And, you know, I've heard Barrett and them talking for the past year about all this that's coming up with the World Bass Enterprise and it's really really a cool thing how did it come about how'd you come up with this

you know we me and some buddies were up in minnesota just fishing getting away from the heat in texas was up there in the summertime late summer and they were all trying to qualify to fish in the open tournaments uh or they were fishing the opens trying to make the elites and we just talked about fishing all the time at night and i listened to them talk about who the best anglers in the world were right and which lead was better this leader that lead and You know, I just started to question them.

Why hasn't anybody done it? Or, you know, you know, just learning more about the sport.

And I just felt like I come to realize that there was a void, right, that needed to be filled in bass fishing and professional bass fishing.

You have two really awesome leads that have some of the best anglers in the world in both.

Right.

But they've never fished against each other.

So is there anything you want to add as we close out, Brian?

how you got into fishing, and then we'll dive into all these things that we're

going to talk about today.

Cool.

Sounds good.

Well, first, let me say thanks for having me on and congratulations on all your success.

You know, 500 episodes being 501.

Thank you.

What is it? uh why old hickory lake in tennessee coming from texas tell us a bit

What are you looking forward to as we inch closer? What are you looking forward to the most? If you could pick one thing, what are you looking forward to? There's a lot of things coming up, but what's that one thing?

You know, seeing all these guys excitement here and Gerald put his, you know, his, what he sees, his vision, what he thinks about this tournament, hearing these guys talk about their excitement.

That was first and foremost what we wanted to do this for, right? Was to bring something that's new, refreshing, big, puts the best of the best.

But what I'm looking forward to more than anything right now is Thursday morning, opening morning of the tournament.

Seeing them boats out there all lit up.

You know, we got Lee Greenwood singing the national anthem.

We got fireworks going off.

free so come out bring the children

Yeah, cornhole.

Cornhole.

I mean, flipping contest, casting contest.

We're having giveaways.

Uh, there's gonna be a couple of tanks, fish tanks.

I mean, it's just a real big time fall festival.

Four or five bands playing every day, and all that's free.

Excellent