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Hoot’n & Holler’n With Matt Mitchell

Hoot’n & Holler’n With Matt Mitchell

Matt Mitchell 88 Episodes Aug 18, 2026

Join Matt Mitchell, Eric Nix, Drake Pittman, and Shane Murray for an exploration of Southern culture told through a series of hoots and hollers. The show brings a lighthearted, down-home perspective on life in the American South. Expect plenty of humor, storytelling, and casual conversation about the traditions and quirks of the region.

Episodes

Coke Bottle Full of Rocks: The Golden Age of Sideline Football
Coke Bottle Full of Rocks: The Golden Age of Sideline Football Aug 18, 2026 2344 Before you were old enough to suit up on Friday nights, you were out there anyway just running routes on a strip of grass by the bleachers, using whatever you could find (or steal) for a football. This week Matt, Eric, Drake, and Joey rank the unofficial hierarchy of sideline football gear, from the elite stolen-from-the-field-house ball down to the dreaded three-liter Coke bottle stuffed with roc
A Southerner's Guide to Gulf Shores & Orange Beach
A Southerner's Guide to Gulf Shores & Orange Beach Aug 12, 2026 1918 A Southerner's Guide to Gulf Shores & Orange Beach Yes, Alabama has beaches — barely enough to earn the plural, but they're ours and we love them. This week the boys take you down to Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, the biggest non-Florida beach on the Gulf Coast and the reigning rival to Panama City. We get into it all: which states send the most tourists down to our sand (Louisiana's got no bea
Death of the Southern Buffet: Big Fat Yeast Rolls
Death of the Southern Buffet: Big Fat Yeast Rolls Aug 5, 2026 3550 The fellas are hungry and getting nostalgic about the all-you-can-eat buffet — a dying breed. Matt, Eric, and Joey dig into Golden Corral, Ryan's, Quincy's, Shoney's, and Western Sizzling, stumble into the wild web of Southern restaurant founders behind Captain D's and Shoney's Big Boy, argue the unwritten rules of the buffet line, and remember every gross thing they ever saw at Ryan's. Plus: big
Bro Country: Who Killed Country Radio?
Bro Country: Who Killed Country Radio? Jul 29, 2026 2706 Bro Country: Who Killed Country Radio? Matt, Eric, Drake, and Joey pour one out for country radio and try to pin down exactly when it all went sideways. What is bro country? A New York Magazine writer coined the term in 2013, but the guys trace the rot back much further — through Kenny Chesney's abs, Jason Aldean's dirt roads, and a fateful night watching Luke Bryan shake it for a tornado benefit
VBS Fight Club
VBS Fight Club Jul 22, 2026 2236 VBS Fight Club Grab a Dixie cup of watered-down Kool-Aid and pull up a folding chair — this week the boys are digging into Vacation Bible School, that summertime rite of passage for every kid raised in a Southern Baptist stronghold. Matt, Eric, Drake, and Joey trace VBS from its surprising origins (a rented beer hall in New York City, believe it or not) all the way to today's megachurch production
Go to Church or the Devil'll Get You
Go to Church or the Devil'll Get You Jul 15, 2026 2341 Go to Church or the Devil'll Get You Pull over, we're stopping. This week the boys are riding shotgun through the South's greatest (and grimmest) roadside attractions — the giant Tin Man outside Demopolis, W.C. Rice's Cross Garden, the chrome bumper chicken, and that peach water tower that looks suspiciously like a butt. We rank the go-to stops (Peach Park cobbler, forever), crown the most overrat
Come On Down: The Game Show Episode
Come On Down: The Game Show Episode Jul 8, 2026 2241 The gang is playing along at home this week as we run the whole game show gauntlet — from the daytime classics you watched while faking sick to the chaos of late-night Japanese TV. Matt, Eric, Drake, and Joey get into Price Is Right, Wheel of Fortune, and the Pat Sajak / Vanna White era, then argue about Steve Harvey's reign on Family Feud (and every host before him — Richard Dawson and that very
A Southern Guide to the 4th of July
A Southern Guide to the 4th of July Jul 1, 2026 2356 A Southern Guide to the 4th of July The South does Independence Day different, and we've got the receipts to prove it. This episode breaks down why TNT Fireworks (the nation's largest fireworks distributor) calls Alabama home, the unwritten rules of haggling at a firework stand, and exactly when it's socially acceptable to stop shooting off Roman candles in your neighbor's driveway. We also get in
A Night at the Card Tournament
A Night at the Card Tournament Jun 24, 2026 3247 A vault episode from the early days, back when we were still calling the show Scattered and Covered and recording on location instead of in a studio. This one comes from Gamers Guild, a game shop in Jasper, Alabama, where we sat down in the middle of a Sunday night card tournament and talked to the folks running it. We get into trading cards and the people who collect them, a binder that turned ou
Appalachian Superstitions We Still Can't Shake
Appalachian Superstitions We Still Can't Shake Jun 16, 2026 2319 You don't walk under a ladder, you don't break a mirror, and you sure don't walk on a grave — not because anybody explained why, but because Grandma said so. This week we get into Appalachian superstitions: death coming in threes, black cats, cows lying down before a rain, holding your breath past the graveyard, and eating turnip greens for money on New Year's (still hasn't worked). We don't belie
Child Labor & Other Fond Memories
Child Labor & Other Fond Memories Jun 10, 2026 2367 Child Labor & Other Fond Memories Everybody's first job was technically a crime scene. This week on Hoot'n & Holler'n, the crew gets into first jobs, worst jobs, and the ones we quit in record time, the gigs the government knew about and the ones it definitely didn't.  From hauling boxes of truckers' trip logs and choking on Bondo dust at a body shop, to practicing golf on company time, su
Gatlinburg or Nothing
Gatlinburg or Nothing Jun 3, 2026 2485 For half the South, there's no debate: it's Gatlinburg or nothing. This week we make the great Southern pilgrimage up to G-Berg — Sevier County, Tennessee, a.k.a. the Smokies, a.k.a. the only vacation some families have ever taken. We get into all of it: the saltwater taffy and the fudge, the moonshine that took over the strip, the airbrush tees and glow-in-the-dark mini golf, the great debate ove

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