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Speaker 1: All right, welcome to episode nineteen of The Bobby Cast

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Speaker 1: and with Preston from Low Cash. Which is weird that

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Speaker 1: you're by yourself And this was kind of an issue

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Speaker 1: for me too, was like, we don't have two microphones,

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Speaker 1: and I wanted to get you guys in, and I

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Speaker 1: was like, gonna have too. We can't afford two microphones yet.

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Speaker 1: So I was like, well do we wait? Who knows

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Speaker 1: when we get on the microphone? Really, I don't know

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Speaker 1: when they'll pay for another microphone or I'll get precedent.

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Speaker 1: Because Chris and Preston, I actually talked to you, simike.

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Speaker 1: We talked every week at least, and so I was like, well,

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Speaker 1: let's ask Preston and then if it's not cool, we'll

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Speaker 1: just wait six months and they buy us in the microphone.

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Speaker 1: And so it's weird for me that you're here by

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Speaker 1: yourself in a professional setting. Is that weird for you

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Speaker 1: to be by myself? You know, Chris and I never

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Speaker 1: do interviews without each other, but just because we're kind

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Speaker 1: always been since day one. And um, you know, I

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Speaker 1: it's awesome. I mean you have been such a life

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Speaker 1: changer for us and on and off the air, you know,

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Speaker 1: with your words of encouragement off the air, with what

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Speaker 1: you've done with us on radio, and uh, and we

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Speaker 1: just knew that this was one of those situations where

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Speaker 1: exception right now. Because mikee I talked about it too,

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Speaker 1: was like, I want to get a mom but we

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Speaker 1: don't have a microphone. So, uh, Chris, I know you're

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Speaker 1: listening right now. I miss you, buddy. I'll see in

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Speaker 1: the studio, in the big studio soon. That's right. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So we got lots to talk about. First of all,

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Speaker 1: I got a little turned on a minute ago, and

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Speaker 1: you know, it's just a little personal story. I drove

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Speaker 1: I was like I shouldn't. I was kind of feeling

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Speaker 1: was like, what I do to go? Just chilling? Wait,

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Speaker 1: and I was like, dang, I love earlier people. So

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Speaker 1: hopped in the shower after the workout and uh, it's

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Speaker 1: good to go. Um you got yeah, so much talking

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Speaker 1: about but you have on these shoes right now. Yes,

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Speaker 1: these are gray Nikes and there's I'm a shoe guy.

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Speaker 1: I so I noticed the immediately. They're they're great nikes.

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Speaker 1: They're high tops. There's low cash on the back of them,

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Speaker 1: and I said, they knew or do you just keep

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Speaker 1: up with them? Very okay? So yesterday we went to

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Speaker 1: Baltimore Orioles. So we went to Baltimore. We did this

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Speaker 1: we're having fun and we're raising money for the Boys

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Speaker 1: and Girls Club in that area and Adam walks on

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Speaker 1: stage with these two boxes of air Jordan's and we're like,

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Speaker 1: I thought we were going to give him away or something.

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Speaker 1: I was like, all right, here comes a cool giveaway

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Speaker 1: and he grabs the microphone. He says, around here we

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Speaker 1: do gifts and I was like, well, that's awesome. We're

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Speaker 1: he goes Presty and Chris, I secretly got your shoe

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Speaker 1: of Air Jordan's and that are low cash, limited edition.

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Speaker 1: And so he gave this toal us yesterday. That's awesome.

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Speaker 1: And I just posted a picture of him today and

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Speaker 1: he had actually taken a picture in Camden Yards with

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Speaker 1: would have that picture. See, I didn't even know you

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Speaker 1: were such a sport. I'm a die hard sports fan. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Like I did a national sports show for years on

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, so like that's my passion music and

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Speaker 1: Cubs fan. Yeah I am too, Like my whole life.

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Speaker 1: I was trying to get you to go to game

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Speaker 1: But he's the press is a terrible influence, by the way,

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Speaker 1: because I go to Game four and I'm there and

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Speaker 1: He said, if you want to ride home, we'll take you.

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Speaker 1: I said I can't because one, if they lose, I

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Speaker 1: So I caught wind that they weren't going to allow

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Speaker 1: thing is too, it would have been a disservice to

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Speaker 1: a semi celebration or something. If I'm Cleveland, I'm but

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Speaker 1: I'm dog Piline. I don't care where it is anywhere

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Speaker 1: it's been since the forties. I'm dogs, but I personally

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Speaker 1: could not take a Cup's loss. And as much as

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Speaker 1: I was like, I can't. I can't. I was feeling

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Speaker 1: was just like, oh, no, we'll see okay. So game one,

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Speaker 1: we lose. Game two and they sing and sing and

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Speaker 1: so we sing the national anthem. We're watching the game

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Speaker 1: maybe we were good luck tonight, you know, so whatever,

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Speaker 1: we come home. Then they lose three and four, and

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Speaker 1: I literally texted Chris. I was like, Chris, the Cubs

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Speaker 1: do this. It's like, Chris, bring the family, Let's go

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Speaker 1: to Chicago. We need to be there. Were there rabbits

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Speaker 1: and so we went and the next thing, you know,

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Speaker 1: we win. You did. So Hendricks won game two and

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Speaker 1: win Game five. So I'll do this because I knew

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Speaker 1: you guys were singing game to the national anthem in Cleveland,

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Speaker 1: and I was like, that's weird. I know their cup bands.

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Speaker 1: How do they get invited to sing in Cleveland? Well,

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Speaker 1: MLB actually invited us, and so MLB handles all of

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Speaker 1: the anthems during UH, during the series and probably the

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Speaker 1: very neutral that day because out of respect for yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna walk out there wearing cups stuff, you know,

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Speaker 1: game too sick and you see by Thenswerdly, I gotta

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Speaker 1: wonder when you're singing this. It's the World Series and

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Speaker 1: you're probably singing it a hundred times and every time.

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Speaker 1: And I talked about this a lot of artists because

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Speaker 1: everybody sings the ant it's that it's an honor to

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Speaker 1: it's over. Nice job. If you do it in a

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Speaker 1: you know. But for Chris and I, it was such

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Speaker 1: Chris and I were like, this is our opportunity to

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Speaker 1: sing it for everybody who's ever died for our country,

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Speaker 1: sing it for the USA. And it was like the

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Speaker 1: most proudest moment of my life. And we just walked

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Speaker 1: it felt clean. It just felt that way to me too.

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Speaker 1: And well, I got a text message from my mom

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Speaker 1: You're inside the stadium and there's a lot of like energy,

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Speaker 1: the Cubs when you sing the national anthem, listen, that's

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Speaker 1: a nice night. I gotta lie. It was amazing, I'll

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Speaker 1: and they were like, all right, in uh sixty seconds,

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Speaker 1: but we posted a picture on Instagram that said it

425
00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:17,639
Speaker 1: takes a lot of balls to sing the national anthem

426
00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:20,240
Speaker 1: at the World Series game. We laughed and I was like,

427
00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,000
Speaker 1: maybe we should take a couple of these for ourselves,

428
00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:26,119
Speaker 1: you know. And no one was really counting, and so

429
00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:29,120
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, let's do this. And they gave

430
00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:32,080
Speaker 1: us the bags anyway, so then uh we cleared it.

431
00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:34,400
Speaker 1: At the end. We're like, okay, we're not very good takers.

432
00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:38,240
Speaker 1: So we were like, um, in our bags, we have, yeah,

433
00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:40,320
Speaker 1: we have these World Series balls and MLB was like

434
00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,640
Speaker 1: totally fine, totally fine, cool. Yeah, they were nice. Let's

435
00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:49,360
Speaker 1: uh there, I heard that the other day, so that

436
00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:53,280
Speaker 1: makes it even more perfect. That's crazy, Okay, So let's play.

437
00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:55,119
Speaker 1: Let's talk about some music and some live and what

438
00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:56,960
Speaker 1: I can do is we like to start now and

439
00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:59,520
Speaker 1: kind of work our way all the way back around.

440
00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:03,280
Speaker 1: So let's start with the song right here. This is

441
00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:05,359
Speaker 1: the last song, and I just went number one for

442
00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:13,560
Speaker 1: you guys, wait to get if you're ready with the

443
00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:22,280
Speaker 1: little yeah. As I know, somebody your first ever number

444
00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:25,879
Speaker 1: one never gets tired of hearing that I got it?

445
00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:28,040
Speaker 1: Like have you you haven't had a number one party yet,

446
00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:31,439
Speaker 1: like your official nothing? Nothing? I mean, we have like

447
00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:33,719
Speaker 1: little individual parties every day when we see each other.

448
00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:38,239
Speaker 1: We're like after being because listen, I know artists who

449
00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:41,639
Speaker 1: come to town and they're that point one percent to

450
00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:44,800
Speaker 1: get lucky immediately and it's like you got right place,

451
00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:47,560
Speaker 1: right time, everything boom you have a number one. Then

452
00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:49,480
Speaker 1: I know artists like you, guys that have been grinding

453
00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:51,520
Speaker 1: it out for a long time. When you have finally

454
00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:54,000
Speaker 1: hit a number one, I mean, do you still have

455
00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:56,480
Speaker 1: a twelve oh one? And look and make sure it's official?

456
00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:58,040
Speaker 1: Do you wake up? Do you got to know? The

457
00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:01,440
Speaker 1: race was with Billy Currington, and what a great song

458
00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:03,480
Speaker 1: he had. I mean, I'm a big fan of that song,

459
00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:07,640
Speaker 1: and it was already number one though it was. And

460
00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:10,400
Speaker 1: then so we're neck and neck, and we're so neck

461
00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:12,640
Speaker 1: and neck that we're losing by a lot going into

462
00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:15,720
Speaker 1: the final hours. And as the final hours wrap up,

463
00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:18,919
Speaker 1: we're so close that they called us and said, we

464
00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:22,000
Speaker 1: can't tell you tonight. We're gonna have to reconcile all

465
00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:24,800
Speaker 1: the spins. It's like the recount, dude, it was like

466
00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:28,119
Speaker 1: a total election recount. And I was like, and you know,

467
00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:31,840
Speaker 1: for low cash, we never get the good into the stick,

468
00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:33,880
Speaker 1: like it just never does. Your last song was number

469
00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:36,520
Speaker 1: two of all things, right, and we're and you're sitting

470
00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:38,639
Speaker 1: here thinking maybe it's meant to be a number two

471
00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:40,239
Speaker 1: or something. I don't know, but you're trying to keep

472
00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:42,720
Speaker 1: your energy right and you're trying to think, no, we're

473
00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:45,520
Speaker 1: gonna get this. We're gonna get this. And the entire

474
00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:48,320
Speaker 1: industry rally behind us that night. I mean, other ladies.

475
00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:51,640
Speaker 1: I wondered if you knew that, because I knew that

476
00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:55,879
Speaker 1: other labels were calling Radio stay and this is how

477
00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,320
Speaker 1: weird this is. You don't let me say this because

478
00:22:58,320 --> 00:22:59,680
Speaker 1: I don't want you to say thing. It's gonna put

479
00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,240
Speaker 1: anything weird, So let me say. Let me tell you

480
00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:08,520
Speaker 1: what what I heard happened. So there was first At

481
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:10,399
Speaker 1: first there were three songs that they were trying to

482
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:12,679
Speaker 1: that we're going for number one that week ended up

483
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,320
Speaker 1: being a two horse race and Billy Currington it Don't

484
00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 1: Hurt Like It used to, which by the way, is

485
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:20,159
Speaker 1: a fantastic song and was number one already, And so

486
00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:22,040
Speaker 1: here it goes. It's going down to the last hour

487
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:25,200
Speaker 1: and they're pushing for a second week, and everybody didn't

488
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:26,679
Speaker 1: know that we're gonna push for a second week. It

489
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:31,640
Speaker 1: was kind of a last thing. And you know, I

490
00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:35,959
Speaker 1: if you follow protocol, you don't do that usually. Now

491
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:37,639
Speaker 1: I'm a guy that says you shouldn't follow a protocol,

492
00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:39,399
Speaker 1: like you should just go balls out and everybody should

493
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:41,199
Speaker 1: just fight for number one every week. That's not how

494
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:42,960
Speaker 1: this format works. And I think that's a crappy part

495
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:44,560
Speaker 1: of this. That's why they don't say anything. Let me

496
00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:47,320
Speaker 1: just handle this controversial subject um. I think it's a

497
00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:49,679
Speaker 1: crap I think pop radio has the right idea. If

498
00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:51,200
Speaker 1: there's a song that's good enough to be number one,

499
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,040
Speaker 1: for seven weeks. It should be freaking number one for

500
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,679
Speaker 1: seven weeks. Country radio at times is a piece of

501
00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:58,000
Speaker 1: crap because all they do is go, we'll make a deal.

502
00:23:58,040 --> 00:23:59,840
Speaker 1: You're number one here, We're gonna let you have number

503
00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:02,920
Speaker 1: one here. And that's stupid. It's really stupid, and it's

504
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 1: really a bad part of our format. That and of

505
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,120
Speaker 1: the best format, by the way, because the people are

506
00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:09,880
Speaker 1: the best, but that's a really bad part of it.

507
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:13,080
Speaker 1: So that being said, belly carctone Sudden is going for

508
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:15,240
Speaker 1: a second week and number one, and I'm like, huh,

509
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,239
Speaker 1: like I'm and I'm pulling for you guys hard. And

510
00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 1: so then I started to get text and calls going, hey,

511
00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 1: there are other labels, other record labels. They have nothing

512
00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:26,600
Speaker 1: to do with low cash, no investment in low cash.

513
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 1: And they're calling radio stations going you got to spend

514
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,879
Speaker 1: lo you gotta play this song. And I'm like, I'm like,

515
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,320
Speaker 1: I've never heard of this before, Like this is the cover.

516
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:38,560
Speaker 1: This is like the Cups coming back from three one

517
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:42,359
Speaker 1: a second series in a row and winning the whole thing.

518
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:47,400
Speaker 1: So I called I called my boss and said, where

519
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,520
Speaker 1: is this low cash song? Because I hear and he

520
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 1: is not acknowledging anything. He's like, listen, I don't know

521
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:56,239
Speaker 1: what's happening right now. I don't know if he did

522
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:57,680
Speaker 1: or didn't. But he's like, I don't know what's happening

523
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,640
Speaker 1: right now, as he said, but there's no answer. He said,

524
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know who the number one

525
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 1: song is. No one did because I wanted to go

526
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 1: on and tweet, and you know what, I texted you too,

527
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:10,240
Speaker 1: and I texted you so vaguely and I was like, dude,

528
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 1: you demand because I knew at that I just knew

529
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,000
Speaker 1: it was at number one at that point, and he wouldn't.

530
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 1: He responded, Hey, thanks, And I didn't want to even

531
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 1: say congrats in the number one in case more song track.

532
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,720
Speaker 1: We were so nervous, man. So you finally hear it

533
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:28,200
Speaker 1: the where do you hear that? Your number? So we

534
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:31,240
Speaker 1: were in Baltimore, Chris's hometown when we're pushing for number

535
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 1: one that night, and somebody walked out on stage and said,

536
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 1: low Cash just hit number one, and I was like,

537
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:42,080
Speaker 1: did we were one? We weren't. We had just finished.

538
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:43,640
Speaker 1: We got off stage, and I think Little Big Talent

539
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:45,919
Speaker 1: was getting ready to go on stage and the radio

540
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,640
Speaker 1: personality walks on stage and says, low Cash just hit

541
00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:52,800
Speaker 1: number one, but what they did, I mean, we did

542
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,960
Speaker 1: hit number one, but it would flip flop back and forth.

543
00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,679
Speaker 1: So the news they got was accurate. It was not

544
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 1: written in five minutes. Yeah, it was gonna keep flipping

545
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:05,520
Speaker 1: and flopping all night long. And so and you gotta

546
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 1: go by West Coast time, so it's gonna go till

547
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,320
Speaker 1: because they had the last day midnight, midnight? Is it

548
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:15,360
Speaker 1: until three o'clock? Yes, Eastern, And so we're like, ah,

549
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 1: so we're in Baltimore. We're sort of starting to hug,

550
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:21,639
Speaker 1: but we're not sure yet and we don't want to

551
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,639
Speaker 1: jinx it. So we talked to the record label that

552
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:26,320
Speaker 1: night and they said, we can't give you any kind

553
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,639
Speaker 1: of confirmation. We're gonna have to wait till in the

554
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 1: morning because they reconcile these spins, and each label has

555
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 1: a chance, has like two hours to reconcile fine lost spins,

556
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:40,160
Speaker 1: miss spins kind of thing, lost votes kind of thing.

557
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 1: And so I finally just went to sleep, and I

558
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:47,359
Speaker 1: had my wife and my kid with me, and Chris

559
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:50,480
Speaker 1: had his wife and his two kids with him, and uh,

560
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:52,640
Speaker 1: we're staying it like a holiday in or whatever. We're

561
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 1: just waiting and about nine o'clock in the morning, we

562
00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 1: get a phone call and the label is like, can

563
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:00,919
Speaker 1: we get on three way? Real serious voice, and I

564
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 1: was like, oh boy, here we go. We got number two,

565
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 1: you know, and uh And so I get Chris on

566
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:11,199
Speaker 1: the phone and Gators are Gator Michael's is ahead of

567
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,879
Speaker 1: our radio team, and he says, he says, guys, after

568
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:19,159
Speaker 1: the reconciliation came in, you got number one. And I

569
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 1: mean I just lost it. Man. I was with my

570
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 1: wife and my kid and my daughter's ten months old,

571
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 1: and like, that's the first real hug I think I

572
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 1: ever like felt her give me and she just knew,

573
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 1: you know, it was awesome. Okay, let me ask you this.

574
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 1: Let's go back a step and let's go over to

575
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:44,640
Speaker 1: I Love This Life because this song hit two. And

576
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 1: the weird thing about this, man, it was such a

577
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 1: long process because and I don't want to go through

578
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 1: the whole where you're like, oh, thank you, thank you,

579
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:52,560
Speaker 1: thank you, You're welcome, okay. And I didn't even do it.

580
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 1: I didn't even know you guys. I didn't even do

581
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 1: it because I was like pressent there my boys. I

582
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:58,879
Speaker 1: did it because of such a positive song. It was

583
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 1: insane what you did, it was incredible. Blah blah blah.

584
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 1: I played the song, then everybody got this is the key.

585
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 1: I get too much credit for breaking artists and songs

586
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 1: because all I do is go, hey, everybody, look at this.

587
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 1: That's what I do. I don't make them number one.

588
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 1: I just take them and go, hey, everybody, please pay

589
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,640
Speaker 1: attention to something that I think is good. I don't

590
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 1: I don't write the song, all things songs, and I

591
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 1: don't do anything. I just say everybody, please pay attention.

592
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:25,919
Speaker 1: But your voice is so big, and your voice is

593
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 1: so and when I say big, I mean it reaches

594
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 1: so many people. And and that's what you know. Chris

595
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:34,359
Speaker 1: and I have just been out there grinding, like you said,

596
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:39,160
Speaker 1: just you know, like we felt like we never had

597
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 1: a fair shot at radio. We just felt like we

598
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 1: never did and and that's what kept us going. We

599
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 1: could wake up in the morning and say, hey, we

600
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 1: haven't had a fair shot. If we get a fair

601
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: shot at radio and it doesn't work, we can walk

602
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: away and say we gave it our best and we

603
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 1: had our best shot, but we just never did. And

604
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden one morning and laying in

605
00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 1: the bus and I'm a lead and it's like I

606
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe seven o'clock, eight o'clock in the morning,

607
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 1: and Chris runs on the bus, throws open the curtain

608
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 1: to my bond, shakes me and says, pe you gotta

609
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 1: wake up. And I seriously thought something really bad at happened.

610
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 1: I thought somebody got hurt. I didn't know, you know,

611
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 1: you wake up scared to death, set up, hit my

612
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 1: head on the bunk ahead of me. You know, I'm like, boom,

613
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what's going on? He goes, I think

614
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,000
Speaker 1: Bobby Bone is just played I Love this Life. It was,

615
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: and like you said, it was just honestly like one

616
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: of those things we had never talked before, and here

617
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, in all of America, I

618
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 1: Love this Life is on the air, and it was

619
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 1: just like that moment. It was like VH one. Behind

620
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 1: the music, it was like boom, it just changed for me.

621
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:48,000
Speaker 1: I heard it and I was like, man, this is

622
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 1: such a positive song. And then it's also gotta be good,

623
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 1: like there are two levels to it, like got I

624
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 1: don't have to like the message. The message has to resonate.

625
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 1: It is. There are songs that I'm just like, man,

626
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 1: that's it's kind of a gross message, but growth messages

627
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 1: are part of life. And does this, you know, does

628
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 1: it resonate? And then is there a good song? I

629
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 1: was like, this is a good song and nobody's playing

630
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 1: it and it's a positive song. So I throw in

631
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 1: the dance party and then I kept playing it and

632
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 1: then just other people it just opened eyes. Like I

633
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 1: didn't do anything, I mean open the world's eyes. And

634
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 1: then you guys are on a small label. It's not

635
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: like you guys have a million dollar budget to go

636
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: out and promote all this everywhere. And I've never seen

637
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: a tiny little team scramble like they did that morning.

638
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 1: Phones were ringing everybody, and then all of a sudden,

639
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 1: they were like, I think Bobby wants you to call

640
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,479
Speaker 1: into the show. And we were like, because then had

641
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 1: climbed so much on the on the iTunes, that's we're

642
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:43,320
Speaker 1: trying not to like sound too crazy, like we're like screaming,

643
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 1: and then we're like, okay, we gotta play it cool man.

644
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 1: We're about to be on Bobby Bones show. We're like

645
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 1: trying to get together hear you say that now, because

646
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 1: they buddies. It's so weird to even think that in

647
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 1: your head. We were in a gust of Georgia. I

648
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,240
Speaker 1: know right where the bus was parked. I'll never forget it.

649
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 1: And so we're sitting there on my phone on speaker phone,

650
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 1: and you're like, guys, do you live on Bobby Bones Show?

651
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 1: So don't cuss, don't say anything crazy, And I'm like,

652
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 1: the morning you have to say that, because in the morning,

653
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: most artist it's not time to wake up yet. And

654
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 1: in that moment, we just want to yell all kinds

655
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 1: of words. We're just going crazy, like this is wild.

656
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you said that, and so um, and

657
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 1: the phone call was over, and I'm like Chris and

658
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 1: I are looking at like did we talk? I don't

659
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 1: know if we did. We just talk on the air.

660
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 1: I don't know if we did. Did we And did

661
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 1: we say the right things? I don't even know. We're

662
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 1: like hugging and high fiving. And that was just the

663
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 1: beginning My only point of that whole call too, because

664
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 1: I remember going, hey see if we can get those

665
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 1: guys on the phone, like find their number. At the point,

666
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 1: this guy the only time we had ever spoken. You

667
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 1: may not remember this because I have a story about

668
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: when we first met to But the only time we've

669
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 1: ever spoken is when I first moved to Nashville. We

670
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 1: did Oklahoma City Relief and you called into the show

671
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: when you guys were toil LoCash Cowboys and you were like,

672
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 1: hey were doing did the guitar? And I was like,

673
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 1: who the crap is? Honestly, like, who the crap is?

674
00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 1: LoCash Cowboys? And who's gonna been on this guitar? But they,

675
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:03,239
Speaker 1: you know, thank you for sending the guitar. That's so

676
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, get them on the phone because

677
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: I want to see, like how they feel about this song,

678
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,479
Speaker 1: like like what did they write it? I don't think

679
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 1: about it and then wouldn't do anything they write it?

680
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 1: What's the message? It's climbing up the charts right now?

681
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 1: Do they know this? Like do they know that people

682
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 1: now like this song? It was just happening so fast,

683
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 1: it was so cool. And then we watched it and

684
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: then I remember you guys. Someone called goes Hey low

685
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 1: Cash was gonna sing about you on a CMT commercial

686
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 1: and I was like, I don't know what this means.

687
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 1: So all of a sudden on CMT, it was like, hey,

688
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 1: low Cash, you got a new song called I Love

689
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 1: This Life, and it's like, you know, and I love

690
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 1: the Bobby Bone Show. And I'm like, whoa, whoa, what

691
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: was happening right now? And we still hadn't met. And

692
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 1: to be honestly, I don't even know what you look

693
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 1: like at this time, at this point in my life,

694
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 1: I had no I was just like, it's a great song,

695
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: it's a great message. That's what I'm here for. Keep

696
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 1: playing it didn't know what you look like. I didn't.

697
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:59,239
Speaker 1: I can't get too invested, especially earlier. I can't, And

698
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,719
Speaker 1: so I didn't even look. I didn't look you guys up.

699
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 1: So I'm walking. I don't know if I told you this,

700
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 1: but I'm walking. Maybe it was CRST at the Omni

701
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 1: Hotel and this guy comes up to me and he's

702
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 1: a little bit emotional, and I'm like, somebody's gonna stab

703
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 1: me or give me a big old hugs. I don't

704
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 1: know what it's gonna be, but something, and Nada was

705
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 1: with me. We were going in and he goes, dude,

706
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 1: I just want to thank you. And I'm like, I wonder,

707
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: like what what charity. I mean, really, this is what

708
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 1: I'm thinking. I'm like, yeah, my words probably weren't coming

709
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 1: out right because I'm emotional. And that's when I was

710
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 1: the first time we had met and you were like,

711
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 1: I'm pressed it from low cash and I was like, oh, dude, congratulations.

712
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 1: You know, it's really great to see and you were liked,

713
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 1: and it was just a really cool moment. I'm pulling

714
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: this bag, My bag falls over, it hits like somebody.

715
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 1: You know, it's a total train wreck. But I have

716
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 1: to get the bobby and thank him. And I'm like,

717
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 1: no matter what, I got to catch him for he

718
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: gets on the escalators. We're about to walk on the escalator.

719
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 1: When he goes up, it's over. He's gonna be busy

720
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 1: and I'll never catch him, and then I'll really look

721
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: like a stock or flying up. That's got who's running

722
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 1: up the opposite side of the escalator. That was a

723
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 1: really cool for me because it was so freaking organic.

724
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: I'm glad because once again I walked away like did

725
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:17,959
Speaker 1: I just freak I don't know, because I just wanted

726
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 1: to say things like I happened to. There was nothing

727
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 1: planned about it. I just happened to walk in. You

728
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 1: were right there. I didn't know who you were. And

729
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:27,360
Speaker 1: then I was like and I walked up and I

730
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:29,439
Speaker 1: was like that was really cool, Like that was really cool.

731
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:31,319
Speaker 1: And that was one of those moments where I'm like,

732
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 1: this is why I do this. And sometimes you don't

733
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: want to interrupt somebody, and that's how I was feeling.

734
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 1: I was like, he's on his way towards something, a

735
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:39,880
Speaker 1: meeting in the show or something, and I didn't know

736
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 1: if I should, you know, should even run up and interrupt,

737
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 1: but I was like I have to because this is

738
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 1: the guy that that turned America onto us on the air.

739
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: And I was like, no matter what this comes off, like,

740
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:53,360
Speaker 1: no matter if my bag falls over and I'm a

741
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:56,399
Speaker 1: train wreck, I gotta go over there and say thank you.

742
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:59,799
Speaker 1: And that was, you know I. So let's go to

743
00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:03,800
Speaker 1: this song. So it it hits a number two before

744
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: this song? What was your highest charting song? Uh, well,

745
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:08,359
Speaker 1: we had we were on a record label called Strout

746
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:12,359
Speaker 1: of various years ago, like oh, eight oh nine, two

747
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:13,839
Speaker 1: thousand ten right in there, and we had a song

748
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 1: called keep in Mind that got to number thirty two,

749
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:21,719
Speaker 1: I think, and the record label that's it. That's the song.

750
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 1: What song, so keep in mind and the one that

751
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 1: I love the song. So this song OFFENSI story. I

752
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:49,320
Speaker 1: just wanted to play it while you were telling it.

753
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,800
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Steele and Shane Miner wrote that song. Jeffrey Steele

754
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:56,880
Speaker 1: was and still is a huge like mentor big brother

755
00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:00,080
Speaker 1: everything to us, and he believed when nobody did it

756
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,879
Speaker 1: way back in oh eight, you know, and Uh took

757
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,760
Speaker 1: us to his studio and we started writing songs together,

758
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 1: and he just kept telling us, through all the highs

759
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 1: and the lows, you gotta keep writing songs no matter what.

760
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 1: Just keep writing throughout all the good, throughout all the bad,

761
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 1: and and your and your little diamonds will be at

762
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 1: the end of that. You know, you'll have this little

763
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 1: pile of songs. Some of them will suck, you know,

764
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 1: like a lot of them will suck, but there'll be

765
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 1: this little handful of songs that will be special and

766
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:31,799
Speaker 1: real and they'll be the ones. And so, Uh one

767
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:34,359
Speaker 1: day we were at his studio and we overheard him

768
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:37,839
Speaker 1: say that Rascal Flats might be recording and keep in mind,

769
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 1: and we just looked at him and we said, nobody's

770
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: ever given us a song like this or giving us

771
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 1: a shot to record it, and we feel like we

772
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:49,440
Speaker 1: could record this, will you give it to us? And

773
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 1: he kept it and took it off hold from all

774
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 1: the other artists and let us record it. And I mean,

775
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,919
Speaker 1: that's the number one for anybody, a multi week number

776
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 1: one for anybody, but for low cash. Uh, and this

777
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 1: little label we were on, it was a shot. It

778
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:04,800
Speaker 1: was it was a chance, and it got us to

779
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,919
Speaker 1: thirty two, and um, it could have went a lot higher,

780
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 1: but the record label closed at thirty two. And while

781
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:12,440
Speaker 1: we had a bullet and we're going up the charts,

782
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 1: the record label shut down for other budgeting reasons and

783
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 1: we got left hanging right there at thirty two. So

784
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 1: thirty two was your highest to that point ever And

785
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 1: so once I love this life hit stop twenty Is

786
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 1: that a celebration? Oh my gosh, everything was a celebration

787
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: like forty was. And I'll tell you what when I'll

788
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 1: tell you what was a real celebration for us. We

789
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: were going down the highway and uh and Gator Michael's

790
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 1: was driving the car and he looked back and he says, hey, guys,

791
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: your song just went to thirty one. For me, that

792
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 1: was that moment, that was that threshold, and it was like, Okay,

793
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 1: it's a new world. It's a new shot at thirty

794
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 1: and then and then twenty, and like you said, you know,

795
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:58,279
Speaker 1: it's a celebration that every tier. You're like, okay, the

796
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 1: new goal is you know, ninet, and then fifteen and

797
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 1: then ten and all bets are off at ten. But

798
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 1: I mean it's like Nascar. All these cars are just

799
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: zooming as fast as they can. They've all made pit

800
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 1: stops and and and when I say cars, I mean songs.

801
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 1: But here we here you are on the top ten

802
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 1: and you're up there with people like Luke Bryan and

803
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 1: Kenny Chesny and it is legit, it's real, and everybody's

804
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:23,320
Speaker 1: gunning for that number one slot and you don't know

805
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. You're just like praying. So whenever it

806
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 1: doesn't hit number one and it's a two, is there

807
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 1: a disappointment there? Um? I think there was a disappointment

808
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,840
Speaker 1: and die happy. Man just didn't die quick enough. You

809
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 1: got The timing was awful. The Song of the Year

810
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,280
Speaker 1: was out at the same time, and we were number

811
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 1: one on Monday, and then he moved in it on

812
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:49,799
Speaker 1: Tuesday and never left for like weeks, and we stayed

813
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:53,359
Speaker 1: at number two the entire time, which is a huge

814
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 1: success for us to just remain right there with him,

815
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 1: but we couldn't overtake him. It was a powerful song.

816
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 1: It was a song or the year. And so at

817
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 1: the Cmas, which we didn't watch because we're watching the game,

818
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 1: it was one. But here's the thing, and this is

819
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 1: you're funny you talked about two. I was doing the

820
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 1: story about Olympians when they win medals, and so I'm

821
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 1: only the psychology of sports as well. The gold medal

822
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 1: people are always happy or they're not, you know whatever

823
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:19,880
Speaker 1: for me. For me, I don't like to win. I

824
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,880
Speaker 1: just hate losing. So I'm I'm a nut case anyway.

825
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:25,240
Speaker 1: But what they found was the gold medal winners were happy,

826
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 1: the silver medal people were very unhappy, and the bronze

827
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: medal people were super happy. And now here's why the

828
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 1: gold medal people won. The silver medal people felt like

829
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 1: I was so close to winning that I should have

830
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 1: won if I would have just worked harder, So they

831
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 1: didn't have that in their heart of like what I did.

832
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 1: And the bronze was like man, I'm happy to be here,

833
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 1: like I wasn't gonna pitch first, and so just being

834
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 1: on the stand as an honor, and they found that

835
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:56,880
Speaker 1: it was gold, bronze, silver in that order in happiness.

836
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:58,880
Speaker 1: I mean that in our world, that's kind of like

837
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 1: top five too and one. Yeah, like I can see

838
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 1: how somebody would achieve a top five and say we

839
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 1: did it top five when we roll out, but for us,

840
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:10,359
Speaker 1: we got so close. I mean it was right there.

841
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 1: And but you know what, I Love his Life feels

842
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:15,399
Speaker 1: like a number one song. To me. It's the most

843
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:18,439
Speaker 1: powerful song in our set every night to this day

844
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:20,879
Speaker 1: when we go out and we sing, I mean, it's

845
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:23,799
Speaker 1: the last song of the show every night. There's no

846
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 1: other place for I Love this Life to sit because

847
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:30,360
Speaker 1: it's the one that you know, that introduced us to

848
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:34,759
Speaker 1: America as well as it's still has this thing that

849
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:38,960
Speaker 1: changes people's day. Like it's just a smile. So that's

850
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 1: how I just said, like it makes you smile, hands

851
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 1: go up, smiles come over the faces, and uh, and

852
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:49,200
Speaker 1: we leave the stage feeling like we've you know, you know,

853
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: kind of gave him a really positive message. Who'd you

854
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:57,319
Speaker 1: write that song with? Chris Danny Myrick was there, and

855
00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:58,719
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. We were trying to write an

856
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 1: anthem for Garth. We heard he was cutting. We're like,

857
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 1: let's write an anthem for Garth. What would Garth say?

858
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:05,280
Speaker 1: And we're like he'd get out there with a fist

859
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:07,839
Speaker 1: and and be like, I love this life, you know.

860
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 1: And so we started. We made a laundry list of

861
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:12,399
Speaker 1: all the things we loved, and we're like, let's keep

862
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:14,759
Speaker 1: this simple, let's just not even think about this. What

863
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 1: are the things we love? And we just made a

864
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:20,480
Speaker 1: list and then we sort of formulated and it in

865
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 1: versus and named it I love this life. And we're like,

866
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 1: when you finished, okay. So I know a lot of

867
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:29,319
Speaker 1: artists were writing for Garth at the time when he

868
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 1: was It was like he was taking emails like you

869
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 1: just take the song and you get to him, and

870
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 1: they would listen to everything. So did you what are

871
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 1: you disappointed that Garth didn't? Yeah? First, I was like, dang,

872
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:45,399
Speaker 1: I thought maybe we had something there, And and we

873
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:47,839
Speaker 1: were already doing it live and Chris and I take

874
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: songs onto the stage and just sing them just to

875
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 1: see what the reaction is like. And uh, we were

876
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 1: watching every night and the crowds were like, already going crazy.

877
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 1: I've never ever heard it on the radio, and their

878
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 1: hands are up, they're feeling good. And our tour manager

879
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,359
Speaker 1: was like, I'm telling you guys, there's something special about

880
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 1: this song. And I kind of blow it off and

881
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 1: go to the bus. So I was kind of disappointed

882
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:10,880
Speaker 1: when I heard that Garth, you know, um didn't cut it,

883
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,400
Speaker 1: and I don't even know if he really heard it,

884
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:18,280
Speaker 1: who knows, but another artist supposedly had it on hold,

885
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 1: and it was on a stronghold, and um, you know,

886
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:26,919
Speaker 1: as songwriters, we were all banking on that to be

887
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 1: good for us. We're all like, that could be good

888
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:32,919
Speaker 1: for us. We all get a paycheck. And so when

889
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:34,600
Speaker 1: we got our record, we didn't have a record deal,

890
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 1: and so when we got a record deal, all of

891
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 1: a sudden, the record levels is we want to make

892
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 1: I Love This Life the single, and we were like,

893
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:44,000
Speaker 1: Chris kind of looks at me, He's like, maybe you

894
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:48,280
Speaker 1: should take it off hold, And I was like, well,

895
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:52,239
Speaker 1: if it's gonna be for another artist, it's probably bad form,

896
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 1: but maybe with a shot for us as the songwriters,

897
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 1: you're gonna take it off hold from artists A to

898
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:00,440
Speaker 1: give it to artist B. That's probably not cold. Yeah,

899
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 1: if you're taking it off, hold for yourself when you

900
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 1: wrote it, because you have a new project that's a

901
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: little more excut. That's a little different because now it's like,

902
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,960
Speaker 1: wait a minute, we sort of have the trump card

903
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:13,239
Speaker 1: on a on a song that we write, and so

904
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:15,320
Speaker 1: when we you know, we had to call Jansen and

905
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: we had to call Danny and say, guys, I think

906
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:19,920
Speaker 1: we're gonna keep the song for ourselves, which a bit

907
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:22,279
Speaker 1: for them is gonna be disappointing. Yeah, you never know,

908
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 1: they want a big artist to have it because listen,

909
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 1: just playing here, it's gonna be me for a second,

910
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 1: like I want little cash cutting a song a big

911
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:32,520
Speaker 1: artist can cut at the time, you know, would you Yeah,

912
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 1: I mean I've been there. I mean it's like, oh gosh,

913
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:38,360
Speaker 1: what do we do? But you know, man, Jansen is

914
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,720
Speaker 1: one of our brothers. He's like, he's our best friend

915
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:44,320
Speaker 1: in music. And uh, those guys after after we talked

916
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 1: it out, everybody understood we just wanted a shot, and

917
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,279
Speaker 1: so we all kind of rolled with it. And I

918
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:51,360
Speaker 1: think everyone send it up big prayers and cross some

919
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 1: fingers and toes and uh. Now you look back on

920
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 1: it and you're like, wow, what a great decision we

921
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 1: all made. That's awesome, dude, dude, and here you are

922
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 1: praying the guards. You know, wise man once said some

923
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 1: of God's great it's gifts, and guards said that. Alright.

924
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:12,239
Speaker 1: So I love this life goes the number two. It

925
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:14,319
Speaker 1: puts you by the way. I'll say this now with

926
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 1: I love this life and I know somebody, you guys

927
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 1: are now real players in the game. With one song,

928
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 1: you're not a real player. You're okay, cool the head

929
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 1: of song. With two songs in a row, you automatically

930
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 1: get that third. Everybody gives you the benefit of the

931
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 1: down the third song. Just don't make the third song

932
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 1: suck yet, you know. I mean, that's the goal. But

933
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 1: the first make the first song amazing. Yeah, that's what

934
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 1: the plan is on. The second song is okay, cool,

935
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 1: we have a little ans, let's follow it up. The

936
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 1: third one is we're going to get the benefit of

937
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:44,680
Speaker 1: the doubt. Just don't song. Do you feel that? I

938
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 1: feel that, and it's like, just don't mess this up.

939
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:51,319
Speaker 1: This is the moment, and you know, everybody, I feel

940
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 1: like we have a really um solid album. We're getting

941
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 1: a lot of feedback on different songs. People are like,

942
00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:00,439
Speaker 1: I think this should be your third song, about playing

943
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:02,239
Speaker 1: a different song I shouldn't have played. Hey, I don't

944
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:05,440
Speaker 1: even care what you play because I'm all about I

945
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 1: love it that you went deep into the album and

946
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 1: found a cut that is important to us. That song

947
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 1: is so important to us, and who knows you may

948
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:17,719
Speaker 1: have willed it into being a single eventually. Who knows

949
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:19,920
Speaker 1: the one that I played before we played the next single?

950
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:22,600
Speaker 1: I heard this song, Oh I no, no. Before I

951
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 1: heard it, I just looking at the tracks and I

952
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 1: was like, God Loves Me More. I don't even know

953
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 1: what this is, but I have to hear the song

954
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:33,760
Speaker 1: because I don't know. My mind as a creative goes, okay,

955
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 1: how would I make this a song? And what's with

956
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:38,279
Speaker 1: the angle? What's the angle of God Loves Me More?

957
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 1: Because it sounds like the most arrogant song I've ever

958
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 1: heard of my It sounds like a terrible song and

959
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:45,400
Speaker 1: its yes, And so I go and I listened to

960
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 1: the song right, And so it's called God Loves Me

961
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 1: More because he gave me angel And I'm like, I

962
00:45:57,080 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 1: got it. Now I'm gonna tell you this. And I

963
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:08,799
Speaker 1: haven't said this on the air, and I won't say

964
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 1: it on the air because it'll put our bait in.

965
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:13,360
Speaker 1: We were placed, but I took this song and I

966
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:16,880
Speaker 1: and the head of my heart Country, the biggest company,

967
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 1: in the biggest format is the guy that was the

968
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 1: guy who moved me to Nashville, like is my number

969
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:28,040
Speaker 1: one like friend confidante, he punched me in the face,

970
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 1: he congratulates me. Um, And I sent him this song.

971
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:32,759
Speaker 1: I was like, dude, this this song of the year,

972
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 1: Like if it's ever, if it's ever a single, it's

973
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:38,160
Speaker 1: this this song of the year potential. I mean, it

974
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 1: feels like I remember sitting in the back of the

975
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:45,320
Speaker 1: bus with Matt Alderman, Uh, Phil Barton, Phil Eric Passley

976
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:46,880
Speaker 1: and I wrote when I Grow Up, the number one

977
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:51,720
Speaker 1: kids song together. He's awesome and uh and so is Phil, Matt,

978
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 1: Chris and me and we're sending back to the bus

979
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:56,960
Speaker 1: and I'll never forget Matt Alderman had the idea and

980
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:00,319
Speaker 1: he goes guys because this idea, and he's just he's

981
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 1: a big old country boy, you know. He's holding his

982
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 1: guitar and he says it's called God loves me more

983
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 1: than you. And I was like, just like you. I

984
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:10,920
Speaker 1: was like just stunned. And then he even said this,

985
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:13,960
Speaker 1: and so before I said yes or no, and I

986
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:18,799
Speaker 1: just said okay, sing sing how this should go? And

987
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 1: he kind of had this twist that God loves me

988
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 1: more than you because he gave me an angel hold

989
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 1: onto and that's all he kind of had. And I

990
00:47:24,719 --> 00:47:29,360
Speaker 1: was like, oh boy, this is this could be amazing.

991
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: And so then we just backed up and said, it's

992
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:34,600
Speaker 1: a redneck love song. It's a country boy who has

993
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 1: no other way to say it, but just like this,

994
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 1: and so we just started. You know, I drank too much,

995
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:41,920
Speaker 1: you know, I fined, I cuss that kind of thing.

996
00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 1: And it worked and I played it on the air

997
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 1: and it went like number forty one. Yes, I was

998
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:52,760
Speaker 1: calling everybody's like new single, guys, let's go. I felt

999
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:54,960
Speaker 1: bad that I played it because I didn't know what

1000
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 1: the new single was. And I was just like, guys,

1001
00:47:57,040 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 1: I heard this low cash song and you have you

1002
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 1: have to just hear it. It's just that good. And

1003
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 1: I played it and I talked to I guess he

1004
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 1: owned your label. Uh. He was like hey, and I

1005
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:13,319
Speaker 1: was walking out of the the stupid c M. As

1006
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 1: I was walking out of the um the interviews of

1007
00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:18,200
Speaker 1: that day and he was like, hey, God loves me

1008
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:20,440
Speaker 1: more went up like five thoent when you pay they do.

1009
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 1: It's a good song. I didn't write it, I didn't

1010
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:23,839
Speaker 1: sing it. I did nothing except go, hey, everybody check

1011
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:27,319
Speaker 1: this out. It already exists. I mean, I love the

1012
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 1: song so much. It could be the single right now,

1013
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:31,719
Speaker 1: and I'd be fine with that. But the single right

1014
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:33,600
Speaker 1: now is ring on Every Finger, which I have to

1015
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 1: admit never heard it. Like, as I'm about to play,

1016
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:37,839
Speaker 1: I've never heard it. You've never heard it, never heard

1017
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:41,000
Speaker 1: the first time. I've never heard one note from this song.

1018
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:44,960
Speaker 1: Because here we go. Now this isn't gonna account because

1019
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:47,120
Speaker 1: it's not the right environment. I have my environment to

1020
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 1: hear that's not the right environment. But I've never So

1021
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 1: here's a little something about ring on Everything, or a

1022
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:56,520
Speaker 1: little backstory. Um Thomas Rhett wrote it with Josh Ker

1023
00:48:56,880 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 1: and Jesse Frasier his team, and they write great songs.

1024
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:03,239
Speaker 1: And we got pitched this song after he had cut

1025
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:05,280
Speaker 1: his album, so I don't think he had it done

1026
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 1: in time for his album. We heard it and we

1027
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:11,320
Speaker 1: were like, this is amazing. So the guy that beats

1028
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:15,560
Speaker 1: you at number one right with die Happy Man we

1029
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 1: just talked about it, has now given you a song

1030
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:21,800
Speaker 1: that's gonna be ay this whole World's dad wrote I

1031
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:25,279
Speaker 1: know somebody, that's right. Rhet wrote I have somebody. Yeah,

1032
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:28,400
Speaker 1: So we're all excited, going, is this gonna be a

1033
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:30,799
Speaker 1: true store? I mean this is crazy, you know, dude.

1034
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:36,160
Speaker 1: This is like a freaking lifetime original CMT combination. All

1035
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:38,719
Speaker 1: here we go ring. This is the hook Mike, So

1036
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get the full effect, which doesn't matter.

1037
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:42,759
Speaker 1: This is our ring on every finger. This is the

1038
00:49:42,760 --> 00:50:00,080
Speaker 1: new Locust single thing my last name just seeing in

1039
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:06,000
Speaker 1: the world. Oh that's a cool I like that. That

1040
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:09,839
Speaker 1: just just melodically speaking. Yeah, because I need to hear

1041
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:11,800
Speaker 1: the all song and it's got the Thomas Hrett energy

1042
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 1: for sure. I can hear the Thomas in the Yeah,

1043
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:18,279
Speaker 1: that's cool. Yeah, it's okay. That's the new single. Don't

1044
00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 1: a lot about it. I'm not gonna talk a lot

1045
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:21,799
Speaker 1: about it. So that's the new single. I'm sure what

1046
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:23,919
Speaker 1: we're talking about that a lot in the future. Yeah,

1047
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 1: let's let's go back. So I want to go back

1048
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 1: to whenever people that have been around town a long

1049
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:34,000
Speaker 1: time talking about you guys, and I'm talking about long timers.

1050
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:36,640
Speaker 1: They're like, you know, no, President, you just do. He's

1051
00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 1: to teach dance classes. And I'm like he did. I

1052
00:50:39,719 --> 00:50:44,839
Speaker 1: didn't know this. I'm like, president us yeah. And then

1053
00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:46,279
Speaker 1: he was like, yeah, we go. He teaching like it

1054
00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: did dancing with the Wild Horse really yep. So when

1055
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 1: I first moved to town, I heard that everybody would

1056
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:54,960
Speaker 1: hang out with the Wild Horse, and so I was like,

1057
00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:56,919
Speaker 1: I didn't know anything about Nashville. So I went down

1058
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,839
Speaker 1: the Second Avenue, went to the Wild Horse, walked in

1059
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:02,959
Speaker 1: and it's kind of buzzing. You know, this is two

1060
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:06,560
Speaker 1: thousand two. I'm in there and the buzzes, you know, rocking.

1061
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:09,280
Speaker 1: There's people dancing, there's lights. It's a big, big nightclub.

1062
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 1: And I'll look over in the DJ hanging out, you know,

1063
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 1: having fun. He's got some girls in the DJ booth.

1064
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:23,279
Speaker 1: He's having fun. Hands up, Chris. So I walk over right.

1065
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:25,520
Speaker 1: So I walk over to the DJ booth and I'm like,

1066
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 1: it looks like you got a cool job. That's how

1067
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:29,799
Speaker 1: you met him, And that's where we met. And he

1068
00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 1: goes he goes, yeah, what are you doing in town?

1069
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:34,880
Speaker 1: He's like, you seem like a new guy around here.

1070
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:37,160
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, man, I just moved here. I don't

1071
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:39,040
Speaker 1: even have a job. And he's like, well, first things first,

1072
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:41,360
Speaker 1: you're gonna need a job. And I was like really,

1073
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 1: because I saved a little bit money and I'm just

1074
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 1: gonna Songwright every day, so focused on Songwright. And he goes,

1075
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:48,799
Speaker 1: you're gonna need a job, dude. It takes longer than

1076
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,360
Speaker 1: you know, than what you think. And so I was

1077
00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:53,839
Speaker 1: like okay. So he says, why don't you work here?

1078
00:51:54,080 --> 00:51:56,719
Speaker 1: He says, you have any dancing like background, you could

1079
00:51:56,719 --> 00:51:59,239
Speaker 1: teach line dancing here. It's a fun job, pays well.

1080
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 1: Dancing background. Yeah. So so Chris and I both have

1081
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:08,120
Speaker 1: dancing background. So, um, like viacom and like v H

1082
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 1: one and MTV would fly us to New York City

1083
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:13,399
Speaker 1: and have us do like hip hop clinics and all

1084
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:15,839
Speaker 1: kinds of stuff. Where did you learn to dance? Because

1085
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:17,680
Speaker 1: it sounds like you've been trained to dance, but I

1086
00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:21,000
Speaker 1: never had to dance lesson in my life. But um,

1087
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 1: dancing just one of things down right, I mean, throw

1088
00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:27,759
Speaker 1: some cardboard down with the boom box man, we're good

1089
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 1: to go, So no dance lessons, but you were really

1090
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:31,920
Speaker 1: that good that you would go dance. And Chris was

1091
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:34,920
Speaker 1: the same way, coming from Baltimore. He had breakdancing, and

1092
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:36,440
Speaker 1: so the two of us hit it off. We're like,

1093
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:40,280
Speaker 1: wait a minute, we both like can dance and freestyle

1094
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:43,279
Speaker 1: and have fun, and and we come from the same background.

1095
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:45,879
Speaker 1: We listened to the same music growing up, and so

1096
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:49,000
Speaker 1: we started working together. And they had two microphones, and

1097
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:52,400
Speaker 1: so I would DJ and he would walk out and

1098
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 1: and like being m C and welcome everybody to the

1099
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 1: Wild Horse. There'll be like three thousand people in there,

1100
00:52:57,000 --> 00:52:59,240
Speaker 1: and be like hey everybody, and I'll be playing background

1101
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:01,200
Speaker 1: music on this and then on this machine called the

1102
00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:04,000
Speaker 1: Instant Replay. So I'm like dropping like Magnum p I

1103
00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:07,920
Speaker 1: music or whatever, like thank Chris is out there talking

1104
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:10,960
Speaker 1: and it's the show. Two man show. And then the

1105
00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:13,120
Speaker 1: next break, I would go out with the mike and

1106
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:14,840
Speaker 1: Chris would be the DJ, and he would put on,

1107
00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:17,160
Speaker 1: you know, like the music to Three's Company, and I'd

1108
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:19,719
Speaker 1: go walking out and we had this little thing going.

1109
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:22,440
Speaker 1: And then one day we got bored and we're like,

1110
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:26,440
Speaker 1: you know what, there's two mics. Well, let's just press

1111
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:28,759
Speaker 1: play on the instant replay and then we'll just walk

1112
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:32,720
Speaker 1: out together and we'll just start you know, hosting together.

1113
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:35,000
Speaker 1: So we walked out together, and the jokes got funnier

1114
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:38,200
Speaker 1: and the timing got better, and we started picking on

1115
00:53:38,239 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 1: people in the crowd, and then one of us would

1116
00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:42,640
Speaker 1: save the person the other one was picking on. You know,

1117
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:44,759
Speaker 1: we kind of had this little team thing going and

1118
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:48,600
Speaker 1: it was a lot like almost like a rat pack

1119
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:52,359
Speaker 1: kind of comedy. It was just fun and Costello, right,

1120
00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:54,960
Speaker 1: it was like the Smothers brothers. So we go out

1121
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:56,839
Speaker 1: and just have a good time, and then we would

1122
00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:59,359
Speaker 1: teach a line dance lesson at the end of the night,

1123
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 1: and people learn a line dance lesson, and we would

1124
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:04,439
Speaker 1: make the line dances because we came from like hip

1125
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:08,480
Speaker 1: hop breakdancing, we would make the line dances a little

1126
00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:12,279
Speaker 1: extra cool, so you weren't doing the old you know,

1127
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 1: the old school thing. Just give it a fresh edge.

1128
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:18,400
Speaker 1: And so it worked, and the numbers started growing and

1129
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:22,680
Speaker 1: the wild Horse was just exploding. And then we made

1130
00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:26,960
Speaker 1: eight by tens with like two of a picture of us. Oh,

1131
00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:29,400
Speaker 1: just a sign, like a picture of just like like

1132
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:32,239
Speaker 1: a head shop two guys on it, the guys from

1133
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:35,759
Speaker 1: the Wild Horse. So we gave the merchandise store the

1134
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 1: pictures what was the name on the bottom of the

1135
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:40,799
Speaker 1: christ and pressing. I mean that's all we had. We know,

1136
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:43,359
Speaker 1: nothing else, like you couldn't come up. But then right,

1137
00:54:43,520 --> 00:54:49,920
Speaker 1: the boys anything and so well. And then at one

1138
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 1: point we're like, we should call ourselves nash Vegas. And

1139
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 1: because at the time that was like the term around here,

1140
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 1: they were like, no, that's kind of dumb, and so

1141
00:54:57,600 --> 00:54:59,720
Speaker 1: we didn't do it. So we just wanted Christen Press

1142
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:01,839
Speaker 1: and we gave the merchandise store this eight by ten

1143
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:06,120
Speaker 1: and uh they sold out or like, well, that's kind

1144
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:09,719
Speaker 1: of cool, and so we ordered more pictures. And then

1145
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:11,880
Speaker 1: we were like, I wonder if like we were already

1146
00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:13,520
Speaker 1: starting a song write with people in town, because we

1147
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:15,719
Speaker 1: knew we wanted to be a duo, but you know,

1148
00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:18,600
Speaker 1: you kind of gotta learn. And so we were writing

1149
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:22,359
Speaker 1: with people and stuff, and we wrote the song and

1150
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:25,719
Speaker 1: called an Unordinary Day. Nobody's probably ever heard it. And

1151
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:28,279
Speaker 1: so we take this song, we write this song, and

1152
00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:31,719
Speaker 1: we record it, we demo it like over on Demo Hill,

1153
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:34,439
Speaker 1: you know, so we demo the song and we burn

1154
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:38,200
Speaker 1: CDs on our MacBook, on our laptop in the DJ

1155
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:40,680
Speaker 1: booth and we're selling them. We make up a line

1156
00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:42,880
Speaker 1: dance to it, and we're like, dude, I think we

1157
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:45,480
Speaker 1: can sell these for like four up your own line

1158
00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:47,080
Speaker 1: dance to see that's what I'm talking about. That's how

1159
00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:49,080
Speaker 1: you do it. We made up our own dance to

1160
00:55:49,160 --> 00:55:52,919
Speaker 1: our own song. Unting of Nashville. You created your own

1161
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:56,240
Speaker 1: to The line was out the door for these CDs.

1162
00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:58,800
Speaker 1: I couldn't burn them fast enough. I was like pop

1163
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 1: a CD in and then just to be like, in

1164
00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:03,759
Speaker 1: thirty seconds, your CD has done. It's like a microwave.

1165
00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:08,040
Speaker 1: And they were hot in my hand while I'm like

1166
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:10,080
Speaker 1: writing on it. We didn't have a picture on them.

1167
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:13,920
Speaker 1: I would just write christ and Preston on ordinary day

1168
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:17,040
Speaker 1: and hand it to him for five bucks. And and

1169
00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:18,960
Speaker 1: it was happening so fast. I was taking the money

1170
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:21,080
Speaker 1: and throwing it in a drawer. I wouldn't even look.

1171
00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:22,560
Speaker 1: And at the end of the night I would open

1172
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:24,960
Speaker 1: up the drawer. Room was just full of five dollar bills.

1173
00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:27,880
Speaker 1: I mean just full. And that stuff adds up quick

1174
00:56:28,320 --> 00:56:31,080
Speaker 1: when you're living on I can tell you when I

1175
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:33,920
Speaker 1: weighed tables. Does one dollar build that up quick? I

1176
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:36,440
Speaker 1: mean we needed that, you know. And then some nights

1177
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:38,160
Speaker 1: I would work alone or Chris would work alone. We

1178
00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:40,719
Speaker 1: called you a bit. Do we selling the CDs and night? Yeah? Man,

1179
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:45,000
Speaker 1: like three packs from Walgreens, you know, like we're selling packs.

1180
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:50,239
Speaker 1: That's how we just yeah, and so we so we're

1181
00:56:50,239 --> 00:56:55,080
Speaker 1: selling pictures, were selling CDs and then dream Works calls

1182
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:58,359
Speaker 1: and says we want to sign you guys, and so

1183
00:56:58,560 --> 00:57:00,000
Speaker 1: we go to dream Work. Did you have a name

1184
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:03,960
Speaker 1: at this point, Christen prisses. So we go to DreamWorks

1185
00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 1: and we sit down with them and James Stroud was

1186
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:09,320
Speaker 1: the head of the label, and we were so nervous.

1187
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:12,840
Speaker 1: The night before we learned nine songs to be ready

1188
00:57:12,880 --> 00:57:14,560
Speaker 1: to audition because we didn't know what to expect. We

1189
00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:17,440
Speaker 1: didn't have a demo other than this one song. So

1190
00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 1: we go to DreamWorks and we walk into the office

1191
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:23,880
Speaker 1: and uh, and the general manager of the whole label says,

1192
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:25,640
Speaker 1: you know what, I've seen enough. I was at the

1193
00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:28,720
Speaker 1: Wild Horse the other night. I saw it. I'm ready

1194
00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:31,080
Speaker 1: to sign you guys, and I was like, well, what

1195
00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:33,400
Speaker 1: can we sing for you? But we worked up some songs.

1196
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 1: It's the opposite of what happens in every room ever, right,

1197
00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 1: And so I said, um, it was a guy named

1198
00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:41,560
Speaker 1: Wayne Helper. I said, can we sing a song for you?

1199
00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:43,840
Speaker 1: Because we worked a song up and I'm kind of

1200
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:45,480
Speaker 1: proud of this and we're ready for this moment. We

1201
00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:49,040
Speaker 1: set up all night and he says, no, I don't

1202
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 1: need you to sing a song. I've seen enough and

1203
00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:54,160
Speaker 1: we'll take this in and we'll we'll, you know, find

1204
00:57:54,160 --> 00:57:55,920
Speaker 1: some songs for you guys, and will make this happen.

1205
00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:59,120
Speaker 1: I said, Wayne, Uh, we would like to sing for you.

1206
00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:02,200
Speaker 1: And so he's like, and he looks at our manager

1207
00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:04,120
Speaker 1: at the time. He says, I would highly advise they

1208
00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:06,680
Speaker 1: don't sing right now because they could mess this up actually,

1209
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:09,919
Speaker 1: And so she was like, I say, let him, saying

1210
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:12,200
Speaker 1: they they're determined they want to sing. So we're saying

1211
00:58:12,240 --> 00:58:14,960
Speaker 1: like five songs and he listened to all of them

1212
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:17,000
Speaker 1: and he still gave us a record deal and it

1213
00:58:17,080 --> 00:58:20,920
Speaker 1: was awesome and uh, but then Steven Spielberg sold uh

1214
00:58:21,080 --> 00:58:23,960
Speaker 1: DreamWorks before we could ever get in the studio. So, okay,

1215
00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:26,640
Speaker 1: did you come up with the name then? Though, no,

1216
00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:29,400
Speaker 1: it was just a little bit after that deal. We

1217
00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:32,040
Speaker 1: lost our deal with DreamWorks, and uh, it was like

1218
00:58:32,080 --> 00:58:35,400
Speaker 1: Tracy Lawrence, Shelley, Tennyson, Emerson Drive. All of us got

1219
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:38,960
Speaker 1: cut the same day, and we're like, Okay, that's all right,

1220
00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:41,040
Speaker 1: We'll just go get another record deal. We're just gonna

1221
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:43,800
Speaker 1: go do this again. But it wasn't that easy the

1222
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:46,960
Speaker 1: second time around, and we were knocking on doors and

1223
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:50,040
Speaker 1: we were begging, working hard and doing showcases and all that,

1224
00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:52,360
Speaker 1: and it just wasn't working. So that's when we realized

1225
00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:54,800
Speaker 1: we needed to pack our bags, pack up the cheap

1226
00:58:54,880 --> 00:58:57,760
Speaker 1: Cherokee and put the U haul on the back and

1227
00:58:57,800 --> 00:59:01,200
Speaker 1: just go to shows and and and learn earn, yeah,

1228
00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:03,680
Speaker 1: how to how to be a duo. So you go,

1229
00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:06,680
Speaker 1: you go play? Are you Christen? I'm so enamored when

1230
00:59:06,720 --> 00:59:08,880
Speaker 1: with them in the name? Who came up with the

1231
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:10,600
Speaker 1: name and when it came out? Okay, So back in

1232
00:59:10,640 --> 00:59:13,920
Speaker 1: the day in Cocomo, Indiana where I'm from, it was

1233
00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:16,000
Speaker 1: me and my high school buddies we had this thing

1234
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:19,920
Speaker 1: called Low Cash Money Boys, and um, we call ourselves

1235
00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:22,520
Speaker 1: l c MB, Low Cash Money Boys, and you had

1236
00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:25,160
Speaker 1: to be like initiated. You had to get a nickname,

1237
00:59:25,720 --> 00:59:27,920
Speaker 1: and it was like a little fraternity high school fraternity,

1238
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:31,640
Speaker 1: and we low Cash was kind of a figure of speech,

1239
00:59:32,120 --> 00:59:34,760
Speaker 1: if you could, because none of us had very much money.

1240
00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:36,440
Speaker 1: So if something really cool would happen, we'd be like

1241
00:59:36,520 --> 00:59:39,000
Speaker 1: that was so low cash, high five and be like

1242
00:59:39,040 --> 00:59:41,520
Speaker 1: that's awesome. And so that's how low Cash kind of

1243
00:59:41,520 --> 00:59:44,919
Speaker 1: came to be. So while we're out in my jeep

1244
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:48,080
Speaker 1: Cherokee with the U haul, I tell Chris, I said, man,

1245
00:59:49,080 --> 00:59:50,480
Speaker 1: you know up in Cookemo, I want you to meet

1246
00:59:50,480 --> 00:59:52,840
Speaker 1: my buddies when we when we play Cookemo. He says okay.

1247
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:56,120
Speaker 1: So he meets everybody and he says, um, uh, these

1248
00:59:56,120 --> 00:59:58,120
Speaker 1: guys are pretty cool. This is pretty cool little crew

1249
00:59:58,120 --> 01:00:00,640
Speaker 1: of dudes. And I said, yeah, you should be in

1250
01:00:00,720 --> 01:00:02,560
Speaker 1: the low cash family with us. We'll give you a

1251
01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:05,440
Speaker 1: nickname everything. So we give him a nickname and everything.

1252
01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:08,000
Speaker 1: Chris says, he gives the you know, the light bulb.

1253
01:00:08,120 --> 01:00:12,280
Speaker 1: He's like, we should be the country boys of Low Cash.

1254
01:00:12,320 --> 01:00:14,440
Speaker 1: And I was like, because the meaning is just never

1255
01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:16,880
Speaker 1: forgetting where you're from. It's not about being poor. It's

1256
01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:20,000
Speaker 1: about cool stuff happening for next to nothing, best things

1257
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:22,320
Speaker 1: in life for free kind of attitude. So Chris says,

1258
01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:24,680
Speaker 1: we should be the country boys low cash, and I

1259
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:27,040
Speaker 1: was like, I love that. So then we were like,

1260
01:00:27,120 --> 01:00:30,720
Speaker 1: let's be a little cash cowboys. And we came back

1261
01:00:30,720 --> 01:00:34,160
Speaker 1: to Nashville and we told our management. We're like, we

1262
01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:36,800
Speaker 1: got a name, weren't called ourselves low cash Cowboys. And

1263
01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:41,320
Speaker 1: they're like that will never work, and we're like, okay,

1264
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:43,520
Speaker 1: well then that's it. We're going with low cash cowboys.

1265
01:00:43,520 --> 01:00:45,520
Speaker 1: If you say it will never work, at least it's polarizing,

1266
01:00:45,560 --> 01:00:47,919
Speaker 1: it's making you feel something right now, So we're gonna

1267
01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:50,880
Speaker 1: go with it. And so we did. So you're low

1268
01:00:50,920 --> 01:00:54,080
Speaker 1: cash Cowboys and you don't have a deal at this point. No, okay,

1269
01:00:54,120 --> 01:00:57,520
Speaker 1: So when did the next deal? And what was the

1270
01:00:57,560 --> 01:00:59,880
Speaker 1: first song that you guys tried to hit with? Here

1271
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:02,840
Speaker 1: Come Summer was the very first song that ever came

1272
01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:06,680
Speaker 1: out two thousand and ten and uh, and it raced

1273
01:01:06,800 --> 01:01:11,320
Speaker 1: up to like forty this is it and a lot

1274
01:01:11,360 --> 01:01:15,840
Speaker 1: of and a big fidd up the cooler and become

1275
01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:19,400
Speaker 1: the girls and giving meet and get her jump up

1276
01:01:19,440 --> 01:01:23,640
Speaker 1: in my g drive. After the lay day after every

1277
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:29,360
Speaker 1: loving day after day, here comes. So you put this

1278
01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:33,360
Speaker 1: out word at the end the fall in the one

1279
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:36,120
Speaker 1: in ten weeks and you felt how about that. We

1280
01:01:36,120 --> 01:01:39,880
Speaker 1: were we were so excited. I mean, getting the forty

1281
01:01:39,880 --> 01:01:43,360
Speaker 1: one in ten weeks is unheard of these days. And

1282
01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:45,760
Speaker 1: we were like, this is unless you're a superstar artist.

1283
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:48,040
Speaker 1: And we were like, this is it. It's gonna happen.

1284
01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:51,160
Speaker 1: Here comes Summer's going up the charts. And uh, the

1285
01:01:51,160 --> 01:01:54,160
Speaker 1: next thing, you know, the record label decided to put

1286
01:01:54,160 --> 01:01:56,919
Speaker 1: out another act. They started feeling, you know, like, oh,

1287
01:01:56,960 --> 01:01:58,400
Speaker 1: this is going so well, we'll put it on another

1288
01:01:58,440 --> 01:02:00,880
Speaker 1: act and a lot of the focus for you messed

1289
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:03,440
Speaker 1: everything up. Who was the other act? It was a

1290
01:02:03,480 --> 01:02:06,960
Speaker 1: knack called Houston County. So they never did anything. I

1291
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:09,400
Speaker 1: love those guys. They were from Houston County, Alabama. They're

1292
01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:12,840
Speaker 1: now a little big town. They changed their name to Yeah.

1293
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:15,240
Speaker 1: So when did it go from? And why did you

1294
01:02:15,320 --> 01:02:17,640
Speaker 1: drop cowboy? Because when I heard of look ash Cowboys,

1295
01:02:17,680 --> 01:02:20,240
Speaker 1: I thought a real cowboys. Yeah, and you guys aren't

1296
01:02:20,240 --> 01:02:23,200
Speaker 1: really you're not You're not cowboys? No, So when did

1297
01:02:23,200 --> 01:02:25,000
Speaker 1: they go from we need to pull the cowboys off

1298
01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:28,560
Speaker 1: our name? You know, we were we had just gotten

1299
01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:30,480
Speaker 1: a new record deal with Revival Records. The guy you

1300
01:02:30,520 --> 01:02:33,040
Speaker 1: met and we knew, I love this life was gonna

1301
01:02:33,040 --> 01:02:36,080
Speaker 1: be the single. We and um, we just did a

1302
01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:39,920
Speaker 1: photo shoot and we're feeling good about like everything is

1303
01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:42,800
Speaker 1: new energy, knew everything. And so I was sitting in

1304
01:02:42,800 --> 01:02:44,840
Speaker 1: the front lounge of the bus and I was doodling,

1305
01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:47,560
Speaker 1: and I'm a little bit of a graffiti artist, and

1306
01:02:47,600 --> 01:02:49,320
Speaker 1: so I was just kind of messing on a napkin

1307
01:02:49,640 --> 01:02:53,320
Speaker 1: with a sharpie, messing around. And I always liked the

1308
01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:57,240
Speaker 1: zz top logo and Chris like that too, so like

1309
01:02:57,280 --> 01:02:59,720
Speaker 1: the on top of each other, the letters, like they

1310
01:02:59,800 --> 01:03:01,960
Speaker 1: just really cool rock and roll looking stuff. And I

1311
01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:04,560
Speaker 1: looked at Van Halen, I looked at Montley Crue, and

1312
01:03:04,560 --> 01:03:06,520
Speaker 1: I'm looking at all these other stuff that had a

1313
01:03:06,520 --> 01:03:09,240
Speaker 1: lot of energy and was really slick and smooth and fun,

1314
01:03:09,560 --> 01:03:12,240
Speaker 1: and I was like that, man, it's easy top things

1315
01:03:12,280 --> 01:03:14,560
Speaker 1: pretty cool. And so I sort of started working on

1316
01:03:14,600 --> 01:03:18,560
Speaker 1: a new logo and I just had done low Cash.

1317
01:03:18,600 --> 01:03:20,400
Speaker 1: I didn't even put cowboys on there yet. And Chris

1318
01:03:20,440 --> 01:03:22,560
Speaker 1: wakes up, walks up to the front lounge. He goes,

1319
01:03:22,680 --> 01:03:24,360
Speaker 1: what are you doing. I said, yeah, I'm just kind

1320
01:03:24,360 --> 01:03:26,600
Speaker 1: of working up that new logo like we talked about,

1321
01:03:26,600 --> 01:03:28,000
Speaker 1: and he was like, dude, I love it, just like that.

1322
01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:30,360
Speaker 1: Don't even put cowboys on there, and I was like really,

1323
01:03:30,960 --> 01:03:32,880
Speaker 1: and so we were kind of like like a logo

1324
01:03:32,960 --> 01:03:34,520
Speaker 1: for a ball cap or something, We're like, we'll just

1325
01:03:34,600 --> 01:03:37,720
Speaker 1: leave it at this. So we turned it in and

1326
01:03:37,760 --> 01:03:40,480
Speaker 1: everyone's like, oh my gosh, you changed your name or

1327
01:03:40,560 --> 01:03:43,960
Speaker 1: like not really, I mean not really kind of. I

1328
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:46,920
Speaker 1: don't know did we because we just turned into new logo.

1329
01:03:47,760 --> 01:03:50,520
Speaker 1: I know, like, is this is this you want like

1330
01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:53,080
Speaker 1: we did and if you don't, we didn't. That's how

1331
01:03:53,080 --> 01:03:55,640
Speaker 1: it was. And they were like, we love it, We're

1332
01:03:55,680 --> 01:03:57,560
Speaker 1: just gonna go with this. It's just low Cash and

1333
01:03:57,600 --> 01:04:00,280
Speaker 1: we're like okay, and so we went with low Ash

1334
01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:03,880
Speaker 1: and everything just sort of lined up. I mean, everything

1335
01:04:03,920 --> 01:04:07,040
Speaker 1: just worked. How long you're Crispin together from the day

1336
01:04:07,080 --> 01:04:09,320
Speaker 1: you met him at the wild Horse two thousand two,

1337
01:04:09,920 --> 01:04:13,000
Speaker 1: Holy crap, I met him in two thousand two, so

1338
01:04:13,080 --> 01:04:14,600
Speaker 1: and I know, weeks after I moved to town I

1339
01:04:14,640 --> 01:04:19,880
Speaker 1: was twelve. I know that there were times in your

1340
01:04:19,880 --> 01:04:21,840
Speaker 1: career where as a band, you guys thought, Okay, well,

1341
01:04:21,880 --> 01:04:23,640
Speaker 1: we're not gonna able to do this anymore. I mean

1342
01:04:23,640 --> 01:04:26,000
Speaker 1: they're hides and lows over that period of time thousand

1343
01:04:25,960 --> 01:04:28,560
Speaker 1: and eleven to that was the year it comes right

1344
01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:33,000
Speaker 1: in two thousand and eleven. That's when what happened January, Um,

1345
01:04:33,280 --> 01:04:35,360
Speaker 1: keep in minds going up the chart. I don't even

1346
01:04:35,360 --> 01:04:37,240
Speaker 1: know where we were in January, but we were made

1347
01:04:37,360 --> 01:04:43,720
Speaker 1: making a really strong mood keep in mind, And all

1348
01:04:43,800 --> 01:04:47,120
Speaker 1: of a sudden in January, Chris stadd passed away suddenly,

1349
01:04:47,320 --> 01:04:53,080
Speaker 1: I mean suddenly, no uh, no signs of it happening,

1350
01:04:53,680 --> 01:04:58,440
Speaker 1: and it just happened, and it devastated Chris, devastated both

1351
01:04:58,480 --> 01:05:02,080
Speaker 1: of us. That devastated our whole team, our whole camp.

1352
01:05:02,120 --> 01:05:05,000
Speaker 1: I mean I remember going to the funeral in Baltimore

1353
01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:07,080
Speaker 1: and our record label showed up, and I mean it

1354
01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:11,800
Speaker 1: just really hit us hard because you know, um, Jack

1355
01:05:11,960 --> 01:05:16,080
Speaker 1: was Chris's dad, and he was Chris's you know, best friend,

1356
01:05:16,200 --> 01:05:18,840
Speaker 1: biggest fan, and he was like a dad to me too,

1357
01:05:18,880 --> 01:05:21,000
Speaker 1: you know. So all of a sudden, we're singing this

1358
01:05:21,080 --> 01:05:22,840
Speaker 1: song keep in mind, it's kind of the charts, and

1359
01:05:22,920 --> 01:05:27,520
Speaker 1: we lose Jack. And then two weeks later, literally almost

1360
01:05:27,520 --> 01:05:31,320
Speaker 1: to the day, Uh, Chris's aunt, who's a big supporter,

1361
01:05:31,560 --> 01:05:34,200
Speaker 1: a big fan of ours, sweetest woman in the world,

1362
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:39,160
Speaker 1: passes away suddenly and we're like, whoa, whoa, what's happening?

1363
01:05:39,600 --> 01:05:42,480
Speaker 1: You know? And then a few weeks after that, the

1364
01:05:42,560 --> 01:05:45,360
Speaker 1: record label shuts down and we lose keep in Mind

1365
01:05:45,840 --> 01:05:49,200
Speaker 1: at thirty two on the charts, and we're like, okay,

1366
01:05:49,560 --> 01:05:52,440
Speaker 1: a song is not even nearly equal to a life.

1367
01:05:53,200 --> 01:05:56,000
Speaker 1: But it's all of a sudden, it's just lost. Hit

1368
01:05:56,080 --> 01:05:59,440
Speaker 1: after hit, his coming and it's Chris's dad, then his aunt,

1369
01:05:59,720 --> 01:06:02,200
Speaker 1: then a song, and we're and then all of a sudden,

1370
01:06:02,200 --> 01:06:04,680
Speaker 1: the label shuts down and we're stuck. I mean, if

1371
01:06:04,720 --> 01:06:08,280
Speaker 1: you if you think it's hard to get a record deal,

1372
01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:10,640
Speaker 1: try to get out of a record deal that is

1373
01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:15,320
Speaker 1: that's twice as hard. And so we're sitting here going, okay,

1374
01:06:15,320 --> 01:06:19,240
Speaker 1: we're stuck on a label. We lost our song two

1375
01:06:19,760 --> 01:06:23,720
Speaker 1: very close to loved Ones, and then our fiddle player

1376
01:06:23,760 --> 01:06:26,920
Speaker 1: gets sick and we just continue to do shows. We're

1377
01:06:26,920 --> 01:06:30,320
Speaker 1: trying to stay positive. And our fiddle player gets sick

1378
01:06:30,760 --> 01:06:35,040
Speaker 1: and he dies. He passes away, and he'd been with

1379
01:06:35,120 --> 01:06:39,000
Speaker 1: us years and so now the hits are just they're

1380
01:06:39,040 --> 01:06:42,440
Speaker 1: starting to pile up on us, and it just seems

1381
01:06:42,480 --> 01:06:45,760
Speaker 1: like I remember feeling like it was as dark as

1382
01:06:45,800 --> 01:06:48,600
Speaker 1: it could get, Like this is it like we've we've

1383
01:06:48,680 --> 01:06:52,600
Speaker 1: hit the wall. I mean, our wheels are spinning. We're

1384
01:06:52,640 --> 01:06:57,320
Speaker 1: just sinking in this one spot and we can't get out,

1385
01:06:57,800 --> 01:07:00,160
Speaker 1: like we're just gonna have to throw the talent we're

1386
01:07:00,280 --> 01:07:02,000
Speaker 1: and that's kind of what's on our mind, but nobody's

1387
01:07:02,040 --> 01:07:03,880
Speaker 1: saying it. Chris and I are looking at each other

1388
01:07:03,920 --> 01:07:09,480
Speaker 1: like what are we gonna do? And I guess around. Well,

1389
01:07:09,720 --> 01:07:12,800
Speaker 1: in the fall of that year, we get a phone

1390
01:07:12,800 --> 01:07:16,120
Speaker 1: call and it's Keith Urban and he's guys, the song

1391
01:07:16,200 --> 01:07:19,520
Speaker 1: he wrote called You're Gonna Fly. I'm gonna make it

1392
01:07:19,560 --> 01:07:37,840
Speaker 1: my next single, and uh, that changed our lives. I

1393
01:07:37,840 --> 01:07:40,880
Speaker 1: mean even the song what the song is about? Dude? Again,

1394
01:07:40,960 --> 01:07:42,840
Speaker 1: there's not a day I don't think about it as

1395
01:07:42,880 --> 01:07:46,320
Speaker 1: I and it's awesome. Keith Urban picks a song and goes, hey,

1396
01:07:46,360 --> 01:07:52,280
Speaker 1: you guys, but again, what the freaking song? The message? Everything?

1397
01:07:52,800 --> 01:07:56,280
Speaker 1: I mean, it was like it blows my mind to

1398
01:07:56,360 --> 01:07:58,760
Speaker 1: this day when I think about it, and and how

1399
01:07:59,160 --> 01:08:01,320
Speaker 1: Keith Urban. I remember being at the Wild Horse and

1400
01:08:01,360 --> 01:08:04,960
Speaker 1: being the DJ and playing songs like you know I

1401
01:08:05,040 --> 01:08:08,400
Speaker 1: Love someone like You and all these huge hits, and

1402
01:08:08,440 --> 01:08:12,360
Speaker 1: I remember thinking, what is how do you even get

1403
01:08:12,360 --> 01:08:15,040
Speaker 1: a Keith Urvan cut? Like how does that even happen?

1404
01:08:15,440 --> 01:08:17,640
Speaker 1: Like will it ever happen. I doubt it, Like, but

1405
01:08:18,360 --> 01:08:20,519
Speaker 1: I'm here to try, you know, and but You're like

1406
01:08:21,040 --> 01:08:23,479
Speaker 1: it seems so out of reach and then all of

1407
01:08:23,520 --> 01:08:27,280
Speaker 1: a sudden, in that moment, that's when it happens. And

1408
01:08:27,400 --> 01:08:29,880
Speaker 1: I have to pinch myself to this day, I mean,

1409
01:08:29,960 --> 01:08:34,240
Speaker 1: he saved us, he got us back on track. So

1410
01:08:34,280 --> 01:08:37,840
Speaker 1: how does he hear your song? Though? You know? It's

1411
01:08:37,880 --> 01:08:42,040
Speaker 1: still a bit of a mystery. Um. We well, I'll

1412
01:08:42,040 --> 01:08:45,559
Speaker 1: tell you. We wrote You're Gonna Fly with Jaren Johnston

1413
01:08:45,680 --> 01:08:49,400
Speaker 1: from From and it's the only song we've ever written together.

1414
01:08:49,920 --> 01:08:53,200
Speaker 1: And to this day, Karen, we need to write more songs. Um,

1415
01:08:53,240 --> 01:08:56,840
Speaker 1: but we write this song, we turned it in and

1416
01:08:57,320 --> 01:08:59,120
Speaker 1: we get a phone call from Sony a TV. We're

1417
01:08:59,120 --> 01:09:02,080
Speaker 1: all signed to Sony eight TV as songwriters, and um,

1418
01:09:02,520 --> 01:09:05,040
Speaker 1: they said, but we love this song and turn in

1419
01:09:05,160 --> 01:09:07,920
Speaker 1: called You're Gonna Fly and we think it's going to

1420
01:09:07,960 --> 01:09:10,840
Speaker 1: be a single for someone. We're like, somebody's gonna record

1421
01:09:10,880 --> 01:09:13,760
Speaker 1: our song. They're like, yeah, Jimmy Wayne and I was like,

1422
01:09:14,040 --> 01:09:17,120
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, he just had that song. Uh do

1423
01:09:17,160 --> 01:09:20,280
Speaker 1: you believe me? Now? Just went number one and Jimmy

1424
01:09:20,400 --> 01:09:22,720
Speaker 1: was awesome, and we're like, this is great, We're all

1425
01:09:22,800 --> 01:09:25,360
Speaker 1: high five. We gotta Jimmy Wayne Cut coming. He's gonna

1426
01:09:25,400 --> 01:09:29,840
Speaker 1: maybe making a single, and I'm not just supposed to

1427
01:09:29,840 --> 01:09:31,360
Speaker 1: talk about all this, but it's years past now, so

1428
01:09:31,360 --> 01:09:34,640
Speaker 1: I don't care. So we get this phone call one

1429
01:09:34,760 --> 01:09:37,559
Speaker 1: night and it's the president, the head guy of sony

1430
01:09:37,600 --> 01:09:40,320
Speaker 1: A TV Publishing, Troy Tomlinson, says, I need to see

1431
01:09:40,320 --> 01:09:44,599
Speaker 1: you in my office tonight, and I'm like, Okay, we're

1432
01:09:44,600 --> 01:09:47,559
Speaker 1: in trouble. We did something wrong, and because you're supposed

1433
01:09:47,600 --> 01:09:51,280
Speaker 1: to write so many songs as a quota, and I'm like, Chris,

1434
01:09:51,360 --> 01:09:54,280
Speaker 1: if you've been turning songs in and he's like, um,

1435
01:09:54,439 --> 01:09:56,280
Speaker 1: only as song as you probably turned in. And I'm like,

1436
01:09:56,320 --> 01:09:58,360
Speaker 1: I haven't turned the many in. I've been kind of

1437
01:09:58,360 --> 01:10:00,200
Speaker 1: stacking him up for us. We're we're gonna turn mom.

1438
01:10:00,240 --> 01:10:03,040
Speaker 1: It was like, okay, we're in trouble, like we haven't

1439
01:10:03,080 --> 01:10:05,599
Speaker 1: turned enough songs. That's why he wants to meet with us.

1440
01:10:06,160 --> 01:10:07,880
Speaker 1: So we're of like freaking out. I said, Chris, let

1441
01:10:07,960 --> 01:10:09,400
Speaker 1: me do all the talk. And we walk in here.

1442
01:10:09,840 --> 01:10:12,360
Speaker 1: So we sit down with him and he says, guys,

1443
01:10:12,400 --> 01:10:13,600
Speaker 1: do you know why you're here? And I was like,

1444
01:10:13,640 --> 01:10:15,760
Speaker 1: before you say anything, Troy, we have a bunch of

1445
01:10:15,840 --> 01:10:17,960
Speaker 1: songs written and a promise we're going to turn him

1446
01:10:17,960 --> 01:10:22,080
Speaker 1: in and he's like, that's not why, and I was like,

1447
01:10:22,360 --> 01:10:26,120
Speaker 1: I'm just joking, Troy. I was just joking. Has nothing.

1448
01:10:27,040 --> 01:10:28,719
Speaker 1: Why do you want to talk to about? You know?

1449
01:10:29,080 --> 01:10:31,439
Speaker 1: And he says, he says, what I want to talk

1450
01:10:31,439 --> 01:10:33,639
Speaker 1: to you about is something very rare. And it's funny

1451
01:10:33,640 --> 01:10:35,320
Speaker 1: that you brought this up earlier in the show about

1452
01:10:35,720 --> 01:10:37,880
Speaker 1: do you take a song from you know, artists A

1453
01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:41,160
Speaker 1: and give it to artisp and so he says, never

1454
01:10:41,280 --> 01:10:44,760
Speaker 1: do we normally do this, but we have a unique situation.

1455
01:10:45,439 --> 01:10:49,479
Speaker 1: Jimmy Wayne has your song on hold and he's possibly

1456
01:10:49,479 --> 01:10:51,600
Speaker 1: gonna make it a single. But we just got a

1457
01:10:51,640 --> 01:10:56,680
Speaker 1: phone call tonight from a very high level artist that

1458
01:10:56,800 --> 01:11:00,080
Speaker 1: they really want this song. It wasn't you didn't know,

1459
01:11:00,600 --> 01:11:04,320
Speaker 1: and they're like, they're willing to record it immediately to

1460
01:11:04,479 --> 01:11:07,200
Speaker 1: prove to you that they loved this song and they

1461
01:11:07,240 --> 01:11:11,400
Speaker 1: want it now. And as Sony a TV, we're making

1462
01:11:11,400 --> 01:11:14,040
Speaker 1: the decision for you. We're going to take it from

1463
01:11:14,160 --> 01:11:17,760
Speaker 1: artists and give it to artists b And I was like,

1464
01:11:18,200 --> 01:11:20,360
Speaker 1: I mean, my breath kind of got taken because I

1465
01:11:20,400 --> 01:11:23,840
Speaker 1: was like, this has gotta be somebody really big, because

1466
01:11:23,840 --> 01:11:26,680
Speaker 1: I'm over here partying about Jimmy Wayne, you know, And

1467
01:11:26,720 --> 01:11:29,040
Speaker 1: I'm like, and he says, who do you think it

1468
01:11:29,040 --> 01:11:32,799
Speaker 1: could be? And Chris and I remember it got real quiet,

1469
01:11:33,680 --> 01:11:37,800
Speaker 1: and I was like, man, Alan Jackson, maybe, I mean

1470
01:11:37,840 --> 01:11:41,320
Speaker 1: maybe Tim McGraw. I mean, I'm running these downs like

1471
01:11:41,360 --> 01:11:44,680
Speaker 1: no way, no way. And I actually said outlies that

1472
01:11:45,479 --> 01:11:48,439
Speaker 1: Chris or me, one of us said Keith Urban or like, no,

1473
01:11:48,680 --> 01:11:51,479
Speaker 1: Keith writes all of his own hits. And when he

1474
01:11:51,600 --> 01:11:54,840
Speaker 1: said it's Keith Urban, I'll never forget, just like looking

1475
01:11:54,880 --> 01:12:00,920
Speaker 1: at him confused, like are you serious? And man, it

1476
01:12:01,080 --> 01:12:06,840
Speaker 1: was Keith Irban. Nowth cuts it, but it takes a while, dude,

1477
01:12:07,360 --> 01:12:11,000
Speaker 1: it took He he likes the song two thousand nine,

1478
01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:13,600
Speaker 1: he says. So Troy says, if you want him to

1479
01:12:13,600 --> 01:12:16,120
Speaker 1: go in the studio right now, he will, he'll record

1480
01:12:16,160 --> 01:12:18,200
Speaker 1: it right now. But he's not going to the studio

1481
01:12:18,240 --> 01:12:21,400
Speaker 1: for a while, so it's up to you. We could

1482
01:12:21,439 --> 01:12:23,160
Speaker 1: just put it on hold and leave it on hold

1483
01:12:23,240 --> 01:12:26,600
Speaker 1: until he's ready. We're like, yeah, let's just leave it

1484
01:12:26,600 --> 01:12:29,400
Speaker 1: on hold and let's just see what happens. But yeah,

1485
01:12:29,479 --> 01:12:33,200
Speaker 1: we'll just we'll just trust him. He says, Okay, that's

1486
01:12:33,320 --> 01:12:36,720
Speaker 1: April of two thousand nine ish right in there. So

1487
01:12:36,880 --> 01:12:40,360
Speaker 1: two thousand ten rolls around, still hasn't cut it. Two

1488
01:12:40,439 --> 01:12:43,400
Speaker 1: thousand eleven rolls around it still hasn't really cut it,

1489
01:12:43,840 --> 01:12:47,320
Speaker 1: and we're going, what's happening, And then the flood hits.

1490
01:12:47,800 --> 01:12:49,680
Speaker 1: He's supposed to go in the studio. Sony calls and

1491
01:12:49,720 --> 01:12:51,720
Speaker 1: says he's going to the studio to record your song.

1492
01:12:51,800 --> 01:12:54,439
Speaker 1: We're like, awesome, and they were like, it's gonna be

1493
01:12:54,560 --> 01:12:57,639
Speaker 1: on one of three days. He's recording his whole album

1494
01:12:57,680 --> 01:13:01,280
Speaker 1: in three days. So the first day he starts recording it,

1495
01:13:01,280 --> 01:13:05,280
Speaker 1: starts raining, and we're like nothing. At the end of

1496
01:13:05,280 --> 01:13:06,760
Speaker 1: the day, you're supposed to get a phone call and

1497
01:13:06,760 --> 01:13:09,880
Speaker 1: they're like nothing, he didn't record it, and we're like okay, okay,

1498
01:13:10,120 --> 01:13:14,519
Speaker 1: maybe tomorrow. So the next day it's raining harder still

1499
01:13:14,640 --> 01:13:18,320
Speaker 1: and literally raining outside in Nashville, harder and harder, and

1500
01:13:19,120 --> 01:13:21,160
Speaker 1: he doesn't cut it, and they're like, okay, he's gonna

1501
01:13:21,160 --> 01:13:23,560
Speaker 1: cut it on day three. But now the storm is

1502
01:13:23,560 --> 01:13:25,840
Speaker 1: getting out of control in Nashville. And what I'm talking

1503
01:13:25,840 --> 01:13:29,160
Speaker 1: about was the flood, the hit and the flood hits

1504
01:13:29,200 --> 01:13:32,800
Speaker 1: so hard that night. They canceled the third day and

1505
01:13:32,840 --> 01:13:35,960
Speaker 1: I was like, that's it, guys, we lost it. That

1506
01:13:36,120 --> 01:13:38,960
Speaker 1: we're never gonna get the song cut because he's going

1507
01:13:39,000 --> 01:13:43,160
Speaker 1: to hear another song that's gonna be better, and who

1508
01:13:43,160 --> 01:13:45,439
Speaker 1: knows how long it's gonna take before he goes back

1509
01:13:45,479 --> 01:13:48,439
Speaker 1: in again. And I just don't think we're gonna get

1510
01:13:48,439 --> 01:13:50,600
Speaker 1: it now. And it just seemed like the luck of

1511
01:13:50,640 --> 01:13:52,439
Speaker 1: two thousand and eleven, you know. It was just like

1512
01:13:53,000 --> 01:13:54,920
Speaker 1: the hits just kept on coming that year, you know,

1513
01:13:55,720 --> 01:13:59,120
Speaker 1: and Uh, all of a sudden, out of the blue,

1514
01:13:59,560 --> 01:14:01,600
Speaker 1: I got a phone call one day and we're like,

1515
01:14:01,640 --> 01:14:05,640
Speaker 1: he just cut it where I was just like I

1516
01:14:05,720 --> 01:14:08,559
Speaker 1: was driving, where where did he cut it? And in

1517
01:14:08,560 --> 01:14:11,240
Speaker 1: the studio real he just want to didn't even tell anybody.

1518
01:14:11,439 --> 01:14:12,960
Speaker 1: So I went in and cut the song. Was it

1519
01:14:12,960 --> 01:14:15,120
Speaker 1: the first thing o from the record? It was supposed

1520
01:14:15,120 --> 01:14:18,559
Speaker 1: to be, and so he was like, it's gonna be right.

1521
01:14:18,800 --> 01:14:20,640
Speaker 1: It was supposed to be the first single, and we're like,

1522
01:14:20,840 --> 01:14:23,360
Speaker 1: we got the first single, and then they took it

1523
01:14:23,400 --> 01:14:26,320
Speaker 1: away and they went with put you in a song,

1524
01:14:27,080 --> 01:14:29,559
Speaker 1: and um, we didn't even know if we were going

1525
01:14:29,600 --> 01:14:31,160
Speaker 1: to get a single. And then the second single came

1526
01:14:31,200 --> 01:14:38,160
Speaker 1: out and it was without You, awesome song, and they're like, uh,

1527
01:14:38,200 --> 01:14:40,320
Speaker 1: maybe you have the third single. And then the third

1528
01:14:40,360 --> 01:14:43,960
Speaker 1: single comes out and it's long Hot Summer, and I'm like, guys,

1529
01:14:44,560 --> 01:14:47,440
Speaker 1: I don't think we got it. But Keith kept reassuring

1530
01:14:47,479 --> 01:14:49,960
Speaker 1: everybody through emails. He would send these emails and he

1531
01:14:49,960 --> 01:14:51,599
Speaker 1: would say, guys, it's going to be a single, It's

1532
01:14:51,600 --> 01:14:53,800
Speaker 1: going to be a single. He he was the steadfast

1533
01:14:53,840 --> 01:14:57,360
Speaker 1: guy in all of it. And sure enough we got

1534
01:14:57,400 --> 01:15:03,360
Speaker 1: the fourth single, and man in I mean what it

1535
01:15:03,439 --> 01:15:05,640
Speaker 1: was like Game seven rain delay, here we go. You know,

1536
01:15:05,800 --> 01:15:08,320
Speaker 1: big things happen. It just takes a while. But you guys,

1537
01:15:08,560 --> 01:15:12,479
Speaker 1: I know right. It was so nerve racking, but we

1538
01:15:12,600 --> 01:15:14,759
Speaker 1: got it. And then four months after that we got

1539
01:15:15,080 --> 01:15:20,599
Speaker 1: Truck Yeah, which with him you guys wrote with Chris Janson. Janson, dude,

1540
01:15:20,600 --> 01:15:28,479
Speaker 1: the whole world is just like jackson at all. I

1541
01:15:28,520 --> 01:15:30,439
Speaker 1: saw you guys on stage on the Instagram and it

1542
01:15:30,520 --> 01:15:32,760
Speaker 1: was YouTube and christ I guess you guy just played

1543
01:15:32,760 --> 01:15:35,320
Speaker 1: together somewhere. Yeah, we were doing shows in Jacksonville at

1544
01:15:35,360 --> 01:15:37,680
Speaker 1: the same time, but different parts of town. And he

1545
01:15:37,720 --> 01:15:40,760
Speaker 1: texted and he goes, are you guys over at Mavericks.

1546
01:15:41,040 --> 01:15:43,000
Speaker 1: We're like, yeah, are you over at the fair? And

1547
01:15:43,040 --> 01:15:45,120
Speaker 1: he was like yeah, and so he said, you guys

1548
01:15:45,120 --> 01:15:47,800
Speaker 1: should come over here, and so we literally grabbed a

1549
01:15:47,800 --> 01:15:51,800
Speaker 1: car and drove over to the fair and jumped on

1550
01:15:51,880 --> 01:15:54,000
Speaker 1: stage with him and sang with him a couple of songs.

1551
01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:56,120
Speaker 1: So what songs have you guys written together with with Jansen?

1552
01:15:56,240 --> 01:16:01,120
Speaker 1: He wrote truck Yeah, truck, Yeah, we had UM, we

1553
01:16:01,160 --> 01:16:04,519
Speaker 1: had I Love his Life, UM about sixty more. Nobody's

1554
01:16:04,520 --> 01:16:06,639
Speaker 1: ever heard what songs? Songs? We heard that a bunch

1555
01:16:06,640 --> 01:16:10,000
Speaker 1: of stuff. Chris and I have a song called UM

1556
01:16:10,040 --> 01:16:13,479
Speaker 1: back in the day on Parmelis record, the old record.

1557
01:16:13,520 --> 01:16:17,479
Speaker 1: It's it's uh not the new one. UM. And then

1558
01:16:17,520 --> 01:16:20,479
Speaker 1: we have a Joe Nickels song that he just cut

1559
01:16:20,680 --> 01:16:25,080
Speaker 1: really called I'd Sing About You and it's to me.

1560
01:16:25,120 --> 01:16:28,960
Speaker 1: It's a smash. I hope Joe's listening makes it a single,

1561
01:16:29,240 --> 01:16:32,920
Speaker 1: but if he doesn't, we will if you'll take it

1562
01:16:32,920 --> 01:16:35,280
Speaker 1: back and do it again. If he doesn't make this single,

1563
01:16:35,400 --> 01:16:37,600
Speaker 1: that's what passed. Passley was in here, and you know

1564
01:16:37,640 --> 01:16:40,800
Speaker 1: Passley the song writer all these hits first, and his

1565
01:16:40,920 --> 01:16:43,160
Speaker 1: whole thing was he got three and he never had

1566
01:16:43,200 --> 01:16:45,120
Speaker 1: any and they got three in one year. Was like

1567
01:16:46,080 --> 01:16:47,600
Speaker 1: and then he got that Triple Play Award and he

1568
01:16:47,640 --> 01:16:49,120
Speaker 1: was like, I had nothing forever, and then it was

1569
01:16:49,120 --> 01:16:52,400
Speaker 1: like boom, boom boom. And so for him, he wrote

1570
01:16:53,120 --> 01:16:55,200
Speaker 1: Friday Night and Lady Annebell and picked it up. They

1571
01:16:55,240 --> 01:16:56,800
Speaker 1: kept saying we're gonna put it as a single. They

1572
01:16:56,840 --> 01:16:58,400
Speaker 1: never did. He said, can I have it back? Got

1573
01:16:58,400 --> 01:17:01,439
Speaker 1: his own song back number one? Boom. So that's right,

1574
01:17:01,560 --> 01:17:03,639
Speaker 1: that's cool. So what of all the songs you guys

1575
01:17:03,640 --> 01:17:05,280
Speaker 1: have written, what's the most lucrative one for you guys

1576
01:17:05,320 --> 01:17:10,200
Speaker 1: so far? I would say probably I Love This Life, yeah,

1577
01:17:10,240 --> 01:17:13,800
Speaker 1: because that's the one that changed um. That's the one

1578
01:17:13,840 --> 01:17:17,280
Speaker 1: that changed our show guarantee as well, pouring money everything

1579
01:17:17,360 --> 01:17:21,479
Speaker 1: changed merchandise. Uh, life did. Like I said, whenever I

1580
01:17:21,520 --> 01:17:23,000
Speaker 1: look at you and I say it changed our life,

1581
01:17:23,200 --> 01:17:25,840
Speaker 1: changed our life in every respect, you're able to say,

1582
01:17:25,880 --> 01:17:28,679
Speaker 1: that's a good T shirt too, I Love this Life, Yeah,

1583
01:17:28,800 --> 01:17:29,920
Speaker 1: I mean it really is that. I mean you have

1584
01:17:29,920 --> 01:17:31,360
Speaker 1: to think about that stuff too. That's a good teach.

1585
01:17:31,439 --> 01:17:33,240
Speaker 1: And I look at this store called Life is Good

1586
01:17:33,280 --> 01:17:35,960
Speaker 1: and they sell all this product and I'm like, maybe

1587
01:17:35,960 --> 01:17:37,680
Speaker 1: we should have I Love this Life t shirts in

1588
01:17:37,760 --> 01:17:39,640
Speaker 1: life is good or something you know or something. I

1589
01:17:39,680 --> 01:17:44,800
Speaker 1: mean this, the opportunities are endless. Congratulations, man, Thanks dude,

1590
01:17:44,920 --> 01:17:48,000
Speaker 1: and tell Chris one day with another microphone. We're both

1591
01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:50,439
Speaker 1: going to get in here, Chris, I hope you know.

1592
01:17:50,880 --> 01:17:54,559
Speaker 1: It's just the the story of and it's on a

1593
01:17:54,640 --> 01:17:56,759
Speaker 1: on a much bigger level. But I was talking about

1594
01:17:57,640 --> 01:18:01,519
Speaker 1: Maren Moore is who I've become close with um and

1595
01:18:03,560 --> 01:18:05,439
Speaker 1: just it's one of those that I was like, Wow,

1596
01:18:05,479 --> 01:18:08,200
Speaker 1: it's so good and she was talking and I forgot

1597
01:18:08,240 --> 01:18:09,360
Speaker 1: I did this. But I had her on the air

1598
01:18:09,360 --> 01:18:11,200
Speaker 1: plane before you can even buy her songs, which is

1599
01:18:11,240 --> 01:18:12,599
Speaker 1: kind of a weird thing to do because you come

1600
01:18:12,640 --> 01:18:14,600
Speaker 1: on the air to sell your songs. But I was like,

1601
01:18:14,640 --> 01:18:17,120
Speaker 1: you have to just come play, and she had reminded

1602
01:18:17,160 --> 01:18:19,679
Speaker 1: me of it. She was like, hey, you were having

1603
01:18:19,720 --> 01:18:21,559
Speaker 1: me up before you can even buy my music. But

1604
01:18:22,080 --> 01:18:24,640
Speaker 1: so I'm such a big Marion Morris fan and I

1605
01:18:24,720 --> 01:18:26,920
Speaker 1: didn't know her that well at first. I don't let

1606
01:18:26,920 --> 01:18:30,120
Speaker 1: the relationships really culminate personally because I just don't want

1607
01:18:30,120 --> 01:18:32,960
Speaker 1: to be invested in a personal level. I'd like to

1608
01:18:33,000 --> 01:18:36,360
Speaker 1: just present and say, hey, here's here's the thing. So

1609
01:18:36,560 --> 01:18:38,439
Speaker 1: with Mary, she got up once you wanted to see amazing.

1610
01:18:38,439 --> 01:18:40,960
Speaker 1: And I watched the speech back and she said, one

1611
01:18:41,040 --> 01:18:43,719
Speaker 1: year ago, I was watching this at a bar across

1612
01:18:43,760 --> 01:18:47,479
Speaker 1: the street, and tonight I'm up here on stage winning

1613
01:18:47,479 --> 01:18:50,800
Speaker 1: this award. You gotta be freaking kidding me. So, but

1614
01:18:50,920 --> 01:18:53,519
Speaker 1: you can, because this is what I'm gonna say. Marin

1615
01:18:54,200 --> 01:18:59,720
Speaker 1: is a microcosm of low Cash, because it's the look

1616
01:18:59,720 --> 01:19:02,000
Speaker 1: where you are. You just had a number one. Before that,

1617
01:19:02,080 --> 01:19:05,400
Speaker 1: you had a number two. You're now you're out. You

1618
01:19:05,439 --> 01:19:08,280
Speaker 1: guys are real now it's it's hard to be real.

1619
01:19:09,080 --> 01:19:14,479
Speaker 1: And you started and you went from teaching line dancing

1620
01:19:15,680 --> 01:19:21,040
Speaker 1: through struggles, ups, downs, ups, downs, and here you are today,

1621
01:19:22,080 --> 01:19:25,040
Speaker 1: hwelve thirteen eight. I don't know. I mean, I don't

1622
01:19:25,120 --> 01:19:28,720
Speaker 1: do math. Why don't you guys meet oh to fourteen

1623
01:19:28,840 --> 01:19:32,479
Speaker 1: years later? So and like Mike here, who's producing the show,

1624
01:19:32,560 --> 01:19:35,760
Speaker 1: my class over a hundred pounds, because that's amazing the

1625
01:19:35,800 --> 01:19:38,559
Speaker 1: same thing with men like you, just take a step,

1626
01:19:39,280 --> 01:19:42,360
Speaker 1: you take another step, like low Cash, take another step,

1627
01:19:42,640 --> 01:19:45,240
Speaker 1: keep taking steps. When you can't take any more steps,

1628
01:19:45,360 --> 01:19:48,840
Speaker 1: take another freaking step. Yeah, and there's always tomorrow. The

1629
01:19:48,880 --> 01:19:52,240
Speaker 1: phone could ring and change everything. I lived it. I

1630
01:19:52,320 --> 01:19:56,080
Speaker 1: was in my bunk when Chris shook me and said, dude, baby,

1631
01:19:56,080 --> 01:19:59,080
Speaker 1: Blone's just played our song. And I mean those kinds

1632
01:19:59,080 --> 01:20:02,840
Speaker 1: of moments I'm telling you did. I mean, it's it's real.

1633
01:20:03,479 --> 01:20:07,640
Speaker 1: The day that they sat me down and I had

1634
01:20:07,680 --> 01:20:14,000
Speaker 1: built my own company with in Austin, and I did

1635
01:20:14,000 --> 01:20:16,160
Speaker 1: it with my own paycheck, and I was broke, like

1636
01:20:16,240 --> 01:20:18,679
Speaker 1: we all are in any creative business. You're broke until

1637
01:20:18,720 --> 01:20:22,880
Speaker 1: you're not, basically, and so broke. It's taken invest in

1638
01:20:22,920 --> 01:20:25,679
Speaker 1: all my own money into building this thing and instead

1639
01:20:25,720 --> 01:20:28,400
Speaker 1: started to have a pretty successful run. And it was

1640
01:20:28,400 --> 01:20:30,040
Speaker 1: doing no music. We don't playing any music. It was

1641
01:20:30,040 --> 01:20:32,000
Speaker 1: a weird thing. And so we were just an all

1642
01:20:32,000 --> 01:20:36,760
Speaker 1: talk show for five hours. And I've been talking to Row,

1643
01:20:36,840 --> 01:20:38,240
Speaker 1: the guy who runs out of country. It was like, man,

1644
01:20:38,240 --> 01:20:40,639
Speaker 1: I really want to do country, but there's no national.

1645
01:20:40,720 --> 01:20:43,200
Speaker 1: There's nothing national about the format. There never was. I

1646
01:20:43,200 --> 01:20:44,679
Speaker 1: was the first guy who coming to do a national

1647
01:20:45,360 --> 01:20:49,200
Speaker 1: and he was like, man, I think this could work.

1648
01:20:49,280 --> 01:20:51,400
Speaker 1: He was the first one to tell me like what

1649
01:20:51,479 --> 01:20:53,920
Speaker 1: you want to do can work. And so I remember

1650
01:20:54,320 --> 01:20:56,720
Speaker 1: that was a year before they flew me to Nashville

1651
01:20:56,760 --> 01:20:58,560
Speaker 1: tricked me. They were like, hey, you're coming in to

1652
01:20:58,600 --> 01:21:00,559
Speaker 1: meet these guys because you're taught for each picking up

1653
01:21:01,040 --> 01:21:02,800
Speaker 1: and they set me down and go, we want you

1654
01:21:02,800 --> 01:21:04,840
Speaker 1: to move to Nashville and run the whole format. And

1655
01:21:04,880 --> 01:21:08,320
Speaker 1: I remember that moment at that moment where I was like,

1656
01:21:08,439 --> 01:21:12,760
Speaker 1: oh my god, that's like you're serious, Like this has

1657
01:21:12,800 --> 01:21:15,360
Speaker 1: never happened before. You're way different people. It's gonna be

1658
01:21:15,360 --> 01:21:17,639
Speaker 1: a struggle because you're way different than anybody that's ever

1659
01:21:17,720 --> 01:21:19,240
Speaker 1: done this, and people are gonna hate you for a

1660
01:21:19,240 --> 01:21:22,439
Speaker 1: long time. And you're also pretty polarizing, so you obviously

1661
01:21:22,439 --> 01:21:24,280
Speaker 1: know people are gonna not you. But they said this

1662
01:21:24,280 --> 01:21:26,400
Speaker 1: to me. You obviously know people are never ever always

1663
01:21:26,479 --> 01:21:30,120
Speaker 1: gonna be on you, but that you're the guy to

1664
01:21:30,280 --> 01:21:32,559
Speaker 1: take and take the format in the direction that the

1665
01:21:32,560 --> 01:21:34,400
Speaker 1: people are already in, just the radio is not in.

1666
01:21:35,320 --> 01:21:36,760
Speaker 1: And I was like, I may I remember the moment.

1667
01:21:36,760 --> 01:21:38,760
Speaker 1: I remember exactly what I was setting. I remember the

1668
01:21:38,800 --> 01:21:42,120
Speaker 1: whole every person sitting around me. There were three of them,

1669
01:21:42,200 --> 01:21:45,880
Speaker 1: John and kiss at them, Rod Phillips, Clay Honeycut who

1670
01:21:45,960 --> 01:21:47,839
Speaker 1: used to be the head of the thing of the format,

1671
01:21:48,439 --> 01:21:50,639
Speaker 1: and it was just like that. I had no idea

1672
01:21:50,720 --> 01:21:53,400
Speaker 1: that day that moment was about to come and boom,

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01:21:53,439 --> 01:21:56,120
Speaker 1: there was that moment and it freezes in your mind.

1674
01:21:56,320 --> 01:21:59,400
Speaker 1: You remember all the details moment. I don't know what

1675
01:21:59,439 --> 01:22:01,599
Speaker 1: to have for breakfast this morning, but vividly I can

1676
01:22:01,640 --> 01:22:05,840
Speaker 1: tell you four years ago when they said this. Yeah,

1677
01:22:06,040 --> 01:22:08,600
Speaker 1: so dude, this has been one of the and we

1678
01:22:08,680 --> 01:22:11,200
Speaker 1: do these a lot, Mike. Have I ever told anyone

1679
01:22:11,200 --> 01:22:12,920
Speaker 1: this is like one of the best ones you've ever done. No,

1680
01:22:13,080 --> 01:22:14,760
Speaker 1: never think it has been one of the best ones

1681
01:22:14,880 --> 01:22:17,439
Speaker 1: like I've this has been. I mean that you thanks

1682
01:22:17,439 --> 01:22:19,679
Speaker 1: for pulling up all this music. Oh dude, we got

1683
01:22:19,760 --> 01:22:33,040
Speaker 1: like that means we wrote this about Chris Stay that's

1684
01:22:33,160 --> 01:22:38,000
Speaker 1: my grass from the We're at the Grand ol Oufry

1685
01:22:38,800 --> 01:22:42,160
Speaker 1: and uh for the very first time, and we made

1686
01:22:42,200 --> 01:22:46,320
Speaker 1: our debut and we walked off stage. We lost his

1687
01:22:46,400 --> 01:22:49,639
Speaker 1: dad in January, and it was May. It was Mother's

1688
01:22:49,720 --> 01:22:53,000
Speaker 1: Day weekend and our moms were there and they gave

1689
01:22:53,000 --> 01:22:55,560
Speaker 1: our mom's roses and stuff. It was real special. And

1690
01:22:55,640 --> 01:22:57,599
Speaker 1: we walked off stage and we were taking a picture

1691
01:22:57,640 --> 01:23:00,760
Speaker 1: with the Gatlin brothers and and it's like surreal, way

1692
01:23:00,840 --> 01:23:05,680
Speaker 1: here we are at the Opery and Chris isn't in

1693
01:23:05,720 --> 01:23:08,240
Speaker 1: the picture, and I said, wait, we can't take this

1694
01:23:08,280 --> 01:23:10,479
Speaker 1: picture without Chris. I've got to go out. I know

1695
01:23:10,560 --> 01:23:13,439
Speaker 1: it's Larry Gatlin. I've got to go find Chris. So

1696
01:23:13,520 --> 01:23:15,640
Speaker 1: I look over and I see Chris in the shadows

1697
01:23:16,360 --> 01:23:17,720
Speaker 1: and I walked over to him and I said, Hey,

1698
01:23:17,760 --> 01:23:19,120
Speaker 1: what's going on? And he kind of had tears in

1699
01:23:19,120 --> 01:23:22,280
Speaker 1: his eyes and he said, man, tonight was perfect, but

1700
01:23:22,360 --> 01:23:27,880
Speaker 1: it wasn't perfect perfect because my dad's not here. And

1701
01:23:27,920 --> 01:23:30,320
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, I just looked at him and I said,

1702
01:23:30,320 --> 01:23:32,360
Speaker 1: your dad is Your dude's got the best seat in

1703
01:23:32,400 --> 01:23:36,080
Speaker 1: the house tonight. He's right there looking down over the opery.

1704
01:23:36,360 --> 01:23:39,360
Speaker 1: He saw everything, and we just kind of looked at

1705
01:23:39,360 --> 01:23:46,880
Speaker 1: each other and we're like, maybe this is so we

1706
01:23:46,960 --> 01:23:53,479
Speaker 1: wrote it and who knows, maybe it'll come back someday.

1707
01:23:54,479 --> 01:24:00,880
Speaker 1: That crazy like like three times you I'm emotional during

1708
01:24:00,920 --> 01:24:05,799
Speaker 1: this thing. I don't even have emotions and emotional dude,

1709
01:24:06,280 --> 01:24:11,680
Speaker 1: Chase a little love. This is a jam. I like

1710
01:24:11,720 --> 01:24:14,000
Speaker 1: when people said their own song from the jam everything

1711
01:24:14,320 --> 01:24:18,559
Speaker 1: This is a Jamn. I love this song. It was

1712
01:24:18,600 --> 01:24:21,200
Speaker 1: such a fun video too. We had our cars and

1713
01:24:21,280 --> 01:24:32,400
Speaker 1: it was a black you know, we got Kendra Wilkinson

1714
01:24:32,800 --> 01:24:35,960
Speaker 1: and Girls next Door to be in our video. Wow

1715
01:24:36,720 --> 01:24:41,120
Speaker 1: was she uh Kendrew before Hank and Kendra liked with Hank. Okay,

1716
01:24:41,200 --> 01:24:44,880
Speaker 1: and he's awesome. And he wasn't there, but he called

1717
01:24:44,920 --> 01:24:46,519
Speaker 1: and like speaking from he's like, all right, boys, now,

1718
01:24:46,800 --> 01:24:49,320
Speaker 1: don't put your hands on the girl now. He was

1719
01:24:49,360 --> 01:24:58,800
Speaker 1: a really cool dude, are yeah, dude, we're ready for you.

1720
01:24:59,120 --> 01:25:01,800
Speaker 1: This is incredible ready for I pressed him from low

1721
01:25:01,800 --> 01:25:10,720
Speaker 1: Cash new song ring on everything my last name. I

1722
01:25:10,720 --> 01:25:13,120
Speaker 1: can't wait to see what you really think about the song, yeah,

1723
01:25:13,120 --> 01:25:20,160
Speaker 1: because I don't know yet. Yeah, you get just to

1724
01:25:20,200 --> 01:25:30,920
Speaker 1: show the world show shot. Thanks for hanging dude, Thank

1725
01:25:30,960 --> 01:25:32,960
Speaker 1: you appreciate that. What's the great night? What do you

1726
01:25:33,000 --> 01:25:35,519
Speaker 1: guys have going on this week? Anything? Well, we just

1727
01:25:35,560 --> 01:25:37,559
Speaker 1: got home from Baltimore from that thing, so we have

1728
01:25:37,640 --> 01:25:40,880
Speaker 1: today and tomorrow and then we leave tomorrow midnight for Pittsburgh,

1729
01:25:40,920 --> 01:25:44,280
Speaker 1: Columbus and since which, by the way, and we won't

1730
01:25:44,280 --> 01:25:45,599
Speaker 1: go into the story here because I think it's maybe

1731
01:25:45,600 --> 01:25:48,559
Speaker 1: the long how long we havet Mike? Okay, Um, you

1732
01:25:48,560 --> 01:25:51,719
Speaker 1: did propose you post your wife on the operas? They didn't? Yeah, yeah,

1733
01:25:51,800 --> 01:25:55,400
Speaker 1: in the circle right there and uh and I don't

1734
01:25:55,400 --> 01:25:57,439
Speaker 1: know how I got the words right, but I kind

1735
01:25:57,439 --> 01:26:00,240
Speaker 1: of thought up in my mind. I said, Okay, how

1736
01:26:00,280 --> 01:26:01,720
Speaker 1: am I gonna do this? What am I gonna say?

1737
01:26:01,760 --> 01:26:03,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a microphone in one hand and I

1738
01:26:03,439 --> 01:26:05,879
Speaker 1: have a ring in the other. It's like in my pocket.

1739
01:26:05,920 --> 01:26:07,439
Speaker 1: I don't have the box. I just have the ring

1740
01:26:07,479 --> 01:26:10,320
Speaker 1: in my pocket. And I'm like, what am I gonna say?

1741
01:26:10,560 --> 01:26:14,600
Speaker 1: And I thought of this thing, like you know, like um,

1742
01:26:14,720 --> 01:26:17,160
Speaker 1: I brought her out. She stepped into the circle and

1743
01:26:17,479 --> 01:26:19,439
Speaker 1: and I told Chris, I said, I might or might

1744
01:26:19,520 --> 01:26:23,080
Speaker 1: not do it here. I'm not sure. And so he

1745
01:26:23,160 --> 01:26:25,840
Speaker 1: stepped where people are there? Yeah, it was. It was real.

1746
01:26:27,200 --> 01:26:29,840
Speaker 1: And I always forget how many people are there until

1747
01:26:29,880 --> 01:26:31,320
Speaker 1: they kind of flip the lights on and off and

1748
01:26:31,360 --> 01:26:34,040
Speaker 1: then you see like ten million people. And I and

1749
01:26:34,040 --> 01:26:36,519
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my gosh, I'm nervous. I never

1750
01:26:36,600 --> 01:26:38,800
Speaker 1: get nervous, and I'm nervous because I'm about to do

1751
01:26:38,840 --> 01:26:42,000
Speaker 1: something I've never done in my life. And I hit

1752
01:26:42,040 --> 01:26:44,600
Speaker 1: my knee and I just said, you know, standing in

1753
01:26:44,640 --> 01:26:48,200
Speaker 1: the most coveted circle in country music, I want to

1754
01:26:48,240 --> 01:26:54,760
Speaker 1: give you the most coveted circle. And I thought I

1755
01:26:54,800 --> 01:26:56,720
Speaker 1: would mix all those words up and get them wrong,

1756
01:26:56,760 --> 01:27:03,600
Speaker 1: but they came out right. For yourself, the circle that's awesome, dude,

1757
01:27:03,800 --> 01:27:07,120
Speaker 1: and that I was nervous man, and now you gotta

1758
01:27:07,720 --> 01:27:10,280
Speaker 1: a little kid. Thanks every time I see that things

1759
01:27:10,320 --> 01:27:12,960
Speaker 1: going like your weed. Yeah, And we just put an

1760
01:27:12,960 --> 01:27:15,400
Speaker 1: offer on a house, the first house we've ever lived in.

1761
01:27:15,439 --> 01:27:17,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I've never lived in the house in my

1762
01:27:17,240 --> 01:27:19,880
Speaker 1: life other than than my house I grew up in.

1763
01:27:19,920 --> 01:27:23,000
Speaker 1: You know, It's always been apartments and little places, and

1764
01:27:23,040 --> 01:27:26,880
Speaker 1: so it's it's we're exciting, they're happy for you. Thank

1765
01:27:26,920 --> 01:27:32,760
Speaker 1: thank you. Well, there you go. Pressing from Lowkash Mike

1766
01:27:33,800 --> 01:27:36,720
Speaker 1: are probably a time. Uh my, this is this is

1767
01:27:36,760 --> 01:27:39,960
Speaker 1: this Honestly, sometimes I'll cut him early and then's all, well,

1768
01:27:40,040 --> 01:27:42,559
Speaker 1: that's along as I've ever done. And that's a good thing.

1769
01:27:43,400 --> 01:27:45,559
Speaker 1: That's like getting nast place second song in the morning show,

1770
01:27:45,640 --> 01:27:47,120
Speaker 1: because sometimes I alnot to come in. Will be like,

1771
01:27:47,160 --> 01:27:50,880
Speaker 1: all right, I'm a good night. I appreciate the time.

1772
01:27:51,160 --> 01:27:52,880
Speaker 1: Thank thank you very much. Means a lot that you've

1773
01:27:52,920 --> 01:27:56,600
Speaker 1: done this. Check out fighter, uh low cash, lots of

1774
01:27:56,680 --> 01:27:58,960
Speaker 1: lots of stories here, holyycount and we'll see you. I'll

1775
01:27:58,960 --> 01:28:01,160
Speaker 1: see you guys next time. Don't forget right now. It's

1776
01:28:01,200 --> 01:28:05,400
Speaker 1: on the Bobby Bones Show on demand channel, but it

1777
01:28:05,400 --> 01:28:07,280
Speaker 1: will all be moved to Bobby Cast and just a

1778
01:28:07,320 --> 01:28:09,880
Speaker 1: couple of episodes, so I hot radio search Bobby Cast.

1779
01:28:09,960 --> 01:28:11,439
Speaker 1: All right, thank you guys, we'll see you next time.