Chase Colston And His Celina Troubadour Festival 2022

Ron Lyons (00:02):
You and I go into donut shop. What do you get?

Chase Colston (00:05):
Man? I'm, I'm like, just like, I'm not a big donut guy, but if I do, it's like chocolate ice, man. Just classic.

Ron Lyons (00:11):
Willie Nelson is hanging out with us, and he goes in the donut shop too. What does he get?

Chase Colston (00:16):
The, the one with the special ingredients.

Ron Lyons (00:21):

Welcome to Celina radio.com. Recorded right here in Celina, Texas, a quiet, little dusty, sleepy town that has absolutely nothing going on. In case you didn't recognize that voice. That's Chase Colston, and I know you recognize that name because Chase Colston is who is bringing the Troubadour Festival back to Celina, Texas for a second year in a row this Saturday. And he was nice enough to sit down with us today, spend the little time, tell us all about the Troubadour Festival. Tell us all about himself, and have a few laughs along the way. Needless to say, this wasn't your typical episode. That's right guys. It's Chase Colston and Chase Colston has real passion for two things, barbecue and country music. And when you put the two of those things together, you end up with the Troubadour Festival going on this Saturday, and there's still some tickets available.

Ron Lyons (01:32):

But listen to this interview, Understand how Chase got to this point where this brain child of his, this creation of his has just grown in popularity. It's an amazing event I went last year, as many of you did. I'm going this year. Can't wait for it. It's just gonna be simply awesome. So guys, sit back and let's chat with Chase Colston. Guys, I am here right now with Chase Colston, and you may know that name because we've got a great big event coming up right now. We're right on the edge of it, and you know it as the Troubadour Festival. Chase, how you doing, man?

Chase Colston (02:21):
I'm good, brother. How are you? I'm

Ron Lyons (02:23):

Really, really good. Thank you so very much for being here today. We're gonna talk a little bit about your event, and we're gonna have some fun with some questions and stuff. But, but first of all, let's, let's talk about the True Door Festival. First of all, for, I, I can't imagine there's anyone out there that doesn't know what it is. But let's, let's fill the people in who might just be, you know, getting, moving to Celina, getting their feet on the ground. What's, what's the Troubadour Festival?

Chase Colston (02:46):

Yeah, so Troubadour Festival is what we we kind of label Texas barbecue and music experience. So we essentially celebrate two of the, the things that, that Texas is, is known best for. One of those is barbecue. You know, Texas is, you know iny the home of the, the greatest barbecue in the world. We

love we love to travel for barbecue. We love to eat it. We love to, you know, consume content about it, you know, and, and over the last, you know, 15 or so years, just the popularity has just exploded. So we, you know, that that aspect of it, we bring in you know, 40 plus at the best barbecue restaurants in Texas. And then the other part of that is country music. So, you know Texans are very proud of our, our legacy and, and country music.

Chase Colston (03:32):

And you know, one of those aspects is you know, kind of the Texas country red dirt scene which is you know, a big part of the, the country music experience with with us. And then we, you know, bring in some other country aspects into it too. But we basically kind of smash two festivals together into one and bring together a barbecue festival and a, and a concert and do it all in one day. And, you know, that's kind of the, the gist of it. And it's it's, it's a good time.

Ron Lyons (03:56):
It's amazing. So last year I went out there and, and let me tell you what my experience was, first of all.

It's huge. It's a big event. Big

Chase Colston (04:05): Spot.

Ron Lyons (04:05):

Yeah. We, we did the v i p thing and, and we'll get into that in just a little bit and we'll kind of talk about the different levels and what's still available, because I know so sold out now, but when I went in, we did the, the early access, and I've never seen so many barbecue places in my life. I was literally in heaven. If you, if you can't tell, I'm a guy that enjoys his food.

Chase Colston (04:27): Yeah. So, so am I, my man,

Ron Lyons (04:28):
<Laugh> brother. I made it down one side. I started it, you know, like kind of up by the, the entrance.

And I made it down that first side. I, I couldn't even cover the back or come back down the,

Chase Colston (04:39):
And even that's impressive <laugh>.

Ron Lyons (04:40):

I, I, it was, it was amazing. It was, it was something else. And then there was, there was the, the music was just off the hook. It was incredible. It was overall, it was just an amazing experience. And I would encourage anyone that, that enjoys anything to do with the barbecue scene. The, the music scene, especially if you love both, dude, this is like heaven.

Chase Colston (05:01):

It is. And, you know, that's kind of the environment that we, you know, we want to create. And, you know, we had a just a, an absolutely, you know, amazing first year in Celina last year. It just, it exceeded

every expectation we, we had. And the support from the very beginning, from, you know, the top level, the city down to every single attendee who came was just just, just incredible and humbling. And we were grateful. And, you know, we are you know, we're incredibly stoked to be, to be back in Celina this weekend. Well,

Ron Lyons (05:29):

I'll tell you, I, and I speak for a lot of people, We're very glad to have you back here, and I hope this is something that continues for a long, long time. So let's, let's cover some of the basics. When exactly is the Trior Festival this year?

Chase Colston (05:42):

Yeah, it's this Saturday, October 15th. You know, we're back at Old Celina Park. You know, I think you know, on on, you know, the grand scheme of things, it's gonna be very similar to last year. There are some, some changes. You know, our footprint is a little bit bigger, so we're trying to get, make it a little bit more comfortable. We're able to make the event a little wider. If you had VIP tickets last year the VIP section is bigger, so we were able to kind of move some things around, make that more comfortable. We've got more bathrooms in there. We got more bathrooms in the event period, you know, just to try to make the experience even better than it was. You know, when you, when you start events and you do your first one, you know, as great as it went last year, which it went wonderfully, there's always something to improve upon. So, you know, that was, that was our goal, to come in and say, Okay, let's improve these aspects of the event. And, you know, we hope in, in those areas that, that we do.

Ron Lyons (06:30):

Very, very impressive. And I love the fact that you're inaugural event for, this was right here in Celina, Texas, but you've got experience doing similar events or large events like this in the past. Tell me a little bit about what you've done in the past that's, that's kind of similar to this. Like how did this, you know, relate to what you've done before?

Chase Colston (06:48):

Yeah, so in you know, I worked I worked in media for a very, very long time. I started newspapers when I was 14 years old. And then I was a sports writer for about 10 years. And then after that kind of went on the digital and then the radio side for, for a company that you know, is a national company, but had a market in Tyler, Texas where I live and where I'm, where I'm from. And you know, I was hired to do digital marketing for them. And then along the way, you know, events were a really big part of the company's plan at the time. And I was a huge fan of barbecue. My boss who hired me was a massive fan of barbecue as well. And I was a regular attendee to the Texas Monthly Barbecue Festival in Austin, which was, you know, really the, the og barbecue event and the state.

Chase Colston (07:30):

And, you know, they brought in all these restaurants and you got to sample each of them. And it was just like you had, you had, you had you, you had the best in one place, which I just thought was fascinating. And I came up with an idea, said, Okay, look, we own, you know, we work for radio stations and one of our stations of the country station with a really popular text country show that's now indicated all over the country. And said, Let's take this barbecue concept and add a concert to it, and just kind of, you know, put it together and let's do it in Tyler. And I was told no <laugh>,

Ron Lyons (08:02):
That seems to be common. Anytime any great thing is, is right on the edge of being, you know launched.

There's a lot of nos

Chase Colston (08:10):

Out there. Oh, yeah, yeah. You know, my, my immediate boss was on board, of course, and you know, we took it to higher ups and, you know, it was no, and then it was no again. And you know, about a year later, we kind of went back with the kind of a better plan and, and said, Hey, let's, let's take a shot on this. And and they finally, you know, kind of gave it and said, All right, here, you know, you can do it. And we we did our first it was called Red Dirt Barbecue Music Festival, which still exists today. We did our first one in May of 2014, and I did it for six years on the square in downtown Tyler. 2019 was my last one. As everybody knows, in 2020, a little pandemic came along.

Chase Colston (08:49):

So it it, it essentially just wiped out that event for that year. But along with that, I was furloughed by my company since I was on the event side. And there were no events <laugh>. And then about a year later, I was let go completely just, just laid off. And along with that, I so I, you know, I spent about a year and a half outta outta work, or at least, you know, on the couch like a, you know, hundreds of thousands of other people Right, right. In my industry. And you know, long story short my my best friend of, of more than 30 years, who, you know born and raised in, in small east Texas town called Bullard, where we're from lives in McKinney now. And you know, we started having conversations over, you know, several months of, you know, me being unemployed and kind of seeing the writing on the wall of what was to come in my career and things like that.

Chase Colston (09:39):

And ultimately I think one night after a lot of adult beverages perhaps, but you know, we kind of, he, he said, You know, let's, let's just do it. Let's give it a shot. And and then the question came, So where do we do this? And you know, I had, when I, when I got let go, I had to noncompete in Tyler in East Texas for, for a year. So, you know, doing it there was, was not an option. And you know, and and I, I did Red Dirt on the Square, you know, that still, still happens now, and in downtown Tyler. And so we were kind of looking at like, where are some really cool downtowns up in, up in dfw? And, you know, we looked at McKinney, we looked at other couple other places, and my business partner does, has, you know, done a lot of work in Celina and some, some people up here.

Chase Colston (10:26):

And he said, Hey, let's check out Celina. You know, and I had never been here. When I was a sports writer for a long time, I covered high school football in Texas and always knew who Celina was. Of course. Yeah. I knew who Ga Moore was, right? I knew about eight state championships and had covered Celina and some playoff games with some East Texas teams and things like that, but had never been to Celina itself. And we came to downtown and checked it out and, you know, fell in love with it. And then we met with some people in the city, and, you know, one thing led to another, and we looked at another property here, and you know, then they showed us the park, and then that's where that's where we are now.

Ron Lyons (11:01):

And so, exactly, here you are now. So, so the pandemic, as bad as it's been, and as much as it has affected everybody, it, it really, it, it kind of allowed you to go to a whole new level. And, and, and thank God for that because look at what we've got now. Troubadour Festival right here in Celina, Texas. And you're, you, you grew up in a small town. You're

Chase Colston (11:22):
In East Texas, very small. Yeah.

Ron Lyons (11:24):
Talk, talk to me about Celina. You just love, Is Celina awesome? Do you just love Celina?

Chase Colston (11:28):

Yeah, absolutely. You know, and you know, when we, you know, you come into something like this and you, you spend you know, you spend 18 months on unemployment. You know, I, I've worked full time since I was 15 years old and, you know, worked for free in high school for a local newspaper. And you know, I, I never knew what it was to not work. And, you know, when you're starting over and then suddenly you're going into business for yourself, you're taking a giant leap of faith and you know, you're going into business with somebody, you've know, since you were five years old, you know, it's it's stressful. It's a lot of pressure. And you know, and then as we were kind of looking at places, and we came to Salon and started having conversations with folks in the city, and the first person we met was Alexis Jackson with the edc. And, you know, she was on board from the very beginning, just really, really outgoing, really helpful, you know, really accommodating. And we got to understand what the city's vision was as it continues to grow in a massive, massive way.

Ron Lyons (12:24):
And it is, it's, it's, it's unbelievable. And I think that if this thing continues, which I believe that your, your

event is gonna be wild,

Chase Colston (12:33): We certainly hope so.

Ron Lyons (12:35):

And, and, and I hope it stays right here in Celina of Texas. I hope you never outgrows Celina, and I hope Celina never outgrows you, but with the, the number of people coming here, your, your base is just gonna increase every year.

Chase Colston (12:45):

Yeah. And, you know, and that's you know, that's what our goal is. You know, when we, when I started Red Dirt and Tyler you know, Tyler's a big town, you know, we're about a hundred thousand people now, and it wasn't as much then, but, you know, Tyler's kind of on its own, a little island out there in East Texas. And when, you know, big events never really happened. And you know, if something, you know, people wanna go to a concert or do something big, it was, you know, 95% of the time you're going to Dallas, you're gonna dfw, you know, then they're Shreveport, you know, about equal distance away. But any big concert, you know, any big events, you know, you were going to Dallas. And so when

we brought when we created, When I created Red Dirt, and we did our first one in 2014, and you know, and over six years, you know, it just, it's sold out every year which it still has.

Chase Colston (13:27):

And it's just, it's become the event in the town. And, and, and this town has grown with it, and it's become the thing to do. And, you know, when we looked at Celina, it was, okay, it's growing massively. The city puts on great events, but you know, there's an opportunity here to, for a company like ours to come in and do something like that and grow along with it as well. You know, I mean, the hope is that one day, you know, we find a bigger place and we're able to accommodate more people or, you know, do what we can to, to make it even better and, and have more people in Salon to be involved. Cuz as we grow with it you know, it's, it's only gonna get better from here

Ron Lyons (14:02):

Hopefully. Absolutely. And right now, as we were talking about, there's different ticket levels and stuff like that, and I, and I believe what I just saw is that the actual, the the prime, the biggest VIP package deal that you have that's sold out right now, but there are still some opportunities for people to come get some barbecue and to enjoy the, the music. So tell me about that.

Chase Colston (14:23):

Yeah, yeah, our VIP tickets sold out in about five hours this year, which was just it was really, really cool to see, you know, the, the demand has already you know, gotten that high, which is, which is crazy. But with that said, you know, we still have two ticket levels that aren't sold out yet. And one of those is our barbecue music ticket, which includes, you know, unlimited samples from as many barbecue restaurants as you can handle. So if you can make it down the first line or all three or whatever, you know, do what you can. But you can, you can eat all that all you want, and it includes access to the show. And having a barbecue music ticket also allows you to see three great artists on our side state or tumble textile stage that operates from 1204, which is exclusively for VIP and barbecue music ticket holders.

Chase Colston (15:06):

We've got three great artists, Carson, Jeffrey, Holly, Beth, and Gracee York playing on their three up and coming great songwriters, great performers you know, but if you you know, if you just want to come to the, to the main stage show and you know, we have our concert and only take our music ticket for $60. So it's about half the price, which is you know, really good deal. But you've got, you know, Randy Rogers band, Wade Bow, Nicholas, Kelly Musk nine, Bud Line, and Chris Coleston in that stage, you know, so if you got something going on during the day or you know, kids got games or whatever, you wanna come later that night, you know we have those tickets available. You know, we, it's looking like we're gonna have both available at the gate. Prices will be more at the gate, so we, you know, recommend definitely buying online in advance. But we we do have a limited number of both available right

Ron Lyons (15:50):

Now. So you've got some really, really big names out there. This, you had some big names last year. I just wanna just gimme just a quick little, a little insight. What's it like from your perspective at the actual event? Like, is it just mayhem and craziness? Are you just running around putting out fires? Are you, do you get to finally relax at some point in the night? Or, or what's it like in your shoes?

Chase Colston (16:14):

Yeah, you know, in mine, I, I you know, we are fortunate to have a lot of great people who help us put on this event, you know, that that, that have their own fire extinguishers that are a lot bigger than ours. You know, we do definitely experience it, but but we have a great team of people who have, have made this event what it is. And, you know, we're able to see from our view what all they do and how they're able to accomplish this, which is, you know, takes a lot of pressure off of us. You know, it's still, it's still crazy, especially, you know, when Gates first open and, you know, you got all these barbecue restaurants and, you know, things always come up and you know, the barbecue guys are kind of my, my, my focal point for, for a large portion of this event.

Chase Colston (16:54):

And but, you know, at the same time, you know, as the day goes on, you know, we're able to, you know, spend some time to talk to people and you know, sit down and, and enjoy company and, you know, have a few beers at some point. And, you know, always you know, my wife and I, you know, we've, we've worked events together for a long time, even when we were just friends as coworkers and now married, we always make a point to watch one song together. So we say, Hey, you know, let's figure it out. Let's find that, you know one song. And so, like, one of her favorite songs is Song by Musk Dime Bloodline. So when they play, you know, if they play that song, you know, that's the one we'll watch together. But it's, you know, we we're giving the opportunity now where we can take some time to enjoy it and have a good time and, you know, put out some fires on the way. But, you know, that's, that's event life.

Ron Lyons (17:37):
So, so if somebody did want to go grab one of those tickets and come experience this thing, what's the

website? Where do they go to to buy these tickets? Yeah,

Chase Colston (17:45):

It's, it's real tough for Troubadour Festival. It's true budd door festival.com. So, you know, we have some <laugh> you know, Tru Bor could be a little tricky to spell sometimes, but, you know, Google figure it out for you. So.

Ron Lyons (17:56):
Exactly, exactly. Yeah. I always have to double check myself. I think I have it down now. I think I can

Chase Colston (18:01):
Spell that. It's that last you that, that, that tricks people.

Ron Lyons (18:04):
It is, it is. So, so in, in this entire event with, with all of this stuff going on, what's, what's the hardest part

of it for you?

Chase Colston (18:11):

You know, I've done it so long, you know, there's not really a, a hard part. It's just more of dealing with the unexpected or dealing with you know, you know, last year it, it, you know, the, the weather was great the day of the show two days before the show, three days before the show, it was not so great. It rained relentlessly, you know, it was you know, forecast would be about a half an inch of rain ended up

being about two and a half inches. And you know, we're on, you know, the, the fields old Celina Park, and you know, they're just flooded essentially. And I will say that, and don't let him hear this, but you have a great Parks and Rec director and Cody Webb, who him and his team just went so far above and beyond to, to try to make that feel, to make that feel, you know, workable.

Chase Colston (19:00):

You know, they were installing drains out there to drain wa pumping water off the ground to to make it, to make it ready. And, you know, that Friday, you know, we loaded in 41 barbecue restaurants, and that's big trailers, that's smokers, and that's hard on <laugh>, that's hard on ground, that's been rained on that much, you know? So you know, they, they just did a phenomenal job, you know, making that, you know, doable, you know, for, for the, the day of the show. And you know, fortunately, at least right now, knock on wood, the weather looks great and, you know, a little warm, so

Ron Lyons (19:32):

Right on. And after a big event like this, and, and you've been involved in events now, obviously for some time, and, and you've done the Big Celina one last year, the in Agur, when you've got this one this year, what's, what's the day after feel like?

Chase Colston (19:45): Sore

Ron Lyons (19:46):
<Laugh>. Tell me about that.

Chase Colston (19:48):

Tiring. you know, at the same time it's just, you know, for, and, you know, it's not really a secret, I guess, but, you know, for event planners and, you know, people in my position, our day is the day after, you know you know, the day of the show, it's, it's all about the attendees. It's all about our artists. It's all about our restaurants, you know, doing everything that we possibly can to make, to make it the, the good experience that we want it to be. And especially for our guests. We want them to come out, have a good time, you know, if they want to come out and you know, stuff their face or you know, you know, drink some beer, whatever, but, or just relax and have a good time. You know, that's what we want them to. They, we want that goal be fulfilled for them the day after, You know, that's our day

Ron Lyons (20:33): <Laugh> right on

Chase Colston (20:33):

And pray. Yeah. That's where we, you know, kind of come out and make sure everything's going the way it should when we're done. You know, we, we go sit at the bar and, you know, we have a few beers and we just, you know, that's in if, in the feeling that fulfilling part of saying, Hey, we, we did it again. And, you know, and and then we go to bed very early.

Ron Lyons (20:51):

So, so, so do you at least get a little time off before you have to start thinking about the next year, or does that start pretty soon after the event?

Chase Colston (20:58):

You know, I mean, right now it's, you know, we have our date for next year already up here. You know, we did three of these shows this year, which was a lot to, to take on. And, you know, we're kind of evaluating what we wanna do in 2023. Celina is 100% a part of that. The date's already, like I said, it's already locked in, but you know, things happen so far in advance now, especially with the artist that, you know, we're already having conversations about, you know, headliner for next year just to start that process. So it's, you know, we do try to say, Hey, you know, let's take a week or two off and and, and then be like, Okay, let's get back on the horse and, you know, start, start doing this again.

Ron Lyons (21:34):
Right. And, and that brings up a good question. So how, how do you select these artists and how, how

does that all come together? What's that process like?

Chase Colston (21:41):

Yeah, you know, it's it's, that's actually probably the, it can be stressful, of course, like anything can, but it's probably the easiest part. Cuz you know, we, we just work with a lot of great booking agents and companies that represent these artists. And you know, a lot of 'em I've, I've worked with for, you know, almost a decade now and, you know, call and say, Hey, this is our date, you know, this is what we can afford or not afford, and, you know, who do you have available? And here's our list and what can you accommodate? And you know, when I did the very first barbecue festival in Tyler, you know, in 2014, you know, so we booked our headliner in in 2013, so, you know, almost 10 years ago. And that was Randy Rogers band. You know, Randy wasn't available last year, but you know, getting Pat Green and Josh Abbot to co headline was, was really awesome.

Chase Colston (22:31):

But we had, we had one goal for, for 2022, and that was to get Randy Rogers Randy's one of my absolute favorite Texas country artists of all time, absolute legend in the scene. And, you know, he, he played Red Dirt. He, he played my first one in my last one, which was, which was really special to me. And then, you know, once you get your headliner done, you know, you kind of fall into place after that. Say, Okay, who's good fit that fits our, fits our budget, fits our, you know, our goal to, to put on a great show and who makes a great lineup. You know, Randy Rogers, Wade Bowens, you know, that's, that's frigging spaghetti and meatballs, man.

Ron Lyons (23:05): It's, it's amazing.

Chase Colston (23:06):

Randy and Wade played together The Last Red Dirt I did. And it was phenomenal. They they just bring a good vibe, you know, they have a lot of fun. And, you know, that's you know, and that was that that fell into place and, you know, we were stoked to get that. And you know, Reckless Kelly, which I sort of ashamed to say it, but I've actually never seen him as long as I've been doing this. It just never fell into place, or at least best I can remember. I've drank a lot since then. But <laugh> but they're just, you know, they're red dirt legends, you know they'll play a lot of songs that people will be like, Oh crap, I

forgot that's who sang that song, you know? And and Muscadine Bloodline's, one of the hottest, you know, names on, on country music right now.

Chase Colston (23:50):

The fact that they're playing second on this lineup is, is almost, is crazy. You know, it's like, but being able to fit them right there was, was really cool that they took that spot. And then opening the show is a Colston. He's a family member of mine, so Chris is my cousin, and this was a, a great opportunity for him. He opened our show in Tyler last month. And you know, being able to part of this, you know, Randy Rogers managed him for a while. So having him on this was, was really important to me. And I know he's really excited about it. But, but yeah, the whole, the whole process is fairly simply, you know, done it so many times. You know, there's negotiations and things like that, but you know, nothing that's, you know, too nuts. But it's, you know, it, it's actually kind of fun to say, Hey, here's what we can put together.

Chase Colston (24:36):

And you know, when this lineup kind of fell into place where were like, you know, it, it this turned out pretty good. You know, one thing that we, we look at is the demographics of, of an area. And one thing that we noticed last year with Celina is you have a lot of, you know, your median age, I think up here is around 37, 38 years old. And so it's like, you know, let's, you know, you're talking about people that are, you know, mid thirties to mid forties, you know, you know, most everybody has a family, you know, they have, you know, they live up here, they have, you know, good jobs, but they have, you know, spouse and children and things like that. But what almost every one of those people has in common is that they went to college and when they went to college, you know, they saw concerts from Pat Green and Randy Rogers, and Reckless Kelly and Josh Abbott and you know, Cody Candid last year, Stoney Laus.

Chase Colston (25:27):

So it's like, you know, let's kind of, you know, let's kind of take these folks back to college a little bit and let them experience it. And we had a lot of people that came out last year, and it is 100% a family friendly event. But we had a lot of people last year who brought their kids, and, you know, we looked on social media after, and they said, you know, this was great. Loved it. Next year we're, it's just us. We're leaving, you know, we're hiring a babysitter, <laugh>, let's go. You know, let's go, let's go live it up a little bit better. And, you know no, maybe take an Uber home this time. So

Ron Lyons (25:53):

Right on. Right on, right on. I can tell just from sitting here across from you and listening to you, First of all, man, you're really good at this, so congratulations on, you know falling out on the pandemic and picking up like this. That's amazing. What a, what a huge success story for you. And here's what's cool. It's still building.

Chase Colston (26:13):

It took a lot of, it took, it's amazing. It took some very very important and special people in my life to, to help me there. You know, without, so my, my now wife we were dating at the time, and she she got laid off a month before I got furloughed from the same company. So that was, you know, extremely difficult. And she was living in Florida at the time, you know, she's a New York native, but she was living in Florida, working there. So that turned into crap, what are we gonna do? Right? And then a month later, it was, you know, I was furloughed for, at least at the time, I was, you know, at least three or four

months was the timeline. It ended up being a year. But along that way, moved her almost a thousand miles to, to Tyler from Florida.

Chase Colston (26:57):

She had to leave the beach. She still, you know, kind of resents that to this day. But, you know, she was able to get to Tyler and find a great job. And you know, along the way you know, when my business partner, you know, best friend, you know, told me that we would, you know, do this. And you know, if I didn't have these people in my life, I wouldn't be here. You know, I wouldn't be sitting here talking to you about this event. It's just, it's just 1% the truth. So, you know, I call her my sugar mama to this day and <laugh>, you know? Right on. You know, and you know, these people have, you know, taken a giant leave of faith in, in the vision and what we do. And you know, that this definitely would not be happening without, without those people. And

Ron Lyons (27:39):

You love what you're doing. I can see it on your face as you're talking about it. When you get to talking about this. It's, it's so obvious that you love this. I mean, I, I think this is your calling. This is what you're supposed to

Chase Colston (27:50):

Do. Yeah. You know, I, I, I haven't worked in a very long time, and honestly, I don't think I've ever worked really in my life. I, you know, my goal was when I was a kid to you know, cover the New York Yankees for the New York Times. I wanna be a sports writer since I was 12 years old. And you know, I started my weekly paper in my hometown, a town very similar to Celina when I was 14. I started full time at the newspaper in Tyler, where I grew up and live now when I was 17, I did that, you know, worked in sports for, you know, very long time till I was 25. And you know, something called the internet was kind of taken over and people weren't really reading newspapers as much anymore. Right, right. And you know, so, you know, the job pivoted, but it was still similar to what I was doing. And then events just kind of fell into, fell the place just from, you know, crazy idea to do Barbecue Festival and Tyler. But now it's just, you know, when I was furloughed, I, I applied for 175 jobs. Wow. And I got a call back on Zero. Wow. And, you know, and, and what could have, you know, come along during that time, I don't know. But, you know, now it's just, I, I can't imagine doing anything else.

Ron Lyons (29:00):
I'm, I'm kind of glad that nothing came along. I, I'm kind of glad that nobody call, we, we wouldn't have

the event here maybe right now.

Chase Colston (29:07):

Yeah. No, and probably not. You know, it's just you get to the point to where you go from having a great job and you know, doing pretty well for yourself, and you've got you know, a lot of you get things in front of you. You know, we were planning a new event in Tyler along with Red Dirt at the time, and you know, the, I think it was probably the, the three or four days before, you know, they basically shut everything down. You know, we were on the cusp of, of booking one of the biggest country artists, you know, know independent country artists, I'll say now that was gonna be the biggest financial leap of faith that my company at the time was, was putting in. And it just, it, it all went to hell, you know? But, you know, in the long run, you know, it's it's paid off. It's, it's worked out and, you know, we're, you know, it's, it's, it's different when it's your company and, you know, and your money and your decisions

and things like that where we can say, Hey, we want to do this, or, Hey, we don't want to do that. Not you have to do this this way, or whatever. So that's

Ron Lyons (30:14): A hundred percent,

Chase Colston (30:15):

You know. So so last month we did TruBid Door and Tyler two blocks from where I live. Wow. And right below where my office is. And and that was my first show at home in almost three and a half years. And it was it was, it was good to be home, you know, it was really important for us to do one in Tyler. That's where we're from. You know, being and doing it on our own terms, I guess was kind of the goal was, you know, I never really got a chance to, to to leave on, you know, to depart, I guess on, on my own on my own decisions or whatever. And, you know, I probably wouldn't have, you know but being able to say, you know, let's come home. Let's do this. Right. Let's do it better than we've ever done it before. And, you know, we think that we did that and, you know, it was really cool.

Ron Lyons (31:01):
Well, so I do my due diligence. I do a little research on everybody, you know, before we talk as I should.

And from everything I've read, that was a very successful event.

Chase Colston (31:12):

Yeah. It was great. You know, it's you know, wasn't as many people as Celina, which we, which we knew, you know, there is another barbecue festival in Tyler that's pretty much the exact same concept, <laugh>. But, but one thing that I knew that we were gonna do is knock it outta the park right from our end. You know, it was, you know, still, we still had over 4,000 people there which in this economy and which, you know, four months after a very similar event. And it was a month before you know, probably one of the biggest concerts in Tyler history came this past weekend. So, you know, there was a lot of competition around it, but, you know, it was still something that we wanted to do. Gary Allen headlined it, you know, which was, which was really cool.

Chase Colston (31:52):

I'd never seen him, but, you know, we really went above and beyond on, you know, taking, we the same stage that you'll see on Saturdays, the same one that we put on the square in downtown Tyler. You know, we took down streetlights to make it fit. And, you know, we brought in a lot of infrastructure just to make it look great. It's on red Brick streets, you know, massive, you know, or just old buildings and a really historic part of Tyler. And, you know, we had, you know, 40 barbecue restaurants. The most I ever had at Red Dirt was 25. And so we just really wanted to do it better than not that, you know, any of 'em aren't great. And, you know, all six of the ones I did, I'm very proud of. But, you know, being able to take it even a step further and say, Hey, let's take this triple model there and show 'em whereabout was really, really fulfilling.

Ron Lyons (32:36):

Absolutely. Absolutely. And, and I'll tell you this, one of the things that we do on Celina radios, we don't just do, you know, boring stuff. We actually like to have a little fun. And I think you can have some fun with some of the questions that I've got right here. You, you have no idea what they are.

Chase Colston (32:50): So this all, I don't off

Ron Lyons (32:51):
The off the cuff, so you don't strike me as the kind of person that's going to get too rattled by

Chase Colston (32:56):
Anything. So Yeah. Hopefully I don't offend anybody in the process. Ah, I'm a little, I'm a little blunt. So

Ron Lyons (33:00):

We're, we're, we're Celina Texas brother. We're good. We're gonna be, we're gonna be good. We're pretty thick skinned up here, so just we, we'll run through some of these and, and, and they're pretty quick. So let's have a little phone with this. Describe yourself to me in high school.

Chase Colston (33:16):

You know, kind of yeah, I was kind of a, kind of a all things to all people sort of guy, you know, nerdy you know, I was really short back then, you know, I mean, I'm not tall now, I'm five 11, but I was still short up until I was about a junior in high school. But just, you know, kind of was friends with, you know, different, you know, pretty much everybody. Of course, I graduated class in 90 states. People, you know, some of those people I grew up with since I was five years old.

Ron Lyons (33:43):

So you, you weren't, you weren't, you didn't fit into like one of those little cliques, like, oh, you know, you were the, the, the country guys, or, Oh, you were the rock and roll guys, or you were the a car guy? Or did you fit in any of those cliques

Chase Colston (33:55):

Real well, or not really, just kind of, Yeah, just, you know, kind of friends with everybody, whether it was, you know, kind of the, the nerdy people, because I was, you know, I guess a pretty smart guy I guess. But we, yeah, kind of fit in with them. But, you know, I wasn't an athlete by any means, and you know, by the time I was a sophomore I was working at the newspaper and then covering my high school's football games and things like that, so.

Ron Lyons (34:17):

Right on. Tell me what do you, what do you do for fun? If, if it's just a normal, you're not stressing out, you're not doing a big event, you're not doing that. What does, what does, what does Chase Colston do for fun?

Chase Colston (34:29):

Oh, live music, man, I love concerts. My wife loves, loves live music too. And, you know, whether it's, you know, a local band at, at a local bar, restaurant or whatever, or you know, a really big show, you know, I don't, I hadn't been able to go to as many as as I used to, but, you know, trying to get really back into it. But just, yeah, I love concerts, but, you know, my favorite thing is just being around people. I love being around my friends and, you know, whether it's on a, you know, back porch, drinking lone star and,

you know, playing darts or whatever. But, you know, as long as I'm with people that I love, you know, then, then I'm happy.

Ron Lyons (35:03):
Life is good. So, so gimme an idea of a favorite band or performer of yours, and, and it may, it may, I've

done my research, it may be surprising to some people, but give me, gimme someone.

Chase Colston (35:15):
Yeah, yeah. My favorite band of all time is Pearl Jam. You

Ron Lyons (35:18):
Know, that's what I, I knew that, and I knew that might surprise people because you're like, this Texas,

you know, country music and all this kinda stuff, but hey, Pearl Jam

Chase Colston (35:27):

Rocks. Yeah. And you know, my brother was, was almost seven years older than me, so when I grew up, you know, it was, you know, everything that he liked, I liked for the most part. And a lot of that was the grunge era of music. You know what I remember being, you know, seven, eight years old, riding in his truck, listening to Pearl Jam or VA Sound Guard, Allison Chains, you know, things like that. And and then we had a, you know, actually a station that was part of the company I worked for. You know, we had a great classic rock station. So when I was with my mom and my dad, it was the Eagles, or it was Led Zeppelin or the Beatles, and, you know, things like that. So, I mean, I was, you know, still in my heart, I'm a rock and roll guy, you know, I, I did not like country music for a long time, and people still don't really believe that, but I, I honestly hated it, <laugh>.

Chase Colston (36:11):

And it, it was more of just the kind of the rebellious side of me, which I do have. But as I got older and my brother went to college, and when he went to college at, you know, he went to North Texas for several years and got introduced to the likes of Randy Rogers band, and Pat Green and Wade Bowen, and Stony Laro and Max Stallings and, you know Charlie Robinson and things like that. And he'd come home and say, Hey, I want you to listen to these guys and this, No, I don't like it. You know? Right. I'm 16 years old and, you know, I was like, I don't want you to tell me what to listen to. You know, that's obviously changed since then, thanks to him and, and some other people that I've worked with and experienced, you know, things with. But yeah. But Pearl Jam is, is is my my, in fact, my jam and actually got to see him a few weeks ago with tickets that I had for two and a half years. Right, Right. And finally gotta see him in Oklahoma City and gotta take my wife. And she's not a parole jam fan, but she got to see him in person and she's like, Okay, I get it. You know, it's like, yeah, you know? Awesome. I got tattoo to my arms and

Chase Colston (37:13):
Yeah, that's that's, that's my, that's my stuff.

Ron Lyons (37:15):

I, I have some, I have some like, really kind different questions. Okay. Kinda I actually have some that are kind of rapid fired. That's, that's, that's not these, but these are, these are fun. You and I go into donut shop. What do you get,

Chase Colston (37:29):
Man? I'm, I'm like, just like, I'm not a big donut guy, but if I do, it's like chocolate ice man, just classic

Ron Lyons (37:36):
Willie Nelson is hanging out with us, and he goes in the donut shop too. What does he get?

Chase Colston (37:42):
The, the one with the special ingredients, I assume? <Laugh>.

Ron Lyons (37:48): Oh

Chase Colston (37:48):
Man. Had cannabis donut. And I suppose,

Ron Lyons (37:51):
I think you may have just intended something right there. So the next thing at the True Door,

Chase Colston (37:56): I assure

Ron Lyons (37:56):
You may, Cannabis Donuts, hot

Chase Colston (37:58):
Hotheads are pretty creative. I'm sure somebody's tried

Ron Lyons (38:01):

It ahead. It's, it's already out there. So if you could change your name to Chuck Norris for the rest of your life, but you get paid $200 a day for the rest of your life for doing it, would you change your name to Chuck Norris right now? Sure. <laugh>.

Chase Colston (38:13):
Yeah. Why not? My name's Chase. People have cough, called me Chuck for years,

Ron Lyons (38:18):
Whether it's not that much different. Right. You might need to learn how to do a couple roundhouses or

something, but otherwise I think you're good. So what what, what's your favorite holiday? Chase Colston (38:27):

I guess Christmas, you know? Mm-Hmm. <Affirmative> it was really important growing up and, you know, my wife is like a holiday nerd. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>, so like, man, it, like right now Halloween is thrown up in our house, so

Ron Lyons (38:40):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right.

Chase Colston (38:41):
She would say Thanksgiving, but I, I do, I do like, I'm a Christmas guy, you

Ron Lyons (38:45):

Know, rocking. I like it. I like it. And, and you need to come to Celina if you get a chance at around Christmas time and check this out, because Celina does quite the, quite the event. We've got a Christmas event and it's a lot of fun, so it might be check

Chase Colston (38:58):

Out. It's, Yeah, definitely. And I'm a big, I, I love cold weather, so and my wife's from New York, you know, just north of the city, so, you know, Christmas is huge up there with market iation there, so like that, so it's, yeah, it

Ron Lyons (39:10):
Kind of goes easy with, with what you like. So if, if you could have any superpower, what would it be?

Chase Colston (39:16): Probably to be invisible.

Ron Lyons (39:17):
Gosh. That is like one of the, that's the number one choice. Follow by flying. Flying, Right. <Laugh>.

Okay. So if you could turn invisible, what would you do?

Chase Colston (39:27):

I guess just be invisible. Just be be that fly on the wall that everybody talks about wanting to be, you know? Exactly. It's like if I could, if I could be a fly on the wall in that meeting or that situation, you know? Right,

Ron Lyons (39:38):

Right. You could, you could, you could, you could definitely eve up and spa people. Right. <laugh>. I mean that's, you know, that that could, that could be a dangerous superpower. So what if you could meet anyone from history, you know, someone that's, that's, that's still alive or not is there anybody that you would like to meet from history?

Chase Colston (39:56):
Oh man, I was a history minor, but there's just, there's so many. Can I have like dead and alive?

Ron Lyons (40:02): A hundred

Chase Colston (40:03):
Percent. Live is 100% Eddie better, you know? Okay. Pearl James lead singer. Right on. Dead is Mickey

Mannel. Wow.

Chase Colston (40:09):
Wow. You know, I'm a DFW so I probably shouldn't say that I'm a Yankees fan, but I've been a New York

Yankee's fan since I was five years old and That's

Ron Lyons (40:17): Awesome.

Chase Colston (40:18):

When I was little, I was a huge baseball fan. He's a baseball household and he was my dad's favorite player growing up and that's kind of why I became a Yankees fan, even though he is not a Yankees fan anymore. But especially Mickey Mannel, like after sobriety <laugh>, just so I'd keep liking him probably.

Ron Lyons (40:35):
Right, right, right. So, so what do you think Mickey Manor would think about the Truvado Festival? You

think he'd dig it? You think he'd like

Chase Colston (40:41):

It? You know, I mean, Priest sobriety, Mickey Mantle for sure. <Laugh>, you know, we got a lot of beer out there. But yeah. Yeah, he's a country guy from Oklahoma, man, you know, lived in Dallas for so long, you know, I think this was kind of, kind of be his jam Right on you.

Ron Lyons (40:56):
Yep. Absolutely. So if you had to either live the rest of your life without wearing a shirt or without

wearing shoes, which would you pick? <Laugh>, the look on your face?

Chase Colston (41:06):
<Laugh>. Neither one 'em sound great cuz like, I think probably shoes just, you know, So

Ron Lyons (41:12):
You'd just be that barefooted guy,

Chase Colston (41:14):
I guess? Yeah. Barefooted

Ron Lyons (41:15):
Chuck Norris walking around doing events.

Chase Colston (41:17):
Right. You $200 a day? Apparently. Yeah. <Laugh>,

Ron Lyons (41:20):
I like it. It's 2:00 AM We just finished hanging out all night. We go to ihop. What do you order?

Chase Colston (41:25):
Two eggs over? Medium bacon, hash browns coffee

Ron Lyons (41:29): Rocking. I like

Chase Colston (41:30):
It. Maybe pull out a flask.

Ron Lyons (41:32):
Do you, you do, you own a plane, <laugh> <laugh>,

Chase Colston (41:36):
And you cannot bring a flask on Saturday, so please don't.

Ron Lyons (41:39):

Right, right, right. Don't, That is not, he is not giving you a little wink wink there. You, you literally can't do that. But there will be plenty of things available out there. Absolutely. So you no need to bring anything. So do you own a pair of CROs? No. <laugh>. Okay.

Chase Colston (41:56):

I actually just bought a pair of hay dudes, which are apparently the thing now, and my wife's still not thrilled about it, but like, all my friends have 'em, and we went to Mexico recently and I was like, Oh, I just, you know, they're comfortable from what I hear. And at first I was like, these are, these things are overrated. Like, I don't get it. And then after about two days, I, I'm like, Oh, I get it.

Ron Lyons (42:13):
Okay. Wow. Okay. I'm gonna have to check that out. So what, is it just like a really comfortable shoe, is

that kinda

Chase Colston (42:16):

Thing? Yeah, they're like kind of shoe sandal, hybrid sort of things, but they're really light and yeah, I don't know. I see all my friends have 'em, and like, I got a buddy who works in the oilfield West Texas, and he lives close to me, and he called me one day, he goes, Hey man, can you run by my place? And guess some packages on my porch. And the guy had five freaking paired hay dudes on the porch, and he's like, Man, you gotta try it. I finally did it. My wife just looked at me like, Oh my God, dude, you fell into it. But that's

Ron Lyons (42:45): Awesome.

Chase Colston (42:45):
They're comfortable though. No, CROs

Ron Lyons (42:46):
Gives me something to look forward to now. I, I I think that sounds awesome. So Coke, Pepsi, or Dr.

Pepper? Coke. Good. What's your favorite number?

Chase Colston (42:54): Seven.

Ron Lyons (42:56):
Wow. No hesitation on that. Favorite Thank

Chase Colston (42:57): You. Mantle. Mm-hmm.

Ron Lyons (42:58):
<Affirmative>. Right. There you go. Makes sense. Favorite movie?

Chase Colston (43:01): Almost famous.

Ron Lyons (43:03):
Almost famous. Have you ever skydived?

Chase Colston (43:05): No, but I want to.

Ron Lyons (43:07):
Good. Good. What do you have any hidden talents, things that a lot of people don't know about?

Chase Colston (43:11):
I can say the alphabet backwards fairly quickly. Really?

Ron Lyons (43:16):
Wow. That's awesome. What an amazing, I don't know how you discovered that, but that's awesome. I

like it.

Chase Colston (43:20):
We'll leave that, we'll leave that answer off the air

Ron Lyons (43:22):

For some other, Has something to do with that whole FLA thing and all. Probably. Yeah. Yeah. So if how much money would it say to get you to hop on a bicycle Right now, training wheels and right around the square in Celina

Chase Colston (43:35): Training wheels.

Ron Lyons (43:36):
Training wheels on the bike.

Chase Colston (43:38): Very nothing <laugh>.

Ron Lyons (43:39):
You do it just for fun. Yeah. You do it because someone dared

Chase Colston (43:43):
You to Yeah, pretty much. You know. That's

Ron Lyons (43:45):
Awesome. I love it. Can you back a trailer up? Do you know how to back up a trailer?

Chase Colston (43:49):

Absolutely not. And it's not something I ever want to do. And which is crazy because you go to one of our shows and there's 50 freaking trailers out there, whether it's barbecue trailers or you know, bathroom trailers Right. And things like that. And,

Ron Lyons (44:05):
And thank god you're not in charge of backing them up, or, or

Chase Colston (44:09): It

Ron Lyons (44:09):
Might be be a little misaligned out there.

Chase Colston (44:10):
It wouldn't, it would be an utter disaster.

Ron Lyons (44:14):
<Laugh>, when's the last time you played tennis?

Chase Colston (44:17): Sophomore year of high

Ron Lyons (44:18):
School. Wow. All right. What's the best decade? The seventies, the eighties, the nineties. What, what,

Chase Colston (44:23):
What decades? I mean, I lived the nineties, so I mean, I have to say the nineties, nineties

Ron Lyons (44:26): Guy.

Chase Colston (44:27):
Yep. I would, I would probably go nineties and then the seventies at least. Especially from like a musical,

musical perspective. Right on.

Chase Colston (44:35):
But the nineties had so much just awesome

Ron Lyons (44:39):

Stuff with it. Yep. No, I agree. I love, I love me some nineties music and I, I'm preferential to eighties maybe, because that's more my speed. Right. But nineties, right behind that for me. So I want you to think about this next question, but this is a little more serious and, and it takes just maybe a little bit of thought. So would, would you rather fight one horse size duck or a hundred duck sized horses? Which would you prefer?

Chase Colston (45:07): Probably a horse sized duck.

Ron Lyons (45:09): A horse Definit.

Chase Colston (45:10):
Because, because horses, you know, not, not to say like ducks are, but like horses are kind of, honestly,

I've also also have a kind of a fear of horses just in general because,

Ron Lyons (45:20):
So a hundred little duck size horses would just freak you out. Probably. Probably, Yeah. Million little

horses

Chase Colston (45:25):

Around. Cause their teeth are still gonna be as sharp and you know, whether they're biting you or kicking you or

Ron Lyons (45:30):
Whatever. But the duck, the duck that walks up, that's big enough that you can put a saddle on, you're,

you're in the fight for that one. You're gonna, you're gonna, you're gonna

Chase Colston (45:36):
Take that, I think probably have some fun with that, you know, <laugh>.

Ron Lyons (45:38):
So, So tell me if, if you weren't doing this, what you're doing right now, what other career would you

have?

Chase Colston (45:47):

I probably would've kept just being a sports writer. You know, that was some, I mean, that was my first passion, what I wanted to do. And was fortunate enough to cover a lot of really cool things and meet a lot of really cool people and Right. You know, one of my favorite stories you could bring this up to him and he'd say, Yeah, it's probably true. I have no idea what the hell you're talking about. But I covered my first Cowboys game when I was 17 years old Wow. In Texas Stadium. And a coworker and I were in there and we were in the room where they did the press conference after the game. And Bill Parcells was the head coach, you know, the Cowboys then. And and I stood next to Randy Galloway, you know, who no kidding, you know, was, you know, the best

Ron Lyons (46:30): You iconic,

Chase Colston (46:31):

Iconic columnist, you know, in Dallas Fort Worth for so many years. And he was one that I looked up to and I was standing next to him and he kept, kind of kept kind of side eyeing me a little bit. Like, what in the hell is this kid doing in here? <Laugh>. And I had a, I had a press badge on, had a media credential. And he looked at me and he said, Tyler? And I said, Yeah. And he knew my, my sports editor at the time, who's still there to this day. And he said, So this is what, this is what you want to do. And I said, Yeah, yeah. He goes, Dumb

Ron Lyons (47:02):
<Laugh>, <laugh>. Tell me a lie about yourself. Make something up, but make it sound believable.

Chase Colston (47:09):

This. So one time I was actually, when I was a sports writer I was covering a Cowboys game and I was in the elevator going down from the press box and Michael Urban was with me. And you know, he was sitting there, Michael I, you know, talked, he'll talk to a brick wall, you know, great, great guy. Interviewed him a few times and he's like, Hey man, can you help me out? I said, What? He goes, Can you spot me a 20? He goes, I lost a bet to a guy up there and he's being a about it and I don't have any cash on me. And I was like, Sure man, I make $6 an hour, but you're Michael Irvin. So here, here

Ron Lyons (47:41):

You go. So, So you loaned Michael Irvin 20? Yeah. Yeah. That's a great lie. I like that. That sounds good. So if you have a pet elephant for a date today, today doing whatever you're doing today mm-hmm. <Affirmative>, you can't give it a Wayne, you can't leave it anywhere.

Chase Colston (47:56):
What do you do with it? I call my wife cuz she loves elephants, <laugh> and she would like have the

absolute time of her life. Oh

Ron Lyons (48:02):
Man. That's amazing. Okay. Rapid fire, Harley Davidson or a boat?

Chase Colston (48:06): Boat.

Ron Lyons (48:07):
Would you go to bed early or late if you had a choice

Chase Colston (48:10): Late,

Ron Lyons (48:11):
Would you shave every day or just sometimes if you had a choice,

Chase Colston (48:15): Sometimes

Ron Lyons (48:16): Drink out of a can or a

Chase Colston (48:17): Bottle. Depends on what it is.

Ron Lyons (48:19):
<Laugh>, I like it. Rare, medium, well or well done. Rare chocolate or vanilla?

Chase Colston (48:24): Depends on what it is. Dirt

Ron Lyons (48:26): Track or the drag strip?

Chase Colston (48:29): Dirt track.

Ron Lyons (48:30):
Football or baseball? Baseball. Mac and cheese or a baloney sandwich?

Chase Colston (48:34):
Grew up on both, but mac and cheese

Ron Lyons (48:37): Mountains are the Beach

Chase Colston (48:39): Beach.

Ron Lyons (48:40): 1985 or 2005?

Chase Colston (48:42): 2005 I guess.

Ron Lyons (48:44):
How many episodes of the Kardashians have you ever watched?

Chase Colston (48:47):
I've heard a lot cause my wife loves it, but I haven't watched. But maybe like one

Ron Lyons (48:52):
<Laugh> that you're gonna admit to? Yeah, that would've been a good one of those.

Chase Colston (48:55):
Now playing while I'm, you know, cooking dinner, just sitting there mindlessly on my phone or

something like that. That's probably more.

Ron Lyons (49:00):
How many episodes of the Bachelor have you watched? Zero. Very, very good. We can continue the

interview. Tats are no tats.

Chase Colston (49:08): I have two

Ron Lyons (49:09): Boots. Are tennis shoes?

Chase Colston (49:11):
Depends on the occasion. I have both.

Ron Lyons (49:13): Sweet or unsweet tea?

Chase Colston (49:15): Half and half.

Ron Lyons (49:16): Ford or Chevy?

Chase Colston (49:18):
I've had both, but I gotta say Chevy

Ron Lyons (49:20):
Captain Kirk or Luke Skywalker

Chase Colston (49:23): Skywalker

Ron Lyons (49:24): Chihuahua or Pit Bull?

Chase Colston (49:26): Pit Bull

Ron Lyons (49:27):
Pineapple. Okay. On a pizza or not Okay. On the pizza.

Chase Colston (49:30):
100% okay with it. I love it. I absolutely love

Ron Lyons (49:35):
It. Wow. That's, that's good. That's good. I like that. That's, that's, that may be one of the few times I've

had someone actually say yes. That's

Chase Colston (49:42):

Good. And I, I'm just a side note on that. No, my wife is from, you know, about 45 minutes north of New York City. Her dad born and raised in Brooklyn. Her oldest brother is a cop in the Bronx, N Y P D. And you know, you're talking about a demographic of people who are as passionate or more passionate about pizza as we are about barbecue in Texas. And if I were to put Pineapple on pizza up there and my father- in-law would probably disowned me <laugh>. So I don't, and I will say that new repeats is the best pizza. I will agree with him on that. But if I'm going to Pizza Hut, man, put, put some. You're

Ron Lyons (50:17):

Ordering the pineapple?

Chase Colston (50:18):
Absolutely. My wife will judge me, but as long as I don't put ranch on it, she's fine.

Ron Lyons (50:23):
I like it. I like it. So what's, what's the last thing that you googled?

Chase Colston (50:27):

Oh, it was about Bryce Harper. This morning I was listening to Dan Patrick Show and they were discussing whether Bryce Harper's gonna be a hall of famer one day. And I was like, Don't do this while you're driving, but I was like googling his stats while I was driving a Salida this morning.

Ron Lyons (50:40): Very, very nice.

Chase Colston (50:41):
You know, kind of deciding that on my own.

Ron Lyons (50:42):
<Laugh> pancakes or waffles? Waffles. Skipper Gilligan professor or Mr. Howe, Who are you on Gilligan's

Island?

Chase Colston (50:53): Probably the Professor

Ron Lyons (50:54):
Mustard or mayonnaise mustard. Do you own an Xbox

Chase Colston (50:58): Ps4?

Ron Lyons (50:59):
What games do you play?

Chase Colston (51:00): None.

Ron Lyons (51:02):
<Laugh> don't have time to sport

Chase Colston (51:05):
Or just during the Pandemic? Man, I, I, I played a lot, you know, so Well

Ron Lyons (51:10):
Gimme, gimme an idea. What kind of games do you like on the PS four? Yeah,

Chase Colston (51:13):
I play like LB the show, but also like Assassins Creed, stuff like that that, you know, you that you can play

for nine hours and realize oh it's four o'clock in the morning,

Ron Lyons (51:23):

You know? And that's exactly how it happens. I try to explain that to my wife all the time. I'm 54 years old and I'm still gaming. I started back, you know, with the Atari back when I was, you know, like 10 or nine years old and I've never quit. Yeah. So I'm not an old dude that's trying to be young. I just never stopped. Yeah. So iPhone or Android

Chase Colston (51:41): Iphone.

Ron Lyons (51:42):
Describe yourself in one word.

Chase Colston (51:44): Ambitious. I

Ron Lyons (51:45): Like it. I like it.

Chase Colston (51:48):
That's cuz the other word would is kind of more PG 13,

Ron Lyons (51:51):
So I gotcha. Yeah, I gotcha. That makes sense. Thank you for that. Thor. Captain America or Iron Man.

Chase Colston (51:58):
Iron Man. Because I love Robert Downey Jr.

Ron Lyons (52:02): Nice.

Chase Colston (52:03):
Me too. He's just the wittiest dude. Like I appreciate that. Like, he's just so charming.

Ron Lyons (52:09):
Right on. Right on. He's he's, he's, he's he's nerdy

Chase Colston (52:12):

And a bad accent at the same time. Yeah. Kinda kind of a rule breaker. And you know, I like to think of myself as kind of quick witted and things like that. So like when I when I watch it, I'm just like, that's, I was like, I need to think of that line. Like, that's good

Ron Lyons (52:27):
Stuff. Right on. So, so right now tell me, are you excited about this upcoming show? Are you starting to

feel it right now?

Chase Colston (52:34):

No, I mean, we're stoked. You know, like this is our third one this year and you know, we did our first one in Georgetown back in June and we did Tyler five weeks ago, so did two shows in five weeks. Not the smartest thing we ever did, at least from a you know, a lot of different perspectives. But, you know, we, we did Tyler, which was very important to us. And we, you know, before Gary Allen came on stage, you know, I got to go up there and introduce him and you know, it was the first time I got to do that in three years, four months and six days, which is what I told, you know, the crowd that was there. And it felt great. You know, I, I can never relive that moment again. But at the same time I also kind of walked off knowing like, you know, this was awesome.

Chase Colston (53:19):

We got to come home, I got to do what I wanted to do one last time here. And I'm really looking forward to Celina cuz you know, Celina said yes, Celina, you know, opened their arms and you know, and I know what kind of crowd's gonna be out here and just the vibe and just the, you know, every single part about it. Like it was our first and you know, Red Dirt is Tyler's home and they know, you know, I created it and that's where it is. And you know, that's my home too, you know, for at least the receivable future cuz you know, my mother would cry if I left <laugh>, but,

Chase Colston (53:52):

But Celina is, is true with our festival's home, really, you know, and, you know, we're, we're gonna get done with Saturday and you know, have a, you know, have a kick time and you know, Randy Rogers and then we're gonna, you know, you know, blow the lids off. We've got you know, it's just gonna be, it's gonna be great. You know, we've got a barbecue restaurant coming from Connecticut down to participating in this too, which I'm really looking forward to. They're great, great people. You know, we will go into next week's, you know, kind of evaluating what we want to do in 2023, you know, this is a and for, you know, to be quite frank, this has been a tough year for events. You know, you came back from the pandemic and everybody went to everything they could imagine and they still are to, but there's also, there's so many, it's like events are back, so let's keep those, do more and more and more and more and more.

Chase Colston (54:41):

And there's so many, but along with that you have, you know, the current economic climate with things are just costing so much more right now. And so money's tighter. So people are being, you know, more choosy about where they're going and things like that, you know, you know, there's still a very good chance we sell out this weekend, which we're very, very happy with. But, you know, everything has gone up 30, 40, 50% or more since, since last year. So you see that times three, it's, it's a little, you know, it's, it's tough. So yeah, it is tough.

Ron Lyons (55:09): I can only imagine

Chase Colston (55:10):

That. But no matter what, you know, what we decide next year, you know, we're looking at, you know, possibly doing two instead of three. But at the end of the day we know that Celina is one of those. And you know, we're, that's where I kind have the realization like, you know, this is true festival's home, anything that we do beyond this is because of Celina. And that's what we're really, really stoked

Ron Lyons (55:29):

About. Wow. We are so grateful that you're doing the event here. I'm very grateful and my listeners are gonna be very, very grateful that you came on this show. I know you're very, very busy right now. So for you to carve out this bit of time for us today has been amazing. And let me ask you this, if everything goes good, no more pandemics, no more craziness and life is good, would you come back next year and sit down here and, and let's talk about how it went and, and what you got planned?

Chase Colston (55:52):
Hell yeah, let's do it man. All

Ron Lyons (55:53):

Right brother. Thank you so very much guys. That is Chase Colston. Guys, what did you think about Chase Colston? I mean, let me just tell you sent across from him, he is just so happy doing what he's doing. He has a real passion for it and a real talent for it. If you didn't go to the one last year, you missed something amazing. So go to the one this year. Tickets are still available and like he said, it's just this big giant combination of food, barbecue, tons of it, and some amazing country music. Bring it all together. Put a a really fun party like environment out there. And you've got the Troubadour Festival. You're gonna love it. So check it out. Go grab some tickets. It runs from noon until midnight. The different times that you can get there depends on which level of tickets you buy.

Ron Lyons (56:55):

I recommend doing the food and the concert. It's, it's just incredible. So yes, come hungry, come ready for some great country music and come for a good time. And Chase, thank you so very much for coming on this show. And thank you guys for tuning in. You make seina radio.com possible and we are blessed because of you. We've got some fantastic guests coming up. We've got the holidays right around the corner and we're just gonna have a good time. We've got some great stuff coming up. So guys, thank you so much and as always, God bless and I'll see you on the next show.