WEBVTT - Best Bits (Just The Bits) with Morgan: PART 2 0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:05.200 It's the best Bits of the week with Morgan number two. 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:08.799 What is up, y'all? It's the best bits of the week. 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.959 This is just the bits in case you missed it. 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:14.800 Part one was me talking with Eddie. We had fun 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:17.640 conversations as we always do, and we always wanted to 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:19.680 go longer because Eddie and I could talk all day 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:22.960 long together. But this part right here is just the bits. 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:25.959 Part two, I break down the best segments from the 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:29.120 show this week introm and you guys listen so you 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:31.400 can either catch up on the show or relive your 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:35.600 favorite moments. So let's get started. Coming in at number seven, 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:38.440 we've got Cole Swindell who came on the show this week. 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:41.479 He's talking about his new album, his girlfriend, I mean, 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:44.520 just all the things, and personally, Cole is a great 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:46.400 human so I always love when he comes into the 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.040 show and talks about his life. He's just such a 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:51.600 great guy. So here it is the interview with Cole 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:56.560 number seven on the Bobby Bones Show. Now, Cole Swindell, 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:58.560 good to see you, buddy, Good to see y'all. Congrats 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:00.880 on the new albul Thank you so much. In a while, 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:02.800 I'm gonna play a little something and talk about it 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:06.600 specifically in a second. I do have a gift for you, really, yes, Okay, 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:12.520 the longstanding tradition here on this show, n this is 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:15.080 the shirt, the shirt we know. We're passing it back 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:17.440 and forth every time call I told him, every time 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:19.520 he comes in, we passed the Crook and Chase shirt 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:21.600 back and forth. That's great. This is one of my 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.360 favorite retro shirts that you gave. Yeah, and I loved 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:27.120 it so much. I'm now returning it to you and 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:29.000 the next time you come in in a few months, 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:31.039 you bring it back and we'll get our wears. All right. 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:35.399 So here we go. A gift for love. It a 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:38.280 gift that he gave me. Nothing says friendship like that. 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.119 Everything good. That's good man. Yeah. The new records out, 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:44.560 it's called stereotype. And I was thinking about, you know 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:47.240 why people name records, and you know a lot of 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:49.800 times it's after a song that they feel means something 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:51.680 on the record, and sometimes it's also a sort of 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.240 way of going, hey, this is me. So what do 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:58.800 you think the stereotype is about you? That isn't true, man, 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:02.520 that's a tough question. I wish I knew that answer, 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:04.920 But I think for me, it's probably just how my 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:07.320 career started. I think a lot of people, you know, 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:09.799 I moved to town, and a lot of it's been 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.200 said many times. I know, I sold T shirts and 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:14.200 did what I had to do, but I just wanted 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:15.600 to be around the music and I wanted to be 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:18.960 a songwriter first. And I just think that everybody's always 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:20.840 going to look at it as overnight success. But there 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:22.160 was a lot of years where I wrote a lot 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:25.040 of crappy songs and a lot of you know, it 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:26.800 was just tough and not knowing if I was gonna 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:28.600 make it. And I think, you know, you come out 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:30.919 with a fun first song, and then people think that's 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:33.440 all you are is the chilling It comes out right, 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:35.600 he must see the chilling. It fun guys, exactly. And 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:37.960 I think that's what the point I'm trying to make 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.200 is just maybe at some point, but those kind of 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:41.919 songs have allowed me to release songs like you should 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:44.280 be here, break Up in the end, the other side 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:46.680 of things I get to sing about too. So I 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:48.800 just feel like I and a lot of artists are 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:51.520 just people in general, are stereotype. I just think that 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:53.840 it was I love the title, I love that song, 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:55.960 but also I think it had a little deeper meaning 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:57.880 for me too. So I want them to know that 0:02:57.919 --> 0:02:59.720 there's a song for everybody on this album. I hope 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.560 you know I made a pact with you. I think 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:05.600 three appearances ago where I was said I would never 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:07.600 bring up the T shirt thing again, Nor am I 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.880 now don't? Yeah, because I knew that would irritate me. 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:12.440 That every interview I went into they were like, hey, 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:14.160 it's like, I'm not gonna say it again right now. 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:16.880 That's fine, Let's move on. And so what do you 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:21.320 stereotype me? Let's do that. What do you think you 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.200 can give a stereotype you think people have that you 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:26.040 know is or isn't true. Let me give me a 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:30.160 little something here. Stereotype me in any way whatsoever. I 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.639 don't it can be my boyish good looks. You think 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:35.640 that it can go ahead? Yeah, I mean I think 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.240 you're a pretty big deal, and I don't know people 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:40.840 that don't know you that what a good dude you are. 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.080 And to me, I mean, you've been off supporting me 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:45.040 from day one, so I don't really I mean, I 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.680 know you're a big artist. No, I'm not good at 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:53.400 that's not even fair. Cole Swindell is here, he's got 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:55.480 a whole whole new album. I actually want to play 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:56.960 one of the songs full right now if you don't 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.080 mind which out you shouldn't, because I'm gonna really promote 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.240 the head Thank you. Yeah, I want to play she 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:03.600 had me at Heads Carolina, Okay, And when I listened 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:05.800 to it, obviously I was struck by it because wanted 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:08.640 the super catchy song in two Heads Carolina. You definitely 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.880 hear that in the song. Absolutely tell me about why 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:15.120 you picked it, like what the situation was with this 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:17.320 song in general. Yeah, And that's the you know, the 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:19.080 first thing when I talk about this song, I want 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:21.160 people to know that how much I love the original 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:24.159 song and Joe d. Massino of just not just that song, 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:27.960 all of all of her stuff, you know. But you know, 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.600 I think when we picked that one, my first thing 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.279 was we got to reach out to the songwriters, Tim Nichols, 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.600 Mark Sanders. I wanted them to know that what our 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:37.680 idea was. And me and Thomas Fred had talked about 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:39.920 this last year on tour, like what if we took 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:41.720 a nineties country song and just kind of put a 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:43.920 spin on it. But obviously we got to get all 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:47.440 the the okays and the blessings from the original folks, 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:50.320 and so that was our first step was knowing the songwriters. 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:52.520 We had their blessing. They were excited about it that 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:54.599 we had picked album because I think out of a 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:56.560 lot of nineties country songs we love, I don't think 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:58.680 anybody would have thought we'd have done that one. And 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:01.120 to do a song that I feel like so many 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:03.360 people have probably got up and karaoke and sang and 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.880 just put a spin on it about just falling for 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:08.680 a girl that got up and was singing some j D. 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:11.279 Massina as a little different angle. But I'm you know, 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:13.159 I'm just glad us out there for me. The few 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.160 people that have heard it of it's just the one 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:16.880 they go to because it takes you back. I think 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:18.960 it does from the very first note. It is that 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:22.360 guitar lick. It is this song. But I reached out 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:24.359 to Joe d and just let her know what a 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:26.760 fan I was and how much I appreciated the original 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:28.320 and if she ever wants to be a part of 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.960 it in any way, that I certainly wanted to be so. 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.599 So from his new album Stereotype, which is out now 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.480 and here here's the writing credits on this. It is 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:39.960 like an all star time. It's Cole Ashley Gorley, who 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:41.480 has I think more number one than anybody else in 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:45.240 the history of the country music Jesse Frasier, Thomas Rhett 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:46.720 and then the two original song right now. So that's 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:48.640 pretty cool man. Yeah, thinking about you as a kid, 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:50.800 I didn't know you were such a good football player 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.440 until I guess i'd seen you post some throwback pictures. 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:56.160 How good of a ballplayer were you? Because you were 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:58.480 all you were? You were an award winning football player. 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.040 I mean, yeah, I was All State, but I also 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:04.120 graduated with twenty three people. But let's fair, fair enough, 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:06.599 I graduated with the same amount, right, Yeah, you still 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:08.400 gotta be really good to be All States, right, Yeah? No, 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:10.920 I mean that's all I did grow playing sports. I 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:12.960 always loved music, but I was just always on a 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:15.680 ball field. And after one sport ended, it was the next, 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:19.200 And uh, you know, baseball was my first love. That basketball. 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:22.440 Then football came probably in high school. And uh it's 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:24.520 just I'm thankful though, because when I got to college 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.200 and a lot of the friends I made they were 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:29.560 all State, but in like huge public schools, and it's 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:31.479 just like, man, I better not talk about my high 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:33.960 school career too much. But it's I just I wouldn't 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:35.680 have changed that because I got to experience everything. I 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.839 played every sport I could play, and I think it, Uh, 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:40.719 you know, you learn a lot through that, the winning, 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.799 the losing, and uh it's you know, I'm just gotta 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.800 ended up in music. So what was the name or 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:50.119 what was you say? Class? Twenty five kids? And what class? 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:53.920 Because I was single A. Yeah, we were GISA double 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:55.680 A and when I was there, but that goes up 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:57.440 and down. It's gone down to single A since I've 0:06:57.480 --> 0:06:59.320 left and been up to triple A. So it's just 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:01.640 I think that kind of changes. But with twenty five 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:03.960 kids roughly in your class, where did you kind of 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.120 fall when you graduated in Like what where were you 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:10.160 in the rank right around passing? That's what I just 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:13.240 I don't know. School was never my gin. I mean 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.000 I don't I don't even know where I was. I 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:16.640 just know I got out of there and got to 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:19.920 Georgia Southern. But it honestly, I don't know. I was 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.360 kind of a crastinator where I would wait to have 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:24.400 to ace the finals to get there, and I could 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.360 do that, so it's a shame that I didn't probably 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.960 apply myself better, but it was I was all about 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:32.720 sports back then, and um, you know, um, that's why 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:34.720 I left Georgia southerns to get in the music I knew. 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:37.720 I just school just wasn't wasn't for me. Did you 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:39.640 study music at Georgia Southern. Did you go to Georgiana 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:41.560 Southern and you start doing music? Now, that's what That's 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:43.760 kind of where I fell and started playing the bars 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:46.120 there and just really loving being on stage. But I 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:48.720 was a marketing major, and you know, I still think 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:50.520 some of the things. I don't remember a whole lot 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:52.720 of what I learned, but I just feel like those 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:54.400 kind of classes of the business stuff. There is a 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.160 business side of this, and you know, i'd like to 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:58.880 think I learned a few things there, but I did 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.280 learn a lot just shows, and that's where I found 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:03.040 out what I really love to do and wanted to 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:05.720 be a songwriter by the time I left Georgia Southern. 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:08.760 I do want to play Stereotype a little clips the 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:10.880 first song and then I have a reason to play. 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:13.640 But the album is named Stereotype here's track one from 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:29.720 Cole's album. So that was written with Jordan Schmidt, Michael Hardy, 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.880 who's Hardy and you and I wanted to bring that 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.240 up because I was talking too Hardy a couple of 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:37.360 days ago. And yeah, so he was in here and 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.000 I was talking to him. We were texting back and 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.280 forth because he was listening to the show and they 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.319 had this segment where Lunchbox has his haunted doll. He's 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:45.840 out of his house for a week and he is like, 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:47.800 he believes he was haunted at one point and he 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.199 believes they had to do with some sage and get 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:53.320 get all these spirits away from him. And so I 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:58.400 ask you, do you believe that things can be haunted? Wow? 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:01.360 I mean I don't. I don't. I haven't had an 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:03.520 experience like that. So I've never seen a ghost, ever 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:05.760 seen the ghosts? Now I have it, but that's something, Uh, 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:10.240 do you believe it? You believe in aliens? I just 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:12.800 kind of have to unless we're talking about faith there. 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:14.160 So I just kind of have a big foot to 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:18.360 believe it. I mean, come on, I don't know. I mean, 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.000 I just what do y'all think? Y'all think things are 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:24.120 I mean, obviously things are We talk about this for 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.000 hours and hours a day, Right, it's rare that we 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:29.200 get in freaking Cole Swindell. Can we get his opinions 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.240 on things? Well, I don't want to get our things 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.080 to start haunting because I don't believe it's real. But 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.040 I don't know. I don't want to miss I don't 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:37.079 believe it's real, but I don't want to mess with it, right, 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.280 I don't either. No, I certainly would not want to 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:41.079 do that. In ghosts, I mean I think they're interesting. 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:44.320 I love you know you've never seen TV, but no, 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:47.360 I've never not that I know of. No. What about angels, 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.160 I do believe in that, Okay, but ghost So there 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:52.840 is a spirit I do. I really do think That's 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:56.240 what I'm saying. There's things that, um that happened in 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:58.600 life that I think that, you know. I'm just glad 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:01.000 I do believe in that because it's I just there's 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:03.280 no explanation. I mean, just moments in life. I think 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.320 I saw you said something about a year after your dad. 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:08.480 I think you said that something happened to the und 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.920 she believes her parents are birds. Well, I just know, Well, 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:15.120 my dad used a blue Jay to say hi to me. Yeah, 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.120 and that's what I'm saying. And some people might be like, 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:19.400 come on, but that's the fun and that, you know, 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:21.720 it's just like for me. But when you go through that, 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:23.760 I think you you look for a little things like 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:25.800 that and it almost like they're just you might not 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:27.839 ever paid attention to, but it's like they're everywhere. And 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:31.240 if you don't take that and try to just know that, hey, 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:33.200 you know, I think they're they're saying, hey, I sure 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:35.400 would want to send somebody a sign if I left 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:37.959 too soon. So I do. I do believe in that, sir. 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.120 I love the romantic idea of that. But I would 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:41.880 like to tell another Amy story, just speaking kind of 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:43.760 put it all in a box. She was walking down 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.240 the street. There was a guy doing like a billboard sign, 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.679 putting letters up like for example, you know Wendy's has 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:52.400 they come by the burger sense? Yeah, So she was 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:54.559 under a guy doing that in the letters in O 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:56.120 Fel and she's like, that just told me not to 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:57.679 do something in my life. But she based her hold 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:00.920 like I had just been contemplating it and the letters 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.160 in and oh, I mean, how do you not Yeah, 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:05.760 I'm more on that side of things. It's just hard knock. 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:07.400 I'm like, man, maybe that's a sign and maybe I 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:10.480 overthink things, but that's that's what we'll do super successful. 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:14.080 Col Swindell's on my side well and he's not on mine. 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:17.640 And how do yeah, Cole, we should addressed him back? 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:19.600 Do you even? You seem to know a lot about 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:21.240 the show if you follow along, but you know that 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:26.320 every time that there's a celebrity scam online, Bobby mentioned journey, Oh, 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.720 I don't have it. Imagine we do something about that, right, 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.280 And that's what I say. Cole Swindell is not messaging 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:34.800 you asking from gift cards or money. Oh, and I'm 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.920 not dating that. I mean, my girlfriend's message is just hate. Ma. 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.240 I'm like, what did they really think they're talking to me? 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.160 That's scary. I mean, it's it's sad, and I just 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:44.360 I wish we could figure out something to do about that, 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:46.720 because it really does feel like I have more than anybody. 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:49.079 And I'm like, why is it? Because I try to 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.080 reach out to people and they think that they're gonna 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.079 believe it's me or what? Well? You do ask a 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:54.599 lot of sands for gift cards so they think a 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:58.560 fake one does that. Yeah, I mean that's but you do. 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:00.199 I'm trying to get out of it and r in 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.280 the amount of people that fake as you. And it's 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.760 often my reference like Coldell is not messaging you so well, 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.160 thank you for taking up for me. It's just because 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:11.400 you certainly don't want people getting fooled like that. But okay, 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:14.839 so wait, there's people being Cole Swindell in quotes asking 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:17.480 for gift cards, but there's also people being you dating 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.480 other dating. No, I'm just saying people that think they've 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.120 been dating me and like just telling me that for 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.880 courting me to back off. Just hateful stuff. Yeah, good, 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:29.800 same thing, and I wanted to we don't have to 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:31.520 talk about now. That's whatever I want you to know, 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:33.880 like what you do about that stuff, because it's not 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:36.240 That's one of the reasons I think I've been private 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.960 about things when I am dating people, because it's just 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:40.600 I know how hateful people can be, and I know 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:42.920 y'all deal with the same thing, so for me, I 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.280 just don't know what you do it. I feel like 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:47.240 it's kind of stopped a little bit now that people 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.959 think it's not all a scam, that I'm dating somebody 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:52.040 else I don't know, So it's rough at first. Yeah, 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:54.960 it was rough for us at first because she was 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:59.079 my wife entered into a world that she didn't quite know. 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.360 I didn't. I didn't either. I didn't either. I didn't 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:02.760 know what I I mean, people were going to be to her. 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:04.560 And then it's like, you know, Bobby was here with 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.120 me and I was like, so then it was just 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:10.079 proving them wrong over and over again. Not that she 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.080 even believed it, but it's like this. Then it was 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:14.680 this is going to happen and it's not ever true, 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:16.720 but we can talk about it anytime you want. Yeah, 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:19.360 another artist has come to me and said, hey, I 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:21.280 know you're dealing with and they're dealing with it. Or 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:27.240 someone photoshopped this artist head perfectly onto a naked dude's body. 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:30.800 Oh yeah yeah, and they were like, hey, so your 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.960 your husband sent me this picture and she was like, 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.839 he doesn't have that slight birthmark on and that's how 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:39.360 she knew. But that's the lengths people will go to. Oh, 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:43.160 I mean they photoshop passport so like whatever it may be, 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:46.000 but that's just absolutely I don't know. I hate anybody 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:47.240 has to go through it. But I think now that 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:50.760 just seeing how it bothers people, it's um, it's something 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:52.480 that needs to be done about other things, and it 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:55.400 does make you value privacy a little more. It did 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:57.000 for me as someone who was not private at all, 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.120 but now that I have someone in my life that 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:03.520 I don't want them to be uh so available. Absolutely 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:05.720 I've always felt like that, but now you know, I 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:07.600 am happy and I don't mind putting it out there. 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.320 But it's like we already, you know, trying not to 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:13.360 focus on the two negative comments out of hundreds of positive. 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:15.559 But it's just it's hard to do. We're human, and 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:18.040 to see it affect somebody else should care about That's 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:20.200 what it really when they can dog me all day, 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.800 but it's it's different when they're doing that doing that stuff. 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.120 So I just wanted to I don't know, I've always 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:27.240 wanted to ask you what you were, what you did 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:29.200 about that. But I think it has gotten better. I 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:31.360 think people realize, like, when we're not gonna mess this up, 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:33.520 so some moving to somebody else. You know, we get 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:35.880 listeners like I gave two thousand bucks to this artist, 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:40.400 and I'm like, so here's the idea. Creatively, I don't 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.760 know if you've heard, but um Eddie and I have 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.280 this little this little duo that's been moderately successful in 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.440 the comedy world called The Raging Idiot. Just missed. Joe 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:49.560 in Florida did a same same festival. We're opening it 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:53.680 for Garth Oh dude where and Razorback Stadium April twenty third. 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.400 If you want to come out, all right, yeah, that 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:59.840 will be amazing. But here's here's the situation. Yeah, we 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:04.320 you write a song called blue Check, a funny song. Yeah, 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:07.120 and it's all about that and don't trust people without 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:08.880 the blue check and what they asked for. And if 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.960 it meets the criteria of you thinking it's funny, maybe 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:14.120 you do a little collab with us like John Party 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:15.760 did when we can't say that in the country song, 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.040 I would love to. I mean, there's nothing, there's no 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:21.600 more important issue I want to deal with than blue check. 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:26.040 So I love that idea. One real question, like seriously, 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:27.720 is like with the album, why did it take so 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.520 long to put out Stereotype because it felt like it 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:33.200 was a long time. Yeah, and I think you know, 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:35.760 people have been waiting. I've been waiting, and I obviously 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:37.920 with the pandemic. A lot of things were put on hold, 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:42.480 and that includes me making an album, but also without 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:44.720 all the time on the road doing shows, I had 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:47.520 time to just focus on writing more. And I think 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:49.520 I don't know if I was personally in a rud. 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.080 I was confused of wondering if we'd ever get back 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:54.720 to touring and doing all that stuff. But I also 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.200 took a look at the songs I had and realized 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.120 that they were friends of mine and other artists I 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:01.200 respected putting on and I just didn't feel that way 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:04.120 about the songs I had yet, and whether that was 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:06.880 the production or the actual songs, whatever it was. So 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.240 I just wanted to take a chance, and you know, 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:12.880 work with some different people. There's so many talented people 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:16.080 in this business. And Michael Carter obviously we've done everything 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.240 I've done together and I would not be where I'm 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.880 without him, But he still did single Saturday Night. And 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:23.160 then I also got to work with Zach Crowell, got 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:26.640 to work with Jordan Schmidt and Chris Lacourt, who I'm 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:28.840 all fans of them. So I think that's what makes 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:30.800 this album a little different. I was able to do 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:32.840 songs like I'm Gonna let Her and walk on Whiskey 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:35.600 that are more stripped down and kind of what I 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:37.680 wanted to do, but then also have the tempo of 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.320 the fun stuff too, so that kind of put things 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:42.920 on hold. Yeah, you and Laney will be performing the 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.920 single now Yes at CMT Music Awards coming up this 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:48.240 week April eleventh on CBS, and then you're up for 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.520 a Video of the Year as well. So a great 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.120 and early call by you guys to get Laney on 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:56.080 because she's blown up. Man, since like you, you nailed 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:58.240 it and then she blew up. Yeah, but I mean 0:16:58.320 --> 0:16:59.800 I think we you know, I was already a fan 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:02.520 of debut album, but it was I think her first thing. 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.280 You know, things are meant obt to know with top 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:06.480 ten and just the timing of everything, but now getting 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:09.000 to know her and just I don't know, I couldn't. 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:11.360 I can't imagine anybody else singing that song. So I'm 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:14.000 most huge Lanny Wilson fan. I'm just happy for everything's 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:15.800 going for her. Always said that from the beginning that 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:17.840 I think this song is going to do big things 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:19.879 for both of us, and that's that's how it should be. 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:23.800