AcadianaCasts Presents:
AcadianaCasts Presents:
Behind the Scenes of Combat Sports with MMA & Boxing Announcer Bryce Boudreaux
From podcasting to becoming the voice of Louisiana’s biggest fighting events, Bryce Boudreaux’s journey is proof that passion and personality can turn unexpected opportunities into a thriving career. A chance mentorship with veteran announcer Rod Sterling set him on the path to professional announcing, and when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down events in Louisiana, he adapted—traveling to Mississippi and Texas to keep his dream alive.
The Lake Charles native shares incredible behind-the-scenes stories, from announcing fights at the US-Mexico border to witnessing a fighter get arrested moments after stepping out of the cage. His voice has become more than just a call to battle—it’s a source of inspiration, with fighters telling him, “When you announced me, you reminded me who I am.” Whether working alongside legends like Bobby Hebert or bringing energy to MMA’s growing Louisiana scene, Boudreaux’s passion for the sport and its athletes is undeniable.
Be sure to check out The Bryce Boudreaux Sheaux on his YouTube channel.
AcadianaCasts Presents: Bryce Boudreaux!
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All right, so you're like a professional announcer.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I'm a mixed martial arts announcer.
Speaker 1:Read this in your best announcer voice.
Speaker 2:Oh, here we go. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, podcast fanatics and content connoisseurs, brace yourselves for the voice, the vision and the sheer brilliance that graces your ears today. Hailing from the heart of Acadiana by way of Covington, louisiana, standing at an undisclosed but undoubtedly legendary height, with a mind sharper than a gator's bite and a voice smoother than a Sazerac whiskey, he is the salt of sound, the maestro of the mic, the undisputed, undefeated, reigning and defending greatest podcaster in all of Louisiana. Carter Seminole. Thank you Absolutely. Is that it? Yeah, are we done? That'll be $850 million.
Speaker 4:Hit the music.
Speaker 3:Hit the music.
Speaker 1:Glad to have you. I'm Carter Semino, host of Acadiana Cast Presents, but you already knew that from that great intro from today's special guest, mr Bryce Boudreaux. This is a really cool episode because you know you make content, you put it out there and you really hope that like people like it and enjoy it. Well, bryce has been reaching out and we've been trying to collab and get him in for an episode for a few months now and he just told us, walking in, that he listens and watches almost every episode. So we got an actual fan here who also we want to highlight as well. So it's kind of a bringing together of two worlds. Happy to have him today. Bryce, I know you've been all over the place Just getting back from New Orleans last night. It's recording this.
Speaker 2:It's Super Bowl week and first off, thanks, thanks for coming bro, thank you for having me and, like you said, we've been trying to do this for so long and my schedule just didn't add up and finally got availability and I'm winging it like a baby bird, like you said last night, super Bowl, uh, yeah, what were you doing, dude? So I, um, you'll, I guess this will come out. Uh, after the Super Bowl this happens. So everybody's hearing this. They already know what's going on, but I'll tell you, and you're hearing for the first time. But, uh, so I got casted to be a part of a piece that was going to pay tribute to those that lost their lives in the tragic events on New Year's Day, and that's literally. I was told it was a commercial and I was like cool. And so they said it's a 1.30 am call time. So, like, hauled ass to New Orleans, got a speeding ticket from a Crowley cop Super nice guy. Didn't ask me where I was going. I couldn't wait to tell him I'm going to film something for the Super Bowl. He didn't, you know whatever. But yeah, so I got there and so I mean they send us, they walk us to Bourbon Street, and there's all these people, and this is 1.30 in the morning, so, so Bourbon Street's like shutting down. I mean, you've got to understand, fox has pretty much bought out Bourbon Street. It's Foxland right now. Yeah, that makes sense. And Super Bowl, just, and they've cleaned it up and put a little cherry on top, dressed it up. You know, we'll see what happens there. But yeah, I mean Stick on a pig, there you go. Yeah, I mean it looked very nice dude I've ever seen Bourbon Street was last night, wow.
Speaker 2:So they're all these people and they got to keep in mind, like there's hundreds of people just standing around and we're right in front of Tropical Isle, mm-hmm. So if those who you know know about Bourbon Street, tropical Isle, so we're waiting there, the big arch that says Fox, nfl, super Bowl, whatever, the big arch, and you've seen pictures of it walking around and they're like trying to get in and like you guys, you guys can't get in, like we only want people on the list. So they, they start sending us in herding the cattle, right, and so we're all going in. I mean it's a full fledged set, right. And so they start sending us by groups and they give us these shirts that say Nola strong or whatever, and uh, then, uh, they send us up on these balconies and it's a full fledfledged set, lights, rigs, big drones the size of cars and there's a concert stage and I'm like, so I'm like I thought we were doing a commercial. Oh my God, nobody really knows what's going on. So we go in the back and we're on the corner.
Speaker 2:Those who know where the Cat's Meow is the crazy corner.
Speaker 2:We go in the back of this. It's a bourbon, or Maison de Bourbon. We walk up and as soon as I walk up the stairs, the police chief of New Orleans is right there, the old lady that said the rats are eating the weed and they're high and they're destroying the police department.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that lady, that lady, she's just standing there. I'm like it's well past this woman's bedtime, well, whatever. So we walk through this loft, everything. We're all trying to like who's piano, like harry connick jr. You know, we're all taking bets. We're like it's got to be harry connick jr. No, no, no, bigger than that. Paul mccartney. No, no, no, no, no, it's, it's this guy, it's this guy, john legend, whatever.
Speaker 2:And then we start hearing a voice warming up Big Frida, close, no cigar. And I'm like it's a woman's voice and it's got a little like a little gravel and I'm like man, that's a Christina Aguilera. No, that's Miley Cyrus. And then this girl I can't really repeat what she said, but she's like I know whenever my mother is around that's Lady Gaga. Sure enough, looked over big white, flat brim hat. That's Lady Gaga playing that piano. Then I'm like, holy, that's Lady Gaga. We're at a Lady Gaga concert. All the first responders are lined up, and then I turn around. I just look in the loft that we passed by the chief of police, tom Brady, terry Bradshaw, Michael Strahan.
Speaker 2:The whole Fox crew, dude, dude, literally the who's who, roger goodell, which I don't know how. Oh, bro, to mario davis, uh, yeah, I mean who's who? The mayor, the everybody, the governor, it was everybody was in there and uh, then they walked him down and we did like 15 takes of, uh, lady gaga playing and dude. Whenever it airs and people are going to know what I'm talking about, it will bring a tear to a glass eye. Wow, bro, the song's called Hold my Hand. It's a Lady Gaga song, okay.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I mean, that whole tragedy affected a lot of people, especially the Lafayette area, with the passing of Tiger Bash. Just a great young kid, Really good dude. And it was kind of cool to see Jack Batch wear his number and ball out of the Senior Bowl. But yeah, dude, that's super exciting. And so how are you presenting these opportunities? And it sounded like it was kind of last minute.
Speaker 2:Dude. I mean you know you're a production media type guy. So I mean last minute Super Bowl, they're trying to fill all these. Dude, like today, there's all kinds of opportunities you want to portray a fan for, like the Kansas City Chiefs or the, you know, philadelphia Eagles, you can go over there, dress like an Eagles fan and like they're paying. They're paying you to, just like you know, fly Eagles, fly and just be a fan right.
Speaker 1:I know, like the Super Bowl halftime show, sometimes they'll just like put a bunch of fans on the floor right, and they'll just deck them out and chiefs and eagles gear in this case, but they're not really a lot. Of them are just kind of extras and just want them happy to be there, right and that's all it is.
Speaker 2:And they're like this guy matter of fact guy standing next to me was from Lafayette. He's like I drove in. He's like I'm sleeping in my car all week. He's like I'm chasing bookings left and right in the city. He's like I gotta you haven't done it. I mean, super Bowl is going to air by the time this airs, so go back, watch the opening video. You'll see me from a drone shot. I'm on top of the balcony. You can't miss me. All we did was just applaud, you know so it's like the lights are all off on Bourbon Street.
Speaker 2:You see the first responders walking up and then, they turn the lights on and and boom, everybody applauds, and then Michael Strahan or whoever was like that's how we do it in New Orleans, and welcome to Super Bowl 59 live on Fox and it's going to be the opening package for the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1:Yeah, after all, like the pregame stuff is over kind of like into like the official broadcast of the Super Bowl or the big game I don't know what the legalities of that even are. Yeah, the big game, but yeah. So you did that until wee hours of the morning, drove back to Lake Charles, got some sleep and then drove back over here to Lafayette for this interview. So, man, how did you get into? So you do. You're like the in-game host at McNeese Basketball. Yeah, you also are involved in. Pull up his Instagram. Real quick, luke. What's what's the at say? I was just on it.
Speaker 2:What's that Gumbo Gators?
Speaker 1:Gumbo Gators. That's what I was looking for it's part of like a Texas baseball league. Yeah, the.
Speaker 2:Texas Collegiate League. Yeah, matter of fact, our rivals are the Acadiana Cane Cutters. Oh, the Cane Cutters, yeah, they play in Youngsville Nice. Very cool, god bless them. They are now our rivals. We're the shiny new toy in the league. We played our first season last year. I got presented the opportunity to be the on-field host. I've never really done much hosting and this is just a way kind of to get in and branch out a little bit, and now it's like it's open to our possibilities of hosting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for sure, but you're also an announcer with Bayou Fighting Championship. That's MMA and boxing as well as Elevate's submission series In Houston, texas.
Speaker 2:yeah, elevate, it's pure jiu-jitsu and it's submissions only. And we do pay-per-views in Houston and in Dallas.
Speaker 1:So what got you in? Did you go to McNeese?
Speaker 2:No, no, I'm just a lifelong fan of McNeese. But no, we're talking about like How'd you get into announcing? Oh, okay, great question, best question you've asked so far.
Speaker 1:Thank you.
Speaker 2:No man. So lifelong wrestling fan, like a lot of people, and I started a podcast with a buddy of mine. We met at a party. We started a wrestling podcast called Pro Wrestling Roundabout. You can look it up Through doing wrestling podcasts covering the WWE pay-per-views, and this is like 2017, 2018, 2016. And we were interviewing local wrestlers in Lake Charles at Full Throttle Wrestling Fun and I mean it's all the local guys. And then we interviewed the announcer.
Speaker 2:The announcer's name was Rod Sterling, and Rod Sterling and I kind of just kind of started talking after that and he's like hey, man, I want you to come on the road with me. Like you want to come on the road with me? I got these big shows in Texas I'm doing, and Rod Sterling, on top of being the announcer for Pro Wrestling, he was also running sound, the lights, basically all the production, and so he really needed someone to help him set up. And so I'd go on the road with him, yeah, and then on the road we would drink a case of beer and he would kind of tell me like, okay, these are the do's and don'ts. Just like, make a conversation. Like you know, crowd only has so many pops. You know, don't give them everything and it's just like little things and fast forward a little bit.
Speaker 2:There was a show he couldn't do and it was in Lake Charles. It was full throttle wrestling and Teddy and all the promoter was like you know, ronnie Paul, I need, I need an announcer. He's like Bryce hasn't done it, but Bryce knows what he's doing. You know, I've smartened him up. He knows what's going on. That was it 2018, I announced my first show. It was a wrestling show in front of a couple hundred people in Lake Charles at the charter school, going strong. I literally did not think I'd still be doing this and the doors that have opened in my career and the people I've met.
Speaker 1:Yeah, scroll up his page just so folks who are watching can kind of see just a little bit of his Instagram, just some of the stuff that's on there.
Speaker 2:Look at that face, that second one that's on there.
Speaker 1:Look at that face.
Speaker 2:That second one that's pinned, so yeah man that was at the Cajun Home Convention Center. Yeah, that was for Bayou Fighting Championship. Bayou Fighting Championship, mainly a New Orleans promotion, but they were running Lafayette, youngsville. You know, hyman Center, cajun Home Convention Center, youngsville Sports Complex.
Speaker 1:So in this realm you're more like a Bruce Buffer.
Speaker 2:Bingo Okay, exactly. And I tell people I'm an MMA announcer. Oh, so you're like Joe Rogan. You got a podcast, I'm like no. He's a commentator Right, yeah, and dude people, just and dude.
Speaker 1:It's crazy, you're an analyst, you go.
Speaker 2:And some people get it.
Speaker 1:So with wrestling, were you also doing something like that, or were you doing more? Like the color?
Speaker 2:commentating. Well, I was doing a little bit of commentary too, but I was the announcer for wrestling and I announced COVID was really a blessing in disguise for my career. Okay, why? So I thought my career was over whenever COVID hit. I had plans on the table and they all got ruined. Well, louisiana had a strict commission, commission and they said no more events, no more wrestling during COVID. Well, mississippi was like we're doing shows.
Speaker 2:Texas we're doing shows, we don't have a commission. So all these guys were going to Mississippi and Texas doing shows. So I'm like I go to all these states and do all these shows, like forget Louisiana right now, like let's go and do just handshake and and marketing and put myself out there. And I was getting booked all over the place. And fast forward a little bit, I was working for a company in Texas Lions Pride Sports in College Station, texas, ran by Houston Carson and he really kind of molded my career. He, he was a he's the Texas Lion, that was his old wrestling name and he was a perfectionist and he molded me to being a perfectionist as far as my career. And then from there networking and whatever, and I got a job.
Speaker 2:At the time they were running television out of Dallas, texas. It's called SWE Fury, look it up. And yeah, I was the announcer on there. We were television broadcasting bringing back old-school Dallas wrestling, the Von Ericks, all that. That was kind of the new age of it. Sadly, the promotion folded and whatever. On to the next thing, yeah, and then through that, you know we're talking about Hurricane Laura. You know Hurricane Laura hit Lake Charles. It was devastating.
Speaker 1:I covered that when I was working for the news.
Speaker 2:Bro Dude, I had Good Morning America on bro. Oh dude, I had good morning america on my street, you know it was.
Speaker 1:I mean it was, I stayed for it. It's insane, bro. It's insane. You wrote it out in the house yeah, brick house brick house.
Speaker 2:He's a brick, yeah, dude. Ow, scary, oh yeah. So from there, terrifying, yeah, oh my god. So from there, I um just networking. I saw an opportunity online with a company that was that's very well known in the wrestling industry Championship Wrestling from Hollywood and they ran syndicated wrestling throughout the country. So the CW here in Lafayette was carrying Championship Wrestling from Hollywood. Tune in at 2 am and watch an hour-long block of wrestling. It was filmed in Hollywood, but it's Championship Wrestling from Hollywood. They were like we need a host. I can be a host. I don't know what the hell I was doing.
Speaker 2:And then I got a chance to meet with David Marquez over the phone David Marquez, king of studio wrestling, and he was like look, he's California guy. And he's like we'll give you an opportunity. We want to put syndicated wrestling in your market. Where do you live? Lake Charles Louisiana. Where the hell is Lake Charles Louisiana? It's the heel of the boot brother. And so we created championship wrestling Gulf coast and you could look up episodes of it on YouTube and literally it was syndicated canned footage of wrestling they filmed in Hollywood, but it was just me doing standups in front of a green screen. Welcome to championship wrestling Gulf coast. I'm your host, bryce Bujo, here tonight's matches, and it was just like that. We filmed it at the CBS Lake Charles television studio. My good buddy, devin Fusilier, was my camera guy and producer and, yeah, man, it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2:From there I severed ties with the SWE Fury thing. Bunch of old school guys got a little upset at me for working with this guy in California. They didn't really like long story short, that's wrestling. I got an opportunity with championship wrestling. They said we're opening up a new market in Atlanta, georgia. We're filming from Center Stage. Atlanta, bryce, you're going to be our announcer. Wow, nice. And this was a job that a lot of people were applying for and I just got it like that. And yeah, so I got to say live from Center Stage, atlanta, georgia, this is your main event of the evening. Yeah, man, this is your main event of the evening. And yeah man, yeah so, um man, yeah man, it was dope man.
Speaker 2:I got to do some really cool stuff out there and that was, that was probably the peak of my wrestling career, you know, um, and from there it's wherever I met a guy named dynamite david hardy, which I've been knowing. Dynamite david hardy. Look him up, probably one of the most exciting mcs announcers in the world and he was announcing for all these promotions in louisiana. And uh, he said, bryce, I need some help. We're gonna be running a show. Gulf coast, mma lake, charles burton coliseum. Need a commentator. Cool, I'm in. And that was my foot in the door in the world of mma. Ain't looked back since changed my life completely. I owe it all to dynamite david hard Salute, great guy. Love him to death and not salute like he's dead Salute.
Speaker 2:Like, love him. He's a gentleman and a scholar. Without him, bro, I would not be here. Dude, I mean like that my career, just like an airplane Taking off at the airport here.
Speaker 1:Shout out Dynamite Dave.
Speaker 2:Dynamite Dave Hardy.
Speaker 1:Man, that's really cool. So what's one moment and maybe you've already mentioned it, but what's one moment in your career so far that you kind of looked around and you thought to yourself like I can't believe I'm doing this?
Speaker 2:There's a couple. One that comes to mind was the first time I announced inside the Burton Coliseum. The Burton Coliseum, you know where? That is no, lake Charles, louisiana. Oh the Chuck, yeah, burton Coliseum, an old rodeo coliseum that McNeese State University uses as their basketball arena for a good long time. Fun fact about the Burton Coliseum I attended plenty of basketball games Watching McNeese growing up as a kid, watching Diego Kaplan, my boy in Canada, shout out Diego Kaplan Watching him play basketball. And fun fact about the Burton Coliseum without the Burton Coliseum I would not be here. My parents met at the Burton Coliseum at the Marshland Festival.
Speaker 2:So my birthright, the Burton Coliseum, and I got to announce on live, on pay-per-view for Gulf Coast MMA and I was like dude, I can't believe this is happening. Walked down the stage, had pyro and everything, and then I'd get in the cage and like I rolled my ankle as soon as I got in the cage, quick save and I was okay. And yeah, man, it was dope that. And I'd say one other thing that was really cool Got to announce in St Louis, missouri. Got to fill in for my buddy, Mike Kendall, up in St Louis, very, very awesome Nemesis Fighting Alliance. But I think the cherry on top, being able to hang out with the Cajun Cannon himself.
Speaker 1:Bobby Abare, bobby Abare.
Speaker 2:Spent hours hanging out with Bobby Abare, working for a company I was hosting in Oliva it was like an autograph convention you could buy trading cards and get them signed and Tabitha Starkley, who runs Capital City Collectibles and Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame. Ronnie Rance they had all these great LSU players that were booked. And Justin, why am I drawing a blank?
Speaker 3:Jefferson.
Speaker 2:No, vincent, I can't even remember now. Hester, jacob, hester, what am?
Speaker 1:I thinking, jacob Hester, great team, jacob Hester, jacob Hester, what am?
Speaker 2:I thinking Jacob Hester, 18. Mondo Duplantis' brother, I can't even think of his name right now. Yeah, and then Bobby Hebert. And Bobby Hebert, I got to spend all afternoon with Antoine, antoine Duplantis. I am just, I can't remember nothing. But yeah, bobby Hebert Hanging out signing autographs, and he was just as cool as can be, man Hours just chopping it up with a cannon yeah, dude, and he was awesome bro.
Speaker 1:He was so cool. He's one of the reasons why I got into kind of what I do is. You know, I grew up in the New Orleans area listening to WWL, you know sports talk, and just hearing him after games, probably being a little sauced, but just like just saying whatever he wanted. Yeah, and without reservation. I was like man, I want to be in a spot one day where I can just get in front of a microphone and just yap.
Speaker 2:Dude, I love going to Saints games, coming back and having to listen to WWL RIP. Don't know what's going to happen there with WWL.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:But yeah, and Bobby's just like. People call in Bobby, like even whenever we beat the, you know whoever? The beginning of the Cowboys, the beginning of the season, oh yeah, and Bobby, they're like Bobby. You know the Saints, they look terrible, like you got to be smoking crack, you know. However, bobby, I can't really do a good. Bobby, awesome Dude the cannon is the real deal. The top One of the coolest people I've ever got to meet.
Speaker 1:That's awesome man. So obviously you know you got Will Wade over there after getting disgraced and fired from LSU. And Will Wade causes a big ruckus because you know, just shit-talking UL and the Cajuns and whatnot and there's a lot of. You know UL just fired their head coach, bob Marle, a longtime coach. But there's a lot of animosity within the fan base between LSU and UL. A lot of it is because we want to play them in sports. Obviously I think football, like out of all the sports, is going to be the hardest one to try and get even with. But we can be competitive. But like baseball, like we're. You know, lsu, ul, they're a great program Softball as well, but basketball is one of those things that we should be playing them every single year. And Will Wade made this big fuss about not wanting to come to the Cajun Dome. I think we made fun of the PMAC or whatever Bob Marlin did. But then he goes to McNeese, kind of restarts. His career brings in energy and juice, which is happy for my friends over at McNeese. But then y'all his social team, just like he just starts rubbing people and like that will weigh the energy, he starts getting creeped into the social media team and then they beat like UL when they're downtrodden, having you know kind of a rebuilding year, and then they throw out the whole like making fun of the ULL versus UL thing. Right, just throwing right, just throw in shade and it just got like twitter in a in a flurry or x, the everything app.
Speaker 1:And I, I am just dragged in these conversations all the time. Both my parents went to lsu. I I regularly. You know I grew up an lsu fan but went to ul and adopted the cajuns and if the cajuns are ever playing lsu I'll root for the cajuns. But I'm one of the weird freaks who is happy when both succeed. But what I get dragged into is the whole ULL versus Louisiana debate, ul versus ULL and LSU fans' refusal to just call the Raging Cajuns Louisiana, which is their athletic branding, but also just the I don't want to say little brother syndrome. But there seems to be just like people from here are seeking out people who are putting out that conversation, the slights against Louisiana, all the time when it's like bro, let's just do our thing and let's have some happy banter back and forth. But they're just redragging this conversation over and over again. And then McNeese, who doesn't have a freaking dog in the fight, gets into it. It just set me for a loop. Now, despite everything I just said, you have any thoughts on that?
Speaker 2:yeah, I'm definitely not. I'm definitely not one of those people uh, I'm definitely not one of those people that says uh go to hell, usl. I've never said that in my life, uh.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, bro, I don't believe you.
Speaker 2:It's I don't believe you it's, it's, it's in my, okay, lafayette versus Lake Charles, dude, I mean, before we were born, you know that was the big rivalry, mcneese and USL, you know, and, or UL, louisiana, I don't know which, I don't know. Honestly, I don't know what to call them. Louisiana, so you hate it, you hate it. Ul, um, and Louisiana, so you hate it, you hate it, you LF.
Speaker 1:Yet Look, I just call him USL man.
Speaker 2:That's just old school thing. I kind of wish it was still USL. Go. Bulldogs, you know. But uh, yeah, man just growing up, uh, I remember going. I was at you know dad and I went to uh the game where McNeese beat UL uh at you know, at Raging Cajun. But now it's Our Lady of the Lords.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Our.
Speaker 3:Lady of the Lords which is going to?
Speaker 2:be beautiful, my God, I love how the fact that in NCAA 25, it's completed, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's pretty dope actually, but yeah, I remember going there and we shocked the world and yeah, I mean look, I'm a diehard McNeese fan. It is what versus blue Back in the day. You know this was a. It still is. I mean, whenever we came to the Cajun home and the game happened and the English won.
Speaker 1:No look. I love the rivalry aspect of it. I mean, you guys took Karen Crowe, joe, from us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, karen Crowe, joe, yeah, joe, charles Jr, yeah, man Love Joe. Yeah man. Look, it's an old school classic heated rivalry that I don't think gets talked about enough.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I totally agree. Now follow up to that Is Lake Charles considered Acadiana.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Okay, straight from the tap.
Speaker 2:No, well, okay, I consider Acadiana, like Lafayette, this whole area. This is Acadiana.
Speaker 1:Yeah, traditionally how it got started was it was the DMA of the TV broadcast stations out of Lafayette, it's like the nine parish region the.
Speaker 1:TV. Militarized zone, what? What is the designated market area? I believe is what the acronym is, but just wherever the TV stations cover it's like a nine parish region. And then there's parts of people who will say like okay, so it ends in Jefferson Davis. But they still say like Calcasieu should be included in that, and some say something like the Homo Tibeto area. Parishes should be like St Charles. Parish should be kind of in that as well, Basically anything where there's a heavy Cajun influence well, basically anything where there's a heavy, uh, cajun influence.
Speaker 2:I mean, um, I think everything in lake charles is starting to move, either south or moving more east. Uh, in what way? I mean that's just a lot of people in the industries, a lot of people are moving to iowa. You know that's east. I mean we could go back to that. That acadiana, dr Barry Osolay Legend. He explained it great with the triangle. You know how I forgot where he said it started. But you can also look at it. A lot of people that you know you go to Lake Charles. Everybody's last name ends with an E-A-U-X, right, you know? Or Tireo, you know, or any kind of Cajun last name, and Cajun restaurants and everything. But my gripe with Lake Charles. We need more Cajun restaurants.
Speaker 2:There's too many damn Cajun people in that town to not have enough, bro. No-transcript, I'm not going to mention a restaurant, but you know we just got to settle with what we got.
Speaker 1:Tex-Mex.
Speaker 2:Ooh, there's not enough of that. Not enough of that In Lake Charles yeah.
Speaker 1:That's always like. You know, being from Covington, all my New Orleans friends say I'm from Mississippi. You know we're in the San. Antonio Parish on the border of Mississippi. I imagine you guys get Texas, like you guys are from Texas, texiana.
Speaker 2:Texiana yeah, I mean Lake Charles is the number one weekend destination for Houstonians.
Speaker 1:That makes sense.
Speaker 2:Weekend getaway they go to Austin or they go to Lake Charles.
Speaker 1:Okay, so answer me this. So, as of recording this, you know you're obviously a sports fan. This past week the NBA world was lit on fire when Luka Doncic was traded abruptly to the Los Angeles Lakers and you know he's a player that should be a cornerstone of your franchise. And there's conspiracy theories out there that are saying you know these new owners who you know kind of bought a lot of the shares from our cuban and some other ownership group, um, they are trying to flex the texas legislature's arm by making people the mavericks not as appealing to go to, which would incentivize the NBA to want to move them to Vegas, because Vegas they want a team and because, if they don't, how they would keep them there is, if Texas legalizes gambling casinos, they want to build casinos all throughout Texas. Now, with that being said and who knows how much of truth there is into that you know it's Twitter I'm getting all this information from. But let's say that Texas decides to build casinos, right, what does that do to Lake Charles?
Speaker 2:Well, all of the hotels, all of that, I mean, dude, you haven't bro. People even in Lake Charles have no idea the amount of people that come from Texas Go to those casinos Gold Nugget, laberge, horseshoe, texas plates, everywhere. And it's unreal, dude, the money they bring. In Lake Charles just opened a dispensary too, and so all these people are coming over the border for medical marijuana too, betting on sports. Mattress Mac comes to the rest station in Vinton just to bet on sports. Shout out, mattress Mac comes to the rest station in Vinton just to bet on sports. Shout out, mattress Mac. Yeah, legend Hollered at him at a Nass Joe's game.
Speaker 2:One time I was like Mattress Mac, houston Wrestling, houston Wrestling. He was like hey, hey, people that don't know, houston Wrestling saved his business. Oh, wow, he almost lost his business. It was a great flood that hit Houston back in the 80s. He was a big sponsor on Houston Wrestling, paul Bosh, legendary wrestling in Houston, and he basically was like I've lost my business, I'm flooded out, all my mattresses are in water, can't do it. And they raised enough money to save his business.
Speaker 2:He is arguably the top furniture salesman in the world.
Speaker 1:Not just Matt, yeah, so not just like Charles, but Shreveport Bojart, with the casinos that they have over there, that too. I just feel if Texas opens up casinos and legalizes it, it's a giant hit to the West Louisiana economy.
Speaker 2:Oh, bro, definitely, oh my God. And I don't think we're prepared for it. Man, I don't think it'll happen. I really don't. If it does happen, happen like, so you can go to poker clubs in texas and then they have, uh, gotta be careful, I'll say this. But there's like private clubs you can go to with their slot machines and it's kind of like a chucky cheese where you put like a like a card in it and you play with fake money and then they give you a price and they call them macanitas and uh little machines. But yeah, yeah, there's gambling in Texas. It's there, definitely. But you know sports betting. I think they could do something and like have sports betting legalized, but as far as full-fledged casinos, I don't think that's happening.
Speaker 1:Maybe just like the mobile betting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that would make more sense. Dude, it's awesome, bro. Mobile betting is awesome.
Speaker 1:Oh I can't wait for the Super Bowl props. I'm going to have a good time.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Betting on the color of the Gatorade. We used to bet on the National Anthem back when there was you know, when you knew a guy and like the over-under how long it took the National Anthem. I remember we bet the over on Chris Stapleton and he hit it by like a second and we're all just like greatest national anthem ever. It is the greatest national anthem ever.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean guaranteed money right here, Lady Gaga guaranteed for the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1:Okay, if there's a Lady Gaga prop, I'm going to hit it. Guaranteed money.
Speaker 3:You know fun fact on that Chris Stapleton thing.
Speaker 1:The last time he sang the national anthem was in Eagles and Chiefs Super Bowl. Oh, that's right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so you know, maybe there's an opportunity there.
Speaker 1:Maybe there is an opportunity.
Speaker 2:Who's doing the flyover? The crop duster that's in Jennings.
Speaker 1:Is there a flyover at the Dome? Yeah, they'll definitely do a flyover at the Dome.
Speaker 2:Okay, bro, new Orleans is crazy right now. It's wild.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've been following a lot of the Barstool sports content and, just like you know, there's just planes and helicopters flying all over the place. I know, especially after the tragedy, the security's been boosted up, which is already going to happen anyway.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I can't imagine.
Speaker 2:Bruh, let me just tell you, yeah, as someone who was there last night we turn on a street to walk all the way to Bourbon. To walk all the way to Bourbon. Literally every square inch of the French Quarter is units, whether it's the FBI or it's the Louisiana National Guard, state troopers or state troopers or city cops or whatever. If you sneeze the wrong way, you've got 18 barrels pointed at your head. I wish somebody would pull something stupid, god, crazy. You know what's weird, though.
Speaker 2:Like last time we were filming that whole thing for Lady Gaga and the piece that's going to open up the Super Bowl. Like we're up there on the balcony and we start hearing commotion. This dude that was dressed up as a Squid Games character you know the green suit he's just like yelling. He's like I'm a part of this, I'm a part of this. And the state troopers are like nope, nope, and like they're not even trying to. Like people are just walking on set and like they're not even trying to push him out. Like dude, it's this easy to get on set. Yeah right, drunk people just like walking all the way up to the stage. And the state troopers are like you don't belong here.
Speaker 1:It would seem like such like an impromptu kind of put-together last-minute thing to do this, this piece which I imagine a lot of those pre-festivity Super Bowl type stuff are. It's madness. We'll be right back to the episode in just a bit, but first I want to hear from our friends over at Netscore. We're here with the founder of Netscore, tim Benson, a friend of the show, tim, yes, sir, I'm a small business owner with Acadian and Cast.
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Speaker 1:Help you guys out too. Well, thank you, tim. Thank you, netscore. Let's get right back to the conversation now. But getting back to kind of your career and the announcing and whatnot what's something?
Speaker 2:about being an announcer or host that most people don't realize. Hmm, a lot of people say that you know. A lot of people tell me, man, I could do your job, I could do your job and by all means go do it. Like, and they, you know, bro, you don't know what it's like to be in front of a crowd of you know several thousand people, and you've got to be on point. You've got to be on point because these people are looking at you from your toe to the top of your head. They're studying you. They you from your toe to the top of your head. They're studying you. They're listening to every word you're saying. You've got to be on it and you've got to be a perfectionist and a little slip up, whatever. If that happens, just keep rolling.
Speaker 2:And a job is not as easy as it looks. It takes a lot of practice to be that way. I'm fortunate enough to where I just I'm not bragging, I'm just being completely honest, I bragging, I'm just being completely honest, I just got it. Most people are like I've got to look in a mirror. I don't look in a mirror and whatever my lines, I've worked with the absolute top upper echelon of announcing and they're super nervous and they're going over the lines and I'm just like somebody give this guy a Xanax or something. I go out there and I'm just I just nail it, I just do it, and I'm not making that up, it's just who I am.
Speaker 2:You've got it. You've got it. Yeah, and that's why I've gotten this far.
Speaker 1:I feel the same way about podcasting. I'm just the greatest of all time. Yes, you are the greatest of all time. Do you have a story of what's the craziest thing that you've seen or experienced during a live event?
Speaker 2:Man, that's a great question, thank you, okay, great story here. I got a bunch of them. Quickly mention, I got to announce on our border in Laredo, texas. My good buddy, dan Martinez, got me booked in Whenever I was announcing wrestling. We were literally right across from the border wrestling ring in a parking lot, hot desert heat. And I announced from the border and I was like check, awesome, border. But this is a better story than that.
Speaker 2:Bayou Fighting Championship, ponce Train Center you know where the Ponce Train Center is? Right, it's in New Orleans, yeah, across lake. So, pots train center. Oh, yeah, pots train center. Uh, bayou fighting championship.
Speaker 2:Um, you know everything, some stuff. I don't have an ifb in my ear so nobody in the back is telling me. You know, hey, uh, be ready for this. I'm dude, I'm literally like I'm winging all this. Whatever I say, it's gonna happen, right?
Speaker 2:So you know, I, there was a fight that was coming up and it was going to be a title fight and I I was like you know, I introduced the blue corner, fighter first. Blue corner is always like the visiting team. Red corner is normally like your home team. That makes sense. So you know, introducing first. Let's welcome Fighting out of the blue corner, you know, and I said the guy's name, and music plays, music plays. The lights are doing the ballyhoo. You know, the lights are doing their thing. Sold out, crowd a couple thousand people. We're waiting, we're waiting, we're waiting and once again, please welcome fighting out of the blue corner. You know, insert fighter name here. Fighter doesn't show up, okay.
Speaker 2:And so I'm told hey, skip that fight, we're gonna go to go to another fight. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to move forward into tonight's card and I'm like, I'm like talking to the referee and me and the ref Like if you want to know what happens, it's just like we're just bantering. And I'm like I guess I did. You know, sometimes people chicken out. They're like you train all this time. Then, whenever it's legal murder, you know, all of a sudden you're like, maybe I don't want to do this. And so we're like maybe they got chickened out, whatever. So a little while later I'm told by one of the producers hey, that fighter, he's, he's good to go, we're going to do this fight right now. Not a fighter comes out and he lost fights over. Then I find out from the promoter Joe Ancona shout out, one of the most dangerous men in the state of.
Speaker 2:Louisiana old school, espn eighties kickboxer just bad ass. Um, we have lunch the next day and he's like you didn't hear about what happened. So, no, he said, okay, guy goes out there, that was supposed to fight. That I'm telling you about. Before he walks out, the? Uh, there's two sheriff's officers that walk up and they say, hey, uh, we got a warrant for his arrest, he's coming with us. And uh, it was like okay, hold on. Like he's got a fight, this is a title fight. And his opponent everybody in this building paid to see his opponent win this title. So we're crowning a champion.
Speaker 2:And Joe is like look, just hold on a second. And we do a lot with the first responders in New Orleans. We battle. The badges made a quick phone call and said look, just give us just like five minutes please. This guy has to fight, this guy has to fight. And so one thing led to another and it was like okay, we'll let him fight as soon as he's done. We're cuffing him. And, dude, as soon as he got knocked out, he went through that curtain. Boom, you have the right to remain silent. Everything will be used against you whatever, go get your ass kicked.
Speaker 2:They loaded him up in a paddy wagon. They brought him to jail.
Speaker 1:That's like back in the day. Here are stories of Wayne Tubes going to a festival and getting taken out of a cop car getting put on jail, plays a set, gets back in the cop car, goes back to jail.
Speaker 2:Wayne's actually my cousin. No way, yeah, I mean we don't talk to Wayne, but Wayne's actual last name. Get this. Maybe I shouldn't be saying this. Wayne's real last name is Boudreaux. It's his birth name, I guess. I don't think he had a great relationship with his father so he took his mother's last name and Wayne Toops, but his legal birth name is Wayne Boudreaux. I got some interesting family members. You know a lot about Cajun music A decent amount.
Speaker 1:More than, I guess, probably the average person from Covington.
Speaker 2:Nathan Abshire. Yeah, cousin, great uncle, great uncle. Yeah, it's my dad's uncle. My dad said growing up, come to the house on a Sunday smoking a cigarette, whatever, and playing that accordion. That's awesome. Pine Grove Blues and then Cleveland Crochet. Who wrote Sugar Bee, sugar Bee. That was on my dad's mother's side of the family.
Speaker 1:Did you get any of those musical genes?
Speaker 2:So before I was an announcer, I was in a band and I and I thought I could play guitar. We were like a hardcore punk band and we were playing like old school hardcore punk like Fugazi and Misfits and Ramones and whatever and NoFX, and they were like we love you. And then it was like a week later they found someone different. They're like, hey, man, we're going to move forward without you. And I was like my life is over, I'm a failure. What am I going to do next? And then and I met a guy, casey Jones, and we started a podcast and that was history.
Speaker 1:Wow, man, yeah, you were early on in the podcast game too, yeah, so how do you prepare? You know kind of similar to music. If I've got a show, you know I'm making sure I'm getting the voice warmed up, nice and ready to go, Even before this sometimes I'll, yeah, I'm making sure I'm just doing little things here and there to make sure the voice is nice and tight. What do you do, if anything at all, to get ready for an event?
Speaker 2:So I take this hand and I grab this is a PG show.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:I grab my, your Boudreaux. I grab the Boudreaux and I squeeze it as hard as possible until I start red eye, you know, and I'm like we're ready to go Teach his own. No, I'm lying. A lot of people like, okay, one of those things, the up-restaurant of announcing A lot of these big announcers, they all holly-lee-lee-la-lee-la-la-la-la-la. They got to do all these vocal warm-ups and do all this stupid. I'm not stupid, hold on. They just do a lot of other things and and I've never had that issue uh, I'm tv ready and I do. This is what I do. I drink either hot tea or a cup of coffee. There you go, uh, hot liquid just kind of singes your vocal cords and just gets them ready to go and you can roll all night and look, man, you're listening to me. I don't have an amazing voice. I love whenever I'd sell people. I'm an announcer like the voice. I'm like I ain't got no damn voice.
Speaker 2:I know what to do with it, but I hear guys that like work for the city and they got like ladies and gentlemen, please put on your 3D glasses Sounds like Barry White.
Speaker 1:You're like this guy needs to be on every single voice recording. Incredible.
Speaker 2:And I'm like, why the hell are I had a voice of gold like that? But yeah, I got a voice. I just know what to do with it, you know, and I got some good vocal cords.
Speaker 1:You know you also. There's a level of presentation and energy and bringing a presence in the ring or at a game or something like that. That you know a lot of that. Some of it can be kind of learned and fine-tuned. A lot of that, some of it can be kind of learned and fine-tuned. I'm sure, in fact, that you've kind of fine-tuned your presentation over the time. But a lot of it is you either have it or you don't 100%.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man, whenever I started doing wrestling I would notice I was taught watching, growing up, the announcers on WWE and Tony Chemmel and David Penzer and and Justin Roberts, stone face. You know they straight, you know, no, no, no, funny business. They were straight to the point. Old school boxing announcers, straight to the point. That's what I wanted to be no nonsense, no funny business. And I would like notice on the come up and I'm like man, I'm doing all this stuff right. Notice on the come up and I'm like man, I'm doing all this stuff right. Like that the guys in WWE are doing. You know, being straight as an arrow, straight as I could possibly be like all these people that like are not doing that, like the gimmicks and the funny business. You know they're getting all these opportunities and I'm like the hell, am I doing wrong? And I guess I was. Just, you know, I'm young, I'm 26, I'll be 27 or in a couple days, february 13thth.
Speaker 1:Happy early birthday.
Speaker 2:Yeah, thank you, brother. When you're closer to death, that's one way to look at it.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, I'm not that guy. But yeah, no, man, I just thought I had a chip on my shoulder. I'm like I'm doing everything right and I'm not getting the opportunities that I feel like I deserve. You've got these people off, but you know what I realized? That everybody has their own thing and everybody gets their own bookings. The way they do their own thing and I've I've come to realize is that you know everybody has their own thing and you can't knock anybody.
Speaker 2:You know, um, and I've learned from a guy down, dynamite David Hardy. We were talking about Dynamite David Hardy was the complete opposite of me. Dynamite wears the sparkly jackets. He's got a nickname. His damn name is bedazzled on the back of his jacket. It says Dynamite with a microphone and he tells you, as he's announcing folks, I am Dynamite and I'm the maniacal maestro of the microphone or whatever kind of like your thing, and he does these dance moves. This dude will cut a split in the middle of announcing. I mean, he's crazy rambunctious and I'm just like I could never see myself doing that.
Speaker 2:And then there was just doing MMA, like wrestling stone face, straight arrow, everything, mma. I started to kind of get a little loose. You know Interest, music would play for fighters and the lights would be going. I kind of cut up a little bit and I developed a style to wear and if you've seen my videos of me announcing, it's kind of like an about face type thing where, like you know, I'm announcing, I'm looking at the hard camera, hard camera, and then I do kind of like a spin move and I focus on you know, fighter in the blue corner.
Speaker 2:Announce the fighter in the blue corner, boom, boom. And I'm looking at that fighter straight in the eye and I'm announcing this fighter and then boom, flip to red corner, boom, flip to that guy. And I've had fighters tell me and I don't try to do all this I've had fighters tell me like, dude, I thought I could win a fight, I thought I could be in a cage, and he said, as soon as I got in there I got so nervous. But whenever you announced me, you reminded me who I am.
Speaker 1:That's awesome, dude won the fight. That's and that's awesome, dude won the fight. And that's interesting because you know, you think that you're there for the entertainment for the crowd, but you're also playing a big role in these fighters and getting them gassed up and ready to be at their best. Yeah, man, dude, and then sometimes I'm like I do the last thing they hear before you know, touch gloves Legal murder.
Speaker 2:That's what it is, bro. I mean, there's no other ways to get around that. But yeah, dude, I mean speaking of touching gloves, like whenever I announce some of these guys, a lot of these guys I've become friends with, you know, I'm me, I'm a nice, I don't put on a show like a politician.
Speaker 3:I'm me, I'm the kind of guy that's going to kick back and drink a couple of brewsk's it exactly, and a hospitality type of character.
Speaker 2:You know, I'm not gonna put on a show to be like, hi, I'm nice to you, just to get a job. You know, these guys I'll announce them, dude, they'll dap me up and shit, like it's cool, like I'm announcing them and like they'll put out that glove and, boom, dap them up. You know, sometimes you see buffer doing that. It's kind of cool. It's just hey, like me and this fighter, we have something right here. You know that's my boy. You know God bless him. He signed his name on the line to do this, not me.
Speaker 1:Is Bruce the goat or is his brother? Is it michael?
Speaker 2:yeah, michael buffer uh, mma bruce is the goat boxing michael's the goat and I'm in fear of what could happen whenever. I mean they're in their 70s, you know right what's gonna happen? You know, I have a strange feeling that the ufc or these big companies, they're gonna ai generate their voice. I hope not.
Speaker 1:Uh, I mean mean If that feeds to like Buffer's LLC or foundation or something, so that he's getting kickbacks to his family until after he's long gone, that very well could be the future. I hope not. More people like you are getting opportunities and it's like next man up kind of mentality, but kind of shifting and talking about like professional wrestling. I think you'd have to have basically special needs to not know that it's scripted Right In the event. When you're announcing something like that and something, because it's live, things can go off the rails and off script Right. How do you handle that?
Speaker 2:Well, in wrestling you just got to know like anything can happen and everything kind of happens for a reason.
Speaker 1:Do you okay, do the announcers or the commentators get this kind of the script and what's going to happen? Or is it or they are, or is it better for them to be kind of in, not not in the know, so they can be more like a traditional commentator?
Speaker 2:a lot of people want to know, uh, the results before it all happens. I was always the type of guy I did not want to know the finish In wrestling. I don't know if you're a wrestling fan or not.
Speaker 1:Not really.
Speaker 2:Okay, cool, jamie, or Jamie, Are you a wrestling fan, wrestling fans and, of course, like the?
Speaker 1:Attitude Era, of course.
Speaker 3:Absolutely Attitude Era.
Speaker 2:Yeah, brother.
Speaker 3:Tell me who your favorite solo or duo is in the Attitude Era and why is it DX?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I love DX. See, I was more of DX 2000s. Dx it's just my age, you know. But yeah, with wrestling and a lot of wrestling people that are watching this know you know there's a finish, that's the ending of a match, what's going to happen? And I was always look, I don't want to know the results. I want to see that referee slap that canvas. One, two, three and whoever the winner is. Ladies and gentlemen, here is your winner, you know. And new, you know. World heavyweight champion, you know.
Speaker 1:It kind of gives it that veil of authenticity, exactly.
Speaker 2:Now I've had crazy stuff that's happened where it was completely unscripted and you just go with the flow Like what Well, I mean, you got to be a worker and a worker is just, you know, you got to just know what the hell's not know what the hell's going on, but just expect the unexpected and just go with it. And you know, I've seen some situations where guys like I don't know, like announcers in wrestling, will like if there's a bad guy, a heel, you know, and they'll level and realize, you know, like humble yourself. You know there's a wrestler. You know you ain't got to be bucking up to a, you know, a wrestler. I've had a situation sw fury, greenville, texas, with yvonne eric's used to wrestle nice uh, charlie haas.
Speaker 2:Uh, a guy that wrestled in the wwe. Uh, incredible collegiate wrestler. I think he wrestled at Seton Hall. Charlie Haas was going with this gimmick that he was just a crazy maniac lost from the insane asylum. So he'd come out and literally dude and this is televised wrestling syndicated He'd start destroying everything, just start grabbing chairs, throwing them, pushing fans around, popcorn flying everywhere. And the first time I worked with Charlie, he just comes up to me and dude this guy I got to be careful how I say this. But big boot, boom. Like I was sitting there at like the timekeeper's table next to the timekeeper and I just look and he's wrestling a guy ringside and he's headed straight towards me. And I just see this big boot headed straight for my face, boom, oh, and I fall on the ground and I'm like, ah, ah, my face, my face, you know, oh man, he got in the action Agonizing pain agonizing pain and you know, whenever you're with a professional you know it's not really agonizing pain, it's just a.
Speaker 2:He's just such a professional Baby tap. Anyways, those who know know I don't mean to expose anything that you don't already know. Then Lance Hoyt. Lance Archer wrestles for AEW. Currently Another situation Lance and I go way back, lance. I was sitting ringside for an event with SWE Fury in Dallas, texas, and he just comes over and he's just like he's just selling the fact that he's hurt and he just like collides into me and like I just fall on the ground and dude, insane stuff.
Speaker 1:So you're in both of these worlds, but you know, as being in the content creation business, I feel remiss, as we're kind of getting close to wrapping up, to not bring this up with you. As far as I think it's aew. How do you, how do you make of uh logan paul his performance in in professional wrestling?
Speaker 2:oh, logan, logan's in the wwe okay dude, you know, um, I just I remember like watching the paul brothers years ago, yeah, like whenever they were just making videos, man, and uh, seeing them now.
Speaker 1:They're two of the greatest performers on planet earth and probably some of the greatest promoters on Earth Bingo, and you're seeing, that was part of the next part with the boxing thing, like now, the brothers are fighting each other and even though we keep getting fooled by this and we keep paying for these pay-per-views to watch, you know, jake Paul fight Mike Tyson or something, we're going to do it again. We're going to watch it all on Netflix or whatever it is. It's going to be on and that'll be that. Then we'll be fooled again. But I don't know, maybe something tells me with the Paul brothers it'll be more of like a true fight. I don't know what's your take on all these boxing matches that are being orchestrated?
Speaker 2:I don't want to affect my employment with anybody and so I'll just keep it simple as it can possibly be. Uh, there's a great way to make money as a promoter in boxing and you're seeing it happen. Those who know know, and uh, I mean whenever I said it before, uh, paul fought, uh, mike Tyson, you know we were, we were doing the show in Orleans, it was a Battle of the Badges event and right after the show they said everybody, we're going to stream the fight on the Jumbotron, and so whoever wanted to stake a watch and I was telling everybody, I said I will put all the money in my pocket. Two ways Logan Paul wins by knockout or Logan Paul it goes to decision Jake, paul I forget which Paul brother, jake or Logan Paul it goes to decision Jake Paul, I forget which.
Speaker 2:Paul, brother, jake, paul I don't even know Paul or it goes to decision and Paul wins to make him look strong and people are like no, tyson's going to beat his ass and I'm like it's boxing. You got to sell the next fight. It's a business. I mean we can make you a world champion and say nobody can beat this guy. I mean, it's true, but go on, we can book you against young Jamie over here and we can promote it, promote it and promote it and make you look unstoppable. Luke's jacked I wouldn't mess with him. Yeah, well, he's a good-sized guy, yeah. And then you guys have a fight and money rolls right in Floyd Money Mayweather, the greatest promoter of all time. The dude's a genius. You know how many times he's lost. Well, I don't really know his record, but I mean my recent. You know knowledge. He's never lost because it's his show and he books the fights. The greatest fight ever promoted hands down. Was it him and Pacquiao? No, mayweather McGregor.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:The single greatest promoted fight of all time. Old heads can argue with me about oh, what about this guy, dude? I mean, as far as the new world and social media and everything, how they went on a global tour and like Dana White was this moderator and was like they're asking Dana, what do you think about McGregor? He's like, well, I'm just trying to make sure he doesn't snap. He's talking so much shit and he's like he can't even read. Look at him with the little schoolgirl, the little backpack, and they're talking all this shit and it's just like they get face-to-face. It's going to happen. They're going to fight.
Speaker 2:No, and, dude, you see one spot of it. We're like Mayweather accidentally hit him too hard and he's like, ooh, and he picked him back up. Need you to stay for this whole fight? And Mayweather won. And then afterwards, what are they doing? They're hugging, they're kissing, they're drinking their whiskey and McGregor's like and just rolling in money. Yeah, mayweather, I want to thank you for all the money you made me Like you know. Yeah, exactly, greatest promoter of all time, floyd Money Weighweather.
Speaker 1:Well, so Hire me, yeah, hire him please.
Speaker 3:Or not.
Speaker 1:I don't care. I think you justified a hiring. You can make a mean gumbo.
Speaker 2:Mayweather, they go.
Speaker 1:Oh, nothing about that you make your own roux.
Speaker 2:Yeah, why?
Speaker 1:not Okay, you wouldn't seem too confident on that one.
Speaker 2:Dude jar roux is the Look I'm going to piss everybody off. Jar roux is the same. It's fine. It's the same damn thing, bro. Everybody's like. You got a meal, dude, just don't put tomatoes in it, don't put cauliflower in it.
Speaker 1:And shrimp and seafood does not go with sausage and chicken. Very true, keep the meat separate, bro. What about potato salad? Does that go in the gumbo?
Speaker 2:Hell. No, then you're eating a mayo, egg and potato mustard soup. No, this is how I do my potato salad. It's got to be on a little saucer and I need a little spoon to make that little tink noise whenever it hits the saucer, and I love that little sound. I don't like my potato salad ice cold, like to gives you a brain freeze. I like a little room temperature and you know, gumbo, gumbo, gumbo, palate, cleanser potato salad, that's the way to do it. And uh, dj ret set right here and I wholeheartedly agree. Uh, puck fast, elia. And and it's not because of him, and God, dude, dude's a genius, right, but I just like I cannot stand whenever somebody's like hey man, come over, we're doing the LSU game, we're cooking a big jambalaya. I love jambalaya. Yeah, love it.
Speaker 2:Grew up swimming. After I get through swimming, my grandmother was cooking me a bowl of jambalaya and I love good jambalaya and I love good jambalaya. And then you get there and you're like what the hell is this mac and cheese bullshit? And I'm like dude, what the hell is this? Like this isn't. Oh, it's pasta. It's the same thing. Oh, my god, you gotta be kidding me, dude, it's. Stop calling it pasta. Lie. It's not called pasta. Lie, it's chicken and sausage pasta with cheese in it. Do you put cheese and jambalaya? Do you put velveta cheese and heavy whipping cream and jambalaya? No, it's its own thing and stop calling it pastalaya. It's not dude and I can't stand it. Uh, dude. Like during the hurricane, hurricane laura and lake charles these people from illinois were cooking we're cooking good cajun food and like they're cooking pastalaya. Like straight up, if you serve you serve me pasta in like a styrofoam container and it's closed and it's you tell me jambalaya and I open it as pasta, I will put the food down, I would get up and I will leave.
Speaker 1:I don't want to do business with you people coming over to cook for after a hurricane and his neck of the woods and he was like 800 pounds of pasta live, yeah, to be that.
Speaker 1:But, dude man, it's been a great pleasure getting to know you and chat with you today. Wrapping up here, you know, because, the way I see it, the more opportunities in the fighting world that there are in South Louisiana, the more opportunities for you, and it seems that we're more and more especially, you know, with with someone like a Dustin Poirier kind of leading the charge, and we have a rich boxing history in Louisiana that a lot of people don't know about, but we have more and more fighters who are making it to high levels, high-level competition, carly Judis, a guest on this show.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, he is a super fan. I love it. But we have this rising community of MMA here and you've done events at the Cajun Dome in MMA. To those who have never been to an event here, what would be your message to them? To kind of like support that, to come out and see what it's all about?
Speaker 2:Straight up. March 29th, youngsville Sports Complex, ragin' FC's inaugural event. Crazy Tim Crater is putting this on with the guys at Headkicks MMA and some secret investors, from what I've been told, and it's going to be a cool time Going to see some great fights. Just like you know, lafayette has a great rich MMA history. Did you ever watch the movie Fightland or Fightville? No, it's about whatever About Fightinville.
Speaker 1:What Like there was an area on the north side that was nicknamed fightingville, which is where poor abe was kind of that was it?
Speaker 2:yeah, well, this it was a movie on netflix like 2011, 2012. It was about dustin early days fighting at usa mma training under tim crater, his early days in his career, and it was all filmed in lafayette. I mean, they're showing, you know, uh, gil gillery, the promoter uh, you know, you know, promoting this event at the cage of gnome and, and you know, gil Guillory, the promoter, you know, promoting this event at the Cajun Dome, and, and you know Dustin fighting and Dustin working his way up to the top. But this is a fight town. Lake Charles is a fight town. Lafayette fight town. Bro. These people love good fights and the whole community is all influenced by these people that have gone to the UFC. All of these guys around from this area, guys and girls in this area that have gone to the UFC, all of these guys around from this area, guys and girls in this area that have gone to the higher level and in this career. And it's starting at their kids, bro. I've announced kids MMA matches here at the Hyman Center for Bayou Fighting Championship.
Speaker 2:Dude, the crowd is sold out all the time around here. They're all wearing the shirts of their favorite fighters or their sibling or their son or their grandson. It is a family affair, dude. It is insane around here. These people love it and I love these people, man, and all the McNeese and UL Louisiana, all that, whatever. I love this town. I love Acadiana. I love Lafayette. My last name is Boudreaux. For God's sakes, I love these people. I love coming to Lafayette, I love announcing fights here and I'll be here March 29th, youngsville Sports Complex. We're doing Raging FC's inaugural event. Who knows what's going to happen. It's going to be crazy. How can people follow you?
Speaker 3:Well, I'll be walking outside.
Speaker 2:If you want to, just like put on Facebook. He's walking around there he is, and so they could follow me in my car. I'm headed back home, so you want to come to Lake Charles and follow me there, how?
Speaker 1:about on social media.
Speaker 2:Okay, that Okay. Bryce Boudreaux Facebook, instagram, tiktok, myspace, ibmdb, whatever it's called, all of that. Just look up Bryce Boudreaux with an X and if you see a handsome devil in a suit, that's me. Yeah, I could be ugly, I don't know. Whatever you people think.
Speaker 1:Coming to a broadcast near you soon. Well, bryce, since you are aware and a fan of the show, you know how this ends. Take a look at your single camera right here. It could be a word, a phrase, it could be advice, it could thing that you want to end the episode with, to impart to the internet world at large.
Speaker 2:This is a public forum. This is going out to the masses. Okay, the two most important days of your life is the day you're born and the day you find out why. The day you find out why, whenever you find that, why you'll have a much happier life.
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