Speaker 1: Yo, what's up? You're off in God's.
Speaker 2: Country with Room and is also known as The Brother Something,
Speaker 2: where we take a weekly drive to the intersection of
Speaker 2: country music and the great outdoors, two things that go
Speaker 2: together like Shanaia Twain and Leper print.
Speaker 1: Or Squirrels and hawks.
Speaker 2: Brought to you by I couldn't tell if that was
Speaker 2: a squirrel at the hawk, Yeah, brought to you by me.
Speaker 1: We have Lauren walkin Zone.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: What a cool chick. She killed her first turkey by
Speaker 4: herself last last spring. She's been hunt with her dad
Speaker 4: her whole life. That was her first time to do
Speaker 4: it solo. She tells that whole story. She's been out
Speaker 4: with It's awesome. Oh yeah, she's been out with Morgan.
Speaker 4: She is going out this year with Riley and zach Topp.
Speaker 4: Just on her way up, Man, on her way up.
Speaker 4: Great singer killer. A couple of songs, nasty, nasty, little
Speaker 4: vocal experiences. In that podcast she flexed for sure to
Speaker 4: plead a good one for a grave it. See, I'll
Speaker 4: be sure and stick around for that. We got any uh,
Speaker 4: got any roasts?
Speaker 2: Jumps? Just sent me one. Let's check it out. I'll
Speaker 2: read it. I have not seen this.
Speaker 4: Five stars roast us you might get we all know
Speaker 4: is the name of this uh post roast.
Speaker 1: We all know that Dan is.
Speaker 2: The better hunter, Read is the better fisherman, and neither
Speaker 2: one of them is over five to ten. My headphones
Speaker 2: fell out. Not true, Not true, dude. I'm five eleven
Speaker 2: and a half, five eleven and I have I've always
Speaker 2: been five eleven and a half. I'm not six foot.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Who's the person JB. Gules? Oh yeah, he knows well coming.
Speaker 4: There's a few things wrong with that one. I'm the
Speaker 4: better hunter and the better fisherman, and you're definitely not
Speaker 4: a five eleven and a half.
Speaker 1: All those I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think the I think the wall would disagree. But
Speaker 2: you know the wall, yeah, man, the wall of mounts
Speaker 2: here and uh coming down the pod would disagree with
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that. Hey, be sure and go.
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Speaker 2: the day. Some of those hardcorees. I like that too much. Yeah, No,
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Speaker 1: All right, we love y'all.
Speaker 4: Appreciate, We appreciate you, appreciate thanks for hanging out in
Speaker 4: God's Country. Joy stick around for Lauren Watkins, girl Bone.
Speaker 1: Speed. Can you do that? Go look at the camera?
Speaker 1: Speed me? Yeah, speed, don't do it.
Speaker 2: I feel like I just did a gestures speed.
Speaker 5: Anytime I'm in a video shoot and they're like saying
Speaker 5: stuff like that, I'm just like, yeah, totally, yeah, I
Speaker 5: know what they're saying.
Speaker 1: I'm a pro.
Speaker 5: I'm a pro.
Speaker 6: We have well well as.
Speaker 4: Villain, a unicorn, a Turkey coling country music singing and
Speaker 4: big Buck killing kind of a fan a listener.
Speaker 5: Yeah, apparently exposed.
Speaker 4: Most recently toured with Morgan Wall and last year set
Speaker 4: to tour with Zach Top Big Fan, Riley Green Big
Speaker 4: Fan twenty twenty five, We've got miss Lauren.
Speaker 1: Wadkn this out? How does it feel to be a
Speaker 1: fan of be on the show.
Speaker 5: Yeah, honestly, I'm a little bit starstruck. I was totally
Speaker 5: fine until I came in this room and I was like, oh,
Speaker 5: I'm but I'm glad we're finally doing this. I feel
Speaker 5: like we've been trying for what got to say?
Speaker 1: I think you bailed on.
Speaker 5: Well, I had to get married that day.
Speaker 1: I don't know about this excuse the close. We need
Speaker 1: a doctor's excuse.
Speaker 5: I better tell y'all. I had a legit excuse last time.
Speaker 5: I was getting married that day.
Speaker 1: So artist married a songwriter too, pretty.
Speaker 5: Pretty wild, crazy thing for me to do.
Speaker 2: That's your only past, though, So you're you've used your credits.
Speaker 5: I know. Well I showed up today, So.
Speaker 1: We're glad. We're glad you met. It's weird that we've
Speaker 1: never met.
Speaker 4: I know, it is weird because we've met written a
Speaker 4: couple of times.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we know.
Speaker 1: I don't care pretty.
Speaker 5: Well, Yeah I know it's so weird, but I feel
Speaker 5: like I know y'all both already.
Speaker 2: There's really nothing, there's nothing to not know.
Speaker 1: Hey, did you like win that belt buckle? Or is
Speaker 1: that just something girls with?
Speaker 5: No? This was actually belongs to my husband, So that's cool.
Speaker 5: And he always like he just wears the same one
Speaker 5: every day.
Speaker 1: So can we talk about we do know your husband?
Speaker 1: Her husband is Will Money?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, song producer, extraordinary.
Speaker 1: He's great, he's great. He is a great long blonde hair,
Speaker 1: flowing blonde hair.
Speaker 5: He's got better hair than me.
Speaker 1: Old three fifty three fifty, don't get it twisted.
Speaker 5: Yes, funny enough. Yesterday we were driving and he absolutely
Speaker 5: loves his truck. I mean that's not unique or anything,
Speaker 5: but I mean loves it. It's like a ninety nine,
Speaker 5: maybe a ninety eight.
Speaker 1: I can't it's mean it's badass.
Speaker 5: And yesterday we were driving and we passed like another
Speaker 5: one that looked similar to his, and so of course
Speaker 5: he's like looking at it, and I was like, what's
Speaker 5: the difference between and f one fifty and f two
Speaker 5: fifty three fifty four fifty? And he literally took a
Speaker 5: deep breath and was like, Okay, so this went on
Speaker 5: for I'm sure, but I didn't know. I wanted to know.
Speaker 2: Do you remember when we saw him in that back
Speaker 2: allio at our old studio.
Speaker 1: When he came by, he was like he just didn't
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 5: I was like, he has a dear antler on the
Speaker 5: gear shift.
Speaker 1: I love him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's how he got me.
Speaker 1: I got in is that deer?
Speaker 5: I was like, yeah, he's the one.
Speaker 1: He's the one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm imagining how he's got it to where he can.
Speaker 5: Well, it's like cut off where it's like right.
Speaker 4: So he's just like the brow time and the base.
Speaker 4: I guess he goes a redneck. He's such a red neck.
Speaker 5: Hey.
Speaker 4: We like to start the show off with a segment
Speaker 4: we call what You're mad at? And you can be
Speaker 4: glad at something or what's you mad at? But since
Speaker 4: you're a listener, you probably already know. You probably already
Speaker 4: know the song.
Speaker 6: It got you mad? Just let us what it is.
Speaker 1: What you're mad at?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 6: You kids, might be your boss man or your neighbors.
Speaker 1: Come on, just.
Speaker 6: Scared us.
Speaker 5: What you're mad at? Is that the melody? Sorry?
Speaker 4: I thought you made sip of coffee.
Speaker 5: I am mad at myself because of how directionally challenged
Speaker 5: I am. And like I was on the way trying
Speaker 5: to think, like, gosh, what am I mad at today?
Speaker 5: What could I what's my answer for that? And then
Speaker 5: I got lost and I was like, well it's me,
Speaker 5: I am. I can't ever like coming to Nashville or
Speaker 5: coming to this. Well, I didn't really get lost. I
Speaker 5: just like, of course had to do a loop around
Speaker 5: which I can never make it somewhere in one try.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I mean, Like, yeah.
Speaker 2: But that's kind of understand. I mean this is kind
Speaker 2: of a wacky to to road.
Speaker 1: Wacky.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I've how long have you lived here?
Speaker 5: Oh my entire life, oh twenty five years? And I've
Speaker 5: finally figured out like music row, you know, like at
Speaker 5: first it was so confusing. Now I kind of understand.
Speaker 5: It's like you got to find the alley and then
Speaker 5: go through the alley to get to the parking lots
Speaker 5: usually behind the building that's right anywhere else that's not
Speaker 5: like a neighborhood. I told, like literally, I told my
Speaker 5: manager the other day. We were trying to meet somebody
Speaker 5: for like a breakfast, and I was like, listen, parking
Speaker 5: lot is not in front of the building.
Speaker 1: We're not exclusively for that going home.
Speaker 5: I'm not making it to feel.
Speaker 4: That I'm mad at boxes that are hard to open,
Speaker 4: like like, for instance, we got this Costco huge bag
Speaker 4: or a huge box of.
Speaker 1: Kitchen trash bags. And it's not like it's not.
Speaker 4: Just like the pole of the box just doesn't open easy.
Speaker 1: It's so hard to open.
Speaker 4: It's like they've glued everything, every corner down. They glue everything,
Speaker 4: so if you don't have a knife, bro, you're like
Speaker 4: and you're ripping it. And yesterday I was, I was
Speaker 4: opening it trying to get trash bags out, and I
Speaker 4: had to like I had to like run my hand
Speaker 4: up under it to try to open the whole top,
Speaker 4: and it slipped between Oh it's slipped between paper cut
Speaker 4: in between cardboard cut, not even paper cardboard cut in
Speaker 4: between my pinky and this finger, and I might as
Speaker 4: well have broken back.
Speaker 5: It's not in a spot where you can ignore it either.
Speaker 4: It's the work I'm just having been doing like this
Speaker 4: all days, so it will like fuse back together. And
Speaker 4: if they have just had an easy like simple you know,
Speaker 4: the little the little lid that come down and you
Speaker 4: put the you flip the thing and then open it.
Speaker 4: If they had just done that been I wouldn't have
Speaker 4: had a cardboard cut between them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, why all the drama, right, it's pretty dramatic. I'm mad.
Speaker 2: I'm mad guys that know how to duck call trying
Speaker 2: to tell you how to duck call when you ask
Speaker 2: for because it's the same sha hey, ray, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be real loud.
Speaker 1: So here's what.
Speaker 2: Here's what duck here's what. Because I can actually do it,
Speaker 2: here's what duck guys said. Okay, let's have a conversation. Okay, okay,
Speaker 2: see I'll be the professional duck caller you Okay, I'm
Speaker 2: over here.
Speaker 4: They're coming in power shoot stops p Like, hey man,
Speaker 4: we just got in front duck hunt.
Speaker 1: I'm the guy, right, I'm the duck guy that everybody
Speaker 1: like the pro. I'm the pro. I'm telling everybody kill
Speaker 1: them there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we admittedly, so this this is what. This
Speaker 2: is a conversation. Hold on, We admittedly are not duck hunters.
Speaker 2: Like we go a couple times a year. Somebody asked
Speaker 2: us to go.
Speaker 1: We go.
Speaker 2: Then we get all fired up about it. We're like,
Speaker 2: we gotta we gotta learn how to do it. We
Speaker 2: gotta get a place. We gotta Okay. So yeah, this
Speaker 2: is so and they all have different as. Everybody tells
Speaker 2: them to ask you for help.
Speaker 1: This is how it goes. Remember, I'm pro me ask you, Robert,
Speaker 1: he asked, man, give me like give me like the
Speaker 1: short Oh yeah, you just go like this. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's more like from the gut, you got to push
Speaker 1: the air, push the air.
Speaker 2: Now you're the guy. I mean no, that's wrong. No, wrong,
Speaker 2: more like from your no. See now you're grunting. I
Speaker 2: don't need you to grunt.
Speaker 1: I need you. It's just a I'd be like, you
Speaker 1: just do it, and that's what happens. That's what happens. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you eventually just go like.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's I I get it. I'm always like I'm
Speaker 5: finally that I finally got to the age where I'm
Speaker 5: like confident enough to ask, Like I'm confident enough to
Speaker 5: be like, okay, I don't know, like can you teach
Speaker 5: me how?
Speaker 1: Same?
Speaker 5: But when I was younger, I was like, we'd go
Speaker 5: I don't duck hunt either. I grew up deer in
Speaker 5: turkey hunting and that was really it. And like once
Speaker 5: every few years we'd go on a duck hunt with
Speaker 5: like my dad and his friends. And my dad loves
Speaker 5: to duck hunt, but he's not a duck hunter either,
Speaker 5: and so I would always be so nervous. I'd be
Speaker 5: like fourteen, trying to act like yeah, I already know,
Speaker 5: I know everything, and I wouldn't ask. I would just
Speaker 5: say silent. There's a God forbid. Somebody hand me a
Speaker 5: duck call.
Speaker 1: I feel like we should be to the point. I'm back.
Speaker 1: I'm back, new guy. Hey, shout out King's calls right
Speaker 1: quick for that call. Appreciate kings calls. He's got the
Speaker 1: custom God's country on.
Speaker 2: I wish I could just rip it, make it sound
Speaker 2: real good.
Speaker 1: Give him, give him, give him, give him, give him
Speaker 1: cut down.
Speaker 5: That's better than I could not doing it.
Speaker 1: That's all I can do.
Speaker 2: Need some help anyway, you guys, If anybody wants to
Speaker 2: actually give us some tips on how to blow a
Speaker 2: duck call, that would be appreciate.
Speaker 1: Somebody who's nice about somebody who's not like a boss.
Speaker 4: There's a pressure that comes with not being a duck
Speaker 4: hunter at a duck hunt too, because it's what you're
Speaker 4: talking about. It's because, like one, there's the calling going
Speaker 4: on so you just feel like you're just like.
Speaker 1: Riding the coach. I don't like being the thanks for
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 4: But then there's also like there's also like you can't
Speaker 4: shoot before everybody or you screw the whole thing up.
Speaker 4: And like if the duck comes, you know, on your side,
Speaker 4: and he's like, why.
Speaker 6: Don't you kill that dog?
Speaker 4: But here's what you're like, what I didn't look let me,
Speaker 4: you didn't tell you, you didn't tell me to And
Speaker 4: I don't want to be that guy.
Speaker 2: Let me just say this. The guy that we're talking about,
Speaker 2: his name is Brian Wright.
Speaker 4: Great, he's the best great shot out the four boat boat.
Speaker 4: That's this, that's this company should probably sponsor us. There
Speaker 4: is one for free, give us one for free or too,
Speaker 4: even though we're not duck hunters. Yeah, we'll figure something
Speaker 4: out to do with it.
Speaker 2: And he but he's just like, so I'm like a
Speaker 2: dugle flying, why don't you shoot that.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, you didn't tell me to shoot, you
Speaker 1: didn't give me the green light. You gotta know when
Speaker 1: to shoot, you know.
Speaker 2: If he comes down, I'm like okay, And so then
Speaker 2: you know, you pop one off and he's like I
Speaker 2: didn't say shoot you.
Speaker 1: Dan ruined the whole volley for everybody. Quit calling down there, Dan.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Dan shot a female hen teel Well, there were sixteen.
Speaker 1: Mallards island thirty four. Unbelievable.
Speaker 4: I'm a rusty Ville. What you're doing over there is crazy.
Speaker 4: Should come with us, I.
Speaker 1: Would, yeah, I will say this.
Speaker 5: I won't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: Okay, we don't.
Speaker 4: I'll say this about island is it's like you're hunting
Speaker 4: a refuge. He's got a twenty five hundred acre island
Speaker 4: on the Mississippi that he feeds all these ducks. Of
Speaker 4: a radar of a weatherman sent him a picture last week.
Speaker 1: Like a Memphis weatherman. It's right there next.
Speaker 4: And it was like a precipitation radar and so it
Speaker 4: showed clouds and over his island was all blue and
Speaker 4: clouds and it was a blue sky.
Speaker 1: It was the ducks. Oh wow, that's how many. That's
Speaker 1: how many ducks. It's odd. It is unbelievable. I would
Speaker 1: go do that totally.
Speaker 4: You're pretty checking out like your Instagram and going through it.
Speaker 4: And I knew this about you. We we talked about
Speaker 4: turnhind and stuff. But like you're an outdoors woman, an outdoorsman.
Speaker 1: I don't really know what the.
Speaker 5: Term either way.
Speaker 4: Either way, where did that? Where did that start for you?
Speaker 4: As like as far back as you remember?
Speaker 5: Yeah, well from my dad. My dad is from South
Speaker 5: Mississippi and just Waynesboro. It's like right on the Alabama line,
Speaker 5: north of o Real, south real, tiny town.
Speaker 1: Because my wife is from golf Ports.
Speaker 5: Really okay, it's probably not that far from probably a
Speaker 5: couple of hours.
Speaker 1: He has a couple of glasses of wine. Is you
Speaker 1: get whacko?
Speaker 5: I mean yeah, start her on the coast. Well, I
Speaker 5: went to Old miss and we called guys.
Speaker 1: Wait really graduated from there?
Speaker 5: Enemy territory?
Speaker 1: What made you? What made you decide? Am Ole Miss?
Speaker 5: So my parents went there. It's like deep runs deep.
Speaker 1: And family we really don't like each other.
Speaker 5: Dude, we can we have like a dark history, dark
Speaker 5: family history. But yeah, my parents went there, and I like,
Speaker 5: I just we grew up going to the grove and
Speaker 5: going to the games, and I just absolutely loved it.
Speaker 5: I never I literally didn't apply anywhere else. I was
Speaker 5: just like That's where I'm going.
Speaker 2: I thought, you never feel like maybe or pretentious towards
Speaker 2: other campuses.
Speaker 1: Or people did. I was, I like, you're the only
Speaker 1: one that matters in the world. Well, yeah, I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: did you ever say we never lost a party?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I totally said. There was a time when I
Speaker 5: was like, yeah, we never lost a party. I thought
Speaker 5: it was so fun.
Speaker 1: I could tell the most omous thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 1: That's what they used to say. I mean, it's true,
Speaker 1: But now you are really good, dude, are we?
Speaker 5: I don't even really pay anymore.
Speaker 1: Pretty good? Well, you're just better than us, and that's
Speaker 1: all I need to know. Yeah, that's not basketball. We
Speaker 1: just got youall at basketball, but football kill us. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin's changed the game down there. I do love
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin hijacked the initial question. Yes, what was the question?
Speaker 5: How did I get into the outdoors?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: So my dad's a Mississippi and my mom is from here,
Speaker 5: but they met at Ole, miss and moved back here afterwards.
Speaker 5: And I mean, he just absolutely loves turkey and deer hunting,
Speaker 5: but mainly turkey hunting. And I think like the first
Speaker 5: thing he did when he moved here with my mom
Speaker 5: was like, fine, a hunting lease, and he did, and
Speaker 5: so literally ever since, ever since, I was a kid,
Speaker 5: I've been going with him, and I have three sisters,
Speaker 5: so he really was like, Okay, surely I'll have a
Speaker 5: son and he'll turn with me. Yeah, And then he
Speaker 5: had four girls and all of us tried it, like
Speaker 5: all my sisters like kind of gave it a try,
Speaker 5: but never really it didn't really stick. And for some reason,
Speaker 5: I just loved it ever since I was a little kid,
Speaker 5: Like I just I loved going with him and watching
Speaker 5: and I also it was like our time to it's
Speaker 5: been together, and I just it's always just been my escape.
Speaker 5: Like when I go out there, it's like I kind
Speaker 5: of have this rule with myself where I'm not allowed
Speaker 5: to worry about anything, like I'm not I don't bring
Speaker 5: it out there. I don't, I don't really look at
Speaker 5: my phone, and I just it's just my escape.
Speaker 1: It that's awesome.
Speaker 4: What's your And I know you probably have a ton,
Speaker 4: but like, does one come to mind when I say,
Speaker 4: what's what's your greatest hunt memory with your dad?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 5: Gosh, I mean, I mean when I killed my first
Speaker 5: turkey probably I was maybe like Dean somewhere around there,
Speaker 5: And of course that was an awesome memory. I'll never
Speaker 5: forget that. But also I just like I just have
Speaker 5: it's always like our best conversations happen like either in
Speaker 5: the woods or in the car or on the way
Speaker 5: to get there, Like we have this kind of we
Speaker 5: have like this ritual that it's just like we list
Speaker 5: of songs we always listen to, like on our way
Speaker 5: out or on the way home, sometimes on the way
Speaker 5: home when we're celebrating, And that's what I always remember
Speaker 5: that another like what are they?
Speaker 1: What are some of the songs?
Speaker 5: Sorry, Am Marrilla's guy, Jason Eldan, The Outsiders, Eric Church
Speaker 5: Guys of New Orleans. Really any I do?
Speaker 7: I do too?
Speaker 5: It's kind of underrated totally.
Speaker 1: That's the same the Outsider's record.
Speaker 5: No it's on the mister missus, but really, any Eric
Speaker 5: Church song counts. And then also break up in a
Speaker 5: small town My dad is opset.
Speaker 1: Is that one of the talk usually on.
Speaker 5: Our way home or like either either we're celebrating or
Speaker 5: we're just like that was a fun day.
Speaker 1: That one is like I saw you over there, I
Speaker 1: knew what se.
Speaker 2: Around really made fun of that song for a long
Speaker 2: time because of the talkie, I mean everybody did. But
Speaker 2: what if we just did that. Like in our conversations,
Speaker 2: we're just like, so, Lauren, it's so good to say
Speaker 2: thank you for coming.
Speaker 5: Out, coming out tonight.
Speaker 2: What you playing later? You're gonna go get some It's
Speaker 2: so funny. Somebody just actually.
Speaker 5: Just do that today and let's see how it goes. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: and we'll compare notes.
Speaker 1: After I saw a quote.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna mess this all up, but there's a famous
Speaker 2: outdoor rider whose last name is Rourke, and he said,
Speaker 2: the one of the best parts about hunting fishing is
Speaker 2: the anticipation of going and then then talking about it once.
Speaker 1: You get back.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, Yes.
Speaker 1: It's great. I really identified with that. I do too, jump.
Speaker 2: Can you clean that up for me? Can you clean that?
Speaker 2: Can you clean that quote up for me? I said
Speaker 2: it wrong, but care clean it up for me. I
Speaker 2: mean you could just look it up and make sure
Speaker 2: I'm not destroying that. I think that's I mean, I
Speaker 2: think that's right because I find.
Speaker 5: Know whether that was correct or not. That that is
Speaker 5: so well said, Like I have so many memories of
Speaker 5: like as soon as we get in the car, me
Speaker 5: and my dad will rehash and then he is going
Speaker 5: to call five at least five of his friends and
Speaker 5: just tell him what happened and he'll call his dad
Speaker 5: and it's just the best. It's like it just I
Speaker 5: don't know, I love that, Like it just makes me.
Speaker 5: It just reminds you how passionate like he is about it.
Speaker 5: And everybody, all his friends want to hear, like they
Speaker 5: want to hear it.
Speaker 1: I want to hear. I want to hear.
Speaker 2: I mean we did that. We got buddies who have
Speaker 2: kids now. I mean we used to call each other
Speaker 2: about us killing things. But now it's just like Jonathan
Speaker 2: called us with his his son had killed his first
Speaker 2: buck and he facetimes like.
Speaker 5: Hey, mister Dan, I shot my first.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: It's like and I want to hear and uh, I
Speaker 2: mean yeah, that's that's part of it, right, Like the call.
Speaker 2: And we used to always remember we used to always
Speaker 2: call our grandparents Dad be like, Paul, really like to
Speaker 2: hear about you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we called them up. I get it.
Speaker 2: Did you find it nothing? Maybe I made that up
Speaker 2: all right?
Speaker 4: Quote, I will totally say I will from now I
Speaker 4: say this thing. You know, I thought about it and
Speaker 4: I always said that, Yeah, I've always said that. Ever
Speaker 4: so I was little I think the first thing I
Speaker 4: ever said, well when it comes to my thesis on
Speaker 4: but it's kind of all you got, right, is like,
Speaker 4: is because most people are sorry that you have guys tape,
Speaker 4: Yeah you're good. Sorry is most people aren't getting filmed,
Speaker 4: most people aren't taking cameras out there.
Speaker 1: So like, the only the only recapturing.
Speaker 4: Of this that you have is in your head, yeah,
Speaker 4: talking about and then when you talk about it, And
Speaker 4: that's what these do, right, Like I don't. I don't
Speaker 4: put wall or animals on the wall. So people walk
Speaker 4: in and go, oh my gosh, look at that buck,
Speaker 4: Like when I look at that deer. For me, I
Speaker 4: go straight back to that to the deer stand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or that.
Speaker 4: Season where I lost a publishing deal hunting that deer
Speaker 4: in Illinois and that whole thing.
Speaker 1: You know, so like and I can't.
Speaker 4: I love to tell that story over and over because
Speaker 4: it just it brings it back in my head. And
Speaker 4: that's some of the best you know, some of the
Speaker 4: best things or days of hunting is is when those
Speaker 4: stories happen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I I totally I agree. We have in
Speaker 5: my find it.
Speaker 1: So it's not yours.
Speaker 2: Okay, good, I'm gonna put my you know how Michael
Speaker 2: Scott does that, like.
Speaker 1: Those shots you don't take Michael Jordan quote Michael.
Speaker 5: Scott, Michael himself in Yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, So speaking of go ahead, you.
Speaker 5: Have something well, I was just going to say, we
Speaker 5: we have like in our in my parents' garage, we
Speaker 5: have kind of like our trophy wall, and it's got
Speaker 5: all these turkey fans and beers and and antlers, and
Speaker 5: it's so cool because it's like you say, like I
Speaker 5: I bet my dad could tell you each one like
Speaker 5: I was killed and then on the refrigerator, you know,
Speaker 5: like the beer fridge is outside. We have all these
Speaker 5: old pictures and there's some from us and then some
Speaker 5: are from like my granddad and my great granddad, and
Speaker 5: it's just like a timeline.
Speaker 1: I mean that's exactly what this book is.
Speaker 5: So I mean, like, is this your did you get
Speaker 5: this made?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I mean I made it.
Speaker 5: That's a great gift to get out.
Speaker 2: I mean it's got like there's read from when he
Speaker 2: was a little.
Speaker 5: Oh that's awesome because here's what was Because.
Speaker 1: Here's what happens. Now you can there's your boy. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Still looking over still looking good right there, looking like
Speaker 2: I got my hair parted.
Speaker 5: It's awesome.
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what why I.
Speaker 2: Love these is because now everything's on our phones. Yeah
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. Yeah, stuff, Well, you just
Speaker 2: like it's not it's hard to go back, it's hard
Speaker 2: to hold it. Yeah, you know, they get lost. Yes,
Speaker 2: So I'm trying to like make one of those every
Speaker 2: four or five years.
Speaker 5: That's a great idea. I'm going to steal this idea.
Speaker 1: Still, it's great. You'll have to make over for your dad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Oh it's so. I mean, I'm sure.
Speaker 5: He's definitely gonna listen to this.
Speaker 1: So just forget that, I forget that. You don't not
Speaker 1: making you that.
Speaker 5: You'll have to show me where how you got that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, super easy.
Speaker 2: I do have a question about So I have a
Speaker 2: little girl, Reid has a little girl.
Speaker 1: They're a little bitties. How old are mine's five? Is
Speaker 1: two and a half?
Speaker 2: I can't believe there's still too we have. So we
Speaker 2: have two that were born like basically the same day. Really,
Speaker 2: my son was born. His daughter was born like within
Speaker 2: thirty twins.
Speaker 1: Wow, Yeah, they're.
Speaker 2: Like twins pretty much at the same hospital.
Speaker 1: They fight each other. That's awesome. Yeah, it's like my
Speaker 1: daughter will get along with everybody except boone. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: just like this is just this head dock.
Speaker 2: So they But but my question is, is I know
Speaker 2: how to intro boys to the hunting Lionstone. I know,
Speaker 2: you start small, they shoot twenty baby guns, twenty two's
Speaker 2: not scared of the pop. Yeah, you have three sisters.
Speaker 2: Your dad raised y'all to at least try. I don't
Speaker 2: know if the other ones, whether it took or not.
Speaker 2: But my point is, my question is how do you
Speaker 2: feel like he went about it in order to instill
Speaker 2: the love and and and not like terrify you or
Speaker 2: scare you with your sins or for.
Speaker 5: Oh that's a good question. I really don't know. I mean,
Speaker 5: I was so maybe this is part of the thing,
Speaker 5: but I was so young when he first took me
Speaker 5: out that like I barely even I don't remember how
Speaker 5: I mean, I remember like the hunt, but I don't
Speaker 5: remember how he presented it.
Speaker 1: You know, what, were you ever scared of guns?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I was. At first I wasn't and then I remember,
Speaker 5: like after shooting a twenty age for the first time,
Speaker 5: I was probably just really little and he used to
Speaker 5: like get behind me and like pretty much take the
Speaker 5: kick and that was fine. And then maybe the first
Speaker 5: maybe the first time I shot it alone, but there
Speaker 5: was a point where I remember I was like really
Speaker 5: shell shocked, and it like after that for a couple
Speaker 5: of years, like every time I'd go to shoot again,
Speaker 5: I would like totally and like it would scare me. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean everybody is like when you're little, you can't.
Speaker 1: But still it's just still a thing.
Speaker 5: For we can give you maybe the expert duck hunter.
Speaker 1: Shooting lessons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think the thing is is, like you know,
Speaker 2: I see when I talk to people and they're like,
Speaker 2: it didn't really take for me.
Speaker 1: I was just always scared of the gun.
Speaker 2: And that's like a fear for me because I don't
Speaker 2: want to introduce my kids too early. Yeah, but there's
Speaker 2: also the too late thing, yeah, trying to balance it out.
Speaker 5: Well, I remember after I wish I could remember how
Speaker 5: old I was when this happened, but I don't. But
Speaker 5: like when I was like scared of the I got
Speaker 5: scared of shooting, and my dad was like, well you
Speaker 5: can just why don't you just come with me, Like
Speaker 5: you don't have to shoot. You don't have to shoot,
Speaker 5: you can just come with me. And so I was like, oh,
Speaker 5: all right. So then for a couple of years I
Speaker 5: just would go with them and I wasn't about that
Speaker 5: at all.
Speaker 1: That's answering my.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, really just say you don't have to just
Speaker 5: come with me. It'll be fun. I'll do the shooting.
Speaker 5: And then eventually I was like.
Speaker 1: All right, I want to do that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not a baby because it.
Speaker 2: Probably loses the the immediate because look, man, it's an
Speaker 2: intimidating thing. You talking about, super loud, super projectile, like
Speaker 2: dangerous all of a sudden. I remember it being like
Speaker 2: the first thing in my life that I was introduced
Speaker 2: to that could like kind of kill me, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. So that's a scary thought when you're
Speaker 2: fo Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the killing of something else, like it's.
Speaker 5: A serious thing. Yeah, it is a heavy thing.
Speaker 1: Deserves to be respected.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 2: Today on the ride end, I said to my little
Speaker 2: girl's names Liza, and I said.
Speaker 1: You turkey hunting movie this year?
Speaker 2: She said, I think I'll start with a cross guns across,
Speaker 2: gun across.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like that that was pretty that's a great idea.
Speaker 1: It doesn't kick right now for school and everything else.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad.
Speaker 4: It's like you deer hunting all that, but I'm glad
Speaker 4: like turkey hunting is your thing because I'm in turkey mode.
Speaker 5: Like, yeah, it's getting getting close. Deer season is pasty.
Speaker 4: I'm really I'm really excited about hearing you caught in
Speaker 4: your first turkey last spring.
Speaker 1: I did I want I want from the job.
Speaker 5: So I well, like I said, like I grew up
Speaker 5: going with my dad and so everything I know is
Speaker 5: like he's taught me. And I got, like I said,
Speaker 5: I've gotten to this age where I'm like, Okay, I
Speaker 5: want to learn for myself, Like I want to be able,
Speaker 5: like if he's able, if he's ever not able to go,
Speaker 5: like I want to be able to still go and
Speaker 5: like not just let him do everything. And so several
Speaker 5: years ago, I started trying to learn how to call.
Speaker 5: And my dad is just an awesome caller. Podcast is
Speaker 5: going to be about him, yeah, I mean anything, like
Speaker 5: really yeah, but he'll use both at the same time
Speaker 5: and like he's just really good at it. So even
Speaker 5: when I started to learn, there was never a reason
Speaker 5: for me to I was going to screw us up
Speaker 5: like I would just like let him do it. And
Speaker 5: then last year, he the day before, the night before
Speaker 5: opening day, he got sick. He was like, I can't
Speaker 5: go tomorrow, and I was like, well then I'm gonna
Speaker 5: go by myself. Sorry, I'm still going. And I was like, well,
Speaker 5: this is I got to put it to the test
Speaker 5: a me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a drive to property.
Speaker 5: Yeah, drive to We've got like a lease a little
Speaker 5: bit outside of town. So it's literally just get up
Speaker 5: in the morning, real early. Yeah, it's probably like thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: Has he had least for as long as I've It's
Speaker 1: just like our death. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 2: That's the thing in itself of like having to get up,
Speaker 2: get all the stuff, oh yeah, get the truck.
Speaker 5: Like yeah, it's not like we have some fancy camp
Speaker 5: out somewhere like that. Get off at my apartment and
Speaker 5: you could go. So I got up and I went
Speaker 5: and hunted like all day and didn't kill anything, like
Speaker 5: you know, it was a it was fun, but I
Speaker 5: didn't kill anything. And I left and I was like, dang, well,
Speaker 5: I'm going to get up and go tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I mean, did you hear birds? Did you?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah. I mean I was there was like I
Speaker 5: was chasing turkeys all day. So it's just like the
Speaker 5: next I was like, I'm gonna go the next day,
Speaker 5: and I thought like I had just been there so
Speaker 5: long that I was like I'm just gonna kind of
Speaker 5: leave him alone and go at like nine, Like I'm
Speaker 5: not gonna go first thing in the morning. I'm gonna
Speaker 5: go like nine and will my husband. He was like,
Speaker 5: we just bought a piece of land too, and he
Speaker 5: was like, well, I'll go with you. We can go
Speaker 5: to our place. And I was like, listen, I love you,
Speaker 5: but I gotta go do this by myself, like I
Speaker 5: have something to prove here. And he was like okay.
Speaker 5: So I got up the next day, went at like
Speaker 5: nine and went and set up in our There's like
Speaker 5: a field over here, and I was there for a
Speaker 5: little bit and then there's like another field, big old
Speaker 5: field with like surrounded by woods, and we have kind
Speaker 5: of like a regular spot where we sit over there,
Speaker 5: like way out the end of the field. So I
Speaker 5: was like, all right, I'm gonna go. I'm just gonna
Speaker 5: go there. I'm gonna go to the Old Faithful College.
Speaker 5: It's like mid day, Yeah, it's probably like ten or
Speaker 5: so at this point. And before you get into the field,
Speaker 5: there's kind of like this little rise, and so I
Speaker 5: like you got to creep up slowly, like I knew
Speaker 5: they were going to be. I just like had a
Speaker 5: feeling they were going to be out there in the field.
Speaker 5: So I creep up this little rise and I look,
Speaker 5: and sure enough, there's like three gobblers all strutting way
Speaker 5: out there, and I'm like, my heart is pounding, and
Speaker 5: I just kind of like I sit there and I'm like, well,
Speaker 5: I can't go I can't go through the field, and
Speaker 5: I can't go through the woods because they're literally right
Speaker 5: here in between me and the woods. And so I
Speaker 5: kind of just like sat where I was. I just
Speaker 5: dropped down, like at the top of this rise and
Speaker 5: shaky hands pull out my box call and I have
Speaker 5: this old it's actually my great it was my great
Speaker 5: granddad's box call. I'm the fourth generation to kill turkeys.
Speaker 5: And I actually called my granddad yesterday to make sure
Speaker 5: I had my story straight on this. But it was
Speaker 5: his old call and it was his dad's and it's
Speaker 5: Lynch is one oh one?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Did you call him? In prep for the show?
Speaker 5: Yo, Yeah, I called. I was like, I need to
Speaker 5: make sure and he so that's a whole another story.
Speaker 5: I can tell you all that after, but it's anyway,
Speaker 5: he said, he's he said he's probably killed like twenty
Speaker 5: or thirty turkeys with that call. And so anyways, I
Speaker 5: pull it out and I just remember, like my dad
Speaker 5: always told me, which I'm sure y'all have been told
Speaker 5: this too, but he'd just be like, don't overcall, just
Speaker 5: let him know you're there. Let him know you're there.
Speaker 1: So I like, hit it once, especially if you're that close.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean we weren't close.
Speaker 1: I mean close enough.
Speaker 5: They're in the field. It's probably like two hundred.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a perfect scenario though, to get one to
Speaker 4: come check it out, because you got three gobblers strutting.
Speaker 1: There's probably a hand somewhere.
Speaker 4: Yes, there was only one gobbler's going to get that hand,
Speaker 4: but you got that you got one guy, one.
Speaker 1: Gay What was that over here?
Speaker 5: So I hit it once and one gobbled back. And
Speaker 5: that's when I was like, it's hell, yeah, I can
Speaker 5: do this. And so you're doing it literally do I mean?
Speaker 5: And that was the first time i'd like I had
Speaker 5: gone by myself a couple times before this, like years before,
Speaker 5: and like called and just nothing like I had never
Speaker 5: had that happen, where like he responded to me and
Speaker 5: I was like okay. And so anyways, that went on
Speaker 5: for like a little while, just kind of going back
Speaker 5: and forth, and then they start coming to me, and
Speaker 5: like all three of them. And I don't know if
Speaker 5: I'm explaining this well, but the field it's like, you know,
Speaker 5: there's a couple of little ditchs in it. So they
Speaker 5: start coming to me, and I know they're going toward
Speaker 5: this dip where I'm not going to be able to
Speaker 5: see him anymore. And then that's right where they go.
Speaker 5: That's right where they went, and I'm like, all right,
Speaker 5: I know it's going to be like a minute before
Speaker 5: I see him again, because sometimes you know, they'll just
Speaker 5: sit there where they start walking, and so it's like
Speaker 5: a while and I'm I call a couple more times
Speaker 5: they call back to me.
Speaker 1: So if you are you like gone up on your
Speaker 1: shoulder ready to shoot.
Speaker 5: Kind of, I'm like sitting I'm like sitting on like
Speaker 5: at the edge of this field, so I don't really
Speaker 5: have my gun up yet.
Speaker 1: She's kind of like in my left ready some shit something.
Speaker 5: It's ready, Like I could get it up fast if
Speaker 5: I needed to do. And so anyways, I I tell
Speaker 5: really long winded.
Speaker 1: Stories, by the way, so you can cut this out
Speaker 1: of podcast.
Speaker 5: So they get in this little dip and I don't
Speaker 5: see him for a while, and then it's been like, honestly,
Speaker 5: it probably was like ten minutes. To me, it feels
Speaker 5: like an hour. I have absolutely no idea how much
Speaker 5: time has passed. And I'm like, I don't know what, like,
Speaker 5: I don't know if they're still there or what like,
Speaker 5: I have no idea. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 5: out of the corner of my left eye, I see
Speaker 5: a head poss and they went like if I'm if
Speaker 5: I'm here in the dips over here, they like went
Speaker 5: this way you came around, and I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 5: like I'm gonna die. And so that's when I got ready.
Speaker 5: I knew, like, I gotta get ready.
Speaker 3: And how far is the burd at this point, probably
Speaker 3: like forty yards, oh shoot close, So I just got
Speaker 3: to get to where I can get set up on him.
Speaker 5: And also, if there's anything else I've learned, it's to
Speaker 5: just not rush it, like I've missed plenty of turkeys,
Speaker 5: just being like.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the shot.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And so I got ready, I kind of turned
Speaker 5: and all there was like five of them, I think
Speaker 5: at this point, like there's more than I thought. At
Speaker 5: first I thought there was like three. There's like five
Speaker 5: at this point. I just picked the longest beard and
Speaker 5: I shot him. Wow and yeah, and he was down. Yes,
Speaker 5: And I was like like the biggest flood of emotions,
Speaker 5: like I just I don't know. It was the craziest,
Speaker 5: coolest thing. And you know, I kind of let him
Speaker 5: sit for a second, popped around for a little bit,
Speaker 5: and then I went and got him and I immediately
Speaker 5: faced own my dad. He was like about to cry
Speaker 5: him cry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how proud of it?
Speaker 2: I mean you just linked your family chain link to
Speaker 2: that entire history hunting history, yeah, which is so cool,
Speaker 2: Like and I'm sure it would have been it would
Speaker 2: be mega emotional for me, you know if that were
Speaker 2: Eliza jamesitting there and I'm like, man, she is obviously,
Speaker 2: I mean just carried And I'm not saying you have
Speaker 2: to let me just clarify that you don't have to
Speaker 2: kill something in order to.
Speaker 1: Carry your family. The Honting.
Speaker 2: You were already carrying it what you're saying. But to
Speaker 2: know that you, you know, just the same box call,
Speaker 2: that's pretty special.
Speaker 5: And I didn't. I actually didn't know it at the time,
Speaker 5: Like I didn't know the history, which I'm kind of
Speaker 5: glad because I probably would have gotten really too nervous.
Speaker 5: But like they told me afterwards, they were like, I
Speaker 5: mean my granddad was Lord, oh yeah, I'm sure he's
Speaker 5: so funny. He was like, now that call, that's four
Speaker 5: generations a lot can stucky hunt right there.
Speaker 4: And I'm sure too, like for your dad, and I
Speaker 4: know there's plenty of female hunters out there, but like
Speaker 4: for your dad like wanting the boy to to take
Speaker 4: hunting and to not sure if having four girls, if
Speaker 4: he would even if any of you would like hunting
Speaker 4: or anything, but to get that call and I mean, yeah,
Speaker 4: have someone to give it absolutely yeah, and pass those
Speaker 4: things down to and share those moments with special man,
Speaker 4: that's that's awesome.
Speaker 5: So now I'm like mega addicted, because before you know,
Speaker 5: it was it was always fun. But then now that
Speaker 5: I've like I know I can do it by myself,
Speaker 5: I'm just like, all right, let's go again. I'm just
Speaker 5: it's I have a new a new appreciation for it.
Speaker 1: I think you are.
Speaker 2: You are stepping into like a new degree of woodsmanship.
Speaker 2: When you start doing that, it just completely changes opens
Speaker 2: the door to a lot of things. Yeah, a lot
Speaker 2: of mistakes as well a lot of learning fast. But
Speaker 2: it's it's uh that that really solidifies you as as
Speaker 2: like as what you know one hundred like knowing what
Speaker 2: to do and what moves to make, and well, I
Speaker 2: can't call them off this ridge because they normally go
Speaker 2: this way. But if I set up over there, there's
Speaker 2: no cover, so I need to be here in case
Speaker 2: they double back. It didn't happen today, you.
Speaker 1: Know what I mean.
Speaker 2: You're just constantly learn You're learning the animals, yes, totally,
Speaker 2: instead of just going on do you think dad, which
Speaker 2: just look nothing wrong with it. There is nothing wrong
Speaker 2: with that. But becoming your own individual hunter, that's a
Speaker 2: pretty special journey.
Speaker 5: Thank you. And you're right, I do like and I'm
Speaker 5: so not I have so much to learn, but that's
Speaker 5: kind of the cool thing, Like totally. I think it
Speaker 5: takes a level of like confidence to be like, Okay,
Speaker 5: I don't know everything. I'm going to ask and I'm
Speaker 5: going to mess up and totally figure it out, and
Speaker 5: then that's what makes you better. Like I wasn't learning
Speaker 5: anything by just pretending like I knew everything. Yeah, saying silent.
Speaker 5: Now I feel like I'm learning.
Speaker 4: More sure, And the drive of that, like the addiction
Speaker 4: you said to the two turkey hunting now, will propel
Speaker 4: you to learn more, to watch YouTube videos, to watch
Speaker 4: more shows, to get out there more by yourself and
Speaker 4: figure it out.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, I know, I know we got a music, but
Speaker 1: can you tell me about this squirrel hawk?
Speaker 5: Yes, oh my gosh, yeah.
Speaker 1: We gotta do music. Otherwise we'll talk about hunt.
Speaker 5: Have you ever done that?
Speaker 4: This is the first time I've ever heard of Okay, well,
Speaker 4: I mean you've heard of like eagles catching, you know,
Speaker 4: like fish out dogs.
Speaker 5: And so my dad has a friend who lives in
Speaker 5: Alabama and he's got like an awesome honting camp down there.
Speaker 5: So the past couple of years we've gone down there
Speaker 5: to deer hunt, and you know, like we're there for
Speaker 5: a few days, so it's like we deer hunt most
Speaker 5: of the time. But this guy, he's so funny. He's like,
Speaker 5: I got this friend he he squirrel hunts with hawks,
Speaker 5: like y'all want to do that one day? And we
Speaker 5: were like what, yeah, though you do?
Speaker 1: Yes, what does that mean?
Speaker 5: And it was literally like these these guys they do
Speaker 5: they call it falconry. It's like they literally train hawks
Speaker 5: or falcons. But I think these were hawks. They're different,
Speaker 5: not really there is, but it's like the same sport.
Speaker 5: I guess you could say the same sport for sure,
Speaker 5: same concept. Yeah, And so they have falconry. It sounds
Speaker 5: like fancy.
Speaker 1: It sounds like.
Speaker 8: It does.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a new artist that just came to town. Falcony.
Speaker 5: Have you written with falcony?
Speaker 1: It is incredible.
Speaker 5: She needs a single, I think. But anyways, so these
Speaker 5: guys they bring their hawks, and actually it was a
Speaker 5: man and his wife, and I was like about a
Speaker 5: power couple, and they each had their own and they
Speaker 5: basically take these hawks and they're very, very trained and
Speaker 5: take them through the woods. And they had, like us
Speaker 5: and some other people, basically just you're just watching them.
Speaker 5: You're not doing ship, You're just watching them do their thing.
Speaker 5: And we had sling shots and we'd like slingshot a
Speaker 5: rock up into the trees to like shake the squirrel
Speaker 5: out of it, and this squirrel would run and the
Speaker 5: hawk would like basically get on the squirrel and start
Speaker 5: chasing it limb to limb, And they have these bells
Speaker 5: on the like tied on the hawk's feet so you
Speaker 5: can hear where it is.
Speaker 1: It's sick.
Speaker 8: It is.
Speaker 5: I don't know how to explain it other than like
Speaker 5: it is the most electric feeling when like you hear
Speaker 5: the squirrel go and the bells start ringing, and you're like,
Speaker 5: oh my gosh. So we're literally and it's it's so funny.
Speaker 5: Where their camp is. It's like this small town and
Speaker 5: it's just a bunch of hunting camps and like locals
Speaker 5: and stuff, and all these people just I don't know
Speaker 5: who these people were. They came out of the woodworks
Speaker 5: to watch this happen. Literally next thing you know, there's
Speaker 5: like twenty rednecks all just running through the.
Speaker 1: World watching this.
Speaker 5: Definitely, we're like, who are these people? Are they? Within
Speaker 5: then on our friend is like, no, they just live here.
Speaker 5: They just wanted to come to run. Yet, I mean,
Speaker 5: they kill remember a bunch, not nothing crazy, like a handful.
Speaker 1: I guess are they bringing them?
Speaker 4: Are they killing them? Are they bringing them back? Like
Speaker 4: Are they fetching them and killing them and like dropping
Speaker 4: them in the guys? Oh yeah, I'm sure. But I'm like,
Speaker 4: are they like dropping a flying back and landing with
Speaker 4: the squirrel or you got to go get the squirrel?
Speaker 5: No, they fly, they bring it to you. Yes, they retreat.
Speaker 5: It is the craziest thing, and it's really badass. It
Speaker 5: feels like it gives you kind of some American problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hell yeah, this is crazy. Yeah, get them squirrels.
Speaker 2: Dunt why we should train an eagle?
Speaker 1: Dude? If we could train a eagle.
Speaker 8: To do that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there's a couple on the leg. Well
Speaker 1: here's my question.
Speaker 2: I mean you're talking about like those are protected bird,
Speaker 2: like federally protected birds.
Speaker 1: So I think I'm going to watch the YouTube videos.
Speaker 5: What would be the difference of taking I would explain
Speaker 5: it better than.
Speaker 1: I am, but I just I don't understand how you
Speaker 1: can have ownership of a bird like that takes.
Speaker 5: It is a long process. I think there would have
Speaker 5: to be some fully licensed yeah, very very regulated, Like
Speaker 5: you can't. I'm pretty sure these people like go through
Speaker 5: courses and courses training. I couldn't just go buy a hawk.
Speaker 5: Let's go get but they literally have I mean like
Speaker 5: they literally have it in a in a cage in
Speaker 5: the back of their trucks and they take it out
Speaker 5: and it just sits up on their arm. They did
Speaker 5: have names. I can't remember it. But this one old guy,
Speaker 5: he was awesome. He was just the coolest. He had
Speaker 5: on a sweatshirt, a bright orange sweatshirt, and it was
Speaker 5: just on the back it had like a like a
Speaker 5: black silhouette of a hawk and it said much well, no,
Speaker 5: his daughter made it for him and it said death
Speaker 5: from Above. And y'all, I was like, I love that sweatshirt.
Speaker 5: Where did you get that? He literally took it off
Speaker 5: and gave it to me.
Speaker 1: I should have brought it today, but so I have
Speaker 1: that had a picture of you and the death from
Speaker 1: a book.
Speaker 5: And then he told me his daughter made it for him.
Speaker 5: I was like, you're giving me this once? He was like, no,
Speaker 5: she'd make another one. She got a little printing machine
Speaker 5: for Christmas. He wasn't taking over an answer.
Speaker 2: That's awesome, all right? We got from above? Man, Wait
Speaker 2: real quick, let.
Speaker 1: Me just do this.
Speaker 2: If you had a hawk, the name, what would you
Speaker 2: name your hawk? To catch squirrels? Don't say hawk to
Speaker 2: it or you're fired.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say, hawk is even like a strong Let.
Speaker 1: Me just think what's your like you? I think I
Speaker 1: think I'm just naming mind Ricky. I think I'm going
Speaker 1: to like I think I'm going like Rambow. You gotta
Speaker 1: stay in the theme. Yeah, like you got it? Like
Speaker 1: see that's why I'm going the way. I think I'm
Speaker 1: just going. I think my Ricky the hawk. Wait, here's
Speaker 1: the video. If you just had a guess, is that me? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't think that was you. That thing's big. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it looks like an eagle. Yeah you did it caught you?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it took me when it landed on me.
Speaker 1: That's so dope.
Speaker 5: My sweatshirt. Yeah, they'd like they would send it up
Speaker 5: in the tree. This is like when we were done
Speaker 5: with the hunting part. This is just for fun, and
Speaker 5: they'd like give you you have to wear like their
Speaker 5: big old glove because their talents are really sharp, and
Speaker 5: they would like have me hold my arm up and
Speaker 5: put like a piece of food on it or something,
Speaker 5: and it would literally fly from up in the tree
Speaker 5: to my arm. And you think like, oh, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: I can do this, And then when you realize it's
Speaker 5: this massive bird flying at you like I don't know
Speaker 5: how fast, but it scared.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would be Yeah, that's awesome, that's awesome. We
Speaker 2: can talk about that for one hundred years, but we've
Speaker 2: got to talk about music. We're getting hate for not
Speaker 2: talking about music.
Speaker 4: It's interesting talking to you because usually we've had ernest
Speaker 4: Own Mitchell and they're from Nashville, right, But like most
Speaker 4: of the people we talked to, it's their dream to
Speaker 4: come to Nashville, to move to town and like a
Speaker 4: pipe dream form and their parents got them into music.
Speaker 1: Like being from Nashville.
Speaker 4: What part of Nashville like Oakhill, Okay, did you was
Speaker 4: it always like was country music always from from the
Speaker 4: jump a part of your story or did.
Speaker 5: You yes, come into it or yes, but not as
Speaker 5: a career. It was always part of my life. Like
Speaker 5: I grew up. My sister, you'll know, you'll know. You
Speaker 5: know my sister Caroline. Yeah, she's a songwriter in town,
Speaker 5: and she's so great.
Speaker 1: She's so great, awesome, she has a songwriter and a person,
Speaker 1: she's she is.
Speaker 5: Literally all around. She's awesome. And her and I just
Speaker 5: started singing together when we were really little, like just
Speaker 5: for fun. And she's always written songs for since I
Speaker 5: can as long as I can remember, she's written songs.
Speaker 5: And so we would just sing and play. And I
Speaker 5: remember like her bedroom was upstairs next to mine, and
Speaker 5: I'd hear in there playing her guitar and I'd go
Speaker 5: on the door and be like, and I sing with you.
Speaker 5: And we were anything.
Speaker 1: We laughed.
Speaker 5: I mean, any country that was like current at the time,
Speaker 5: we'd be like Paisley's Ground band, Miranda Lambert. Well, we
Speaker 5: were always like singing whatever was on the radio at
Speaker 5: the time, and we laughed. Now because when we started
Speaker 5: playing gigs, we were young, like probably like thirteen twelve
Speaker 5: or thirteen yea, yeah, I mean, And by gigs, I
Speaker 5: mean we would play at barbecues or like we would
Speaker 5: go to the corner pub and they would let us.
Speaker 5: They didn't even do live music. They just somehow we
Speaker 5: talked to them letting show up. We bought a little
Speaker 5: speaker and would bring it. And we did not have
Speaker 5: any concept of building a set list, like we didn't know.
Speaker 5: We just sang. And we would sing the most deep
Speaker 5: cut songs that like you've never even heard of, Like
Speaker 5: literally we'd sing like Casey Musgraves songs that weren't even released.
Speaker 5: We just heard them on YouTube and think that was like, yep,
Speaker 5: this is what.
Speaker 1: Want to hear this?
Speaker 5: And so that's what we were, like, they don't know this,
Speaker 5: they must just want to hear us sing. And so
Speaker 5: we would I mean literally we would say anything. But
Speaker 5: I sorry, I'm forgetting what the question was. But I've
Speaker 5: just been doing it for forever. And we started playing
Speaker 5: gigs and it was just fun for me, like and
Speaker 5: she always knew she wanted to be a songwriter, like
Speaker 5: that was from the jump, like that was her thing,
Speaker 5: and I it was just kind of my hobby. I
Speaker 5: was like, this is fun, but I'm I'm a kid,
Speaker 5: like is this a career? I don't know about what
Speaker 5: career means, Like we're not doing all that, and so
Speaker 5: I just did it for fun. And then it came
Speaker 5: time to go to college. And since I had watched
Speaker 5: her journey, which was high school, sign publishing deal, right
Speaker 5: out of high school, go to Belmont, like start right
Speaker 5: off the bat, I thought that was the only way.
Speaker 5: So I thought, like, all right, I either get to
Speaker 5: pick college or I picked singing. Yeah, and I was
Speaker 5: like sixteen. I was like I'm not ready to I'm
Speaker 5: going to ole Miss, Like come Hell or hot Water,
Speaker 5: I'm going to ole Miss. And so that's what I did.
Speaker 5: Thinking I would never come back to Nashville. I was like,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna move to the beach or to a small
Speaker 5: town somewhere, like I'm not coming back here. So I
Speaker 5: went to ole Miss, and the whole time I was there,
Speaker 5: it just pulled at me, like it was just this
Speaker 5: thing in my heart. I could not ignore it. It
Speaker 5: was just like guilt is the wrong word because that
Speaker 5: sounds so negative, but it was just this yes, conviction.
Speaker 5: It was just this conviction that I am supposed to
Speaker 5: go back and do music, Like after this is all over,
Speaker 5: I where else am I gonna go? Like that is
Speaker 5: the only thing I'm passionate about, is the only thing
Speaker 5: I really want to do. And so Caroline came in play.
Speaker 5: She was like playing a lot of shows at the time.
Speaker 5: She went came and played a show in Oxford, and
Speaker 5: I got up and sang with her, and I just
Speaker 5: remember after getting off stage, I was like I forgot
Speaker 5: what this felt like. I hadn't played a show since
Speaker 5: I was in high school, and I was like, I
Speaker 5: forgot how good this feels. I felt so fulfilled, like
Speaker 5: this is what I'm supposed to be doing. And so
Speaker 5: after that there was no turning back. I knew I
Speaker 5: was going to come back to Nashville, but I still
Speaker 5: had a year and a half left of school. So
Speaker 5: I was like, what can I do to just give
Speaker 5: myself the best shot, like a having like shot when
Speaker 5: I come back to town. So that's when I started
Speaker 5: writing songs and just wrote when I was in college,
Speaker 5: started playing shows again, and then moved back home and
Speaker 5: then just hit the ground running.
Speaker 4: Man, it's really similar to my story as a younger
Speaker 4: sibling to him, Yeah, because it's really interesting because it
Speaker 4: was the same thing like this. And I say this
Speaker 4: like this was never my dream kind of because I
Speaker 4: didn't even know it was his. And he was destined
Speaker 4: from the time he got a guitar for Christmas in
Speaker 4: eighth grade and by lunch had learned four songs on it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: like he was destined to do this and I was
Speaker 4: kind of same thing. And it's so crazy because like
Speaker 4: I would I would go with his band to these shows,
Speaker 4: and like in college, when I was in college at
Speaker 4: UT Knoxville, he would go play somewhere, and I'd hop
Speaker 4: on the band band with him and or the band
Speaker 4: with them and go sing like harmonies with him and stuff,
Speaker 4: and the whole time thinking like, dang man, like this
Speaker 4: this is a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: This is this is this is really and even like.
Speaker 4: It's crazy too because like I was trying to do
Speaker 4: other things, but none of them would work because because
Speaker 4: I was supposed to be here too, you know. And
Speaker 4: and so that's really interesting to hear that story. It
Speaker 4: almost feels like the female version of exactly.
Speaker 5: What we well. And it's funny because I've heard a
Speaker 5: lot of siblings say that they have a similar story.
Speaker 5: There's a lot like the Davis brothers. You'll know the Davis.
Speaker 1: We just stand them, Jacob.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 5: I saw that.
Speaker 1: We don't like that Jenkins terrible, terrible guys.
Speaker 5: Warren brother I was just with them. We go to
Speaker 5: church together, but the.
Speaker 1: Church because that's where you guys go.
Speaker 5: Do you know that Brett Warren married me and my husband? Yes?
Speaker 1: I did not know that me and Will.
Speaker 5: I don't have to say.
Speaker 1: The day we're to podcast.
Speaker 5: So he was also to blame. Where'd you elope to
Speaker 5: on our land? Yeah?
Speaker 7: I know?
Speaker 5: So cliche. We know, it was awesome. We had been planning, like,
Speaker 5: you know, the big like traditional wedding, and honestly, the
Speaker 5: planning was so overwhelming to me. I was like, I
Speaker 5: cannot do this. It was not it was becoming about
Speaker 5: like there's just becoming so stressful, like who am I
Speaker 5: going to invite? And do I even want to invite
Speaker 5: this person? Is this just because I have to invite?
Speaker 5: Like it just became such a thing. And I when
Speaker 5: I told Will that, he was like, I've been trying to.
Speaker 6: Get you to Elope since we met.
Speaker 5: Like, let's I'm down. And so anyways, we almost did
Speaker 5: like a true courthouse elopement. And then I called my
Speaker 5: parents and they were like, no, you're not doing that,
Speaker 5: Like at least just give us a week so we
Speaker 5: can get all the family together. And I'm really glad
Speaker 5: that they said that looking back, because I would have
Speaker 5: regretted that. But so we gave everybody like a couple
Speaker 5: of weeks. We said we're doing it on this day,
Speaker 5: and we just had our immediate family there and grandparents
Speaker 5: and we went out to our land and it was
Speaker 5: so easy and chill, and we just got married and
Speaker 5: Brett Warren, the papers, and yeah, it was awesome.
Speaker 1: How is that because most people.
Speaker 4: Most songwriters or artists are married to not songwriters. Yeah,
Speaker 4: totally totally and somebody not like and had their siblings,
Speaker 4: their siblings do their jobs and so like they can
Speaker 4: turn it off right like they they're not living in
Speaker 4: it constantly. Yeah, you're literally navigating it, this business with
Speaker 4: your husband, which is awesome too because you have somebody
Speaker 4: to talk to and somebody to bounce ideas all the
Speaker 4: kind of going.
Speaker 1: Through the same thing, understands it. Yeah, Yeah, what what's
Speaker 1: that journey been like?
Speaker 5: Well, for me, the pros way outweigh the cons, Like
Speaker 5: I would way rather deal with having to turn it
Speaker 5: off sometimes, like having to make ourselves turn it off
Speaker 5: sometimes and struggle with that, and also get the pros
Speaker 5: of him just understanding it and being able to give
Speaker 5: me advice because he's just so smart and like just
Speaker 5: so much more mature than me, and so he's able
Speaker 5: to weigh in on things and like just be there
Speaker 5: for me. Whereas, Yeah, whereas I feel like it would
Speaker 5: be hard for me if somebody didn't understand it and
Speaker 5: I wanted to go to them for advice and I
Speaker 5: had to be like Okay, Well, first let me explain
Speaker 5: this whole backstory of what this person does, and let
Speaker 5: me explaining what this job is, and to me, that
Speaker 5: would just be really energy draining. Some people don't mind that.
Speaker 5: For me, I just like that he understands it. But
Speaker 5: we do have we have to have boundaries, Like we
Speaker 5: have a rule we do not talk about work before
Speaker 5: nine am, Like we don't when I'm drinking my coffee,
Speaker 5: we do not talk about work. And it's pretty easy,
Speaker 5: like it's not. I also think it helps that I
Speaker 5: had already kind of gone through that with my sister, Yeah,
Speaker 5: because we've been working together forever and her and I
Speaker 5: just kind of tackled that early on, like we both
Speaker 5: work together, we also both do our separate things. And
Speaker 5: we worked through that and then got through it and
Speaker 5: now it's.
Speaker 1: Just like that's exactly how we are.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I'm sure y'all have had this, say, like we ride.
Speaker 2: Together, we don't ride together, we played shows together. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and it's nice to have that fall fallback.
Speaker 1: Of going, dude, is this pointless not supposed to be
Speaker 1: doing this? Yeah, every couple of weeks, you got somebody
Speaker 1: you can trust.
Speaker 5: It and if one of y'all didn't understand it. He
Speaker 5: might be like, yeah, that sounds really stressful. Why are
Speaker 5: you doing that? Like I want somebody who's going to
Speaker 5: be like, Nope, today is just a hard day. You're
Speaker 5: gonna get up tomorrow and you're gonna do it again
Speaker 5: and it's all gonna be okay.
Speaker 1: Maybe we're just having a bunch of hard days right
Speaker 1: in the row. Maybe you know, since like twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2: We love music, we love Maybe she's just call it's
Speaker 2: the curse of a creative though, right second, guess everything
Speaker 2: we do?
Speaker 5: You think you're gonna quit every week?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 1: My times have I said that?
Speaker 2: I mean, and you know, for me, this year, I
Speaker 2: came back from like Christmas break, which is what we
Speaker 2: all call basically October years after deer season, and so
Speaker 2: and I come out of it, and I'm like, I
Speaker 2: don't feel like I normally I feel a bit rejuvenated
Speaker 2: coming out of the things.
Speaker 1: This time, I just felt like I was more tired
Speaker 1: than when I even went into it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I actually kind of felt that too.
Speaker 2: So I was like, well, I was dry before and
Speaker 2: now it's just like Sahara desert dude, I'm dusty. I
Speaker 2: got no ideas, I got no inspiration, you know, and
Speaker 2: it's weird how as a creative I feel like for
Speaker 2: me personally, the only thing that fixes that is like
Speaker 2: to keep working. Yes, it's like the only because if
Speaker 2: I stop and like Wallow, I definitely ain't get nothing done.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm the same way. I also think that's just
Speaker 5: January and February too, Like it's such it's such a
Speaker 5: bummer that we start the year in the most gloomy
Speaker 5: time of year, slump time, right said. My body wants
Speaker 5: to just stay inside and meet blankets, but gotta work.
Speaker 5: But I'm with you. He wants me out here.
Speaker 4: That's the too long kick. Would you went on tour
Speaker 4: with with Morgan Walling last year? That had to be
Speaker 4: pretty surreal?
Speaker 1: Yes, and wild? It was awesome stadiums.
Speaker 5: Big yeah, no big deal. It was wild. I mean one,
Speaker 5: I've been a fan of his forever and you know,
Speaker 5: like I just remember like first kind of getting signed
Speaker 5: up Big Loud, and he was the guy like I
Speaker 5: was like, oh my god, story struck. And then you
Speaker 5: get to know him and you get to know kind
Speaker 5: of like that whole crew, and it's like Wow, these
Speaker 5: are just cool, good people.
Speaker 1: They are people they are and they're fine.
Speaker 4: So it's fine, Like nothing's too serious, no, just kind
Speaker 4: of do what you want to do, Sul.
Speaker 5: Yeah. And I told like when I first when I
Speaker 5: first met Seth over there and like the whole crew,
Speaker 5: I was right out of college and I told him,
Speaker 5: I was like, this feels like a frat house. Like
Speaker 5: I'm at home. I know, I know this. I'm like
Speaker 5: fulfilling every cliche.
Speaker 1: I'm going to keep driving that one home because a
Speaker 1: big loud ole miss.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're rich, they get drunken public places.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, I'm leaving. But anyways, so I've been
Speaker 5: a fan for forever and we did. I did a
Speaker 5: couple of shows with him the year before so not
Speaker 5: last year before that, and I thought it was just
Speaker 5: kind of like a couple one off shows. I was like,
Speaker 5: that was badass. It was in Arenas, and right after
Speaker 5: those shows, I did a writing retreat in Kansas. This
Speaker 5: is literally like the week after too. It's beautiful, Beul.
Speaker 1: It's like outdoor Mecca.
Speaker 5: I actually love how flat it is. People complain about that,
Speaker 5: but I think it's cool, probably because I'm from here
Speaker 5: where it's not. And so it's just interesting.
Speaker 1: You seen past two hundred yards of your life.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you see a car driving and you're like, wait, what,
Speaker 5: Oh that's a road miles away wild with one car on.
Speaker 5: It was just one just what you might see a car.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: But anyways, I just remember being in Kansas and my
Speaker 5: agent called me and he was like hey, and we're
Speaker 5: constantly talking or texting, but when he called me right
Speaker 5: after these shows, I was like, oh, no, am I
Speaker 5: in trouble? Did I do something? And he was like, hey,
Speaker 5: So these shows went pretty well and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 5: I think so, and he was like, well, how would
Speaker 5: you like to do a whole bunch more? And I
Speaker 5: was like oh and I cried and he was like
Speaker 5: you want to go on tour with him next year?
Speaker 5: And yes. So anyways, it was so cool. I was
Speaker 5: so nervous for those first couple shows, just because I'm
Speaker 5: used to playing these small clubs and you go straight
Speaker 5: from there to a stadium. You're like, one, I don't
Speaker 5: belong here to this is wild and I've got to
Speaker 5: like fill the state, Like I've got to how can
Speaker 5: I like fill these shoes?
Speaker 9: You know what I mean?
Speaker 4: And so it's kind of the same thing. Watch what
Speaker 4: I do here, I'm a pro. It's kind of the
Speaker 4: same thing, like starting to hunt by yourself. It's figuring
Speaker 4: out how to do it. And the goal of that
Speaker 4: hunt is to get a turkey twenty yards from you
Speaker 4: and shoot that turkey and have that moment. Same thing
Speaker 4: with the goal of playing those shows or to draw
Speaker 4: that crowd in and to get them to react and
Speaker 4: feel the words, feel the songs and put on a show.
Speaker 4: And there's no greater there's no greater learning curve than
Speaker 4: being thrown in the fire like that.
Speaker 5: No, it's so true, like there's no way to understand
Speaker 5: how it's going to feel until you are there by
Speaker 5: yourself on the stage, just like being in the woods.
Speaker 5: Until you are there alone, you're the one holding the
Speaker 5: call figure it out questions, right exactly. So it was
Speaker 5: a huge I mean I just learned so much. I
Speaker 5: feel like I grew so much as a performer. My
Speaker 5: stage presence has gotten so much better, just like you said,
Speaker 5: having to figure it out and just do it, just
Speaker 5: get out there and do it.
Speaker 1: And so being able to watch one of the you know,
Speaker 1: the hottest acts in the world right now.
Speaker 5: Well, that's the thing. It's like I play my set
Speaker 5: and then we stay and watch everybody else after me,
Speaker 5: and you just learn so much, like you just and
Speaker 5: and when you watch the same show over and over
Speaker 5: and over again, you just pick up on things that
Speaker 5: you maybe wouldn't have noticed, like, oh, that's interesting. They
Speaker 5: moved this song around. They added this solo section in
Speaker 5: here for more going to go get a drink of water,
Speaker 5: like just really water.
Speaker 2: Water, for sure, that's what he keep saying, that he'll
Speaker 2: appreciate that one water. She said, water.
Speaker 4: I'm the pr there's water in that solo c he's
Speaker 4: bringing up for sure, But you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: like he's watering that fifth he's hammering backstage.
Speaker 1: I'm just like jumps the sweating.
Speaker 5: So anyways, but you know what I mean, like just
Speaker 5: stuff that you just pick up on. And it made
Speaker 5: me go, oh, we should do that in our set,
Speaker 5: Like we should add this little thing.
Speaker 1: And like copy him, right, yeah, coffee, we should copy that,
Speaker 1: no doubt.
Speaker 2: It does make Yeah, have you had any like, oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, this isn't going like I thought it was going.
Speaker 2: Two moments out.
Speaker 5: There on stage, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, For example, I left the battery pack out of
Speaker 2: Luke's guitar on a solo acoustic gig in Nissan Stadium.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was. Yeah, but it happens live music.
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do?
Speaker 5: It happens. And that's why I'm so happy that I
Speaker 5: played so many terrible gigs before, stuff like that, where
Speaker 5: I know what it's like when the chord just falls
Speaker 5: out of the microphone and getting there with the cordless
Speaker 5: mic and you got to pick it up and make
Speaker 5: a joke about it.
Speaker 2: I knew exactly what to do when that pack went out,
Speaker 2: and I ran out there and I switched the batteries
Speaker 2: and it was just the pack wasn't tight, you know,
Speaker 2: it had come loose, So I knew how.
Speaker 1: To fix it. Your face didn't didn't say that you.
Speaker 2: Knew what to do, because you're you're like when he
Speaker 2: ran you still like muscle memory, spiderfly.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so I ran back and uh.
Speaker 2: One of the interesting points of this story is I was,
Speaker 2: you know, sweating, right, And so after we got it work,
Speaker 2: and I was still standing over there like, oh my gosh, dude,
Speaker 2: I'm the worst and the worst just in Nashville, And
Speaker 2: it was like a solo acoustic sound, and.
Speaker 1: He's like, man, we got something going on. And I'm like, well, dude,
Speaker 1: you hire me to come here and hang out. I
Speaker 1: don't really know what I'm doing. And so.
Speaker 2: We got it going, got it work. And he's playing
Speaker 2: the song and I'm sweating, I'm stemming, sweating. Everybody's in
Speaker 2: my ears like just go ahead for you, you know,
Speaker 2: and they're all buddies. But it's like, you know, and
Speaker 2: one of the guitar texts ed shout out ed Layne.
Speaker 2: He's like, legit, been doing his whole life kind of thing.
Speaker 2: He comes up, he puts on around and he's like,
Speaker 2: hey man, there's seventy thousand people in here, and you're
Speaker 2: the only one still thinking about the mess. He's like
Speaker 2: nobody else. That's not like they're sitting up there going
Speaker 2: hey man, that one guy I really messed this.
Speaker 5: That is so true, And you know, it really put.
Speaker 2: Perspective like kind of in my life on those types
Speaker 2: of things, like, yeah, you can mess it up, and
Speaker 2: this I think this just goes across the board like
Speaker 2: you can make mistakes, you can mess it up.
Speaker 1: Put to just own it and move on. You're the
Speaker 1: only one that's going to sit there and think about that.
Speaker 5: Yeah you can.
Speaker 1: It's sun come up with tomorrow, man. Yeah, you don't
Speaker 1: be all right.
Speaker 5: It's true. And everybody, like everybody at every level messes up.
Speaker 5: There is no and then and people in the crowd,
Speaker 5: they're drunk, they just want to have a good time.
Speaker 2: If they're not messing up, then it's not live because
Speaker 2: live music is messing up.
Speaker 4: I would like I would venture to say some people
Speaker 4: enjoy that. Some people like se that's their vulnerability of allah,
Speaker 4: it feels you can relate to it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, don't do it every show.
Speaker 5: Yeah no, but like there's nothing wrong with it. When
Speaker 5: it happens, I get really self conscious about forgetting words,
Speaker 5: Like I just I'll get really in my head and
Speaker 5: then if I mess up a word about it, yeah,
Speaker 5: then it's like a it's all bray thing. And then
Speaker 5: I'll think about it the rest of the day. I'm like,
Speaker 5: oh my gosh, everybody's thinking about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And I asked on tour, I asked Morgan. I was like,
Speaker 5: do you ever forget the words or do you ever
Speaker 5: get Do you ever forget the words? And he goes
Speaker 5: every day I'm not Yeah, and I was like, huh,
Speaker 5: I've never noticed. I've watched every show and I've never
Speaker 5: noticed once in forgetting the words. Ye. So if I'm
Speaker 5: not noticing.
Speaker 1: Nobody else, Yeah, because you know you're not hammered. You're
Speaker 1: over there listening.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm like intently listening and I don't even notice.
Speaker 1: So what we got? What we got coming down the
Speaker 1: pipe for twenty five?
Speaker 5: Well, a lot of good touring. I'm going on tour
Speaker 5: with Zach.
Speaker 1: Top Black a Babby.
Speaker 5: We should sing that.
Speaker 1: Well, asking it shall happen? You're waiting for me, Well
Speaker 1: it's been sometime. I still still an angel. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: heard fun.
Speaker 6: Got promoted back in ab he Dan says, he's.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well I've never been better. Things are going in
Speaker 1: mind here, we got everybody. I sleep like a babby.
Speaker 5: I'll never show up play for work.
Speaker 1: I don't drink.
Speaker 8: We skin.
Speaker 1: I don't know how it fiel hurt and.
Speaker 8: Lo.
Speaker 1: Since you said goodbye.
Speaker 6: I wish I could sing I Mas she.
Speaker 9: But you know I never Hey, asking it she'll be
Speaker 9: that's getting that's getting prepared for this, this to come out.
Speaker 1: Yes, we've got to do one of rally's.
Speaker 5: Now, hey going on?
Speaker 1: Is that a different tour.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a different tour. It'll be like more summertime.
Speaker 5: I think it'll be like Zach Top and then Rally.
Speaker 4: Those are two big ones, I'd say those. Those are
Speaker 4: two that are about to be up there.
Speaker 1: Not going to have sleeves. You know that.
Speaker 7: That's true.
Speaker 5: That joker, that's true.
Speaker 1: That's a Swollo boy. He's vainy and hot, dude, he is, So.
Speaker 5: You want to call them.
Speaker 1: For sure, as long as he keeps cutting my songs.
Speaker 1: Working on new music, yes.
Speaker 5: Working on new music.
Speaker 7: I am.
Speaker 5: I'm not on the road until like March. So I've
Speaker 5: just been writing my booty off, like writing so much,
Speaker 5: and we've already got like like a bunch of songs
Speaker 5: in the can already and now I'm just writing trying
Speaker 5: to finish an album.
Speaker 1: But a last year was awesome.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much. Thank you. I'm really proud of.
Speaker 1: Was I'm just stuck.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that is a Will Bundy special right there.
Speaker 1: My mom made it. That's my that's my.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 1: That's cool, thank you.
Speaker 5: I'm really proud of that album.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm a big fan.
Speaker 4: Thank you, have been since we since we wrote met
Speaker 4: for the first time, and always been pulling for you,
Speaker 4: so it's not shocking that everything's coming coming your way
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm a fan of y'all, so thank you so
Speaker 5: much for having me. This is awesome.
Speaker 4: We do a favorite tune at the end of every show.
Speaker 4: This is the greatest slash favorite song for you.
Speaker 1: It's one of them. Yeah, it doesn't have to be
Speaker 1: like okay, Well.
Speaker 5: First of all, anytime I'm asked like what is my
Speaker 5: favorite song?
Speaker 4: I go into it an exchanic and that's not pressure.
Speaker 4: We That's what we try to not put on you
Speaker 4: by saying no, no, no, yell did but what's your
Speaker 4: favorite song? I'm just saying, yeah, but what's the best
Speaker 4: song I've ever read?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: I mean I think the whole thing is just like
Speaker 1: a cornerstone kind of tune.
Speaker 5: Yes you know, yeah, well I so, like I said,
Speaker 5: me and my sister we grew up playing gigs together
Speaker 5: and this was one that we used to cover. Are
Speaker 5: you good?
Speaker 1: Were you? Yeah?
Speaker 8: We're good.
Speaker 5: Yeah. We used to cover the song and it was
Speaker 5: like my grandparents it was like their anniversary song, and
Speaker 5: we always Now my granddad has passed away, but we
Speaker 5: It just makes me think of them now and like
Speaker 5: they were married like sixty years or something crazy, and
Speaker 5: I want to say it was like their fortieth or
Speaker 5: fiftieth anniversary or something like.
Speaker 1: That.
Speaker 5: This was like the song of that like time and anyways,
Speaker 5: ever since then, it makes us think of them, And
Speaker 5: then me and Carolyn would play it together in puckets,
Speaker 5: tootsies or wherever see again, like did tutsis want to hear?
Speaker 5: Still the one? Probably not, but we sang it anyway.
Speaker 1: What a jam though?
Speaker 5: I know it's so good, you're gonna sing it with me?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 5: Yeah, looks like we made it lot cal fire. We
Speaker 5: call my baby my tip the long way we knew
Speaker 5: we get there someday, they said, I bet they'll.
Speaker 7: Never make it. But just love gad us, hold on.
Speaker 7: We're still together, still going when strong.
Speaker 1: You get the log that.
Speaker 8: He's still the one I run to, the one that
Speaker 8: I belong too, He's still the one I want for,
Speaker 8: He's still the one that I love, the only one
Speaker 8: I dream.
Speaker 5: He's still the one good I should have done at
Speaker 5: the beginning, where she's like when I first saw you,
Speaker 5: I saw love.
Speaker 1: Did she do that?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 1: Did you do that? In pockets?
Speaker 5: I think it's an updated version or something. And then
Speaker 5: she's like, when I first I felt you, I felt love.
Speaker 1: It's like felt you the TALKI version that's the craziest.
Speaker 1: Lost it a little better, we think, and she's still cool.
Speaker 1: I think she's great. She should totally come on this podcast.
Speaker 1: Love to have her, uh and stuff. You know somebody
Speaker 1: I know an engineer that hey, you'r that's killer. You're
Speaker 1: killing killer, killer, Thank you so good. I just closed
Speaker 1: my eyes and just went with you.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: That was beautiful me too.
Speaker 5: I was closing my eye too in my own little world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not like fifty million people that are watching us,
Speaker 2: you know, they're not. They are one day they were
Speaker 2: million was watching my whole family watching so seven.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: And I had an engineer friend who got flown out
Speaker 2: to they had to like fix a a Shania lyric,
Speaker 2: and so they flew him to like the Dominican or
Speaker 2: something wherever she was somewhere exotic, literally like an entire
Speaker 2: He flew like a million.
Speaker 1: Dollar studio to just get this like one line, yeah,
Speaker 1: one line wow.
Speaker 2: And my buddy was like, dude, what was it? Like,
Speaker 2: what was that we're talking about? You know, in the
Speaker 2: in the studio and he was like, man, you me
Speaker 2: tell you be honest. He was like, yeah, she's like beautiful.
Speaker 2: He's like, she's like next level. Yeah, like doesn't make
Speaker 2: sense to male eyes. Beautiful, he said. But I'll never
Speaker 2: forget the way she's she smelled, he said, Dode, she
Speaker 2: smell terrible, like an angel, he.
Speaker 1: Said she was.
Speaker 5: It was like, I really thought that was going there.
Speaker 1: I should have got I should have done, I should
Speaker 1: have sold it.
Speaker 2: I should have said that, but I was scared of
Speaker 2: like maybe her PR team, her PR team would hate that,
Speaker 2: he said, like a cow past. She smelled like like
Speaker 2: damn it, a big bucket of damn it.
Speaker 1: No, he said.
Speaker 2: It was like and he's like, he said, he can
Speaker 2: still it's like twenty years ago. And if he if
Speaker 2: that scent ever hit, he would immediately know sho, wow,
Speaker 2: I know I mean about what's what are they what
Speaker 2: are they going to say about Evan? They're going to
Speaker 2: be like, man, I had to get this guitar part
Speaker 2: for Dan and walking in forever. He was the slowest
Speaker 2: guitar player. I'll never forget how slow he was. What
Speaker 2: will they remember you for?
Speaker 1: How patchy your beard is? The guy's got a patchy beard.
Speaker 1: You know, what do you think they'll remember you for?
Speaker 5: I don't know. Hopefully that I smell like an angel.
Speaker 1: She smells like.
Speaker 8: Hey.
Speaker 4: Thanks so, Lauren, thank you for having out, Thanks for
Speaker 4: coming by. That's been a lot of fun talking. Thank
Speaker 4: y'all for hanging out God's Country. Y'all check out Lauren Watkins.
Speaker 4: He's got a bunch coming up in twenty five. Be
Speaker 4: sure to check her on the road with the Zach
Speaker 4: top Riley Green. Thanks for hanging out in God's Country
Speaker 4: next time.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it.