WEBVTT - The OTP with Chase Rice 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:14.160 This is the OTP presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:17.640 Get the home field advantage with healthcare coverage from Farm 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:21.400 Bureau Health Plans. They've been protecting Tennessee and since nineteen 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:25.680 forty seven. Hello, everybody, welcome to the OTP. And my 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:28.280 name is Amy Wells, and I am so excited that 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:31.520 you are joining us today because we had the chance 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:35.839 to talk to a very special guest, Chase Rice. Now 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:39.280 you might know Chase from his career as a country 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:42.800 music singer, but did you know that he was also 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:46.120 a very successful football player. He had dreams of going 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:49.479 to the National Football League, but due to injury, that 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:52.239 didn't really happen. We'll get into that during the interview, 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:55.440 but we talked about how he made that shift from 0:00:55.600 --> 0:01:01.040 football to music. It's a very interesting story. And twenty twenty, 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:03.720 when he had some time on his hands, he really 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:07.640 did some remarkable things, putting out multi part albums, which 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.080 is so cool. And so we had a chance to 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:11.720 talk to him about all of these things and I 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:14.600 want to share this with you guys. So here it 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:18.520 is my conversation with Chase Rice, and he's coming to 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:28.080 us from his Bison Fat Chase Rice I'm so excited 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:29.920 to have you on the OTP. We have so much 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:32.039 to talk about, and I guess the place that we 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:35.760 should start is with your current single, Drinking Beer, Talking God. Amen. 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.160 What was the genesis of this song and are you 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:41.959 surprised by how much it's resonating with people right now? 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:46.720 Answer the Sago one first, No, I'm not surprised, because 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:52.160 I even liked the song. Like sometimes you do songs, 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:54.360 you're like, I don't even want to hear myself sing this, 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:56.760 or I don't want to sing it myself. But then 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:58.520 when I kept listening back, I was like, man, I 0:01:58.520 --> 0:01:59.960 just want to keep hearing a song and just makes 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.080 feel good. It makes me happy. It does remind me 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:05.200 of a lot of stuff I did last year, you know, 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:08.000 just with Quarantine Haptman, and the timing of it couldn't 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:09.960 have been any better so I could relate to it. 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:11.359 And if I can relate to it, I think that's 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:14.400 a sure sign that other people are gonna be able 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:16.560 to hopefully relate to it as well. So I'm glad 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:18.800 that it is. I think it's really cool to see 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:21.840 what it's doing already, because it's gonna I think this 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.239 is the very beginning of the song and how much 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:27.280 it can really connect. So you drop a single, and 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:30.519 for a lot of people, especially in the environment that 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.680 twenty twenty was like, that's enough, that's plenty to do 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:35.800 in a year. You have a single, it's very successful, 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:38.679 but you come back and saying, no, I'm not going 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.480 to just give you another new song. You did an 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:45.880 album in two parts. Why did you decide to surprise 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:49.760 your fans in that way? And what was your inspiration 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:52.800 for all of that music given that the world was 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:56.320 nothing like anyone has ever experienced before. Well, it already 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:59.560 started to be honest. I did part one of the 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.960 album them very early twenty to twenty, and then so 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.720 when I go start looking at part two, I was 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:08.440 already ready to do something last summer, release it, and 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:10.680 then obviously everything happened the way it did. But I 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.520 didn't want to completely stop putting out music. I mean, 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:16.040 a lot of people were sitting at home that was 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:19.560 not a whole lot to do. So between Netflix and 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:23.440 whatever HBO show was happening, people were also listening to music. 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:26.239 So I decided to continue to put you know, part 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.120 two out. Part three was actually supposed to come out 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:31.720 last fall, and that didn't end up happening. I did 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:33.960 push that part, but that's coming out here in the 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:36.920 next months. So yeah, I just thought it was important 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.800 to continue to put out music and continue to you know, 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:41.920 not completely go on hold. I mean we weren't doing 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:43.560 live music with that. I mean, you can't put out 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.360 songs as you've got ready to go. Why an album 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:49.080 in parts? Like, what's the benefit of doing that? It 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:51.760 was definitely something I just wanted to try. That was new. Honestly, 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:53.880 I was just fed up with how people were listening 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:55.960 to music. And that's not blaming anybody. I mean I 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:58.200 was listening to music the same way. I wasn't listening 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:01.040 to albums anymore full all the way through this because 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.119 I think we're starting to be trained to have our 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:05.800 attention spans so short, which gave me the idea, do 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:08.360 the parts, you know, put out last music, but put 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:10.160 it out more often, give the people a chance to 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:13.280 dive into six or seven songs as opposed to you know, 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.200 a full album, which is usually ten to fifteen songs. 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:18.560 I just wanted each song to, you know, get its 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.360 fair time as being the center of attention. I put 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.280 so much work into these songs that if people weren't 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:25.600 gonna listen to albums, I wasn't gonna give them one. 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:29.839 Having said that, after Part three, I'm going to scratch 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:32.160 that idea at least for my next record and drop 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:34.920 a full album at one time, because now I'm in 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:36.400 a place where I have a ton of songs that 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:38.479 I'm ready to release it one time. So there's different 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:40.479 ways to do it. There's some smart things about it. 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:42.640 I think there's some bad things about it. I personally 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:45.360 love full album, so I tried it and it did 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:47.720 really well. People people love these songs. I'm starting to 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.400 go back to live music now and an album Part 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:52.440 one and two that I never really got to hear live. 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:54.440 I'm finally hearing it live and it works people. It's 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:57.279 connected with people. There's plenty of songs on this, you know, 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.000 part one and two that we're not singles, but people still, 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.440 you know, Forever to Go, Best Night Ever, people are 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.040 singing the hell out of them. So yeah, it worked, 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.279 But now I'm gonna go back to a full album 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:09.880 later this year. How important is it to always keep 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.880 things fresh for you as an artist? I mean your 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.840 fans the consumers of course, but also just so that 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.400 you don't get into a rut. It's very important. There 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:20.200 was a three year period there where my band was 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:23.320 about to kill me because our set was almost the 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:25.599 same for three years. But I was like, man, if 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.200 it's not broken, I fix it. But then I even 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:30.160 got tired of it. It's like, man, I'm tired of 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:32.320 going up and singing the same song. So I'm sorry 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:34.600 MyD Bison and go nuts in the background. But to me, yeah, 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.120 you gotta keep it fresh. You gotta if not, if 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.600 nothing else, for myself, I mean, there's always gonna be 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:41.840 the hits that you're gonna play. You're always gonna play 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:43.600 ready to set role you're always and plays on you. 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:45.919 I'm going to want it tonight now. Lonely if You 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:48.560 Are has become a hit all last year, which was 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:50.719 cool to finally see this past weekend. Like, man, this 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:53.640 song really did connect with people last year. But to 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:55.360 change it up for myself and for me to go 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.440 out there on stage every night and actually be passionate 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.000 about actually want to go do it, you need new songs, 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.920 and that's what I'm working on right now. This next record, 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:05.640 you know, Part three, like I said, comes out in 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.400 a month, so that'll be three three new songs that 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:10.400 I'll be able to play live. Throw some of those 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.240 in there, and then full album later this year is 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:14.919 going to be a whole other bats. That to me 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:16.839 is by far the best songs I've ever written, so 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.840 I'm real excited to get that out. It seems like 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.760 you have a lot of life experiences to draw on. 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.839 I did just a very basic, scratching the surface list 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.520 of cool things that you've done in your life. You 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.120 were part of a NASCAR pit crew. You were on 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:35.600 Survivor Nicaragua and finished second, which I feel is important 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.720 to add. You've traveled the world. You are currently talking 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.960 to me on your bison farm with actual bison in 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:44.360 the background, so I can confirm this is a real thing. 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.640 You seem like a real renaissance man. How do you 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.560 bring all of those different experiences and bits and pieces 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:54.320 them and mush them all together and create music that's 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:57.480 relatable to people who will never go to Nicaragua and 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:59.920 wouldn't even know a bison if it walked up in him. 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.640 In faith? Yeah, well, I don't. I don't sing about that. 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:04.520 I don't. I'm not going to be singing about survivor 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.760 I'm gonna be singing about honestly I don't see my 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.000 bis and never making the way into a song. But 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.400 what it does do It allowed what I've realized, especially 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.200 last year, was it allowed me to go live a 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:19.080 real life. I realized from twenty thirteen to twenty twenty, 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.880 I didn't have a life. I was just traveling. I 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.040 was touring. And that's when I look back a lot 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:26.160 of the songs and I was just trying to write songs. 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:27.480 It's like, all right, what are we gonna write today? 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:29.760 Yesterday we had a song that we wrote that it 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:31.760 was we were just trying to write a song. And 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:36.200 to me that that that's not music. So for me, 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:37.960 having as much time as I've had, all for me 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:39.880 to get over here and not be thinking about anything. 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:42.040 All I'm thinking about what's in front of me, because 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:43.480 what's in front of me could kill me if I 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:47.200 slip and screw up. But being able to live real life, 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:49.120 whether it's on my farm, whether it's just going to 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.520 visit buddies in North Carolina, going to we had just 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.360 had a ski tripping Big Sky Montana. Being a live 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:57.720 real life has allowed me to open my mind up 0:07:57.760 --> 0:07:59.840 to Oh, there's a life out there that doesn't look 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:03.080 like my crazy, fake life that you can get sucked into. 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.640 And as a touring musician, and now I have a 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:07.240 whole lot of stuff to write about. So that's why 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.800 I'm real excited about Part three and real real excited 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:12.800 about the next record. Now, this is a football podcast 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.560 here on the OTP, so I feel I would be 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:17.520 remiss if I didn't ask you a little bit about 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:21.760 your own football career, because you played at North Carolina. 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.680 Tell me about your football experience. When did you start 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:29.160 and kind of how did that chapter of your life end. Yeah, 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:32.840 I started in middle school and I realized really eighth 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:34.760 grade was when I was like, oh, okay, I'm a 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.560 solid player. In the ninth grade, tenth grade to start 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:40.120 becoming even more solid. You become one of the better 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:41.920 players on your team. You become one of the leaders. 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.720 And then junior year was when it was like, okay, wow, 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:47.320 I'm actually really good at football. I have a chance 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.560 to go to college and not have to pay for it. 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:51.480 I would have hated college anyway if I didn't have 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.240 football and didn't have a reason other than going to 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:57.000 class and partying, I would have hated it, but being 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.200 able to earn the scholarship to University North Carolina gave 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:01.560 me a purpose. It gave me a reason to go 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.480 to college and a reason to go get an education 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.360 on top of chasing a dream goal of playing in 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:09.960 the NFL, and that was close to happening. I was 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:13.040 a really good player in my sophomore year, started the 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.280 back half of the season, geared up to be one 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:18.560 of the best players on the defense my junior year, 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:20.280 and then the very first game of the year, I 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:23.440 got hurt. I busted my ankle real, real bad. It 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.000 was an injury that I tried to come back from, 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:27.880 but I was not even close to the same player. 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:32.960 I'd lost speed, I'd lost confidence. It still does things 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.880 where it'll like starting to slip out at tendon that 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.320 I tore, and it just feels a little weird. But 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.000 it ended every goal or dream that I had a 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.040 play in the NFL. And on top of that, right 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:46.360 a miserable time when you're realizing I can't play football anymore. 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:49.400 When I was good enough to continue to the next level, 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:51.480 my dad died. So it was just the worst of 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:55.680 all worlds colliding one time. But that the way I 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:57.960 dealt with it was I broke my first, very first 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:01.160 song about it. So I realized it wasn't even another 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.559 path that was so bad in the beginning that they 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:05.280 wasn't like I was like, oh, I moved to Nashville 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:06.640 and be a country singer. No, I was just a 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:08.920 hobby and it was therapy for me to be able 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:13.679 to write about my life. And luckily that therapy has lasted, 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.360 you know, I guess now at this point has been 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:18.560 over ten years and I get to make a living 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:22.360 doing this. So that's how football transition into music through 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:26.520 an absolutely horrible experience and a horrible couple of years. 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:28.440 But if you can tarn a negative and a positive, 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:30.920 that's one of the best things you can do in life. Well, 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:34.240 now has it almost flipped to where football is something 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.880 that becomes a release or an escape and music is 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.560 the thing that you do as your career, that's the dream, 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.040 that's the job, and now football is where you can 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:46.280 kind of have that life. Yeah, it literally has flipped. 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.840 Their Saturday nights or Sundays depends on the game, whether 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:52.280 it's college or the NFL, that I'm not walking off 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:55.640 the bus to go singing unless this game is over. 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.839 I'm not missing what's about to happen. So that's how 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.480 much I love football. That's so much. I finally get 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:04.920 to be a fan as opposed to Watson the game thinking, oh, 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:07.520 this is Tampa two, what's the middle linebacker going to do? Okay, 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:12.120 now they gotta whatever matchups. You're obsessing over the technical 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.080 stuff in the game and how it's played as as 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:17.240 opposed to now, I just watched football and I drink 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.080 beer and it's awesome, and I get to do my 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:23.360 job while I do that, you know, going on a stage. 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.880 So I couldn't love my life anymore. So if anyone 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.120 is ever at a Chase Rice concert on a Friday 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.320 or Saturday night and you're a little bit late, they 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.280 should check ESPN because there's probably a pretty good game 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:35.839 on somewhere Tar Heels are playing. I think it was 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.400 Clemson in the ACC Championship a couple of years ago. 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.520 Oh man, I was thirty minutes going late at the 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:43.200 Grizzly Ros and they didn't seem to mind. The people 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.160 were cool with it, because I guess that's pretty normal 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.560 for some people to be late sometimes anyway, But at 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:49.440 least mine was an okay, reason I was watching my 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:52.120 tar heels. So how did you become a Titans fan? 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.319 If you're someone who normally was a college football guy, 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:57.160 that was kind of your spot. How do you transition 0:11:57.200 --> 0:11:58.960 to the NFL. That was tough for me because I 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.160 grew up in Floor and that was back when the 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:04.440 Jags were a brand new team and the Titans became 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:06.760 a new team to Nashville. But because I grew up 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:08.960 in Florida, I was pulling for two teams of Jags 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:12.679 and the Titans because they had Javon Curse. Literally, Javon 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:14.880 Curse is the reason I'm a Titans fan because he 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:16.600 was a Gator and I grew up a Gator and 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.880 he was my favorite defensive player in the world. And 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:22.480 I remember him literally holding the chain just like around 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:24.800 his neck, being tough as hell during the Super Bowl 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:26.800 against the Rams, and I'm just sitting there all in 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:29.640 wanting to win so bad and obviously the most heartbreaking 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.319 loss you could possibly imagine. Oh my god, the amount 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:36.800 of Florida Gators in country music is unbelievable. Like, do 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.120 you guys get together on the weekends? There are so 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.719 many Gators fans in the country music space. There's a 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:44.920 lot of dogs. There's a lot of Georgia Bulldogs. There's 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:46.960 a lot of Gators, and I'm a Gator for sure, 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.120 grew up one, but I went to the University of 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.800 North Carolina. So I think there's three of us really 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.120 that are Tar Heels, Me, Luke Combs, and Eric Church, 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:57.559 all Carolina guys. I'm claiming that the heels all day 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:01.560 long over the game. That's good. It provides some variety, 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:05.520 which we appreciate. You've actually gotten to meet and create 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:09.000 real relationships with some of the guys on the Titans team. 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.040 Do you find you have a lot in common with them, 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:14.040 not only from your football experience and so you can 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.640 relate in that way, but also because there are a 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.920 lot of similarities when it comes to preparation and process 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.680 from music to sports. Yeah. I mean, first and foremost, 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:24.520 that's the world I came from, so it's just easy 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.120 for us to relate. Matt Overton's one of my best buddies, 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.520 and he came out of the Titans last year. So 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.200 any guy that has to work for what he has. 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:34.440 There's a lot of players out there who are just 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:36.520 talented as hell, more talented than I could ever be 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:39.520 and just didn't have that mindset. I've seen so many 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:41.840 players I had more talent than anybody, but didn't have 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:45.240 the mindset of, you know, working hard. And any guy's 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:47.440 like a guy like Matt Overton that just works so 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:50.719 hard for everything he's ever had nothing given to him. 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:52.440 That's the guy that I can get along with because 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:53.960 that's what I had to do in football. So I 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.600 love people with that mindset in general. They're good people 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:58.840 to be around. They're good people to surround your surround 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.720 yourself with. Guy like Mike Rabel, I mean as a player, 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:05.120 he was one of those guys where I'm talented, absolutely, 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.800 but plenty of linebackers out there faster than him, plenty 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:11.880 of linebackers out there stronger. But he had that mindset 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:13.840 with guys like Teddy Bruski and all that, that we 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:15.720 gotta work, let's go. And that's why I get a 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:18.280 lost so well with Mike as well, So any people 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:20.640 with that mindset, and that's the culture that he's building 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:22.800 with the Titans as well, that's a team I can 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:24.480 get behind. You know, all right, I know I've got 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:27.000 to let you go. But for my last question, we 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:29.760 kind of blew over the bison farm thing, and I 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.040 want to lean into it just a little bit. So 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:35.320 why did you decide that a bison farm was something 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.680 that you needed in your life? Well, I had the farm. 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:42.440 That was first thing. If you get into bison farming, 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:44.880 you gotta buy the farm. You're crazy because you're not 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.160 going to make your money back. I already had the farm. 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:50.520 I loved looking at my land, but I'd never really 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.400 looked at it a lot because I'm on tour, I'm 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:54.040 on the road, and then all of a sudden, you 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:55.440 give me a year off and I'm walking on my 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:57.040 front port standing at my land. I'm like, I gotta 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:00.440 do something with this. And my preacher was actually at 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:03.680 my house one night. You're just grilling out, cooking, and 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:05.760 he starts talking about his buddy, who's a bison farmer. 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:09.000 I'm like, I mean, there's nothing more American than American 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.920 buffal I called Daniel was actually here. We're gonna work 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:14.080 the bison here in a minute, And I said, to man, 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:15.520 do you think i'll need a new truck if I 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:17.720 get these bison? He said, Brother, that is the last 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.239 question you need to be asking. There's a whole lot 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.360 into this before you end up needing a new truck, 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.040 and I'll sell you right now. These guys are all girls. 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:27.600 And then there's Bennington right there, the big one. But 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.280 I'm about to get worked and it's our first day 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:33.400 doing that so on this farm anyway, So it's gonna 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.600 be a learning experience today, but by the end of 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:37.320 the day, I'm gonna have a whole different experience that 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:39.960 I've ever had before. I'm excited. Oh my gosh. Well, 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.560 we're gonna circle back and call you back at about 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:46.560 six thirty tonight and see if you're still alive, you 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:49.120 still want to keep these bison on your property, and 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:53.720 we'll go from there. I'm gonna be diving into some nice, nice, 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:55.960 very very cold beers after this one, so i might 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:57.880 be slurring my words a little bit, but it's gonna 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:00.760 be a good day. Chase, thank you so much for 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:04.280 a chat with us. This was phenomenal. Look forward to 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:06.320 the season. It's gonna be fun. I'm glad we can 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:14.600 hopefully have fans back. That'll be the best look to 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:16.920 the folks at Farm Bureau Health Plans when you need 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:20.720 someone who understands the exes and ohs of healthcare coverage, 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:25.720 they've been protecting Tennessee and since nineteen forty seven. Thank you, 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.560 thank you, Thank you to Chase Rice for taking some 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:33.000 time to talk with me. What an awesome conversation. And guys, 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:36.600 thank you for tuning into this edition of the OTP, 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.800 the Official Titans Podcast. So great to have you here 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:43.840 with us. If you have not subscribed to this podcast, 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:46.480 do it. 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