WEBVTT - #299 - On Time with Bobby Bones: Gary Levox On Why Rascal Flatts Called It Quits + His New Solo Album (Performance) + Lainey Wilson On Getting Recognized In Her Hometown + Live Performances! + Intro to "The Biztape 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:12.639 What's Happen to Friends? Hello, welcome to another edition of 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:15.040 On Time with Me Bobby Bones. I am your host, 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:17.919 Bobby Bones. I have been described for those of you 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:21.520 that don't know me as he's what you get if 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:24.960 you were to take Clay Aikin and Weezer and put 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:28.680 them together and subtract all the talent. That's me And 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:31.560 I'm no treat by myself. That's probably not why you're 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:33.800 watching this. But I've got some amazing people stopping by 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:36.839 the show. We have my friend Gary Lavox of Rascal 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:39.840 Flat stopping by. He's gonna play this song. We also 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:43.080 have new artists Laney Wilson stopping by. She's gonna play 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:45.280 some music too. She's also on the way to becoming 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:48.600 a big old star. So we have music, we have guests. 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.040 We're gonna play some games. You guys can also write 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:53.520 questions in the box and I'll ask some of them too. 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:56.360 So and if you're really lucky, I'll show you guys 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:59.240 my third nipple. See you'll even learn some things about me. 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:01.000 But when we get to our guests, I was like 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:03.960 to kick things off with the shortest monologue and all 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.840 the land just wham bam, thank you for the question. 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:09.640 Thank you for the joke. Man. It's three quick jokes. 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:12.240 We've appropately titled three jokes for the folks. Here we 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:15.840 go home. Joke number one, Scientists are warning us that 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:18.600 it's time to bust out the year plugs, as trillions 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:22.040 of cicadas are emerging from their seventeen year long hibernation 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.600 to mate seventeen years. That's not so bad, Listen, it's 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:27.600 been forty one for me. I haven't made it yet. 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:29.400 You don't see me s forming all over the place. 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:33.680 Sam saving that from a wedding night. It's just a 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.760 sexy wink. Moving on to joke number two, it's being 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:40.560 reported in Canada fans are being contacted by profiles pretending 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:43.840 to be Chad Kroger, the lead singer of Nickelback. Some 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:46.639 have said the fake profile has asked them for money 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:50.000 in the form of bitcoin or iTunes gift cards. As 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.320 if Nickelback fans didn't have it roughen up already, wait 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:56.720 till they realize it is actually Chad Kroger of Nickelback. 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.600 That's right. And finally, joke number three, Target announced they 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.080 will stop the sale of Pokemon cards after a man 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.600 pulled a gun during a fight over trading cards in 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.680 their parking lot. They described the event as the nerdiest 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:11.000 felony in the history of American crime. He actually asked 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:12.840 the police, can I my mommy come pick me up 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:15.680 from jail. Gotta love America, the only place where it's 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:17.480 easy to buy a gun in the store but impossible 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.359 to buy Pokemon cards. That's right. Hit that music there 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:25.160 it is? Those are three jokes for the folks. Thank 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:29.760 you very much. Is music still going? Or am I 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:32.120 just making the music all right? Before we get to 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:35.280 our first musical guest. Let me check in with my 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:38.520 fiance Caitlin. That's right here she comes. You can follow 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.000 her on Instagram at kate cy Parker. And later I 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.040 go check out our episode of running Wild with bear 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:44.560 Grills that we did. She's gonna walk through that door 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:51.600 at anytime. There she is. Thank you, Come on in, 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:56.679 have a seat. Thank you. How are you pretty good? 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.680 How how's your day been? And what did you do 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:02.960 this after and in this afternoon? What time does that start? 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.560 I don't know. It's a good question. The afternoon four 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:10.040 five oh? I went to a spin class. How did 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:15.120 that five? Great? When we spin and I'm beside you. 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:17.880 Do you watch how fast I'm going? Do you compare 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.080 the output that you feel like you're putting out versus mine? 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.480 Because I feel like you dominate me. I'll be honest, 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.120 I feel like that as well, but I don't really 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:30.040 watch you that much. Well, you're not doing the moves. 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:32.919 I don't do the dance moves because I can't keep 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.800 up right here, Here's what I've learned about this spin class. 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.960 I put my grind on too hard, and when I'm 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:40.880 peddling hard, I can't do the dance moves with my 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:43.440 arms on the right pace. And so as you guys 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:47.040 are all nailing them, I'm off. But I'm still getting 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:51.640 pretty your workout's choice there? How did interesting analogy? How 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:55.640 did class go today? That's great? Yeah? Good instructor? High 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.640 energy was packed and I got to ride next to 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.600 someone I know. Should I like? It's fun? Did you 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.280 see Gary l Box in the waiting room? I did, 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:08.240 and I waved at him. I had to come in here. 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.680 I would have loved to stop buying and chatted for 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:13.000 a bit, but um, I just got a quick wave in. 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:14.960 And how did you get right in here? For my interview? 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.760 She feel solid about the wave. I think he liked it, 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:21.240 he smiled. Yeah, it was like, you know, it's awkward 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.479 because you're like I think you probably know who I 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:28.000 am like, but you just never know, so I didn't 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:31.440 want to be too like he hung out at the house. 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:36.640 He's a big star. He has a big star. Is 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:39.440 there anything you want me to ask him when he 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.640 comes in? Any question? He's a big starme. You want 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:46.480 to ask him off camera? Yeah? Something I'll text I'm 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:50.120 on camera, I'll text it to you. Does it have 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:54.200 to do with him being naked? No? Last night we 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:57.279 watched our episode of Running Wild with Bear Girls, which 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.760 people can still watch right now at National Geographic dot Com. 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:07.120 How did you feel about your performance? My performance? Like 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:10.760 how I did on camera? How you came off? He 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.320 didn't love it. I mean, I just don't like to 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:16.920 watch myself, so I didn't love it. But I am 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:21.040 very proud of myself for doing it. So I think 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:22.760 those are two different things. How did I feel about 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.560 my performance? How did I feel about what I accomplished? 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:39.240 What was it like doing that episode? Awful? Scary, um, cold, scary, terrifying. 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.640 It really wasn't fun right, No, there wasn't one bit 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:44.560 of it that was fun. The only good thing about 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:48.000 the actual time there was Bear because he is the 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:50.880 greatest right in the moment, the only the only good 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:55.960 thing was there after it. It's all good, it's all fun, 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:58.760 it's all great memory. Happy we did it. People loved it, 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:01.120 though I felt there was a good spots. I guess, yeah, 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:02.960 you were the star of the show, bell of the ball. 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:05.880 It's not the star of the show in the parade. No, 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:08.960 people just see you a lot and they don't see 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:11.599 me a lot. So that's why I'm sure you're feeling 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:14.080 that way. I loved it. I thought that I should 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.200 have just been you next season you go alone. Oh 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:19.719 I don't want that because you really like Bear. No, No, 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.240 I I don't want to go alone. But I I'm 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.680 happy I did it. I'm happy that I stood up 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:27.800 to a fear of mine. I was actually I'll just 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.039 tell you story. Today. I was in spin and my 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:33.120 instructor was talking about kind of how she started her 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.520 spin class. And I know this is probably cliche, and 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:40.880 we all know I'll know this saying, but she was saying, um, 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.880 when you feel scared about something, just do it. Scared 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:46.560 and that's what I want to do from now on. 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:48.760 I just want to do it scared, regardless of what 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:51.279 it is. I don't need to work up courage to 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:52.880 do it. I just need to do it scared. And 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.320 that's what I did the whole time during Bear Girls. Sorry, 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.200 I got distracted because Mike was taking a picture and 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:01.480 I was like, oh, Mike, do you look at you? Oh? Good? Okay, 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:03.760 So anyway, for any of you that are actually watching this, 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:06.200 whatever you're thinking that you want to do, but you 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:07.760 don't feel like you have the courage, and you're like, 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:09.400 maybe I'll have the courage in a week. Maybe I'll 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:11.120 have the courage in a couple of weeks. You won't, 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.040 So do it scared. That's okay. You don't have to 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:17.320 have the courage. Sometimes you only get couraged by fighting 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:21.000 through fear. Sure, yeah, thank you. Um. I like how 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.960 you just addressed the camera, just you just totally take 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:27.200 over and you turn right to the camera. Them Like, 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:29.360 don't know if I could help anybody. My idea has 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:33.200 written some questions for me to ask. Would you like 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:36.280 to answer them? What? I? Yeah? What kind of sleeper 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:44.600 is Bobby? Um? A flailer? Elaborate that kind of a 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:49.880 thing like that, or like I was talking your sleep, 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.560 or you wake up and you request me to hug you. 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:55.520 Sometimes I do that. I wake up and I'm like, 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:57.280 I can't go to sleep, but you hug me. No, 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:06.280 he goes like, he goes me. Mike's giggling. I do, 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:08.240 and then she's big spoon and a little spoon. I 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.000 don't care. It's the only way I get the only 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:11.600 way I get to sleep. I don't let her put 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:15.480 her hand on my stomach though, or near my stomach, 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:18.640 because I'm embarrassing my stomach because he has body dysmorphia 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:20.400 and we're working through that. So she can put her 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:22.920 arm over me, but it it has to be like up here. Yeah, 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.560 it's got to be shoulder or like pit. Yeah and pit. 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:28.200 That ends up not with a great smell in the 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.360 morning on your hand. What song do you love to 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:34.280 sing in the car? Me? What song do I love 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:36.840 to sing in the car? Um? I'll tell you right now, 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:41.160 come on drives last as last. No, that's so two 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.200 months ago, okay, if it was all right now? Well, 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:46.160 my staple really is Adore You by Harry Styles. But 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.800 Olivia Rodrigo actually has a new song out called good 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:50.920 for you, and it's really good. Check it out. Did 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.000 you ever consider changing your last name to bones even 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.679 on Instagram? Not one time? And final question, what's the 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:58.360 one thing you learned about Bobby in the last week? 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:05.120 In the last week, Mike that stuff? What did I 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:08.320 learn about you in the last week? Um, that you 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:12.319 are very willing to help me with wedding things such 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.120 as meetings, if I will just ask you. Yeah, And 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:16.920 we went to Crane Barrel and did some boop boop 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:22.480 on the board where we went to register. But we're 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.400 out of gifts at this point, like people have sucked 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.400 them all and now my parents have nothing to get us, 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:34.360 so we need to chill out on the details. But um, okay, 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:38.840 thank you. Yeah, I was pretty good at the said right, 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.040 you were great? Yeah, scanned boo boops? Did you scan 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.560 your stuff? Mike? You did rettert online. She went back 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:47.720 and did some registering online and as soon as we've finished, 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:49.959 she went right to the registered and Eddie already bought 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.480 us a juicer before we even got so generous, like 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:54.720 the oh my gosh, wait time out, can you send 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.040 me where you're like, we don't have a gift for 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:00.120 you yet, because I've asked him to ask you, I 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:01.800 know he hasn't, and I didn't want to ask Kelsey 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:03.520 because I know she has like nine thousand things on 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:07.920 her plate. So can you send? All right there? She 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:13.200 is my fiance and yours just just mine, Caitlin Parker. Everybody, 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.120 thank you, thank you for always being our first guest. 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:19.679 Only three more episodes to go by. Yeah we're doing 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:24.800 it's a six pack. Yeah yeah, yeah, all right, you 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:26.200 go over in the chat. We got a lot of 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.400 people over here that are like, uh, is this where 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.160 Gary Lavox is gonna be on? It is momentarily. That's 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.560 from Cat McQueen um kells Zack said, Gary put the 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:37.480 wrong year all on Facebook, so people are going to 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:40.679 something else. I don't know. All right, here we go. 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.439 Let's welcome my first guest, well musical guest. He's the 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.440 lead singer of Rascal Flats and will soon be releasing 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.360 his first ever Christian solo album. He has the voice 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:51.880 of an angel and the only guy know who works 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:55.079 out in full camouflage. I've seen it with my own eyes. 0:10:55.360 --> 0:11:01.200 Welcome to the show. Gary Levox, thank you, thank you. 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:10.360 What do you what's in your hand? That's true. Did 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.280 you did you grab it from out there? Really? I 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.520 really did? Nice? Do me sign that for you? Yes, 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.400 that's why I brought it nice nice Okay. Oh, by 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:23.679 the way, Gary brought merch for me. They are what 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:28.520 these are? There's a branded Lavox wear. Yea. He broke 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.440 really struggling and you need to Yeah. Yeah, I'm just 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:36.160 trying to with the Yeah, but these are. I do 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:40.640 love the logo. Thanks, Like what who designed this? He did? Yeah? 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.760 I did. Really, Here's Freedom Farms. What's Spreedom Farms? That's 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:47.719 that's my farm outside of Nashville. I will I will 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:50.559 wear this black one. Yeah. Good, I brought him for you. 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:52.640 You'll sell many and you'll be able to pay your mortgage, 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.440 which is the goal. You're even wearing a wristband? Now? 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:59.000 Why a wristband in the evening on a internet talk show? Well, 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.280 you know what? It just I know how you have 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:03.000 to turn all the air conditioners off and it gets 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:08.080 hot and so I adap okay, you know because you 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:10.920 maybe we're makeup and things and it's like a dap 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:14.760 I do okay. Um onto the real questions at hand. Here, 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:20.080 Why a solo album and why a why did you 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:24.440 start with a Christian album? Why a solo album? Because 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.560 Jodan came to us one day and said that he 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:30.960 wanted to be home war said he was burnt and 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:35.040 he's burnt out? Are you serious? And so that kind 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:38.360 of we're like, okay, all right, we respect that. And 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.480 so I had already kind of planned on doing one 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:43.960 and didn't really know when it was gonna happen, because 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.680 you know, Flats, we've been a thousand miles a minute 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:50.440 for twenty years. And so when Jodon told us that, 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:54.040 we're like, okay, well, that opens it up. And I 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:56.520 always want to do a gospel record. I always did, 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.360 and um it just all of it kind of came 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:02.720 together and here we go. And then Friday at uh 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:06.160 it drops the EP drops. Were you shocked? And I 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:07.439 do want to get to the peaks that heard a 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.120 lot of it. Hecky played some unreleas stuff in my 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.360 house like three months ago. So so so I've kind of, 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.680 you know, been to the process. But were you Did 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:16.520 you expect Jodan to come and be like, hey, guys, 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:20.360 we gotta take a break. No, I really didn't, I mean, 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:25.040 you know, not really because it was that was year nineteen, 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:26.840 and we had a lot of things booked for the 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.720 twenty year and everything else with trying to put the 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:32.400 farewell tour together, and we had a lot of things 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:36.160 set up with, uh, you know, the Grammys and c 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:38.080 m As and all this kind of kind of just 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.360 celebrate the twenty years that we had together, you know, 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:42.480 and all the accomplishments that we've done. And then the 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:44.760 pandemic hit. So no, it was kind of out of 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:48.200 left field, and uh, you know, but what can you do? 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:51.199 Did you and j Ever go, hey, we'll just do 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.600 this as a duo? Was it even a conversation? It 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:59.000 was a conversation. And but Joe j had started, uh 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.560 that a little Christian label, the independent label called Red 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:04.480 Street Records, and he wanted to make a go with that, 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.640 and I was like, well that's cool. So I was like, 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:11.599 you know, I still I feel like my platform is 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.240 the stage, and I still had so much music to make, 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:17.720 and so I just stayed on my artists route, and 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.240 I mean, it's stick with what you're good at, and 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.280 that's what I wanted to do. And did you feel 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:23.920 like you needed a break for a bit though after this, 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:25.840 where you like, I need to just kind of recalibrate. 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.160 I did not expect this. I spent the last twenty 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:32.360 years being a flat Did you have any nights we 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:34.000 are like wait, what is about to happen? Or were 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:36.000 you like, Okay, this actually gives me an opportunity to 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:39.080 go chase this solo record. It was both. Actually it 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:42.480 was kind of it was sad, it was disheartening, it 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:45.760 was exciting, it was you know, it was kind of 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.280 everything at once because everything I've known for half of 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:50.720 my life is now going to be changed and can 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.000 gonna be different. So but it gave me, you know, 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:56.080 it gave me the time to to really lock in 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:58.520 and um, you know, not only did I do a 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:01.640 gospel record, but I already recorded a solo country record 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:03.400 that comes out in the fall. So I just gave it. 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:05.720 I just kind of just threw myself into my music 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.760 and just let it be. Let you know, you gotta 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:10.960 play the hands that are dealt sometimes. So the record 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:14.960 comes out Friday. It's called One on One? Why why 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:20.440 one on one? Well, it's kind of I think, just 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:24.360 me doing a gospel record, just me and my my 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.640 my faith walk with the Lord. And it's the first 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:29.640 time that it's just been me. I mean, I've been 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.160 the face of Flats for twenty years and now it's 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.600 just one on one, me and him and me and 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.760 the fans. So just kind of made sense. Do you 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:41.760 plan to go out and play any of these songs live? Yeah? Yeah, 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.560 I'll be doing all the flat stuff. And that's the question, right, 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.960 So you're gonna sing the flat stuff? I think you should. 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:50.120 I think if I went out, I'd want to hear 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:52.480 some of the new stuff. But if I'm going to see, 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:55.000 you know, the face of the Flats, dang it sing 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:57.160 the flats. Yeah, I'm gonna do it. So what do 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:58.800 you do as far as a band? You just get 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.480 your buddies that know of the songs. No, it's it's 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:05.240 actually the same. It's it's actually all the Rascal Flats band, 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:08.200 Jim Riley, it's my drummer, Travis Toyo plays steel and 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:11.160 everything else. He's still with me, and so it's the 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.200 actual the actual Flatspan just minus Jane Jodan gotta do 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:16.800 bass player and um, you know my keyboard players sings 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:18.920 all the hot stuff to it on sing and so 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.120 it's the same band, just minus Jane general. I mean 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:22.560 we'd really get the full experience if you kind of 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:24.440 dressed them up to look like them and we know 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:27.280 they're not, but you know you still like color, the hair, 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:29.400 you know, maybe even throw them back to old school 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:31.520 one night Jo, you know he had the long yeah, 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:35.160 I mean, no sleeves. Yeah, just just maybe just a vest. 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.920 But yeah, yeah, because when you look back, I was 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.560 looking at the multiple pictures of you guys. I mean, 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:45.600 you guys were now it's normal, but style wise, you 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:49.160 were extremely different than the format. Were you guys getting 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:52.280 a lot of the pushback from the old school Nashville 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:54.400 folks at the time. Yeah, I mean I think everything 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.640 anything new and country, I think you always do. Plus 0:16:57.680 --> 0:16:59.720 we came in at the tail into the whole boy 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.880 band thing and so all that kind of played into it. 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:06.000 But you know, I mean we're sitting there like, you 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:09.439 know what we're not. We're not cowboys, you know, I 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:12.160 mean we live that lifestyle, you know. I mean, I'm 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:15.520 his country as corn breads with which is crazy because 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:21.199 you are. But I mean you Gary legitimately is significantly 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.520 more country. And it's usually the opposite, right, people will 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:26.000 come and act a little show a little more country 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:29.600 than they really are. It's like you're the opposite. Like 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:31.679 you come out, you're straight ahead, jel, you put that 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.400 your hair product in, you sing. But when we're done here, 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:36.600 he's in Camo and he's like, hey, man, come out 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:38.240 to the farm. And I'm like, that's an hour and 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:40.399 a half away. He's like, no man would have sit 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:43.359 on the porch and like spitting cows. And I'm like, 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:46.000 what's what are you? What are you talking about? Your 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:48.920 getting the box? So, but you do live and you 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:52.280 hunt constantly. Yeah, I mean it's just the way I 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:55.359 grew up. But you know, it's it's like they're but 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:57.000 it's just who I am. You know, I just gotta 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.600 be real to who you are. And you know, but 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:03.439 it's like I've never wrote it, Calf, you know, I 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:05.120 saw it while I'm not gonna sit out and put 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:08.119 a cowboy hat on and try to play up to 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:11.240 something that I'm not. You know. So I wasn't here 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:15.760 in Nashville when you guys broke and when you guys 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:19.320 were winning the it's the Grammys, Like I wasn't here 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:23.359 and I was actually, I mean probably twenties and we 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:25.399 would watch on TV. It was a fan and we 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:27.600 would start to play. I was working in Pop Radio 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:29.560 two at the time. We're playing some of your stuff 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:33.240 over there, So I'm I missed the impact you guys 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:36.240 had on Nashville. Were you guys king dingling of the 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:41.040 talent for a while? It? For yeah, we really had 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:44.400 just kind of held the torchs for yeah. I mean 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:46.880 a long time. Really. I mean it's I mean, two 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:49.399 thousand and six, we outsold everybody in the world that 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:51.679 put a record out in any genre music, you know. 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:54.639 So and I remember being at the Grammy's up against 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:58.800 Beyonce and Mary J. Blige and Kanye and jay Z, 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:01.679 and we're like, it doesn't matter if we win or not. 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:04.640 We outsold everybody in this room. That's you can't even 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:08.120 fathom that kind of stuff. So, I mean, we had 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:11.040 a you know, I mean, it's made the Guinness Book 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:14.120 with you know, seven consecutive c M a vocal group. 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:16.760 I mean, all that stuff is just mind blowing. We 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:19.639 had the We're kind of top dog there for a 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:23.960 minute for sure. Were you in Entertainer of the Year member, 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:27.000 which which is crazy to me because I was gonna 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:28.280 let you answer no, because I knew the answer. I 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:31.760 looked it up. The fact that you weren't allowed or 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:34.320 they didn't put you in that when you were the 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:38.760 actual entertainers of not just country music, but you said it. 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.920 You're out telling everybody. I think even as the success 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:44.760 was happening, I still would have had some sort of resentment, like, hey, 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:47.440 why aren't you guys putting us because we're not when 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:50.320 Cowboy has? Is that why we're upset about it? We were? 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:52.719 We thought it was well deserved. I mean it's like, 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:55.320 you know, we're the first band to ever play Wrigley Field, 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:59.240 first country concert to ever play Wrigley I mean at 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:02.040 that time, it's like we've sold out four different tours 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:05.480 at Madison Square Garden, and hey, we were doing big stuff, 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:07.880 and it was like every year we weren't an entertainer 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:11.119 and was like what how does that even happen? You know, 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:13.560 It's like and then you go and it's like you 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:16.000 start thinking about that stuff, and then the hand your 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:19.440 plaque for ten million tickets sold and you know, all 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:22.159 that stuff. It kind of it sits with you. Not 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:25.359 that we weren't you know, grateful, but you know you 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:28.119 kind of just sit and scratch your head, like, uh, 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:30.480 there's not really anything else we can do, Like I 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:34.600 would have been again, I would have resented the people 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:37.479 that make those decisions because it's such an inside bubble 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:39.720 decision that's being made. And I would think you guys 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:42.040 were so successful. And I've seen other this happened to 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:45.040