And this week I know everyone is going "Bo...what happened on the radio interview???" and I'll get to that, along with tales of being a rock star on the road, but I have to build suspense as all great storytellers do and mention something else first.  Remember when I mentioned the videogame "Dead Rising" a week or two ago?  In case you forgot, I told about downloading the demo on the XBOX 360 and being fascinated with running through a shopping mall packed with zombies and the cool ways I could kill them.  Well the full game came out, and I have to say that the bathroom hasn't been cleaned and the yard hasn't been mowed since I bought it.  Since first playing "Grand Theft Auto III", I never thought I would have a game that completely consumed my thought process like this one does.  Not only do I get to kill zombies, but I have missions to complete which usually involves rescuing people and taking them to the security office.  You haven't lived until you've taken a lawn mower and run over a horde of zombies wanting to eat you.  Now what's really cool is let's say I gather together a group of people and I'm trying to rescue them.  I keep hitting the button for them to follow me which causes my guy to yell stuff like "C'MON!" and "HURRY UP...THIS WAY!"  Meanwhile I'm slaughtering the undead to clear a path.  Sometimes the people I'm trying to rescue get caught in a pack of zombies and the game goes to a cutscene that shows the person getting tackled by a pack of zombies and getting eaten.  Now I should feel bad I failed to save them, but it looks so cool I find perverse entertainment in it all.  I mean what am I supposed to do?  After dark falls the zombies get more aggressive and I do have to look out for yours truly, if someone can't keep up then it's not my problem.  Man, what a game.  Guns, explosions, zombies...someone get me a towel to soak up the drool.

Ok ok...I know everyone is dying to hear how the radio appearance went.  Let me sum it up in two words - I rocked.  Do you doubt me?  Come on, I mean for two hours I got to speak about my favorite topic - me!  hahahahaha.  Seriously though, it went very well.  I sat in the studio for the whole two hour show and took a ton of calls.  Was I nervous?  Not one bit.  In fact, when the top of the hour break came on and the news and traffic and stuff would go for about eight minutes I was going outside to smoke.  On the way I was introduced to the CEO of the station, who also owns a couple of other radio stations.  He shook my hand and said "wow...you really sound good on the air...when you're ready to work in radio let me know".  We talked for a few and I told him I was a country DJ for a while.  Oh yeah, my voice is just that good.  I credit the genes...my dad sounds like James Earl Jones at times...you know, Darth Vader.  Imagine being a kid in trouble and having Darth Vader yell at you.  But I inherited some of his voice even though his is MUCH deeper than mine is.  Maybe that's why the online dating stuff doesn't work for me...some guys have strong hairlines and six-pack abs in photos, and I lose out because I have neither but I have a voice that is smooth as heck...hahaha.  Anyway, another thing I got from my dad was the ability to see many things in black and white, right and wrong.  So while I was taking calls, I think it almost surprised some people with the brevity of my answers.  For instance, one caller asked what my plan was to help out with medicare and prescription drugs.  I told them that the Constitution does not give authority for that so the individual states should handle it.  The caller was like "So you have no plan?" and again I repeated that the issue is something the federal government is not authorized to do according to the Constitution.  That was my answer.  Many questions came up about different issues, and if I didn't think the Constitution allowed for the Congress to decide those, I would say the states should.  Issues like flag burning, abortion, health insurance, all that.  None of those items are permitted to be legislated by the federal government, they are supposed to be left to the states.  It doesn't matter if I'm personally opposed to any of them, which I did express, but if I win the Senate race I have to take an oath to uphold the Constitution and that doesn't have any room for personal feelings.  After the show was over, I was told that the program would be aired again when the host was out of town next month and that they want me to come back again before the November election.  In other words, I rocked!  Since that show I've received a bunch of emails expressing support, it's amazing.  I also got invited to travel to Knoxville to speak to a group of high school students who are studying government and the election.  So in October I'll be doing that as well as speaking to the Tennessee Conservative Union as well as appearing on talk radio in Knoxville.  Oh, and today I got some big news.  The Tennessee chapter of the League of Women Voters sent me a form to fill out so I'll be considered to be on the town hall forum in October.  This event will be in Nashville, yet broadcast all over the state on TV.  This is exactly what I have been hoping for, a televised debate with the "real" candidates and I may have a chance to do it.  All of this absolutely amazes me.  Here I am, a regular Joe who decided to run for the Senate, and I'm asked to all these events and people are emailing me giving me their support.  And what's weird is how many people tell me something like "thank you for having the guts to take the stand you are".  That truly fuels my fire.  I have nothing to lose, and that makes me dangerous.  I love it.  I am taking all of this very seriously.  I don't want anyone wasting a vote on a joke, and that's why when all is said and done I want to look back and think "I did the best I could".  To think that someone I don't know would vote for me because of what I stand for is truly humbling...it really is.

Well NoiseCult hit the road this past weekend and played in Chattanooga.  Man did I have a blast.  Three dudes in a truck packed with gear talking about various bands on the way down...we play and rock out beyond belief...then drive back and talk about how much we rocked on the way home...hahahaha.  The club we played was pretty cool.  When we first got there, we walked in and saw a bunch of tables and a fooseball table and a jukebox.  I was thinking "oh man, this is gonna be weird" but then we met the dude who books shows.  He said "come on back here and you can unload your equipment".  He takes us behind the bar through a door and there was a big room with a stage and stuff.  I was thinking "oh yeah...this is rock!"  Granted my mic went out at one point which is par for the course...but I had a blast.  The one thing I didn't dig was that Chokeslam canceled.  That was the band that invited us down.  I was told before the show they wouldn't be playing due to some crap which sucked because I really dig watching them, and knew the attendance would suffer.  Now another thing was one band was trying to dictate when they would play.  It wasn't that big of a deal, but we were told "they have a bunch of people coming so they want to go on second".  Well screw that...we were told we would go on second and had a good three hour drive waiting after we got done.  So we go on second, and there were quite a few people there for the first song or two...then the place emptied.  Turns out that the people there for the band that wanted to play at eleven all went into the bar area.  I mean there were some people there watching us, but not as many as there could have been.  As a courtesy, I will watch the other bands I gig with usually.  So I was a little peeved, but it was no big deal because I conduct myself onstage like Paul Stanley of KISS said he did in the early days - "we treated every show like we were playing Madison Square Garden".  What surprised me was when we got done, tons of people came pouring in patting me on the back going "man, you guys kick ass!" and wanting to buy CD's and stuff even though I never saw them watching us.  Hey, cool by me, buy our stuff.  I really dug the club though, it was a cool setup.  Although I did learn an important lesson - never eat two Wendy's cheeseburgers right before a gig.  Man I gotta say I kept fighting belching it all up during the show...hahaha.  Let's see...greasy cheeseburgers, no air conditioning, yeah not the best mix.  It was fun though.  And honestly the dudes I talked to in the band that wanted to go on at eleven seemed cool so who knows what all that was about.

Ok, I'm done for right now.  I'm SO looking forward to seeing Michael Vick in person this Saturday.  Oh yeah, I'll be at the Tennessee Titans versus my Atlanta Falcons game this weekend...and I'll be sporting my Falcons gear....I can't wait.  I know it's only preseason but I don't care.

Seriously, can you say that ANY blog on myspace involves a guy who is the lead singer for a metal band and is also a candidate for the U.S. Senate?  I didn't think so.

Until next time sportsfans....