Speaker 1: We were starting episode with High Valley. Before we went on,
Speaker 1: Brad asked me if you could have a copy of
Speaker 1: my new book. It's all that's down there. I'm just
Speaker 1: begging people to take them, and I was like please.
Speaker 1: When we walked in, I saw the whole elsis covered
Speaker 1: in the books. So yeah, that's what's made of Yeah
Speaker 1: forgetting hardwood flooring when you can just walk on books. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: High Valleys here. Episode brought to us by LifeLock in
Speaker 1: Sleep number. What do you have? We're about literally they
Speaker 1: walked in and what I like about you guys is
Speaker 1: we can just go and I don't want to waste
Speaker 1: any of you guys is just amazing wit and charm.
Speaker 1: So we just wanted to hit the button. What's on
Speaker 1: your phone over there? My mom just sent me our
Speaker 1: Remple Family recording from and I have a song on it.
Speaker 1: Do you want to hear it? What's what's that? When
Speaker 1: the RepA you guys recorded like a song? It's a
Speaker 1: family like the it's the whole album man, like the
Speaker 1: Partridge family. Do you know what that is? Yes, I've
Speaker 1: heard of them. Yeah, now that's not really it. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you're being if you're being funny or not.
Speaker 1: I have heard of the Partridge Family. Yes, they were
Speaker 1: before all of our time. I was born in the eighties.
Speaker 1: I assume you guys are born in the eighties and nineties.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how old you are. Birthday was yesterday?
Speaker 1: Is that right? So look at that? You feel confident
Speaker 1: with your twenty year old self? You like where you
Speaker 1: are now or now? Yeah? Yeah, I feel good about it.
Speaker 1: I've got gray temples and everything. It's crazy. Hell do
Speaker 1: you brade? Okay? So this recording from so you weren't
Speaker 1: even born yet. I was not. No, okay, so you're
Speaker 1: not in this for the best quality. Always play it
Speaker 1: through an iPhone into a micro Okay, yes, absolutely, go ahead.
Speaker 1: But how are you in this if it's eight four? Okay?
Speaker 1: Singing lead? So what where are do you remember that
Speaker 1: at all? Uh? No? But I remember performing it. I
Speaker 1: won fifty bucks. I got second place in the Lacrete
Speaker 1: Talent contest for my age group, and I went to
Speaker 1: Home Hardware and bought a farm set with little cows
Speaker 1: and chickens and horses. Dreams coming true. Man, you can
Speaker 1: hear you were kind of on in Key though before
Speaker 1: pretty honestly, I I just heard it driving out here
Speaker 1: because mom just email. I had to walk our mom
Speaker 1: how to through how to email an attachment, which she
Speaker 1: did very well. Congratulations Mom. And did you listen to this?
Speaker 1: Of course you will, yes, especially if you play that part.
Speaker 1: You're gonna cut that out or keep it? Oh, everything
Speaker 1: goes up. There we go. There's no editing on this.
Speaker 1: She's listening that. So let me run through a couple
Speaker 1: of solential quick because I definitely want to get back
Speaker 1: and talk to people that don't know you guys. So
Speaker 1: here is she's with me from High Valley. Sounds familiar.
Speaker 1: Give me a little more volume my ears on that one.
Speaker 1: There we go, Can you guys hear that over there?
Speaker 1: The first time we've done this with two people. By
Speaker 1: the way, ever we waited, there are other people that
Speaker 1: wanted to come in you that I promised you guys
Speaker 1: months ago that as soon as we get two microphones,
Speaker 1: you're the first one. Uh here's a make you mind?
Speaker 1: Did you get the second microphone on Amazon Prime? Got
Speaker 1: it on and I have to dash. I need so
Speaker 1: many microphones. You just wanted that button and you just
Speaker 1: put over the toilet paper and send it to Yeah beautiful, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's amazing. Uh, there's that one. That's a good one.
Speaker 1: How uh how had that one go? They went somewhere
Speaker 1: in the teens. Okay, so you don't know exactly, you're
Speaker 1: not that dialed into. Yeah, but there's so many different charts,
Speaker 1: So what about sheets with me? Though? That one went
Speaker 1: to that's crazy. It was the number one song. It
Speaker 1: was a number one caliber song. If you if that
Speaker 1: same song would have been and don't take this in
Speaker 1: a weird way, if it would have been anyone that
Speaker 1: would have had hits prior, that would have been a
Speaker 1: number one song. That's not offensive at all. We totally understand. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think we talked about this because we were
Speaker 1: in Denver and I was like, guys, this is a
Speaker 1: great song. You're being penalized because all these big artists
Speaker 1: are at the same chart at the same time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. Any and obviously we want to go number one,
Speaker 1: we really do. Everybody does, but we truly don't have
Speaker 1: to pretend. We actually were quite thrilled that we had
Speaker 1: a song go in the top ten and hang out
Speaker 1: there for sure. I don't know months. It was there
Speaker 1: for a long time. I'm sure people sing it back,
Speaker 1: both of those songs, right, especially in the last couple
Speaker 1: of months. It's like the volume of singing back, it's
Speaker 1: louder every week. And also there's some money to be made.
Speaker 1: Once you get in the top ten, you know you're
Speaker 1: finally starting to make a little bit of money. And
Speaker 1: I don't know how much of that you guys are
Speaker 1: getting outside of your publishing. So do you guys make
Speaker 1: any money from that yet? Yeah? Make your mind. Actually
Speaker 1: made a lot of money because it was on the
Speaker 1: charts for fifty six weeks. Yeah. So, um, I bought
Speaker 1: a swimming pool. I was swimming in it today. You're
Speaker 1: not kidding, not at all. You made enough money to
Speaker 1: buy a swimming pool? Yeah, but who'd you write that with?
Speaker 1: My buddies ben s Dennis and Seth Mosley. Ben U
Speaker 1: lives a few houses down so whenever we're not home,
Speaker 1: his family swims in the pool out with them. At
Speaker 1: the same time, I wonder the dynamic because here you
Speaker 1: are brothers and your your bandmates and you're the song
Speaker 1: that you wrote is a single, so you're making songwriter
Speaker 1: money too, but you're not. That's gotta be a slightly
Speaker 1: weird dynamic because he's getting paid a little more for it.
Speaker 1: I think you could make it weird if you wanted to.
Speaker 1: But if people talked about in interviews and making you know, well, no,
Speaker 1: it's just honest thing. I wonder sometimes, because I'll give
Speaker 1: you an example, the guys from a little big town,
Speaker 1: sometimes one or two of them will be in a
Speaker 1: right and not all four of them, and then it's
Speaker 1: gotta be weird whenever you go into deciding what the
Speaker 1: single is going to be, what song is going to
Speaker 1: go to radio, because that's real life dollars. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: would be if Curtis wrote too, and we were like
Speaker 1: picking between one of mine and one of his, that
Speaker 1: would definitely be. I don't write, so I think that
Speaker 1: probably helps you don't write, correct, Are you being serious? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're the sarcastic in Cartis. I never know if you're
Speaker 1: you're messing with me or not. I am sarcastic. But
Speaker 1: I also do not write, and that is the truth
Speaker 1: about So it doesn't bother you. Then you're probably happy
Speaker 1: that he wrote it. Yeah, we listen. I mean we
Speaker 1: we listen to outside songs all the time, and I
Speaker 1: almost never like outside songs I like brad songs. Look
Speaker 1: at you? So really you don't you don't sit and right,
Speaker 1: I've tried, and um, it's a very uncomfortable thing for
Speaker 1: me to do. And I know most songwriters just would
Speaker 1: probably say, well, it was uncomfortable for all of us,
Speaker 1: but um, yeah, I I honestly, I thought about how
Speaker 1: hobbies for years and I tried to figure out which
Speaker 1: one was for me. And I tried to write songs
Speaker 1: and it was just never comfortable. And then one day
Speaker 1: I built a table and it was the best day
Speaker 1: of my life. So I just keep building tables instead
Speaker 1: of writing songs. I'm fascinated with this because is you're
Speaker 1: quite good musically, Like I watch you, I want you
Speaker 1: to play and you play the little thing. Yeah, play
Speaker 1: the little thing. Yeah yeah, you play the little thing.
Speaker 1: You're you're you're quite efficient on that. So you obviously
Speaker 1: have that that whatever that is in the brain to
Speaker 1: create musically. Isn't that in a way of writing to Okay,
Speaker 1: so what you don't write words? But come on, you
Speaker 1: sit down. Musically you can't write melodies? You can you can?
Speaker 1: Maybe I can? Yeah, he's got out should write Oh alright,
Speaker 1: I want write well, but alright, alright, everything cool? Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: alright too, But I was calling you right now, man,
Speaker 1: this is my phone's vibrate in this whole table. Anybody cool?
Speaker 1: You guys have any cool friends yet? No? Yeah? Yes,
Speaker 1: this is just our our sound engineer, our production manager. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's cool. Who's that? Who's who's your guy? Paul Shipless? Yeah, Chameless.
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to learn how to last fan of
Speaker 1: his work. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's a good guy.
Speaker 1: As are you guys cooling Canada? Um? What do you mean? No? No, no, no,
Speaker 1: And I'm I'm being serious because if I go to Okay,
Speaker 1: I use Nashville, or if I go to Austin, or
Speaker 1: if I go to Tampa or Boston, I'm cooler there
Speaker 1: than if I go walk down the street in San
Speaker 1: Francisco because shows not on there don't have any and
Speaker 1: they don't like country music there. So when I say,
Speaker 1: are you cooling Canada? In Arkansas? That's that's where I'm from.
Speaker 1: They're proud of me there. I'm proud to be from Arkansas.
Speaker 1: I am their son because I'm able to go and
Speaker 1: represent who they are. So when I say that that,
Speaker 1: in no way is that a a jab. But you
Speaker 1: guys like, are you cooling Canada? Because people ask me
Speaker 1: are you cool in Arkansas? I'm like, hey, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: super cool in Arkansas. I love it. I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: the governor of Arkansas. So are you actually Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, I did read something. I'm not kidding. I
Speaker 1: say this all the time. I'm going to be the
Speaker 1: governor and I might be the President of America. Called
Speaker 1: President of America is called President United States? Are you
Speaker 1: cooler in Canada? Meaning well, the show sell more? Will
Speaker 1: if you can you do bigger TV appearances? Can you
Speaker 1: walk down the street in certain areas that are big
Speaker 1: and they're like, oh there they are? Yeah? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would definitely say that's the case, although we've had more
Speaker 1: TV exposure in the United States than we ever have
Speaker 1: in Canada. Yeah, I would say Boston, Orlando, and Minneapolis
Speaker 1: would all be bigger. In Chicago, bigger crowds, bigger tickets,
Speaker 1: bigger everything for High Valley than any Canadian city. After
Speaker 1: those four uh, it would start. You know that. I
Speaker 1: pulled it. I pulled it up our top cities by audience.
Speaker 1: There is one Canadian city in the top ten and
Speaker 1: it is in eighth place. But to be fair again,
Speaker 1: I put Arkansas on mine, but there's not a lot
Speaker 1: of population there, so you're looking at just dad. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about per cap But how cool are you? So
Speaker 1: her capita the cool is the most airport like autographs
Speaker 1: and signatures would happen either in like Minneapolis or Canadian cities.
Speaker 1: Maybe Minneapolis, Boston and Canadian cities. I was looking at
Speaker 1: a map of Canada because I'm on in ten cities
Speaker 1: in Canada now and and and growing, and so the
Speaker 1: show's on in ten cities of Canada. I went to Canada.
Speaker 1: By the way, you guys are super nice. I just
Speaker 1: does see all of you together. You guys are all
Speaker 1: I mean, thank you on behalf of all of the nation.
Speaker 1: I went up there and never felt so warm and
Speaker 1: welcome like I was on my phone and I'm in Toronto,
Speaker 1: which is American as it gets for Canada, and it's
Speaker 1: still clean and people are nice. Oh my phone up
Speaker 1: a phone out. I'm kind of lost looking at the gapest.
Speaker 1: Someone comes up, he goes hey, and I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna rob me. There's wondering where I'm trying to go
Speaker 1: because they're gonna help me with their human brain, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, that's awesome. I was inside this restaurant
Speaker 1: and they took us because Rogers Media, who owns much
Speaker 1: radio stations, sit there. They syndicate our show. And I'm
Speaker 1: up there and I don't know where. I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's a fancy restaurant where you can't put your phones
Speaker 1: out because apparently can Adian celebrities hang out there. What
Speaker 1: do I know? Was it the Soho House or something else?
Speaker 1: So it was it was okay if you heard of that.
Speaker 1: I've been there for breakfast. Man, we had breakfast. So
Speaker 1: I'm in there right A little do I know you
Speaker 1: can't pull out your phone and a little do I
Speaker 1: care because I'm gonna be me. I'm an idiot and
Speaker 1: I got my phone and I'm just look at I'm
Speaker 1: just staying on Instagram. I was probably like sending people
Speaker 1: messages being funny and ian and I look over and
Speaker 1: it's the dude from Ship's Creek the Sun. I've I've
Speaker 1: not watched It's Creek, but I know about it. Oh,
Speaker 1: I thought you guys, I thought your National show. You know,
Speaker 1: um Bill our Ore TM watches it all the time.
Speaker 1: He really does it's super funny. And uh, so I started,
Speaker 1: I started recording on my phone and they dropped the hammer.
Speaker 1: They're like the phone down. I was like, did they
Speaker 1: do it nicely and politely though? Or not? Well? He
Speaker 1: didn't like that. I was it was Levy? Was it?
Speaker 1: You know his name Andrew Levy. It was the guy
Speaker 1: from who cares anyway? Canada? Canada rules, Canada rules. And
Speaker 1: then would you ever come to our home? I'm actually
Speaker 1: serious right now, would you ever come to our hometown?
Speaker 1: Here was my point and all of that is that
Speaker 1: I was looking at the population of Canada because I
Speaker 1: started to be a bit curious about the dynamics of
Speaker 1: how the country runs, like, um, yeah, it is in
Speaker 1: the thirties, right, and I like Justin Trudeau, Like I
Speaker 1: think I like that dude. Um we talked in my
Speaker 1: heart sometimes. Uh and so he wears a lot of red,
Speaker 1: he does. And so I was looking to population. And
Speaker 1: so you break Canada into four you put it into
Speaker 1: equal fourths, like where you're from, all that land up there,
Speaker 1: nobody lives there, nobody. You can go hours without seeing
Speaker 1: a store. That's where our hometown is. In that part
Speaker 1: of Canada. It's it's way up there, like when you
Speaker 1: look at the Canadian map, it's like the cold part
Speaker 1: where you go, who in the world would live up there? Right? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you have to fuel up because when you leave um,
Speaker 1: Slave Lake, Alberta, which is about five hours south of US,
Speaker 1: it's called Slave Lake Alberta as a town the worst
Speaker 1: kind ever heard. Yes one, there's one gas station in
Speaker 1: those five hours. If they can't change the name of
Speaker 1: that town from Slave Lake, I mean, no one goes hey, mayor,
Speaker 1: mayor of Slave Lake. We should probably change the name
Speaker 1: of this town. Do you know that there's an area
Speaker 1: called lesser Slave Lake as well? I'm not sure. I've
Speaker 1: literally never thought of that until you brought it up.
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Speaker 1: I want to go in and I wanna talk about
Speaker 1: you guys growing up because we met. I was super
Speaker 1: fascinating with you guys. Well, you talked about you guys
Speaker 1: living in a remote part of Canada way up there.
Speaker 1: And so tell me about your house and what was
Speaker 1: it if you walked outside, what would you see um
Speaker 1: our yard was it was? It was a seven acre
Speaker 1: yard inside the trees. But if you included the border
Speaker 1: of trees around our yard. It was with eight acres
Speaker 1: and it was kind of split in half. The included
Speaker 1: if you included the whole trees are oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: there farm like a field around our yard as well.
Speaker 1: And did you guys farm the land yourself? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And what did you have on the farm. We grew
Speaker 1: wheat with a hard tea on the end and canola.
Speaker 1: Those are the main two crops. Every now and then
Speaker 1: there would be like oats or barley or alfalfa or
Speaker 1: how would you grow wheat when it's that cold all
Speaker 1: the time. It doesn't. The sun doesn't go down in
Speaker 1: the summer, so you get all that extra sunlight for
Speaker 1: a few months, like right now, it would be as
Speaker 1: bright as is in your house until about midnight. So
Speaker 1: in your life, the normal thing to you was in
Speaker 1: the summer, the sun didn't go down, correct, not while
Speaker 1: we were awake. Anyway, It might dip like it goes
Speaker 1: below the horizon in like June twenty one, as long
Speaker 1: as day of the year, right, So on June one,
Speaker 1: the sun dips below the horizon for I don't know
Speaker 1: an hour, and that's normal to you. That's crazy. You
Speaker 1: can go play basketball at midnight, like call your buddies
Speaker 1: up and go hang out and play sports late at night,
Speaker 1: which we did all the time. I went to Iceland.
Speaker 1: Never been to Iceland, ever been really been anywhere. But
Speaker 1: that's the person I've experienced that where the sun stays
Speaker 1: up and for like an hour and a half it
Speaker 1: just goes down. And what time of year were are
Speaker 1: you there? Whenever the sun stayed up, So I guess
Speaker 1: it would be summer. Yeah, I've never been Iceland. I'd
Speaker 1: love to, but yeah, that would be the general concept
Speaker 1: of how it was growing up, and it was cold
Speaker 1: all the time or now, um it was. It would
Speaker 1: it would get warm during the day and the summer,
Speaker 1: but I mean the difference between night and day was
Speaker 1: like I don't know, typically it would fluctuate like forty degrees.
Speaker 1: It still gets really cold, even on a hot day.
Speaker 1: It'll get down to like night on the in the
Speaker 1: hottest part of the year, and that's not so today.
Speaker 1: The lowest forty nine degrees you're talking about fahrenheit, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: in the summertime, and the highest sixty one Okay, that's
Speaker 1: not so bad in the summer. Then I just think
Speaker 1: about being like a blizzard like like eskimos all the time.
Speaker 1: I mean there's a large part of the year that's
Speaker 1: like that. So when it gets winter those it's dark
Speaker 1: the whole time pretty much. How does your body react,
Speaker 1: because again it's normal to you, but with it being daytime,
Speaker 1: how do you go to sleep? What's up that clock inside? Is?
Speaker 1: For me, it was always hard to go to bed
Speaker 1: in the summer because yeah, the sun was out, it
Speaker 1: was time to go outside and play basketball or family
Speaker 1: was like that though, too, Like until I met my wife,
Speaker 1: I never got into the lifestyle going to bed early,
Speaker 1: waking up early. Our family was really wouldn't you say?
Speaker 1: Like even now mom and Dad come to visit and
Speaker 1: they're staying away later than my wife and I. They're
Speaker 1: like we're checking our watches at midnight and they're like
Speaker 1: still wide awake. And then in something in the winter
Speaker 1: that was dark all the time, So everybody sad in
Speaker 1: the winter, Like it just seems like if it's dark
Speaker 1: and cold all the time, Apparently there is a lot
Speaker 1: of depression the further north you go. Um, just statistically,
Speaker 1: but I mean personally, I our talent specifically, yeah, pretty happy,
Speaker 1: pretty happy place. I don't even know that I knew
Speaker 1: what a men and Night was, to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: until you guys came to this show turn alone. I'm
Speaker 1: still trying to figure out what a Minnonite is. There's
Speaker 1: so many different kinds. It's really confusing. So what is
Speaker 1: a Mennonite? Then, to you gets so much says what's
Speaker 1: a Mennonite? How do you explain that for us? I mean, well,
Speaker 1: for me, I still call myself a Menonite, but not
Speaker 1: because of anything that I believe. I just call myself
Speaker 1: a Minutonite because of my background or my blood, you know,
Speaker 1: like we come from someone was Jewish. It could be
Speaker 1: because either where they're from or what they believe. Would
Speaker 1: that be an acceptable analogy? You could one the other
Speaker 1: or both. I would say, if your last name is Remple,
Speaker 1: you could tell another Minutonite you were in a Mennonite,
Speaker 1: but they would say, yeah, you are. Your last name
Speaker 1: is Dremp. It's like, how are you going to blood?
Speaker 1: It's like it's like if you're from Ireland or your
Speaker 1: great grandfather was from Ireland, so you say you're Irish.
Speaker 1: It's pretty much the same thing if you're born in
Speaker 1: America but your great grandfather was born in Ireland. Then
Speaker 1: it's the same type of thing. For So what's a
Speaker 1: men and night? Like, what are the men and nights stereotypes? Uh,
Speaker 1: ankle length, denim skirts, no makeup, dis ault female stuff all.
Speaker 1: Even the guys don't wear makeup, no earrings. Um what else? Um?
Speaker 1: A lot of like four part harmony in church, like
Speaker 1: just a piano and then tons of harmony. It's like
Speaker 1: they always joked that, like men and night, kids can
Speaker 1: harmonize by the time they're two, which is sometimes true. Um.
Speaker 1: Our sisters have a lot of kids, and he started
Speaker 1: singing harmonies when they were super young. Is that a
Speaker 1: thing to have a lot of kids? Oh yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: Like our one sister has seven, one is five. I'm
Speaker 1: the youngest of six. So if mom invites us over
Speaker 1: for lunch and says, hey, kids, come over, there's thirty
Speaker 1: six people. Is that right? Wow? Not just a Christmas
Speaker 1: just like on a normal Tuesday evening, that could be third.
Speaker 1: I mean it does sound like a lot of love
Speaker 1: in a house, be honest with you, Like that part
Speaker 1: sounds very appealing, like it's a lot of family. Yeah
Speaker 1: it is. We tried. It was the other day. We
Speaker 1: were trying to explain to people because a lot of
Speaker 1: people say, yeah, we understand you guys kind of like
Speaker 1: family values and you know, that's such a generic normal
Speaker 1: thing to say, right, It's kind of like saying God
Speaker 1: bless America. It's a pretty normal thing. But to explain
Speaker 1: we were trying to, Curtison, were trying to sum it
Speaker 1: up the other day, like when we say family values
Speaker 1: in a minute night town, it's quite different. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, how here or anywhere in the world, it's
Speaker 1: pretty normal to have a babysitter a certain amount of time,
Speaker 1: and people that like don't do it very often say
Speaker 1: we don't do a babysitter very often. In a minute
Speaker 1: that town, you literally never ever do. Like everything you
Speaker 1: do is with your kids. So I'm oh, I did
Speaker 1: stay with the babysitter one time at Shelly had me
Speaker 1: over for that's not that's so it's that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Like one of our biggest dreams as a band is
Speaker 1: to someday be the first country band ever to sell
Speaker 1: out an arena based on family tickets, where it's like
Speaker 1: this is the price for a person, this is the
Speaker 1: price for a family, and everybody's there together as families.
Speaker 1: It's kind of weird dream of mine, and it seems
Speaker 1: like it would be that way. It would thrive in
Speaker 1: an area where there aren't where there's not a lot
Speaker 1: of cosmopolitan, but there's not a lot of people like
Speaker 1: you stay to your own group like you you you
Speaker 1: were all together because you need each other. You're you're
Speaker 1: kind of feeding off of each other. It's like a
Speaker 1: business even like you all have your roles inside of it.
Speaker 1: I'm into it. I need to get like eighteen kids,
Speaker 1: get right on it. That's crazy. We only my wifriend
Speaker 1: I only have two, which makes us like probably not
Speaker 1: minutight enough. I was reading minutite dot com. They're not
Speaker 1: happy with you. That was one of the first thing
Speaker 1: it said. We are not happy to not hap There
Speaker 1: definitely are some Mennonites that you have kids. I have
Speaker 1: two kids, you can have more. Yes, we will well.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to talk about the whole time.
Speaker 1: I'm just I don't know anything about it, and I
Speaker 1: know people want to know, yeah and be like, hey,
Speaker 1: what does this what does this come? Because it seemed
Speaker 1: like in America, this is like what are you all with?
Speaker 1: People up in the Northeast, the Quakers Amish. There we go.
Speaker 1: That is that a fair comparison? Yeah, almost broke out
Speaker 1: of Minnonites Mennonites. Um, you guys the O G S Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: you know fred Armison called us. I texted you. Actually,
Speaker 1: when I met from Fred Armison, I was so proud
Speaker 1: to have met a famous person that we both knew.
Speaker 1: And um, he called us the original hipsters Mennonites, which
Speaker 1: I think is sort of that's true because we ate
Speaker 1: our neighbors cows and it was normal. Yeah, and we
Speaker 1: grew our on potatoes. Yeah, you asked, like, what it
Speaker 1: looked like outside our house, you'd get out there. We're
Speaker 1: on this. If you look at an aerial view of
Speaker 1: our town, it's all in squares. Half a mile by
Speaker 1: half a mile is a hundred and sixty acres. We
Speaker 1: lived on two of them, and our neighbors would live
Speaker 1: on two of them, and everybody's just in these plots
Speaker 1: of land. They'd have cows, we'd have chickens, and you
Speaker 1: just all buy food from each other. So when I
Speaker 1: moved here and people were talking about whole foods and
Speaker 1: explaining it to me, it was hilarious because I clearly
Speaker 1: had never experienced that before, and I hadn't heard about
Speaker 1: like organic and paying more for organic. And then when
Speaker 1: they explained to me what it was, it literally was
Speaker 1: our backyard, just paying extra for it. You were hearing
Speaker 1: organic and you're like, what is that? But really what
Speaker 1: they were saying was that this is what you're used to.
Speaker 1: You're gonna pay more for what you're used to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had never I didn't know what organic was until
Speaker 1: I was probably eighteen, except you knew exactly what it
Speaker 1: was because you were living it. Yeah, just no word
Speaker 1: for it. You didn't know the process part of it.
Speaker 1: We call it eating food, I bet you. And everywhere
Speaker 1: you go people want to talk about this, right, and
Speaker 1: every interview is that, like, what's up Canada men Tonite? Right?
Speaker 1: You know, it's weird. Nobody in Canada ever talked to
Speaker 1: us about being Mennonite ever until like last year, because
Speaker 1: they knew and it was not even a thing. I
Speaker 1: think there was no for sure. And even here there's
Speaker 1: a little bit of it is try hey, guys, try
Speaker 1: hard not to be so different, can you try? And like, um,
Speaker 1: you know, the whole thing a little more relatable. Country
Speaker 1: artists should be like out there with their Red Solo
Speaker 1: Cup and hanging out with everybody else with the Red
Speaker 1: Solo cups and um for whatever reason, I think honestly,
Speaker 1: you were a huge part of it. Your interview where
Speaker 1: everybody kind of started talking about it and then um,
Speaker 1: people start saying, oh, maybe it's okay if you guys
Speaker 1: talk about it. Of course it's okay. I guess so
Speaker 1: frustrated what people say you can't be who you are.
Speaker 1: When I came over here to the format, it was like, oh,
Speaker 1: you don't wear a bill buckle, cowboy, You're never gonna
Speaker 1: make it. I would love to see you with that,
Speaker 1: it would be amazing. But it just goes to show
Speaker 1: you that if you're authentic and who you are and
Speaker 1: not just that, you still have to be good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but if you're good enough that it doesn't matter what
Speaker 1: you are. If you're not hurting people or animals, people
Speaker 1: don't care to be good at it, Like, give them
Speaker 1: some sort of entertainment they can enjoy, and don't hurt
Speaker 1: kids animals. You're pretty good. I mean, that's a good
Speaker 1: recipe for success. Would be good? Is that in your book? Yes?
Speaker 1: Don't hurt kids or animals. Stay in school when you
Speaker 1: guys want to move down here. Well, I guess I
Speaker 1: wonder creatively in that family, are you guys all making
Speaker 1: music as a family, Like in that little snippet I
Speaker 1: played you there, that was the whole family band, the
Speaker 1: Rymple family. That was just live off of the stage
Speaker 1: at church, right, Yeah, that was our album. We don't
Speaker 1: literally played ten songs live and recorded it, but um,
Speaker 1: Curtis and I are just the last two in our
Speaker 1: family to still you know, we want to keep doing it.
Speaker 1: Everybody in our family was in the band at one point.
Speaker 1: Is it weird to them that not only do you
Speaker 1: want to pursue this to make a living, but that
Speaker 1: you want to move to a different country and pursue
Speaker 1: on this large stage. I don't think. I don't know
Speaker 1: if weird is the right word, But I mean it's
Speaker 1: been We've been doing this for a long time, longer
Speaker 1: than people realize. And our family has been, you know,
Speaker 1: with us for the whole thing. They've seen every single
Speaker 1: baby step, you know. So, I mean there have been
Speaker 1: some shocking events I guess in our history, probably to
Speaker 1: the family. But it's like playing the Opry for the
Speaker 1: first time, that was a big enough event that in
Speaker 1: forty eight hours. They got passports and drove to the
Speaker 1: airport and flew here to see us at the opry.
Speaker 1: So what's driving to the airport? Five miles? Wow? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it used to be um now it's all paved,
Speaker 1: but it used to be how many? How many miles?
Speaker 1: Was used to be growing a hundred and fifty miles off?
Speaker 1: It was gravel to get to the airport. And what
Speaker 1: airport is that? Edmonton? Okay, so let me let's do
Speaker 1: the map here five miles at eighty miles okay, except
Speaker 1: you can't do that on gravel road. But okay, but
Speaker 1: it paved now right, Yeah, so at eight times six
Speaker 1: is forty eight you're talking about. You gotta stop him.
Speaker 1: P Yeah, it's considered an eight hour drive for most
Speaker 1: Like on on Google Maps it would eight out. You
Speaker 1: drive eight hours to the airport, you drive fast, but
Speaker 1: Google tend to get a passport. Yeah, they didn't have
Speaker 1: passports yet, so they had to at the expedited McDonald's
Speaker 1: in our town. Two yeah, two hundred miles to McDonald's,
Speaker 1: two miles to the movie theater, which when we went
Speaker 1: home and did a documentary a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: we interviewed my Mr. Award shop teacher, and him and
Speaker 1: his wife had just driven to the movie theater and
Speaker 1: back for a date. Like they drove two hundred miles,
Speaker 1: saw a movie and drove back, like they didn't get
Speaker 1: a hotel there, they just went and saw a movie.
Speaker 1: A lot of people in our hometown, including our brother
Speaker 1: in law, um, have season tickets to the Edmonton Oilers,
Speaker 1: which is in Edmonton, which is eight hours on games
Speaker 1: a year, and so they're making that drive quite frequently.
Speaker 1: But tis kay, let me say this then, if that's normal,
Speaker 1: that's not that far. I mean, it's not it's crazy
Speaker 1: to me to go I'm gonna drive eight hours or something,
Speaker 1: But imagine the eighteen hundred You gotta get a horse
Speaker 1: and travel in, you know, sixteen hours to a market.
Speaker 1: That's we'll imagine this. We moved to spring Hill because
Speaker 1: it's you know, yeah, spring Hill, Tennancy. It's thirty five
Speaker 1: minutes exactly to Music Row, to where I'm usually hanging
Speaker 1: out writing from my house. People are like, dude, you
Speaker 1: live way out in spring Hill. As if it's just nuts.
Speaker 1: I have a super targeting about fifty other stores eight
Speaker 1: minutes from my driveway. And I'm supposed to feel like
Speaker 1: I live far away from something that I can't. I've tried.
Speaker 1: I've been here for eight years, and I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm in like Manhattan or something in spring Hill. But
Speaker 1: people perceive it as being a way the heck out there.
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking, Wow, it's pretty easy. It just shows
Speaker 1: you it's really all relative. Yeah, and there are probably
Speaker 1: people here your story and go, oh, that's nothing. Yeah. Well, Mike,
Speaker 1: I was having a conversation with my father in law yesterday. Um,
Speaker 1: my wife and I are both from the same town. Um,
Speaker 1: so my father in law was telling me about um
Speaker 1: stories he heard about our hometown and like the forties
Speaker 1: and stuff, and there was no road to get to Lacrete.
Speaker 1: You literally had to take a boat down the Peace
Speaker 1: River and it would come twice a month, I think,
Speaker 1: and it would drop off food and I mean everything
Speaker 1: that people would need to survive, and then people would
Speaker 1: also export, so like every two weeks, the boats would
Speaker 1: be going in and out of Lacrete and uh, and
Speaker 1: that was normal. Though my point is even to him,
Speaker 1: then that was probably normal. Yeah, And that's the thing.
Speaker 1: Minnight's moved up there because it was so um what's
Speaker 1: the word secluded? Yeah, and now that there's a paved
Speaker 1: road going all the way there. Like my father in
Speaker 1: law yesterday was talking about how Lacrete is not that
Speaker 1: secluded anymore compared to that's a good stereotype for minunites, seclusion.
Speaker 1: They try hard. No matter where do you find minnites,
Speaker 1: it will be in these obscure areas to try and
Speaker 1: escape the world. So that's kind of the reason we're
Speaker 1: from Lacrete is because minnit's went there originally because there
Speaker 1: as no road, you know what, Nobody could get to
Speaker 1: you and you couldn't get to any Maybe that's why
Speaker 1: I we live in spring Hill. We're trying to escape.
Speaker 1: Ye're according to the people here, you're secluded where you live. Now, Wow,
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Speaker 1: store near you. I remember when you guys came in
Speaker 1: on the show. First time. I didn't I knew you
Speaker 1: had a song, and I was like, I like the song,
Speaker 1: and you came in and we were talking about pop
Speaker 1: culture references and you guys just didn't know them. And
Speaker 1: you weren't playing a part. You really just didn't know
Speaker 1: them because you didn't grow up with I guess it
Speaker 1: wasn't even a radio signal, did you guys pick up?
Speaker 1: There was not? When did that start happening? Um? We
Speaker 1: got FM radio on the year two thousand, we got
Speaker 1: pop radio on the year two thousand, and it's not
Speaker 1: even pop. It's like an amalgamation of tons of different
Speaker 1: things that are not country, if that makes sense. So
Speaker 1: was that a big shot to the system of town
Speaker 1: where there's this it's the double music man? I mean,
Speaker 1: miss reward to go back to our shop teacher, he
Speaker 1: wrote in my report card that year to my parents,
Speaker 1: and Brad did not get much accomplished, you know, blah
Speaker 1: blah blah, blah blah. Basically I was sitting around the
Speaker 1: radio the whole time, and I was listening to smash
Speaker 1: Mouth and Green Day and Ever Clear. But does that
Speaker 1: start up these creative juices? Though? I wonder when you're
Speaker 1: hearing this stuff and it's like, WHOA, the music can
Speaker 1: do this? Curtis, every once in a while we'll hear
Speaker 1: a demo and be like, hey, that reminds me you're
Speaker 1: doing that. Every Clear kind of thing with your vocal
Speaker 1: and yeah, there's there's inspiration there for sure. I can
Speaker 1: just imagine you only have a few records and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, through the through the air comes
Speaker 1: a whole new sound. Yeah. The thing is, though, and
Speaker 1: this isn't a suck up to country radio. Even with that,
Speaker 1: I still would want to hear more country music. And
Speaker 1: we got Columbia House, and I was a penny yeah dude.
Speaker 1: And then I get all my friends to buy the
Speaker 1: five that I need to pay for, and then i'd
Speaker 1: sign them up and I ended up getting a hundred
Speaker 1: and ten CDs and I never are paid for one
Speaker 1: of them, which is horrible because now we want everybody
Speaker 1: to pay for our music. But anyway, I would still
Speaker 1: just get Diamond Rio c ds in black Hawk and
Speaker 1: Shenandoa and any bands with harmonies. Um, even though we
Speaker 1: had that kind of radio. So that's why I still
Speaker 1: didn't immerse myself fully in the pop scene. I guess, well,
Speaker 1: we weren't really encouraged to listen to that's true that
Speaker 1: radio station either. Yeah, discouraged would be a better word.
Speaker 1: But who wasn't We had a cassette that somebody recorded
Speaker 1: smash Mouth onto author? Did you do that? Probably? I
Speaker 1: found it in our RV and me and Jordan Schmidt
Speaker 1: listened to what's the song all Star? We listened to
Speaker 1: it when we were camping one weekend. So is that
Speaker 1: like having a Playboy? Pretty much? Our mom and dad gone, yes, Okay,
Speaker 1: put the cassette in, let's listen to smash Mouth. Yes.
Speaker 1: A lot of kids in Nashville or church kids, right,
Speaker 1: a lot of country guys, and they'll be like, man,
Speaker 1: I know how you grew up. Man. I was only
Speaker 1: allowed to listen to Christian music growing up, which is
Speaker 1: hlarious because we were not allowed like all the Christian
Speaker 1: rock music and stuff like Michael W. Smith or we
Speaker 1: weren't supposed to listen to that stuff because it was
Speaker 1: too much too modern. Yeah, so how did you end
Speaker 1: up here? Because all the things are working against that,
Speaker 1: All the things are working against you being here and
Speaker 1: making music that is contemporary sounding. Yeah, here's this sounds fake,
Speaker 1: but this is the absolute truth of how we got here.
Speaker 1: Our dad was pulling the engine out of a white tractor,
Speaker 1: piece of junk tractor, and a guy called named bow Loser,
Speaker 1: who was a scam artist out of Nashville here and
Speaker 1: he called our phone number. He found us on MP
Speaker 1: three dot com if you remember that website, and he
Speaker 1: asked my dad for sixty thousand bucks cash and said,
Speaker 1: if you give me sixty grand, I can make your
Speaker 1: boys in a big stars. There's a guy out on
Speaker 1: tour with the Dixie Chicks right now, and he loves
Speaker 1: your band. He's gonna produce your boys and he's going
Speaker 1: to produce a record on him. And our dad always says,
Speaker 1: if he could have seen the tractor working on he
Speaker 1: never would ask for sixty grand. But either way, I
Speaker 1: got the wheels turning, and mom and dad ended up saying,
Speaker 1: maybe these boys should be going to Nashville to record.
Speaker 1: And we went down here and spent a fraction of
Speaker 1: that in two thousand and started making records down here.
Speaker 1: So because the guy put the bubble into your parents head,
Speaker 1: they thought, well, if someone's trying to scam us because
Speaker 1: they could be good enough, maybe they are good enough.
Speaker 1: Pretty much. That's that's a that's a bold move on
Speaker 1: their part to go, all right, this is different for everybody,
Speaker 1: but you need to get down and be where you
Speaker 1: can create. I mean, our dads straight up, bet the farm.
Speaker 1: He literally I went to the bank and took a
Speaker 1: line of credit like a loan against our farm, and
Speaker 1: spent that I think it was thirty some thousand bucks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: with flights and hotels and everything. Yeah. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: you feel some pressure when that happens. We were too
Speaker 1: young to know that we should, but later on in
Speaker 1: life I definitely did, and we paid him back. Our
Speaker 1: talent is really supportive. We do a CD release concert,
Speaker 1: Curtis ro to the dirt bike down Main Street with
Speaker 1: ads in the Farmer's Day parade. Um. We we ended
Speaker 1: up getting a computer at one point and we had
Speaker 1: a program called print Shop. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: remember that, but I designed a poster and I stuck
Speaker 1: it to the side of my dirt bike and I
Speaker 1: advertised for the CD release concert and drove it in
Speaker 1: the parade. I think we should still do that, like
Speaker 1: Curtis on dirt Bike on music through advertising our new
Speaker 1: records amazing. If you go home now to your hometown,
Speaker 1: do you have to fly to Edmonton and drive eight hours? Well,
Speaker 1: I make you go home that often? Do you once
Speaker 1: a year? Super lucky and your wives are from home?
Speaker 1: Mine isn't yours? Is, So you met her at home
Speaker 1: and she moved down here. That's correct, Wow, that's it.
Speaker 1: Were you married when she moved down here? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got married and uh a few months later we
Speaker 1: moved down here. Actually, how how old did you get married?
Speaker 1: I was twenty two, I think too terribly young. I
Speaker 1: was nineteen when you got married. Yeah, we were sixteen
Speaker 1: when we met. And where did you meet her? At
Speaker 1: a music festival? She was in our autograph line. I
Speaker 1: signed an eight by ten for her. Where and what
Speaker 1: what town did you meet her? Presbyterous, British Columbia, which
Speaker 1: is a suburb of Fort Saint John which the music
Speaker 1: festival was held at the Blueberry Bible Camp. It was
Speaker 1: called the Blueberry Bible Camp Gospel Jamboree. And she was
Speaker 1: the hottest girl there by far. Now if you were
Speaker 1: twenty five will be a different story. I would go, hey,
Speaker 1: why are you trying to hook up with people? One?
Speaker 1: But you're sixteen? Yeah, we were just kids. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: hanging out and we started talking and then we started
Speaker 1: dating after we returned seventeen. But how far? Why does
Speaker 1: she live? She lived five hours away, three miles, so
Speaker 1: I would drive. I sold cars for a living. So
Speaker 1: I started selling trucks and cars when I was seventeen.
Speaker 1: So on Saturday's at three, I'd get off work and
Speaker 1: then i'd drive. I'd get to her house by about
Speaker 1: eight or nine, and then Sunday I did have to
Speaker 1: leave to be back for work on Monday. I mean,
Speaker 1: don't you just go ahead and get married because you
Speaker 1: want to stay gas At that point it was financially
Speaker 1: a great decision. But sometimes I went along to keep
Speaker 1: right awake on the road. That's true. You'd ride with him, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you stopped car and run circles. One time I dated
Speaker 1: a girl. She said like two hours away in northern Arkansas,
Speaker 1: and nobody wanted to date me, right, I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: a real treat, as you can see. Uh. So I
Speaker 1: I would drive, and I would stay until like ten
Speaker 1: o'clock and have to drive home. But I would stop
Speaker 1: the car and then run circles and then jump back
Speaker 1: in the car and drive for a get longer because
Speaker 1: without falling asleep, stick your out the window. You know,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine the sunflower seeds, man, you ever eat
Speaker 1: those while you're driving? That's that's the best thing for me.
Speaker 1: When I proposed to my wife. Um, well, she wasn't
Speaker 1: my wife at the time. So anyway, when I proposed
Speaker 1: to my girlfriend, I I was running out of time.
Speaker 1: We were about to go on tour for six months
Speaker 1: and we kind of talked about getting married, so it
Speaker 1: was kind of obvious. I was trying to do, you know,
Speaker 1: this artistic, creative way, and it wasn't. It just wasn't.
Speaker 1: The ring didn't make it in time for when I
Speaker 1: had all scheduled. Anyway, I had like one day left
Speaker 1: to surprise her, and I already asked her dad's permission,
Speaker 1: so I left our house at midnight. I drove through
Speaker 1: the night, but I got so tired that I pulled
Speaker 1: over at this parking lot in a in the town
Speaker 1: that has a gas station in between, and I, um
Speaker 1: pulled over there and I fell asleep. And I woke
Speaker 1: up literally at the exact time that allowed me to
Speaker 1: get to her house one minute before her dad's alarmed.
Speaker 1: I knew her dad's alarm went off at six am,
Speaker 1: and I knew I needed to sneak into the house
Speaker 1: before six with my guitar, get up in her bedroom
Speaker 1: and sing when you say nothing at all to wake
Speaker 1: her up, which is how I proposed her. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm nineteen. This is romantic because I could get when
Speaker 1: you say nothing at all sounds amazing at six am
Speaker 1: when you haven't talked to anybody for five hours. So
Speaker 1: I get to her houses like five fifty six, and
Speaker 1: I'm getting out there and I accidentally smoked my guitar
Speaker 1: against They live in this log cabin, and I smoked
Speaker 1: against the ceiling when I was trying to get into
Speaker 1: the room, and you like, you scratched, like you just
Speaker 1: had stock of the guitar, was like, and then string
Speaker 1: is just super flat. And uh. She was sharing the
Speaker 1: bed with her sister, which I obviously didn't only like
Speaker 1: how to sleep over there? Both blonde, and I'm like, shoot,
Speaker 1: I have to make sure I proposed to the right
Speaker 1: girl at this moment time. Thankfully I did, and at
Speaker 1: like five fifty nine she said yes. And then this
Speaker 1: alarm clock starts ringing through the house and her dad
Speaker 1: yelled something in German because we all grew up speaking German, right,
Speaker 1: so he says, oh, bah, it just means I come
Speaker 1: on or something, and that's how it all went down.
Speaker 1: I just love that when you propose. There was another
Speaker 1: girl laying that, which was great. You got to share
Speaker 1: her excitement with you know, right away, showing engagement ring
Speaker 1: to somebody, which is super useful. And you guys learned
Speaker 1: German before English. Yeah, do you ever dream in German? Now?
Speaker 1: I've never been asked that. Man. The truth is I
Speaker 1: I learned English first. I was the last kid of
Speaker 1: six kids. Um, so all the kids went to English schools.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of English in our home by the
Speaker 1: time I was born, So yeah, we we were considered anglelanda,
Speaker 1: which is a German word for English speakers, because our
Speaker 1: dad because of how it's kind of like an offensive term.
Speaker 1: It's like, if you're in Anglanda, then you're not really
Speaker 1: accepted in the German Mennonite community. Like in our town
Speaker 1: there's German churches and English churches, and the English ones
Speaker 1: are pretty considered incredibly liberal, even though they're still Mennonite.
Speaker 1: It's just like you're supposed to speak German. Everything should
Speaker 1: always be German. So once you get to school, you
Speaker 1: get in trouble for speaking German. So the trick is
Speaker 1: you learned German all your life until you know you're
Speaker 1: in school, and then the teachers really trying and teach
Speaker 1: you English at that point. So now my wife and
Speaker 1: I just used German to like keep secrets from the
Speaker 1: kids and um say funny stuff when people are around
Speaker 1: that we aren't allowed to sail out. Back to my question,
Speaker 1: do you have a dream in German? Still? You never
Speaker 1: to fall back and you're like, wow, that's crazy. I
Speaker 1: can't prove that. I don't know how to know. I've
Speaker 1: never dreamed in German. I don't dream in like sound,
Speaker 1: so I don't know. You don't have conversations while you
Speaker 1: sleep like in your head. I do. I talked to
Speaker 1: talk to people in my dreams all time. I don't
Speaker 1: dream very much, to be honest, I dream a lot
Speaker 1: before I go to bed, and that's all in English.
Speaker 1: Do you ever think in German all the time? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I wish I could thinking in the language. I'm trouble
Speaker 1: thinking in English. Man. YouTube now Musically, because you play
Speaker 1: the little thing, yeah, the mandolin? Is that what you
Speaker 1: play all the time? No? I I started playing. I
Speaker 1: started off playing guitar and then I learned mandolin later on.
Speaker 1: And so you you play the guitar like hold the guitar,
Speaker 1: I'm like the stereotypical lead singer that has the guitar
Speaker 1: sometimes for fun, but I'm not really a guitar player.
Speaker 1: Why don't you sing? Do you sing? I sing background? Balls?
Speaker 1: I mean, but you don't sing lead at all? Ever? No,
Speaker 1: I used to. I used to lead on one song,
Speaker 1: but I just could not remember the words. Would be
Speaker 1: like yelling me, the yelling the lyrics into my ear
Speaker 1: line by line, line by line, and I just like
Speaker 1: I got it probably of the time. So I just
Speaker 1: I just sing background. But you have no interest to
Speaker 1: be the lead singer. Ever, No, No, I just I don't.
Speaker 1: I would be a terrible rhythm guitar player. Just you
Speaker 1: look at a band of the drummers, bassis, really, just
Speaker 1: look at a four piece band. Just put it in
Speaker 1: my head. I would be a terrible rhythm guitar player
Speaker 1: because I would want to be the lead singer. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm an absolute type A. But let's say I can't,
Speaker 1: then I probably want to be the drummer because I
Speaker 1: can actually do my own thing. I can have my
Speaker 1: own you know, people will, people will look at me. Listen.
Speaker 1: I'm just searching for love. Everything I do. I need
Speaker 1: people to pay because I need love. Right and then
Speaker 1: at least on the base. I can get a little
Speaker 1: funky moving, I can dance. But the rhythm guitar, you know,
Speaker 1: that's probably the most importan didn't yet thankless position. I
Speaker 1: love playing rhythm guitar. And that's why I say that,
Speaker 1: because you must not need to be thanked. You must
Speaker 1: have been loved a lot as a kid. That's what
Speaker 1: we all and again, that's that's why I'm coming back to.
Speaker 1: He doesn't need that extra attention, doesn't need to be
Speaker 1: the lead singer, doesn't need to like you're good, you're healthy.
Speaker 1: It's your heart's healthy. I will say, though. He does
Speaker 1: play the mandolin, and it is like the signature of
Speaker 1: our sound. Everybody, you know, everybody knows that we're not
Speaker 1: a band that has drums, electric guitar and bass. They
Speaker 1: know that we have mandolins and bantos, which he also
Speaker 1: plays and all that cool stuff. You, on the other hand,
Speaker 1: with your muscles and your lead singer, is that what
Speaker 1: happened there? Huh? They just swelled up on me. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about that. I mean, you're in the front. What
Speaker 1: what do you say? Type A? Is that like leader? Leader?
Speaker 1: It's like I am here, like look at me? I
Speaker 1: got something to say, I'm gonna lead this thing. I
Speaker 1: would definitely only be um. That's what's been so healthy
Speaker 1: for me about having kids. It's because I definitely was
Speaker 1: always like and am very much the leader and in charge.
Speaker 1: And even now, if we finish the show, I call
Speaker 1: home thinking some for some reason, I still think like
Speaker 1: I will call home and say, how this conversation is
Speaker 1: going to go. And I'm on speaker phone with my
Speaker 1: wife and both kids and hey, guys, here's what happened today.
Speaker 1: And it's been an amazing transformation. How it's like never
Speaker 1: about me at all, and it's just me listening to
Speaker 1: them telling me how cool they are. That's been very healthy,
Speaker 1: like amazing. Do your family, I think you think you're
Speaker 1: cooler now? My kids, no, no. I we begged them
Speaker 1: to come to the rhyme and the other day because
Speaker 1: we were playing it and we were so pumped to
Speaker 1: be playing it again. And my wife's like, hey, kids,
Speaker 1: we can go for a cool dinner downtown see daddy play.
Speaker 1: And I kid, you know, my nine year old said,
Speaker 1: could we just order in some Mexican listen to the
Speaker 1: CD that I said, Drew, you don't need to listen
Speaker 1: to the CD. You could just stay at home and
Speaker 1: have fun. So they stay at home and did not go.
Speaker 1: But at least he was giving you a bit like
Speaker 1: he was still gonna listen to you, like, don't don't
Speaker 1: be lost on that all sympathy. Yeah, he was still
Speaker 1: throwing your bone there. He's still going, you know, at love, like,
Speaker 1: we'll still listen to you. We just don't want to
Speaker 1: take the eight hour trip into town. Yeah, yeah, the
Speaker 1: thirty five minutes. Yeah, it's kind of crazy. But we
Speaker 1: did get on Madden on the video game. You're playing
Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, And um so now my kids here
Speaker 1: High Valley while playing mad and oh you mean you
Speaker 1: guys are on the game. Yeah. Yeah, So they think
Speaker 1: that's cool, and their friends think that's cool. And now
Speaker 1: if I go to football practice, there will be more
Speaker 1: kids that think it's cool. That is pretty cool. I
Speaker 1: think it's cool, Like you're cooler than me right now
Speaker 1: because they're not mad at look at that. So what's
Speaker 1: happening right now with you guys? Are you guys that
Speaker 1: pick new songs? Is that where we are? We're picking
Speaker 1: songs all the time right now, we're listening to listen
Speaker 1: all all of Brad's hits and uh, oh you get
Speaker 1: a pick. Soel what if you what if it's coming
Speaker 1: to you right cards And it's like, what do you
Speaker 1: think about this song that I wrote your big brother
Speaker 1: Brad or the song that some mother dude wrote? Do
Speaker 1: you know? I mean, I honestly, I just listened to
Speaker 1: the songs and and uh, I mean, as you know,
Speaker 1: even just based on the last thirty minutes, we come
Speaker 1: from a very unusual place, um, geographically, and and even
Speaker 1: just the way we we grew up. You know, we
Speaker 1: think about songs. Yeah, so Brad understands that better than
Speaker 1: any songwriter in Nashville and in the world. And so
Speaker 1: we're looking for specific ideas and messages in our songs
Speaker 1: and even topics that we avoid because they just are
Speaker 1: not relevant to us. Um. And it's hard for any
Speaker 1: other songwriters to identify with that and actually hit the
Speaker 1: nail on the head. So I mean, I I listened
Speaker 1: to I listened to all the songs. You know, I
Speaker 1: like the outside songs more. I would say, then, curtis
Speaker 1: what you would think would be the opposite, And I'd
Speaker 1: be like, I only like my own songs. But I'm
Speaker 1: not stupid. Obviously, Nashville has amazing songwriters, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: love I love Tom Douglas, and I love Ashley Goreley,
Speaker 1: and I love a lot of these amazing John Knight,
Speaker 1: I love their songs. But he's right, it's it's tough
Speaker 1: when people find out what we're about. Like right now,
Speaker 1: on the pitch sheet that every songwriter gets in this town,
Speaker 1: it says High Valley looking for singles, Faith, Family, and Farming.
Speaker 1: And you'd be shocked at the amount of like songs
Speaker 1: about a guy reading a Bible while riding a tractor
Speaker 1: down the field. You know, it's like just pretty recipe. Faith,
Speaker 1: Family and farming is a perfect recipe for just cheeseball
Speaker 1: material um and uh, I mean those are our ingredients,
Speaker 1: but we just avoid cheeseball like the plague. So um.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like if you knew how to make
Speaker 1: brownies and other people said, oh, there's sugar and flour
Speaker 1: and eggs in there and co don't forget Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it just was wrong. So I'm not saying we won't
Speaker 1: find and we have and we will. Yeah, we have
Speaker 1: cut some some great outside songs, but it's the amount
Speaker 1: of weird stuff we weed through to hear them is
Speaker 1: is a pretty bad percentage. So the order of your song, well,
Speaker 1: She's with Me the last single, Yeah, make your mind
Speaker 1: us first, Okay, so make your mind She's when we
Speaker 1: play some chess with me. So we played this earlier.
Speaker 1: From when this song finishes, it's running the topch in
Speaker 1: tow now it's got to feel like an eternity, like
Speaker 1: you come off your highest song ever. Now you just
Speaker 1: gotta sit for a minute. I don't know. It actually
Speaker 1: doesn't feel that way because, um, we were just when
Speaker 1: was our last show in Chicago, like two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: like like shake, do you guys play that? No? This
Speaker 1: was a at Joe's the week we were there. They
Speaker 1: still played it seventy five times that week. So it's
Speaker 1: just like kind of still it still feels like it's
Speaker 1: building momentum even though it's not. I know, on the chart,
Speaker 1: once you've gone down for three weeks, you're you're off.
Speaker 1: But in reality, like the ends of it is still tons.
Speaker 1: Well that's cool then, so it's kind of like it's
Speaker 1: living a second life right now. Do you guys tell
Speaker 1: each other you love each other? Yeah? Yeah, usually like
Speaker 1: every day on the phone, but yes, but but you
Speaker 1: guys have a good relationship where it's like, hey man,
Speaker 1: you know usually we tell each other we love each
Speaker 1: other after we fight. Yeah, that's true. Which there's you know,
Speaker 1: there's I feel like in my mind and my my body,
Speaker 1: my soul that there's this meter, right and you go
Speaker 1: as high as you go low like if if if
Speaker 1: you're on this like at thermometer scale, if the middle
Speaker 1: line of zero, and you you can go up to
Speaker 1: a three on top, that means you also go down
Speaker 1: to the three on the bottom negative three. And so
Speaker 1: I as hard as you love is as hard as
Speaker 1: you fight as and so for me, I have trouble
Speaker 1: really spreading that scale, like I don't I don't have
Speaker 1: a lot of happiness, but I don't have a lot
Speaker 1: of sadness. And I've been spending the last few years
Speaker 1: really trying to figure myself out. And it's okay to
Speaker 1: let the walls down and be a little hurt, but
Speaker 1: that's what happens is you get to experience all that joy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for me, I've been chasing that, And I wonder with
Speaker 1: YouTube if you do love each other so much, dude,
Speaker 1: the fights get you know, pretty brotherly, like come on, dude,
Speaker 1: like it. I'd say, they used to be way more
Speaker 1: extreme then. Now would you agree? Oh? Yeah, you getting
Speaker 1: older or you're just learning each other better. Probably both. Also,
Speaker 1: I know I used to feel so much pressure that
Speaker 1: I don't feel anymore. But I used to feel like
Speaker 1: the type a leader provide for everybody thing, but correct
Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong. Wrong, But you would feel like
Speaker 1: it was your responsibility for you know, me to be
Speaker 1: able to provide for my family, because especially you know,
Speaker 1: like right in the beginning when I got married then
Speaker 1: or or even when it wasn't married, it was still
Speaker 1: your responsibility to make sure that I was getting paychecks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like my wife and I had done good in businesses
Speaker 1: stuff before we went full time, and we've been full
Speaker 1: time for eleven and a half, Yeah, eleven and a
Speaker 1: half years since we quit our jobs to do only this.
Speaker 1: So the first year we did, UM, we took a
Speaker 1: nine and pay cut, and then UM. A couple of
Speaker 1: years later, I was like, some of the houses we
Speaker 1: had bought, I was like selling them and using that
Speaker 1: money to pay Curtis and my other brother who were
Speaker 1: in the band at the time, and my wife. I
Speaker 1: was just going further and further in debt, and I
Speaker 1: would feel like tons of stress and it wouldn't be
Speaker 1: like I told Curtis that every day, but our fights
Speaker 1: would be more about like, let's work harder and all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. And in my mind, it's so
Speaker 1: that I can get this back to and even keel,
Speaker 1: And in his mind it's like, why can't this be
Speaker 1: more fun? Why is this such a stressful thing? Whereas
Speaker 1: that seems like an eternity ago because now it's been
Speaker 1: so good for so many years. But that was that's
Speaker 1: why I wrote Cheese with Me, because my wife was
Speaker 1: there through all of that. The song says, when when
Speaker 1: my dreams were running out of road, like she was
Speaker 1: there and they were straight up running out of road,
Speaker 1: like there was nothing left. But now she's there for
Speaker 1: you know, walking the red carpets and all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. And I wanted people to know when they
Speaker 1: listened to the song that she's not just a pretty
Speaker 1: face that showed up because we were on the radio.
Speaker 1: She was there and yeah, exactly when my Adam's apple
Speaker 1: was bigger than my face, Man, I look at that.
Speaker 1: That's good stuff right there. Yeah, I forgot you had
Speaker 1: a third member. That was pretty that's pretty me coming
Speaker 1: to town when you guys had that the other brother,
Speaker 1: because I would see pictures, I think even an album covered.
Speaker 1: He have blonder hair. Yeah, yeah, short blond hair. So
Speaker 1: what happened to him? Nothing happened to him. Brad and
Speaker 1: I moved to Nashville and he did not. Oh so
Speaker 1: he was never here. Now he wanted to stay, well,
Speaker 1: he was. That was a problem is he he would
Speaker 1: have to come here for stuff, and you know, like
Speaker 1: let's say this today, Brian would have had to drive
Speaker 1: five miles one day, Steve stay in nine, didn't fly
Speaker 1: the next day, and then probably the third day would
Speaker 1: be today hanging out with you. Tomorrow he'd fly home
Speaker 1: the day after drive home. So it's like a five
Speaker 1: day commitment to hang out with you for an hour.
Speaker 1: Whereas we can be there and we did stuff like that.
Speaker 1: There would be gigs or events or whatever we're Brian
Speaker 1: would come all the way down from our hometown. And
Speaker 1: I even did that for a period of time before
Speaker 1: I moved here. I wanted to get married first, then
Speaker 1: I wanted to move here. So I did that for
Speaker 1: a little while, and it's it sucks like it just
Speaker 1: sucks the life out of you when you gotta spend
Speaker 1: that much time traveling for anything, awkward conversation when it goes, hey,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna work. Like he's like did he come
Speaker 1: to you? Guys? Or you guys like, man, are you tired?
Speaker 1: Like what? What? How did that? It's your brother, not
Speaker 1: just a band made as your mode dynamic? I mean
Speaker 1: something like that is never just comfortable and feels good
Speaker 1: at all, um, because we've been doing it forever since
Speaker 1: we were like Brian was doing high valleys since he
Speaker 1: was what nine nine? Where's he on the list of age?
Speaker 1: He's right between so he's between you two. Yeah, he'd
Speaker 1: be the fifth in the family. So what's he doing now?
Speaker 1: He is? Uh, he's an I T guy. He's like
Speaker 1: a really smart computer person. He's the smartest of music too,
Speaker 1: by the way. Smart. So he's he's an I T
Speaker 1: guy at a huge road construction company in but the
Speaker 1: company is represented all over Alberta, which is like the
Speaker 1: Texas of Canada a lot of oil. Huh isn't that right?
Speaker 1: Because friends that will go that's what they'll do, they
Speaker 1: will go. I don't know if you're familiar with b
Speaker 1: it's the day to Canadian, right, So I know all
Speaker 1: the all the yeah, all the Canada, And so I
Speaker 1: think that's why I know a bit about you guys too,
Speaker 1: because I'd be like, Hey, what's up with these guys
Speaker 1: And she's like, oh, they're really good dudes. That she
Speaker 1: also said, man, they've changed. I guess you guys got
Speaker 1: real good You disappared and think got real good looking
Speaker 1: and came back. That would you say that's accurate? No,
Speaker 1: I've never heard that. That's amazing. Yeah. Well, they're like,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure to say thank you or be offended
Speaker 1: that we were ugly before this magical disappearance. You can't
Speaker 1: do that because I used to do that too. People
Speaker 1: be like, oh, like what do they call like your come?
Speaker 1: What do they say you glam? What is it? A
Speaker 1: glow up? Like I'll look at the glow up. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what do you mean? He used to be ugly? You
Speaker 1: can't look at it that way. You just got look
Speaker 1: at the positive products. But people would say, yeah, hi, Valley,
Speaker 1: they've been around for a long time, been trying to
Speaker 1: make it now. Is you guys a story? While I
Speaker 1: was drawn to you guys at first because it seems
Speaker 1: like you guys are real grinders, like you spent a
Speaker 1: lot of time in town. That would be an understatement,
Speaker 1: getting told a lot of nose Oh big time. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean we we got offered our first record deal
Speaker 1: in this town that we could not accept because we
Speaker 1: had just signed a different one in oh eight oh nine.
Speaker 1: Com Universal Universal offered us to development deal and O
Speaker 1: nine and you couldn't take it because we had just
Speaker 1: signed an independent record deal with a company called Centric
Speaker 1: City and Franklin, which is a great company. They're great
Speaker 1: to us. But obviously to get on country radio in
Speaker 1: O nine would have been a lot sooner than you know,
Speaker 1: last year. Did you get out of that doo ah, yeah,
Speaker 1: just right when making mind happen really yeah, pre or
Speaker 1: post just pre We got out of it and got
Speaker 1: signed right after. But they're like, oh, come on, I
Speaker 1: can ask him. I guess yeah, you can ask him.
Speaker 1: Let's bring him in there here waiting outside. So when
Speaker 1: you get signed with Warner Brothers, Uh, that's gonna be
Speaker 1: a cool thing, right like there, that's legitimate. Yeah, that was,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that was a huge moment for us.
Speaker 1: I mean, and still is. We've been with Warner now
Speaker 1: for what two and a half years, A couple of
Speaker 1: years and as quick at two and a half years
Speaker 1: in my life, but um yeah, I mean that's when,
Speaker 1: that's when the ball just started to roll. I mean,
Speaker 1: Make your Mind hit radio and uh I remember I
Speaker 1: remember playing that in Boston and uh there was like
Speaker 1: those rails right in front of the stage and people
Speaker 1: were packed against the stage in the room was full,
Speaker 1: and uh I was making my Mind was the last
Speaker 1: song and then they just screamed the lyrics as loud
Speaker 1: as they could, and uh, my mind was just blown.
Speaker 1: That was like the moment. Then we went to Orlando
Speaker 1: and it was just happening. It was just acoustic and
Speaker 1: it happened kind of like the way it does in
Speaker 1: the movies, like the that thing you do. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like what is going on? And that's
Speaker 1: when we got a video of it and sent it
Speaker 1: to ESPO at the label, and pretty soon they were
Speaker 1: sharing it with everybody and people say like, yeah, things
Speaker 1: have taken a while for you guys, but for us,
Speaker 1: it just felt like fast. But maybe because we had
Speaker 1: those first twenty years of super slow and we were
Speaker 1: just so ugly. Yeah, that's what I heard. Holding you back.
Speaker 1: What's the difference in not having a record label and
Speaker 1: then getting a record label? Um, I mean especially here
Speaker 1: because we've had all kinds of like little record labels.
Speaker 1: But from that to be with warners just like, well,
Speaker 1: the first thing that is put us on the world's
Speaker 1: most beautiful bus and sent us around the country made
Speaker 1: us feel real good, like real fancy, like like do
Speaker 1: radio tour, having the bus around. Like before having a
Speaker 1: big record deal, i'd eight, you know, two or three
Speaker 1: times at these really expensive restaurants. Now we've ate two
Speaker 1: or three hundred times, and you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like you get We went to a restaurant in
Speaker 1: Denver together. Yeah, and that was no cheap, didn't. I
Speaker 1: mean I wasn't paying pin either, don't I was pulling
Speaker 1: out my credit card either, But that was do the
Speaker 1: slow pool where you can't find your wall in time. Listen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not spending that kind of money on a work
Speaker 1: deal that's a hundred meal like and and we don't drink.
Speaker 1: Imagine if we did like that, that's where the money
Speaker 1: really goes up. We see those bills after, like those
Speaker 1: fancy dinners. It's not. I remember like calling my wife
Speaker 1: whenever I knew how much how many dollars, I just
Speaker 1: ate and like tell her and it would just like
Speaker 1: blow both our minds. And since signed with the label,
Speaker 1: it happens so much like meals getting put on cards
Speaker 1: and and it's not even about you guys, it's about
Speaker 1: the people that you're trying to impress, like the station
Speaker 1: managers or that's who you're eating the big meals for. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if it's up to us, we're going to barbecue join
Speaker 1: having My standard is definitely no more than one fork
Speaker 1: at the table, and if it's plastic, that's usually better.
Speaker 1: At our wedding, for our wedding dinner, for my example
Speaker 1: of what I would you know do, we had pizza
Speaker 1: and caesar salad and barbecue chicken wings. So this whole
Speaker 1: like being fancy all day, I find it hilarious. Even
Speaker 1: going to the a c MS or c M as
Speaker 1: it's awesome. But we're all people that hang out with
Speaker 1: each other every day. But now we're all wearing these
Speaker 1: like suits that are pretty uncomfortable, and we're trying to
Speaker 1: stand the right way and have our colors the right way,
Speaker 1: and the girls are in these dresses that as much
Speaker 1: just kill them to be in, and then when it's over,
Speaker 1: everybody just goes back to normal life. It it's like,
Speaker 1: if we all decided to not try to impress each other,
Speaker 1: we could just hang out and like shorts and T
Speaker 1: shirts and by brother swimpool all that money that you
Speaker 1: know that was exactly look at this. I feel like
Speaker 1: I've learned so much. I feel like as humans we've
Speaker 1: grown together this last hour, so much growth. Man, and
Speaker 1: not of that. Credis hasn't been smart with me the
Speaker 1: whole time, because you come into the show man, you
Speaker 1: just I'm like, I've only got a few seconds. I'm like,
Speaker 1: come on, man. Comet's trying to think about the most
Speaker 1: expensive thing on the menu in Lacreds. I'm guessing it
Speaker 1: would be a las agna. I think it's ribs at
Speaker 1: the Country Drill. Oh yeah, that's probably sixteen bucks. No,
Speaker 1: it might be twenty five by now, Yeah, that'd be
Speaker 1: a buffet though. It's you guys, take a cow part completely.
Speaker 1: If you need to a cow, yeah, can you kill it?
Speaker 1: You know what? I um, I don't do very good
Speaker 1: with uh warm dead animals like I can still but
Speaker 1: believe and it happened in a while, completely dress a deer,
Speaker 1: real serious from Arkansas. Not anymore. Used to because it's
Speaker 1: what everyone did in my town. Okay, everybody did in
Speaker 1: our town. But our family was the one exception. We
Speaker 1: were the family that did not hunt. Our dad was
Speaker 1: not into it. We didn't get into it really. He shot.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we're allowed to say this, are
Speaker 1: we to black bear? But that was that was out
Speaker 1: of defense. They were on our yard and like we
Speaker 1: were kids running around. He didn't want one was on
Speaker 1: our basketball court and the other was like right straight
Speaker 1: up in our yard. I think you say that self
Speaker 1: defense human if it's self defensially, whatever you need, but
Speaker 1: never go on hunting. Never. Where I grew up, I
Speaker 1: hunted a lot. One. I didn't have a dad for
Speaker 1: most of my life. On my stepdad came in. He
Speaker 1: was big into hunting cause I was trying to find
Speaker 1: anything for us to bond over. And so even I
Speaker 1: don't like killing animals, I'm an animal guy. I don't
Speaker 1: hunt anymore. But we used to also kill a lot
Speaker 1: of animals illegally, dear, because we had to eat, and
Speaker 1: that's how we ate a lot of food. So we
Speaker 1: had to not only shoot, kill, move, you know, dragging
Speaker 1: the deer spout the four wheeler, but we had to
Speaker 1: take it down quick, dress it quickly, and get rid
Speaker 1: of it. So because you want to get caught right,
Speaker 1: so you pulled in. We had certain garages we'd go
Speaker 1: in to back it in, hang it up, because not
Speaker 1: just because we wanted to do it, because we had
Speaker 1: to eat, and because we needed to do it fast.
Speaker 1: We wouldn't get because we didn't tag them all, you know.
Speaker 1: You know that is like tagging in there you only
Speaker 1: get certain amount like three, and you only get certain
Speaker 1: amount of dough and says the whole thing. But I
Speaker 1: could probably still do it. I can flay a fish
Speaker 1: probably still too. I do love the idea of killing
Speaker 1: and eating an animal, like like finding your own food
Speaker 1: in that way, I think that's it's an amazing concept,
Speaker 1: and I've been able to be a part of that
Speaker 1: a couple of times, but like actually butchering, it's hard
Speaker 1: for me. Do you guys read do you are you book? Guys? Are?
Speaker 1: Have you read Sapiens? So it's about and it's about
Speaker 1: the history of mankind and how we moved around and
Speaker 1: the things that we did, and when man started walking
Speaker 1: tall and wise so we could see more in his prey.
Speaker 1: That's why the first man stood up so he could
Speaker 1: see farther. It's pretty fascinating when you talk about this
Speaker 1: and it's you know what, it talks about these cultures that, um,
Speaker 1: you know, they just moved around. There really wasn't a home,
Speaker 1: migrated place. Yeah, it's very nomadic all of it. What
Speaker 1: but anyway, that's a whole, other, whole other podcast. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty much like for being a country boy, I am.
Speaker 1: We're so country. We literally are from the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 1: But for whatever is and I'm pretty whoosy when it
Speaker 1: comes to that kind of like manly man uh hunting.
Speaker 1: You look the part though, man with the muscles your
Speaker 1: chin did along, he did. Well. Listen, you guys are
Speaker 1: definitely you're definitely country. Like the only thing not that
Speaker 1: country about you would be probably brad hair do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty pretty fancy, I mean fancy here, a little gel
Speaker 1: in there. Yeah, Okay, so it's just large. It's just
Speaker 1: large from the day, whatever it takes, it's all organic. Well, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to here on what you guys have
Speaker 1: to do next. You know, I'm fans of you guys.
Speaker 1: You guys actually fund to be around. Are you gonna
Speaker 1: be on the on like any tour dates anytime soon?
Speaker 1: Are you on the road? I'm doing stand up the
Speaker 1: rest of the year, all the way until the end
Speaker 1: of December, mid December. Um, maybe our puzzle. We're doing
Speaker 1: the old dominion thing all the way until December. Are
Speaker 1: We don't end up in comedy clubs very often, but
Speaker 1: it could happen performing. I don't need a your theaters clubs.
Speaker 1: Come on, don't insult me. That's what I mean. That's
Speaker 1: what I said this interview. Just like the biggest clubs.
Speaker 1: You can imagine the biggest, coolest with the nicest people too.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's funniest people. Don't insult me. Um, Curtis
Speaker 1: did say that we should wear red jogging suits to
Speaker 1: this interview. You know, let me say this about plant shows,
Speaker 1: by the way, not to digress from your mediocre joke.
Speaker 1: Um to and I just tell a joke. No, he
Speaker 1: did the red that was truth. He did that. It
Speaker 1: was his joke. I forget that we've played shows together. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we've played Open Water Ship. That's right. You guys
Speaker 1: played right before us the most beautiful festival. You were
Speaker 1: wearing a red jumpsuit, right, yeah, I wear red and
Speaker 1: Eddieward's green. The rest of my band wars black. I
Speaker 1: read everything like that's that's my thing. It's like I
Speaker 1: wore black sneakers to fit in with your red hosh DoD.
Speaker 1: That's so cool. Thanks. I wore flip flops today, is that? Okay?
Speaker 1: Is the first interview I've ever done in flip flops.
Speaker 1: I'm not wearing pants, so garious, gonna be table. Oh man,
Speaker 1: it's just got real. But I think now you guys
Speaker 1: will probably you think you guys to play later than us. Now, No,
Speaker 1: it's such an awkward question, man, Well what time are
Speaker 1: we talking about? Well, we would if I'm done to
Speaker 1: my booking agent right now then yes, if I'm done
Speaker 1: to you, no, no, I mean we would play the
Speaker 1: five thirty or six pm spots on a festival, which
Speaker 1: is right when it's gonna do like a pretty good spot,
Speaker 1: like the third from the last. Yeah, you know, see,
Speaker 1: we'd probably play the exact same we'd probably play on
Speaker 1: different days because we're always third from the last. Right now,
Speaker 1: it's us then whoever's almost the headliner and then the headliner.
Speaker 1: Because for us it was us, then Old Dominion and
Speaker 1: then like Luke or someone like that. Yesterday was us,
Speaker 1: Chris Jansen, then Chris Young. So there you go. We
Speaker 1: never will buy me a boat, or else we would
Speaker 1: have been later. I wonder if they'd put us ahead
Speaker 1: of you or behind here. Probably what happens if the
Speaker 1: next summer and we'll find out what happens if you're
Speaker 1: agent calls and says, hey, y'all are on at four
Speaker 1: or fifteen hive valleys on. You're not doing any festivals
Speaker 1: this year. Raging idiots don't exist anymore. Yeah, I take
Speaker 1: that back. No, no, no, I'm wrong. We're playing too.
Speaker 1: We're playing the first one we ever played. We got
Speaker 1: booed off the stage. It was just Eddie and myself
Speaker 1: and this fight. It was then Shyenne Wyoming, a frontier game.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, And it was brutal. It was intense.
Speaker 1: We didn't know we were getting ourselves into. We had
Speaker 1: just started. We weren't even read jumpsuits yet, We're up there,
Speaker 1: just two dudes. It was like when you were still
Speaker 1: ugly too. Yes, I was super ugly right before I
Speaker 1: went to my glow up. I'm literally gonna call Lindsay
Speaker 1: after this and be like, so, what is this whole
Speaker 1: disappearing and getting pretty thing? I want to know about it.
Speaker 1: And I think she was just one of the mini
Speaker 1: voices that were like, oh, those dudes, they're they've been
Speaker 1: around for a while, but now they're like good looking
Speaker 1: and stuff. So maybe we wore too many like gap
Speaker 1: T shirts back in the day. That's probably what happened.
Speaker 1: What's awesome is Brad started working out a number of
Speaker 1: years ago and now people think we're the really fit
Speaker 1: band and I haven't changed anything, So I'm glad the frontman.
Speaker 1: Those sets the tone. Yeah, guilty by Association. Have you
Speaker 1: guys played China before? Yeah, we're playing it again. Coming
Speaker 1: up the Outlaw Saloon. It's smoking inside. Wow. Yeah, that's intense.
Speaker 1: D It's kind of like a little club. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't play we don't, you know, even the raging
Speaker 1: idiots when the little clubs, you know, we're playing. We're playing. Okay,
Speaker 1: get this, We're only doing two shows. We're playing the
Speaker 1: outdoor stage and I already a music festival heard of it.
Speaker 1: It's us in Dustin Lynch and like little Oozy, right,
Speaker 1: like a bunch of rappers who knows? And then um,
Speaker 1: we're playing Shin in Frontier Days, but we're playing the
Speaker 1: second from the last. Who's last? Well here's the thing, No,
Speaker 1: but it's it's really not going to be our crowd.
Speaker 1: So it's one I like Shyannel and our show is
Speaker 1: number one there. But if you're gonna come to Frontier
Speaker 1: Days to watch Toby Keith who's playing, there's main act.
Speaker 1: You're probably not a big raging idiots fan. By the way,
Speaker 1: they're probably a lot of raging idiots fans as in
Speaker 1: just fans. We have like three songs Chick fil A,
Speaker 1: But it's Sunday. We have Nomas Day. You know, we
Speaker 1: don't have a bunch of songs. We just do funny shows.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's Toby Keith is the headliner. We play
Speaker 1: it before him and then ned La do plays So
Speaker 1: it's a cowboy night. Yeah, that's pretty cowboy. Are you
Speaker 1: gonna do your whole what they said you needed to
Speaker 1: do in Nashville? The belt, buckle and cowboy. We're wearing
Speaker 1: the jumpsuits. We stayed true who we are. That's good.
Speaker 1: We gotta be who you are man, And if you're
Speaker 1: authentic and you're good. That's the recipe. We're just not good.
Speaker 1: What was the other thing? Don't kill don't kill animals
Speaker 1: or kids? No, it's I think it was he Listen,
Speaker 1: we've spent an hour hour? How long we do? How
Speaker 1: long has been? That's a long time. That's a long time.
Speaker 1: What's typical? Not this long? Cool? Yeah, if you hit
Speaker 1: the hour mark, it's pretty solid. So you did an
Speaker 1: hour and ten lost track. Um, I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: hearing what you guys to do next. I like you guys.
Speaker 1: You guys are fine, and you guys are I. I
Speaker 1: got to ask all the questions that I wanted to
Speaker 1: know in this so I feel like next time when
Speaker 1: you come on the show, already know a lot of
Speaker 1: the answers, so we don't have to spend ten minutes
Speaker 1: going We probably don't even have to show up. No, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll just tell your story. But like, hey, they we're
Speaker 1: gonna come in, but instead I'm gonna tell you everything
Speaker 1: I know about them and play the song. Alright, So
Speaker 1: High Valley, thank you for for coming in. What episodes
Speaker 1: might one episode one twenty from High Valley and now
Speaker 1: we will see you next time. Thanks everybody,