WEBVTT - #128 – High Valley 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.560 We were starting episode with High Valley. Before we went on, 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:05.320 Brad asked me if you could have a copy of 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:08.600 my new book. It's all that's down there. I'm just 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:10.840 begging people to take them, and I was like please. 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:13.120 When we walked in, I saw the whole elsis covered 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:15.120 in the books. So yeah, that's what's made of Yeah 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:19.080 forgetting hardwood flooring when you can just walk on books. Absolutely, 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:23.279 High Valleys here. Episode brought to us by LifeLock in 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:26.799 Sleep number. What do you have? We're about literally they 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:28.920 walked in and what I like about you guys is 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:31.120 we can just go and I don't want to waste 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:34.440 any of you guys is just amazing wit and charm. 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:37.080 So we just wanted to hit the button. What's on 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:39.199 your phone over there? My mom just sent me our 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:42.800 Remple Family recording from and I have a song on it. 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:44.760 Do you want to hear it? What's what's that? When 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:47.760 the RepA you guys recorded like a song? It's a 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:50.440 family like the it's the whole album man, like the 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:53.360 Partridge family. Do you know what that is? Yes, I've 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:56.960 heard of them. Yeah, now that's not really it. I 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:58.920 don't know if you're being if you're being funny or not. 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.200 I have heard of the Partridge Family. Yes, they were 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:04.600 before all of our time. I was born in the eighties. 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:06.119 I assume you guys are born in the eighties and nineties. 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:09.320 I'm not sure how old you are. Birthday was yesterday? 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:15.279 Is that right? So look at that? You feel confident 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:16.760 with your twenty year old self? You like where you 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:19.720 are now or now? Yeah? Yeah, I feel good about it. 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:23.480 I've got gray temples and everything. It's crazy. Hell do 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:29.160 you brade? Okay? So this recording from so you weren't 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:32.039 even born yet. I was not. No, okay, so you're 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:34.480 not in this for the best quality. Always play it 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:37.320 through an iPhone into a micro Okay, yes, absolutely, go ahead. 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:42.240 But how are you in this if it's eight four? Okay? 0:01:42.280 --> 0:02:07.360 Singing lead? So what where are do you remember that 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:10.200 at all? Uh? No? But I remember performing it. I 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:13.320 won fifty bucks. I got second place in the Lacrete 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:17.000 Talent contest for my age group, and I went to 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.440 Home Hardware and bought a farm set with little cows 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:23.760 and chickens and horses. Dreams coming true. Man, you can 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.480 hear you were kind of on in Key though before 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.600 pretty honestly, I I just heard it driving out here 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:31.639 because mom just email. I had to walk our mom 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.480 how to through how to email an attachment, which she 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:38.680 did very well. Congratulations Mom. And did you listen to this? 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:42.119 Of course you will, yes, especially if you play that part. 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.320 You're gonna cut that out or keep it? Oh, everything 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.240 goes up. There we go. There's no editing on this. 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.760 She's listening that. So let me run through a couple 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:50.320 of solential quick because I definitely want to get back 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.960 and talk to people that don't know you guys. So 0:02:54.200 --> 0:03:01.520 here is she's with me from High Valley. Sounds familiar. 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:03.400 Give me a little more volume my ears on that one. 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:06.120 There we go, Can you guys hear that over there? 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:08.040 The first time we've done this with two people. By 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.560 the way, ever we waited, there are other people that 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:12.520 wanted to come in you that I promised you guys 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:15.040 months ago that as soon as we get two microphones, 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:20.440 you're the first one. Uh here's a make you mind? 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:25.399 Did you get the second microphone on Amazon Prime? Got 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.880 it on and I have to dash. I need so 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:30.560 many microphones. You just wanted that button and you just 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.840 put over the toilet paper and send it to Yeah beautiful, Yeah, 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.320 it's amazing. Uh, there's that one. That's a good one. 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:41.400 How uh how had that one go? They went somewhere 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:43.480 in the teens. Okay, so you don't know exactly, you're 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:48.080 not that dialed into. Yeah, but there's so many different charts, 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:49.560 So what about sheets with me? Though? That one went 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.720 to that's crazy. It was the number one song. It 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:55.480 was a number one caliber song. If you if that 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:59.360 same song would have been and don't take this in 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:01.800 a weird way, if it would have been anyone that 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:03.560 would have had hits prior, that would have been a 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:07.600 number one song. That's not offensive at all. We totally understand. Yeah. Yeah, 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:09.600 And I think we talked about this because we were 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:12.080 in Denver and I was like, guys, this is a 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.360 great song. You're being penalized because all these big artists 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:17.160 are at the same chart at the same time. Yeah, 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:20.600 you know. Any and obviously we want to go number one, 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:24.120 we really do. Everybody does, but we truly don't have 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.920 to pretend. We actually were quite thrilled that we had 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:29.040 a song go in the top ten and hang out 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.440 there for sure. I don't know months. It was there 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:33.160 for a long time. I'm sure people sing it back, 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:35.599 both of those songs, right, especially in the last couple 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.400 of months. It's like the volume of singing back, it's 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:41.400 louder every week. And also there's some money to be made. 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:43.159 Once you get in the top ten, you know you're 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:45.440 finally starting to make a little bit of money. And 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:46.640 I don't know how much of that you guys are 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:49.840 getting outside of your publishing. So do you guys make 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.479 any money from that yet? Yeah? Make your mind. Actually 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:54.040 made a lot of money because it was on the 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:57.800 charts for fifty six weeks. Yeah. So, um, I bought 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:00.520 a swimming pool. I was swimming in it today. You're 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:02.800 not kidding, not at all. You made enough money to 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.160 buy a swimming pool? Yeah, but who'd you write that with? 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.560 My buddies ben s Dennis and Seth Mosley. Ben U 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:10.920 lives a few houses down so whenever we're not home, 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:14.120 his family swims in the pool out with them. At 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.040 the same time, I wonder the dynamic because here you 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:20.880 are brothers and your your bandmates and you're the song 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.400 that you wrote is a single, so you're making songwriter 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:28.200 money too, but you're not. That's gotta be a slightly 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:30.600 weird dynamic because he's getting paid a little more for it. 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:34.320 I think you could make it weird if you wanted to. 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.920 But if people talked about in interviews and making you know, well, no, 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:39.960 it's just honest thing. I wonder sometimes, because I'll give 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.760 you an example, the guys from a little big town, 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:44.680 sometimes one or two of them will be in a 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:46.600 right and not all four of them, and then it's 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.359 gotta be weird whenever you go into deciding what the 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:51.320 single is going to be, what song is going to 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.760 go to radio, because that's real life dollars. Yeah, that 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:55.760 would be if Curtis wrote too, and we were like 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:57.479 picking between one of mine and one of his, that 0:05:57.480 --> 0:05:59.640 would definitely be. I don't write, so I think that 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:03.800 probably helps you don't write, correct, Are you being serious? Yeah, 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.080 you're the sarcastic in Cartis. I never know if you're 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.000 you're messing with me or not. I am sarcastic. But 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.400 I also do not write, and that is the truth 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.960 about So it doesn't bother you. Then you're probably happy 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.039 that he wrote it. Yeah, we listen. I mean we 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.599 we listen to outside songs all the time, and I 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:24.960 almost never like outside songs I like brad songs. Look 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:31.680 at you? So really you don't you don't sit and right, 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:36.120 I've tried, and um, it's a very uncomfortable thing for 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.760 me to do. And I know most songwriters just would 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.400 probably say, well, it was uncomfortable for all of us, 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:45.800 but um, yeah, I I honestly, I thought about how 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:47.920 hobbies for years and I tried to figure out which 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:50.919 one was for me. And I tried to write songs 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.280 and it was just never comfortable. And then one day 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:55.480 I built a table and it was the best day 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.040 of my life. So I just keep building tables instead 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:00.760 of writing songs. I'm fascinated with this because is you're 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:03.320 quite good musically, Like I watch you, I want you 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:06.440 to play and you play the little thing. Yeah, play 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:12.200 the little thing. Yeah yeah, you play the little thing. 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:17.440 You're you're you're quite efficient on that. So you obviously 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:20.040 have that that whatever that is in the brain to 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:24.040 create musically. Isn't that in a way of writing to Okay, 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:27.400 so what you don't write words? But come on, you 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:32.120 sit down. Musically you can't write melodies? You can you can? 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:38.120 Maybe I can? Yeah, he's got out should write Oh alright, 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:41.000 I want write well, but alright, alright, everything cool? Yeah, right, 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.120 alright too, But I was calling you right now, man, 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.520 this is my phone's vibrate in this whole table. Anybody cool? 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:50.440 You guys have any cool friends yet? No? Yeah? Yes, 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:56.920 this is just our our sound engineer, our production manager. Wow, 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:02.080 that's cool. Who's that? Who's who's your guy? Paul Shipless? Yeah, Chameless. 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.240 I'm still trying to learn how to last fan of 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:07.360 his work. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's a good guy. 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:15.320 As are you guys cooling Canada? Um? What do you mean? No? No, no, no, 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:19.880 And I'm I'm being serious because if I go to Okay, 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.440 I use Nashville, or if I go to Austin, or 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:27.160 if I go to Tampa or Boston, I'm cooler there 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:29.000 than if I go walk down the street in San 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:32.719 Francisco because shows not on there don't have any and 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:34.959 they don't like country music there. So when I say, 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.880 are you cooling Canada? In Arkansas? That's that's where I'm from. 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.079 They're proud of me there. I'm proud to be from Arkansas. 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.880 I am their son because I'm able to go and 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:45.559 represent who they are. So when I say that that, 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:48.000 in no way is that a a jab. But you 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:49.720 guys like, are you cooling Canada? Because people ask me 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:51.160 are you cool in Arkansas? I'm like, hey, yeah, I'm 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:52.679 super cool in Arkansas. I love it. I'm gonna be 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:56.320 the governor of Arkansas. So are you actually Oh yeah, yeah, 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:59.319 for sure, I did read something. I'm not kidding. I 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:01.079 say this all the time. I'm going to be the 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:04.199 governor and I might be the President of America. Called 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:08.600 President of America is called President United States? Are you 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:14.199 cooler in Canada? Meaning well, the show sell more? Will 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:16.840 if you can you do bigger TV appearances? Can you 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:19.319 walk down the street in certain areas that are big 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.280 and they're like, oh there they are? Yeah? Yeah, I 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.880 would definitely say that's the case, although we've had more 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:27.480 TV exposure in the United States than we ever have 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:31.840 in Canada. Yeah, I would say Boston, Orlando, and Minneapolis 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:36.080 would all be bigger. In Chicago, bigger crowds, bigger tickets, 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:40.600 bigger everything for High Valley than any Canadian city. After 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:44.600 those four uh, it would start. You know that. I 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.040 pulled it. I pulled it up our top cities by audience. 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.600 There is one Canadian city in the top ten and 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.720 it is in eighth place. But to be fair again, 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:55.920 I put Arkansas on mine, but there's not a lot 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.760 of population there, so you're looking at just dad. I'm 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:01.880 talking about per cap But how cool are you? So 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:05.320 her capita the cool is the most airport like autographs 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:10.280 and signatures would happen either in like Minneapolis or Canadian cities. 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:14.480 Maybe Minneapolis, Boston and Canadian cities. I was looking at 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.240 a map of Canada because I'm on in ten cities 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.559 in Canada now and and and growing, and so the 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:21.959 show's on in ten cities of Canada. I went to Canada. 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:23.840 By the way, you guys are super nice. I just 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:25.280 does see all of you together. You guys are all 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.160 I mean, thank you on behalf of all of the nation. 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:30.800 I went up there and never felt so warm and 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:32.680 welcome like I was on my phone and I'm in Toronto, 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:34.679 which is American as it gets for Canada, and it's 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:36.960 still clean and people are nice. Oh my phone up 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.320 a phone out. I'm kind of lost looking at the gapest. 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:40.920 Someone comes up, he goes hey, and I think they're 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.079 gonna rob me. There's wondering where I'm trying to go 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:46.040 because they're gonna help me with their human brain, and 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:49.240 I'm like, wow, that's awesome. I was inside this restaurant 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.440 and they took us because Rogers Media, who owns much 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.200 radio stations, sit there. They syndicate our show. And I'm 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:56.680 up there and I don't know where. I don't know. 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:58.839 There's a fancy restaurant where you can't put your phones 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.640 out because apparently can Adian celebrities hang out there. What 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:04.040 do I know? Was it the Soho House or something else? 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:06.040 So it was it was okay if you heard of that. 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:09.480 I've been there for breakfast. Man, we had breakfast. So 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:11.400 I'm in there right A little do I know you 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:12.760 can't pull out your phone and a little do I 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.520 care because I'm gonna be me. I'm an idiot and 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:17.240 I got my phone and I'm just look at I'm 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:19.600 just staying on Instagram. I was probably like sending people 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.920 messages being funny and ian and I look over and 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:28.760 it's the dude from Ship's Creek the Sun. I've I've 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:31.360 not watched It's Creek, but I know about it. Oh, 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:33.320 I thought you guys, I thought your National show. You know, 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.480 um Bill our Ore TM watches it all the time. 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.360 He really does it's super funny. And uh, so I started, 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:44.199 I started recording on my phone and they dropped the hammer. 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.520 They're like the phone down. I was like, did they 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:48.959 do it nicely and politely though? Or not? Well? He 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:52.000 didn't like that. I was it was Levy? Was it? 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:56.080 You know his name Andrew Levy. It was the guy 0:11:56.280 --> 0:12:02.360 from who cares anyway? Canada? Canada rules, Canada rules. And 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.720 then would you ever come to our home? I'm actually 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:06.800 serious right now, would you ever come to our hometown? 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:08.599 Here was my point and all of that is that 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:10.520 I was looking at the population of Canada because I 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:13.679 started to be a bit curious about the dynamics of 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:18.040 how the country runs, like, um, yeah, it is in 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.199 the thirties, right, and I like Justin Trudeau, Like I 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.800 think I like that dude. Um we talked in my 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:26.320 heart sometimes. Uh and so he wears a lot of red, 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:29.400 he does. And so I was looking to population. And 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.680 so you break Canada into four you put it into 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.880 equal fourths, like where you're from, all that land up there, 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:39.400 nobody lives there, nobody. You can go hours without seeing 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.960 a store. That's where our hometown is. In that part 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:44.800 of Canada. It's it's way up there, like when you 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:46.560 look at the Canadian map, it's like the cold part 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:50.160 where you go, who in the world would live up there? Right? Yeah? Yeah, 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.720 you have to fuel up because when you leave um, 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:56.559 Slave Lake, Alberta, which is about five hours south of US, 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.959 it's called Slave Lake Alberta as a town the worst 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:04.080 kind ever heard. Yes one, there's one gas station in 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:05.920 those five hours. If they can't change the name of 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:10.640 that town from Slave Lake, I mean, no one goes hey, mayor, 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.240 mayor of Slave Lake. We should probably change the name 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:14.920 of this town. 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The included 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:59.680 if you included the whole trees are oh yeah, yeah, 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:03.320 there farm like a field around our yard as well. 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.840 And did you guys farm the land yourself? Yeah? Yeah? 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.560 And what did you have on the farm. We grew 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:12.440 wheat with a hard tea on the end and canola. 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:14.320 Those are the main two crops. Every now and then 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:18.040 there would be like oats or barley or alfalfa or 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:20.240 how would you grow wheat when it's that cold all 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.640 the time. It doesn't. The sun doesn't go down in 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:26.200 the summer, so you get all that extra sunlight for 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:28.520 a few months, like right now, it would be as 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.640 bright as is in your house until about midnight. So 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.320 in your life, the normal thing to you was in 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:37.280 the summer, the sun didn't go down, correct, not while 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:40.320 we were awake. Anyway, It might dip like it goes 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:43.560 below the horizon in like June twenty one, as long 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.120 as day of the year, right, So on June one, 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.680 the sun dips below the horizon for I don't know 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:53.480 an hour, and that's normal to you. That's crazy. You 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:55.960 can go play basketball at midnight, like call your buddies 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.920 up and go hang out and play sports late at night, 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:01.000 which we did all the time. I went to Iceland. 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:03.400 Never been to Iceland, ever been really been anywhere. But 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:06.280 that's the person I've experienced that where the sun stays 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.000 up and for like an hour and a half it 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.960 just goes down. And what time of year were are 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:13.080 you there? Whenever the sun stayed up, So I guess 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:16.680 it would be summer. Yeah, I've never been Iceland. I'd 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:18.680 love to, but yeah, that would be the general concept 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:20.240 of how it was growing up, and it was cold 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:23.800 all the time or now, um it was. It would 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:26.000 it would get warm during the day and the summer, 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:29.080 but I mean the difference between night and day was 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:32.880 like I don't know, typically it would fluctuate like forty degrees. 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.680 It still gets really cold, even on a hot day. 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:42.320 It'll get down to like night on the in the 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.240 hottest part of the year, and that's not so today. 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:48.400 The lowest forty nine degrees you're talking about fahrenheit, Yeah, yeah, 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:51.280 in the summertime, and the highest sixty one Okay, that's 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:53.320 not so bad in the summer. Then I just think 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.960 about being like a blizzard like like eskimos all the time. 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:58.360 I mean there's a large part of the year that's 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:00.600 like that. So when it gets winter those it's dark 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:03.080 the whole time pretty much. How does your body react, 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:05.919 because again it's normal to you, but with it being daytime, 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.479 how do you go to sleep? What's up that clock inside? Is? 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:10.400 For me, it was always hard to go to bed 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:13.439 in the summer because yeah, the sun was out, it 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:18.159 was time to go outside and play basketball or family 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:20.600 was like that though, too, Like until I met my wife, 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:22.840 I never got into the lifestyle going to bed early, 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:26.200 waking up early. Our family was really wouldn't you say? 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:27.879 Like even now mom and Dad come to visit and 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:29.960 they're staying away later than my wife and I. They're 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.760 like we're checking our watches at midnight and they're like 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:35.639 still wide awake. And then in something in the winter 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:37.879 that was dark all the time, So everybody sad in 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:39.560 the winter, Like it just seems like if it's dark 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:42.040 and cold all the time, Apparently there is a lot 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:45.960 of depression the further north you go. Um, just statistically, 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:51.200 but I mean personally, I our talent specifically, yeah, pretty happy, 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:54.120 pretty happy place. I don't even know that I knew 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:56.280 what a men and Night was, to be honest with you, 0:17:56.600 --> 0:18:01.040 until you guys came to this show turn alone. I'm 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:02.800 still trying to figure out what a Minnonite is. There's 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:06.480 so many different kinds. It's really confusing. So what is 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:08.359 a Mennonite? Then, to you gets so much says what's 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:12.760 a Mennonite? How do you explain that for us? I mean, well, 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:15.840 for me, I still call myself a Menonite, but not 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:19.760 because of anything that I believe. I just call myself 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:23.159 a Minutonite because of my background or my blood, you know, 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:26.240 like we come from someone was Jewish. It could be 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:30.520 because either where they're from or what they believe. Would 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:35.040 that be an acceptable analogy? You could one the other 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:37.800 or both. I would say, if your last name is Remple, 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:41.160 you could tell another Minutonite you were in a Mennonite, 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.040 but they would say, yeah, you are. Your last name 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:46.080 is Dremp. It's like, how are you going to blood? 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:50.359 It's like it's like if you're from Ireland or your 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:53.240 great grandfather was from Ireland, so you say you're Irish. 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:55.439 It's pretty much the same thing if you're born in 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:57.960 America but your great grandfather was born in Ireland. Then 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:01.159 it's the same type of thing. For So what's a 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:05.080 men and night? Like, what are the men and nights stereotypes? Uh, 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:10.760 ankle length, denim skirts, no makeup, dis ault female stuff all. 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:16.360 Even the guys don't wear makeup, no earrings. Um what else? Um? 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:18.960 A lot of like four part harmony in church, like 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:22.639 just a piano and then tons of harmony. It's like 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:24.520 they always joked that, like men and night, kids can 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:29.400 harmonize by the time they're two, which is sometimes true. Um. 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:33.359 Our sisters have a lot of kids, and he started 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:36.879 singing harmonies when they were super young. Is that a 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:39.360 thing to have a lot of kids? Oh yeah, yeah, definitely. 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:42.320 Like our one sister has seven, one is five. I'm 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:45.960 the youngest of six. So if mom invites us over 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.359 for lunch and says, hey, kids, come over, there's thirty 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:53.680 six people. Is that right? Wow? Not just a Christmas 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:56.360 just like on a normal Tuesday evening, that could be third. 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:57.480 I mean it does sound like a lot of love 0:19:57.520 --> 0:19:59.159 in a house, be honest with you, Like that part 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:02.480 sounds very appealing, like it's a lot of family. Yeah 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:04.800 it is. We tried. It was the other day. We 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:06.600 were trying to explain to people because a lot of 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:08.720 people say, yeah, we understand you guys kind of like 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:12.359 family values and you know, that's such a generic normal 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:14.480 thing to say, right, It's kind of like saying God 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:18.080 bless America. It's a pretty normal thing. But to explain 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:21.000 we were trying to, Curtison, were trying to sum it 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:23.240 up the other day, like when we say family values 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:25.399 in a minute night town, it's quite different. It's like, 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:29.239 you know, how here or anywhere in the world, it's 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:31.760 pretty normal to have a babysitter a certain amount of time, 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:34.280 and people that like don't do it very often say 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:37.119 we don't do a babysitter very often. In a minute 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:40.480 that town, you literally never ever do. Like everything you 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:44.919 do is with your kids. So I'm oh, I did 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:47.800 stay with the babysitter one time at Shelly had me 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:52.840 over for that's not that's so it's that kind of thing. 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:55.720 Like one of our biggest dreams as a band is 0:20:55.840 --> 0:20:58.680 to someday be the first country band ever to sell 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:01.960 out an arena based on family tickets, where it's like 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:04.119 this is the price for a person, this is the 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:07.080 price for a family, and everybody's there together as families. 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:10.399 It's kind of weird dream of mine, and it seems 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:13.680 like it would be that way. It would thrive in 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:16.280 an area where there aren't where there's not a lot 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:18.080 of cosmopolitan, but there's not a lot of people like 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:20.320 you stay to your own group like you you you 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:23.240 were all together because you need each other. You're you're 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:25.639 kind of feeding off of each other. It's like a 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:29.240 business even like you all have your roles inside of it. 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:33.000 I'm into it. I need to get like eighteen kids, 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:36.480 get right on it. That's crazy. We only my wifriend 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:39.320 I only have two, which makes us like probably not 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:42.280 minutight enough. I was reading minutite dot com. They're not 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:45.800 happy with you. That was one of the first thing 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:50.280 it said. We are not happy to not hap There 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:53.960 definitely are some Mennonites that you have kids. I have 0:21:54.040 --> 0:21:59.600 two kids, you can have more. Yes, we will well. 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:01.320 And I don't want to talk about the whole time. 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:02.520 I'm just I don't know anything about it, and I 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:05.040 know people want to know, yeah and be like, hey, 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:07.200 what does this what does this come? Because it seemed 0:22:07.200 --> 0:22:09.320 like in America, this is like what are you all with? 0:22:09.400 --> 0:22:13.399 People up in the Northeast, the Quakers Amish. There we go. 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:16.520 That is that a fair comparison? Yeah, almost broke out 0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:20.639 of Minnonites Mennonites. Um, you guys the O G S Yes, sir, 0:22:21.800 --> 0:22:24.440 you know fred Armison called us. I texted you. Actually, 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:26.320 when I met from Fred Armison, I was so proud 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:28.360 to have met a famous person that we both knew. 0:22:28.920 --> 0:22:33.200 And um, he called us the original hipsters Mennonites, which 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:35.639 I think is sort of that's true because we ate 0:22:35.680 --> 0:22:39.080 our neighbors cows and it was normal. Yeah, and we 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:41.920 grew our on potatoes. Yeah, you asked, like, what it 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:44.000 looked like outside our house, you'd get out there. We're 0:22:44.040 --> 0:22:45.920 on this. If you look at an aerial view of 0:22:45.960 --> 0:22:48.000 our town, it's all in squares. Half a mile by 0:22:48.040 --> 0:22:50.560 half a mile is a hundred and sixty acres. We 0:22:50.680 --> 0:22:52.840 lived on two of them, and our neighbors would live 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:54.560 on two of them, and everybody's just in these plots 0:22:54.600 --> 0:22:58.159 of land. They'd have cows, we'd have chickens, and you 0:22:58.280 --> 0:23:01.399 just all buy food from each other. So when I 0:23:01.560 --> 0:23:04.320 moved here and people were talking about whole foods and 0:23:04.400 --> 0:23:07.959 explaining it to me, it was hilarious because I clearly 0:23:08.040 --> 0:23:11.040 had never experienced that before, and I hadn't heard about 0:23:11.080 --> 0:23:13.280 like organic and paying more for organic. And then when 0:23:13.320 --> 0:23:15.600 they explained to me what it was, it literally was 0:23:16.880 --> 0:23:20.640 our backyard, just paying extra for it. You were hearing 0:23:20.840 --> 0:23:23.760 organic and you're like, what is that? But really what 0:23:23.880 --> 0:23:26.359 they were saying was that this is what you're used to. 0:23:26.720 --> 0:23:28.840 You're gonna pay more for what you're used to. Yeah, 0:23:29.400 --> 0:23:31.800 I had never I didn't know what organic was until 0:23:31.880 --> 0:23:35.159 I was probably eighteen, except you knew exactly what it 0:23:35.280 --> 0:23:37.440 was because you were living it. Yeah, just no word 0:23:37.480 --> 0:23:39.159 for it. You didn't know the process part of it. 0:23:39.800 --> 0:23:42.800 We call it eating food, I bet you. And everywhere 0:23:42.800 --> 0:23:44.240 you go people want to talk about this, right, and 0:23:44.280 --> 0:23:48.800 every interview is that, like, what's up Canada men Tonite? Right? 0:23:49.040 --> 0:23:51.240 You know, it's weird. Nobody in Canada ever talked to 0:23:51.400 --> 0:23:55.440 us about being Mennonite ever until like last year, because 0:23:55.440 --> 0:23:57.440 they knew and it was not even a thing. I 0:23:57.640 --> 0:24:01.480 think there was no for sure. And even here there's 0:24:01.480 --> 0:24:04.000 a little bit of it is try hey, guys, try 0:24:04.040 --> 0:24:07.040 hard not to be so different, can you try? And like, um, 0:24:07.720 --> 0:24:10.240 you know, the whole thing a little more relatable. Country 0:24:10.359 --> 0:24:12.280 artists should be like out there with their Red Solo 0:24:12.400 --> 0:24:14.440 Cup and hanging out with everybody else with the Red 0:24:14.480 --> 0:24:18.800 Solo cups and um for whatever reason, I think honestly, 0:24:18.840 --> 0:24:20.840 you were a huge part of it. Your interview where 0:24:20.840 --> 0:24:24.159 everybody kind of started talking about it and then um, 0:24:24.240 --> 0:24:26.240 people start saying, oh, maybe it's okay if you guys 0:24:26.280 --> 0:24:28.040 talk about it. Of course it's okay. I guess so 0:24:28.160 --> 0:24:29.879 frustrated what people say you can't be who you are. 0:24:30.240 --> 0:24:32.600 When I came over here to the format, it was like, oh, 0:24:32.640 --> 0:24:34.680 you don't wear a bill buckle, cowboy, You're never gonna 0:24:34.680 --> 0:24:37.720 make it. I would love to see you with that, 0:24:39.040 --> 0:24:41.120 it would be amazing. But it just goes to show 0:24:41.200 --> 0:24:43.240 you that if you're authentic and who you are and 0:24:43.320 --> 0:24:45.080 not just that, you still have to be good. Yeah, 0:24:45.359 --> 0:24:48.159 but if you're good enough that it doesn't matter what 0:24:48.320 --> 0:24:50.960 you are. If you're not hurting people or animals, people 0:24:50.960 --> 0:24:52.720 don't care to be good at it, Like, give them 0:24:52.800 --> 0:24:55.239 some sort of entertainment they can enjoy, and don't hurt 0:24:55.280 --> 0:24:57.919 kids animals. You're pretty good. I mean, that's a good 0:24:58.000 --> 0:25:03.520 recipe for success. Would be good? Is that in your book? Yes? 0:25:03.720 --> 0:25:06.760 Don't hurt kids or animals. Stay in school when you 0:25:06.800 --> 0:25:08.560 guys want to move down here. Well, I guess I 0:25:08.600 --> 0:25:10.960 wonder creatively in that family, are you guys all making 0:25:11.000 --> 0:25:14.240 music as a family, Like in that little snippet I 0:25:14.359 --> 0:25:16.480 played you there, that was the whole family band, the 0:25:16.600 --> 0:25:19.760 Rymple family. That was just live off of the stage 0:25:19.800 --> 0:25:22.360 at church, right, Yeah, that was our album. We don't 0:25:22.359 --> 0:25:26.000 literally played ten songs live and recorded it, but um, 0:25:26.359 --> 0:25:28.600 Curtis and I are just the last two in our 0:25:28.680 --> 0:25:32.119 family to still you know, we want to keep doing it. 0:25:32.400 --> 0:25:34.720 Everybody in our family was in the band at one point. 0:25:35.000 --> 0:25:36.720 Is it weird to them that not only do you 0:25:36.760 --> 0:25:38.960 want to pursue this to make a living, but that 0:25:39.080 --> 0:25:41.840 you want to move to a different country and pursue 0:25:41.880 --> 0:25:46.680 on this large stage. I don't think. I don't know 0:25:46.760 --> 0:25:48.640 if weird is the right word, But I mean it's 0:25:48.680 --> 0:25:51.320 been We've been doing this for a long time, longer 0:25:51.359 --> 0:25:55.200 than people realize. And our family has been, you know, 0:25:56.160 --> 0:25:58.680 with us for the whole thing. They've seen every single 0:25:58.760 --> 0:26:02.000 baby step, you know. So, I mean there have been 0:26:02.119 --> 0:26:05.840 some shocking events I guess in our history, probably to 0:26:05.960 --> 0:26:08.119 the family. But it's like playing the Opry for the 0:26:08.160 --> 0:26:09.840 first time, that was a big enough event that in 0:26:10.080 --> 0:26:13.440 forty eight hours. They got passports and drove to the 0:26:13.440 --> 0:26:16.480 airport and flew here to see us at the opry. 0:26:16.640 --> 0:26:22.200 So what's driving to the airport? Five miles? Wow? Yeah, 0:26:22.280 --> 0:26:25.359 and it used to be um now it's all paved, 0:26:25.640 --> 0:26:27.320 but it used to be how many? How many miles? 0:26:27.400 --> 0:26:29.560 Was used to be growing a hundred and fifty miles off? 0:26:29.600 --> 0:26:32.600 It was gravel to get to the airport. And what 0:26:32.720 --> 0:26:35.560 airport is that? Edmonton? Okay, so let me let's do 0:26:35.640 --> 0:26:40.359 the map here five miles at eighty miles okay, except 0:26:40.440 --> 0:26:42.280 you can't do that on gravel road. But okay, but 0:26:42.359 --> 0:26:45.600 it paved now right, Yeah, so at eight times six 0:26:45.720 --> 0:26:48.119 is forty eight you're talking about. You gotta stop him. 0:26:48.119 --> 0:26:50.560 P Yeah, it's considered an eight hour drive for most 0:26:50.640 --> 0:26:53.359 Like on on Google Maps it would eight out. You 0:26:53.520 --> 0:26:55.760 drive eight hours to the airport, you drive fast, but 0:26:55.920 --> 0:26:58.680 Google tend to get a passport. Yeah, they didn't have 0:26:58.720 --> 0:27:02.960 passports yet, so they had to at the expedited McDonald's 0:27:03.720 --> 0:27:09.679 in our town. Two yeah, two hundred miles to McDonald's, 0:27:09.960 --> 0:27:12.439 two miles to the movie theater, which when we went 0:27:12.480 --> 0:27:14.280 home and did a documentary a couple of years ago, 0:27:14.840 --> 0:27:19.680 we interviewed my Mr. Award shop teacher, and him and 0:27:19.760 --> 0:27:21.760 his wife had just driven to the movie theater and 0:27:21.840 --> 0:27:23.840 back for a date. Like they drove two hundred miles, 0:27:24.240 --> 0:27:26.640 saw a movie and drove back, like they didn't get 0:27:26.640 --> 0:27:28.359 a hotel there, they just went and saw a movie. 0:27:28.480 --> 0:27:30.600 A lot of people in our hometown, including our brother 0:27:30.600 --> 0:27:34.240 in law, um, have season tickets to the Edmonton Oilers, 0:27:34.440 --> 0:27:39.720 which is in Edmonton, which is eight hours on games 0:27:39.800 --> 0:27:44.240 a year, and so they're making that drive quite frequently. 0:27:44.600 --> 0:27:48.159 But tis kay, let me say this then, if that's normal, 0:27:48.560 --> 0:27:50.879 that's not that far. I mean, it's not it's crazy 0:27:50.960 --> 0:27:52.720 to me to go I'm gonna drive eight hours or something, 0:27:52.840 --> 0:27:54.920 But imagine the eighteen hundred You gotta get a horse 0:27:55.359 --> 0:27:58.760 and travel in, you know, sixteen hours to a market. 0:27:59.200 --> 0:28:03.480 That's we'll imagine this. We moved to spring Hill because 0:28:03.520 --> 0:28:06.480 it's you know, yeah, spring Hill, Tennancy. It's thirty five 0:28:06.600 --> 0:28:10.160 minutes exactly to Music Row, to where I'm usually hanging 0:28:10.200 --> 0:28:14.200 out writing from my house. People are like, dude, you 0:28:14.280 --> 0:28:16.960 live way out in spring Hill. As if it's just nuts. 0:28:17.200 --> 0:28:21.400 I have a super targeting about fifty other stores eight 0:28:21.520 --> 0:28:26.159 minutes from my driveway. And I'm supposed to feel like 0:28:26.280 --> 0:28:28.720 I live far away from something that I can't. I've tried. 0:28:28.760 --> 0:28:30.480 I've been here for eight years, and I feel like 0:28:30.640 --> 0:28:34.280 I'm in like Manhattan or something in spring Hill. But 0:28:34.359 --> 0:28:37.360 people perceive it as being a way the heck out there. 0:28:38.000 --> 0:28:40.480 I'm just thinking, Wow, it's pretty easy. It just shows 0:28:40.520 --> 0:28:43.520 you it's really all relative. Yeah, and there are probably 0:28:43.560 --> 0:28:46.760 people here your story and go, oh, that's nothing. Yeah. Well, Mike, 0:28:47.000 --> 0:28:50.160 I was having a conversation with my father in law yesterday. Um, 0:28:50.920 --> 0:28:53.959 my wife and I are both from the same town. Um, 0:28:54.320 --> 0:28:58.120 so my father in law was telling me about um 0:28:58.400 --> 0:29:01.000 stories he heard about our hometown and like the forties 0:29:01.080 --> 0:29:03.840 and stuff, and there was no road to get to Lacrete. 0:29:03.920 --> 0:29:06.840 You literally had to take a boat down the Peace 0:29:06.960 --> 0:29:10.080 River and it would come twice a month, I think, 0:29:10.200 --> 0:29:14.640 and it would drop off food and I mean everything 0:29:14.720 --> 0:29:17.080 that people would need to survive, and then people would 0:29:17.080 --> 0:29:21.400 also export, so like every two weeks, the boats would 0:29:21.440 --> 0:29:25.560 be going in and out of Lacrete and uh, and 0:29:25.680 --> 0:29:27.960 that was normal. Though my point is even to him, 0:29:28.040 --> 0:29:30.720 then that was probably normal. Yeah, And that's the thing. 0:29:30.800 --> 0:29:34.120 Minnight's moved up there because it was so um what's 0:29:34.120 --> 0:29:36.920 the word secluded? Yeah, and now that there's a paved 0:29:37.000 --> 0:29:38.920 road going all the way there. Like my father in 0:29:39.000 --> 0:29:42.360 law yesterday was talking about how Lacrete is not that 0:29:42.560 --> 0:29:47.760 secluded anymore compared to that's a good stereotype for minunites, seclusion. 0:29:47.800 --> 0:29:50.040 They try hard. No matter where do you find minnites, 0:29:50.040 --> 0:29:52.280 it will be in these obscure areas to try and 0:29:52.480 --> 0:29:55.000 escape the world. So that's kind of the reason we're 0:29:55.800 --> 0:29:59.880 from Lacrete is because minnit's went there originally because there 0:30:00.040 --> 0:30:02.680 as no road, you know what, Nobody could get to 0:30:02.720 --> 0:30:04.160 you and you couldn't get to any Maybe that's why 0:30:04.160 --> 0:30:06.000 I we live in spring Hill. 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My 0:31:09.760 --> 0:31:12.760 sleep number setting is thirty, going down the lowest price 0:31:12.840 --> 0:31:14.240 of the season, the final closed out of a Sleep 0:31:14.320 --> 0:31:17.040 Number Queen c two mattress with adjustable comfort on both sides. 0:31:18.840 --> 0:31:21.120 Visits sleep number dot com slash bones to find the 0:31:21.160 --> 0:31:23.280 store near you. I remember when you guys came in 0:31:23.360 --> 0:31:25.520 on the show. First time. I didn't I knew you 0:31:25.560 --> 0:31:26.960 had a song, and I was like, I like the song, 0:31:27.000 --> 0:31:30.360 and you came in and we were talking about pop 0:31:30.440 --> 0:31:33.960 culture references and you guys just didn't know them. And 0:31:34.160 --> 0:31:36.640 you weren't playing a part. You really just didn't know 0:31:36.760 --> 0:31:38.880 them because you didn't grow up with I guess it 0:31:38.960 --> 0:31:41.360 wasn't even a radio signal, did you guys pick up? 0:31:41.440 --> 0:31:44.200 There was not? When did that start happening? Um? We 0:31:44.320 --> 0:31:46.320 got FM radio on the year two thousand, we got 0:31:46.400 --> 0:31:49.000 pop radio on the year two thousand, and it's not 0:31:49.120 --> 0:31:51.720 even pop. It's like an amalgamation of tons of different 0:31:51.760 --> 0:31:54.360 things that are not country, if that makes sense. So 0:31:54.640 --> 0:31:56.680 was that a big shot to the system of town 0:31:56.720 --> 0:31:59.120 where there's this it's the double music man? I mean, 0:31:59.760 --> 0:32:01.800 miss reward to go back to our shop teacher, he 0:32:01.880 --> 0:32:04.080 wrote in my report card that year to my parents, 0:32:04.200 --> 0:32:06.560 and Brad did not get much accomplished, you know, blah 0:32:06.600 --> 0:32:08.600 blah blah, blah blah. Basically I was sitting around the 0:32:08.720 --> 0:32:10.600 radio the whole time, and I was listening to smash 0:32:10.680 --> 0:32:16.400 Mouth and Green Day and Ever Clear. But does that 0:32:16.520 --> 0:32:18.480 start up these creative juices? Though? I wonder when you're 0:32:18.480 --> 0:32:20.640 hearing this stuff and it's like, WHOA, the music can 0:32:20.720 --> 0:32:22.840 do this? Curtis, every once in a while we'll hear 0:32:22.880 --> 0:32:24.600 a demo and be like, hey, that reminds me you're 0:32:24.640 --> 0:32:26.600 doing that. Every Clear kind of thing with your vocal 0:32:26.720 --> 0:32:31.080 and yeah, there's there's inspiration there for sure. I can 0:32:31.160 --> 0:32:33.840 just imagine you only have a few records and then 0:32:33.840 --> 0:32:36.760 all of a sudden, through the through the air comes 0:32:36.760 --> 0:32:39.600 a whole new sound. Yeah. The thing is, though, and 0:32:39.720 --> 0:32:44.480 this isn't a suck up to country radio. Even with that, 0:32:45.760 --> 0:32:48.800 I still would want to hear more country music. And 0:32:48.880 --> 0:32:52.960 we got Columbia House, and I was a penny yeah dude. 0:32:52.960 --> 0:32:54.760 And then I get all my friends to buy the 0:32:54.880 --> 0:32:56.520 five that I need to pay for, and then i'd 0:32:56.560 --> 0:32:58.240 sign them up and I ended up getting a hundred 0:32:58.240 --> 0:33:01.239 and ten CDs and I never are paid for one 0:33:01.280 --> 0:33:03.760 of them, which is horrible because now we want everybody 0:33:03.800 --> 0:33:06.520 to pay for our music. But anyway, I would still 0:33:06.640 --> 0:33:08.680 just get Diamond Rio c ds in black Hawk and 0:33:08.760 --> 0:33:12.600 Shenandoa and any bands with harmonies. Um, even though we 0:33:12.760 --> 0:33:16.120 had that kind of radio. So that's why I still 0:33:16.280 --> 0:33:20.120 didn't immerse myself fully in the pop scene. I guess, well, 0:33:20.160 --> 0:33:23.120 we weren't really encouraged to listen to that's true that 0:33:23.520 --> 0:33:27.160 radio station either. Yeah, discouraged would be a better word. 0:33:27.200 --> 0:33:30.280 But who wasn't We had a cassette that somebody recorded 0:33:30.600 --> 0:33:34.360 smash Mouth onto author? Did you do that? Probably? I 0:33:34.480 --> 0:33:36.680 found it in our RV and me and Jordan Schmidt 0:33:36.760 --> 0:33:39.560 listened to what's the song all Star? We listened to 0:33:39.640 --> 0:33:41.880 it when we were camping one weekend. So is that 0:33:42.000 --> 0:33:47.600 like having a Playboy? Pretty much? Our mom and dad gone, yes, Okay, 0:33:47.680 --> 0:33:51.680 put the cassette in, let's listen to smash Mouth. Yes. 0:33:52.000 --> 0:33:54.280 A lot of kids in Nashville or church kids, right, 0:33:54.320 --> 0:33:55.680 a lot of country guys, and they'll be like, man, 0:33:55.760 --> 0:33:57.520 I know how you grew up. Man. I was only 0:33:57.520 --> 0:33:59.920 allowed to listen to Christian music growing up, which is 0:34:00.040 --> 0:34:02.959 hlarious because we were not allowed like all the Christian 0:34:03.040 --> 0:34:06.520 rock music and stuff like Michael W. Smith or we 0:34:06.600 --> 0:34:08.680 weren't supposed to listen to that stuff because it was 0:34:08.719 --> 0:34:12.200 too much too modern. Yeah, so how did you end 0:34:12.280 --> 0:34:15.600 up here? Because all the things are working against that, 0:34:16.680 --> 0:34:19.279 All the things are working against you being here and 0:34:19.320 --> 0:34:24.200 making music that is contemporary sounding. Yeah, here's this sounds fake, 0:34:24.280 --> 0:34:26.480 but this is the absolute truth of how we got here. 0:34:26.880 --> 0:34:30.920 Our dad was pulling the engine out of a white tractor, 0:34:31.440 --> 0:34:35.800 piece of junk tractor, and a guy called named bow Loser, 0:34:35.800 --> 0:34:38.759 who was a scam artist out of Nashville here and 0:34:38.880 --> 0:34:41.680 he called our phone number. He found us on MP 0:34:41.880 --> 0:34:44.759 three dot com if you remember that website, and he 0:34:44.840 --> 0:34:47.399 asked my dad for sixty thousand bucks cash and said, 0:34:47.440 --> 0:34:49.279 if you give me sixty grand, I can make your 0:34:49.320 --> 0:34:51.040 boys in a big stars. There's a guy out on 0:34:51.120 --> 0:34:53.080 tour with the Dixie Chicks right now, and he loves 0:34:53.520 --> 0:34:55.880 your band. He's gonna produce your boys and he's going 0:34:55.920 --> 0:34:58.799 to produce a record on him. And our dad always says, 0:34:58.800 --> 0:35:00.520 if he could have seen the tractor working on he 0:35:00.560 --> 0:35:03.920 never would ask for sixty grand. But either way, I 0:35:04.040 --> 0:35:06.319 got the wheels turning, and mom and dad ended up saying, 0:35:06.600 --> 0:35:09.000 maybe these boys should be going to Nashville to record. 0:35:09.640 --> 0:35:12.000 And we went down here and spent a fraction of 0:35:12.080 --> 0:35:15.520 that in two thousand and started making records down here. 0:35:16.320 --> 0:35:18.839 So because the guy put the bubble into your parents head, 0:35:19.840 --> 0:35:22.439 they thought, well, if someone's trying to scam us because 0:35:22.480 --> 0:35:24.239 they could be good enough, maybe they are good enough. 0:35:24.480 --> 0:35:26.520 Pretty much. That's that's a that's a bold move on 0:35:26.600 --> 0:35:29.800 their part to go, all right, this is different for everybody, 0:35:29.880 --> 0:35:32.600 but you need to get down and be where you 0:35:32.640 --> 0:35:35.520 can create. I mean, our dads straight up, bet the farm. 0:35:35.719 --> 0:35:38.680 He literally I went to the bank and took a 0:35:38.840 --> 0:35:42.040 line of credit like a loan against our farm, and 0:35:42.160 --> 0:35:45.000 spent that I think it was thirty some thousand bucks. Yeah, 0:35:45.480 --> 0:35:48.560 with flights and hotels and everything. Yeah. Yeah, I mean 0:35:48.600 --> 0:35:51.000 you feel some pressure when that happens. We were too 0:35:51.080 --> 0:35:53.000 young to know that we should, but later on in 0:35:53.120 --> 0:35:56.359 life I definitely did, and we paid him back. Our 0:35:56.440 --> 0:35:59.200 talent is really supportive. We do a CD release concert, 0:35:59.480 --> 0:36:01.360 Curtis ro to the dirt bike down Main Street with 0:36:01.440 --> 0:36:04.560 ads in the Farmer's Day parade. Um. We we ended 0:36:04.640 --> 0:36:07.319 up getting a computer at one point and we had 0:36:07.400 --> 0:36:10.000 a program called print Shop. I don't know if you 0:36:10.000 --> 0:36:13.279 remember that, but I designed a poster and I stuck 0:36:13.320 --> 0:36:14.640 it to the side of my dirt bike and I 0:36:14.719 --> 0:36:17.040 advertised for the CD release concert and drove it in 0:36:17.080 --> 0:36:19.719 the parade. I think we should still do that, like 0:36:19.840 --> 0:36:22.279 Curtis on dirt Bike on music through advertising our new 0:36:22.320 --> 0:36:26.520 records amazing. If you go home now to your hometown, 0:36:26.880 --> 0:36:31.040 do you have to fly to Edmonton and drive eight hours? Well, 0:36:31.080 --> 0:36:33.560 I make you go home that often? Do you once 0:36:33.640 --> 0:36:38.640 a year? Super lucky and your wives are from home? 0:36:39.320 --> 0:36:42.440 Mine isn't yours? Is, So you met her at home 0:36:42.480 --> 0:36:46.320 and she moved down here. That's correct, Wow, that's it. 0:36:49.000 --> 0:36:51.319 Were you married when she moved down here? Yeah? Yeah, 0:36:51.400 --> 0:36:54.480 we got married and uh a few months later we 0:36:55.160 --> 0:36:57.439 moved down here. Actually, how how old did you get married? 0:36:58.040 --> 0:37:05.120 I was twenty two, I think too terribly young. I 0:37:05.280 --> 0:37:08.000 was nineteen when you got married. Yeah, we were sixteen 0:37:08.040 --> 0:37:12.279 when we met. And where did you meet her? At 0:37:12.320 --> 0:37:14.480 a music festival? She was in our autograph line. I 0:37:14.600 --> 0:37:16.520 signed an eight by ten for her. Where and what 0:37:16.840 --> 0:37:19.680 what town did you meet her? Presbyterous, British Columbia, which 0:37:19.760 --> 0:37:22.239 is a suburb of Fort Saint John which the music 0:37:22.360 --> 0:37:25.520 festival was held at the Blueberry Bible Camp. It was 0:37:25.560 --> 0:37:29.400 called the Blueberry Bible Camp Gospel Jamboree. And she was 0:37:29.440 --> 0:37:31.960 the hottest girl there by far. Now if you were 0:37:32.080 --> 0:37:33.920 twenty five will be a different story. I would go, hey, 0:37:33.920 --> 0:37:35.400 why are you trying to hook up with people? One? 0:37:35.719 --> 0:37:38.399 But you're sixteen? Yeah, we were just kids. Yeah, we're 0:37:38.480 --> 0:37:40.800 hanging out and we started talking and then we started 0:37:40.920 --> 0:37:43.440 dating after we returned seventeen. But how far? Why does 0:37:43.520 --> 0:37:47.800 she live? She lived five hours away, three miles, so 0:37:47.920 --> 0:37:49.960 I would drive. I sold cars for a living. So 0:37:50.360 --> 0:37:52.680 I started selling trucks and cars when I was seventeen. 0:37:53.280 --> 0:37:56.000 So on Saturday's at three, I'd get off work and 0:37:56.040 --> 0:37:57.719 then i'd drive. I'd get to her house by about 0:37:57.719 --> 0:38:00.560 eight or nine, and then Sunday I did have to 0:38:00.760 --> 0:38:03.200 leave to be back for work on Monday. I mean, 0:38:03.360 --> 0:38:04.600 don't you just go ahead and get married because you 0:38:04.600 --> 0:38:07.520 want to stay gas At that point it was financially 0:38:07.600 --> 0:38:10.080 a great decision. But sometimes I went along to keep 0:38:10.160 --> 0:38:13.399 right awake on the road. That's true. You'd ride with him, Yeah, 0:38:13.640 --> 0:38:15.319 you stopped car and run circles. One time I dated 0:38:15.320 --> 0:38:18.040 a girl. She said like two hours away in northern Arkansas, 0:38:18.080 --> 0:38:20.120 and nobody wanted to date me, right, I mean, I'm 0:38:20.120 --> 0:38:22.239 a real treat, as you can see. Uh. So I 0:38:22.640 --> 0:38:24.680 I would drive, and I would stay until like ten 0:38:24.719 --> 0:38:26.279 o'clock and have to drive home. But I would stop 0:38:26.320 --> 0:38:28.279 the car and then run circles and then jump back 0:38:28.280 --> 0:38:29.600 in the car and drive for a get longer because 0:38:29.600 --> 0:38:32.600 without falling asleep, stick your out the window. You know, 0:38:32.640 --> 0:38:35.319 I can't imagine the sunflower seeds, man, you ever eat 0:38:35.400 --> 0:38:38.759 those while you're driving? That's that's the best thing for me. 0:38:39.200 --> 0:38:43.319 When I proposed to my wife. Um, well, she wasn't 0:38:43.360 --> 0:38:45.560 my wife at the time. So anyway, when I proposed 0:38:45.560 --> 0:38:48.200 to my girlfriend, I I was running out of time. 0:38:48.239 --> 0:38:50.040 We were about to go on tour for six months 0:38:50.080 --> 0:38:51.800 and we kind of talked about getting married, so it 0:38:51.880 --> 0:38:54.200 was kind of obvious. I was trying to do, you know, 0:38:54.320 --> 0:38:58.000 this artistic, creative way, and it wasn't. It just wasn't. 0:38:58.080 --> 0:38:59.759 The ring didn't make it in time for when I 0:38:59.840 --> 0:39:02.200 had all scheduled. Anyway, I had like one day left 0:39:02.280 --> 0:39:05.040 to surprise her, and I already asked her dad's permission, 0:39:05.960 --> 0:39:08.759 so I left our house at midnight. I drove through 0:39:08.800 --> 0:39:10.759 the night, but I got so tired that I pulled 0:39:10.840 --> 0:39:13.319 over at this parking lot in a in the town 0:39:13.400 --> 0:39:16.040 that has a gas station in between, and I, um 0:39:16.520 --> 0:39:19.759 pulled over there and I fell asleep. And I woke 0:39:19.840 --> 0:39:23.080 up literally at the exact time that allowed me to 0:39:23.160 --> 0:39:25.640 get to her house one minute before her dad's alarmed. 0:39:25.680 --> 0:39:27.680 I knew her dad's alarm went off at six am, 0:39:27.960 --> 0:39:29.560 and I knew I needed to sneak into the house 0:39:29.600 --> 0:39:32.520 before six with my guitar, get up in her bedroom 0:39:32.560 --> 0:39:34.359 and sing when you say nothing at all to wake 0:39:34.400 --> 0:39:36.840 her up, which is how I proposed her. You know, 0:39:36.960 --> 0:39:39.600 I'm nineteen. This is romantic because I could get when 0:39:39.640 --> 0:39:41.879 you say nothing at all sounds amazing at six am 0:39:41.960 --> 0:39:44.759 when you haven't talked to anybody for five hours. So 0:39:45.280 --> 0:39:47.480 I get to her houses like five fifty six, and 0:39:47.560 --> 0:39:50.480 I'm getting out there and I accidentally smoked my guitar 0:39:50.520 --> 0:39:52.760 against They live in this log cabin, and I smoked 0:39:52.800 --> 0:39:54.960 against the ceiling when I was trying to get into 0:39:54.960 --> 0:39:57.560 the room, and you like, you scratched, like you just 0:39:57.680 --> 0:40:00.560 had stock of the guitar, was like, and then string 0:40:00.680 --> 0:40:03.640 is just super flat. And uh. She was sharing the 0:40:03.719 --> 0:40:06.520 bed with her sister, which I obviously didn't only like 0:40:06.600 --> 0:40:09.760 how to sleep over there? Both blonde, and I'm like, shoot, 0:40:09.800 --> 0:40:11.359 I have to make sure I proposed to the right 0:40:11.400 --> 0:40:15.719 girl at this moment time. Thankfully I did, and at 0:40:15.800 --> 0:40:18.400 like five fifty nine she said yes. And then this 0:40:18.520 --> 0:40:20.879 alarm clock starts ringing through the house and her dad 0:40:21.360 --> 0:40:24.080 yelled something in German because we all grew up speaking German, right, 0:40:24.120 --> 0:40:26.799 so he says, oh, bah, it just means I come 0:40:26.880 --> 0:40:31.120 on or something, and that's how it all went down. 0:40:31.280 --> 0:40:33.960 I just love that when you propose. There was another 0:40:34.280 --> 0:40:38.399 girl laying that, which was great. You got to share 0:40:38.440 --> 0:40:41.000 her excitement with you know, right away, showing engagement ring 0:40:41.080 --> 0:40:45.200 to somebody, which is super useful. And you guys learned 0:40:45.239 --> 0:40:48.359 German before English. Yeah, do you ever dream in German? Now? 0:40:49.760 --> 0:40:52.600 I've never been asked that. Man. The truth is I 0:40:52.920 --> 0:40:55.080 I learned English first. I was the last kid of 0:40:55.880 --> 0:40:59.920 six kids. Um, so all the kids went to English schools. 0:41:00.040 --> 0:41:01.320 There's a lot of English in our home by the 0:41:01.360 --> 0:41:05.560 time I was born, So yeah, we we were considered anglelanda, 0:41:05.600 --> 0:41:10.000 which is a German word for English speakers, because our 0:41:10.080 --> 0:41:14.080 dad because of how it's kind of like an offensive term. 0:41:14.160 --> 0:41:16.919 It's like, if you're in Anglanda, then you're not really 0:41:17.000 --> 0:41:20.359 accepted in the German Mennonite community. Like in our town 0:41:20.440 --> 0:41:23.279 there's German churches and English churches, and the English ones 0:41:23.320 --> 0:41:27.120 are pretty considered incredibly liberal, even though they're still Mennonite. 0:41:27.160 --> 0:41:29.960 It's just like you're supposed to speak German. Everything should 0:41:29.960 --> 0:41:32.840 always be German. So once you get to school, you 0:41:32.920 --> 0:41:35.400 get in trouble for speaking German. So the trick is 0:41:36.480 --> 0:41:38.960 you learned German all your life until you know you're 0:41:39.000 --> 0:41:41.879 in school, and then the teachers really trying and teach 0:41:41.920 --> 0:41:44.759 you English at that point. So now my wife and 0:41:44.800 --> 0:41:47.640 I just used German to like keep secrets from the 0:41:47.760 --> 0:41:51.400 kids and um say funny stuff when people are around 0:41:51.480 --> 0:41:54.799 that we aren't allowed to sail out. Back to my question, 0:41:54.840 --> 0:41:56.440 do you have a dream in German? Still? You never 0:41:56.480 --> 0:41:58.800 to fall back and you're like, wow, that's crazy. I 0:41:58.960 --> 0:42:01.080 can't prove that. I don't know how to know. I've 0:42:01.160 --> 0:42:05.960 never dreamed in German. I don't dream in like sound, 0:42:06.120 --> 0:42:08.320 so I don't know. You don't have conversations while you 0:42:08.360 --> 0:42:10.400 sleep like in your head. I do. I talked to 0:42:10.560 --> 0:42:12.080 talk to people in my dreams all time. I don't 0:42:12.160 --> 0:42:14.839 dream very much, to be honest, I dream a lot 0:42:14.960 --> 0:42:16.880 before I go to bed, and that's all in English. 0:42:16.960 --> 0:42:21.000 Do you ever think in German all the time? Yeah? 0:42:21.000 --> 0:42:23.440 I wish I could thinking in the language. I'm trouble 0:42:23.480 --> 0:42:30.680 thinking in English. Man. YouTube now Musically, because you play 0:42:30.760 --> 0:42:34.400 the little thing, yeah, the mandolin? Is that what you 0:42:34.480 --> 0:42:37.920 play all the time? No? I I started playing. I 0:42:38.000 --> 0:42:40.880 started off playing guitar and then I learned mandolin later on. 0:42:42.320 --> 0:42:46.360 And so you you play the guitar like hold the guitar, 0:42:46.520 --> 0:42:49.280 I'm like the stereotypical lead singer that has the guitar 0:42:49.480 --> 0:42:52.479 sometimes for fun, but I'm not really a guitar player. 0:42:52.719 --> 0:42:55.919 Why don't you sing? Do you sing? I sing background? Balls? 0:42:55.960 --> 0:42:58.719 I mean, but you don't sing lead at all? Ever? No, 0:42:58.880 --> 0:43:00.960 I used to. I used to lead on one song, 0:43:01.239 --> 0:43:04.440 but I just could not remember the words. Would be 0:43:04.520 --> 0:43:07.120 like yelling me, the yelling the lyrics into my ear 0:43:07.880 --> 0:43:10.440 line by line, line by line, and I just like 0:43:10.800 --> 0:43:15.000 I got it probably of the time. So I just 0:43:15.320 --> 0:43:17.560 I just sing background. But you have no interest to 0:43:17.680 --> 0:43:24.360 be the lead singer. Ever, No, No, I just I don't. 0:43:25.640 --> 0:43:28.000 I would be a terrible rhythm guitar player. Just you 0:43:28.080 --> 0:43:29.800 look at a band of the drummers, bassis, really, just 0:43:29.880 --> 0:43:31.279 look at a four piece band. Just put it in 0:43:31.360 --> 0:43:34.120 my head. I would be a terrible rhythm guitar player 0:43:34.760 --> 0:43:36.759 because I would want to be the lead singer. I'm 0:43:36.920 --> 0:43:39.760 I'm an absolute type A. But let's say I can't, 0:43:40.520 --> 0:43:42.400 then I probably want to be the drummer because I 0:43:42.440 --> 0:43:43.800 can actually do my own thing. I can have my 0:43:43.880 --> 0:43:47.560 own you know, people will, people will look at me. Listen. 0:43:47.560 --> 0:43:49.160 I'm just searching for love. Everything I do. I need 0:43:49.160 --> 0:43:52.160 people to pay because I need love. Right and then 0:43:52.200 --> 0:43:53.680 at least on the base. I can get a little 0:43:53.680 --> 0:43:57.759 funky moving, I can dance. But the rhythm guitar, you know, 0:43:57.920 --> 0:44:02.360 that's probably the most importan didn't yet thankless position. I 0:44:02.480 --> 0:44:04.960 love playing rhythm guitar. And that's why I say that, 0:44:05.200 --> 0:44:07.000 because you must not need to be thanked. You must 0:44:07.000 --> 0:44:09.360 have been loved a lot as a kid. That's what 0:44:09.520 --> 0:44:12.560 we all and again, that's that's why I'm coming back to. 0:44:12.680 --> 0:44:15.040 He doesn't need that extra attention, doesn't need to be 0:44:15.080 --> 0:44:18.280 the lead singer, doesn't need to like you're good, you're healthy. 0:44:18.320 --> 0:44:20.600 It's your heart's healthy. I will say, though. He does 0:44:20.680 --> 0:44:23.920 play the mandolin, and it is like the signature of 0:44:24.920 --> 0:44:28.160 our sound. Everybody, you know, everybody knows that we're not 0:44:28.239 --> 0:44:30.799 a band that has drums, electric guitar and bass. They 0:44:30.880 --> 0:44:33.000 know that we have mandolins and bantos, which he also 0:44:33.120 --> 0:44:36.960 plays and all that cool stuff. You, on the other hand, 0:44:37.480 --> 0:44:40.880 with your muscles and your lead singer, is that what 0:44:41.000 --> 0:44:45.000 happened there? Huh? They just swelled up on me. I'm 0:44:45.040 --> 0:44:49.000 talking about that. I mean, you're in the front. What 0:44:49.160 --> 0:44:53.000 what do you say? Type A? Is that like leader? Leader? 0:44:53.080 --> 0:44:56.759 It's like I am here, like look at me? I 0:44:56.840 --> 0:44:59.400 got something to say, I'm gonna lead this thing. I 0:44:59.440 --> 0:45:02.600 would definitely only be um. That's what's been so healthy 0:45:02.719 --> 0:45:04.840 for me about having kids. It's because I definitely was 0:45:04.920 --> 0:45:09.680 always like and am very much the leader and in charge. 0:45:09.800 --> 0:45:13.680 And even now, if we finish the show, I call 0:45:13.880 --> 0:45:16.719 home thinking some for some reason, I still think like 0:45:16.840 --> 0:45:19.759 I will call home and say, how this conversation is 0:45:19.800 --> 0:45:21.440 going to go. And I'm on speaker phone with my 0:45:21.520 --> 0:45:24.040 wife and both kids and hey, guys, here's what happened today. 0:45:24.080 --> 0:45:27.640 And it's been an amazing transformation. How it's like never 0:45:27.800 --> 0:45:31.040 about me at all, and it's just me listening to 0:45:31.160 --> 0:45:34.600 them telling me how cool they are. That's been very healthy, 0:45:35.000 --> 0:45:37.520 like amazing. Do your family, I think you think you're 0:45:37.560 --> 0:45:44.080 cooler now? My kids, no, no. I we begged them 0:45:44.120 --> 0:45:45.879 to come to the rhyme and the other day because 0:45:45.960 --> 0:45:48.000 we were playing it and we were so pumped to 0:45:48.040 --> 0:45:50.000 be playing it again. And my wife's like, hey, kids, 0:45:50.040 --> 0:45:53.200 we can go for a cool dinner downtown see daddy play. 0:45:53.320 --> 0:45:55.000 And I kid, you know, my nine year old said, 0:45:55.520 --> 0:45:57.920 could we just order in some Mexican listen to the 0:45:58.000 --> 0:46:01.480 CD that I said, Drew, you don't need to listen 0:46:01.560 --> 0:46:03.719 to the CD. You could just stay at home and 0:46:03.760 --> 0:46:05.960 have fun. So they stay at home and did not go. 0:46:06.280 --> 0:46:07.840 But at least he was giving you a bit like 0:46:07.920 --> 0:46:11.319 he was still gonna listen to you, like, don't don't 0:46:11.360 --> 0:46:13.600 be lost on that all sympathy. Yeah, he was still 0:46:13.640 --> 0:46:16.279 throwing your bone there. He's still going, you know, at love, like, 0:46:16.360 --> 0:46:17.840 we'll still listen to you. We just don't want to 0:46:18.080 --> 0:46:21.120 take the eight hour trip into town. Yeah, yeah, the 0:46:21.200 --> 0:46:24.360 thirty five minutes. Yeah, it's kind of crazy. But we 0:46:24.520 --> 0:46:27.759 did get on Madden on the video game. You're playing 0:46:27.800 --> 0:46:30.680 the game. Yeah, And um so now my kids here 0:46:30.880 --> 0:46:33.360 High Valley while playing mad and oh you mean you 0:46:33.440 --> 0:46:36.040 guys are on the game. Yeah. Yeah, So they think 0:46:36.120 --> 0:46:38.680 that's cool, and their friends think that's cool. And now 0:46:38.760 --> 0:46:40.560 if I go to football practice, there will be more 0:46:40.680 --> 0:46:43.440 kids that think it's cool. That is pretty cool. I 0:46:43.520 --> 0:46:45.040 think it's cool, Like you're cooler than me right now 0:46:45.040 --> 0:46:48.160 because they're not mad at look at that. So what's 0:46:48.160 --> 0:46:49.440 happening right now with you guys? Are you guys that 0:46:49.760 --> 0:46:52.160 pick new songs? Is that where we are? We're picking 0:46:52.280 --> 0:46:55.879 songs all the time right now, we're listening to listen 0:46:55.920 --> 0:46:58.600 all all of Brad's hits and uh, oh you get 0:46:58.680 --> 0:47:00.600 a pick. Soel what if you what if it's coming 0:47:00.640 --> 0:47:02.040 to you right cards And it's like, what do you 0:47:02.080 --> 0:47:04.640 think about this song that I wrote your big brother 0:47:04.680 --> 0:47:08.600 Brad or the song that some mother dude wrote? Do 0:47:08.680 --> 0:47:12.120 you know? I mean, I honestly, I just listened to 0:47:12.200 --> 0:47:15.840 the songs and and uh, I mean, as you know, 0:47:16.680 --> 0:47:19.879 even just based on the last thirty minutes, we come 0:47:19.960 --> 0:47:25.560 from a very unusual place, um, geographically, and and even 0:47:25.800 --> 0:47:29.279 just the way we we grew up. You know, we 0:47:29.400 --> 0:47:33.600 think about songs. Yeah, so Brad understands that better than 0:47:33.640 --> 0:47:38.800 any songwriter in Nashville and in the world. And so 0:47:38.920 --> 0:47:42.720 we're looking for specific ideas and messages in our songs 0:47:42.880 --> 0:47:45.520 and even topics that we avoid because they just are 0:47:45.640 --> 0:47:50.759 not relevant to us. Um. And it's hard for any 0:47:50.840 --> 0:47:53.160 other songwriters to identify with that and actually hit the 0:47:53.280 --> 0:47:55.400 nail on the head. So I mean, I I listened 0:47:55.400 --> 0:47:58.120 to I listened to all the songs. You know, I 0:47:58.600 --> 0:48:02.560 like the outside songs more. I would say, then, curtis 0:48:02.960 --> 0:48:04.520 what you would think would be the opposite, And I'd 0:48:04.560 --> 0:48:06.279 be like, I only like my own songs. But I'm 0:48:06.280 --> 0:48:09.759 not stupid. Obviously, Nashville has amazing songwriters, and I'm gonna 0:48:09.800 --> 0:48:14.520 love I love Tom Douglas, and I love Ashley Goreley, 0:48:14.560 --> 0:48:16.600 and I love a lot of these amazing John Knight, 0:48:16.680 --> 0:48:21.200 I love their songs. But he's right, it's it's tough 0:48:21.880 --> 0:48:23.960 when people find out what we're about. Like right now, 0:48:24.040 --> 0:48:26.480 on the pitch sheet that every songwriter gets in this town, 0:48:26.560 --> 0:48:29.680 it says High Valley looking for singles, Faith, Family, and Farming. 0:48:30.440 --> 0:48:32.440 And you'd be shocked at the amount of like songs 0:48:32.440 --> 0:48:34.920 about a guy reading a Bible while riding a tractor 0:48:35.000 --> 0:48:39.160 down the field. You know, it's like just pretty recipe. Faith, 0:48:39.200 --> 0:48:41.920 Family and farming is a perfect recipe for just cheeseball 0:48:42.040 --> 0:48:47.600 material um and uh, I mean those are our ingredients, 0:48:47.719 --> 0:48:51.319 but we just avoid cheeseball like the plague. So um. 0:48:51.520 --> 0:48:52.759 It's kind of like if you knew how to make 0:48:52.800 --> 0:48:55.400 brownies and other people said, oh, there's sugar and flour 0:48:55.520 --> 0:48:58.360 and eggs in there and co don't forget Yeah, and 0:48:58.560 --> 0:49:01.360 it just was wrong. So I'm not saying we won't 0:49:01.400 --> 0:49:04.000 find and we have and we will. Yeah, we have 0:49:04.160 --> 0:49:07.560 cut some some great outside songs, but it's the amount 0:49:07.600 --> 0:49:09.960 of weird stuff we weed through to hear them is 0:49:10.400 --> 0:49:14.239 is a pretty bad percentage. So the order of your song, well, 0:49:14.280 --> 0:49:16.200 She's with Me the last single, Yeah, make your mind 0:49:16.280 --> 0:49:17.920 us first, Okay, so make your mind She's when we 0:49:17.960 --> 0:49:20.240 play some chess with me. So we played this earlier. 0:49:21.520 --> 0:49:24.200 From when this song finishes, it's running the topch in 0:49:25.480 --> 0:49:28.400 tow now it's got to feel like an eternity, like 0:49:28.600 --> 0:49:30.560 you come off your highest song ever. Now you just 0:49:30.640 --> 0:49:33.880 gotta sit for a minute. I don't know. It actually 0:49:33.960 --> 0:49:37.480 doesn't feel that way because, um, we were just when 0:49:37.600 --> 0:49:39.600 was our last show in Chicago, like two weeks ago, 0:49:39.920 --> 0:49:41.800 like like shake, do you guys play that? No? This 0:49:42.040 --> 0:49:45.400 was a at Joe's the week we were there. They 0:49:45.560 --> 0:49:49.160 still played it seventy five times that week. So it's 0:49:49.200 --> 0:49:51.839 just like kind of still it still feels like it's 0:49:51.960 --> 0:49:55.839 building momentum even though it's not. I know, on the chart, 0:49:55.880 --> 0:49:58.080 once you've gone down for three weeks, you're you're off. 0:49:58.680 --> 0:50:02.200 But in reality, like the ends of it is still tons. 0:50:02.760 --> 0:50:04.879 Well that's cool then, so it's kind of like it's 0:50:05.000 --> 0:50:07.440 living a second life right now. Do you guys tell 0:50:07.440 --> 0:50:10.680 each other you love each other? Yeah? Yeah, usually like 0:50:10.800 --> 0:50:13.320 every day on the phone, but yes, but but you 0:50:13.400 --> 0:50:14.920 guys have a good relationship where it's like, hey man, 0:50:15.280 --> 0:50:17.279 you know usually we tell each other we love each 0:50:17.280 --> 0:50:22.400 other after we fight. Yeah, that's true. Which there's you know, 0:50:22.520 --> 0:50:25.720 there's I feel like in my mind and my my body, 0:50:25.880 --> 0:50:28.239 my soul that there's this meter, right and you go 0:50:28.360 --> 0:50:31.040 as high as you go low like if if if 0:50:31.080 --> 0:50:34.560 you're on this like at thermometer scale, if the middle 0:50:34.640 --> 0:50:37.239 line of zero, and you you can go up to 0:50:37.320 --> 0:50:39.200 a three on top, that means you also go down 0:50:39.200 --> 0:50:42.160 to the three on the bottom negative three. And so 0:50:42.600 --> 0:50:44.840 I as hard as you love is as hard as 0:50:44.880 --> 0:50:47.880 you fight as and so for me, I have trouble 0:50:48.200 --> 0:50:50.400 really spreading that scale, like I don't I don't have 0:50:50.480 --> 0:50:51.920 a lot of happiness, but I don't have a lot 0:50:51.960 --> 0:50:53.719 of sadness. And I've been spending the last few years 0:50:53.760 --> 0:50:58.040 really trying to figure myself out. And it's okay to 0:50:58.120 --> 0:50:59.800 let the walls down and be a little hurt, but 0:51:00.080 --> 0:51:02.879 that's what happens is you get to experience all that joy. Yeah, 0:51:03.040 --> 0:51:04.560 for me, I've been chasing that, And I wonder with 0:51:04.680 --> 0:51:07.440 YouTube if you do love each other so much, dude, 0:51:07.480 --> 0:51:10.799 the fights get you know, pretty brotherly, like come on, dude, 0:51:10.840 --> 0:51:15.040 like it. I'd say, they used to be way more 0:51:16.719 --> 0:51:21.040 extreme then. Now would you agree? Oh? Yeah, you getting 0:51:21.040 --> 0:51:26.640 older or you're just learning each other better. Probably both. Also, 0:51:26.800 --> 0:51:29.880 I know I used to feel so much pressure that 0:51:29.960 --> 0:51:32.920 I don't feel anymore. But I used to feel like 0:51:33.800 --> 0:51:39.480 the type a leader provide for everybody thing, but correct 0:51:39.520 --> 0:51:42.040 me if I'm wrong. Wrong, But you would feel like 0:51:43.120 --> 0:51:46.160 it was your responsibility for you know, me to be 0:51:46.280 --> 0:51:49.239 able to provide for my family, because especially you know, 0:51:49.400 --> 0:51:51.319 like right in the beginning when I got married then 0:51:52.320 --> 0:51:54.040 or or even when it wasn't married, it was still 0:51:54.080 --> 0:51:57.439 your responsibility to make sure that I was getting paychecks. Yeah, 0:51:58.239 --> 0:52:02.880 Like my wife and I had done good in businesses 0:52:03.040 --> 0:52:05.680 stuff before we went full time, and we've been full 0:52:05.719 --> 0:52:09.239 time for eleven and a half, Yeah, eleven and a 0:52:09.239 --> 0:52:11.719 half years since we quit our jobs to do only this. 0:52:12.760 --> 0:52:15.239 So the first year we did, UM, we took a 0:52:15.360 --> 0:52:19.800 nine and pay cut, and then UM. A couple of 0:52:19.880 --> 0:52:22.920 years later, I was like, some of the houses we 0:52:23.000 --> 0:52:25.160 had bought, I was like selling them and using that 0:52:25.239 --> 0:52:27.560 money to pay Curtis and my other brother who were 0:52:27.600 --> 0:52:30.000 in the band at the time, and my wife. I 0:52:30.200 --> 0:52:31.480 was just going further and further in debt, and I 0:52:31.520 --> 0:52:34.320 would feel like tons of stress and it wouldn't be 0:52:34.440 --> 0:52:37.120 like I told Curtis that every day, but our fights 0:52:37.200 --> 0:52:40.759 would be more about like, let's work harder and all 0:52:40.800 --> 0:52:42.680 that kind of stuff. And in my mind, it's so 0:52:42.840 --> 0:52:46.200 that I can get this back to and even keel, 0:52:46.640 --> 0:52:48.759 And in his mind it's like, why can't this be 0:52:48.880 --> 0:52:52.120 more fun? Why is this such a stressful thing? Whereas 0:52:52.360 --> 0:52:54.600 that seems like an eternity ago because now it's been 0:52:55.280 --> 0:52:58.120 so good for so many years. But that was that's 0:52:58.160 --> 0:53:00.120 why I wrote Cheese with Me, because my wife was 0:53:00.200 --> 0:53:02.920 there through all of that. The song says, when when 0:53:02.960 --> 0:53:04.759 my dreams were running out of road, like she was 0:53:04.800 --> 0:53:08.680 there and they were straight up running out of road, 0:53:08.760 --> 0:53:11.360 like there was nothing left. But now she's there for 0:53:11.640 --> 0:53:13.920 you know, walking the red carpets and all that kind 0:53:13.920 --> 0:53:16.040 of stuff. And I wanted people to know when they 0:53:16.120 --> 0:53:19.160 listened to the song that she's not just a pretty 0:53:19.200 --> 0:53:21.600 face that showed up because we were on the radio. 0:53:21.719 --> 0:53:28.280 She was there and yeah, exactly when my Adam's apple 0:53:28.360 --> 0:53:30.840 was bigger than my face, Man, I look at that. 0:53:31.760 --> 0:53:34.360 That's good stuff right there. Yeah, I forgot you had 0:53:34.400 --> 0:53:36.440 a third member. That was pretty that's pretty me coming 0:53:36.480 --> 0:53:38.880 to town when you guys had that the other brother, 0:53:39.000 --> 0:53:41.799 because I would see pictures, I think even an album covered. 0:53:41.840 --> 0:53:44.719 He have blonder hair. Yeah, yeah, short blond hair. So 0:53:44.840 --> 0:53:48.840 what happened to him? Nothing happened to him. Brad and 0:53:48.920 --> 0:53:51.400 I moved to Nashville and he did not. Oh so 0:53:51.560 --> 0:53:53.719 he was never here. Now he wanted to stay, well, 0:53:53.760 --> 0:53:56.239 he was. That was a problem is he he would 0:53:56.280 --> 0:53:58.560 have to come here for stuff, and you know, like 0:53:58.760 --> 0:54:02.200 let's say this today, Brian would have had to drive 0:54:02.280 --> 0:54:05.680 five miles one day, Steve stay in nine, didn't fly 0:54:05.840 --> 0:54:07.879 the next day, and then probably the third day would 0:54:07.880 --> 0:54:10.920 be today hanging out with you. Tomorrow he'd fly home 0:54:11.000 --> 0:54:13.520 the day after drive home. So it's like a five 0:54:13.600 --> 0:54:15.680 day commitment to hang out with you for an hour. 0:54:15.760 --> 0:54:17.560 Whereas we can be there and we did stuff like that. 0:54:17.840 --> 0:54:22.200 There would be gigs or events or whatever we're Brian 0:54:22.280 --> 0:54:24.000 would come all the way down from our hometown. And 0:54:24.280 --> 0:54:26.400 I even did that for a period of time before 0:54:26.680 --> 0:54:29.480 I moved here. I wanted to get married first, then 0:54:29.520 --> 0:54:32.120 I wanted to move here. So I did that for 0:54:32.160 --> 0:54:34.880 a little while, and it's it sucks like it just 0:54:34.960 --> 0:54:37.319 sucks the life out of you when you gotta spend 0:54:37.440 --> 0:54:42.239 that much time traveling for anything, awkward conversation when it goes, hey, 0:54:42.400 --> 0:54:45.080 it's not gonna work. Like he's like did he come 0:54:45.120 --> 0:54:46.840 to you? Guys? Or you guys like, man, are you tired? 0:54:46.920 --> 0:54:49.160 Like what? What? How did that? It's your brother, not 0:54:49.239 --> 0:54:53.200 just a band made as your mode dynamic? I mean 0:54:53.480 --> 0:54:58.200 something like that is never just comfortable and feels good 0:54:58.360 --> 0:55:01.560 at all, um, because we've been doing it forever since 0:55:01.680 --> 0:55:05.920 we were like Brian was doing high valleys since he 0:55:06.080 --> 0:55:09.760 was what nine nine? Where's he on the list of age? 0:55:10.360 --> 0:55:12.680 He's right between so he's between you two. Yeah, he'd 0:55:12.719 --> 0:55:15.239 be the fifth in the family. So what's he doing now? 0:55:16.239 --> 0:55:18.920 He is? Uh, he's an I T guy. He's like 0:55:19.040 --> 0:55:24.400 a really smart computer person. He's the smartest of music too, 0:55:24.440 --> 0:55:27.840 by the way. Smart. So he's he's an I T 0:55:28.000 --> 0:55:34.080 guy at a huge road construction company in but the 0:55:34.160 --> 0:55:37.759 company is represented all over Alberta, which is like the 0:55:37.880 --> 0:55:41.120 Texas of Canada a lot of oil. Huh isn't that right? 0:55:41.120 --> 0:55:43.840 Because friends that will go that's what they'll do, they 0:55:43.920 --> 0:55:45.400 will go. I don't know if you're familiar with b 0:55:45.440 --> 0:55:46.799 it's the day to Canadian, right, So I know all 0:55:46.920 --> 0:55:50.279 the all the yeah, all the Canada, And so I 0:55:50.320 --> 0:55:51.759 think that's why I know a bit about you guys too, 0:55:51.760 --> 0:55:53.120 because I'd be like, Hey, what's up with these guys 0:55:53.160 --> 0:55:55.440 And she's like, oh, they're really good dudes. That she 0:55:55.640 --> 0:55:57.960 also said, man, they've changed. I guess you guys got 0:55:58.040 --> 0:55:59.560 real good You disappared and think got real good looking 0:55:59.560 --> 0:56:02.160 and came back. That would you say that's accurate? No, 0:56:03.520 --> 0:56:07.480 I've never heard that. That's amazing. Yeah. Well, they're like, 0:56:07.800 --> 0:56:09.960 I'm not sure to say thank you or be offended 0:56:10.000 --> 0:56:12.759 that we were ugly before this magical disappearance. You can't 0:56:12.800 --> 0:56:14.399 do that because I used to do that too. People 0:56:14.440 --> 0:56:16.960 be like, oh, like what do they call like your come? 0:56:17.040 --> 0:56:19.320 What do they say you glam? What is it? A 0:56:19.400 --> 0:56:21.120 glow up? Like I'll look at the glow up. I'm like, 0:56:21.120 --> 0:56:22.600 what do you mean? He used to be ugly? You 0:56:22.640 --> 0:56:24.520 can't look at it that way. You just got look 0:56:24.520 --> 0:56:27.120 at the positive products. But people would say, yeah, hi, Valley, 0:56:27.120 --> 0:56:28.719 they've been around for a long time, been trying to 0:56:28.760 --> 0:56:30.680 make it now. Is you guys a story? While I 0:56:30.719 --> 0:56:32.920 was drawn to you guys at first because it seems 0:56:32.960 --> 0:56:34.719 like you guys are real grinders, like you spent a 0:56:34.800 --> 0:56:37.759 lot of time in town. That would be an understatement, 0:56:37.800 --> 0:56:41.799 getting told a lot of nose Oh big time. Yeah. 0:56:41.840 --> 0:56:43.960 I mean we we got offered our first record deal 0:56:44.000 --> 0:56:45.880 in this town that we could not accept because we 0:56:45.960 --> 0:56:51.160 had just signed a different one in oh eight oh nine. 0:56:52.960 --> 0:56:56.960 Com Universal Universal offered us to development deal and O 0:56:57.080 --> 0:56:58.800 nine and you couldn't take it because we had just 0:56:58.840 --> 0:57:02.480 signed an independent record deal with a company called Centric 0:57:02.480 --> 0:57:05.000 City and Franklin, which is a great company. They're great 0:57:05.040 --> 0:57:08.440 to us. But obviously to get on country radio in 0:57:08.520 --> 0:57:11.320 O nine would have been a lot sooner than you know, 0:57:11.520 --> 0:57:14.399 last year. Did you get out of that doo ah, yeah, 0:57:14.560 --> 0:57:17.920 just right when making mind happen really yeah, pre or 0:57:18.000 --> 0:57:19.960 post just pre We got out of it and got 0:57:20.040 --> 0:57:24.840 signed right after. But they're like, oh, come on, I 0:57:24.920 --> 0:57:27.040 can ask him. I guess yeah, you can ask him. 0:57:27.840 --> 0:57:31.120 Let's bring him in there here waiting outside. So when 0:57:31.120 --> 0:57:33.760 you get signed with Warner Brothers, Uh, that's gonna be 0:57:33.800 --> 0:57:36.600 a cool thing, right like there, that's legitimate. Yeah, that was, 0:57:36.880 --> 0:57:40.440 I mean, that's that was a huge moment for us. 0:57:40.480 --> 0:57:43.040 I mean, and still is. We've been with Warner now 0:57:43.160 --> 0:57:45.400 for what two and a half years, A couple of 0:57:45.440 --> 0:57:47.240 years and as quick at two and a half years 0:57:47.240 --> 0:57:50.360 in my life, but um yeah, I mean that's when, 0:57:50.720 --> 0:57:53.800 that's when the ball just started to roll. I mean, 0:57:54.560 --> 0:57:58.840 Make your Mind hit radio and uh I remember I 0:57:58.960 --> 0:58:02.960 remember playing that in Boston and uh there was like 0:58:03.040 --> 0:58:04.760 those rails right in front of the stage and people 0:58:04.840 --> 0:58:07.439 were packed against the stage in the room was full, 0:58:08.280 --> 0:58:10.040 and uh I was making my Mind was the last 0:58:10.080 --> 0:58:14.160 song and then they just screamed the lyrics as loud 0:58:14.200 --> 0:58:17.600 as they could, and uh, my mind was just blown. 0:58:17.680 --> 0:58:20.000 That was like the moment. Then we went to Orlando 0:58:20.360 --> 0:58:22.480 and it was just happening. It was just acoustic and 0:58:22.560 --> 0:58:24.000 it happened kind of like the way it does in 0:58:24.080 --> 0:58:28.800 the movies, like the that thing you do. Yeah, yeah, 0:58:28.880 --> 0:58:30.840 it's kind of like what is going on? And that's 0:58:30.840 --> 0:58:32.720 when we got a video of it and sent it 0:58:32.800 --> 0:58:35.480 to ESPO at the label, and pretty soon they were 0:58:35.520 --> 0:58:38.560 sharing it with everybody and people say like, yeah, things 0:58:38.600 --> 0:58:40.440 have taken a while for you guys, but for us, 0:58:40.520 --> 0:58:43.240 it just felt like fast. But maybe because we had 0:58:43.320 --> 0:58:46.240 those first twenty years of super slow and we were 0:58:46.360 --> 0:58:49.720 just so ugly. Yeah, that's what I heard. Holding you back. 0:58:49.960 --> 0:58:53.160 What's the difference in not having a record label and 0:58:53.200 --> 0:58:57.640 then getting a record label? Um, I mean especially here 0:58:57.640 --> 0:58:59.800 because we've had all kinds of like little record labels. 0:58:59.840 --> 0:59:03.160 But from that to be with warners just like, well, 0:59:03.200 --> 0:59:04.960 the first thing that is put us on the world's 0:59:05.000 --> 0:59:07.600 most beautiful bus and sent us around the country made 0:59:07.680 --> 0:59:10.800 us feel real good, like real fancy, like like do 0:59:10.960 --> 0:59:14.080 radio tour, having the bus around. Like before having a 0:59:14.120 --> 0:59:16.200 big record deal, i'd eight, you know, two or three 0:59:16.320 --> 0:59:19.440 times at these really expensive restaurants. Now we've ate two 0:59:19.560 --> 0:59:21.240 or three hundred times, and you know what I mean, 0:59:21.320 --> 0:59:23.360 it's like you get We went to a restaurant in 0:59:23.640 --> 0:59:26.720 Denver together. Yeah, and that was no cheap, didn't. I 0:59:26.760 --> 0:59:29.520 mean I wasn't paying pin either, don't I was pulling 0:59:29.520 --> 0:59:31.520 out my credit card either, But that was do the 0:59:31.600 --> 0:59:34.320 slow pool where you can't find your wall in time. Listen. Yeah, 0:59:34.880 --> 0:59:37.040 I'm not spending that kind of money on a work 0:59:37.120 --> 0:59:41.439 deal that's a hundred meal like and and we don't drink. 0:59:41.520 --> 0:59:44.479 Imagine if we did like that, that's where the money 0:59:44.600 --> 0:59:46.880 really goes up. We see those bills after, like those 0:59:46.920 --> 0:59:50.280 fancy dinners. It's not. I remember like calling my wife 0:59:50.520 --> 0:59:53.800 whenever I knew how much how many dollars, I just 0:59:54.080 --> 0:59:57.520 ate and like tell her and it would just like 0:59:57.640 --> 1:00:00.880 blow both our minds. And since signed with the label, 1:00:00.920 --> 1:00:04.760 it happens so much like meals getting put on cards 1:00:04.840 --> 1:00:07.280 and and it's not even about you guys, it's about 1:00:08.320 --> 1:00:12.000 the people that you're trying to impress, like the station 1:00:12.120 --> 1:00:17.000 managers or that's who you're eating the big meals for. Yeah, 1:00:17.200 --> 1:00:19.120 if it's up to us, we're going to barbecue join 1:00:19.200 --> 1:00:23.840 having My standard is definitely no more than one fork 1:00:23.920 --> 1:00:27.120 at the table, and if it's plastic, that's usually better. 1:00:27.800 --> 1:00:30.400 At our wedding, for our wedding dinner, for my example 1:00:30.480 --> 1:00:33.880 of what I would you know do, we had pizza 1:00:34.080 --> 1:00:38.720 and caesar salad and barbecue chicken wings. So this whole 1:00:38.840 --> 1:00:41.640 like being fancy all day, I find it hilarious. Even 1:00:41.680 --> 1:00:43.040 going to the a c MS or c M as 1:00:43.080 --> 1:00:45.280 it's awesome. But we're all people that hang out with 1:00:45.360 --> 1:00:47.560 each other every day. But now we're all wearing these 1:00:47.640 --> 1:00:52.080 like suits that are pretty uncomfortable, and we're trying to 1:00:52.200 --> 1:00:54.000 stand the right way and have our colors the right way, 1:00:54.040 --> 1:00:55.960 and the girls are in these dresses that as much 1:00:56.000 --> 1:00:58.200 just kill them to be in, and then when it's over, 1:00:58.280 --> 1:01:01.000 everybody just goes back to normal life. It it's like, 1:01:01.120 --> 1:01:03.280 if we all decided to not try to impress each other, 1:01:03.360 --> 1:01:06.080 we could just hang out and like shorts and T 1:01:06.200 --> 1:01:08.880 shirts and by brother swimpool all that money that you 1:01:08.920 --> 1:01:11.640 know that was exactly look at this. I feel like 1:01:11.640 --> 1:01:13.760 I've learned so much. I feel like as humans we've 1:01:13.800 --> 1:01:17.000 grown together this last hour, so much growth. Man, and 1:01:17.600 --> 1:01:19.200 not of that. Credis hasn't been smart with me the 1:01:19.240 --> 1:01:21.400 whole time, because you come into the show man, you 1:01:21.480 --> 1:01:24.480 just I'm like, I've only got a few seconds. I'm like, 1:01:24.600 --> 1:01:29.360 come on, man. Comet's trying to think about the most 1:01:29.440 --> 1:01:33.440 expensive thing on the menu in Lacreds. I'm guessing it 1:01:33.440 --> 1:01:35.800 would be a las agna. I think it's ribs at 1:01:35.800 --> 1:01:38.640 the Country Drill. Oh yeah, that's probably sixteen bucks. No, 1:01:38.800 --> 1:01:41.600 it might be twenty five by now, Yeah, that'd be 1:01:41.600 --> 1:01:46.040 a buffet though. It's you guys, take a cow part completely. 1:01:46.080 --> 1:01:48.400 If you need to a cow, yeah, can you kill it? 1:01:49.280 --> 1:01:53.439 You know what? I um, I don't do very good 1:01:53.560 --> 1:02:00.160 with uh warm dead animals like I can still but 1:02:00.320 --> 1:02:04.000 believe and it happened in a while, completely dress a deer, 1:02:04.680 --> 1:02:10.360 real serious from Arkansas. Not anymore. Used to because it's 1:02:10.400 --> 1:02:12.920 what everyone did in my town. Okay, everybody did in 1:02:13.000 --> 1:02:15.320 our town. But our family was the one exception. We 1:02:15.440 --> 1:02:17.360 were the family that did not hunt. Our dad was 1:02:17.440 --> 1:02:20.200 not into it. We didn't get into it really. He shot. 1:02:20.360 --> 1:02:21.640 I don't know if we're allowed to say this, are 1:02:21.720 --> 1:02:24.880 we to black bear? But that was that was out 1:02:24.880 --> 1:02:28.600 of defense. They were on our yard and like we 1:02:28.680 --> 1:02:30.760 were kids running around. He didn't want one was on 1:02:30.800 --> 1:02:33.520 our basketball court and the other was like right straight 1:02:33.600 --> 1:02:36.360 up in our yard. I think you say that self 1:02:36.360 --> 1:02:40.720 defense human if it's self defensially, whatever you need, but 1:02:40.880 --> 1:02:43.520 never go on hunting. Never. Where I grew up, I 1:02:43.640 --> 1:02:45.440 hunted a lot. One. I didn't have a dad for 1:02:45.560 --> 1:02:47.040 most of my life. On my stepdad came in. He 1:02:47.040 --> 1:02:48.600 was big into hunting cause I was trying to find 1:02:48.840 --> 1:02:51.920 anything for us to bond over. And so even I 1:02:51.960 --> 1:02:54.000 don't like killing animals, I'm an animal guy. I don't 1:02:54.040 --> 1:02:56.600 hunt anymore. But we used to also kill a lot 1:02:56.640 --> 1:02:59.080 of animals illegally, dear, because we had to eat, and 1:02:59.160 --> 1:03:00.840 that's how we ate a lot of food. So we 1:03:00.920 --> 1:03:04.560 had to not only shoot, kill, move, you know, dragging 1:03:04.560 --> 1:03:06.320 the deer spout the four wheeler, but we had to 1:03:06.720 --> 1:03:08.720 take it down quick, dress it quickly, and get rid 1:03:08.720 --> 1:03:11.880 of it. So because you want to get caught right, 1:03:12.360 --> 1:03:14.360 so you pulled in. We had certain garages we'd go 1:03:14.400 --> 1:03:18.880 in to back it in, hang it up, because not 1:03:19.120 --> 1:03:20.760 just because we wanted to do it, because we had 1:03:20.840 --> 1:03:23.520 to eat, and because we needed to do it fast. 1:03:23.640 --> 1:03:25.720 We wouldn't get because we didn't tag them all, you know. 1:03:26.160 --> 1:03:27.920 You know that is like tagging in there you only 1:03:27.920 --> 1:03:30.840 get certain amount like three, and you only get certain 1:03:30.840 --> 1:03:32.960 amount of dough and says the whole thing. But I 1:03:33.040 --> 1:03:34.800 could probably still do it. I can flay a fish 1:03:34.840 --> 1:03:38.800 probably still too. I do love the idea of killing 1:03:38.840 --> 1:03:42.560 and eating an animal, like like finding your own food 1:03:42.640 --> 1:03:45.160 in that way, I think that's it's an amazing concept, 1:03:45.360 --> 1:03:46.840 and I've been able to be a part of that 1:03:46.960 --> 1:03:53.040 a couple of times, but like actually butchering, it's hard 1:03:53.160 --> 1:03:55.560 for me. Do you guys read do you are you book? Guys? Are? 1:03:56.360 --> 1:04:00.680 Have you read Sapiens? So it's about and it's about 1:04:00.680 --> 1:04:04.640 the history of mankind and how we moved around and 1:04:04.720 --> 1:04:07.040 the things that we did, and when man started walking 1:04:07.160 --> 1:04:09.360 tall and wise so we could see more in his prey. 1:04:10.040 --> 1:04:11.720 That's why the first man stood up so he could 1:04:11.720 --> 1:04:14.880 see farther. It's pretty fascinating when you talk about this 1:04:15.000 --> 1:04:18.680 and it's you know what, it talks about these cultures that, um, 1:04:19.160 --> 1:04:21.760 you know, they just moved around. There really wasn't a home, 1:04:22.520 --> 1:04:25.240 migrated place. Yeah, it's very nomadic all of it. What 1:04:25.320 --> 1:04:28.120 but anyway, that's a whole, other, whole other podcast. I'm 1:04:28.120 --> 1:04:30.360 pretty much like for being a country boy, I am. 1:04:31.040 --> 1:04:34.200 We're so country. We literally are from the middle of nowhere. 1:04:34.320 --> 1:04:36.640 But for whatever is and I'm pretty whoosy when it 1:04:36.680 --> 1:04:40.040 comes to that kind of like manly man uh hunting. 1:04:40.120 --> 1:04:43.360 You look the part though, man with the muscles your 1:04:43.920 --> 1:04:49.000 chin did along, he did. Well. Listen, you guys are 1:04:49.160 --> 1:04:52.880 definitely you're definitely country. Like the only thing not that 1:04:52.960 --> 1:04:56.320 country about you would be probably brad hair do. Yeah, 1:04:56.560 --> 1:05:01.160 pretty pretty fancy, I mean fancy here, a little gel 1:05:01.240 --> 1:05:06.040 in there. Yeah, Okay, so it's just large. It's just 1:05:06.200 --> 1:05:09.320 large from the day, whatever it takes, it's all organic. Well, listen, 1:05:09.360 --> 1:05:10.640 I'm looking forward to here on what you guys have 1:05:10.720 --> 1:05:12.400 to do next. You know, I'm fans of you guys. 1:05:12.520 --> 1:05:14.479 You guys actually fund to be around. Are you gonna 1:05:14.480 --> 1:05:17.680 be on the on like any tour dates anytime soon? 1:05:17.880 --> 1:05:20.040 Are you on the road? I'm doing stand up the 1:05:20.120 --> 1:05:22.000 rest of the year, all the way until the end 1:05:22.040 --> 1:05:26.600 of December, mid December. Um, maybe our puzzle. We're doing 1:05:26.640 --> 1:05:29.000 the old dominion thing all the way until December. Are 1:05:29.960 --> 1:05:32.360 We don't end up in comedy clubs very often, but 1:05:32.440 --> 1:05:36.600 it could happen performing. I don't need a your theaters clubs. 1:05:36.800 --> 1:05:39.880 Come on, don't insult me. That's what I mean. That's 1:05:39.880 --> 1:05:43.200 what I said this interview. Just like the biggest clubs. 1:05:43.240 --> 1:05:45.680 You can imagine the biggest, coolest with the nicest people too. 1:05:45.760 --> 1:05:49.680 Oh yeah, it's funniest people. Don't insult me. Um, Curtis 1:05:49.760 --> 1:05:51.880 did say that we should wear red jogging suits to 1:05:51.960 --> 1:05:54.520 this interview. You know, let me say this about plant shows, 1:05:54.560 --> 1:05:57.760 by the way, not to digress from your mediocre joke. 1:05:57.920 --> 1:06:01.200 Um to and I just tell a joke. No, he 1:06:01.280 --> 1:06:04.760 did the red that was truth. He did that. It 1:06:04.880 --> 1:06:08.439 was his joke. I forget that we've played shows together. Yeah, 1:06:08.640 --> 1:06:11.439 and we've played Open Water Ship. That's right. You guys 1:06:11.480 --> 1:06:13.920 played right before us the most beautiful festival. You were 1:06:13.960 --> 1:06:16.560 wearing a red jumpsuit, right, yeah, I wear red and 1:06:16.680 --> 1:06:18.600 Eddieward's green. The rest of my band wars black. I 1:06:18.800 --> 1:06:21.600 read everything like that's that's my thing. It's like I 1:06:21.680 --> 1:06:24.440 wore black sneakers to fit in with your red hosh DoD. 1:06:24.520 --> 1:06:27.400 That's so cool. Thanks. I wore flip flops today, is that? Okay? 1:06:27.520 --> 1:06:29.520 Is the first interview I've ever done in flip flops. 1:06:30.480 --> 1:06:34.640 I'm not wearing pants, so garious, gonna be table. Oh man, 1:06:34.760 --> 1:06:36.840 it's just got real. But I think now you guys 1:06:36.880 --> 1:06:39.800 will probably you think you guys to play later than us. Now, No, 1:06:40.360 --> 1:06:44.160 it's such an awkward question, man, Well what time are 1:06:44.200 --> 1:06:45.960 we talking about? Well, we would if I'm done to 1:06:46.000 --> 1:06:47.960 my booking agent right now then yes, if I'm done 1:06:48.000 --> 1:06:49.640 to you, no, no, I mean we would play the 1:06:50.120 --> 1:06:52.800 five thirty or six pm spots on a festival, which 1:06:52.800 --> 1:06:54.480 is right when it's gonna do like a pretty good spot, 1:06:54.520 --> 1:06:56.680 like the third from the last. Yeah, you know, see, 1:06:56.840 --> 1:06:59.000 we'd probably play the exact same we'd probably play on 1:06:59.080 --> 1:07:01.600 different days because we're always third from the last. Right now, 1:07:02.160 --> 1:07:05.120 it's us then whoever's almost the headliner and then the headliner. 1:07:05.200 --> 1:07:07.920 Because for us it was us, then Old Dominion and 1:07:08.000 --> 1:07:11.360 then like Luke or someone like that. Yesterday was us, 1:07:11.480 --> 1:07:14.960 Chris Jansen, then Chris Young. So there you go. We 1:07:15.080 --> 1:07:16.720 never will buy me a boat, or else we would 1:07:16.720 --> 1:07:18.800 have been later. I wonder if they'd put us ahead 1:07:18.800 --> 1:07:21.800 of you or behind here. Probably what happens if the 1:07:21.880 --> 1:07:23.680 next summer and we'll find out what happens if you're 1:07:23.680 --> 1:07:25.960 agent calls and says, hey, y'all are on at four 1:07:26.040 --> 1:07:28.240 or fifteen hive valleys on. You're not doing any festivals 1:07:28.280 --> 1:07:30.920 this year. Raging idiots don't exist anymore. Yeah, I take 1:07:30.920 --> 1:07:33.880 that back. No, no, no, I'm wrong. We're playing too. 1:07:34.160 --> 1:07:37.000 We're playing the first one we ever played. We got 1:07:37.160 --> 1:07:39.000 booed off the stage. It was just Eddie and myself 1:07:39.080 --> 1:07:43.040 and this fight. It was then Shyenne Wyoming, a frontier game. 1:07:43.160 --> 1:07:47.560 Oh yeah yeah, And it was brutal. It was intense. 1:07:47.640 --> 1:07:49.160 We didn't know we were getting ourselves into. We had 1:07:49.240 --> 1:07:51.720 just started. We weren't even read jumpsuits yet, We're up there, 1:07:51.800 --> 1:07:53.600 just two dudes. It was like when you were still 1:07:53.680 --> 1:07:56.120 ugly too. Yes, I was super ugly right before I 1:07:56.120 --> 1:07:58.440 went to my glow up. I'm literally gonna call Lindsay 1:07:58.480 --> 1:08:00.360 after this and be like, so, what is this whole 1:08:00.480 --> 1:08:03.360 disappearing and getting pretty thing? I want to know about it. 1:08:03.520 --> 1:08:05.720 And I think she was just one of the mini 1:08:05.800 --> 1:08:07.400 voices that were like, oh, those dudes, they're they've been 1:08:07.400 --> 1:08:08.800 around for a while, but now they're like good looking 1:08:08.880 --> 1:08:12.439 and stuff. So maybe we wore too many like gap 1:08:12.560 --> 1:08:14.360 T shirts back in the day. That's probably what happened. 1:08:14.400 --> 1:08:16.680 What's awesome is Brad started working out a number of 1:08:16.800 --> 1:08:19.479 years ago and now people think we're the really fit 1:08:19.640 --> 1:08:25.280 band and I haven't changed anything, So I'm glad the frontman. 1:08:25.360 --> 1:08:28.160 Those sets the tone. Yeah, guilty by Association. Have you 1:08:28.200 --> 1:08:30.720 guys played China before? Yeah, we're playing it again. Coming 1:08:30.800 --> 1:08:35.679 up the Outlaw Saloon. It's smoking inside. Wow. Yeah, that's intense. 1:08:35.960 --> 1:08:38.120 D It's kind of like a little club. Yeah, yeah, 1:08:38.160 --> 1:08:39.680 I don't play we don't, you know, even the raging 1:08:39.680 --> 1:08:42.320 idiots when the little clubs, you know, we're playing. We're playing. Okay, 1:08:42.400 --> 1:08:44.519 get this, We're only doing two shows. We're playing the 1:08:44.520 --> 1:08:47.040 outdoor stage and I already a music festival heard of it. 1:08:47.200 --> 1:08:50.400 It's us in Dustin Lynch and like little Oozy, right, 1:08:50.840 --> 1:08:52.960 like a bunch of rappers who knows? And then um, 1:08:53.200 --> 1:08:55.479 we're playing Shin in Frontier Days, but we're playing the 1:08:55.560 --> 1:08:59.560 second from the last. Who's last? Well here's the thing, No, 1:09:00.320 --> 1:09:02.599 but it's it's really not going to be our crowd. 1:09:03.280 --> 1:09:05.920 So it's one I like Shyannel and our show is 1:09:06.000 --> 1:09:08.360 number one there. But if you're gonna come to Frontier 1:09:08.439 --> 1:09:11.880 Days to watch Toby Keith who's playing, there's main act. 1:09:12.720 --> 1:09:15.920 You're probably not a big raging idiots fan. By the way, 1:09:15.920 --> 1:09:17.880 they're probably a lot of raging idiots fans as in 1:09:18.000 --> 1:09:19.920 just fans. We have like three songs Chick fil A, 1:09:20.040 --> 1:09:23.600 But it's Sunday. We have Nomas Day. You know, we 1:09:23.640 --> 1:09:25.439 don't have a bunch of songs. We just do funny shows. 1:09:25.800 --> 1:09:28.439 But yeah, it's Toby Keith is the headliner. We play 1:09:28.479 --> 1:09:30.439 it before him and then ned La do plays So 1:09:30.520 --> 1:09:32.960 it's a cowboy night. Yeah, that's pretty cowboy. Are you 1:09:33.000 --> 1:09:35.000 gonna do your whole what they said you needed to 1:09:35.040 --> 1:09:37.360 do in Nashville? The belt, buckle and cowboy. We're wearing 1:09:37.360 --> 1:09:40.000 the jumpsuits. We stayed true who we are. That's good. 1:09:40.040 --> 1:09:42.360 We gotta be who you are man, And if you're 1:09:42.400 --> 1:09:45.800 authentic and you're good. That's the recipe. We're just not good. 1:09:46.320 --> 1:09:49.200 What was the other thing? Don't kill don't kill animals 1:09:49.280 --> 1:09:54.200 or kids? No, it's I think it was he Listen, 1:09:54.280 --> 1:09:56.200 we've spent an hour hour? How long we do? How 1:09:56.240 --> 1:09:59.160 long has been? That's a long time. That's a long time. 1:09:59.240 --> 1:10:02.680 What's typical? Not this long? Cool? Yeah, if you hit 1:10:02.760 --> 1:10:05.840 the hour mark, it's pretty solid. So you did an 1:10:05.840 --> 1:10:08.960 hour and ten lost track. Um, I'm looking forward to 1:10:09.000 --> 1:10:10.479 hearing what you guys to do next. I like you guys. 1:10:10.479 --> 1:10:13.200 You guys are fine, and you guys are I. I 1:10:13.280 --> 1:10:14.640 got to ask all the questions that I wanted to 1:10:14.720 --> 1:10:16.200 know in this so I feel like next time when 1:10:16.240 --> 1:10:17.360 you come on the show, already know a lot of 1:10:17.400 --> 1:10:19.040 the answers, so we don't have to spend ten minutes 1:10:19.080 --> 1:10:21.519 going We probably don't even have to show up. No, yeah, 1:10:21.520 --> 1:10:23.120 I'll just tell your story. But like, hey, they we're 1:10:23.160 --> 1:10:24.960 gonna come in, but instead I'm gonna tell you everything 1:10:25.000 --> 1:10:27.439 I know about them and play the song. Alright, So 1:10:27.600 --> 1:10:30.639 High Valley, thank you for for coming in. What episodes 1:10:30.760 --> 1:10:34.000 might one episode one twenty from High Valley and now 1:10:34.240 --> 1:10:35.759 we will see you next time. Thanks everybody,