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Speaker 1: We were starting episode with High Valley. Before we went on,

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Speaker 1: Brad asked me if you could have a copy of

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Speaker 1: my new book. It's all that's down there. I'm just

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Speaker 1: begging people to take them, and I was like please.

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Speaker 1: When we walked in, I saw the whole elsis covered

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Speaker 1: in the books. So yeah, that's what's made of Yeah

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Speaker 1: forgetting hardwood flooring when you can just walk on books. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: High Valleys here. Episode brought to us by LifeLock in

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Speaker 1: Sleep number. What do you have? We're about literally they

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Speaker 1: walked in and what I like about you guys is

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Speaker 1: we can just go and I don't want to waste

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Speaker 1: any of you guys is just amazing wit and charm.

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Speaker 1: So we just wanted to hit the button. What's on

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Speaker 1: your phone over there? My mom just sent me our

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Speaker 1: Remple Family recording from and I have a song on it.

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Speaker 1: Do you want to hear it? What's what's that? When

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Speaker 1: the RepA you guys recorded like a song? It's a

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Speaker 1: family like the it's the whole album man, like the

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Speaker 1: Partridge family. Do you know what that is? Yes, I've

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Speaker 1: heard of them. Yeah, now that's not really it. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you're being if you're being funny or not.

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Speaker 1: I have heard of the Partridge Family. Yes, they were

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Speaker 1: before all of our time. I was born in the eighties.

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Speaker 1: I assume you guys are born in the eighties and nineties.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure how old you are. Birthday was yesterday?

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Speaker 1: Is that right? So look at that? You feel confident

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Speaker 1: with your twenty year old self? You like where you

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Speaker 1: I've got gray temples and everything. It's crazy. Hell do

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Speaker 1: you brade? Okay? So this recording from so you weren't

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Speaker 1: even born yet. I was not. No, okay, so you're

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Speaker 1: through an iPhone into a micro Okay, yes, absolutely, go ahead.

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Speaker 1: But how are you in this if it's eight four? Okay?

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Speaker 1: Singing lead? So what where are do you remember that

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Speaker 1: at all? Uh? No? But I remember performing it. I

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Speaker 1: won fifty bucks. I got second place in the Lacrete

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Speaker 1: Talent contest for my age group, and I went to

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Speaker 1: hear you were kind of on in Key though before

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Speaker 1: pretty honestly, I I just heard it driving out here

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Speaker 1: because mom just email. I had to walk our mom

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Speaker 1: how to through how to email an attachment, which she

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Speaker 1: did very well. Congratulations Mom. And did you listen to this?

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Speaker 1: Of course you will, yes, especially if you play that part.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna cut that out or keep it? Oh, everything

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Speaker 1: She's listening that. So let me run through a couple

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Speaker 1: of solential quick because I definitely want to get back

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Speaker 1: and talk to people that don't know you guys. So

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Speaker 1: here is she's with me from High Valley. Sounds familiar.

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Speaker 1: Give me a little more volume my ears on that one.

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Speaker 1: The first time we've done this with two people. By

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Speaker 1: the way, ever we waited, there are other people that

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Speaker 1: months ago that as soon as we get two microphones,

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Speaker 1: you're the first one. Uh here's a make you mind?

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Speaker 1: Did you get the second microphone on Amazon Prime? Got

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Speaker 1: it on and I have to dash. I need so

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Speaker 1: many microphones. You just wanted that button and you just

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Speaker 1: put over the toilet paper and send it to Yeah beautiful, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's amazing. Uh, there's that one. That's a good one.

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Speaker 1: How uh how had that one go? They went somewhere

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Speaker 1: not that dialed into. Yeah, but there's so many different charts,

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Speaker 1: So what about sheets with me? Though? That one went

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Speaker 1: to that's crazy. It was the number one song. It

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Speaker 1: was a number one caliber song. If you if that

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Speaker 1: a weird way, if it would have been anyone that

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Speaker 1: number one song. That's not offensive at all. We totally understand. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there for sure. I don't know months. It was there

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Speaker 1: I don't know how much of that you guys are

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Speaker 1: getting outside of your publishing. So do you guys make

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Speaker 1: any money from that yet? Yeah? Make your mind. Actually

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Speaker 1: made a lot of money because it was on the

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Speaker 1: charts for fifty six weeks. Yeah. So, um, I bought

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Speaker 1: a swimming pool. I was swimming in it today. You're

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Speaker 1: not kidding, not at all. You made enough money to

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Speaker 1: buy a swimming pool? Yeah, but who'd you write that with?

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Speaker 1: his family swims in the pool out with them. At

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Speaker 1: the same time, I wonder the dynamic because here you

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Speaker 1: I think you could make it weird if you wanted to.

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Speaker 1: But if people talked about in interviews and making you know, well, no,

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Speaker 1: it's just honest thing. I wonder sometimes, because I'll give

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Speaker 1: gotta be weird whenever you go into deciding what the

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Speaker 1: go to radio, because that's real life dollars. Yeah, that

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Speaker 1: would be if Curtis wrote too, and we were like

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Speaker 1: you're the sarcastic in Cartis. I never know if you're

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Speaker 1: I also do not write, and that is the truth

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Speaker 1: about So it doesn't bother you. Then you're probably happy

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Speaker 1: that he wrote it. Yeah, we listen. I mean we

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Speaker 1: almost never like outside songs I like brad songs. Look

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Speaker 1: at you? So really you don't you don't sit and right,

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Speaker 1: but um, yeah, I I honestly, I thought about how

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Speaker 1: of writing songs. I'm fascinated with this because is you're

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Speaker 1: You're you're you're quite efficient on that. So you obviously

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Speaker 1: so what you don't write words? But come on, you

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Speaker 1: sit down. Musically you can't write melodies? You can you can?

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Speaker 1: Maybe I can? Yeah, he's got out should write Oh alright,

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Speaker 1: I want write well, but alright, alright, everything cool? Yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: alright too, But I was calling you right now, man,

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Speaker 1: this is my phone's vibrate in this whole table. Anybody cool?

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Speaker 1: You guys have any cool friends yet? No? Yeah? Yes,

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Speaker 1: that's cool. Who's that? Who's who's your guy? Paul Shipless? Yeah, Chameless.

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Speaker 1: I'm still trying to learn how to last fan of

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Speaker 1: his work. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's a good guy.

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Speaker 1: As are you guys cooling Canada? Um? What do you mean? No? No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: And I'm I'm being serious because if I go to Okay,

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Speaker 1: They're proud of me there. I'm proud to be from Arkansas.

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Speaker 1: represent who they are. So when I say that that,

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Speaker 1: in no way is that a a jab. But you

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Speaker 1: I put Arkansas on mine, but there's not a lot

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Speaker 1: and signatures would happen either in like Minneapolis or Canadian cities.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Minneapolis, Boston and Canadian cities. I was looking at

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Speaker 1: show's on in ten cities of Canada. I went to Canada.

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Speaker 1: By the way, you guys are super nice. I just

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Speaker 1: which is American as it gets for Canada, and it's

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Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, that's awesome. I was inside this restaurant

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Speaker 1: get right on it. That's crazy. We only my wifriend

424
00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:39,320
Speaker 1: I only have two, which makes us like probably not

425
00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:42,280
Speaker 1: minutight enough. I was reading minutite dot com. They're not

426
00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:45,800
Speaker 1: happy with you. That was one of the first thing

427
00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:50,280
Speaker 1: it said. We are not happy to not hap There

428
00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,960
Speaker 1: definitely are some Mennonites that you have kids. I have

429
00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:59,600
Speaker 1: two kids, you can have more. Yes, we will well.

430
00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:01,320
Speaker 1: And I don't want to talk about the whole time.

431
00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:02,520
Speaker 1: I'm just I don't know anything about it, and I

432
00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:05,040
Speaker 1: know people want to know, yeah and be like, hey,

433
00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:07,200
Speaker 1: what does this what does this come? Because it seemed

434
00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,320
Speaker 1: like in America, this is like what are you all with?

435
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:13,399
Speaker 1: People up in the Northeast, the Quakers Amish. There we go.

436
00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:16,520
Speaker 1: That is that a fair comparison? Yeah, almost broke out

437
00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:20,639
Speaker 1: of Minnonites Mennonites. Um, you guys the O G S Yes, sir,

438
00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,440
Speaker 1: you know fred Armison called us. I texted you. Actually,

439
00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:26,320
Speaker 1: when I met from Fred Armison, I was so proud

440
00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:28,360
Speaker 1: to have met a famous person that we both knew.

441
00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:33,200
Speaker 1: And um, he called us the original hipsters Mennonites, which

442
00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:35,639
Speaker 1: I think is sort of that's true because we ate

443
00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:39,080
Speaker 1: our neighbors cows and it was normal. Yeah, and we

444
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,920
Speaker 1: grew our on potatoes. Yeah, you asked, like, what it

445
00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,000
Speaker 1: looked like outside our house, you'd get out there. We're

446
00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:45,920
Speaker 1: on this. If you look at an aerial view of

447
00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:48,000
Speaker 1: our town, it's all in squares. Half a mile by

448
00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:50,560
Speaker 1: half a mile is a hundred and sixty acres. We

449
00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:52,840
Speaker 1: lived on two of them, and our neighbors would live

450
00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:54,560
Speaker 1: on two of them, and everybody's just in these plots

451
00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:58,159
Speaker 1: of land. They'd have cows, we'd have chickens, and you

452
00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:01,399
Speaker 1: just all buy food from each other. So when I

453
00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:04,320
Speaker 1: moved here and people were talking about whole foods and

454
00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:07,959
Speaker 1: explaining it to me, it was hilarious because I clearly

455
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:11,040
Speaker 1: had never experienced that before, and I hadn't heard about

456
00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:13,280
Speaker 1: like organic and paying more for organic. And then when

457
00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:15,600
Speaker 1: they explained to me what it was, it literally was

458
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:20,640
Speaker 1: our backyard, just paying extra for it. You were hearing

459
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:23,760
Speaker 1: organic and you're like, what is that? But really what

460
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,359
Speaker 1: they were saying was that this is what you're used to.

461
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:28,840
Speaker 1: You're gonna pay more for what you're used to. Yeah,

462
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:31,800
Speaker 1: I had never I didn't know what organic was until

463
00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:35,159
Speaker 1: I was probably eighteen, except you knew exactly what it

464
00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:37,440
Speaker 1: was because you were living it. Yeah, just no word

465
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,159
Speaker 1: for it. You didn't know the process part of it.

466
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,800
Speaker 1: We call it eating food, I bet you. And everywhere

467
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:44,240
Speaker 1: you go people want to talk about this, right, and

468
00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:48,800
Speaker 1: every interview is that, like, what's up Canada men Tonite? Right?

469
00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,240
Speaker 1: You know, it's weird. Nobody in Canada ever talked to

470
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:55,440
Speaker 1: us about being Mennonite ever until like last year, because

471
00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,440
Speaker 1: they knew and it was not even a thing. I

472
00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:01,480
Speaker 1: think there was no for sure. And even here there's

473
00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:04,000
Speaker 1: a little bit of it is try hey, guys, try

474
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:07,040
Speaker 1: hard not to be so different, can you try? And like, um,

475
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:10,240
Speaker 1: you know, the whole thing a little more relatable. Country

476
00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:12,280
Speaker 1: artists should be like out there with their Red Solo

477
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,440
Speaker 1: Cup and hanging out with everybody else with the Red

478
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:18,800
Speaker 1: Solo cups and um for whatever reason, I think honestly,

479
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 1: you were a huge part of it. Your interview where

480
00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:24,159
Speaker 1: everybody kind of started talking about it and then um,

481
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:26,240
Speaker 1: people start saying, oh, maybe it's okay if you guys

482
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:28,040
Speaker 1: talk about it. Of course it's okay. I guess so

483
00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:29,879
Speaker 1: frustrated what people say you can't be who you are.

484
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,600
Speaker 1: When I came over here to the format, it was like, oh,

485
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:34,680
Speaker 1: you don't wear a bill buckle, cowboy, You're never gonna

486
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,720
Speaker 1: make it. I would love to see you with that,

487
00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:41,120
Speaker 1: it would be amazing. But it just goes to show

488
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 1: you that if you're authentic and who you are and

489
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,080
Speaker 1: not just that, you still have to be good. Yeah,

490
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,159
Speaker 1: but if you're good enough that it doesn't matter what

491
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,960
Speaker 1: you are. If you're not hurting people or animals, people

492
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:52,720
Speaker 1: don't care to be good at it, Like, give them

493
00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:55,239
Speaker 1: some sort of entertainment they can enjoy, and don't hurt

494
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,919
Speaker 1: kids animals. You're pretty good. I mean, that's a good

495
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 1: recipe for success. Would be good? Is that in your book? Yes?

496
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 1: Don't hurt kids or animals. Stay in school when you

497
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 1: guys want to move down here. Well, I guess I

498
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:10,960
Speaker 1: wonder creatively in that family, are you guys all making

499
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 1: music as a family, Like in that little snippet I

500
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:16,480
Speaker 1: played you there, that was the whole family band, the

501
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,760
Speaker 1: Rymple family. That was just live off of the stage

502
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,360
Speaker 1: at church, right, Yeah, that was our album. We don't

503
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:26,000
Speaker 1: literally played ten songs live and recorded it, but um,

504
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 1: Curtis and I are just the last two in our

505
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:32,119
Speaker 1: family to still you know, we want to keep doing it.

506
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:34,720
Speaker 1: Everybody in our family was in the band at one point.

507
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:36,720
Speaker 1: Is it weird to them that not only do you

508
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:38,960
Speaker 1: want to pursue this to make a living, but that

509
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 1: you want to move to a different country and pursue

510
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:46,680
Speaker 1: on this large stage. I don't think. I don't know

511
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:48,640
Speaker 1: if weird is the right word, But I mean it's

512
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,320
Speaker 1: been We've been doing this for a long time, longer

513
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:55,200
Speaker 1: than people realize. And our family has been, you know,

514
00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,680
Speaker 1: with us for the whole thing. They've seen every single

515
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:02,000
Speaker 1: baby step, you know. So, I mean there have been

516
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:05,840
Speaker 1: some shocking events I guess in our history, probably to

517
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,119
Speaker 1: the family. But it's like playing the Opry for the

518
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 1: first time, that was a big enough event that in

519
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:13,440
Speaker 1: forty eight hours. They got passports and drove to the

520
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,480
Speaker 1: airport and flew here to see us at the opry.

521
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:22,200
Speaker 1: So what's driving to the airport? Five miles? Wow? Yeah,

522
00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:25,359
Speaker 1: and it used to be um now it's all paved,

523
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,320
Speaker 1: but it used to be how many? How many miles?

524
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 1: Was used to be growing a hundred and fifty miles off?

525
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,600
Speaker 1: It was gravel to get to the airport. And what

526
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 1: airport is that? Edmonton? Okay, so let me let's do

527
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:40,359
Speaker 1: the map here five miles at eighty miles okay, except

528
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,280
Speaker 1: you can't do that on gravel road. But okay, but

529
00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 1: it paved now right, Yeah, so at eight times six

530
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,119
Speaker 1: is forty eight you're talking about. You gotta stop him.

531
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 1: P Yeah, it's considered an eight hour drive for most

532
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:53,359
Speaker 1: Like on on Google Maps it would eight out. You

533
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 1: drive eight hours to the airport, you drive fast, but

534
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:58,680
Speaker 1: Google tend to get a passport. Yeah, they didn't have

535
00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 1: passports yet, so they had to at the expedited McDonald's

536
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:09,679
Speaker 1: in our town. Two yeah, two hundred miles to McDonald's,

537
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,439
Speaker 1: two miles to the movie theater, which when we went

538
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 1: home and did a documentary a couple of years ago,

539
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 1: we interviewed my Mr. Award shop teacher, and him and

540
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 1: his wife had just driven to the movie theater and

541
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 1: back for a date. Like they drove two hundred miles,

542
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,640
Speaker 1: saw a movie and drove back, like they didn't get

543
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:28,359
Speaker 1: a hotel there, they just went and saw a movie.

544
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 1: A lot of people in our hometown, including our brother

545
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 1: in law, um, have season tickets to the Edmonton Oilers,

546
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 1: which is in Edmonton, which is eight hours on games

547
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 1: a year, and so they're making that drive quite frequently.

548
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:48,159
Speaker 1: But tis kay, let me say this then, if that's normal,

549
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:50,879
Speaker 1: that's not that far. I mean, it's not it's crazy

550
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 1: to me to go I'm gonna drive eight hours or something,

551
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:54,920
Speaker 1: But imagine the eighteen hundred You gotta get a horse

552
00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 1: and travel in, you know, sixteen hours to a market.

553
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 1: That's we'll imagine this. We moved to spring Hill because

554
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 1: it's you know, yeah, spring Hill, Tennancy. It's thirty five

555
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:10,160
Speaker 1: minutes exactly to Music Row, to where I'm usually hanging

556
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:14,200
Speaker 1: out writing from my house. People are like, dude, you

557
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 1: live way out in spring Hill. As if it's just nuts.

558
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:21,400
Speaker 1: I have a super targeting about fifty other stores eight

559
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:26,159
Speaker 1: minutes from my driveway. And I'm supposed to feel like

560
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 1: I live far away from something that I can't. I've tried.

561
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 1: I've been here for eight years, and I feel like

562
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 1: I'm in like Manhattan or something in spring Hill. But

563
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:37,360
Speaker 1: people perceive it as being a way the heck out there.

564
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking, Wow, it's pretty easy. It just shows

565
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 1: you it's really all relative. Yeah, and there are probably

566
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 1: people here your story and go, oh, that's nothing. Yeah. Well, Mike,

567
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 1: I was having a conversation with my father in law yesterday. Um,

568
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,959
Speaker 1: my wife and I are both from the same town. Um,

569
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 1: so my father in law was telling me about um

570
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 1: stories he heard about our hometown and like the forties

571
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 1: and stuff, and there was no road to get to Lacrete.

572
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 1: You literally had to take a boat down the Peace

573
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 1: River and it would come twice a month, I think,

574
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 1: and it would drop off food and I mean everything

575
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 1: that people would need to survive, and then people would

576
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 1: also export, so like every two weeks, the boats would

577
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 1: be going in and out of Lacrete and uh, and

578
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 1: that was normal. Though my point is even to him,

579
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 1: then that was probably normal. Yeah, And that's the thing.

580
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 1: Minnight's moved up there because it was so um what's

581
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 1: the word secluded? Yeah, and now that there's a paved

582
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 1: road going all the way there. Like my father in

583
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 1: law yesterday was talking about how Lacrete is not that

584
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 1: secluded anymore compared to that's a good stereotype for minunites, seclusion.

585
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 1: They try hard. No matter where do you find minnites,

586
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 1: it will be in these obscure areas to try and

587
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 1: escape the world. So that's kind of the reason we're

588
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 1: from Lacrete is because minnit's went there originally because there

589
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 1: as no road, you know what, Nobody could get to

590
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 1: you and you couldn't get to any Maybe that's why

591
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 1: I we live in spring Hill. We're trying to escape.

592
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 1: Ye're according to the people here, you're secluded where you live. Now, Wow,

593
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:14,440
Speaker 1: I mean I could do this for hours, But let

594
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 1: me talk about sleep number for one second. So if

595
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 1: you've spent any time listening to me jibber jabber, you

596
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,479
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597
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598
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599
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600
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601
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617
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Speaker 1: on the show. First time. I didn't I knew you

618
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 1: had a song, and I was like, I like the song,

619
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 1: and you came in and we were talking about pop

620
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 1: culture references and you guys just didn't know them. And

621
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 1: you weren't playing a part. You really just didn't know

622
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:38,880
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623
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 1: wasn't even a radio signal, did you guys pick up?

624
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 1: There was not? When did that start happening? Um? We

625
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: got FM radio on the year two thousand, we got

626
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: pop radio on the year two thousand, and it's not

627
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 1: even pop. It's like an amalgamation of tons of different

628
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 1: things that are not country, if that makes sense. So

629
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 1: was that a big shot to the system of town

630
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 1: where there's this it's the double music man? I mean,

631
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: miss reward to go back to our shop teacher, he

632
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 1: wrote in my report card that year to my parents,

633
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 1: and Brad did not get much accomplished, you know, blah

634
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: blah blah, blah blah. Basically I was sitting around the

635
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 1: radio the whole time, and I was listening to smash

636
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 1: Mouth and Green Day and Ever Clear. But does that

637
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 1: start up these creative juices? Though? I wonder when you're

638
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: hearing this stuff and it's like, WHOA, the music can

639
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 1: do this? Curtis, every once in a while we'll hear

640
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: a demo and be like, hey, that reminds me you're

641
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:26,600
Speaker 1: doing that. Every Clear kind of thing with your vocal

642
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 1: and yeah, there's there's inspiration there for sure. I can

643
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 1: just imagine you only have a few records and then

644
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, through the through the air comes

645
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 1: a whole new sound. Yeah. The thing is, though, and

646
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 1: this isn't a suck up to country radio. Even with that,

647
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 1: I still would want to hear more country music. And

648
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 1: we got Columbia House, and I was a penny yeah dude.

649
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 1: And then I get all my friends to buy the

650
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 1: five that I need to pay for, and then i'd

651
00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 1: sign them up and I ended up getting a hundred

652
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,239
Speaker 1: and ten CDs and I never are paid for one

653
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 1: of them, which is horrible because now we want everybody

654
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 1: to pay for our music. But anyway, I would still

655
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 1: just get Diamond Rio c ds in black Hawk and

656
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 1: Shenandoa and any bands with harmonies. Um, even though we

657
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 1: had that kind of radio. So that's why I still

658
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 1: didn't immerse myself fully in the pop scene. I guess, well,

659
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 1: we weren't really encouraged to listen to that's true that

660
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 1: radio station either. Yeah, discouraged would be a better word.

661
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 1: But who wasn't We had a cassette that somebody recorded

662
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 1: smash Mouth onto author? Did you do that? Probably? I

663
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 1: found it in our RV and me and Jordan Schmidt

664
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 1: listened to what's the song all Star? We listened to

665
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 1: it when we were camping one weekend. So is that

666
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 1: like having a Playboy? Pretty much? Our mom and dad gone, yes, Okay,

667
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: put the cassette in, let's listen to smash Mouth. Yes.

668
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 1: A lot of kids in Nashville or church kids, right,

669
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 1: a lot of country guys, and they'll be like, man,

670
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 1: I know how you grew up. Man. I was only

671
00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: allowed to listen to Christian music growing up, which is

672
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,959
Speaker 1: hlarious because we were not allowed like all the Christian

673
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: rock music and stuff like Michael W. Smith or we

674
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: weren't supposed to listen to that stuff because it was

675
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: too much too modern. Yeah, so how did you end

676
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 1: up here? Because all the things are working against that,

677
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:19,279
Speaker 1: All the things are working against you being here and

678
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: making music that is contemporary sounding. Yeah, here's this sounds fake,

679
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 1: but this is the absolute truth of how we got here.

680
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 1: Our dad was pulling the engine out of a white tractor,

681
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:35,800
Speaker 1: piece of junk tractor, and a guy called named bow Loser,

682
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,759
Speaker 1: who was a scam artist out of Nashville here and

683
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 1: he called our phone number. He found us on MP

684
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 1: three dot com if you remember that website, and he

685
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,399
Speaker 1: asked my dad for sixty thousand bucks cash and said,

686
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,279
Speaker 1: if you give me sixty grand, I can make your

687
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 1: boys in a big stars. There's a guy out on

688
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 1: tour with the Dixie Chicks right now, and he loves

689
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 1: your band. He's gonna produce your boys and he's going

690
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,799
Speaker 1: to produce a record on him. And our dad always says,

691
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: if he could have seen the tractor working on he

692
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 1: never would ask for sixty grand. But either way, I

693
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,319
Speaker 1: got the wheels turning, and mom and dad ended up saying,

694
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 1: maybe these boys should be going to Nashville to record.

695
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 1: And we went down here and spent a fraction of

696
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 1: that in two thousand and started making records down here.

697
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:18,839
Speaker 1: So because the guy put the bubble into your parents head,

698
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:22,439
Speaker 1: they thought, well, if someone's trying to scam us because

699
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 1: they could be good enough, maybe they are good enough.

700
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 1: Pretty much. That's that's a that's a bold move on

701
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:29,800
Speaker 1: their part to go, all right, this is different for everybody,

702
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 1: but you need to get down and be where you

703
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: can create. I mean, our dads straight up, bet the farm.

704
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 1: He literally I went to the bank and took a

705
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: line of credit like a loan against our farm, and

706
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: spent that I think it was thirty some thousand bucks. Yeah,

707
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 1: with flights and hotels and everything. Yeah. Yeah, I mean

708
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 1: you feel some pressure when that happens. We were too

709
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 1: young to know that we should, but later on in

710
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:56,359
Speaker 1: life I definitely did, and we paid him back. Our

711
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 1: talent is really supportive. We do a CD release concert,

712
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 1: Curtis ro to the dirt bike down Main Street with

713
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: ads in the Farmer's Day parade. Um. We we ended

714
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:07,319
Speaker 1: up getting a computer at one point and we had

715
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 1: a program called print Shop. I don't know if you

716
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 1: remember that, but I designed a poster and I stuck

717
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 1: it to the side of my dirt bike and I

718
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: advertised for the CD release concert and drove it in

719
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 1: the parade. I think we should still do that, like

720
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 1: Curtis on dirt Bike on music through advertising our new

721
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 1: records amazing. If you go home now to your hometown,

722
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 1: do you have to fly to Edmonton and drive eight hours? Well,

723
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 1: I make you go home that often? Do you once

724
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: a year? Super lucky and your wives are from home?

725
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:42,440
Speaker 1: Mine isn't yours? Is, So you met her at home

726
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:46,320
Speaker 1: and she moved down here. That's correct, Wow, that's it.

727
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,319
Speaker 1: Were you married when she moved down here? Yeah? Yeah,

728
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 1: we got married and uh a few months later we

729
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,439
Speaker 1: moved down here. Actually, how how old did you get married?

730
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 1: I was twenty two, I think too terribly young. I

731
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 1: was nineteen when you got married. Yeah, we were sixteen

732
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 1: when we met. And where did you meet her? At

733
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 1: a music festival? She was in our autograph line. I

734
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 1: signed an eight by ten for her. Where and what

735
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 1: what town did you meet her? Presbyterous, British Columbia, which

736
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 1: is a suburb of Fort Saint John which the music

737
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 1: festival was held at the Blueberry Bible Camp. It was

738
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 1: called the Blueberry Bible Camp Gospel Jamboree. And she was

739
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 1: the hottest girl there by far. Now if you were

740
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:33,920
Speaker 1: twenty five will be a different story. I would go, hey,

741
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:35,400
Speaker 1: why are you trying to hook up with people? One?

742
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:38,399
Speaker 1: But you're sixteen? Yeah, we were just kids. Yeah, we're

743
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,800
Speaker 1: hanging out and we started talking and then we started

744
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 1: dating after we returned seventeen. But how far? Why does

745
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:47,800
Speaker 1: she live? She lived five hours away, three miles, so

746
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 1: I would drive. I sold cars for a living. So

747
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 1: I started selling trucks and cars when I was seventeen.

748
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: So on Saturday's at three, I'd get off work and

749
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 1: then i'd drive. I'd get to her house by about

750
00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 1: eight or nine, and then Sunday I did have to

751
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 1: leave to be back for work on Monday. I mean,

752
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 1: don't you just go ahead and get married because you

753
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: want to stay gas At that point it was financially

754
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: a great decision. But sometimes I went along to keep

755
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:13,399
Speaker 1: right awake on the road. That's true. You'd ride with him, Yeah,

756
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:15,319
Speaker 1: you stopped car and run circles. One time I dated

757
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 1: a girl. She said like two hours away in northern Arkansas,

758
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 1: and nobody wanted to date me, right, I mean, I'm

759
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 1: a real treat, as you can see. Uh. So I

760
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 1: I would drive, and I would stay until like ten

761
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 1: o'clock and have to drive home. But I would stop

762
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 1: the car and then run circles and then jump back

763
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 1: in the car and drive for a get longer because

764
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 1: without falling asleep, stick your out the window. You know,

765
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:35,319
Speaker 1: I can't imagine the sunflower seeds, man, you ever eat

766
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 1: those while you're driving? That's that's the best thing for me.

767
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 1: When I proposed to my wife. Um, well, she wasn't

768
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 1: my wife at the time. So anyway, when I proposed

769
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 1: to my girlfriend, I I was running out of time.

770
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: We were about to go on tour for six months

771
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:51,800
Speaker 1: and we kind of talked about getting married, so it

772
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 1: was kind of obvious. I was trying to do, you know,

773
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 1: this artistic, creative way, and it wasn't. It just wasn't.

774
00:38:58,080 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 1: The ring didn't make it in time for when I

775
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 1: had all scheduled. Anyway, I had like one day left

776
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 1: to surprise her, and I already asked her dad's permission,

777
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,759
Speaker 1: so I left our house at midnight. I drove through

778
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:10,759
Speaker 1: the night, but I got so tired that I pulled

779
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:13,319
Speaker 1: over at this parking lot in a in the town

780
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: that has a gas station in between, and I, um

781
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,759
Speaker 1: pulled over there and I fell asleep. And I woke

782
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 1: up literally at the exact time that allowed me to

783
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 1: get to her house one minute before her dad's alarmed.

784
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 1: I knew her dad's alarm went off at six am,

785
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 1: and I knew I needed to sneak into the house

786
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 1: before six with my guitar, get up in her bedroom

787
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:34,359
Speaker 1: and sing when you say nothing at all to wake

788
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,840
Speaker 1: her up, which is how I proposed her. You know,

789
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 1: I'm nineteen. This is romantic because I could get when

790
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:41,879
Speaker 1: you say nothing at all sounds amazing at six am

791
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 1: when you haven't talked to anybody for five hours. So

792
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 1: I get to her houses like five fifty six, and

793
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 1: I'm getting out there and I accidentally smoked my guitar

794
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:52,760
Speaker 1: against They live in this log cabin, and I smoked

795
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 1: against the ceiling when I was trying to get into

796
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 1: the room, and you like, you scratched, like you just

797
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 1: had stock of the guitar, was like, and then string

798
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 1: is just super flat. And uh. She was sharing the

799
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: bed with her sister, which I obviously didn't only like

800
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:09,760
Speaker 1: how to sleep over there? Both blonde, and I'm like, shoot,

801
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:11,359
Speaker 1: I have to make sure I proposed to the right

802
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:15,719
Speaker 1: girl at this moment time. Thankfully I did, and at

803
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 1: like five fifty nine she said yes. And then this

804
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:20,879
Speaker 1: alarm clock starts ringing through the house and her dad

805
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 1: yelled something in German because we all grew up speaking German, right,

806
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:26,799
Speaker 1: so he says, oh, bah, it just means I come

807
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 1: on or something, and that's how it all went down.

808
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 1: I just love that when you propose. There was another

809
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:38,399
Speaker 1: girl laying that, which was great. You got to share

810
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 1: her excitement with you know, right away, showing engagement ring

811
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:45,200
Speaker 1: to somebody, which is super useful. And you guys learned

812
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:48,359
Speaker 1: German before English. Yeah, do you ever dream in German? Now?

813
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: I've never been asked that. Man. The truth is I

814
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 1: I learned English first. I was the last kid of

815
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 1: six kids. Um, so all the kids went to English schools.

816
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:01,320
Speaker 1: There's a lot of English in our home by the

817
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 1: time I was born, So yeah, we we were considered anglelanda,

818
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 1: which is a German word for English speakers, because our

819
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: dad because of how it's kind of like an offensive term.

820
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:16,919
Speaker 1: It's like, if you're in Anglanda, then you're not really

821
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:20,359
Speaker 1: accepted in the German Mennonite community. Like in our town

822
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 1: there's German churches and English churches, and the English ones

823
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 1: are pretty considered incredibly liberal, even though they're still Mennonite.

824
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 1: It's just like you're supposed to speak German. Everything should

825
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:32,840
Speaker 1: always be German. So once you get to school, you

826
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:35,400
Speaker 1: get in trouble for speaking German. So the trick is

827
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: you learned German all your life until you know you're

828
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,879
Speaker 1: in school, and then the teachers really trying and teach

829
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 1: you English at that point. So now my wife and

830
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:47,640
Speaker 1: I just used German to like keep secrets from the

831
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:51,400
Speaker 1: kids and um say funny stuff when people are around

832
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:54,799
Speaker 1: that we aren't allowed to sail out. Back to my question,

833
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 1: do you have a dream in German? Still? You never

834
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:58,800
Speaker 1: to fall back and you're like, wow, that's crazy. I

835
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 1: can't prove that. I don't know how to know. I've

836
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: never dreamed in German. I don't dream in like sound,

837
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:08,320
Speaker 1: so I don't know. You don't have conversations while you

838
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:10,400
Speaker 1: sleep like in your head. I do. I talked to

839
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 1: talk to people in my dreams all time. I don't

840
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:14,839
Speaker 1: dream very much, to be honest, I dream a lot

841
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:16,880
Speaker 1: before I go to bed, and that's all in English.

842
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 1: Do you ever think in German all the time? Yeah?

843
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:23,440
Speaker 1: I wish I could thinking in the language. I'm trouble

844
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 1: thinking in English. Man. YouTube now Musically, because you play

845
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 1: the little thing, yeah, the mandolin? Is that what you

846
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 1: play all the time? No? I I started playing. I

847
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:40,880
Speaker 1: started off playing guitar and then I learned mandolin later on.

848
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:46,360
Speaker 1: And so you you play the guitar like hold the guitar,

849
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:49,280
Speaker 1: I'm like the stereotypical lead singer that has the guitar

850
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,479
Speaker 1: sometimes for fun, but I'm not really a guitar player.

851
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:55,919
Speaker 1: Why don't you sing? Do you sing? I sing background? Balls?

852
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 1: I mean, but you don't sing lead at all? Ever? No,

853
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:00,960
Speaker 1: I used to. I used to lead on one song,

854
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:04,440
Speaker 1: but I just could not remember the words. Would be

855
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:07,120
Speaker 1: like yelling me, the yelling the lyrics into my ear

856
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,440
Speaker 1: line by line, line by line, and I just like

857
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 1: I got it probably of the time. So I just

858
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: I just sing background. But you have no interest to

859
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:24,360
Speaker 1: be the lead singer. Ever, No, No, I just I don't.

860
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 1: I would be a terrible rhythm guitar player. Just you

861
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:29,800
Speaker 1: look at a band of the drummers, bassis, really, just

862
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:31,279
Speaker 1: look at a four piece band. Just put it in

863
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: my head. I would be a terrible rhythm guitar player

864
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:36,759
Speaker 1: because I would want to be the lead singer. I'm

865
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:39,760
Speaker 1: I'm an absolute type A. But let's say I can't,

866
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:42,400
Speaker 1: then I probably want to be the drummer because I

867
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:43,800
Speaker 1: can actually do my own thing. I can have my

868
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 1: own you know, people will, people will look at me. Listen.

869
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 1: I'm just searching for love. Everything I do. I need

870
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 1: people to pay because I need love. Right and then

871
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 1: at least on the base. I can get a little

872
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:57,759
Speaker 1: funky moving, I can dance. But the rhythm guitar, you know,

873
00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:02,360
Speaker 1: that's probably the most importan didn't yet thankless position. I

874
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 1: love playing rhythm guitar. And that's why I say that,

875
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 1: because you must not need to be thanked. You must

876
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:09,360
Speaker 1: have been loved a lot as a kid. That's what

877
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:12,560
Speaker 1: we all and again, that's that's why I'm coming back to.

878
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 1: He doesn't need that extra attention, doesn't need to be

879
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:18,280
Speaker 1: the lead singer, doesn't need to like you're good, you're healthy.

880
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 1: It's your heart's healthy. I will say, though. He does

881
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 1: play the mandolin, and it is like the signature of

882
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 1: our sound. Everybody, you know, everybody knows that we're not

883
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:30,799
Speaker 1: a band that has drums, electric guitar and bass. They

884
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 1: know that we have mandolins and bantos, which he also

885
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 1: plays and all that cool stuff. You, on the other hand,

886
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:40,880
Speaker 1: with your muscles and your lead singer, is that what

887
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 1: happened there? Huh? They just swelled up on me. I'm

888
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 1: talking about that. I mean, you're in the front. What

889
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 1: what do you say? Type A? Is that like leader? Leader?

890
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:56,759
Speaker 1: It's like I am here, like look at me? I

891
00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:59,400
Speaker 1: got something to say, I'm gonna lead this thing. I

892
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 1: would definitely only be um. That's what's been so healthy

893
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:04,840
Speaker 1: for me about having kids. It's because I definitely was

894
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 1: always like and am very much the leader and in charge.

895
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:13,680
Speaker 1: And even now, if we finish the show, I call

896
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:16,719
Speaker 1: home thinking some for some reason, I still think like

897
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:19,759
Speaker 1: I will call home and say, how this conversation is

898
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:21,440
Speaker 1: going to go. And I'm on speaker phone with my

899
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 1: wife and both kids and hey, guys, here's what happened today.

900
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: And it's been an amazing transformation. How it's like never

901
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 1: about me at all, and it's just me listening to

902
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 1: them telling me how cool they are. That's been very healthy,

903
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 1: like amazing. Do your family, I think you think you're

904
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 1: cooler now? My kids, no, no. I we begged them

905
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:45,879
Speaker 1: to come to the rhyme and the other day because

906
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:48,000
Speaker 1: we were playing it and we were so pumped to

907
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 1: be playing it again. And my wife's like, hey, kids,

908
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 1: we can go for a cool dinner downtown see daddy play.

909
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: And I kid, you know, my nine year old said,

910
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:57,920
Speaker 1: could we just order in some Mexican listen to the

911
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 1: CD that I said, Drew, you don't need to listen

912
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 1: to the CD. You could just stay at home and

913
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:05,960
Speaker 1: have fun. So they stay at home and did not go.

914
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:07,840
Speaker 1: But at least he was giving you a bit like

915
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 1: he was still gonna listen to you, like, don't don't

916
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:13,600
Speaker 1: be lost on that all sympathy. Yeah, he was still

917
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:16,279
Speaker 1: throwing your bone there. He's still going, you know, at love, like,

918
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:17,840
Speaker 1: we'll still listen to you. We just don't want to

919
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:21,120
Speaker 1: take the eight hour trip into town. Yeah, yeah, the

920
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:24,360
Speaker 1: thirty five minutes. Yeah, it's kind of crazy. But we

921
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:27,759
Speaker 1: did get on Madden on the video game. You're playing

922
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, And um so now my kids here

923
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:33,360
Speaker 1: High Valley while playing mad and oh you mean you

924
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 1: guys are on the game. Yeah. Yeah, So they think

925
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 1: that's cool, and their friends think that's cool. And now

926
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 1: if I go to football practice, there will be more

927
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:43,440
Speaker 1: kids that think it's cool. That is pretty cool. I

928
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 1: think it's cool, Like you're cooler than me right now

929
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 1: because they're not mad at look at that. So what's

930
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:49,440
Speaker 1: happening right now with you guys? Are you guys that

931
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 1: pick new songs? Is that where we are? We're picking

932
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:55,879
Speaker 1: songs all the time right now, we're listening to listen

933
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 1: all all of Brad's hits and uh, oh you get

934
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 1: a pick. Soel what if you what if it's coming

935
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 1: to you right cards And it's like, what do you

936
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 1: think about this song that I wrote your big brother

937
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 1: Brad or the song that some mother dude wrote? Do

938
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 1: you know? I mean, I honestly, I just listened to

939
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:15,840
Speaker 1: the songs and and uh, I mean, as you know,

940
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:19,879
Speaker 1: even just based on the last thirty minutes, we come

941
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 1: from a very unusual place, um, geographically, and and even

942
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:29,279
Speaker 1: just the way we we grew up. You know, we

943
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: think about songs. Yeah, so Brad understands that better than

944
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:38,800
Speaker 1: any songwriter in Nashville and in the world. And so

945
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:42,720
Speaker 1: we're looking for specific ideas and messages in our songs

946
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:45,520
Speaker 1: and even topics that we avoid because they just are

947
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:50,759
Speaker 1: not relevant to us. Um. And it's hard for any

948
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 1: other songwriters to identify with that and actually hit the

949
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:55,400
Speaker 1: nail on the head. So I mean, I I listened

950
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 1: to I listened to all the songs. You know, I

951
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 1: like the outside songs more. I would say, then, curtis

952
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 1: what you would think would be the opposite, And I'd

953
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:06,279
Speaker 1: be like, I only like my own songs. But I'm

954
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 1: not stupid. Obviously, Nashville has amazing songwriters, and I'm gonna

955
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:14,520
Speaker 1: love I love Tom Douglas, and I love Ashley Goreley,

956
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 1: and I love a lot of these amazing John Knight,

957
00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 1: I love their songs. But he's right, it's it's tough

958
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:23,960
Speaker 1: when people find out what we're about. Like right now,

959
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 1: on the pitch sheet that every songwriter gets in this town,

960
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 1: it says High Valley looking for singles, Faith, Family, and Farming.

961
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:32,440
Speaker 1: And you'd be shocked at the amount of like songs

962
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:34,920
Speaker 1: about a guy reading a Bible while riding a tractor

963
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 1: down the field. You know, it's like just pretty recipe. Faith,

964
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:41,920
Speaker 1: Family and farming is a perfect recipe for just cheeseball

965
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 1: material um and uh, I mean those are our ingredients,

966
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:51,319
Speaker 1: but we just avoid cheeseball like the plague. So um.

967
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:52,759
Speaker 1: It's kind of like if you knew how to make

968
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:55,400
Speaker 1: brownies and other people said, oh, there's sugar and flour

969
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:58,360
Speaker 1: and eggs in there and co don't forget Yeah, and

970
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:01,360
Speaker 1: it just was wrong. So I'm not saying we won't

971
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:04,000
Speaker 1: find and we have and we will. Yeah, we have

972
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:07,560
Speaker 1: cut some some great outside songs, but it's the amount

973
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 1: of weird stuff we weed through to hear them is

974
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:14,239
Speaker 1: is a pretty bad percentage. So the order of your song, well,

975
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 1: She's with Me the last single, Yeah, make your mind

976
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:17,920
Speaker 1: us first, Okay, so make your mind She's when we

977
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:20,240
Speaker 1: play some chess with me. So we played this earlier.

978
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:24,200
Speaker 1: From when this song finishes, it's running the topch in

979
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:28,400
Speaker 1: tow now it's got to feel like an eternity, like

980
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 1: you come off your highest song ever. Now you just

981
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:33,880
Speaker 1: gotta sit for a minute. I don't know. It actually

982
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:37,480
Speaker 1: doesn't feel that way because, um, we were just when

983
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 1: was our last show in Chicago, like two weeks ago,

984
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:41,800
Speaker 1: like like shake, do you guys play that? No? This

985
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:45,400
Speaker 1: was a at Joe's the week we were there. They

986
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 1: still played it seventy five times that week. So it's

987
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:51,839
Speaker 1: just like kind of still it still feels like it's

988
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:55,839
Speaker 1: building momentum even though it's not. I know, on the chart,

989
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 1: once you've gone down for three weeks, you're you're off.

990
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 1: But in reality, like the ends of it is still tons.

991
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:04,879
Speaker 1: Well that's cool then, so it's kind of like it's

992
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:07,440
Speaker 1: living a second life right now. Do you guys tell

993
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:10,680
Speaker 1: each other you love each other? Yeah? Yeah, usually like

994
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:13,320
Speaker 1: every day on the phone, but yes, but but you

995
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 1: guys have a good relationship where it's like, hey man,

996
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:17,279
Speaker 1: you know usually we tell each other we love each

997
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:22,400
Speaker 1: other after we fight. Yeah, that's true. Which there's you know,

998
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:25,720
Speaker 1: there's I feel like in my mind and my my body,

999
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:28,239
Speaker 1: my soul that there's this meter, right and you go

1000
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 1: as high as you go low like if if if

1001
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:34,560
Speaker 1: you're on this like at thermometer scale, if the middle

1002
00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:37,239
Speaker 1: line of zero, and you you can go up to

1003
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:39,200
Speaker 1: a three on top, that means you also go down

1004
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:42,160
Speaker 1: to the three on the bottom negative three. And so

1005
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:44,840
Speaker 1: I as hard as you love is as hard as

1006
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:47,880
Speaker 1: you fight as and so for me, I have trouble

1007
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:50,400
Speaker 1: really spreading that scale, like I don't I don't have

1008
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:51,920
Speaker 1: a lot of happiness, but I don't have a lot

1009
00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 1: of sadness. And I've been spending the last few years

1010
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 1: really trying to figure myself out. And it's okay to

1011
00:50:58,120 --> 00:50:59,800
Speaker 1: let the walls down and be a little hurt, but

1012
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:02,879
Speaker 1: that's what happens is you get to experience all that joy. Yeah,

1013
00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:04,560
Speaker 1: for me, I've been chasing that, And I wonder with

1014
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 1: YouTube if you do love each other so much, dude,

1015
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:10,799
Speaker 1: the fights get you know, pretty brotherly, like come on, dude,

1016
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:15,040
Speaker 1: like it. I'd say, they used to be way more

1017
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 1: extreme then. Now would you agree? Oh? Yeah, you getting

1018
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:26,640
Speaker 1: older or you're just learning each other better. Probably both. Also,

1019
00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:29,880
Speaker 1: I know I used to feel so much pressure that

1020
00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 1: I don't feel anymore. But I used to feel like

1021
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 1: the type a leader provide for everybody thing, but correct

1022
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:42,040
Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong. Wrong, But you would feel like

1023
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:46,160
Speaker 1: it was your responsibility for you know, me to be

1024
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:49,239
Speaker 1: able to provide for my family, because especially you know,

1025
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:51,319
Speaker 1: like right in the beginning when I got married then

1026
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 1: or or even when it wasn't married, it was still

1027
00:51:54,080 --> 00:51:57,439
Speaker 1: your responsibility to make sure that I was getting paychecks. Yeah,

1028
00:51:58,239 --> 00:52:02,880
Speaker 1: Like my wife and I had done good in businesses

1029
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:05,680
Speaker 1: stuff before we went full time, and we've been full

1030
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:09,239
Speaker 1: time for eleven and a half, Yeah, eleven and a

1031
00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:11,719
Speaker 1: half years since we quit our jobs to do only this.

1032
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:15,239
Speaker 1: So the first year we did, UM, we took a

1033
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:19,800
Speaker 1: nine and pay cut, and then UM. A couple of

1034
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:22,920
Speaker 1: years later, I was like, some of the houses we

1035
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:25,160
Speaker 1: had bought, I was like selling them and using that

1036
00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 1: money to pay Curtis and my other brother who were

1037
00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 1: in the band at the time, and my wife. I

1038
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:31,480
Speaker 1: was just going further and further in debt, and I

1039
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:34,320
Speaker 1: would feel like tons of stress and it wouldn't be

1040
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:37,120
Speaker 1: like I told Curtis that every day, but our fights

1041
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:40,759
Speaker 1: would be more about like, let's work harder and all

1042
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:42,680
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. And in my mind, it's so

1043
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 1: that I can get this back to and even keel,

1044
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:48,759
Speaker 1: And in his mind it's like, why can't this be

1045
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:52,120
Speaker 1: more fun? Why is this such a stressful thing? Whereas

1046
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 1: that seems like an eternity ago because now it's been

1047
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 1: so good for so many years. But that was that's

1048
00:52:58,160 --> 00:53:00,120
Speaker 1: why I wrote Cheese with Me, because my wife was

1049
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:02,920
Speaker 1: there through all of that. The song says, when when

1050
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:04,759
Speaker 1: my dreams were running out of road, like she was

1051
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:08,680
Speaker 1: there and they were straight up running out of road,

1052
00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:11,360
Speaker 1: like there was nothing left. But now she's there for

1053
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:13,920
Speaker 1: you know, walking the red carpets and all that kind

1054
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 1: of stuff. And I wanted people to know when they

1055
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:19,160
Speaker 1: listened to the song that she's not just a pretty

1056
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:21,600
Speaker 1: face that showed up because we were on the radio.

1057
00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:28,280
Speaker 1: She was there and yeah, exactly when my Adam's apple

1058
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:30,840
Speaker 1: was bigger than my face, Man, I look at that.

1059
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:34,360
Speaker 1: That's good stuff right there. Yeah, I forgot you had

1060
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:36,440
Speaker 1: a third member. That was pretty that's pretty me coming

1061
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:38,880
Speaker 1: to town when you guys had that the other brother,

1062
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:41,799
Speaker 1: because I would see pictures, I think even an album covered.

1063
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:44,719
Speaker 1: He have blonder hair. Yeah, yeah, short blond hair. So

1064
00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:48,840
Speaker 1: what happened to him? Nothing happened to him. Brad and

1065
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:51,400
Speaker 1: I moved to Nashville and he did not. Oh so

1066
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:53,719
Speaker 1: he was never here. Now he wanted to stay, well,

1067
00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:56,239
Speaker 1: he was. That was a problem is he he would

1068
00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:58,560
Speaker 1: have to come here for stuff, and you know, like

1069
00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:02,200
Speaker 1: let's say this today, Brian would have had to drive

1070
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:05,680
Speaker 1: five miles one day, Steve stay in nine, didn't fly

1071
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:07,879
Speaker 1: the next day, and then probably the third day would

1072
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:10,920
Speaker 1: be today hanging out with you. Tomorrow he'd fly home

1073
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 1: the day after drive home. So it's like a five

1074
00:54:13,600 --> 00:54:15,680
Speaker 1: day commitment to hang out with you for an hour.

1075
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:17,560
Speaker 1: Whereas we can be there and we did stuff like that.

1076
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:22,200
Speaker 1: There would be gigs or events or whatever we're Brian

1077
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:24,000
Speaker 1: would come all the way down from our hometown. And

1078
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:26,400
Speaker 1: I even did that for a period of time before

1079
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:29,480
Speaker 1: I moved here. I wanted to get married first, then

1080
00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:32,120
Speaker 1: I wanted to move here. So I did that for

1081
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:34,880
Speaker 1: a little while, and it's it sucks like it just

1082
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:37,319
Speaker 1: sucks the life out of you when you gotta spend

1083
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:42,239
Speaker 1: that much time traveling for anything, awkward conversation when it goes, hey,

1084
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:45,080
Speaker 1: it's not gonna work. Like he's like did he come

1085
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:46,840
Speaker 1: to you? Guys? Or you guys like, man, are you tired?

1086
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 1: Like what? What? How did that? It's your brother, not

1087
00:54:49,239 --> 00:54:53,200
Speaker 1: just a band made as your mode dynamic? I mean

1088
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:58,200
Speaker 1: something like that is never just comfortable and feels good

1089
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:01,560
Speaker 1: at all, um, because we've been doing it forever since

1090
00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:05,920
Speaker 1: we were like Brian was doing high valleys since he

1091
00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:09,760
Speaker 1: was what nine nine? Where's he on the list of age?

1092
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:12,680
Speaker 1: He's right between so he's between you two. Yeah, he'd

1093
00:55:12,719 --> 00:55:15,239
Speaker 1: be the fifth in the family. So what's he doing now?

1094
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:18,920
Speaker 1: He is? Uh, he's an I T guy. He's like

1095
00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:24,400
Speaker 1: a really smart computer person. He's the smartest of music too,

1096
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:27,840
Speaker 1: by the way. Smart. So he's he's an I T

1097
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:34,080
Speaker 1: guy at a huge road construction company in but the

1098
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 1: company is represented all over Alberta, which is like the

1099
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:41,120
Speaker 1: Texas of Canada a lot of oil. Huh isn't that right?

1100
00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:43,840
Speaker 1: Because friends that will go that's what they'll do, they

1101
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:45,400
Speaker 1: will go. I don't know if you're familiar with b

1102
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:46,799
Speaker 1: it's the day to Canadian, right, So I know all

1103
00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:50,279
Speaker 1: the all the yeah, all the Canada, And so I

1104
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:51,759
Speaker 1: think that's why I know a bit about you guys too,

1105
00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 1: because I'd be like, Hey, what's up with these guys

1106
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:55,440
Speaker 1: And she's like, oh, they're really good dudes. That she

1107
00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:57,960
Speaker 1: also said, man, they've changed. I guess you guys got

1108
00:55:58,040 --> 00:55:59,560
Speaker 1: real good You disappared and think got real good looking

1109
00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 1: and came back. That would you say that's accurate? No,

1110
00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:07,480
Speaker 1: I've never heard that. That's amazing. Yeah. Well, they're like,

1111
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:09,960
Speaker 1: I'm not sure to say thank you or be offended

1112
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:12,759
Speaker 1: that we were ugly before this magical disappearance. You can't

1113
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:14,399
Speaker 1: do that because I used to do that too. People

1114
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 1: be like, oh, like what do they call like your come?

1115
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:19,320
Speaker 1: What do they say you glam? What is it? A

1116
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:21,120
Speaker 1: glow up? Like I'll look at the glow up. I'm like,

1117
00:56:21,120 --> 00:56:22,600
Speaker 1: what do you mean? He used to be ugly? You

1118
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:24,520
Speaker 1: can't look at it that way. You just got look

1119
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:27,120
Speaker 1: at the positive products. But people would say, yeah, hi, Valley,

1120
00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:28,719
Speaker 1: they've been around for a long time, been trying to

1121
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:30,680
Speaker 1: make it now. Is you guys a story? While I

1122
00:56:30,719 --> 00:56:32,920
Speaker 1: was drawn to you guys at first because it seems

1123
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:34,719
Speaker 1: like you guys are real grinders, like you spent a

1124
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:37,759
Speaker 1: lot of time in town. That would be an understatement,

1125
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:41,799
Speaker 1: getting told a lot of nose Oh big time. Yeah.

1126
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 1: I mean we we got offered our first record deal

1127
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:45,880
Speaker 1: in this town that we could not accept because we

1128
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:51,160
Speaker 1: had just signed a different one in oh eight oh nine.

1129
00:56:52,960 --> 00:56:56,960
Speaker 1: Com Universal Universal offered us to development deal and O

1130
00:56:57,080 --> 00:56:58,800
Speaker 1: nine and you couldn't take it because we had just

1131
00:56:58,840 --> 00:57:02,480
Speaker 1: signed an independent record deal with a company called Centric

1132
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:05,000
Speaker 1: City and Franklin, which is a great company. They're great

1133
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:08,440
Speaker 1: to us. But obviously to get on country radio in

1134
00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:11,320
Speaker 1: O nine would have been a lot sooner than you know,

1135
00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:14,399
Speaker 1: last year. Did you get out of that doo ah, yeah,

1136
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:17,920
Speaker 1: just right when making mind happen really yeah, pre or

1137
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:19,960
Speaker 1: post just pre We got out of it and got

1138
00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:24,840
Speaker 1: signed right after. But they're like, oh, come on, I

1139
00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:27,040
Speaker 1: can ask him. I guess yeah, you can ask him.

1140
00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 1: Let's bring him in there here waiting outside. So when

1141
00:57:31,120 --> 00:57:33,760
Speaker 1: you get signed with Warner Brothers, Uh, that's gonna be

1142
00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:36,600
Speaker 1: a cool thing, right like there, that's legitimate. Yeah, that was,

1143
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:40,440
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that was a huge moment for us.

1144
00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:43,040
Speaker 1: I mean, and still is. We've been with Warner now

1145
00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:45,400
Speaker 1: for what two and a half years, A couple of

1146
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:47,240
Speaker 1: years and as quick at two and a half years

1147
00:57:47,240 --> 00:57:50,360
Speaker 1: in my life, but um yeah, I mean that's when,

1148
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:53,800
Speaker 1: that's when the ball just started to roll. I mean,

1149
00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:58,840
Speaker 1: Make your Mind hit radio and uh I remember I

1150
00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:02,960
Speaker 1: remember playing that in Boston and uh there was like

1151
00:58:03,040 --> 00:58:04,760
Speaker 1: those rails right in front of the stage and people

1152
00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:07,439
Speaker 1: were packed against the stage in the room was full,

1153
00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:10,040
Speaker 1: and uh I was making my Mind was the last

1154
00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:14,160
Speaker 1: song and then they just screamed the lyrics as loud

1155
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:17,600
Speaker 1: as they could, and uh, my mind was just blown.

1156
00:58:17,680 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 1: That was like the moment. Then we went to Orlando

1157
00:58:20,360 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 1: and it was just happening. It was just acoustic and

1158
00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:24,000
Speaker 1: it happened kind of like the way it does in

1159
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:28,800
Speaker 1: the movies, like the that thing you do. Yeah, yeah,

1160
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:30,840
Speaker 1: it's kind of like what is going on? And that's

1161
00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:32,720
Speaker 1: when we got a video of it and sent it

1162
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:35,480
Speaker 1: to ESPO at the label, and pretty soon they were

1163
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:38,560
Speaker 1: sharing it with everybody and people say like, yeah, things

1164
00:58:38,600 --> 00:58:40,440
Speaker 1: have taken a while for you guys, but for us,

1165
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:43,240
Speaker 1: it just felt like fast. But maybe because we had

1166
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:46,240
Speaker 1: those first twenty years of super slow and we were

1167
00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:49,720
Speaker 1: just so ugly. Yeah, that's what I heard. Holding you back.

1168
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:53,160
Speaker 1: What's the difference in not having a record label and

1169
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:57,640
Speaker 1: then getting a record label? Um, I mean especially here

1170
00:58:57,640 --> 00:58:59,800
Speaker 1: because we've had all kinds of like little record labels.

1171
00:58:59,840 --> 00:59:03,160
Speaker 1: But from that to be with warners just like, well,

1172
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:04,960
Speaker 1: the first thing that is put us on the world's

1173
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:07,600
Speaker 1: most beautiful bus and sent us around the country made

1174
00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:10,800
Speaker 1: us feel real good, like real fancy, like like do

1175
00:59:10,960 --> 00:59:14,080
Speaker 1: radio tour, having the bus around. Like before having a

1176
00:59:14,120 --> 00:59:16,200
Speaker 1: big record deal, i'd eight, you know, two or three

1177
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:19,440
Speaker 1: times at these really expensive restaurants. Now we've ate two

1178
00:59:19,560 --> 00:59:21,240
Speaker 1: or three hundred times, and you know what I mean,

1179
00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:23,360
Speaker 1: it's like you get We went to a restaurant in

1180
00:59:23,640 --> 00:59:26,720
Speaker 1: Denver together. Yeah, and that was no cheap, didn't. I

1181
00:59:26,760 --> 00:59:29,520
Speaker 1: mean I wasn't paying pin either, don't I was pulling

1182
00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:31,520
Speaker 1: out my credit card either, But that was do the

1183
00:59:31,600 --> 00:59:34,320
Speaker 1: slow pool where you can't find your wall in time. Listen. Yeah,

1184
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:37,040
Speaker 1: I'm not spending that kind of money on a work

1185
00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:41,439
Speaker 1: deal that's a hundred meal like and and we don't drink.

1186
00:59:41,520 --> 00:59:44,479
Speaker 1: Imagine if we did like that, that's where the money

1187
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:46,880
Speaker 1: really goes up. We see those bills after, like those

1188
00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:50,280
Speaker 1: fancy dinners. It's not. I remember like calling my wife

1189
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:53,800
Speaker 1: whenever I knew how much how many dollars, I just

1190
00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:57,520
Speaker 1: ate and like tell her and it would just like

1191
00:59:57,640 --> 01:00:00,880
Speaker 1: blow both our minds. And since signed with the label,

1192
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:04,760
Speaker 1: it happens so much like meals getting put on cards

1193
01:00:04,840 --> 01:00:07,280
Speaker 1: and and it's not even about you guys, it's about

1194
01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:12,000
Speaker 1: the people that you're trying to impress, like the station

1195
01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:17,000
Speaker 1: managers or that's who you're eating the big meals for. Yeah,

1196
01:00:17,200 --> 01:00:19,120
Speaker 1: if it's up to us, we're going to barbecue join

1197
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:23,840
Speaker 1: having My standard is definitely no more than one fork

1198
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:27,120
Speaker 1: at the table, and if it's plastic, that's usually better.

1199
01:00:27,800 --> 01:00:30,400
Speaker 1: At our wedding, for our wedding dinner, for my example

1200
01:00:30,480 --> 01:00:33,880
Speaker 1: of what I would you know do, we had pizza

1201
01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:38,720
Speaker 1: and caesar salad and barbecue chicken wings. So this whole

1202
01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:41,640
Speaker 1: like being fancy all day, I find it hilarious. Even

1203
01:00:41,680 --> 01:00:43,040
Speaker 1: going to the a c MS or c M as

1204
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:45,280
Speaker 1: it's awesome. But we're all people that hang out with

1205
01:00:45,360 --> 01:00:47,560
Speaker 1: each other every day. But now we're all wearing these

1206
01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:52,080
Speaker 1: like suits that are pretty uncomfortable, and we're trying to

1207
01:00:52,200 --> 01:00:54,000
Speaker 1: stand the right way and have our colors the right way,

1208
01:00:54,040 --> 01:00:55,960
Speaker 1: and the girls are in these dresses that as much

1209
01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:58,200
Speaker 1: just kill them to be in, and then when it's over,

1210
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:01,000
Speaker 1: everybody just goes back to normal life. It it's like,

1211
01:01:01,120 --> 01:01:03,280
Speaker 1: if we all decided to not try to impress each other,

1212
01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:06,080
Speaker 1: we could just hang out and like shorts and T

1213
01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:08,880
Speaker 1: shirts and by brother swimpool all that money that you

1214
01:01:08,920 --> 01:01:11,640
Speaker 1: know that was exactly look at this. I feel like

1215
01:01:11,640 --> 01:01:13,760
Speaker 1: I've learned so much. I feel like as humans we've

1216
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:17,000
Speaker 1: grown together this last hour, so much growth. Man, and

1217
01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:19,200
Speaker 1: not of that. Credis hasn't been smart with me the

1218
01:01:19,240 --> 01:01:21,400
Speaker 1: whole time, because you come into the show man, you

1219
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:24,480
Speaker 1: just I'm like, I've only got a few seconds. I'm like,

1220
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:29,360
Speaker 1: come on, man. Comet's trying to think about the most

1221
01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:33,440
Speaker 1: expensive thing on the menu in Lacreds. I'm guessing it

1222
01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:35,800
Speaker 1: would be a las agna. I think it's ribs at

1223
01:01:35,800 --> 01:01:38,640
Speaker 1: the Country Drill. Oh yeah, that's probably sixteen bucks. No,

1224
01:01:38,800 --> 01:01:41,600
Speaker 1: it might be twenty five by now, Yeah, that'd be

1225
01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:46,040
Speaker 1: a buffet though. It's you guys, take a cow part completely.

1226
01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:48,400
Speaker 1: If you need to a cow, yeah, can you kill it?

1227
01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:53,439
Speaker 1: You know what? I um, I don't do very good

1228
01:01:53,560 --> 01:02:00,160
Speaker 1: with uh warm dead animals like I can still but

1229
01:02:00,320 --> 01:02:04,000
Speaker 1: believe and it happened in a while, completely dress a deer,

1230
01:02:04,680 --> 01:02:10,360
Speaker 1: real serious from Arkansas. Not anymore. Used to because it's

1231
01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:12,920
Speaker 1: what everyone did in my town. Okay, everybody did in

1232
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:15,320
Speaker 1: our town. But our family was the one exception. We

1233
01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:17,360
Speaker 1: were the family that did not hunt. Our dad was

1234
01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:20,200
Speaker 1: not into it. We didn't get into it really. He shot.

1235
01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:21,640
Speaker 1: I don't know if we're allowed to say this, are

1236
01:02:21,720 --> 01:02:24,880
Speaker 1: we to black bear? But that was that was out

1237
01:02:24,880 --> 01:02:28,600
Speaker 1: of defense. They were on our yard and like we

1238
01:02:28,680 --> 01:02:30,760
Speaker 1: were kids running around. He didn't want one was on

1239
01:02:30,800 --> 01:02:33,520
Speaker 1: our basketball court and the other was like right straight

1240
01:02:33,600 --> 01:02:36,360
Speaker 1: up in our yard. I think you say that self

1241
01:02:36,360 --> 01:02:40,720
Speaker 1: defense human if it's self defensially, whatever you need, but

1242
01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:43,520
Speaker 1: never go on hunting. Never. Where I grew up, I

1243
01:02:43,640 --> 01:02:45,440
Speaker 1: hunted a lot. One. I didn't have a dad for

1244
01:02:45,560 --> 01:02:47,040
Speaker 1: most of my life. On my stepdad came in. He

1245
01:02:47,040 --> 01:02:48,600
Speaker 1: was big into hunting cause I was trying to find

1246
01:02:48,840 --> 01:02:51,920
Speaker 1: anything for us to bond over. And so even I

1247
01:02:51,960 --> 01:02:54,000
Speaker 1: don't like killing animals, I'm an animal guy. I don't

1248
01:02:54,040 --> 01:02:56,600
Speaker 1: hunt anymore. But we used to also kill a lot

1249
01:02:56,640 --> 01:02:59,080
Speaker 1: of animals illegally, dear, because we had to eat, and

1250
01:02:59,160 --> 01:03:00,840
Speaker 1: that's how we ate a lot of food. So we

1251
01:03:00,920 --> 01:03:04,560
Speaker 1: had to not only shoot, kill, move, you know, dragging

1252
01:03:04,560 --> 01:03:06,320
Speaker 1: the deer spout the four wheeler, but we had to

1253
01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:08,720
Speaker 1: take it down quick, dress it quickly, and get rid

1254
01:03:08,720 --> 01:03:11,880
Speaker 1: of it. So because you want to get caught right,

1255
01:03:12,360 --> 01:03:14,360
Speaker 1: so you pulled in. We had certain garages we'd go

1256
01:03:14,400 --> 01:03:18,880
Speaker 1: in to back it in, hang it up, because not

1257
01:03:19,120 --> 01:03:20,760
Speaker 1: just because we wanted to do it, because we had

1258
01:03:20,840 --> 01:03:23,520
Speaker 1: to eat, and because we needed to do it fast.

1259
01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:25,720
Speaker 1: We wouldn't get because we didn't tag them all, you know.

1260
01:03:26,160 --> 01:03:27,920
Speaker 1: You know that is like tagging in there you only

1261
01:03:27,920 --> 01:03:30,840
Speaker 1: get certain amount like three, and you only get certain

1262
01:03:30,840 --> 01:03:32,960
Speaker 1: amount of dough and says the whole thing. But I

1263
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Speaker 1: could probably still do it. I can flay a fish

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Speaker 1: probably still too. I do love the idea of killing

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Speaker 1: and eating an animal, like like finding your own food

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Speaker 1: in that way, I think that's it's an amazing concept,

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Speaker 1: and I've been able to be a part of that

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Speaker 1: a couple of times, but like actually butchering, it's hard

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Speaker 1: for me. Do you guys read do you are you book? Guys? Are?

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Speaker 1: Have you read Sapiens? So it's about and it's about

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Speaker 1: the history of mankind and how we moved around and

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Speaker 1: the things that we did, and when man started walking

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01:04:07,160 --> 01:04:09,360
Speaker 1: tall and wise so we could see more in his prey.

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Speaker 1: That's why the first man stood up so he could

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Speaker 1: see farther. It's pretty fascinating when you talk about this

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01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:18,680
Speaker 1: and it's you know what, it talks about these cultures that, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, they just moved around. There really wasn't a home,

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Speaker 1: migrated place. Yeah, it's very nomadic all of it. What

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Speaker 1: but anyway, that's a whole, other, whole other podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: pretty much like for being a country boy, I am.

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Speaker 1: We're so country. We literally are from the middle of nowhere.

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Speaker 1: But for whatever is and I'm pretty whoosy when it

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Speaker 1: comes to that kind of like manly man uh hunting.

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Speaker 1: You look the part though, man with the muscles your

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Speaker 1: chin did along, he did. Well. Listen, you guys are

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Speaker 1: definitely you're definitely country. Like the only thing not that

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Speaker 1: country about you would be probably brad hair do. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: pretty pretty fancy, I mean fancy here, a little gel

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Speaker 1: in there. Yeah, Okay, so it's just large. It's just

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Speaker 1: large from the day, whatever it takes, it's all organic. Well, listen,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to here on what you guys have

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Speaker 1: to do next. You know, I'm fans of you guys.

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01:05:12,520 --> 01:05:14,479
Speaker 1: You guys actually fund to be around. Are you gonna

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01:05:14,480 --> 01:05:17,680
Speaker 1: be on the on like any tour dates anytime soon?

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01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:20,040
Speaker 1: Are you on the road? I'm doing stand up the

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Speaker 1: rest of the year, all the way until the end

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Speaker 1: of December, mid December. Um, maybe our puzzle. We're doing

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Speaker 1: the old dominion thing all the way until December. Are

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Speaker 1: We don't end up in comedy clubs very often, but

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01:05:32,440 --> 01:05:36,600
Speaker 1: it could happen performing. I don't need a your theaters clubs.

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Speaker 1: Come on, don't insult me. That's what I mean. That's

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Speaker 1: what I said this interview. Just like the biggest clubs.

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Speaker 1: You can imagine the biggest, coolest with the nicest people too.

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01:05:45,760 --> 01:05:49,680
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's funniest people. Don't insult me. Um, Curtis

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01:05:49,760 --> 01:05:51,880
Speaker 1: did say that we should wear red jogging suits to

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Speaker 1: this interview. You know, let me say this about plant shows,

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01:05:54,560 --> 01:05:57,760
Speaker 1: by the way, not to digress from your mediocre joke.

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01:05:57,920 --> 01:06:01,200
Speaker 1: Um to and I just tell a joke. No, he

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01:06:01,280 --> 01:06:04,760
Speaker 1: did the red that was truth. He did that. It

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Speaker 1: was his joke. I forget that we've played shows together. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and we've played Open Water Ship. That's right. You guys

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Speaker 1: played right before us the most beautiful festival. You were

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Speaker 1: wearing a red jumpsuit, right, yeah, I wear red and

1314
01:06:16,680 --> 01:06:18,600
Speaker 1: Eddieward's green. The rest of my band wars black. I

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01:06:18,800 --> 01:06:21,600
Speaker 1: read everything like that's that's my thing. It's like I

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01:06:21,680 --> 01:06:24,440
Speaker 1: wore black sneakers to fit in with your red hosh DoD.

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Speaker 1: That's so cool. Thanks. I wore flip flops today, is that? Okay?

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Speaker 1: Is the first interview I've ever done in flip flops.

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01:06:30,480 --> 01:06:34,640
Speaker 1: I'm not wearing pants, so garious, gonna be table. Oh man,

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Speaker 1: it's just got real. But I think now you guys

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01:06:36,880 --> 01:06:39,800
Speaker 1: will probably you think you guys to play later than us. Now, No,

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01:06:40,360 --> 01:06:44,160
Speaker 1: it's such an awkward question, man, Well what time are

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01:06:44,200 --> 01:06:45,960
Speaker 1: we talking about? Well, we would if I'm done to

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Speaker 1: my booking agent right now then yes, if I'm done

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Speaker 1: to you, no, no, I mean we would play the

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Speaker 1: five thirty or six pm spots on a festival, which

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01:06:52,800 --> 01:06:54,480
Speaker 1: is right when it's gonna do like a pretty good spot,

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Speaker 1: like the third from the last. Yeah, you know, see,

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Speaker 1: we'd probably play the exact same we'd probably play on

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Speaker 1: different days because we're always third from the last. Right now,

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Speaker 1: it's us then whoever's almost the headliner and then the headliner.

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Speaker 1: Because for us it was us, then Old Dominion and

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Speaker 1: then like Luke or someone like that. Yesterday was us,

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Speaker 1: Chris Jansen, then Chris Young. So there you go. We

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01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:16,720
Speaker 1: never will buy me a boat, or else we would

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Speaker 1: have been later. I wonder if they'd put us ahead

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Speaker 1: of you or behind here. Probably what happens if the

1338
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Speaker 1: next summer and we'll find out what happens if you're

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01:07:23,680 --> 01:07:25,960
Speaker 1: agent calls and says, hey, y'all are on at four

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Speaker 1: or fifteen hive valleys on. You're not doing any festivals

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Speaker 1: this year. Raging idiots don't exist anymore. Yeah, I take

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Speaker 1: that back. No, no, no, I'm wrong. We're playing too.

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Speaker 1: We're playing the first one we ever played. We got

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Speaker 1: booed off the stage. It was just Eddie and myself

1345
01:07:39,080 --> 01:07:43,040
Speaker 1: and this fight. It was then Shyenne Wyoming, a frontier game.

1346
01:07:43,160 --> 01:07:47,560
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, And it was brutal. It was intense.

1347
01:07:47,640 --> 01:07:49,160
Speaker 1: We didn't know we were getting ourselves into. We had

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Speaker 1: just started. We weren't even read jumpsuits yet, We're up there,

1349
01:07:51,800 --> 01:07:53,600
Speaker 1: just two dudes. It was like when you were still

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Speaker 1: ugly too. Yes, I was super ugly right before I

1351
01:07:56,120 --> 01:07:58,440
Speaker 1: went to my glow up. I'm literally gonna call Lindsay

1352
01:07:58,480 --> 01:08:00,360
Speaker 1: after this and be like, so, what is this whole

1353
01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:03,360
Speaker 1: disappearing and getting pretty thing? I want to know about it.

1354
01:08:03,520 --> 01:08:05,720
Speaker 1: And I think she was just one of the mini

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Speaker 1: voices that were like, oh, those dudes, they're they've been

1356
01:08:07,400 --> 01:08:08,800
Speaker 1: around for a while, but now they're like good looking

1357
01:08:08,880 --> 01:08:12,439
Speaker 1: and stuff. So maybe we wore too many like gap

1358
01:08:12,560 --> 01:08:14,360
Speaker 1: T shirts back in the day. That's probably what happened.

1359
01:08:14,400 --> 01:08:16,680
Speaker 1: What's awesome is Brad started working out a number of

1360
01:08:16,800 --> 01:08:19,479
Speaker 1: years ago and now people think we're the really fit

1361
01:08:19,640 --> 01:08:25,280
Speaker 1: band and I haven't changed anything, So I'm glad the frontman.

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01:08:25,360 --> 01:08:28,160
Speaker 1: Those sets the tone. Yeah, guilty by Association. Have you

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01:08:28,200 --> 01:08:30,720
Speaker 1: guys played China before? Yeah, we're playing it again. Coming

1364
01:08:30,800 --> 01:08:35,679
Speaker 1: up the Outlaw Saloon. It's smoking inside. Wow. Yeah, that's intense.

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Speaker 1: D It's kind of like a little club. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't play we don't, you know, even the raging

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Speaker 1: idiots when the little clubs, you know, we're playing. We're playing. Okay,

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01:08:42,400 --> 01:08:44,519
Speaker 1: get this, We're only doing two shows. We're playing the

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Speaker 1: outdoor stage and I already a music festival heard of it.

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Speaker 1: It's us in Dustin Lynch and like little Oozy, right,

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Speaker 1: like a bunch of rappers who knows? And then um,

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Speaker 1: we're playing Shin in Frontier Days, but we're playing the

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Speaker 1: second from the last. Who's last? Well here's the thing, No,

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01:09:00,320 --> 01:09:02,599
Speaker 1: but it's it's really not going to be our crowd.

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01:09:03,280 --> 01:09:05,920
Speaker 1: So it's one I like Shyannel and our show is

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01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:08,360
Speaker 1: number one there. But if you're gonna come to Frontier

1377
01:09:08,439 --> 01:09:11,880
Speaker 1: Days to watch Toby Keith who's playing, there's main act.

1378
01:09:12,720 --> 01:09:15,920
Speaker 1: You're probably not a big raging idiots fan. By the way,

1379
01:09:15,920 --> 01:09:17,880
Speaker 1: they're probably a lot of raging idiots fans as in

1380
01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:19,920
Speaker 1: just fans. We have like three songs Chick fil A,

1381
01:09:20,040 --> 01:09:23,600
Speaker 1: But it's Sunday. We have Nomas Day. You know, we

1382
01:09:23,640 --> 01:09:25,439
Speaker 1: don't have a bunch of songs. We just do funny shows.

1383
01:09:25,800 --> 01:09:28,439
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's Toby Keith is the headliner. We play

1384
01:09:28,479 --> 01:09:30,439
Speaker 1: it before him and then ned La do plays So

1385
01:09:30,520 --> 01:09:32,960
Speaker 1: it's a cowboy night. Yeah, that's pretty cowboy. Are you

1386
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:35,000
Speaker 1: gonna do your whole what they said you needed to

1387
01:09:35,040 --> 01:09:37,360
Speaker 1: do in Nashville? The belt, buckle and cowboy. We're wearing

1388
01:09:37,360 --> 01:09:40,000
Speaker 1: the jumpsuits. We stayed true who we are. That's good.

1389
01:09:40,040 --> 01:09:42,360
Speaker 1: We gotta be who you are man, And if you're

1390
01:09:42,400 --> 01:09:45,800
Speaker 1: authentic and you're good. That's the recipe. We're just not good.

1391
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Speaker 1: What was the other thing? Don't kill don't kill animals

1392
01:09:49,280 --> 01:09:54,200
Speaker 1: or kids? No, it's I think it was he Listen,

1393
01:09:54,280 --> 01:09:56,200
Speaker 1: we've spent an hour hour? How long we do? How

1394
01:09:56,240 --> 01:09:59,160
Speaker 1: long has been? That's a long time. That's a long time.

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01:09:59,240 --> 01:10:02,680
Speaker 1: What's typical? Not this long? Cool? Yeah, if you hit

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Speaker 1: the hour mark, it's pretty solid. So you did an

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01:10:05,840 --> 01:10:08,960
Speaker 1: hour and ten lost track. Um, I'm looking forward to

1398
01:10:09,000 --> 01:10:10,479
Speaker 1: hearing what you guys to do next. I like you guys.

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01:10:10,479 --> 01:10:13,200
Speaker 1: You guys are fine, and you guys are I. I

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01:10:13,280 --> 01:10:14,640
Speaker 1: got to ask all the questions that I wanted to

1401
01:10:14,720 --> 01:10:16,200
Speaker 1: know in this so I feel like next time when

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01:10:16,240 --> 01:10:17,360
Speaker 1: you come on the show, already know a lot of

1403
01:10:17,400 --> 01:10:19,040
Speaker 1: the answers, so we don't have to spend ten minutes

1404
01:10:19,080 --> 01:10:21,519
Speaker 1: going We probably don't even have to show up. No, yeah,

1405
01:10:21,520 --> 01:10:23,120
Speaker 1: I'll just tell your story. But like, hey, they we're

1406
01:10:23,160 --> 01:10:24,960
Speaker 1: gonna come in, but instead I'm gonna tell you everything

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01:10:25,000 --> 01:10:27,439
Speaker 1: I know about them and play the song. Alright, So

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Speaker 1: High Valley, thank you for for coming in. What episodes

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Speaker 1: might one episode one twenty from High Valley and now

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Speaker 1: we will see you next time. Thanks everybody,