Von Braun Center

Johnny Mercer Theater in Savannah, Georgia, September 19th.

And then September 24th, Huntsville, Alabama, at the VBC Mark C. Smith Concert Hall.

September 25th, Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

September 26th, the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia.

You know, the recording infrastructure there is second to none with cities all over the world where I think that complements where our kind of like live music performance spaces are.

You know, you could, these artists that are playing, touring through, playing like the Orion and the Von Braun Center, you know, that as much as we can do to kind of make them aware of like the recording opportunities and studio landscape, not only in Hofstede, but throughout the region, I think is helpful.

Yeah.

And it's helpful for our story, frankly, to piggyback off that legacy and the historical aspect of the Shoals.

Oh, you're fine.

You're fine.

Well, you mentioned the Orion a few times and the Von Braun Center, and they bring in the bigger names because it's a bigger arena, obviously.

But you also talk about smaller rooms, too.

So I moved to the other side where I was in like the fucking hippie neighborhood.

like probably like I would assume the people around me voted blue in that Senate race and put Doug Jones in the Senate but like on the other side of town was like really soulless all these buildings and shit it was all fucking tech like there was a Tesla fucking building there and NASA was huge NASA's huge in Huntsville and so like there's a lot of money there as well so it was an experience I did not like it very much and like five minutes from my apartment was the Von Braun Center and if you're not aware Warner Von Braun was absolutely a fucking Nazi It is a venue named after a goddamn Nazi.

Alabama, baby.

Oh, one time there was a Mexican restaurant out in the county that Sparkles really liked because she was from there.

You think it's in right where the whole Von Braun, like that complex, is that it? Or is it the one that's across the way? It's

located at 201 Jefferson Street in Huntsville, which is right in the middle of like, it's right across from the Von Braun Center.

Moonstruck Bakery?

Moon Bake Shop.

She'll pop up a number of times throughout today's episode.

We're going to jump ahead now to 2020, an episode of AEW Dynamite on February 5th from the Propst Arena at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

We have a singles contest between Yuka Sakazaki and the aforementioned Britt Baker.

Now, this is in the very early days of Dynamite.

To me, there's no denying that she had a lot of charisma, that she could talk very well.

Like I say, she's going to pop up a couple of times during this rewind, so we'll talk more about Britt Baker as we pass through the years of AEW's history.

Just a few short days later, on AEW Dark February 11th, 2020, from the same venue, the Propst Arena at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Alabama, we had a singles contest between Riho and Shoko Nakajima.

Now, this is Shoko's final AEW match to date, and it's a little bit of a runback from Fight for the Fallen that we just talked about.

They have continually upgraded that thing to keep it current.

And it's tied to the Von Braun Center so you can walk right over there.

And a lot of the ham stayed there.

I mean, you couldn't sling alms law without running into a ham operator.

Yeah, no problem.

Huntsville in August is gonna be m- yeah, there's a reason I get the hotel that's directly attached to the Von Braun Center-

Okay

... with an air-conditioned walkway