I've done was, um I studied music for a while, DJing all these tailgates, knowing what people like, hearing the songs, just going off of people asking me to play certain songs I never heard before. Like, can you play the the whatever? Like, what is that? You know, it's songs you never heard that they play at their stadiums at their tailgates. I'm just like, oh, this is kind of dope. Okay, I can get with this. I wanna probably play it again. But I like it for you guys as fan base is cool. So I create what we call tailgate anthems, right? Tailgate anthem is basically a bunch of songs that are more like a chant, call and response type of songs, um, where if your team is winning, these are the songs for you.

unknown 51:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 51:50

But on the flip side, if your team is losing but it's coming back, these are the songs for you. The rally songs. Man, so I yeah, I created a plethora of these songs, man. I got every genre. I got a country song, I got an EDM song, I got a pop song, I got a hip-hop song, I got some chants and some songs I'm gonna send to you guys that I think is gonna be pretty, pretty, pretty dope once the world gets to it. And um, you hear them in the stadium. That's why I know I made it. Once these songs are played inside the stadium, because you hear the same stuff every game. Everybody's playing the same, we ready, we ready. Yeah, it came from Atlanta. We made that song 20 years ago. I'm tired of hearing it. Me personally, you know. Uh swag and surf, I'm really tired of hearing it. It's all good and fun stuff, but why not have something? It's too many musicians out here that just have the same stuff we're playing, listening to every Saturday and Sunday. Create something different. So I took upon myself to create Tailgate Anthems, where the music is this, the Curtis of AI, of course. I can't just say I did it myself. You know, I gotta put that in there. Courtesive AI, it helped me out a little bit, some of the uh songwriting. But the sound quality of it, it doesn't sound like AI. I mean, I'm gonna send you guys a song. Um, it's it's it's called Let Them Know. You know, let them know. Um that's a that's a good one. I don't want to spoil it for every for myself or for everybody, but I'm gonna just I'm gonna send you a little snippet and then you just give me your honest opinion on what you think. Um, but I even got a World Cup song. Uh it's called World Tailgate. Yeah.

Luke 53:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 53:27

I'm already with it. I'm already with it. Yeah, like I said, I know nothing about soccer, but it's definitely a World Cup. It's a little anthem, you know, it got a little, it got the little, you know, the little, I'm not gonna say Islander sound because World Cup is everybody. But if you were to think of a worldwide song, what would be the instruments in it, you know?

Luke 53:48

Uh I the first thing that comes to my mind is a guitar, but I don't know if that's the right answer or not. Right off the top.

SPEAKER_03 53:55

So it got a lot of different sounds in it, man. You know, so it's it's I I even got a Latin tailgate song, too. I mean, even though the the words are in English, but the song itself, it sounds like it belongs directly in the Latin community. Like it's it's it's a banger, too, man. It's a lot. A pop song I have. I got a lot of favorite pop artists that I like. Um, a lot I got a lot of favorite idiom artists that I like, and I kind of inspired those songs by them. So, you know, I love the Chain Smokers. Um, I love my boy Calvin Harris. I love a lot of those songs. I was I was a beach mom for a long time in Florida, man. So just sitting on the beach every day, just listening to all kinds of music, I can dig it, you know.

Luke 54:37

Nice. Well, yeah, you'll have to uh let us know about that World Tailgate song, get it over so we could we could take a listen here so to get that play.

SPEAKER_03 54:43

Yeah, yeah. I'm gonna see what I have already made out, and I'm gonna, you know, put it on uh my local uh distributors, with that uh iTunes, uh Google Play, all those different different Spotify. So yeah.

Luke 54:57

Excellent, excellent. All right, well, again, this was Lee with Tailgate Party Committee. He is throwing epic tailgates across the nation, and he loves to do things for the first time to put on his resume. So if he hadn't done it, he might be doing it in the nearest something amazing. I know I need to get out to one of his tailgates. I hope everybody that listened to the whole episode is getting on tailgateconnect.com to go ahead and get some of those tickets for the events to see how Lee does it. He's giving away prizes, he's tailgating through the game, he's out there kissing babies, making his own music, all kinds of fun stuff. Internet 2020 margaritas. There you go.

SPEAKER_02 55:37

Yes, sir.

Luke 55:38

All right. Well, Lee, appreciate you being on here. Everybody go, tailgateconnect.com for all of those easy button tailgate needs, and we hope to see you at his tailgate soon. Have a good night.

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