Speaker 1: What's the.
Speaker 2: Shawn, I let my own three parts.
Speaker 3: You're off in God's Country with Reed, also known as
Speaker 3: The Brother's Hunt, where we take a weekly drive to
Speaker 3: the intersection of country music and the great outdoors, two
Speaker 3: things that go together, like trying to pick up line
Speaker 3: on somebody in a bar and going home alone.
Speaker 4: Or a daughter's idea of a new tattoo and a
Speaker 4: disapproving look from her father.
Speaker 2: This thing, it's the Eyes Closed.
Speaker 4: It was a grimace and press lips brought to you
Speaker 4: by Meat Eater and I Heeart Podcast.
Speaker 3: We got a special one for y'all. We have missus
Speaker 3: Ella Langley one. And not only did we have Ella,
Speaker 3: we had she brought her dad, Jason Langley along. They
Speaker 3: do a lot of hunting, a lot of her stories
Speaker 3: and and and the history of her hunting is with him.
Speaker 2: And uh so he was.
Speaker 4: You know, she called me out before well last night,
Speaker 4: I guess it was like dad's real nervous.
Speaker 2: He looked nervous coming in here, real.
Speaker 4: Nervous, dude. He did great, He's sad. He's kind of
Speaker 4: like this good radio radio voice something. Yeah. First time
Speaker 4: it popped in my ears, I was like, Okay.
Speaker 2: It's funny.
Speaker 3: He kept on, he kept on saying like he kept
Speaker 3: on like interrupting, be like, can I just tell one.
Speaker 2: More stories about that?
Speaker 3: So there's so many great old hunting stories of them too,
Speaker 3: and it's fun to watch them interact in those things.
Speaker 2: So I loved how she was really gonna.
Speaker 4: Enjoy it well, telling Daddy telling that story, telling.
Speaker 3: You tell him, And she was like, no, I like
Speaker 3: it when you tell it. So it's gonna be a
Speaker 3: great episode. You're gonna you're gonna want to listen to
Speaker 3: the whole thing.
Speaker 2: I've got.
Speaker 3: I've got something that happened to me a couple of
Speaker 3: mornings ago that, uh was kind of crazy.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's not it's not crazy, Like.
Speaker 3: It's not like ghosty sound no, no, no, no, nothing like that.
Speaker 3: It was more like, it's the first time I've ever
Speaker 3: seen something like this happen.
Speaker 4: Okay, dude, what I have no idea what something.
Speaker 3: So I was it was in the morning, I think,
Speaker 3: and Jordan we were, uh, yeah, y'all just got there
Speaker 3: and Jordan was like, hey, she was like a She
Speaker 3: was like, there's there's a bird in the We have
Speaker 3: the sun room off of our house and and it's
Speaker 3: got big windows and a big door, and we got
Speaker 3: a little jungle thing in there for our kids to
Speaker 3: climb on when it gets you know, it's too cold
Speaker 3: to go outside, so they can play in there and
Speaker 3: at nights and stuff and so, uh, sometimes birds get
Speaker 3: in there and they fly in and they try to
Speaker 3: get out and they can't, so they're just like landing
Speaker 3: on the curtain, rides around the room, you know, just
Speaker 3: kind of waiting.
Speaker 4: So my tactic could be a bit of a ruckus
Speaker 4: by the way when that.
Speaker 3: Oh, especially when two get in there or three. That's
Speaker 3: happened for it, it is it's a jungle. Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 4: It's a party.
Speaker 3: So my tactic has been what I figured out, the
Speaker 3: best way to get a bird out is to close
Speaker 3: off an entire one side of the room and then
Speaker 3: completely open the other side of the room. Get them,
Speaker 3: get them to that one side that's closed, and then
Speaker 3: just like all them off to the side that's open,
Speaker 3: and usually they'll fly, you know, they'll they'll they'll start
Speaker 3: flying and then they'll fill you know, whatever windows open
Speaker 3: and they'll just head out. It's been a great tactic
Speaker 3: because the first time or a few times I tried
Speaker 3: to get them out.
Speaker 2: It was terrible.
Speaker 3: So though the morning, George's like, hey, I think there's
Speaker 3: a bird in there, and it's still in there. I
Speaker 3: was like, okay, I went in there, bird flying around,
Speaker 3: kind of bird will go here, Uh, just like a
Speaker 3: little twitty bird sparrow.
Speaker 2: No, I don't know, maybe a thrasher.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Actually, so I see it up there and I see
Speaker 3: that it's kind of like so it's been in there
Speaker 3: a minute, you know. So I was like, all right, Bud,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna try to get you out of here as
Speaker 3: fast as possible. So close off one side, open up
Speaker 3: the other side, do the tactic. It flies to I
Speaker 3: get it, flies off of the closed off side, goes
Speaker 3: to the other side, and lights on the lands on
Speaker 3: the curtain rid. I was like, man, it's so close
Speaker 3: to going under. So I was like, okay, I gotta
Speaker 3: get you flying around.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 3: I went over to it, and when I just like
Speaker 3: scared it to fly off, it came down to like
Speaker 3: head level and flew as hard as it could into.
Speaker 4: The closed off the door over there.
Speaker 3: The glass door just went boom, dupe comes up, falls down,
Speaker 3: lands on the towel. I was like, no, man, no, man,
Speaker 3: not right in front of me. I mean, it's sitting
Speaker 3: there and it's, you know, kind of twitching. I was like, dang, dude,
Speaker 3: did I just make this bird commit suicide and run
Speaker 3: into this glass? So I picked it up, and I
Speaker 3: was like feeling bad, and I saw it like kind
Speaker 3: of like just still.
Speaker 2: It wasn't dead. It's still alive.
Speaker 3: So I went over to the open window and I
Speaker 3: put it on the ledge and this little and like
Speaker 3: it was it had enough still there that it was
Speaker 3: like holding on, but it was leaning and I'd have
Speaker 3: to like lean it back to upright and then lean
Speaker 3: the other way and I'd lean it back to upright,
Speaker 3: and dude, I sat there and I was just like,
Speaker 3: come on, man, I've seen the same little bird. Prayers
Speaker 3: over this little bird and petting this little bird head,
Speaker 3: just hoping that it would come to dude. Two minutes later,
Speaker 3: it went like this, like it was leaning on and
Speaker 3: it was still leaning, and I was petting it, and
Speaker 3: like this, we shook it all.
Speaker 6: It knocked itself out.
Speaker 4: Birds be knocking.
Speaker 7: Themselves out, knocked itself out, Dude, like like we would
Speaker 7: like you get knocked out out if you if we
Speaker 7: boxed and I hit you with the right hook, like
Speaker 7: I would knock you out, and you would lay there
Speaker 7: for a couple of minutes and then shake and then
Speaker 7: come up.
Speaker 4: It shook its head.
Speaker 6: It literally shook its head.
Speaker 2: Dude.
Speaker 3: It was looking outside and I was petting this little
Speaker 3: bird head little bird pets, and just it went like
Speaker 3: this like it was like God, dang, like, what's this
Speaker 3: dude petting me for it?
Speaker 2: Why are you?
Speaker 3: I have no clue, because it was interesting, the shaking
Speaker 3: of it. Yeah, it's just a it's just a I've
Speaker 3: never seen a bird knock itself out and then fly
Speaker 3: off like it was fine.
Speaker 4: Interesting.
Speaker 2: It was gonna be my my glad at you're glad
Speaker 2: of that.
Speaker 3: But I didn't get to tell it today because we
Speaker 3: started talking about other stuff and I was mad at
Speaker 3: these shoes cramping my pinky toes still hurting, they're numb
Speaker 3: and they're past hurting cold.
Speaker 2: No, we're fine. So well that was what the intro is.
Speaker 4: Now, I mean, I have I have a little I
Speaker 4: think I have a little bit of advice for for
Speaker 4: the folks out there. Okay, also and what it also
Speaker 4: has to do with birds kind of okay, So there
Speaker 4: was a time we First off, my wife and I
Speaker 4: have been talking about this, and I'll go ahead and
Speaker 4: just give it. Give you the point at the beginning
Speaker 4: so you can have this in your head. I think
Speaker 4: it's time that we as people start getting rid of
Speaker 4: things that add stress in our lives. And this is
Speaker 4: a and this is a solid point to peggyback off
Speaker 4: of our Dad episode.
Speaker 2: What does that have to do with birds?
Speaker 4: I'm not there yet. If you'll give me five seconds,
Speaker 4: you have fifteen minutes of the intro Jesus age. So
Speaker 4: so my dad comes back and got when we turkey hunt,
Speaker 4: we turkey hunt together and I we're hunting, and he's like,
Speaker 4: what's going on? Man, We're just sitting there talking. The
Speaker 4: birds aren't doing anything. And I said, man, I got
Speaker 4: these two roosters and they are killing each other and
Speaker 4: they're fighting all the time, and they're bleeding all over everything.
Speaker 2: They were killing each other. They're killing the hens.
Speaker 4: And they're killing each other, and they were jumping on
Speaker 4: the backs of the hens and like digging their little
Speaker 4: claws into their sides. And I was finding my hands
Speaker 4: starting to hide cuss spurs in the corn. And it
Speaker 4: was really getting annoying. Right, So I catch these two
Speaker 4: roosters and I put them in pins and they're in
Speaker 4: my garage and now they're just screaming in my garage,
Speaker 4: just defecate in my garage, and it's it's just a mess. Right.
Speaker 4: So while we're Turkey, I'm thinking about this. They've been
Speaker 4: in these pins for two days. We're walking back. Turkey's
Speaker 4: don't act right. We're walking back to the house and
Speaker 4: Dad goes, hey, man, what's on your mind. I was like,
Speaker 4: I gotta do something with these roosters, and he goes,
Speaker 4: sometimes it's easier to just cut the heads off the rooster.
Speaker 4: And I was like, in my head, I thought, but
Speaker 4: I don't want to do that, right, And as I
Speaker 4: got back to the house, he was started thinking, he's
Speaker 4: totally right, He's totally right. I walked into that garage,
Speaker 4: grabbed them two roosters, decavitate them, cook them in a
Speaker 4: frying pan that night, and the straight was gone. Sometimes
Speaker 4: in your life, bro, you're so tough, dude, Sometimes in
Speaker 4: your life you got to cut the head off the rooster.
Speaker 4: Whether it's something that's it's just adding anxiet the problem
Speaker 4: to your life. Yeah, and instead it took more effort
Speaker 4: of me worrying about it for days and days while
Speaker 4: these stupid roosters were in my garage, when I should
Speaker 4: have just cut the head off the rooster immediately. So
Speaker 4: I'm encouraging you if you have a rooster in your life,
Speaker 4: that's messing. And you know what happened when I got
Speaker 4: rid of them roosters. The hens came out of the corn,
Speaker 4: they healed back up, they started laying more eggs. In
Speaker 4: the entire aura of my little farm was better. Sometimes
Speaker 4: in your life, bro, you got to cut the heads
Speaker 4: off the roosters. And that's my advice from the chair
Speaker 4: in our intro, I hope you enjoyed my story more
Speaker 4: than you enjoyed reads. I mean, at least I had
Speaker 4: a point too.
Speaker 2: Hey, if you go follow us on social media.
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Speaker 4: We're kind of we're kind of big on TikTok.
Speaker 2: Now we are we TikTokers?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: Well are It will never It will never be on
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Speaker 2: Go Uh yeah, if I gotta.
Speaker 3: If you got a phone. You're getting spot on. Go
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Speaker 4: There's three cameras ones right now.
Speaker 3: Keep up with our weekly antics. Uh, it's wild, it's dumb,
Speaker 3: but it's fun. You know anything else, Jordan, thanks for listening.
Speaker 2: We love y'all.
Speaker 4: Peace.
Speaker 1: Were rolling, roll and roll and roll and rolling.
Speaker 8: Roll and rolling.
Speaker 2: Yes, so I'm stuffy. I'm allergic to red wine now
Speaker 2: for some reason. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: What happens you break out in handcuffs?
Speaker 2: No, I just I just the last few times that
Speaker 2: was a go on. Yeah, if I could across the room.
Speaker 3: The last few nights that that I've drank it, I've
Speaker 3: like been fine.
Speaker 4: The last few nights, or just just like every night dream.
Speaker 2: One thing you need to talk to your brother, you know,
Speaker 2: it's just like a couple of nights a week.
Speaker 3: I say something like that. Yeah, yeah, we got two
Speaker 3: kids under one dog, I mean two kids under two.
Speaker 3: My bad, but anyway, yeah, I get I get stuffy. Also,
Speaker 3: speaking of stuffy, I learned we learned that my two
Speaker 3: year old daughter has a uh, imagine a friend named Stuffy.
Speaker 2: That's a bunny.
Speaker 4: Now, imagine your friend that's a bunny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, named Stuffy.
Speaker 1: I had one name was, was it?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't know, remember I just remember I didn't just remember.
Speaker 5: It was a factory everywhere.
Speaker 2: Or Ella?
Speaker 5: Uh, maybe she did.
Speaker 9: I don't know, a real friend or a dog or
Speaker 9: just oh this was a real bunny.
Speaker 5: Had bunny.
Speaker 1: Oh we did have a bunny. He start, He's thinking,
Speaker 1: I'm I had a bun.
Speaker 4: So what we did?
Speaker 1: We had a bunny?
Speaker 5: Yeah, And he was on the old deck.
Speaker 9: And then you walk out there and and till it
Speaker 9: finally a hawk called him.
Speaker 1: We had to go to tell him why you got
Speaker 1: ready of the goat?
Speaker 5: Same thing.
Speaker 9: He's stand at the back door with his feet up
Speaker 9: against glass, bellowing and crapping on my deck.
Speaker 3: And I feel that as a parent, that of kids
Speaker 3: that will have pets one day, because I love I've
Speaker 3: got a bloodhound and all love her to death. But
Speaker 3: she'll sit there and Paul on the door, and Paul
Speaker 3: and Paul, He'll drive me insane.
Speaker 9: Pets man, I've got a great dog, Boykin Spaniel that
Speaker 9: I've had. I've always wanted one, and I planned to
Speaker 9: get one, and lo and behold, Ella runs out and
Speaker 9: gets her one first. You know, of course, completely pissed
Speaker 9: me off.
Speaker 1: You just got that dog because he knew I wanted one.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that's exactly what she did.
Speaker 1: But anyway, but that helped my mom get you a dog.
Speaker 5: It did, I did.
Speaker 9: I'm using that to my benefit Now I can do
Speaker 9: lots of things that Ella wants to do. So when
Speaker 9: I couldn't get any any action out of her, letting
Speaker 9: me go by a dog, Ella help me.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 9: But anyway, this a boy caned dog is. I mean,
Speaker 9: they're the best. And I took him training and he's
Speaker 9: very got.
Speaker 5: A lot of drive energy what you're training for. Just
Speaker 5: a bird hunter.
Speaker 9: He'll retrieve ducks and dove and I mean literally, when
Speaker 9: I pick up my shotgun and put a shot collar
Speaker 9: on him, he'll deal cards if you ask you to.
Speaker 9: I mean, he'll do whatever I want him to. But
Speaker 9: if I take that shot collar off, he's mad.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 9: He may run over and peel on your but dove
Speaker 9: stool or something.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, we got a special one got a special
Speaker 4: it's I've already laughed hard.
Speaker 5: Ella.
Speaker 4: Well, first off you in today Sela.
Speaker 3: We have a platinum artist, Big Deer Killing recently made
Speaker 3: her Tonight's show.
Speaker 2: In Today's show, Debut's.
Speaker 3: Right Alabama girl named one of the country's most promising
Speaker 3: new stars by the Grammy's Big Deal.
Speaker 6: We've got Ella Langley and special guest, her dad.
Speaker 1: Jason, Dad's first podcast, the first podcast we just had
Speaker 1: our dad on too.
Speaker 3: This is his first pot Yeah, I'm glad. I'm glad,
Speaker 3: this is this is what's going on.
Speaker 1: Me too, me too. Well, I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: cool for people to kind of see me through not
Speaker 1: just me talking about it. I'm so tired of talk
Speaker 1: about myself, I feel so let him do it. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a little more talking than I would probably
Speaker 1: do about myself.
Speaker 5: I love it. I love it.
Speaker 4: Introduced him, tell us too, this guy.
Speaker 1: Is well, this is my dad. He's been my dad
Speaker 1: and my whole wife.
Speaker 4: Well, what do you know, we went to the same
Speaker 4: high school, same high school.
Speaker 1: My little sister's about to graduate from the same high school.
Speaker 1: My mom ordered us all cap and gowns because from
Speaker 1: my dad down we've all graduated from the same high school.
Speaker 4: High school.
Speaker 1: Wow, it's called Hooper Academy. It's in a small town
Speaker 1: where we're from, called Hope, pol You passed it on
Speaker 1: sixty five, Like, if you're going straight down sixty five
Speaker 1: south Montgomery. There's this Green School on the side.
Speaker 5: Okay, it's been factors.
Speaker 9: Fred Hooper, which had he's a racehorse guy and his
Speaker 9: horse won the Kentucky Derby. He has a big place
Speaker 9: in o Cala. He's dead now, he'd be like one
Speaker 9: hundred and ten. But when his horse was racing, when
Speaker 9: his horses were racing, they let us out of school
Speaker 9: and you all go watch this.
Speaker 5: That's all the race that Hooper h O O P
Speaker 5: E R.
Speaker 4: Okay, and it's south of Montgomery.
Speaker 5: So and it's not Hooper, it's Hooper.
Speaker 1: People have everywhere we go, all the schools around it
Speaker 1: would be like, it's why do y'all say Hooper? And
Speaker 1: it's funny. You'll see the kids that their parents because
Speaker 1: there's like my best friend from high school. I mean
Speaker 1: we went to school together kindergarten through graduation and her
Speaker 1: mom graduated. Her mom and my dad dated and he
Speaker 1: went to same high school. Didn't you introduce her to
Speaker 1: mister Green ms Donna.
Speaker 9: After you No, No, it's a small town.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so you know, it's you see the kids
Speaker 1: that their parents went there, they all we all say Hooper.
Speaker 1: But then the new kids come in, they say hooper.
Speaker 4: You know, well, that's the same way where I live.
Speaker 4: It's spelled just like Santa Fe. But they say feet
Speaker 4: Santa Fee. It's not fae.
Speaker 3: And so if you say like on the side of barns,
Speaker 3: it's like it's pronounced fee.
Speaker 4: Literally, it's pronounced fee, not fair.
Speaker 1: It's like jord and heirn, and it spelled Jordan, but
Speaker 1: actually Jord.
Speaker 4: Like like Bill.
Speaker 2: That's how they said Jorden Jordan.
Speaker 3: It looks like we like to start the show with
Speaker 3: a little segment call We're gonna do it always.
Speaker 2: Okay, pie, let's.
Speaker 5: Get it.
Speaker 6: Up high, give me the other one, give me a gig.
Speaker 4: I don't remember what. Just tell us what it is.
Speaker 4: What you mean.
Speaker 6: Kids a boss man or your neighbors, kids.
Speaker 1: Like that.
Speaker 2: Little Pea Diddy.
Speaker 4: I don't think I can say that.
Speaker 1: What am I mad at?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 4: Go for it?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is that what you're asking? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Or be glad, but or be mad.
Speaker 4: You could be mad if something can be.
Speaker 1: Have it some uh really hot tea. This morning, I
Speaker 1: drank some tea. It was in a straw, you know,
Speaker 1: and I took a big gulp and I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: there's a degree burn in my mouth right now.
Speaker 2: So I'm not pumped.
Speaker 1: Everything I'm gonna eat for two days is going to
Speaker 1: be absolutely terrible.
Speaker 4: Yeah, hard, but you know, yeah, I'll piggyback on that.
Speaker 4: So Jordan and Reed showed me a new recipe with
Speaker 4: sweet potatoes. When you don't have time to like stick
Speaker 4: on the oven for like four hours, you can cut
Speaker 4: them in little cubes, air fry a little hill with
Speaker 4: a little butter, little spice, and they'll like kind of
Speaker 4: make a little sweep tat fries. Went too early last night,
Speaker 4: Oh no, went too early.
Speaker 3: Like a pizza role sticks through the outside of It's fine, right,
Speaker 3: like the touch of it.
Speaker 4: It is good.
Speaker 2: Pop that thing in degrees.
Speaker 4: On the inside.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Also like a hot pocket, and then you burn yourself
Speaker 1: just to get to the middle and it's cold, you know,
Speaker 1: you burn yourself all the way to the cool Maybe
Speaker 1: it did on purpose. It cools you off halfway.
Speaker 2: When's the last time you've had a hot pocket?
Speaker 4: Years? That was probably college, I mean it would dis
Speaker 4: I mean.
Speaker 1: Houser, I think you know, like those those sketchy hotel
Speaker 1: rooms were staying in that. You know, when you're starting
Speaker 1: out in a van. You're selling as much merch as
Speaker 1: you possibly can to pay your I mean anything anything.
Speaker 1: I mean some of those shows where I was getting
Speaker 1: five hundred show in a fan and trying to pay everybody.
Speaker 2: You know, that's pretty much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so every night we would have to sell on
Speaker 1: the merch. But anyways we'd go back and I'm starving
Speaker 1: because I can't eat before I play show. I cannot eat.
Speaker 1: I can't eat like hours before I play. I wake
Speaker 1: up and I eat like a big lunch kind of
Speaker 1: and then I don't eat till probably eleven, almost midnights.
Speaker 2: What do you think it is? What's what's your what?
Speaker 1: I've always been that way. I think it's like this
Speaker 1: the adrenaline. I don't know what it is. I really don't,
Speaker 1: but I cannot eat it like I will. I just
Speaker 1: don't have an appetite at all. I feel like if
Speaker 1: I do that, yeah, that's my big I already fell
Speaker 1: down for the first time this year.
Speaker 4: Did I didn't?
Speaker 2: I didn't see everybody does everybody falls?
Speaker 4: I didn't.
Speaker 5: Hurt.
Speaker 1: I brought my well, I like skirted around a little.
Speaker 2: When you got hit in the head with the guitar stuff.
Speaker 5: Did it hurt.
Speaker 2: It gets you pretty good.
Speaker 1: It did hit me in the head, but I didn't
Speaker 1: know it hit me in the head until I watched
Speaker 1: it talking.
Speaker 4: About her falling got hit with a guitar and fell
Speaker 4: her and the.
Speaker 2: Guitar player fell.
Speaker 1: Have a video of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're okay, I mean we can't laugh at it now,
Speaker 4: you're yeah.
Speaker 1: I was laughing when I did it. I mean it's
Speaker 1: simple injuries like that.
Speaker 4: Is Yeah, Ernest had a good fall.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh yeah, Well what was funny is him and
Speaker 1: I were we were talking like the day before something,
Speaker 1: and I was like, you know, I've never fallen, and
Speaker 1: for some reason, I was like, I was like, I
Speaker 1: just and I've said that a lot. I've never fallen
Speaker 1: in and I was like, think, think I'm gonna jinx
Speaker 1: myself and I've almost fallen billions of times. Like right,
Speaker 1: skirt around it. But I danced for a long time
Speaker 1: and I kind of danced around on my toes up there,
Speaker 1: so but my foot went in between the sub and
Speaker 1: the stage, so when I stepped back, it went down.
Speaker 1: And when I go do this part in the show,
Speaker 1: it's the last song, I put my hand on my
Speaker 1: guitar player's arm to like get down or like just
Speaker 1: just to show some contact, you know, like we're getting
Speaker 1: in and he's like ripping this solo. Yeah, And so
Speaker 1: I go to do that, put my hand here, and
Speaker 1: at the same time my foot goes to the floor.
Speaker 2: He's all you got and he does.
Speaker 1: Big muscles all I see. And then then all I
Speaker 1: see is the big muscles and guitar are just like
Speaker 1: the light. It was just the shadow of him falling
Speaker 1: down on top of me. Yeah. I just giggled the
Speaker 1: whole time.
Speaker 4: Really, I didn't hear you.
Speaker 3: I should be mad this morning at these uh, at
Speaker 3: these boots because my pinky toe I can't feel my
Speaker 3: pinky toes right now. And both of them they're squeegeed
Speaker 3: up in there so tight.
Speaker 4: Are they slender?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I guess so. Man, It's it's kind of hurting.
Speaker 4: You can take them off of your socks, match.
Speaker 2: But they do. I'm a saw guy.
Speaker 4: Now here we go interesting. I'm gonna turn it so
Speaker 4: the world can see right solo. Yep, see you d
Speaker 4: damn Yeah, the headstock hits you right in the mouth.
Speaker 2: He's got to own it, right, you just got to
Speaker 2: own it.
Speaker 1: I was giggling so hard really concerned about Ben because
Speaker 1: he fell backwards on his pedal. Oh he doesn't miss
Speaker 1: what what?
Speaker 8: What?
Speaker 1: What's so funny is he has fallen a lot. He
Speaker 1: falls all the time, like and but he never misses
Speaker 1: a lick. Like the first time he did it, we
Speaker 1: were with co Wetzel's first arena I've ever played, and
Speaker 1: he falls down. It's like, dang it. But it was
Speaker 1: so funny because the way he fell down, he rolled
Speaker 1: out of it and then just continue to play here
Speaker 1: for the party.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 4: Things like that honestly are like connect with the crowd
Speaker 4: because it's.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, weirdly enough, I think those things are endearing
Speaker 3: a little bit totally.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think it's vulnerable, right. It's live music,
Speaker 4: and like if if you're playing live music, that stuff's
Speaker 4: going it might fall down. If you're playing tracks, that
Speaker 4: ship ain't gonna happen, you know what I mean, it's
Speaker 4: just gonna be normal and you're not you're playing a
Speaker 4: love of music, got live band.
Speaker 2: It's kind of likes to you do.
Speaker 3: Oh but you have not only live She's up there
Speaker 3: dance and she's getting into it, jumping around.
Speaker 2: It's gonna happen at.
Speaker 1: Some point, I would love to not have tracks. But
Speaker 1: I think, you know, when we're playing in these these
Speaker 1: big stages and we're up against these bands that are
Speaker 1: you know, full stage, I can't afford a band like
Speaker 1: that when I, when I get rich, there will be signs.
Speaker 1: Signs will be There's not gonna be a lot of
Speaker 1: room on my stage because there will be horn sections,
Speaker 1: string section. I want them to like compete at each other,
Speaker 1: you know, like split the band in half and make
Speaker 1: them go anyways. I don't know. I have a lot
Speaker 1: of ideas.
Speaker 4: I like, I like, when I get rich, there will
Speaker 4: be there will be signs.
Speaker 3: All right, let's let's hop into some some outdoor talk,
Speaker 3: uh with you?
Speaker 2: Did you did you recently kill a big deer?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I just killed a buck? Was that Sunday?
Speaker 5: Dad? Oh?
Speaker 4: Recently recently.
Speaker 1: Back down in Alabama. Got a couple of hunting spots
Speaker 1: down there.
Speaker 4: Leave them loose. You ain't gotta don't spend.
Speaker 1: Leave them loose. Yeah, but yeah, so Sunday I made it.
Speaker 1: It's probably the toughest weekend of hunting. I made it
Speaker 1: on me and Dad, not for lack of seeing deer,
Speaker 1: which isn't the usual thing. Because you know, we're just
Speaker 1: country hunting out there, you know, kind of what we
Speaker 1: That's what I've grown up doing. You know, some I
Speaker 1: mean some some seasons would go and I'd be like,
Speaker 1: I saw a dough today and that was so exciting.
Speaker 2: You know, we've had those.
Speaker 1: But this weekend was not that. We saw a lot
Speaker 1: and I whipped twice. I don't like, I don't really
Speaker 1: want to say that, but I just, like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be vulnerable out here. But what can
Speaker 1: you do? I mean, I don't know what happened. It's
Speaker 1: hard to fix, but you don't know what you're doing wrong.
Speaker 1: You know, like there's something I think where I'm like
Speaker 1: bumping the gun a little bit right for.
Speaker 4: What she did wrong. Dad.
Speaker 9: She wins, she gets she holds it on in too long,
Speaker 9: and then she her heart charts pounding. And then I
Speaker 9: think she's holding her breath some of the time, and
Speaker 9: you know, you get to hold your breath, you know,
Speaker 9: you know you should be breathing normally, and she'd them
Speaker 9: on exhale and you know, but what's that? And then
Speaker 9: and then once you miss one pressure on, then now
Speaker 9: I can't miss this other deer and she'd let it
Speaker 9: build up. But you know, the third the third buck,
Speaker 9: you know, she she shot him and didn't didn't make
Speaker 9: the best shot in the oral.
Speaker 1: And because I was like, if I do this three
Speaker 1: times in a row, I'm going to jump off the box.
Speaker 1: I mean, well head first, I will jump offside this box,
Speaker 1: like if I have to go home, Like that'll make
Speaker 1: I don't cry over things, but that makes me want
Speaker 1: to want to sit down and cry, like I'm so
Speaker 1: upset about it because it's like the seconds before, like
Speaker 1: why why why didn't I just take an extra second?
Speaker 4: Sure we've been here for.
Speaker 2: Said the burden of it's a lot, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: And then my dad's sitting there and he's like work
Speaker 1: so hard to get you know me and deer and wants,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously me to kill something.
Speaker 5: So like my back.
Speaker 9: She shot him a little back, and you know, we
Speaker 9: get Ella's like any hunter, She's dying to get out
Speaker 9: of the tree stand and go down and put her
Speaker 9: hands on you know, I could tell he hunched up
Speaker 9: and ran out, ran into a pine ticket.
Speaker 5: So we deally Dali and then that on me.
Speaker 1: I went pee before we went out there.
Speaker 9: Anyway, we finally got pea. We finally get in looking
Speaker 9: for him, and I can't findly blood. I mean we've
Speaker 9: looked and looked and looked like so I said, hell,
Speaker 9: I'll go back to where you shot him and see
Speaker 9: if you find blood. And she did, and so here
Speaker 9: we go. You know, we're spect here spec there kind
Speaker 9: of deal thing to be a lot. And so we
Speaker 9: trailed this dear, and I am not exaggerating in a
Speaker 9: pine thicket for about a mile. I mean he was going,
Speaker 9: he was going through.
Speaker 4: It was like yeah, yeah, And it's tough.
Speaker 3: It's tough trailing them in pine tickets too, because it's
Speaker 3: not like it's not hardwood leaves, big maple leaves.
Speaker 1: Our hands right now, like we are up.
Speaker 9: And he was going through things from the flow up.
Speaker 9: He was going through things a rabbit when we go
Speaker 9: through walking. So anyway, I got to the point where
Speaker 9: I didn't even know where I was at. I mean,
Speaker 9: I was trying to figure out how I'm gonna get
Speaker 9: out of here, you know, and.
Speaker 4: Was it just you two?
Speaker 1: We trailed for like an hour.
Speaker 9: She she shot that deer ten minutes to five, and
Speaker 9: we loaded him up at seven thirty, and so I
Speaker 9: had it. We finally found him. I walked out, you know,
Speaker 9: and got the truck.
Speaker 1: And tell him how good I did it?
Speaker 9: Tracking the blood by the way, yeah, you know, we
Speaker 9: we had a couple of instances where we ran out
Speaker 9: of blood. I just went down every trail. I was
Speaker 9: on Ella, you know, I just don't know, honey, and
Speaker 9: I'm trying. She's like, oh no, no, so she she
Speaker 9: was here. It is she find she found more blood.
Speaker 4: And she last light.
Speaker 1: She was on my hands and knees, like, I mean,
Speaker 1: was some points like going. I mean it was just
Speaker 1: like briar patches thorns. I mean one of the first nights,
Speaker 1: I got a thorn in my nose. Not only did
Speaker 1: I miss the deer, I got a thorn in my
Speaker 1: nose and I had to ride the rest of the
Speaker 1: way home like that, just dealing with it because it
Speaker 1: was so small. It was so small, I was afraid
Speaker 1: I was going to push it in there. So I
Speaker 1: was just sitting there, missed the deer with a thorn
Speaker 1: in my nose. But anyways, I mean it was sick.
Speaker 1: So I was like crawling.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, those stuff's tough.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 9: Ella has no quit in her I mean, she has
Speaker 9: no quit she is, you know, when everybody's ready to say,
Speaker 9: you know, I'm done with this, she just keeps going.
Speaker 9: So anyway, her old man was so tired. I was
Speaker 9: soaking wet, it's freezing outside, and I go to get
Speaker 9: the truck and I leave her sitting there with that
Speaker 9: dead deer. You hear Cody's howling everywhere. So she's sitting
Speaker 9: there on the dead deer, waiting on me.
Speaker 5: To get back.
Speaker 1: We had to find how to get out because we
Speaker 1: had no idea to listen for the highway to get out.
Speaker 5: I went for a truck to go by and headed
Speaker 5: that way.
Speaker 1: Wow, it was how did you know where to pull
Speaker 1: back on?
Speaker 5: I didn't ask you that hat on the limb When
Speaker 5: I walked out.
Speaker 4: Old Trick went and got the truck and came back
Speaker 4: to the hat ultimate drug him to the.
Speaker 5: Drug him to the truck.
Speaker 1: Dang, that was smart, because I was wondering how you
Speaker 1: knew where to pull back off at. But he's he
Speaker 1: got out of the truck and he'd said holler, and
Speaker 1: I was just, you know, holler, and it was just
Speaker 1: he found me. We found each other that way, and
Speaker 1: then we had to drag the deer back through all that,
Speaker 1: and it was like, I mean, vines would get caught
Speaker 1: on his horns. We fell down like I would. I
Speaker 1: turned around and I was, I mean, I drug him.
Speaker 1: I feel like most of the way I was very
Speaker 1: I mean, I made I put Dad through hell this weekend,
Speaker 1: so I was like, at least I can do. Let
Speaker 1: me drag this day there. And it was more for
Speaker 1: like my pride reasons to like I'm drunk thisterback. I
Speaker 1: did have to take a couple breaks, and I have
Speaker 1: Dad to help me. But I mean, yeah, I would
Speaker 1: just drag, drag, drag until I fell down backwards, and
Speaker 1: then I would get back up, and then I would
Speaker 1: drag until I fell down backwards. And we did that
Speaker 1: all the way out. We finally get there. Out there,
Speaker 1: Dad has a truck running so we could see the lights,
Speaker 1: you know, so we don't get turned around again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Dad opens the truck door. Not here. Well, I don't
Speaker 1: mind if you dude just streaming on the highway, and
Speaker 1: I was like, of course this song is playing around
Speaker 1: out throwing it there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I assume just even by your conversation, which,
Speaker 4: by the way, he sounds great on the mic. He's
Speaker 4: got a real Yeah, he's a pro. Yeah, great voice that. Uh,
Speaker 4: tell us, tell us, tell us about your shooting method.
Speaker 4: It sounds like you seem like you knew what's your
Speaker 4: procedure if you're going to take a shot on something.
Speaker 4: What are the steps that you go through in your brain?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 9: First thing I generally do is calm down a little
Speaker 9: bit and you know, make sure I got a good stance,
Speaker 9: prop it up. But I'm a guy that when I
Speaker 9: decided to shoot a deer, I kill him.
Speaker 4: I can get it.
Speaker 9: I don't sit there breathing in and out and yeah,
Speaker 9: worrying and lathering up over. You go into this mode, right,
Speaker 9: I just going, yeah, going to mode. So and I have,
Speaker 9: but I'm fifty four years old. I have missed plenty
Speaker 9: and made plenty of mistakes. So I've had a lot
Speaker 9: of time to you know, do do better?
Speaker 4: You Yeah? Learn?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 4: So you are you your breathing guy or you just
Speaker 4: kind of like down on him, trigger pull, get it done?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I probably I just if it's depending on how long
Speaker 9: a shot it is. But most time I'll just put
Speaker 9: the across hers on and kill him, you know, because
Speaker 9: I know if I start doing this, I.
Speaker 5: Think of trying thinking about it.
Speaker 1: You know, that's what I'm him by the first of
Speaker 1: the first deer I killed.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I had a meeting in town or something. Ella
Speaker 9: wanted to go hunting.
Speaker 1: Nine eight or nine.
Speaker 5: I had a buddy of mine take her over and
Speaker 5: drop her off.
Speaker 1: And the first year, the first year, the first deer,
Speaker 1: the first buck.
Speaker 9: Well, she's sitting in between my legs kind of on
Speaker 9: the tree stand and dope pops out and she's gonna
Speaker 9: shoot him. And I said, Ella, get it on him.
Speaker 9: Is this the deer you're talking about first? And she goes, Dad,
Speaker 9: I just can't do it. You shoot him and we'll
Speaker 9: tell him I I shot him.
Speaker 5: I said, I ain't doing that, Ellen, I'm not doing that.
Speaker 9: You gotta do it well. So she pulls the trigger
Speaker 9: and she does it. To this day, any deer she
Speaker 9: shoots at, I mean it's him. I missed him. Yeah,
Speaker 9: she looked at me and so I missed him. I said, well,
Speaker 9: he's he's laying right.
Speaker 5: There on the road.
Speaker 9: I don't think you did, you know, so can I
Speaker 9: do want to tell you another quick story when when
Speaker 9: Ella was a.
Speaker 5: Little older than that.
Speaker 2: This is why you're here to go for it.
Speaker 9: We uh, we were hunting, and I took her down
Speaker 9: as Greenville. I got down there and and uh, off
Speaker 9: the back of it's kind of a swampy area. So
Speaker 9: I buzzed down in there. We find this kind of
Speaker 9: a good spot back up to it by a tree,
Speaker 9: and I start rattling forellow Ella's eight or nine.
Speaker 4: Years old, you know, rattling in Alabama.
Speaker 5: I was rattling.
Speaker 9: You know, it never works for me unless I'm in
Speaker 9: the Midwest. Well it does, I mean, but you got
Speaker 9: to do it at the right time. You gotta do
Speaker 9: it real close to up. But anyway, so Ella's I
Speaker 9: have this little two forty three single shot. He cock
Speaker 9: a hammer, you know. So she's sitting there beside me
Speaker 9: to my left, gun propped up on her knee. All
Speaker 9: of a sudden, I hear coming, and here he comes.
Speaker 9: You know, he's heard hiss, rattling and running. He runs
Speaker 9: in there, all the hair standing up on his back. Okay,
Speaker 9: I mean, and I'm I'm leaned up. Ella Ella's got him.
Speaker 9: I mean, she's probably got it on him. Hats pulled down,
Speaker 9: She's down down to the barrel. He walks out doing
Speaker 9: this look around the tree thing, trying to figure out
Speaker 9: where it was. I bumped the grun again. Here he comes.
Speaker 9: He is twenty yards from us, man looking at us
Speaker 9: there at the back, and I'm going killing, killing, Killy.
Speaker 9: She's not shooting, and I'm thinking, damn, you know, and
Speaker 9: then she's He starts off again, and I've grun again.
Speaker 5: He stops.
Speaker 9: He's looking now he's got a beat on us. He
Speaker 9: sees us two sitting in the bottles, and I'm saying, Killy, mellow. Well,
Speaker 9: he didn't just bold. He just kind of high stepped
Speaker 9: it out of there and slipped out of there. And
Speaker 9: I was like, gummy, And I turned around her and
Speaker 9: she had tears just running down her eyes. She locked up.
Speaker 9: I mean, she this is a nice buck. She just
Speaker 9: could not drop the hammer on him.
Speaker 1: First big buck I'd ever seen, Like I was probably ten.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember specifically coming home eating the soup that night,
Speaker 1: my mate. I always love having soup or something after
Speaker 1: hun Oh it's good is my favorite thing. I'm starving
Speaker 1: when I get out of the tree stand. I just
Speaker 1: remember like crying, eat my shoes, like not only that
Speaker 1: I missed a big buck, like I watched this deer
Speaker 1: for the first time.
Speaker 4: We're like, yeah, it's tough, tough, we all go through it.
Speaker 1: Tell him about that time when I was little, uh
Speaker 1: with the you remember that said he's poking them.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 9: I had her with him, and Ella would always she
Speaker 9: would always want to take skittles and those orange crackers,
Speaker 9: and she was determined.
Speaker 5: That is why we always.
Speaker 1: Peanut butt peanut.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, so we're buzzlong.
Speaker 1: I would drop him to the stand all the way
Speaker 1: thinking like, I mean I was little, like yeah, leaving
Speaker 1: the trail for that.
Speaker 9: And she's little, She's got her vest on is dragging
Speaker 9: the ground, and she got a big tobogga on. She
Speaker 9: couldn't have been three four years old. Man, So I
Speaker 9: shut this deer runs off the field. We're going there
Speaker 9: looking for him, and he's not dead, and I shoot
Speaker 9: him with my forty five and then he gets up again.
Speaker 5: I had to shoot him again and.
Speaker 9: Got him laying there, and I turned around at la
Speaker 9: Ella's a little round baby face was sitting there with
Speaker 9: tears running down, and the guy with us said, hey, honey.
Speaker 9: She said that deer is a mean deer. He's been
Speaker 9: poking all the baby deer with his horns.
Speaker 5: She goes. Really, I said, yeah, all right.
Speaker 3: Was it was it important to you as a dad
Speaker 3: to get her outdoors, to get to get her into
Speaker 3: the woods, or was it just like, if I'm gonna go,
Speaker 3: I gotta take her with me.
Speaker 2: What what was your mindset on that?
Speaker 9: You know, Ella, I love doing that, and of course
Speaker 9: I wanted my kids to do that too, and you
Speaker 9: know I have You know, they don't give you an
Speaker 9: owner owner's manual. Was raised a kid, you don't know
Speaker 9: what to do, and all I knew to do was
Speaker 9: And another thing was I traveled a lot.
Speaker 5: I was, and I still travel a good bit.
Speaker 9: But I leave on Thursday on Monday morning, and I
Speaker 9: would be back Thursday afternoon or Friday, and so I
Speaker 9: just you know, and Heather being worn out with all
Speaker 9: the kids, you know, she'd get to me and we
Speaker 9: spent all weekend riding around her listening to my music
Speaker 9: in the back seat, or we'd go hunt or fishing
Speaker 9: or whatever it was.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 9: But but yeah, Ella, Ella, she draws. She's a lot
Speaker 9: like me, And I'm proud of this. I was not
Speaker 9: the sharpest tool on the shed. I mean, I struggled
Speaker 9: in school, no offense yellow.
Speaker 4: But but she's a lot like me.
Speaker 9: I um, yeah, but but you know, if you if
Speaker 9: you're that way, you gotta you gotta try. You gotta
Speaker 9: try twice as hard, you know. I know I have
Speaker 9: to work harder than an average bear to get it done.
Speaker 9: And working hard is what has been her success. She
Speaker 9: has no quit in her.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 9: The other night, were trailing out there. A couple times,
Speaker 9: I was thinking, damn, I think we lost this dear.
Speaker 5: Huh.
Speaker 9: She wouldn't have it, you know, and I watched you
Speaker 9: do it with her music. I watched you do it sports.
Speaker 9: When she played sports, we brought soccer into the little
Speaker 9: high school. Wasn't something we always did, but girls had soccer.
Speaker 9: I think boys had it too.
Speaker 5: For a or two.
Speaker 9: Ella never went to a game that she didn't get
Speaker 9: a yellow card, not one. She is extremely physical, but.
Speaker 1: That's that's also probably from eighth grade to senior year one,
Speaker 1: five games and every game I would go out there
Speaker 1: and like, we might win today, you might halfway through
Speaker 1: would be like, but I.
Speaker 9: Feel like I told her that. I mean that, you know,
Speaker 9: when you're not, you gotta try twice as hard. You
Speaker 9: just got to get done. Don't quit, you know, that's.
Speaker 4: A good motto, man, And I mean it's the only
Speaker 4: thing that works in music. I mean, it is the
Speaker 4: only thing that works, the.
Speaker 3: Thing if you're gonna be done, got tough, yeah for sure.
Speaker 3: I mean you're just calling ella dome no.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 6: I have a song about that.
Speaker 2: That's part of the motto, man, you.
Speaker 1: Got better be tough. And I wrote it about We
Speaker 1: wrote about guy cheating on me and you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: jacking of stuff and you.
Speaker 9: Gotta be you gotta be quick on your feet. I
Speaker 9: mean it's just you know, even this right here is
Speaker 9: new to me. I'm not real comfortable doing this.
Speaker 4: But you.
Speaker 9: But I want to tell you a story if I could.
Speaker 9: So years ago, a couple of years ago, three or
Speaker 9: four years ago, a friend of mine's dad passed away.
Speaker 9: So I'm getting ready to go to the funeral home
Speaker 9: you know where we live. Everybody when somebody dies, you're
Speaker 9: taking food, you go to you show up for their family.
Speaker 9: So anyway, I was getting ready to walk out door,
Speaker 9: and I said, hell, I got to go to a
Speaker 9: funeral home.
Speaker 5: You'n go with me.
Speaker 9: She said, I'll go eat dad. So she loaded up.
Speaker 9: And this is before any of this national stuff's going on.
Speaker 9: She's thinking around kind of at the local places and stuff.
Speaker 9: But so she got to be right up there to
Speaker 9: the to the Uh that's.
Speaker 4: Exactly what my dad was, you know, exactly.
Speaker 5: We right up there to the to the funeral home.
Speaker 5: I opened the door in the back of it.
Speaker 9: The whole lobby is just filled up with people, you know,
Speaker 9: and some of them I thought I recognized. I wasn't sure,
Speaker 9: so I walked around the corner and look inside there
Speaker 9: where the where the casket is, and this old man
Speaker 9: and woman were standing there. They came to us on
Speaker 9: a string. I mean, hey, who were you? I said,
Speaker 9: I'm Jason Langley. Who's this pretty girl? And I said,
Speaker 9: this ella, you know, Oh, we're so glad y'all came
Speaker 9: and come on up, y'all seer. Well, we didn't go
Speaker 9: to see a woman. We were going to see a man.
Speaker 9: So he walks us up to the husband. The husband
Speaker 9: walks us up to the casket and we're in the
Speaker 9: wrong funeral and he says, uh, doesn't she look good?
Speaker 9: And I said, it looks just like she's sleeping.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's good, you know, and playing along now
Speaker 1: because I mean there's nobody in there. And he just
Speaker 1: wants to show his wife, you.
Speaker 5: Know, emotions, Della, come here, honey and touch her. And
Speaker 5: so Ella walked over, no doubt.
Speaker 1: He asked me that, and I looked at Dad.
Speaker 4: Dad went yeah, yeah, right.
Speaker 5: So we got done.
Speaker 9: We got done with that, and and I'm thinking, dear God, Ella,
Speaker 9: don't wrap me out, don't wrap me out.
Speaker 5: And so I don't know this ship.
Speaker 8: I did.
Speaker 9: So when we got done with that, uh, you know,
Speaker 9: I gave guy a hunt and told we loved him,
Speaker 9: be praying for him. And we walk out the door.
Speaker 9: And when we didn't go to the truck, we were
Speaker 9: off the one we're supposed to go to, and l goes, Dad,
Speaker 9: do we know them people? I said, hell, no, we don't.
Speaker 1: We laughed. Walking from that parlor to the all the
Speaker 1: way to the line to get into the.
Speaker 9: Next we had to walk out another door when we
Speaker 9: left because we don't want to walk by me.
Speaker 6: That is no telling what y'all did for that man,
Speaker 6: though y'all might have made that.
Speaker 4: Man's not just.
Speaker 1: We sat in there for a while, They sat us down,
Speaker 1: We talked to us for a minute, but.
Speaker 4: You just off the cuff, just figured out how I mean.
Speaker 1: Dad looked at each other and just decided right then
Speaker 1: and there, we're gonna just ride it out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe we should be a prerequit. You have to
Speaker 3: bring your dad on this podcast.
Speaker 1: So we got a lot.
Speaker 4: I mean it's like there's uh, there's wedding crashers and
Speaker 4: then you have you guys are funeral crashers and just
Speaker 4: roll in.
Speaker 1: I don't know that's as much fun.
Speaker 4: Uh makes for a great story.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's uh, let's switch it to music for a
Speaker 2: little bit already.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, you know thirty minutes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we are driving to the driving to the stand.
Speaker 3: We had our dad on the other day and like
Speaker 3: our driving to the camp song was Don Williams.
Speaker 2: Toss the time. That's what that's kind of what we
Speaker 2: thought of.
Speaker 3: Like, that's what I think of when I think of
Speaker 3: being in a trouble with my dad and looking over
Speaker 3: and I just seeing you know, doing thingsash.
Speaker 4: Forward, drumming.
Speaker 3: What was you said earlier you listened to my music?
Speaker 3: What was what was some of that? Like she brought
Speaker 3: up on there?
Speaker 4: What were jamming back in the day on the way
Speaker 4: of the deer Stony.
Speaker 9: You know, I'm a person I grew up, I was
Speaker 9: born in nineteen seventy and I grew up in the
Speaker 9: eighties kind of, you know. And but my brothers, you know,
Speaker 9: we listened to a lot of Molly Hatchett and thirty
Speaker 9: eight Special and Leonard Skinner and Boston and def Leppard
Speaker 9: and you know, you name it. But we also my dad,
Speaker 9: you know, was an old Hank Williams guy, you know.
Speaker 9: And so I was listening to a ton of country music.
Speaker 9: I mean, I love Merle Haggard, I listened to him.
Speaker 9: I love Jim Crochey all.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 9: I make CDs and it would have a just a
Speaker 9: smathering of you know, it might be h Michael Blue Blade,
Speaker 9: it could be Jim Crochy and then be Boston right
Speaker 9: behind it.
Speaker 5: And but yeah, I just you know, I've got a
Speaker 5: I like a lot of music.
Speaker 4: What did your what do you remember that? What's like?
Speaker 3: What's your what's your go to when you're thinking of
Speaker 3: growing up music wise?
Speaker 1: Would you I think my first two favorite songs were
Speaker 1: probably he never even called me by my name. That
Speaker 1: was the first. That was the first cuss word I
Speaker 1: ever said. Damn And that song got run over by
Speaker 1: damned old excited about that saying that part and then
Speaker 1: Mama tried, yeah, that was too. Every time a week
Speaker 1: we'd get done with, Mama tried, I'd.
Speaker 5: Go again again again, just really played me.
Speaker 9: I tell you funny on that old c D that
Speaker 9: I had done, it had a skip in it because
Speaker 9: in a certain spot sounded like a rubbert She thought
Speaker 9: she thought it was part of it.
Speaker 2: Was the wire die, Yes, it was.
Speaker 1: It was on It was David Allen Co and Never
Speaker 1: Call My Name, and it sounded like a rubber ducky
Speaker 1: And as a kid, I remember sitting there like imagining
Speaker 1: them in the studio.
Speaker 4: Do you do you remember where it?
Speaker 1: And I didn't know if I listened to it all
Speaker 1: the way through. No, it's like earlier, like in the halfways.
Speaker 1: I mean it sounds like a rubber boots covering water
Speaker 1: like I don't know how to explain it. Yeah, exactly
Speaker 1: like that. But I didn't know that that wasn't part
Speaker 1: of the song until I heard it for the first
Speaker 1: time out of his truck, because the only way I
Speaker 1: heard that song was on the CD.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's awesome, it's really funny. That's really that's awesome.
Speaker 4: So you're cutting your teeth on those tunes and then
Speaker 4: you're like, how did how did you know that you
Speaker 4: could sing or that you even enjoyed like doing music?
Speaker 4: When did that come about?
Speaker 1: His parents? My grandparents my like you said, my grandpa was,
Speaker 1: I mean he could sing. My grandma could sing. He
Speaker 1: could play every instrument by hear. He was one of four.
Speaker 1: He was the second of four, his older sister, younger sister,
Speaker 1: and younger brother. They grew up I mean in a
Speaker 1: little shack, I mean no air conditioning, know nothing, what year?
Speaker 1: What years?
Speaker 9: Grandpa born nineteen twenty nine, and there are five of them,
Speaker 9: he was the oldest boy. Gotcha five of them, and
Speaker 9: they grew up like a lot of country people did
Speaker 9: they did? You know what do they sit around and singing.
Speaker 9: They could all pick guitar and play the piano.
Speaker 1: First one learn and taught the next one, and then
Speaker 1: the next one taught the next one. And so like
Speaker 1: our family reunions were all of them would get together
Speaker 1: and everyone was singing. Music has just been a big
Speaker 1: part of, you know, of our life. On my dad's side,
Speaker 1: but also my mom's side, they love music and they're
Speaker 1: just because my mom's from Michigan, so her that whole
Speaker 1: side of the family is completely opposite from my dad's
Speaker 1: side of the family, especially meaning to you know, like
Speaker 1: they listened to a lot of Pearl Jam and Grateful
Speaker 1: Dead and Peter Paul and Mary and that's.
Speaker 4: All the stuff you said, and all that stuff is wrong.
Speaker 4: It's it was a really.
Speaker 1: Cool way to grow up. I mean, I've listened to
Speaker 1: I mean, Motown was a big one. I mean, and
Speaker 1: then I'm from Montgomery, so I did listen to some
Speaker 1: rap too, So you've got those has come from.
Speaker 9: I want to say that, you know, a big part
Speaker 9: of this I see it because I've had an outside
Speaker 9: of the fish bowl look at this whole thing. But
Speaker 9: my mother was she she could smell a beer over telephone.
Speaker 9: There was no drinking at all around.
Speaker 5: You've been drinking. She knew you've been drinking. Yeah, and
Speaker 5: she tell you about it. So uh.
Speaker 9: And my dad, my dad was not that way, and
Speaker 9: so he had a piano out in the barn where
Speaker 9: he could sit out there and play piano and drink
Speaker 9: his beer and and keep.
Speaker 5: It out there separately.
Speaker 9: But when Ella came along, she was the first girl
Speaker 9: that had been around. And I'm telling you, we let
Speaker 9: my mom she come pick her up. When we went
Speaker 9: to work. She'd keep her all day long and that's
Speaker 9: all they did. They played the piano, had her performed stuff.
Speaker 9: She was so confident of her ability, probably because they oh,
Speaker 9: it's the best thing.
Speaker 5: We ever did. I loved her and and she she
Speaker 5: was always a little kid. It was one to performed
Speaker 5: in front of everybody.
Speaker 4: That's great.
Speaker 5: And so she'd stand up there in church and just
Speaker 5: let her rip.
Speaker 2: And what's some of those early performances songs, what what?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 1: Amazing Grace was probably the first song I ever sang
Speaker 1: in front of people. I remember learning that song. The
Speaker 1: first two songs I learned how to sing It's amazing Grace.
Speaker 1: And then this other song called Froggy Went According.
Speaker 4: I know, Froggy went in Gordon, you do?
Speaker 1: I think I might start this next record off with,
Speaker 1: oh really, next record is going to be a lot
Speaker 1: about Alabama. That's awesome, just kind of about my roots
Speaker 1: and stuff.
Speaker 4: Were talking about it.
Speaker 2: Give me a little bit of Froggy.
Speaker 1: It goes a Froggy went according and he did right on.
Speaker 1: Froggie went according and he did right back by? F
Speaker 1: are you in according? And he did ride sword and
Speaker 1: pistol by his side? Oh baby and mine, and.
Speaker 4: So I ain't even gonna try to do nothing, but
Speaker 4: that sounded real good headphones. Yeah you're a killer. I mean,
Speaker 4: I know you're a killer, but you're a killer.
Speaker 1: Oh thank you. I've just seening that song. But I
Speaker 1: remember I would when I was learning those songs. My
Speaker 1: grandpa would be sitting he was sitting on the piano,
Speaker 1: my Grandma's in there doing the dishes, and I'd learn
Speaker 1: like two words and he'd play it for me, and
Speaker 1: I'd go in there and show my grandma learned the
Speaker 1: two words. And I remember I went home and practiced it,
Speaker 1: and then we had Wednesday night church and I ran
Speaker 1: up to my grandpa and I was like, look, I
Speaker 1: learned it, and he just had me sing it right
Speaker 1: there in the middle of church. Everyone's eating, you know,
Speaker 1: and I'm just sitting there singing. I mean, I had
Speaker 1: a cousin that worked at my dentists and sometimes she'd
Speaker 1: make me get up and sing like kids would be like,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, may you know. So it's like
Speaker 1: this has been this has been the plan for me
Speaker 1: in my whole life. Yeah, I mean I loved it,
Speaker 1: everything about it. I've always loved it. I've never wanted
Speaker 1: to do anything else, not even that I've just I
Speaker 1: think that I could be good doing plenty of other things,
Speaker 1: but this is what I want to do.
Speaker 2: So when was it when you were like, all right,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna my whole life, moved
Speaker 2: to Nationville, I'm gonna do the thing.
Speaker 1: Well, when I graduated high school. So in high school,
Speaker 1: I was playing. I was seeing like some wedding stuff,
Speaker 1: like wedding ceremonies, but I wasn't really gigging. I Mom
Speaker 1: and dad took me to the studio in Eclectic, Alabama,
Speaker 1: which is closer to Lake Martin.
Speaker 2: If y'all know where that isn't Great Fishery.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's just this little studio in the sky.
Speaker 1: They're doing this thing called a vp K. He's going
Speaker 1: to do it for me. And this is kind of
Speaker 1: an old school way to do yes video press kit,
Speaker 1: and it's an old school way of this is how
Speaker 1: they used to get gigs. So they would do a
Speaker 1: video and they would do eight songs and covers and
Speaker 1: then you'd send it around to all the venues and
Speaker 1: then that's how you book. Well, obviously this is in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty anymore. So it's like you just look him
Speaker 1: up on Facebook and see what you're doing. But at
Speaker 1: the time I was sixteen, I didn't know anybody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course, so we go and I pick out songs
Speaker 1: like I can't even really remember.
Speaker 4: Dude, do you still have the vpk Oh, dude.
Speaker 1: There's somewhere. Oh, I know I did do it. No
Speaker 1: love with that, you know, But I remember watching that
Speaker 1: video thinking I suck. I am terrible, Like I remember
Speaker 1: you remember that. I went back in my room and
Speaker 1: just cried. I cried, I no. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm so bad. I'm never gonna be able to do this.
Speaker 1: And he said, the guy said, I want you to
Speaker 1: get fifty cover songs together and I'll help you start booking.
Speaker 1: Suff fifty fifty cover songs.
Speaker 4: That's plenty of sheese, that's like an eight hour show.
Speaker 1: But he told me that's what I needed to do.
Speaker 1: I didn't know any better. So from six minutes eight
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 4: Doesn't it a lot?
Speaker 3: But at the same time, it's pretty much it's like
Speaker 3: setting you up for whatever coming.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it was really beneficial, and honestly it
Speaker 1: helped me, Like having to go in and all those songs,
Speaker 1: and I mean that was just it was. I grew
Speaker 1: a lot in that time. So from sixteen eighteen, like
Speaker 1: you know, I played sports and I was really involved
Speaker 1: in my high school, so I didn't really pursue music.
Speaker 1: Then I wanted to pursue music all the way. I
Speaker 1: knew if I wasn't gonna just you know, put a
Speaker 1: pinky toe in, and so I just start doing it
Speaker 1: like I was gonna go all the way. So I
Speaker 1: graduated high school, I went back to the guy and
Speaker 1: I said, here my fifty Kever songs, and he brought
Speaker 1: me this little bar in Neglectic, Alabama, and I played
Speaker 1: like some random songwriter night. Same night, there was a
Speaker 1: band playing that night. They just all kind of got
Speaker 1: up and played together, and I got up and just
Speaker 1: sang with them. And I looked at all of them,
Speaker 1: I said, do y'all want to be my band? And
Speaker 1: they're like yeah, sure, and they're there. They're in my
Speaker 1: band Fordals from eighteen to I moved to Nashville when
Speaker 1: I was twenty, so I went to Auburn University for
Speaker 1: two years and that was awesome because that's how I
Speaker 1: met Bradley Jordan. We used to play over there, Bob
Speaker 1: Sky barb Bourbon Street. So I played all that, and
Speaker 1: then you know, I was with the band. I was
Speaker 1: playing four hour cover gigs Thursday, Friday, Saturday. I'd go
Speaker 1: play an acoustic gig on Sunday, you know, Tiptart. I mean,
Speaker 1: well that's what I did. Yeah, that's This is the
Speaker 1: only job I've ever had. I've never given myself another
Speaker 1: way to make money at all. This is I've just
Speaker 1: given myself this because I know this is what I
Speaker 1: want to do. I don't want to do anything else.
Speaker 1: So two years in Auburn, I feel like I've played
Speaker 1: you know, all the bars in Southeast. I don't want
Speaker 1: to do covers anymore. I'm burnout. I'm playing and doing
Speaker 1: it from eighteen, you know, I guess I was two
Speaker 1: years of just straight doing it.
Speaker 4: Did you play rist?
Speaker 1: I didn't never play ricks because Rix is kind of
Speaker 1: hard ticket. It's it's it's it's portrayed as a soft ticket,
Speaker 1: but it's kind.
Speaker 2: Of heart tickets.
Speaker 1: So Trey Lewis, I had a boyfriend who was in
Speaker 1: music and then his manager. They were both moving to Nashville,
Speaker 1: and we're going to live with Trey and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm not staying here.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh so I just I called mom and dad and
Speaker 1: I said, I think I want to drop out of
Speaker 1: school and move to Nashville. And you know, I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna be in more dead anyways, when I graduated, just starting,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm gonna go do this anyways, I would
Speaker 1: rather start it now.
Speaker 2: Let this be your school.
Speaker 1: But that and that's what they said, and that's what
Speaker 1: you know, And they helped me out when I first
Speaker 1: got here, and they did they treated it like like school.
Speaker 1: My mom always said that, She's like, this is your schooling.
Speaker 1: And I said, I wasn't in a big rush when
Speaker 1: I moved here. Well then COVID hit six months afterwards,
Speaker 1: so I wasn't able to be in a big rush.
Speaker 1: But I just didn't ever feel like I was racing
Speaker 1: against the clock just because it I was just figuring
Speaker 1: out how to do it, you know. And what's funny
Speaker 1: is all these videos of me are resurfacing of when
Speaker 1: I did all these covers back in the day, and
Speaker 1: Risky refused to share them, and you know, and my
Speaker 1: voice has changed a lot. I got my tonsils out.
Speaker 1: It's four years this December.
Speaker 4: It changes. It changed my entire life. Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1: So I got my tonsils out when I was twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: right when I moved here. I did it. I moved
Speaker 1: here that December. I got my tonsils out and then
Speaker 1: COVID hit, and my voice has changed so much since then.
Speaker 1: It's crazy, even if you had listened to Damn You.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's wild. But it's just also from consistent working,
Speaker 1: you know, and COVID hit. That's how I found Joy
Speaker 1: Beth Taylor, who's my right hand man and songwriting. You know,
Speaker 1: she's just we we we. I remember our first write
Speaker 1: on that back porch. I was living in a house
Speaker 1: with three guys, you know, and I also playing some
Speaker 1: cover gigs, and I was watching all of them get
Speaker 1: gigs over me, and it was tough because you know,
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm put on just a good of
Speaker 1: a show. But but it lit this fire under my house. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and same thing kind of with songwriting, you know, and
Speaker 1: her and I were out there. She's from Alabama as well,
Speaker 1: so we just kind of had that little bit of
Speaker 1: a connection. But I remember that first day we were
Speaker 1: writing a song and we joke we found the first
Speaker 1: song we wrote a couple of weeks ago, and we
Speaker 1: were laughing listening to it. You know, it's kind of
Speaker 1: silly to think about the melody's actually kind of good
Speaker 1: and we could just put different words in there and
Speaker 1: we start over. But I remember us talking about some
Speaker 1: of our goals and you know, writing with Marana Lambert
Speaker 1: for both of us, that was one and I looked
Speaker 1: at her, I said, I bet you and I will
Speaker 1: do that together one day, And with that just happened
Speaker 1: two weeks ago. Yeah, the first time we wrote with together.
Speaker 1: We did a little retreat with her and Luke Dick
Speaker 1: and that's great. So it's it's been a cool journey
Speaker 1: of finding those people for me in town that I
Speaker 1: just love and love me and believe in me, and
Speaker 1: I believe in them, and so that's what's really kept
Speaker 1: me going a lot through this. And obviously my family
Speaker 1: support me in the way that they do and just
Speaker 1: loving me. And but that's the thing, like nobody has
Speaker 1: ever thought I was going to do anything else, you know,
Speaker 1: none of them. They everyone knew that. Like my if
Speaker 1: you ask any of my family, they're like, yeah, we
Speaker 1: all knew that this was gonna that's what she was
Speaker 1: going to do. So there wasn't ever really any question
Speaker 1: or when I wanted to move. I think it wasn't
Speaker 1: easy for me to tell Dad, Hey, I'm going to
Speaker 1: go live with three guys and move four and a
Speaker 1: half hours away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't imagine.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm his first, mama's first girl, you know.
Speaker 1: So it's you know, we're close, we have a great relationship.
Speaker 1: So that was tough and moving here not knowing anybody
Speaker 1: and just pretty much having a dream. And it's been
Speaker 1: really it's been a really cool five years here. I've
Speaker 1: been here five years now.
Speaker 4: I remember the first time that we wrote with joy Beth,
Speaker 4: me and you and joy Beth, and I remember seeing
Speaker 4: a chemistry between the two of you, and even while
Speaker 4: you know, and I had been in town at that
Speaker 4: point eight nine years, so I kind of knew how
Speaker 4: it worked, you know, and watching you guys kind of
Speaker 4: work together, it was kind of like I was like, man,
Speaker 4: I just need to kind of yeah and what you know.
Speaker 4: And I remember at the end of the right saying, Hey,
Speaker 4: you guys got like, y'all got it. Y'all just need
Speaker 4: to stick together. You don't really need help, you know.
Speaker 3: Like is great, you know, just her personality and her
Speaker 3: thing is her vibes.
Speaker 1: Great people like her is another reason I worked so
Speaker 1: hard when I moved town. I mean joy Bath like
Speaker 1: I had to have a sit down talk with her
Speaker 1: about how many songs she was writing a week like
Speaker 1: it got she has since she signed to publishing deal,
Speaker 1: has turned into most songs every single year out of
Speaker 1: all of Sony Wow. Every year's I mean even the
Speaker 1: first I mean every even the first year when she
Speaker 1: signed her deal halfway through the year, turned in more
Speaker 1: songs that year off of her schedule. A So she's
Speaker 1: just you know, having people like that. And then Trey,
Speaker 1: you know this is Trey's been doing this for over
Speaker 1: ten years now. And when I first moved to town,
Speaker 1: he was doing the same thing cover gig and I
Speaker 1: mean he would go haul off in his little I
Speaker 1: don't even remember what kind of see Corey had, but
Speaker 1: it was the let me tell you, and I mean
Speaker 1: him and the whole band was sleeping it. They'd play
Speaker 1: four hours sleeping it, dripping next place, sleeping it. And
Speaker 1: so being around people like him it is, you know.
Speaker 1: I remember one time I canceled a Skybard gig because
Speaker 1: I had a terrible anxiety attack. It's probably one of
Speaker 1: the only I even to this day, I've canceled less
Speaker 1: than five gigs and that's one of the ones. And
Speaker 1: I remember I had a freak out this day and
Speaker 1: I just couldn't do it. It was just a mental day.
Speaker 1: I just so. I mean, I was so wrapped up
Speaker 1: in those cover gigs in skybar Man, when you do
Speaker 1: that so often, and these kids are just stealing drinks
Speaker 1: all over you, and it's like no one gets about
Speaker 1: you up there at that point, you know, and you
Speaker 1: think you just kind of live on it and hope
Speaker 1: that they do, but they don't. You know, You're just
Speaker 1: a jukebox at that point.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I just, you know, I always have one of
Speaker 1: those days. And my band back and then, you know,
Speaker 1: and that was tough being a young being a young
Speaker 1: female trying to control these guys, not control, but work
Speaker 1: with them even, you know, and they just don't respect
Speaker 1: me in that way. I remember my guitar player back
Speaker 1: in the day, I said, Hey, I wish we could
Speaker 1: play some more of my songs. She said, well, you
Speaker 1: just start writing better songs, we'll play him. I'll never
Speaker 1: forget him saying that. It was crazy and you know,
Speaker 1: I was eighteen years old, nineteen years old, and I
Speaker 1: was just starting to write songs. And but I remember
Speaker 1: canceling that gig and I wasn't gonna tell anyone about it.
Speaker 1: But Trey knew I was supposed to play, and he's like,
Speaker 1: why aren't you playing the gig? And I couldn't say
Speaker 1: I was sick because I lived with them, and he
Speaker 1: knew I wasn't sick. And he's just remember being like, hell,
Speaker 1: you just can't do shit like that. He's like, you
Speaker 1: just got to get up and play the damn show.
Speaker 1: Get up and play a damn show. He's right, get
Speaker 1: up and play a damn show. And so having people
Speaker 1: like that on days, you know, and I feel depressed
Speaker 1: or anxious or whatever, when I'm in my bed, I
Speaker 1: want to pull the covers over my head, Trey will
Speaker 1: literally come in there and rip the covers off of
Speaker 1: my Yeah, He's like, get out of the bed, get up,
Speaker 1: go to work, you know. And even this year, both
Speaker 1: of them are people that I've met, friends that I've
Speaker 1: made in this town that are family for me now.
Speaker 1: They really are. And you know when they just you know,
Speaker 1: Trey always like you just got to say I'm a machine.
Speaker 1: I'm a machine, and you know I'm not a machine,
Speaker 1: but there are days where you do have to be
Speaker 1: a machine, for sure. I'm learning this year just how
Speaker 1: insane this job is that you are, especially.
Speaker 4: With the nutso rise of my gosh. We even made
Speaker 4: a game about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna play a game. We're gonna let you sing.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, just the excuse.
Speaker 4: We got to talk about it. I mean, it's huge.
Speaker 3: And then we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna throw out
Speaker 3: some pickup lines after that part, and you're gonna y'all
Speaker 3: gonna rate them.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna decide on the best because the song is
Speaker 4: kind of about.
Speaker 1: We'll get to you know how I got the title right?
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 2: We'll get into it. Let's get into it after this game,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 4: Hold on and pull it up. Hey is my guitar
Speaker 4: coming through? I can't hear my headphones. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 4: I'm just making sure I didn't do something wrong.
Speaker 2: Pick up turned up?
Speaker 4: Man, I'm good if y'all are good? All right, where
Speaker 4: is my I took some pictures of my favorite pickup lines.
Speaker 4: I'm starting with this one, Okay, you say, excuse me,
Speaker 4: excuse me, are you my appendix? Because this feeling in
Speaker 4: my stomach makes me want to take you out. That
Speaker 4: that's pretty good?
Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty good?
Speaker 4: Found Yeah, all right, so now you say one, I
Speaker 4: will give that an eight.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, interested in that one?
Speaker 1: The bodily function thing maybe like some.
Speaker 4: Of these, maybe cringey. That may be good. We're just
Speaker 4: trying to figure out.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, are you wi FI? Because I feel a connection.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give that a five. I've heard that one before.
Speaker 2: It's pretty good.
Speaker 1: I've never heard that one before.
Speaker 2: The appendix one was good.
Speaker 4: Okay, man, I might have started off with the best one.
Speaker 5: Excuse me.
Speaker 4: I assumed happiness started with an H, but I believe
Speaker 4: it starts with a you.
Speaker 2: Why'd you point it?
Speaker 4: Dad?
Speaker 5: I feel like I could get any more nervous.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Give it a rate?
Speaker 1: Oh, probably.
Speaker 2: Maybe five or six, depending gives better.
Speaker 4: Okay, I was pretty good rounds. I won the first round.
Speaker 4: Let's see how this round goes.
Speaker 6: Excuse if you.
Speaker 2: Were a vegetable, you would be a cute number.
Speaker 1: That's good. That's good, that would work. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: like when I respond that's what I'm writing. I would
Speaker 1: at least be like that was good.
Speaker 4: Last round, that one, last round? All right, one to one,
Speaker 4: Let me look, let me look and make I'm gonna
Speaker 4: get you. Excuse me, I'm going to complain to Spotify
Speaker 4: about you not being this week's hottest single.
Speaker 1: If someone say that to me, though, it would be kind.
Speaker 4: Of weird, because it is you do have a single. Actually,
Speaker 4: all right, give it a grade. Just give it a
Speaker 4: grade one to ten.
Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't respond to that one.
Speaker 4: Bo I got you.
Speaker 1: I want you go ahead to do I like respond
Speaker 1: or not respond.
Speaker 2: You're looking a little sick, looks like you might need
Speaker 2: a little vitamin me.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I respond.
Speaker 4: All right, we'll do one more because that was a tie.
Speaker 4: That was a terrible tie.
Speaker 1: Best pickup lines I've ever heard is from Riley's dad.
Speaker 1: He gets the best pickup lines I've ever heard.
Speaker 4: His are like mate, he makes them up though, right, Oh, he's.
Speaker 1: Like off the cuff. I mean, it's incredible, it is.
Speaker 1: It is a work of art. Honestly, this is these are.
Speaker 4: Bad because I just looked him up on there. All right,
Speaker 4: you're ready, Damn, this is gonna be bad. If you
Speaker 4: were a fruit, you'd be a fine apple.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, okay, so it's I feel like I've heard
Speaker 8: that one.
Speaker 4: But at least gets a grade.
Speaker 1: Gets a grade?
Speaker 4: Okay, it gad. I mean, look, you've always been out
Speaker 4: of the game for a minute. Okay.
Speaker 1: I thought you said respond and not respond.
Speaker 2: Basically just like just I like responding.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, I'm going a little inside ball here,
Speaker 3: but this is my last one. Excuse me, Really you
Speaker 3: a dough in rut because you're looking hot?
Speaker 4: What hot dough boom? Anyway, it's not me, it's you.
Speaker 4: You like that one?
Speaker 1: Confused me a little same?
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, those don't really rut?
Speaker 2: Are you a dough in rut?
Speaker 4: You should have You should have gone with heat because
Speaker 4: you're looking hot, heat hot? All right? Who won?
Speaker 1: I don't like this game?
Speaker 4: All right? Who won? Say? Who won? Who won?
Speaker 2: He looked at you and at you.
Speaker 5: I think you are pretty evil, to be honest.
Speaker 10: All right, all right, give us the story.
Speaker 2: How did you come up with that?
Speaker 3: Let's talk about the song from it? Well, because it
Speaker 3: is gigantic.
Speaker 1: It's again breaking crazy. I don't think I have comprehended it.
Speaker 4: Well, it's impossible to at this point it will set in.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think the coolest thing about it is I saw
Speaker 3: a video of you figure y'all finding out that you
Speaker 3: want to see m a and you looking at Aaron
Speaker 3: and being like, isn't it crazy?
Speaker 2: Like we've written a ton.
Speaker 3: Of songs together, tried to write great songs, and that's
Speaker 3: what we do, right as long as we come to
Speaker 3: this town wanting to write, yeah, great songs.
Speaker 1: And sometimes you're in there like this.
Speaker 3: For sure, man and overthinking it. But you said, we
Speaker 3: sat there and laughed for thirty minutes, and here we
Speaker 3: are with this, with this tune. Like, it's crazy to
Speaker 3: me that my first cut in town was the same way.
Speaker 3: I mean, we wrote it as the chorus as a
Speaker 3: joke and it ended up being my first ever cut.
Speaker 3: And so yeah, like just tell us, tell us the
Speaker 3: journey of that song and how it came to be.
Speaker 1: Well, me and Aaron were written another rite actually, and
Speaker 1: whoever we were writing with walked out room, and you
Speaker 1: know that's when you strike up your little conversations, and
Speaker 1: me and Aaron just don't quit talking, like we literally
Speaker 1: don't stop talking. It's insane. Adhd is flying everywhere everywhere. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got to do like seven things while he's writing,
Speaker 1: Like he'll be sketching you while he's writing song, while
Speaker 1: he's like, maybe paint something over here. I don't know,
Speaker 1: that's just how he is. Anyways, he was like, hell,
Speaker 1: how's your relationship life going. I was like, Aaron, honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm out of the point where they look like they
Speaker 1: love me. I got to get out of there. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just too much for me right now. And we
Speaker 1: giggled at that. And then you know, as songwriters, when
Speaker 1: you hear something like you look like you love me,
Speaker 1: we're like, well there's a title. Yeah, And we just
Speaker 1: wrote the title down and didn't. This was we wrote
Speaker 1: the song in twenty twenty two, so six months later
Speaker 1: we had an afternoon. Right. He loves to talk about
Speaker 1: how I brought in this bowl of spaghetti. I was like,
Speaker 1: I made my lunch, brought it in, and I had
Speaker 1: this bowl of spaghetti, which says, this is like the
Speaker 1: luckiest bull of spaghetti. I think we might get a
Speaker 1: tattoo with like.
Speaker 5: A tiny piece of spaghetti.
Speaker 1: That's cool, Sorry, dad, it's too far gone now. It's
Speaker 1: too far gone the tattoos.
Speaker 4: Now classic classic.
Speaker 1: He said, it's too far gone now. So anyway, so
Speaker 1: we just sat down and I was like, what would
Speaker 1: they look like? You loved me song or that?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 1: And Aaron is probably one of the funniest people I've
Speaker 1: ever met. If you don't know Aaron ray Tier, just
Speaker 1: look up this song called Jesus Jenny. Look it up
Speaker 1: on YouTube. Aaron ray Tier doing it, because him doing
Speaker 1: it acoustic is one of the funniest things ever. It's
Speaker 1: like Jesus Jenny, diddies popping at your turtle. Now you're
Speaker 1: riding around and your red or of it getting all
Speaker 1: the wrong kinds of respect, Jesus Jenny doing what your
Speaker 1: mom wouldn't want your mama to see. You know, It's
Speaker 1: just hilarious all the way through. And because I grew
Speaker 1: up on all that, you know, I got up with
Speaker 1: a lot of talking countries. Like I said, one of
Speaker 1: my first favorite songs was You Never Even Called Me
Speaker 1: by my Name. I knew the talking part that song
Speaker 1: before the age of five.
Speaker 5: I had a duck in it, and I had a
Speaker 5: duck in it, rubber duck.
Speaker 1: So I was like, let's just write it funny and
Speaker 1: let's just like exactly like a woman walking up to
Speaker 1: a guy in the bar, and we hit record and
Speaker 1: Aaron just let it rip, and him and I were
Speaker 1: just freestyling pretty much like five ten minutes, and we
Speaker 1: wrote the whole song like that, and then we just
Speaker 1: kind of pieced it back together from that work tape.
Speaker 1: It fell out almost immediately. We had a whole second
Speaker 1: verse and then so, I mean, after I wrote that song,
Speaker 1: I just didn't think it was gonna do anything because
Speaker 1: just talking in the verses, it's not very common song
Speaker 1: about a girl walking up to a guy who she's
Speaker 1: had a couple of drinks. She's like, let me take
Speaker 1: you home, baby. You know. It's like, yeah, when you're
Speaker 1: first writing in town, like people are very opinionated on
Speaker 1: what works well, you know. I'm like, you know, there's
Speaker 1: a formula, you got it there, what's radio looking for?
Speaker 1: What's a radio song, what's not a radio song? And
Speaker 1: so you just have all these things in your head
Speaker 1: as a young writer, especially I mean moving here and
Speaker 1: this is I mean, there's everyone's writing songs here. So
Speaker 1: it's just not like I'm living in Alabama right with
Speaker 1: a couple of people and make them up my own ideas.
Speaker 1: But so this is girl named Maya Hanson. She signed
Speaker 1: me to my first publishing deal at Sony what I'm
Speaker 1: currently in right now. But she loved the song. Some
Speaker 1: of the work tape. We just have a shitty work tape.
Speaker 1: I'll text it to y'all too. It's a great work tabe.
Speaker 1: I think I want to put the work tape out.
Speaker 1: But and we were doing the work tape and I
Speaker 1: remember trying to deliver the song. I did it once
Speaker 1: and it was kind of weird, and he's like, do
Speaker 1: it like you're trying to remember a story when you're
Speaker 1: telling when you're doing the talking part, because I was like,
Speaker 1: I was all but twenty two I think at the time.
Speaker 1: And then you know, just kind of reading it, talking
Speaker 1: it like normal, and he's like, I'm gonna do it
Speaker 1: like you're trying to remember a story. So I was like,
Speaker 1: I was all but twenty two I think at the time.
Speaker 1: It puts that out on the road, well only at night,
Speaker 1: and it changed how I was singing it completely, and
Speaker 1: Maya heard it, loved it. Try to get me to
Speaker 1: put it in the drop by for the EP. I
Speaker 1: put out excuse the mess, and I was like, no way, man, Like,
Speaker 1: no one's gonna like that song. And I just didn't.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just I don't know. I thought it
Speaker 1: was more of a joke. I wrote it to when
Speaker 1: people aren't listening at Live Oak or say someone to
Speaker 1: get their attention right around the bonfire, you know, at
Speaker 1: the Hunt camp, trying to make everyone giggle.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 1: I love songs like that. I love a funny song,
Speaker 1: you know. And she when we were cutting for the record,
Speaker 1: she slipped it in there. She didn't tell me it
Speaker 1: was the last song on there. And I got calls
Speaker 1: from my agent, from people high up in my record
Speaker 1: label that and called me like all these people from
Speaker 1: this shitty work tape. I mean there's all these like
Speaker 1: great demos at this point, like I've got great demos now,
Speaker 1: you know, and this is I mean the worst sound
Speaker 1: in one on there. It's a crappy work tape and
Speaker 1: it's you Look Like You Love Me? And they're like,
Speaker 1: this song is insane, and so we cut it with
Speaker 1: the first round we cut songs. It wasn't going to
Speaker 1: be a duet. We cut it. When we cut we
Speaker 1: did you Look Like You Love Me? Nicotine Hungover, Paint
Speaker 1: the Town Blue, and another one I can't remember, thank
Speaker 1: you all those thank you. So we cut that song
Speaker 1: and then right after that, Riley asked us on tour,
Speaker 1: I think the week afterwards. So I was driving around
Speaker 1: listening to the cut, and you know, I'm Don Riley
Speaker 1: or I was like the first famous person I ever knew,
Speaker 1: you know, Like he was around playing all the same bars.
Speaker 1: I was trying to play it and he's already done that,
Speaker 1: you know, So I was always, you know, a bunch
Speaker 1: of steps behind him, but I was, you know, trying
Speaker 1: to follow in those footsteps, you know, for I've done all.
Speaker 1: You know, we're from the same area kind of you know,
Speaker 1: I means from Jacksonne from Alabama, but I mean from Montgomery.
Speaker 1: But you know it's not it's like two hours apart.
Speaker 1: So grew up going all the same places. I knew
Speaker 1: he grew up on the same kind of music, and
Speaker 1: I just asked him, I straight up just asked us, like,
Speaker 1: would you run want to write a second versus this?
Speaker 1: And Bradley sent it to him and we didn't hear
Speaker 1: from him about it until like December, and he's, you
Speaker 1: know him right in a second verse. You know, I
Speaker 1: knew we weren't done cutting the record, so I wasn't
Speaker 1: like in this massive rush, but he called me I'll
Speaker 1: never forget. I was getting my nails done and I
Speaker 1: looked down and me and Kaylee my phone his face
Speaker 1: up and it said Riley Green and I was like
Speaker 1: what I answered it and he's like, hey, I sang
Speaker 1: so the verse, like it's in your text messages. If
Speaker 1: you like it, He's like, I would love to do it.
Speaker 1: So I listened to It's exactly what it was. I
Speaker 1: was like, it's perfect, you know. I just told him
Speaker 1: to do it. I was like, why would you respond
Speaker 1: to it? One one walking up to you in a
Speaker 1: bar and I gave him the reference off, you know,
Speaker 1: I was like, think of Dave down Car. I was like,
Speaker 1: think how they do that? And I think you can
Speaker 1: kind of in Riley's verse specifically, hear the the reference
Speaker 1: of the way that they talk it like that. It's
Speaker 1: cool and I really wanted to do it so we
Speaker 1: could sing it on tour the whole time, but I
Speaker 1: couldn't get his to do it on tour, but we
Speaker 1: did all kinds of other songs and we played it
Speaker 1: all the time. In the green room. I mean he
Speaker 1: played it constantly. Everyone knew it. We played it after
Speaker 1: when everyone's hanging out. We played the guitar. I think
Speaker 1: one of the first nights on tour, we like sang
Speaker 1: it together in the back of the green room. THERE'SI
Speaker 1: there's a video on my Instagram of it. There's like
Speaker 1: a him cheap McDonald's half eat and cheeseburger on the table,
Speaker 1: you know whatever. Just after after showing life.
Speaker 4: He that cheeseburger though, no, no.
Speaker 1: He ain't. But so we go to the whole tour.
Speaker 1: I've been like trying to get videos of us doing
Speaker 1: the song. You know, I'm like just trying to like,
Speaker 1: you know, not be weird about it, but like he's
Speaker 1: still trying to like promote the song, you know, Like
Speaker 1: I did this so we could do it on tour.
Speaker 1: So the last night on tour he had asked me,
Speaker 1: so we did it in color. That was the song
Speaker 1: I can't I went up and did with him every night,
Speaker 1: and then he loves Dreams, so I flee with Matt.
Speaker 1: He loves that song. He does the thing shoulders. It's
Speaker 1: really weird, like he just can't help himself, you know.
Speaker 1: So uh, he asked me. One night, He's like, hey,
Speaker 1: we do Dreams with the band tonight, and he just
Speaker 1: took his guitar off we did in color, took his
Speaker 1: tar off, put it on me, and I just play
Speaker 1: Dreams with his band on stage front the whole arena.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm like, you got it. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't know what key. I don't know keys and nothing,
Speaker 1: so don't just don't ask me, just sing it now.
Speaker 1: He just walked off stage and did whatever, got a
Speaker 1: drink or something, and then came back on and played it.
Speaker 1: Said he does. He's so chill and like it's just
Speaker 1: he's loose like that. But the last night of tour,
Speaker 1: we get dalnthon Color and he looks that leans down
Speaker 1: and I'm like pull my hair out, and he's like,
Speaker 1: you want to do that other song. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: something and I put my cape on one. I'm ready
Speaker 1: to do Dreams and Ralely goes, well, we haven't done
Speaker 1: this song before, and I was like, he's talking about
Speaker 1: you look like you loved me. This is the last
Speaker 1: night of tour. The band doesn't know. I didn't and
Speaker 1: nobody knew. It's just Riley of course. So We did
Speaker 1: a song video comes out and I teased it once
Speaker 1: before Riley announced it was on it, and that first
Speaker 1: video I did it was just up the talking verse
Speaker 1: and it went insane. I don't know how many views
Speaker 1: it has on TikTok now, but I mean it did
Speaker 1: it on Instagram too. It was just one little video
Speaker 1: we did. I just did one little random one before
Speaker 1: the show one night and it went insane.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: So it was already going like millions and millions of
Speaker 1: views viral before he was announced. But then when he
Speaker 1: was announced on it, it was like yeah yeah, and
Speaker 1: then yeah it came out in July. What was crazy
Speaker 1: is we played We did Hyde Park with Morgan Wallen
Speaker 1: on fourth of July. It was really funny to be
Speaker 1: in London on the fourth of July.
Speaker 4: Yeah, did they even celebrate over.
Speaker 1: There America's Holiday.
Speaker 4: I'm just wondering if it like got exciting over there
Speaker 4: or No. No, it's like it didn't even happen.
Speaker 1: No, It's like this is how we you know, It's
Speaker 1: like we separated from.
Speaker 4: Them, so like I think I acknowledge that.
Speaker 1: No, they didn't. I try to. I thought about getting
Speaker 1: every one in my band. I did buy everyone American
Speaker 1: flag underwear, and then I accidently left it all here.
Speaker 1: I know, of course, but there's fifty thousand people there.
Speaker 1: And I when Riley plays on the festival, most time
Speaker 1: we save it for his set, you know. This time,
Speaker 1: I mean, the song wasn't even out yet, it's only
Speaker 1: been the TikTok and we went out there and it
Speaker 1: was a sea of people. It's the most people I've
Speaker 1: ever played in front of. Fifty thousand people like that
Speaker 1: is like, you can't mean, it is a sea of people.
Speaker 2: It's unfathomable amount of people.
Speaker 1: And I remember walking out there and starting the song
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand people. This is like one of the
Speaker 1: first times I've ever experienced people sing the words back
Speaker 1: that I wrote and it's fifty thousand people. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: like I think, when you spend so long wishing for something,
Speaker 1: and for me it's been my whole life and not
Speaker 1: just wishing so hard, but working for something. And recently
Speaker 1: I've been talking about the way when you start out,
Speaker 1: you got to do it for you. You can't do it
Speaker 1: for anybody else because nobody else has given you that.
Speaker 1: Nobody else is gonna give you what you need from them.
Speaker 1: Emotionally or anyway. Because you're starting out. You know, you're
Speaker 1: you're not writing the songs you're gonna one day, You're
Speaker 1: not playing shows you're gonna you don't sound the way
Speaker 1: you're gonna, you know, and you're just you got to
Speaker 1: do it for you. You got to do it because
Speaker 1: you want to. So this past year it's kind of
Speaker 1: changed a little bit where the fans are like, thank
Speaker 1: you for doing this. I'm like, thank You're thanking me
Speaker 1: for chasing my dream, like what you know. And it's weird.
Speaker 1: It's really weird for people that come up and to
Speaker 1: me and I'm experiencing like fans for the first time
Speaker 1: in that way. And we just finished this headline and tour,
Speaker 1: and I think with having a song is viral, it's
Speaker 1: scary a little bit because it's like, man, I mean
Speaker 1: the shows are sold out, but it's like, are they
Speaker 1: coming and listen to the one thing? You know, I'm
Speaker 1: a pessimist. I'm thinking to your's grandma, by all these tickets,
Speaker 1: it made all of them come, you know, I know
Speaker 1: that's what it is.
Speaker 4: It's because you're creative. I mean, we all are. And
Speaker 4: you've had this town, this town kick you in the
Speaker 4: teeth a little bit like we have, and it turns
Speaker 4: you to that kind of a person. But I'm here
Speaker 4: to tell you don't. You shouldn't be worried about that
Speaker 4: because the records so damn good. Like the songs. I mean,
Speaker 4: it has a foundation under it. It's just right, hit cat,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. It's a it's a great record.
Speaker 4: You're a great artist. You're going to continue to write
Speaker 4: great songs, and I think you're gonna have a big, fat,
Speaker 4: long career in this town.
Speaker 3: Yeah seriously, all right, I want to show you this
Speaker 3: video and you're talking about having fans. This little girl
Speaker 3: right here is one of your biggest ones and I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 4: One of your littlest ones.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I don't know if I can't show this
Speaker 2: but to the but here.
Speaker 8: Loud, all right, let's hear it.
Speaker 2: I was turning it down.
Speaker 8: Okay, that's so, that's all right.
Speaker 4: Who does she look like right here?
Speaker 1: So little kids that I think that's one of the
Speaker 1: reasons this song is done. What it's done is how
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no telling a day how many videos
Speaker 1: of kids that age two year old, yes, really, all
Speaker 1: over the world singing this song it's crazy. And you
Speaker 1: know little kids, when they get obsessed with song, they
Speaker 1: gonna play that song over and over. So it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: we've been shooting for the wrong audiences. I think they
Speaker 1: sharked it so well.
Speaker 4: I got real shark.
Speaker 1: I saw a video of a dog going like, you know,
Speaker 1: sing a song, it's crazy, dog. I've seen videos of
Speaker 1: dogs with it like it's nuts.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's what That's what Roger Miller did, right,
Speaker 3: He just wrote like everything he wrote tried to do
Speaker 3: like like preschool rhymes.
Speaker 1: You know, that's well, it's it has changed the way
Speaker 1: I write songs completely, the way I approach writing songs,
Speaker 1: because you know, you said it, like what we said
Speaker 1: in that video, it's how how many times you just
Speaker 1: sat there and wanted to bang your head against the
Speaker 1: wall trying to write a song. Sometimes it's not even
Speaker 1: a good song. You know, you get done and you're
Speaker 1: like that was some worse you know, and ever since
Speaker 1: for you a little bit, ever since the song, and
Speaker 1: I feel like I was kind of doing it before
Speaker 1: the song Blue Up, but it really sentiment in my
Speaker 1: brain where it just doesn't have to try that hard
Speaker 1: if it's a great melody gets the point across. Sometimes
Speaker 1: people don't want to think that hard about music.
Speaker 4: They just don't.
Speaker 1: They just don't, And you know I do. I listen
Speaker 1: to my music a lot of different ways. Like sometimes
Speaker 1: I'll listen to songs, I'll turn it down where I
Speaker 1: can't hear the lyrics anymore, because I just want to
Speaker 1: hear how it feels when you're listening to it. I
Speaker 1: think that's why Morgan Walling a reason he his music
Speaker 1: streams so well. I mean, obviously it's great, but when
Speaker 1: you can turn Morgan Walling down right here, not hear
Speaker 1: really any of the words, and you can sit here
Speaker 1: and listen to it like this, it's great music to
Speaker 1: have a conversation over just to and then but also
Speaker 1: turned up and listen to it and it's great. People
Speaker 1: just says that too, and so I do that a
Speaker 1: lot with what I've been doing that a lot recently
Speaker 1: with my songs and what I'm doing for this next
Speaker 1: record is I want it. It's a lot about feeling.
Speaker 1: And that's what I love so much about country music,
Speaker 1: especially in like the seventies and the eighties and the sixties.
Speaker 1: It's it's not the most complicated title, but the way
Speaker 1: that they approach the title is so cool. Sometimes it's
Speaker 1: just simple, but the melody, you won't get that melody
Speaker 1: out of your head. And I feel like sometimes when
Speaker 1: you're listening to a song and you don't have to
Speaker 1: think too hard about it, the melody is like, not
Speaker 1: this crazy, like you know what I mean, Like it's
Speaker 1: it's just sing along. And that's what we wanted with
Speaker 1: this song. It wasn't this. It wasn't like I was
Speaker 1: trying to show off the best vocal past I could
Speaker 1: ever give. It was all about I wanted this song
Speaker 1: to be where guys are in the bar, girls are
Speaker 1: in a bar, like leaning on each other like this,
Speaker 1: like we did a take. There's BGVS in there where
Speaker 1: me and Will are just in the room singing it
Speaker 1: like almost monotone stacked in there. Just because we wanted
Speaker 1: it to feel like a bar song.
Speaker 4: I wanted it to feel.
Speaker 2: And it's it's showing man, I mean, it's it feels great.
Speaker 2: It's a giant. It's a giant. WHOAOA we got we got.
Speaker 5: More, we went.
Speaker 4: It's an hour and fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2: Let me ask some more questions. What's next for you?
Speaker 2: What's You've got?
Speaker 4: This song?
Speaker 3: It's is possibly, if not the biggest, one of the
Speaker 3: biggest songs in the in the world right now.
Speaker 2: How do you follow it up?
Speaker 5: What do you?
Speaker 2: What do you do next?
Speaker 4: What do you? What do you?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: What's next for you?
Speaker 1: I'm really excited about where I'm going next. I have
Speaker 1: the title for the next record, I have a music
Speaker 1: video planned out, I have the creative for it pretty
Speaker 1: much done, and it's really organically falling out, rocking. I'm
Speaker 1: just letting I'm really just letting God take the wheel. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm I've always believed that he wouldn't put this passion
Speaker 1: on my heart so aggressively, so aggressively to the point
Speaker 1: where I would I would feel sick as a kid
Speaker 1: thinking like what like going to concerts was kind of
Speaker 1: a miserable thing for me at a young age because
Speaker 1: I would sit up there and I would want to
Speaker 1: do it so bad that I would like, I would
Speaker 1: feel sick to my stomach because I just wanted to
Speaker 1: be up there so bad. So, you know, with this
Speaker 1: next record, I kind of want to show that side
Speaker 1: a little more of me. Where the Alabama?
Speaker 8: Who?
Speaker 1: Who is Ella Langley? You know, not just not just
Speaker 1: the songwriter or the artists, but the human being, and
Speaker 1: people are going to want to know. Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: think just I think there is a level of honesty
Speaker 1: in my songs that not everyone has, and I think
Speaker 1: that's maybe what's going to set it apart a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know. But this next record, it's I'm so excited
Speaker 1: about it. I just I start every one of my
Speaker 1: rights right now. It's like this massive spiel. I've made
Speaker 1: this whole playlist that I listened to every day, like
Speaker 1: of reference tracks and just like you know, to kind
Speaker 1: of get me in the headspace of where I want it.
Speaker 1: It's it's gonna be groovy, country nice. I've been listened
Speaker 1: to a lot of Ronnie millsap if that gives you
Speaker 1: any indications, a lot of George Jones. I mean, I
Speaker 1: was literally I'll send you all the playlists that I've
Speaker 1: been listening to. I've been sending to a lot of
Speaker 1: writers I've been writing with because I kind of send
Speaker 1: this little spiel of like what I'm doing before the
Speaker 1: right that night, and then you know they can listen
Speaker 1: to it and be in that headspace.
Speaker 2: But artists take notes.
Speaker 1: Well, it's just really or it's okly falling out. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to share what it is, and I'll
Speaker 1: tell you all when we get off the thing. But
Speaker 1: it's just it's such a cool follow up. And I
Speaker 1: know that this next record is going to only be
Speaker 1: better than the one that I just put out because
Speaker 1: that's my first record. That's me, that's me guessing. I
Speaker 1: know how to put out a record now I've done
Speaker 1: it before. I have a little experience, and I know
Speaker 1: what I what I want and don't want, and I
Speaker 1: know the band that I want to a t you know.
Speaker 1: I think we're going with a different producer on this
Speaker 1: next one, and I haven't completely nailed that down yet,
Speaker 1: but you know, just excited for this next chapter of
Speaker 1: just growing and playing the shows that I'm not in
Speaker 1: a rush. I plan on doing this the rest of
Speaker 1: my life. So I'm just really enjoying the journey.
Speaker 2: Of of I think you should of all of it.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: That's why it's gonna work, and that's why it's gonna
Speaker 3: be huge, and You're gonna be huge, and the whole
Speaker 3: thing's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 1: Thank you, all right, go for it.
Speaker 10: We're high.
Speaker 2: That thing I had to say it was. But it's
Speaker 2: the time of the show for the one that got
Speaker 2: It's part of the show. You go, you switch it
Speaker 2: every time?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I do. This is part of the
Speaker 4: show Ella where we talk about the one that got away.
Speaker 4: If you didn't understand that little ditty that just happened there,
Speaker 4: did we prep her for this? Yeah? You got one?
Speaker 8: What is it.
Speaker 1: You want? This is how I learned to not get
Speaker 1: out of the tree stand too early. I was in
Speaker 1: I was actually in a tent. There was this buck
Speaker 1: that we've been seeing on camera. It's I mean, do
Speaker 1: you think it was that twelve point we were seeing
Speaker 1: on camera all the time.
Speaker 5: It was if you turn this into a deer hunting.
Speaker 1: Story, this is the one that got away.
Speaker 4: They said, okay, all right, I didn't know we switch.
Speaker 1: Gears anyways, So I mean, biggest buck. It was massive,
Speaker 1: and I was so excited that I think I probably
Speaker 1: waited about six minutes. I don't know what shot. Waited
Speaker 1: about six minutes. And my plan was to go ahead
Speaker 1: and find start finding blood before Dad got there, so
Speaker 1: I could be like Dad, Look, I did it myself,
Speaker 1: you know. I think I was like seventeen sixteen or seventeen,
Speaker 1: and I got out there and start looking for blood
Speaker 1: in there, and I knew immediately. I'm just like, oh God.
Speaker 1: So I go back and sit in the tent and
Speaker 1: wait on Dad and act like I didn't get up
Speaker 1: and I wasn't gonna tell him. But then we go
Speaker 1: out into the woods and there's this big pile of
Speaker 1: blood where there's lung and heart in it, and obviously
Speaker 1: he was laying down, I mean right off into the woods.
Speaker 1: If I would have waited fifteen minutes, he would have
Speaker 1: been laying right there. And we look. I mean, it
Speaker 1: went from that to this to this. I mean I
Speaker 1: thought he was gonna be right up in there, and
Speaker 1: went down to Specs and then nothing gone gone. I
Speaker 1: just take the act the next morning and Dad's like,
Speaker 1: I mean we had leave, And Dad's like, I've never
Speaker 1: just left, you know, as the biggest year I've ever
Speaker 1: shot out of my life, and I've been seeing it
Speaker 1: on camera. I wanted I wanted to see it. I
Speaker 1: wanted to have it in my hands, no doubt. Anyways,
Speaker 1: I told that I got up early and ran them off,
Speaker 1: but we never found deer Ah brutal, never found there
Speaker 1: to this day, probably one of the biggest deer I've ever killed.
Speaker 1: It's dad say it died. Yeah, and we looked for
Speaker 1: so long. Now we don't even have that land anymore,
Speaker 1: so we'll never know.
Speaker 4: You'll never know.
Speaker 2: That's a tough lesson to learn.
Speaker 3: It was because because I mean, yeah, as a young hunter,
Speaker 3: you want to you know, shoot something, you want go
Speaker 3: get it.
Speaker 4: But yeah, but those lessons teach you.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 1: I learned that lesson. I remember feeling sick. I remember
Speaker 1: that was the worst score I made on the A
Speaker 1: C T. I didn't ever score great, but that was
Speaker 1: the worst one by far.
Speaker 4: I got a twenty one and I was like, I'm done.
Speaker 4: I'm not taking it again. That'll get me in Misissippi State.
Speaker 4: And that was it. I hate test.
Speaker 1: Oh God, can't do.
Speaker 3: We also do favorite tune, So this is the greatest
Speaker 3: slash favorite song that kind of comes to mind for
Speaker 3: you in your journey coming up.
Speaker 1: I want to do my my Spotify rap just came
Speaker 1: in today. Everyone's dead, I think, and my number one
Speaker 1: song on that is Rose Colored Glasses John Connolly. That
Speaker 1: was on the CD of Dad. That's one of my
Speaker 1: first I think that was the first song I realized,
Speaker 1: I thought what a good melody was interesting. I just remember, like,
Speaker 1: I love the way it sounded, in the way that
Speaker 1: he's sang it, and I didn't even before I knew
Speaker 1: really what a melody was. That's the first melody I
Speaker 1: remember remember and thinking with these roads could glasses that
Speaker 1: IMA again through.
Speaker 11: Show the beauty?
Speaker 1: They oh the truth?
Speaker 11: So I'm asky believe you need me when you brew
Speaker 11: so many times it ain't true.
Speaker 4: And I find one good reason for steam.
Speaker 1: Maybe leaving would.
Speaker 8: Be for you.
Speaker 6: These bo.
Speaker 11: Cooldard glasses that I again through.
Speaker 1: Show a.
Speaker 11: Beauty. Hey ah Trutham.
Speaker 1: And man Ella Langley, thank you for letting my dad
Speaker 1: on here. You did great, Dada.
Speaker 4: Thank you, I said, I don't know, thank you. Uh
Speaker 4: sounds good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hey, congrats on everything. Thank you you're.
Speaker 4: Killing Thank you for having us. It's great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're gonna be great. It's huge this next record.
Speaker 3: I'm pumped for it. It's gonna it's gonna be a huge, huge, huge.
Speaker 2: But thanks for coming, hanging out, thanks for.
Speaker 4: Coming, and thank you for having Yeah, Megan, thanks for
Speaker 4: making it work. Appreciate you, that's right, Appreciate you. Appreciate
Speaker 4: the gift back, dude, first gift back, Got a gift back.
Speaker 3: For anybody that's gonna come on the pod, just know
Speaker 3: that La brought the gift back.
Speaker 4: We'll promote it even more than I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3: Thanks for that, Thanks for hanging out, Thanks for hanging
Speaker 3: out with us in God's Country, and we'll check out
Speaker 3: next time.