There's Bass Ass In The Chattahoochee Coochee!
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What is the Great American Ramblin’ Raft Race?
And they are talking about the... beginnings of the great american ramblin raft race which then became shooting the hooch shooting the hooch shooting the chattahoochee i'm sure every town that has a river or a big stream has some version of this a million people decide on one day that they're going to get together put their rafts inside of the flowing water and head on down a big old boozy sunday with a bunch of beer yeah A bunch of beer and rowdy teenagers and just have a good party of it. This was a huge ordeal in Atlanta for a long time. Now, it was coming to kind of a ceremonial close as I moved to Atlanta, so I didn't get the full... It started in 1979. Apparently, some Georgia Tech students decided to get their fraternity and sorority sisters and brothers together and do this, and then it became a big thing.
The radio stations locally would sponsor it, and they would hype it up, and so it became tens of thousands of people riding down the Chattahoochee River on their rafts. Now... I often say to people, people come in town and they say, hey, Brian, because I am a noted tour guide. They say, hey, Brian, what is there to do in Atlanta? What about that Chattahoochee Hoochee? That Chattahoochee Coochee that everyone's talking about. And I say, if you want Strepacoccus A, feel free to dip your toes in the Chattahoochee Coochee because that's exactly what it is. It's a Hoochee Coochee. And it is known to have bacteria in it that you probably don't want the human body coming in contact with. Like a lot of other places with flowing water and bodies of water around it, the water's not always so clean. Now, we've done a good job of cleaning it up.
There was a good cleanup effort, yeah.
The Chattahoochee River Keepers are a favorite charity of mine that do God's work by going out there and picking up old condoms and dead cows out of the Chattahoochee River. But still, you're taking your life into your own hands if you're riding down that Chattahoochee River in a raft. I swear to God.
I did it once. I'm not doing it again.
No fucking way. Astrid said, this is a conversation we have once a year. She says, what if we get it... Every summer. Every spring.
Yeah.
When we see those, because we live near the river. So we drive over the river a lot on the bridges over the river. And she'll say to me, hey, look, those people out there. And I say, yeah, those fucking lunatics out there. You know... with an early death wish out there in the Chattahoochee River. There are so many things that could go wrong in flowing water. And she, once a year, thinks it's a good idea to take our small children and all of them onto an inner tube and ride down that Chattahoochee. To which I say, nah, we're not doing that. Because not only do we have to contend with flowing water, rocks and all kinds of other stuff. I've seen adults get in trouble out there. I've done this probably 10 times, 11 times in my life.
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