Speaker 1: What is up?
Speaker 2: You are off in God's Country with your boy Read
Speaker 2: and Dan and your boy Dan, Your boy Dan, also
Speaker 2: known as the Brothers Hunt, where we take a weekly
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Speaker 2: Ray, that's a cool name. Hit me with the parents.
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Speaker 1: Dude is quick.
Speaker 3: Just click on the keys back there. Should we just
Speaker 3: do a test, real old test run on him. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: New favorite thing, dude.
Speaker 4: I wish they were wrong every time.
Speaker 3: Me too, Car, honk car, this is a lot.
Speaker 1: Why don't we use these during the show? We should
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Speaker 3: All right, hey, look if you don't know, you boys are.
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Speaker 3: That's mean, dude, I.
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Speaker 2: Hey, we've got a great episode for y'all this week.
Speaker 2: Gavin Adcock joined us wild Man.
Speaker 1: Dude.
Speaker 3: Wild Man kept a shirted on the whole.
Speaker 4: Deserved in the chair. Though he was very reserved, he
Speaker 4: was very thought.
Speaker 2: Bro the my guy said he had a business mind,
Speaker 2: business mind, and he has a business mind.
Speaker 4: Content creator walked.
Speaker 2: Us through kind of yeah, his his his outlook on
Speaker 2: the music industry and what what him and the team
Speaker 2: are doing.
Speaker 4: Turning tunes out left and right, by the way.
Speaker 3: You know he said, he said, feeding them, feeding them.
Speaker 4: Indeed, And there was no like real playing. He's just like,
Speaker 4: I write songs and I put him out. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: I play them at shows. That's right, and we get
Speaker 4: rowdy and it's a good time, and I'm playing all
Speaker 4: the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Chugged a beer on top of his college football team's
Speaker 2: team bus and got kicked. Skyrocket Cali Rockety Viral, moved
Speaker 2: to Nashville, started writing songs, start putting him out. Now
Speaker 2: he's selling out. He's playing four days a week, selling
Speaker 2: these shows out. Grew up on a cattle farm. Cool story,
Speaker 2: cool cat. Uh, you're gonna love, You're gonna love.
Speaker 3: Gavin Adcotco is a great, great favorite at their gravorite
Speaker 3: at the end, you're gonna enjoy it. Hey, are we
Speaker 3: still top forty?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: you guys are leaving five star ratings that we round
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Speaker 4: if you love aimless storytelling, endless back padding, and conversations
Speaker 4: that feel more like eavesdropping on two dudes who think
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Speaker 4: the only saving grace, but even they can't save the
Speaker 4: show from veering off into irrelevant nonsense. Five stars. They
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Speaker 4: that's a good one. It's a good one. Thanks podcast Nickname,
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Speaker 2: Hey keep leaving us five stars, keep roasting us. Mike
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Speaker 1: Hey you know we did that.
Speaker 4: We jumps through up the couple of those podcast roasts,
Speaker 4: and people from our hometown.
Speaker 1: Got real mad.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they didn't know. They didn't get the joke. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they were like top Yeah, they keep grinding, keep doing
Speaker 3: your thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, pretty fun. Anyway, people back home, that was a joke.
Speaker 4: We're all good people back home.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're all.
Speaker 3: We're thank y'all, thick skin.
Speaker 1: Love you, memorir.
Speaker 3: Hey, that's right, that's love much love. Uh Hey, for real,
Speaker 3: we love y'all. We appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to the show, for tuning in, for
Speaker 2: watching the YouTube I started. I went back and watched
Speaker 2: some some of our YouTube stuff. Really, it's pretty entertaining. Huh,
Speaker 2: we do a good job.
Speaker 4: Maybe we should end this more back padding. Maybe we
Speaker 4: should end this true with the dakovies thing. You know
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Speaker 1: I can't help that.
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Speaker 1: Ray.
Speaker 3: It's not like we played at.
Speaker 1: Speed.
Speaker 2: The speed man we got former Georgia Southern football playing
Speaker 2: might have got up on a bus and shot gun
Speaker 2: to beer.
Speaker 3: He probably saw that video.
Speaker 2: Maybe born in ninety eight, which is is pretty wild
Speaker 2: for me because I'm usually the youngest cat in the room.
Speaker 1: And not anymore.
Speaker 3: By eleven years eleven, I was eleven years old, dude.
Speaker 1: His album Times were changing.
Speaker 3: Times were changing.
Speaker 2: His album Acting Up Again was crowned the largest major
Speaker 2: label country debut from a solo mail artist release in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. We Got the Man, the Myth, the Legend,
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Speaker 1: Smelling good, dude, shout for y'all this morning?
Speaker 3: Did you really clean? I was at the chain. The
Speaker 3: chain's looking good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, ex goose, it's a cheap old chain.
Speaker 4: Sure it is, looks he said you. So you just
Speaker 4: got off the road twenty eight days.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got off the road Monday.
Speaker 3: God, what'd you do?
Speaker 1: Where'd you go?
Speaker 3: How many? Okay, there's a few questions first of all,
Speaker 3: like what what trick did you take? Where were we playing?
Speaker 1: We went, uh, Memphis, Theaytville, Arkansas, bows your Louisiana which
Speaker 1: you like? Report? Yeah? Three days over to Arizona. Took
Speaker 1: a couple of stops in Texas.
Speaker 3: How many gigs? A weekend you playing.
Speaker 1: Or sometimes sometimes five we played.
Speaker 3: Make that Bag, Dog, Make that Bag.
Speaker 1: We played sixteen and twenty eight days.
Speaker 3: You ain't married, I ain't got no kids.
Speaker 1: No, it's hammered down.
Speaker 4: That's hammered down, dude.
Speaker 1: That's the big thing around days. It's hammered down. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's let's half twenty eight? What is that?
Speaker 6: Over?
Speaker 1: Like half?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna let you figure this out.
Speaker 1: I can't math.
Speaker 2: I'm just let's half twenty eight. Don't say it, Kevin,
Speaker 2: because I know you know, I don't know everybody in here.
Speaker 2: Don't look at anybody.
Speaker 4: Can you restart that clock so we know what's happening.
Speaker 4: It's half of twenty eight, Damn, I don't know fourteen
Speaker 4: that's over half, right, Yeah, that's a lot. So you
Speaker 4: have some back to backers in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'd have some uh Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Mondays
Speaker 1: we had we had one of those. You need to
Speaker 1: get onto your management about that. Hell know, we'll play them.
Speaker 2: You ever, like, are you sick at the end of
Speaker 2: the at the sixteenth show where you're like, all right, dude, this.
Speaker 1: Is we were all uh all pretty like irritable but
Speaker 1: we kind of like looked at each other and like
Speaker 1: we're like, I'm irritable, irritable. We're good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, let's get that office bus. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: I know that feeling. Man, It's like you just swamped.
Speaker 4: You just want to not be on wheels, you know,
Speaker 4: for a little while.
Speaker 1: Yeah, first night of sleep in my bed was pretty awful,
Speaker 1: was it? Yeah? This is wasn't the white noise and
Speaker 1: whatn't the interesting? Wasn't the craters that the bus drivers
Speaker 1: are hitting.
Speaker 4: You got a pretty good bus driver to see kind of.
Speaker 1: Oh well we just got a new bus driver. He's
Speaker 1: been pretty good, right. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I've been on I've been on good buses
Speaker 4: and I've been on bad buses. And I'm being honest
Speaker 4: with you, it's eighteen wheels regardless of how you slice it, man, Like,
Speaker 4: it's just it's just ain't like sleeping at home and
Speaker 4: then you get home and you're like you're used to
Speaker 4: the dang bus and it's hardestly in your own bed.
Speaker 1: Yeah. My bands always like we get on the bus
Speaker 1: on a Thursday or Wednesday night headed out and they're like,
Speaker 1: thank god, I slept like crab at home.
Speaker 3: Really you hear that, you hear those stories of of
Speaker 3: of of artists and and band guys that you know
Speaker 3: that like the road, I mean the roads you're home,
Speaker 3: you know, like you're more comfortable out there than you
Speaker 3: are and in your house. Man, which, hay, more power
Speaker 3: to it, dude, if somebody's got.
Speaker 4: To do it, y'all mad at anything? Should we do
Speaker 4: this section?
Speaker 3: I do have one question?
Speaker 2: How what do we got to do today to Not
Speaker 2: that we're going to, but like, how long will it
Speaker 2: be before you take your shirt off in this interview?
Speaker 1: I'll take it off. I'll take it off.
Speaker 3: Hey, I had no doubt, bro, I only no doubt.
Speaker 4: But it's kind of he's not like he's in shape now, Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 4: he's been hitting the gym.
Speaker 1: Well. Past three days, I've had some shitty stuff. We
Speaker 1: got back and I was like, the last night a
Speaker 1: tour we had abachi. I brought a hubachi chef into
Speaker 1: the venue, putting front the stage, fed the opener, fed
Speaker 1: everybody on everybody's crew. And we've been doing that the
Speaker 1: past two tours. I'll get a botch of chefs come.
Speaker 3: Out a botchie so gassed, it's so good.
Speaker 1: Some it's some of my favorite stuff to eat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll drownt. I got I got rice swimming and yellow
Speaker 1: sauce in there. It's like, damn it. It don't like me.
Speaker 3: It don't like me. I mean, I gotta go straight
Speaker 3: to the to the potty after it.
Speaker 4: But uh but I like it a why would you?
Speaker 3: This is a real podcast. We were just being vulnerable.
Speaker 1: I don't feel I feel you do.
Speaker 3: But it's worth it, right, Yeah, that's like if I
Speaker 3: eat taco bell, might as well just eat it on
Speaker 3: the toilet.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Man, I had taco bell
Speaker 1: the same don't go, don't go.
Speaker 3: But I mean, like, sometimes an easy cordy to crunch
Speaker 3: is worth it, dude. Sometimes what's your what's your taco bell?
Speaker 1: Have you?
Speaker 4: You've got expensive taco bell is recently.
Speaker 1: When I got to college, and I know when when
Speaker 1: y'all were in y'all's taco bell eating days, it was
Speaker 1: like fifty cents of taco. It was super chic. It's
Speaker 1: like three dollars.
Speaker 4: Talk, go now, five dollars for a cheesy five bones
Speaker 4: for a cheese crunch five or you could get the whole.
Speaker 2: They're like, here's five dollars for the sandwich, or you
Speaker 2: can get the sandwich too.
Speaker 4: Hards Shell talking calling a cheese to crunch a sandwich.
Speaker 3: Did I just say sandwich twice? I was talking about
Speaker 3: like a meal, like you can get the meal for
Speaker 3: seven ninety nine or just the just the sandwich for
Speaker 3: five aint nine.
Speaker 1: Oco Taco Bell Cheese. I'm definitely spending thirty dollars Taco
Speaker 1: Bell Easy Easy. There's no way to get out from
Speaker 1: I'm getting. I'm getting a grilled cheese corrito. I'm getting
Speaker 1: a chicken case of dilla. Oh yeah, I get it
Speaker 1: cantea cantina style, so I get sour cream and guacamole.
Speaker 1: They put some different chicken in there, and I get
Speaker 1: like three of those. Uh Frito's burritos.
Speaker 3: Those are me.
Speaker 1: It's not the name of them because they don't have
Speaker 1: the deal with Fritos. It should be it should be
Speaker 1: the name.
Speaker 3: Oh they don't have like the burrito crunch wrap or something.
Speaker 1: Get it?
Speaker 4: Was it ever frem burrito because it should have been.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I gotta, I gotta. I'm not mad about it. I
Speaker 1: was for about twenty minutes, but uh wait, we gotta
Speaker 1: do the intro.
Speaker 3: What what you're mad?
Speaker 1: Oh you're going octave down.
Speaker 2: I mean I got to the crud. Dude, what you're mad?
Speaker 2: Just tell us what it is? What you're mad? And
Speaker 2: is it you in the Lost Kids? Might be a
Speaker 2: boss man or your neighbor's cat. Just tell us what
Speaker 2: your man.
Speaker 4: It's like Josh Turner style. Really I got to.
Speaker 1: Cry short singer off of Ukridge Boys. They always do that.
Speaker 3: Man, all right, what you what? What were you gonna say?
Speaker 3: We're mad at it? You're mad at it for twenty minutes,
Speaker 3: I like.
Speaker 1: Just jumping the gun. He just didn't even need no
Speaker 1: help on it. Yeah. I was about to start the
Speaker 1: show the other night I had two shows left. My
Speaker 1: girlfriend was at my house. Yeah, and she was like,
Speaker 1: can I take your truck?
Speaker 3: Never a good idea, never do. But what are you
Speaker 3: gonna say? You you can't say no.
Speaker 1: I was like, that's fine, It's it's all right. Where
Speaker 1: was she going? She was going to like t J
Speaker 1: Max or Ross or something tight tight parking spots. Well
Speaker 1: she didn't get the parking spots. Oh she's pulling out
Speaker 1: of the driveway.
Speaker 3: Has a duly for the record.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was hauling cows with it before I to
Speaker 1: pay for these recordings.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you this, if you ain't never, if
Speaker 2: you never parked a three fifty, you don't want to
Speaker 2: roll into a ross's trying to park a three fifty.
Speaker 1: She she ain't have to roll the ross. She pulled
Speaker 1: out of the driveway and hung the mailbox.
Speaker 3: Right out of anyway.
Speaker 1: And I call her about ten minutes later, and she
Speaker 1: don't even know what She doesn't even have any idea.
Speaker 1: I could. I could tell she was messed up about it.
Speaker 1: She was like, I hit a pothole pulling out of
Speaker 1: the driveway. I was like, she must have dipped into
Speaker 1: the ditch a little bit. No, she just hooked it.
Speaker 1: She tries a little four few and she.
Speaker 3: Just a quick turn.
Speaker 1: Yeah, did it it ate the side of your truck up?
Speaker 1: Or no? Oh yeah, it's got holes in the fen holes.
Speaker 4: How did she confuse a pothole with a okay?
Speaker 1: But yeah, But she's she's texting her friend and she's like,
Speaker 1: oh my, but she accidentally text me and I'm about
Speaker 1: to go on stage. Oh no, this is exclusive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: get you in trouble text me and said, oh my god,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to replace the whole thing and and
Speaker 1: I text her, I'm like, what six question marks? And
Speaker 1: I just call her. She's like, I'm I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: She's crying, dang, and like I gotta get off the
Speaker 1: phones and like a collar back, like right before I
Speaker 1: go on stage. And it's fine. It's the truck is
Speaker 1: just like yeah, but it's just like I told her
Speaker 1: it was fine, but I was gonna give her some
Speaker 1: hell about it. Yeah, a little bit. I'm not. I'm
Speaker 1: not mad a by it anymore. I've been laughing at it.
Speaker 1: It's kind of funny.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's like, I mean, I've seen the truck
Speaker 4: like you can you can you can bondo it or
Speaker 4: you leave it?
Speaker 1: Who cares? It's like, you know, yeah, it should be
Speaker 1: a little more trashy little character memory on the side
Speaker 1: of the brand. Send you all picture. Yeah please you
Speaker 1: mad anything?
Speaker 2: Uh moles tearing up my my yard?
Speaker 4: Should we do the bit right now?
Speaker 1: No, it's pretty good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, we'll do it later when we're talking.
Speaker 4: About we got a bit for you, believe it or not,
Speaker 4: We actually prepped for this kind of Yeah, Moles, man,
Speaker 4: they're the worst, dude, And I gotta I've got a.
Speaker 4: I've got a bloodhound who like trail up deer, but
Speaker 4: she'll lost it. She reminds me like a like a mole dog.
Speaker 2: Now, because what she'll do is we've got three acres
Speaker 2: and they're really bad in the back of the property,
Speaker 2: and she'll go back there, dude, and just dig the
Speaker 2: China son And they're a giant, like foot deep holes
Speaker 2: all over my backyard from where she'll kill them.
Speaker 3: She'll get them.
Speaker 1: Really, but your yard screwed.
Speaker 4: After you think you're people that run your hoa listen
Speaker 4: to this podcast.
Speaker 1: Probably not. I wish they would reads made his ho
Speaker 1: a real mad lately.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well, I mean not. I mean, dude, nobody,
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't care where I live. Ain't nobody
Speaker 2: gonna tell me what I bush to pull up or not.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. I don't want to cut
Speaker 3: down a tree. I'm gonna cut down a tree.
Speaker 4: Look at George Jumps is already like, don't start. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's pretty ridiculous.
Speaker 1: What you mad at? I'm not really mad. I really
Speaker 1: mad anything.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to think this morning, if I had anything good,
Speaker 4: and I really don't. You got anything, moles, That's it.
Speaker 3: Moles.
Speaker 1: I'm mad at huffs a little bit.
Speaker 3: Man, oh man, don't get me mad at huss.
Speaker 1: Why does it there? Debit?
Speaker 4: Why can't you just swipe your debit card and pump
Speaker 4: your gas?
Speaker 1: Dude?
Speaker 4: Why do you have to go in and pay thirty
Speaker 4: dollars my debit card doesn't It doesn't work there, Dude,
Speaker 4: I don't know that, Tom, Are you familiar with that?
Speaker 1: See?
Speaker 3: I think that's huge tops the gas station. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: like this awesome, the best gas station.
Speaker 4: It's the best. I just don't know why their gas pumps.
Speaker 4: You can't just go you can bang it and then
Speaker 4: it'll walk you through. You have to put your number
Speaker 4: in and all that stuff. Bro, police see cashier for.
Speaker 3: That's on you, dude. Tap tap to pay.
Speaker 4: I've tapped to pay, I've slid it in, I've done,
Speaker 4: I've done everything you can do.
Speaker 3: No, I roll up there, tap green lights?
Speaker 1: Yeah gas, that's annoyo. That's what I'm mad at all. Right,
Speaker 1: let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 3: Grew up on a cattle farm in Georgia.
Speaker 1: Yep, what part northeast Georgia, right outside of Athens.
Speaker 2: Okay, you a bulldog oh yeah, oh yeah, get.
Speaker 3: That to gain him PBR bull rider.
Speaker 1: I didn't know, man, man. I just grew up in
Speaker 1: the back of stockyards. My grandpa was an auctioneer. My
Speaker 1: dad was buying on commission in the ring as cows
Speaker 1: rolled through, and he wouldn't pay no attention to me.
Speaker 1: I'd be back there with the with all the people
Speaker 1: working in the back of the stockyard, just dodging wild cattle.
Speaker 1: I loved it, really yeah. I wanted to be a
Speaker 1: bull rider. And then uh got a little older, and
Speaker 1: my dad just kind of taught me out of it,
Speaker 1: just said that the money wasn't very good for the
Speaker 1: for the problems.
Speaker 2: Probably not were you doing any rodeo and at all?
Speaker 2: Like to get you there, Yeah, but you grew up
Speaker 2: working cattle, like like on.
Speaker 3: The farm, what's it? What's a day?
Speaker 2: Because dude, we're so far removed from that. I mean,
Speaker 2: like we live around farms and stuff, but I ain't
Speaker 2: never worked. Dan's got a great cattle story actually working cattle.
Speaker 3: But like, what's a day in the life of you
Speaker 3: as a child waking up well to work?
Speaker 1: I got uh, I'd wake up and get dressed first
Speaker 1: thing in the morning. My dad being as underwear drinking coffee.
Speaker 1: Uh no, he weared, like some colorful like Hanes, like brief.
Speaker 1: I'm a brief guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my dad was not.
Speaker 1: It's not whitey ties is just too old looking for me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but uh I wait on, wait on to get ready.
Speaker 1: Me and him would ride over to the barn from
Speaker 1: our house and uh, go down the alley, bring up
Speaker 1: the calves, sort them. I was a little kid five
Speaker 1: seven years old holding the gate. He go up the alley,
Speaker 1: bring him back one at a time, catch go by.
Speaker 1: What do he wanted to take? We go down there
Speaker 1: and get all the cows, do the same thing, Load
Speaker 1: them up on his thirty six foot goose neck and
Speaker 1: go to whatever stockyard we were going to pull in
Speaker 1: unloaded cows. They go in there, put back tags on them,
Speaker 1: glue them, and they just.
Speaker 4: So he said, yeah, yeah, like super glus. I'm just
Speaker 4: stick them on his They.
Speaker 1: Just go on the back of the shoulders. Some people
Speaker 1: put them on the back.
Speaker 3: Of the Oh yeah, did it ever get sketchy?
Speaker 1: You almost?
Speaker 3: Did you ever ever get pinned?
Speaker 1: Or oh yeah, I've been running over and hit the
Speaker 1: gates and stuff and yeah, and uh after that, I
Speaker 1: just walked the catwalk as a little kid. Look at
Speaker 1: all the cows I had, and and uh, go get
Speaker 1: some lunch. Probably in the next hour stockyard start selling. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh some of the stockyards were cool with me
Speaker 1: getting down there, being back there, and some of them
Speaker 1: didn't want kids down No. Yeah, I found my way
Speaker 1: down there all the time. They just had to get
Speaker 1: mad at me.
Speaker 4: There's always good hamburgers at stockyards, no doubt. Oh I
Speaker 4: ain't no diet beef.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a big tailgate. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Uh, bro hit us with the hit us with the story.
Speaker 4: Right, So I date this girl, girl, God, anyway, she's insane, right,
Speaker 4: definitely gonna hear this.
Speaker 1: Definitely gonna hear this. She knows it though.
Speaker 4: Ah well, so I'm trying to figure out how to
Speaker 4: disguise it.
Speaker 3: You don't say a name, just go So I go.
Speaker 1: Home with it for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4: And I think the point that you're trying to make
Speaker 4: is there's a vast difference between country boys and farm boys.
Speaker 4: There are They're not the same thing.
Speaker 3: No, they're not.
Speaker 1: We are country boys.
Speaker 4: We grew up in woods, creeks, hollers, river bottoms, fished
Speaker 4: off the banks, allers, that's.
Speaker 1: What we did, right, We're country boys.
Speaker 3: We did not grow up milky cows.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Whatever you do with horses on the yeah, goats. I
Speaker 4: don't even know anyone on although that is extremely fun
Speaker 4: to watch, you man, that's my thing. You know how
Speaker 4: some people have like their thing that they watch on
Speaker 4: the internet that's like kind of like satisfy, weirdly satisfying. Yeah, mine,
Speaker 4: or it'll be like a dude hoof and of whatever,
Speaker 4: scraping and cleaning it.
Speaker 1: The sound of it sounds like I never see that.
Speaker 1: I never do sound I'm always.
Speaker 3: I'm sure they did, like some as mr stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they do. They like scraping like a certain way
Speaker 1: to make it so cool.
Speaker 3: Okay, let me ask you this.
Speaker 2: Are they actually nailing something into the don't let me
Speaker 2: into the into the foot of the it's like the hoof.
Speaker 1: It's just to protect the hoof. Yeah, it's just like
Speaker 1: a like a so they just put these little nails,
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 4: So I go to mom currently very ex girlfriend's place,
Speaker 4: uh in the Midwest, and her dad is like, you
Speaker 4: were talking like farm guy, cow guy.
Speaker 1: She was your ex girlfriend. No, she's my mega ex girl.
Speaker 1: She is now Yeah, dating then yeah, fifteen years ago.
Speaker 3: So I was like to put a ring on it.
Speaker 3: They got a million acres out.
Speaker 2: There, big deer tear to take them for the team.
Speaker 4: I tried for as long as I could anyway. So
Speaker 4: I get out there. I haven't even met her dad.
Speaker 1: We get it. We're flying late. You know.
Speaker 4: I sleep in the basement on like a pull out couch.
Speaker 1: He's waking me up at five in the morning. Sorry,
Speaker 1: it was like four in the morning.
Speaker 4: It was mega dark, Like I kind of just gotten there,
Speaker 4: and so I'll make this quick, quicker quicker.
Speaker 1: So he's like, hey man, we gotta go. We're taking cat.
Speaker 4: We're taking You're gonna have to help me out on
Speaker 4: the terms here. But it was bulls to get to
Speaker 4: get their balls cut off. Like teenage we're making them
Speaker 4: steers that day whatever. A teenage bull is.
Speaker 3: Having them into stairs.
Speaker 4: So so first off he runs them at the shoot.
Speaker 4: I'm in a gap between the gate and the thing,
Speaker 4: and there's like thirty freaking I mean not giant, but
Speaker 4: probably sixunds. Yeah, come and right at me, and I'm like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, this is I'm not cut out for this.
Speaker 4: Immediately they turned going to the gate that was the
Speaker 4: first hurdle we jump. We get to the ball cutting
Speaker 4: place where the vet I don't know what is that?
Speaker 1: Just what yeah, castrating place. We just always I mean
Speaker 1: there's vets that do it, but we always just yeah.
Speaker 3: Most of them just do it themselves.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: So we were running them through the shoot you were
Speaker 4: talking about, and then we can come down here. They
Speaker 4: would pull this liver and it would like plamp down.
Speaker 1: On their name and then they would lose their.
Speaker 4: Yeah, bro, it'd be doodoo and hoofs and tails. And
Speaker 4: I was like, man, I just I don't know. And
Speaker 4: like I said, dude, I'm down, Like I'm I'm a
Speaker 4: country guy. I'll try anything. I'm just not I'm not
Speaker 4: used to this stuff, right, So I go in. He's like, hey,
Speaker 4: you probably know this could be total boy. I don't know,
Speaker 4: but the guy was like the dad was like, if
Speaker 4: you if you grab the tail and flip it up,
Speaker 4: it's a real thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay.
Speaker 4: He's like, when they come through here, I need you
Speaker 4: to reach in, grab the tail, flip it up. It'll
Speaker 4: put the he needs bull and neutral. I'll reach in,
Speaker 4: rittrit band the balls.
Speaker 1: See that. Okay.
Speaker 4: I'm like all right, dude, let's get it.
Speaker 1: Cow guy, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm just being honest. I don't know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: So I know, so the cow everybody else does.
Speaker 4: So he does the first one. There's there's dodoo going everywhere,
Speaker 4: and then he the second one comes Toro, he slams
Speaker 4: it down. He's like, all right, reaches grab a tail,
Speaker 4: and he's down here right because he's nut level.
Speaker 1: I'm up. I'm standing up with the tail. Well.
Speaker 4: I had no idea. Dude, cow's got long tails. Dude,
Speaker 4: they're long.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. Did you know that time?
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I grab the tail, I flip it up
Speaker 4: into neutral, and when I do, the tail whips up
Speaker 4: into the air, comes by my left shoulder and paints
Speaker 4: a perfect doo dooo stripe from his eyes, straight under
Speaker 4: his nose, across his lips and across his chin. And
Speaker 4: I have an extremely weak stomach.
Speaker 1: Dude, always that we do our own family, that's right.
Speaker 4: And so I'm like, oh man, he's got a dude
Speaker 4: stripe painted on his face and he goes like this.
Speaker 1: I see his tongue and.
Speaker 4: I see that you can't hell, but like, if you
Speaker 4: got you know what I'm saying, like, I see the
Speaker 4: dirty duodoo.
Speaker 1: On the end of this got tongue, and I old, man,
Speaker 1: oh man, you got a little.
Speaker 4: And I started with so I'm holding this cow's tail,
Speaker 4: try not to throw up. He's like, dude, David Bowie
Speaker 4: down there and he and he freaking you know, I'm
Speaker 4: talking about the stripe got me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a new one, right say that. He
Speaker 1: touches it and he goes.
Speaker 4: I was like, you got a little, and he's like,
Speaker 4: tastes like money.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, dude, this males like U. I don't
Speaker 1: care what it tastes like. And on the way home
Speaker 1: he was like he was brave heart stripe.
Speaker 4: I think he was trying to size me up on
Speaker 4: like whether or not I could like run the farm,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 1: And he was like, what do you think, man?
Speaker 4: And I was like, A ain't for me, man, cows,
Speaker 4: I don't know, man, I don't know for for Medde,
Speaker 4: you know. But it was glad that didn't work out.
Speaker 4: Glad that didn't work out.
Speaker 1: You ever get to your mouth, Yeah, I've had plenty
Speaker 1: of so that's a pretty normal thing. I grabbed the tail.
Speaker 1: For years, we had this old wood shoot from my
Speaker 1: dad built in like two thousand and one or two,
Speaker 1: when we moved up to our house and we run
Speaker 1: the cows through there, they catch them in the head. Shoot,
Speaker 1: you'd pin them up against the wall where you hip
Speaker 1: throw the throw the tail over there, you go down,
Speaker 1: cut them off.
Speaker 4: See y'all cut them? This was banding, Is there two?
Speaker 1: I guess there's a long club. They've been banding a
Speaker 1: lot more recently. When I was younger, they'd cut them. Gotcha?
Speaker 1: How long for real?
Speaker 3: Do you think out of the gate you could stay
Speaker 3: on a bull?
Speaker 4: Well, there's different classifications of bulls.
Speaker 3: Are we talking like, dude? PB our championship, World championship?
Speaker 1: One second? Not very long? Yeah, point five seconds?
Speaker 4: I mean on a real one, Yeah, I mean on
Speaker 4: like old Sancho out there and the pasture has been
Speaker 4: there for fifteen bucks.
Speaker 2: Like this now even bull right, you're just literally riding it.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about a bucking one day, less.
Speaker 1: Than a second, not very long, yees. I mean that's
Speaker 1: just been on me and you're pretty thick guys. Oh
Speaker 1: yeah for sure. Is that a disadvantage on bull riding?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Once your moment gets going on, I fail
Speaker 1: you feel that. Yeah, I've been rollerblading before I get
Speaker 1: I went skiing the other day, first time ever snowskin. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We were in Park City, Utah. I would have loved
Speaker 1: to what do you wear? First off? Did you wears
Speaker 1: and boots?
Speaker 3: No? No?
Speaker 1: I had some. I had some, put some PJS on,
Speaker 1: some sweatpants. Good. Later I had a duck hunting jacket
Speaker 1: and threw it on, zipped up, and my tour manager
Speaker 1: and my acoustic guitar player were going and I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm going. They were like are you sure? And we're
Speaker 1: party professional skiers go up there to practice. So we
Speaker 1: get on the ski lift and I'm like hell yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's beautiful up there, it's cold. We go to
Speaker 1: get off the ski lift and it's straight down a
Speaker 1: hill and I'm like holy So I finally get stopped.
Speaker 1: So you do it?
Speaker 4: Though, you go, I mean you're not falling.
Speaker 1: I didn't fall. I went about thirty yards, didn't fall.
Speaker 1: Turned to go down the big hill and this is
Speaker 1: a big ass hill and I'm like, fuck it. So
Speaker 1: I sent it go about forty fifty yards and I'm
Speaker 1: like I'm going way too damn fast and these sticks
Speaker 1: and started doing nothing, so I just hate it. I
Speaker 1: got up ate it again one more time and I
Speaker 1: could see the ski lift from where I was at
Speaker 1: and Uh, I looked up my tour managers, like, I
Speaker 1: think you can make it down the hill. I said, man,
Speaker 1: we got some shows to play. I got back on
Speaker 1: that thing, went down there, and UH went and got
Speaker 1: me some breakfast.
Speaker 4: There you go, but you did it, you know.
Speaker 1: Me and Dan.
Speaker 2: One time we're out in Denver with a group doing
Speaker 2: the same thing. We snowboard, or used to until I
Speaker 2: broke my ribs and elbow and had about six concussions.
Speaker 2: We got old and Uh and we got on this
Speaker 2: lift because there was this one run we wanted to do.
Speaker 3: We've been watching it all day and we got on
Speaker 3: this lift and we were we were going, were like, dude,
Speaker 3: we were getting pumped up.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be so much fun. And all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: that run got like was like down here, and we
Speaker 2: were like, hang on, man, where are we going? And
Speaker 2: we ended up riding to the double black diamond at
Speaker 2: the top of the ski lift, and it was We're
Speaker 2: the only snoring snowboard. When you were standing there looking
Speaker 2: at it, you couldn't see the slope. All you saw
Speaker 2: was like the edge of the mountains. And then it
Speaker 2: was just like you're just gonna fall off the I had.
Speaker 4: A full blown panic attactor. I was like, I don't know,
Speaker 4: it's terrifying.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm good down for terrifed. You can't ride the lift down.
Speaker 4: You know their lights like you, I have.
Speaker 1: To figure this out. Just slide down took all all day. Dude.
Speaker 2: Uh saw a photo of you with a with a
Speaker 2: buck you killed, and uh was it last fall?
Speaker 1: It was the fall before that. I didn't get in
Speaker 1: the woods much. Last fall, we were just going and
Speaker 1: then I had a couple of weeks off and just
Speaker 1: just did a bunch of different Yeah, killed it behind
Speaker 1: our family's farm, and it was getting close to the
Speaker 1: end of season. So I just it's aw nice ten point.
Speaker 1: It was a nice tear. I didn't seen it. It's
Speaker 1: awesome hanging on my wall in my house.
Speaker 3: Did you do much Did you do much hunting growing up?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Uh, I'll go deer hunting with my daddy and
Speaker 1: rabbit hunting and yeah, dove and we had a couple
Speaker 1: of coon dogs growing up. Go let the dog out
Speaker 1: in the woods. Light up a bowl and it starts
Speaker 1: barking track through the woods and dog coon.
Speaker 4: Though I've never done that, man, And I've always thought
Speaker 4: there's like this allure to it because it happens at night, right,
Speaker 4: Like that's gotta be if you did it a lot,
Speaker 4: you got to have seen some stuff out there.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you see a lot of different animals and
Speaker 1: you just run up on people's backyards. And we had
Speaker 1: this big piece of property that my daddy rent and
Speaker 1: bought and then sold. As I got older, I had
Speaker 1: a buddy of mine's names Trent Saxon. He had a
Speaker 1: bunch of coon dogs and the like the best thing
Speaker 1: you can do as a coon dogs be like a
Speaker 1: Grand Night champion. He was a two time Grand Night Champion,
Speaker 1: Grand to Night Grand Night Champions. You take five or
Speaker 1: six dogs out there, and you go to different properties
Speaker 1: all throughout the night, over a couple of nights, and
Speaker 1: it's like each dog has like a home place, y'all go,
Speaker 1: just like you're playing at home. Yeah, So they let
Speaker 1: out about five dogs and then each one of them
Speaker 1: has a distinct bark, so they'll go down there and
Speaker 1: whatever and gets on the tree first. That'd be people
Speaker 1: arguing about who's because one one dog gets on it
Speaker 1: the rest of the dogs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you're listening for the first bar. It's a
Speaker 3: race to that trick.
Speaker 1: And they don't. They don't shoot them out during the competitions,
Speaker 1: right that way, they can just keep keep getting to it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he was. It was a two time grandmar Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the daddy before that was like a It was
Speaker 1: like a two or three time Grandnight champion.
Speaker 4: It's gotta be fun there are they? Do you get
Speaker 4: anything for the hides or is it just coming fun
Speaker 4: to go do nothing?
Speaker 1: They didn't never get anything for the hides.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I knew it one time there were something. But
Speaker 4: I think the farther south you get, the less they're
Speaker 4: worth because they're not as thick.
Speaker 1: You know. It's like Northern Coons.
Speaker 2: Play college football Georgia Southern. What what did you play?
Speaker 1: Nose guard? Okay, I was, I was waying about two
Speaker 1: ninety then down in the down in the shoulders. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just we played a either called a three man front
Speaker 1: or five man front, head up nose guard, two ends
Speaker 1: or two d tackles and the three and the four
Speaker 1: eye and then two outside linebackers. I always called it
Speaker 1: a five man front. The outside linebackers walk up and
Speaker 1: I was just eating double teams left and right.
Speaker 4: But that's that's uh yeah, I've played that position. That's
Speaker 4: a You're getting smacked around down there, a lot pulling guards.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Did you love it or did you like it?
Speaker 1: I loved it until we got near my last year,
Speaker 1: and then you see I'm a really business minded person. Okay,
Speaker 1: but uh you just see. You just see how business
Speaker 1: it is when you get there as a kid that
Speaker 1: just got out of high school, I'm about to play
Speaker 1: college football. The hypes's so crazy. First year we were
Speaker 1: two and ten. Everybody's pointing the finger. I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: it's a toxic cast. Play Yeah. In turn, coach gets
Speaker 1: hired as a head coach. Next year, we go ten
Speaker 1: and three, We go win the Chamella Bowl down in Mobile,
Speaker 1: Alabama by the last second field goal. They go to
Speaker 1: a bowl gain. The next year, I think we win.
Speaker 1: The next year, I think we lost. And then coming
Speaker 1: into my last season, I tore my knee up in
Speaker 1: the spring and had surgery and started writing songs and
Speaker 1: August rolled Around let out my first song. September rolled
Speaker 1: Around was half healthy enough to play.
Speaker 2: So I so you released that you released a song
Speaker 2: while you were still on the team.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The nil deal had just come around where you
Speaker 1: get paid.
Speaker 3: To uh yeah.
Speaker 1: Do external stuff outside of football, like it would happen,
Speaker 1: but you couldn't legally like take somebody paying for your
Speaker 1: meal at a restaurant, or like somebody just sending giving
Speaker 1: you some free stuff or like trying to give you
Speaker 1: a deal. Yeah until twenty twenty one. In July twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one, head I cut my first song and all
Speaker 1: this stuff, let it out and I checked the beer
Speaker 1: on top of the bus on the way of the
Speaker 1: game got famous. Yeah, they barstool blew it up. The
Speaker 1: athletic director gave me an ultimatum. It was like, look,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, right, let's start, let's lay out.
Speaker 4: So you shoot this beer, right some one of your
Speaker 4: buddies filmed it.
Speaker 1: I guess, uh no, some random sorority girl that my
Speaker 1: girlfriend at the time knew.
Speaker 3: Okay, were you like I'm about to get up on
Speaker 3: top of this bus and shoot.
Speaker 1: This, I mean, were you trying to fire a pa tamo?
Speaker 1: What was the point? Now? We just ride these buses
Speaker 1: around campus and they do like these dang like battle
Speaker 1: chants in the bush like just get your mind locked
Speaker 1: in stuff, and there's they're ragged out buses and people
Speaker 1: would sit on the top or I want the first
Speaker 1: person up there. I was the first person filmed. Gosh
Speaker 1: and uh, I don't know if anybody ever surfed it
Speaker 1: like I did, ye, but uh, it wasn't playing. It
Speaker 1: wasn't a stunt or anything. They just where'd you get
Speaker 1: the beer?
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: Dude that was a bartender at the bar that was
Speaker 1: right up the street flashed it to me and I
Speaker 1: was like, give me that. He and h took it down.
Speaker 1: We played the game with all spot touchdown and.
Speaker 4: Then uh, you wake up the next morning and it's
Speaker 4: like mega famous.
Speaker 1: Yeah, coach brings me in the office. Athletic directors suspends me.
Speaker 1: I'm suspended for a week. I play a game. My
Speaker 1: numbers start going up for music because Barstool shouted me
Speaker 1: out for my music and I just keep hosting it.
Speaker 1: And they were like, I knew that the season was
Speaker 1: pretty shit. I didn't like how everybody was like treating everybody.
Speaker 1: I was like that, yeah so business minded, Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 1: So they brought me in. Thought they were going to
Speaker 1: give me an ultimatum that was gonna make me like
Speaker 1: settle down. Stop. They were like, you can either play
Speaker 1: football and be on this team, which we want you
Speaker 1: to do, or you can make country music and start
Speaker 1: start now, or you can make it at the end
Speaker 1: of the season. Dang. So I just told him I'm out.
Speaker 1: So this is gonna pay my bills and my kids
Speaker 1: tuition one day. Yeah, and this ain't five eleven and
Speaker 1: a half. I play nose guard. I ain't going to.
Speaker 3: Leave five eleven half like your boy maybe with those
Speaker 3: boots on.
Speaker 1: Now five eleven it says six foot on always went
Speaker 1: six foot six foot on my damn license.
Speaker 4: Now, same dude, screen Tom, This dude, This dude loves
Speaker 4: the fact that it says six foot on his license.
Speaker 4: I mean, they just complete both. They just tell the
Speaker 4: truth on there. You know, it's like you can't it.
Speaker 1: Just I still says, I wait two fifteen, I wait
Speaker 1: to forty. That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4: It sounds perception, baby, perception's reality. So you do that
Speaker 4: music starts going awesome? Are you start playing shows? I'm
Speaker 4: assuming you find a band. You're like, all right, let's start,
Speaker 4: let's get rocking.
Speaker 1: Hit up this guy. Then I went to preschool with
Speaker 1: that played drums in preschool. Remember he probably started he
Speaker 1: probably started playing when he was like eight or nine.
Speaker 1: Guy that played offensive line, Yeah, he played guitar. We
Speaker 1: got together. I hit up the main bar there. They
Speaker 1: said I could play for drinks. So I went to
Speaker 1: their competitor and it was like, look, I want I
Speaker 1: want to play for a little bit of money. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've got this a little bit of a clout, Yeah,
Speaker 1: through a couple hundred bucks.
Speaker 3: Dang right, what's up?
Speaker 1: Yeah. Acoustic player never met the electric player. Electric players,
Speaker 1: acustic players never met the drummer. We practice about twenty
Speaker 1: five songs playing this back deck of this bar called
Speaker 1: Southern Social on Tuesday on Syll this week, lying out
Speaker 1: of the door really yeah, just it's packed, slam packed.
Speaker 1: And uh I introduced them all a little bit later
Speaker 1: we play the show Nail. All the songs didn't have
Speaker 1: a bass player, just drummer. Acoustic. I said, make that,
Speaker 1: make that electric.
Speaker 3: Sound playing that top string a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And my first song, Ain't No Cure come out
Speaker 1: that Friday. I think I let it on Thursday. I
Speaker 1: didn't know anything about release or release cycle or anything.
Speaker 1: I was like, a song comes out on Thursday, and
Speaker 1: the people in the crowd were singing along because I've
Speaker 1: been posting it two days before it come out. And
Speaker 1: I was like, dang, this is cool. Yeah, that is cool.
Speaker 1: And I just started letting out songs one after another.
Speaker 1: I'm average and probably like one point four songs a
Speaker 1: month since it started. Wow.
Speaker 2: Just AND's funny how that like when you when you're like,
Speaker 2: make the decision, all right, man, I need a band,
Speaker 2: you literally just call anybody you know that plays any instrument.
Speaker 2: You need a drummer, you need a guitar player. So
Speaker 2: it always starts with yeah, guys on the team, guys,
Speaker 2: you brothers know all that came.
Speaker 1: I was recording my hometown and these guys were recording
Speaker 1: on me the first couple of songs, and when I
Speaker 1: go to the studio one morning, they sent me a
Speaker 1: text two minutes for long ass text just said they
Speaker 1: didn't like my style of music, didn't think it was
Speaker 1: going anywhere, and they didn't want to waste the time
Speaker 1: on it. Wow. I was pretty pissed off, pretty discouraged. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just and I walked in there to my producer
Speaker 1: and he looked at me. He said, Man, I've been
Speaker 1: waiting for you too far. He was like, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get you some good people on here. So he just
Speaker 1: starts throwing people that he knew that was around my
Speaker 1: age at me that he thought could do a good job.
Speaker 1: I picked up the good ones along the way. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I've been rocking ever since. Yeah.
Speaker 2: How do you think like from a young age working
Speaker 2: growing up on a cattle farm, hard work, consistency, you know, repetition,
Speaker 2: Like does that does that play into your music now?
Speaker 2: Like like the go getting attitude.
Speaker 1: It's like sewing buttons on a shirt, and first when
Speaker 1: you figure out how to do it, it's it's the
Speaker 1: same as it was last time riding the bike. It's
Speaker 1: just I've learned a lot of that from the farm,
Speaker 1: just working with my daddy. I just loved having a
Speaker 1: good work ethic. And then football did the same thing.
Speaker 1: It's like five am alarm goes off three times a week,
Speaker 1: going in there to kick your own ass.
Speaker 4: So and and the business is a lot like that,
Speaker 4: isn't it. It's crazy how like you have people who
Speaker 4: their opinions up about you, whether that's right or wrong,
Speaker 4: as long as you keep putting in the work, it
Speaker 4: seems to pay off, you know, keep staying on the
Speaker 4: I mean twenty eight days of the road, sixteen shows,
Speaker 4: that's a that's a prime example, dude.
Speaker 2: And at that point, I mean, look, the songs are
Speaker 2: speaking for themselves, right like, like it's you millions of streams,
Speaker 2: you know, shows are booking out the out every you know,
Speaker 2: out everywhere, and at that point, nobody can tell you anything. No,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, what are they going to say
Speaker 2: that you're doing it wrong?
Speaker 3: No, you're not.
Speaker 1: It's working. Yeah. I just like when I hear a
Speaker 1: lot of I just drop another one. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I know you said that in the right The day
Speaker 4: we wrote you were just like, whenever anybody thinks that
Speaker 4: they've got me cornered and we're heading a certain direction,
Speaker 4: He's like, I just want to right turn that bitch
Speaker 4: completely different. You tell me about Unlucky strikes man. You
Speaker 4: wrote that with someboddies of ours.
Speaker 1: I wrote that with A Will Bundy and Eric Dillon
Speaker 1: and Jack Routing.
Speaker 4: I don't know Jack, but I know the other two dudes.
Speaker 4: We love the other two dudes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jack's the buddy of mine that went to U. G.
Speaker 1: A And Uh, he come to town and I was cutting
Speaker 1: some songs of me and him wrote together and got him.
Speaker 1: He got him a pub deal over at Warner Chapel
Speaker 1: and he's been writing like crazy with everybody in town.
Speaker 1: He's he's gonna write some hits around here. Awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 1: IVE heard his name before and then, uh yeah, I
Speaker 1: never wrote with Will Bundy or Eric Dillon. I just
Speaker 1: my publisher at Sony got me together with those guys
Speaker 1: and we went in there and I heard Eric Dillon
Speaker 1: for years. I've been listening to some of the stuff
Speaker 1: he writes, the craziest sad stuff awesome. And uh, I
Speaker 1: went in there and I was we were just shooting.
Speaker 1: I said, Eric, I want to let you know I
Speaker 1: love that song. Man. I missed that dog and I've
Speaker 1: loved it for a couple of years now or a
Speaker 1: year and a half now. And my dog got run over.
Speaker 1: I come off a stage at Right the Country. My
Speaker 1: parents were there. It's like a hometown show, like a
Speaker 1: couple of hours from my house, and uh, my parents
Speaker 1: are crying. They told my dog got run over, and uh,
Speaker 1: next week I had to put her down because they
Speaker 1: couldn't do the surgery on her. And tough. So I
Speaker 1: was it's all good, ain't. I ain't harping on it,
Speaker 1: but I was just gonna let you know I love
Speaker 1: that song. And then Jack Brown said, I didn't tell
Speaker 1: you my bank account got which about five minutes later
Speaker 1: he was like, I didn't tell you my bank account
Speaker 1: got drained and uh they took all my money. Well,
Speaker 1: he said, I just got it back. It's been a week.
Speaker 1: I had zero dollars. And then uh, Will Bundy was like, well,
Speaker 1: I got this song called Unlucky Strikes about some bad
Speaker 1: stuff that happens to you. I was like, well, what's
Speaker 1: what's a couple of things that really eat at you?
Speaker 1: I was like, well, my grandpa's getting older. He's my
Speaker 1: last grandpa grandparent, and uh so that that eats at
Speaker 1: me all the time. And then I was like, let's
Speaker 1: say something wrong with you right here? Yeah, and uh,
Speaker 1: I was like his girlfriend was a stripper. That's probably
Speaker 1: that's so that would suck. Do you have any ex
Speaker 1: girlfriends that a strippers? Not that I know? No, that's
Speaker 1: a test.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I mean I had no hope either. I
Speaker 3: don't think so I don't either.
Speaker 1: H I'll that you brought that up.
Speaker 3: We did a little.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: I think I think we brought our own version. Now
Speaker 2: I don't know what I do with my don't I
Speaker 2: can't do it.
Speaker 7: My dumb god ride home like creating God stop and
Speaker 7: Bar's move in, Slow girls on the Bool Ben rolling
Speaker 7: snake guys man.
Speaker 1: Something ain't right. Yes, I've been smoking and talking all
Speaker 1: over Lucky Shry. Keep going. We didn't do too, did we?
Speaker 1: We didn't do two verses? Go ahead, it's uh, it's
Speaker 1: gee e minor c Slaw. Yeah, got it.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna try it. This is our version we wrote
Speaker 3: this morning.
Speaker 6: My dog Juede, my Jordan's, my yards full of moles.
Speaker 6: I just broke the tip off my new fish and
Speaker 6: pole the best farm.
Speaker 3: I hunt, got no turkeys inside.
Speaker 6: Yes, I've been smoking on talking on Unlucky stripe.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, maybe maybe a country version of Unlucky.
Speaker 1: I'm glad we got you to do the real version
Speaker 1: first way.
Speaker 3: Better me too, Yeah, Unlucky strikes dude, We all got
Speaker 3: them right.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So what's your what's your what's your releasing songs?
Speaker 1: Process? Like?
Speaker 2: How like how many of you releasing? What's what's the
Speaker 2: time apart? Well, is there a formula to it.
Speaker 1: When I started out, I figured out let out a
Speaker 1: song of month song a month every two months when
Speaker 1: I ordered, because I was trying to get a surplus
Speaker 1: of songs. Yeah, So I'd let out one and I
Speaker 1: was like, I gotta write three to five songs. So
Speaker 1: I'd write, I'd let out one right, three to five,
Speaker 1: let out one right, three to five, stacking them up
Speaker 1: just so I get yeah, ready for an album. And
Speaker 1: at first it was just me rotten and uh. I
Speaker 1: saw my best growth on streams of monthly listeners when
Speaker 1: I would just hit them with them really And I
Speaker 1: feel like twenty twenty one was still right before music
Speaker 1: started like getting let out like crazy. Sure, and it
Speaker 1: was starting to happen. People are starting to let out
Speaker 1: a lot of music at a time, but.
Speaker 4: That's still COVID, right, two words, that still COVID or.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And so I did that for a while, watch
Speaker 1: the numbers grow, and I wouldn't let them fall. When
Speaker 1: I'd see that, I'd watch the I'd watch the graph
Speaker 1: on my business mind. I'd watch my graph on my
Speaker 1: artist page, and i'd see when it peak and then
Speaker 1: ride about right here and when it dip off that
Speaker 1: that next Sunday. The most I'd be like, oh it's
Speaker 1: time to let out a song for it. Yeah, graph
Speaker 1: goes down before you lose the momentum. Yeah, And then
Speaker 1: got away from that a little bit. Let out an
Speaker 1: album last year, gave it a little time to rest,
Speaker 1: which what little time was like three months of not
Speaker 1: releasing something was just like a lot for me. That's crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, I like you're everywhere.
Speaker 2: You're all over the internet, your viral, every video you
Speaker 2: put up, You're posting sometimes five times a day.
Speaker 1: Like do you do you get tired of it?
Speaker 2: Like is it do you feel like it's sustainable or
Speaker 2: do you just like, hey man, I'm just gonna roll
Speaker 2: this thing as long as it can possibly go.
Speaker 3: And when it when it stops, it stops.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's sustainable. It's just had to change up our
Speaker 1: content some there's been there's seasons of different I suddenly
Speaker 1: like a nerd when you said it's the game, right,
Speaker 1: the algorithm changes. You be hitting on a lick and
Speaker 1: you'll be like, hell, yeah, these videos are working this
Speaker 1: style of video this one week, it's good quality videos
Speaker 1: are doing good. Next week, only cell phone videos are
Speaker 1: doing good.
Speaker 4: Jumps is loving this section right here, This is wheelhouse.
Speaker 1: And sometimes I'll throw a caption above, just a random
Speaker 1: caption above the video.
Speaker 3: Don't give away your secrets.
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's it's basically, it's just influencer stuff,
Speaker 1: just like I mean, it ain't. It ain't a secret.
Speaker 1: You can go scroll on TikTok and see what's doing
Speaker 1: good and what you gotta but the algorithm changes. Like
Speaker 1: a couple uh, a couple of weeks ago, TikTok was
Speaker 1: like down. Instagram was killing I was getting like three
Speaker 1: hundred thousand use a video on Instagram getting like fifty
Speaker 1: to one hundred on TikTok, which I've got more followers
Speaker 1: on TikTok, and they'll just be down weeks.
Speaker 4: It's crazy. I had no idea that was even a thing.
Speaker 4: I just assumed it was just mechanical and did the
Speaker 4: same thing all the time.
Speaker 1: No, they'd been messing with it.
Speaker 2: Wow, Well you probably got plenty of content, especially like
Speaker 2: from your shows. It's just like us man like like
Speaker 2: we're like, man, what can we you know what we
Speaker 2: get it? But our life every day we're doing something
Speaker 2: outdoorsy just about man. We're either going fishing or we're
Speaker 2: on a tractor or going on a hunt or something
Speaker 2: like with you. I see, I see the shows that
Speaker 2: you're doing and just how how wild they get and
Speaker 2: shirts off you're climbing up the speaker polls, and the
Speaker 2: content is probably not lacking, I would.
Speaker 4: Say, especially if you're playing sixteen shows in twenty eight days. Man,
Speaker 4: you're probably you've probably got plenty of well. I mean
Speaker 4: that's where arguably one of your biggest videos getting smacked
Speaker 4: in the face of that beer can came from with
Speaker 4: a live show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, did you see the guys?
Speaker 2: I just want to hear it because I don't know
Speaker 2: about that. I just want to hear it from the jump.
Speaker 2: Was it was it open or was it it was
Speaker 2: like three quarters full three quarters full? Where did he
Speaker 2: hit me right here and went across my nose? And
Speaker 2: honestly right here on my nose was sore for but
Speaker 2: it didn't brewise up. Yeah, I ate it and I
Speaker 2: said some choice things.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I thought, I mean, even on the thing,
Speaker 4: I thought you handled it correctly, as correctly as you
Speaker 4: possibly could have. I mean, dude, I mean, it had
Speaker 4: to take everything in you not to lay that guitar
Speaker 4: down and just go I mean jump off that.
Speaker 1: Day A doubt that state it was. It was close.
Speaker 1: But so did you just see the guy? Do you?
Speaker 1: Can you see the guy's face in your head right
Speaker 1: now through I just looked at the general direction. I
Speaker 1: didn't know who it was. I just started raising hell.
Speaker 1: I mean he thought that I saw him because I
Speaker 1: looked just dead in the middle of that crowd.
Speaker 4: Dude, I bet he breaks that's I mean, he should
Speaker 4: have been. Yeah, no, it don't don't throw don't.
Speaker 2: Throw things at the guy. But bro, it just adds
Speaker 2: to it, just adds to the brand a little bit.
Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, like the rock show, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's just.
Speaker 1: Just brand is one of the rowdiest shows. It's not
Speaker 1: the rowdiest in country music.
Speaker 2: And it's probably an experience too that people want to
Speaker 2: go check out. Man, it looks it looks fun, it
Speaker 2: looks kind of scary, like it looks wild, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, Like it looks more of like an
Speaker 2: experience than a show.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, So you got Well, I'm just saying I
Speaker 4: hope the listener understands also that like, it's not just
Speaker 4: a rock show. I mean, there's quality tunes in there
Speaker 4: that the band sounds good. You sound good like it's
Speaker 4: not just a complete free free for all. I mean,
Speaker 4: you're still getting a great country show at the same time.
Speaker 4: You know, like, you got good songs, you sound good
Speaker 4: singing them too. It's not just it's not just that
Speaker 4: you take your shirt off, you know. It's that you
Speaker 4: take your shirt off and good songs at the same time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when we started, I told the guys the other
Speaker 1: day that weren't in the band forever. I said, Man,
Speaker 1: we used to get song four or five, I had
Speaker 1: no shirt on the next seventeen, wait till later in
Speaker 1: the show. Now we hold it till like the last
Speaker 1: three songs. I don't. I went out there the first
Speaker 1: time we played in Mobile, Alabama at a heart We
Speaker 1: sold hard tickets and uh, where'd you play? We know
Speaker 1: that we know that area pretty well. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And uh, first couple of shows I played in Statesburg,
Speaker 1: it was hot as hell. Yeah, so I ripped my
Speaker 1: shirt open just to stay cool. We're inside of co
Speaker 1: pub and the roofs like this tall overhead speakers are
Speaker 1: butted up to the ceiling. It's not a very long room,
Speaker 1: so it gets back there. But it's just loud, hot summertime,
Speaker 1: and I gotta rip my shirt off and everybody in
Speaker 1: the crowd loose. So that's just when I'm so now,
Speaker 1: it's just the thing. It's gonna happen. You're gonna do
Speaker 1: it forever.
Speaker 3: What about old I'm about to just thin up, thin
Speaker 3: up hashtag thin up baby.
Speaker 2: Uh you said, like when you were playing football, y'all
Speaker 2: had these chants on the bus to and like getting
Speaker 2: your mind right and getting locked in and all that thing.
Speaker 3: It kind of feels like your show's the same experience.
Speaker 2: Like you're getting ready for a game, You're getting ready
Speaker 2: for something that's about to be super intense.
Speaker 1: Get focused.
Speaker 3: What is the new what's the new pre show ritual
Speaker 3: that gets gets you and the boys right?
Speaker 1: We do change over, and the guys go on stage,
Speaker 1: set everything up, They get done, We come in there,
Speaker 1: we pray, and then uh, my tour manager starts playing
Speaker 1: Thunderstruck and the whole band passes around four beers.
Speaker 4: Let's give me in a circle because you're warning that struck.
Speaker 1: I wasn't, And we just circle four beers around water
Speaker 1: following them around.
Speaker 3: Okay, and then uh, it's pretty nuts.
Speaker 1: About everybody except for one guy gets in a circle
Speaker 1: and we slap each other's chest. Wait, why did the
Speaker 1: one guy do it? Because he's just just a little
Speaker 1: he's a little skinny guy, John soft chest chest. I'm
Speaker 1: I've been like John, come here, he's like you slap him.
Speaker 1: Ever I've gave him a few little bit. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: now it's now it's a thing. Yeah, that's fun.
Speaker 3: That's that's intense.
Speaker 4: Maybe we should do that right now, dude, just get
Speaker 4: fired up for great. I'm good man, I'm sorry, I'm John.
Speaker 1: I'll be John. You guys go ahead, I'll play thunder truck. Hey, uh,
Speaker 1: turn it man.
Speaker 4: You got a headlining tour, owning the Need to Need
Speaker 4: to Know tour and twenty five you're doing your own
Speaker 4: thing going out on the road with Morgan Walling.
Speaker 3: Uh what uh what else you got in store?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 3: Like you got songs coming out?
Speaker 1: You got Yeah, we're uh, we're gonna be chugging along
Speaker 1: and released them at a pretty rapid cadence.
Speaker 3: All year, literally chugging and figuratively.
Speaker 1: Yeah literally, fatively, we're gonna playing a bunch of new
Speaker 1: songs on the knee to tour and hearing about a
Speaker 1: week and a half we're dropping what is it two weeks?
Speaker 1: About two weeks we're dropping a new song called Never
Speaker 1: Call Again. It's just about that person you'd forget about
Speaker 1: if everything in the world just didn't remind you of them.
Speaker 1: And uh, a few weeks after that, we're uh letting
Speaker 1: out a song we wrote, Let's Go with with Rett.
Speaker 1: It's a rowdy party song. So as soon as soon
Speaker 1: as you think I'm gonna let out something that's clean,
Speaker 1: so you we're gonna let out something it's just a
Speaker 1: little rowdy for summer time for everybody. It's called on one.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, So it's out Friday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Never Call Again coming out Friday. Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: Can we talk about on one or no? Okay?
Speaker 4: So it's interesting. The first time I wrote with Gavin, uh,
Speaker 4: the night before I feel like I'm always talking about
Speaker 4: my kids body training on this show all the time.
Speaker 1: Actually just one of them.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: But he my little guy was just going nuts, dude.
Speaker 4: And I told Gavin this before we wrote the song.
Speaker 4: I said, man, what snap? My guy was going nuts?
Speaker 4: And my wife said, God, I'm glad you're home. I
Speaker 4: said why, She said, his bone has been on one
Speaker 4: and I was like Man on one is a pretty
Speaker 4: cool title.
Speaker 1: I just put it on my phone.
Speaker 4: I knew I had Gavin coming up the next day,
Speaker 4: and he came in and when you started playing, you
Speaker 4: had that riff and that melody already, and it was
Speaker 4: like the title just sunk in there perfect, And I
Speaker 4: was like, hey, man, I don't know, I said, this
Speaker 4: kind of feels we weirdly divine, but I got this
Speaker 4: title and it sinks in.
Speaker 1: With exactly what we're doing.
Speaker 4: And you had I mean, he had the whole melody,
Speaker 4: the whole core progression, like pretty much done when he
Speaker 4: walked in, So to be able to just slide that
Speaker 4: in there was pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a tough song. So thanks for cutting it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no doubt it's gonna be. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a summer anthem. Hell yeah, all right, we like to
Speaker 1: do you get you take it. You're better at this,
Speaker 1: explain the favorite.
Speaker 2: First of all, congrats dude on all your success and
Speaker 2: everything blowing up here. Yeah, and your goaling dust man
Speaker 2: and like being true to yourself and not giving people
Speaker 2: think about you and you're gonna go do your thing man. Sorry,
Speaker 2: and uh, that props to that. Man, that's a that's
Speaker 2: that's a I respect that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I appreciate it. Man. I wish a lot more
Speaker 1: people would just be who they want to be and
Speaker 1: not who everybody else wants to be. I love that.
Speaker 2: I love that we do a thing where to kind
Speaker 2: of wrap up the show. We do gavorite tune, greatest
Speaker 2: slash favorite, you got one?
Speaker 3: You got one that comes to mind.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been listening to Remember When by Alan Jackson again.
Speaker 2: Rely Jordan's Jordan getting getting the phone out. Tears are strolling, dude.
Speaker 1: And that's it's It's one of my greatest favorite songs
Speaker 1: of all time because it just works me up when
Speaker 1: I listen to it. It's it's a song about the
Speaker 1: the unstoppable, steady hand of time, and this guy's wrote
Speaker 1: that down. Then he got his phone out for you.
Speaker 1: I got right here, put my name by remain. I
Speaker 1: was young, so you time stood still loves all and
Speaker 1: knew you were the first.
Speaker 5: Oh that.
Speaker 1: Mean love and you cried.
Speaker 3: It's such a good song, such a good song.
Speaker 4: You get over there, you're not crying. Yeah, she's an
Speaker 4: Alon Jackson fan.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna listen to this more today. So I can.
Speaker 2: You're awesome man, Thanks for stopping by hanging out with guys.
Speaker 2: I appreciate having us absolutely.
Speaker 4: And like a true cowboy that could actually wear a
Speaker 4: hat if he wanted to wear a cowboy he's earned
Speaker 4: the right.
Speaker 3: Cowboy Bill doesn't wear one. Yeah, you ever wear one?
Speaker 4: Stage you should because you're like a legit cowboy. You
Speaker 4: actually worked cows. That's what a cowboy is Nashville. It's
Speaker 4: people that know that.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you're not going to catch me the
Speaker 1: cowboy at you know why.
Speaker 2: Because you're not a cowboy exactly exactly right. Hey dude, Uh,
Speaker 2: thanks for stoping by. Like we said, that's tope ring.
Speaker 2: I'm just now saying, that's sick.
Speaker 1: It's my grandpa's ring. It's got a he died of
Speaker 1: cancer and No. Five that cut it off of him
Speaker 1: at the hospital and uh, my grandma died. That's all
Speaker 1: I got and I never got it fixed.
Speaker 3: Good for you, Good for you, hey man.
Speaker 2: Y'all be sure to check out Gavin ad Cock Need
Speaker 2: to Tours, got songs coming out going on the road
Speaker 2: with Morgan Walling.
Speaker 3: I want to come see a show. I want to
Speaker 3: come see a show, especially if.
Speaker 4: You're playing our song, Dagget.
Speaker 3: We could write one and you could play it too.
Speaker 1: Is good enough? It's probably good enough.
Speaker 3: I'll take my shirt off and you can let you
Speaker 3: slip my chest before the show. To come on, I
Speaker 3: get in.
Speaker 1: There some good content.
Speaker 3: Hey everybody, thanks for checking out guys Country check out
Speaker 3: Gavin ad Cock.
Speaker 1: We love y'all. Peace, Thank y'all. You