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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Bobby Cast, the Top eight interviews

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Speaker 1: of the Year. This is part two what we're looking

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Speaker 1: back on some of our favorite moments from this podcast.

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Speaker 1: If you miss part one, go back and check it

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Speaker 1: out because there's a lot of good stuff there. Lionel Richie,

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Speaker 1: Chris Kirkpatrick, event SNC. But this episode we'll hear from Shay,

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Speaker 1: from Dan and Shay, Russell Dickerson, Morgan Wallen and Luke Combs.

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Speaker 1: They've all had really big years and had a chance

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Speaker 1: of talking to different points of the year, so it's

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Speaker 1: been pretty cool. It's also cool to go back and

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Speaker 1: listen to some of these on our podcast feed from

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Speaker 1: before they blew up, because I have a lot of those.

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Speaker 1: We're talking to folks before they blew up. It's like, Hey,

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Speaker 1: what's this about? What are you about? And then what bam?

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Speaker 1: Here they go. Now. Also, be sure to subscribe wherever

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Speaker 1: long run. And if you hear me say this and

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Speaker 1: you don't do it, that's bad luck. I've heard that

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Speaker 1: lots of people have really bad luck if they don't

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Speaker 1: do it. Bad Yeah, just for you, not for aybody else.

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Speaker 1: You won't be in this together. You'll be in this alone.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's kick it off here. Here is Shane Mooney.

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Speaker 1: Here you go at there's a number five, number four

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Speaker 1: four four. We do six last week eight. Oh it's

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Speaker 1: top eight. Yeah, all right, let's leave all us on

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Speaker 1: the podcast to I'm an idiot. I thought we were

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Speaker 1: doing top ten even though I just said three lines ago.

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Speaker 1: All right, we're not gonna edit this out. Friends. There

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Speaker 1: we go tweet me if you heard this and thought

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Speaker 1: Boby's the idiot. We'll kick it off with Shane Mooney

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Speaker 1: of Dan and Shay at number four. Here you go, like,

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Speaker 1: I feel proudness for you and Dan both because it's

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Speaker 1: just I've just seen because we kind of came in

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Speaker 1: at the same time. I've seen you go from two

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Speaker 1: guys that they patched together, that you guys patched together.

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Speaker 1: People are like, I don't know if their country, yeah

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Speaker 1: said I saw these guys. Uh. It was in two

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Speaker 1: thousand twelve, I think or two, right after we had met,

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Speaker 1: and we were doing this round at Soulshine Pizza that

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Speaker 1: looked up the most Google questions about you here you go.

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Speaker 1: Number one is are you and Shay related? You can

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Speaker 1: I took Adam Hamburg, who's a dear friend of mine,

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Speaker 1: and I saw that and you're with Ronnie Brewer, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: They were like, have you seen Shay lately? And it's

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Speaker 1: it's almost like if someone that they think we're all

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Speaker 1: I probably got asked about you four times. They think

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Speaker 1: all of Arkansas boys run together. We should probably have

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Speaker 1: the one. Does Shay get paid more than Dan? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: That was in the deal. I was like, look, if

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Speaker 1: it that What kid were you in high school? What

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Speaker 1: were you known at shay is the were you the singer? Were? Did? Yeah? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I was definitely the class clown. I would say, um,

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Speaker 1: just good for hearing a small town. I'm actually good

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Speaker 1: na no no, no, no, no, no no no, no, but

427
00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:57,440
Speaker 1: then it took me a little bit as just a

428
00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:01,560
Speaker 1: guy that doesn't know lyrics. Right, good, good though. Congratulations man, man,

429
00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:05,040
Speaker 1: this is a big week. Is all of these songs?

430
00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:07,639
Speaker 1: Were they written with all four of them written with

431
00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:10,560
Speaker 1: the same folks, same folks? Yeah, Casey Brown and Parker Welling,

432
00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:15,240
Speaker 1: my Bellmont friends. That was like I tried the I

433
00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,280
Speaker 1: tried the hit songwriter a out, you know, I wrote

434
00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:18,800
Speaker 1: with I mean, I don't have to name all the people,

435
00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:20,719
Speaker 1: but I wrote with all the who's who's the songwriters,

436
00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:24,480
Speaker 1: and it just didn't the magic. Wasn't there? Do they have?

437
00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:27,680
Speaker 1: Because I don't know either one of them, and I'm

438
00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:31,080
Speaker 1: I'm saying it's in the most respectful way. There's obviously

439
00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:34,080
Speaker 1: something that clicks with the battery of you three. Have

440
00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:36,960
Speaker 1: they written other massive hits or big hits? This is

441
00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,960
Speaker 1: all our first four number one. That's awesome, so cool man,

442
00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:43,840
Speaker 1: It's I mean even I like yours, the first number

443
00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:45,280
Speaker 1: one we all had together. Dude. I was just like

444
00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:46,920
Speaker 1: standing up there, you know how you have the number

445
00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:49,640
Speaker 1: one parties and everybody gather around, there's chips and salsa

446
00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:52,280
Speaker 1: and everything, and I'm just like standing up on the stages,

447
00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:55,080
Speaker 1: crying because like it's been it's been a long journey

448
00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:57,440
Speaker 1: to get to this point into all for all three

449
00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:00,359
Speaker 1: of us who went to Belmont together and all had

450
00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:02,320
Speaker 1: our first number one together. It's just like one of

451
00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:05,320
Speaker 1: those so super special moments. Is that how you and

452
00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:09,320
Speaker 1: Tyler Hubbard are friends from column? Yeah, they came to

453
00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:13,280
Speaker 1: one of my first shows ever, Brian and Tyler. So

454
00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:16,920
Speaker 1: they came and I was probably playing to like eight

455
00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:18,800
Speaker 1: people at twelfth and quarter and to it then we're

456
00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:21,600
Speaker 1: Brian and ty Yeah. Yeah, so they were literally a

457
00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:24,320
Speaker 1: quarter of the crowd and uh man, it's just like

458
00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:26,480
Speaker 1: they came up to me afterwards and were like, hey, bro,

459
00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:29,000
Speaker 1: cool vibe cool songs. Well, they weren't friends with yours

460
00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:32,960
Speaker 1: then they saw you, yeah, and so they were. They

461
00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:34,919
Speaker 1: were like songwriters at the time. They were just like,

462
00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:37,000
Speaker 1: we want to write. We've been writing songs together. So

463
00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:39,920
Speaker 1: they invited me over. We wrote my pretty much first

464
00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:43,200
Speaker 1: EP together with F G L. And that was like

465
00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:47,200
Speaker 1: the start of it all, I mean, not not for me,

466
00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:49,800
Speaker 1: and then then it was a start of it for

467
00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:53,639
Speaker 1: them because they went from just nothing too. They played

468
00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:55,520
Speaker 1: me the demo for Cruise and I was like well,

469
00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:59,359
Speaker 1: see you all later, bro, because y'all are gone taking

470
00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:02,080
Speaker 1: off And you guys are like close family friends. Yeah,

471
00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,720
Speaker 1: you and Tyler, Yeah, we're very close. I feel like

472
00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:07,720
Speaker 1: every second Instagram pictures you on his or his on yours. Yeah,

473
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,880
Speaker 1: he's coronaing right now and the bus he is, he's

474
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,480
Speaker 1: straight up quarantining. Have you talked to him? Is he playing? Like?

475
00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:16,800
Speaker 1: Was he playing video Guess what I would do. I

476
00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:18,960
Speaker 1: put myself in the mindset I was playing video games

477
00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:20,320
Speaker 1: or if I was trapped in a bus, I play

478
00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:22,879
Speaker 1: video games. I would have all the time in the

479
00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:24,480
Speaker 1: world to work, but I would keep going. Well, since

480
00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:25,800
Speaker 1: I have all this time, I'm not gonna work yet,

481
00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:28,359
Speaker 1: and my work would continue to put off. What is

482
00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:30,879
Speaker 1: he doing? The same way? He told me he's written

483
00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,800
Speaker 1: like five songs by himself already, and he's just like

484
00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:36,280
Speaker 1: that's him though, he just like never stops. I mean

485
00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:38,800
Speaker 1: you never stop either. But I don't have a talent,

486
00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:43,360
Speaker 1: Like I don't have a skill that stone telling you

487
00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:47,720
Speaker 1: this is the truth my podcast, let me talk. I

488
00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:50,600
Speaker 1: don't have something that I can just bet all the

489
00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:53,000
Speaker 1: chips on and go. This is my talent. I stand

490
00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:58,440
Speaker 1: behind it. My my skill is knowing that my grind

491
00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:02,080
Speaker 1: is going to keep me year. I've worked, We've all

492
00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:03,920
Speaker 1: worked extremely hard. But at least you can sing. I

493
00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,320
Speaker 1: can do nothing. I go out and I fail and

494
00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:09,480
Speaker 1: figure things out slowly but shortly. But thank you for

495
00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:12,080
Speaker 1: saying that. But I think I think you're never gonna

496
00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,639
Speaker 1: convince me I'm talented. And when people tell me, if

497
00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:16,960
Speaker 1: people like, man, you're you're very talented, I get offended,

498
00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:22,240
Speaker 1: like me and you're you're you're so talented, yeah, because

499
00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:25,240
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I'm not talented at all. I just

500
00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:28,960
Speaker 1: show up. Yeah, Which is weird that I get upset

501
00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:31,159
Speaker 1: at folks for telling me I'm talented. Like even Russell

502
00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:34,040
Speaker 1: said that triggered me. I was like, I was like,

503
00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:38,200
Speaker 1: that's not true. I was reading your your wife's Instagram, which,

504
00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,240
Speaker 1: by the way, if you want to hear Russell's whole

505
00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:43,480
Speaker 1: origin story because you are basically an X man, basically,

506
00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:46,480
Speaker 1: there's one of these with Russell and his wife the

507
00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:49,000
Speaker 1: first time, maybe the first time we met. That's when

508
00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:52,919
Speaker 1: that was no, right around right around then, because your

509
00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:55,879
Speaker 1: wife saved me outside of the Ryman doing a show,

510
00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:58,679
Speaker 1: and then you guys came up a couple of days later. Ye,

511
00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:01,080
Speaker 1: all I know is they're I'm going to the back

512
00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:03,159
Speaker 1: door with the rheman. There are a lot of folks

513
00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:06,399
Speaker 1: and a lot of those autographed people that want you

514
00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:08,520
Speaker 1: to sign something so I can sell it immediately. And

515
00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:12,199
Speaker 1: I'm being hounded and a voice jumps in from the

516
00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:15,600
Speaker 1: clouds and goes stop, he has to get inside. And

517
00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:17,080
Speaker 1: I looked over and I was like, who is this

518
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 1: master figure? And it was your wife. And she has

519
00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:21,840
Speaker 1: scored me in the in the in the rhyman for

520
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,200
Speaker 1: the an opera show that me, you and Michael Ray did. Yeah,

521
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:25,920
Speaker 1: we were there for that. Yeah, all right enough, I'm

522
00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:28,359
Speaker 1: gonna read you something she wrote. This was on his

523
00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:31,480
Speaker 1: on her Instagram. This man is celebrating his fourth number

524
00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:34,120
Speaker 1: one on Cunt Radio this week. I'll never stop celebrating

525
00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:37,160
Speaker 1: your accomplishments at Russell d the little ones, the big ones,

526
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,800
Speaker 1: and this is a big one. I'll never stop celebrating

527
00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:41,560
Speaker 1: because I know what it cost to get us here,

528
00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 1: sleeping on seatbelts and vans, watching you put on an

529
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:47,959
Speaker 1: arena worthy show to six people in a field who

530
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,280
Speaker 1: would listen, barely getting by being told no over and

531
00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:54,240
Speaker 1: over again. All of it. You never wavered, not in

532
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:57,280
Speaker 1: your dreams, your work, ethic, or in your character. Some

533
00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:59,440
Speaker 1: people are giving success in spite of who they are,

534
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:01,320
Speaker 1: and you were given it because of who you are.

535
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:03,399
Speaker 1: I'm so thankful our son has you to look up

536
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 1: to in every way. Four for four baby, let's celebrate

537
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:10,240
Speaker 1: with some corrabas. Thank you Jesus. There are a lot

538
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,960
Speaker 1: of people like to talk about in this paragraph. For sure.

539
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:15,359
Speaker 1: I think your wife's fantastic. By the way, Oh my gosh, dude,

540
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:19,439
Speaker 1: she's such a writer, man, she is lover. Okay, up, first,

541
00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:23,679
Speaker 1: let's talk about the sleeping on seatbelts and vans straight up,

542
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:25,560
Speaker 1: because when you have to lay down in a van

543
00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,159
Speaker 1: and you can't get the seatbelt all, there's nowhere to

544
00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 1: put it. We'll go into the seat. Yeah, there's there's

545
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,119
Speaker 1: the seatbelt, like the actual belt with the buckle, and

546
00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,640
Speaker 1: then there's what you bug into that literally is up

547
00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:38,000
Speaker 1: your crack. You can try, you can put a pillow

548
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,439
Speaker 1: over it never stays still, your hip bones just digging

549
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:45,080
Speaker 1: into du It's the God bless any and everyone still

550
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,119
Speaker 1: to ourn in vans. I'd like to tell her that

551
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,639
Speaker 1: was a really fantastic reference that I could feel in

552
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 1: my body, because when I first started touring doing comedy,

553
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:54,960
Speaker 1: I just slept in a sprinter van in the middle

554
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 1: seat because the back seat had crap in it, but

555
00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 1: the middle seats that seatbeats sp or bro tell me

556
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 1: about a because she must be talking about a show specifically.

557
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:06,920
Speaker 1: She remembers, were you ever in a field and there

558
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 1: was Oh, yeah, absolutely, we were opening up. I bet

559
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:13,359
Speaker 1: the one she's talking about is, well, dude, there's been

560
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:17,879
Speaker 1: a lot. Actually I have go pro footage of this show.

561
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 1: It was. It's so we did the knack A circuit,

562
00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:25,679
Speaker 1: which is national collegiate whatever association of whatever. So they

563
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 1: put on shows. So they brought us in for like

564
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 1: maybe two bucks. So we drive eight hours a whole band, everybody,

565
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:38,720
Speaker 1: and it's further like you name it, like registration day,

566
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,240
Speaker 1: but like nobody cares, you know what I mean, Like

567
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:46,199
Speaker 1: nobody came to this function and they just like they

568
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,119
Speaker 1: had like cotton candy and popcorn and everything, and there

569
00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:53,679
Speaker 1: was legit, maybe twenty total people just scattered around these

570
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 1: little stations and like zero people up at the stage

571
00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:00,920
Speaker 1: watching us, and so you know that was normal for us.

572
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:05,919
Speaker 1: What goes on in your mind whenever you've been paid

573
00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:09,879
Speaker 1: to do a show, but nobody cares. My honestly, my

574
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:14,119
Speaker 1: mindset was will get there one day. Like I I

575
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,920
Speaker 1: just if I had gained six new fans that show

576
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,239
Speaker 1: she's talking about, then great. Like that was my mindset of, like,

577
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 1: we will get there one day, six people at a

578
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:26,679
Speaker 1: time if we have to, you know, And like it

579
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 1: was just in my mind, it was just arenas And

580
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:33,160
Speaker 1: you know, I watched Garth Brooks DVDs, I watched Keith

581
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 1: Urban's DVDs of their their live show, and I just like,

582
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:40,360
Speaker 1: in my mind, I would just kinda go there when

583
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 1: there's no one, when no one cares and there's six

584
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:46,399
Speaker 1: people in a field. Isn't it crazy too? You mentioned

585
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,600
Speaker 1: Keith he used to play in an airport. He would

586
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 1: stand on that that thing where the bags went around,

587
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,439
Speaker 1: and he would say people would be annoyed that they

588
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 1: were playing and he had to visualize something like there's

589
00:26:57,800 --> 00:26:59,960
Speaker 1: something that he had to focus on just to get

590
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,159
Speaker 1: to that next step. Yeah, now here you are. And

591
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: we have a lot of new artists that listened to

592
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 1: this podcast specifically because we put on producers, who put

593
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:07,879
Speaker 1: on managers. You know, it's a little more on the

594
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 1: weeds But what's great is you're talking about this because

595
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 1: there are a lot of new artists right now listening

596
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: who feel like they can't get that full step forward.

597
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 1: It's it's constantly a step backward. What do you tell them?

598
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 1: You just gotta keep showing, Like you said, you gotta

599
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 1: keep showing up. That was what, And you have to

600
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 1: you have to do it humbly. You can't you can't

601
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:30,679
Speaker 1: rush trying to. You can't be too good for that

602
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 1: two fifty dollar show, you know what I mean, Like

603
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,400
Speaker 1: there comes to a point where it financially doesn't make sense,

604
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,880
Speaker 1: and it didn't, but you know I was, you just

605
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:42,360
Speaker 1: have to show up and show up humbly and keep

606
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 1: showing up taking two fifty because two fifty will turn

607
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: into five hundred to a thousand to five, you know,

608
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 1: until you're opening up for Thomas Rhett, opening up for

609
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,879
Speaker 1: Kane Brown, and you know that was I know. I

610
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 1: don't take any show for granted because I've been I've

611
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,720
Speaker 1: been there. You know. It's like it's like rich people

612
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: who used to be homeless, like they know they came

613
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: from nothing and now they have every I'm not saying

614
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,400
Speaker 1: I'm rich. I'm saying you know, listen, I know because

615
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 1: I'm living it like I was a welfare food stamp kid,

616
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 1: and so I appreciate what I have even more than

617
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: that the same way that you're talking about. Um, I

618
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 1: want to mention one of the thing and I want

619
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 1: to go back. But Corrab is that is also a

620
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:28,160
Speaker 1: place that Caitlin and we'll do Olive Garden on normal nights,

621
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 1: but when we get fancy, we go to Corrabs because

622
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 1: we're speaking our language. Because Crab is like nicer. Both

623
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 1: are great, love them both, but Corrabs I might wear pants,

624
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 1: I can wear sweatstall gardens. I feel like I need

625
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 1: something with a scene. Yeah. Well because the first of all,

626
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 1: the wait staff is dressed a little night, they're dressed nicer,

627
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Yeah, Crab is fantastic at

628
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 1: number two. And this was tough because two and one

629
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 1: are both really good. Morgan Wallen has really only long

630
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 1: form interviews since all the drama. We were the first

631
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 1: place he came. He was like, Hey, I want to

632
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 1: talk about this and kind of get it over with.

633
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: I was like, cool, come to the house. He did,

634
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 1: and then we played piano over with the hell at

635
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,000
Speaker 1: my house number two. Here's Morgan Wallen when you cut

636
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 1: the mullet, because I credit you to the entire country

637
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 1: music mullet world. You were the first one that said, hey,

638
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 1: this is just what it is. Now everybody does that

639
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:27,560
Speaker 1: a little bit, but honest to God, and I'm not

640
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 1: just blowing smoke every buck as you're here, you were

641
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 1: the first one to kind of bring it back and

642
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 1: make it cool again. Back. Yeah, I'll say I didn't

643
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 1: invent it. I mean yeah, but I'm saying that the

644
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 1: next generation of country guys, even some of the older

645
00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 1: guys that are being funny and cutting it's all because

646
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 1: of you. You know that, right. I got a pretty

647
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 1: good feeling that I definitely had a good part in it.

648
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 1: Why why did you cut them all in? And did

649
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 1: you expect it to last? Uh? Well I had after

650
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:55,720
Speaker 1: I cut my long hair. I kind of just had

651
00:29:55,760 --> 00:30:01,160
Speaker 1: a haircut, you know. And as as I remember, um

652
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 1: Stacy at CMT told me one time, he was like,

653
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: you can usually tell if you can look at a

654
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 1: silhouette of a person, you can usually tell that's them.

655
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 1: I was like, well, I don't know if you could

656
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 1: do that with me right now. So I started thinking

657
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,719
Speaker 1: you know, and I couldn't really didn't really think anything.

658
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 1: So I was like, well, whatever, I'm just gonna to

659
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 1: let my music speak for itself, I guess. And then

660
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 1: I went back home to uh my parents on Easter.

661
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 1: I guess it was three years ago. Now, maybe maybe

662
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 1: you have three I think, And uh I was looking

663
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,360
Speaker 1: through a photo album of my parents when they got married.

664
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 1: My dad had a mullet, and uh, me and him

665
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 1: look a lot of like, we're just a lot of

666
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 1: like in general. And he was twenty five when he

667
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: got married, and I was twenty five at the time,

668
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 1: so I guess not even three years almost three years ago,

669
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 1: and uh I was either five whatever. I was the same,

670
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 1: around the same age as him, Like, well, Dad, you

671
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 1: look pretty good in that. If if you can do that,

672
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 1: I can do that. I'm gonna wear a mullet. He

673
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 1: was like, all right, man, I don't He probably didn't

674
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 1: believe me or whatever. But I went back and told

675
00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:00,200
Speaker 1: Amy Amy Cruiz is my Amy George Julias I was

676
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 1: her last name. I knew her when she was Amy Cruz,

677
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: but um she I told her. I said, Hey, Amy,

678
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 1: I think I think I know what her could I

679
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 1: want to think I'm gonna get a mullet. She was

680
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 1: like really, I said yeah, and she was aw for

681
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 1: She's like yeah, yeah. So I was like, all right, cool.

682
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 1: And then you know my label management there there, I

683
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: tell them I'm getting one, like what, no, please, God no,

684
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 1: And I'm like, y'all know what happens when you'll tell

685
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 1: me no, I'm gonna do exactly the opposite of that.

686
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 1: So I did. I grew it, and uh, I did not.

687
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 1: But I didn't expect it. It wasn't like I had

688
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 1: forgotten about the whole silhouette thing at that point. It

689
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 1: wasn't like I didn't expect it to become a thing.

690
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 1: I didn't expect to show up at shows and dudes

691
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: are wearing mullets and cut off flannels. I just I

692
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 1: don't know. I just I just liked how it looks

693
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 1: and and and uh, Harry, we are. Yeah, that's I mean,

694
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 1: that's what I know, isn't it you? And because it's

695
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 1: such a lasting first impression. But again, much like up down,

696
00:31:58,040 --> 00:31:59,720
Speaker 1: it's like you're the mullet guy. That's how you get

697
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 1: in the door. Or but then you kind of open

698
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 1: your rib cage up and you're like this is the

699
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 1: rest of me. Like the mullet gets you in the

700
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 1: heart is what makes you last, right, Yeah, And that's

701
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 1: a good way to put it. I've never thought of

702
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 1: it that way. But you know, people, whether they like

703
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 1: it or they hate it, they're still gonna say that's

704
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 1: a mullet, you know. And I wear really darker un glasses.

705
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 1: I'm just a generic white guy, right, I really am

706
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: just another generic white And so I was going, well,

707
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 1: I can't see what can I do to make me

708
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 1: stand out? Because I always thought if someone could draw

709
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,560
Speaker 1: a character of you pretty easily, that means that what

710
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: you're doing stands it. So I was like, I'm just

711
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: gonna a big, darker un glasses and that's where that

712
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 1: comes from. Kind of the same idea about the silhouette. Yeah,

713
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 1: I guess I'll just never forget Stacy's staying that to me, man,

714
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 1: he said that. I was like, that's a good point, man,

715
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 1: because I hate there was there was like a picture

716
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 1: of silhouettes or I don't even know if it was

717
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: a picture like a piece of art or something, but

718
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 1: there was people and I knew them all from the back,

719
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 1: not even from the front, from the back, and uh.

720
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 1: I made me think a little. So I've always remembered that.

721
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 1: The first show I went to of yours, I was

722
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 1: at Marathon music work and at a bunch of it

723
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 1: was like during radio one of those radio seminars, and

724
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: I don't do a lot of that stuff, but I

725
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:12,840
Speaker 1: was in talent for that maybe, so yeah, and a

726
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 1: couple of guys like, hey, you're in town, come come

727
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 1: to Morrigan Wallen show. And I was like, I'm just

728
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: gonna be honest with you. Yeah. I was like, I

729
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 1: was like, he gonna be there, and they were like

730
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: They're like yeah. I was like, I know like two

731
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 1: of the songs. Um, yeah, I'll go just because I

732
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: want to see you guys. And I go and it

733
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 1: is packed to the guilt and you freaking blew through.

734
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 1: And then I was like, oh, man, like I missed on.

735
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 1: I missed on knowing how great you were early. Well you,

736
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 1: I mean, but it doesn't matter. Yeah, I see a

737
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 1: lot of acts. That's what I meant to say. Whether

738
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 1: whether whether I'm great or not, you get you get

739
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 1: swamped with. But I still missed. I still missed, and

740
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 1: I'm usually pretty good, and I'm telling you that to

741
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 1: your face. Like I'm missed, and I was like, I

742
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 1: don't know about what were they gonna be thirty people there?

743
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 1: And I get there, I can't even move. They had

744
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 1: to put us in like a little cage to make

745
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 1: sure nobody did. Yeah, I remember it was phenomenal. So

746
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: and and you came and you played the st Judo

747
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: last year and I was just like, God, damn man,

748
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: this guy is so good. And then you know, so

749
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 1: your record. What's crazy about it? Is like it comes

750
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 1: out and does well, but it it's the biggest snow

751
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 1: slow building snowball I've ever seen. It's wild. It was

752
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: like I can't even remember. It was like a hundred

753
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 1: in something weeks after that it finally made it to

754
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 1: number one on like on Billboard for like it was

755
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 1: like a hundred seventeen weeks or something wild like it.

756
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 1: Are you feeling it now where it's like, I know

757
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 1: you're not gonna use the word, but just for the

758
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:37,919
Speaker 1: fort take of conversation, are you feeling it now where

759
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 1: you kind of like I can actually feel some of

760
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 1: the superstardom Or did it hit you like this or

761
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:48,759
Speaker 1: was it kind of like slow? I think it hit

762
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:51,800
Speaker 1: me in Alabama about six weeks ago. Well, what's funny

763
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: about that too, is like I have caubited you on TikTok,

764
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 1: and when you sing straight into TikTok, yeah, I think

765
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 1: it blows people's socks off because you're so freaking good,

766
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:05,280
Speaker 1: and I don't think people expect force like a country

767
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:08,439
Speaker 1: boy like yourself with a mullet to just sound so good.

768
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 1: Probably not. And then I would see this is way

769
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 1: before the Alabama stuff. I would see you were worshiped

770
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:16,440
Speaker 1: on TikTok. There was just a culture of and I

771
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:17,880
Speaker 1: would get them all and I'd be like, why am

772
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:20,239
Speaker 1: I watching these girls? I'm talking about how much they

773
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 1: love Morgan waller Man, and I swiped away from him.

774
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:24,960
Speaker 1: I didn't want to spend too much time watching I

775
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 1: don't even but yeah, well I kind of realized that

776
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: about TikTok once the Seven Summers thing happened, because I

777
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 1: didn't even really know what TikTok was whenever that whole

778
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:39,319
Speaker 1: thing happened, because I Ja jake On had nominated me

779
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:41,800
Speaker 1: for a demo challenge on Instagram, like remember when everybody's

780
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 1: doing those challenges at the beginning of quarantine, just to

781
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 1: keep you know, we thought it was gonna be a

782
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 1: little month or whatever. This will be fun. Eight months later, channel,

783
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 1: I haven't seen any challenges lately, have y'all every uh?

784
00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:59,840
Speaker 1: But you know, somebody I guess screen grabbed it and

785
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,880
Speaker 1: put it on TikTok and somebody from my team I

786
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 1: can't remember feel set or tracker, but I said, hey,

787
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:09,080
Speaker 1: have you seen what's going on with with tiktoking Like TikTok,

788
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: I really didn't even know what it was, and they said, yeah,

789
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 1: it's a new app and somebody's got on there. You know,

790
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:18,360
Speaker 1: they've got seven summers are using that sound by a lot.

791
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, that's interesting because I originally put

792
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:23,920
Speaker 1: that sound bite out on my Instagram to gauge if

793
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 1: I even wanted to cut the song or not. I

794
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 1: didn't even know if I was gonna record it, and

795
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 1: um so I was like, all right, that's cool, you

796
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: know whatever. A couple of weeks ago, by the thing,

797
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 1: like dude, this thing is like really going off on there.

798
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, don't you guys think we might need

799
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 1: to put it out then, you know if it's doing that.

800
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 1: So we went and recorded it and I think it

801
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 1: had like thirty million hits on there or something before

802
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 1: it every even came out. So I started like being like, man,

803
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 1: this could be a real tool we could use for

804
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 1: for music and trying to drive people to the new music. So,

805
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 1: um man, I just started you know, leaking a demo

806
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 1: on my Instagram ever so often, or you know, playing

807
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 1: a acoustic thing on my Instagram and didn't even have

808
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 1: to post it on TikTok. They would just do it,

809
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 1: and um just you know, just giving little pieces of

810
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: stuff and and and I did that without asking. You know,

811
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: the first couple of times, they're like, dude, what do

812
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:11,319
Speaker 1: you do? What are you doing? But these songs out

813
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:12,759
Speaker 1: and then they you know, they kind of were they

814
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 1: were like, well, they didn't get mad at me. Actually,

815
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 1: my team they're they're they're so good and understanding. They

816
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 1: didn't they didn't get mad. But there, you know, they

817
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: they're gonna ask or ask a questions what do you do?

818
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 1: But so I told them and they're like, all right,

819
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 1: that's cool, that's a good idea. So we just kept

820
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 1: you know, I've kind of just continued to do it

821
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,000
Speaker 1: a little bit. And then somebody has like leak some

822
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:29,319
Speaker 1: demos that I don't even know where they came from.

823
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:30,800
Speaker 1: I don't even have it. I don't even have the demos.

824
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 1: I don't know where they even came from that are

825
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: on there. But uh, the ones that I lead can

826
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:35,800
Speaker 1: put on my Instagram that we I like to do that.

827
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:37,719
Speaker 1: I'd like to get people's hopes up for that, and

828
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:40,320
Speaker 1: then you know, drop them soon after, hopefully on TikTok.

829
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 1: You're a lower case ge god for sure. And and

830
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 1: somehow I see all these girls just like guys. Get

831
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 1: over it, like I don't even want to see them anymore.

832
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: It's great, It's great. I love I love that how

833
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:54,920
Speaker 1: your fan base was organically created and just because you

834
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 1: brought it up, and I'll only ask a few more questions.

835
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:59,800
Speaker 1: It's like I'm enjoying. When the Alabama stuff happened, I

836
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:02,360
Speaker 1: was like, guys, get off his jock, Like I didn't.

837
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:06,359
Speaker 1: I understand the COVID stuff too, but I was like,

838
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: what do you want from this guy? He's seven years old.

839
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 1: People were just having fun. I know, I mean, I

840
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 1: get it, but I also I understand both sides of

841
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 1: it a little bit, you know, I know, I got

842
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: I know that I got young kids that look up

843
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 1: to me and all those kind of things too, So

844
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 1: I do want to be mindful of things. I'm not

845
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: gonna let people control the way I live my life,

846
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:27,240
Speaker 1: but I do also want to be mindful. And honestly

847
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: I have I have a son now, and I don't

848
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: know that i'd be proud to show him those videos,

849
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:32,359
Speaker 1: you know. I'm like, I gotta think about some things

850
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 1: a little bit differently, and honestly, I have. I have

851
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: been in you know, throughout this whole process, There's been

852
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 1: times where for a while, I would just be like, man,

853
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:42,799
Speaker 1: I'm really I'm kind of like lonely, and I don't

854
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 1: know if I even like this, and and then you know,

855
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,439
Speaker 1: there's and then there's another high and you're like, oh yeah,

856
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 1: I love this, you know, and it just kind of

857
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 1: goes goes through phases, and I kind of just have

858
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 1: been living like that, you know, and it's like, I

859
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: don't know, can I not maybe do something to come

860
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 1: bat that maybe you don't have to be so moody,

861
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 1: you know. So it was almost a good thing for me,

862
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:02,839
Speaker 1: you know. It kind of forced me away and just

863
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 1: to kind of reflect and look at myself and kind

864
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:06,560
Speaker 1: of get to know myself again. And it was good

865
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,800
Speaker 1: for me. So I took like a while, like almost

866
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:11,239
Speaker 1: two weeks, and just turned my phone off and just

867
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 1: didn't didn't even look at it, you know, drove on

868
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,399
Speaker 1: the track here and things like that and just clear

869
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 1: my head. And uh, that was it was really really

870
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 1: good for me. So I don't I don't really love

871
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:23,760
Speaker 1: the circumstances that led to that, but I'm thankful for

872
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 1: for where it led me. And my only point was

873
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 1: you were living your life. You're gonna have to You're

874
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 1: gonna have to learn somehow what you like, what you

875
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 1: don't like. And I was just like, let's let the guy.

876
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: You weren't doing anything illegal, like, let the guy live

877
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:38,840
Speaker 1: his life. But I was vocally pro you live in

878
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 1: your life. I appreciate that man. So you know, I

879
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:45,800
Speaker 1: had a very similar situation. I'm just now getting married

880
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: in April. I've never been married, how many kids, But

881
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:50,840
Speaker 1: I was struggling with being single. And Tyler and Florida

882
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 1: Georgia Lyne t pulled me in to coffee shop. Was like, dude,

883
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 1: you're kind of spiraling. It was a different spiral. My

884
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 1: spiral was straight loneliness, and I just could not. I

885
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 1: was like, I my thing was a ratio of loneliness

886
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 1: to happiness. That's where I was. And I would have

887
00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:08,399
Speaker 1: some hit and I'd feel great, but then because I'd

888
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:09,839
Speaker 1: be I'd do a stand up show and I feel

889
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 1: so loved on stage, but then you go back to

890
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: your hotel room and you're just like, well, it just sucks.

891
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:17,719
Speaker 1: It's so easy to base your feelings off of what

892
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:20,280
Speaker 1: other people think, because that's what the that's my job.

893
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:22,439
Speaker 1: You know. It's like, I pour my heart and soul

894
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 1: into this. I really want these people to like it.

895
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 1: And damn they do like it. You know, they do

896
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:29,719
Speaker 1: like me. That's awesome. And then but you start chasing that,

897
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 1: you know, that's what that's when you start wanting that

898
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:33,799
Speaker 1: feeling it all the time and more and more. Yeah,

899
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 1: it's like it's almost like a drug. Just keep on,

900
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:37,839
Speaker 1: you know, all that feels good. I like it when

901
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:40,880
Speaker 1: people like me. I mean, who don't. And I've always

902
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 1: been the type of guy I really want to make

903
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 1: everyone around me have a good time and feel good.

904
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 1: That's like I love that. I don't. I want people

905
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,839
Speaker 1: to to love me. I just always have and um

906
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:51,759
Speaker 1: so it's it's kind of like it's it's a catch

907
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:53,719
Speaker 1: twenty two. You know, it's like, you're gonna go back

908
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:56,799
Speaker 1: and do SNL. Do they think you'll They originally told

909
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:58,880
Speaker 1: me that they were gonna invite me back. If they do,

910
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 1: I'll go do it. Yeah. I hate the situation that

911
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 1: happened for you, but I think if I'm standing back

912
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 1: ten feet for your career one, I think you learned

913
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: a lot from it. But too, it was great. I

914
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 1: saw you pop up on the E news feed. You

915
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 1: crossed over into the news because of this. People were

916
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:19,359
Speaker 1: sending me like little screenshots whatever, like we've never heard

917
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:22,719
Speaker 1: of this guy before. I'm like, well, that's good. You know,

918
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:24,880
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want you to go through it again. However,

919
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 1: it takes, it takes some deep valleys to to to

920
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 1: understand how hard it is to climb the tall mountains.

921
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 1: And it's not even you know, it's not even gonna

922
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 1: be the lowest. We're gonna go through so many highs

923
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,440
Speaker 1: and lows. But I'm proud of you, man, Thank you.

924
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 1: I really appreciate that. I'm proud. I'm just I'm just

925
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 1: such a big fan too. And I'm not someone who

926
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:45,399
Speaker 1: claims to be there from the start, you know, I'm like, hey,

927
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:47,840
Speaker 1: what the heck is this guy doing. I don't I

928
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:49,799
Speaker 1: was the artist fun to convince. I can't even say

929
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 1: I blame you, man. I came out, I came out

930
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 1: of the gate with songs that weren't even my personal favorite.

931
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 1: So you know, I understand chasing you, just still my favorite?

932
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:02,320
Speaker 1: Uh seven some or The weird thing about Seven Summers

933
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 1: and more than my Hometown is they kind of are

934
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 1: running alongside each other, which is rare. They're both on

935
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 1: top thirty of the chart. I think Hometown is almost

936
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:12,839
Speaker 1: it's in top three right now. Maybe I believe top three.

937
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 1: I think they go what is today the fifth They

938
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: told me they're to go on for number one on

939
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 1: starting pushing spins on the fift So and you already

940
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:22,239
Speaker 1: have a song it's number or something. Yeah, yeah, dude,

941
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: it's it's wild and and you know, like we were

942
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 1: talking about the TikTok thing earlier, I knew I had

943
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:28,800
Speaker 1: a good feeling in that Seven Summers would come out

944
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 1: out of the gate, you know, pretty strong, definitely not

945
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 1: as strong as it did. Had no idea it was

946
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:34,920
Speaker 1: gonna do any of that stuff. I would have worried

947
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 1: that it was gonna take spins off of I did

948
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:39,399
Speaker 1: have that worry. I did have that worry, but like

949
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 1: we didn't even we didn't even plan on putting that

950
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 1: out as a single. It was almost forced upon us,

951
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 1: like people were just playing it. So we're like, well,

952
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 1: if these people are plunting their point, and maybe we

953
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:52,279
Speaker 1: just ought to make it as single and my I

954
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:55,359
Speaker 1: mean my label, and I you know, I asked him

955
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:56,799
Speaker 1: every week. I'm like, yeo, I'm mad at me. Yet

956
00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:58,360
Speaker 1: you know you're having to work two singles. I know

957
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: that's gotta be a pain, but there you obviously, I

958
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,319
Speaker 1: think they're pretty happy about it too, and they work

959
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: really hard and they're doing a good job. All right, Well,

960
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:07,319
Speaker 1: I'm done with you, but are you sure you don't

961
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:09,320
Speaker 1: mind walking over the house? Mind? We can, I want to.

962
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 1: We'll play it on this It'll be like thirty seconds.

963
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:12,839
Speaker 1: I think people would be free playing. I ain't playing

964
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 1: the piano. About a month. We'll try, all right, Morgan

965
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 1: walland we're gonna go. But the next thing you hear

966
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 1: is us walking over to the house and doing it

967
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 1: over there by that earlier. That's it. That's it. And

968
00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:59,239
Speaker 1: at number one, I'll tell you I have a guy

969
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 1: that comes in works on my yard a little bit.

970
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: If I haven't any issues, but like there's like sprinklers

971
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:08,919
Speaker 1: in the yard and stuff, he'll come fix them. And

972
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 1: I was out there the day and he goes, hey,

973
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:11,799
Speaker 1: is it true? I was like, what goes with Luke

974
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 1: Combs over here? I was like, yeah, he goes Dang.

975
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 1: I wish I would have been here that day. I

976
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 1: was like, I know, he's a good guy. Here is

977
00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 1: number one. It is Luke Combs. As you're a kid,

978
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 1: what is that you're singing? Do you have an eight

979
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 1: year old wrath? Or did when it? Like? You know,

980
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:30,400
Speaker 1: I was, I was. I had a really high voice

981
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:31,799
Speaker 1: when I was little, so I was, I mean I

982
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:35,400
Speaker 1: was singing Vince Gill, you know, I mean killing that stuff. Uh.

983
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:37,760
Speaker 1: And then I just got in I always liked singing.

984
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 1: I always getting trouble in class for humming or you know,

985
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:46,839
Speaker 1: talking or I was just constantly making noise. Uh. And

986
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:48,720
Speaker 1: then and then I found a you know, a channel

987
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:52,240
Speaker 1: for that through chorus class. And like the sixth grade,

988
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 1: they make us, they made us take every elective in

989
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:57,759
Speaker 1: the sixth grade. So he took like art and home

990
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 1: Mack and Jim and and and chorus and band, and

991
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 1: you took all of those classes. Uh. And then so

992
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: when I went to pick my electives for the next year,

993
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:12,240
Speaker 1: I picked up my electives were always jim and chorus class.

994
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:14,319
Speaker 1: That was it. When you started singing? Was it duck

995
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 1: to water for you? It was, but I didn't know

996
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:20,319
Speaker 1: it at the time. It was just kind of like

997
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:23,319
Speaker 1: I just like doing it. But I didn't think. I

998
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 1: thought it was just you don't understand that. There's I

999
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:29,759
Speaker 1: just never thought of doing something like this, you know.

1000
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:31,359
Speaker 1: It wasn't like I was the kid that was like,

1001
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be Garth Brooks, I'm gonna do this or that.

1002
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:38,360
Speaker 1: I never had that intention in mind at a young age.

1003
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:40,840
Speaker 1: And I know a lot of people who do you know,

1004
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 1: they heard a Tricia Garwood song and went, I'm gonna

1005
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:45,440
Speaker 1: be Tricia Earwood. That's what I want to do. I

1006
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 1: just never thought of that as an option. I was

1007
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:50,040
Speaker 1: playing sports. I was horrible at sports, but I was

1008
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 1: playing sports. I like doing that, and I was just

1009
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:56,640
Speaker 1: singing because it was something to do that I liked

1010
00:45:56,680 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 1: to do. You know. I was just, I mean, at

1011
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: that point in time, truly just living my life. You know.

1012
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:06,400
Speaker 1: I wasn't playing for the future at that time, and um,

1013
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:09,719
Speaker 1: I didn't really know I was any good until like

1014
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:12,840
Speaker 1: ninth grade, probably until I went to high school and

1015
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 1: my course teacher was like, hey, you're pretty good, you know.

1016
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:19,880
Speaker 1: And I was like, cool, that's good because I like

1017
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:21,799
Speaker 1: I like doing it, so it's cool that I'm good

1018
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 1: at it, you know, And then I sang. I was

1019
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 1: in course class every day of high school from ninth

1020
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:30,239
Speaker 1: grade to the time I graduated. Play football horribly. I

1021
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:33,840
Speaker 1: was horrible, really, And what position do you play? Defensive tackle?

1022
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:40,320
Speaker 1: Did you like hitting? Loved hitting? Um? I didn't have Uh.

1023
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:45,440
Speaker 1: I didn't really have the quickness, per se or the aggression.

1024
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:50,279
Speaker 1: I wasn't like an aggressive guys, but I loved hitting people.

1025
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:52,960
Speaker 1: You weren't singing Vince gil Like. I wasn't singing Vince

1026
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 1: Gill in high school. No, I wasn't. Um I always

1027
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 1: you know. It's funny. I I played rugby in college,

1028
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:01,839
Speaker 1: which I was good at and I did enjoy a lot,

1029
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 1: But I loved I always wanted to I was like

1030
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 1: a running back stuck in a offensive guards body, you

1031
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like I always wanted to have

1032
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:12,360
Speaker 1: the ball and run with the ball, but that was

1033
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 1: never an option. And the and my my high school

1034
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:17,280
Speaker 1: team we ran we were one of the first teams

1035
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:20,319
Speaker 1: to run the spread. And so obviously there's a high

1036
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:22,400
Speaker 1: school football team. Yeah, you ran the spread, and for

1037
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:27,399
Speaker 1: you in two thousand and probably five four or five.

1038
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:28,920
Speaker 1: And you gotta you gotta be able to move if

1039
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 1: you're running the spread, no doubt, even the line, you

1040
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 1: gotta get up and go. And so I wasn't in

1041
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 1: like in shape enough to be you know, I don't

1042
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:43,959
Speaker 1: have the endurance two to run with the offense because

1043
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 1: we had we had two running backs that ran sub

1044
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:51,840
Speaker 1: for three forties. I mean they were just lightning fast um,

1045
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 1: and so we were up and down the field a lot,

1046
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 1: I mean, thirty forty yard play. It was not something

1047
00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 1: that was out of the ordinary for us. And so yeah,

1048
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:03,719
Speaker 1: I was just not cut out for that either. You know,

1049
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 1: in a lot of teams we were playing, we're playing

1050
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:08,799
Speaker 1: we're you know, we're running the wing tea and like

1051
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 1: the super antiquated offenses and stuff like that. So yeah,

1052
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 1: I was just I was just not cut out for

1053
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 1: that particular thing. Now, looking back in time, I would

1054
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 1: have I would have loved to play offensive line. It's

1055
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:26,400
Speaker 1: one of my favorite most intriguing positions now and I

1056
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:28,720
Speaker 1: think I would have been very good at that. Actually,

1057
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:31,959
Speaker 1: Um but I was just I was just not because

1058
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:34,680
Speaker 1: I didn't play when I was little. I started playing

1059
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:37,279
Speaker 1: in high school. So all of my all of my

1060
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 1: teammates have been playing since they were seven or eight

1061
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 1: years old, you know. So by the time I was

1062
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 1: a senior, it was like there are guys who had

1063
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 1: been playing football for fourteen or fifteen years and I

1064
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:50,920
Speaker 1: had only been playing for three. So I was way

1065
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: behind the curve of you know, strength training and learning

1066
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 1: the game. And I just wanted to hit people. That

1067
00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:01,480
Speaker 1: was it. You go to Appalachian State and as you

1068
00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:03,480
Speaker 1: leave high school and you go to college. In your

1069
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:05,800
Speaker 1: mind at that point, why are you going to college?

1070
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 1: I just thought that was what you did because I

1071
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:14,279
Speaker 1: didn't want to go to work, I think, you know. Um,

1072
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 1: but I had went to actually went to a chorus

1073
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:22,919
Speaker 1: camp at app in probably maybe eighth grade or ninth

1074
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:24,759
Speaker 1: grade or something like that. For the summer. I was

1075
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:27,239
Speaker 1: like one of those two weeks you go and stay

1076
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 1: in the dorms and there's kids from all the different

1077
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:31,759
Speaker 1: schools and everything, and I just fell in love with

1078
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 1: that place because I grew up in the mountains already,

1079
00:49:34,719 --> 00:49:36,839
Speaker 1: but that was way I mean, that's way in them

1080
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:38,759
Speaker 1: as much in the mountains as you can be in

1081
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 1: North Carolina. Um kind of nestled in this little valley thing.

1082
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:45,359
Speaker 1: And I just fell in love with the campus and

1083
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 1: like the and the weather, you know, I like the cold,

1084
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:52,360
Speaker 1: you know, I'm fine with being cold, and it's very

1085
00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 1: cold and it snows a lot there, and I just

1086
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:59,720
Speaker 1: I absolutely was enamored with that place. And ever since

1087
00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:01,359
Speaker 1: I went to that camp, I was like, that's where

1088
00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:04,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to college. I'm gonna go to school there.

1089
00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:07,600
Speaker 1: And I was not a very good student in high school.

1090
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:10,879
Speaker 1: I've always been interested in in learning things. I really

1091
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:14,120
Speaker 1: enjoy that. I just was never interested in learning things

1092
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:17,319
Speaker 1: that people wanted me to learn. So what were you

1093
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:20,120
Speaker 1: doing in college for the most part, if obviously you're

1094
00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:21,920
Speaker 1: getting too because you didn't leave until and you left

1095
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:24,840
Speaker 1: right before you graduated, which so then look at us,

1096
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:26,200
Speaker 1: But what were you doing in school? Were you just

1097
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 1: keeping the grades up so you could keep singing, or

1098
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 1: we're like, why what was your motivating? It was like

1099
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:37,640
Speaker 1: it was college was a big time for me of like, okay,

1100
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:40,720
Speaker 1: how do you be three hundred pounds and get a girlfriend?

1101
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:43,480
Speaker 1: That was what I spent most of my time trying

1102
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 1: to figure out. Did you have girls in college? No? No,

1103
00:50:46,239 --> 00:50:49,880
Speaker 1: I was definitely not a ladies man. Uh you know,

1104
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:52,799
Speaker 1: not not because I didn't want to be. But in

1105
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:57,000
Speaker 1: high school you don't exactly get judged on your great personality.

1106
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 1: Um So those were interesting times for me. But I

1107
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:02,960
Speaker 1: mean that was what I did in college. Men. I

1108
00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:05,640
Speaker 1: hung out, I drank with my buddies. I didn't go

1109
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:08,320
Speaker 1: to class a lot. I played rugby. I sang in

1110
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 1: an acapella group my my first year year and a

1111
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:15,280
Speaker 1: half of school. Um I pled I pledged a fraternity

1112
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:17,839
Speaker 1: and ended up quitting doing that before I became an

1113
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:21,719
Speaker 1: initiative member. Um I did. I did a bunch of stuff. Man,

1114
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:24,759
Speaker 1: I just tried a bunch of stuff, you know. And

1115
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:28,680
Speaker 1: I think that's what I'm thankful for in the college experience,

1116
00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:31,839
Speaker 1: because that's where I found out that this is what

1117
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 1: I was supposed to be doing. And you left early

1118
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:36,680
Speaker 1: like you were a closer graduating right. Well, I was

1119
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:40,080
Speaker 1: there for five years, so I didn't leave early, but

1120
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:43,680
Speaker 1: you left I stayed late and I didn't graduate. Yeah

1121
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:48,280
Speaker 1: how many hours you think you need? Not even semester

1122
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:50,399
Speaker 1: and a half yea, not even year. But I could

1123
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 1: have done like a summer and a semester. But the

1124
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:59,479
Speaker 1: problem was I always hated math and I always hated science. Um,

1125
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:02,239
Speaker 1: I'm not good at not good at science, not good

1126
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:06,239
Speaker 1: at math. Um, and so I never What happened was

1127
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:08,760
Speaker 1: I I loved I was a major, and I changed

1128
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:10,960
Speaker 1: my major from business. I started out at business and

1129
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:12,480
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, I hate math, Why am I

1130
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:14,919
Speaker 1: doing that? That's just something that I was like, Oh,

1131
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 1: you could probably get a good job doing business things,

1132
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 1: you know. So I tried that for like a year,

1133
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:23,440
Speaker 1: and then I switched my major to criminal justice because

1134
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:25,640
Speaker 1: do what incriminal justice? Near mind? I wanted to be

1135
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:28,200
Speaker 1: a homicide detective is what I wanted to do. Uh

1136
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:33,040
Speaker 1: still and very interested in that um, and so I

1137
00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:36,040
Speaker 1: I went balls to the wall and in that major,

1138
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:38,200
Speaker 1: and I really enjoyed that. So I liked go into

1139
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:41,920
Speaker 1: my you know, forensic science class and my this and

1140
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:44,400
Speaker 1: this and this class. But the things that I the

1141
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:47,680
Speaker 1: twenty one hours I was short where all my math classes,

1142
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:52,800
Speaker 1: all my science classes, so like basic like your freshman

1143
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:56,000
Speaker 1: year stuff. Never took any of them. I never took

1144
00:52:56,160 --> 00:52:59,879
Speaker 1: Stats one and stats too, and then I never took

1145
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:02,759
Speaker 1: chemistry or biology because I was like, this is just

1146
00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:04,960
Speaker 1: I don't want to do any of this stuff, you know.

1147
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 1: And so by the time I got to the end

1148
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:11,560
Speaker 1: of my major, I kind of ran into this huge

1149
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:15,400
Speaker 1: roadblock because I had two or three classes that I

1150
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:17,960
Speaker 1: needed for my major and they were like, well, you

1151
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:20,560
Speaker 1: can't take this class unless you have Stats one in

1152
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:23,680
Speaker 1: stats too, and you can't take them at the same time.

1153
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:27,520
Speaker 1: So that's at least a year of school to take

1154
00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 1: two classes. So I had to do Stats one Stats

1155
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:34,160
Speaker 1: to biology or Chemistry one in biology or chemistry too,

1156
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:37,640
Speaker 1: and those were both prerequisites, and then I would have

1157
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:39,760
Speaker 1: had to take the classes for the end of my major,

1158
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:41,960
Speaker 1: and then I would have had to do my internship

1159
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 1: because I couldn't do my internship until I did the

1160
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:45,960
Speaker 1: classes for the end of my major. And you already

1161
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:49,080
Speaker 1: years and I had already done yeah, like four I was, yeah,

1162
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:50,719
Speaker 1: I've already done like four and a half years. So

1163
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:53,319
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm not staying here for another two

1164
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 1: and a half years in school. At least I ended

1165
00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:58,120
Speaker 1: up living in Boone until I was twenty four before

1166
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:00,719
Speaker 1: I moved to Nashville. Um, but I was just like, man,

1167
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:02,799
Speaker 1: I just I don't you know what that by that time,

1168
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:04,880
Speaker 1: I was already playing music. Were you going back and

1169
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:06,799
Speaker 1: the forth from Boone to Nashville or what did you

1170
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:08,279
Speaker 1: when you came to Nashville? Was it you came to

1171
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:13,080
Speaker 1: Nashville the first. I came to Nashville twice in in

1172
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:15,920
Speaker 1: those years, and that was two thousand and at the

1173
00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:21,640
Speaker 1: end of two thousand and thirteen, and then the summer

1174
00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:24,840
Speaker 1: of two thousand and fourteen the first time. Did you

1175
00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 1: know you wanted to stay? Yeah? Oh yeah, because I

1176
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:29,640
Speaker 1: had written a few songs, and so I came at

1177
00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:33,840
Speaker 1: the end of and recorded those songs. And then I

1178
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:36,080
Speaker 1: met had you know, through the internet, had met a

1179
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:37,760
Speaker 1: couple of people. I was like, oh, I write songs

1180
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:39,920
Speaker 1: with these guys. And so I wrote a couple of

1181
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:42,479
Speaker 1: songs when I was there, and then I got back

1182
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:44,560
Speaker 1: and I was like, man, like, I gotta play another trip.

1183
00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:47,360
Speaker 1: So I played another trip, wrote some more songs, and

1184
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:51,960
Speaker 1: then on that trip and probably aprilish May of two

1185
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:54,880
Speaker 1: thousand and fourteen is when I recorded she got the

1186
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 1: best to me, can I get an outlaw and share

1187
00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:01,279
Speaker 1: if you want to? And then at that time after that,

1188
00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 1: those came out in June, and I moved in September

1189
00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:07,880
Speaker 1: of that year of two four. The tweet you posted

1190
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:10,000
Speaker 1: what you said. I think the topic was tell me

1191
00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:13,360
Speaker 1: something about yourself that no one believe. And the just

1192
00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:16,960
Speaker 1: of it was that you came to town and you

1193
00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:19,000
Speaker 1: had some songs and people were like, hey, they weren't good,

1194
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:22,279
Speaker 1: and your old thing was don't let anyone let you

1195
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:25,400
Speaker 1: stop chasing your dreams. Yeah, those meetings where you were rejected,

1196
00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:30,320
Speaker 1: are they vivid to you? The early meetings definitely? Um.

1197
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:34,720
Speaker 1: The one in the meeting in particular was with somebody.

1198
00:55:34,760 --> 00:55:37,719
Speaker 1: It was, you know, they have like the artist like

1199
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 1: writer reps at at like b and I. So I

1200
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:42,840
Speaker 1: had a friend that had a rep there and I

1201
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:45,480
Speaker 1: went in and I was like very excited because I

1202
00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:48,279
Speaker 1: had just moved to Nashville at this time and I

1203
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:50,400
Speaker 1: didn't know anybody, you know, I knew a couple of

1204
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:53,439
Speaker 1: writing buddies and was going out and playing a few

1205
00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:56,600
Speaker 1: writers rounds and writing songs every day. And because by

1206
00:55:56,640 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 1: that time I was living off of those songs that

1207
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:03,040
Speaker 1: I had put out the previous year and I went

1208
00:56:03,080 --> 00:56:05,120
Speaker 1: in and it was kind of like this this person

1209
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:07,759
Speaker 1: was like, we'll play me three songs. And I was like,

1210
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:10,520
Speaker 1: oh cool, Like this person is gonna be like I'm

1211
00:56:10,520 --> 00:56:12,880
Speaker 1: gonna play these three songs and like they're gonna walk

1212
00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:16,759
Speaker 1: me into the best publishing thing and they're gonna like

1213
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 1: this guy is great, Like how could you not love

1214
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:22,040
Speaker 1: this guy? Give him a publishing deal? So I played

1215
00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:26,520
Speaker 1: Hurricane When It Rains in One Number Away, which were

1216
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 1: my first three number ones, and they were like, Okay,

1217
00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:32,840
Speaker 1: here's the deal. You gotta get better a songwright, and

1218
00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:35,560
Speaker 1: you gotta write better songs and you're never gonna be

1219
00:56:35,640 --> 00:56:40,719
Speaker 1: an artist. So that's it. And I was like, and

1220
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:43,520
Speaker 1: I wasn't like mad. Do you know who said it? Yeah,

1221
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:45,239
Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say I would

1222
00:56:45,239 --> 00:56:46,600
Speaker 1: never ask you to say it, but I'm just asking

1223
00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:49,600
Speaker 1: if you know who's that? Oh? I know? Yeah? Have

1224
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:55,759
Speaker 1: you seen them since? Yeah? I've ran into them awkwardly

1225
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:57,879
Speaker 1: at actually the B and My Awards. Do you think

1226
00:56:57,920 --> 00:56:59,920
Speaker 1: they remember telling you that or do you don't get

1227
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:02,040
Speaker 1: just someone that was coming through attorney to the system.

1228
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:04,080
Speaker 1: I don't think so at all. Which is fine, you

1229
00:57:04,120 --> 00:57:06,000
Speaker 1: know I have I have nothing against that person, you

1230
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,319
Speaker 1: know what, because I get it. Man. I mean it's

1231
00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:10,919
Speaker 1: it's like if you look at it, would I would,

1232
00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:14,440
Speaker 1: I would equate it to at that level, you know,

1233
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 1: because you're not even screened at all. At that level,

1234
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:20,120
Speaker 1: like any Tom Dick or Harry can walk in off

1235
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:22,160
Speaker 1: the street pretty much to be AM and get one

1236
00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:25,880
Speaker 1: of those meetings. So I can't imagine the pressure of like, Okay, well,

1237
00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:30,040
Speaker 1: I've got six kids that moved to town yesterday that

1238
00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 1: want to come in and they all think they're awesome,

1239
00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:35,080
Speaker 1: and I've got to be able to figure out which

1240
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:36,960
Speaker 1: ones I think are good enough to go on to

1241
00:57:37,040 --> 00:57:40,880
Speaker 1: the next thing. And so I wasn't mad about it

1242
00:57:40,920 --> 00:57:43,720
Speaker 1: at all. I'm actually very thankful for that meeting because

1243
00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:45,520
Speaker 1: I did go out and feel like I wrote some

1244
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:48,240
Speaker 1: of the best songs that I had ever written, because

1245
00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:51,440
Speaker 1: I was like, man, I gotta I gotta write more

1246
00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:54,320
Speaker 1: and and do better, Like I'm not even close to

1247
00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:57,040
Speaker 1: as good as I need to be. And so I

1248
00:57:57,160 --> 00:58:00,240
Speaker 1: just kept my head down and I went and a

1249
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:03,960
Speaker 1: ton of songs and and then there kind of the

1250
00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:05,960
Speaker 1: rest is just kind of fell into place. I mean,

1251
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:08,680
Speaker 1: I know that's, you know, summarizing a big chain of events,

1252
00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:10,880
Speaker 1: but that's kind of how it felt like at a

1253
00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:12,400
Speaker 1: few minutes left her. I wanted to run a couple

1254
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:14,280
Speaker 1: of other things about you that I heard. First of all,

1255
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:18,200
Speaker 1: a lot of folks come in myself included that worked

1256
00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:21,480
Speaker 1: retail because we kind of had to. You gotta pay

1257
00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 1: the bills somehow as you're chasing your creative endeavor. And

1258
00:58:25,880 --> 00:58:28,960
Speaker 1: I worked at hobby Lobby. Mike who was in Michael

1259
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:32,520
Speaker 1: Hobby from Thousand Horses worked at the Buckle. You worked

1260
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:37,440
Speaker 1: at isod How did that go? I was not a

1261
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:41,440
Speaker 1: great fit at izod Um, but I had you know,

1262
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:43,160
Speaker 1: I had as much fun with it is you could

1263
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:47,600
Speaker 1: possibly have folding people's golf sweaters, you know. Um. It

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Speaker 1: was in an outlet mall, like one of those like

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Speaker 1: Tanger outlets or whatever they call it. They had one

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Speaker 1: in Blowing Rock, which is right down the road from Boone.

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Speaker 1: So it was I mean, it was pretty pretty miserable.

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Speaker 1: And how long did you do that? I probably worked

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Speaker 1: there for I mean close to a year probably, I

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Speaker 1: would think. And whenever you are walking past a table

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Speaker 1: of shirts that are messy, does it bother you and

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Speaker 1: will you refold a shirt? No chance, no chance. But

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I do. I do fold a

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Speaker 1: mean shirt, you know when I'm when I'm doing the

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Speaker 1: laundry at home, which I'm sure people are supposed to

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Speaker 1: do do laundry. Uh, my fiance does handle the brunt

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Speaker 1: of the laundry. Um, but I do. I do chip

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Speaker 1: in quite a bit and you know, help fold stuff.

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Speaker 1: And you know I'm not I'm not afraid to do laundry.

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Speaker 1: I I don't. I don't mind it at all. But

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Speaker 1: or I I if I wasn't in a committed relationship,

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Speaker 1: I would throw it on. Yeah, but I do separate

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Speaker 1: it now just because that's what. But now it's like

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Speaker 1: her stuff's in there, which is the thing. Like mine

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Speaker 1: are just old, like gross t shirts and jeans really,

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Speaker 1: so I'm not too worried about them like shrinking or like.

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Speaker 1: But now there's this whole like don't wash this thing

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Speaker 1: with that thing, and don't drive this thing. But it's

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Speaker 1: gotta be tumble dried, but don't put it in with

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Speaker 1: this thing that has to be high heat. And then

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Speaker 1: some stuff is like cold water and so it's I mean,

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Speaker 1: it gets pretty Matthey to me, you know, and we

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Speaker 1: know you don't like don't left left school because you

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Speaker 1: didn't even take a laundry That was like a year three.

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Speaker 1: That was the year three and I skipped laundry class,

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Speaker 1: that's for sure. Thanks for listening to part two of

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Speaker 1: the top eight Bobby Cast interviews of the year. If

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Speaker 1: you enjoyed those, you can hear the full conversations. That

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