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Rochelle Reed. Hey, welcome back to the How to Barbecue Right podcast. I'm your host, Malcolm

Reed. Join by my lovely and talented wife on my side of the table today, Ms. Southern Shell. Good. Good. Doing good. We got Tyler down there, and we got a special guest in your seat today, Shell. Yeah, we got Mark Williams from Swan Life Barbecue. Y'all keep saying special. It's no longer special. Mark is back. Mark's back. Mark's back. Mark's back. Mark's back. No, we brought Mark back in today because in less than, it's 13 days now until we'll be downtown on the river, Cookin, Memphis, May. I don't know if I'm ready. You're not ready? I don't know. There's no. There's no turning back now. I'm ready. Always ready. I always get nervous about it. It's fixing to start raining tomorrow and rain for like the next eight days. It was going to be perfect weather. I hope. I hope. So is music fest this weekend? Yeah, it is. Oh, it's going to be a mud hole down there. Have you all seen the new park layout? They put out a video on YouTube. Oh, you need to pull it up and watch it. And look at all the stuff they did to it.

Really?

Have you? Have y'all seen the new park layout? They put out a video on YouTube. Oh, you need to pull it up and watch it.

And look at all the stuff they did to it. Really? Have y'all seen it? It's very weird. Like a topo picture. It doesn't look like I was expecting big hills and stuff. I didn't see that. It looks nice. It looks nice, but it's, man, it's like. It's not festival ready.

No, it doesn't even look like a place you'd have a festival now.

Yeah.

It's not festival ready.

No, it doesn't even look like a place you'd have a festival now. Yeah. It's a, I don't know if it's like play. It looks like a lot of places where people get murdered. It's like got a lot of hiding places. No in Memphis, I'm just saying. I don't know. I wouldn't just go out there and hang out, I don't think. It used to be just open.

You know, it was a nice part.

You could run fast and open. I don't know. I wouldn't just go out there and hang out, I don't think.

It used to be just open, you know, it was a nice part. You could run fast and open. You can fly high, you can run fast. Yeah. Now you've got places to duck and hide. Bob and weave. So I don't know, man. But it's going to be interesting to see how they're going to set it. not because we've seen the team layout and they're just sticking teams in places where they don't have stuff but they've

put a lot of stuff in there like there's this big i don't know what it is if it's like a woodchuck

against this big slide thing standing up it looks like something like that i don't know if it's supposed to be a beaver or a river rat or what. Nutria. Yeah. I mean, because I guess they added stuff for kids. It's got like Playland stuff on it. It's got player. And it's got like a big, I wouldn't call it a pavilion. It's kind of, I don't know, it's weird. You need to look at it. It's very like interpretive, like park interpretive, what they've done. It's a new age park. It's a new age park with no parking. That's the crazy thing. Well, that was some of the biggest complaints that I saw and people posted that was where do you park? You can't see any parking spots.

You know, they used to have turn-ins.

Yeah, yeah. They had parking spots for Tom Lee Park. Now, I think, oh, that's gone. So I guess you have to park it. They said they're building a garage down at Bill and front. So you're going to have to park down there. and to get to where like the park stuff is, the playland stuff,

oh, that's probably

three-quarters of a mile.

So you paid a part, paid to get your car robbed.

Yeah.

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